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THE 
 
 SPIRIT HOME: 
 
 CLOSET COMPANION 
 
 DEDICATED TO 
 
 MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. 
 
 GIVEN BY 
 
 SPIRITS FROM THE HIGHER SPHERE, 
 
 THROUGH 
 
 SAMUEL WIGHT GLEASON, 
 
 WRITING MEDIUM. 
 
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 BOSTON, MASS. 
 1852. 
 

 
 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by 
 
 SAMUEL WIGHT GLEASON, 
 
 In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Dear Reader — In presenting a work to the public, explana- 
 tory of the law of God, and nature, in compounding the image of 
 God, or creating man Creator, to which state many mediums are 
 hastening, as fast as time, and their angelic guardians, can carry 
 them, which state develops the chief corner-stone, or mark of the 
 prize of the high calling of Christ, our Lord, — we shall find some 
 people too genteel to acknowledge a spiritual demand of the law 
 of nature ; such people will not, of a necessity, overrun our col- 
 leges, or high schools of spiritual instruction, where the spirit is 
 
n INTRODUCTION. 
 
 seen through the letter, but may be able to stand without the 
 door, and run with persons, and papers. 
 
 In this little work we show to the passive, spiritual mind, the 
 spirit of the Bible ; and that the man developed, or Creator man, 
 or image of God, is that spirit clothed with flesh, as one and the 
 same with the inspired part of the letter of the Bible, which we 
 explain from Genesis to Revelation ; and, in doing so, we leave 
 not one stone upon another that is not taken down and examined, 
 before it is admitted into the construction of the image, which is a 
 fac-simile representation of the globe on which you live, and in 
 which, also, is seen the opening gates, and the ineffable delight, 
 and dazzling tapestry, with the gold and diamond spangled beauty 
 of the new Jerusalem, the city of our God, whose golden gates 
 stand open night and day, to welcome you, whoe'er you be, when 
 you shall leave your poor earthly body in the hands of your friends 
 on earth, to be deposited in the grave. 
 
 We show, too, that the children that Christ blessed were the 
 image of God, for of such is the kingdom of heaven ; that they 
 are sealed up in childhood, so that they may, in manhood, marry, 
 and replenish the earth, and produce their likeness ; for, should 
 two whole numbers unite in propagation, they would produce too 
 much, or break a law of nature ; and that cannot, in either case, 
 be done. We show, through the medium, that man, at the turn 
 of life, can become a Christ, prophet, priest, and king ; a nursing 
 father, and a nursing mother, in the spiritual kingdom, while that 
 kingdom is in your earthly body, or structure. We shall also 
 show that man Creator is developed from the seed of both parents 
 (who are one and the same, man and wife, in all true marriage), 
 from the seed, also, of the godfather and mother, which is the 
 man Creator. And last, likewise, but not the leastwise, the seed 
 of the woman, that is, from the new Jerusalem, which, in de- 
 velopment, shall bruise the serpent's head, to mingle with the 
 dove. 
 
 We also show that the contents of Peter's sheet- vision, was the 
 spirits of the dead creatures represented in the sheet (as it were 
 knit together at the four corners, showing that half man is but 
 
INTRODUCTION. m 
 
 quarter image), and that they were in the first resurrection state 
 as man, and as the servants and spirits of God, who (by the death 
 of the animals, and the resurrection of their spirits) had cleansed 
 and fitly prepared them, as the first generation of man, or genera- 
 tion of men yet unborn. 
 
 We show, likewise, that after these servants have passed their 
 threescore years and ten, with God, they are attracted to the man 
 Creator, who to them appears, as Christ to Peter did, transfigured ; 
 and show too that, in the image, the male spirit finds the female 
 apartment, and vice versa ; and that the Creator, man or woman, 
 as you like, doth fitly prepare, compound, and create a spirit like- 
 ness of his own spirit, and that becomes his servant or angel, as the 
 second generation of man yet unborn; and, after having passed 
 all the gates of the image in conjugal spirit conception, and 
 served thirteen weeks, and faithfully obeyed his master in all 
 things, — among which are the rapping on, and tipping of tables, 
 and moving our medium to write, — we give him up to some true 
 hearts in conception (the spirit child being equal to them, and 
 wanting a body) for individualization, so that when it is one year 
 old in spirit, it shall be born of earthly parents, and called a love 
 of a babe, and how much it looks like its father. 
 
Love is the wisdom of nature ; love is the beginning of wisdom. 
 In the beginning the word was with God ; the word was God. 
 The word is the bread of life, eternal, creative, progressive. It is 
 a well of water within the mind, springing up unto everlasting 
 life. It is not hatred. 
 
 " The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters ; and God 
 said, Let there be light ; and there was light. And the light was 
 the life of men." Light is not darkness. 
 
 Something fills all space, and leaves no space or room for noth- 
 ing. The mediam ^ by which God comes in contact with his crea- 
 tion is that agent by which he clothes and inhabits the earth, and 
 is that something which fills all space not occupied by intelligence. 
 There is no place for nothing, and no one to make it. No one can 
 make it. Nothing is not something. 
 
 This mediam fills the golden cord, or chain of harmony, from 
 electricity to intelligence. 
 
 It is by this subtle agent that the keen, immortal eye of the 
 developed mind can see through bars of steel, No earthly power 
 or will of man, with all his might or substance, can obstruct its 
 sight. 
 
 We are now ready to trace, through the laws of God and nature, 
 the Spirit's Home. 
 
 From the grossest to the most subtle material in the formation 
 
 * See " The New Faith," by us, page 91. 
 
8 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 of the world, brought to light by the five senses of human nature, 
 in its mundane sphere, we shall compare to the earthly structure 
 of man ; and all material too refined for these senses, in the earthly 
 state, we shall trace from mediam, through its operations in the 
 earth, to intelligent mind, clothed with an immortal body, fitly pre- 
 pared for the joys of eternal life. 
 
 Through the atmosphere, to the lowest strata of material sub- 
 stance in the earth, is in distance eleven hundred and fifty miles. 
 Nothing can pass into the centre of the globe but that subtle fluid, 
 the mediam by which God can visit all parts of his creation. 
 
 Thirty-six immortal, angelic minds, who have lived upon the 
 earth since the birth of Abraham (as man and woman), have full 
 control of this medium, or writer, who was dead, but is now alive, 
 to give to the world the true working of the laws of God and 
 nature. 
 
 We shall write nothing but what we can make plain and clear 
 to the mind of the medium. Where he is we desire others to 
 come, and partake experimentally of living truth. When we can 
 come in communication with minds in the rudimental state, or cir- 
 cle, as with this, medium, we can impress them with our thoughts, 
 some of which we may receive from minds above us ; remembering 
 that God is the great I AM, — the only one perfect. " And God 
 said, Let us make man in our own image and likeness." The fire 
 in the earth is fed from the fluid mediam, on positive and negative 
 principles, creating heat, governed by the law of progression, con- 
 tinually ascending, filling every particle of material or earthly sub- 
 stance, warming it into new life, as doth the nervo-vital fluid the 
 human body ; while all more ponderous matter, even electricity 
 (which arises not above the atmosphere or itself), in striving to 
 master the vacuum, showeth the central law of attraction ; termed 
 by you gravitation ; remembering that mediam filling the centre 
 cannot supply the place of atmospheric principle. 
 
 The heated spirit-matter ascending fills the mineral, vegetable, 
 and animal substance with life principle, which is given by positive 
 and negative motion, in all stages, forming a circle within a 
 circle. 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 9 
 
 "I AM THAT I AM, ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE 
 CENTRE AND CIRCUMFERENCE, THE FIRST AND 
 THE LAST." 
 
 The ultimate of spirit element through minerals and vegetables 
 deposits in the lowest order of animal life ; and there, still obeying 
 the law of progression, it arises to the highest order of instinct, 
 which unites the essence, or spiritual life, of all below it, from 
 earth, sea, and skies. Instinct is governed by the law of nature ; 
 — mind is governed by the law of God, reason, or wisdom. In- 
 stinct is spirit; — it is not mind. It is the ultimate, or seventh 
 circle, of the first sphere of spirit progress. 
 
 Is not God a spirit ? God is an infinite mind, giving wisdom to 
 finite minds; — instinct, or spirit, ultimate, obeying unerring rea- 
 son, or infinite wisdom, is the agent, servant or spirit, of God. 
 
 u Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the 
 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and' 
 over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." 
 
 " The last shall be first, and the first last ; many shall be called, 
 but few chosen." 
 
 " And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea, and upon the 
 earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him who liveth 
 for ever and ever, and him that created all things, that time should 
 be no longer." 
 
 The ultimate instinct, raised and exalted, containing all below 
 it of an immortal principle or heavenly body, true to the law of 
 progression, moving upon the face of the waters, goes to the right 
 foot of the angel, by his permission to draw nearer unto God, and 
 to enter, and pass from a perfect level (produced by death) to an 
 upright position, through which the light of reason begins to stamp 
 the image of the eternal God, and time to him can be no more. 
 
 " They have brought' about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to 
 stay us and our people." 1 Sam. 5 : 10. 
 
 The heavenly principle, from the land tribes, or grade, came to 
 the left foot or altar of the angel, where the same process takes 
 place as with the right foot. To find the ultimate, accepted sacri- 
 
10 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 fice, or spirit of the first circle, second sphere, see the letter of the I 
 Jewish law in sacrifices to God. 
 
 The ultimate, which unites the right and left in one, will be I 
 found in the letter of the law of nature, which can live on the land, 
 in mud or water. For one grade, quite prominent observe the 
 beaver. 
 
 " The letter of the law killeth, but the spirit giveth life forever- 1 
 more." 
 
 " Let us make man in our own likeness. In the image of God 
 created he him ; male and female created he them," — that is, 
 him. 
 
 The spirit of man, thus created, must make one circuit in 
 earth's orbit around the sun (occupying the second circle, — second 
 sphere) before he can be individualized, or born into the rudi- 
 mental state, or third circle. As it was in the beginning, so is it 
 at this day ; — it always has been, and will forever be, when God 
 creates a spirit. Minds in the fourth circle come in possession of 
 all their powers of body and mind, or are fully developed children 
 of God. This change is discovered by the mind coming in posses- 
 sion of his first creation, as male and female, together with all the 
 love, wisdom, and harmony, or true knowledge, that he may have 
 gained in passing through the preceding circles, at the time of the 
 raising of the spiritual body from the rudimental structure ; as a 
 general thing after death, but not to continue ; for man grows more 
 spiritual, and is progressing fast. 
 
 This old way must not and cannot continue ; and for this reason 
 minds from the higher spheres have desired to communicate with 
 earth's inhabitants. 
 
 We shall give no communication above the understanding of the 
 medium. What he understands others may, as they are spiritu- 
 ally developed. When in communication with the medium, our 
 thought is given to him. He feels it, and is moved to write it. 
 He will write no other thought. He is one of us, raised from the 
 dead by us, and blessed by us in all things pertaining to the good 
 of man. 
 
 " Come unto me all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 11 
 
 you rest." As I was with the Father in the creation, so is the 
 penman of this communication this day, — yea, verily, he knows 
 it, and experimentally traces the spirit home. " Suffer little chil- 
 dren to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." 
 
 The children of men of the first circle are instinctive, or wisdom 
 wholly selfish, and bear the mark of the beast in their forehead ! by 
 which they are truly known by all minds fully developed, as they 
 are in the fourth circle, or resurrection life. See Nehemiah on the 
 dedication of the walls of Jerusalem, the letter, and the spirit 
 (copying the gates of the spiritual body). 
 
 " Take my yoke upon you, which is easy, and my burden, which 
 is light." "Be ye united in me, and the evening and the morn- 
 ing of this day shall be unto you the second circle, where your 
 name i& recorded in the Lamb's book of life." 
 
 "How long have I desired to communicate these truths to 
 minds in the rudimental state ; but ye say he hath a devil, which 
 is not a truth. I am the Door. All that have put on the wed- 
 ding garments are invited to partake of undying joys, — love and 
 wisdom in harmony." 
 
 We can now work. Who can hinder ? 
 
 How can undeveloped spirits communicate with human minds ? 
 
 That question we shall answer. 
 
 " I am the true vine, and the true witness." " Behold, I come 
 quickly." " Have your lamps trimmed and burning." 
 
 Dear reader, your spirit, when in the first circle, obeying the 
 law of progression, served out your three score years and ten ; and 
 time with you could be no longer. Your instinct, spirit, being 
 developed to its highest sphere, arrived in ultimate principle at the 
 toe of the seventh trumpeter (the earth is my footstool), a devel- 
 oped mind, perfect in all his creative organs, positive and negative, 
 by which you were caught up into the third heavens ; announcing 
 your name, which was recognized in the Lamb's book of life. 
 Thus, under the inspection and direction of Almighty God, you 
 were stamped with his image, or likeness, under the law of love, as 
 a spirit. You had a book given you, by which you could learn 
 (with the aid of minds with which you were in communion) that 
 
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 you was raised to endless life, and time with you could be no 
 longer. 
 
 As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. Our 
 brother, this spirit is perfect from the hand of God, in the second 
 circle. 
 
 The spirit has power in instinct love, and it has wisdom; but is 
 perfectly under the control of minds in the higher circles. They, 
 the spirits, are the servants of God. They are the servants of all 
 minds that have gone before them. Here they get natural talent 
 for the duties of the third circle, or individual life, or independent 
 mind. Here we see Cupid, the little god of love. Here, if 
 nature's law is not disobeyed, this little one will bring together 
 and bind with silken cord such true hearts as (perfect minds can 
 see) will live in love, give him a happy reception, a comfortable 
 home, and an earthly temple to dwell in. In blessing one, all 
 three are blessed. A circle is formed around a table, for spiritual 
 communication ; — they begin to have raps lightly, but no one has 
 the control of them. You say you cannot control them; and you 
 say the spirits cannot control them. 
 
 We have always instructed minds in the third circle to be pas- 
 sive when they desired to have the influence of the Holy Spirit, 
 and communicate with God and holy beings. "Have faith as a 
 grain of mustard-seed, and ye sfeall remove mountains. "Put 
 your trust in God, and believe." "Doubt not." "Trust not in 
 an arm of flesh." Be passive; — let your circle harmonize as one 
 mind. Then minds communicating from higher circles can con- 
 trol all other influences, and truthful answers in wisdom will fol- 
 low. 
 
 Spirits are the servants of God. They have not flesh and bone, 
 as you see I have. Spirits that have received the image of God, 
 or have been introduced thereto, are servants to God ; and individual 
 mind, or man-spirits, and have great power when directed by wis- 
 dom from higher circles. 
 
 A mind in the circle at the table asks if his doctrine is true; — 
 if his views are right in regard to the future. He is positive that 
 he is right. The mind, or friend, above, reading his positive will, 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 13 
 
 cannot have power in discord, and leaves him with spirits, which, 
 obeying his rudimental wisdom, respond, " Yes, you are right." 
 
 Another asks the departed friend if his views of the Bible are 
 correct. He being of a contrary opinion from the other, and 
 equally positive, receives an affirmative answer, being directly 
 opposed to the other. 
 
 Hence cometh the accusation against your superior and true 
 friends : undeveloped spirits. They, the two seekers after wisdom, 
 both get a communication each from his own mind; and judge ye 
 how much wisdom they have gained, and also of how much service 
 to the people such ministers are, howmuchsoever they may appear 
 to preach Christ, notwithstanding. 
 
 When you direct yourself, depending on your own wisdom, and 
 the powers, or spirits, under you, use your reason and positive 
 mind in all its powers that God has given you. The third circle, 
 or wisdom independent but not perfect, is your position. It is the 
 rudimental circle, second sphere, first world. Hence we shall give 
 line upon line, and precept upon precept, and intuition without 
 stint, until you obey the laws of your nature, as shown and con- 
 tained in this book, which is a key to all preceding writings given 
 by inspiration, as far as it goes. 
 
 To gain the power of receiving and giving thought by intuition, 
 you must look in faith, and passive obedience to nature's laws and 
 higher minds. Then you can have truthful communication, which 
 may lead you to a full development or spiritual sense of all your 
 creative or progressive organs. The perfect mind in organism is 
 independent. It seeks reciprocal communication with all minds 
 and spirits. It is the image of God. 
 
 If your circle in all its members is passive, your friend exalted 
 takes the positive, and a circle is formed in the letter and spirit ; 
 and truthful communication must follow. 
 
 How can minds communicate ? Look to nature in the letter. 
 Mind conceived the magnetic telegraph in its truthful operation. 
 In the spirit of prophecy the mind saw the idea operating in the 
 letter, and its usefulness to man. 0, that is electricity. Take 
 electricity from the letter, and its spiritual body, or ultimatum 
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14 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 from the spirit, and you have destroyed life even in its most con 
 cealed departments. The line of communication does not detract 
 from individuality. First one and then the other is positive, then 
 negative. 
 
 Here is displayed a love of wisdom in harmony, in the earthly 
 body of man. 
 
 Electricity is of the earth, earthly; — -goes to the head, thence 
 down. The spirit is heavenly, and goes to the toes, thence up. 
 
 Truthful communication dost the wires exalt ; — the mind indi- ! 
 vidualizes the spirit, or creates mind, and gives an earthly body. 
 
 " Come unto the tree of life, which is in the midst of the street 
 of the river of the waters of life ; the falling of the leaves of which 
 is for the healing of the nations." 
 
 Are the nations healed or not ? What saith the mind from the 
 seventh circle ? 
 
 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he 
 shall begin to sound/ the mystery of God should be finished, as he 
 hath made known to his prophets, or fully-developed mediums. 
 For as we wrote by John of Patmos, so we write this day, to open 
 to you the book which was then sealed up ; for the harvest is now 
 ripe, and the reapers are ready ; and the condition of earth's in- 
 habitants shall be exalted by the strength of the living God, and 
 no one can hinder ; for, which purpose he hath established this 
 (unto you) new line of spiritual communication. 
 
 The seventh angel, or prophet, priest or king, or fully-developed 
 medium, or reorganized spiritually-developed body, as ultima ted 
 from the tomb of transgression, and raised to immortal honors, 
 hath in each foot three sets of sub-creative organs, which are serv- 
 ants to the mind, and second to the hand, to give the first impulse 
 in raising instinct to reason. 
 
 These organs, gates (to the New Jerusalem, adorned as a bride 
 for her husband, — the Lamb's wife), are connected with the main 
 nervo- vital fluid vessel, passing from the brain to the spine termi- 
 nus, and from the under side of the toes to the above point, or to a 
 powerful positive, creative organ, near that point, not often de- 
 veloped in the earthly or first temple, and never but for spiritual, 
 
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 ntuitive communication. It is one, with the internal, immortal, 
 :30sitive eye, closely connected with concentration. 
 i As angels converse, so will men, when they obey nature's laws ; 
 :o which end these communications are given. 
 
 There is balm in Gilead, and a Physician there. " Come ye to 
 :he waters." 
 
 The offspring partakes of the nature of both parents, and when 
 rully developed in his spiritual body is three in one, as in concep- 
 :ive communion ; — perfect love, wisdom, and harmony. 
 
 " What is man, that thou art mindful of him ; or the son of man, 
 chat thou visitest him ? " 
 
 He hath the image of God planted in his nature, and he knoweth 
 it not. 
 
 There always were leading minds, and great and good minds, in 
 the third circle, some of whom have been exalted to the fourth cir- 
 sle, previous to their departure to the land of their fathers. 
 
 There is a spirit, instinct, ultimate, arising from the dead car- 
 sass of the lion, tiger, and leopard, uniting with that from the 
 baboon, or ape species, true to the law of instinct nature (retrograde 
 being out of the question) ; is aided by the laws of attraction to 
 the angelic pedestal ; is in due time admitted, meeting affinities, as 
 before stated, with the addition of the lamb, which followed on the 
 left even unto the sheep-fold, where, with light ceremony, or cir- 
 cles described in harmony, begetting immortal life, to be developed 
 in fulness of time, they are united in angelic love, the beginning 
 of unselfish wisdom. "lam the lion of the tribe of Judah, unit- 
 ing with the lamb ; and there shall be no more discord in all God's 
 holy mountain." The mark of the beast is removed, the name 
 recorded in the Lamb's book of life, and there is no more going 
 out ; — there is no retrograde. - 
 
 Thus have I " ascended the hill of the Lord. And he that 
 climbeth up any other way the same is a thief and a robber." 
 
 Thus " God created man in his own image, as he hath shown to 
 all his holy prophets, since the world began." 
 
 The spirit thus created, positive and negative, has free com- 
 munion with all minds, from God down to the lowest intellect in 
 
16 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 the rudimental state, where the power of the spirit is lost in the 
 flesh, or concealed from itself for a season, but must come together 
 in wakeful power — as the material, earthly body grows cold in 
 death, if*not before — as a prophet-medium. 
 
 The mind hath jurisdiction over the body, physical and spiritual. 
 It is the seat of wisdom. The mind has power over all spiritual, 
 creative affinities. 
 
 " And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful 
 and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it ; and have 
 dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and 
 over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God 
 ^id, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is 
 upon the face of the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit 
 of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat. And to every 
 beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing 
 that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given 
 every green herb for meat ; and it was so. And God saw every- 
 thing that he had made, and behold it was very good." And 
 minds in the sixth circle, comprehending the truth, say, " Amen." 
 
 Spirits obey nature's law, and come in possession of this great 
 inheritance, and enjoy all the blessings, as servants of wisdom ; but 
 cannot respond amen until they have been individualized in the 
 third circle, and through wisdom have held communion with higher 
 minds. Hence we would impress the minds of all concerned 
 with the vast importance, to the offspring, of a perfect physical 
 organization; to aid which, in part, these communications are 
 given. 
 
 Scientific minds are with you. We come not to do their work, 
 but to strengthen them. 
 
 Spirits have always obeyed the commands of minds in the third 
 circle, whether for good or evil. 
 
 Independent wisdom, positive, controls love. Wisdom not per- 
 fect desires more wisdom from the higher circles. The brother 
 wishes to converse with the mind of a departed friend. Efe con- 
 centrates his mind upon that friend in a passive mood, love accom- 
 panies the thought, the communication is received by the departed 
 

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 friend, who takes the positive ; and although he may be upon the 
 outer circle of the atmosphere, a line of communication is established 
 between the two friends. The servant is now to learn wisdom of his 
 master, positive and negative, in which he is progressing towards 
 individualization. The spirit is an apprentice to wisdom, and will 
 obey its commands. The table is moved, raps are given, the hand 
 is moved to write ; the servant will take upon himself the likeness 
 that his master bore while in the body. 
 
 This last manifestation is but a type of the masterpiece of his 
 apprenticeship, that of putting on the earthly body. 
 
 In writing, the spirit takes full possession of the medium, with 
 his consent and desire, reason maintaining her throne. The serv- 
 ant, thus furnished with a corporeal organization, for the time 
 being, moves at the dictation of the master; while the mind of the 
 medium, running in harmony with both, views with delight the, 
 wonders in wisdom spread out before him. 
 
 " I have mine enemies. I will destroy them from before my 
 face." " The tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be 
 hewn down, and cast into the fire." " I will baptize with the 
 Holy Ghost and with fire." 
 
 There is balm in Gilead. The human structure hath a mind, 
 spirit, and body, all parts of which are faithfully delineated in the 
 Bible. 
 
 When man understands his whole nature, he will read the Bible 
 as a new book, never before seen but in its exterior appearance, — 
 that of the letter. 
 
 Man hath two bodies in one. 
 
 It is the spiritual, elementary body to which we wish to call 
 your attention at this time. 
 
 That which was given to man, in his creation, in spirit, was 
 given, also, in the letter, to support his earthly nature. 
 
 To the animal is given instinct, in place of mind, which ulti- 
 mates in mind ; so the nervo-vital fluid, from all that was given 
 to man from the lower kingdoms, goes to the creation, or growth 
 and support, of his spiritual body, as doth food in the letter to sup- 
 port the animal organization of man. 
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18 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 11 This was clearly shown unto me when entranced, as given by 
 me in the book of Acts." " What God hath cleansed call not 
 thou common." 
 
 The spirit is called upon to heal the sick, — to remove the head- 
 ache. There is great power in the spirit to heal. The spirit of 
 God hath power to create ; why not to mend ? 
 
 Christ did many wonderful works by the spirit-power. Yes, by 
 the power of God invested in me. First God created my spirit, by 
 the perfect working of the law of nature, a lion of the tribe of 
 Judah. Thus perfect in spirit, aided by attraction of affinities, 
 and wisdom of higher circles, sought my earthly parents in Joseph 
 and Mary, who were united by the perfect law of love, making a 
 trio, as in the law of God provided, and by which union gave their 
 offspring a perfect individual or physical organization. Thus the 
 error in regard to a miraculous conception in my case is corrected. 
 Where is your hope, — where your rock of ages, — when the law 
 of God and nature can be moved one jot or tittle. The whole man 
 was developed in mind, spirit, and body, to the point where these 
 communications are intended to lead the race, individually, pre- 
 paratory to leaving the third circle. Then the third circle, or first- 
 state of individualism, will harmonize with all other circles. Let 
 all work to this end, and higher wisdom will bless your labor. 
 When an individual raises his arm on high to slay his brother, he 
 is in the most positive state, and no other positive mind can stay 
 his will. Two positive minds cannot affect each one the other. 
 
 Take the second thought. Here the guardian angel takes the 
 negative position, and the electric, galvanic, vital fluid is received 
 by the guardian and affinities until an equilibrium is effected. 
 Herein is the art of healing. 
 
 This truth may be seen through a glass darkly in animal magnet- 
 ism, mesmerism, pathetism, biology, and psychology, which sciences 
 have served to open the way for these higher communications. 
 
 The great physician is God, and the balm is found by obeying 
 his precepts and the laws of your nature. 
 
 It is no wonder that in the first steps of individual life man 
 
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 should need help. The race has been improving from the first 
 creation. 
 
 M Come unto me, and receive help for all your infirmities. I 
 am a present help in all your troubles. Look unto me, and be ye 
 healed." 
 
 The circle at the table becomes passive ; — the most positive 
 members project the surplus nervo- vital fluid, which is received by 
 the more passive, until a perfect circle, or medium, is formed. 
 
 This circle may become so passive and harmonious as to repre- 
 sent one mind, as Christ's mind was one with God. 
 
 The time is soon coming (and even now is with some) when this 
 fluid representing the telegraphic wire shall be a line of communi- 
 cation for the living thought to pass from one mind to another. 
 
 In this you can see how thought is communicated from mind to 
 mind. In this way, and no other, can God know your thoughts; 
 and it is your privilege and duty to conform to his law, so that 
 you may receive his thoughts (concerning you) in your mind direct 
 from him. 
 
 " He that hath an ear to hear let him hear." " He will unstop 
 the deaf ear." 
 
 Then come unto God, and love and believe in him. By these 
 means you can hold communion with all minds. Angels know of 
 God's greatest gifts, and prize them very high. 
 
 " Have I a departed friend present ? " 
 
 The friend feels the influence of the circle, and the thought 
 reaches to his mind. He then takes the positive, and the answer 
 is returned. And thus positively ask, and passively await the 
 answer. You thus have a circle in body, mind, and spirit, around 
 the table, in harmony with itself, and another in harmony with the 
 friend ; and love and truth are found. 
 
 These circles of communication are in their members being mag- 
 netized by the living principle of spirit and thought. This circu- 
 lation of vital principle through the human system gives health and 
 strength through the whole organization, both temporal and spirit- 
 ual. It is the power of God unto salvation. 
 
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 Christ, the pattern of human excellence, received these great 
 truths from God, and wept over Jerusalem. 
 
 " Come to the pool of living waters, and be made clean as wise 
 virgins ; for as long as the word of God shall stand, and the seas 
 give up their dead, and death and hell give up their captives, there 
 will be oil. Come buy without money and without price. Be not 
 foolish virgins." 
 
 The living river of vital fluid, and spirit, will open nerve- vessels 
 that never were opened before, and others that have been sealed up 
 for years. 
 
 In the latter case health is restored, and in the flowing of the 
 river is seen the fertilizing beauty of the meadow, green and gay. 
 
 What is meant by being spiritually developed in the third cir- 
 cle, or earthly body ? 
 
 In the formation of the earthly body, and creation of the spirit- 
 ual, the works are perfect, if the laws of nature are complied with 
 in the former. But God, for certain reasons, hath set his seal 
 upon a certain class of nerve-vessels, until such times as conditions 
 require their reopening. These are ail intuitive channels, leading, 
 directly or indirectly, to the throne of reason. Hence every child 
 of man is stamped with the seal of God in the forehead. " Milk 
 for the babe, and meat for the strong man." 
 
 The seal is broken on the resurrection of the spiritual body to 
 the fourth circle. When opened in the natural or rudimental body, 
 the Son of God appears. " A prophet is arisen among the people ; 
 he has become as one of us, knowing good from evil." 
 
 By the opening of these channels growth is given to the spiritual 
 body, new thought to the mind, and holy communion with God and 
 his angels. 
 
 Were these channels to be opened at once, in the third, as they 
 are in the fourth circle, the natural body could not survive the 
 powerful light a moment. . 
 
 Twenty-one years, and more, have passed since we first opened 
 the eyes of the mind of this medium so that he could see spirit 
 manifestation ; and seventeen since we could address the ear and 
 impress the mind ; and sixteen years since we could make known 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 21 
 
 to a beloved father the presence of a dear, departed child, by 
 coming in communion with his mind. 
 
 Thus he can see, and hear, and know, all that he can desire 
 or wish below. 
 
 the joy that awaits you all, this side of Jordan's surging 
 waves! Love God, love all mankind, love yourselves, and be 
 like Christ. 
 
 What is thought ? 
 
 There is no such thing as nothing. Then thought is something, 
 and everything is material. If thought is material, then it can 
 be seen. Yes. 
 
 Thought is a link in an endless chain. 
 
 Thought is a shining orb in the perceptive constellation. 
 
 You wish to communicate with a departed friend ; concentra- 
 tion fixes the positive eye upon the friend, while the mind, or 
 wisdom, selects the thought, bearing the figure of the communica- 
 tion, this with a flash is in the mind of the friend who knows the 
 thought by sight, hearing, and feeling ; and thus the whole com- 
 munication is before him, as it left home, and nearly in the same 
 instant. 
 
 Positive will, throws thought from mind to mind, direct; these 
 communications are not creative, passing between equals. In- 
 tuitive creative communications, or thought, must be accompanied 
 by the spirit ; or child of man, which, by the law of progression, 
 can enter in no other way but by the hollow of the left foot 
 passing through the creative to the mind of the friend Angelic, 
 who, wifh the pleasure of hearing, feeling, and seeing, in an 
 instant comprehends the message, and in an instant the answer is 
 returned. 
 
 If your friend was at the north star, it would reach him in 
 thirty minutes, and an answer return back to earth, in all sixty 
 minutes. 
 
 If he should be a visiting the planet Herschel, the communica- 
 tion would go in thirty-five minutes, and be returned, in all 
 seventy-five minutes. 
 
 A communication direct, from mind to mind, running from 
 
22 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 earth to the north star, would reach your friend in less than ten 
 minutes. Thought is quicker than spirit, because minds in com- 
 munion annihilate distance. 
 
 How could an angel, or spirit, find a friend thus far off? 
 -First, it would mount the skies, till nothing intervened, then 
 feeling the power of attraction, would strike a bee line for the 
 friend. 
 
 brother, the desire of your heart will go to God, in one little 
 figure. Then why make long prayers, standing at the corners of 
 the streets, to be seen of men ? 
 
 The earthly body cannot go with thought ; the foundation of 
 the earth cannot be moved ; neither can the dust thereof leave its 
 native home. 
 
 Spirits raise the table from the floor ; is not that a type of the 
 resurrection of the earthly body of man ? Nay. 
 
 The spirit takes on a body composed of atmospheric principle, 
 not visible to the natural eye : and, by the direction of will 
 power, lifts the earthly material. Did you never see the magnet 
 suspend ponderous principle ? Study nature in earthly vessels, 
 which are the types of heavenly things. The wind lifts a building 
 from its foundation ; but repulsion, without attraction, leaves it 
 with gravitation. 
 
 What is attraction ? The life-giving principle ; the higher 
 duty of man, in the sight of God, is perfect love. Perfect love 
 caste th out fear, and every abomination which worketh a lie. 
 Come, let us reason together. 
 
 The tree of life is guarded, on the east of Eden, by cherubims, 
 and a flaming sword, which turned every way to keep the way of 
 the tree of life. The fountain gateway is arched, and powerful 
 in strength ; otherwise the power of affinities between body and 
 spirit, together with love's attraction, might injure the walls of 
 the holy city. " For the heavens and the earth are rolled together 
 as a scroll, and all without the ark of safety quake with fear." 
 
 " I am Alpha and Omega." As it was commenced in perfect 
 love, so shall the end be, when the spiritual body shall throw off 
 the earthly. The beginning and the end, the first and the last. 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 23 
 
 " Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may 
 have a right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates, 
 into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whore- 
 mongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whatsoever loveth 
 or maketh a lie." 
 
 " As I saith unto the sea, so say I unto earthly bodies; thus 
 far shalt thou go, and no further." After the resurrection of the 
 spiritual body, you neither marry nor are given in marriage, but 
 are as the angels of God; perfect in organization to obtain wisdom, 
 feast on love, and dwell in harmony with all of God's creation 
 that may come to your knowledge. " I, Jesus, have sent mine 
 angel to testify these things unto you; I am the root and the 
 offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." 
 
 " And the spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that 
 heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst, come. And 
 whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely." 
 
 Thus God, in the beginning and in the end, created man in his 
 own image. Male and female, created he them, or so created he 
 him. 
 
 Medium represents, in the letter, a Jewish high priest, after 
 the order of Melchisedech ; or prince of peace, being developed in 
 spirit, with the eighth circle. As he enters this circle, he finds 
 himself in the inner courts of the Lord's house ; and, for the first 
 time, in direct communication with God, who instructs him in the 
 wisdom of that circle, as far as his mission is concerned : being a 
 messenger of glad tidings, of great joy, to his brethren on earth. 
 
 Mark the perfect man. 
 
 Medium asks, " What is man, that thou art mindful of him ? 
 Or the son of man, that thou regardest him ? " 
 
 " Individual mind, or perfect man, is a thought of mine, con- 
 ceived in my womb, exalted to reason, of whom I am the father, 
 and the mother, and who is my son." 
 
 How far can man comprehend God? How conceive, of the 
 most positive mind, in communication with all his thoughts, which 
 have been sent out into his vineyard to keep, and to dress it ; to 
 bring forth fruit, and to return truthful communications. 
 
24 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 " Is Judas happy ? " I am happy to be able, this day, to 
 answer for myself. 
 
 How many disciples of Jesus are there, at this day, on the 
 earth, who will sacrifice truth, and slay its advocates, for a few 
 pieces of silver ! Ye children of the dark ages, long, long, long, 
 have ye poured out the vials of God's wrath upon my poor name, 
 and given it a place with devils, fire, and brimstone, and the 
 seven thunders have uttered their voices through you. Can you 
 show to your hearers how a thought of, God can be lost, even 
 should it go to its own place ? 
 
 Will you show them, by mathematical demonstration, how to 
 reduce that image-figure, or thought of God, to its lowest member, 
 or make nothing of it, or lose a particle of it? Can you tell 
 them how God can break his own law of progression, by reducing 
 numbers ? Can you lengthen your face by any but a retrograde 
 motion, by dropping the chin ? Who of you ever made an up- 
 ward pass, to lengthen his face ? 
 
 My dear brethren, no longer place yourselves in God's harvest- 
 fields as scarecrows, for he designs to feed all of his creation, 
 black and white, with the bread of life, and waters of salvation. 
 The earth is an eternal principal, or thought of God, positive and 
 negative. The sun is to the earth what God is to its ultimate ; 
 mind, and spiritual body. The earth is in perpetual motion in all 
 its parts. The grain positively rises from the earth, goes to man. 
 The earthly falls, the heavenly progresses. 
 
 Do all earthly bodies have heavenly bodies ? Yes ; the earth 
 has a spiritual body, which, with the earthly, makes one perfect 
 thought of God : our solar system another ; so, ad infinitum. 
 
 The world is terrestrial and celestial; the celestial is the 
 spirit land. It is the spirit home; it sits with ease and grace 
 upon the outer verge of atmospheric principle. From the base to 
 the cap-stone of the spirit land, the distance is two hundred miles. 
 
 You cannot see the thought of glory that awaits you here ; be 
 cheerful, and do not disfigure your faces, for all are smiling here. 
 
 The thought, or number of our world, which hath never reached 
 the earth till now, is shining very brightly, with a dark spot 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. * 25 
 
 in the centre, representing its earthly and heavenly bodies, in 
 true proportions. This thought, sent from one mind to another, 
 is known at a glance, or a touch, which is the first impression; 
 then follows the message, or minor thoughts, concerning the 
 world. Ask God, in faith, to open the post-office spiritual, which 
 lies dormant in your system, and you can communicate with 
 heaven in the original language of man. When you receive a 
 letter from a friend, you naturally look at the post-mark, and 
 then for the name of the friend, and then read the contents. 
 Look from nature, up to nature's God. The number of our 
 medium is as the sun, three-sevenths eclipsed by the moon ; the 
 dark is the earthly body, or figure of it, forming one perfect 
 circle. 
 
 By this, we see what progress you make in spirit life. The 
 more you advance, the more brightly shine, and less of earth is 
 seen ; thus more perfectly exhibiting the image of God. We see 
 the thought of God in man, in the world, and world of worlds. 
 Where are the thoughts of man ? We entrance the mind (always 
 with your consent), until the eye of the mind can see the natural 
 one, from concentration, near the back part of the head, As the 
 eyes of the mind brighten, the natural eyes grow transparent^ 
 and become of no use for the time being; and thoughts, being 
 more subtle, stand in sublime beauty before the mind. 
 
 Thus the medium sees his own thoughts ; or, as gazing into the 
 arched vault of heaven, beholds countless figures, or thoughts of 
 various forms, representing all things that may come before the 
 mind. Will eternity trace one of those thoughts to its last 
 number ? 
 
 Nay : you will find a circle within a circle, ad infinitum. 
 
 Third circle, question : Why did Adam sin, and bring upon 
 us so much sorrow ? 
 
 First, we will ask you to reduce the thought, or number, Adam 
 and Eve (they being one), if you can, to nothing, or lose a 
 fraction. 
 
 You find subtraction to be multiplication ; and the number of 
 the lowest fraction to be in stature as the first number, allowing 
 3 
 
26 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 the rule of combination to mark recognition. After the child is 
 born, with the number or nature of both parents, in its spiritual 
 body, the number not apparent in the flesh is a book which is 
 gradually sealed, from birth to maturity. Should the law of 
 nature allow two whole numbers to enter into animal life-giving 
 communication, you would find the number of the offspring to be 
 twice that of either parent. 
 
 You must produce your kind; the developed mind can have 
 conjugal communication in the earthly, and spiritual, to its highest 
 number, according to its growth in wisdom, but not to multipli- 
 cation in the flesh. 
 
 Thus you see the wisdom of God, in the fall of man. You 
 cannot eat the fruit of multiplication, found in the midst of the 
 garden, while you are in the original state, or image of God. 
 
 After Adam and Eve had produced their kind in the earthly 
 state, or half number, they ate of the tree of knowledge, the book 
 was unsealed, and they were spiritually developed. The day thou 
 eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die to sin. 
 
 Yes, as the mind grows heavenly, the corrupting influences of 
 death, and sin, or the unholy animal desires, die. Forever dead ; 
 and there shall be no more death : neither sorrow nor crying, for 
 the old things have passed away, and all things have become new. 
 And, when the mind takes the final leave of the body, it will 
 experience the highest pleasure ever known to it, while connected 
 with the body. Can that be death ? Nay, it is blissful life. 
 
 " Weep not, behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah ; the root 
 and the offspring of David hath prevailed to open the book, and to 
 loose the seven seals thereof." Every individual that ever hath, 
 doth, or may live on the earth, is, or shall be, a book ; or the law 
 of God, and nature on his inward parts, are, or shall be, written. 
 Created in the image of God, and free for individualism, holy 
 guardians attend him to the earthly courts, holding intuitive com- 
 munication with him, until his earthly structure is complete. 
 The book is then gradually sealed up, with the seals of the seven 
 circles, displaying the guardian friend nearest to the child, in its 
 tenderest years. Christ saith, " Suffer little children to come 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 27 
 
 unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." As it was in 
 . the beginning, so shall it be when the book is opened. Revelation 
 is John's own book ; he was the Lion of the tribe of Judah, which 
 is his number in affinity with Christ. 
 
 Seeing the wrath of God, as he did, in one circle, to be the 
 key of exaltation to the next, he was pleased with the book, and 
 gave to earth a partial copy ; but ye could not read it, because it 
 looked through the dark ages. 
 
 What is the fundamental principle of 'love? It is not hatred, 
 neither is it wrath toward an erring brother. Judas Iscariot. 
 
 11 1, John, testify unto the things written in this book ; " which 
 is attended with signs, and great wonders, from heaven, and I will 
 write. Love is a positive, and negative : creative principle, Al- 
 mighty in power, governed in principle by Almighty power, in 
 wisdom. 
 
 Does God have power in pleasure after the manner of man, 
 his image ? 
 
 There is but one manner in the law of love and wisdom ; over- 
 come the mark of the beast, and the number of his name, and you 
 will see your own creation in perfect love and wisdom, which is a 
 type of all creations. 
 
 If love fill all creations, where is the bottomless pit you speak 
 of? It is not in whole numbers, for high and low are lost in 
 gravitation or attraction. It is not in half numbers in marriage ; 
 true, for the sum proves itself a whole number, in offspring. It 
 is found in the earthly body, in the half number, in affinity of 
 animal sense, or individual love, beyond the control of wisdom. , 
 
 Babylon, thine earthly dwelling is burning with a great 
 consuming fire, and corrupting, even unto the death, of thy moral 
 and physical constitution ! But behold, I see your whole number 
 cleansed, and coming out of this great tribulation ! Do not the 
 elements of earth purify themselves ? Look at the ultimate 
 wrath of God in the ascending mist, the falling rain, the lightning 
 flash, and thunder's roll. 
 
 This circle in the letter, displaying God's goodness and power, 
 shakes the ungodly; and his sias (the devil) telleth him that 
 
28 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 God is full of wrath. the father of lies ! Our advice, in 
 wisdom, is this; love God with all thy mind, and thy loved 
 brother dearly ; be angelic, and bind the old dragon down to utter 
 extermination. 
 
 The bottomless pit is first seen as a sealed book, or forbidden 
 fruit, in the letter ; but in the spirit, experimentally known at its 
 opening. And the stone which the builders rejected is made the 
 bottom stone, which is the head of the corner. Remember the 
 balm in Gilead, and do not forget to smile. 
 
 Heavenly communion is a sovereign remedy for all disorders of 
 mind and body. 
 
 What is the ultimate of whoredom ? " And there followed 
 another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen." That great- 
 city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath 
 of her fornication. And the angel of the third. circle (the only 
 circle where the law of nature is disobeyed) cried, with a loud 
 voice, saying, " If any man worship the beast, and his image, and 
 receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall 
 drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out with- 
 out mixture, into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be 
 tormented with fire and brimstone, in the presence of the holy 
 angels, and in the presence of the Lamb." 
 
 If you cannot ask the blessing of God, and holy angels, on 
 what you desire to do, you had better omit the deed. In the 
 commotion of the heavens, you behold the lightning flash, and 
 often see and smell brimstone. 
 
 In corrupt or animal communication, the absence of God's bless- 
 ing leaves a vacuum ; — the heavenly principle cannot retrograde, 
 and the highest earthly element takes the whole field, entering at 
 the face, as doth all elements for the support of the animal system. 
 The heavenly rises ; the earthly falls. 
 
 " He that climbeth up any other way, the same is a thief and a 
 robber." 
 
 Instinct ultimate knows better than to mix in bad company. 
 Those in the second circle have guardians, who withhold the bless- 
 ing ; there being no attraction in the animal desire. Nature will 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 29 
 
 create. There must be an ultimate ; and that a loathsome disease, 
 in consequence of God's indignation, being poured into the bottom- 
 less pit, without a mixture of the heavenly. 
 
 "We want you to understand these things, and with us take the 
 erring children of God, our brethren, by the hand, and lead them 
 to fountains of living waters. 
 
 These evil communications are had in the presence of God and 
 his holy angels, or in the presence of minds in wisdom exalted, and 
 holy spirits, or angels of the second circle ; and the smoke of the 
 pit in evil communion is clear to the eyes of exalted minds, or to 
 advanced mediums, when entranced ; " as in my case at Patmos." 
 
 " These things were first shown unto me while in the spirit, as a 
 servant of God and man," and that while in the first and second 
 circle; at the close of which the book was sealed up with seven 
 seals. At the close of the third circle, I became a medium after , 
 the order of Melchisedec, and consequently, being entranced, read 
 the book, and gave it in part as a revelation. 
 
 The image of God is not a servant of God. It is its own serv- 
 ant. His spirit is the angel, or servant, of all. " I send my an- 
 gel ;" — my thought. 
 
 Mind first person, second sphere; angel second person ; spirit 
 third person ; instinct first person, first sphere ; thought, or self- 
 preservation, second person ; spirit in harmony with law third per- 
 son. 
 
 What is harmony ? 
 
 A combination of numbers in affinity. A note is a circle in 
 harmony. An octave is a sphere of seven circles. 
 
 Where and what is discord ? , 
 
 In the second sphere, third circle. By misplacing numbers of 
 combination, discord is felt through the whole octave, calling 
 mightily on the eighth circle, or higher wisdom in harmony with 
 God, to restore order. 
 
 The eighth is the first circle raised an octave. 
 
 Go back to Patmos, and in the spirit of prophecy look at the 
 future ; — see a combination of fire and brimstone, and its affinities 
 in the introduction and misapplication of gunpowder. 
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30 THE SPIRIT HOME, 
 
 What is whoredom, in all its ramifications, or numbers ? 
 
 Write it not, you will ponder. St. John the Evangelist. 
 
 " The book of the New Testament cleanseth from all sin." 
 
 A communication will be given through Christ Jesus, the true 
 vine, to all its branches. 
 
 " Do this in remembrance of me, until we drink the wine anew 
 in my Father's kingdom." 
 
 Behold, I come quickly, with signs and wonders. He that 
 overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna ; and I will give 
 him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no 
 man knoweth saving him which receiveth it. 
 
 The grape juice is the most penetrating fluid that can be brought 
 direct from the earth to the earthly organization of man. It will 
 penetrate to a healthy circulation, from centre to circumference, 
 beyond the power of other fruit. 
 
 Then the ultimate essence of spirit is found coming from the 
 vine to man as the highest number, quince second, peach third, 
 apple fourth, and so on, even unto twelve manner of fruit which 
 are found in the tree of life. 
 
 The ultimate of spirit life from forests and other trees deposits 
 with the deer species ultimating from the stag. Witness the em- 
 blem on their heads. 
 
 " Every living thing that moveth shall be meat for you; even 
 as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the 
 life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And 
 surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every 
 beast will I require it; and at the hand of man [first circle], and 
 at the hand of every man's brother [second circle] will I require 
 the life principle of man." 
 
 The life principle generating through mineral, deposits in the 
 lowest grade of animal life as a new creation. It leaves one circle 
 for another ; and the blood life principle, for the creation of man, is 
 required at the hand of every grade (next below) of beast and man, 
 until the image of God appears, and with every principle of the 
 world planted in him. 
 
 The life blood principle, not before considered in this work, or 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 31 
 
 book, required by one grade of beasts of another below it, is de- 
 posited with that grade in the hollow of the thigh, which shrinks. 
 See Jewish law. 
 
 Thus the life principle not to be eaten comes in a direct line of 
 communication to man, in the third circle, as a charge in sacred 
 trust for the spiritual body of his succeeding generation, and to be 
 required at his hands at the commencement of the earthly struc- 
 ture, i 
 
 This principle of life, accompanied by the life principle of fruit, 
 deposits in a vessel creative, hidden in the hollow of the thigh, 
 where it is in full communion with all others above it. Nothing 
 hut these life-giving principles can inspire love. 
 
 Cherish all your organs, from the crown of your heads to the 
 soles of your feet ; for on them depend the joys of heaven. Not 
 that you can lose, but that you love yourselves ; remembering that, 
 your blood will be required at the hand of the fourth circle ; for 
 you must leave the earthly, and take the heavenly. The blood 
 that exalted me when on earth will exalt you, in due time, and 
 cleanse you from all sin. Let the due time come soon. 
 
 Where are the creative organs in the image of God displayed in 
 the letter, so as not to offend the most delicate eye of female 
 beauty ? 
 
 See the dew of heaven. 
 
 My blood it is like the ointment upon the head, that ran down 
 upon the beard, even Aaron's beard, that went down to the skirts 
 of his garments. As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that de- 
 scended upon the mountain of Zion ; for there the Lord commanded 
 the blessing, even life forevermore. Yes, an endless circle. 
 
 My peace is like a river, which to the ocean flows, a river of 
 life. The heat of the sun draws it to the cloud. 
 
 Is the genial warmth of nature thrown out of balance, some 
 parts over-heated, others wanting ? 
 
 See the electric flash in mighty grandeur breaking up the sur- 
 charged fountains, and diffusing equality of life to all parts of the 
 earth, to purify, replenish, and subdue it. 
 
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 Thus a perfect and eternal circle of wisdom in love with har- 
 mony looks to God through nature, and sees his image. 
 
 Does the spiritual body need replenishing? 
 
 The image of God is perfect in organization, but not infinite in 
 knowledge. Man, therefore, will always be wanting, progressing, 
 and receiving with great pleasure ; and God, receiving pleasure 
 from all his creations, with greater pleasure gives. Man, imitat- 
 ing his Father in heaven, gives with pleasure freely to the wanting 
 below him ; thus holding sweet communion, through the blood of 
 the Cross, with all minds, which blood gives growth in wisdom, 
 love, and harmony. 
 
 How shall we know that heavenly communion of progressive 
 wisdom is represented in the letter of generation ? 
 
 Is not instinct exalted to reason in the letter as it is also in the 
 spirit ? 
 
 Are not the facts before you, face to face ? 
 
 Every hair is numbered, in the circles of wisdom, love, and har- 
 mony, according to rank ; and each one is a line of communication 
 with heaven and earth, bringing wisdom, love and harmony, to 
 corresponding organs, forming circles within circles. 
 
 Advice. — Love God ; love your departed friend ; love the 
 spirit which they have made exalted ; love the blood of purification 
 and redemption, that you may see God, and the departed and yet 
 present, and have communion with us, face to face, as you doeth in 
 love one with another. " Then shall ye know as ye are known," 
 and heavenly thoughts abound. 
 
 Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the 
 world. 
 
 The highest number of the spirit life from the decomposition of 
 the vegetable substance, forms a new creation, as the highest prin- 
 ciple of instinctive innocence in the lamb. This principle in com- 
 bination, as set forth in this book, is the highest number in the 
 creation of man. Your combinations differ as doth your features, 
 or outlines. 
 
 You will be raised in the new creation, or fourth circle, every 
 one in his own order. One star differeth from another star in 
 
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 clory. " I die daily." " If after the manner of men I have 
 fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me if the dead 
 rise not ? " 
 
 " Evil communications corrupt good manners." 
 
 When the innocence of the lamb in your combination shall bear 
 rule, you will die to evil communications, and, following in the 
 footsteps of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, you will sin no more, 
 and death to you is swallowed up in victory. 
 
 It is with you to leave evil communication, and then the Lamb 
 of God that is in you, and affinities by the law of nature will send 
 to you, holy communion from your Father in heaven. 
 
 Do not communicate dwarf principle to offspring. 
 
 We will now consider an evil communication, — false delicacy. 
 
 It is a particle thrown by centrifugal force from the circle of 
 Babylon, creating frictional light, which is darkness, by communion 
 with adultery and fornication. 
 
