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 THE UNIVERSE 
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 WILLIAM ATKINSON. 
 
 Born 5th November, 1853, at New Zpalan^ ir, +k„ d , r^- 
 
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 in the Presbyterian Church, and of English and Qerman parentage 
 
 parentage. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 The universe, is a book, that has no equal, as a book of 
 knowledge, it is an original work, and is purely a spiritual book, 
 it is written by an independent instrument, known as a medium, 
 I but in reality, is a taught structure of clairvoyance, he is what 
 i you may call an orator by sight, and not by hearing at all; you 
 may fancy it is all a myth, but it is a reality, you call him a 
 medium, I say he is not a medium, for he can not speak a word, 
 that is said to him at all, under your interpretation of a medium, 
 you say I am a humbug, I say it is false, and is not true in any 
 sense, you think I can do all I want with him, then you have hit 
 upon the truth, I am able to talk or write, and both are done by 
 sight, neither are done through clairaudience, they are wrong on 
 this question, no spirit can teach correctly by this method of 
 hearing, an impression is a spirit at work, and not anything else, 
 you say a spirit can write on the slate, I say he can not do any- 
 thing of the kind, his impression on the slate is all explained here, 
 he does it by a code of intelligence, and not by writing as you 
 understand it at all; Now I will tell you how to read my book, 
 it is to be read as a whole, and not as a bit here, and a bit there, 
 you read the book, all through, then form an opinion, I don't 
 write bits, I write a distinct theory, that is entirely different to 
 any social organization on earth, so you leave out all authorities, 
 when you try for an original notion; Thus you gain a point ahead 
 of the world, that is not fiction, but it can be styled fiction, to be 
 understood by humanity as an equivalent for all laws, that for- 
 bid the publicity of a code, that is not under the special guidance 
 of a law, now I am writing my ideas, for a specific purpose, and 
 it is to scientifically prove a theory, that does not exist in the 
 minds of men, and I am showing you a beginning in this book, 
 where you are to find a theory that exists, that is known but to a 
 
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6 PREFACE. 
 
 few, and that most imperfectly, I tack my faith to the spider as 
 the point of life we are to dissect from, and in doing so, I say 
 you owe the discovery of the universe; it is from the spider that 
 we all must run a clue, and that I am able and willing to prove 
 it, is merely a chance, that you have of finding out everything, 
 that is of a mysterious nature, now let us in a friendly way find 
 the path, that leads all men straight, and in an hour of proof, find 
 the link, that historians have all failed in, you can do me the 
 justice, of permitting me to try, and that is all I want, it is not 
 with an impure motive, but to show the world that they have 
 found a victory, in the book styled, " The Universe." 
 
THE UNIVERSE 
 
 The world without a notion is what a man might call an 
 unwarrantable piece of impertinence; but such is a true fact, as 
 we have been able to discover this theory, you will pardon us 
 the liberty we are anxious to take; before proceeding I much 
 regret the folly of being understood to say, that there is no foun- 
 dation, in which I can base my assertions; but in this work I can 
 say I hope you will believe me: And should my views not 
 coincide, with all you expect, I pray you will give me a fair 
 chance to illustrate my code, as may appear best to my own 
 intelligence; In grappling with so gigantic a subject you will 
 bear in mind that there are no stones turned that have nothing 
 to show beneath; this is one great feature to be carefully borne 
 in intellect as well as theory, when a man finds under the con- 
 struction he has raised the very commodity he is in search after 
 then he must believe, that beneath lies all that he can concede 
 his rights to: And when this is said I think it will practically 
 demonstrate the fact, that there are no failures where the mind, 
 can grasp the situation, for when the time comes to deliver our 
 judgment, then it will appear clear to us how far we have 
 wandered from the pathway of our own salvation: There is 
 where we will surely find ourselves one of these days: A great 
 many people believe, that there is no God, no hereafter: But 
 they are quite mistaken in their views on this score: And should 
 not give up trying to learn the means of satisfying themselves 
 beyond doubt as to the plain facts before their own observation: 
 This is a privilege which is an heirloom to humanity, and when 
 they seek for knowledge, it is right there in front of their very 
 eyes: And to see must be convincing beyond any shadow of 
 scepticism; because the reed never waved yet without the wind, 
 
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8 THE UNIVERSE. 
 
 and the soul does not exist, without the token of life, there is the 
 secret, a motion can not be unless it is drawn by the natural 
 current of its own affinity: And a man must be still when his 
 affinity is not come into a stage of semblance, there is the 
 theory of humanity, they only move when the spring is loosed 
 from its fastening, and their motion is the atmosphere that has 
 got them to go: They can move with comfort and ease; but 
 then remove the atmosphere and see where they would be, a 
 corpse naturally; then that would be the consequence to them, 
 without the atmosphere: it appears that a man must be a germ 
 like the reed, he can not move until a breath of air has come in 
 contact with him; but such is not the case, a man moves con- 
 stantly without any apparent air; he may be quite able to walk 
 and talk without any effort; but he can do nothing all the same 
 he must have a perpetual current of air to govern his move- 
 ments and will be bound as though he were a log immediately 
 his current of air is cut off: when a man appears to go along as 
 though he could stem the current of any adversity does he have 
 any skill to guide him by? no, he has got a machine within his 
 outer skin, that hides every imperfection; and he will bear this 
 covering while he lives here; but then it is all no use to him 
 when he takes a flying departure to his eternal home; And 
 where then is the covering that served him so faithfully and 
 well, it is the garment that did its master's service, and forever 
 no more use; has its new coffin made from the dead tree which 
 has a defunct use superior to the body that was left to perish for 
 its faulty condition: a spark of light comes glittering past, and 
 sees those toiling over their faded regimentals, what means this 
 common folly has the earth no common sense? why, no, it is 
 going on as before, and must mourn, and for sensation sake it 
 can adorn the coat that failed: a great amount of credence is 
 placed in what we are taught to believe are facts; and much 
 unhappiness is brought about through what a Pastoral Saint has 
 said, but it matters naught of all his words they are the teachings 
 of the head: then what need the Pastor scorn, He, is but the 
 instrument of those who were lowly born, and his teachings are 
 the workings of the ancient moulds; then why should he be 
 
THE UNIVERSE. 9 
 
 reviling the deeds of the hands of those who had not the 
 advanced knowledge before them, and when it doth appear to 
 him strange that Abraham was not more circumspect in the 
 selection of his affinities; he should remember that Abraham was 
 the deity of nature's handicraft, and could be hewn to fit the 
 particular mould of his art in a service which no other living 
 man has yet been master of; there is where the affinity of nature 
 hangs her thread of gold: she shall be obeyed or the commerce 
 of the whole universe has got to stand still: and to show that I 
 am right I will bring facts of the present before your observance; 
 Now we will suppose that a man held bonds on a wheat field, he 
 would naturally wish for a downpour of rain at the proper 
 season: and he would say within himself, I would like a little 
 more when the corn is in ear; thus showing where he would be 
 satisfied, then he would want a little more wind to prepare the 
 corn for harvest; but he seemed to think that there can never be 
 any alarm about the harvest failing for want of that Glorious 
 Sun, she is certain to do her part of the programme; And by 
 what right has he got to leave the Noble Sun out of the ques- 
 tion, he could sow his grain to fit the season, and meet the Sun 
 where she was calculated to settle her glowing warmth at the 
 exact period of his particular momentous of deserving recupera- 
 tion: but with all his fine style of mesmeric observances and cute 
 way of laying his plans, he does not realize the fact that he is 
 cognizant only of one feature that he has sown a probability, ana 
 has no knowledge whatever of his own as to what is the cause 
 and effect of his position; he does not realize that he is feeding 
 with the right hand, and receiving a return with the left: That 
 is what he does not understand at all, he' only goes on the basis 
 that his father, or some other man's father, sowed a field with 
 wheat at a certain period and struck the elements where they 
 ought to be hit: he could not for the very existence of him 
 explain, why it so occurred that a man should be the means of 
 defining the compass of governing the archipelago of his own 
 enlightenment; there is where the farmer is entirely at sea, he 
 knows what John did was right after all; but as for knowing why 
 it should be the identical feature of nature's workings, why he 
 
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 could not explain any part thereof; and would not for all his 
 knowledge give credence to the Sun for being the whole machine 
 that worked his wheel, for his, and for all mankind alike, being 
 participators in the benefits derived from that gigantic structure 
 of noble munificence: a man may be ever so capable of seeing 
 his fortune away ahead, by being what no other man has been, 
 and seeing what no others can see and understand, yet his fine 
 ideas are crushed for the plain fact that he does not know how to 
 connect them together; there is where the crafty skill of defining 
 his own ends are brought from under his very power (Man may: 
 invent); but the devil does prevent, wherever he chooses, and 
 this is what no man has thoroughly become acquainted with, he 
 thinks he knows what the evil genius is that surrounds his 
 actions; but he has no knowledge of this monster at all, 
 and is as paint in the hand of an artist, he can be mixed 
 or fixed to any grade of complexion: there is the secret 
 of the devil, a hidden power that plays round for mischief, and 
 pleasure to their own particular style of existence; this may 
 appear strange, and out of place to the foregoing preface, and is 
 indeed very peculiar therefore I am giving it at this period; 
 because I have been interrupted by an evil wave distracting me 
 from my original train of thoughts; I will say that it is this hidden 
 force which prevents humanity to-day from observing correctly, 
 they can not tell what the dark vision is that prevents their 
 knowledge from sinking deeper into the future, it holds them 
 tied down to a certain stricture that will not let go, it is the 
 darkness before the morn that has on a shade of dullness to 
 mortals before the dawn, and they are thus held by the 
 hand of what is distinguished as the fate of the race which 
 has been moulded to serve a decree of punishment, for their 
 willful manner of looking through the hand of the great power 
 which guides the heavens, and all that in them is; there is where 
 the heavens punish the earth by assigning a powerful force to 
 demonstrate their after mode of affliction on those who can not 
 see the way that their enemies have gone; but this is not the 
 right way of marking the effect of nature's great guidance, it is 
 only the truth as it must be; for no man can see where his great 
 
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 enemy has gone, yet he deals out his measure though he were as 
 the clods that smoulder away beneath his heel, let him beware, 
 there is a presence, that can inflict punishment, and such a one 
 has no grounds of complaint, he did the deed unaware of being 
 in the presence of the friends who were there as spies, on him, 
 they made a vow of revenge, and sooner or later his affliction 
 will surely follow: now let the man who has a just cause for 
 complaint beware how he seeks satisfaction for there is a direct- 
 ing power, which adjusts all these struggles, and he shall not be 
 the only one to know of what he has done; there is my first 
 point, in which I claim that man has got no notion: He acts in 
 silence, and alone, thinking he is safe as the air he inhales, but 
 no he has caught hold of a mistake, that is all, and he will 
 wonder within himself, how so and so had the notion to say such 
 things that seemed to so very nearly come home to his treasured 
 secret, bah! I know he exclaims, I know it has but the appear- 
 ance, only one of those strange coincidences, lost my balance 
 nearly though, I must be more solid in the future and not let my 
 feelings whip me into an appearance of guilt; I shall guard 
 against these coincidents, they appear to strike me as blessed 
 near the truth, I can't believe in them being more than chance, 
 yet it struck me like a semblance of knowledge gained of my 
 concealed fact; I shall be very guarded and not allow any more 
 absurd notions of coincidents to affect me like that again he 
 vociferates within his own composition; but little does he think 
 that such a reality had been brought to light that was nothing 
 more than a good account of his action; and by following this 
 clue he will get at the bottom of every secret there is to know; 
 j, again there is a more strange way of catering to this whim by 
 saying I surmise, " that John Classic stole my birthright"; he 
 never let me see how he did it; but within my own soul there is 
 something that compares him and the theft together, and there 
 will rise uppermost in my mind a distinct chain of evidence 
 committing John Classic, with my stolen birthright; now it does 
 seem peculiar that I should single out this one Jew as the exact 
 person who committed an offense against me; because he 
 happened to be a known individual who might do such a thing 
 
12 THE UNIVERSE. 
 
 is a very poor way of finding him guilty; but there is something 
 else which makes him throw out an inkling that he has done a 
 deed in which he has no pride, he can not rest comfortably in 
 the presence of the one he has wronged, his coat of mail is sub- 
 jected to a dreadful lashing from the hand of an unseen foe, 
 and he will not stay quiet in that surroundings, he can not bear 
 the tormentor's code of intelligence that is smashing at his 
 secret, that is how the shrewd man can tell how to detect his 
 man of crime, he tells his story in such a way as to leave bare 
 the vital parts, and covers over the parts wherein there is direct 
 resemblance, this is the way to attack crime, by painting a pic- 
 ture without bringing in the exact names of the criminals, it 
 strikes the listener with awe, and he can not escape notice under 
 careful vigilance, there he stays riveted to the spot, and is ever 
 on the watch for the chance to escape, he knows how necessary 
 it is for him to hide his guilt, and he will not dare to tack or turn 
 in the presence of those who have laid bare a similar case to his 
 own; therefore he waits until all is quiet before he turns to take 
 his leave of the associates that he has joined company with; he 
 can not bear the assertions of the crafty man who has drawn a 
 modest picture of his crime, and will resent or run when the 
 picture painter attempts to follow, that is how the thief is often 
 discovered; but how did the man who drew the picture get his 
 surmise? By laying awake at nights and letting his thoughts 
 wonder over the facts as they appeared to him; and studying 
 out each clasp that hung on his train of thoughts, as they 
 resolved themselves into form, and held him spellbound when 
 he reached a given point, there he was and no further could he 
 go; because beyond and all around was dark and dull to him; 
 he had reached the climax of his ingenuity, for or against, and 
 he was either on the road to certain success or certain failure, 
 either one or the other; and whichever power prevailed 
 would win, the power that held the string of his imagination 
 first would be the most likely to keep the way clear of his I 
 opponents, and the power that did not hold the theme of his 
 efforts would battle against those who did, and endeavor to 
 produce a complete chaos; there is the secret of good and evil, 
 
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THE UNIVERSE. 13 
 
 one acts against the other; and throws obstacles in the way of 
 mankind for the purpose of letting in silence over the future; a 
 great deal depends on man's own intelligence, he can not know 
 what is best for him to do with his own ability, because he can 
 not see far enough ahead to discern the way he should follow, 
 and he is left as a sell upon the market of no proper value, it 
 looked quite genuine but then it turned out a complete failure, 
 because it didn't pan out; and a man ought to be different to a 
 fake he should go right along to where he intends to go, not be* 
 stuck half way by some influence that wanted to make some 
 other genius of him: that is about what it comes to, a man starts 
 off good, and gets along fine until something turns up to stop 
 him, well it does appear as though he was born to fill some 
 declared fate, predestination as folks say: this is all humbug a 
 man makes his own hell, or he reaches his gifts of the good 
 place he is entitled to: a man does not deserve what has not 
 been merited by him, therefore his soul has no claim of conse- 
 quence beyond what merit brought along; and to say that one 
 soul is going to advance in the sight of God, because he has 
 raised up a monument of wealth here is absurd, why, what use 
 has God with wealth? He only looks upon it as the means of de- 
 stroying his kingdom, it pours forth the vengeance of heaven by 
 sinking the earth deeper in sin, all the crimes we have are the 
 result inadvertently over money, then why ask God to take you 
 into his fold because you raised up a monument to do him honor; 
 he has all the honor and glory he can take, and he measures his 
 power to its utmost capacity, driving all that does not appear 
 good to him away after his own ways; there is another point in 
 which the world has not even a " NOTION " the SUN has the 
 power of guiding the heavens and all that in them is; now 
 you think you know a great deal about astronomy but you don't 
 even know what the sun is, and you have no notion of the moon 
 or stars, they are distinct volcanoes or planets at large, broke 
 loose from what prattlers call the southern cross, or some other 
 cross; a composition of fire and brimstone to come down and 
 burn us all up one of these fine days; a pretty nice story, to tell 
 the pretty little babies when they don't mind what their 
 
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 mothers say: All very fine no doubt, quite a romance in 
 its way, bringing old clothes for the man in the moon 
 to mend, mighty pretty picture to paint of her glorious 
 majesty's form as she appears in full figure at the twentieth 
 day of her advent, nice way to summarize her illustrious grace; 
 a few waves are to be discerned across the face of this object of 
 perpetual interest, they appear to us as though there is some 
 hardened substance, that always appears the same shape when 
 Jn the zenith of its entire form, well this is nothing except 
 the movement of a great mass of material that is forced 
 out of the interior of the moon by process of soluvium of the 
 excessive production of the overheated atmosphere that is com- 
 piled by the absorption of the Sun, which directs its refuse into 
 the Moon at its extreme rear, and thereby connecting its end 
 with the ulterior part of the axle of revolution, that fits into the 
 ulterior quarter of measurement that forms a quadrant to connect 
 the moon and stars, thus showing that there is no north or south 
 pole as the generality of human beings believe; there is a revolv- 
 ing piston between the moon and stars, that governs all the 
 minor elements; but there is no governing stem between the 
 moon and the waters that flow through the atmospheric elements 
 that congeal the rain as it is precipitated into the funnel of the 
 Moon at the extreme end, there is where the quadrant is, it 
 shelves the make of a great structure, that is ever on the wing, 
 and gathers in as it pays out, and is constantly replenished by 
 an inroad of the quantities that are supplied by the coming 
 through of the matter that is inhaled by the suction of the 
 gorgeous ever thirsty sun; now I have told you to believe me, 
 and I think you won't; because you have not sufficient intelli- 
 gence yet to see through my knowledge, but all I ask of you is 
 to be ready to condemn me when I leave you stranded on a 
 barren coast, the same as the ancient scientists did, when they 
 told you that a good many things had to be taken for granted, 
 they never showed you the way that might lead you onto the 
 correct road, they said you were to believe them, and look no 
 further, that is what they said, well I want to show you that they 
 did not know what they were telling you themselves; because 
 
