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202 AROUND THE WOELD.
cream colors are quieting. Sunlight is a natural stimulant.
Pure air is indispensable. Diet, and the right use of water,
are helps. The ancient Romans indulged in tepid baths,
followed by sun-baths. The wiU-power is a wonderful
restorative. Our treatment, including the above, is, you know,
magnetic and medicinal. Chronic complaints require medicines
: these we magnetize and vitalize. Nervous affections
readily yield to magnetic treatment, providing mediums are
healthy, and temperamentally adapted to patients. Promiscuous
mingling of magnetisms is deleterious, inducing nervous
unbalance, and opening the way for obsessions. Those
so inclined pursue the study of medicines in spirit-life, that
they may benefit the inhabitants of earth."
SEANCE n.
Mr. Knight, entrancing, said, —
..." I see, looking at the mental workings of your brain,
that the extreme contradictions in the teachings of spirits
disturb you. ... In previous conversations, we have told
you that the spirit-spheres — hundreds in number — are
inhabited by those just adapted to them intellectually and
morally ; and, as the spheres, such the aims and acts of
the spirits peopling them. Death is not a Saviour ; nor does
it produce any immediate, miraculous change. . . . Those
basking in the higher conditions of purity, truth, and love,
shed or impart the divine influence of the sphere from which
they come. And the same law apphes to the lower spheres.
As there are evil-minded men, so are there evil spirits, selfish,
scheming, wicked spirits ! And to offer suggestions
relative to the means of avoiding the influences of these, is
the object of my present visit.
"I. In order to know men, you must try them : so to
fathom the real purposes of spirits, try them^ test them by
rigid observation and patient experience ; and, further,
study the effects they produce upon their mediums.
" II. All mediums, not controlled by a fixed and reliable