 This deprives you of the privilege of taking into consideration, in 
 communion with wisdom, the most important organs communicating 
 thought, creating reason. Reduce that number of whoredom to 
 the smallest hair on the top of the head, which is a crown of life, 
 and the same reasoning would deprive you of all communication 
 with God, cast you into outer darkness, to fight like dogs, to hang 
 one another, to tattle behind the back, to retrograde behind the 
 colored man's back with the lash, &c. 
 
 True wisdom goes in advance. "If I be lifted up, I will draw 
 all men unto me." 
 
 Let the wrath of God which is in you, as an indwelling princi- 
 ple of love, put down all evil communications. 
 
 Seek the straight and narrow way to life everlasting. Be- 
 lieve in us, your departed loved ones, and we will reason with you. 
 
 I am the Son of David, my godfather in the spiritual develop- 
 ment of my first coming, even unto the eighth circle, where God 
 comes in direct communication with his Son, or his Son first recog- 
 nizes his first communication direct from God. 
 
 Descendants through the spirit are known by the number of the 
 
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 mark of the beast as combined from the children of God (first cir- 
 cle) in the children of men (second circle). 
 
 Man cannot draw, in the letter, from the first circle. The 
 spirit must have a new creation before it can become the children 
 of men. 
 
 God, destroy mine enemies from before my face, and let 
 them not have dominion over me." 
 
 As I, David, was one of the heavenly bodies to develop Christ 
 at his first coming, it is highly proper that I should reach the 
 earth again, with him ; as it is now drawing nigh unto us. 0, the 
 darkness of night which has brooded over you for ages is now pass- 
 ing away, and we shall be in full communion with you soon. Let 
 love's attractions draw you nigh unto us, that we may embrace 
 you. 
 
 " The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head." 
 
 The woman you have never recognized in the spirit, neither in 
 the flesh. In your gross darkness, you departed from Christ, and 
 • the angelic woman could find no home upon the footstool. 
 
 Was not Christ the seed of the woman ? 
 
 No ; Christ was the lion of the tribe of Judah ; the Lamb of 
 God. The seed of the woman was displayed in him, and seen in 
 the power of recognizing the thoughts of men, either in the body or 
 out of the body. , 
 
 The highest principle of spirit progressing to the ultimate of 
 earth is seen in the resurrection of the elephant from the seventh 
 circle, first sphere, to the first circle, second sphere, as the seed of 
 the woman. 
 
 The number of the gate leading to the temple of God, which 
 hath power of attraction over that principle, as it leaves the exclu- 
 sive service of God in the first circle, is in the heel, both right and 
 left, embracing man male, and man female. 
 
 The first number, instinct, takes the station in the image of 
 God, as archangel, or stationary spirit. The second principle, 
 being that of blood, and its affinities, goes to the spiritual body, 
 which, with its spirit and home-angel, is forever united, as the 
 eternal groundwork of intuitive communication in spirit life, and 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 35 
 
 in the letter, clearly seen in the man, female, in receiving one 
 thought, oi child. 
 
 This principle in the spiritual body, while in the flesh, is sealed 
 up, as before stated, in this book. 
 
 There is another spirit, corresponding in number with the other, 
 in rank and title, in principle with the letter, man, male. This 
 never leaves the mind ; nor are its channels in the main ever 
 closed, or obstructed, only as in ill health. When it leaves the 
 natural body, it never returns to reanimate it; no, never, it 
 clings to life in the natural body, as is clearly seen. 
 
 The guardian angels are as essential in conception, carrying, 
 and birth of the child, as earthly parents. 
 
 The other angel, after birth, for reasons before stated by a 
 friend, in this work, gradually withdraws, through a power of 
 attraction, to the planet Herschel. Yes, the mother of earth . 
 calls her daughter to her .arms, where she is highly educated, and 
 adorned in those high schools of intuitive instruction, with some 
 mind in affinity with the Lamb of God. He is instructed on 
 earth as circumstances will admit. 
 
 And when all things are ready, I, Jesus, will send my angel 
 to testify unto you these things in the circles. I am the root, and 
 the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. And 
 
 The spirit at home saith, Come ; and the bride, the lamb's wife, 
 saith, Come. And let him that hath an ear to hear thought, that 
 is, the mind, say Come ; and let all your longing desires say, Come 
 and partake of the rivers of life, that is within you, freely. Thus 
 it is when the Lamb of God opens his book, as the medium now 
 opens the Bible. 
 
 If it were possible that you could add to or take from your 
 book, you would not be the image of God. 
 
 The law hath made you perfect, and it will bring your perfect 
 parts together again, with many acquirements, in the resurrection 
 state, or fourth circle, whether you believe or not. 
 
 Where was Jesus, from the age of twelve to twenty-nine 
 years ? 
 
 " And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, 
 
36 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 to him will I give power to rule over the nations ; and he shall 
 rule all evil communications with a rod of iron." 
 
 Get behind me, Satan ; let all animal desires be kept behind, 
 where they belong. Seventh circle, first sphere. 
 
 " And there appeared a great wonder in heaven ; a woman 
 clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet " (see medium's 
 number), " and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." 
 
 Christ, twelve years old, exhibiting a spiritual nature (con- 
 founding the doctors of the law), which his earthly nature could 
 not support ; his archangel being with child, Jesus cried, " Trav- 
 ailing in birth, and pained to be deliverer." The lamb-like 
 breast of Jesus held the angel long against the love of attractions, 
 in the mother Herschel. 
 
 The red dragon, evil communication, expected him in his ser- 
 vices in sin, as the whole race had done before him; but he 
 remembered the love of his angel, and 4cept the truth. God him- 
 self took charge of him, while the private apartments of his angel 
 were as a book sealed up ; and he went to work with his father, 
 the carpenter. 
 
 See how, in Scripture, the seed of the woman will bruise the 
 serpent's head. 
 
 man, look to thine own heart for enemies, and not to thy 
 neighbor's ! 
 
 When you have fought with beasts, and overcome your passions, 
 and unlawful desires, and come to the stature of a man, then say 
 Come, and the bride will say Come, and your departed friends will 
 surely come ; for they can then talk with you through your angel, 
 and you can die no more. 
 
 My dear beloved readers, let this be, if possible, before you go 
 to the land of your fathers ; we shall be with you all when your 
 bride cometh. 
 
 And God and his archangels will attend the bride home, and 
 your reunion will be the marriage supper. 
 
 Dear friends ; a neighbor desires to have a little talk with 
 you ; and, as you have discovered our planet, I would inform you 
 that I dropped a line in Connecticut a while since, which was 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 37 
 
 Englished by a dearly beloved child, whose growth in wisdom was 
 rather remarkable for one on earth. That spirits from the higher 
 spheres desired to communicate with earth's inhabitants. 
 
 The facts in the case, as we shall place them before you, are as 
 follows : it being Bissextile with us, the girls at the schools, in 
 the letter and spirit of our planet (they boarding with some ac- 
 complished elect ladies, whose minds were wisdom unto them), 
 designed to meet their lovers, if possible, before they left the 
 earthly body. We come, now, to plead in their behalf; they 
 want you to play less with fire and brimstone, for it soils your 
 garments ; it should soil the earth in a proper manner, but should 
 not tarnish the mind. 
 
 It is not strange (your earth being young) that little children 
 fall out of bed, and bump their heads ; wisdom developed, desires 
 to see you well tucked up. When darkness vails the hopes of 
 man. 
 
 Yes, hope is man's archangel bright ; the bright and morning 
 star. Love, the serpent for God's sake, as he made it to absorb 
 poison for your organization; but bruise the desire that would 
 bring it in straight lines, and rather desire that it should pass 
 the animal into circles ; then it will come to you in the word t 
 with great delight. 
 
 When we visit your circles from Herschel, as we often may, 
 you shall have the word we bring. Motion in harmony, we shall 
 I move externals by the power of love, to the time of Old Hundred. 
 Our organic light is three-sevenths deeper golden hue, than that 
 of your own spirit land. By these tokens you shall know us ; as 
 i dear ones come to help your departed friends to communicate 
 with you. 
 
 u The devil knoweth he hath but a short time. Behold I 
 come, quickly." The time is thirty-five minutes. 
 
 The heavenly principle, in conception, passes the creatives at 
 the same speed in the beginning, as in the end; creating pleas- 
 ure, as well as raising instinct to reason. And when the earthly 
 is in virtue, and wisdom standing as one with the heavenly 
 Father, the earthly feels the shock from the centre, all round 
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38 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 to the sea. This is the highest duty which, before God and 
 his holy angels, you owe to offspring, who, to all eternity, will 
 bring delight in love. 
 
 Second part. If Herschel is the mother of earth, will you tell 
 us, my children, how an angelic mind, in a spiritual body, can 
 move a table ? 
 
 And how can spirits move the hand in the letter, to copy 
 thoughts of angelic minds ? 
 
 Answer. Let reason look to nature's law, and ask, what makes 
 an earthly body move, to copy the thought of your minds, in the 
 exalting duty of life-imparting principles ? 
 
 The power of attraction, the first principle of motion, which is 
 love, the beginning of wisdom. Then let love continue ; and, in 
 faith, remove mountains of fornication from your earth. 
 
 And the seed of mother Herschel shall bruise the serpent's 
 head. 
 
 How can instinct spirit represent an orb in motion ? 
 
 0, see Kitty catch her tail ! 
 
 When you have made an end of sin, and false communication, 
 through ignorance, there will be an attractive power of love 
 through innocence, which will draw your guardian friend, or 
 departed one, near unto you, whose angel and waiting spirits, 
 obeying his wisdom, begin to open the book, and to fill the apart- 
 ments with the pleasure of thought in motion, until the reading 
 of perfect love shall attract your own angel, to visit you, and 
 your prime minister, or home spirit, who saith Cpme, and the 
 bride saith Come, and cometh quickly, bearing her reward with 
 her, which is the seed of the woman. 
 
 The seed of mother Herschel, brought to you by your angel, is 
 the highest instinct number, or essence of virtue, from the highest 
 number of every principle, or seed of every man upon the planet ; 
 thus opening a fountain of everlasting life, or perfect love. 
 
 Look for the second coming of Christ, in your second, or spir- 
 itual body. The kingdom of heaven being within you, your 
 angelic seed of wisdom, love, and harmony, thus planted, will so 
 far ripen, in two thousand years, as to attract your lovely, angelic 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 39 
 
 mind, to the spirit home, or heavenly sphere, of your blessed 
 mother. 
 
 Although angelic minds can pick up the crumbs of thought, 
 that nothing be lost, yet parents should instruct their children 
 not to self-abuse ^ =& # # =& but to turn the river of life in- 
 ternally. Do not crucify your Lord again ; but let the truths in 
 this book run, and be glorified. 
 
 You have seen the letter of the Bible ; now drink of its spirit. 
 
 The organs which gave a likeness, with a slight change of 
 combination in number, to the earthly body, have a deep, intricate 
 set of spiritual corresponding organs, which are not sensitively 
 opened to the mind of the mother. 
 
 Nature will do her perfect work in love, but fhe spirit wants 
 the wisdom which is sealed from the mother's mind; and that 
 wisdom must come from God, for he must always have commu- 
 nication with his children. These organs correspond in number 
 and in affinity with every other organ in the structure of the 
 parents, making circles of half-numbers, even numbering the 
 hairs of the head in three channels, vibrating to wisdom, love, and 
 harmony. The channels are all opened in the embryo image, as 
 represented in the organs of the womb. 
 
 The channels of wisdom vibrate to the thought of God, reduced 
 through circles coming down to the capacity of infant man. 
 
 The thought vibrates first the organ of the womb corresponding 
 to its number, the organ being not in full communion with the 
 mind of the mother, throws to the embryo, where it creates its 
 channel to the throne of reason, and there forms the first number, 
 returning, numbers its own womb in love and harmony, corre- 
 sponding with the vibrating one in the parents. 
 
 The spirits, obeying law, establish their respective channels of 
 conception, progression, and emancipation, as vibrated from the 
 wombs of the parents, as represented in the mother. 
 
 Although the thought does not shed its glorious light on the mind 
 of the parents, yet the mother, more especially, feels its hallowed 
 influence, as it passes the outer courts of conceptives and creatives, 
 even unto the mind, where a genial glow of thought is inspired, 
 
40 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 conditions being favorable. The womb being, for the time ap- 
 pointed, inspired in wisdom, as well as in love and harmony, 
 assumes the character, attributes, and power of angelic mind, 
 holding: communion with God and the circles, in behalf of the 
 embryo, who is as king of the palace. 
 
 When the mother arrives at the turn of life, as the rivers of 
 life are turned, should she be spiritually developed, then, instead 
 of passing the thought, with its pleasures, to offspring, it will go to 
 her mind, vibrating on her internal ear, opening the whole mes- 
 sage, or communication. This is intuitive; and with what we 
 have before communicated on thought, is the original language of 
 man. 
 
 Do men have wombs ? 
 
 Yes ; witness your bowels of compassion ; — yes, ye lords of cre- 
 ation, work with us to beat your swords into ploughshares, and your 
 spears into pruning-hooks, and wipe the sweat of ill-doing from 
 your brow, and meet your angelic bride in peace. 
 
 What is truth ? 
 
 It is faith lost in sight through the eyes of the mind, which see 
 the spirit of the Bible. 
 
 Can false prophets (delicacy) show you the truth ? 
 
 When you pray, enter into your closet [the inner courts of the 
 sanctuary, or holy of holies, of intuitive thought], and when thou 
 hast shut to the door [against the letter, — - that is, animal, straight 
 line, mortal], pray to thy Father, who seeth in secret, and he will 
 turn the river of animal desire into circles of living light, and tha-t 
 will reach the throne of reason with unspeakable pleasure; and 
 then you will hear the thought, as it revolves through the circles, 
 swifter than lightning break on the spiritual ear, known as the 
 small, still voice; and God will make you as a city set upon a 
 hill, whose light and beauty shall fill the whole.earth. 
 
 Truth is conceptive in wisdom, felt in love, and seen in straight 
 lines, as letters in harmony. 
 
 Circles purify and keep healthy the whole organization of man. 
 Essences from all parts of the world (passing by the apothecary- 
 shop), pure as life, are given to man to feast his nature ; first number 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 41 
 
 of essence entering the gate of corresponding number, and so on 
 through all the gates, some of which are very narrow ; — as 
 Christ saith, they are gates of heaven. Sensitive organs inform 
 the mind of their approaching wisdom, with her powerful positive 
 organ (see suction fire-engine) opening millions of gates ; love em- 
 braces ; harmony thrills, creating the sense of feeling anew, as God 
 feeds his sheep, — filling the whole system with appropriate por- 
 tion, according to number ; — digesting the animal food ; overtak- 
 ing electricity; throwing fire and brimstone to its appropriate 
 number, in the growth of flesh ; opening new channels of thought, 
 as you desire wisdom, or love, or harmony, as the balm of Gilead, 
 giving health and strength to body and mind, both temporal and 
 spiritual ; " growing in stature, and in favor with God and man." 
 
 Are the vials of wrath in your Apothecary's shops numbered to 
 the gates of the bodies ? If not, then ask God to open the chan- 
 nels of wisdom, which may show you their false position. 
 
 Love God ; love yourselves ; love one the other. Believe in us. 
 We wait patiently to meet and embrace you here. I write as 
 Mary, the mother of Jesus. 
 
 I desire to continue my communication, as my generation jwill 
 soon leave this world for the higher joys of the great mother planet, 
 to us a fixed star, around which our solar system, accompanied by 
 two others of similar magnitude, forming a triangle, and move 
 with beauty and delight, creating light for the planet, by friction 
 of the equilateral rays of the- three suns, which make their circuit 
 around the planet once in a thousand years. 
 
 Here is the New Jerusalem of which the image is a type. 
 Here is the city of our God, who will wipe the tears from all 
 faces. A thousand years as a day shall pass, and night shall never 
 come. 
 
 When your archangel brings you here, she will be individual- 
 ized by the gift of wisdom from God, which will complete the 
 image in her. 
 
 As we are soon to depart (my son goes with us) to that heaven 
 of heavens, we are to see (for God hath spoken concerning it) a 
 free communication between your earthly and heavenly bodies. 
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42 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 This little bible of bibles we freely give ; (and as some liberal 
 ministers of the gospel of my son, together with scientific men, 
 have greatly prepared the way of the Lord,) you will as freely re- 
 ceive. 
 
 Some of you, dear friends, will say that we are humbugs ; or at 
 least the apothecary man may. But we shall prove that we have 
 something to do with humbugs. 
 
 How can so many high essences from earth and Herschel find 
 their intricate corresponding number ? How can the little creature 
 raise so high the coral rock from the bottom of the sea ? 
 
 We will take the first and highest number of creative principle 
 which comes directly before your observation, and say there is 
 nothing appears on earth so beautiful (in half numbers) before God 
 and his holy children as the two in one in holy matrimony. Is 
 there not a corresponding number of affection and attraction, each 
 in the other ? and have you not often felt a sweet communion with 
 such ? and have not they drawn virtue from your corf esponding 
 numbers in affinity ? 
 
 Now, if you can see the finger of the law of nature in its highest 
 attractive number, then you can trace its workings through its les- 
 ser numbers, if you have a mind for that kind of study. 
 
 The law of nature is simple, positive, and negative, with a great 
 combination of numbers. 
 
 Exchange of sympathy with true lovers is a law of God and 
 nature. It gives intellect to offspring. 
 
 We want kings to become nursing fathers, and queens nursing 
 mothers in the kingdom of God which is now growing within you. 
 
 The children yet unborn take a great interest in these communi- 
 cations; seeing through our minds of wisdom, desire a better world 
 to live in than you have got. 
 
 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, but you may bless her 
 in spirit. 
 
 To converse freely upon the law of nature, for instruction, will 
 purify the mind, and destroy evil desires. 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 43 
 
 MORNING COMMUNICATION. 
 
 As our angelic friends are present (from mother planet, on a 
 private message to medium, of which you will find an account in 
 your own book, when you, through the innocence of the Lamb, shall 
 ask for its opening; and also one for the world), and as I have 
 spent the night with them, I will continue my evening thought, 
 and make a day of it. 
 
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 Here we will raise our Ebenezers, and life and light shall flow. 
 Yes, we will raise all names, in wisdom, love, and harmony. 
 
 You have humbugged yourselves with cannon-balls, fornication, 
 and other straight line ; communications which you could not turn 
 into circles, and therefore they became a sin unto death. 
 
 We have seen your thought. You may soon see ours on paper ; 
 — you can feel it by asking. Ask, and you shall receive the 
 Holy Spirit, which is material, and can be felt more powerfully 
 either as pain for purifying the mind, as gold is tried in the fire, or 
 pleasure in begetting strength in love, the beginning of wisdom, to 
 change the name of humbug to humming-bird. 
 
 The two halves that marry in the animal* nature, for riches, or 
 other straight lines, are mismated. A slight difference in combina- 
 tion breaks harmony. They harmonize on central points of attrac- 
 tion, to certain degrees. And perfect love will have its perfect 
 worked for the time being, as in the seventh circle, first sphere. 
 
 The offspring must have sympathy from the half number belong- 
 ing to the mother, and angelic friends will see the law of love ful- 
 filled ; and the earthly parents have a thorn in the flesh, as a 
 reward for passing pleasure. 
 
 Wisdom will marry for love alone, begetting harmony. 
 
 Do planets enter into conjugal relations ? 
 
 Yes ; but we will show the fact more clearly when your book is 
 opened before you. And here let us say, keep your mind from the 
 broad road which leadeth to destruction. 
 
 Your whole number is the image of God. It has an atmosphere, 
 as a planet ; and when you move on the wings of the morning, you 
 will resemble a planet, including the spirit land thereof. 
 
44 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 Has the planet wisdom above the law of nature, or law of love, 
 (the two being one) ? 
 
 Yes, the law of God is wisdom over all other wisdom. The 
 planet's ultimate of love is wisdom, which, with the law of God, 
 completes the image ; and all individual wisdom of the spirit land, 
 or spirit atmosphere, and earth, comprises the wisdom of the planet, 
 as an individual, always looking up for more wisdom, through love, 
 and supplying, or aiding those below you ; exchanging reciprocal 
 congratulations with equals, as one circle in full communion, which 
 is the case with the seventh circle, on every seventh day, which is 
 the Sabbath. 
 
 How can a planet tip the wink, or send a love-letter ? 
 
 The law of love and God saith that your desire shall be unto 
 your husband ; to possess his manly virtues, and hand them to your 
 posterity. 
 
 Remember the fire-engine, and don't forget to smile ; for there is 
 health and beauty in pleasant looks. 
 
 EVENING COMMUNICATION. 
 
 Loved gentlemen and ladies, — we have called you man thus 
 far. Will you accept this new term ? for the good of all concerned 
 requires it, — the English language is difficult for mediums to use 
 in translating. You would translate our thoughts much sooner by 
 phonography, which you will soon adopt. 
 
 There is a power of attraction in the highest number in wisdom, 
 corresponding with affinities in central attraction of love, in oppo- 
 site sexes. Each will have their first principle of love established 
 in their spiritual structure. The first thought of attraction, you 
 have in the letter. It is the law of God, of nature ; and it is eter- 
 nal. 
 
 That material which moves in attraction of spirit, and which 
 ultimately moves the body, or earthly temple, you cannot compre- 
 hend without assistance from higher wisdom. Your angelic 
 departed friends are now already looking over your shoulder, wait- 
 ing for you to ask the question ; which question they will answer. 
 
 A young lady feels the writing of the law in her nature, and 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 45 
 
 she secretly desires a husband. She is positive in the desire; 
 — the world without hope would have no attractions, that desire 
 being the highest thought of a half number in semicircle. 
 
 Her positive wisdom hearkens to love, and a communication, or 
 love-letter, is despatched, attended by her spirit of love, who never 
 waits a second bidding, and which finds the young gentleman, the 
 other half number, and who corresponds with her in harmony, in 
 all divisions of numbers, millions on millions. 
 
 Sooner or later, the young gentleman, feeling the actual heft of 
 her communication, thinks he would like to see some young lady 
 that would take his fancy. At last, which is the first, his positive 
 eye rests upon the charmer, and swifter than lightning goes the 
 answer, and a perfect circle is formed; — the first question is 
 popped. 
 
 This communication becomes pleasurable, and the spirit, full of 
 hope, instinctively passes these tokens of love from her father's side 
 to his mother's, or his mother nature, and from his father to her 
 mother nature. 
 
 This circle God hath joined. Let them acknowledge before men 
 their union. Put them not asunder ; but let your spirit of love 
 flow in them, and they will return the compliment; and thus cir- 
 cle on circle of half circles will be formed, and God will bless you 
 all. 
 
 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of 
 feasting. There you can form a circle with the mind of departed 
 ones. 
 
 Perhaps the young man that was, has fallen, like a shook of 
 grain fully ripe. He comes in a full number, with his archangel 
 with him. He fills all, as far as they are open to communication, 
 and a halo of pure feeling seems to fill the house. How all his 
 faults are overlooked ! There seems to be a love for the widow and 
 children that you cannot account for. Your arms incline to em- 
 brace them. 
 
 lovely man ! thou art in communication with what thou callest 
 9 \Lead man ; but in truth with the image of God. 
 
46 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 " Did not our hearts bum within us, as he opened to us the 
 Scriptures ? " 
 
 11 Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and make his paths 
 straight." 
 
 We rather think, by the appearance and movements of things, 
 that our medium is tipping the wink to a young lady on our cen- 
 tral planet, the holy city (for there is no sin upon the earth of that 
 planet) ; and as our friends from there look very pleasant, I will 
 tell you how the lovers communicate. 
 
 His angel takes the wings of the morning, and flies to the out- 
 ermost parts of the earth, — that is, the innermost ; — that is to 
 say Herschel. 
 
 His angel has brought him so many specimens of rich fruit from 
 there, to build up his spiritual organization, that his eye of attrac- 
 tion is on it ; for his loved one has sent him a message. He has 
 popped, and been accepted, and God is blessing the heavenly union, 
 and they will acknowledge before God and man, although two 
 thousand years must pass before their minds can meet at their 
 happy home. 
 
 Your spiritual bodies cannot go in advance of your growth in 
 wisdom. 
 
 But you said that medium was corresponding with a young lady 
 On the mother planet. 
 
 Yes, he is gaining wisdom which is positive power ; and when 
 he is conversant in the knowledge of this world, — that is, the 
 earth and its spirit land, — he will have power to go there in body. 
 
 His wisdom does not discover the number of attraction there ; — 
 he must pass through our spirit land, where all are husbands and 
 wives, which has a powerful attraction surpassing on all below it. 
 
 In creation and conception, Mother Herschel furnishes the seed 
 of the woman, that shall bruise the serpent's head, — yea, to all 
 the habitable globes in the three solar systems, which revolve 
 around her. 
 
 Medium is in the womb of our spirit land, as his lady-love is in 
 that of the mother planet. 
 
 His desire is toward the city; his angel takes his highest 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 47 
 
 thought in wisdom, love, and harmony. The angel having the 
 wisdom of his master in that number, and having no spiritual 
 living body, independent of his atmosphere, and, feeling the power 
 of attraction, starts on his mission, drawing his tail behind him. 
 Here is a mystery of God. 
 
 There is an essence of gum, furnished by mother Herschel, in 
 the seed of that woman, which grows in the spiritual body of 
 the child. As the angel leaves (here is the humming-bird and 
 spider united), he spins his thread until it is stretched from planet 
 to planet, bringing lovers in communion, and annihilates space. 
 In this line of communication the medium, his loved one, and the 
 angel become one. 
 
 Oct. 14, 1852. 
 OUR MORNING COMMUNION WITH THE NEW CITY. 
 
 We have now fixed the eye of wisdom on the third great centre 
 of attraction, in the city of our God, through which you will 
 travel to higher spheres. But no line of communication from 
 beyond Herschel, or next great centre, has reached your medium, 
 and we cannot write above his understanding. We come to open 
 the eyes of the blind, who wish for light, or more light. Ephraim 
 is joined to his idols ; let him alone. Let him thump his knowl- 
 edge-box, till wisdom shall appear. 
 
 But to those that believe, let the gates of fornication sit upon 
 their own bottom, until the spirit shall move upon them in the 
 straight and narrow way of life. And, for the space of half an 
 hour, let the beautiful gate through which you reached the earth, 
 or individualism, be closed ; let the two-wheel chariot, which 
 bears the earthly outriders, wait without the city. 
 
 While we view the heavenly gate in the pathway of man, the 
 street of which, leading over the top of the arch, and enters a 
 socket of the upper attractive swing gate. 
 
 The queen of glory is attracted by the beautiful decorations 
 which obscure the gate of reception (through which there is no 
 passing out) from the natural eye. This gate is the entrance 
 through which the seed of the woman passes to the gate of wisdom, 
 
48 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 
 whose eye is at once transfixed en the great triangled city of our 
 God, whose great centre of attraction is typed in us. By this 
 gate, love is perpetuated in your own body. 
 
 The lower gate, under the arch, gives and receives, as in the 
 letter, in conception and birth. But, when the spirit opens these 
 gates in whole numbers, then the new city appears, and eternity 
 is seen. 
 
 ^ The gates you so much dread, * 
 Will add to wisdom in the head. 
 
 The gates you so readily found in passing from the second to 
 the third circle, should all become known to you, before you pass 
 into the next creation, which must, in time, be accomplished, and 
 your new city known, and felt by you. That is law. 
 
 Then shall you draw up the hidden manna, or expended 
 virtue of man (half number), as the dew of the morning is ab- 
 sorbed by the sun, and received in the clouds, with all other rising 
 vapors, meeting other elements, which, uniting in love to stir up 
 a frolic which refreshes the earth, gives heaven a smile, waters 
 and refreshes the w T hole system, and gives a morning communica- 
 tion to the whole world, as a token of love from a neighbor. 
 
 " I come as a friend of earth, a daughter of your mother planet, 
 to bring some more of the seed of the woman, to bruise the ser- 
 pent's head." 
 
 When God has a great work to perform on earth, he informs 
 your mother of it many years before the time of operation. When 
 John wrote Revelations, his archangel was in daily communication 
 with the planet mother, and our friends were with him. For 
 we do the will of the Lord concerning those under us in wisdom 
 [as he speaketh], if we prove every man on earth in the 
 wrong. 
 
 We saw 1852, and this book, in the day of John. When God 
 speaks a change, we hear the word, and we have the material to 
 make such men in combination, as shall carry out the word in all 
 its numbers. 
 
 Wisdom in numbers is prophecy ; I have a word to a friend. 
 
TIIE SPIRIT HOME. 49 
 
 a child of nature ; that is, not of book learning. He is our child, 
 and I wish to indulge an interview. If there is any one present 
 who would feel unpleasant at his roughness, they can step to the 
 parlor below, where they will find, on the centre-table, classio 
 works, among which are " Locke on the Understanding ; " and, if 
 they wish for wine for their often infirmities, they can ring their 
 beli. 
 
 Enter relative. Well, you have some left yet, of the same 
 sort; I saw your communication this morning, and, as it was for 
 all, I thought I would drop in. 
 
 The girls think your medium has sat upon his own bottom a 
 pretty good half hour, and wished me to raise him a little, and see 
 what kind of an egg she would lay next. Tell about beasts going 
 to heaven — beasts becoming archangels ; it beats John's Revela- 
 tions. I should like to go down deep into this business ; I guess 
 this book will make more than one's belly bitter. 
 
 0, you can't think how that marriage business did out up 
 aunt Caudle; and her minister, that married them, raved like a 
 mad bull, and uncle Caudle came near joining in the chorus \ if 
 you had got those three going in a circle, there would have been 
 no end to it. 
 
 My dear son, God has spoken concerning you ; I am glad to 
 find you in such good humor, as pleasantness brings health. You 
 must remember that God loves all his works, and no one part the 
 less, because he has erred ; overlook the past, and sin no more. I 
 shall show you a mystery about the beasts. 
 
 Yes, that reminds me about the pill, or vial doctor ; he thinks 
 all these creatures and things would want longer smellers than 
 they have got, to find all the numbers of life and health. 
 
 This is the point we wanted you to come at ; I will speak to 
 my friends in the parlor, and we will walk out into the fields to- 
 gether, and converse on the works of nature. These animals feel 
 an attachment to man, and man, as a general thing, loves them, 
 and we want all mankind to love them. Although these animals 
 show an attachment to you, they never try to mingle with life 
 above their own grade. A circle cannot go above its own wisdonv 
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50 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 but can go to all below it. If jour friends above you were as 
 backward as you are in giving aid, how could you be raised to 
 immortal life ? 
 
 There are two circles between you and the animal ; there are 
 circles between mother Herschel, and you. You have seen how 
 we throw you a line, which will bring you all there, as true as 
 God lives. You have often felt a sympathy with animals in their 
 life-giving movements. This is not an empty thought ; a circle is 
 formed, communications pass and re-pass between your involuntary 
 spirit, and the parties actually concerned. So much depends on 
 this law, that, could it be disobeyed in full, it would blast your 
 hopes of eternal life. 
 
 You cannot break the chain, for that links them to our planet 
 also ; but things are sometimes done in the dark. There is no 
 darkness in spirits, and they can put you in communication at any 
 time, even when you are asleep. You may aim at some higher 
 mark, but the communication makes no mistake. You will see 
 the effect of that communication when you shall meet it again, in 
 the spirit land ; it is the seed of the woman. This will be A 
 No. 1 in instinct, and the first blossom from Aaron's rod, a 
 number for wisdom, selfish, individualized. 
 
 Here, imagination is image-making, under imperfect wisdom. 
 
 You cannot lose a thought. 
 
 We will seek for the egg in some other communication. 
 
 Enter, nature's student. — Dearest madam, I wanted to say 
 mother Adam, I feel so jolly when I am with you. Last night, 
 having a little desire to look into the Scripture, I read, " Old 
 men shall see visions, and young men shall dream dreams in those 
 days." Well, I dreamed that I went back in Scripture, until I 
 saw the angelic mind you speak of, with bowels of compassion 
 unseen to mortal eye, and not letting the right hand know what 
 the left hand did. He kept the widow's cruise full of oil, and 
 running over, and, what did run over, he took for himself and 
 friend. The widow's tears dried up, she grew healthy and strong, 
 and kind, and everybody loved her, and helped her to temporal 
 things, and the neighborhood was in smiles. And I saw her 
 
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THE SPIRIT HOME. 51 
 
 f departed husband watching over her, and he sent his angel, who 
 gathered a drop of oil that ran over, and gave to a stranger with- 
 out the gates, and his bowels moved towards her children, and all 
 : within her courts, and they became lovers. 
 
 And behold, as I dreamed, I felt a pleasant ssnsation at tho 
 ankles, which arose gradually, increasing in pleasure until it filled 
 my whole system ; and, when it reached the crown of my head, I 
 heard a small, still voice speak, and say unto me, " And so all 
 'Israel shall be saved." 
 
 And I was filled with much talking ; and a new spirit, which 
 told me of all things (which had been a mystery to me) that I 
 desired to know. And the voice said unto me, " You can sin no 
 'more; neither can there be, to you, any more death. I did good 
 unto those which looked up unto me, and the widow's God 
 blessed me." 
 
 And the voice said furthermore unto me, The law killeth sin, 
 'which is death in the letter to unholy desires, but in the spirit, 
 life everlasting. And behold the spirit said unto me, You can 
 now see how wine is made from water, and turned to living 
 oil, perpetuated in the system, and served up by wisdom, love, 
 and harmony; the last being the best served. And I, having 
 gained a few talents, awoke, just as my lord returned from a far 
 country, and found my lamp trimmed, and burning. 
 
 My dear son, thou hast advanced in spiritual truth, three in 
 'one; and I shall now present thee with a two-edged sword, with 
 a sharp point, and sandals for thy feet. 
 
 On the sword are written, by spiritual manifestations, " Saul, 
 | Saul, why persecutes.t thou me?" It is hard for thee to kick, 
 against the pricks. 
 
 The sandals will keep the way of the gates. 
 
 You expressed a desire, yesterday, to examine our medium ; wo 
 did not think your request was very polite : we, therefore, ap- 
 pointed a committee of ladies, who now beg leave to make their 
 report. 
 
 To the world greeting. Your committee appointed for the pur- 
 pose of examining medium, have attended to that duty, as far aa 
 
52 THE SPIRIT nOME. 
 
 in us lietb. the power, and beg leave to make the following par- 
 tial report : — Tlie egg laid last night (one of the company 
 being present) we found, to our astonishment, to contain three 
 treadles, marked first number. This first shock nearly upset 
 the board, set our table to tipping, and rapping, and very much 
 frightened a young lady who was reading her Bible in the next. 
 room. 
 
 With this key of Peter's (as the young lady informed us that 
 it was his), and beginning to feel confidence in ourselves that we 
 could even unlock the gates of heaven, if need be, we repaired to 
 the apartments of the medium, where we found a man somewhat 
 rising fifty years in age ; his head showed the silver of age and 
 toil, in some degree. A pleasant smile played upon his coun- 
 tenance, mingled with a degree of solemnity which would command 
 respect and confidence in all classes, from the cradle to the grave. 
 On entering, he received us kindly by the hand, and asked us to 
 be seated. 
 
 One thing about him, of which we wish to speak, was the 
 atmosphere around him; it was soft, and appeared to originate 
 thought and freedom of the purest kind. We made known our 
 mission in behalf of the public. He said he was nothing but a 
 man ; but the blood from the battle-fields of freedom had called 
 upon him to lay a few facts before the public, if he could do it 
 and not give offence. He thought the time had now arrived, of 
 which the prophets had spoken, concerning the subduing of the 
 earth, and earthly nature of man. 
 
 He informed us that he was with his first love; that they had 
 been the happy partners of fourteen children, seven of whom had 
 departed from the earthly house. Among the latter was the 
 seventh son, who had been very active in bringing light to him 
 from the spirit land, and who had written some by his hand. 
 
 While we were conversing, I, the chairman of your committee, 
 for one, felt a pleasant sensation pass over me, my heart burning 
 within me, and quick and living thoughts were coming to my 
 mind. 
 
 The medium then introduced us to an angelic mind from the 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 53 
 
 mother planet, of which he had spoken. This angelic lady, for 
 such, indeed, she was, informed us that she had been slightly en- 
 trancing us (for I perceived the whole committee were in the 
 spirit), for the purpose of showing us two whole numbers in mar- 
 riage, as one planet with another, which would solve the mystery 
 of the egg, as the young man called it yesterday. 
 
 We informed yoa that our medium had received his angel from 
 our high schools, where we neither talk nor write, but through 
 intuitive thought. You begin to perceive that you have not got 
 the whole thought, or first number, of planet union. Your earth 
 is intricately connected with ours. 
 
 We must, therefore, continue this evening, with the single case 
 of our medium. When his bowels of compassion, or the centre 
 and circumference of his mother's nature (that is, Herschel), be- 
 came fruitful, he was thrown into a deep sleep by God, who put 
 him in communication with himself; that is, with God, and with 
 a lady on our mother planet. This is true and faithful ; I was 
 one of the messengers of God. Write. 
 
 At the hour of conception, on our planet medium was waked up 
 accepted three drafts upon his compassion (or mother's nature). 
 First number took the highest ultimate of fruit of the seed of the 
 woman, sent from mother Herschel, at his conception. This first 
 fruit of his womb is now mingling with the embryo there, which 
 will meet him there when he arrives as his bride, the Lamb's 
 wife. 
 
 His angel received the second number, which brought her 
 immediately home ; and the third number was an embryo on the 
 earth, which medium will recognize from your spirit land, when he 
 arrives there, over whom he will be a guardian. Every number 
 in medium will be typed in his loved one ; the communion cannot 
 be broken ; attraction will brins; them together. He is now in 
 
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 communication with mother and child, by which you get these 
 communications the like of which have not often appeared. 
 
 The mother and little bride came on last night, and medium 
 said, This is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh. They com- 
 muned in spirit, all three of them, as the angels brought them 
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54 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 together by the power of God, who said unto them, For thy sake 
 shall the earth bring forth thorns and thistles, — that is, earth 
 attractions should become thorns and thistles, compared with the 
 heavenly. 
 
 Every individual is thus connected who dwells on this earth, 
 and also on all the habitable globes that revolve around that great 
 mother centre. 
 
 And that is the true marriage ; and will the committee tell the 
 people, your party, that they want more prophets ? Do not wait 
 till you get to the spirit land. Attend to it while in the earthly 
 house. 
 
 We have opened internal intuitive communication with other 
 worlds ; we shall with yours. 
 
 Thus your committee heard of the spirit. 
 
 The medium said he was not very well clothed in the letter ; but 
 he did not care a fig-leaf about it ; he should eat good fruit when 
 he could get it, if it did make him wise. 
 
 She says fornicators will droop their heads in joy yet. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 Mrs. Truelove and Misses Faithful. 
 
 Oct. 16. 
 SATURDAY MORNING COMMUNICATION. 
 
 Enter Chairman of Committee. 
 
 Dear medium, the committee held a private meeting last 
 evening, and compared notes in respect to our last interview 
 (which was the first with you) ; at which meeting the committee 
 desired me to call on you, and ask a few questions in relation to 
 internal communication, touching nice points. 
 
 Medium. I am happy to give in reason. 
 
 Chairman. You believe, yourself ? 
 
 M. I believe in God. Does he speak to the point ? — I sware 
 1 by myself because there is no greater (a good reason). The word 
 hath gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return 
 unto me void. 
 
 C. How can we see our first communication in love ? and how 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 55 
 
 shall we know when the spider web communication has reached 
 
 our J over 
 
 ? 
 
 M. Your chief-butler cannot heave upon the capstan until 
 your line is made fast, and the anchor seen to ; and then he will 
 bring the burden of your heart to the shores of matrimonial bliss. 
 The word of the Lord hath passed to you, giving you a desire for 
 a husband. This word comes to you first, you being more open to 
 intuitive communion than your sweet-heart (this is not, in nature's 
 law, the case in spirit ; but to you it appeareth so, as in the letter 
 of propagation, in spirit, then as mediums you are equals in com- 
 munion) this fills your desire ; and you positively throw a line to 
 your other half. And this cannot return unto God void. You 
 represent the thought of Mother Herschel, which is, when seen in 
 the spirit, a little figure of a woman. The line of communication 
 is the power of thought, or word, which is the seed of the woman. 
 
 C. Mr. Medium, you have here proved that both parties in life- 
 giving are positive. You have also acknowledged that positive 
 clouds would pass and repass without action ; and we have heard 
 that you have said that you had found the philosopher's stone, cut 
 out of a mountain without hands, which will fill the whole earth ; 
 and the committee instructed me to put your philosopher's stone, 
 as you call it, to the test ; and seeing where your humming-bird 
 would bring you, to clap my thumb to the screw, and see how very 
 small a place you would creep out at. 
 
 M. You have my love for your frankness, in coming before my 
 face with this matter (which deserves my candid consideration), in- 
 stead of tattling to neighbors. In lovers the two halves attract 
 equally, as in the love-letter ; and the position to which you have 
 now drawn me deserves our most devout attention. And as we 
 have one whole number in two halves, I will, with your permission, 
 put one of my thumbs to the screw, and inform you that the spirit 
 is created in whole numbers, corresponding exactly to our numbers 
 as we now stand. This spirit, my dear, is equal in power and 
 glory to our spirits, but is wanting a body in the letter. As ye 
 do it unto the least of my disciples, ye do it unto me. 
 
 C. I will thank you for my bonnet. I must make a call out. 
 
56 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 M. Is it numbered ? 
 
 C. Yes ; beaver, with pink trimmings. 
 
 M. The latest Herschel ? 
 
 C. Thou sayest. 
 
 EVENING. 
 
 Enter the Committee. 
 Chairman. Dearest medium, whether thou art in the body, or out 
 of the body, I know not; but thou hast shown me my Redeemer, 
 and I know that he liveth and reigneth for ever and ever. I know 
 that thou wilt keep me within thy courts, and that I shall sin no 
 more, neither shall I die any more; for I am with thee in the first 
 resurrection. 
 
 The committee all agree in their report to the world, that what 
 you did unto me, the same did ye even so unto them. 
 
 Medium. Dear children, be seated. I perceive you know me. 
 My Father saw your true love to your earthly lovers, and he 
 spake concerning you, knowing that you would embrace the heav- 
 enly. 
 
 Now your first desire in regard to our medium shall be grati- 
 fied. 
 
 First number holds the pen of a ready writer. He is where 
 you are, and hath a part in the first resurrection. He is dead to 
 sin. You know that everybody forgives dead folks, and overlooks 
 all faults. When you are dead to sin, you are alive to righteous- 
 ness. 
 
 This is my second coming, and you are to know all things con- 
 cerning me. 
 
 Second number is the embryo on the mother planet, to attract 
 him there. The one on your earth is in harmony, and is the 
 third. 
 
 The second and third are two moons advanced in embryo ; and 
 ye mothers in Israel, who shall embrace the blessed ones (as there 
 are many more), remember affinities for all bearing like numbers, 
 as in the case of Christ, John, and the disciples, and John the 
 Baptist, as in Andrew Jackson Davis found, as forerunners. 
 

 THE SPIRIT 1I0ME. 57 
 
 We say who will embrace the lambs of the flock, for there are 
 many. ye mothers of the kingdom ! God is with you daily, to 
 bless you and the earth. 
 
 The friends in the body on the planet all know of this medium 
 and embryo, through which they communicate, to medium number 
 one, that which is required by them, in this work. They com- 
 municate through embryo vibrating on the drum of the ear of the 
 womb ; from thence to the drum of the spiritual ear of the mother, 
 the voice of the image of God. 
 
 The medium number one is in close communion with the embryo, 
 and no number can be opened without his knowledge ; as a type of 
 the womb, with embryo, are found in his bowels of compassion ; the 
 way to which is through strait gates, in circles, as channels of 
 thought, which is the spirit of life, and the wine that ye shall, 
 every one of you, sooner or later, drink with me in my Father's 
 kingdom. 
 
 I wish to be understood to say, that your writer at East Boston 
 is the first fruits (in his number) among many brethren, and who 
 shall not taste of death. 
 
 My signs shall attend this book, and ye shall know that my 
 number is already formed in you the hope of glory. My angel 
 visits Herschel, the (to you) new city. She is often with you. 
 Angelic minds from the spirit land of our new city are with to 
 bless your medium, who gave his heart to God, who blesseth him 
 with many blessings that he did not expect. We all await to bless 
 you the same. We do not force positive minds. Bruise the ser- 
 pent's head with the seed of the woman, both being in the erring 
 man. 
 
 When your sins get above your eyes, you think you see the 
 wrath of God ; and you hang one the other, as the Jews did my 
 earthly body. That body never harmed them. 
 
 My Father and your Father will make all right as soon as you 
 forgive yourselves. 
 
 One is better than another, inasmuch as he drinks more freely 
 of the water of life. 
 
 From your Brother, the son of Joseph and Mary. 
 
58 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 Given in the presence of Catherine, an angelic mind, a native 
 of the mother planet, the city of our God, who lighteth it by his 
 presence (let us reason) ; — that is, he gives the natural eyes 
 strength to overcome all darkness which your eyes might see 
 about the planet. Where the people are all free from sin there 
 is no darkness to the eye of the spirit, or letter. 
 
 I would say, that respecting medium number two of this book, 
 they do in the letter there as you did in getting nature's divine 
 revelation here by A. J. Davis, only they are in higher numbers. 
 
 You cannot send a spirit to any of our worlds, to see the color 
 of the people's eyes, and we not know it. 
 
 Catherine Haze. 
 
 It would be well, at this time, to draw a line parallel with the 
 law of God, or infinite wisdom, and the law of love, or infinitude of 
 law in nature 
 
 Enter a Graduate. 
 
 My dear medium, permit me to interrupt you for a moment. I 
 am from Andover. I am now to start business in a great field of 
 labor, which I intend to free from all obnoxious weeds, of which I 
 perceive you are of the very smallest ones that your mother of har- 
 lots knows of as being out. You, sir, are leading captive silly 
 woman. 
 
 And now, sir, you will have the goodness to mark my first num- 
 ber in wisdom, love and harmony, of womanish feeling and holy 
 love, that you may see the hand that holds the thorn, when some 
 of your signs shall appear in Latin : Erterium et petorus keyte- 
 tevus. You, sir, shall know that our institution is as a city set 
 upon a hill, whose light cannot be hid. 
 
 Medium, assisted by a friend. Dear youth, you truly repre- 
 sent one of the lords of creation. 
 
 Dear friend, with God there is no respect of persons. He loves 
 all; he will do good unto all, and not evil. 
 
 "We, his image, love all, too, as far as our knowledge extends. 
 
 Your manly dignity, emanating from your Father, would be 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 59 
 
 beautified by those lovely virtues so prominently displayed in your 
 mother. Wisdom enlargeth her borders. 
 
 You are a promising young man, and I see by your number, 
 through which cometh the true spirit of prophecy, that your name 
 will be known to generations yet unborn. 
 
 Would you not like to be Governor of the Commonwealth of 
 Massachusetts ? 
 
 I will say no more about Latin, if you will give your influence 
 in favor of my elevation to that exalted office. 
 
 If you will extend yourself from a city to a state, we will see 
 what I, the friend, can do for you; providing, always, that you do 
 as I say through the campaign. 
 
 I will try. 
 
 You will repair with me to the pinnacle of the State House, 
 where you can see all the kingdoms of the earth. Here your eye 
 of wisdom, in the highest pinnacle of man, beholds your proud do- 
 main. Look upon the mighty flood. And the sea shall give up 
 its dead when your will moveth upon the water. 
 
 Candidate. Get behind me, Satan. 
 
 Friend. Did you speak ? 
 
 C. Yes; I told that spirit prevalent in me when we first met, 
 to marvel. 
 
 F. Your eye brightens. Do you see a poor man down toward 
 the shore ? 
 
 C. Yes. 
 
 F. He wants to get a dozen hands to fish for men. 
 
 C. I see. 
 
 F. You will now look to the left ; and as your eye brightens 
 (there, mark it carefully), you behold their graves open, and the 
 dead come forth, some to a resurrection of life. This is the first 
 resurrection. Some await their time ; — some are changed in the 
 twinkling 
 
 C. man ! 
 
 jF. Why ! what is the matter ? 
 
 C. 0, no matter. I felt a funny shockishness. I cannot see 
 through it. No one was near me. 
 
60 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 F. Lo, I am with you to the end. 
 
 Here is the mystery. The higher order of society, receiv- 
 ing a note, tipping the word of your nomination, which I slyly 
 dropped, as your attention was called to the right. And they, 
 seeing a strong rush in the lower class in your favor, shouted for 
 joy, as the angels over one sinner that repenteth ; and it seemed 
 as if the heavens and the earth had come together, and the shock 
 you felt opened your bowels of compassion, in which to dwell is 
 the affection you must have for the people over whom you will 
 rule, in love. 
 
 The seed of your first fruits, or highest nature, which you 
 involuntarily gave to your Lord, who has gone to a far country, 
 is planted there as a power of attraction, to draw you to a great 
 office there, should you prove faithful over this people. 
 
 When you first came to me, I was about to draw a line of 
 wisdom ; and show how far the law of nature could go, and not 
 call on wisdom, in the formation of the body, earthly and 
 heavenly. 
 
 You have witnessed the mingling of various essences, in 
 bringing together the material for the spirit of man ; and that, 
 mingled with the elements which the earthly parents, by the law 
 of nature, could contribute. I shall now unfold to you the law of 
 wisdom ; let me remove some obstructions at the pit of the 
 stomach. 
 
 C. What on earth is all that ? 
 
 R What ? 
 
 C. I heard a little child speak a very naughty word. 
 
 F. 0, your deaf ear is unstopped, is it ? That child spoke 
 the truth in the shortest possible manner, to let you know what 
 the law of God was doing, in adding wisdom in words to the law 
 of love. To the pure, all things are pure. 
 
 C. Where was it ? It seemed to be in my compassion, as you 
 termed it, and it hopped with delight. 
 
 F. You recollect that the Lord carried the seed of the first 
 fruit of the woman, which ripened in your nature (and which 
 destroyed your corrupt desires) into a far country, where it first 
 
THE SriRIT HOME. 61 
 
 came from, to do that work, and to make a man of you. Con- 
 ception there put you in communication with a mother of that 
 country, which mother sent you the first seed. Canst read ? 
 Understandest thou these things ? 
 
 C. May God give me wisdom to rule over this people, as I 
 feel the power to govern myself. 
 
 F. Conception put you in communication with a womb, bearing 
 the same numbers with your compassion, but octaves above. Thus 
 was your cable-tow from shore to shore stretched. 
 
 Embryo being advanced by love, as far as it could go without 
 help, wisdom, with its almighty arm, used its flaming two-edged 
 sword, piercing even to the dividing of joints and marrow. By 
 which its joints were appointed their respective places, and every 
 channel of thought in your system, corresponding in number, wa9 
 opened, and thrown into human form. When the law of wisdom 
 had reached its throne, with love running side and side, the child 
 spake, and the voice of intuitive wisdom reached your spiritual 
 ear ; this gives you a fountain of wisdom, and faith in im- 
 mortality. 
 
 Can you translate a thought from your angelic father? 
 
 C. Yes; seek, first, the kingdom of heaven, and all other 
 things shall be added. 
 
 F. One from me intuitive, in relation to the moving of wis- 
 dom upon embryo. 
 
 C. I think I have it. 
 
 44 When little Samuel woke, and heard his Maker's voice, at 
 every word he spoke, aloud did he rejoice." 
 
 F. When, as a medium, you have done with earth, and your 
 earthly body sinks to rest, and the elements of the spiritual are 
 coming together over the ruins of the earthly body, and you un- 
 conscious of all things, and there is silence in heaven with you, 
 the eye of wisdom will be there, to see that every part takes its 
 own place in a womb atmospheric, and you will come to con- 
 sciousness in a state of perfect delight. 
 