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 they did not know what the moon was, is no reason why the 
 humanity of this present age should not be told, and I think 
 there are a good many people who are so superstitious as to think 
 that a discussion on the heavens is wicked, is what no man ought 
 to tolerate, for what harm can there be in talking of what the 
 mothers hold up as a scarecrow to their children, they only tell 
 you to mind the devil doesn't run away with you, which is after 
 all a perfect description of whaj: he may do, when you are not 
 particular about guarding against him: Now as a point in the 
 course of my subject, I will explain my views more clearly by 
 being allowed to wander away from my subject at given periods 
 in this compilation, it helps me to gather food for my advan- 
 tages that can not be had by any other mode of congeniality; 
 and when I find you the mystery that has always been a puzzle 
 to the human race, why, you should take pity on the mind of 
 the one who has thrown seeds of light in your pathway; a bright 
 kind to illustrate from is not always to be found when it is 
 convenient to establish their qualities, therefore a mind may be 
 perfection at times, and again at others, it is merely the shadow 
 of its former self, and has to be rested to enable it to come into 
 form again, there is the solution of mind over matter as these 
 spiritualists are constantly preaching to you about, they don't 
 know what it means themselves; because they won't try to go 
 below the surface, for fear of being hopelessly lost in confusion 
 the same way as the world is trying to find out how the knob of 
 time rolls by, and the revolution of the earth does not decrease, 
 the axis of the north and south pole does not give out, the same 
 as the axis of the Agent Generals, when there is any hitch of 
 diplomacy with foreign powers, where are the foreign powers do 
 you suppose that constitutes the resting place for our north or 
 south pole to take their rest in, I think I hold the majority of 
 humanity as though they are my adversaries to explain myself, 
 I can see them peering over the ends of the north and south 
 pole, looking for the column that bears our entire universe, 
 suspended in the air, and revolving round a semicircle every 
 day, and no wearing out, a very nice picture to draw for hoodlums, 
 but not very clever for an enlightened people of the nineteenth 
 
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 century; they ought to see a little more light than this, it is 
 similar to a man going to tack up his coat on an iron wall, the 
 tack won't drive into a thing that has no face suitable to receive 
 its impression; there is where the world is to-day, they have no 
 '• NOTION " because they began by tacking their faith to a myth: 
 and consequently are at the beginning still nobody has ever 
 thrown a sensible light on the governing elements, and no one 
 can tell what is over on the other side of life, except they can 
 see more clearly than the majority of the fathers, that have 
 traveled over that plain pathway; no one who is versed in 
 sculpture can tell what a bust is until they have perfected its 
 symmetry, and they are quite at the worst, when they have been 
 tinkering away at the head, when the right place to begin at was 
 the exterior part of the lower extremities; there at the posterior 
 is the correct beginning of the place where all constructions are 
 commenced; and I shall prove this later_on, when a mind has to 
 be woven into shape, you begin by starting at the bottom of his 
 intellect, and not by leaving the bottom intellect to be compiled 
 last, I think that a good way of beginning everything is to start 
 at the easiest part first, and gradually reach out as you climb the 
 ladder of fame, always bearing this in view, that a beginning 
 has got to be begun at the first step on the ladder, and there 
 is where the artist has his toe, when he lifts his pitch of skill; he 
 does not drop his hand behind him, and say why, I can't get to the 
 top, he places one hand over the other and climbs across each 
 step as it crosses his pathway of ambition, thus showing that 
 you must allow me to climb this gigantic ladder as you would an 
 honest young artist, who was finding for you what you had never 
 looked upon before, and I will herein state that you will never 
 regret the privilege I am asking you to concede to me, and I 
 shall not let you wander about in utter darkness, to the end of 
 my great ladder, before finding you some piece of valuable 
 knowledge to rest your tired head upon. The Sun is the head, 
 and the Moon is the bottom, of my ladder to climb, so I shall 
 take you with me to the bottom first, and say that there are no 
 men or women there that I can tell you about; but there is a 
 porous plaster across that gigantic orifice, it is the sponge, that 
 
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 inhales the essence of moisture, that comes through a channel 
 from the posterior of the Sun: This is a revelation, that you 
 don't expect, and I shall compile these points as I think they 
 will best suit your ideas of my sane magnitude, and not do it in 
 such a way as you would kick my firmament into the atmosphere 
 of zero, before you knew anything at all; now let me see I have 
 told you that the Sun was the head, and the Moon the tail, this 
 will help you to see, that I am not mad, as a madman would get 
 mixed up in such a way, as would leave no possible doubt of his 
 inheritance to the paradox solution of the science of discovering 
 the genius formed matter, that constitutes insanity: Now I 
 think it is pretty nearly time that I took you on a small stretch 
 further, there is no difference whether I do this thing right or 
 wrong, the Moon and Sun will climb the heavens just the same; 
 your right to disbelieve me will not interfere one iota; neither 
 will your discredit of me make any difference at all in the con- 
 struction of my work, I hope to please, and enlighten mankind 
 that remains paramount in my theoretical deliverance of reason; 
 and it will remain fast and firm like the " Rock of Ages," wander 
 on, no man can hurl them from its resting post: A well- 
 developed mind has never any trouble in the expression of its 
 own theory, because its capacity is like the mould of a great 
 turnip, it forms a bed, to rest its head, and there is the secret 
 of knowing how to start, begin by making your bed secure, 
 and then you will rest pure, a man who climbs up like a 
 rapid growth of weeds, is like the after-birth of a great 
 storm, it has to be calmed down to produce any feathers 
 to make a snow shower with, and a great many have been made 
 by the handiwork of the great guidance of nature's mighty 
 powerful arms; gathering in to-day and paying out to-morrow is 
 the way the storms are governed; a way to find out who made the 
 ground to grow vegetation, is to place a piece of cloth over the 
 earth, and see whether the ground or the cloth is supreme: well, 
 you will be led by me, and see that the cloth decays, and is the 
 master while it lasts, and when it is worn away, it leaves the 
 ground bare of vegetation, but mark my words, and see when 
 the Sun rests her charms on that bare patch, she lifts up the 
 
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 growth again, and nourishes the young growth with the care of 
 an aged mother guarding her young grandchild: there is a point 
 I wish you to take notice of, the grass died out and without an^ 
 seed, the Sun brought back to life what was apparently dead, 
 and the new growth was a much finer quality, than the vege- 
 tation that the old cloth apparently destroyed, now there is 
 something for you to conjure with, an old coat, will as it appears 
 kill what is there, and when it has passed from beneath that old 
 garment its essence has left something quite superior to the 
 original vegetation, that grew upon that particular part of the 
 earth; to illustrate this more fully, the old coat merely aided the 
 combustion of the matter underneath, and drew a form of life 
 out of the stinking refuse, which was ready to propagate imme- 
 diately it should have escaped from the foils of its compass; there 
 we have promulgated life, and why should we see fear, at the 
 consequence of our old garments being cast aside, when we can 
 demonstrate death, so easily without any trouble, and leave a 
 light shining that has a much grander sort of purity; you think 
 may be, that I have got hold of a little bit of a curiosity to de- 
 velop in front of your eyes; but no there is nothing in the mag- 
 nificent atmosphere promulgating life wherever it chooses, it is 
 only natural for it so to do because its theory is to sprinkle a 
 little dew, from heaven, and a little warmth from the Sun, and 
 there is the whole sense of life, in a peanut. A good deal may 
 be said about our constructions being different to the lower ele- 
 ments, they don't see as we do, and we don't want to be classed 
 with those commoner species of humanity; therefore we must be 
 content to leave science alone, for fear, of its being developed to 
 such an extent, that will strike terror into our mixed conditions, 
 and drive, us into consternation over our blighted prospects, in 
 the next atmosphere of our excellence; this could never be for 
 the more advancement the more success awaits our enthralled 
 souls, and we shall be much happier when there is a certainty of 
 our hereafter; because our formation will become more fully 
 developed here, and we should see the advantages of leading a 
 pure, and holy life, there is nor can there be any after bliss, where 
 crime, and sin has no checkered career, therefore I want to 
 
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 prove, to you, in my own way, that your soul is safer with knowl- 
 edge, than without that deliverance, from the darkness, that 
 follows the dawn, a great deal has got to be said to allay sus- 
 picion, before, any progress can be started down a clear path- 
 way, for the facts are so concealed from the ordinary mind, that 
 there would be no benefit arrived at by saying so and so was 
 sure, it would be pure suicide, to say that a ship would go by 
 catching her own velocity; now you could not believe me when I 
 tell you, that there is to be a great revelation coming from this 
 book, and one that would start, all the world agog, for it is quite 
 possible to sail a ship, by using her velocity, for her fuel, and 
 there is where you can see, an advancement in science, for then 
 you might try to reach the extremities of the circumference 
 of your own world; A man who can propound a scheme 
 for utilizing the vehemence of the great current of atmos- 
 pheric elements, would surely be entitled to the phenomenal 
 distinction of being classed as a genius of the first caliber; 
 A good many men have been laughed, and jeered at because 
 their success was taught, through failures: and no one can 
 justify himself at the first effort, there is where a man has to be 
 helped along: he would be utterly lost but for the consolation of 
 a few friends, who encircle him, with chains of affection, and 
 encouragement, why, now does the great majority of humanity 
 seek to ridicule the crank, who has got hold of something that 
 they do not understand; because they are blind to all except 
 their interior promptings; which guide and govern their own 
 folly; there is the stake, that ties them to the darkness that 
 hovers near by, their own affectionate knowledge, a good deal to 
 be proud of certainly, but not very much sense after all: And 
 to be counted wise, is not quite what was intended to fill the 
 after inheritance of man; for he had much more time to stop 
 away from the code of intellect, than he used to have; and he 
 ought to help his gratuitous manner, by aiding the discovery of 
 science, by laying his all-powerful, will of mind, and strength of 
 kind, by keeping his own self as pure, and good as conscience 
 will admit him to be; there is where he wrongs himself by being 
 too circumspect over things that he has no NOTION of at all, 
 
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 he thinks his conscience guilty, when it is not his own sins, 
 which are troubling him at all: but the influence of some other 
 sinner, who is plaguing his very existence out for the pleasure of 
 seeing his pain: now you can see, that I do know something, and 
 I want you to trust me to show you some more; then you can 
 be happier after the torment of your soul's punishment; by know- 
 ing that it is a gnawing sensation; that was there by what is known 
 as predestination; or the workings of the demons of hell; now 
 you see that I am going to give you some points to show you 
 that there is an after punishment, as well as the present, for 
 those who can not believe, there are a good many obstacles 
 thrown in their way that have to be removed before the stages of 
 progression, can be advanced to fix up a righteous soul; there- 
 fore it will be necessary for all mankind to live a life of purity; 
 and to do right on earth, is the sure way of getting a decent 
 start in heaven; that is not all though, a man must understand 
 what he is applying for before, he can expect to receive any 
 fruits from his application; there is where the life of another, 
 must aid and assist you to ascend the goal of perfection; and let 
 a pure soul, take up the work of defining the right cause; there 
 is no fear as to the result: but again on the other hand let a 
 corrupt soul take up the guidance of that which is not perfect, 
 there again is a certain result; and so the world wages war 
 against itself: they don't know what they are fighting for; 
 because, they have not seen the right picture painted of them- 
 selves; and a many may be, who are seeking for the right path- 
 way, but are driven astray, by the adversity of an ignorant 
 current of begotten knowledge; ascended to them from whence 
 no good can come; there they have to stay till darkness passes 
 away, and light is the only trouble that overtakes their flight: 
 A bad way of illustration comes easy to the mind that is being 
 prompted to do wrong: And a good way of demonstrating comes 
 easy to the mind that is justly balanced by a righteous soul: For 
 either one or the other is subject to be driven by an influence of 
 whatever sort there is in his or her vicinity and to guide this 
 more surely to the understanding of humanity; I will do what 
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 ideal of knowledge comes, by keeping away the effects of time: 
 that is the secret as it appears to me, to bide my time, and I 
 shall see all, there is only a little between me and my grave; but 
 for all that little is so precious that I can not deal silently with 
 what I now know to be a true feature in nature's great problem 
 of immortal life; there is the height of my ambition to perpetuate 
 the fact of life being a reality, and not a myth as the reason so 
 dictates at present; what is the use of one man trying to unbare 
 the fact of man being an everlasting geographical structure of 
 pre-eminence; when almost all factors in life declare the immense 
 difficulty of so bringing this home in such a way as to leave no 
 possibility of doubt; there is the man who is everlastingly pray- 
 ing; to a God above, to listen to his supplication of gifts for 
 himself: There is the good minister, who prays for his con- 
 gregation, earnestly, and faithfully, believing himself inspired 
 with noble intelligence, when as a point in fact, he has no ruler, 
 who has taken his special case, into serious consideration; for 
 what good then can this supplication be; a very fair way of 
 bringing on ridicule from those, who have been torturing the 
 saint, who purges himself for the sins of his congregation: A 
 fair way of sealing up the gates of wisdom, and shutting the 
 doorway, of the just deliverance of man from idolatry; there is 
 the benefit, in having a saint for intermediator between man and 
 the deity of his supreme ruler, over the pathway, in which he 
 hopes to make his escape, to the hand of his eternal protector: 
 Never can a given person prescribe a conveyance of the soul to 
 heaven, because it will not be a conveyable commodity, after the 
 re-erection of the coming forth of light eternal: It shall sail by 
 the side, of its great ancestors leading it to the realms above, 
 clothed, in the garments of purity as it departed; so shall it be 
 received; a golden shroud of encasement, will bury, its naked- 
 ness; and its bearer shall provide its after provision: but that is 
 not the reception to all, a very different advent awaits the 
 hardened vagabond; he is shielded by none, he is the given 
 instrument of torment, he has to be the slave of derision and 
 scorn, his lot is not paved with charms, he meets there what he 
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 of light is to prove the after-birth: And that is what no man 
 has done to all mankind, there are many thousands to-day, who 
 know there is a complete change of this eternal spring, and they 
 are sure, of this hereafter being a deal more precious to them, 
 than it was before, they undertook to investigate, for themselves; 
 now there is one easy part I want to point out to you; that is 
 how strange it seems that the departure of a soul, has no 
 apparent after presence, when the flight has come, and the dawn- 
 ing light has enshrouded this apparent oblivion, where does the 
 most skillful surgeon bury his kindling wood to lay bare the 
 faults, and sift in vain, he is lost to find his skill is even more 
 faulty, than the body, which he examines from every conceivable 
 point, his notion is all wrong, his search is not complete for he 
 has omitted one point, and that is the vein of life, which stretches 
 across the head, from ear to ear there is the escape of the last 
 fluid that severs the soul from the body, there the ear is, but the 
 sound is gone forever, and it is linked to a chain of the current, 
 that guides it away to its eternal home on high there to be 
 rebuilt, and moulded according to the light of its deserving 
 merits; now you see that the Doctor is quite at fault, he presses 
 his hand on the heart; and he is not where the last course of 
 flight is; he only reckons on the heart; whereas he should be at 
 the head investigating (for he might catch that soul were he 
 prepared); and he certainly could tell the way it was going when 
 it left, providing he knew what chain it hitched on to; and he 
 can learn this secret to tell the weeping friends by keeping his 
 ear open, and his knife at home, there is the way for him to get a 
 corrected idea of his long desire to know how the soul has 
 escaped his eye; he ponders, and wonders, and broods like the 
 father, of a multitude of misgivings; but never dreams that he 
 has not got a proper " Notion " he can not find anything missing 
 and he still believes that he will one fine morning beat them all; 
 and detect some little escape-valve that has remained hidden 
 away to discover him as the optical friend who was keener, than 
 the knife he was probing with; and a good way of him hitting his 
 own conclusions, is by pressing his hands over the inner cord 
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 for so long; for when he finds that his eyes have been taxed for 
 no purpose, he will naturally leave off, and try the other cor- 
 rected method of steering his patient's soul, which will afford 
 him greater scope and equivocal skill, in his profession: I can 
 not determine what there is in store for the natural resources of 
 the leading profession to discover themselves, but it has gone so 
 far now, that I must say, that they are frauds in all their deal- 
 ings, they have no consequence to injure, therefore no penalty 
 to incur, their knife has got no sense, and their scientific 
 researches have no wits, and the body, they mutilate has no more 
 in it than the knife and the instrument that uses it for his search 
 after the curious being, which he can not prevent watching his 
 treatment of what was once, the pride, and delight of the 
 departed; investigations are as common as the very earth we 
 trample beneath our feet, and they should be for it is as essential 
 to examine the occurrence of a suspicious death as it would be 
 to dispose of the dead body, for both, in their way; have to be 
 used; the one is quite useful to establish the freedom of civiliza- 
 tion with; whilst the other is for the good behavior of the citi- 
 zens, and can be held in dispute over their heads as an example 
 to protect the evil-doers, from escaping their just reward: but no 
 amount of torture will purify them, they have still got to bear 
 the consequence of an eternal punishment, for it follows after, 
 like the stain of crime does here; it leaves a mark upon the 
 criminal, and stains him to the view of his fellow souls, they are 
 not willing that he should join them, and he has to seek friend- 
 ship, from his own kind, there he remains a victim of vice, for he 
 never will progress, whilst he is abandoned by the light of 
 purity; and can only appear, where he is not shunned by those, 
 who surround him, he is perpetually suffering from want of 
 knowledge; and is the means of escape from his darkness through 
 the time of his subjugation; now you know what is meant by the 
 punishment of purgatory; it is held over, the heads of humanity 
 as a gulf to cross, it is a place set apart for the evil ones, and 
 they have a road of exit, and egress; the same as the saints, 
 themselves, and are one to one alike bearing this, in substance, 
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 and the offending crimist can only be purified through the 
 government of prudence, that is he shall be made pure, before he 
 shall enter on an equal with the saint, and his work is the 
 guidance, of the unholy ones, who are here on this earth as 
 examples for the righteous to prove themselves by, and to drive 
 sinners to distraction, to show them to their fellow men as the 
 consequences of hell; now you will believe that I have surprised 
 your common sense, by putting what you know to be a true fact 
 right under your nose; there you have got hold of a little handle 
 that, is your own contrivance, and your own cure; you pack your 
 sardines into a box; but you don't know which is the tail, or the 
 head, before you unbare the cover; yet you do know, that they, 
 were sardines you put, under that coffin lid: There is where 
 you know nothing, for you have made up a fixture that was quite 
 mixed before, they had only been relegated for the coming 
 events, and your mode of punishment was not your time of 
 setting at all, it was the master mind that overpowered, and 
 ruled the weaker frame, it was the hand of crime perpetrated by 
 the all-seeing eye for he would be a benefactor, and not a soul; 
 did he successfully achieve, his work according to the rigid rules 
 of his distinct understanding; prepared on the basis of what he 
 would have to achieve, before, he could enter the gates of pur- 
 gatory, and pass to where there is light, to the soul, that was 
 stricken, and purged, for being the tool of his fellow man: 
 Now I shall leave you to arrive at the meaning I have con- 
 veyed; and indulge your fancy still a little more in the Arctic 
 regions of the Moon it is there that I will enlighten your 
 next access to nature's great evolution of discipline, and solar 
 organism: You think I l^now something by now, and I want 
 you to follow me very closely, for I shall lead you where no- 
 body has come back to ever tell the tale, and you must not 
 say he is an inventor; when he is really telling you of solid 
 facts, as the way you walk in there is where you are going; 
 and you can't stop to pick a better way, for it is the one 
 road, that leads you by the moon, so you need never dream, 
 that you are going to get a chance of going through, the Sun, 
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 the way open for drawlers, or crawlers, they whip them into a 
 chute, and they go flying through the angle of the sky next to 
 the other side, in a twinkling of an eye; and there is no other 
 side, for it is quite near the edge of heaven, where the all-being 
 of power is; a many may be, who have dreamt, they were, in 
 in heaven, away beyond the sky; but it is their mistake, to sup- 
 pose that heaven, is beyond the sky, it is where the atmosphere 
 congeals, and sets itself against the sky, there is where the 
 angels live, in habitations beneath, the hanging combs of molten 
 clay, made from, those great orifices, that we. see between the 
 stars, there is where the angels bide their time, when they have 
 penal servitude; a great many people may think that this is a 
 humbug; but you know very well that throughout all history the 
 impressions have been conveyed, that there are places of pun- 
 ishment hereafter; and you know that there should be a place of 
 access, and egress; well this is quite true, there is, for it is the 
 hole, that is presented to your view very often; that is the 
 moon, when she is turned, down at the end, and when you see 
 no life, in her, she is then quite dry, and is a perfect chasm of 
 plenty, of scope to railroad through; this is my own way of 
 expressing the situation, for it is a railroad to those, who pass 
 through; there is the difference between a common railroad and 
 a celestial one; for their mode of haulage, is denned more accu- 
 rately, and is one of constant passage, there is no knowing what 
 breakages would do for them; as their style of movement is not, 
 what has been represented at all, it is a given sent: there is no 
 getting ready; the motion, is the same, as the mind flying from 
 Europe to Asia: It blows hot, and cold, all in one breath, so 
 that before you can breathe the men, have crossed from penal 
 servitude to heaven; or in other words the passage, is the same 
 as done, once the word of command, is given: Now you follow 
 me very closely, and I will demonstrate to you, why the moon 
 does, not always stop, at full; she is on terms of good-fellowship, 
 until there, is an overplus of matter congealed round her orifice; 
 then she becomes unwieldy, and is precipitated into an opening 
 of gigantic dimensions; and is enlarged beyond her comfort; 
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 constantly being snubbed, but it is all of no avail: For once 
 she has extended her neck to a certain point, she meets the 
 anger, of the Sun; and is consumed to the very edge, of where 
 she became lacerated, with drips of falling debris, that was 
 forced out of her funnel, when she became sumph; as she does 
 at her monthly paradox; you seem to think I am wrong, in my 
 deliverance, of these plain facts; well it is the way the world 
 has got, of doubting every piece of information; they think a 
 mind who does convey these extraordinary original ideas; is 
 off hinges; but, they don't know anything at all except 
 to find fault with those who do, there is the propping 
 stone to civilization; the people get up a stone-throwing 
 game called criticism; and say whatever comes first upon 
 their tongues; no reason or sense in such a code of con- 
 demnation; a man, who is capable, and just, in his argu- 
 ments has no time to take, his sense, from such as criticise, he 
 must be able, to deliver his reason, in such a code, as to get 
 outside, of the critiques; who are as common, as the gutter 
 pebbles, that are the dread and fear, of the people, that are 
 hindered, from abiding by the laws, of nature; and have to sub- 
 mit to the provisions of the army, of knaves; who pitch stones; 
 at windows made, of glass; there is the way the house flies get, 
 when the stones fly through the window; but no one goes to 
 pick them up because they are only flies, that have got no 
 use, for any code, of reason; now there is where the people 
 make mistakes they believe the time has come to do away with 
 all sense of feelings, and go on pitching in both heels, and crop, 
 at those, who are on the outside, of that pane of glass; now you 
 know, that a fly does not realize, that he is to be hit, from the 
 front; because his sight is clear, at the back of his head; there is, 
 where the fly, has no knowledge of how he is likely to become a 
 corpse; the benefit, of seeing behind, is great; and the advan- 
 tage, of seeing in front is greater; but the kind of sight that 
 makes the round is greater; for should a mound be ground to 
 powder; it always has the advantage, for it is hidden, from 
 back and front, there is the advantage beyond a shadow of 
 doubt; to call a man a fool is only to hit him over the mound; 
 
