"We may have doubts about this history, while we preserve the most profound respect for genuine miracles; and we may be permitted to observe, that this is not the way in which we now cure demoniacs. We bleed them, bathe them, and gently relax them by medicine; we apply emollients to them. This is M. Pome's treatment of them; and he has performed more cures than the priests of Isis or Diana, or of any one else who ever wrought by miracles.

"As to demoniacs who say they are possessed merely to gain money, instead of being bathed, they are at present flogged.

"It often happened that the specific gravity of epileptics, whose fibres and muscles withered away, was lighter than water, and that they floated when put into it. A miracle! was instantly exclaimed. It was pronounced that such a person must be a demoniac or a sorcerer; and holy water or the executioner was immediately sent for. It was an unquestionable proof that either the demon had become master of the body of the floating person, or that the latter had voluntarily delivered himself over to the demon. On the first supposition the person was exorcised, on the second he was burnt.

"Thus have we been reasoning and acting for a period of fifteen or sixteen hundred years, and yet we have the effrontery to laugh at the Caffres!

“In 1603, in a small village of Franche-Compté, a woman of quality made her grand-daughter read aloud the lives of the saints in the presence of her parents. This young woman, who was in some respects very wellinformed, but ignorant of orthography, substituted the word histories for that of lives (vies). Her step-mother, who hated her, said to her in a tone of harshness, 'Why don't you read as it is there?' The girl blushed and trembled, but did not venture to say anything; she wished to avoid disclosing which of her companions had interpreted the word upon a false orthography, and prevented her using it. A monk, who was the family confessor, pretended the devil had taught her the word. The girl chose to be silent rather than vindicate herself; her silence was considered as amounting to confession; the Inquisition convicted her of having made a compact with the devil; she was condemned to be burned, because she had a large fortune from her mother, and the confiscated property went by law to the inquisitors. She was the hundred-thousandth victim of the doctrine of demoniacs, persons possessed by devils and exorcisms, and of the real devils who have swayed the world."

Many popular physicians, and great numbers of nonprofessionals, judging from their ignorant prejudices and early theories, very unjustly decide that mediums

are "insane,” while the simple truth is, such mediums are sufficiently impressible to be psychological subjects, either for minds in or out of the body.

Let there be diffused among the people a wiser knowledge of the mental laws involved in mediumship. With such knowledge will come juster views concerning insanity, and concerning the various maladies that so cruelly overthrow the temple of human affection.

Persons misjudged to be insane, and others who are really so, may be restored, perfectly and rapidly, free of all drug medications, by the administration of remedial psychology. The disease is intrinsically mental, and it calls for a mental cure. The disturbance, by and through the sympathetic nerves and vital ganglia, affects at once both brain and mind; and, believe me, there is nothing more curative than influences emanating from corresponding sources and principles within a healthy organism.

HEALING THE INSANE BY CHARMS AND INCAN

TATIONS.

FROM one point of view the brain is a perfect magnetic reservoir: in this sense, that its energies flow out as positive and negative forces, and distribute themselves in pairs upon the nerves and organs of the body insomuch that digestion, assimilation, and elimination are instigated and controlled by the electricity and magnetism of a spiritual quality, generated among the convolutions of the cerebrum and cerebellum.

Experiments have established the truth of this affirmation. The hypogastric nerve, which conveys the digestive force from the brain, if severed, cannot carry forward the labor of digestion; but if the negative current from a magnetic battery be directed upon it below the point of separation, the entire process of digestion will be immediately resumed.

Disturbances in the just equilibrium of the brainforces, positive and negative, are manifested in the nervous system, and in derangements among the bodily organs, in form and magnitude proportionate to the nature and extent of the original producing causes. Disease, whether mental or physical, therefore, is

caused, primarily, by a disturbance of the harmonious and natural balance of cerebro-spiritual and nervo-magnetic forces; and health, both spiritual and material, is a restoration of the lost equilibrium; which can be accomplished by and through an impartation or demagnetization, which means what the unscientific term "charms and incantations of personal magic."

In all eras of human history I observe the clustering absurdities of ignorance festooning these various phenomena. But in this age ignorance is inexcusable. The broad avenues of attractive knowledge are now accessible to every willing mind. Not the poorest need continue ignorant upon the essential facts and principles of human life, manifestations, and destiny.

HOW UNJUST PERSONS AFFECT EACH OTHER.

It is reasonable to believe that impressible persons —whose brain is negatively sensative, and whose nerveorganization is compounded of the most delicate textures-should experience what phlegmatic and grosslyorganized persons practically know nothing about. The first person I see before me is susceptible to spiritual impressions emanating from individual wills, both terrestrial and celestial; the second person, standing near the first, is iron-clad, and inaccessible to all omni