 I will say to you, that every part of the material is repre 
 sentcd in the spiritual ; this, the spiritual, however, will always 
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62 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 be under a refining process, as wisdom is purifying. What passes 
 the bowels as department, will go to enrich the spirit land. Look 
 to the letter of the law, to see spiritual things. Tell your people 
 to believe in their angelic friends; we can, and will, sympathize 
 with them, in all their joys, and in all their sorrows. Look all 
 around, and see the different lines of communication into your 
 city, both temporal and spiritual, and ponder. 
 
 The thought representing Herschel, as seen by the eye of the 
 mind, represents a woman, w r ith the dress at the bottom ending in 
 three equal points ; the three points representing the three solar 
 systems, that contribute to its wealth. The thought enters just 
 at the ankle joint ; on reaching the ear, or apartments of wisdom, 
 it fills the die corresponding to its figure and number, and you 
 hear the name by which you know the planets, and its con- 
 tributaries. 
 
 " And they all spake in their own tongue ; and some thought, 
 and said, these men are full of new wine.' , 
 
 The distance it travels in the body, through its circle in circles, 
 is equal, in distance, to that from the body exercised thereby, to 
 the great centre, the extent of wisdom on human angelic law, now 
 known to man on earth. 
 
 Tell to my friends, on the earth, that as I drew the sword 
 of freedom there, so shall I draw for freedom in the spirit. 
 
 G. Washington. 
 
 Tuesday, Oct. 19. 
 
 Mediu?n. Dearest mother, is it your angelic presence that bears 
 me on to my pleasant task this morning ? 
 
 Yes; do you not see the crown of twelve stars ? 
 
 Dear mother, earth hath lost all its charms ; only as I can see 
 the heavenly principle interwoven through it, I feel invited to a 
 thanksgiving feast ; and I wish to discuss all viands which I may 
 eee upon the table. 
 
 Fear not, my son, for God hath spoken. 
 
 How can I see my relative position in these communications ? 
 
 You must be born again ; you must be born of the spirit. You 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 63 
 
 are enveloped in the spirit, which represents you as in the womb, 
 as in the letter ; with this addition, the word now comes to 
 my mini, as well as to yours. This spiritual womb is your atmo- 
 sphere ; and no earthly thing can be sustained in that atmosphere, 
 which witnesseth your triumph over sin and the grave. Do you 
 think you see the witch of Endor ? 
 
 My spirit was attracted from one circle to another, by the 
 power of attraction in George, who immediately preceded me in 
 these communications. 
 
 He, consequently, is your godfather ; and the angel mind, who, 
 with his trumpet, stood upon the land and the sea, who the beaver 
 represents, as we are looking at the letter. The angel and the 
 beaver are the same ; the angelic mind, or medium, or mediator, 
 being four octaves above it, being the distance from earth to 
 heaven. 
 
 George. Or the angelic mind, my guardian, who ascertained 
 this fact, on his elevation to the fourth circle, when the nation 
 was in mourning ; and he, foreseeing the time, through the law of 
 affinity in love, when he would either draw my spiritual body from 
 the earthly, which you call death, or I must draw from him a 
 spirit of love for individualization. 
 
 He, true to his nature as an angelic mind, and which was so 
 prominent in his earthly career, fortified himself for the attack. 
 
 Some three months previous to the pleasing crisis, he flooded 
 the world ; and, when the waters had arisen to the sole of his 
 right foot, the sea gave up their dead. And the spirit of the sea, 
 from dead fish, rested in a horizontal position on the sole of the 
 foot, for the space of seven days, being a sandal, or shoe to the 
 foot, to keep the way of the gates in (hat part of the city, God 
 having more wisdom than George, had previously issued orders 
 to Noah, who resided in Herschel, to see that the seed two and 
 two was reserved in the ark of the covenant ; for he saw a storm 
 coming that would try the spirits of men. 
 
 The high-spirited principle corresponding in number to George's 
 body (God bless him), came to his support, even unto the lion and 
 the lamb. 
 
64 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 Noah sent out his dove, and, when the angel returned with 
 a token, George saw that seed-time was approaching ; for Mount 
 Ararat had lifted, as it were, its lovely head above the waters, 
 and the ark rested upon the crown of wisdom. 
 
 George, the son of Noah, whose genealogy has been traced 
 through the root of Jesse, was desirous to see how the little 
 gardens of the Lord would stand the great deluge; and, when 
 the waters had subsided which had cleared the earth of much 
 sinful blood, he dropped his precious seed broad cast. Some fell 
 on good ground, some fell on stony ground ; but a specimen of 
 the first quality fell in the pathway, leading from the front gate 
 to the main entrance of my house, which has since been pulled 
 down, revised, and corrected. 
 
 This happened at the very time that your father, the only 
 gardener I had at that time, was carting on soil, to elevate and 
 beautefy the yard, and make the place attractive. The attraction 
 of the soil upon the seed was stronger than that in George, be- 
 cause you wanted the earthly body for individual purposes, which 
 doth not exist in the pockets of the heavenly after the earthly is 
 once thrown off. 
 
 Was the lover in communication with your mind, or the old 
 house ? 
 
 He was in communication with the elements of the heavenly 
 body, which filled every pure in the earthly, which gave him and 
 me much pleasure ; and you will find, by the old family records, 
 that I gave all the credit of that delight to the gardener, who was 
 the only one apparent in fixing up the flower-beds which beaute- 
 fied the whole house, and attracted the eye of many strangers, 
 who saw that George could do best without his hatchet. 
 
 The enemy always sows tares, but the seed of the woman will 
 always conquer. 
 
 God hath ordained that you should learn to write while on your 
 passage from earth to heaven ; and I thought these little stories 
 about the Bible would make your task more pleasant. My son, 
 you behold no individualism below the image of God, and that 
 individualism can never be lost until the combinations of God are 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 66 
 
 exhausted. You will grow in wisdom, love, and harmony, and in 
 power, but you will be the same individual that you were. 
 
 When you, at a tender age, spoke to God in public, on the 
 stage, your God reserved your inheritance, therefore, and youjr 
 guardians under God will bring you in possession thereof. 
 
 Dear angelic mother, by my ponderings I find that I am dead, 
 or hath become as one of you, while in the body, and that God 
 hath spoken to me a medium of the word, that I may pass it down 
 through the courts of reason, that the earth may blossom as the 
 rose of Sharon. I find myself entranced for time and eternity, 
 and God speaketh to a whole circle through me. 
 
 I perceive my guardian Ellen, my second lover, from our spirit 
 land, and Catherine, my third lover, from the higher sphere, are 
 present, and their attendants wait to aid us in giving a word to a 
 wanting world. 
 
 My dear angelic son, you have found your charter, authorizing 
 you to work. 
 
 To the vulgar, all things are vulgar. The wind bloweth where 
 it listeth. 
 
 The wind and the spirit goeth both ways together, to and from, 
 and up and down, in the earth. 
 
 What a great matter a little fire kindleth ! And that, too, 
 even when unborn spirits speak words not lawful to be uttered. 
 
 You have seen, by faith, through olfactories how a little wind 
 will shake a meeting-house ; the vulgar parts were in active motion, 
 while wisdom, the elect of God, found it necessary to employ both 
 hands to hold one sleeve on. While the eye of the congregation 
 was fixed upon a point that it could not very well see at the time 
 in the .letter, or spirit, and while this great harmony of mind 
 lasted, as many minds concentrated in one thought (as I and my 
 father are one). 
 
 The sword of the spirit entered a gate not far from the point 
 on which the eye of the people was fixed, and every individual 
 who was in harmony was pricked to the heart, or channels opened 
 for thought, to play below the seat of wisdom, and the law of 
 health was satisfied. The deed, or sin, came from below the eye, 
 6* 
 
Ob THE SPIRIT IIOME. 
 
 and that is the sin of ignorance. It was beyond the control of 
 human wisdom, and God will not call the young man to an ac- 
 count for it in the great day of his wrath ; it was an accident, 
 but he has broken the law of modesty, and he will find his punish- 
 ment in the winking eye of comrade life, which will finally ulti- 
 mate in fat on the rib he has lost, the undeveloped half. 
 
 You must not sleep in meeting. 
 
 Dear son, this communication I handed to you from your old 
 and much loved friend, David Baldwin, with whom you lived for a 
 season, and to whose American Re volution stories you listened 
 with so much delight, in boyhood days. 
 
 Dear mother, I see my dear old friend since you spoke. It was 
 wisdom in you to keep his name from me until the last, otherwise 
 I might have taken it all in shaking, instead of writing. 
 
 He is truly the lion in all things ; and he shows me that the 
 trust he had in God's wisdom, w T hile in the earthly, has not been 
 shaken in death, but strengthened in the heavenly ; and that God 
 will overrule all things for good, rough-hew them as we may. 
 
 Dear mother, have you anything more to communicate this 
 morning? 
 
 Yes, my son. Do you not recollect the ponderings of our minds, 
 and that they were suddely stopped ? This was by Catherine, who 
 introduced to me your old friend Baldwin. 
 
 O yes, dear mother, on the laws of love and wisdom. 
 
 Well, you see the ultimate of wisdom in God ; and you can have 
 no knowledge of God but in comparison with your own wisdom, 
 which brightens in development. The seed of wisdom is planted 
 in you, but neither you nor I can comprehend its growth in eter- 
 nity. 
 
 The law of instinct, or love, or nature ultimating in those shin- 
 ing thoughts, or stars as flying messengers, of angelic power, or 
 ; hand-writing on the wall; — these are servants of angelic minds. 
 They are higher than instinct in animals, because they are raised 
 from the dead by our creative organs. This highest principle of 
 the law of love moves upon spirit, the next principle below, and 
 spirit moves in harmony, and earth is filled with spirit presence. 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 67 
 
 Thus, your system feels languid and faint, wisdom speaks to a cer- 
 tain thought, that thought runs down from the throne, moves the 
 whole system ; you step to the mantel-shelf, and apply the smell- 
 ing bottle to your nose, in which bottle is a drug which has created 
 an atmosphere of earthly spirit essence. You cannot see it, and 
 if you could not smell it you would not believe ; and you would 
 have resisted wisdom, and not have gone to it for relief. The 
 thought keeps you in motion until the bottle reaches your nose, 
 and that is placed in a negative position. On that instant the 
 spirit moves with power. 
 
 Essence and nose "first number corresponding. You do not put 
 it to your ear, because it is not numbered for the ear by nature. 
 
 Wisdom does not watch nature with anxious eye, for it prophe- 
 sied, millions of years gone by, that you would put it to your nose, 
 for there was the number ; and your wisdom saw into the future, 
 before you moved, that the two would come together, and the time 
 of meeting would be governed by your desire for relief. 
 
 God does not fill immensity with his own presence. If he did, 
 there would be no room for us, or motion. But he fills it as you 
 fill the office of your charge. 
 
 When the foreman, nature, has done all it can, it speaks to wis- 
 dom in us, and is referred to God, through us or not, as the case 
 or condition of wanting parties may require. 
 
 The moment the spirit saw the condition of your nose, it sprang 
 to your relief, and in an instant you felt a shock in every part of 
 your body, the essence travelling, dividing numbers into circles, 
 going a distance, were it in straight lines, that you could not num- 
 ber. 
 
 The distance travelled was the same in harmony with all the 
 channels opened by intuitive thought, with the exception of those 
 which might be closed in honor of the departed angel. And could 
 the eye of the oldest inhabitant have seen your interior, he would 
 have said that "it was one of the most sublime flashes of lightning 
 he ever witnessed, — yea, such as might have been on the earth 
 when universal man of earth was in embryo. 
 
68 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 Yes, here you see electricity. It passes down, after having in- 
 formed wisdom of its desire to please, or obey his commands. 
 
 Electricity for the earthly body, in ultimate essences, is num- 
 bered for the nose. 
 
 In drink and food for the mouth, see how the golden peach, 
 blended with pink, makes the mouth water. 
 
 The mouth of the spirit-body waters for the heavenly essence of 
 the peach, as doth the earthly mouth for the electric principle to 
 form the earthly body. 
 
 Do spirits eat ? 
 
 No ; they want natural and spiritual bodies. The natural one 
 to be a nucleus for the heavenly. 
 
 At conception, the spirit mixes, as a blessing from God, with 
 the highest principles of earthly life, and draws from the deposits 
 of spiritual material according to development in the earthly 
 parents. 
 
 The seed of the parents, when brought together, is equal to 
 the spirit blessing. 
 
 This blessing, coming direct, through the law of nature and of 
 God, from parents and guardian, is equal in four half numbers. 
 The law of nature mixes these four parts, each of which is a part, 
 in higher or lower number, in spirit, or in spiritual and natural, or 
 earthly body, of every degree of matter ultimating from the earth 
 and affinities. 
 
 This seed, thus planted, will ultimate in the image of God, 
 within six hours from the death of the earthly body, or at the time 
 that all heat hath left the earthly for the heavenly body. 
 
 If you fall into water on a very cold day, you would find in 
 yourself the image in thirty minutes. 
 
 Dear mother, shall I interrupt a moment ? It appears to me 
 that you have got two whole numbers in the loved one departed, 
 equal to two married couples. 
 
 Yes, the two halves of each make one whole number of each, 
 male and female. These two whole numbers make one creative 
 image of God ; whole male, whole female. 
 
 Do you see me thus when you call me angelic son ? 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 69 
 
 Yes, lovely child ; but your glory will not be full while in the 
 earthly; for no one can see God and live, — that is, you cannot 
 see or experience the pleasures of the heavenly but faintly while 
 in the earthly. God will not contend always with man, for this 
 good reason, the spirit would fail before him which he had made. 
 
 When does God contend with men ? 
 
 When the law of love has deposited in the womb this precious 
 charge, nature performs her duty until she finds she has gone to 
 the highest extent of her instinct nature, and that the lovely em- 
 bryo hath a mixture that she cannot ultimate. 
 
 She seeks no help on earth, but raising her hands cries out in 
 distress, Lord God, is there no help ? 
 
 The almighty God then draws his glittering sword (thought), 
 passes it through the outer centre to the centre of attraction, or 
 where it is to be when around the prick of the point the embryo 
 begins to form the first circle, or centre of attraction. 
 
 The two-edged sword is the first dawn of reason, or seed of wis- 
 dom, thrown from God's almighty fire-engine of wisdom, love, and 
 harmony. 
 
 The communicating angelic friend cannot give or plant wisdom 
 above the circle of which he is a member, and nature cries out 
 because she cannot see almighty power to aid her in ultimating 
 this unaccountable charge. The first number of the prick, or point 
 of the sword, corresponds to the first number of the centre of at- 
 traction in all beings under God who claim his image as an inherit- 
 ance. 
 
 The first word spoken, on raising instinct to the throne of God, 
 or reason in wisdom,, is (by embryo) he is * * * " * * me ! thus 
 dividing the creating word of God, a whole instinct number, into 
 five syllables, which is the beginning of wisdom. 
 
 Although it was unlawful for mediums to utter words of the 
 spirit, or word of God, at Christ's first coming; and although the 
 law of modesty suggests that we should withhold that utterance in 
 the letter of thought, at least, at the commencement of his second 
 coming, yet we feel in duty bound to form a circle around them, so 
 that the centrifugal force of that circle will hitch the word to tho 
 
70 THE SPIRIT IIOME. 
 
 silent ear of the wise and prudent, that they may not call us evil, 
 or devil, when we come to introduce them to the Bride. 
 
 You have read the Bible in the letter, and preached to the peo- 
 ple that they must all, young and old, male and female, be married 
 to God, and to Christ, his son. 
 
 In your single blessedness you thought (and I would speak to 
 your friends through you, my son) that the God you worshipped 
 had an all-seeing eye, made out of nothing, because it was not ma- 
 terial, that eye in its awful grandeur filled all space with its pres- 
 ence, which was nothing also; and he had a spirit which was 
 nothing. 
 
 This strange God had a devil, which he had cast out of himself, 
 which of course must, by the law of reason, be nothing likewise. 
 
 This great archangelship drew many of the otherwise stars of 
 heaven after him, and many of them, treading on his long forked 
 tail, which they could not see in their darkness, and at the very 
 touch of which would give off a shock of electricity ; and the peo- 
 ple fell by millions into a lake of fire and brimstone which they 
 kindled by friction on their downward course. 
 
 His satanic majesty, with his staff, at the head of which stood 
 his prime-minister of matrimony, with his stake of martyrdom, did 
 great wonders in the earth. Those who had got married to this 
 god, as they supposed, and had pure hearts, did in fact get married 
 to the true uuknown God. They felt the union sweet, and went 
 and told their experience. 
 
 The ultimate of human wisdom in religion told them that angel 
 visits were few, and far between, and that they must not lose their 
 first love ; so the prime-minister cut their heads off at the neck, 
 and turned them round, so that they could look at the time of their 
 first love. 
 
 This move deranged the numbers at the neck, and they lost 
 communion with God ; for the true God will not communicate face 
 to back with individual man. When he communicates he will pro- 
 duce his likeness, and fill his image with glory and eternal life. 
 
 The young man, w 7 hen invited to marry the Lord, saw nothing 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 71 
 
 that resembled his mother in the all-seeing God of nothing, and he 
 was not in a great hurry to find that kind of rib. 
 
 The young lady looked at the god, as her mother had taught 
 her to read and understand in the Bible ; and she learned that 4hey 
 had beautiful singing in heaven. But as the best singers on earth 
 were eunuchs, she thought she might as well attend to religion 
 when the day for pleasure was over, and she was about to be turned 
 to nothing; and then she would like to sing with eunuchs, as she 
 would then be a eunuchess. 
 
 My son, you asked if the angelic inhabitants of this world lived 
 by eating. Yes; from conception to eternity you eat ; — yes, of 
 every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 
 
 Here is a great mystery, simple in its first number, word, seen 
 under seven stars ; divided through angelic hosts, down to the last 
 division of matter composing the earth on which you live. It is 
 divided into circles within circles, creating by the word not lawful 
 to be uttered. 
 
 The first motion of the earth ultimated pleasure to God's cre- 
 ative organs. His first number of love organs corresponded to the 
 highest number of earth. 
 
 After man was created, God demanded the pleasures of earth 
 through the marriage of man and woman, and the marriage of 
 himself in both as one. 
 
 The canisters in the hollow of the thighs, that shrink, contain 
 the rich oil of the widow's cruse, and when your whole nature is 
 developed you may drink and eat, and eat and drink, and never 
 die. If the essences which supply it should fail, you could not 
 I love ; but God is true, and so is nature ; and do not despise their 
 word. 
 
 Build up your spiritual bodies by eating, and offer a fat sacrifice 
 unto God. Do not be afraid to eat what you love, and nature 
 gives you for good. 
 
 The ultimate of love law is the womb and its creative agents. 
 These agents are bringing into it everything that ultimates under 
 it to support the whole system, to give individualism to offspring, 
 to support the throne of wisdom, and to communicate with God 
 
72 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 partially until the turn of life, and then become a medium, which , 
 may be easily effected if in youth you ask your God for truth ; and ; 
 then be gate-keeper for one day in the house of God, and there is ; 
 not gold enough in the whole earth to tempt you to give yourself ; 
 to fornication. 
 
 I, Abraham, wish to say, that after Sarah and myself had done 
 bearing offspring in the letter, our departed friends came to me, ' 
 and opened my mother's nature in wisdom, to my great surprise. 
 And I had great pleasure with them, and they promised me that 
 God would open Sarah's womb, that she might have pleasure with 
 me in the flesh ; but she should have pleasure in herself alone, 
 in creating spiritual children, and be godmother unto many. 
 
 And the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken ; and she found 
 the seed of the woman, which was called my seed, and the seed of 
 my spirit body was the seed of the woman Herschel, as I found 
 when I left the earth for the spirit land. And the first fruits of ! 
 my womb, and Sarah's womb, in seed, was a sacrifice pleasing to 
 God ; she called her seed Isaac, and it was planted in the mother 
 planet. My first seed of spiritual life germinating from the seed 
 of the woman (which is now to purify the earth), was conceived in 
 that far-off home of the blessed. And I called it Kiturah. 
 
 And I became godfather to many children ; that spirit of at- 
 traction drew me to that higher sphere, and, O my God, it is a 
 happy place. 
 
 A better condition you want on earth ; and I, and my dear 
 Sarah and Kiturah, are here to aid you, and help in giving you 
 this book, and this new covenant, in the spirit of God, and from 
 him the promise that, in the seed of Samuel of 1852, shall all 
 the nations of the earth be blessed, for he is able, of these stones, 
 to raise up children unto x\braharn. 
 
 Grow in love, and beget pleasure in the Lord, which you can 
 do by studying human nature ; and, as ycu have a law book, con- 
 taining all things in God and nature, help yourself to reading. 
 Wisdom is the highest ultimate of love; through God, it is en- ' 
 larged by friction of thought in the sexual organs of the womb, 
 growing more refined in feeling as you increase in wisdom. 
 
TI1E SPIRIT HOME. 73 
 
 Thought, the archangel of wisdom, pays tribute into the sanc- 
 1 tuary of wisdom, and wisdom has control over all thought, each 
 i department being a material thing. 
 
 Do not expect to see jour departed friends while in the flesh ; 
 they are too beautiful for your eyes. But thej will show you 
 j shining thoughts, and you must prepare to receive them as they 
 pass up. The spiritual eyes are of wisdom ; the more wisdom, the 
 stronger they will be, and the sooner you will see your friends 
 face to face. 
 
 Solon, the great lawgiver, from Herschel, the higher sphere, 
 I opens the eyes of wisdom for all on the earth, when your guardians 
 have done what they can do. 
 
 The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David, and he will not turn 
 from it, that the fruit of thy body shall sit upon thy throne. 
 
 When Solomon was begotten, I was in communication with the 
 parents, and great wisdom was given him, that he might copy the 
 image of God as near as could be in the coastruction of the temple. 
 And think ye that it was an unmeaning thing, that he adopted 
 the clean white lamb-skin apron, to cover the bowels of compas- 
 sion, or womb of eternal thought ? The compassion is a figure of 
 the whole man ; and when you become a prophet, or medium, in the 
 development of both parents, you may find that the God of love 
 has had pleasure with that figure while your head has been sinning. 
 
 And look at the two brazen pillars, cast hollow, For the safe 
 repository of the records, as archives of masonry (and where the 
 names of your dead live in memory), against inundation and 
 conflagration. 
 
 And behold, and see the canisters of oil in the hollow of tho 
 thighs. 
 
 Think the oath of God has been broken ; has he lacked a man 
 to sit upon his throne, the throne of David ? 
 
 While ignorance in dark ages, and oppression in tyranny, have 
 been hard upon it, and every other thing that hath borne the name 
 of godliness, has been broken and patched until it has lost itself 
 in nothing, you find some universal cement of brotherly love living 
 with the order in moral beauty. 
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74 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 Break down the outer temple, and you will find the lamb and 
 the lion's paw in strength to raise it, in less than three days. 
 
 Brethren, the grand master is soon to make you an official visit, 
 to inspect your charter and your work. Will you see that 
 your triangular lights are burning, three in one ; wisdom, love, 
 and harmony. 
 
 Dear mother, being impressed that you are supported by the 
 angelic friend of every person in the earthly that breathes upon 
 the earth, and who can feel this truth but such as I, who am 
 being developed in a mother's nature ? And, as there are 
 number of friends present from the higher sphere, and as Abraham 
 and Sarah have lodged with me and my house this night, and 
 drawn us nearer together, and nearer to heaven, than ever we 
 have been before, and as all things are growing pure in my mind, 
 I desire to sit down with you, and your dear Sarah, and talk as 
 freely as one would commune with his own thoughts. 
 
 Dear son, I will introduce you to father Abraham, and Sarah, 
 •and to mother Sarah, and Abraham. Sarah wishes to talk with 
 you against the devil ; is not he an enemy ? Love your enemies. 
 
 I, the first fruit of Abraham, as his rib and his lawful wife, 
 once in the flesh, and now in spirit, will speak through you to a 
 world in which I can see no enemy. I wish to introduce the 
 world to wisdom, and bring the power that worketh evil to work 
 with God, and holy happy ones. 
 
 God informed us that you would be the first fruits of many 
 brethren, in the second coming of Christ, which is the seed of 
 Abraham, which is the seed of God. Do you desire to communi- 
 cate with other folks in the flesh ? 
 
 Remember, that charity begins at home, and he that will not 
 provide for his own household is worse than an infidel. I say we 
 were informed of your mission when you were a spirit, and the 
 servant of God ; for threescore years and ten you served him. As 
 with you, so with all, in relation to time. 
 
 You, the first whole medium, or number, the first division of 
 that number makes two whole mediums : second division four 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 75 
 
 whole mediums, and so on, until the whole world, or lump, is 
 leavened, and heavenly joys abound. 
 
 When you were a small child in the flesh, God spake concern- 
 ing you, and you were very sick, and nigh unto death, but I was 
 there, and not alone. I took the first fruit, the apple, or seed of 
 the woman, from your little body spiritual, by my attractive crea 
 tives, which had the charm of both sexes. The woman predomi- 
 nated in your instinctive apartments of love. The highest 
 number, your angel was attracted to me in division, second 
 number, through me, by George, in the spirit land ; third number 
 was given (as your rib) in conception on the earth, near the 
 landing-place of the pilgrim fathers. This number, the third, had 
 great compassion for you, and you for that, and your banns were 
 declared, and there was a great wedding, and God blessed you. 
 
 It was the exciting power of the word that was not uttered that 
 took from you a lover ; was that the devil ? When you saw the 
 apple of your eye, you were attracted to her, and what a thrill of 
 pleasure filled your heart when first you received her gentle hand 
 in yours! You can never forget it, for it was a reunion in 
 heavenly love. 
 
 No gold of earth could have tempted you to violate her chastity, 
 to blast her name ; you and she, talking the matter over, thought 
 that she had better change her name. We, who were in the 
 secret, thought she had better take her own name. 
 
 The devil gets into some folks ; well, let the mixture of God's 
 vial of wrath, get in with him, and the result will be health and 
 joy, for time and eternity. 
 
 Dear medium, your marriage is a copy of that of Abraham 
 with Sarah. 
 
 Millions of such unions exist on earth ; and those of the higher 
 circles and spheres design to let many of you know of it, before 
 you throw off the earthly body. 
 
 We shall bring heavenly wisdom towards the earthly temple, 
 until we reach the top round of rudimental or scientific wisdom. 
 
 Electricity is the highest ultimate of the earth's temple ; as in 
 earth, so in man. In making the spiritual body of man, and his 
 
/O THE SPIKIT DOME. 
 
 instinct nature, love, or crown of compassion, in corresponding 
 numbers with the brain, or wisdom organs, or intellectual govern- 
 ment organs. 
 
 We say that in these two principles, electricity and the heavenly 
 fluid are engendered (from mediam), and come up, hand in glove, 
 through all the ramifications of nature, to its ultimate, in embryo 
 image, aided, more or less, according to development of love, 
 wisdom in the young earth, by the frictional power of love's cre- 
 ating heat. 
 
 Attraction from older and more advanced planets, from the 
 oldest of which (being the centre) comes the highest seed of the 
 woman. 
 
 What is friction ? 
 
 A principle which generates all heat, powerful, to the dividing 
 of mediam into two grand principles, earthly and heavenly, ul- 
 timating in all materials, earthly and Spiritual, between mediam 
 and the image, of God. 
 
 To detect the presence of the heavenly essence from a wood fire, 
 elevate your feet about four inches from the hearth, the toes in- 
 clining out, and nearly touching the andirons ; with the heels 
 twenty-one inches apart, and the dress raised seven inches. Here 
 you must go to the most sensitive organs, to detect the food that 
 goes direct from decayed fruit and vegetables, and affinities to feed 
 the spiritual body, and give it growth, and strength to receive all 
 nourishment intuitively through the pores of the skin, according 
 to number of thought, whose channels it forms in such a way, 
 that the thought of wisdom can open them in due time. 
 
 You feel a shiver run over you ; some sick friend, with whom 
 you are in sympathy, has drawn upon your virtue ; you feel it 
 leave, as it is giving a sense of coldness. Instinct tells you to go 
 to the fire, and recruit your spirit body. Your wisdom says that 
 you are cold, and had better go to the fire, and warm the outer 
 man. Love feels the distress, even as the pleasures, of others. 
 In either case the wisdom of higher circles supplies for the de- 
 ficiency of wisdom in you, thus using your system as a medium. 
 Love and wisdom work together ; if the patient is depressed in 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 77 
 
 mind, — that is, possessed with a devil, the cause is found in the 
 gluing up of some of the channels of thought, by which the other 
 thoughts, acting without, the aid of the former, are discovered at 
 once to be out of harmony. Nature cries aloud for help. If it is 
 a bad case, Solon (who is perfect in the book of the law), through 
 the medium, passes a powerful current of living love, of the num- 
 ber closed up in the crazy man's head, and the channels'are opened, 
 and thought, correct in harmony, reports to wisdom. 
 
 One or seven devils being thus cast out, the dear relieved one 
 saith, " Why, what is the matter ? — where have I been to ? " 
 
 The sick man is in communication with a medium, and an atmos- 
 phere is formed around him of spirit essence corresponding to the 
 spirit womb of his mother. If she is in the spirit land, she would 
 envelop him. The mother would then roll back the wheel of 
 thought to the time of his embryo, and he would be relieved at 
 once, and a few operations would make a decided cure. 
 
 In the progress of the image through nature, the heavenly prin- 
 ciple holds the government, and creates the earth and earth's at- 
 mosphere, and deposits in highest instinct animal principle raised 
 from the dead. 
 
 This is the creation of the world, and all things therein con- 
 tained, and man in and over all things. 
 
 Thus ends the creation, death and resurrection, of the world. 
 
 Now comes the great day of judgment, to try both the quick 
 and the dead. Now comes the formation of man out of the dust 
 of the earth. 
 
 The instinct spirit is raised with power, with the seed of the 
 woman within it. . 
 
 Now comes the skilful workman to put together the quick and 
 dead parts of creation, to make a god in miniature. 
 
 This ultimate of spirit matter is a coarse material of the heav- 
 enly, and numbers with the spirit womb ; and so electricity, the 
 still coarser ultimate of earthly matter, too coarse to go into the 
 heavenly house, but the highest powerful principle corresponding in 
 number with the earthly womb of creator, man. 
 
 Atmosphere encircles universal man, individual, as the womb 
 7# 
 
7o THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 surrounds embryo. Electricity has formed the earth, from stage 
 to stage, coequal with the heavenly. 
 
 And now the two friends agree to get married, as they have a 
 plenty of material to make little gods of, and to present them for 
 the stamp of infinite wisdom. 
 
 They were encouraged to take this step by an unknown friend 
 in a far off country, who was a very skilful man in all kinds of 
 metals ; and, being vastly rich, proposed to furnish such material 
 as the new country could not, in its own resources, supply, and the 
 seed of the woman, which the pair did not possess ; and the friends, 
 after all, had quite a hearty laugh with the committee of inspec- 
 tion, when the friends presented the ourang-outang. 
 
 The only thing to be done, then, was to put the creature into 
 the general numbers, and try again. 
 
 The embryo, when thrown into shape, will call upon the true 
 friends, by its compassion being surrounded by its mother womb ; 
 for all things necessary for its development conforming to all things 
 according to the pattern which surrounds it, the seed of wisdom 
 will also call for help, showing wisdom, above its years, to any one 
 who was not conversant with them, and their manoeuvres in the 
 womb. 
 
 Dear reader, the time is coming when the bump of your memory 
 will be touched, and you will clearly see all things concerning 
 your mechanism, and that back to the time when the angel Creator 
 image, with one foot upon the sea, and the other on the land, 
 received you in his compassion. The absent spirit, or angel, hath 
 not forgotten it. 
 
 Saturday Morning, October 23, 1852. 
 
 Dear son, and angelic lover, how have you rested the past 
 night ? 
 
 I have rested in the arms of thy lovely charms, whilst thou 
 nestled in the bosom of Abraham. 
 
 Dear Sarah, shall I feel thy love this day moving me to write 
 to a wanting world ? 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 79 
 
 Yes, thou canst do nothing but love in wisdom, and move in 
 harmony, with angelic beings. 
 
 I wish you to understand that mediam is divided, first, into 
 two grand divisions, by the refiner's fire of friction, positive and 
 negative, igniting from a spark of fire, or seed, from mother 
 planet. The two earthly and heavenly parts play together, while 
 each, in its incomprehensible numbers, is playing with itself, look- 
 ing forward to the mark of the price of the high calling of wisdom, 
 and a union in marriage there. 
 
 Everything that moves in the earth creates food for God, who 
 is first number, down to the first spark, through mediam ; God's 
 atmosphere (or his mother's womb, as it were) corresponding with 
 his own compassion in numbers, through which it passes up to 
 infinite wisdom, encircling all things. 
 
 Every child of God must create a high principle of love, to 
 form, in part, an atmosphere touching God's person, at the gate 
 through which the thought came, numbering to correspond to the 
 seed, or word of wisdom, which that child received while in 
 embryo. 
 
 When the child of God has loved purely, and received his gum- 
 elastic spider-web line of communication, annihilating telegraphic 
 from its mother planet, then, for the first time, will it have pleas- 
 ure, through its perpetual creatives with God, who reciprocates 
 and acknowledges the bands of union. x 
 
 The Creator-child is godly, and works as God, and for God ; 
 and, when he wants more wisdom, he, with the circle of which he 
 is a member, communicates with God the father, and mother, of 
 all ; and he plants the wisdom of the next higher circle in them. 
 Txhe channels of thought once opened, they are raised, and the 
 first fruits of ti3ir bodies are given to God, who plants them 
 in a higher circle, to attract them to that circle as they approach 
 God in power of wisdom, love, and harmony. 
 
 Every movement in the law of love, through all creation, gives 
 pleasure to God, directly or indirectly ; and those who are starving 
 for the pleasure of God must be called foolish virgins, if they are 
 
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 not developed at the turn of life. For his pleasure they are, and 
 were created. 
 
 When will the earth "be destroyed ? 
 
 When God gets tired of pleasure. 
 
 Will scientific men see how much living moving electric prin- 
 ciple of water goes to form the fleshy tabernacle of man ? We 
 leave the field for them. 
 
 Every medium must have an atmosphere numbering with the 
 womb that bore him, of which his compassion of love is a perfect 
 copy, in numbers, adding thereto, the father and godfather, as he 
 advances in development. 
 
 What shall we do with our little sister, in the day in which 
 she shall be called for, for she hath no breast ? 
 
 This question was asked of an individual who was about depart- 
 ing for a far-off country, and who did not answer it. When he 
 returned he was asked the same question, and he gave them to 
 understand that he would tell them when he came again (which 
 time is about 1852, according to the prophets by Miller), delay- 
 ing on account of the total eclipse of wisdom by Mammon, in the 
 great body of the people. 
 
 He told them (his brother's medium) not to cast their pearls 
 before swine, but wait until he came back, as he was going into 
 another part of the country, to enlarge his possessions. But he 
 encouraged his brethren, by saying that they should no more taste 
 of death, but should see him come again in themselves, with great 
 power, and full of glory. And after he had said unto them, love 
 your enemies, that is, death and him that hath the power of death, 
 that is, the devil, so that no hatred, or fear, or discord, be in 
 them ; and after he had offered up the first fruits of his body a 
 tribute to God, who made it a centre of attraction to a higher 
 sphere, he was lifted up to the gate where the river of life anni- 
 hilates the Jordan of death, designated by the crossing of two 
 pieces of wood at right angles, where, he said, it is finished. 
 
 They think the little sister cannot mature on account of an 
 outer gate to the yard fence, being hung so as to swing over the 
 side-walk. Some of these gates have been bruised by strangers, 
 
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 and discordant numbers, until, with canker-rust, — with modesty 
 on tiptoe, — it has fallen to the ground, and a corresponding 
 number on the face of the owner has been dressed in mourning, to 
 let the people know his bereavement, and sympathy with straight 
 line communion, without mixture. 
 
 These great gods, and judges, have made a code of laws in 
 modesty, which forbids, on pain of death, that the people of earth 
 should teach their children, or examine into their own natures, 
 wherein lies the richest diamond in the crown of wisdom. 
 
 We now tell these great lawgivers to lift their wisdom in 
 prayer, for a little more instinct on the end of the nose, that they 
 may have the protection against bad company that is given to 
 cattle. (See image-making.) 
 
 No one can tell how a spear of grass groweth ; we will look at 
 one growing near, and round half-way, the pivot of this gate; 
 these spears of grass bear a straight channel, or root, which runs 
 to the button on the fence, or navel, to which you can hook back 
 the gate if you wish, while we look at the golden bowl, which, we 
 assure you, shall never be broken to all eternity, and shall never 
 cease its divine labors in aiding spirits in their creations, prepara- 
 tory to individualism, and for feasting on thought, as it passes up 
 to wisdom's throne. 
 
 Many have misused this bowl, in worship of strange gods ; but 
 friend, when the wine is red, and lifteth itself in the cup, re- 
 member that your spiritual nature hath attracted it to you, for the 
 up-building of your spiritual body, as the balm of Gilead ; and let 
 it flow to the right kidney, over the bowels, to the spinal, and 
 from thence to the wheels of time, at the cistern, and from thence 
 diffused through the whole system, in circles, running, as the grass 
 draws the principle of life from the ground, for such love is the 
 be<ri lining of wisdom. 
 
 Those out-swinging gates are revised and corrected in the spir- 
 itual body, to which they incline when not excited, and as they 
 do incline towards the rib w T hcn they are excited. 
 
 Millions of smill gates are equal to one broad gate, or bowl, in 
 the admission of spirits, previous to their taking on the spiritual 
 
82 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 body at conception. After that they can no more, forever, 
 sieve gates. 
 
 There is no feeling in the earthly body, or in the earthly mate- 
 rial. But in the nervo- vital heavenly essences is pain or pleasure 
 felt. 
 
 When our angels visit you, do not mistake their burning, and 
 call it the devil's fire ; for thus we make you speak and write. 
 
 The principles of whoring, adultery, fornication, deceiving, 
 cheating, hating, fighting, pilfering, and all manner of evil com- 
 munications, eat up the spirit body, and defy all the power of your 
 guardian friends, who wish to help you. 
 
 The wise man will build up his house, and every hair upon his 
 head shall be a crown of honor unto him. 
 
 Be unto the spirit a city of refuge ; let them know that your 
 house is in order, and that you are the chief ruler there, and that 
 no one can get their blood. Let them be with you, and learn of 
 you, who should at all times set good examples ; and, if they wish 
 to visit some of your female friends, for the purpose of up-building 
 their spirit nature, that they may be mediums, or to sustain them 
 in- child-birth, or other sickness, then send them, and learn them 
 to do good, and not evil, and when they are individualized they 
 will become like unto you, good and blessed. 
 
 The ancient Jews were the favored of heaven, and the cream of 
 the world ; and the seed of the woman was partially developed in 
 the prophets, and fully so in Christ the Lord. 
 
 When Christ was transfigured upon Mount Tabor, he was seen 
 by Peter ; not that Christ was transfigured, or made a medium, 
 in an instant, but Peter's spirit eye was opened, and he saw Christ 
 as a spiritual manifestation, medium, and his guardian Creator- 
 friend, Moses; and Peter's guardian (or one of them), Elias, and 
 Peter, was made a seeing medium. 
 
 The angel of Christ entered Peter's spiritual kingdom at the 
 feminine angelic attractive, and spirit drawing-gate, at the ankle, 
 near the all-healing hem of the spiritual garment, in feminine 
 beauty and infant love (" Suffer little children to come unto me "), 
 
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 and which will flow, in graceful folds, from the bosom of all 
 prophet mediums. 
 
 Should a gentleman ever be so fortunate as to have the spirit 
 of a Lord as his servant, which he will have as soon as he desires 
 to build his spiritual house, he may know the time when his 
 servant enters at the ankle-gate of some female friend, whose gar- 
 ments look rather beautiful than otherwise to him, through the 
 power of attraction in harmony. And he may know that his eye 
 takes a central upright straight course through the golden gate, 
 into a city which is under the charge of a lady, who is waiting for 
 her lord, who is quietly sleeping in her house. 
 
 The servant is more spiritual than his master, and never imi- 
 tates the hen in straight line flaps, to mount the fence, but takes 
 the winding stairs to meet his master's hen, flap-lifting eye, in the 
 courts of the lady's house. This may all take place on the street 
 in the letter ; they meet, shake hands. And now observe the 
 power of the spirit in giving intuitive thought. 
 
 The two friends are perfect masters of animal lust, and the two 
 (with the spirits two, for the lady saw the gentleman before they 
 met, and she had a servant, too) thought to have a few moments 
 chat. 
 
 And as there is no chat in the earthly body, we will look to 
 the spirits, and see how they will move the tongue with inspira- 
 tion. Their . tongues run like a mill-tail, which consumes the 
 spirit, or exhausts the mind. Their servants know their duty, 
 and attract the heavenly fuel from the atmosphere without, and 
 sympathetic ones, who are passing and re-passing, and bring the 
 fuel up the winding stairs (the spirit that climbeth up any other 
 way is a thief and a robber), to feed the fire that moves the tongue 
 in chit-chat union. Here the two earthly bodies converse, and 
 the mundane eye flashes fire, but the spirits beget thoughts, and, 
 at the same time, build upon their bodies spiritually. 
 
 The one that is the most developed in mother's nature gets the 
 best of it ; for mothers are great talkers, they being naturally 
 more intuitive in the letter. So, also, are they in the spirit. 
 
 The young lady goes home, and says, Mother, what a love of a 
 
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 man Mr. Drcsmond is ; he converses so sweetly. I hope that 
 Angeline doth appreoiate his love-inspired mind, and that she will 
 make him as good a wife as I have reason to believe he will her a 
 husband. 
 
 Dearest daughter, they are one in love and harmony, and you 
 should not doubt their wisdom ; they govern themselves ; and, 
 when each one gbverns himself, then will all be governed, and 
 guardian angels will bless them. 
 
 Peter saw the lord as knight of the garter, with its spirit 
 diamond clasp, and became a medium too ; and the spirit children 
 knew that his spiritual organic body was perfect, if not fully de- 
 veloped, as a city of refuge, where they could educate preparatory 
 to individualization. 
 
 Sometimes, when a spirit is fleeing from justice, marked with 
 the blood of a brother, and stained all over red, or scarlet, which 
 denotes a great sinner, and who may be known by the seeing 
 medium by his outline, which is that of a child a week old. 
 
 This poor spirit runs the gauntlet of mobbism, where he, per- 
 haps, gets a hit from a nail of the cross, a brick-bat from the 
 priest of earthly Zion, together with a blow from the end of a baiter, 
 when, perhaps, he stops at the gate of a gentleman w T ho resides in 
 a half city. The gentleman, feeling his presence embarrassing, 
 gives him a masterbationary clip on the head, that knccks him 
 flat and senseless on the floor. When he comes to, he finds him- 
 self behind the rabble, who are about turning the key, to lock 
 him up in a public prison, in a house of ill-fame. 
 
 He cannot mix with such company ; and, while playing with 
 the head of the banisters, at the head of the stairs, he sees an old 
 gentleman from the land tavern, working his way up the outside 
 using his cane as a setting-pole. As the old gentleman slips 
 in, the murderer slips out, in disguise. When the old gentle- 
 man finds that his lovely friend, who had so kindly helped him 
 up-stairs by playing with the head of the post, had left, he gnaws 
 the pest for pain, which is an efficial order for these in sympathy to 
 wear crape, and that their butler should walk with great care to 
 distinguish a mourning gait. 
 
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 After this great rogue had done this thing, and got the old 
 gentleman into trouble, he mistook for the city of refuge two half 
 cities, by the division-line being almost obliterated. These half 
 cities knew that there were rogues about the neighborhood, and 
 just as he was comforting himself on having a warm reception, faith, 
 they drawed the bolt at the outside gate, and poor Pill Garlic 
 found himself outside of the city, with his pot of beans half baked. 
 
 He soon, however, caught the glimmering of the starry diamond, 
 and wound his way to the city of refuge. Here he served at 
 handy work, using his master's house the same as though it was 
 his own ; and whosoever admitted him into their house must let 
 him have full possession, because he was an angel ever after enter- 
 ing the city of refuge. 
 
 In the course of time he saw a monthly periodical issued, in 
 which he saw his name written in blood. 
 
 He read in it an invitation for him to come and learn the trade 
 in *that office ; and when the dry blood should appear upon the 
 door-posts, as denoting the Jewish Passover nigh at hand, he 
 should be admitted, and work as printer's devil until he should 
 gain wisdom, and then he was to set up type for his own book of 
 rewards. 
 
 This city of refuge should be copied in the letter, so that the 
 trembling sinner may find a friend ; for God loves him, although he 
 is a sinner. 
 
 Yes, this spiritual city of refuge is so obscure to human ken 
 that no one could discover its gates, although its presence might 
 be felt upon sensitive organs daily. 
 
 Never before have the people of earth been prepared for this 
 explanation of the heavenly. But now will they drink in this 
 truth as the parched earth drinks in the rain. 
 
 All of the gates are intuitively negative for the admission of 
 spirits, or for building the spiritual body. Those below the ankle 
 are numbered for spirits on their first admission into the house of 
 God. 
 
 The gates of the ankles receive the blood principle, through 
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 which the spiritual body is built and sustained through all life, 
 after conception. 
 
 God did not design that you should be in all respects like grass, 
 although you have all eaten grass, when you were oxen, and have 
 worn the eagle's feather. 
 
 It would be unpleasant for you to have your roots, — that is, 
 your feet and legs, — fastened in the ground as grass ; therefore 
 nature hath provided a more excellent way. But the grass did 
 tell quite a story about a pattern of man, long before he was cre- 
 ated. 
 
 As we said some time since, the blood and wine principle, and 
 all their affinities, arise from the ankle, in majesty, with an eye on 
 the centre of attraction, or golden bowl. 
 
 Here let us say, in explanation, that this life-blood principle 
 hath a mighty power on the spirit of man. The eye of man rests 
 upon the well-turned ankle, and his eye is filled with delight ; or, 
 rather, when his eye is delighted at such a view, the ankle and the 
 blood principle, which is entering the gate at the time, is in com- 
 munication with his eye ; and as his imagination arises to the cen- 
 tre of attraction in his other half, so doth the blood principle, in 
 unison with his eye, arise to the depository in the hollow of the 
 thighs, where he, the other half, imagines that his thighs could lay 
 and sympathize. 
 
 We intend to kill fornication, by proving the power of a Holy 
 Spirit, and the power of a pure human eye in sympathy with the 
 spirit, or life-blood principle, which is the balm of Grilead. And 
 we wish to tell you that your guardian friends, and all the spirits 
 they send to you, are pure and holy, and all sympathize with you, 
 in sickness and health, and desire you to sympathize with us and 
 them, to the upbuilding of your spiritual bodies, which shall give 
 you permanent health and some pleasure. 
 
 The angelic will-power, with the eye on the centre, lifts the life 
 principle to a horizontal line, right and left, with the navel, to 
 which it flows. It then passes down through a tube over the arch 
 way, or frontal bone, to the golden bowl, or to the end of the 
 appendix, as the case may be; for the will-power of the male half, 
 
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 in sympathy with the other half, lifts a flood of life-blood principle 
 to his own system, to sustain him in life, and to answer any draft 
 that may in reason be made upon his person by his other half. 
 
 This flow of life-blood principle is demanded by you, in the 
 name of God, as it was of the circle from whence it came, as from 
 the blood of'animals and their affinities. 
 
 This is one of the four great heads of the river that went out to 
 water the garden of our medium, or his Eden, and is called Gihon. 
 
 Still, some great classics in nature have rendered this word Giton> 
 and have expended a great estate, as fast as it could come within the 
 reach of their fingers, and then perhaps they would stand or kneel 
 an hour each day, in prayer to the Lord that he would bless their 
 poor, hungry, starving souls with the fat of his kingdom, while our 
 servants, the spirits of dogs, would feast for us on the crumbs that 
 fell from their table. 
 
 This beautiful river should never draw upon the wheels of time, 
 but go to strengthen them, that your days may be long in the 
 land which the Lord thy God hath given thee. And also that the 
 hands of the third circle may receive a congratulatory shake from 
 the hands of the circles above them, as this message shakes the 
 hand of our medium. 
 
 All classes have a claim on this river, and it will by nature flow, 
 as doth the great river in its four parts through prophet mediums. 
 
 Some say it is the devil that makes some folks uneasy ; but it is 
 a devil that will be of great service, when you become master, and 
 understand him. 
 
 There is a difference between this river and the rapid encircling 
 spirit river. This is felt in the full medium. In the creation of 
 a spirit they come in from all parts of the earth, and in a great 
 haste to mingle, male and female, first in the foot, and then to the 
 gate at the small of the back, and from thence to sensitive organs, 
 which can kick as hard as the spirits can ; and a general running 
 fight is commenced, in pure love, and the children of earth are in 
 high glee that they are so soon to be united as one in heaven. 
 
 These spirits run in order, until every circle is in motion through 
 the whole system ; and when the whole are united in one, in all their 
 
88 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 combinations and ramifications, it stops, as a messenger at the cen- 
 tre, or small of the back, is despatched, and wisdom is informed 
 that compassion has, with the help of love organs, performed the 
 highest function in the law of nature, that of creating a spirit out 
 of the different instinctive principles generating in heavenly love 
 from all parts of the earth, and from planets in affinity. 
 
 Sabbath Morning, October 24. 
 
 Dearly-beloved reader, your departed loved ones and all their 
 angelic friends see in you the seed of a lovely, finite, perfect, cre- 
 ative God. 
 
 Nature in love will create the earthly and heavenly to the high- 
 est instinctive archangel power ; but you have a seed of wisdom 
 undeveloped, which should be ripened for your pleasure, as well, 
 also, as to bestow wisdom on others. 
 
 This book is given for you to take to your closet, when you go 
 in there for the purpose of closing the door in communion with 
 yourself, the circles of wisdom above you, and your infinite Father 
 and mother. And let your desire be unto him, as in nature seen, 
 that you may possess his likeness, and he beget in you pure love 
 and wisdom. And always having faith in actual motion, and in a 
 material thing in spirit, which can be seen by the spirit's eye, and 
 felt by the spiritual body, while in the flesh, as did Christ and all 
 the holy prophets, and as all must who desire to be prophetic 
 mediums. 
 
 Begin to talk of true love to your undeveloped self, or half; use 
 the same powers of eloquence that you do in the letter in getting a 
 partner, with this difference : — it is lawful in spirit to steal the 
 march on parents, and beget a foretaste of the river of life, by 
 perpetuating with the loved one. 
 
 When you have become nearly a perfect, or whole number, or 
 mediator, or medium, the position will be exciting in pleasure to 
 the extent of your ability in physical organism to bear. 
 
 As you say and act and think in the letter of marriage true, so 
 do in the spirit ; for the law is eternally established in God. 
 
 And you will be introduced to a new guardian angelic friend, 
 
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 who has the power of wisdom, and attraction of love from the 
 seventh circle ; who will lead you on until you and she, or he, as 
 the case may be, are raised together into the eighth circle, where 
 God himself (who raised you, with all others that were ready and 
 bidden to the wedding) will sanction your love, and put the ques- 
 tion direct to you, and make you a prophet, with power to com- 
 municate with all gods, and to become godfathers and godmothers 
 to many children. 
 
 7, John the Baptist, give you this communication from God, 
 while he was in communication with all circles (to pay the craft 
 their wages), that all gods less in wisdom than himself may know 
 his will, and give to earth's inhabitants in the flesh this token of 
 love, to be given from one of you to the other, until every brother 
 and sister on the earth, and you, shall be blessed with the grace 
 of God, and the kingdoms of earth shall become the kingdoms of 
 our God and his Christ, the seed of which is in you all. 
 
 The internal face of nature, or love law, corresponds in numbers 
 and harmony with the outward and inward face of wisdom, as you 
 see yourselves in the glass darkly. 
 
