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from nothing nothing comes,' then 'man uncreate,' — man
once absolutely and literally out of, never m, conscious
being as individual man !
This renders the existence of man
a positive impossibility. Further: if certain combinations,
conditions, and principles go to form or make up the sum
total of man, more potent laws and conditions, with other
and superior disintegrating forces, may unmake him. While
spirit manifestations demonstrate a future existence, preexistence
lays the foundation of, and proves the
endlessness
of, that existence in the beautiful home-lands of heaven."
THE IXDIVIDTJALITY OP SPIRITS.
An Irish spirit, Michael O'Brien, entrancing the doctor,
sharply reproved me for not calling Am, when he came,
"brother," as I did others.
Pleading guilty, I said, " What has been your occupation
to-day ? "
" Well, bracing you up a little, fixing the atmosphere
around the medium, and studying metaphysics, — surely, a
jaw-twister, that. With the assistance of Mr. Knight and
the circle, I am going to make a scholar, Jamie, I am that^
" What have you seen in the better land to-day? "
" Faith, I'm always seeing here in spirit-life. I see now a
whole shoal of spirits around us, some of whom want to control
you. They aU have their own notions and plans, whether
Catholics or Protestants, Chinamen or Indians; and, I may
as well say, Irishmen, though I'm a Kilkenny Irishman myself.
The spirit-world is very much like the world you are
in :
you'll find it so, you wz7L"
Parisi, an Italian spirit, positive and commanding in style,
comes when he has something to communicate, and never
from calling. Controlling, and speaking of the origin of
life, lie incidentally referred to the moon's inhabitants.
"But our astronomers," said I, "pronounce the moon
uninhabited, having no atmosphere."
" It matters little to me what your astronomers, in their