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 his answer is, I have made a grand discovery, my name is fool; 
 but he can not see that fool means, an ass; so he has gained his 
 point by chopping off my balance; he is an ass for not knowing 
 how to see my mistake; his ideas don't correspond with mine, I 
 have found him out; and he still thinks I am a fool; well let him 
 grow wise, I have got my experience, through listening to the 
 thoughts as they strike me; and that is what we all do; but 
 some people don't go after the thoughts when they are hit, so 
 that they never make, any use of those thoughts as they come 
 from the hand, that makes them; a man may be punched with 
 thoughts, that are wonderful; but he does not care for them, 
 they are his only salvation though; and he rejects them because, 
 he says within himself, I know I can't accomplish them, they 
 would laugh at me were I to advance such ideas; bah! he is an 
 ass for not braying, when a good thought strikes him; his soul, 
 is stirred within him for he feels a momentous question put: Are 
 you dead; he flings back an answer; then why don't you hear me 
 say stop: For I can hear you quite distinctly strike me with a 
 thought, that I never heard before; there is the theory of our 
 thoughts; a man grows up all the time believing that his 
 thoughts are, the workings of his own brain, but he is mistaken 
 there, his thoughts are supplied by a power, which does not 
 belong to him alone, his mind is his own, but his tempter is the 
 guide of his mind; there is the part that he can not control; 
 because it is outside; and does not come, within his substance, 
 to be contaminated by his body which forms his material ennoble- 
 ment of his inner cord of life; now then take for instance the 
 thoughts of a child; and you find more wisdom at that time, 
 than ever you do after they become grown: for they are then 
 made people of texture, they know no sin, therefore the mind 
 is pure, it only does what the dictation of its thoughts say; there 
 you have a specimen of good and evil again; one child, has all 
 good thoughts, whilst another child has nothing but evil thoughts; 
 well now, you see the mound, has got a sight behind, as well as, 
 in front; where did the evil come from, why it was sent there; 
 then where did the good come from; it was also sent there; now 
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 can find anything there at all that indicates a controlling power; 
 but you can hear the power of those two young people plainly 
 tell them what to say, or do: Now you have the secret, of what 
 a thought is that strikes you; let me do one more thing to 
 straighten out your tangled web; and that is to show you how to 
 make a line straight, by placing it over against the corner of a 
 plot to be surveyed to such a stake, to its right angle, and to its 
 left fore point, there is the style of giving a test to meet a given 
 degree, don't take a single item for granted, but measure all as 
 you go, and mind, that you understand what you do, for it is not 
 all as it appears, on the surface; they don't grow grain without 
 plowing the field, neither do they steep corn, without bringing 
 up the point: And you must not grow careless because your 
 first sprout is not a success; there can not be fruit without trees 
 to ripen on; and time has to be spent, in growing those trees; 
 the same as it will take you time to understand that there is a 
 big round mound to climb, that when climbed; will to a cer- 
 tainty prove to you, that you may see through back and front; 
 And you will likewise understand, what a thought is, that, strikes 
 all mankind at some period of their lives; there is the true 
 knowledge; a way, of believing, there are no men who do not 
 believe some kind of belief; there are those, who sing out, for 
 one thing; and then again there are those who dare not do it at 
 all; so we meet them under all conditions; for they have all got 
 thoughts; there is where the mischief is, and they don't seem to 
 realize why it is that no one individual should know enough to 
 satisfy them all; but they are mistaken, a man who can compre- 
 hend the lights of life, is just about good enough to know who 
 is who; and which belongs to the other; there is the point, can 
 a man show you where your shortcomings are; can he explain 
 away all your difficulties; because when such a one, is found, 
 why, bring him home to your understanding; and reflect, on 
 what he tells you; "cause your eyes to open;" and bring forth 
 your faculties for a clear pathway has been opened for you, then 
 tread not again on doubtful ways; there you have the night 
 turned into day, and light glistening at your side, then do not be 
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 behind the night, a great trumpet sounds the coming light of 
 after years; Oh! where can he be found the Saviour that we lost, 
 we stoned him for throwing light upon us forever, then think 
 again before you condemn what might be his crowning point: 
 A bright star shone, in the East, a light has come upon the land 
 that all powers on earth have tried to blot out; but there he 
 stands supreme above them all; not one can claim to be his equal, 
 not one can call him back, he is the first and only true God, he 
 visited the pure and lowly, he sought out the lusts of hell: And 
 communed with those, who taught so well, his life was led by 
 his father in heaven, and he did the work that was shown to 
 him to do, I can not say the same for any other Son; his path 
 was 'strewn with knowledge, his soul was filled with light, his 
 obedience knew no others from this power above; his childlike 
 form became as firm as rocks before he grew to manhood's stage 
 of rights, his very mien begot a God-like statue before the 
 grace divine; Holy — Holy light of lights declare their innocence 
 from on high; bright lights burning for glory have shone on earth 
 to-day, may righteous men be brought forward to the side of 
 this great master, may ye hear a prayer from such as he, for ye 
 shall know the end, but there never shall be such another, may 
 God and Grace be held as one, may heaven be shown to us, for 
 our time has come to find the pathway, that Jesus walked through, 
 there is the shining light that shall be forever by your side, for as 
 he seeks so shall he find; for there can not be darkness, where 
 the light is always near: And so have the messages been given 
 to man from the birth of Christ the Saviour; no darkness can 
 again invade the earth, no item of tide can evermore become the 
 token of this great eternity, on: And on! again shall this 
 streaming current stand as the light of ages passeth by, so shall 
 this crown of knowledge stand the test of every storm, and no 
 one has yet the right to cast his throne away; brighter still than 
 all the golden heads of time, more unstable than the wealth of 
 kings, and shining clearer than the light of day, adorned with 
 Grace of unhuman wisdom from on high; a great deal has been 
 said of the manner of this second sight, now there is no. such 
 thmg as this in existence, it is thi workings of the mind, and has 
 
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 nothing whatever to do with seeing, it is the organ of sight 
 as it is directed by the administration of the artist, who comes 
 in operation, with the optical parasite, or in another way of 
 demonstrating this fallacy, it is the means of shoving the spring 
 of light with a given motor, so that a certain pressure, of mag- 
 netic current, will strike across the vision, in a given attitude; 
 to convey this meaning, there must be an understanding with 
 the passions of discerning things outside of the common sur- 
 roundings, and they have got this more accurately described as 
 the imagination of the eye; as it does not appear possible that 
 there can be any other motor power than the weak theory of 
 cultivation of imagination; now then we must concede a point 
 or two in order to show that there are no things that are, without 
 this lively imagination clause, coming to the fore; then why, can 
 it be the workings of a weak intellect, when you have absolutely 
 nothing without it; tell me where you got all this knowledge of 
 God Almighty sitting on a throne, with Jesus Christ the son of 
 man seated at the right hand; and the Virgin Mary on the left; 
 is it not possible, that the Lord delivered those messages him- 
 self, and was accredited with the astute guidance of all mankind 
 by the powers, that rule the dead, of this world: He aspired to 
 nature's great work, of relieving souls from sin, and punishing 
 where he saw that nature's faults deserved rebukes, in other 
 words the Lord God of Hosts has seen fit to endow the minds 
 of men with that blessing which signs deeds of rebuke, to the 
 faults of its own solar organism; there is where the imagination 
 came from, it comes in the forms of light thrown on certain 
 pillars of might; there is what is the germ of life, it is sold 
 unto a power that welds itself to us by inspirational intuition; 
 there is what you call the grand ideas of the learned orthodox 
 sectarian, he is propelled by the guidance of a spring, he has no 
 more idea of how he is worked, than he has of his future soul's 
 destination, he thinks he is going to be the great light of some 
 divine providence; but he can't tell you a thing about his own 
 affairs, whether he is to go on as before, or what kind of a posi- 
 tion he is going to finish his vocation, on this earth, his sole aim 
 is to be the staff of life, and he has got to go on as his dictators 
 
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 think he should, his likes and dislikes are all the workings of his 
 special discerning power, his mind is moulded for no other use, 
 than he is required to perform, and he shall not work out his 
 ideas, as they seem best to his own cravings for the advantages 
 he may entertain, that his conduct is the same as his dictation, 
 or that his conduct is different from his theory of delivering his 
 harangue is nothing to do with his guidance, at all: His mind, 
 and all other men's minds are made by the hand of nature's 
 great governing power: Time, Space, and the dictations of our 
 departed friends coming back to help us over the great border 
 with their supplications of peace to our souls hereafter; now you 
 gather in from what I have said that there are no divine gov- 
 ernors; but there you commit error, I have said I will not give 
 my views away in short sentences; because you can not believe 
 a fact, unless, it is well backed by some other mode of under- 
 standing; therefore you must not be too hasty, in condemning; 
 because you know the result of that gratuitous freedom of con- 
 demnation; and I need scarcely now draw your attention, to the 
 fact, that your own thoughtlessness was the crucifixion: Which 
 has thrown confusion and consternation, on the whole world 
 since that time, a bad beginning has a good ending people say, 
 that was an outrage on this present people, that can not be 
 stained with too much censure; and for the sake of him who 
 died on Calvary, we ought to say let no other man who walks 
 in his footsteps be subjugated to such cruel and heathenish bru- 
 tality; there is the way as clear as the heavens above your heads, 
 walk in his footsteps, and you will surely find the light; no one 
 who trusted in the divine assistance from the heavenly sources 
 of those who rule above, can be debarred from reaching the 
 goal of their soul's craving after power: you are as one 
 moulded to this earth, because you have not seen any other; but 
 you forget, the fastening that was tacked onto you in the begin- 
 ning, there is why, you commit so many follies ; your idea is that you 
 came into this earth because it was ordained by the will of God, 
 that is precisely what you believe; well you have departed from 
 the pathway of knowledge, at the onset; and you grow up in 
 ignorance all your natural lives; there is where you have gotten 
 
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 all the orthodox doctrine from, you steep your own advent in 
 mystery, and you hold onto this theory with a pertinacity that 
 would justify any devil, in holding you to his cause; now you 
 see where the evil genius has got his stronghold, it is at the 
 beginning of your natural lives; and he can chain all of those 
 who refuse to be governed by the code of intelligence; you must 
 not be confirmed in your belief, that I construe your own idea of 
 this devil of yours; for my theoretical view of him, does not 
 come within your tattoo of his painted statue; I believe in all 
 holy laws, made for the benefits of humanity, and I concede 
 every point that I believe to be beneficial to the good guidance 
 of nature's great problem life immortal: Soul to soul can be 
 united; and bosom to bosom should be bound by ties of duti- 
 ful affection; but no evil judge should seal a faith, that is not 
 there of its own calling; just a little thread so small as to be 
 imperceptible to the naked eye, holds this tie of holy love, and 
 yet that tie is as stone, compared to this mighty power of cling- 
 ing life, there is no love can compare with this eternal string; 
 it holds on tenaciously, to nothing, as it were, yet the strongest 
 tie of affection, is weak compared to that tie of life; yes you 
 realize what affection for another is; but you can not seem to 
 understand, this other tie, that binds you to life immortal: Why 
 then should you not bring back to your memory those days of 
 affectionate reminiscences when you had but one tie that seemed 
 to say give me this: And I shall wish for nothing more, I have seen 
 this time too; and my4:ime was devoted to no other thoughts; than 
 linking this tie, with my own; there was a tie united, and that tie 
 was severed by force of circumstances; there is the tie of the 
 frame, that never shall be broken, but it is no use now, I have 
 lost the end off my tie; and I shall never find any other to joint 
 with mine; because there is a gulf between there and where that 
 tie was severed; but you have not caught my meaning clearly, 
 there is a tie which never breaks; it may spring away from the 
 part that injured it; yet there never dies that indisputable some- 
 thing; still hanging on to the past life, still holding firmly to the 
 belief, that some time or other, there will be a reunion of the 
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 forth some new light on that abandoned breakage: Now let me 
 understand what we find in this chain, it contains a link off some 
 other chain, well now don't you observe that you have got a 
 chain, and it is broken there in two as it were; yet you hold a 
 link of that chain, and you want to join that same link with 
 some link that was the fac-simile of that same link that you are 
 wishing to join into that chain, which has apparently flown off 
 your end link: Buy a piece of yarn, and stretch it so that it 
 breaks: there you find what means the yarn has of joining 
 together; but you don't see the drift of my illustration: For 
 you have not experimented; they say you can mend a piece of 
 yanvor you can have it milled over anew; but you have got a 
 new link fastened to nothing; yet it came from the other which 
 I did not tear apart; therefore you have a sold conscience; for 
 your texture is always, intact: Now you have made me an illus- 
 tration of a piece of old cloth; where does my new piece come 
 in: It was torn from the old, and made, into new, by the stages 
 of insignificant pulverization; you call me a fool for an illustra- 
 tion, that has no life in it; but you forget that you were 
 without life, until the atmospheric current touched you by 
 concussion of sound: There you struck the elements of 
 power by the sound of your mother's voice; impregnated 
 to her by the same power: And you shall give back 
 to the cord, from whence you came that which you took: In 
 other words you have, in your body that which does not belong 
 to flesh and blood; and you can not retain that which was not 
 yours, and never shall be; because the mode of treatment 
 demands that there never shall be a waste; and so you were 
 gathered in, and you shall be paid out according to the laws of 
 all that is right and according to the justice of time; there is 
 where you wrong yourself at the beginning; you are not an indi- 
 vidual independent, and never could be, without revolting 
 against the rules of this hemisphere; there is the doctrine of 
 death and life; cause, and effect; the one has an existence prior 
 to the other, through the evolution of time; and the one can not 
 proceed without the other; for it shall be according to the lights 
 of life that there is life eternal everlasting, by the reason, that 
 