 When you are married you shall know all things. 
 
 Multiply and replenish the earth, while in the strength of man- 
 hood you live, and in true love, or do not attempt it. 
 
 The godfathers never forsake their children, or suffer them to 
 beg bread, when the goodness of earthly parents will permit them 
 to help. 
 
 Resist not the spirit. 
 
 The child blessed of the godfather who knows its worth will 
 bless and provide for you. 
 
 Cast your bread upon the waters, without a drawback (and per- 
 mit heavenly mixture), and you shall receive your own, with 
 interest. 
 
 When a prophet wishes to go to the spirit land and get wisdom, 
 or make another medium, or aid him, the lover in the spirit land 
 sends a thought which puts the question to the prophet, and a 
 spirit is formed in his compassion a perfect likeness of himself. 
 When this likeness is complete it sees the prophet's bride in the 
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90 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 spirit land. It knows its mission ; — it instantly faces the back, 
 passes through the gate at the small thereof, and follows up the 
 pith, or spinal marrow, and passes out at the back of the head, 
 where the pith comes in conjunction with the brain, and is off in 
 an instant. 
 
 Thus the prophet appears in the arms of his lover, and he feels 
 all communication, while he may be on earth in the body. 
 
 This is your waiting angel. It shows your likeness to God, afar 
 off, to the higher spheres, whose hosts will find you, by the means 
 of that likeness, and come and put you in prophetic communion 
 with themselves. 
 
 This is God's eternal law, founded in love, and by which your 
 departed and loved friends can show themselves to you, and appear 
 as they did appear to you when living on the earth. 
 
 Thus presented in a charger would be life ; when in the letter it 
 was death. John the Baptist. 
 
 Sabbath Evening, October 24. 
 
 lovely angelic one ! wilt thou tell thy name ? 
 Yes; my name is Death. 
 
 Tell me, my soul ! can this be death ? 
 
 1 am the angel of death, — nature's archangel, and she has an 
 eternal law that I shall not move upon the human body, until the 
 sins of that body are forgiven by the law of wisdom. 
 
 How can that be in sudden death ? How long does it take you 
 to forgive a sinner when he falls in death? What does your com- 
 passion say ? 
 
 Is not higher wisdom in perfect love with harmony quicker than 
 you? 
 
 When the body gives up its hold on life, and sins forgiven, I 
 move the whole spiritual body into circles, which causes inexpress- 
 ible delight. You have often seen it expressed in the eye. 
 
 In breaking up the elements of the spiritual body, the senses 
 are overcome in about four minutes. The elements leave at the 
 head, after pressing upon the love organs, and falling below and 
 breaking up the seat of wisdom, and rises in circles to a clear atmos- 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 91 
 
 phere above the body of earth. See A. J. Davis, on " Truth and 
 Mystery," page 129. 
 
 My first move places all the creative organs in full develop- 
 ment and motion, in harmony with attractive power in the circle 
 above. 
 
 0, the joy, the bliss, of dying ! 
 
 Being a lion of the tribe of Judah, — of affinity with you, dear 
 medium, — and being informed, by Ray Thomas, of you, and that 
 he made you sensible of his presence at the church where his 
 mourning friends offered up their mourning prayers ; and, mani- 
 festing great pleasure in your writing, we repaired to church, 
 where you were worshipping this morning. 
 
 Ray entranced you lightly, and you recognized me and my mes- 
 sage, which gave me joy, and great power of faith, lost in sight, in 
 the redemption of a money-loving world. 
 
 You are a lion for truth, and all minds above you, and many 
 below you, will support and bless you. 
 
 I shall whisper in your ear often, after a few days. 
 
 Daniel Webster. 
 
 And I will raise him from the dead, on the last day of mundane 
 life. 
 
 And I will raise you up at the last day. 
 
 At the last day you live on earth you shall be raised in glory. 
 
 Will ye not be a medium before ye leave the earth, and let the 
 last day come before you go hence ? d. w. 
 
 Monday Morning, October 25, 1852. 
 
 Good-morning, dear reader. You look inquiringly at me. Will 
 you be seated, and let me know what hath removed that faithful 
 glow ? 
 
 Brother medium, you know that I am a writing medium. 
 
 I r es. 
 
 Well, Mary the mother of Christ wrote by my hand, that a 
 priest of the temple had observed her great beauty, and that he 
 used artful means to get communication with her. And also that 
 she found it hard to kick against her own love nature. And also 
 
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 that her foot was entirely paralyzed by the charms he presented. 
 And when the people found the fact, and Joseph thought to put 
 her away, they slew the priest, and threatened her life also, unless 
 she would say it was the Holy Ghost that got her with child. 
 
 If my hope cannot rest in faith on Jesus, then I am lost. 
 
 Dear brother, a friend tipped me the wink that you were com- 
 ing, and I have thought of the subject, and as Mary is present, I 
 will try to reconcile the matter. 
 
 Did you see the hand of wisdom copulative, perpetuating, crea- 
 tive, in silk- worm beaver ; even unto the heat of compassion, and 
 there parallel with the law of love, write the golden thought? 
 And in pondering and translating, did you get her approval of your 
 conclusion by raps or tips, before you sat down to write ? 
 
 No ! you surprise me, no mortal man ever reached so high a 
 point. Dear brother, it is no higher point than where infant life 
 is sustained, and wisdom sits enthroned on high. 
 
 My dear brother, you are behind the age, you are writing the 
 letter of the Bible over again ; the people have feasted on that, 
 without the spirit, long enough. 
 
 The shelves above compassion at the pit of the stomach should 
 be removed, that you may be developed from clairvoyant worm to 
 medium butterfly. 
 
 Let us reason together, and write in the spirit as far as it har- 
 monizes with the letter, and then ask for more light. 
 
 You are a medium who can sympathize with the distressed; 
 you are good as far as you go — you are in the letter, and sympa- 
 thize in the letter so shrinkingly hollow, that the sympathizing 
 power is moved to compassion ; but the channel of feeling thought- 
 is not opened to wisdom. 
 
 Many have had copulative spiritual delight with your compas- 
 sion, with a view to your development before them. 
 
 And you and the world thought you was more the wiser for it. 
 But you are to receive it yet with your eyes open. 
 
 Christ knocketh at the door of your heart, that is, the pit of 
 your stomach. Why do you not open and let him in ? He wants 
 to rap with you and have you rap with him, and drink the wine 
 
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 anew and anew in his kingdom. He hath a charming look, and 
 knoweth what the inner man likes, and how to quicken the appetite 
 and please the taste. Look at Peter's vision, and see the key to 
 heaven. 
 
 See the silk-worm, the caterpillar, and the serpent, mixed with 
 the dove. 
 
 When you feel a sympathy with the distressed, it will be pleas- 
 ure, not pain ; for all tears will be wiped from your face, and 
 you can have no more pain spiritually. Your wisdom sees the 
 distress, as sympathy moves upon compassion, and you will lift 
 yourself, and with elastic tread move as an army with banners. 
 No forlorn hope marks your pathway to glorious victory. 
 
 Will you tell to me how you could cry. The pain he feels will 
 give birth to the image of God, which was planted in him. 
 
 Your wisdom sees the truth at once. You man, the mighty 
 engine of love and war, and the quivering thought of peace, be still. 
 
 Quicker than lightning, your waiting butterfly wings his flight 
 over sensitives (which may cause pain to the patient, but pleasure 
 to you) to the wisdom of the compassion of the distressed one, and 
 there makes of his spirit a fac-simile likeness of the sick friend, 
 who of course must be in affinity with your number in a great 
 degree; on which likeness is written the spiritual, moral, and 
 physical condition of the patient. The angel is then willing to be 
 all things unto all men and women too. He then slips through the 
 back gate into the spinal pathway to the outer gate of the middle 
 chamber with velvet tread, desirous not to disturb the gentleman 
 who lives in the upper story. After he is once out, he takes a 
 kitten-tail-playing atmosphere, in which, accompanied by the angel 
 of the rich man's guardian friend, who first put you in communi- 
 cation with the sick man (they can do nothing without a medium), 
 they go to the seventh circle. Hence, your chief butler takes 
 the exact likeness again as embryo, giving the age of the patient 
 by the months gone, with the lungs affected, perhaps the fever, or 
 may be a bone broken, as the case may be. 
 
 If there is no help in that circle, they are despatched to the 
 higher circles of our mother planet ; here perhaps Solon's mighty 
 
94 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 chief butler forming a triangle with the two, enlarging the atmos- 
 phere from Solon's compassion and likeness of him, on which a 
 recipe is written, they mount the skies. 
 
 The nose of the chief butler of Solon is mighty positive, and he 
 thinks that the empty box, about half an inch ahead of his nose 
 (he being the highest principal), is to put his recipe into. 
 
 But Solon's positive triangular eye (peculiar to the high sphere 
 of the city of our God, whose body-guard is three solar systems 
 of trundling worlds), holding the power of wisdom over instinct 
 and looking at the box through your more powerful butler, to the 
 still more powerful centre of attraction, under an eye of wisdom 
 wanting an answer in our spirit land, forbade the bans until they 
 reached the three successive posts of attractive power, and had 
 three successive circles formed : 
 
 When Solon's chief butler drops the recipe into the patient's 
 letter-box, the medium wants an answer, which attracts his deposit 
 there ; a still higher attraction calls for a return writ, which is 
 promptly placed in the archives there. 
 
 Now Solon, more powerful, wants to be in full communion 
 with the three, with space annihilated by spider-web lines of gum 
 elastic, and the angel starts for home. 
 
 Hence, let me say, that you had better tell electricity that it is 
 not safe to walk on the track of spiritual communication. When 
 the butler has returned his answer, the gentleman (that is Solon) 
 pats the butler on the head, and says, You are a swift- winged dog ; 
 and, winking, asks, Did you catch her ? We bearded the lion in his 
 den, by passing through the cat hole after her : 
 
 That lady has got two mighty smart cat for a long run, posi- 
 tive and negative, or there is no force in your argument. 
 
 Solon, seeing the condition of the patient, orders a few of the 
 windows of his house to be opened, that the golden hues of a bet- 
 ter life, beyond the grave, might dawn in upon his mental powers. 
 Peace, the first word, allays his fears, and perhaps counteracts 
 blue pill communication. 
 
 He knows the hour, for he cannot be a medium in the body, 
 perhaps, as the chosen few are small at first, but will grow mighty 
 

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 in the earth. He notifies the sick man's angel and his teacher, 
 that he must be upon the planet earth at such a time, for the rais- 
 ing and enlightening of the body spiritual of his master, and be a 
 hewer of wood and drawer of water in filling the fountain of wis- 
 dom ; and when he had been faithful over a few things, and assisted 
 his master to come to his long sought rest, on the hill of this great 
 city, where the glory of God is the light thereof, he should be 
 individualized, and receive power in embryo at the point of the 
 sword of God, and become his image. 
 
 My brother, do you comprehend the difference between a clair- 
 voyant and a medium, or one who has conformed to the rules given 
 for human excellence in the body of Christ ? Would not your 
 recipe have been a few roots and herbs, without the balm there is 
 in Grilead. 
 
 David the Psalmist was Christ's god-father, and consequently 
 his guardian, as has been stated. 
 
 The people have not been prepared to comprehend the spirit, 
 and have therefore conjectured some strange stories. 
 
 Angelic minds desire to write by the medium, being entranced 
 by new and living thoughts, .which are the ransomed of the Lord, 
 or lion : see Isaiah thirty-fifth chapter : Marvel not that I say 
 unto you, ye must be born again, and that of the spirit. The first 
 thought which is begotten in you, on the development of your 
 parental nature, is the first fruit of your spiritual body, it is the 
 first of the redeemed of the Lord. Who is the Lord ? 
 
 Wisdom the higher Lord. Thought is redeemed of wisdom. 
 What is the first thought ? That you are two in one, in harmon- 
 izing, in copulation, redeeming a thought new and exciting as the 
 word of seven stars ; this thought begets the first fruit, which is 
 of the seed of the woman. The first seed of the first fruit is 
 planted in the new city. You are then interested in begetting 
 more thoughts, and when the eye of wisdom looks forward into 
 the perceptive organs, you see a great multitude of the redeemed, 
 which no man could number. 
 
 You cannot see your departed friends, neither could St. John 
 see the image of God in the higher circles, and ever live in the 
 
96 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 earthly house afterwards. We are too brilliant for your eye. 
 When you see thoughts the organs all vanish, or the earthly 
 brain becomes transparent, and nothing stands before the eyes of 
 wisdom but a heavenly firmament, filled with undulating happy 
 thoughts. 
 
 These shining messengers there wait the bidding of wisdom, for 
 the redemption of more thoughts which lie buried in the original 
 seed. The lion, or any other wild beast, or any other essence or 
 mixture belonging to Nature's love-law, can never usurp the throne 
 of thought, which waits at the right hand of the throne of wis- 
 dom, and belongeth to the Lord of wisdom. 
 
 Instinct can never dethrone reason. 
 
 This was my thirty-fifth spiritual lesson while in development. 
 From one who is with you in the second coming. Isaiah. 
 
 Tuesday morning, October 26. 
 
 Dear Medium, you recollect that I introduced myself to you 
 (the first favored of Heaven) on the afternoon of yesterday ; and 
 as you expressed great joy to meet and shake me by the hand, 
 and sympathized so greatly with me, in my maiden speech, as a 
 lawyer for truth, against oppression, when I was in the flesh, and 
 something in the spirit ; and as our friends from the higher sphere, 
 who are around you a pillar of brilliant clouds by day, and a pil- 
 lar of fire (which burned in the bush) by night (the bush at the 
 junction of the two great thoroughfares leading to heaven — from the 
 sea giving dead, or from the terror-shaken graves of the buried on 
 the land) ; have permitted me to examine your bulletin, and find- 
 ing all things straight in circles, and you in affinity with me, and 
 all things on earth, not excepting the lowest thing on or in the 
 earth ; and as you see a holy principle in all inanimate nature, 
 arising as the outer gate on its hinges lifts its mighty head in 
 sympathy with the inner earthly gate, bespangled with millions of 
 straight and golden gates, uniting in sympathy, as one golden bowl 
 which cannot be broken, but to be increased in glory ; and one 
 and the same with the sentinel stationed on the outer gate, and 
 grass-growing table-land of Canaan, and a leading number to (he 
 
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 great city of our God, in four half numbers, or four squares ; and 
 if I have wronged you, I will pay you four- fold. 
 
 And as I have commenced, I will write a word to my country- 
 men, and to the world, some of whom mourned my departure from 
 the world which I did not leave. I left the earthly, to be nearer 
 unto them in the heavenly, and now through my friend I will give 
 you a message. 
 
 Dear medium, you recollect that, after ten o'clock last evening, 
 you begot in you a brighter hope of glory than you had experi- 
 enced before ; this gave great strength to the spiritual body. 
 
 Nature buildeth without hands, and a growth of grace was upon 
 the whole structure ; and you delivered through the back avenue 
 or spinal pathway, a beautiful spirit likeness of yourself, of which 
 this message is its book, it being begotten with the likeness. 
 
 And I shall tell how, after the law of nature had conceived the 
 message with the highest instinct spirit likeness of yourself, and 
 you felt quite happy ; yet you had a desire for more wisdom, that 
 you could write for me, whereas, before, you could not think of a 
 word from me, that would suit you as a message to the wanting 
 world, which you was then representing. 
 
 Nature's image, your angel, felt your love for me ! ! ! Dear 
 medium, I would not tell the world that you cohabit with animals, 
 or instinct beings, in the common acceptation of the term. Let 
 me explain. 
 
 At the resurrection of animal life principle from the dead, the 
 day of judgment is come ; the threescore years and ten having 
 been served out by the servants of God, as the children of men, 
 which had a part in the first resurrection, or first circle of instinct 
 wisdom. These are men, or spirits of God, or spirits which are 
 to become children. They are children. 
 
 No child of man, out of sympathy in number, can come to 
 Christ when sitting in judgment ; as the angel or medium stand- 
 ing with one foot on the sea, and one on the land, who is there 
 issuing his bulletin, or scentiferous odor, or mandate, to the 
 children, whose day had come. 
 
 He there stood in mighty copulative power, and was very de- 
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98 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 sirous to create, and beget them to a lively hope in the second 
 resurrection. 
 
 The children numbered to his sympathetic organs, and having 
 served their day on earth, and having been anointed on the tip of 
 the nose for more wisdom, caught the tell-tale breeze, and flashed 
 at the toe of Christ. 
 
 Whales in the sea God's voice obey ; two of which, positive and 
 negative, meet in the bottom of the foot, where they mingled their 
 sympathies and congratulations, in begetting heavenly joy. And, 
 at the close of the day, which was one week, they exclaimed, 
 man (or God, or image), one day as door-keeper (as no other 
 spirits could get in till they went up) in the outer courts of thy 
 sanctuary is better than a thousand generating in the mighty 
 deep, before the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 
 
 This expression of praise burned in the heart of Christ ; and, 
 as their shouts of joy had raised them to an upright position, he 
 invited them up into the first great city of our God. 
 
 Here, with pleasure, they saw the beauty and magnificence of 
 the image of that great city, lighted with the presence of God. 
 In a few moments they were met by their friends (who never 
 went to sea), coming in from the head of the other winding stairs, 
 in circles, where they mingled their tears of joy. And the priest, 
 then Mr. Silkwormbeaver, uniting them in love and marriage, the 
 happy pair became one, after a mixing frolic of frictional delight 
 through the circular apartments of Christ's kingdom (which is 
 within you in type). 
 
 This gave Christ and the eleven apostles great pleasure, which 
 cannot be expressed by tongue, unless it be by that great tongue 
 of the God of nature, which is a living spiritual stone in the arch, 
 over the main gateway, that leadeth to individualism. 
 
 Here Christ saith to the elect and chosen ones, " Take a seat at 
 my table, and my number is full." 
 
 Here, dear medium, observe, carefully, the letter of Christ's 
 mission, for you are now in the spirit. 
 
 After seven days, it being nigh unto the assembling of the Jews 
 at Jerusalem, Christ gave Judas the sop (he being the oldest of 
 
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 the twelve, and having served his three months), and by which, 
 he being covetous of an earthly, or silver body, that he might pass 
 the third circle, and be like Christ in spirit, and body also. 
 
 He was then put in communication with a would-be father ; 
 and Judas, seeing a bag of silver (of thirty pieces), of which he 
 got himself in possession, after having passed out of the back gate, 
 and up the pathway. 
 
 Judas then informed Pilate (as he found he could not move the 
 silver from the bag), who had, unknowingly, tempted Judas by 
 leaving the money-bag hanging under the swinging-gate (which, in 
 the spiritual body, will be corrected), where no one but a Judas 
 in want would ever think to look, that, if he would pour out the 
 earthly treasure, he would betray Christ into his hands. Pilate's 
 silence Judas took for his consent ; and, forming a circle through 
 the two half apartments of Pilate, he being united in love, and 
 the feast of the Passover drawing nigh at hand. 
 
 As Judas passed through these apartments, first one, and then 
 the other, their desire increased for a meeting in the first Jeru- 
 salem of congratulation in the flesh, or first temple of individualism. 
 This betrayed Christ into the hands of Pilate (or his adversaries). 
 
 Judas, by his first circular movements, made the pair with him- 
 self, to be in communion with Christ, they being somewhat equal 
 to him in the nature of love, but lacked wisdom. Christ, know- 
 ing their thoughts, he being one with them by the spirit of Judas, 
 looked forward to the time when, as suggested by their thoughts, 
 Pilate and his loved one (who never looked so lovely before) 
 should conceive a new idea, which they would nail to the cross, 
 the earth, to through which it might, and would be, lifted up from 
 inherit eternal life. 
 
 Brother medium, how many Judases is there ? You are the 
 only Christ medium now in the flesh of earth, but many are nigh, 
 even at the door. 
 
 Before seed time, the coming spring, as this book moves among 
 the people and their Edens, there will be five thousand in America 
 who shall know Christ, the hope of glory in the spirit body, copy- 
 
100 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 ing from you the combinations in numbers, alvrays consulted. You 
 can have no more than your cup-full, and overrunning. 
 
 Christ our Lord, who brought to light this truth in his own 
 body, and has waited patiently for fifty-two, whispers in my ear 
 to write that the lost sheep will be found in development, as the 
 key-stone buried in the rubbish of the first temple, at the ring of 
 the swinging-gate, near the head. And, although many of these 
 sheep have strayed upon the mountains of fornication, yet the good 
 shepherd will never stop looking for it until he has found it. and 
 is confident of its type, in the spiritual second temple, and firmly 
 set as the richest diamond in the crown of love, precisely where 
 Sarah (who gave the first thought of it to our pattern, Christ) 
 found, through what God did to her ; and, by much sweeping, 
 the lost piece of silver equal to the sum-total for which Judas 
 betrayed himself, and which formerly belonged to her father. 
 
 Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh 
 it down with her fingers, 
 
 Dear sisters, let the river of life flow in circles, and build your 
 spiritual bodies, that you may communicate with gentlemen in the 
 spirit, or intuitively communicate without a blush. 
 
 When Christ appears, ye shall be like him in glory, and ye 
 shall know each other's thoughts. All the thoughts you think are 
 of things that no one can mistake, and are of God. 
 
 Fornication would corrupt all words ; let your mind be pure, 
 and spiritual. As you wish to have the coming generations 
 crowned with wisdom, let the exciting word of God have power in 
 thought, and crown us Lord in all. 
 
 Dear medium, we have now formed a circle since the time we 
 dropped a line to explain ; and, as we are here again, we will wind 
 again from the end we left behind. 
 
 As I was saying, nature's image, your angel, left your love and 
 wisdom that it might come to me, whose attractive eyes of love 
 and wisdom were far above you, but where you are coming very 
 fast. 
 
 Your angel, Judas like, as he has the promise of individualism, 
 
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 and, consequently, wisdom of his own, put me in communication 
 with you. 
 
 The friends from the great city did not supply your want 
 direct, but formed their circle through me, as they wished to raise 
 my Ebenezer in the work of this book. 
 
 I will here inform you, that the .highest point of instinct love, 
 or wisdom of nature, is seen in love for gold in the miser. He 
 hath not the first thought redeemed. When he changes his love 
 for earthly gold for that of the golden bowl of heavenly love, 
 through which the wisdom of the word of God is begotten, 
 then will he conceive, and redeem his first thought from selfish 
 wisdom. 
 
 Instinct spirits have thought intuitive through the nose, by 
 smellers, or ointment, as represented in the letter, but cannot 
 treasure up thought, or comprehend anything beyond that whole 
 thought, undivided, unexplained. 
 
 Therefore, when God wishes to send a word which would fill a 
 world with books, he gives it to his archangel, who is a candidate 
 for individualism in the higher worlds. He knows the word in its 
 first move, as the figure of conception. His anointed nose tells 
 him the line of march to the wanting one, or circle, as the word 
 has a private mark for its destination. This fills the angel with 
 the thought of great responsibility, and, for the time being, thinks 
 he is God himself, and going to build something without hands, 
 the angel delivers it whole to the circle. Distance is annihilated, 
 and God is in communion with the circle, and divides or breaks 
 the word upon the intuitive ear of the whole circle. And each 
 one will divide his work in his part, according to his number in 
 combination, varying in their abilities to work, as in the earth, 
 seen in writing mediums. 
 
 The word of the Lord never breaks the atmosphere ; receive 
 it as free thinkers, and may the grace of God be in you. 
 
 Call not the word of God unclean, but be ye pure, as the word 
 in God is pure. 
 
 Purify the word of the Lord, that opens the gates to individual- 
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 ism, so that the coming generations may have greater wisdom than 
 ye have. 
 
 For this is the will of God, whose pavilion is nigh unto the 
 earth at this time, for the above purpose. 
 
 And that you may look from higher circles, and see your works 
 of wisdom follow you. (Signed) Patrick Henry. 
 
 October 27, 1852. 
 
 Dear son, my pavilion is near unto the earth. You have 
 learned my new name, and you have the white stone which was 
 buried in the flesh, to be developed in the growth of the spiritual 
 body, which your desires demand of your love organs, as a fat 
 offering, acceptable to yourself (who would then be my image), 
 and what is acceptable to my image is doubly so to me. 
 
 The building up of the, spiritual body without hands is not 
 masturbation, but is as represented in the letter, in planting and 
 growing the earthly body. 
 
 The laws of wisdom and love, which are founded in eternal 
 truth, and of the eternal God, do swear, and the word shall not 
 return unto me void, that spiritual wisdom is the male, forever 
 has been, and shall remain. 
 
 What remains when wisdom is subtracted from the child, who 
 faintly bears my image ? 
 
 The female is developed in the spirit while in the flesh, in both 
 sexes ; and your desire should be unto me, in all your begettings, 
 first in sweetheart embraces : 
 
 Second, find the sweetheart embrace in an image lover in your 
 spirit land, whose seed of love is planted in you. 
 
 This lover, when on the rudimental earth, represented the oppo- 
 site sex to you. 
 
 That lover will be in the seventh circle when you are intro- 
 duced to it ; and, when you have loved well, and communicate 
 freely with all who come before you, and have conceptive knowl- 
 edge of your white stone, tjie first male organ, and also from the 
 seed of wisdom, which begetteth wisdom, and which impregnates 
 and builds up the heavenly body with hidden manna (the building 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 103 
 
 material), and have been introduced to your guardian from the 
 great city which is my delight, and who has been lovingly con- 
 ceptionized by the seed, the first fruit of your spiritual body, from 
 the male organs ; and also by the river of life have begotten anew 
 your thoughts, and raised them on high, above false communica- 
 tion ; and can see many of the redeemed of the Lord, and can con- 
 verse with your guardian angelic friends about all your organs, 
 comparing them with theirs, reasoning from the letter. And when 
 you can think with them, — the spirit exciting word creative, and 
 as the word of four and seven stars, as you think it in your warm- 
 est love's embrace, for an offspring body in the letter, and not 
 blush in fig-leaf confusion, — then, and not till then., will ye hear 
 my footsteps in the garden of your Eden ; and the prick of my 
 spirit shall no more wound the flesh, but shall be unto you great 
 pleasure in the spirit, which shall communicate it to your earthly 
 house, in such proportions as you can bear ; for your bodies would 
 fail before me if I should strive always with you. 
 
 But you shall then know that I had begotten in you anew this 
 thought, that you had been raised on Mount Moria, the Hill of 
 Zion, known as the rising ground at the roots of the tree of life ; 
 and elevated by the chief corner-stone and foundation of the tem- 
 ple to the innermost sanctuary of the Lord's house* — that is, your 
 own, — the holy of holies, — that is, the holy of wisdom, as well 
 as the holies of love. And also know that your attractive guard- 
 ian, who brought you to the seventh circle, had been raised from 
 that to the eighth circle, or holy of holies, with you in her womb, 
 enveloped in the spirit, as in the letter. 
 
 Marvel not that ye must be born again. 
 
 Here Abraham and Sarah, and all the prophets stood, to beget 
 the word of prophecy, when far off was eighteen hundred and fifty- 
 two ; and also Christ, and Peter, and John, and Paul, and others 
 stood here to suffer reproach. 
 
 Let not any one resist the spirit, lest my love be too strong for 
 them,. and their earthly bodies fall off, for them to work in the 
 higher circles. 
 
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 Lay not the heft of a wrathful finger on my mediums, for I 
 come quickly, and my reward is with me. 
 
 To my ancient people, who are scattered over the world, — who 
 have kept the ark of the covenant in the letter, and its morals, — 
 a remnant of the seed of Abraham, I would say, Do not steady the 
 ark of the spirit-covenant, in its conception of love, prop~er-gate- 
 ing wisdom. 
 
 How can I spend my time with one man-prophet ? Through 
 him I speak to the world for ages. 
 
 My dear sons, and people all, before I leave, suffer me to intro- 
 duce to you your much-loved Warren, whom I raised above the 
 clash and smoke of Bunker's heights to bless you from on high. 
 
 Receive him now, after many days, as your District Deputy 
 Grand Teacher in affinity with other names in this my book, as, 
 also, with many mediums. Alpha and Omega. 
 
 Beloved of earth, the Lord hath spoken, and proposed your 
 world for the degrees of high-priesthood to work in the building 
 up of your bodies in Christ, as planted in you. 
 
 The black ball enters the mouth, builds the earthly in beauty 
 and comeliness, as a starting point for eternal individual life. 
 
 In the earthly body you see the outline of the heavenly, by ' 
 experience, with the help of this book, as by the spiritual body of 
 the Bible you will see the internal structure of both. 
 
 The earthly house will be rebuilt for some others in generations 
 to come, and be an eternal house, perpetuated to all generations ; 
 and the more it walks hand in hand with wisdom, the more beautiful 
 will it appear ; and you may recognize and often visit it from the 
 realms of eternal day. 
 
 Your medium makes a motion that you proceed to ballot. The 
 motion is seconded by his guardian, our much-beloved angelic 
 friend, Ellen Frost. 
 
 The author of the proposition has put everything in form. 
 
 Are you ready for the question ? As many as are in favor of 
 the movement will arise, and stand till the ballot is taken. 
 
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 We shall proceed according to the law of wisdom in the grand 
 lodge above. 
 
 Every one will be provided with two white balls and one black 
 one. The rule is for each one to ballot for himself or herself. 
 
 This rule is adopted to prevent confusion in running round with 
 the ballot-box. 
 
 The black ball, when given, makes you a master Mason. It 
 may lead you to whoredom with strange gods, and lay your body 
 in the grave ere half your days are gone. 
 
 Here you see the necessity of being most excellent masters, that 
 you may live to see your earthly house finished ere the golden 
 bowl be broken at the fountain head of endless love. 
 
 There is no earthly house with us in heaven, and we need no 
 masters here. 
 
 The white balls will give you the light of Masonry, that you 
 may purify silver to purchase you an individual house, of which 
 we have spoken in connection with the black ball. 
 
 In this triangular ballot is contained the philosopher's eye-water, 
 which enabled him to discover the material for his first temple. 
 
 The gold of ophir, the rough ashler, the cedars of Lebanon, the 
 shittim wood, and all things of earth, as ultimated in electricity 
 with all those higher ultimates from the womb of earth, and the 
 great city of the grand Master Builder of all worlds. 
 
 I perceive a great multitude, which no man could number, have 
 arisen while I have been explaining the ballot. 
 
 It is a rule of the Grand Lodge that the ballot-box shall open 
 on the under side, and up as far as to reach the crown of the God 
 of nature, which is of the most refined silver, and sits with great 
 love on the head of compassion. 
 
 The opening in the bottom of the box indicates to the initiate 
 that the dust of earth which may be attracted there by the power 
 of love may shake out in travelling, and that while it arises in wis- 
 dom it will be reserved, and made more holy, and opened unto the 
 starry crown of redeemed thought, and golden sea of wisdom, that 
 it may be godlike, and creative to build and enlarge and refine its 
 dwelling for ever and ever. 
 
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 The guardians in central attractive commission of the seventh 
 circle (under the eye of the guardians from the great central city, 
 to see if all understand the use of the ballot, that it is not given as 
 a tribute to earth and fornication), will proceed each to their charge, 
 and to take the ballot. 
 
 Have you all balloted that wish ? 
 
 Dear guardians, assort and count. 
 
 How many spirits have elected an earthly body ? 
 
 How many half numbers have elected a spiritual body devel- 
 oped ? and how many have elected a prophetic body ? 
 
 The number of craftsmen who balloted for mediums, or indi- 
 vidualism, would suggest a caution to all kinds of cattle, and swim- 
 ming and creeping things. 
 
 The master's desire for the spiritual building was many hundreds 
 of millions, and those who were marked for the prize of the high 
 calling in Christ Jesus, and for the finding of the stone that bring- 
 eth wisdom and prophecy, was five thousand in the United States. 
 These from the turn of life desire it, that so in age, as most excel- 
 lent archers, they may enjoy the happy reflection of a well-spent 
 life, and enter into the joys of heaven. 
 
 The half man represents the God of wisdom in his exterior deport- 
 ment, personals, and strength, with the power of the womb fully 
 developed, while the goddess of love, or crown of woman's nature, is 
 undeveloped in love and heavenly intuitive wisdom. 
 
 The half woman represents the god of love, in her exterior soft- 
 ness, personals, loveliness, and beauty ; exhibiting to the eye the 
 undeveloped compassion of intuitive love-wisdom in man. 
 
 Here you see the gentleman and his lady-love. Develop the 
 seed of their nature in the spirit, and you have eight half numbers, 
 in love and wisdom one, as man and wife are one. And my 
 God ! what half number can conceive of that high number, in har- 
 mony with itself, with its God, and all other numbers? Two 
 images of God united in one ! 
 
 Rejoice, rejoice ! for five thousand will soon strike the golden 
 harp on earth, ere fifty-three gives one half circle around the sun. 
 
 The word shall come up from west to east, as from the centre 
 
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 of the earth, with ointment on its nose, through animal and instinct 
 spirit, to embryo, when God will stir it up to speak that word in 
 wisdom's ears which has been lest for eighteen hundred years. 
 
 The letter is one thing ; the spirit is four things. 
 
 If I have wronged you, I will pay you four-fold. 
 
 The Grand Instructor will pay an official visit in due time after 
 you have conceived the word in love. 
 
 Dear brethren, you have reserved and preserved a remnant of 
 Israel. Add now to your morals the spirit, and let God be glori- 
 fied in you, as Pa-sons and Ma-sons, and he will form in you Christ, 
 the hope of glory to God and the world. 
 
 Benj. Warren, in spirit greeting. 
 
 Thursday Morning, October 28. 
 
 Dear Ellen, God giveth power unto those that ask in spirit ; and 
 I feel that the perpetuating flow of the river of life hath already 
 entered my thought ; and I would say that I listened to a lecture, 
 last evening, from Brother Horace Mann. 
 
 His subject was Woman. He ascended the ladder of his theme 
 in half numbers, — in earthly science and straight-line love, — 
 until no midnight-lamp could give a son of earth the power to 
 overlook his crown of honor, which, upon arriving at the ultimate 
 of electric or earthly love, at the hour of the death of a beloved 
 wife, turned gray in one night, as I have been informed. 
 
 Upon that crown sat a brilliant star, representing our spirit land, 
 and the feet of his angelic bride and loving wife, whose attractive 
 power would not rest until his earthly powers had gained the 
 heavenly charms, and brought them face to face. 
 
 He would elevate woman to the attractive platform on which he 
 stood, and then he throws his thought to some (to him) unknown 
 bower of exaltation in future life. 
 
 As his thought of uncertain hope returned unto him void, his 
 eye rested upon the breast of one who saw in him the lion and the 
 lamb. 
 
 And behold I saw the bride within him, and she said, Come. 
 And the guardian angelic bride, of the seventh circle, gave him a 
 
108 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 trumpet, so that the anointed might mark him sure ; for he is ripe 
 for the harvest, and the reapers are ready. 
 
 And t that bride saith, Come; and the holy city drew nigh, and 
 I heard his bride there say, Come ; and all that thirst will come ; 
 and God will turn him, as the river of life is turned. 
 
 And I, the world's medium, looked with great joy at this great- 
 est of great half numbers, which is almost a whole one ; and lo and 
 behold, I saw in him Christ the Lord, from a far country, who had 
 bruised the serpent's head, that it should mingle with the dove. 
 And behold he whispered in my ear, and said, I come quickly, and 
 electricity shall stand still, as it were, while the heavenly lightning 
 shall move in circles. 
 
 There are some standing by now that shall not taste of death 
 till this thing be fulfilled. 
 
 Witness the influence of a departed. Wife. 
 
 Dear medium, with your desire before me, I would beget in 
 you a new channel of thought, for the public good. 
 
 Dear Jefferson, I stand fast for the good of all, and will be 
 happy in receiving your thought, under the eye of my friends from 
 the higher sphere, and will meet you on the highest ground within 
 the scope of my reason and comprehension, as for anything above 
 that it would be lost to that world. 
 
 Dearest, you see the cat and lap-dog. These represent man and 
 woman in half numbers ; — first, as a race ; secondly, as individu- 
 als ; and now for the development of both. 
 
 Where is the lap-dog of Eden, seen in the dark ages ? 
 
 God, seeing a long road of undevelopment in man, gave the high- 
 est trait, or essence, of the race, to Abraham, for prophet-seed, to 
 be developed in Christ, by purifying the race, at the end of his 
 mission, or the second coming on earth. 
 
 Some men remained lap-dogs ; some grew as men, to be hounds 
 and bull-dogs. These hunted down and devoured the flesh of 
 Christ's body, in the letter. Then came the half dog and half 
 wolf, and destroyed the Lord's house, and made the hounds and 
 bull-dogs cry with great pain, and dispersed the Jews. 
 
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 109 
 
 The wolves, smelling the blood of martyrs, packed off in great 
 haste. Each pack, looking at the other as devils for the stake, feasted 
 upon the flesh of each other, until the lion raised his thundering 
 roar in reformation tones, and shook the earth from pole to pole. 
 
 Here, as the li^ht be^an to draw near, it made the darkness the 
 more terrific, while the progress of man's development turned its 
 dark, dark, dark bend, indicating circles in harmony with wisdom 
 in love, and love with wisdom. 
 
 But where is puss ? 
 
 She, in high essence, or flower of the race, was seen with Abra- 
 ham, as his wife-partner; the last at the Cross, and the first in the 
 resurrection of hope. 
 
 She kept up with wolf, by the way of catamount, tiger, and the 
 leopard, and found a type of her seed in the majesty of the lion. 
 
 The power of woman begot in man a sense of darkness, and 
 Luther began to work with affinities to enlighten the wolf, who, in 
 many cases, has a taste for blood, even now. 
 
 My brother, develop the wolf and the lion under wisdom, and 
 the highest instinctive spirit principle of these animals will come 
 from the dog and cat species, as your right-hand angel, to bring 
 you essences from all parts of the earth, to build your spiritual 
 body, to help your creatives to masticate the food, and diffuse it 
 through the system, and to run at your command. 
 
 Dear medium, you have often seen them. Your archangel, that 
 you saw the day before yesterday, was a compound of wolf and 
 lion, and lion and wolf, male and female, numbered to your spirit 
 body of four half numbers, male and female. 
 
 Nature in wisdom never allows two male or female principles to 
 generate. 
 
 Does your carpenter, building your doors, put two mortices 
 together ? Would two ladies show wisdom in putting two peaches 
 together upon the table, and their two mouths together to feast on 
 fruit ? No ; the peach is numbered to the mouth, and the mouth 
 for smacks. 
 
 Compassion is numbered for speaking thoughts, and wisdom ; — 
 for hearing and seeing thoughts. 
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110 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 You recollect that your angel's body was of the size of your 
 wrist through the body, that his head and neck resembled that of 
 a lion somewhat, with legs undeveloped before and behind, with a 
 mouth resembling a three-pointed star, denoting his classical con- 
 nection with the mother-planet, and triangle of systems belonging 
 to her. This material spirit is of a gray color, as you recollect, 
 and of an oily appearance, not at all dazzling to the eye. Angelic 
 man ; the type of medium, and his angel, is clearly expressed in 
 the letter by a noble-man and his noble-dog, or dove from the 
 ark of Noah. 
 
 The ladies' archangel is first the lion and then the wolf princi- 
 ple, and so applied as in the other case, with the exception of color, 
 which is lion, with the power to conform to any color in repre- 
 senting thought ; as in taking your likeness from your number in 
 compassion. When your guardian Ellen had raised you to a level 
 with herself in the knowledge of wisdom and love (that is, your 
 study in human nature), for which purpose she was numbered with 
 you by a rib of seed from your own body, given to her in concep- 
 tion of her individualism, and which has made you one with her, 
 as bride and bridegroom, you exchanged angels; and the first 
 fruits of this union and exchange of love matters was the message 
 of Patrick Henry, whose message made you two as one medium. 
 
 Her womb numbers with your compassion, frictionizing, and 
 numbering the atmosphere of envelopment, which has given you 
 the new birth, and relieved your mother, who enveloped you for 
 this work up to the time spoken of. Marvel not that ye must be 
 born again. 
 
 Here is man, face to face with woman, in two whole numbers 
 each, as seen in the letter ; man's womb in woman, and woman's 
 compassion in man. Thus the external thought of man represents 
 the internal strength of the woman, as he was taken from her 
 womb, and she from his left side, that is, his heart — his dear 
 sweet heart. This is positive wisdom in both — love thyself. 
 
 They talk of spending their honey-moon at the springs, and that 
 begets a thought I wish to give in relation to the cholera. You 
 died of cholera for want of spirituality. 
 
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 Every person is numbered, or his number indicates a certain 
 degree of development at certain ages; as nature, in putting 
 together } T our numbers, has provided for the greatest amount of 
 happiness possible to be obtained on earth. For the want of 
 parental power you suffer for the want of a good physical organism. 
 
 For the want of wisdom — which this book designs to give — 
 you suffer death all your days. 
 
 If you, from early youth, had a design to become a medium, 
 your guardian would envelop you, and place you in a spiritual 
 womb, and build you over again, and give you a spiritual body. 
 They can envelop a lamb, but not a wolf, even should he be in 
 sheep's clothing. You have not known how to go to work to 
 obtain this blessing. 
 
 The ointment has been rubbed out of your gates by the love of 
 worldly gain. 
 
 The filthy places of a crowded city are fomenting spirit princi- 
 ple, and your body is very wanting, and not having an atmosphere 
 to protect you, you fill up immediately. Your blood and bowels are 
 filling, and begin to move with fearful pain, and fear resists the spirit, 
 when a passive mind would bring you aid from the spirit land. 
 
 Dear parents of wisdom, fix your eye of wisdom upon your 
 little or big child, when you feel the power of spirit copulative 
 motion, with a desire that your child may be baptized with the 
 Holy Ghost and with fire ; and you may see it jump and play with 
 newness of life, as its body grows in spirit strength. • 
 
 Do not fear. It will do you good also to chew a little food for 
 your children. Positive wisdom opens the system to spirit- wait- 
 ing principle. Enter then, if you can, that way, but keep the 
 downward passes from them, if possible. If your teeth are poor, 
 remember what God did for Sarah. 
 
 Jesus was a good miller, and he ground his system full ; and 
 when the sick touched even the hem of his garments, they were 
 made whole. 
 
 The hem of one's garments is a sensitive point to touch, when 
 that one is charged with holy redeeming fire. Build up your 
 spiritual body, day by day, and not leave it for the cholera to do 
 
112 THB SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 ia two hours. Keep a circulating medium of small change in sil- 
 ver through your city or small town* and not let strangers carry it 
 oat of the place. 
 
 This recipe, like the Declaration of American Independence, 
 would free the whole territory (if lived out in the spirit) of all 
 disorder and pain, and establish every one on independent indi- 
 vidualism. 
 
 When you will then find the well of living water, and that 
 springing up within you unto everlasting life. 
 
 And when the waters are troubled and in active motion, as the 
 angel stirs them at Bethesda's golden bowl, then let the sick and 
 the sorrowing be healed. 
 
 Let the nations be healed, and let the spirits have heels that 
 will need no healing. 
 
 The influence that you project by will power is most powerful. 
 For should you have no angel, yet your guardian has ; the want- 
 ing person has a guardian who has an angel ; and you should con- 
 sider it your sacred duty to become mediums, and gain wisdom and 
 strength ; you have gained not a single thought but by intuitive 
 communication, how much soever they may have been worked up 
 by the sound of words, breaking on the atmosphere. 
 
 As we said, the will-power influence will be drawn from the 
 wanting child, and may build upon its sexual organs with power, 
 and through them pass over its system, and not be felt by the 
 child, to make it sensitive, as the channel to wisdom is closed above 
 compassion, and the essences for building the spiritual body are not 
 exciting, like a spirit in creation, who is opening channels of wisdom. 
 We want a great many healing mediums, that we can entrance. 
 
 Sickly children, who should be entranced by us and our angel, 
 will put them in communication, under our control, with other sick 
 children ; and we will heal them all. 
 
 Have a strong desire for us, and we will bless you all. 
 The president of the United States, as well as the poorest slave, 
 who is sometimes the richest man. Could you see them as they 
 are here, in the image of God, blessed ones, you would love them 
 while on earth. You may, when you see God's love, for all sin 
 will be forgiven then. Tw* ** T ~- -- « 
 
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 Friday Morning, October 29. 
 
 The earth opens her womb to receive the unfeeling remains of 
 one who mounts the upper skies, to see the womb that gave him 
 individual life. Here he sees the channels of wisdom closed up, 
 which veils from the mother's mind the rugged power concealed 
 there, to give strength of body to the mighty power of mind for a 
 warrior, or scholar, or a statesman ; who in the senate chamber 
 raises his thunder in pillars of political smoke, and lifts a nation 
 in admiration and wrath. 
 
 Behold your statesman raised from glory unto glory, where he 
 sees his bowels of compassion open before him, which was hidden; 
 and a beautiful woman, with a spring of heavenly water giving 
 perpetual motion and eternal hope, blending with the majesty of 
 the man all the soft virtues of the woman : — bringing intuitive 
 thought to happify the whole body, and filling the courts of wis- 
 dom with shining orbs. 
 
 Thus you see your lost Daniel Webster, by the aid of the old 
 prophet, Daniel, from Herschel ; who is readily distinguished from 
 the lion, by having a cotton umbrella under his arm. 
 
 Jeremiah 20: 10, 11. 
 
 " For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report: 
 And we will report it. All my FAMILIARS watched for my 
 halting. Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail 
 against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. 
 
 u But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one ; therefore 
 my persecutors shall not prosper; they shall be greatly ashamed." 
 
 While the graduate was on the pinnacle of the temple, under 
 the instruction of Washington; and while he was wondering at 
 the mighty influx and out-pourings, and the circulating perpetual 
 life and motion giving city of Boston, he saw at last a large drove 
 of pigs nearing the city of notions. He thought that by their 
 being late in that they preferred smoke to chewing, and as he 
 thought of his Latin, he did not inquire. 
 
 But since that time, he has read some of Jeremiah ; and also 
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114 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 discovering a small aperture in the bottom of the governor's chair ; 
 therefore, 
 
 Resolved : That he would push his negative question to the hub 
 of the wheel, and see how lustily the pig could squeal. 
 
 And he went out and entered the swine, and they all ran down 
 a steep place into the sea ; where the Devil drove the hogs. 
 
 The young man having the luck of Jonah, and finding that h€ 
 could neither back out nor turn round, for the winding stair-case 
 was very narrow. Here he thought of his friend, the poor medium, 
 and therefore resolved, that if ever he got out, he would give him 
 something tangible as a token of respect, which would forever put 
 his own spirit to rest as an individual. 
 
 Here he took out his note-book, and, looking down through him- 
 self, he saw that the hole he made in entering had closed up ; and 
 he shook with great fear, as the carcass of living fat swam upon 
 the bosom of the deep. 
 
 Here he heard the voice of the medium, saying, Fear not, for I 
 bring you tidings glad of great joy, which you shall spread to all 
 people. 
 
 You passed in at the same hole that your ancestors did, over 
 eighteen hundred years since ; and out of respect to your aged sire, 
 every hole through which he passes (if it be even the roof of a 
 college) immediately closes up, and every offensive thing is with- 
 drawn, unless they wait for the introduction of a friend, who may 
 wish to be his companion, and immediately retire when the last 
 imp is through. 
 
 But I shall place before you two open doors which no man can 
 shut. The door-posts through which you will pass out are num- 
 bered and anointed with the number of our front door; and I 
 must tell you that I am married, and you can board longer with 
 us, and find your home here more acceptable, as I am improving 
 my house inside and out, and my wife is pleasant, and quite at 
 home. 
 
 Here you should know that a couple of young people have got 
 married, and gone to housekeeping, in the street next below us ; 
 and I heard them say that they thought of building a house for 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 115 
 
 you in their neighborhood, and that they thought they could pick 
 up a school of children, of which you should be the leader. 
 
 And, since you have put me in communication with this 
 grunter, I wish you to see if he has a word, or a key to it ; and, 
 as you are on a level of the broad ocean, you will cast your eye 
 over it as you le'ave, and see if there are any negative whales 
 turned up with the surface of the water, waiting for a spout ; and 
 if so, I will toe the mark for Jonah's salvation. 
 
 On your mission now depends the redemption, up-building, and 
 salvation of the greai city of Nineveh. And should you be suc- 
 cessful (and you cannot fail, for God is with you, as he told me 
 this morning, through Jeremiah), your house shall be builded after 
 the fashion of the Lord's house, a copy of which was given to 
 Moses, in the ark of the covenant. 
 
 And when the fulness of the times shall come, and your day 
 draweth nigh, and when the carpenters and masons begin to raise 
 the nucleus, you must not steady the ark, nor call the workmen 
 off the job ; if you do, you will lose the house, for that is a true 
 sign. 
 
 As you will feel mighty tickled to see the work progress, and 
 the corner-stone laid with ceremony, you can play around the 
 yard, and circling pathway, among the flowers and rising grounds, 
 mixing your pleasures by inspiring the carpenters to rack the 
 joints strongly together, by your gambols, and be careful not to 
 whisper in the ear of the workmen that I am overseering the 
 work; but you will record their names in your bock, and, when I 
 come to visit your school, I shall reward you all, and God will 
 bless you. 
 
 And the workmen of Solomon, with the wisdom of God, will 
 build the house, and finish it. 
 
 And now, if you will look around a little, and tell us what you 
 see, we will open our front door, and attract you out. 
 
 0, I see heaven in the future, and God is there, and there is a 
 rainbow round about the throne. 
 
 Dear medium, do you hear what I say ? 
 
 Yes, see and smell too. 
 
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 Well, if here is not a word, then, I '11 marvel. Here are two 
 words in wisdom, with the letter G on them on one side, and the 
 other had I on them ; I see, by the light of the throne, that the I 
 stands for instinct, and the G stands for the grand architect of all 
 things. 
 
 The word is surrounded in two divisions, of four and seven 
 stars. The gentleman here knows nothing of division of numbers, 
 and is to give them to God when he is big enough to kill. 
 
 This word runs fore and aft, by ointment string attached to the 
 end of the nose ; it runs through the brain, and ends in a twist 
 with the tail. 
 
 This word travels quickly on the line, sounding on the brain, 
 and waking up the perceptive organs to a provident sympathy for 
 the race of man, and never misses the opportunity of depositing 
 something for the table. 
 
 The words are all spoken alike in the letter, or atmosphere, 
 giving the initials of God's word at every grunt. 
 
 The instinctive thought, eat, is entirely hoggish, and by which 
 you got in communication this morning with his hogship. He 
 can never chew this word into two numbers ; it is all eat, eat, eat. 
 
 This straight line communication of earthly thought of ours 
 closes with a well-turned period of the sentence of death, the sen- 
 tence commencing with the opening of the mouth. 
 
 There is a branch of the double word, or words, of instinctive 
 wisdom breaking at the small of the back, forming a rainbow of 
 promise, passing near the period, running near the surface towards 
 the head, and ending in a spiral, as doth the tail. This, too, indi- 
 cates that no waters can drown the servant of God ; for the 
 beautiful Eow, ending in both branches with a spiral, is a sure 
 indication that the spirit of God, wherever dispersed, will ulti- 
 mately form into circles of endless life. 
 
 Have you any instruction ? 
 
 Yes, you will copy the key of deposits, for it is always true to 
 nature, and will be of great service, under wisdom, in intuitive 
 communion. You will copy the two rainbows of seed-time and 
 harvest ; the first to treat your workmen with at the laying of the 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 117 
 
 corner-stone of the earthly house, and the other to express your 
 joy at the completion of the house spiritual, and the influx of 
 wisdom. 
 
 You will now shake the string of attraction, as our door is 
 open, and think of your eyes as you come to the light. 
 
 Saturday Morning, Oct. 30. 
 
 My son, will you graduate to the door, and see who is knocking 
 there ? 
 
 It is grandfather Gleason, that is to be, for all the world. 
 
 Will you ask him in, and introduce him to Ellen first, for her 
 parlor door stands ajar, and I think she must be up, and I am 
 writing. 
 
