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48 AROUND THE WORLD.
USES AND ABUSES OF SPIRITUAL SEANCES.
" You, and multitudes of others," exclaimed the spirit Knight,
' ' should never sit in circles. Many of th6 best mediums on earth have
never even attended a seance. And yet for scientific observations, or
for obtaining physical manifestations, circles help to more readily concentrate
the magnetic forces. But to see claii-voyants, to see the impressional,
or the truly inspired, sitting in promiscuous circles, holding
hands, and imbibing diverse aural exhalations, is to us mentally painful.
" Morbid and nervously sensitive natures requke, or think they require,
a constant change. They have a mania for the stimulus of seances, not
understanding that promiscuous magnetic blendings are as injurious to
the soul as sexual promiscuity is to the body. These, all these practices
opposed to the natural laws of life, yield but thorns for the flesh, and
obsessions for the spirit. . . . Every mortal has a guardian, and often
this guardian spirit does not wish the individual to become a medium.
Spiritualists seem to greatly lack wisdom relating to the nature and mission
of mediumship. Only the few are fitted for it."
HATS AND BALD HEADS.
Overboard went a hat. It broke the lull of the hour.
Did the Avinds reason ? What do men wear hats for, — those
tall, silken, stove-pipe, cylinder-shaped hats ?
Indians in the West, and Pol^^nesians in the Pacific, have
no bald heads. These natives, taught by Nature, let God's
sunshine and cooling breezes fan their bare heads. Is there
not much to be learned of " savages " ?
In Christ's Hospital, the " Blue-Coat School," London,
founded by Edward VI., the boys, even the seniors, all go
bareheaded. This was a condition of the endowment. And,
though they thread city streets in the hottest weather, there
has never a case of sunstroke been known among them.
THE ITALIAN TEACHER.
To-day Parisi Lendanta controlled the medium again.
things he said, —
is an Italian spirit, profound and peerless. Among other
" We are now passing over mountain ranges towering up from the bottom
of the ocean.
He
These lofty rocky eminences serve somewhat to hold