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 governs all things immortal; and otherwise; for as ye learn so 
 shall ye see; and as when the graves give up the dead, there 
 shall be everlasting rejoicing; according to the movement of 
 time eternal; a given thing can come to our sight by intuition, 
 then why can not it come in form, because it has no knowl- 
 edge of what is required of it, till it is made to understand what 
 a purpose is, therefore how you expect to do away with the 
 organism of sound; wherefore do you hesitate then at the 
 thoughts of being destroyed, when you all admit, that you have 
 no " Notion " as to the power, of suppressing the (noise of sound); 
 your soul is the " Sound "; and you will persist in the belief that 
 you are to be destroyed; as though it were possible to alleviate, 
 and handle what is an utter impossibility: You don't dread the 
 life of another; you think he is all right; his life is no account; 
 it is sure to go to glory by one route or another; wherefore then 
 have you got anything to fear; I tell you what it is, that, should 
 your friends be shaken off the chain of life, you can never walk 
 on; because there would not be a place for you: A much, to think 
 of: Has given rise to an infinitesimal amount of what are the 
 guiding laws of the present age; and after there was no ending, 
 in all those false prophecies you can not do any sin by looking 
 our situation boldly in the face, and eulogizing the heavens above 
 us, for submitting to all the degradation that has flown at her, 
 without suspending her solar organism: There is where you 
 wrong yourselves, we are afraid of this calamity, because we 
 know that we are prone, to connect our afflictions, with heaven; 
 when there is no doubt whatever, that heaven is not what the 
 ordinary construction places it at all, wherefore is it common 
 sense to declaim our troubles to the guidance of this sole power, 
 when it distinctly shows, no signs of doing us anything except 
 bountiful service; then why, not be guided by what appears to 
 be just and fair: Your anguish is torn, in vain by appealing to 
 God, he has never stopped the elements from working; neither 
 did he ever hang up the Sun, to please any individual calling, 
 neither will he ever mix up the stars, for any purpose; because 
 you think he ought to tell Jupiter and Mars to stand perfectly 
 still; whilst your scientists took hold of their carcasses; And 
 
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 pictured them, according to what they had thought, was a nice 
 time to get a specimen of their valuable connection with the 
 other system of government over on the other side of the body; 
 that appears on his side of the scope of light we see; there is 
 nobody, who has been qualified to mesh up this gigantic question 
 yet; and they will need to act in a different way, to what has 
 heretofore been looked at; a manner of looking into this celestial 
 contact, must be defined before any actual results can be 
 gathered in; and so far as the present scientists know; we are 
 not at the beginning; therefore, I shall without more ado say 
 that they will be better informed by giving up their past records; 
 and begin to look at matters more seriously, and less saga- 
 ciously; because the latter comes from what has been mistaken 
 ideas; and can not be told, without the advanced mind knowing 
 that there is something wrong: And a wrong can not be righted 
 unless you obliterate the past completely and hold out new light 
 to the trammeled path: There is how Christ became so unpopular; 
 He showed the wrong side, of life; by his own actions was he 
 condemned, and by his side stood those who acted for him; 
 there you have what can not be construed in any other way 
 except, to boldly face the problem of light on darkness; for he 
 was present but his soul had an attachment, that hid him from 
 those who saw; And they marveled among themselves; saying 
 " what manner of man is this "; " Yet a little while shall ye see 
 me; I go hence but ye can not follow me." I am the true light; 
 follow me and ye shall see the kingdom of him who sent me; 
 take not to yourselves; for it shall be written that the son of 
 man hath power to save sinners from repentance: Your light is 
 very poor, on these sayings, but I can give you the right defini- 
 tion on all these knotty questions; but I know you can not 
 understand me, therefore I must not make myself your jacka- 
 napes; the same as was meted out to the greatest power the 
 world has ever seen; Your ancestors were the very ones who 
 enacted a tragedy, that will last as long as God Almighty 
 causes the elements to gather in, and take away; your being will 
 be blessed forever by this sacrifice; and your intelligence must 
 see that so it was their mode of example to the heathen mind, 
 
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 that provoked them into aspiration of those miracles, that Jesus 
 performed; and you can see how much the cultivation of signs 
 from heaven was indulged at the times prior to the coming of 
 our Saviour; therefore you must not judge his advent as one 
 instance of God's great glory, you must take the movements of 
 the wonders from heaven, that were performed prior to his 
 believing, and connect one with the other, and there you find 
 that all was prepared for this great crisis: Your own intellect 
 must tell you that when an art is practiced; that in time it 
 becomes a perfection; and moreover, we are in an advanced age, 
 that does not tolerate the sound of former laws: And you will 
 find, that the people of to-day require better skill to divert 
 their attention, than the empty-headed illustrations of former 
 ages: I think well of what was done in the past for human cult- 
 ure; and I think a much better code of laws can not be adopted 
 to aid the future, but where there is doubt sticking out, it 
 should be investigated, and set at rest by experienced experi- 
 menters; that is in a manner to define reason with common 
 sense: A man may be every whit an experimenter, but he does 
 not possess the fractional part of a grain of sense or reason: And 
 he is just the one to lead every one wrong, that has any interest 
 in defining right from wrong; Your solar system does not get 
 polluted by any crank, we have always got a menagerie of 
 effluxions there to speculate upon, and the beauty of the 
 gigantic afHuence of nature's great problem is as far off the 
 comprehension of the world's mighty experimenter as it was at 
 the first: Now take your pan of milk, and leave it to set still for 
 a few moments, and then see what effect, the cream will have 
 over the interior of the milk, why, it is only divided that is all; 
 well you have no power yet, that will distill it into milk again, 
 there was once a common kind of man who told us that all milk 
 was holy, and why should it not be; there are no men born with- 
 out he pictures his first affection on milk: and it is the same 
 to-day, as it ever was; I don't want you to think that I am going 
 to show you how to make cream stand the contest of becoming 
 milk again; but I shall tell you that the organism of the solar 
 flumes magnify their appetite by distilling water into volumes of 
 
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 fire in the identical way that milk turns to cream; now you may 
 think I am telling you an impossible story; but you can show me 
 how the water departs from the ray of Sunlight, because it is 
 gobbled up in the heat, and so is a multitude of other materials, 
 that find favor with that gigantic monarch of tact over material; 
 now take for illustration the governing power of the great meas- 
 urement of time, and you see that there must be an in-going and 
 an out-pouring; or what would be the common-sense view of 
 the situation; there would be a collapse in an instant, only for this 
 solar organism, there we have the foundation to work on, and 
 when that is laid we shall show you all the rest; I don't propose 
 to work out my scheme to you in a dogmatical way, because you 
 have the whole thing in four parts, one is the light, the next is 
 the very sure thing we all can talk about; and that is the air we 
 inhale, the other two are more simple than the two first, that is 
 the great big lungs, that are filled with the sound of eternity: I 
 think I have got my plan laid now pretty clearly, so I shall begin 
 to tell you how I found out the mysteries of the moon and stars; 
 by watching the contact of night and light: I have been awake 
 these hundred years devoting my time to nothing else but the 
 problem of finding out the acts of providence, and I have mas- 
 tered the sole control of doing away with space, that is the diffi- 
 culty of finding the lost link, in the chain of evidence; there is no 
 limit to space: And where the moon hides her body, is as verdur- 
 ous as the time of sticking in pins for green peas to hang their 
 lovely blossoms to: I mean that on the other side of life there is 
 no tares allowed to grow beside the beauties of nature, that 
 beside the wall of peace, there is not a trace of earthy matter, it 
 is the picture of God in all his glory, where sunshine exists, there, 
 can be no frost, and where frozen ice is no sunshine does appear; 
 now you must try to understand my way of conveying to you the 
 spark of just reward, and the mark of what comes, from disobeying 
 the laws of nature; a great many think that a mixture of paganism 
 and wanton joy are allowed to run riot in the golden gown of 
 second birth; but it is all the outcropping of the well-known 
 tempter, such is not the case at all, a man may have many com- 
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 he is admonished by the scourge of reflection; and when he merits 
 punishment, he is whipped with the hand of an outraged people, 
 who scatter his reputed misdeeds like the flame of an angry fire, 
 his punishment is the banishment of his presence to darkness; 
 where darkness is the ruling guide, and he has to work out his 
 allotted time as an example for those who are to follow him to 
 the same home hereafter; now you must think it most singular 
 that those ancients would send a soul to purgatory, and then 
 punish the soul that had no knowledge of how it was being 
 worked; yet there is no account kept of what has been formulated 
 on the heathen side of life; and where you find one code here, 
 you find a similarity there; and for no good to example from; 
 except the way to show the guidance of the chains of circum- 
 stances; now believe me I am trying to explain an amount of stuff 
 that surmounts all understanding so far as the present enlighten- 
 ment has gone: And I want you to be atrifle charitable toward the 
 manual labor I am taking on your behalf; and not get me meshed 
 up in a balloon as it were trying to look inside of our great 
 hereafter; that is what the addle-heads do when they get up in a 
 balloon, they have an idea, when they leave the ground, that their 
 expedition will lead to science, because they are that much nearer 
 the sky; Why, you fiave all seen a statue on some prominent 
 position; well did you ever guess at the dimensions of that same 
 statue; for in doing so it measures just as much again according 
 to distance than it appears; because it is the embodiment of a 
 great theoretical research; a given distance suspended from the 
 clouds on a structure can be easily arrived at, and then you will 
 find what proportion it has on the measurement of the atmos- 
 pheric germs, that you see suspended on the globe of space; this 
 is what I mean to show you, that a chandelier has only so much 
 candle power from the center; but you omit the difference in 
 the shade over substance; now you know what I mean by the 
 theoretical globe of space, it comes in contact with nothing yet 
 it has a distant reflection that conveys beyond any purpose there 
 is in its own vicinity; and the same with the light hereafter; 
 there is no case to keep in what is lei out: Therefore the true 
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 amount of argument can define it otherwise: You have meas- 
 ured your own talk by the ring of your voices, I just measure 
 my scope with your sound; therefore you see that a tape 
 measure, has only got a given number of inches, and fractional 
 part thereof; but your inference on the ground is that a sound 
 can not reach any great way; thus you are entirely wrong, a 
 message given from the ground ascends upward, and conveys its 
 after-murmur far above the ordinary hearing, and re-echoes 
 onward beyond the boundary line of incoherency; now you will 
 believe me when I say that a sound has no boundary line, then 
 why won't you give me credit for as much again, and that is the 
 tale I am going to tell you; You know I am as near right as 
 possible on the sound question: Then be more conservative and 
 search after what I say is so and so, don't go away and say I 
 can't, when you know that this word ought to be banished like 
 the North and the South pole; I have hit the nail between the 
 eyes, by my inadvertent mode of saying I still think there is 
 great need of some change, in this second sight of seeing where 
 there is no object to look at: I don't think there can be many 
 opinions differ; on the appearance of night and day: Then why 
 should there be any, on the vague theory of a magnitude of might, 
 and right: The one governs the stars, whilst the other is the 
 governor of them: So I shall begin to say I am on the right 
 track, and leave you to follow me through all the mysterious 
 parts I have flown; now you think I have got wings on my back, 
 like an actress of gaiety fame; but there again you are slipping 
 on greasy ice, I have a parachute more like, and can close up 
 or pay out, just as I have a mind to; there you have the ethereal 
 form to a turn, your parachute, is as near an illustration as nec- 
 essary, the absence of tide and current withheld, for the ethereal 
 form is likened to an Asp, it bends to the ethereal atmosphere 
 like the end of a wand: And, in singling out this great accou- 
 terment as wings, why you anger an enraged people: And sub- 
 join a blandishment of scorn at your ignorance: that is what 
 produces so much mischief, is portraying a wrong design of what 
 is the appearance of our coats of mail, you can get all the ideas 
 you want, every ass has his followers; and brings bad luck 
 
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 wherever he goes; but a man who follows the dictates of com- 
 mon sense will advance the most rapidly: Now you know that 
 there are no wings for you to wear: What do you want better, 
 than to be one moment a good big parachute, and the next to be 
 a connected sound: And what more could you wish for, than to 
 to be an unlimited commodity: Now you have struck some 
 gigantic monster: That wears claws, like a dragon, but there is no 
 such thing: What you have on earth can not be materialized 
 anywhere else; and what you have here is not made in heaven: 
 For so sure as there is immortal life, there has got to be a begin- 
 ning: Therefore it is not possible that you can go wrong in 
 your fears of eternity: It has to be like all else, there can not be 
 one that does not beget another, and it shall be that as he begets, 
 so can he come after his own form, and that is his countenance 
 that lasts him from the time of his memorial; so that instead of 
 wings as the angels are represented, his mind follows, on the old 
 form, and he is modeled accordingly; therefore that instead of 
 his concealment being hidden from view; It is perpetuated forever: 
 Now listen while I am explaining myself; there are no two beings 
 alike, therefore the one who is a resemblance of the other, hath 
 been crucified for his likeness to God : And no other can be found 
 for he was their only kind good teacher; and has been dead to 
 humanity since his time of perdition: You are ever on the watch 
 for the face you know: But there shall be no two alike, there 
 is the art in finding him who was safe from those who 
 cried out I am the very perfection of God; because I 
 did not do his son an injury, you think you are responsible 
 for the action of those maniacs of fools' judgment; why, how 
 can you be, it is the workings of the prompter, that is all; 
 and you are only of those which are the hind end of nature, you 
 come last; for you are but the beginning of one soul; there is 
 the true solution to the problem of souls; no two, can be alike, 
 for he was not of the clay and has not been dead; there is the 
 mystery of man to matter it can not be, and shall live forever; 
 now you see I am puzzling to you, but you are he who puzzles 
 me; there are no men born who do know me, yet I live and so 
 does he who sent me, there are no lives less wonderful to me 
 
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 than he was to me, yet, I mastered his manner of guiding God; 
 now you see we do not agree to be the same kind of being as 
 your " notion " of God is, I am a scientist, I do not say we are 
 the son of God after your version of God: But I do claim that 
 we are all the sons of God: And that is where you have always 
 been wrong, for the first teaching distinctly says that God told 
 the prophets to administer according to his holy dictation: And 
 when they saw his instructions were right, they knew that his 
 power was infinitely greater than their own: And under all 
 circumstances when the prophets stuck to their belief: They 
 accomplished all that was undertaken by them; now you need not 
 be surprised that they called such an able counselor God: And 
 when you come to understand the situation better you will see that 
 it is only natural that when a parent was able to guide the foot- 
 steps of his child: Unseen and without knowledge, that he 
 would tell his child that his guidance was the intuition of the 
 Lord: And that the child would listen to the voice of his 
 parent, and his guide, would tell the child that a holy God was 
 watching him from the sky above, and it becomes so curiously 
 linked in one force of power, that you can't help it being under- 
 stood that God is really speaking; that is where the fallacy of 
 God comes from, believing that he is speaking; when it is the 
 departed relatives, and friends who are doing it in the persona- 
 tion of God: Now you don't understand me, for you are 
 expecting your own friends to come and call out I say " Ted " you 
 are going to get into a plaguy mess over your farm, if you let old 
 Davis put his calves over on your hayrack: Now that is not 
 the way to get information from the Almighty power which is 
 and always has been since the time of intellect: You must obey 
 the laws of sound on matter, it is the guide to find out how to 
 tell what man has known since the first effort: He shall meet 
 what he has sought after: And he can have what his own intel- 
 lect wants, now don't make any mistake and suppose, that you 
 are going to get everything you ask for: Even assuming that 
 you do understand the way to talk to this power that sees all 
 around, and can not be seen by you: You can gain the ascend- 
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 which holds the fort against you; now do you see why all your 
 wishes don't come according to your actual desires; for as he 
 sows, may he reap: And as he grows in height of standing: So 
 shall he maintain his erection: But nowhere does he fall so 
 heavy as though he were touched by an unseen hand: A good 
 thought is always worth recording; and a man who knows how 
 to use that which belongs to another; is the very one to succeed 
 beyond the maker: Now you have got into a way of thinking 
 that I am going to give you thoughts for your own hand to 
 manipulate: And turn them into some specific benefit for your 
 own special case; but I have no such ideas in my known reason: 
 There are those who think just like what you have been doing: 
 and they have got no go in them to take the thoughts after the 
 are propelled along to them: Your system of indulging fancy 
 comes from the mind being active: and it is there you seem to 
 believe that your own control is at the instigator wheel: And 
 that he can push you to any point he desires; but such is not 
 the roll of intelligence; there is a distinct battery of appliance, 
 that is worked by the consumer of the atmospheric arteries: 
 They come in quantities of so exact form by nature's ordinances: 
 That a given organic pressure has propelled them to a given 
 point and has made them to suit what they are intended for: 
 Now you see that intelligence is worked by a connubial sem- 
 blance of hygeian act of sorcery; there is the count of good 
 description, of this form of work in hypotyposis, or more 
 plainly put it is the marvel of wonders combined to sight; no 
 two can see alike, neither do they dream the same dreams, for 
 the fact, that they are only one more thought acted upon by an 
 outside force; there is the reason why they are not alike in 
 thought; because their governors are worked more by magnetism, 
 than by roll of common sense; and they don't guide, with the 
 same amount of skill: Neither is it their object, to hinder this 
 one or that one to grow stupid; their plan of style is different, 
 entirely to what any other is: Now do you quite understand 
 that I am not speaking of this frame, but of the frame that 
 works outside of the body; You seem tired of this subject, so I 
 will dispose of it for the present, and will refer to it again; but 
 