 Good-morning, father. Although you attended me in my 
 spiritual development in the upper college, yet I did not detect 
 your presence. 
 
 My dear son. 
 
 My dear father ? 
 
 My son, you are truly one of us ; and the desire of your heart, 
 last evening, was attended to the inner courts of the pavilion of 
 God, which is drawing near unto the earth, for the redemption of 
 thoughts, under the law of wisdom. 
 
 Catherine attended your likeness, on which was written your 
 desire for more wisdom. Here let me say that Catherine Hazs is 
 your watchful guardian from the central mother world, the new 
 city. She was the high instinct archangel of David of old, has 
 been individualized on the planet Herschel, and has been raised to 
 the degree of archangel of wisdom. 
 
 And is the image of God, but different from other individuals 
 of the various worlds of our whole system of systems, by holding 
 and adding to the power of angelic motion, and power to reach 
 the pavilion of God. 
 
 She is with you, by the special command of God ; you being a 
 son of David by development, which is the ripening of the seed of 
 the spirit of his creation, through descendants by the way of 
 Washington. 
 
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 At the nuptial feast of yourself and Ellen, there was a reunion 
 in heaven ; and I and my first love, your mother, were united, and 
 millions of others found their first dear ones, by becoming equals 
 in wisdom, of circles, and then proceeding in wisdom together. 
 You remember the time when Catherine whispered her name in 
 your inner ear, and that you finally yielded to her desire ? She 
 then begat in you the seed of wisdom, pertaining to the higher 
 sphere, to ripen in writing for a feast of communication, to the 
 world, of half numbers. 
 
 In one hour after her departure last evening, she returned, with 
 the order from God that the bow of promise be more fully ex- 
 plained, and that I, in the morning, introduce to you, as his wit- 
 nesses (who are true and faithful), Abraham and Sarah, David and 
 his queen, who washed her feet, Christ and bride, St. John and 
 first love, Washington and Lady, Madison and Lady, Jefferson 
 and Lady, Warren and Lady, Brown and Brigham, whose given 
 name was Antipas, who fell in 1832, by the light of spiritual 
 masonry (not the letter), which was called the judgment of God. 
 
 The cholera ? 
 
 Yes. 
 
 Antipas, God's chosen one, fell by light. The six latter brothers, 
 with their brother Oliver Ames, whom you recognized as the seven 
 stars of shining light, in the division of your development as a 
 writing medium. 
 
 The four former being one with their wives, represent the word 
 of four letters, or stars. One letter is half individual number, 
 four half numbers making the image, whose prerogative it is to 
 create, to command, to do. But do is participle, cannot be handled 
 by instinct, and is not exciting. It must be the word of God in 
 a whole number ; instinctive, intuitive, and creating. The word 
 is anointed of the Lord God of wisdom, passes instinct whole, and 
 is divided in participles of speech by wisdom, represented by the 
 latter masonic brethren, the seven stars doing, and answer returned 
 to God, done. And, when you have done, you do not want. 
 
 Here let your mind run through from the smallest division of 
 inanimate matter of motion, as seen in the letter in the flesh, 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 119 
 
 through the spirit up to God. and there behold the great circuit 
 of his word, creating worlds, and all things therein, for his pleas- 
 ure, and that without hands. 
 
 Intuitive thought is material, and represents the thing thought 
 of as standing, or compounding motion. 
 
 As it has been said, or feared, that houses and pig-styes might 
 be built on the ground where I fell in body, and as I am some- 
 thing military, as well as templar, it was thought that I had 
 better draw up a line of troops, and form a hollow square, and 
 plant my guns as roaring cannon there. General Warren. 
 
 First division, feminine grunter. First command passes from 
 right to left, to feed the multitude ; this command is done, and 
 falls to the earth, to perpetuate seed-time and harvest. First 
 division commands, pick up the crumbs, that nothing be lost. 
 
 Sealed orders arrive from the general's tent of wisdom, which is 
 passed by the aid-de-camp to the first division. The word is in 
 whole numbers, and anointed with fire ; and first division, feeling 
 the internal weights of responsibility numbering with conscience, 
 in the head command, or third regiment (individual), and feeling 
 that the magazine might blow up, to prevent which the chief has 
 wisely ordered the extract of pepper in the ointment, to point to 
 duty, and a death-point shot to any number that was not marked, 
 to the pigmy stature of that regiment. 
 
 But, thanks to God, there is wisdom above instinct ; and before 
 the word burns to the invention of blowing up by powder, the 
 heat opens a valve of smelling-bottle orders, of second battalion 
 number, who are always waiting to add three letters to the hol- 
 low square and starry word. 
 
 Here let me remark, that three-sevenths is a true proportion of 
 undeveloped half-numbers. Woman stands between God and man ; 
 and, alas ! how has he debased her in years gone by ; and how is 
 it now in some countries ? 
 
 Immediately on receiving orders, the left battalion, whose guns 
 are also shotted, march to the rear of the first, and take close 
 order. 
 
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 " And they bowed down their heads, feeling that the hour was 
 coming." 
 
 Now the third regiment of archers and templars paraded for 
 drill, and, looking across a great gulf, which they did not know 
 of, sympathized mightily with the seventh first brigade regiment, 
 and felt that they could not see bloodshed ; and feeling instinct- 
 ively, as it were, that the ark of the promise was with the right 
 wing of that great army. 
 
 And the chief priests, and the kings, and the scribes, gathered 
 together their tribes, and entered the house of the Lord, and the 
 great council sat in the innermost sanctuary of the Lord's house. 
 
 And the high priest sent out the sojourner, to look after the 
 type of the promises, and see if the Lord had sworn by his great 
 name, and see if the deed was safe in the ark, that secured an in- 
 heritance to succeeding generations. 
 
 And they bowed down their heads before the altar of their God, 
 and said, For he is good, for his mercy endureth forever. And 
 when they had ended this saying for the third time, Jthe fire, as it 
 were, came upon them, and the Lord took the high priest by the 
 hand, and, shaking it heartily, he saith unto him, Samuel, your 
 people have kept the faith of Abraham ; and, if you will step to 
 the door, I will show you the living ark. 
 
 And the Lord kissed Samuel, for he loved him and his people, 
 and they went out together. 
 
 And the Lord said unto Samuel, The sympathy of the people 
 with those in troubled waters hath induced me to brighten thine 
 eye of wisdom, that the people may know for a surety that my 
 word is coming up, and will not return void, but will result in 
 my image. 
 
 Look and behold the bow of promise ; the spiral denoting the 
 circulating medium of perpetual motion is hidden in a cloud. This 
 denotes seed-time ; the seed hidden in the earth, which shall per- 
 petuate bliss unto your people to all eternity. And the spiral 
 outside bowed its head to the ground, and seemed to say, It is true 
 it is good, and his mercy will endure forever. 
 
 Tell your people that the word shall not be lost again on earth, 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 121 
 
 and that it shall multiply and bring forth much and better fruit, 
 and fill the earth with joy. 
 
 How can undeveloped or half numbers see this word, and know 
 of its truth from the letter, and know that it hath the power to 
 raise spirits from one circle to another, — from glory unto glory, — 
 until the image shall appear ? 
 
 ,% It shall not return unto me void, but shall accomplish that 
 whereunto it is sent." 
 
 In the life-giving principle, if you are not one of Pharaoh's lean 
 kine in the spiritual body, and you are as you should in good con- 
 dition be, you will feel the life-blood draw from all parts of the 
 system, even from the crown to the toes. Then I will ask you 
 how many stars you can number, and if the seven do not blend in 
 one word at conception. If not, you may bestow more idiotism 
 than wisdom upon your offspring, which should tell to your shame, 
 for your lack in earthly material. 
 
 And are you faithful in this duty, you can comprehend the in- 
 stinct of animal, as every other thought is extracted ; and the 
 spirit carries up the word whole, to be divided by God in wisdom, 
 and spoken by the child (two moons) in embryo. 
 
 Sabbath Morning, October 31. 
 
 The spider web of thought that has been divided and spun out by 
 you through life, in all its branches of wisdom, has been suddenly 
 wound up to the instinct pattern of one word, which was with God 
 in the beginning, and is with every living thing, animate or inani- 
 mate, as experienced at conception ; and this is creation. 
 
 u God spake, and it was done ; he commanded, and it stood 
 fast." 
 
 The seed of man is cooling for the body of the spiritual, and' 
 goes to the crust of the earth. It is generated from food, and goes 
 to the earthly, his or their heavenly wisdom being undeveloped. 
 
 It settles in vaults, and in the highest earthly ultimates of all 
 parts of the earth, as seed of individual moving, and earthly house, 
 so constituted as to draw in the heavenly body and spirit, and is a 
 pattern of form and outline by which the fleeting essences of spirit 
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122 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 life may mingle through and in it, and commence the image of 
 God. 
 
 This cooling seed could never be raised from its resting place 
 unless some kind of animal spirit was frictionizing intuitively, and 
 bringing the word for your consideration, either for conception, or 
 for sympathy with such as are in conception, either in the animal 
 or human creation, and with those who are in instinctive affinity 
 with the number of your spirit. 
 
 That is, somebody is coming that will resemble you somewhat in 
 disposition, looks, or talent. 
 
 Let nothing be lost. 
 
 Here the spirit moves the body to do all the work, and to bring 
 all nature down and up to the highest ultimate of instinct thought. 
 The higher wisdom stoops to raise the next below. 
 
 The spirit hath power to move all bodies, earthly and spiritual, 
 that are in affinity with the concept! ve pair, even should it be at 
 whole circle of heavenly beings, and God himself; for he will have 
 pleasure in all his works. 
 
 Love God, and work in him. 
 
 The angelic friend comes in conceptive contact with the medium, 
 and begets a new thought, as seen through the child in the letter. 
 
 The child grows, and you send it to school, to learn wisdom, 
 and to write down the division of the mighty word that gave him 
 being. 
 
 There is friction in his every move through life, which is a type 
 that the spirit will, in the world to come, frictionize to him endless 
 joy. 
 
 By the word in the child, you see the word in the medium. 
 
 The spirit is quick ; — the letter is slow. The spirit will bud, 
 blossom and bring forth fruit, in a day. 
 
 The medium receives the word whole, more or less exciting 
 according to the amount of wisdom to be born to the world by the 
 moving of the hand. 
 
 We are all desirous that you should all become writing medi- 
 ums. 
 
 We wish you to so live, and learn of Christ, — that is, me, — 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 123 
 
 60 that in the fulness of time you can offer your hand to the 
 Lamb's bride, — that is, yourself developed, — and that your hand 
 be accepted, and so that you can live in your new developed house, 
 and move in and about, out and in it, and receive company, and go 
 a visiting, and have a servant, and a big dog and cat, to see that no 
 rude person approaches your dwelling, and that your peace may 
 be great. 
 
 And should you get a couple of pigs, let the sty be near the 
 back door, so that they may be looked after in wet weather, and 
 have the bottom and sides corked tight, and pitched with pitch, 
 60 that it may rise and fall with the water, should there be a 
 freshet. 
 
 You can write by spirit influence, more or less, as you are pro- 
 gressing toward the perfect man and woman, in Christ our Lord, 
 the pattern completed on earth from the seed of the word of God, 
 which is the bread of life. 
 
 And you shall stand in your back yard, concealed in front of the 
 partition fence, and shoot game, and your dog shall bring it home, 
 and the cat and pigs shall scamper and squeal for joy, in prospect 
 of the offal to eat, and wisdom shall know what the rumpus is 
 about. 
 
 Monday Morning, November 1. 
 
 Dear Father, are those dear ones present who were here Satur- 
 day and Sunday, and who seated the ark of the covenant in my 
 front entry, in which was the hidden manna which Moses, by 
 divine command, laid up in the sides thereof, which opens as richly 
 and tastes as sweetly as it did the first day that it was put in, and 
 improves by age? 
 
 Yes, my son ; and many more are present, and their angels 
 are flying through the midst of heaven, from planet to planet ; and 
 the heaven of heavens rejoice that one sinner hath repented, and 
 hath got his sins below his eyes, by which means the devil has been 
 chained. 
 
 And they all rejoice that the pavilion of the Lord hath come 
 
124 THE 8PIRIT HOME. 
 
 nigh unto the earth, and that the people will soon find the kingdom 
 of heaven to be within themselves. 
 
 And Christ developed shall sit upon his throne of judgment, — 
 that is, his wisdom, — and the thought of fornication shall be 
 redeemed in love, and rove in spirit ; and the kingdoms of the 
 earth shall become the kingdoms of God's sons, and God's daughters 
 too. 
 
 And Aseneth is present also. And you recollect that you saw 
 her last evening, at the time you were desiring wisdom for this 
 morning's message. 
 
 You saw her stand within a yard's distance of you, and that her 
 face bore the marks of unearthly beauty, and that her mouth was 
 opened as though she would speak to you. 
 
 This was none other than your sister-in-law, whose maiden name 
 was Pate ; and she afterward made herself known to you by writ- 
 ing her name ; and she told you not to fear, but publish the truth, 
 and that God would feed you as he did his child of old, and that 
 Old Plymouth, the city and town of her individualism, would 
 stand by their prophet, and that you should stand upon the Fore- 
 fathers' Rock, on which you often sat when a boy, to tell some 
 funny story to the two other boys. 
 
 You recollect that you could never talk much when a greater 
 number was present. 
 
 And now, standing on this rock, she says you will be surrounded 
 by those people whose names are seen in the letters around the 
 rock, as it has been moved and fixed up since you were a youngster 
 there, sojourning to find your rib, which you found snugly depos- 
 ited in a Burbank. 
 
 And that you will be supported by every lover of freedom whose 
 heart-strings' dearest tendrils entwine around the remembrance of 
 the sacred foot-prints that marked the soil of that country whose 
 rising hills should first embrace the ark of God, as it reached the 
 earth with the glorious news of a world's salvation. 
 
 How do spirits tip the table? 
 
 The angelic departed one, when the circle is in harmony, forms 
 around the table the spirit-atmosphere corresponding to the wombs 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 125 
 
 and eompassions of the circle in harmony, together with that of 
 the departed one (to whom you are about to look for wisdom be- 
 yond your own reach) ; and all in sympathy with the parties con- 
 cerned. 
 
 Your table represents the earth, with its inhabitants around it. 
 
 In order to represent the earth fully, there must be a vacuum. 
 
 How can we know of a vacuum as you speak ? Have you a 
 type in the vessel ? 
 
 Christ and the bride, the Lamb's wife, supported by Solomon in 
 wisdom of his first love, who are also presented, will answer. 
 
 This is the self-same Solomon of old, whose outside door-knobs 
 you have almost wrung off in the letter, for the six hundredth 
 time ; when, if you had touched the secret inside spring, you would 
 have rung the spirit-bell, and wisdom would have invited you in, 
 to feast your eyes on the magnificence of his house, by which 
 means you could have seen the Lord's house, and been a Free 
 Mason in spirit. 
 
 Dear reader, have you seen my new boy, Elihu Burrit ? 
 
 Let him put his elbow on the pole of the bellows, that the wind 
 may blow where it listeth, — that is, where it has a mind to when 
 it cannot help it, — without looking for fine drapery and costly 
 jewels in the way of its going, and without an eye on the law of. 
 modesty, enacted by the mob-court of fornication. 
 
 Nature's law must be obeyed ; and I will ask your attention 
 while the boy gracefully bears down the pole, with his eyes fixed 
 on fifty dead languages, to give us a puff; and you and your love 
 shall take a welding heat while I explain. 
 
 You both have a commission to work in the letter until death 
 parts you ; and longer it saith not. 
 
 The ultimate of the sea in spirit is feminine. 
 
 The sea heaves up her mighty billows (represented by the 
 whale), and gives up her dead. 
 
 The graves on the land open, and the male comes forth (male 
 
 and female), not hove up. He sweeps the horizon with the eye of 
 
 worldly wisdom, and sees the stately oak, and all things else to 
 
 build his ships, that he may enrich the bosom of his love, the 
 
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126 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 mighty ocean, with the canvas of his head, which is wisdom on dry 
 land. 
 
 He sees the feminine whale turn her back upon the pillowing 
 deep below, and facing a building-stone having an important num- 
 ber, even with the ocean face, to attract the eye of the merchant 
 to a type of the dry land, lifting itself out of the water, and mov- 
 ing gracefully on to the foundation, where it safely rides, from the 
 beginning of Genesis to the end of Revelation, should you live to 
 see it. 
 
 The eye of the merchant is attracted, and he fills his lamps, and 
 hangs a lantern at his mast-head, when a messenger from sea 
 arrives with a letter, informing him that the sea grows boisterous^ 
 and its billows increase in size, and that his old crazy half-number 
 sloop of one mast cannot survive the shock, and that he had better 
 not try to hand everything to posterity, but try to take a little com- 
 fort himself, and spend his all in building for himself a ship like 
 unto a large man-of-war, and have the sea of compassion repre- 
 sented (with the whale in it) by the finish and style of the com- 
 modore's cabin, with his lady-love in it. 
 
 You will ring, if the irons burn while I tell these long stories. 
 
 Well, the centre of the earth is a vacuum, and nothing but 
 spirit mediam can enter this vacuum, which makes gravitation, as 
 everything is pressed, by atmospheric air, to the centre of vacuum. 
 
 This vacuum is represented in the table, which is magnetized by 
 spirits, who will travel the spirit circles which lead to the vacuum, 
 which is in great want ; and the spirit's charmer is there, and the 
 desired being is coming there. 
 
 But you are going to make out that the image will bring up in 
 the centre of the earth at last. 
 
 No ; circles are spiral, not rings. I only wished to show you 
 the north pole, through which you first crept to gain copulative 
 life in heaven, and to explain a few words of our forerunner, A. J. 
 Davis (whose damsel wants his head in a charger), concerning 
 spirits passing out and in at the poles, by his friend, Wilson he 
 being present to witness a stroke of the hammer of a learned black- 
 smith. 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 127 
 
 He always strikes when the iron is hot ; and every stroke tells 
 for humanity. 
 
 Here we will add a little borax, and ask you both if you would 
 not give the wedding-ring off your finger to have your commission 
 lengthened one half inch. Let us have one day more, say you, 
 that we may enjoy ourselves ; for we cannot see into the future. 
 
 Here, dear reader, marry in spirit, and become a medium ; and 
 have your commission, or marriage certificate, lengthened in endless 
 spiral circles. 
 
 We have shown you how spirits rap at your door, and tip you 
 up to open it. 
 
 You could not see -how it was done; but you can feel it 
 surely. 
 
 You cannot see the truth of this book until you experience it by 
 having one very much like it opened in your own kingdom, which 
 book you may learn to read by having seen this. 
 
 Let us know when you are ready, and you shall soon rest in 
 Abraham's bosom. 
 
 If God works without hands, yet he works with something ; and 
 that something will be left with you, for the exercise of your wis- 
 dom, while w r e take another look at the pig. 
 
 This important personage does not seem to have come in, in its 
 highest ultimate, until after wisdom has visited embryo something 
 over two weeks. 
 
 First high ultimate of earth in pigosity combines the lovage- 
 root and grape-vine, which mingle, in common with all others, in 
 creation of spirit, as branches of the true vine inclining to circles 
 in spiral. 
 
 The true vine, or highest ultimate given to the spiritual organ- 
 ism of the image, and one that has intuitive communion with wis- 
 dom, and being stationed at the west end of the main house, and 
 wisdom takes the east ; and then no unsophisticated groveller dares 
 to put his fingers upon a penny of the treasures of the Lord's 
 house. 
 
 No one but the worthy and true, whose names are marked in 
 the book of life, can pay the craft their wages. 
 
128 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 How many poor women have been seduced to have their house 
 robbed of its richest diamond, when, had the coward known that 
 a gentleman was asleep in the garret, and a servant and her male 
 companion a sleeping in a rich room in the front entry, with muni- 
 tions of war secreted under the floor (to say nothing about dogs 
 and cats), he would have dropped dead, or sneaked off, with his tail 
 between his legs (a cur that he was), before he would have dared 
 to enter the house ! 
 
 Neither would he dare to enter a gentleman's house developed ; 
 for the fool could not, in reading their card, discover the ladies' 
 private mark, which accompanied the treasure he sought. 
 
 He knew less of the treasure that was»therein hid, than he did 
 of the gold that was buried by Kyd. 
 
 The captain is here now, and says that he will help you dig for 
 gold. And that which is buried where moth and rust doth not 
 corrupt, and where thieves and robbers cannot break through to 
 steal. K. Kyd. 
 
 But let the poor woman do so no more in the letter that killeth, 
 but lust after the spirit, and her reward shall be four-fold, and 
 soon it shall be a hundred-fold, in pure wisdom. 
 
 The grape, quince, and other fruit, denote that the rising ground 
 in the midst of the garden is saturated with these high essences ; 
 else how grows the fruit ? These are extremely keen and sensi- 
 tive, which require the soft fat and easy flow of the spiral bow in 
 the cloud, in its beautiful perceptive colors, as seen in the rainbow : 
 seeing, feeling, and knowing all things. 
 
 Here is the soft and fertilizing flow of the river of life, and no 
 tiring friction to indicate the waning-out principle. 
 
 Fear not, for nature will hit the mark in all its numbers, and 
 insure to you the prize, sooner i or later. 
 
 From the resurrection of the pig and its affinities there 
 flows a golden bowl of love, which hath jurisdiction over all loves, 
 as the crystal diamond bowl of wisdom hath control over all 
 thoughts. All the organs are wound around in spiral channels, of 
 which the bow in the cloud is a sure type of the promise. The 
 

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 bow in the letter is what it is in spirit — always allowing the 
 heavenly above the earthly. 
 
 And remember that the bow in the letter passes two circles 
 before you receive it in the spirit ; and that the central city is the 
 highest point that you could comprehend in your letter, if others 
 could be spoken of. 
 
 The peach of Herschel, from which the rainbow borrows its 
 faint hues, is seen and felt at the end of the bow in the human 
 cloud, and which is so keenly sensitive to the encircling spirit 
 influence that lifts the earthly silver from its secret vaults, to min- 
 gle with the crowd. 
 
 The swine are in close sympathy with man ; and its nature, as 
 its destiny, is to commune with man, and show him that he loves, 
 how much he loves ; and the man is astonished at the pig's wis- 
 dom, which is no more or less than the man's own wisdom : 
 
 So very fat and easy is piggy in coming in communication with 
 him, and knowing his secret thoughts. 
 
 As his body is given to you for food, so is his spirit, with all its 
 high affinities, given direct to you in embryo, to be developed at 
 the turn of life, in full and perfect love, if you desire, and have 
 obeyed the dictates of love and reason through your coming up. 
 Some will desire the heavenly love so strong as not to wish a mar- 
 riage in the letter. Their turn of life may come earlier in life, as 
 mine did ; and when the earth is filled up with happy men and 
 women, the law will develop in such precision as to make the 
 births equal to the deaths, or departures ; and the fourth circle 
 shall be removed in location, as it were, from heaven to earth, or 
 the third exalted to heaven. 
 
 Cleanse your thoughts, and redeem them, so that you have no 
 secret design against your neighbor, but seek to do him good, 
 which is repentance; for Gcd hath spoken and sworn. And think 
 of the millions of departed ones of earth, and their power to put 
 you in communication, one with the other, so that you shall know 
 each the other's thoughts, and peace shall begin now to flow in the 
 earth, and God's will be done, as in heaven, according to wisdom. 
 
130 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 This is from your Lord, who loves you beyond your conception 
 of generating thought, and waits to bless you all. 
 
 Yes, your Lord or pattern of yourself, in embryo. 
 
 Marvel not that ye must be born again. 
 
 The great sums offered by the nations to him who would bless 
 the people with perpetual motion may be paid in the first fruits of 
 the spiritual bodies using the invention ; and the governments can 
 use the gold and silver in opening the prison doors, and setting the 
 captives free, — to the feeding of the poor, and comforting the 
 hard-laboring rich, and demolishing all kinds of evil. 
 
 For which millions of earth's children are sending up their 
 prayers (born by others' angels for want of their own) to God, who 
 will answer : Amen, so mote it be. 
 
 From every daughter born on the great central planet is taken 
 a seed of the woman, and given to some male child in conception, 
 on some one of the earth's that form the great triangle around her, 
 and which dance so merrily too. 
 
 From that male child is taken his rib, so that every one may 
 have their own with usury. 
 
 This seed from mother Herschel is a certificate of travel in 
 wisdom through that city of our God, beyond which there is 
 greater glory. 
 
 November 3. 
 
 A rib from every bow, as hump to hollow go. 
 olMother Herschel wears the indispensable breeches, under the 
 triangular shirt, which, with its mice points, pricks the serpent, as 
 he raises his head from the dust, to see the power in pants to bruise 
 that head, and give his brains a lift in wisdom. 
 
 The mother dresses her sons in shirts with points as sharp over 
 the pants, as hollow unto humps must desire to go. 
 
 As the mother layeth her infant across the pit of the stomach, 
 with its head between the left shoulder and the breast, with its 
 little head over the mother's heart of hearts, and its left arm on a 
 horizontal line, hides its tiny hand beneath the breast which is 
 right : for it is law, and will now move the hand to write. 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 131 
 
 The mother has a daughter, which she has lately given in mar- 
 riage, another of three years, and a grand-child (that is to be) in 
 the second circle with the children of a great many neighbors ; 
 and they know when it is night, and the hens go to roost, if their 
 mothers do not know that they are out. 
 
 The little girl, in human nature, wants a rag baby, that she may 
 sit in her little rocking-chair, and be happy like mamma. 
 
 The bridegroom and brother-in-law wants to please the little girl, 
 and he looks among his bride's effects, and, seeing no cradle-quilts 
 or the like, takes a dress that is hanging handy, and begins at the 
 hem to fold it up. The grand-child is come in, and wants to sit 
 up and have some fan with the rest : and, as its godparents are 
 present, no one feels like scolding. 
 
 The bride begins to be interested, as she looks around and sees 
 no one but her own folks, and they so happy. She feels a mater- 
 nity arising that she never felt before, while the lover of her choice 
 goes on with his folding, until the senseless drapery or rag baby is 
 in some resemblance, where we found the little object of our little 
 story, which we write to please the children. 
 
 As this work is now nearly ready for the press*, we can only add 
 that, the little grandchild went to bed, after saying its little 
 prayers ; and, being warmly tucked up, slept beautifully all night, 
 and came out as bright as a pin in the morning. 
 
 But the end of the letter is death ; and, they were reminded 
 at breakfast time, as a messenger arrived and informed them, that 
 a loved neighbor, of eighty years, lay in the icy arms of death. 
 
 After the cloth was removed instead of toasts, they drank of 
 the spirit. 
 
 And the angelic neighbor rapped to them, and informed them 
 that he was happy, that he was in the image of God created, and 
 knew it not before his death. He said the little story was a true 
 tale of nature, looking for wisdom. 
 
 He said he slept all his days, like Boaz, and never knew that 
 the beautiful gleaner, Ruth, had slept with him all night. 
 
 But was ready now to pluck off one of his left shoes, as a test 
 of his sincerity, as concerning redeeming and changing ; that to 
 
132 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 confirm all things he did it ; and that he would take Ruth, who 
 sailh come, to be his bride and loving wife, to raise up children 
 unto the Lord. 
 
 I am the beginning and the end ; and love is the beginning of 
 wisdom. 
 
 Dear brother, have you a word for me ? I am a mason ; yes, as 
 I took the three degress in one night, you can have the other left 
 shoe. That is right. 
 
 And this advice, that you begin the degrees young, and study 
 wisdom with the letter, that so in age you may taste of that life 
 that swallowed up death, and that before you leave your shoes 
 behind you to reach the mark of your prize* 
 
 Thursday Morning, November 4. 
 
 Dear reader, God now places you in the midst of the garden of 
 Eien, and the garden of Eden in the midst of you : as your own 
 Bible, which we shall explain from end to end. 
 
 The Lord looks down from his crystal diamond palace, where he 
 sits enthroned, upon the river Pison, as it flows through the whole 
 land of Havilah, where there is found the golden treasure, or ele- 
 mentary spiritual body (as in the letter), and flows out through the 
 golden bowl. 
 
 Sometimes the last drop is shaken from the end of the appendix, 
 which is numbered with the golden bowl. 
 
 And the gold of that land is good, as in bdellium, and the onyx- 
 stone. 
 
 The second river, or second head of the river of life, is called 
 Gihon. Which, being interpreted, signifies a maiden speech, in 
 sympathy with spirits, pleading hastily for a material earthly house, 
 and belongs to two half numbers. This must be given in half 
 numbers, as participles of speech. 
 
 This is universal also, and doth not exclude the Ethiopian, or 
 meanest slave. 
 
 • The third is called Hiddekal, which flows through the city of 
 refuge, and begets a written communication. Here, as you may 
 wish to be a prophet medium, we shall explain the process plainly. 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 183 
 
 A male writer hath two hem-circles, which signify pants, or 
 half numbers, which pick up spirit body-building material, which 
 is passed up to the gentleman's gate, through the gate-posts inside, 
 near the surface. 
 
 When the influence reaches the gentleman's gate, over the arch, 
 it goes in even unto the navel ; from thence to the gate in the 
 small of the back ; from thence, as a hidden river, to the peach- 
 pole. 
 
 In this antiquated country the pole the men (and the women 
 too, in fact; f° r ^ ne } r are no ^ always to be afraid of work) use to 
 knock off peaches with : and the end resembles a peach. 
 
 It is here that the half number first detects its presence as a 
 river, as it forms its circles there. 
 
 Here we shall remove the ignorance, or pestilence, that wasteth 
 at noon-day, or through the middle age of man. 
 
 When this influence is felt by half number, he depends wholly 
 upon starch, as in a dickey shown. But the medium in wisdom 
 mans the brakes, and while the sentinel han^s his throbbing head 
 the leading-hose man sallies forth, while the juice of the peach is, 
 by the suction-hose, drawn through the golden bowl, in sympathy 
 to the engine, and wisdom feels the power of command. 
 
 The hoseman to the well-turned ankle goes, which is surrounded, 
 and smiling from under the single slip encircling her, the touching 
 of which will make you whole in health, and a whole medium ; and 
 the heavenly lightning passes the same gates as in the former case, 
 and reaches the peach-pole inside the golden gate. 
 
 Hence the wisdom of the half number, knowing nothing of the 
 deposits of starch in her own house, folds her hands, and wonders 
 if the starch-man will propose. 
 
 Here the God of nature mans the half-developed engine (which 
 is all the male organ which is developed between the two halves, 
 which makes the woman male by the power of the God of nature),, 
 and returns the prophet's answer. 
 
 Here the prophet learns that she is pregnant in spirit, and that 
 he will be the happy father of a prophetess, as she is fast becom- 
 ing a medium, and dividing the word in marks and lines on paper. 
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134 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 Woman is nearest to God, because her male organ is partially 
 developed, and doth not lean on a substitute, or arm of flesh, to be 
 heard of God ; neither in starch, or its corresponding sympathetic 
 representative, and deceptive and palavering tongue of the upper 
 head, which wags under so much wisdom in war against the 
 spirit. 
 
 If the prophet wishes to communicate with a prophetess who is 
 at a distance of one or three thousand miles, he slips on a shirt, all 
 hemmed and nice, of softest silk, — too soft for the eye of half 
 numbers. This attracts the eye of the life-blood principle and 
 affinities, or spirit body-building principle ; the eye rests upon a 
 diamond clasp that makes a circle of the garter that makes the 
 knight who supports the hose. 
 
 The knight saith, I could call upon my Father in heaven, and 
 he would send me a legion of angels. 
 
 The influences arise, and crowd the gates with grateful praise, 
 until the hollow of the thighs are as full as they can be. They 
 then as the third river flow up to the corner forming horizontally 
 with the navel, where they turn, and, on a straight line, move to 
 the centre, or navel, and mingle arm in arm at the head of the 
 tube, through which they pass down, and through the reception 
 room of the gentleman's gate, which is copied from the lady's un- 
 known gate, over the arch-way, into the golden gate. Here the 
 water swells the fertile banks. Here the inside peach, as a half 
 number in conception, which had, by the ebbing of the river, fallen 
 even unto the mouth of the bowl, as it were, began to rise and fall, 
 by the power of the mingling waters. Here is the peach-pole of 
 nature, helping itself to the fruit of the quicksilver of peach, 
 vibrates to the changes of heat, the spirit moving up in contra-dis- 
 tinction to the earthly, as seen by quicksilver in the thermometer. 
 
 Nature despatches a messenger to the gate (in straight line) at 
 the lower yard of the family organs, which are one and the same, 
 as it were, with the golden bowl and associates ; so that either end 
 is as respectable in Genesis as in Revelation. 
 
 The child thus begotten leaves home, with that true and only 
 word, for parts unknown. 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 135 
 
 The prophet retires to bed for the night, and sleeps soundly till 
 morning; and when he arises finds himself in the family way, and 
 travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered of his maiden morning 
 message. 
 
 Dear uncle, I want you should keep out of the court-house to- 
 day, as Patrick Henry once said; for I have something for you to 
 read, but not for me to speak in your presence, until your cruse 
 runs over, as a widow in plenty. 
 
 This river flows as the river of life, — ■ slow and peaceful, deep 
 and thrilling, for building up the spiritual body as a holy offering, 
 so that God can meet you in it, and you not be ashamed of your 
 gates. 
 
 Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates ! and let the angel of the 
 God of hosts come in. 
 
 Who are you but a king of glory ? 
 
 The river Euphrates has been explained in this work in the 
 flowing of the river in the compounding of spirit matter in the 
 organic creative medium or image. 
 
 When these rivers unite in one, which is the case in the image 
 and the half not told, you will say, Glory unto God in the highest, 
 and on earth peace. 
 
 The act of copulation which produced this morning's thought, 
 which has been divided on this paper (saving the whole word for 
 another time, as we have the promise of seed-time), was with a 
 French knight of the red cross of ancient days, who is desirous that 
 this book may, in due time, be given to his nation ; for he burns 
 with holy fire and pure desire for the redemption of their thoughts. 
 
 King Louis the First. 
 
 a small appendix. 
 
 Who is there of much observation, and who have mingled in 
 promiscuous crowds, and have not, at some time in life, felt the 
 spiritual, oody-building shock electric, or more gentle influence, as 
 in camp-meeting, as they have come near in contact with the oppo- 
 site sex ? 
 
 The good man of God has resisted the spirit through ignorance. 
 
136 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 Others have thought that it was the letter, and have abused them- 
 selves accordingly. 
 
 Let the spirit flow, but be wise, as though you knew it not, 
 although you are in spirit copulation. 
 
 The spirit hath power, but the flesh hath no sense of feeling, 
 and never can have ; but the spirit-body hath, and always will 
 have. 
 
 Saturday, November 6. 
 
 And he that talked with me had a golden reed, to measure the 
 city, and the gates thereof, and the walls thereof. 
 
 And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and 
 four cubits, according to the measure of a medium's reed, — that 
 is, his angel.' 
 
 And the medium took his reed, in the evening, and in the morn- 
 ing (the two being one of the days we read of) he looked through 
 it upon the mighty deep, as his spirit moved upon the waters 
 thereof, and behold, he saw a whale, with her mouth-creative red 
 for blood, even out of the water ; and all the high priests from the 
 spirit-giving essences of the ocean that naturally floats there, as the 
 spirit of God, moving upon the face of the waters, to the whale's 
 mouth, to feed the whale, and prepare her, as a big fish, for the 
 blood of Jonah. 
 
 God moves in a mysterious way. These floating crumbs, fished 
 down by the whale, gives her breath quite a fishy smell. 
 
 Solon, the great law-giver, has improved the breath, in the 
 third edition of his work, in this book, by giving a quince. 
 
 Now, Jonah was fitting for the ministry, and he had a call to 
 preach in Nineveh, — a very wicked people, who could not be saved 
 by the preacher of lies. So the Lord told Jonah to go a voyage 
 to sea, and he should be swallowed up of a truth. 
 
 In giving life, the sea is boisterous. 
 
 Now, those things happened in the days of the great celebrated 
 doctor of ceremonies, who, in his third edition of this work, sent 
 out his destroying angel to twig the front-door of him whose door- 
 posts were marked with dry blood. 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 137 
 
 This great event marked the day of the Passover, — the day on 
 which the people went up to Jerusalem. 
 
 Now, it so happened that the doctor was coming home, and ob- 
 serving that the mistress of the deep had got a vial full of fish- 
 smelling oder, and knowing that it would soon lose its strength by 
 being exposed to the open air, he hurried on, and took the stump 
 and corked the vial tight. 
 
 Jonah's lot was drawn to still the wave. 
 
 Jonah had sympathy for the doctor, he being fat and clumsy; 
 and had Jonah's faith been big enough he would have stepped on 
 the water, and done it in half the time. 
 
 So Jonah was thrown overboard, and nailed to the cross in the 
 whale's belly, where he spent one day under water, of a baptism in 
 Christ, it being the seventh day, or circle of the first sphere. 
 
 After three days, or circles in wisdom of divinity (of which he 
 aspired to be a doctor), Jonah found he had been spouted up, and 
 actually was in the belly of a belle, receiving wisdom from God, 
 and truly dividing the word (which he had not been permitted to 
 utter, but which he had carefully brought up with him) into five 
 distinct syllables, commencing with He, meaning God. 
 
 Jonah did not think it strange at all that it was done to his 
 mother, as she was naturally intuitive ; but when he found that 
 God was actually doing it to him, a poor sinner, and that God, too, 
 from whose wish he thought he had departed when he was first 
 thrown over, and from whom he thought to hide, to avoid speaking 
 the truth to an unbelieving people of eighteen hundred and fifty- 
 two, — when poor Jonah found this truth, and himself actually 
 dividing the word of life in wisdom, of which he was then in con- 
 ception, it seemed as though the little fellow would jump out of 
 his skin, which attracted the eye of our medium, and he slipped in 
 with his reed and measured Jonah, and found him to be a hundred 
 and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of the image 
 of God, the earth, the spirit land, and a miniature likeness of the 
 newly discovered Jerusalem, the Herschel*city of our God, and 
 in sympathy of numbers with all above that planet. 
 
 From your friend, 
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138 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 who, on the day of my departure from the sight of men, made 
 you, dear medium, feel my presence, and acknowledge it to your 
 own heart ; and in after time, when the crown of England was 
 placed upon the head of the present queen, as you may well re- 
 member, for the angelic hosts in wisdom made you feel that they 
 (or some one to you unknown) placed a crown upon your head 
 which bore the mark of splendid beauty. 
 
 You did not know by this, as all angelic minds did from that 
 time, that you wore the sign of the first fruits of wisdom, as a 
 medium of fifty-two. 
 
 The angelic hosts knew their duty in your development, by the 
 diamonds on yonr brow displayed, and have readily worked ; and 
 here is my morning communication. King William Fourth. 
 
 Sabbath Morning, November 7. 
 
 The prick of the point of the sword of wisdom, as seen in cases 
 of cholera, as it was with Antipas, our faithful brother, is the 
 opening of the channels of the thought of wisdom through the 
 bowels. 
 
 The spirit of the words eat, eat, eat, is here divided, and winding 
 its serpentine way through the intestines to the throne of wisdom. 
 
 The day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die ; yea, 
 verily, the earthly body shall die on the day that thy spiritual 
 body is raised in glory. 
 
 Those who obey the law of nature, and partake of the word 
 undivided in spirit, when presented by the serpent in spirit, will 
 find the fruit pleasant to the taste, as well as to the eyes, and they 
 will find themselves in possession of many redeemed thoughts in 
 perceptive wisdom, and a thorough renovation of instinct love- 
 nature, in all parts of the system, preparatory to the great bless- 
 ing of age in full development. 
 
 And God said unto Moses, What is that in thine hand ? And 
 he said, A rod. And the Lord said unto him, Cast it upon the 
 ground ; and he cast^it upon the ground, and it became a serpent, 
 and Moses fled from before it. And God said unto Moses (as he 
 was growing old and infirm), Take it by the tail. As the spiral 
 
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 principle of the instinct spirit, bringing the whole word of wisdom 
 as represented in the bow of promise and the winding grape-vine ; 
 and as the serpent mingles with the dove, you will see more of 
 the archangel principle. And Moses caught it, and it became a 
 rod in his hand as it was before, as it was with the word in embryo, 
 as it was in infancy, and as it was before it departed and went 
 unto a far country. 
 
 And it came to pass, that as Moses lifted up the serpent in the 
 spirit, that all the people might see it, behold its representative in 
 the letter hung down its head in the dust, as the very smallest 
 end of the staff. 
 
 And it came to pass that the serpent put his hand upon his 
 mouth, and his mouth in the dust, and cried : Unclean, unclean ! 
 
 And Moses, in compassion, said : Your sins are forgiven, and 
 you will run after strange flesh no more. 
 
 And when thou dost lift up thy head in the wilderness, God 
 will bless you, and you will remind me of the stay and the staff 
 of my resurrection to life, in individuality. 
 
 And it also came to pass that Moses did not take it into his head 
 to do this great thing, but obeyed the word of the Lord, and took 
 it by the tail. And by which obedience Moses became as wise as 
 a serpent, and harmless as a dove. And even so much so, that 
 God permitted him to stand upon a high mountain of earth, called 
 Pisgah, and view the spiritual land of the heavenly Canaan, and 
 leave his earth body on the top of the mountain to mingle with its 
 mother-earth. 
 
 Here the eye of our medium brightens, and he takes his golden 
 reed, measures the mountain, and finds a type of it near his father's 
 house, a little eminence where his parents stood when looking for 
 Jonah. 
 
 And he said, It is a truth that the end is as the beginning, only 
 the spiral carries him one note above, which note may be divided 
 into seven parts, and those seven make a small octave, in harmony 
 with all things, the one note being one circle. 
 
 Here medium's eye begins to brighten again, and he desires to 
 talk with the wheat as a grain. 
 
140 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 The golden reed glistens in the sun, and he says, Kernel, how is 
 it with you ? 
 
 K. Well, you have eaten some of me, and I think that T can 
 make you understand me ; I am a little copy of the image of God. 
 As I now am, I represent a seed individualized by wisdom, as two 
 moons gone in embryo, the sower hath given me the broad cast — 
 Irishman's hoist — and I find myself snug down in the earth. 
 
 As my roots shoot downwards, I find in the crotch of the same 
 a powerful pump engine drawing up from the earth all the juices 
 that are numbered to my smelling-bottle. 
 
 Here my engine extracts the earthly from the heavenly princi- 
 ple, and the earthly is retained to build my body, and the heavenly 
 passes up through the diamond top as through a golden harvest, to 
 your ankle ; for the Lord said that your roots must not be fastened 
 in the ground ; and as you, for a season, would be only as one 
 half of us, that we must be roots for the building of your earthly 
 bodies, and extract a principle of intuition of the heavenly, for the 
 upbuilding of the spiritual body, as it should be called ; for by the 
 earthly body which we might give directly or through the animal's 
 word ; and I would here say that he gets that word from us. And 
 we receive it from our parent-earth, which hath also the instinctive 
 principle of the generating word. 
 
 The wheat is numbered woman : female and male, as four to 
 seven rye is numbered man ; male and female, as three in seven. 
 
 The long-bearded wheat shows its more refined taste and intui- 
 tive power, in drawing from the earth the higher principles of 
 nature. 
 
 When these principles unite in the image, they stand thus : 
 
 Wheat and Rye seven. 
 
 Ilye and Wheat seven. 
 
 Thus you can form a hollow square or circle, and hump to hol- 
 low go, and no one be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven ; for 
 these four make but one whole number. 
 
 Love law has but one way to work, and that is intuitively, as 
 may be clearly seen in grain, grass, trees, or any other plant that 
 grows. 
 
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 Rye, when growing, will impregnate the wheat that is in itself, 
 and als3 the wheat in the next fi3ld,.as wheat. 
 
 The wheat will impregnate the rje that is in itself, and also the 
 rye in the other field. 
 
 Here is a circle of grain in communion with the heavenly and 
 earthly ultimating principle, and preparing timber and stone for 
 the house that is made by God without hands, which is his image. 
 
 Wheat will not marry wheat, no sooner than one girl would 
 another. 
 
 For proof of a line of communication of this kind, you will 
 observe the potato, for instance. It is well known that post and 
 rail fences, or even stone walls cannot keep the potato from amal- 
 gamation ; and the power must be very great, to effect so great a 
 witness in the letter as may sometimes be seen in this vegetable. 
 
 Eye and wheat help each other and themselves to all good things 
 requisite to accomplish the end to which they were sent. 
 
 And when ripe for the harvest, they represent the perfect man, 
 watching for the power of God to bestow on him wisdom, that he 
 may know that he has always represented the God of nature in 
 his system. 
 
 As you grow wheat, so we grow hemp. 
 
 Your friend from Russia, Peter the Great. 
 
 Monday Morning, November 15. 
 
 And lo, and behold, in these latter days, that the angel of the 
 Lord removed the partition-wall from between the sexes, and the 
 ladies of the different religious societies from the tribe of Judah 
 united unto love as they were — a new sewing society. 
 
 And at the first casting up of names, they numbered a hundred 
 and forty and four thousand. 
 
 And it so happened in these days, that the house of Abraham's 
 
 nan hood was out of fashion, according to the law of nature, in old 
 
 people written. And one of the leading women (an aged member) 
 
 noved that the old homestead be fitted up, and enlarged four-fold, 
 
 md that it should in all respects resemble the pattern given to 
 
142 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 Abraham indeed, a copy of which Abraham had given unto Sam- ; 
 uel the Prophet. 
 
 This unexpected move was seconded by a very aged lady, whoso , 
 features were somewhat masculine, yet her feminine charms graced 
 her whole deportment. This lady, the pride of the circle, had 
 been remarkably well posted up, her husband having been some- j 
 what of a parliamentary sort of a man. 
 
 After having a rest for a short time, they were called to order, 
 and the question put, and they to a man sustained the motion. 
 
 And mechanics and laborers, seeing so much harmony in the 
 new society, worked with great zeal, and the place was developed 
 according to the pattern shown them of the Lord. And the law- ii 
 ful road, leading from the village to the farm-house, had the turn 
 of life in it, which graceful turn was two-thirds of the way from 
 the village. 
 
 In due time the society was informed that the house was ready,] 
 that it was a copy of the reunion house in heaven, and that it was] 
 expected that each member would copy the two in wisdom, love, 
 and harmony, by drawings on their own work. 
 
 It so happened, that on the first day of their meeting, that the 
 afternoon shone forth in that beauty and delight which has been 
 seldom equalled and never surpassed. 
 
 They found the main or first branch of the house to be the coun- 
 cil-chamber of wisdom ; with common windows outside ; but no 
 undeveloped person could ever know of the beauty presented to 
 the eye of the mind of those who are so fortunate as to move 
 through these rooms, and see the transparent and reflecting parti- 
 tions of the various apartments of this magnificent council-cham- 
 ber of wisdom, situated in the east of the garden of Age. 
 
 After turning the graceful corner of life, you come in full view 
 of the old homestead. 
 
 Here, as you turn the corner, you are met by the angel of a 
 male guardian, to you before unknown, and who, through his angel,; 
 gives you the word of the Lord creative, that he may, through; 
 conjugal love, in spirit attract to your system the material so im- 
 portant for the reconstruction of your spiritual house, which must 
 
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 bo fixed up without hands, in pattern of the homestead, before you 
 can become a member of the new circle, which is a pattern like unto 
 the fourth circle, which is now to be placed in its general features 
 in your pathway, through which you will pass before your earthly 
 house is coffined for the grave, to aid you in which this little book 
 is given. 
 
 Your happiness here will depend on you, and the remainder of 
 your days on earth made wise or foolish, according to your deci- 
 sion. 
 
 The word that should not break the atmosphere over the end of 
 a rattling's tongue will be given upon the drum of your spiritual 
 ear ; as Christ heard the thoughts of others. 
 
 The word can never be given up to annihilation without destroy- 
 ing you with it, and either is impossible. Therefore we say unto 
 you, redeem the thought, and unlearn the classic names of your 
 creatives, inasmuch as they cannot be given in the original lan- 
 guage of intuitive thought; but wisdom, by having once received 
 the word, or any one of the words, can divide that word, according 
 to wisdom, as in writing this or any other book. 
 
 Instinctive spirits and angels must carry the intuitive thought, 
 according to its capacity of intuitive intellect ; and the excitement 
 of the word gives him the power of motion, as love by attraction 
 seen afar off. 
 
 And their power of attraction and repulsion keeps all worlds 
 moving in harmony. 
 
 Let us here go back a little. 
 
 The child of the second circle, which has been created by your 
 guardian, and of course must be numbered to your best disposition, 
 according to the redemption of thought, as it will be in your de- 
 velopment, will come to you for individualism ; and as soon as he 
 is in communication with you, he begins to insinuate the word, 
 which, when represented in motion, will give him the use of his 
 )wn hired house, and a nucleus, around which he can attract those 
 principles of nature which shall build his house and finish it. 
 
 This child is so earnest, and so hard pushed by the heat of love, 
 hat he will absorb all your feelings, so that by spells you can think 
 
144 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 of nothing but the prominent love-member of the other half, and 
 sometimes it appears as though the sun would never go down, to 
 give a good night of rest ; and he impresses your mind with the 
 word, and you think that it is your own mind when it is not ; and 
 if the rogues would keep away with all their influences, you would 
 be very pious, and never get married, or do anything but what you 
 would be willing to do in a meeting-house, before all the people, in 
 relation to the act now under consideration. 
 
 But you are under spirit influence, and you cannot help it ; but 
 we will give you this comfort, that we know that the spirit that 
 raises the devil the most at that time will make the smartest man, 
 when he has sown his wild oats ; and when he comes to your arms, 
 you must spank him if anybody, and that with love-pats. 
 
 But do, for God's sake, no longer call us undeveloped spirits, or 
 crucify your lord again, or in Salem hang your witches. 
 
 We shall now send our angel to the old homestead in the spirit 
 as in the letter, and as travellers sometimes correspond, we shall 
 listen to hear what our angel saith. 
 
 Wednesday Morning November 17. 
 
 Dear Husband : Your angel, Hope Gleason (and I hope your 
 loved wife in the letter will not be jealous of a spirit-angel sister) 
 is now at the new homestead, which has come through our family 
 from Abraham, that good old faithful father in Israel. 
 
 The ladies are all here, on this beautiful afternoon of life, and I 
 told them that you was one with me in the creation of your spirit, 
 and that I was your spirit rib, or wife, and that I was taken from 
 your left side, when you was a little boy, and lived in Dorchester, 
 Massachusetts, a little south of Boston, in the year of our Lord 
 one thousand eight hundred and five, and it made you very sick, 
 but the angels were with you wdien your kingdom was divided, 
 and they strengthened you, the light of the imags-kingdom having 
 been too strong for your physical system, and that made you so 
 feverish and sick. 
 
 I then w r ent to the high-schools of Mother Hcrschel, and the 
 lady that is at our house is she that I lived with, when at school, 
 
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 and she has come to make us a visit, and she is the one that you 
 call Mother Hope. 
 
 It pleases me very much to hear the gentlemen ask you if you 
 can go into the state, or trance, any time that you wish to write. 
 
 The next time they ask that question, we will ask them if they 
 go into the marriage state whenever they wish to converse with 
 their wives. 
 
 The ladies here say that they are entirely willing that you 
 should report their doings ; for you feel like one of their own 
 family, and they could not tell the difference ; and you, or any of 
 your friends, were welcome ; and if you came they would show you 
 over the whole place. 
 
 They passed a vote to dispense with the little old felt hat of 
 close communion, for the Herschel beaver. 
 
 You know my silk- worm beaver, tied with pink ribbon, to keep 
 it on when the wind blows, and how very soft and beautiful it is ? 
 
 Yes, yes ; go on. 
 
 They voted thanks to us for our information, and, to a man, 
 voted to have the Herschel-hat adopted, as an honor to wisdom, 
 and a crown of love. 
 
