The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-04-16
MODERN pSCEEYCOEOGY.

lucid explanation of the writer's peculiar
views. We give it to our readers, suppressng
names of the writer and his correspondent
While in this psychological state
Eletha joined me, and after few days ac-
companied me back to this city, via New
York and Philadelphia. While in your
city you saw something of my condition;
but it was one which you nor any other
man could fully understand, and which
need not now undertake to explain to your
mind. Within less than month after
reaching Washington | managed, by
prayeriully laboring to be freed from all
improper Influences, to acquire a greater
or less freedom to resume the affairs of life
in somewhat the ordinary course. Yet
felt that the revolution was of a nature
destined to permanency, hence. impossible
for me to work rcversion. And from all
could demonstrate and alphabetically
infer, the revolution was to be productive of
good, while a reversion could promise
nothing encouraging.
Though, to all outward appearances, |
-
theless, 4 man of prayer, particularly in
secret, and generally in my family. This
my friends OF the church, however, re-
garded as inconsistent to say the least of
it. But | always thought that however
wicked | should pass the day, the greater
. the necessity for humbling myself in prayer
ere slept, with the hope that through
communion with the Divine Mind, what
ever unwholcsome Influence had been at
tached during the ntercourses of the day
might be broken off and dispclled, and
inspired with the wisdom to keep nearer
the path of recttude; in which | always
believed few were able to walk unwavcr-
ingly in this soourn through the crucibles
Of incarnate life.
On the first of April following my return
to Washington from Providence, my family
went to Virginia, leaving me here. Up to
about this time april 1st, 1870 l had
of the dogma Of Spiritualsm; nor had |
ever read any book or other matter, except
the Bible, which could tend to lead me TO
believe in the communion of departed spir-
its with incarnate creatures. But about
this time | was, in u business way, thrown
in with some spritualists, and after hear
ing their views, | persuaded myself that
should learn something advantageous as to
my yistatons by investigating the theory
Of spirit communion as taught by the mod
crn spiritualists With this view | at
tended their circles, listened to their lee
lures, consulted with their mediums, and
did whatsoever seemed best calculated to
furnish me light in the premises whittier
my destiny had taken me.
Among these people | found many car
nest seekers for truth, some OF whom
regarded as seriously mystfied by their
own enthusiasm. And like every other
dogma ii is not without its charletans. In
short, with some truth found nuoh hum
buggery and finally measurably ceased
my special Investigations persuaded that
could not find a wholesome religion in
their theory. Yet it is due the modern
spiritualiSts TO say that | found their me-
diums iavorabIy comparing with the
prophets and prophetesSes of the Bible
some of them reliable, while many are
misguided, and probably some wilfully
false. However, as | have stated in pre-
vious writing To another party, | am free
to confess that verify believe that the
spirits--the immortal entities OF those of
humanity who have lived, moved and had
their being like us in this our incarnatc
existence. and by the process of death
have gone hence, can, under proper condi-
tions, reveal themselves to and communi-
cate with us.
For this have Us good reasons as have
for accepting any other mental hypothesis.
And as all things when properly estimated
tend to establish the fact of the immortal
ity of the soul, and its actual continued
individual existence in the spirit realm,
and Gas understand it) that this realm is
only separated from the mundane as is the
interior Chat is, the spiritual from the
external man, less am of the opinion that
the two realms are only divided by the
conditions of matter and mind. And
am of the further opinion that when we
shall have So far progressed as to be
wholly freed from the dclusivc effects of
our lettering education, so that our interior
mind shall be no longer submerged, but
educated with freedom TO exercise every
function in its natural order, we will per-
ceivc that the two worlds are necessarily
connected, and hence, necessarily in com
munion.
While deeply absorbed in these matters
and laboring under heavy business pres
sure, | was, ON the night of the 12th of
May, 1870, again visited ~ those invisible
agencies invisible to tho incanatc eye of
man--in 4 still more remarkable manner
than hitherto, yet all tending in the same
direction.
Submitting to their influences (bc them
what they may) was again psychological
and consequently caused my friends some
anxiety, though was satisfied that it was
the necessary results of the mental reyolu-
ton my entire mind was undergoing. Soon
thereafter, and while yet under the nllu-
cnces of that visitation. | wrote you the