 
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 prior to going on with something else, I shall declare myself 
 more fully by agreeing to your idea, with reference to this phe- 
 nomena being a wonderful structure for research; and more so 
 now that we have got at the true way of looking at this gigantic 
 question; you see I am astronomer, mind-reader, and a divining- 
 rod: That is the whole theory of getting on in this world: 
 For you will find that a given number of qualities are always use- 
 ful in addition to what you may circumvent: And you want a 
 great many good pods to see through everything; there are 
 those who come by their gifts in an enlightened way; whilst 
 others are taken by storm, and have theirs to get in an under- 
 handed way; but the one who works his out from experience, is 
 the one to be very guarded against, his comes through a rake, and 
 all the points are sharpened; bide still, when you meet a man of 
 experience, his teeth are sharp, and his wits are like knives with 
 edges on either side, make room quite scarce for him, his god- 
 like stature is impearled with jewels as he moves about: And 
 can cling to his own superhuman effects with the tenacity of a 
 wolf at bay, beware, you know not what you do when you meas- 
 ure your points with him who carries his tools between such an 
 angelic code of uniform; because his guides have made a mesh, 
 that hangs his soul in heaven, and you and no other one can 
 debar him from sticking your own to hell, for his very presence 
 is a safeguard to you, but your hand must not cross his in anger, 
 he will banish you to a doom worse than the depths of everlast- 
 ing fire; as the the ancients called it: But you have not quite 
 got my understanding, it is the way that a given number of 
 people can divide, and spoil the ones who are at the insulator; 
 that is all the way a man can be borne down by the unseen 
 hand: More practically they get him confused, and make him 
 do things that are void of what he would otherwise have done; 
 but take a friend's warning; and don't let your passion govern 
 you to any great extent, for it is always well to be cool and calm, 
 for this is the way to robe your own intellect in priceless cloth- 
 ing, a hand of time is always by the side, and there stands the 
 noble light of divine providence: Now you have an idea of 
 what fate is: For the hand that governs fate is the sole master of 
 
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 the outer frame, and that is why you have been at a loss to com- 
 prehend the all-flowing bright intellect, it comes by the hands of 
 many makers; and is the gourd of a big structure, in a manner 
 of speaking, like a fox it has its head onto the face of game all 
 through its life-long career: There now we have shown you 
 what you call approximately the close relation of the divining- 
 rod: Then again you want me to tell you how you should 
 know my mind was against yours; by the same method of 
 sound that has been the whole obstacle to the mind of man since 
 he came into existence; you see very good that is quite a fine thing 
 in itself, but you have no sense of hearing, that is your greatest 
 defect: Now you have caught onto my logic: And may 
 you try to develop this organ, and bring to light more knowl- 
 edge than the world has ever known; your seeing is great, 
 but your hearing has quite mastered the whole of humanity since 
 the first bud of knowing anything: Now you know the way I 
 am compiling my connections, and you will see that I can tell 
 you truly of matters that have been quite misunderstood, and 
 are the root of your great want of further development, your 
 sight was all you cared for, because you could see, you thought 
 you knew everything; but your faculty for gaining intentions, 
 and the mode of defining their meaning is not at all what you 
 think it is, there are men who have shown you many kinds of power; 
 but there are precious few, who can explain this scientifically 
 what their great power is: You ought to ask, these wonderful 
 people, who come under your notice, how they make up this or 
 that, and make them explain this power, which they claim to be 
 their very own, I defy them to call a thing by any given name, 
 without they are ready and willing to fully show some sense in 
 their argument, I have not gone off on my high horse to dog- 
 matize any particular creed, I simply say you are all wrong, but 
 that does not mean that you are to be affected by my saying it: 
 I only want you to give me a chance of speaking what I know 
 to be a stern reality: Now don't go brooding over anything 
 that might strike you as somewhat different from the ordinary 
 indulgence of the sound doctrine of a person who claims to be 
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 of paternal clothing of might, I merely wish to satisfy you that 
 there is no death, by the intonation of immortality: And I can 
 see by your eyes, that you are going round for centuries looking 
 for that charmed secret, which has no existence in sight, but in 
 reality is the living truth, just the same as it was in the days of 
 our forefathers; now you go home and ponder over what I have 
 said, but don't give way to grief of any kind; your soul shall live 
 forever, and make it so good as the sound of your own dictation 
 will manifest itself plainly before your vision: Always avoiding 
 danger, or probable danger, for so shall all those who have a soul 
 to save, and I counsel you to drop all- inflammable harangues, for 
 it confounds and dazes the sense of understanding, and can hurt 
 none better than the departed souls, for they shall curse you 
 back for your own folly; and in their anger, will dye their hatred 
 in fumes of an holy vow, to punish him who sows such seed of 
 dense contagion in their home on pathways, so very near the 
 ones who are fighting for you, never mind the tempter's cry of 
 rage, " His intuition is the reptile's charm of revenge is sweeter 
 than a sigh": But father of light come down and strengthen 
 your child: A great many believe that satan is in their very 
 midst, but they are not able to define satan, that is where they 
 commit this folly, and are quite on a footing with his mighty 
 force, when they curse him: And say let satan loose upon some 
 poor wretch, who has no friends as powerful as them, they are 
 satan, when they call him to aid them in his work, of sending 
 God's people to eternity, now don't you see that a man may be 
 ever so careful, he has enemies, and those enemies are trying to 
 circumvent his plans; you can not do any more hurtful thing 
 than to curse a relative who has crossed the gory stone, of your 
 mighty wrath, for when such a one has it in his power, to come 
 back, and teach his lesson of revenge, he strikes beneath all 
 known cases of comprehension: There now you are at the pit 
 of undiscovered genius, and I could not tell you what plans an 
 angered soul might place over against his wounded feelings, I 
 can tell you of many cases, that were practiced, but you have 
 the same facility, of investigating these close observances: And 
 can see in your own midst what I am bringing under your notice; 
 
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 therefore I will not take time to illustrate this more considerately: 
 You hare my showing what the results could be brought to by 
 your own lives being upset by the constant stream of everlasting 
 obstacles, that come near your own prospects of getting what 
 you wish for: Now you know why you are thwarted by an 
 understanding that beats all other forces in existence: Take 
 for example the time that there were wars in the history of the 
 Levites against the Philistines, there were more demonstrations 
 for the recovery of the rights of becoming free, than any other 
 known history of the ancients: You see them struggling for 
 mastery, by every known device: And they were then only known 
 to their friends by the kind of prophet, they followed: You see 
 them trying every scheme to get at intelligent information con- 
 cerning their adversary's line of battle array; and they never 
 were better helped than when they took the counsel of that famous 
 prophet Samuel: For he was able to treat them with some sor- 
 cery tricks, that invariably gave his own people the advantage; 
 you see how necessary it was for them to cling to every piece of 
 solid advice that was given to them; for they had destiny to 
 cope with: One word of intelligence made them kings and 
 nobles, whilst another gave them over to slavery: Now you 
 know what an unknown power could do then, and you can not 
 see why I should refer to so ancient a subject, you go home and 
 read the book of Samuel, from the beginning: And watch for 
 the account given of that first king Saul, and you will see that 
 he was a unique man, held by the Israelites as supreme over all 
 human divine providence; they would have him crowned as 
 king against the advice of their able counselor Samuel, who 
 distinctly said that the Lord was against their wishes: Now you 
 see that Samuel was right, and he held the gates of heaven ajar, 
 and could tell what was best for them to do, but they wanted 
 Saul to reign over them; and you see what a disastrous ending 
 came of it; for the pride of their souls was as wax in the hands of 
 the great master: Now you know what became of Saul for 
 banishing all the prophets, that claimed to have a familiar spirit; 
 take time to consider this questioning: For you are not able to 
 understand this without you get on a par with the actual facts, 
 
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 as they took place; for no one seems to believe this present 
 possibility, of getting over a feature of this great big truthful 
 idea of his claiming to be superior to God Almighty, he was a 
 capable man, and could tell whatever was going to happen, 
 therefore the sons of Israel did not want any other power: For 
 they knew him better than God: And he could define all unseen 
 things: Therefore he was their ideal of what God should be 
 like; according to their own ideas; now you see that it worked 
 well, until an evil spirit took possession of Saul's body, and gave 
 him over to the power, of the angered ones, who had opposed his 
 being made king, and when he gave way to his passions, and 
 cursed the prophets, with familiar spirits; and drove them out 
 of his kingdom; his own power gave him up to the wrath of the 
 great divine providence, that takes what it sees fit, and metes out 
 an example for the guidance of humanity: You have got enough 
 examples laid down, but you refuse to listen to the right God; 
 and he will treat you as he did Saul, now take a message, from 
 the one who is trying to give you happiness; and listen for the 
 thoughts coming of holiness and purity; they are as the pearls of 
 the sea, buried behind a great pile of sand, where none can go 
 except, the one who diligently searches; for a mighty power, is 
 on the track of him, who walks righteously; his path, is beset by 
 a fiendish element, who has got to upset many a plan, before 
 they can reach the treasured land: You little know, what there 
 is outside of your own sight, it is one great whirl of spirit forms, 
 fighting to get near them, that has been their enemy in the body; 
 and seeking out the best line of action for their friends; you see 
 what a distinct contact, there is being played at all points, and 
 you have only to meddle, with what does not concern you, and 
 there you bring a power, that is willing to aid you work out your 
 folly, for it strikes those who were your enemies in this place, 
 of strife and preparation, for some higher work: I can not 
 go out of my line of action, to display every little illustration; 
 but there is what I say quite in language, to suit this 
 particular form of reproachful conduct, you see the backbiter 
 singling out some poor wretch, and lashing the same party, with 
 lies, that were purely the make-up of that same backbiter, well you 
 
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 know, it was only the coming of an outside force for this victim s 
 misdeeds, at some former period, perhaps the forefathers of this 
 victim were to blame, for some indiscrimination; may be it was 
 only a trifle; but yet that trifle has the power, of magnifying by 
 time: And it is a reflection, that knows no boundary line; It is 
 the work of the great master, his power surpasses all understand- 
 ing; for his cast of countenance is beyond the earth's great 
 center, and he lives on what no man cares to gather in, his home 
 is beyond the sky, his soul is everywhere God bless immortality: 
 Now you have seen me demonstrate your God Almighty, and I 
 say that every word is true, but those who interpreted this in a 
 way that no one could understand it, and therefore you have 
 been what no one else can claim to have made you a great laugh- 
 ing stock, for the power, that leads all mankind: Now will you 
 keep quiet, and let this evil genius hold you chained as a dog, to 
 the stake of hunger, I say you ought to keep your own anger to 
 wake up those who have gone on before, and call them back to 
 your side, and say my protecting angel come closer to me, I feel 
 the hand of temptation dealing me out my exultation; but I care 
 not for this, bring me peace, and consolation, by your presence 
 as my guide: I crave not for might, I care not for crime, I want 
 my own knowledge to please the divine; it was all well enough 
 to seek riches, for those left behind; but mind you don't take of 
 the fruit that belongs to another, for it carries pollution to get 
 out of cover: that is where the great men find it so hard to bring 
 in what they have lost, they are always, tying up knots, to 
 gather in what was left out, and they never let go; but what 
 there was not a brief moment, when they let go of their own 
 contents; a great big exclamation of how do you take me out of 
 this particular extraction, by leaving me, without some one to 
 know that I wanted, by keeping back, my affectionate coin, come 
 on and tell me I pray you my sweet angel guide, and I will 
 never do it any more; because you know I cheated my own 
 friend; therefore he has now revenged himself on me by showing 
 me up to be a fool, by being duped by the other one, who was 
 over against the place, when I did it; somebody must have 
 heard me, some one must have watched me through a crack: 
 
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 No my clever trickster it was but the angel's map: You have 
 got round an angle, by keeping quite close to the end: And when 
 you call me sinner I can bite you deeper, than the tiger or the 
 bear, my code is more difficult then either of them too; I was 
 out of reckoning when I was below; but you find me sharper 
 than they go, that is the angel's warning, and do not let it go: 
 You have seen the men come home from work, and drag their 
 tired limbs along, I hope you knew their happiness was purer 
 than the snow, they did their work quite honestly, and their rest 
 is sure to grow: For as he reaps, may he sow, and as he falls 
 by the wayside may he keep: That is his reward for honesty, 
 and as he has gathered good seed, he is capable of sowing, I 
 say this is the state of happiness: That belongs to the just, and 
 no one who does not act justly can bring forth much results; a 
 mighty thing is this great place of ours, we have got hold of the 
 thin end of the wedge, come and help us to place the thick end, 
 through the opening, and as certain as night is the sole companion 
 of the darkness: You have got a great advantage, if you will 
 keep on trying to gather in sense as you go, I have given my 
 whole time to this study, and I never shall rest, until I master 
 the whole entire complexion of everything living and what does 
 not exist now, but what shall hereafter be the exact code of laws, 
 for the departed forms which follow after this body, I have been 
 told that there can not be any other place of good conforming 
 with this same way of expressing my genius, and that I am not 
 capable of demonstrating my exact appearance to the common 
 intellect, of the human discerning power, I claim that I have 
 now the right to do this according to the acts of what has come 
 in this gigantic structure of omnipotent importance; I know that 
 there has been a grave error committed in the commencement: 
 but you can't divide a stone, from itself, without you have 
 accomplished the fact: That there are two stones in one; now 
 you have me caught nicely; but we shall see whether you are 
 capable of doing this justice, after we have begun to measure 
 your own sack, with our corn, I measure you out a piece of corn, 
 and you take it to the grist, and there it is made into a large 
 quantity of fragments; no particular piece has gone on the same 
 
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 as heretofore: It is all improved materially; now you can take 
 it' and bake it in the same oven: One is white bread, and the 
 other is graham bread: Yet you started with the one grain of 
 corn, I can not help thinking that you can understand this little 
 illustration; to more fully develop the mind it has been shown, 
 that there are no tares among the wheat prior to its going to the 
 grist: Yet it comes out white flour, and dark colored: There- 
 fore you have got the exact composition in the one grain of 
 wheat, that makes two distinct qualities: Wherefore do you 
 hesitate, in believing that there are two sides to life: You see the 
 grain of corn has two sides to its composition: Yet you can't 
 believe that you have a bright side, and a dark one: Although 
 your very existence solely depends on what you eat and drink: 
 Now we can assume that you live, without this bread of life: 
 There is no other way to illustrate, this disposition: Only to 
 say, that you have food to eat, and water to drink: Which 
 demonstrates, that you have the two eternal fountains of life at 
 work on your own organism: . Therefore we can not divide you 
 in two, for there is no division of the sound, that bears your soul 
 aloft: And to more fully prove to you that a man is a machine 
 after his own maker, I will say that a time will come, when you 
 will see that I have made my study a complete code of intellect- 
 ual knowledge kept by myself alone, in such form as can not fail 
 to convince any one of the truth of what I shall hereafter make 
 known to the world, of my scientific researches: You have got 
 me into this by saying I am a fool; but I shall demonstrate the 
 fact quite plainly that I am not such a fool as those who have 
 been making out that I knew nothing: You have only got to tell 
 a good man that he can't, and he is at the machine, of time, he 
 will impress you favorably, with his fashion of that which 
 belongs to his craft of showing his frame of sense, you must not 
 take it to heart, when he does not demonstrate his skill by pay- 
 ing you back, with nature's confines of his prostration of your 
 own frame, he may positively decline an engagement of honor 
 such as your estimation of manhood's affluence, of striking back 
 incoherent expressions, of anger: Yet, he has within a governor, 
 that says don't do it now, wait until he sleeps: Then drive in 
 
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 your nail of perfect blight against his anger, it will sting him 
 worse, and make him feel quite small amongst his companions; 
 now you have gotten a description of three kinds of man, but in 
 neither of them does exist a fine element of skill: They are 
 mere puppets, in comparison to one who can stand off, and say 
 his intelligence is as wax in my own hands: There is the secret 
 of the kind of material they are all constructed with: Now you 
 take a man, who understands how to make his business a pro- 
 fession: And he can keep inside, of the ring of his own sound, 
 for he has those, with him who will take care to warn him of the 
 presence of danger; there is the true secret of mind over 
 material: And when you have given it a careful investigation, it 
 has no other absolute connection but the belief in its own 
 divinity; I show you these things to make you understand your- 
 selves better, therefore you must not believe me insane, when 
 you have not been able to understand me, I am the light, and no 
 darkness can affect me; you see that those words do not mean 
 what you believe them to mean; they are the words of a higher 
 power; which give themselves up to the understanding, that 
 there is no more illustrious mode of defining this chart of skill; 
 and when the ones who are anxious to come and show mortals 
 what they have to contend with, it surely has to come between 
 some kind of understanding, without this great amount of press- 
 ure, which has been going on since the world began: You have 
 only the surface, you have not gone below at all yet: I shall 
 show you where you have been led into this, first by asking you 
 a question? there is the mind that grasps ideas; from some- 
 where; and you have called him a genius, but you have not seen 
 the way he was helped to get so fine a construction of his own, 
 without this his mind was nothing; yet you have got the idea 
 that his mind is superior to those other men, who have never 
 done anything out of commonplace; yet it is impossible for you 
 to believe that his mind was merely the workings of these mem- 
 branes of actual flesh, you are as ignorant as a calf, on this 
 question, I know not what kind of a mind you have, neither do 
 I care; I am not illustrating for the individual; I am working for 
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 universe; now take not to yourselves, what is intended for the 
 whole of mankind: This I have to say is the eminent calling of 
 a number of spirits, who have come forward for the purpose of 
 throwing their enlightenment through the universe; now you 
 will understand why you have been getting points that have not 
 occurred to you before: And it will be shown by us that we 
 have a power second to that mighty structure of evolution, that 
 has intelligence, and can divide all things immortal and other- 
 wise: You seem astonished to be told by this force, that you 
 are all as ignorant, as the days, of your first appearance: But I 
 am not going to give you this after I have said you are the 
 same as this one who is at our beck and call: For he is made 
 what he is by our own style of making him comprehend our 
 code of speech now you know why he is not more than can be 
 expected of man; so you have only to cultivate the outside 
 frameworkings: And you can converse, in an intelligent way 
 with those who have gone on before; in an independent manner 
 of conversation: You think that it would have been good 
 policy to have told you at first, that there was no difference 
 between this man and any other: Your notion is wrong again: 
 For had a messenger been sent, to take this upon himself, his 
 whole mind would have become stupid: His reason demands of 
 us, that we shall only give him certain points at a given place; 
 otherwise he could not proceed at all: And then you would not 
 have the benefit of this understanding; and to make you believe 
 we have to measure your intelligence with our own; otherwise 
 you would not come any nearer than you were before: Do not 
 take this matter to heart in any way, it is not a thing of conse- 
 quence to the officers of the law, they can keep on just the same 
 as before, and so can the denominations of each and every 
 religion under the heavens, I am not going to tell you that it is 
 for you to lay aside your own cloth and follow me, I have not 
 the desire to keep you away from this or that, your welfare is 
 not my concern, and I must not say be a spiritualist, or be a 
 confounded ass, you have the work of my knowledge before 
 you, and you can place it in your senses: Or you may say he 
 who wrote that book was possessed with no small amount of 
 
