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A SERIES OP SEANCES UPON THE OCEAN. 125
thousand years since. There are traditions and legends
extending back full forty thousand years. Types are permanent.
Vegetation there was perennial. Fruits grew
spontaneous. Tilling the earth was unnecessary. To reach
up, pluck, and eat, was the only requisite. From Southern
Asia there were radiations east, west, and north, peopling
foreign lands. After a series of centuries, the Northmen,
increased in numbers, and warlike, swept down into Central
and Southern Asia. Wars crimsoned hills and mountains.
The conquerors drove their vanquished foes into that country
now known as Hindostan. They were hunters and
herdsmen, leading roving lives. Peoples making a second
descent from the rich table-lands of Asia into India gathered
into communities, establishing petty kingly governments.
These were denominated Aryans."
SEANCE
in.
..." Be punctual to the appointed time of meeting us.
Remember that our avocations and appointments are quite
as important as yours. . . . Prophecies are often fulfilled
by the prophets. I remember of saying to you, in my
earliest conversations, that the medium and yourself would
be mutual helps, traveling together, even to making the
circuit of the globe. . . . Preceding him to spirit-life, you
will impress and entrance him with perfect ease because of
your earthly associations social and spiritual." . . .
Could you go directly through our globe ?
" Possibly ; although, from having no desire, I have
never made the attempt."
If you were to go, when leaving the medium, to my home
in Hammonton, America, would you take the short cut
straight through the earth ?
" No : I should pass above the surface of sea and laud.
This would be the more feasible route. Solid matter, so
called, forms little or no obstruction to the movements of
spirits. But gross matter, remember, is interpermeated with