 They voted that the -hat •hould be worn universally, by both 
 sexes, providing, always, that the middle-aged, desiring matrimony, . 
 should not wear those that belonged to age, but have the beaver,: 
 without the silk-worm mixture. 
 
 Here, when they were ready to work, they received a sample 
 of the hats which they had voted for, and, on close examination, , 
 found, snugly tucked away in a middle corner, a case of splendid 
 dipping-needles ; and they found the number to be equal to the 
 whole tribe, — one for each member ; and they all concluded that 
 it was a sly manoeuvre of their beloved Father, who desired to take 
 them by surprise. 
 
 And they were greatly rejoiced ; for, said they, we need not now 
 run after other folks, to borrow tools to work with ; for we are all 
 supplied with our own, and these are four-fold better than any that 
 we ever borrowed ; and they improved in using, as that kept them 
 bright, and would increase an hundred-fold. 
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 And Sarah looked in to see them, and told them that the prize 
 was a birth-right belonging to all the descendants of the old home- 
 stead ; and if they who wished would appoint tri-monthly meetings, 
 for private instruction with their husbands, that their love for 
 them would increase ten-fold, if they were married according to 
 the rules laid down in the law of nature. 
 
 And they voted to send for you, that you might open to them 
 the Scriptures. 
 
 I spake, and said unto them, that you had not left the old home- 
 stead yet, but was a writing medium, and would read through me, 
 and that you were not under the necessity of running after devel- 
 oped mediums to make them hear. 
 
 Will you read, dear ? — you will find a Bible in my apart- 
 ments. 
 
 Yes ; Isaiah, 12th chapter. 
 
 And in that day thou shalt say, Lord, I will praise thee : 
 though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and 
 thou comfortest me. 
 
 Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid ; 
 for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; he also is 
 become my salvation. # 
 
 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salva- 
 tion. 
 
 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord ; call upon his 
 name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his 
 name is exalted. 
 
 Sing unto the Lord, for he hath done excellent things. 
 
 This shall be known in all the earth. 
 
 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitants of Zion ; for great is the 
 holy one of Israel in the midst of thee. 
 
 And Sarah said unto the society, Ye will work ; and as the 
 channels of wisdom open, you will find the dignity and power of 
 the man mingling with your love nature ; and you shall stand 
 equal with him, and no favors asked ; and the well-spring of love 
 shall soften his nature, and he shall be equal to you in all things ; 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 147 
 
 and ye shall drink together in love from the well-spring of living 
 waters. 
 
 You will find the well of Jacob in the midst of the court. 
 There drink, and let it flow. 
 
 Tuesday Morning, November 18. 
 
 Dear Samuel (you call me Hope, you know), the ladies came to 
 this decision, that they more naturally understand the laws of 
 nature than men, and that the men, representing wisdom more 
 naturally, take the upmost station in the arts and sciences, and in 
 the rough and tumbling of personal, national, and general conflict 
 in all the ramifications of half life. 
 
 They also came to this conclusion, from considerations of the 
 above facts, that the men would struggle hard before they would 
 knock under to the women on the law of nature in love. 
 
 But under consideration that love was coequal with wisdom, and 
 that no one could claim a right to stand above another, but in reci- 
 procity of mutual understanding, governed by the wants of one 
 and power of the other to give wisdom, and also that man must be 
 raised from the third circle to the fourth by the power of wisdom 
 and love in woman, and vice versa, and that the exciting word of 
 God spoken by woman to the silent ear of man from a higher cir- 
 cle, and received in spirit, will produce the first-fruits of his body, 
 as seen through faith in Abraham, as he offered up his spirit-son 
 Isaac a sacrifice to God. 
 
 And whereas you had eaten of the forbidden fruit, and become 
 as one of them, 
 
 Resolved, That you be invited to come as gentleman and lady, 
 and lecture to them as to ladies and gentlemen. 
 
 And that you come some morning, on this lovely afternoon of 
 life. 
 
 Dear ladies and gentlemen, as I was taught, when very young, 
 to speak in public, I hesitated not to comply with your request. 
 
 As I came to the door for admission, your door-keeper, who, I 
 suspect, hath not seen the elephant, asked me if I usually put my- 
 
148 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 self under an operator before mounting the platform to give a lec- 
 ture. 
 
 I asked him if his wife ever wanted to be put under an operator 
 to produce offspring ; and while he was brushing a small flea from 
 his right ear, I slipped in, leaving the admission-fee on his table, 
 which you can refund, if you please, as I do not intend to spend 
 money while lecturing for the public good. 
 
 As I cast my eye back, I saw the doorkeeper w T ith both eyes 
 intent on the law of nature, striving through that to see the spirit, 
 through which I spake, and which was making such deep impres- 
 sions on his system, while on its way home. 
 
 The old homestead, upon which I intend to speak at this time, 
 I shall lay out four-square, after the pattern given in the image 
 of God, and the New Jerusalem, as given by St. John, the loved 
 medium. 
 
 The body lieth four square, having three gates on each side. 
 
 The feet form two squares, or sides, with three gates each, the 
 spirits of fish, woman's first number, — that is, in case you intend 
 to create a girl's spirit, which is done thus : 
 
 Extend the right foot a little, and, by a power of concentration 
 in wisdom, clothe yourself with the flowing robe of transfiguration, 
 with a love of a foot peering out from the hem ; then imagine 
 Noah's flood rising until the waters shall reach the under side of 
 the foot. 
 
 The gates thus thrown open, attract the eyes of the servants of 
 God, or children of men. 
 
 The spirit from the feminine whale comes first ; and this spirit 
 will predominate, and rule over all other spirits in the construction 
 of the girl. 
 
 This spirit enters at the spangled terminus of the main nervo 
 channel of the river of life, at the under side of the end of the 
 toes. 
 
 This spirit, true to her nature still, lays upon her back, as upon 
 the mighty deep she did when she raised her belly even with the 
 surface of the water, and there awaited the pleasure of her Lord. 
 
 The servant of the Lord, the male whale, who in its spirit had 
 
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 served out his three-score years and ten, which shows you the type 
 of individual life in the flesh of men, feeling the hand of the Lord 
 stretched out to raise him to the next circle, and not forgetting 
 the smelling bottle which is in the spirit, copied from the letter, 
 enters the gate which has a slight copy of the dry, passover blood, 
 of Christ, or you, which in the spirit numbers to the olfactory 
 organs of the whale. 
 
 Remember, here, that the earthly body of the whale never had 
 instinct or feeling but through this spirit, and that the seed of the 
 woman from Jonah has developed itself to the full stature of a 
 whale's spirit, and that it is in its first resurrection, and as it has 
 the mark of the fish, is doomed to a second death, as individual 
 fish, to be compounded in the image of God, as I shall endeavor, in 
 this lecture, to set forth. 
 
 As I said before, he enters the gate in great haste, looks down 
 upon his companion, and as there is no flesh or bone to mark their 
 boundary lines, they feel the power and glory of individual fish 
 death, and bury themselves in each other's bosoms, and mingle in 
 inexpressible love as one spirit, male and female, to be developed 
 in the second resurrection, and completed by wisdom, as set forth 
 in your case, when in embryo, two moons gone, you divided the 
 naughty word. 
 
 Look at the monster whale, who for a century or more travers- 
 ing the mighty deep, and dividing old ocean's boisterous wave, 
 picking up all things, that nothing be lost; devouring small living 
 fish and affinities, and teaching the life principle to float upon the 
 surface, as the spirits of God moving upon the face of the waters, 
 that the light in his image may appear. 
 
 The whale conceives offspring face to face, bearing a faint type 
 of the image, or, at least, that it has a message of importance from 
 God to man, and in the letter oil sufficient to light a lady's parlor 
 until her lord shall come ; and the wiser the virgin, the sooner shall 
 she embrace her lord. 
 
 But in the image there is a division from the centre, which 
 division results in two legs, right and left. 
 
 The right is positive, and lifts the lady-love from ocean's surg- 
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 ing bosom, to be doorkeeper in the Lord's house, at the outer gate 
 thereof, which is the fish-gate, as by Jeremiah seen. 
 
 The cattle keep the single number in generation thus : 
 
 They have the hollow of the thigh, that shrinks, but are not 
 allowed to gender face to face, but always tattle behind their 
 neighbor's back ; and the right thigh is never over or opposite the 
 left, in cattle conception. 
 
 You are commanded not to eat of the blood that hath the life 
 thereof, the hollow of the thigh that shrinks, or that of the ark of 
 promise, or the blood of animals. 
 
 You may cat of the letter as you please ; but the spirit-law of 
 God and nature hath forbidden that the spirit or that the life-prin- 
 ciple of blood should ever pass the mouth as food ; for that in its 
 downward course denotes the downward tendency of the earthly 
 body to the grave. 
 
 The image as portrayed in two half numbers in conceptive com- 
 munion, brings the right and left in sympathetic communion, as 
 positive and negative know how to sympathize. 
 
 The gates at the ends of the fingers are opened in sympathy 
 with the spirit, and the spirit-body element, or life-blood principle 
 flows in, as it doth at the ankle, to fill the channels of the river 
 Gihon, that the two bodies may be sustained under the raging 
 power and effort of the spirit to spring through encircling gates 
 that lead from the second circle of man in spirit to the third cir- 
 cle of man in individual life, to partake of the blessings of God the 
 creator more fully, and reach the spirit home as in early childhood 
 given. 
 
 The muscles at the main gate, or on the table-lands, are copied 
 from the hands, and number with them ; or, rather, you have 
 hands external and internal, or hands of the womb developed in- 
 ternally, in a good degree, and much more so than in compassion, 
 who feels it most in the ends of the external fingers. 
 
 Perhaps some of you have seen the gentleman of the place put 
 his hand on the outer main letter-gate, as though he wished to 
 know, before he gave himself up to sleep, if the cattle were all 
 
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 provided for, and everything as it should be, showing the sympathy 
 of the fingers. 
 
 ' Some are satisfied if they only olfactorize the monster of the 
 deep ; but your guardian lords must see that everything is right, 
 and in tune with their fingers. 
 
 These things belong to human nature, as you have found it. 
 You have indulged your lords in all their notions. Yes, it is 
 human nature all over, and spiritual-image nature all through in 
 circles. 
 
 You see by the wheat and rye the conceptive harmony of posi- 
 tive and negative principle, or sympathetic union, in which there 
 is great strength, productive of great talent when understood by 
 all who have an influence and a will for the good of the race of 
 man, in ail his circles belonsrin^ to our world. 
 
 Friday Morning, November 19. 
 
 Dear ladies and gentlemen, I am extremely happy to find so 
 many gentlemen under petticoat government ; and more so as I 
 perceive the great harmony increasing. 
 
 I feel refreshed from the past recess, and will now pursue my 
 lecture with pleasure. 
 
 The river Gihon is one of the four heads of the maiden river of 
 Eden, and the same that flowed through St. John, our brother, 
 when he wrote the twenty-first chapter of Eevelation, and alluded 
 to it as the twelfth foundation-stone of the image, as a copy of that 
 in the New Jerusalem. 
 
 And the Alpha and Omega saith that this river is the maiden- 
 head (that thought must be redeemed), which flows from all parts 
 of the system at conception, as the seed of the spiritual body, and 
 was demanded of you by the spirits of your children, while you 
 were performing your duty in the third circle. 
 
 This seed, in which is the fashion of the seed of woman, is given 
 to clothe the spirit of your child in beauty and eternally increasing 
 glory of individual life. 
 
 Thus you see the head of this river, which is the beginning of 
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152 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 Omega. This river is the agent by which the spirit forms the 
 earthly body, in conjunction with that seed of the spiritual, and 
 they were given together by you, as your mite, from your tree of 
 life, and flowing soul ; and did you not give all you could possibly 
 part with, and did not the Lord bless you for it, and immortalize 
 your name by it ? 
 
 You were poor widows, and your husbands were buried in your 
 flesh, temporally and spiritually. But, in development, both you 
 and your husband received each four-fold (or the pleasure of the 
 whole party contributing their mites at your conception), when 
 you offered to the Lord's treasury the first fruits of your develop- 
 ment as mediums of spiritual communications, and found the 
 widow's cruse of oil, and the flour that wasteth not in the founda- 
 tion stone, number twelve. 
 
 The name of the stone is amethyst. When the power of the 
 spirit of love was upon you in development, you exclaimed, " 
 my thighs ! " and everything that had breath you saw praising 
 God, and you received universal love. 
 
 This river runs in perfect harmony with the blood in the letter ; 
 it is the spiritual blood of the spirit body ; it hath charge of the 
 natural blood, and is the medium's family physician, who uses 
 Gilead's balm altogether. The Lamb follows this gentle stream 
 of living waters, even unto the sheep-fold, at the foot of the 
 mountain, or heart of hearts, from whence is taken the rib, man's 
 greatest earthly blessing, and which is increased an hundred-fold 
 when the pair become mediums in Christ, and Christ in them. 
 
 The path is straight and narrow which leads from the central 
 hair-gates. After the living principle has entered these gates, 
 and been received by the powerful positive engine in suctional 
 position, brought to pass by a kindred influence, entering the gates 
 at the ends of the fingers, which influence sheds its hollowed light 
 upon the organs positive, located within the /brain, and is seated 
 upon the crown of the head, as represented by the hair thereon. 
 And the hair doth also represent the blessing hand of God, and 
 holy ones, the givers of all good things. 
 
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 This crowning agent will draw all men unto you, who may 
 sympathize with you in endless life. 
 
 When your hands are extended, as on the cross, your breadth 
 is equal to your length or height, and you are four square,, ac- 
 cording to a prophet medium, in square measurement. 
 
 The road is straight, as I said, from positive sword, or prick 
 engine, to the heart, and from thence to concentration. The aid- 
 de-camp of wisdom travels these roads with great command, having 
 jurisdiction over the whole system, subject, only, to wisdom, who 
 giveth her power, and who sitteth as the father on the throne, or 
 top of the image. 
 
 For the future I shall call the engine by the name of cherubim. 
 This cherubim, with the flaming sword, keepeth the way of life 
 reserved, pure according to the image, for the poor w T idow, or half 
 man, in their fallen or replenishing state. 
 
 And when the shelves at the pit of the stomach are removed, 
 then the power of the cherubim will be felt in the perceptive 
 organs, with power to lift the skull-bone, that thought may look 
 into the mighty deep blue sky above, and into the lower gar- 
 den of Eden, and learn that concentration, or wisdom positive, 
 is the second, in power of strength, with cherubim, in the lower 
 Eden, and that this lower cherubim is sister to the cherubim of 
 wisdom in the east, or upper garden, the two in union with har- 
 mony, and do in concert move, to turn the flaming sword, to keep 
 the way of life. 
 
 The half number of the third circle, no matter if he is a Wash- 
 ington, his measurement is but one-fourth the measure of the city, 
 according to the measure of the image in the fourth circle, which 
 circle has been reserved as a great blessing for earth's inhabitants, 
 and to be given to them as soon as they were ready, in develop- 
 ment, to receive it. 
 
 The stag of Europe is next to take her position on the left, as 
 the heart, and is located near the centre of the main body of the 
 city, and is in unison with the natural heart in the earthly body. 
 This stag brings all in affinity with him in the animal, and the 
 highest spirit power of all trees in the world, known or unknown, 
 
154 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 to build the heart of man, that his bounding throbs and powerful 
 alliances may heave the blood, and make it, in healthfuj. channels, 
 flow to all parts of the body. 
 
 It hath a great power of attraction over the whole earth ; it 
 draweth a portion to sustain life from every substance in the or- 
 ganization of the earth. 
 
 And the life of man is sustained by that heart, and that heart 
 is sustained by motion, created by the mingling of positive and 
 negative principle, in four grand divisions, as in conception, with 
 this difference, the spirit is exchanged for animal food; and the 
 spiritual river of blood, with the life thereof, which is attracted to 
 the centre, or fountain-gate, renders a softness to sensitive organs, 
 but not excitement, as doeth the spirit. 
 
 The sexual organs are slightly moved to extract a small degree 
 of spirit, by which move, the blood is forced to its friend the heart, 
 while its guide, the spirit, seeks a home among the genitives, to 
 meet some generous friend in union there. 
 
 This river of heart-blood principle from spirit, or from genitive 
 spirit power, meets its quiet neighbors from above, as they distil 
 from food and drink. And these friends work so peaceably 
 together, one would not suspect he had a heart, unless it became 
 diseased. These friends go hand-in-hand, helping each other. 
 Electricity wants to build and support an earthly heart, while the 
 spirit works for the heavenly and eternal heart. 
 
 The spirit heart loves the earthly, and the earthly loves the 
 heavenly, and the two have enacted one law, and that is self- 
 preservation, and tenacity of life. 
 
 The beauties of heaven have to beckon long to the spirit heart, 
 before it will consent to leave its dear, dear-loved friend of earth, 
 in the ruthless hands of death. 
 
 To the support of these friends comes the Lamb, with the whole 
 vegetable kingdom united, and typed on his back, to be one with 
 the stag, who, with a tree on his head, like a young cedar, ever 
 green, and fresh, and fair, and as a crown from Mount Lebanus, 
 in glory sitteth there. 
 
 Here these two sweethearts, like whales, plough the channel of 
 
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 the mighty deep, and not forgetting the red sea of your system 
 and organization. 
 
 Saturday Morning, Nov. 20. 
 
 When man understands his nature, and the surrounding in- 
 fluences, he will aid the blood by faith, and not by drugs, which, 
 by its four principal natures, male and female, electric earthly and 
 spiritual heavenly, in its onward course, to plough up the cor- 
 roding canker-rust which now dwarfs and deforms, in some degree, 
 every human structure that is born upon the face of the whole 
 earth. 
 
 Let the fourth and the third circles unite in one, as the true 
 hearts we have just seen, and as represented in you, as mediums, 
 and in me, your dear lecturer, and health shall reign. 
 
 The blood, like the whale, when it has run the length of its 
 breath, comes to the atmosphere to discharge the corrosive sins of 
 Jonah, and immortalize the whale principle. 
 
 God, what art woman, that thou regardest her, or the son of 
 woman, that thou carest for him ? 
 
 The woman is love and wisdom, blended in harmony. 
 Her son is wisdom and love, blended in harmony. 
 And now, while I puff a breath or two, the circle will sing Old 
 Hundred, if that is agreeable. 
 
 Be thou, God, exalted high, 
 And as thy glory fills the sky, 
 So may thy will on earth be done, 
 That all may live as we 5 ve begun. 
 
 The industrious woman shall bring to her husband the treasures 
 of the mighty deep. The question will now naturally arise, 
 "thus ; if the ladies have ploughed the ocean in great ships, what 
 have the land lubbers been about all the while ? 
 
 Well, there is not a great difference in some folks, when you 
 understand all their manoeuvres. 
 
 1 said this ; that when you wished to compound a girl's spirit 
 to advance with the right foot, until concentration, the cherubimic 
 
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 power, with the flaming sword of wisdom's eye, sees the toes of 
 angelic beauty peering from beneath the hem of that celestial robe, 
 as by Peter on Mount Tabor, seen in the presence of Moses, and 
 others, from the spirit land. 
 
 Thus, showing the medium's attractive power over the servants 
 of God, who have so improved their time in the service of that God, 
 in typing their individual life on earth to come, as to have gained 
 that wisdom in power of sight, as to behold the flaming sword, 
 and spiritual garments, of their godfather. 
 
 In compounding the boy, present the left foot first, and positive 
 wisdom takes the lead, and predominates over love, although the 
 compounding spirits are the same as in the girl, and, like the boy, 
 in individualization, will seek the feminine principle of his mother's 
 womb, as hump to hollow go. 
 
 The boy is somewhat military, and is bound in honor to protect 
 the ladies, and they have a representative in his left foot ; and 
 harmony in martial music moves the left foot in advance of the 
 right, which hath a male sentinel posted there ; as right positive, 
 left negative. 
 
 When the ladies, God bless them, need no -protection but from 
 the arms of love, then the gentlemen can advance with the left 
 foot first, and, with the flaming sword, fight with beasts at 
 Ephesus. 
 
 And behold, it came to pass, that when the little boy was under 
 the haycock, fast asleep, the angel of the Lord came, and opened 
 the gate that leadeth to the sanctuary of the little boy's house, 
 and there, from the droppings of the inner sanctuary of the heart 
 of hearts, he took the silken cord that binds two willing hearts 
 in one. 
 
 He who is first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of. 
 his countrymen, is so because he carries a large branch of the 
 feminine olive of beauty in loveliness, imbedded in his advance 
 foot of martial glory. 
 
 Here the lecturer was interrupted with three times three, and 
 a drink of wine, that was left at the wedding, where that beverage 
 
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 was made out of water, it being extracted through the science of 
 life principals, in biological matrimony. 
 
 Intuitive thought is received by half numbers, through the 
 finger gates, when it is afterwards received by wisdom. The 
 passive mind, desirous of more wisdom, can receive much aid from 
 his guardian friends, by spirit power, obeying the positive will of 
 those guardians. 
 
 This spirit influence may fill the arm even unto the shoulder- 
 joint, as doth the Lord God fill the arm of your lecturer, when he 
 writes in person, through one of his angels or servants, his mind 
 being too positive for my brain while in the earthly body. I say 
 he is too positive for my mind, when he comes to raise those who 
 are ready to leave the seventh circle for the eighth, as when he 
 first introduced your speaker to the inner sanctuary of the Lord's 
 house, and made a prophet medium of him, through whom he 
 could write and sign his name, as written in my book, called the 
 Spirit Home. 
 
 On the evening that I was introduced to the eighth circle, not 
 to receive all the wisdom of that circle, but to be impressed with 
 that wisdom which was so essentially necessary to explain the 
 spirit presence, so clearly seen in the United States at that time, 
 I asked the Lord if he intended to entrance me that night, while 
 in the arms of sleep, in order to show me something in the morn- 
 ing explanatory of inspired Scripture ; and, by the very powerful 
 shaking of the right arm, I understood him to say yes. 
 
 After asking a. few questions, I felt a sword, as it were, strike 
 me just under the knee-pan, and, cutting like a knife, passed 
 quickly through the leg. This was a great mystery to me, for 
 the space of two weeks or so, and an impression followed the cut, 
 as it were a locomotive engine about to crush me on the track, as 
 I had no warning of its rapid approach, with its heavy train 
 behind. 
 
 At the end of the two weeks spoken of, as I was wending my 
 
 way towards the grave of a brother man, and was wondering at 
 
 the mystery of the sword, I eame to a railroad track ; and, as my 
 
 right foot fell like a snow-flake upon the rail that lay on the 
 
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158 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 right, my eye caught it in an instant, and the mystery was solved. 
 The track formed the same angle as did the sword, two weeks 
 before. 
 
 And the impression saith, That he who gave the spirit decided 
 that the brother's foothold should be loosened on earth, and the 
 same decision of the sword put me in communication with that 
 brother, that the spirits might, through me as a medium, sustain 
 him in death. 
 
 The influence at the finger-gates will give the partial medium 
 great satisfaction in the heavenly investigations, as that influence 
 will strengthen and purify his mind, and prepare him for every 
 good work, and the power of spirit principle, thus received in the 
 upper regions, will attract influences to the feet, and bring to his 
 aid all the power, wisdom, and health, requisite to make a happy 
 and useful man. 
 
 Let your sons and daughters be well instructed, and encouraged 
 to sit in family circles, one hour, if convenient, each evening. 
 Let the right hand rest upon the left hand of the one next to you 
 on the right, thus forming a living chain upon the table, and let 
 the Spirit Home, a little book I am now writing, lay upon the 
 table, and you may ask the spirit to come, and testify to the truth 
 of the book. 
 
 If you are passive, you will soon see some one's hand begin to 
 quiver, and start very sudden. Then you may know that the 
 influence is entering at the finger-gates, and you will soon be in 
 communication with some loved* friend, and you would do well to 
 ask them to manifest themselves in the best way they could. 
 
 I have been into a family, and seated them at their table, and 
 instructed them as above, and within one hour the table would 
 rock violently, with no medium but their own family ; and it 
 would have done so before, if they had sat for it. 
 
 A great number of those spirits that first rapped in New York 
 State have been individualized, and some of them are almost old 
 enough to go to the primary school ; the little chaps are dividing 
 the word as happily as can be, under the circumstances. The 
 little prattlers look very innocent, as though they did not know 
 
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 how much uneasiness they made their loving parents, when they 
 came with their god-parent to give their spirits in communication 
 to their earthly parents, to mingle in union there. 
 
 I have one of the little chatterboxes in my family, who, got 
 strayed away into Massachusetts before he got caught. 
 
 The parents may have asked for a spiritual communication at 
 some circle, and got a promise of one soon ; but it is not at all 
 likely that they expected it in their letter, or looked for it in that 
 way, not being acquainted with intuitive living thought. 
 
 But you can give them this consolation, that when they are old 
 and pass the round corner of life, that the shelves may be removed 
 and the small folks will not stop at the half-way house, but pass 
 up to the throne of wisdom, to give them light and life and joyful 
 tidings there. 
 
 Sabbath Morning, November 21. 
 
 0, I have seen the devil ! with his cloven-foot. 
 
 Dear ladies, when the flaming-sword of positive will passed 
 through my leg obliquely, right and left, obtusely, up and down, I 
 was established as a prophet, and reminded that a light stroke 
 from the same hand that I so much love, would sever the tow 
 string, and my atmospheric balloon would float my spiritual organ- 
 ism majestically in the heavens, to seek affinities in the spirit 
 land. 
 
 The Lord said that he would entrance me that night, so that in 
 the morning I should be in his spirit, so that I could understand 
 the truth he wished to give the people through me. 
 
 When I awoke in the morning, there stood the devil at the 
 angular corner foot-post of my bed, looking at me full in the face. 
 Thinks I, murder will out, and I have you now, old gentleman, and 
 a thousand years in chains would not be much too good for you. 
 
 And the Lord said unto me, You see the mark of the beast in 
 his forehead ; and I took the outline of his person, and it was so 
 much like the head of a beef creature that I could not tell the 
 difference, and I set it down as the spirit of a cow ; and the ser- 
 
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 vant of God selected from the sheet that Peter saw let down from 
 heaven. I 
 
 And behold the outline of the forehead was the mark of the 
 beast, and I saw that the day of the second death was nigh at hand, 
 when that spirit would be lost to its own individualism, as one of 
 the mothers of our own race, and often the infant's nursing mother. 
 She is not evil desires, but is the spirit which hath been seen by 
 imperfect mediums in years gone by, and by them called the 
 devil. 
 
 From whence cometh a personal devil, with a cloven foot, and a 
 long tail like a pump-handle ? 
 
 As you came that way, so let others come. 
 
 The race for the last half century has been developed in heav- 
 enly and scientific wisdom, without a parallel exhibited on earth. 
 
 And now it is the will of the Father, that ye know these little 
 simple truths of your nature. 
 
 Sin magnifies through your eyes, and terror shakes the home 
 spirit. 
 
 I have, when in a trance, and being developed, represented my 
 guardian corpse encoffined, and as carried away to the lonesome 
 grave, as she saw it in reality ; and this was done to show me how 
 she could impart heavenly truth ; and I saw my own corpse en- 
 coflmed, and my family weeping, and I was rejoicing, being in the 
 spirit. I have seen a dragon enter and pass through my system, 
 pass out at the top of my head, and then, after surveying my 
 whole person, descend head foremost as a serpent, and out through 
 the alimentary canal with great rapidity. 
 
 I would say that this dragon first came as a hen. (A spirit, of 
 course.) 
 
 My guardian spoke (or wrote, I forget which now), and said, 
 Let the hen come again. 
 
 I learned that I could see dragons as well as St. John ever 
 could, while in the body ; and being in the spirit, I said, Come, 
 with a determination to love the dragon. 
 
 In a moment the hen came, and stopped at compassion to nest 
 and lay; but the first egg produced the dragon, which made the 
 
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 belly rather bitter, but still I loved the dragon, because my loved 
 Ellen stood beside me, and I had faith to believe that she knew 
 something good of this dragon spirit ; in a moment more he began 
 his work, and ate out one eye, — the left, I think, — and stuck his 
 head out through the hole, passed in at the other eye, and passed 
 both ends out at the mouth. Still I loved. 
 
 He then wound himself around my chest, and drew my teeth 
 hard together, and his head and neck being at liberty, he ate the 
 flesh from my bones, and nothing but a bare skull sat upon my 
 shoulders. Soon after, I stood upright upon the centre of my 
 coffin, and stood in beauty there ; and my guardians and a great 
 host of angelic minds and holy ones gathered around me, and they 
 shouted aloud, and said : Death, where is thy sting ? and 
 Grave, where is thy boasted victory ? 
 
 And the friends took me kindly by the hand, and said unto me : 
 You are a passive medium, and in three weeks from next Thurs- 
 day you can begin to write The Spirit Home. And the Lord 
 would swear through your hand that these things were true and 
 faithful, and that he had come near to love and bless the people 
 of earth in intuitive hen-coop instructions, and show you the 
 devil's cow-pen. 
 
 I received the above in the spirit with which it came ; my sor- 
 rows and longing desires all left me, and I began to grow healthy 
 and plump as a duck. 
 
 And true to prophecy, I began to write. 
 
 And lo and behold, a warm purple streak, to the width of an 
 inch or more, keeps in motion with my pen, from the top to the 
 bottom of the page, keeping the breadth of the sheet at all times. 
 When this begins to leave the paper, I know that the message is 
 near to its close. 
 
 Here the committee requested the lecturer to repair with them 
 to the ante-chamber, to examine a lady who had just turned the 
 corner, and come up stairs to apply for membership. 
 
 The trio enter the chamber, and ask the candidate what reason 
 she had for supposing that she was a proper person to receive 
 favors there. 
 
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 Candidate. I am not a general sewer, but can take an extremely 
 nice hem-stitch, and do some other needle-work decently well. 
 
 L. Do you love your family, and are willing that they should 
 know all that you do ? 
 
 C. I mean to do nothing to be ashamed of, and for that reason 
 I wish to make some suggestions. 
 
 Trio. Proceed. 
 
 0. I know of a great number of people that would like to be 
 numbered to your society, but they think that it is immodest to 
 have spiritual communion through sexual organs ; and some who 
 have examined this gentleman's manuscript, and read some of his 
 proof-sheets, think with me, to suggest that you may obtain a de- 
 coction of the apothecaries, that could be given as an injection 
 through the bowels, that would penetrate to the perceptive organs 
 to enlighten the mind, instead of the intuitive way that you stand 
 up for ; and we think the people could talk more freely about the 
 bowels than they could about the other things, and by this per- 
 formance in politeness of parts, you would get your subject before 
 the people much quicker. 
 
 L. You are a great doctress, I perceive, in worldly production 
 and wisdom ; but your subject is behind the age, decidedly, for 
 nature hath decreed that such a point should never come before 
 the people. 
 
 C. I wish to be instructed, for I feel that the angels are of a 
 truth near unto me. 
 
 L. Yes, my angel Hope is with you, and you are in communi- 
 cation with me, and the heavenly ray from my mind influenced 
 you to ask for instruction ; you should open wide your gates, and 
 let the river Gihon flow through your system. 
 
 This great river runs up hill, aided by the flaming sword which 
 turneth every way that concentration directs. This flaming sword 
 attracts the blood from the caverns of the mighty ocean, and from 
 mountains of eternal snow, to build your spiritual body ; and you 
 can tell the people not to change their thoughts or words, but to 
 redeem and purify them. Your thoughts have been before the 
 
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 Lord all your days, and we have all had what we called bad 
 thoughts, but the Lord never called us evil spirits. 
 
 No, he asks us to become pure, and then all things will be pure 
 to us. ' 
 
 You had better form a circle, and ponder and improve at home 
 two or three weeks, and then call again, and I will send my angel, 
 and you will have other help here, and much from the spirit land. 
 
 C. I have some large boys and young men ; I suppose they are 
 not susceptible of intuition on centrals, as young ladies are ? 
 
 L. It is very difficult to tell who is the most ladyish, as it re- 
 gards this influence as in view of spiritual life. 
 
 Have you not seen young men, soon after commencing to laugh, 
 place the inside of both hands over their privates, and then nip 
 their knees and thighs together, bending their bodies almost to a 
 right angle, and often, rolling the backs of their hands together, 
 scream and laugh to the top of their lungs ? 
 
 Yes, you have often seen it. 
 
 Well, this great harmony in the company draws together a 
 power of the spirit blood, and the spirits are always round about 
 and in them, and their guardian friends have an eye to them ; and 
 as soon as this harmony opens the river-gates, the river Gihon is 
 forced into the system with all the power that can be brought to 
 bear upon it, and thus those that laugh grow fat. 
 
 The jollity of the company had, with the presence of spirits or 
 angels, filled the hollow of the thighs with the spirit blood of life, 
 and how the hands are attracted to them, making sure that the 
 hands cover the sensitive organs ; the hands, thighs, and secrets 
 are in sympathy, to help the body above which is wanting. 
 
 This wisdom of instinct makes the head look like small potatoes, 
 while the girls tittle and giggle, it being immodest for them to put 
 their hands where the boys do theirs, or to laugh in boyish style, 
 but can press their clothes to their thighs, when they stand near a 
 good warm fire. 
 
 How often have the boys and girls been kicked about for making 
 a little noise, and disturbing some old skins that had scarcely one 
 square inch of spirit blood in them, and that too white the young 
 
164 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 folks were drinking copious drafts from the river of endless life ? 
 Bless God, for he hath spoken that we may all partake of this 
 beautiful river more freely. 
 
 Monday Morning, November 22. 
 
 Dear ladies, the sons and and daughters of Babylon. 
 
 The great whore would corrupt any word and defile by their 
 evil communications any blessing that God could give, but the sex- 
 ual genitives as understood in the third circle (my late residence), 
 they have cursed with the rolling of many bitter waters. 
 
 The river Gihon, in its individual head, would flow forever and 
 not be detected by half wisdom. 
 
 This river, from the knee to the navel, where the two branches 
 unite and form a decoction, and which passes over the frontal bone 
 to the thermometer, or hand that hold the flaming sword, shows a 
 power of instinct in its blood-spirit, second number, and marked 
 for the spirit-body of man, in whom it has formed its last and eter- 
 nal bed. 
 
 I say it shows a power of instinctive attraction over the hand, 
 as seen in the man of benumbing shelves, or half wisdom, by vari- 
 ous involuntary movements of the hands ; see him stoop and 
 placing his hands inclining to the inside of the legs, with his fin- 
 gers near the knees, then raising his body gently to a perpendicu- 
 lar, brings his hands to his groins with a spasmodic jerk or two, 
 and perhaps then he may raise them far above his head (if he has 
 been sitting near the fire, the operation will be more interesting to 
 a student of nature), and they attract the influence up, and the 
 whole man is flooded with the principle food in the growth of the 
 spiritual body, and what a face he makes up, and what a thunder 
 he uttereth. 
 
 He can then go to a smart afternoon's work, but it is a chance 
 if he does before he rubs his right hand up and down his belly 
 a few times, in contemplation of a good dinner that was sitting so 
 quietly upon his stomach. 
 
 In the mingling of the two branches of this river, as it is pass- 
 ing down, begets a principle of digestion, which is given in, com- 
 
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 passion to the digestive organs of the natural or earthly body, and 
 the powers of heaven and earth combine to feed the man. 
 
 This river can drown a world of sinners and living peace on 
 earth abound. 
 
 This river, in its highest principle of life-blood, and nearest unto 
 the spirit of the beasts from whence it came, goes in advance of 
 the spirit to prepare the way and the house, as the Father's house, 
 which hath many mansions, and is a type of Christ, and is again 
 typed by wine, at the communion table of that Lord. 
 
 If this were not so, he would have told you. 
 
 This principle enters the toe gates, with the power of attraction 
 to bring the wandering spirit there. 
 
 The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a rich farmer, who had 
 two sons ; the younger saith, Let me have my part, dear father, 
 that I may leave, and be my own master ; and this request being 
 granted, proved sin unto death to the young man, for a season ; for 
 the letter killeth. 
 
 But the reception of the son by the father showeth the spirit 
 of the kingdom in great beauty. 
 
 Say not Lo here or lo there, for the kingdom of heaven is within 
 you. And Christ knew by experience of this fact, as I do this 
 day. 
 
 Your mind is the father, the high instinct love-spirit is the son 
 at home, or home angel. 
 
 The younger son, the first fruit of your body in infancy, is the 
 archangel, who is gone to a FAR COUNTRY, and joined himself 
 to a citizen of that country, and that citizen learned him how to 
 feed swine ; and when your angel comes, he will put you in com- 
 munication with a hog, and show you how they feed. 
 
 Now, to save time, I would ask you to buy one of my little 
 books, called The Spirit Home, which you will find in the hands 
 of my agent at the door ; and this evening read about the ark of 
 the promise of God, given by inspiration of God and holy ones, 
 through their angels. 
 
 In the letter, that son wasted his life with harlots, and that was 
 death to happiness. But redeem the word, and redeem the har- 
 
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 lots, and let their angels come home, where the Father's spiritual 
 developments hath enabled him to set the festive board, and there 
 is music and dancing, and the smoking calf upon the table makes 
 your mouth water, you can, if you have the heart of man and 
 woman, see the glory of the kingdom of heaven in spirit and in 
 truth. 
 
 " Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him ; and put a ring 
 on his hand and shoes on his feet, and let us be merry." 
 
 We have spoken of the lion of the cross of England, and your 
 American sons may ask what their eagle hath done, that he cannot 
 come in, and constitute a part in the image of God spiritually. 
 
 This question hath been in my mind through all my investiga- 
 tions, and not a single ray of light shone upon his crown ; and I 
 began to think that he had slipped in under the flag of some other 
 tribe, and had been lost in some promiscuous crowd. 
 
 But one day last week I saw puss with her fore-paws upon the 
 table, and her hind ones in a chair ; and never did a cat's body 
 look longer to me than hers did while she there stood, with her 
 eyes fixed on our canary-birds that were in a cage before her. 
 
 In an instant I was in the spirit, and I having that nucleus the 
 whole truth rolled in upon my mind, and the eagle appeared in 
 glory there. 
 
 If you wish to know where the instinct spirit goes, as in a 
 regular beaten track, you will find great assistance in observing 
 what animal eats animal, and what animal is eaten, and by whom 
 is the highest grade eaten, and where does this eating process stop 
 in relation to eating earthly food. 
 
 The animal eaten is in spirit under the power of attraction of the 
 tribe that eats it. 
 
 The eagle is the king of birds, as the lion is the head of the cat 
 tribe, and also king of beasts ; and the spiritual John Bull must 
 adopt the two principles (they being great flesh-eaters), as the high- 
 est instinct principle of moving power. 
 
 And while the lion devours the land tribes, the eagle gets much 
 of his instinct nature directly or indirectly from the sea. 
 
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 of spirit-life that comes within his nature's kingdom, either direct 
 or through the treadle ; and when he sees the creatures that have 
 contributed to his instinct life, he loves them well enough to eat 
 them. 
 
 Have you never loved a child to that degree that you could 
 spank it hard, and driven almost to it by the purest of love, and it 
 seems to me the little chaps have sometimes looked up into your 
 face, and curled the tender lip ? 
 
 Well, that is instinctive love ; and if you had not been blessed 
 with wisdom to govern, you know not how much you would have 
 indulged that love. 
 
 If every spirit principle spoken of in the Bible is represented in 
 the letter of this earth, where can we see the spirits and angels of 
 God, and angels of his image, flying through the midst of heaven ? 
 
 I will mount on eagle's wings, and inform you that it is in the 
 feathered tribes. 
 
 This earth pays tribute unto Herschel, and produces spirits to 
 be attracted to her, and there learn to be angels, and then come 
 home to eat the fatted calf (and the angels are very fond of fat 
 calves), and will in due time take the old gentleman and the elder 
 brother home with them. 
 
 The lion and the eagle and their affinities furnish the highest 
 principle of heavenly communication in the image, and the prop- 
 I erty is divided between the two brothers, one of which is the home- 
 spirit of man, and never leaves the spiritual body of the man, while 
 the younger will carry the desire of your heart, together with your 
 likeness, to any part of God's kingdom you may desire. 
 
 This angel of flight will be individualized in the higher sphere, 
 when you embrace a loved one who waits to meet you there. 
 
 After the earthly body falls to earth in its death, the spiritual 
 body is indestructibly organized a solid material body, but not 
 gross like the earthly. 
 
 The mind and spirit body cannot be put in communication with 
 another, without the angel's or spirit's aid. See the principle in 
 the carrier-pigeon. 
 
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 Thursday Morning, November 22. 
 
 Dear innocent hearts, I cannot flatter, but I love to speak God's 
 praise for our good heart-timber, which he has freely given. 
 
 Man was made to be happy in love. 
 
 Love is begotten by the power of the deep-flowing rivers of 
 Eden, as they gently pass over the genitive organs ; and you re- 
 ceive the most powerful impulse when, in warm weather, the god 
 of love swims in the serpentine river Hiddekel. 
 
 The men in half numbers think publicly that love is womanish, 
 granny ; but they have a deep, secret love for woman, and they 
 are always on the watch ; and should one of you in hopping jump 
 out of your skin, some man who stands upon the hop is ready to 
 jump in. 
 
 It is human nature for mankind to love themselves. The little 
 drop taken from the sanctuary of the little boy's heart doeth the 
 work. The two are one ; — that is the great mystery of the great 
 power of attraction ; and lovers hold all the planetary world by 
 that power, and make them move in harmony in their almighty 
 movements, as they roll through eternity. 
 
 Man's instinct-love nature feels the power of this truth, that his 
 manly powers are perfectly portrayed in the organism of his lover's 
 womb and creatives. 
 
 The woman feels her desire towards her husband through her 
 power of self-love ; for her instinct-love nature tells her that her 
 lovely angelic spiritual outline is fully portrayed in her husband, 
 and that he wears it as a locket in his bowels of compassion, and 
 that they will both, in due time, appear in glory. 
 
 The spirits or gods of love_teil to them both these love stories, 
 while half wisdom sits enthroned so far on high that it never hears 
 of it ; and when you tell him of it, he saith, The devil hath come 
 as an angel of light, evil, and undeveloped spirits ; arid that you 
 are infidels, and talk through the vulgarity of corruption ; for they 
 think that people go to heaven as chickens go to market, all 
 plucked and gutted. 
 
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 the neck of self-righteousness, and fully prepared for a feast at the 
 marriage-supper of the Lamb, according to their wisdom. 
 
 Brother Paine wills me to say that iu his Pilgrimage, by 
 Brother C. Hammond, he wrote a prophecy of what would soon 
 take place on the earth, between mediums under instructions from 
 the pen of an almighty hand, as governor-in-chief ; and unbelievers 
 in spirit manifestations, among the hardest of which were some of 
 the professed followers of Christ our Lord. 
 
 These were in the third circle, and to see them collectively he 
 looked through their meeting-house window ; for this is the way 
 mediums would first look at them ; and he represented the first 
 prophet medium. 
 
 He next looked at their lean spirit individual bodies, and he saw 
 their scornful faces looking defiance to his word of heavenly matri- 
 mony. 
 
 There were others outside somewhat like unto those in the 
 castle. 
 
 The prophet medium is truly one of them, as he represented ; 
 for it is the forbidden fruit that the medium eats through river- 
 gates that makes him wise, and like the gods to speak. 
 
 With this explanation, you will see the love in harmony existing 
 in all spirit writings. 
 
 Thomas says that the angels will come in love, and not in ter- 
 ror ; but the Lord hath spoken, and they shall come and establish 
 that beautiful temple as the fourth circle on earth, that the chil- 
 dren of earth may have a part in the first resurrection at the turn 
 of life, sooner or later; and that while in the natural orrudimental 
 body. 
 
 And he saith that he will testify unto these things in your 
 circles. 
 
 When the earth began to travail in production of animals, she 
 received a copy, or recipe, from Mother Herschel, giving the exact 
 number in order of combination that each individual animal in 
 that order should receive, as an animal instinct spirit. 
 
 The order from God, through Mother Herschel, was completely 
 filled out in the number of animals and fish with affinities, and 
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170 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 numbered individually ; and no two species were alike in body or 
 spirit ; and then no two of the same species were to be numbered 
 so as to look alike. 
 
 These animals, when perfected according to order as perfectly- 
 developed animals, passed through death into the resurrection 
 state, and were compounded, in due time, through sexual love 
 organs, male and female, developed in God, as is clearly seen in 
 his image. 
 
 Thus was the recipe for making man filled out by nature's love- 
 law, in the letter and in the spirit ; ^ ^ ^ * and man on earth 
 appeared. 
 
 But lo and behold, his spirit was buried vastly deep in the 
 
 But lo and behold again, the ultimate development of the race 
 in type did appear in the embryo in Mary's womb, as the celestial 
 hosts looked down from on high, and saw the spirit of God move 
 upon the face of the waters of that womb, and the perfect pattern 
 there first appeared. 
 
 And the angels broke the atmospheric principle at his birth, in 
 crying, Peace on earth, and good will to all men. 
 
 I will take you back in a circle to the morning on which the 
 Lord showed me the mark of the beast, and say, that after the 
 beast disappeared, I saw standing in or near the same place a child, 
 as it were, three years old ; and the Lord did write some words in 
 the forehead, from left to right, in order that I might comprehend 
 the meaning that he wished to convey to my mind, by presenting 
 the child ; but that was not the seal of God. 
 
 But the seal of the living God is given to his servants, when 
 they leave the horizontal position in the foot, as animals ; and as- 
 cending the hill of the Lord, after entering the ankle-gate, and 
 taking the upright position, they pass up the river Hiddekel, which 
 passes the gate at the small of the back, which leadeth to God, or, 
 in other words, is leading the spirits in the upright path to a par- 
 ticipation in God's image ; and the intellectual head is the seal of 
 God. 
 
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 and wrath of Almighty God, found in the rapids of the rivers, as 
 they pass creatives in conjunction with each other, he can, after 
 viewing the transfiguration vesture, which attracted him there, see 
 a name written on the thigh of his godfather, King of kings,, and 
 Lord of lords. 
 
 Thus the spirit of the first circle taketh his position in the 
 second. 
 
 Wednesday Morning, November 24. 
 
 Dear ones, I find that every morning brings us together a little 
 later in the afternoon of life, and I feel impressed to give some 
 short and comprehensive views of heavenly things, as seen in the 
 earthly. 
 
 Our loving Heavenly Father hath created nothing heavenly but 
 what he has written, in unmistakable letters, in the flesh, blood 
 and bone, of man ; and it is man's privilege, in his development, to 
 read in his own nature the truth of God, to the extent of his most 
 ardent desires, and that while in the earthly body, — that is, if his 
 constitution is such as to give him a length of happy days. 
 
 As Jesus loved, so you must be. 
 
 The river Gihon is a river of blood. 
 
 And the Lord said unto Moses, If the people will not believe 
 these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, thou shalt take of 
 the water of the river and pour it out on the dry land ; and the 
 water that thou takest out of the river shall become blood on the 
 dry land. 
 
 This was the last sign of three, given to Moses to convince the 
 people of spirit manifestations, and that the Lord had spoken unto 
 Moses concerning them. 
 
 And it came to pass that Moses, at the transfiguration on Mount 
 Tabor, told Christ, in the presence of Peter, James and John, and 
 Elias, that it was the good pleasure of the Father that the water 
 that he had taken out of the river of life, while in embryo in 
 Mary's womb, should be poured out from the cross, and become 
 blood upon the dry land, that the people in fifty-two might believe 
 in spiritual aid. 
 
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 This pouring out and changing of water to blood shows the rais- 
 ing, progressing, and purifying principles of the river of life, as it 
 wells and springs up in all inanimate and animal life, to be con- 
 centrated in man as the image of God ; and its first type appears 
 to the outward eye of man in the monthly purifications of the 
 man-female, denoting the falling of the leaves from the tree of life, 
 as the promise of God for the healing of the nations, as seen in the 
 balm of Gilead. 
 
 And Moses said, furthermore, unto Christ, Lo and behold, man 
 hath put his hand into his own bosom, and corrupted his own flesh ; 
 and he should tell the people that their right hand was leprous as 
 snow, and that truth would cost him his earthly life. 
 
 Moses gave him power to heal in many things ; but some things 
 were given in confidence, because the great body of the people 
 were not spiritually developed; and to tell them of high truths 
 would be like casting pearls before swine. 
 
 And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged 
 them, saying, Tell the vision to no man until the Son of Man be 
 risen again from the dead, in one thousand eight hundred and 
 fifty-two, when he will tell the people (who will then be prepared) 
 that by puting the leprous hand into their left spiritual bosom it 
 will become as their other flesh. 
 
 Moral. — To run after strange flesh in the letter is a sin unto 
 death in morals. But to hold spiritual intuitive communion with 
 affinities above you is to receive eternal life for your own comfort ; 
 and to enter into pure intuitive love communion with affinities, in 
 the letter, is giving eternal individual life to offspring, that you 
 may embrace your own in heaven. 
 
Thanksgiving-Day, November 25 t 
 
 Honorable and elect ladies and gentlemen, you* lecturer is 
 thankful, for one, on this day. 
 
 On the Fourth of July last I was a happy man, and my faith 
 and trust in God, through spiritual manifestation, were never sur- 
 passed. 
 
 But for all that, I would not be placed back in that land of 
 faith for the best worldly estate there is on earth ; for now faith, 
 dim faith, is lost in sight, and I feel the truth concerning God's 
 image, like a mighty river in four heads, rolling in upon my soul, 
 and lifting my heart to God in laughing, thankful praise. 
 
 All the pain I feel is through the thought, that many others are 
 not so happy. 
 
 Beloved, will you instil into your sons your own love nature, 
 and ask your husbands to instil into your daughters the power of 
 their manly wisdom, that they may swing the sledge to break the 
 chain and let the captive free ; 
 
 That Sambo here, and massa dare, 
 Bofe breve de freedom air. 
 
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174 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 While I take a breath myself, let us take a walk into the 
 centre of the park, and look at Jacob's well. The lettering on 
 the curb you could never before read. Isaiah brushed the dust 
 out of the crevices, and you now see the golden letters glittering 
 in the sun. 
 
 " Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of 
 salvation." 
 
 This well was first dug on this spot by Abraham and Sarah ; 
 for the time was when woman was not afraid of soiling her hands 
 in a good deed. 
 
 They were digging the well when Abraham offered up the first 
 fruit of his body, before which, however, three angels came with 
 the word of the Lord, and one of them whispered the word in 
 Abraham's ear. Abraham started with surprise, and called the 
 angel an undeveloped spirit, and an evil spirit ; and, also, that he 
 was the devil, for no good person could think such a word. 
 
 But the angel, not pretending to hear Abraham rave about 
 making folks crazy, took the spade, and broke ground for this 
 well, for the Lord had spoken concerning Abraham and Sarah. 
 And, while the spade was standing in the ground, and Abraham 
 seeing how things were a-going, and while he was working a 
 little confidence into his own mind, one of the angels, standing 
 by, whispered into Abraham's ear, imitating the voice of the man 
 that he had turned out of doors, because the man did not, with 
 his mouth, bless the Lord over his own Sarah's style of cooking. 
 Abraham knew the voice as it asked him, stealthily, how much 
 he asked. 
 
 This was a hard clip for poor Abraham, for he thought that the 
 voice meant to insinuate; but, nevertheless, Abraham meant to 
 have his stomach full of thanksgiving praise. And, after supper, 
 Abraham talked very freely with the ang^s about Sarah, as 
 
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 Abraham could then see her poor condition more clearly. And, 
 while they conversed on human nature and its laws, Sarah's 
 ear, at the crack of the door, caught the joyful sound that she 
 was to have pleasure with her Lord, and she laughed. And 
 there she comes, now, to invite us to drink all round. 
 
 The devil is always near when you talk about him. 
 
 Here, after consulting their speaker on the subject, they resolved 
 to take in their husbands and lovers, and that they be invited to 
 bring in the children, and the young folks, and their men-servants 
 and maid-servants, and all strangers that might come within their 
 gates, that sectional preferences should no longer retard the truth 
 and love of God. 
 