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 grains of intelligence; but we don't want to follow him for fear 
 his mind is too much ahead of our own, that we have got to 
 stand still and see whether any one else can not beat him, in 
 showing us some new way of believing that he is wrong, and 
 this next one has mastered the exact fixings of our immortal 
 takings in and payings out: You have got to see for yourselves, 
 whether this is correct or not, and you can always find this out 
 when you pass away to your home eternal, there is no disputing 
 this fact, for as you have grown in wisdom, more will come to 
 you as your advance becomes more perpetuated, and when the 
 great God of time sees fit to explain this actual way of defining 
 your wisdom, he will make you what his skill can do, without 
 any effort, on his part: You have seen the many wonders that 
 he has worked, in the past, and it is not righteous to commence 
 to doubt his other capabilities when it is so natural for him to 
 accomplish his every duty with no greater effort, than to do his 
 own work, in a manner both pleasurable, and in all manners 
 conducive to his own entire happiness; take into consideration 
 the fact, that there is nothing but pleasure in eating and drink- 
 ing: And you have got all the pleasure you can reasonably 
 expect, for no man can exist on this earth, without he does eat 
 and drink: And his soul has to be kept in the body by this 
 common process of his being filled at intervals of his own crav- 
 ing for more, and his light will be shut out if he does not get 
 this necessary maintenance of the food to supply the vital cord, 
 with this exact thing, and failing in getting this it will claim the 
 protection of its hereafter from the same who brought it into 
 that stage of confusion; for as it was confused in the first 
 instance, so shall it be in that same state when it passes out of 
 its earthly body, and no one can read it any plainer, it was stuck 
 into the body by concussion: And it passed out of the body by 
 the same process; that is it has been propelled out of the body 
 by the force of the atmosphere coming to take of its own cir- 
 cumference; which had not been gone to so great an extent as 
 it was in the first place, for it had got used to the atmosphere 
 being poured in, and drawn out: So that a single instance of it 
 being separated from that which it never belonged to has no 
 
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 power to injure, beyond the fact, that it was so arranged before 
 it proceeded to enter, that it was given the effort of knowing 
 that it was safe to come after its own knowledge; you are mysti- 
 fied by this; but I can not do it any other way, a mind is intact, 
 when it enters the abdomen, and can not be called out by any 
 other: For it has the very structure erected prior to its entrance, 
 and is not made there at all: You see that were it not for this 
 feature of the case, there could not be any governor on that con- 
 struction; and therefore it would be a nonentity; you try 
 making an engine, and don't make any guiding application: And 
 see what you have got, it is lost for want of this motive power; 
 and can not be taken either backward or forward, therefore it is 
 a nonentity, the same as anything that has to come to life: You 
 have got me in a fix, for you think I am working an engine onto 
 you; but that is not it at all I have got a complete motive 
 power to govern me; and you have no idea as to what a start I 
 have over you; there is the whole piece of structure in a sea- 
 shell, it seems all right, and is perfect in itself; but you just 
 place it on your ear, and you can distinctly hear the sea roaring, 
 then does that not prove itself to you that there was once a 
 beginning beyond a possible dispute, it says I came from 
 the sea: And when you put me back into the ocean I will 
 not call out for I have found my home at last: You can 
 not do any better than to wander by the beach, and find all the 
 little shells that are laying about the beach, and you examine 
 them thoroughly, and find one of these with a hole in it, and it 
 has no sound equal to the perfect shell; there you have got 
 what represents to you the great hereafter, it shows you that 
 a shell has a body, and is in perfect harmony, with itself 
 although it has dropped off companionship with its fellow 
 shell, and I want you to be very particular about this, for 
 it is an illustration in itself that has no concern with matter 
 at all: And is as nearly perfection as anything can be; yet 
 it is a great deal more alive than you give it any credit 
 for: And when an apparent dead sea-shell is alive after 
 it has been out of the water for years, how is it possible for you 
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 that has no material form at any time in the whirl of its own 
 extension, therefore it is not to be supposed for an instant, that 
 you are able, to kill that sea-shell, by placing it under your foot, 
 and crushing it to powder: There is the difficult part, you can 
 do as you have a mind to, with the shell, but you are power- 
 less, and always will be to govern, the sound of the sea, in that 
 shell; for it has no life, except what was given to it by the ocean: 
 From whence it came, it shall so return, and forever be of its 
 own time of making, from the beginning of time and place forever 
 mortal: Now you have got a few good points out of me in this 
 illustration of a shell, but I want you to take a broad view of 
 things in general, and not go picking up a mere shell, and com- 
 paring this pearl to a great gigantic form of nature, it is absurd 
 to suppose that we became men and women out of a sea-shell; 
 yet I have got my own way of bringing you to face the Almighty 
 God of all before me and you to liken ourselves to none other: 
 And I won't be happy, unless I can prove you capable of cleav- 
 ing to my form of God, before I give you up to this great dark- 
 ness: Which has been suspended across your vision from the 
 time of the ancient fathers, who could have told this in a better 
 way, had they so desired: And I am not going to be their 
 judge, they were as I am possessed of the same power, and they 
 were not willing to give to the world: All the facts, that were 
 there before them; neither will I come and unbare every fiber as 
 it has been shown to me, I can not get the roof on, until the 
 walls are erected, and thus is the way it was governed before, 
 and I will have nothing at all to do with this form of self-con- 
 struction; for it has been the power of the great maker, who 
 instigated this machinery, and let it go on in a miraculous man- 
 ner, and I have no hope in making any changes for the better or 
 worse, I don't come and ask you to cast aside all your treasures, 
 and follow me, I say search, and it will be given to you indepen- 
 dent of any mortal's aid; you never ask your pastor whether you 
 shall eat and drink, well don't you cut the bread of life without 
 his assistance, and what makes )^ou shirk the other responsibility: 
 Take no heed for the morrow, and watch what comes to you, 
 you don't understand this saying, it is after this form, mind 
 
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 what you are guided to do: And your father from heaven will 
 bring joy unto you; that is your own impressions will tell you 
 what is best to do; now follow me, and I will lead you, whatever 
 comes first to your mind keep in till it has resolved itself into 
 shape; then do not disregard it when it appears difficult, for he 
 who masters his first thoughts is a kingdom within himself: 
 Don't go on doubting this and that, for it brings all you want of 
 confusion, and can not do anything except to change your mind, 
 that is the way to give away your prospects in heaven; for he 
 who struggles well is sure to meet many friends, who have 
 been watching from their own place of abode, not with dis- 
 respect, but with appreciation: For he had gone through 
 what kept others away: And they placed him by the side of 
 heroes: Who won their esteem for valor here below: Now 
 you think that I have no right, to take upon myself this way of 
 showing what has not been done before, yet you admit that a 
 power, in the land has a right to bring out a new invention: So 
 you will class me as a crank, but I too can bring out an inven- 
 tion far superior to anything you ever saw, and will do this, 
 immediately you tell me I am a fool and don't know anything: 
 For as sure as the Sun shines in heaven, there are those there 
 who will be ready and willing to form a chain of evidence 
 complete in itself to produce, what you and no mortal man ever 
 saw yet: And as for your telling me I am a crank, why where 
 are those who do believe in him who was not a crank, I know I 
 am a crank, and one that can hold his own against all cranks 
 that are or ever was: You know that a bad beginning has 
 nothing to do at the finish, but it does affect the middle 
 course, for when a man has begun a thing wrong, he can get 
 back, and begin over again, but when he commences at the 
 beginning and keeps on wrong all the way to the end, he is 
 a fool and will not be counted as any better, than a good 
 general to fix fools by, therefore it is not well to condemn a 
 man because he makes a mistake and then returns over his 
 folly, and leads a different life hereafter, that is one of the 
 many privileges, belonging to man, he has been led wrong 
 by a circumstance of which he had no knowledge: And could 
 
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 not be done otherwise with for a time, until he was made to 
 understand his own position: Now won't you see that a man 
 may change when he has found out that he is wrong; but he 
 has no business to follow a course all the way to the end, 
 when he knows he is going wrong, that is his to say I am 
 a fool, but I shall not be so any longer: That is the 
 philosophical view of what is known, as the tenth command- 
 ment, after you have given all the cravings for vice away, 
 take up the cudgel, and break no more: That is as the word- 
 ing of that great structure has been left unfinished, it is plainly 
 illustrated, but it does not reach the wicked, for they seem to 
 say to themselves, it was there I first broke the laws, of Moses, 
 and'I can not hope for salvation: That is a wrong notion: 
 for you have the proof plain and emphatically denied by our 
 Saviour Jesus Christ, it was as he said, a man may sin many 
 times: But his after-birth was not hopeless: And he should 
 continue to live on and hope forever: For such was the king- 
 dom of heaven: That a judgment there was: And against 
 that judgment there was a resurrection: So you see that he 
 did not tell you not to hope, and he said a man that was 
 smitten with the palsy was greater by far than him that was 
 whole, why then do you say I sinned before, and I have no 
 soul to be saved, did not Christ distinctly say, that no man 
 knew what his hereditary punishment was; wherefore do ye 
 hesitate, "I am the light follow me and ye will be safe," 
 but they stoned him, and said he hath a devil: No man walk- 
 eth beside this man for he is as one possessed with evil, it is 
 written that ye shall not associate with harlots, whist ye not, 
 that this man said when walking by the harlot, come unto me 
 for I say that all those who truly repent will see my father 
 which art in heaven: Now I take this to mean that his words 
 were then more powerful, than the fiends who tore his young 
 life away; and were not able to discern the destruction that they 
 were working: For his soul was troubled, and he vexed wrath, 
 yet no man came near to him, is his time come to save sinners 
 from repentance: No I can't come again for I once was young 
 and pure, but now I am polluted with crime, God knows that 
 
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 this is wrong: And I say that the interpretation is one mass of 
 errors from beginning to end: You think I am going into 
 what can not be borne out by the testimony of his work; yet 
 you have no confidence in yourselves; and you believe that your 
 churches will bring you home all right, go to them, stick to 
 them, believe in them, and all your finery won't help one iota; 
 it is a myth: A great big humbug, to think that Christ died for 
 sinners, he was torn to death by those who guided his body, and 
 it was the work of fanatics who exposed him for the love of 
 making a power to give light hereafter; to hide forever the great 
 commune between heaven and hell: Now you know what a 
 man has been then, he is able to be again, and your ideal of 
 God can be as he was when Moses went up into the burning 
 bush, for it is so written that as many more may come after 
 me, but none shall hold the ties that were as wax beneath my 
 heel, yet it can be and I shall know the hereafter by the beat- 
 ing of my own pulse, for as his pulse beat there was life, but 
 when the pulse ceased to beat, they said he was dead: And 
 yet on the third day he was buried, and then again he arose 
 from the dead, that is not hard to understand at all, for his body 
 was in keeping with his outside connection, and was not dead, 
 it was in the state of coma, and could be used again as 
 the instrument of breath proceeded, without any apparent use 
 of the lungs; this is not a difficult situation at all and, 
 could be held as firm by the outer construction, as though it 
 were in the body, and instead of being a miracle it was the 
 action of his instructors guiding him through all this great train 
 of circumstances; now there is this to be borne in mind, a man 
 has to be brought through a systematic form of treatment, 
 before he can be dealt with under such circumstances; and when 
 he is once under the full power of his guides, his life is their 
 own, to deal as they see fit, and you can readily understand, that 
 OUR Saviour was begun with on his first advent into the scene 
 of life, and when he attained his twelfth year, that he was as 
 flexible, and in conformity of his own moulding, and that his 
 guides had him to do what they wished; now you see, that his 
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 this nation at the present time believes: And it ought to be a 
 lesson to those who have got children under their charge, to be 
 alive to the fact, that a spirit of evil or good may be framing the 
 young mind, and not admonish too readily, for it is quite easy, to 
 drive a bad spirit away, and bring a good one, and it is very 
 often the contrary, that the good spirit is driven away and the 
 bad one enters: A given circumstance may come, with no 
 apparent effort, on the part of those you are placed in charge; 
 but you taught the child how to pray, and his prayers come away 
 from those who sent you to him, and his whole hereafter is based 
 on those few prayers, that you were so very careless with; for 
 as he shall see the light, his soul shall speak, and say she was 
 my first instructor, and I never knew her to be what she said I 
 was to be; therefore it is easier to entangle the circumference of 
 the child's frame, than it would be to devise a scheme of setting 
 it right again; your own taught that idea of vision, which was 
 there for the child to see and judge by; and when you have got 
 to this stage of life wherein the same kind of clay has you in 
 their coils, then it is your duty, to look first at your own self, 
 and bring about a distinct understanding as to your own con- 
 duct, in the presence of that child; now you see it is not the 
 way you have of saying that prayer: It is the style of your own 
 actions, which govern that young mind: For he has you as his 
 patron, and when he sees you in a violent rage storming as 
 though his life were the ideal of this fond passion; for as he 
 discerns so shall he keep, and as you build up, in his sight, 
 there is where his knowledge springs from: And you may keep 
 his mind pure b}' praying, but not if you say, " Gentle Jesus 
 hear my prayer, and make a little child thy care": You see 
 what you have done, you have sent him away by your own pas- 
 sions; and therefore I say that to preach is one important thing; 
 but to practice is to reach the kingdom of God: Holy light of 
 day, see ye not the darkness; for though ye see, it is the after- 
 birth of sight; and as ye walk come not to harm for I know not 
 what is goodly in my sight is divine; and no one can know; but 
 those who see the way of this great continual strife; your own 
 words will rise up against you, and seem as your worst enemies; 
 
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 now take warning in time, and do not be guided by the presence 
 of those who teach, for as he was taught, his life was taken 
 away: Now then reach out and say to your own conscience, I 
 am come into a great barn, and I have none here to console with 
 me, I shall die of the moths and the rust: Take not of the 
 comforts of life too .greedily: For as he reaps so shall he sow: 
 Therefore beware of false prophets, and seclude yourself from 
 their presence, I declare that no man knows what the other may 
 mean: Neither does he keep in his own memory what he has 
 agreed to do: For it shall appear as different as two grains of 
 gold, when the reflection of night shall gloss it over, I say you 
 are as wise as he, and do not cultivate his thoughts, lest they 
 sting you like an adder: Now give me some small consolation 
 in thoughts that are good, and drive off the one who says, take 
 my hand in earnest, for I have sworn to be faithful and true, I 
 would rather say, as you want me to bring good luck to you, I 
 will conjure you to be my friend; this is the true conclusion of 
 a prophet, for he can tell whether you are true or false, and his 
 words are as though he were bound unto you, well it is the worst 
 thing possible to attempt to bind a soul, it knows it is free, and 
 it rebels against the restraint of another, and has to be carefully 
 guarded, otherwise it will seek flight, in its own way; therefore I 
 say bind not in this way a common vault; it is wrong to do this; 
 ask them to be a friend to you; but do not give them the burden 
 of an oath, it strikes one too much as the man of the third gen- 
 eration was taken, when he had to bear the burden of an 
 incumbered estate, I got what was left of the profligate hogs, 
 who deemed me no better than the raging torments of hell, as 
 their heirloom divine: And I do not see what there is to be 
 done in this life, only keep on struggling for an eternal curse; 
 therefore remember this that as ye curse, so may he curse you; 
 and when ye have the light, let it come in upon you; and as the 
 divine providence guides; so shall there be great rejoicing when 
 ye have come to know the way of your own salvation: I will 
 give all that have sins to be forgiven rest; It is the noblest thing 
 in existence to know that a sinner can bring his soul back to the 
 true path of righteousness; for as he so sinned did he not lift off 
 
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 the veil of his own iniquities; and did he not work out an 
 example, in the sight of all men, and were not those men bettered 
 for seeing his downfall; you have noble providence seen fit to 
 raise up the excellency of the many, by the cursing of the one 
 in their presence; you shall yet learn that the great God of 
 heaven is the Governor of immortal hosts, that he it is who 
 defines the righteous from the wicked; and brings sinners to 
 repentance, for the sake of doing good, God bless his holy good- 
 ness; and keep his laws holy, that there may be no transgressors, 
 for as he came down into the world from his throne on high, 
 make him to know that he is draining off the pure, as also of the 
 wicked; and may he call on all to lend their help to bring forth 
 righteousness to see the ways of those who have the power of 
 corruption: You know not what you are doing, by saying I 
 have been good and pure in thought, for as he says this his 
 thoughts are wafted on high, and there is an angel who peeps in 
 every cupboard, and it is not possible for this person to go forth, 
 without he is watched; and it is a greater example to corrupt 
 one that is holy in earnest, than it is to pollute ten that have 
 well-known sin in their hearts; now look well to your own 
 thoughts for as he shows, so will he be governed for show; I 
 have come to this stage of my own ways, that I feel the effects, 
 before they actually reach me, and I can do no other, than to 
 be guided by the all-powerful influence, that surrounds my soul, 
 I care nothing for the strangers, that are gaining their points by 
 throwing their eloquence, into my teeth, and trying their utmost 
 to hurl confusion on my head, I despise their every effort, and 
 I can hurl such-like to the depths of perdition: That is what I 
 will do to those who come with their nice tales, of taking my 
 strength away, I don't want any one to become my master; and 
 I declare that there is no man superior to me in the sight of him 
 I serve; I give my soul to aid and assist the divine providence; 
 And I will keep his work as pure as my strength will aid me to 
 do; and in working out this, it is beset on every side by those 
 who are keeping the road open for their own friends, and I say 
 that antagonism runs riot, even in the secluded path of your 
 own chamber; and when you sit down, in your anxiety of 
 
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 thoughts, keep yourself cool and collected, bring back to your 
 memory, the reflections of some pleasant experience, recall the 
 first bright spot on your life, and say within your own soul, I 
 want a reunion with that same pleasure, and I venture to 
 explain, that your troubles will disappear, and the difficulty, will 
 become as the sunshine, there will be veins of light streaming 
 through the hitherto flood of blackened charcoal, I am illustrat- 
 ing a black surrounding, when I say this is a piece of good advice, 
 I have seen the black clouds roll by many times, and I want to 
 show the silver-gray lining beyond the clouds, so you must not 
 suppose that I am going to let this hang on my own conscience to 
 any great extent, for although, I begin to see more clearly, there 
 are times, when I have to steady myself, and say there is a 
 storm brewing, and I will keep quiet until it passes away, for 
 should I become entangled, there will be a kind of hurricane 
 playing around my own soul and I must lay down softly, and keep 
 within myself or I shall be torn, like an angry wind twists the 
 young shoot of grass, as it peeps above the ground; you can 
 see the effect, an outraged conscience has over the wind, but 
 you fail to find any defects, when the inner cord of my own is 
 torn by passion; yet it came near tearing his soul out of his body, 
 and would have done so, only the coating-over was too tough, 
 yet his arms did not seem to protect that blast, let his finger- 
 nails dig as deeply as they may into his flesh, it won't commit 
 the injury that a scathed heart does know, when the anger has 
 risen to such a flame of madness, that drives away the reasoning 
 faculty: You see what danger there is in anger, yet it has no 
 apparent outward sign, I will not be guided by this soft play- 
 thing that has no sense, it is but the angry wind playing havoc 
 with the grass: And I am different to the wind by a long 
 sight; this is the reasoning of the pagan, he does not give 
 the wind credit for anything, he is a veritable ass, his whole 
 life hangs on the wind, it is this same wind, that blew him to 
 eternal life everlasting, and he cares nothing about it except 
 that he was annoyed by it coming and blowing his silk hat into 
 the gutter; you suppose that there was a beginning such as you 
 have been taught, why it is as absurd, as your own ideas of 
 
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 this wind, being your enemy, why that a wind can do harm 
 there is not the least doubt, but you forget the good in your 
 times of tribulations: Now keep in mind that a wind is pro- 
 duced by the atmosphere becoming very hot; this is the cause 
 of the time it requires to be under the restriction of the Sun, it 
 can not blow always, for the Sun does not keep it in subjection 
 only when it is in a formula of this getting it ready to let go: 
 And by keeping it in is by forcing it into a state of coming into 
 what is called the effluvia of great complexion of the exact 
 quantities to one source at a given time, it holds the breath of 
 its own life, into a given number of breaths, the same as a man 
 breathing, and gives out a long breath, when there is a current 
 of angry comment on a particular kind of destruction coming 
 in the way of its own circle; and by keeping it away by a coun- 
 tenanced gust of wind, it will begin to cover over this place, 
 and hold itself pure of the material, that does not require to be 
 drawn from, in any particular part, until such a compartment is 
 filled; then it gives out a different atmospheric element, at any 
 particular point, you don't get hold of this wind at all, it has to 
 be pushed out, and drawn in at a direct angle, or at any point, 
 that is in the compass, at a specific period; and you must not 
 run off with any foolish idea that there is a great big spirit 
 controlling the atmosphere, for it the Sun, at the head of nature, 
 that works in unison with all its smaller bodies, or in a more 
 geographical system of description; I can do this better by say- 
 ing that the Sun is in a manner of speaking the exact mouth- 
 piece of the whole universe, it is not a speaking-trumpet as 
 people would have it ascertaining its own proofs; yet it does the 
 work of making man and beast alike: There is no use being stupid 
 any longer, I realize the situation is a difficult one, but it can 
 not be made worse than what it is by my speaking, and you 
 know we all hold, that the Sun is our safety-valve, and not one 
 of all the whole world would consent to give up that glorious 
 sight for one single hour, did he realize that it was to be his 
 last hope of reaching God; you are as flexible as paint in the 
 hands of your own maker, and you are as glory chained to the 
 gates of heaven, when the Sun peeps at you; God bless her 
 
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 noble face, make heaven and earth a Paradise, for men and 
 mute to garble in, God grant them peace and happiness: You 
 have been told that a certain kind of man was made, and he was 
 formed after the likeness of his maker, this is practically cor- 
 rect, but it does not follow in the light that you have been 
 looking at it: There is a much different view of this work in 
 reality; it comes after the form of its own maker; and is pre- 
 cisely the same as was first said, yet there is this difference, that 
 the first man was a mute, and could have nothing to say on 
 this subject, I will show you in my works how man first came 
 into existence, when the proper time comes: Now you know 
 this has not been done before in a way that would satisfy any 
 rational being: You have gone wrong at the start, is no reason 
 why you should always be wrong: And when you are better 
 informed there is nothing more easy than to abide by what is 
 given to you; you know that a man may err once, and may then 
 retract, but when he will persist in keeping on his false path, 
 his soul is certain to go wrong; then take a mind that is naturally 
 brilliant, and he has got it in him to be sharp, well he can lead 
 his friends to any given route that is given to him; now don't 
 you see that a mind is not as was thought at first, capable to be 
 taken out, and led away by this or that idea; you forget that a 
 man was not able to grasp the situation as he does now: And 
 you will continue to live in ignorance just as long as you stick 
 to these same ideas as was paid out to the ancients; your very 
 safety demands a change, in your own ideas, for you are now 
 being worked in a way that has no foundation, and where there 
 is no solid foundation, the earth can not stand: That is as near 
 an expression of rights as possible, it will not be long before it 
 has been found out, that the world is not round as some folks 
 have got it fixed, it is an oblong shape, and is driven round by 
 the atmosphere becoming congealed when it enters the Sun, and 
 has no other way of pressing the heavens along than by its own 
 weight coming in contact with the earth at the rear of the 
 Sun, it goes in first by the side of the Sun, and is pro- 
 pelled there by the attraction caused through the heat, com- 
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 sideway motion, when it comes near the entrance to the Sun, 
 and is lifted up by the pressure of its own weight coming in 
 front of the power that has such an attractive agency at work, 
 it will not lift up a quarter the weight it has only that the dimen- 
 sions are quite at variance with the scope that is at the back of 
 the heavens, it is here where the great compass works, for it 
 revolves round in a circle, causing the left wing to fall as the 
 right ascends, and is slowly revolving all along the w T ay it runs 
 into the ash-pit at the rear, this is what is called the second 
 flight of the stairs, it drives all the atmospheric matter right 
 round the drum-head, and brings it back again into the wheel- 
 house, that is where it is condensed again, and is thrown out 
 into the hind-quarters of the Sun, and is there fetched again into 
 action by the same process of dividing the manure from the 
 moisture; this is the same as a man is constructed, only that the 
 machinery that works the heavens is an everlasting one, for it 
 builds all the time, and is growing instead of decreasing, that is 
 the way of all the heavenly bodies; they are all the time grow- 
 ing: And they have no beginning except on this firmament; 
 that is surely a fact, that both man and beast do continue to 
 keep on growing forever: Now don't misconstrue what we 
 are saying, and suppose we are lying for our own conscience is 
 clear, and we fear no contradiction, because you don't see these 
 things is it possible for you to be left out of knowledge forever, 
 I don't give you what I know to be a fact myself; I am giving 
 you what I am told to do: And I shall keep on to do this 
 as long as ever there is anything to tell you: Now I am 
 advised to stop at the very first, and told that you are not 
 ready to receive such an important communication; but I have 
 argued the question out with all scientists, and they say you 
 are growing more intellectually every day, and it must be 
 done sooner or later: That is what I am told that there 
 is no good in keeping it from you, you have got the whole 
 world to keep in order, and the sooner you understand what 
 becomes of those who pass over the better: There will then be 
 an assurance of their right position, for when they know not 
 what has to be done with them, they are as careless as so many 
 
 
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 wolves, and are just as apt to come under the standard of what 
 is right as ever they are to get wrong, ^when they know there is a 
 hand upon them always, is it not possible that they will say 
 within their souls, I don't want to be brought back to this earth, 
 and made to work out my iniquities, for the sake of showing 
 people, what an example is: Now you know very well that a life 
 of this sort is not very respectable, and it ought to show you, 
 that there is one amongst you who is to be set upon, and thrown 
 from his high position, and cast into everlasting scorn, I will 
 show you that once a man is cast down, he is the victim of 
 every mean creature, and he is the sole helping hand of the evil 
 one to lay hold of and make him feel the thorns of a persecuting 
 dignity; you have come out of many a scrape, but you never felt 
 any better for it; therefore you can see how much better it is to 
 avoid these dangerous encounters, it might bring you into crime, it 
 might lead you by, to let you see how nicely you can shave the 
 curve of detection, but you will always find that it is better to 
 form a solid foundation first, and bring this home who keeps you 
 there; don't go running after what has no concern in your own 
 business: Keep out all intruders, and leave all that does not 
 belong to you alone, for it shall be the one who victimizes another, 
 who is a victim for those who are looking for their prey; you don't 
 see how it is worked yet, it amounts to this that a crime has got to 
 be punished; no matter how that crime originated; It was done, 
 and before man and beast that shall not be glazed over, it 
 has to be withheld for a time, but in the end there is no rest for 
 the wicked: As he shall lift his hand against his brother; so shall 
 a mighty power be brought against him, even the whole of 
 heaven would turn out, rather than there should one sinner 
 escape; now you know that it is impossible for a crime to go 
 unpunished, and it will be the forte of God Almighty, which 
 shall see justice done to the merest worm of he who raises his 
 hand against the weak, for as he be made strong, so shall he be 
 made weak at the hour of his reckoning with his divine ruler: 
 Now don't stop to think, and leave out the calculation, that as 
 he ruled, so shall he be led to the altar of God Almighty, and as 
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 punished for his own offenses; there shall not one escape out of 
 that mighty host; now picture to yourselves this great problem, 
 and see whether you can not find the hand of nature dealing out 
 her own great power, as though she were governed by a living 
 God: " Now I have to ask you one question ": how is it that a 
 man can mend his own pants when he knows that there was no 
 one, who had any idea of making them at the first beginning; 
 does it not prove to you that man is advancing as rapidly as 
 though his very existence depended on what he is able to do; 
 therefore he must get on faster, when he knows how he is 
 being worked; is it not possible for a man to find out where he 
 is going next fall, without being told how he is to arrange his 
 affairs before he leaves; that is the point, he can do this little 
 piece of mental calculation quite easily; but he could not explain 
 it to you how it is done, not if it was to be the last breath of air he 
 had to draw; and why should he be left in this darkness, when 
 his own guides, said to him so and so will take place, but we 
 won't tell you how we are going to circumvent these little 
 obstacles that you see in your own way, we can take you by 
 them, or we can stick you up in them, just as we have got a 
 mind to lead you with; that is all there is to do, take a very fair 
 chance, and keep on persevering, and you will surmount any 
 obstacle on earth, but you must keep quite clear of other influ- 
 ences; that is the secret of success: Take a man who minds his 
 own business, and he will win nine times out of every ten; and 
 that other time it is because he was pitched into by a whole nest of 
 jealous vagabonds, that threw their influences together, and over- 
 powered and confused his own party ; you have got hold of a mighty 
 power, that can divine almost every known power on earth or in 
 the heavens above you; then why should you disregard the 
 teachings of such a strong force, that is as there is light shown, 
 wherefore do you get confused in the darkness; now don't go on 
 thinking that no one can tell you anything about heaven, for it 
 shall be made plain, that the gates of hell are under the foot of 
 man and that the head of the supreme ruler is at the mighty 
 power over the head of man, God bless immortality: Now look 
 
 and ye shall find, search diligently, and the road that he shall 
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 walk on will be strewn with flowers of gold, a mighty and ever- 
 lasting God, come down in all thy dowery, and show this benighted 
 people thy everlasting power of might: And main, take not back 
 from their vision this ray of sunshine, but rather keep on glori- 
 fying thy eternal grace, with the plenitude of thy noble, and 
 eternal spring of everlasting water, preach not thy doctrine to an 
 idle good-for-nothing people make them understand that there 
 is a God Almighty in reality, as well as in form; Now listen to 
 this, is it not quite as well to hold sacred the truth of Godliness, 
 purity and eternal welfare supreme, than it is to be painting a 
 picture of eternal hatred and scorn, for such is the true state of 
 affairs at the present time, don't liberate the devil when you have 
 got no right with him: There is the picture you are always bring- 
 ing before the eyes of your own children, keep him bound, and 
 you have purity and holiness: Great God of heaven come forth 
 and hear your children supplicate in defense of your holy laws, 
 make darkness pass them by, and Sunrays of light shine in upon 
 them God bless and preserve their holiness as pure as thy own 
 driving snow, make a power more strong than the time and tide 
 that governs eternity: Great master of all worlds beneath you 
 look up and pray deliver us from this power of divine providence, 
 and make our eyes look upon you as we are: There is the 
 teachings of the power that has no ending, that is the reverence in 
 which you have to seek purity; not by saying I do no wrong I must 
 be pure, for it shall be shown, that the pure at heart is the one 
 who is the easiest victim: And he may gather in good seed for all 
 his life, and then the adder may strike him, and turn him to scorn 
 before he has had time to reach the grave, God willing his des- 
 tiny as a proof of his power: Now you will believe in me when I 
 show you how hard it is for the righteous to enter the kingdom 
 of heaven; you see me in glory, and you see him in pain, then 
 why should you guess at his future divine: You thought he was 
 holy pure and sublime: But you did not contentedly make up 
 your mind: There is the great secret that has to become known 
 to the human mind, it must be clearly and truthfully illustrated, 
 before man can see what there is before him; and you know as 
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 before he can be convinced; therefore he will be shown how 
 this great hemisphere became one great eternity, or he can not 
 concede his pride of opinion for any living being; that is but the 
 natural reasoning of one who can see but does not understand 
 the sense of hearing: Now you have been plaguing this great 
 universal knowledge for centuries to know why it did not occur 
 to God to make all people white; when he was being so capable 
 as to know the rights of every other thing, you ought to be very 
 certain before you condemn him as to his rights of constructing 
 this humanity, for he knew which way to tell them from those who 
 belonged to the devil; you have no rights at all in the matter, 
 therefore you can not condemn him for doing just as he thought 
 best; now do you see that a man who is white is not one bit 
 better than he who is colored, and he who is deformed 
 is more likely to be befriended than he who is whole, 
 I thought you were taken in by this form of sentiment; 
 but I see that a great many have come to the conclusion that a 
 man must be conformed after the one model, and then grown 
 into shape by his own deformities; this is the true doctrine of 
 the phrases of the human race; that is they don't come in this 
 formation, in the first instance; they have to come before the 
 time of the angels, or they would not be in existence at all: 
 There is no grounds for doubts as to the correct origin of man, 
 he came from the wind, and the dust has made him grow to 
 what he is: Your theory, of God making the first man and 
 woman is certainly quite correct in one sense, but as for him 
 doing it after your mode of thought is quite at variance with 
 common sense: And you have got that form of knowledge 
 from some ignorant spirit, who was not able or willing to throw 
 a proper light on your surroundings, that is all you need be told 
 on this question: Now just let me show you how much better 
 I can explain this theory of human form coming to light; You 
 have seen how I was attacked by the other forces, in the begin- 
 ning of this work, by their constant interruptions, and see how 
 I am persevering to master every obstacle, that there shall not 
 be a single vestige of subtle cunning in the whole of my work, 
 I may be held down, from giving you a direct description, but 
 
 
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 you shall have the facts as they really are from the upper form 
 of perpetuity: That is I can call you stupid, when you have 
 failed to see how I am drifting my subject, so as to reach a 
 degree higher than the mighty force, that is moving heaven and 
 hell to stop me from proving my exact defending qualities: 
 Now do you not see what a power I am working against, the 
 one side don't see my drift, till I am foul of the other: That 
 is the exact code of intelligence coming along as you go, and 
 you have got me in a very tight squeeze when you press 
 me on to show you how man first originated: That is a ques- 
 tion that very few can answer, and it is mighty few who are 
 willing to engage in such a battle of questioning: There never 
 was a man born yet who could tell you how he was brought to 
 life, and I have settled this question for you forever, then don't 
 begin to doubt my ability as to how the first man came to see 
 the light: That is your greatest difficulty now, and I shall sur- 
 mount the style and get over the fence without a scratch: You 
 know me of old by this time, and you will find me a greater 
 power in heaven than I ever was, when you had me chained for 
 telling the truth: Now don't think I am bragging over you, 
 because I won the honors of reaching my freedom by bringing 
 souls to salvation: You shall yet see me glorified in deference 
 to the times when I said I was a power in my own land, and I will 
 prove you are as arrogant as the fiends who work you for their 
 own condemnation of me: Now don't think that you will ever 
 be able to master me, for I hold a sword at every chest, and say 
 come on you can neither kill me nor yet can you frustrate the 
 teachings of God, Amen: You are as subtle as a fox, but you 
 master your own power by getting at some one else, that is as 
 clear as day does bring forth new light: Your own thoughts are 
 -as false as the whims of a great big flying-machine, that every 
 soul dreams about reaching heaven with: Now don't go oh 
 forever dreaming that you are going to be snared and carried 
 off like a bird to heaven, it is a delusion and a snare, to think of 
 such a mode of exit: Your soul will be beside your own body, 
 until it sees the last of the remains of its old garment: There 
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 be taken home from that grave, and left with the original ele- 
 ment of your first fathers, and there he makes you do according 
 to what is right in accordance with his obedience to nature's 
 great cause of showing the many how you were first dragged 
 from the edge of this great chasm of paternal destruction: 
 That is as near a given point as it is possible for us to bring you 
 at present; you have got hold of the stick by its side view; 
 there is no paternal affection, coming from the beginning, 
 because you were not blessed with the intelligence, when you 
 first appeared as the growth of a plant, and then how is it that 
 you have expected to be born again at the beginning, why it is 
 absurd to suppose that you were able to do anything at all, this 
 is not all, you had to be blown into shape with the atmosphere 
 coming in contact, with material first: This is as easily under- 
 stood as the rest, only you have to be guided to the right code 
 of knowing before you can understand: This is the idea of 
 which you have never thought seriously about, the way to reach 
 out and pull a pear is one way of taking it off the tree, but to 
 take a limb off, and place it on the other side is not quite so 
 easy; that is it don't stick fast, when you do it; but when the 
 wind has twisted it round a point farther to the west, it receives 
 a different current of the atmospheric elements: Therefore it 
 will grow a different kind of tree on that side to what it did on 
 the other: Now don't make any mistake about this little illus- 
 tration, it shows you a beginning of the changes in life; and you 
 have only had a one kind of beginning, for it could only come 
 through the changes of the atmosphere being strained to a 
 degree of after life: You see I have hit you again on the ques- 
 tion of your eternal soul coming after the body has passed away, 
 I want to show you that a man may be a soft snatch once; but 
 he was not always calculated to be so evenly handled; this is wis- 
 dom, to be drawn from a fig tree: That is a glorious fashion 
 they have got of painting Eve, with a fig-leaf as a robe to con- 
 ceal her nakedness: You should see the first one that God 
 made, and then your eyes will be opened; though I have no 
 desire to give this account in ridicule, you are to blame your- 
 selves for the whole of it: There never was an angel who Mew 
 