 And the spirits, by raps and tips, spelled out by the alphabet, 
 that as they could not stop eating and drinking without drying up 
 the letter of the river Pison, and stop the flow of offspring, and 
 even human life, neither could they stop the springs of spiritual 
 life, that welled up through the diggings of Abraham, which ulti- 
 mated in Jacob's well, where the old people drank with their 
 whole house, and where they watered their cattle. 
 
 And they resolved that, as they treated the stranger on his first 
 appearance in individual life from the first river, so would they 
 lift their hearts, and desire for God's blessing upon those strangers, 
 that they may partake freely of the whole river of life, as in 
 human nature found. 
 
 And they all agreed to hoist the unspotted banner of free 
 trade, and sailors' rights, to the river of life, through which 
 cometh the most exalting pleasures of earth, and, in the world to 
 come, eternal joy. 
 
 My dear friends, this well is the great family well ; Christ sat 
 upon this well, and asked Mary for the waters of individualism. 
 
176 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 converse in the letter with the daughter of Samaria, the woman of 
 many husbands, who said, Art thou greater than our father Jacob, 
 which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his chil- 
 dren, and his cattle ? 
 
 Jesus answered, and said unto her, Whosoever seeketh pleasure 
 with many earthly husbands, cannot fill the aching void within 
 their starving souls; but marry me, and partake of the spirit 
 waters of your well, and it shall spring up within you unto ever- 
 lasting life. 
 
 And the woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I 
 thirst no more. 
 
 And Jesus saith (as you have this day), Let the husband be 
 called, that all may drink as the women do ; for the day is coming, 
 and now is, when ye shall not go from home to drink of the river 
 of the spirit of God's love. 
 
 The woman then left her water-pot with Christ, and went her 
 way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man that 
 told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the man that was 
 in communication with me when I was in the very act, and £ept 
 me from being stoned to death ? 
 
 And Jesus whispered, and said in her ear, I am he. 
 
 Then they came out of the city, the New Jerusalem, and went 
 in unto him, and the angels of the higher sphere bore off the first 
 fruit of his body to a far-off country, and he became a medium 
 prophet. 
 
 And it came to pass, that when the writers of the four Gospels 
 went through the same mill, that they became writing mediums, 
 and represented their experience as Christ's, who aided them by 
 the holy spirits, that he had promised, and, under the direction of 
 the friends from the higher sphere, they being one and the same, 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 177 
 
 for the spread of the gospel of peace and good-will, as they are 
 now all one, and with your speaker. 
 
 Every one will agree with me that it is human nature for 
 women of Samaria to draw water from Jacob's well, but they can- 
 not comprehend how the men can draw that water for their own 
 drink, because they have nothing, as the woman hath, to draw 
 with, and the well is very deep. But fear not, dear man, for you 
 will find, on development, that tl?3 old lady left her water-pot 
 with you. 
 
 This well was in Joseph's ground, or in a half lot, or parcel, 
 next to Joseph's own lot of half number ; and the two drew a 
 drink for the Lord, and, after that, the spirit and the letter ran 
 together, with Joseph and Mary. 
 
 And this happened about the sixth hour ; which is, according 
 to nature, in that climate, about the hottest part of the day, it 
 being high twelve, or twelve at noon, or thereabout. 
 
 And he must needs go through Samaria. 
 
 How could a woman of Samaria do anything for a man that 
 was a Jew ? The thing was never heard of. The Jews have no 
 dealings with Samaritans. But Christ knew that they were both 
 about to be developed in his kingdom, which was in man as well 
 as in the woman. 
 
 Your speaker was informed, as was Christ, that he was a 
 prophet, by the woman that his mother had planted in his spiritual 
 body, and the developed harvest from the seed of mother Herschel, 
 which is his spirit's angelic bride. She has come home, and 
 Drought the .fashions from the high schools of the new city. 
 
 No gentleman could deny a lady of rank and distinction the 
 right of voice in her private ear, in regard teethe opening and 
 building up of her private apartments, in the interior of that house 
 Duilt without hands, eternal, and to be his endless home. She has 
 
178 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 as good a right to the house as he has. He is always at home ; 
 she goes and comes whenever she pleases, but she always leaves 
 her water-pot. By her spider-web she always has the benefit of 
 the father's wisdom, whose business she is about, being married to 
 the male spirit at home. 
 
 It is the end of this web of communication by which he has 
 always been admonished. 
 
 The two lovers have always been in partial communication, and 
 she, being in close communion with a perfect daughter of mother 
 Herschel (the far-off country, where they keep the best kind of 
 swine to feed), has always admonished the 'folks at home, and 
 put in her silent veto against everything that was wrong. 
 
 When your sin gets above your eyes, and you know that you 
 have done wrong, in an instant your young bride, or lover, is in- 
 formed by your wisdom of the fact, for you cannot hide the thing 
 from yourself, and the spider-web is a tell-tale, which you have 
 little thought of. 
 
 The facts of your ill-doings, or desires, in the rough and tumble 
 of infant manhood, or third circle life, brings you a curtain lecture 
 from your spiritual rib, she being supported by her school mamma, 
 whose duty it is to bring you to Christ, or to the condition of 
 Christ, when he embraced his angel at this well. 
 
 Here he found it meet to do good, for this was his Heavenly 
 Father's will, and he was taking on the image by receiving his 
 angel to his bosom, she being his better half, and through her pure 
 spirit he had meat to eat that the disciples knew not of, and the 
 angel attracted the hidden manna with the waters of life, and 
 developed his chief corner-stone, and things that he knew nothing 
 of before, no more than his disciples then did about theirs. And 
 he that reapeth receiveth wages ; and he and his bride soweth and 
 
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 reapeth together, with great joy. They drink themselves, and 
 pass the sparkling water round, and all the thirsty drink. 
 
 And the prize is the fixtures which draweth up the living 
 water, or, at least, they are the mark of the prize, and they are 
 sometimes faintly seen represented in the earthly, or letter, but 
 not so often as a great many have desired to see them. 
 
 Come, then, to the spiritual fountains of wisdom and love, and 
 slake your thirsty love spirits there. 
 
 The fixtures in the heavenly, or spiritual house, will be more 
 under cover than some that have been pressed for adoption, as a 
 specimen of which you may have seen some of them in the market, 
 near the main entrance, according to the letter. 
 
 There is a great amount of human nature in some folks, and 
 the most is in the heavenly, and that will, consequently, have rule 
 in the heart of love, and wisdom shall drink from the fountains of 
 everlasting life, so that you can live, and have bread to eat, and 
 not continue to feast as you have done, on empty guess words, 
 from the pulpit of sectional pride and superstition. 
 
 This lecture I intend to have printed with my Spirit Home, 
 
 . and have them bound together, so that you cannot tell them apart ; 
 
 , and the two shall be one and the same Spirit Home, for you to 
 
 take home to your closet, to be your counsellor there, and you 
 
 I will not do as I am forced to do, by the special command of God. 
 
 For I, as a willing lassie, open my whole nature as far as it is 
 
 developed, that the glory of God, in his image, may appear as the 
 
 upper circles, to be established on earth for the redemption of man 
 
 from all sin, and consequent pain. 
 
 And the whole is summed up in a few words, as thus : — Obey 
 the law of human nature, for that is the law, and it is the gospel. 
 Let the letter and spirit harmonize, as doth the Bible, with the 
 spirit of that little book, the Spirit Home, that I intend to give 
 
180 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 you, for a small amount of money, that my earthly house may be 
 kept in repair for another lecture, if God, in his good pleasure, 
 should wish it. 
 
 And as one of the first rappers is now clothed in flesh, and eats 
 at my board, I shall endeavor to scrape together a few crumbs 
 from under the rich man's table, that I may leave a little for 
 him. 
 
 When I asked for the communication, I did not expect one so 
 tangible ; but my loved guardian, Ellen, says that she had got it 
 up on purpose for us, and that she had quite an influence over my 
 wife, and overcame her scepticism, with the reasonable idea that it 
 would leave in the morning ; and, on consulting one of nature's 
 students, who had stood for and had been exercised by spirits, 
 from Adam, as one of the oldest kind of rats, and it was his 
 opinion that it would leave before, as the rappers were scarce, and 
 many were desirous to investigate the subject. 
 
 And, my dear friends, it was by this old deceiver I got most 
 shockingly taken in ; for I never saw the hide nor hair of the 
 communication, until, like the whale, he poked his nose out to 
 breathe ; and then we all made fast to him, with the silver cord 
 of human nature, for the study of which my own spirits were 
 corded together, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- 
 dred, and just one year before I was born. 
 
 How can a man be born when he is old ? Can he enter the 
 second time into his mother's womb, and be born ? 
 
 Yerily, verily, I say unto thee, unless a man build up his 
 spiritual, or nerve body (the only body that hath the sense of 
 feeling), from the river Gihon, which is the spirit of water, first 
 and afterwards, the spirit life-principle of blood, so that in due 
 time he can enter the spirit womb, and be born of the spirit in 
 
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 wisdom, of his own nature and construction, he cannot be a happy 
 medium in the kingdom, comparatively speaking. 
 
 I am happy to feel that we have been born to enjoy this blessed 
 Thanksgiving Day, under such favorable auspices. 
 
 Your laughter reminds me of the burning mountains, when 
 they vomit fire ; for this betokens that, with the heat beneath in 
 the centre of the earth, together with the heat of the sun on its 
 surface, shall so warm the seed that man soweth, that in its heated 
 condition, it shall call lustily for the juices of that earth, that so, 
 in harvest, our hearts may rejoice in prospect of another glorious 
 Thanksgiving Supper. And laughing fattens the spiritual body, 
 and that redeems all bad expressions which have originated in an 
 exclusive earthly education. This was not the condition of 
 Balaam's ass, for she could see spiritual manifestations. 
 
 And the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the spiral vine- 
 yard, which were the apartments of the Princess of Moab, 
 Balaam's archangel. 
 
 And, when his bride drew nigh unto him, he felt that God 
 would be angry if he indulged, for the world did not recognize 
 such marriages ; but the instinctive ass knew more than Balaam 
 did, for he supposed that he should always live a single man. 
 
 And Balaam's ass turned out from the old-fashioned way of doing 
 things earthly, by the halves. And it was in the field that 
 Balaam first smote his own ass, to turn her into the right way. 
 
 And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the 
 
 way, with his sword in his hand, she knew that she must do the 
 
 word, and not stop to preach i^ and so she went into the field. 
 
 And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust herself 
 
 into the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot in passing the gates to 
 
 the outer courts of the Lord's house. 
 
 And Balaam smote her again; and the angel of Balaam's 
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182 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 guardian, after Balaam had smote his ass twice, wished to show 
 to him how his own immortal spirit was compounded from the in- 
 stinct principle of dumb beasts. 
 
 And, as the spirit left the mark of the beasts, the angel of the 
 Lord went further, and stood in a narrow pass, where the rub of 
 the game would admit of no turning, either to the right hand or 
 to the left, for the love was universal. 
 
 And when the ass saw the angel of love, Balaam fell down with 
 his ass under him. And Balaam's love wrath was exceeding 
 kindled, and he smote the ass with the angel's staff. 
 
 And the angel opened the mouth of Balaam's ass, and she said, 
 What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these 
 three times ? 
 
 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me, 
 and I would that my flaming sword were developed, so that I 
 might succeed in taking the life-blood and spirit of such dumb 
 beasts as you. 
 
 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine own ass, upon 
 which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine, until this day ? 
 Was I ever wont to do so unto thee ? 
 
 And he said Nay, the thing was never heard of before ; and if 
 the people should see how my case stands, they would call me 
 Granny Balaam, for my ass knows more about spiritual manifesta- 
 tions than I do. 
 
 Then the Lord removed the shelves from the pit of Balaam's 
 stomach, and Balaam saw the angel of his guardian standing 
 before him, and he fell flat on Us face, thinking that the Lord 
 would be wroth with him, for trying to keep his ass under. 
 
 The fact is, he was completely upset, the thing came so sudden 
 upon him ; if it had happened to a woman, he would not have 
 
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 thought much of it, not even once thinking that he, in his child- 
 hood, had been born of his mother. 
 
 And the angel of the Lord showeth Balaam the sword with 
 which' he had extracted the first fruit of his spiritual body, in 
 three parcels ; the first to be taken to the new city, from whence 
 came the princes of Balak, who were angelic friends, who had 
 come to help develop Balaam, as a writing medium, so that the 
 people on earth, in fifty-two, might see that others had gone before 
 them in this matter. 
 
 And the angel said unto Balaam, If thou hadst not been passive, 
 and prepared to do the word of the Lord, and if thine ass had not 
 turned from the old half fashion of doing that word, thou wouldst 
 have been slain, and your spiritual ass would have been saved 
 alive, and with you would have been developed on the other side 
 of the grave, for your time had come. 
 
 And Balaam said unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned, for 
 I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me ; and it will 
 displease the Lord should I write the spiritual meaning of this 
 adventure, for I know that the people are not prepared to receive 
 this word, for they do, in the letter, root it about like swine, and 
 in a particular manner, before they divide it in the letter. There- 
 fore I will write so that all the prophets can read it ; but, when 
 the people read it on earth in its spirit, they shall find my day a 
 great while back. 
 
 And the angel said unto Balaam, You shall be put in communi- 
 cation with three women ; and, when you go with their husbands, 
 you shall draw of the fruit of your spiritual body ; and, the dis- 
 tance being annihilated by your new mind, which is your angel, 
 you shall, in the centre planet, deposit the power of attraction, 
 which will ultimately carry you there in person, to live with that 
 
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 bride in the spirit land of that planet, which is the higher 
 sphere. 
 
 And the word of the Lord excited Balaam so much, when he 
 went with the men, that some said he hath a devil ; and, if spirits 
 serve folks so, they did not wish to have anything to do with 
 them, for no good could come out of it, not knowing what they 
 did say. 
 
 And when the angel of the Lord (which was the spirit of a 
 jackass, and one of that kind that wore the mark of that beast in 
 his forehead) had told Balaam to go with the men, and do the 
 word whole, as he had received it, and that in two moons a new 
 angelic bride, which would ultimately be Mrs. Balaam, the third 
 would divide the word into five parts, which would, through com- 
 passion, give him great wisdom as a writing medium. 
 
 And Balaam, being seated, rode on horseback, with the men on 
 his ass, who had their women folks with them ; and they all went 
 off together, one after the other, in couples, like unto the Indian 
 file, as the way of life is very narrow. 
 
 And Balaam went with the princes of Balak ; and, when Balak 
 heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him in a city 
 of Moab, which is in the border of Aaron, which is in the utmost 
 planet, from the sun around, which she, with her two sister suns, 
 in all their glory, with a cavalcade of men on horseback, roll in 
 perpetual love ; and you, like Balaam, must sooner or later, if not 
 already, take up your line of march for time and eternity, to find 
 the outermost border of the three solar systems, which is the centre 
 and the circumference of one of the great cities of our God. 
 
 And, when two moons had passed, Balak put it to the young 
 bride, and unto Balaam's compassion, and all others concerned, 
 and said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee by 
 Christ, or some other prophet before him, which was h l m, to call 
 
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 thee to be a medium, that God might have praise of men as well 
 as woman ? Wherefore earnest thou not unto me ? Am I not 
 able, indeed, to promote instinct love to wisdom's reason, and 
 make the stupid jackass divide the word of the Lord, and promote 
 thee to honor ? 
 
 And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee ; the 
 word which the Lord doth beget in me shall come through great 
 wisdom to my mouth, and that word will I divide and speak as it 
 is written in the Spirit Home. 
 
 And Balaam wanted his spiritual body fully developed with the 
 seven altars, commencing with the altar where the animals and 
 fish lost their mark, in order to enter the records of Christ the 
 son, and to close with the seventh, the highest known to man 
 while in the earthly, through which altar your speaker was exalted 
 on the evening preceding the morning on which he saw so clearly 
 delineated the mark of the beast. 
 
 And Balaam said unto Balak, I will stand by thy burnt offer- 
 ing ; for, when the spirits come to turn the animal desires from 
 strange flesh to worship the true God, many mistake the spirit, 
 and run after the flesh. And a great many have lived fifty and 
 sixty years, so that envy could not point to a spot on their snow- 
 white robes, and the spirits, by a law of nature, came to develop 
 them as mediums and prophets have fallen ; and everybody knows 
 of these spirit manifestations, because nothing can fire up the gen- 
 itives so as to tempt one astray but spirits, who want individual- 
 ism on earth, or the angels, who go from planet to planet. 
 
 Thus the great and good have fallen for the want of this in- 
 formation, which I would have given if I had known it before, as 
 I do now. 
 
 Stand by your altars when they burn sacrifices, as Joseph of 
 old did, when Potiphar's wife, who was an advanced medium, 
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 stripped off his coat-tail of earthly desires, that his spirit might 
 feast on heavenly love, and be a harlot, that entered into the 
 kingdom of heaven, before some of the sanctified, long-faced hypo- 
 crites, who crucified their Lord. Potiphar's wife, God bless her, 
 was assisted by Father Abraham, who was Joseph's guardian, or 
 one of them. 
 
 Samuel, your speaker is Joseph's youngest brother, and those 
 kind of lions are developed as students of the law of human 
 nature. 
 
 And, in fact, Balaam is one of them himself. For it came to 
 pass, on the next day, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him 
 up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the 
 utmost part of the people ; and the utmost part of human nature, 
 as exhibited in the image of God, is the utmost part of the people, 
 as seen through your archangel love, who is sister or brother, as 
 the case may be, to your loved spirits at home. 
 
 And it will always so happen that you must stand on a high 
 spiritual mountain-place, or pinnacle, in order to see your angel 
 come from the utmost border of Aaron. And, when Balaam's 
 bride came, she wanted her apartments fitted up with altars, and 
 things- the same as they were in the house she had left, in the 
 utmost cost ; and so Balaam ordered all things as she said, be- 
 cause he loved her, and that was human nature ; and, with their 
 income united, could live very comfortable indeed. 
 
 And he went to a high place, and God met Balaam. And he 
 said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered 
 upon the seventh altar a bullock, which hath the mark of the 
 beast ; and the offering of a bullock and the ram showeth the 
 compounding of my image, who are sealed with intellectual fore- 
 heads. 
 
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 intuitively. And they all stood for the word of the Lord, for 
 their sacrifice was smoking hot on the altar. 
 
 And Balaam's heart melted in holy love, as a tender swain 
 when he first meets his own true heart, in the Eve that loves 
 him. 
 
 And he saith, How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed ? 
 Or how shall I defy whom the Lord hath not defied ? For, 
 from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold 
 him. Lo ! the mediums are God's people ; and, as they are 
 exalted to his image, they shall dwell and cohabit in spirit alone, 
 and not be dependent on their neighbors, for they, of a fact, are 
 not of the nations, for they have been spiritually raised from the 
 dead, and the earth produces thorns, in comparison with heaven's 
 blessed gifts. 
 
 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto 
 rae ? I took thee to curse mine enemies, for I did believe that 
 my love organs, which did trouble me so by their lust after the 
 flesh, would all be left in the grave, and that I should have 
 another set that would be more respectable, and have a more 
 respectable location. 
 
 But, and behold, thou hast blessed them altogether. Enemies 
 and friends, altogether. 
 
 Yes, Balaam took the exciting love word of four stars, and 
 he took it whole, because he trusted in God, and knew that if 
 j he asked for a fish that he would not give him a serpent. And 
 when, like a true image of God, Balaam divided the word in 
 wisdom, it was like my lecture, full of God's great blessing, for 
 everybody, altogether. 
 
 Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put 
 in my mouth ? 
 
 But come, sjrith Balak. I nra^ thee, i^ WV a* them from 
 
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 another place, where you cannot see the image of God in the 
 undeveloped half, as they are now represented in the flesh. And 
 do you not really think that the Lord will have troublesome 
 creatures cut down, even with the surface of the earth ? 
 
 And he went on to the top of Pisgah, for Balaam was desirous 
 of obtaining the truth, and making all things sure for the people, 
 and to make a medium of Balak. 
 
 And he said unto Balak, I will meet the Lord yonder. 
 
 And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and 
 said, Go unto Balak, and do thus. 
 
 And, when he came to him, behold he stood very near where 
 the bullock and ram were smoking on the altar, and the princes 
 stood with a fiery zeal against the people, whose ways had kindled 
 Balak's wrath into a raging flame. 
 
 And when Balak saw Balaam coming, he was in great haste 
 to know what the Lord would let him do ; for he had fire on his 
 seven altars, which betokens that the gates of heaven are opened 
 unto you, and your troubled spirit shall soon find peace in be- 
 coming a prophet. 
 
 And he took up his parable as before, and said, Well up 
 through Balak, and let his spiritual ears be opened to hear. 
 
 And Balaam divided the word, according to the original in- 
 tuitive language of the image man. And Balaam finally said to 
 Balak, that it was impossible for a dead toad to live in Jacob's 
 well, for he had agents which were a- watching night and day, 
 and none of its copies could get so adulterated ; but he, the 
 Lord, could cleanse them and bless them, and do good unto them, 
 and that the waters should gush out of every fountain, pure as 
 life, and the earth should blossom as the rose, and all people 
 should love and bless each other, and he would build them up. 
 
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 For God brought them out of Egypt. He hath, as it were, 
 the strength of a unicorn. 
 
 Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there 
 any divination against Israel. According to this time, it shall, 
 in one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, be said of Jacob 
 and of Israel, What hath God wrought ! ! ! 
 
 Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation, a tried stone, and a 
 precious corner-stone, at the turn of life ; and to him that 
 belie veth it shall be an honor, and to them even which be dis- 
 obedient the stone which the builders, in half numbers, rejected, 
 the same hath become the head of the corner, and the head that 
 the men have so long been curious to know of will be found of 
 them, for no one is desirous of anything that doth not exist as 
 embryo in themselves, and it is this embryo that makes them 
 love the same thing that they can see developed in others. 
 
 And Balaam, seeing all these things, appointed certain of the 
 people to take a journey into the East, in search of the clay bed, 
 to see if they could discover how man first sprang into life. 
 
 And it came to pass, when the men had got within geographical 
 reach of the almost obliterated boundary-lines of the old garden 
 of Eden; and they, being very thirsty, were about to take out 
 their divining reds, to sound for water, one of them, feeling his 
 hand move involuntarily, looked, and behold a frog had been 
 attracted to the end of his fore-finger, which was on his right 
 hand : and many of the investigators began to shake in their 
 shoes, when they recollected how near they were to the iden- 
 tical spot where Adam and Eve had been so severely done to, by 
 the Lord's command. 
 
 Hereunto the angel cf the Lord opened the inner case that led 
 to the articulative organs cf the frog, and, vibrating through the 
 frog, said unto the men, I am the first frog that ever hopped in 
 
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 this garden. I witnessed the sad countenance of Adam, when he 
 found a drawback to every earthly pleasure. 
 
 But the angel of the Lord did in disguise whisper to Adam at 
 the time Mrs. Adam the second came in unto him through her 
 male friend, the angel, that he might eat of the spiritual fruit 
 from the tree in the midst of the spiritual garden, which was in 
 the midst of the whole earthly garden, but more prominently seen 
 in the attractive roots and wide-spreading boughs at the tree of life 
 in the centre. 
 
 The spirit of this gardener, after seeing the pattern as exhib- 
 ited in a great many loved ones whom he visited for several weeks, 
 did, under the direction of the angel of the Lord, become the 
 chief gardener; and he did so lay it out, that everything in 
 the heavenly was represented in the earthly, and first clearly seen 
 when Adam and Eve, in true love, got under the tree in the 
 shade, in the hottest of the weather, when everything was growing 
 the most rapid around them. 
 
 Therefore you will not believe in spiritual things any further 
 than you can see them faintly represented in this earthly garden. 
 But 0, the joys of heavenly love, so far exalted above the earthly, 
 and where love begetteth wisdom, as seen in the letter through 
 offspring. * 
 
 And the angel of the Lord, as a frog, said, If you will put your 
 divining-rod through the earthly soil, providing that you have 
 taken good care of your garden for fifty years, and you will hear 
 from a spirit frog that hops at the mouth of the river Hidekel, and 
 which will hop there through endless day. 
 
 And Jacob, who was one of them, said, By Hokey, I will have 
 one of them for my well, to keep the water sweet. 
 
 And they each one took one, and hastened up through Egypt ; 
 and they felt the strength of unity, to say nothing of the corn. 
 
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 But they knew within themselves what God had wrought ! ! ! 
 
 And it came to pass, in the twilight of one pleasant evening, 
 that while Jacob was sitting at a window in his old house (which 
 the workmen have, in fitting the place for you, stopped up), he 
 thought he saw a cat, sitting on the well-curb, which in the twi- 
 light looked as big as a woman's muff. He inquired of his first 
 love about it, but she knew nothing of the matter. He then in- 
 quired of Mrs. Hope Jacob, his new bride, and she said that she 
 hung it out, as was the custom where she had been to school, for 
 the purpose of attracting some gentleman or lady of intelligence, 
 who might be passing that way, and who might stop in and bring 
 her the news, as she was a writing for the press ; and this little 
 incident made Jacob love all his wives dearly. 
 
 Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up him- 
 self as a young lion ; he shall not lie down until he eat the prey, 
 and drink the blood of the slain. 
 
 Sarah, coming in at this time, informed the lecturer that this 
 passage of Scripture, found in Numbers, twenty-third chapter, 
 twenty-fourth verse, did testify that the old lion, developed, could 
 roar as handsomely in the letter as the young lion ; therefore, the 
 people need not fear, for the lion is the Lord's servant. 
 
 And one of the oldest of the Sons of Temperance proposed to 
 sing, while the speaker took breath for a moment, and his motion 
 being seconded by an old maid, who was likewise a daughter of 
 the order of temperance ; and they, after obtaining the consent of 
 the whole people to join in the chorus, they pitched upon the Old 
 Oaken Bucket that hung in the well. 
 
 My friends, in taking up the thread of my lecture, I would say> 
 that the old iron hoops are an extract from the life principle of the 
 blood of the slain, and which it is not lawful for any but lions to 
 
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 drink, for the extract must come through them ; so that moth nor 
 rust cannot corrupt, and no thief dare face a lion. 
 
 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor 
 bless them at all, but let the great body of the people run in half 
 numbers, and die in half numbers, until the year five thousand 
 eight hundred and fifty-two, and then the race shall begin to be 
 developed very rapidly. 
 
 In the mean time, the Lord will develop the prophets as usual, 
 and bless the people as best he can, according to their goodness, 
 while they are developing the half number, which is not half de- 
 veloped yet, to turn the natural use of women to men. 
 
 And Balaam answered, and said unto Balak : Told not I thee, 
 saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that must I do ? 
 
 Yes, that must be done intuitively. 
 
 Mr. Balak, can you not understand me ? 
 
 Yes; and I want you to understand me, Mr. Balaam; for 
 I wish you to understand how Christ will be produced, having the 
 foundation-stone as the first altar from individual instinct, ram and 
 bullock spirits, to a spirit man ; and that it is the precious-tried 
 stone, the same first corner-foundation, and that it runs with the 
 foot right and left, and square with the ankle, and is sexually cre- 
 ative or progressive. And the animals go in, and fish too, in 
 spirit, male and female, into Noah's ark, two of them into the 
 foot, and the word they have with them is whole, they become 
 one in doing the word ; and when they have done it, they will 
 split the word in two, when they turn the corner of the stone at 
 the ankle, and look up on the right, and, seeing the old-fashioned 
 sweep for drawing water in the medium, and will say, 0, man ! 
 On the left the boy-spirit, not seeing the sweep, but gets his eyes 
 on the curb, says, 0, woman ! 
 
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 193 
 
 And when Balaam found that the word had been divided accord- 
 ing to law, and saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he 
 went not as at other times. 
 
 And the spirit of God came upon Balaam, and he found that 
 he had been advanced greatly as a medium, for he, like your 
 speaker, could fall into a trance with his eyes open ! 
 
 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the 
 knowledge of the Most High, which saw the vision of the Al- 
 mighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open. 
 
 There shall come a star out of Jacob and a sceptre out of Israel, 
 which shall be typed in Christ as seen in Balaam, when he could 
 write and lecture in the spirit, with his eyes open ; yes, wide 
 awake as your speaker is at the second coming, and whose eyes 
 are opened to see a Christ in every son and daughter of Adam, 
 who named the beasts. 
 
 And the star and the sceptre shall smite the corners of Moab, as 
 they pass the chief foundation-stone, and destroy all the children 
 of Sheth in the first circle, by uniting them in the image of God. 
 And destroy all the children of Sheth in the third circle, by cut- 
 ting off their sins, in making mediums of the whole people, 
 through the purifying fire of the Holy Ghost, upon the altar of 
 holy sexual love, begetting universal love, and universal praise to 
 God the Father. 
 
 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and 
 said, Strong is thy dwelling-place, and thou puttest thy nest in the 
 chief corner rocks. 
 
 Nevertheless, the earthly seed of the Kenite shall be somewhat 
 wasted, until Ashur shall carry the body captive to the grave. 
 
 And he took up his parable, and said, Who shall live when 
 God doeth this ! ! ! 
 
 And the angel saith, that from fifty-two, that all the true me- 
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 diums shall live on earth, while God doeth for them as he did unto 
 Balaam ; for the fourth circle must come on earth. 
 
 And Balaam, finding himself a first rate prophet-medium, got 
 up and went his way. 
 
 And Balak, f who was a spirit from the higher sphere, got up 
 and went her way also, knowing that Balaam could call a legion 
 of angels to his aid at any time, if he should wish ; for he could go 
 into a trance with his eyes open, he being one of the first Christs. 
 
 I perceive some of the people, who came here out of curiosity, 
 do start suddenly sometimes, and show other signs of uneasiness. 
 
 My dear friends, that which you feel is the angel or spirit-ser- 
 vant of some guardian friend, in testimony of the truth of what 
 you hear ; and many who read my book will feel the finger of the 
 Lord, as I lay open the spiritual image of God, by exhibiting the 
 letter, as seen in two lovers or sweethearts united. 
 
 And Israel abode in Shittim (that is, in the earthly structure) ; 
 and he, being a medium with his eyes open, saw clearly that God 
 and all spiritual and holy beings, with their mediums, held delight- 
 ful intuitive angelic communion through the organs, which to use 
 in the letter, as some do, would be whoredom, and moral if not 
 physical death. 
 
 And the people who are mediums will begin to beget spiritual 
 pleasure with the daughters of Moab. 
 
 And the Lord commanded Moses to assist in making mediums 
 of the heads of the people, for it was evident that the great body 
 of them were undeveloped in their spiritual bodies, and could not 
 be made to see angelic manifestations in spirits, through their asses, 
 as Balaam had done. 
 
 And it came to pass that the shelves were in the pit of the stom- 
 ach, and the people conversed together, while the Lord did his work 
 in their love nature, and their heads were none the wiser for it. 
 
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 But the power of the Lord was in Israel as a burning flame of 
 pure love, after his unholy desires had been subdued. 
 
 Why should the heads of the people be made holy ? 
 
 Because, the spirit child cannot pass into the higher circles 
 without wisdom of its own, and he must obtain that wisdom 
 through a spiritual body of its own, and it cannot have that unless 
 it hath an earthly body. And in order to get that, his mother 
 must eat earthly food. 
 
 And her half wisdom, with her instinctive love nature, is suffi- 
 cient to grant unto the spirit all it doth require of her, and her 
 mouth is engaged in a high and holy calling. But it is the power 
 of the developed spirit in the womb that attracts the material for 
 the building of the spiritual, and even for the earthly body ; for 
 the mother knows by the calls of the stomach that she must eat 
 for the charge in trust. 
 
 The earthly body, as it forms into human apartments (after the 
 pattern of the Almighty organism in the heavenly Father, for 
 God will have praise of men, and pleasure in all his works), 
 doth bury up the senses of the child, and its memory is completely 
 gone at birth ; but it will return again, if not all on earth, you 
 will when made a medium sense the feelings which embarrassed 
 you ; when, like Adam and Eve, you found yourself naked, and 
 hopped into a fig-leaf shop to get an earthly and spiritual apron, 
 and you will, when you come to have your first fruit taken', see 
 how bad your p6or parents felt when you were knocking round 
 their things so in their best room. 
 
 After your guardian has done all she can in making a prophet 
 of you, she will send her angel to the higher spheres (under the 
 direction of the Lord) for Phineas, the son of Eleazar, the son of 
 Aaron the priest (who in the latter days is called Solon), and he 
 will see how you have been eating and building up your spiritual 
 
196 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 body, by bowing down to the gods or guardians, when they have 
 whispered the forbidden word. 
 
 And he will rise up in the congregation, and take his javelin in 
 his hand (javelin being the name of his angel, or some other high 
 functionary or body-servant), and he will be after you, because he 
 will see that you are partially developed, male and female, and 
 your angel is waiting to come home as soon as her apartments 
 could be made ready. 
 
 " And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust 
 both of them through the man of Israel, and the woman through 
 the belly.' 
 
 This is good enough for you, for it will remind you of the time 
 when you ran over the governmental heads of your loving parents, 
 and kicked up such a dust in their front parlors, and how you 
 made them stone the poor innocent frogs in the well ; and if you 
 have got hit at last, it was by the providence of God that you have 
 come off as well as you have. 
 
 And the last is a type of the first, raised one circle ; or the first 
 is the raising from the second to the third circle ; the last is the 
 raising of the medium from the third to the fourth circle, which 
 is now to be established on earth. 
 
 And so the plague was stayed from the children of Israel by 
 Solon, who knocked the shelves from the pit of your speaker's 
 stomach, so that he might see to speak with his eyes open. 
 
 And he said that, of his beloved friends in the United States, 
 the cholera had destroyed a great many more than twenty thou- 
 sand with the javelin of wrath, while the javelin of love would 
 have saved them all, and made them mediums ; but the men 
 thought that their bellies were as well as they could be, if they 
 only were supplied with highly-recommended drugs from the doc- 
 tor's shop. 
 
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 You must be slayed alive, if you wish to live upon earth and 
 be happy. 
 
 Wherefore say, Behold I give unto him my covenant of peace : 
 and he shall have it, and his seed after him, the covenant of an 
 everlasting priesthood. 
 
 And Balaam did advertise Balak as a first-rate hand to do things 
 for the people in these latter days ; and your speaker has made 
 fast to one of them, which is the signal for a grand rush, and let 
 every one catch a Tartar. 
 
 And let me go back to the twenty-first chapter, and say, that 
 if you are so far advanced as to see spirit manifestations with the 
 eye of wisdom, as it were, a brazen serpent on a pole, you need 
 not fear ; for should the spirits be upon you as fiery serpents or 
 a consuming fire, you could by concentration pass the spirit 
 round to some shining love, and she could send it back, and an 
 equilibrium would be formed, and you could not be bitten by one 
 of those serpents, even should they swim the river Hidekal red 
 hot, as they have been known to do, and lead astray frail ones of 
 earth. 
 
 And strange flesh make the waters bitter. 
 
 And it came to pass that certain of them in those days knew 
 how to stir up the monkeys with a long pole, for some of them 
 were far away from home. 
 
 Last evening some one rang my bell, and as my wife opened the 
 door, I saw Napoleon Bonaparte working his way in with his ser- 
 vant ; and while my heart burned within me, he opened to me the 
 Scriptures, and I invited him to come and hear me lecture on this 
 good old Thanksgiving day, and I invited him to testify to the 
 truth of my remarks. 
 
 He said that the people had often witnessed the testimony in 
 the letter, and that they would soon witness the testimony of the 
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 spirit within themselves. But he said the letter was not fully 
 understood ; for men had not, in their short-sightedness, been able 
 to push their investigations to the bottom of the subject ; and that 
 but a very few understood Moses and the prophets ; and he says 
 even if one half of the people have understood it, he wants the 
 other half should likewise. 
 
 He says that a spirit cannot be bitten and live in individualism, 
 unless it can see a fiery serpent on the end of the pole which 
 Moses had by divine command uprighted for that purpose. 
 
 And it shall come to pass that every one that is looking upon 
 the fiery serpent while he is being (without teeth) bitten shall 
 live. 
 
 My friend, we cannot expect that more than one half will under- 
 stand this scripture in the letter, but in the spirit ; as mediums 
 who stand upon the prophet platform, there is no respect of per- 
 sons ; for these all are developed by divine command ; also in love 
 and wisdom ; for the fiery serpent is seen there in spirit, one circle 
 above its former position ; and no one can live unless he is bitten. 
 
 Let the earthly body die while you are in good health, through 
 the building up and raising of the spiritual body, and you are a 
 medium. 
 
 And if the Kenites should waste some of the earthly, while 
 Ashur is carrying away captive the first fruits of the spirit, it is 
 no use to cry for spilt milk. 
 
 And now we will see if the light shines through Peter. 
 
 On the morrow, as the three men drew nigh unto Peter, he 
 went up upon the house-top to pray, it being about the sixth hour, 
 which is usually the hottest part of the day. 
 
 And Peter became very hungry (and that will sometimes force 
 the willing to eat), and while the angels were making ready he fell 
 
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 into a trance, with bis eyes open, and he saw them open heaven, — 
 that is, the kingdom of Christ that is in you. 
 
 And Peter saw them open it with his key, the spiritual use of 
 which he had been as ignorant of as a jackass until that moment ; 
 for he had never before been entranced with his eyes open. 
 
 And after they had opened heaven so that Peter understood it, 
 they let down, as it were, a whole peck of reddish gum-elastic spider- 
 web ; and one of the angels taking one end of it, together with the 
 first fruits of his spiritual body, started for the purpose of putting 
 him in communication with the upper circles; and Peter found 
 that by his will-power he could call any of his old lovers from the 
 spirit land, and hold sweet communion with them. 
 
 And Peter saw a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had 
 always been, — a great sheet, let down to the earth, at the bottom 
 of the feet, and knit together at the toes and finger-ends, which are 
 the four corners of the New Jerusalem, as seen by spirits who are 
 advanced enough to leave the mark of the beast, to join the blessed 
 above. 4 
 
 After Peter's house had been snugly fixed up, and his little 
 offering of fruit had reached the far-off country of Moab, and he 
 had given two little parcels to his neighbors, his angel-love came 
 home. 
 
 He fell down • on her neck and kissed her, and had the fatted 
 calf cooked for dinner. 
 
 And Peter said that he would overlook the past, in regard to 
 harlots, if she would keep dark about what he had been up to. 
 
 And they all agreed to have a merry time ; but Peter's home- 
 spirit made some fuss, for fear that, should it get out, the people 
 would call him Mrs. Granny Peter. 
 
 And it came to pass that Peter and his new bride were very 
 happy ; and the angel of the Lord blessed them, and the angels 
 
 
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 of their departed friends showed them how to create a human 
 spirit, by compounding a principle of spirits that exist from earth, 
 sea, and skies, and how to take them up into heaven in three dif- 
 ferent squads. 
 
 And they were mightily tickled when they witnessed the 
 mingling of loved ones within themselves, because it gives them 
 the pleasure of faith in spirit manifestations. 
 
 And it was thus that Peter's round-top felt hat was re-napped 
 while he slept with his eyes open, and that, too, with the Herschel 
 beaver. 
 
 And thus was Peter developed in his whole nature, and through 
 which he found himself in harmony with God's creations, as seen 
 in whole numbers. 
 
 And it so happened that Peter wanted to see the medium 
 through whom he was made a medium himself; and as he came 
 down stairs he saw some men, who told him that there was a great 
 medium in Cesarea, called Cornelius, a centurion of the Italian 
 band of matrimony devout, and one that was in communion with 
 God, and holy departed ones always ; and they invited Peter to go, 
 and Peter went. 
 
 And -when Cornelius threw down his positive eye at Peter's 
 feet, for intuitive communication, Peter took his angel up, saying, 
 Stand up ; I am also a whole man myself. 
 
 And the people in half numbers did not know what they said, 
 because they talked Italian. 
 
 And Peter went into Cornelius' house, and talked with him 
 there, and found many that were come together. And he said 
 unto them, That ye know that it is not according to the law of 
 nature that a man that is a Jew, or that half of mankind who wear 
 the beard, should do the word of the Lord in the letter, as the 
 other half do that have no beard on the face. But the Lord God 
 
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 showed me, in my development, that in the spirit the men are not 
 uncommonly used ; for they are clean and clear in grit as any- 
 body. 
 
 Every one in the spirit is quicker than lightning, when sent for ; 
 and when the angel has done the word, and put it in the mouth, 
 the parties, in wisdom united, divide the word, and thereby ask, 
 For what intent have you sent your angel ? And they found that 
 it was for the purpose of getting up a communication, to be ex- 
 plained in fifty-two, as the fulness of the second coming of Christ 
 in the whole people would be nigh at hand at that time. 
 
 And Cornelius said to Peter thus, Four days ago, when my 
 three-score years and ten were up, and I had been fasting through 
 the heavens, as God's servants, up to this hour, I prayed in the 
 outer courts of my Lord's house ; and as I looked up, on turning 
 the foundation stones below the ankle, I beheld a man before me, 
 in spiritual garments ; and I spoke four words ; — the two on the 
 right-hand foot were man ! and the two on the left, my male 
 nature said, woman ! and as I was never known to divide the 
 word before, it gave me a tremendous start up the way of life, and 
 I mingled, in all my spiritual parts, in the upper courts of the 
 Lord's house. 
 
 And the Lord God spoke kindly to me, and said that I had 
 served him faithfully in all my former legs and sympathies, and 
 now he had in contemplation for me a pair of arms. 
 
 And I found the Lord true to all he promised ; and now, my 
 dear Peter, I find myself in the fourth circle, where I am happy 
 to meet and shake hands with you. 
 
 And the Lord told them both that if they would progress for a 
 few clays they should pass through to the eighth circle of prophe- 
 cy, and there become writing mediums, and that he would impress 
 them to write their experience. 
 
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 And now, therefore, are we all here present before God, to hear 
 all things that are commanded thee of God. 
 
 And before I sit down I would say to you alone, Peter, that 
 the way I first came to know about this development was being 
 put in communication with some one who was about to take in 
 charge an offspring which some rich folks wished to put out to 
 nurse. 
 
 Then Peter arose and went into the kitchen, to see the earthly 
 rib of the house ; and Mrs. Cornelius told Peter that she never was 
 so completely tickled in all her born days as she was when Mrs. 
 Experience, an aged relative, informed her how Mr. Cornelius had 
 got fixed out with a tallowed rag. 
 
 Peter observed to Mrs. Cornelius that the cock did n't crow in 
 the afternoon, or fourth circle, as he did in the third circle, to re- 
 mind one of his sins. 
 
 Mrs. Cornelius observed, that she should not consider it a sin to 
 laugh out hearty ; but as Mr. Cornelius was in the house when she 
 first got an inkling of the affair, and that she rather kept in from 
 laughing out loud ; and finally she said to Peter that she thought 
 that in the end the world would find no better men than could be 
 found among the women folks. 
 
 This good woman reminds your speaker of a curtain lecture that 
 he got from one of his several wives, last evening ; for said she we 
 will not see you knock under to sceptics until they bring a more 
 substantial argument than electricity. 
 
 And herein Peter got his eyes opened in time to feel the Lord 
 move upon the waters of his mouth, and the waters of endless life 
 welled up in him, and moved his tongue to speak the truth, and 
 he said there was not much difference among some folks, after all, 
 come to take them through. And he said clearly that God loved 
 1 his children, because he knew their worth, and had knit them 
 
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 together in spiritual numbers ; and if he wished to be godly he 
 must imitate God in love, and thus strengthen his love organs. 
 
 And he saw a very rich man sell his half number for a whole 
 one, and then he lacked nothing but that wisdom which he could 
 gain from day to day through his love organs, which were so 
 beautifully set forth in the case of Balaam's instinct beast. 
 
 The word which God did to Israel, through Balaam, and by 
 which all the true children of Israel were run through, as with a 
 javelin, to open the blind eyes, for the pleasure of wisdom through 
 love ; and which word was divided by Jesus Christ, who will be 
 found within you, and he will be Lord of all your desires. 
 
 Half numbers are liable to be hypocritical in richly refined 
 earthly society ; and he who hinted at the word was crucified ; for 
 the Lord, like your speaker, went to the secret chambers of silent 
 thought to find the law of human nature ; and we find the word 
 before the child is born. 
 
 But even Peter wrought a great work in opening the eyes of 
 some of them at Jerusalem, as we see by Acts 9 : 3 ; for they say, 
 Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. 
 
 And Peter asks how they knew that he went in uncircumcised, 
 to eat the word with men. 
 
 And behold, they gave this very learned answer, Behold, we 
 found the old gentleman's original statute-book on the law of nature, 
 and find that the circumcision of women was not practised among 
 the Jews, as a general thing, at that time. 
 
 And they all marvelled together. 
 
 And who but Samuel shall dare tell the word by which the 
 spirits in the second circle shall be individualized, or the words by 
 which the servants of God shall be compounded and raised to the 
 second circle, and by which to make a medium, as at the beginning; 
 for by learning how to compound a spirit makes you mediums with 
 
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 your eyes open ; for if you do it as clairvoyants your wisdom will 
 not be enlarged by it.« 
 
 But Peter rehearsed and unhorsed the hearse from the begin- 
 ning, and expounded and compounded the whole matter, by order 
 of his guardian angels. 
 
 And now, when he wrote the second time about it, he says his 
 guardians let down from his breast a milk-white garment, similar 
 to the one that Christ wore on Mount Tabor, and it came even to 
 him ; and the angels told him to show his pretty toes from under 
 the hem, and to spread his feet so that he might embrace the sea, 
 as well as the land, and to ponder and consider how his shining 
 garments and open position would attract the children from the 
 first circle of men, as seen in the letter. 
 
 Now, God wished to explain to Peter the starting point, from 
 whence came his own dear spirits that made himself the image ; 
 and, therefore, the children, when attracted to him, came with the 
 mark of the beast with which they had been associated in the 
 seventh circle, first sphere. 
 
 And he heard a voice on his silent ear say unto him, Arise, 
 Peter, slay and eat. 
 
 But Peter said, Not so, Lord ; for I am hard set against pork, 
 and I never so much as dreamed of eating snakes, toads, and dung- 
 worms. 
 
 And they spake in Peter's ear again, and told him that God 
 would redeem and cleanse all things, and that by compounding the 
 individual animal souls, or spirits, they, all differing in instinct 
 nature, would respond to all of his love numbers as an Image of 
 God. 
 
 Herein Peter consented to have the internal nerve-drapery lifted, 
 -\nd the children beheld the river Hidekel for the first time, and 
 
 ^m in glory there. 
 
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 This spirit changes its combination somewhat when it draws 
 around itself the material, and forms its own earthly and spiritual 
 bodies, so that it shall not in all respects be like its godfather. 
 
 Thus, my friends, you see that the law of nature changes not. 
 You see how Balaam's compassion and love nature is represented 
 by his instinct beast of burden, whose namesake stands behind you, 
 and nods assent to whatever your wisdom designs to carry out in 
 love matters, either divine or otherwise ; and if you have not wis- 
 dom to keep it out of bad company, you should have a new supply, 
 and make him nod assent to that. 
 
 Your guardian wife or husband, in the upper circles, is sancti- 
 fied, and will and must sanctify you, and aid you in wisdom. 
 
 Paul says that woman must not talk in public meetings. But 
 the men can talk ; but he recommends that they be uncovered ; — 
 yes, let the men bring their feminine nature from under the cover 
 of night, and let the women be covered with their male nature, 
 and then wisdom will cover all, and all will stand on the same 
 talking platform, equal in love, equal in wisdom. 
 
 My dear friends, the daughters of Moab, being instructed by 
 God, compounded the spirits of Washington, and all in affinity 
 with him ; and all his near supporters were with him, most firmly 
 compacted with the boldness of the lion. 
 
 And when the thirteen United States of America lifted their 
 prayer to God for help, while under oppression, behold, the help 
 had been deposited with the leading men, and the prayer consulted 
 and answered before it had been offered up. 
 
 The princes of Moab will look after our women folks, but the 
 daughters love the men. 
 
 And it came to pass that, one night, while Washington was 
 I sleeping upon his blanket and straw, one of the daughters of Moab 
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 came to him, knowing that a Spirit- Washington could be begotten, 
 and made to work the next day on the battle-field to good advan- 
 tage ; and she knew that it took much time to mature a man in the 
 flesh, but not in the spirit, although the process was the same ; for 
 nature hath but one simple way to do it. 
 
 This his lover knew, that he would lose his life on the next day, 
 unless she helped him ; to do which she went in unto him ; and 
 while, perhaps, he was having pleasant dreams, he conceived and 
 bore a spirit-child, who could take upon itself the likeness of 
 Washington, at the pleasure of his lover's will-power. 
 
 Now, the individual who was to slay Washington on the next 
 day was also sleeping, and his lover had procured the aid of Solon 
 to develop his spiritual eyes. 
 
 It so happened, on the next day, that Washington stood in full 
 view of his enemy, the one who had his eyes opened upon the night 
 before, and being none the wiser for it levelled his rifle at the same 
 instant that his guardian magnetized his eyes ; so that when he 
 took his aim the flesh and blood of Washington had become vapor 
 to him, and the spirit-child, which was of more dense material, 
 stood full in view, near by its parent, and the shot passed through 
 it, and hurt it not. 
 
 The rifle was reloaded, and when the aim was taken the same 
 thing was done again, even unto sixteen times ; and the Indian 
 assumed the ground of a prophet, and said that Washington was 
 never born to be killed with a bullet. 
 
 My sharp-eyed friend, here, on my right, asks why the Indian 
 did n't see Washington's spirit when his flesh disappeared. 
 
 I will say, in answer, that the magnetizer can fix the eye for 
 what he likes to show or hide in spirit, and everything else appears 
 as to the natural eye. 
 
 It was a long job to get up a Washington, and the good daugh- 
 
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 ters of Moab, from the utmost borders of our planetary system, 
 got Kim up for the Revolutionary War, and they were able to pro- 
 tect him. 
 
 This spirit was afterwards individualized, and became the mother 
 of your lecturer ; and I must say she was as good a mother as ever 
 was shot at. But she was a servant of God, at that time, and in 
 the first circle ; but still she bore the first love principle of her 
 afterward compounded spirit ; and when she was conceived George 
 was in slight communication with her parents ; because he was in 
 harmony with her spirit, through which harmony he visited her 
 from the spirit land. 
 
 Spirits have no family ties but through harmony. 
 
 At conception, the spirit draweth powerfully from the river 
 Pison for the seed of its earthly body, and from the river Gihon 
 for the seed of its spiritual body ; and the spirit having the benefit 
 of the godfather's wisdom, as well as that of both parents (and 
 here you see a type of the medium in after years, as a prophet in 
 communion with higher minds in bringing heaven and earth 
 together, to beget wisdom as a child ; for nature knows but one 
 way in two parts, earthly and heavenly), fills the river Hidekel 
 around and through sensitive organs ; and all parties know the 
 vacuum, and know that the utmost borders of Aaron must pay 
 tribute to something, if they do not know of spirits ; but one indi- 
 vidual spirit cannot add to or take from another spirit ; for God 
 hath care to cleanse them. 
 
 If you wish to trace your genealogy from royal blood as I do, 
 you must become mediums ; and I am happy to know that some of 
 your children know better than to use a foot with a priceless stone 
 in it to kick a neighbor behind his back. 
 
 The Scripture name of the implements in producing a spirit 
 
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 child, as set forth this afternoon, is Aaron's Rod, which budded, 
 blossomed and brought forth fruit, in a day. 
 
 But Aaron was Moses' angel-friend, from the higher sphere, 
 through whom Moses got his light to enlighten the world at this 
 time. 
 
 And the cow's-horn runs to spirals, and shows that her spirit 
 feels the force of heavenly circles ; and the hollows in her thighs 
 show that she hath great attraction over much blood principle, and 
 that she brings, in her resurrection to the first circle of man, a 
 great treasure, and forms the first principle of the home-spirit of 
 man. 
 
 And Aaron collected the material to make a calf, while Moses 
 was on the mountain of fire and smoke ; and when he saw what 
 Aaron had been about, he knocked the commandments together in 
 such a manner as to break the stones which contained the desire to 
 transgress the law of his nature. 
 
 Then, after Moses had read the love law in his own nature, as 
 written by the finger of God, he had it written, as well as he 
 could, on tables of stone, for the people to read ; for he knew that 
 they could not be developed then so that they could read it on 
 their own hearts as he had done. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I do not see how that sheet of Peter's was knit 
 together, and suspended in the air, and let down to the earth, as 
 has been explained by you, in your remarks, said an old lady, with 
 spectacles on. 
 
 I said that the fingers and toes were the four corners of the 
 image, as laid out by John, the saint, and seen by him when in a 
 trance, or in the spirit ; and it seems to me that, should you let 
 down one to light this room, this evening, as a chandelier, my 
 dear woman, you must see (were the sheet let down to the ground) 
 the attractive power to bring animals into the sheet, as there is a 
 
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 spirit in that sheet in affinity with all animals, which God 
 desires to have enter at that time, for the creating of that one 
 spirit. 
 
 Well, dear me, I never understood that thing before, and never 
 should have found it out alone, although I have seen it typed a 
 thousand times ; and, if my good husband was here, he would tell 
 you so. 
 
 My good madam, none but such as are somewhat in the spirit 
 can see the attractive positions which lead spirits successfully on 
 to individualism; these things are of God, and they are often 
 hidden from the wise and prudent, while they are revealed unto 
 
 I would now call your attention to the Book of Exodus ; if 
 you please, you can look at the third chapter. Here we must 
 take extreme care that this chapter doth not ex-unitus. 
 
 II Xow Moses kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the 
 priest of Midian." 
 
 Yes, one of the old priests of Mid-i-an ; and how natural it is 
 for men to look after the flock of their fathers-in-law ! 
 
 M And he led the flock to the back side of the desert, and came 
 to the mountain of God, even unto Horeb." 
 
 How natural to lead the tender flock of the heart to a place 
 deserted by the people, even to the back side thereof; but those 
 that blush in fornication cannot see it to be near the mountain of 
 God, even unto the rib. 
 
 " And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of 
 fire, out of the midst of a bush ; and he looked, and behold the 
 bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed." 
 
 The fire was discovered by Moses in the midst of the bush ; 
 
 but the Holy Ghost, the only fire in spirit nature, is true love, 
 
 true heart love ; and, when the little gods of love are about, the 
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 fire may be discovered by them, as well as others, in the midst 
 of the bush. 
 
 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight. 
 Why, the bush is not burnt ! 
 
 How very natural it is for men to see to things ! but Moses 
 did not turn aside from virtue, but only turned the right side, as 
 the left had been to a rib. 
 
 " And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God 
 called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, 
 Moses." 
 
 " And he said, hear I." 
 
 When the Lord spake to Moses for the first time after he had 
 got curious about this matter, as the Lord came and found that 
 Moses had crept through the bush, and was taking on the individual 
 bodies as embryo, Moses divided the word, and told how he could 
 talk, and the Lord was sure that Moses was there, for he heard 
 him speak. Can you not hear me talk ? saith Moses. 
 
 The second time that the Lord spake out of the bush, when it '■ 
 was burning, was when Moses went to the flock of his father- 
 in-law, to do for others as he had been done to by the Lord ; 
 and it was natural that a good man should do so. 
 
 " And he said, Draw not hither ; put off thy shoes from off 
 thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground." 
 
 Moses, in the first place, had been taught to put off those 
 cloven shoes at his godfather's feet, as he was about to leave the 
 mark of the beast behind him, and pass the foundation-stone of 
 individual spirit life. But, in the second stage of progress, the 
 attraction of his flock told him to put off his shoes, and retire. 
 
 And Moses saw that this Scripture must pass to its third 
 reading in the day of Samuel, in the year of his first Lord, one 
 thousand eight hundred and fifty- two ; and, until that time, the 
 
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 great body of the people would fulfil the third reading, by putting 
 off the earthly body, to moulder in the grave. 
 
 The people could not be developed in spirit before the above 
 time, so that their departed friends could tell the things that 
 pertained to their kingdom. 
 
 The men have thought that they could not draw nigh, hither. 
 They, generous souls, could give, but never thought of drawing, 
 except to draw back, and waste, and destroy their own bodies. 
 They thought they had nothing to draw with ; for the girls 
 represented to them that the old lady had willed exclusively the 
 old water-pot to them ; and the men supposed, from what they 
 could see, that it was law, as they had often tried to look into the 
 matter, and were convinced that the thing stood as the girls 
 represented. 
 
 But the Lord will undeceive you ; for the order has gone forth 
 from his throne, that in due time, in each case, the shelves at the 
 pit of the stomach shall be knocked away, and the upper branch 
 of the Lord's house should be permitted to take a part in the 
 discussions of the day, and that every member in the united house 
 shall have the privilege of being heard by the people, and the 
 fourth circle of spirit-creating pleasure shall be established in the 
 earthly house, according to its original design, and then one 
 other day's work by God, in the creation of the world, will be 
 accomplished. 
 
 Moses hid his face, but your speaker hath given you a likeness 
 of it, for the time to keep dark hath expired. 
 
 The second time he had a right to hide his face in the bound- 
 ing sweetheart of deer, which, when watered by the welling-up 
 springs of life, will extend the arms of love, until the gates at the 
 ends of the fingers shall meet, to embrace the universe of man 
 
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 and his affinities, and then you will be a man according to the 
 measure of a man, that is, the angel. 
 
 Moses first hid his face in the flesh, when his angel left for 
 the borders of Aaron, which is in the utmost planet. 
 
 " And the Lord said, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of 
 Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ; and I am 
 come down to deliver my people out of the hands of darkness, and 
 to bring them out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto 
 a land flowing with milk and honey." 
 
 • And the daughters of Moab said, in the name of God, many fine 
 words unto Moses, who was made a writing medium, by the power 
 of the burning bush. Deuteronomy, viii. 
 
 " All the commandments which I command thee this day shall 
 ye observe to do," that ye may live and multiply, that ye may 
 come in through the doing of the word, by which you multiply, 
 into the spiritual land of heavenly original thought, and possess 
 this land, which the Lord sware unto thy fathers. 
 
 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed 
 thee on manna from the river Gihon, which thou knewest not, 
 neither did thy fathers know, for man cannot live by bread and 
 meat alone, for that is for the earthly body. But the spiritual 
 body must feast by doing every word that proceedeth out of the 
 mouth of the Lord, he must do all of the instinct words of animals 
 to make a spirit of the image, or somebody must do it, or how 
 can you multiply, and live in the land ? 
 
 My dear friends, as God lives I most truly believe that the 
 race of man is now to enter into the land of promise, both in tem- 
 poral and spiritual things, and then holy communion shall fill 
 every soul. 
 
 Look at the tenth chapter. At that time the Lord said unto 
 me, Hew the two tables of stone like unto the first, and come 
 
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 unto me into the Mount, and make theo an ark of wood, and I 
 will write on the tables the words that were in the first table, 
 with which so many of my people have broken one of my Ten 
 Commandments ; and, when you become a medium, you stall 
 find the tables developed according to the image, and you shall 
 know that your mother left them there when you was a very 
 little boy. « 
 
 And the daughters of Moab must help you find them, for the 
 old lady stowed them away by the command of the Lord, among 
 the things in the ark. 
 
 These are like unto the first, for the first gave the spiritual 
 body to offspring, which is eternal ; but this addition will make 
 you attractive to all heavenly influences, as I have said before, 
 and when we all have them developed, heavenly love will abound, 
 and sorrow will leave the earth. 
 
 Those that have them can converse with God, and departed 
 loved ones, through them, and multiply spirits by the word and 
 commandments of God, while others multiply earthly and spiritual 
 bodies ; so all can work for the Lord in harmony, as in all other 
 worlds that have gone before us. 
 
 And, when Moses went up into the Mount, he had the two 
 tables in his internal hands, and the Lord wrote the same words 
 which he spake unto you in the Mount, out of the midst of the 
 fire, that you might be fitly prepared for the reception of heaven's 
 wisdom. 
 
 And the Lord gave them unto me, and I turned from evil 
 communication, and I turned myself as the river of life is turned, 
 and came down from the Mount, and put them in motion in the 
 ark (that no one could steady and live) every time I wish for a 
 communication from afar, and they are in the ark now. Yes, 
 there they be, as the Lord commanded. 
 
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 Therefore, saith the Lord, shall ye lay up these my words in 
 your heart, and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your 
 hand, external and internal, that they may be as frontlets between 
 your eyes, as they are in sympathy, to lift the word to wisdom's 
 throne. And ye shall so teach, that your children shall have 
 perfect physical organism, speaking of them as thou sittest in 
 thine earthly house* and, when thou walkest on the journey of 
 life, and when thou liest down to give thy body to the grave, and 
 when thou risest to realms of immortal day, and thou shalt 
 write them upon thy door-posts, or the hollow of thy thighs, 
 and upon thy gates, that your days be multiplied, and the 
 days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto 
 your fathers, to give them to you, as the days of heaven upon, 
 the earth. 
 
 My friends, the distinguished brother on my right is no less 
 than Moses himself; he observed us as we were looking at his 
 burning bush, and thought to step in and inspire your speaker 
 with confidence to say more about his writings than I might have 
 otherwise done. 
 
 He says that the breaking of the commandments did not break 
 the old tables, for they were as good as new when Aaron cast his 
 golden calf in his mould, after he had softened the metal over the 
 fire in the bush. 
 
 So Moses thought to -ask the Lord, one day, about it. And 
 the Lord answered Moses, and said, that the man had, through the 
 other stones, always given the Commandments to others, but with 
 these new ones he could help himself, as well as others, to the 
 word and commands of God, as they four could turn the flaming 
 sword to keep the way of life for the spirits, as they were on their 
 journey home to individualism. 
 
 And the Lord sayeth, that if the people will consent to come 
 
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 into this new Canaan, and partake of its milk and honey, as set 
 forth by your speaker, that he will help them, and overlook the 
 past, and redeem every promise that he ever made concerning the 
 people of earth, and he will bless them, and make them happy, for 
 he wants to have praise of men. 
 
 He sayeth, also, that he could not make you understand how 
 long these tables have worked successfully in other worlds, and he 
 knoweth how you will glory in them here, as soon as you under- 
 stand their use. He will bless, bless, bless, bless, and curse not ; 
 and he asks you to do the same, even unto the fourth circle of 
 man. 
 
 You have seen people who have bowed the knee to whoredom, 
 with a nose eat through and through, from eye to eye, as a dis- 
 gusting frontlet, between those orbs. This showeth the curse of 
 the law, and the curse of God. It also showeth the connection 
 between the olfactories and perceptives united, and the most active 
 love organs. 
 
 If you have two new tables of stone, with the Commandments 
 written thereon by the finger of God, then that God will develop 
 two new eyes of wisdom, that you may read the writing upon 
 the new stones, and do all the words which the Lord shall put in 
 thy mouth ; for by wisdom you can divide his word, and teach the 
 use of organs to your children, before the word, which is bound to 
 their hands, shall lead them to feel after strange gods. Teach 
 them that there is nothing hid that will not be brought to light, 
 and the seed of man shall be seen in the falling tears, and your 
 most secret love organs shall be seen full in your face, for wisdom 
 shall have jurisdiction over love organs, and sit as Christ in judg- 
 ment there. 
 
 The earthly tears, and the sensual earthly Mammon, and 
 whoredom love, will be wiped from all faces, and you will not 
 
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 hire men to preach the word in public, for all shall know the 
 Lord from the spirit, when first created, to the aged sire, and 
 ye shall do God's word on earth as they do in the spirit land, and 
 then all exalted beings can come in sweet communion with you, 
 and bless, bless, bless, bless, and embrace you in love, and the 
 happiness of each shall add to the happiness of all the others, and 
 the earth shall blossom as the rose, and as the bud opens to dis- 
 play its beauty to the eyes of menf 
 
 Let the deep, deep river of Gihon flow and flow, and flow and 
 flow, to give the milk to babes, to babes in Christ, and unto 
 Christ himself, in love and honey too. 
 
 Let the bloody war-sword plough the earth, to grow the flower 
 to attract the bee that makes the honey that feeds the man, who, 
 with a mighty arm, can sweep his sins from earth, and lift his 
 heart to heaven. 
 
 Do not forget the eleventh chapter, for the Lord hath promised 
 that if ye do all his commandments, and not live on what your 
 neighbor doeth, but to do them within yourselves, as a perpetual 
 motion of priceless value, which will make you love the Lord 
 your God with all your heart. 
 
 Then will the Lord drive out all those nations of corrupt 
 desires that have beset your pathway, and ye shall possess greater 
 nations, and mightier than yourselves, for ye shall possess the love 
 of those blessed ones in the higher circles, and even those of the 
 higher sphere, as your speaker possesses the love of Moses this 
 day, to move him to speak. 
 
 " Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall 
 be yours; from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river 
 Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea, shall be your coast." 
 Thus reads the twenty-fourth verse. 
 
 The sea gives up its dead even unto the uttermost sea, and 
 
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 every inch of dry land that can bear the impress of the sole 
 of the foot, shall pay tribute to the river Euphrates, when the 
 medium of Canaan, with one foot on the sea and one foot on 
 the land, wishes to create a spirit child under the eye of higher 
 wisdom. This he will do, and prove my lecture true. 
 
 " There shall no man be able to stand before you." 
 
 When this river pours in its flood, you will want no man before 
 you, for you are a whole number ; and the servants of God know 
 the fact, and will bring no man before your face. Neither shall 
 the testimony of a man stand before you, for the fire of love is 
 internal, when this love-river pours in its flood at the gates, as 
 the Holy Ghost upon the stature of a man in Christ, or image of 
 our God. 
 
 " Behold I set before you this day a blessing and a curse." 
 
 If ye do the word of the Lord, ye will be blessed. If ye do 
 *tbe word in whoredom, ye will be cursed ; for this is the law of 
 nature, and should be of common sense. 
 
 A man may appear to enjoy sin in the world of sin ; suppose 
 we admit his happiness, for the purpose of seeing how much of 
 heaven he has lost, and who can strike the balance. 
 
 Dear hearts, we will consider the twenty-second chapter of 
 Exodus. 
 
 11 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacri- 
 fice thereon thy burnt-offerings and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep 
 and thy oxen. In all places .where I record my name I will 
 come unto and I will bless thee." 
 
 The earthly body is an altar on which you sacrifice all eatables, 
 and a principle of that food is in sympathy with holy fire. The 
 name of the offspring is as a spirit image, recorded in the com- 
 passion of the creating medium, in building up the intellectual 
 organs. The name is also recorded in blood, at the conception 
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 of the spirit, the spiritual and earthly bodies. And God will 
 bless all these places. 
 
 "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt 
 not make it of hewn stone ; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, 
 thou hast polluted it." 
 
 " Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy 
 nakedness be not discovered thereon." 
 
 The full medium will build his altar of stone, or stones ; the 
 two foundation ones will be developed in the feet, as the spiritual 
 foundation of life everlasting; and in the frontal bone, and 
 around it, will be developed those sensitive tables of stone, which 
 bear the mark of the Almighty hand, which tables M3ses saith 
 were, by divine command, hidden under the ground, or flesh, for 
 it was not meet that man, in half numbers, should have the 
 charge of conceiving spirits. This burning frontal bush will not 
 lift the tool to pollute the work of spirits, for they, with all 
 people, both men and women, work through sieve gates by order of 
 positive will in wisdom, advanced and individualized. 
 
 Therefore it is not incumbent on you to raise your linen, to 
 expose your nakedness in the letter. 
 
 When you are developed (there may be some present who are 
 not mediums ; if so, I hope they will not blush), your dear 
 guardians will direct their angels to trace, as with the finger, 
 the channels of thought, and locations of organs, of which you 
 had no knowledge before, and the guardian of an opposite sex 
 would be the most curious, as in the letter ; and this is the way 
 to study human nature in spirit and truth, and learn the true 
 worship of the one living and true God. 
 
 And thus shall ye have the true commandments, which sin in 
 the flesh through ignorance hath kept from the people ; for they 
 crucified Christ, and killed and destroyed all of his followers, who 
 
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 were developed like him, in his day on earth, or through his influ- 
 ence after his resurrection in the spiritual body. 
 
 His earthly body never was raised ; it never had the sense of 
 life nor feeling. Neither hath any other one. All feeling is spir- 
 itual : you will never miss the earthly only by being relieved of 
 its ponderous heft. 
 
 But the heft will be made up in pleasure. 
 
 " And if you buy a beloved servant, six years he shall serve 
 thee; and in the seventh he shall go out, free, for nothing." 
 
 If you, as a medium, are developed, you will find your freedom 
 in the seventh circle, and a happy one, for there is the true king- 
 dom ; and the Lord shall bring all his spirits to the door, be- 
 tween the door-posts, and bore you through even to the ears, and 
 they shall be bored through, and you shall hear the spirits speak 
 the word according unto the original way of spirit-talking ; and 
 you will love and serve others so forever. 
 
 Deut. xv. Thou shalt eat it within thy gates ; alike as the roe- 
 buck and as the hart, the Deer-hart, eat as it has passed in 
 through thy gates ; the clean and unclean can eat the meat of these 
 animals. Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof, but shalt pour 
 it on the ground as water ; the life-blood principle shall be as free 
 as water, thou shalt pour it out as thou dost water upon the earth 
 at conception, as seed for the spiritual body of the offspring; and 
 pour it upon the earth of that offspring that is within thy gates, 
 that the spirit may sanctify its first fruits. 
 
 And the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thou doest. 
 
 I see, by the many very happy faces now before me, that the 
 coming evening will witness the union of many hearts in matri- 
 mony, as Thanksgiving evenings have before. 
 
 Therefore to all, but more especially to the young folks who 
 think of entering into those banns, would I say, be careful that 
 
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 you have chosen the right one ; for if you get the true one, God 
 can bless you, and your guardian can bless you. 
 
 When the two are one by the law of nature, the young lady's 
 guardian can bless them together as one, and so can the young 
 man's guardian ; and they will pour out the heavenly mixture as a 
 blessing, and they shall not waste their strength as those do who 
 unite with strange flesh. 
 
 And the god-parent can be in communication with you both as 
 one, when he comes with the spirit offspring and the little child 
 of two years old or less, shall witness to you how strong you loved 
 when you received the gift of its spirit ; and the child shall have 
 wisdom equal to its love, and in blessing you shall be doubly 
 blessed. 
 
 And when you communicate for the pleasure of the thing, the 
 blessing shall attend you ; for you, being one, form a circle, and the 
 life-blood principle shall perpetuate and not leave you, and your 
 flesh shall not be wasted, as the case is with strange flesh. 
 
 Your wisdom will lead you to do all things to the honor of all 
 parties concerned. 
 
 Be certain that you love before you declare to the world your 
 union, and then unite for the purpose of true spiritual love, for in 
 that you find the kingdom of heaven, and then all things else will 
 be added ; should one be dead, as you suppose, yet there may be 
 one in close affinity with your departed one, who may have one 
 departed also : those two may bless you two, and all four may be 
 thus blessed ; but be sure that you marry for love alone. If you 
 doubt, be careful, for there will be no doubts when you find the 
 loved one, for your instinct nature is true love when not corrupted. 
 
 If you obey the command of God, and multiply, you will in 
 due time have a visit from old King Solomon, who will come with 
 his long sharp knife, and divide the child's spirit ; for there will 
 
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 be another woman from the uttermost planet or border of Aaron 
 who will claim it ; and after the child is divided, it will begin to 
 lose its extreme loveliness, and it will sometimes begin to be a 
 little ugly, unless you have been able to give it a remarkable good 
 constitution ; in that case it will be very good, but not so power- 
 fully attractive ; but the better half will come again, thank God, 
 with power and great glory, when the home spirit becomes a me- 
 dium of the fourth circle, and will soon introduce the home spirit 
 and spiritual body, and the intelligent mind, to the eighth or proph- 
 et circle, and then it will bring the home folks riches from a far 
 country, and it shall have the water-pot, and something to draw 
 water with, according to the depth of the well. 
 
 And now to the young women who are to be married this even- 
 ing I would say, Be careful what you do, when you find that the 
 blood of the passover has stopped its monthly visit ; remember 
 that you live in the sight of those who can bless the good ; but 
 the sinner is out of their reach by the law of nature, and every 
 one must suffer for their own sins. 
 
 The spirit that hath and is supporting your speaker this day 
 saith to me, That is my ma, and at the same time directed my 
 attention to a lady, young in wedlock, and sitting on the front seat. 
 
 That lady hath looked very remarkable lovely to me all day, as 
 she hath hung upon my words with apparent delight. 
 
 The spirit spoke, and that explained the whole matter. 
 
 I loved through the spirit of her child. 
 
 And, dear lady, I will look at another person while I speak, so 
 that the people will not know whom I address ; for true love will 
 not offend. 
 
 Your guardian, who is wisdom unto the spirit child, tells me 
 that you will want the child at half-past eleven this evening, and 
 says that I must be present through my angel ; and I intend to 
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222 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 accompany the lovely and loving SPIRIT HOME. And, my 
 dear lady, if I am a medium in pleasure with you, so shall I be 
 in your pains and sorrows, until we shall embrace in the circles 
 above, where the spirits shall bring their spiritual bodies home, and 
 leave the earth, where ignorance doth becloud the joys of heaven. 
 And, my good lady, should I go before you do, I will rap on your 
 table the first chance I get. 
 
 My dear friends, I will now put my angel to the lower part of 
 Isaiah's tenth chapter, and walk up and plug the cheese, and ascer- 
 tain whether it is made of new milk, and how much the church 
 of earth would skim the milk, before they would commence 
 churning. 
 
 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, 
 and Lebanon by a mighty one. 
 
 Yes, that good old man, who hath drawn so much water while 
 he stood in the thickets of Lebanon, will fall, and one leg of his 
 garment shall not be in advance of the other, on the Thanksgiving 
 day of life, when the thicket becomes a burning bush, and the 
 Lord speaketh out of it in spirit, as the offspring hath in the 
 letter. 
 
 Behold,' the Lord, the Lord of hosts, shall lop the old fellows 
 with terror : and the longest one and the most haughty shall be 
 humbled. 
 
 And as a prophet he shall be received in his own land, and he 
 shall be entranced in his own house, as the heavenly pleasures are 
 above the earth. 
 
 And to the Bloomers of this day I would say, that a prophet 
 shall be born unto you, who shall lift up his head mighty in your 
 courts ; and you shall say, Glory to God in the highest, and peace 
 and good-will to all men. 
 
 And while the men with you rejoice and give thanks that the 
 
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 Nob is to be redeemed, and remain with you through one eternal 
 day, the man shall shake his hand against the mount of the daugh- 
 ter of Zion, the hill of his own Jerusalem ; and the old folks 
 shall have a shake together with the young married ones, in the 
 merry dance this evening, while the man-servant and the maid- 
 servant are getting ready and serving up the fatted calf; and 
 by that time the old gentleman will have the rings ready for all 
 hands. ' 
 
 Lift up thy voice, daughter of Gallim, and cause this truth 
 of God to be heard by the poor woman of Laish, and the poor 
 men of Anathoth ; and let them know that Mad-men-ah is re- 
 moved, and the inhabitants, of Gebim gather themselves together 
 to flee from a barren old half number to a whole one, which blooms 
 for endless life. 
 
 And when they come to Milck-mash, they will find, by the town 
 records, that in times passed, that a great many people who lived 
 in the days of the second circle have, in passing to the third, in 
 the dark, slumped into the marsh all over; and although their 
 fathers have searched after them with great diligence, and have 
 come near slumping in themselves without being able to reach 
 them, have had to withdraw their search. 
 
 But yet, although the arm of flesh is shortened, God hath vis- 
 ited the children, and ascertained that they were alive and kicking, 
 and, like Jonah, spake so that the Lord recognized their voices. 
 But Jonah knew better than to keep out of this marsh, for it was 
 only two days before that he was whaled out of the water, as wet 
 as a drowned rat. 
 
 We also learn by Hugbeskie's travels through that country from 
 Poland, that many of these people have lost their all of earth, but 
 as a general thing they have been relieved from their sometimes 
 very perilous situation with much pain to their maternal friends, 
 
224 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 for nine months have elapsed in many cases before they could be 
 rescued. 
 
 The burned child gets wisdom, and its heavenly father gives 
 him a body PROTECTION, and through the help of Isaiah he 
 will find his carriage laid up by his friends, when they found that 
 he was sinking in the marsh. 
 
 And when he runs about on some Thanksgiving day, his heavenly 
 friends will put his carriage together with the four wheels, to his 
 great surprise, as he will not know until then that the old vehicle 
 had but two wearing-out wheels ; the little wheel within the wheel 
 is the biggest wheel of all. 
 
 My little companion saith that he expects to slump, and forget 
 all this for a season, but he will tell his dear loving mother, for he 
 was got up expressly for her, that he will always love her, and he 
 now feels in a hurry to be in her arms of love ; he says but few 
 can realize in the flesh how much he loves his dear mother ; and 
 says that the angelic hosts from the blessed regions of bliss are 
 drawing nigh to see him land in the blessed spirit home of individ- 
 ual life. 
 
 But before he goes to the land of forgetfulness, he must tell 
 you how Isaiah, like him, hit the nail on the head, when he said 
 that my burden was taken away, and the old ox-yoke from off my 
 neck, and which' was broken up by the sympathizing ointment sent 
 • down from the third circle ; and which ointment of love led me 
 from Aiath, or first circle, to my clear god-father, at Migron. 
 
 0, how I love my god-father, who showeth me all these things; 
 but I am now, with all my wisdom, dependent on others for wis- 
 dom ; but I am getting a little speech to speak on the stage, as 
 my maiden speech, when the Lord cometh as a school committee ; 
 and I hope that I shall not be ashamed to express my joy on the 
 reception of the HEAVENLY WISDOM. 
 
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 And, my dear mother, you will excuse the speaker for working 
 and skipping up and down in Isaiah's chapter of truth, because 
 that is the way that all offspring gets a tangible idea of individ- 
 ualism before a blind world, and it is the way to work for the pro- 
 duction of wisdom, when the earthly body grows old and needs the 
 support of the arm of the Lord, through stay and staff, to enable 
 you to sit upon the rocks of his salvation. 
 
 And if Moses should smite them, then you can let the people in 
 the wilderness have a drink of living waters. 
 
 Moses saith, that when he was on earth, he only picked open 
 the crevice of the rock, for nature had provided the water in 
 springs, which freely flowed when nature had instructed him in 
 the use of tools, to pick the dirt out of the crack of the rock. 
 
 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts, my people 
 that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of Assyria : he shall smite 
 thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the 
 manner of Egypt ; and as his rod was upon thee, so shall he lift 
 it up after the manner of Egypt. 
 
 For the Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even de- 
 termined, in the midst of all the people in the land, both male and 
 female. 
 
 The remnant of Jacob that is lacking in half numbers shall 
 return, and that shall introduce you to the mighty God. 
 
 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the angel of Israel, 
 and those that escaped by attraction from the house of Jacob, shall 
 no more stay with them that smote your rock, but shall come 
 home, and stay upon the medium Lord, a holy one of Israel, who 
 hath redeemed the truth. 
 
 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire in wisdom from love, 
 and his holy love-organs for a flame, and it shall burn and devour 
 his thorns and his briers in one day. 
 
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 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among thee, 
 his fat ones, leanness ; but under the love organs, in which he shall 
 glory when the operations which made him lean are over, he shall 
 kindle a burning bush, as the burning of fire. 
 
 This fire shall make the earth desolate in comparison with the 
 glory of heaven which opens before you. 
 
 But the rest of the trees of his forest, while in half numbers, 
 who wish to multiply in the flesh, shall not experience this holy 
 fire to that degree that a child from the second circle could not 
 write them. 
 
 But in the whole number they shall be few, that a child may 
 write them, as they did, under wisdom of others, write my Spirit 
 Home. 
 
 And my hand hath found, as a nest, the heavenly riches of the 
 people ; and no one could peep against such good nests, which had 
 eggs of three treadles, and which could be laid in abundance, and 
 not exhaust the hen; for the rod will not lift itself against your 
 will. 
 
 The axe shall not boast itself of him that heweth with it, or the 
 saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it. 
 
 This scripture proves very plainly, my friends, that the earthly 
 nature of man will not rebel when the holy fire takes possession 
 of his love nature, after the medium is once under the influence of 
 holy fire ; for when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon 
 your Mount Zion, and Jerusalem round and about it, he will 
 punish the king of Assyria in the first of all doing, and humble his 
 high looks in heavenly glory. 
 
 My dear loved of the Lord, I think I have clearly shown that 
 the celestial angels do, in making you a medium or a Christian, 
 subdue the earthly, in the resurrection of the component parts of 
 
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 your spiritual human nature, and that nature exalted to heaven 
 by celestial love organs, developed for the use of celestial angels 
 of Christians, as well as of those who have departed from the 
 earthly organism. 
 
 The medium Christian will find that his earthly nature will not 
 project, although the heavenly fire, or Holy Ghost fire, is melting 
 his heart like wax, as partially known by you, who have experi- 
 enced true wedlock-love, which is the true type of the heavenly ; 
 for there is but one kind of love, and that is simple, and the small- 
 est child can read it as a book. 
 
 People set up their worldly wisdom to crush the love of God. 
 Parents rule, sometimes, over their children, and for the love of 
 pride will crush the love of God. 
 
 Here you see who the God is who curses the earth with thorns. 
 Here you see the wrath of God spoken of by the prophets, as they 
 lived in the deep dark ages of the race of man. 
 
 But now they will write love, and not wrath ; for the darkness 
 fleeth away, as the dew before the sun. 
 
 The instinct nature of your children will provide for wisdom, 
 and develop it in glory, if it is permitted to run its course, accord- 
 ing to love nature. And all other nature is bastard nature, which 
 is the wrath of God ; and such wrath thinks it is against its 
 dignity to harbor baby love, or woman's love, or granny love, or 
 God's love. 
 
 All love is in God ; and it must be in you, if you will to be godly. 
 
 And the simple word of God is found in four letters, namely, 
 love, or loving ; and this is the new command that Christ gives to 
 the world, and this is written by the finger of God upon the newly 
 developed tables of stone, which are buried under ground in the 
 table-lands of the heavenly Canaan, or the spiritually developed 
 body of the Christian medium. 
 
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 How many Christians are there that have preached the love of 
 God, as set forth in Christ, while he was in the earthly house ? 
 He spake of the vengeance of a broken law of love, and how could 
 he do otherwise ? 
 
 But see his love for his murderers, while they were destroying 
 his earthly temple, — yea, the angels were pouring in the love in 
 measures running over full ; for God is love, and so are all who are 
 truly his. 
 
 The moving of love will bring together, even from inanimate 
 matter of the lowest grade, up through the mineral, vegetable, and 
 animal kingdoms, the love principle of the spiritually-developed 
 Christian ; and when it ultimates there it will be the perpetual 
 motion of love, which will run in harmony with the perpetual 
 motion of the mind in wisdom. 
 
 Here eternity opens to the view, — the length of time to speak 
 the love of God, which you will recognize by the well of love 
 which will well up in springs within your spiritual body. 
 
 And this great love you can have, through faith in spiritual 
 manifestations, as given now from the celestial worlds on high, 
 where God doth live upon the love of his dear children. 
 
 When every desire is subdued which would lead you to seduce 
 lovely woman, then, and not till then, can you come into her pres- 
 ence, and converse freely upon the theme of heavenly love ; and 
 then the truth shall make you free, and you shall then be full 
 indeed, and partake with her in all her joys, through your angel 
 of love, and she the same with you ; and in loving your neighbor 
 you yourself shall bless ; — - you shall bless, and curse not ; for love 
 worketh no ill to its neighbor. 
 
 I will call your attention to the 25th chapter of Isaiah : O 
 Lord, thou, my God ; I will exalt thee ; I will praise thy name ; 
 for thou hast done wonderful counsels of old faithfulness, truth. 
 
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 For thou hast made of a city a heap, as a whole number, and a 
 defenced city a ruin ; a palace of strange marriages to be no city ; 
 it shall never be built up ; for each of the party have a power of 
 attraction in some other person. 
 
 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat of lust 
 in a dry place, where the law of nature cannot well up living 
 water through offspring. 
 
 But these things that stand for lust will be brought under the 
 heat, with a shadow of a cloud to protect you from the speech of 
 ignorant people ; for they know not the spirit, when it cometh as a 
 storm against the daughters of Zion. 
 
 These daughters are developed in all, without respect of persons, 
 as the rain falleth without respect of persons who may own the 
 crop of earthly or heavenly production. 
 
 And in this mountain of table-lands, in the midst of you, shall 
 the Lord of hosts make unto you a feast of fat things, — and you 
 know the pig is fat, as well as some other things, — and a feast of 
 wines, from the spiral vines of pig and grape, which comes from 
 the dregs well refined ; and fat things full of marrow, which shall 
 number with your spinal marrow, the tendrils of which are on the 
 watch-tower of all your gates, earthly and heavenly. 
 
 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering 
 cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. 
 
 Then, truly, can we work together for the good of coming gene- 
 rations. 
 
 Will ye help the Lord to remove this covering and veil, which 
 tides the stone that is in your mountain, and which shall fill all 
 the mountains of the daughters of Zion with love and glory, as the 
 waters cover the sea ? 
 
 The spirit of the Lord, which moveth upon the waters, covereth 
 the sea, when the young daughter of Zion, in the seventh circle, 
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 first sphere, comes up in the whale to be covered, as seen in works 
 of love bj the law of nature for the creation of man. 
 
 The time is soon coming when ye shall know these things ; and 
 he who cannot study human nature will be looked upon as a very 
 vulgar person. 
 
 And, my friends, I would address you as the jewels of my 
 heart. 
 
 You do still come up to the surface (as doth the whale), in sight 
 of celestial beings, when you aid in the glorious work of God, as 
 doth the whale. 
 
 Everything in heaven is typed in the letter ; and man can have 
 a foretaste of heaven by unlearning what he has learned, and by 
 learning his true nature. 
 
 No one shall then say, Know ye the Lord ; for all shall know 
 him as they are known by the celestials. 
 
 When you become a Christian, you will in person represent the 
 whole world, celestial and terrestrial ; the new development, repre- 
 senting the spirit land. 
 
 He will swallow up death in victory, as fully set forth by your 
 lecturer, in his account of his own development as a Christian 
 medium, through the first resurrection of his spiritual organism, 
 by which he has been uncovered, as seen in this lecture. 
 
 And I assure you it was no design of mine, when I asked to 
 become a writing medium, to be uncovered before a wondering 
 world. 
 
 But I shall have this satisfaction, of feeling that I am doing it 
 according to the pleasure of our Heavenly Father. 
 
 And when embryo waiteth for the Lord in the medium's com- 
 passion, which is in communion with the embryo-bride, on the 
 utmost planet, waiting for wisdom, we will be glad, — we will 
 rejoice in her salvation. 
 
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 For in this mountain shall the hand of the^Lord and the little 
 bride, the daughter of the uttermost planet Moab, be trodden down 
 under the Lord of wisdom ; for without an individualism on earth 
 it could do nothing for a dung-hill. 
 
 And when it divides the word in wisdom, and tells of the Lord, 
 the medium shall witness it in the midst of his compassion, the 
 same as the mother's womb is witness that the little child doth 
 spread forth its hands in the midst of them, — that is, the mother 
 and medium, — as though it would swim in glory. 
 
 And the fortress of the high fort of the womb will she copy, and 
 bring them down to the ground, that she may walk there herself, 
 until her earthly body is laid in the dust. 
 
 And Moses, being developed, spake unto the children of Israel ; 
 and their princes unborn gave him a rod apiece : for each prince 
 one, according to their father's rod, which stood in front of the 
 house. 
 
 And the rod of Aaron, for the spiritual body was among all of 
 them. 
 
 And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord, in the tabernacle 
 of witness. 
 
 It does appear that he took the rods ; and on the morrow it came 
 to pass that Aaron's rod did the job for the house of Levi ; for 
 Moses brought forth almonds, as he calls them ; but I should call it 
 a spiritual communication, begotten in love and born in writing. 
 
 But Moses returns the compliment ; and they looked, and took 
 every man his rod, even Aaron's rod, which they had been instru- 
 mental in developing in Moses' spirit body. 
 
 And the Lord told Moses that Aaron's rod should be brought 
 out before the testimony, with the new tables, for both men and 
 women ; and they would then cease their murmuring^, and for a 
 certainty know that they could never, never, never die. 
 
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 When you take Aaron's rod under consideration, you will find 
 that the heavens are above the earth. 
 
 Moses says that the lied Sea was at low-water mark when he 
 passed through, and that he had such an effect upon it that it did 
 not flow for some time ; for he was nine months in getting through 
 to lift his voice on dry land. 
 
 He thinks that Pharaoh escaped in his chariot, but lost the tire 
 of his hind wheels, which he, Moses, appropriated to his own use. 
 
 The hosts that accompanied the chariot escaped to an unknown 
 country, except it were a medium or two, who went to take a les- 
 son on human nature. Leviticus, 15th chapter. 
 
 And the Lord spake unto Moses, and through Aaron, the spirit- 
 guardian, saying, If a man be made a prophet while he lives in the 
 flesh, and spiritually becomes a woman, as well as a developed 
 man, — that is, spiritually developed, without regard to the chang- 
 ing of the earthly body, except in sympathy with the spirit, — 
 then the man will feel unclean in his new position, from the time 
 of his commencement until he is admitted into the eighth .circle; 
 and then he shall take his two angel-brides, who will burn with 
 him for a communication to offer to the people to aid them in 
 breaking off their sins, through light from the spirit home. 
 
 And when the woman is made a medium, and advanced to the 
 fourth circle, and finds that her male nature yields the spirit-seed 
 of self-copulation, as man and wife, then, if she is in the flesh, or 
 earthly house, she will feel unclean in her new position, until she 
 is advanced as was the man, and be as Sarah was. 
 
 So the Jews typed the spirit in the letter, through Aaron, who 
 was a celestial from the higher sphere. 
 
 And the angels of Moses' guardians, from celestial worlds, 
 instructed him to wash his hands, and those parts in sympathy 
 with them, until he was even full according to the stature of a man 
 
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 by the law of nature, in every circle of man, from the time he first 
 became a spirit-servant, or Holy Ghost of God, and wore the mark 
 of the beast ; and when God hath cleansed the spirit, and it is even, 
 and the evening of that circle is come, the spirit will be attracted 
 to the next circle, as I have before stated ; and that even unto the 
 eighth circle. 
 
 Christ will send the comforter to you, which will teach you all 
 things, if you will open when he knocks at the door, and ye become 
 doers of his word. 
 
 There is but one fire in spirit, and that is the fire of love. If 
 your love organs are unholy, they will send to the mind hell-fire, 
 which shall, sooner or later, purify your dross, and take away all 
 your tin, and try you, as gold is tried in the fire, until you become 
 the celestial sons and daughters of love and Aaron ; so that the 
 Lord can smite thee with the pleasure of his fruitful rod. 
 
 This 'fire will burn out the eye, the foot and the hand, of trans- 
 gression, and teach you the use of your love organs, that you may 
 be happy in all conditions of truth. 
 
 What are the pleasures in sexual communication, if God, in his 
 Holy Spirit, is not there to bless you ? 
 
 Half man can make laws, but they will collect the dust of ages, 
 if not burnt, when the people know the Lord. 
 
 Much rubbish is there that will soon become as hay and stubble ; - 
 and the day that cometh shall burn them up ; but the people 
 shall be saved, as by fire ; for the Lord will kindle one in the 
 midst of them ; and when the Holy Ghost hath taught you that 
 the sin of whoring is done without him, and against him, and can- 
 not be forgiven in any circle ; but those who do the word of Baby- 
 lon must suffer. You will seek purification. 
 
 Come, ye that thirst, and seek the Holy Spirit, which is holy 
 
 love, notwithstanding it hath the mark of the beast, — yea, they 
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234 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 are the gods of love ; and when you wish to multiply, then the 
 godfathers will give you the blessings of a full river of individual 
 life, for the dear one : and so ye shall go from glory unto glory, 
 when once purified from sin. 
 
 Moses, when in the womb for individualism, was exercised forty 
 days and forty nights in the writing upon the tables of command- 
 ments. 
 
 And when Moses was made a prophet, he fell down, as at first, 
 forty days and forty nights, being in communication with a burn- 
 ing mountain, in the midst of a celestial woman. 
 
 And thus was his tables of love developed; and thus your 
 speaker. 
 
 And Christ fasted forty days in the wilderness, and burnt inso- 
 much as to be tempted of the devil, or the lust of the flesh ; — 
 yes, he saw all the kingdoms of the flesh. 
 
 And it came to pass that the poor men in half numbers could 
 not stone the woman to death, because they were sinners ; and they 
 went out when Christ stooped down, and when he raised himself 
 up he found that the men had gone out, and left the woman stand- 
 ing in the midst ; and Christ found out by her that no one blamed 
 her, and he thought that she might go her way, and he could write 
 by spirits, and she would sin no more. 
 
 And verily I say unto you, that there be some of them that 
 stand here which shall not taste of death till they have seen the 
 kingdom of God come with power. 
 
 Now, there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, 
 which by interpretation is called Dorcas, the celestial guardian of 
 Peter, who announced her name for the purpose of exciting Peter 
 to his final development. 
 
 She was supposed to be dead ; but Peter found, on taking her 
 by the hand of spirit love, that she was alive. 
 
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 And when Peter had gone, with two men, to the upper cham- 
 ber, a celestial room, he found the widows standing weeping; and 
 they, showing the coats and garments that she had made, thus 
 excited Peter (on seeing her open her eyes) to lift her up. 
 
 And thus Peter for the first time communicated to a celestial 
 woman in spirit, after receiving intelligence from two men ; by 
 which means he afterwards begot the heavenly vision, and fulfilled 
 the law of his nature. 
 
 The woman who was actually raised from the dead was the 
 feminine nature of Peter, inherent from his mother ; and all of the 
 spiritual element belonging to him by nature was raised in glory , 
 and his angel came home to partake with him the joys of heaven, 
 in his first resurrection, or a resurrection of the heavenly, while he 
 was in the earthly ; and thus he became a true Christian. 
 
 My dear friends, if wedlock true is to be desired, where you 
 only share one half the pleasure, in the earthly condition, what 
 must be the pleasure of the whole in begetting heavenly wisdom ? 
 
 If ye believe these things, ye may have experimental love- 
 religion ; and when we all know the Lord, no one need to write, 
 but live in love. 
 
 By the aid of the spirit, you will find your Bible to be a holy 
 book, — a priceless gem. 
 
 The worm in the grave dieth not "with the body ; but the spirit 
 silk-worm shall warm you with the fire of love, which shall never 
 be quenched ; and every one shall be saved with fire, and have 
 the salt of fire in yourselves, and have peace one with another. 
 
 All things heavenly are typed in the earthly. 
 
 Now, when they crucified Jesus, the soldiers took his garments, 
 and made four parts, evecy soldier a part ; — the male and female 
 spirit two parts ; the contribution from Joseph and Mary two parts. 
 
236 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 He was crucified on Friday, which is the day of the first circle, 
 when he lost his life as individual instinct spirit, or Holy Ghost. 
 
 On Saturday he was with his godfather, who saw that the 
 earthly seed for the body of Christ was depositing in Joseph's 
 vault, dug in a rock ; and they made every preparation to raise 
 the earthly, by the power of the spirit, on Sabbath morning early, 
 which is the commencement of the third circle. 
 
 But the rich man Joseph begged the dead body of Jesus, and 
 put it in his tomb, after having wrapped it in a clean linen cloth ; 
 and he rolled a great stone to the door, to hold it safe until the 
 third day. And thus Joseph kept the linen. 
 
 And there was the guardian Mary, and Mary the mother, sitting 
 over against the sepulchre, as female is opposite to male ; and she 
 was watching the dead body, or seed of man. And to make sure 
 that no one stole it, the high priests went, and with the sealing of 
 the stone they set a watch to keep the treasure there. 
 
 It so happened, as it sometimes does, that in the first end of the 
 Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first of the week, or first 
 part of the third circle, in that case, and behold there was a great 
 earthquake; for the spirit, with the godfather and medium, 
 descended from heaven, and came and rolled the stone, and set to 
 upon it to raise the dead body. 
 
 And the spirit countenance was like lightning, and much 
 swifter, and his raiment white as snow ; and for fear of him the 
 keepers of the dead body did shake, and become as dead. 
 
 And the angel said unto the woman, Fear not, ye; for I know 
 that ye seek Jesus, whom we created for you ; arid lo, he goes 
 before you. 
 
 And Joseph, the rich man in earthly goods, to fulfil the Scrip- 
 tures, and type the heavenly, rolled back the stone, and sat 
 upon it. 
 
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 As Jesus arose, so all his followers must. 
 
 Those who work as mediums for the Lord, — and generations 
 unborn should, — before they attempt to raise a dead body, set a 
 seal upon the stone, that everything be secure until all things 
 above are made ready ; for the angels work in company with you, 
 because the heavenly must raise the earthly. 
 
 Let the inside of the platter be made clean, according to my 
 Spirit Home, and have the dead men's bones wrapped in clean 
 linen, and wait for the passover, which leadeth from the second to 
 the third circle; and do not be unclean, to be looked at; for there 
 is water plenty, and that which is pure and holy. 
 
 The seed of man, for the planting of the spiritual body, that 
 never was dead, neither can be, is deposited in the twelfth founda- 
 tion-stone of the New Jerusalem, and it is the Amethyst typed in , 
 the hollow of the thighs, as a depository of the seed-I-meant from 
 the bed of the river Gihon, and is the seed of the spirit's spiritual 
 body, which is the spirit's home for ever ; and you should work 
 with them to make it happy, and second with them their motions 
 in their rapid night to realms of endless day. 
 
 The spirit world is below you. The unborn children inhabit the 
 spirit world. 
 
 You put the seal upon the seed of their endless home ; and that 
 is all the home they have ; for where shall we reach a stopping 
 place in any other realm ? 
 
 The spirit land is the celestial land of earth, as the river Gihon 
 is the celestial body of man, or material of which to build that 
 body. 
 
 When the Holy Ghost was given up, and the graves opened, 
 and the veil of the temple was rent, and the earth did quake, 
 and Christ became a medium by typing his mother at his own 
 Passover, and thereby learned to practise as well as to preach 
 
238 THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 about creating without hands, he was supported by many women 
 from the celestial worlds afar off, among whom was Mary Mag- 
 dalene, and Mary, Christ's feminine spirit, who was begetting the 
 first and third fruits of the spiritual body, as mother of James, 
 Joseph, and Zebedee's children. 
 
 Do not forego heavenly pleasure by looking up old dead 
 carcasses of earth, for the kingdom is within you, and there let 
 the heavenly pleasures centre and welcome the women from afar, 
 that the men of the Lord may stand in their courts, and go no 
 more out, and all be invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb 
 of innocence, and have a foretaste of heaven in your own kingdom, 
 and let the will of the heavenly Lord be done there, for the 
 propagation of wisdom. 
 
 And you will then be able to produce the shadow of a rock to 
 the spirits in a dry and thirsty land, and let the rocks cover them 
 from the heat of the love that shelters them from the pelting 
 storm of fury without, where the individual dogs are. 
 
 The mediums will let the children of Israel lift up the rod 
 upon the rock for water, and they need not run after strangers to 
 help to induce the children from their lawful parents. 
 
 Mr. Speaker. 
 
 Mrs. President? 
 
 Some of us do not fully see the spirit in the four soldiers posted 
 at the door of the sepulchre, as they are supposed to be the 
 watch. 
 
 Well, madam, suppose you and I should be a committee, to 
 look a little deeper into the matter, by taking a peep at embryo, 
 as he is rolled into a heap by an earthquake, from Sinai's burning 
 top, and see the four tables of Commandment as a stone rolled to 
 the spirit's door, for his especial use, and which the spirit doth 
 arrange, and, when wisdom comes in heavenly love, the four 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 239 
 
 tables appear, and complete the house, and they set & watch upon 
 the stone for each. 
 
 And, when you was made a medium, wisdom did the same 
 thing over again and again, until the spiritual love tables, in har- 
 mony with your wisdom eyes, were developed, and your four 
 lovely eyes are the watch, sealed and set, one upon each stone. 
 
 Love might take the letter for the spirit, but the eye of wisdom 
 will watch the apple of the eye. 
 
 At the death of Christ, the heavens were there represented by 
 an angel, whose raiment was white as snow. 
 
 The Irish people often have a wake at the burial of a friend, 
 because the grave is opened for the earthly body, and the spiritual 
 body of the sainted spirit hath come forth out of the grave of 
 flesh, and is in communication with the earthly friends, and the 
 warm Irish heart of nature partakes of the happiness of the 
 departed spirit, which is as white as snow, and as warm as 
 love. 
 
 The poor people want wisdom, to keep them from getting 
 drunk on earthly spirits, and dressing themselves in black. 
 
 The fashion of riding to town on a bier is to be changed in the 
 blood of the New Testament, according to the spirit of the old. 
 For Balaam rode upon his long-eared animal to the spirit land, 
 while in the earthly house. 
 
 And our ministers will follow the people when they see those 
 people do as Christ did, when he sent the men to loose the colt, 
 the foal of an ass, after the men had told those who stood by what 
 the Lord stood in need of. 
 
 And your speaker hopes that the clergy will find the women 
 there, with their flowers, to strew the pathway to the New 
 Jerusalem, where they will, with Father Ballou, learn to preach, 
 and practise too. 
 
240 , THE SPIRIT HOME. 
 
 To the ladies of this society I tender my most sincere and 
 heartfelt thanks, for their politeness in showing me the cattle-pen 
 at the foot of the lane, and giving me the cooling drafts at the 
 well of life, upon the old homestead. 
 
 And to the others, who have heard but half of my lecture, I 
 would say, Have the faith of Father Abraham, for ye cannot 
 clearly see whether I am in the body or out of the body. 
 
 But you will have another chance, perhaps, for it hath been 
 intimated that I should write, or lecture, upon the spiritual bear- 
 ing of the sun, moon, and stars upon the body, and spiritual 
 organism of man, as set forth by the law of human nature, my 
 favorite study. 
 
 My little friend wishes to have one word before he goes upon 
 the scape-goat to the land of forgetfulness, and says that as there 
 are many live creatures in one drop of water, so is there spirit life 
 in the life-blood of animals, and that he shall set them to work 
 in his parents, and they will pull together, as millions of couples, 
 and they will do as the old folks teach them by example, and 
 they will all do the word love in the new Commandment, and 
 the little heavenly ones will embrace the earthly ones, and raise 
 them up by the word given by my little friend, and spirit child, 
 and, when the whole of them concerned go off together, like a 
 flock of pigeons, each little workman from all the different parts 
 of the earthly bodies of the greatest couple will bring an essence, 
 heavenly or earthly, to the centre, where he will hive to receive 
 the seed by which he is to put together and build his little Spirit 
 Home. 
 
 And, my friends, while you are spending the evening on this 
 glorious Thanksgiving Day, I shall attend my little faithful friend 
 to his dear home ; and he says that nothing but his pinched cir- 
 cumstances, and the power of attraction in his parent clothing 
 
THE SPIRIT HOME. 241 
 
 store, could ever take him from my lovely quarters, where he has 
 had so much delight with his little bride, who, by the way, goes 
 with him ; and she will see him landed on earthly ground, to learn 
 the use of the feet that he may call his own, and then she thinks 
 of making her great grandfather Aaron a visit, in his utmost 
 border. So we will bid you good evening, and give the printer a 
 chance to put the final stop to 
 
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