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 with wings, and it is quite enough to make an ancient spirit feel 
 revengeful, whenever he sees his own form disguised: That he 
 would rather see a devil, with great big horns sticking in a loose 
 garment; that is his sole complaint against the human fools who 
 clasp themselves, with wings about their shoulders, and think how 
 nice it must be to be an angel garbed out in such finery They 
 poor deluded asses are as much under the influence of the devil, 
 as ever it is possible for them to be: And it makes my heart sore 
 to think I was once a stupid fool like them: You have got me 
 far more hopeful since you were, pleased to dress up with little 
 flips, and wade out on the scenery of every Jimtown theater, 
 for I am now able to see that you practice what you preach, and 
 live in a place where there is no morality: That is as it should 
 be when the devil drives he leaves no kinds to prevail, and it 
 hurts him worse, than anything you can do, for he feels his own 
 false position, when you get him fixed up with his horns on, 
 and a pretty little angel coming out with her flips, keep on, it 
 was intended to explain the difference between hell and heaven: 
 And no one could be blamed for fighting out the path of life as 
 they were shown, yet you know it is a farce, and that is all there 
 is to be said about it: Except ye believe them how can ye see, 
 for God in his munificence has given you sight; And he will give 
 you understanding, but ye can not see him, therefore it is hard 
 for you to believe: And you have got into a way of saying my 
 great God come down and persecute these heathens; that is not 
 right for it means a wickedness to befall your enemies; there 
 is the reason of this affair being what it is: And you 
 know that a man who calls for such an affliction on his 
 enemies must beware, for as he calls, so shall his calling 
 ascend; and he will be punished himself for not knowing how. 
 to govern his own devils: You don't believe me, but I will 
 show you yet that I can make it resound at every call: You 
 take a given light and see how far it marks the boundary line of 
 its own reflection: Then take a measure and see what amount of 
 tether you have to that light, then take a sound piece of cord, 
 and make it reach out the exact length of this light reflection; 
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 have; then take it and multiply it by the round measurement, 
 that is the way to ascertain how much sound you had when you 
 spoke, it fetches even with the light, because it is an ungovern- 
 able body and is suffered to wander on forever just the same as 
 the earth, has a pitch of so many superficial feet there is the 
 problem of sound over matter, it has no distant atmospheric 
 element to govern it with: And consequently is a great big jump 
 ahead of everything else in this world of ours: Your own way 
 of beginning to measure is what I have to make my declaration 
 from, and not your thoughts as they appear to me, you shall yet 
 learn to see how heaven looks upon hell: And judge which is 
 best, the hand that guides, or the one that is being divided 
 against itself: Now you don't know what I am talking about, 
 as most of you think there is nothing to get over except this life, 
 I tell you that there is much more in this life than you anticipated, 
 it won't let you alone after you have left it; that is what you 
 don't calculate upon at all: For when you are dead and buried 
 as it is termed you have only begun to see that you have been 
 hoaxed all your days, and that you have been the victim of a 
 prophecy that has no sense in it: You have got where you can 
 not reach out and tell your friends not to be fooled any more, 
 and you simply have to turn to and work out your time at the 
 go as you please style, until you have a sufficient amount of work 
 accomplished to make you ready to be lifted up to some better 
 class of genius: For there is no talk of letting you off duty once 
 you begin to take your part at the wheel in earnest, it won't be 
 left for you to do as you think proper, it will be all mapped off 
 what is expected of you: And you have no right to get out of the 
 course that is laid down for you; that is you will be led about 
 by those who have the sound of your voice under their thong, 
 and it wont be for you to say I won't do this common labor, I 
 was a very intelligent person in the body, and I want to be 
 something greater now I have been let live through with my 
 second sight, and you are going to give me a worse job than I 
 had before, because you say I cheated a poor peddler out of his 
 hard earnings; now I wont stand it simply: The very first thing 
 he knows, is a great big large seal-coat of the form of an umbrella 
 
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 thrown over him, and he is effectually tied down to the one place, 
 and is for a long while kept there, tied to a thing that won't give 
 up its own sound for all that is left, is the complete tag end of a 
 soul: You may not quite get the exact pith of what I mean, yet 
 it is very difficult to make you understand, without you actually 
 saw for yourself: And you shall see it, for there are many who 
 come into the light, with a fixed determination that they have to 
 be kept in purity with only their own ideas to follow: You see 
 me now, but wait till you find yourselves in the harness of the 
 great guidance of those who call themselves the ancients, I tell 
 you what it is, they are as illiterate as ever you could find any 
 pagan in the slums of your largest cities: You don't want to be 
 made to work, and you won't do it when there is any chance of 
 getting out of it; therefore, it won't come to you, without you go 
 to it; and it was so machined out that a mind had to be moulded 
 first before there could be any progress: Yet you see us now, 
 and you say what a perfectly shaped head he has got, it is not 
 half so much as it was, and is worse by far than it used to be: 
 There is the mystery of man for you, what is it that makes the 
 mind go wandering on like a whirl for; because you have never 
 been taught how to stop the mind from wandering, and when 
 you find that it is all along the kind of thoughts, that keep on 
 crushing themselves out of shape, then it is easy to tell that they 
 are not there, without they came there of their own accord: 
 Now you see what kind of work is expected of you, when you get 
 on the other side of life; you are to come back, and fill the minds 
 of your friends with thoughts of what you can give them; that is 
 your duty, now do you see what a life there is for you to lead, 
 when you have gone to the only home you can ever hope to 
 know, and as the new ones come in, so do the old ones rise 
 higher, and become more pure; For they have been led on by 
 what has preceded them: Don't you see that there has to be a 
 power, or there can not be a motion; now I have got you wedged 
 into a narrow compass, how is it that you won't work without I 
 stand by and tell you everything; you have got a head, and a 
 body, and so you have when you are dead: Then why don't you 
 pick up your old body, and go on; that is where you are left off 
 
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 the old clothes and placed in new ones; you can't get along, for 
 the spirit moves and not the body, and it has got an attachment 
 to its own after cortege: That is why you see, and don't under- 
 stand, you have a mind that is acted upon by this form of light, 
 which governs the whole of eternity; now don't alarm yourselves 
 one bit about this thing, it has got a fixed purpose in view; and 
 that is to mend a great many ills that do befall the after life of 
 mankind; It won't make any practical difference as far as you 
 can see; but it will show the heathens in heaven that they are 
 observed: And they will feel much more hurt at their own 
 inferiority, every time it is said that they used to be a mute, and 
 it is right that this intelligence should be sent broadcast, for as 
 the pain of hell increases so does the darkness come on earth: 
 Observe and you will see that this is a work against heaven and 
 hell: And not merely to tell you to pray and give succor to the 
 many by your supplications of heaven to help you: I say 
 distinctly that all things began on earth, and it is there that the 
 corrections have got to be made: Now can't you see that a 
 bubble ascends, and breaks, but when it does not break, there is 
 an arch being built: then why don't you see that the bubble, 
 will form into many arches, and leave the earth in purity, but 
 when these bubbles descend, they are broken in two: That is the 
 right way to illustrate a thing in its first formation: You have 
 kept on moving along, at the rate of beginning eternally, and 
 you are not advancing any faster, for the reason that you are 
 kept in darkness by the eternal governing powers being behind 
 you; that is it that keeps heaven away, it has gone on before the 
 intellect was formed, and it could only be the same as beginning 
 now: It had the motion established long before there was any 
 intelligence: That is why you know so much, without being 
 able to prove anything; and this is the way it was at first, it had a 
 start, and when once there is a fair start made, it requires an 
 immense amount of courage, and enlightenment before you can 
 overtake that start, and it will have to be got honestly, for 
 nothing can stand, which is shuffled in, it will be seen that an 
 honest opinion is always before a stuffed one: Therefore you 
 have only to make up your own minds that where honesty pre- 
 
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 vails, sin is a one-sided outcast; you know what a great state 
 there was about the end of the world coming in '92, but you can 
 make your minds easy on this score it can't possibly come to an 
 end, whilst there is any danger, of being dissolved by the great 
 going in and the immense amount of material that has to be poured 
 out: This alone assures us of everlasting life eternal, without 
 end: Many may think that a given substance, can break: And 
 become in a more distinct kind; but it is not so: That is what 
 the man said, when he gave up his privileges; he was going to 
 get to the other side, by pulling his carcass after him, that is as 
 near a definite description as possible; for the man who escapes 
 from his old body, does take it along with him in its entire form; 
 though you must not conclude that you are going to use other 
 material than the ethereal form once you have got out of the flesh, 
 it is not to be put in a vault, and kept there forever as poor 
 deluded mortals have done without this kind of reckoning so 
 long, that they imagine that they have got the very person in there 
 that was in the continual habit of abiding in its cell; that is the 
 idea of the mind that is uncultivated: And nothing yet has 
 been here to dispel this same opinion; you may talk as you have 
 a mind to but the one idea strikes the person who buries a body, 
 it has gone down there into that dark hole, and I shall surely be 
 called upon to do the same when my time comes: You are so 
 much impressed with this idea; that you have a fear of being 
 present, when your own father dies, and looks back to see 
 whether his effects have been faithfully administered; that you 
 would dread to pass his grave did you do any injustice to his 
 bequests: Now don't tell me that you will buy his headstone 
 out of your own pocket it would be right no doubt to do so, but 
 you wish all the same that he had been careful with his 
 money and left you well provided for: That is as near as possi- 
 ble what you have been thinking of during the whole time it was 
 being bought and paid for, I am going to show you by this that 
 you know how to act, when your own father dies; that is to 
 bury his remains, but you forget that it was his money that has 
 been paying for the tombstone, that will illustrate the idea of 
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 is not what you have supposed at all; for the mere fact of your 
 own father being cast into that hole is nothing more than a 
 myth, and he is no doubt at all attached to your own cortege, 
 and is at the time of the burial giving directions through his 
 own connection with his after-birth: Now do you see that instead 
 of you burying him in that hole, he is giving direction for his 
 own funeral; therefore it is not very nice for those who may 
 happen to say anything that is not pleasing to the dead, for it is 
 sure to be heard, and will bring bad results to those who make 
 such a mistake, it will perhaps be the means of ruining many a 
 man, for when the dead hears a sound against his own name, he 
 will speak up boldly, and chastise those who form the circle 
 round that person who was so ignorant as to give vent to any 
 remarks that might injure the dead: So you had better mind 
 what you say against a corpse; for it is there to be dealt with 
 according to good common sense: And you may quite easily 
 bring about your own ruin through an angry speech against him 
 who once held you in awe: Don't imagine he is dead, for it is 
 quite easy for him to punish you; by leading you into a trap, and 
 there seeking pleasure in your suffering: Now I shall show you 
 that you are not so smart as you think you are; you gathered in 
 the debts of the one who you called your great benefactor: and 
 you paid away all except what you thought was your share, for 
 dividing this property accurately, yet you were holding some 
 little thing back from your co-executors, that is the true state of 
 your idea of what was right, it may have been right in your own 
 estimation, but the question is was it right in the estimation of 
 him who did not mean it to be spent that way: You may think 
 you did your duty: And you may have been very fair in some 
 things, but that particular affair in which you acted greedily, it 
 was may be the curse of your whole hereafter, for that spirit was 
 enraged at the wrongful action of this particular action, yet he 
 was not satisfied over this particular job, so he made up his mind 
 to wreak you a steadfast injury, for this particular action, and 
 was never more pleased when he witnessed your own downfall, 
 that is he gave you a good chance, to gain his assistance, and 
 you made him your enemy in hell: Now what more could you 
 
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 get that could injure you than an enemy in hell, call back to 
 your memory what deeds you have ever done to the dead, and 
 you will trace from that way how you came to meet your own 
 calamities: You have given this fashion a correct view of your 
 own situation, and you see what it will do to you, when you have 
 been advised wrongly by an understanding that has no idea of 
 what is being done in return to you: You can please yourself, 
 and you can get all the satisfaction you have any need for, by 
 keeping what does not justly belong to you, therefore he who 
 keeps these ill-gotten things, may enjoy them thoroughly, but they 
 always lead to his ruin in the end: Now you see that a once 
 bright-souled mortal, may easily be nursing a viper in his own 
 breast, and keeping from the light of his fellow-men, what is a 
 thoroughly well-known circumstance, and it is watched from the 
 clear side of life, with as much and more interest, than though all 
 hades knew his full secret, you know now why an angel is purified, 
 by being let go on his enemies, and when he is able to show an 
 example to those who are in the art of doing what they consider 
 best, it will be seen that a number have to be thrown down con- 
 tinually to keep the vast number of angels from growing morbid, 
 and disconsolate over their misfortune of having to show them- 
 selves capable of acting for the best, under the present system 
 of affairs: You can't get on without being shown, any more than 
 you could deal out a particular class of goods with no false colors 
 in the roll, I say you have got false clothing beneath every 
 fathom of covering, and you don't know how to stop this great 
 big gigantic swindle: You keep yourselves posted only on what 
 you see; and you know of nothing except what has been kept for 
 you for generations: Except there is a clear pathway made known 
 to those who are here how do you suppose it possible that you 
 are going to get into any better understanding with your supreme 
 ruler, it must be got at on the earth, it can not be accomplished in 
 heaven, for you are quite in advance of the heavens, and that is 
 quite above the possible chances of doubt, I am not saying so 
 merely for an idle purpose, but I do say this to show you dis- 
 tinctly that you are entirely on a wrong track, and must either 
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 injuring no living soul or yet breaking out at times and reviling 
 the dead: You know I am speaking truthfully, when I say that 
 you are wrong in keeping what has not the resemblance to 
 honesty in its own composition: Therefore be happy with what 
 you have gotten by your own industry, and don't seek from off 
 another's vineyard; that his to divine arightly, and sleep on your 
 own pillow, lest it may contain a seed off some other one's head, 
 I say be cautious in whatever you do, for as the ass brays, his 
 notes are heard by the sounds of his accent: Leave a good 
 sentence for a kindly word, and bring home to your family a 
 mighty strong rebuke, for misguiding the young and old who 
 may lay their heads between your threshold and the tomb of 
 your ancestors, I am not what is, but I am here to do his 
 bidding that is what you have to consider, when you are at the 
 head of an household, now do not let your hands touch the heir 
 of him who was the donator of such a priceless gift, for as the 
 father gave to the son, he also did will that he should remain a 
 great nation, without impeachment or waste: Now you know 
 what Christ did for sinners, and he told you to beware of false 
 prophets for there was not one out of every thousand, nay not 
 one out of tens of thousands who could interpret aright, this is 
 true, and do not be misled by any search diligently, and you 
 will find all you care to know, God bless the Holy light of day, 
 it shines out an everlasting eternal glory, and no power on earth 
 can break through the intelligence of man, providing he is under- 
 stood by himself; there is then another kind of construction, 
 that has altogether failed to come under the understanding of 
 man, that is the mind that has been taught to read and write, 
 this mind is more apt to become fixed in its own light, than it 
 would be did it not know what it saw, there is that great mistake 
 of leaving a big sentence unfinished, and getting wrong when 
 you depend wholly on what you can see, that is the very thing 
 that leads hundreds wrong, for they can not help believing 
 what they see; and it is impossible to make them believe 
 what is there without actually looking at it: You have got into 
 a sad error, when you think that a whole column of material 
 is as it seems on the surface, you can make a pillow quite 
 
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 smooth, but you will not be able to keep it from containing what 
 is not apparent to the eyesight, that is it may hold a much 
 greater amount of essence of life, than you ever anticipated; 
 there is where you all wrong yourselves, you think that a 
 little dirt may make an unholy influence upon your vision, but 
 you forget that on the outside of that dirt, there is a magnetic 
 current, that will surely make an impression on those it comes 
 in contact with, therefore you are led astray by the very atmos- 
 phere you breathe, for it shall be so written, that a man may 
 be as pure as the virgin soil, yet he is in constant commune with 
 his thoughts, and they lead him wherever he has a mind to go; 
 this is as natural as can be, for he has nothing else to guide him 
 by; and he may have all the world before him, he can not keep 
 his mind from wandering to that divine object his thoughts 
 have pictured to him as the model of his holy light, now do 
 you see what part the thoughts have been working him into, 
 therefore is it not possible for the mind to be led to destruc- 
 tion, as well as to holiness and purity, that is the way all men 
 are led about, and it is the workings of an under current, that 
 guides them to this mine of health, or it leads them to the very 
 den of ruin: You see it won't do to let your thoughts run riot 
 with your own mind, for they have got to be stopped, and held 
 in until they assume their own course of accurate intelligence, 
 that is the way to govern the mind, hold it in until you have 
 seen what it produces for you, don't give way to a stubborn con- 
 viction, that you must do it this particular way, for it has got to 
 be mastered, either by one power or another, before it is any use, 
 that is the right theory of geological sense, don't begin to 
 count too quickly, for the lines are drawn, without you know- 
 ing anything about it, therefore you must not begin to take in 
 the surroundings of night too readily, the darkness comes of 
 its own accord, and it shall be clearly proved to you, that 
 there is no one who could not see, before they were nursed into 
 light by the coming storms of adversities; you see that a com- 
 mon way of bringing back to light is the exact mode we have 
 drawn of our own, that is the way to reach the given spot, is by 
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 be broken down by contrary elements before you drive away the 
 good ones by holding on to the bad, keep out all evil influ- 
 ences, and you have a very fair show of getting where you want 
 to go; that is the way a man has to be brought down to his 
 way of being broken down first, and then risen up again by his 
 good guides: You know what it is to be left out in the cold by 
 all your former acquaintances; then don't be cast down by them, 
 call an angel of light to your side and say as I have been thrown 
 down for an example to show the heathens, what they knew so 
 very well would happen once they planted their united efforts 
 against me, you come again to me and raise me up above them 
 and show them that there are two kinds of good in life, one to 
 cast down, into a dark bottomless pit: And the other is 
 to be held in esteem by the great ruler of light: Now I have 
 been punished by no fault of my own, and I see that I am a 
 victim because I was a superior specimen for the angel of night 
 to glide down upon me, and make his home in heaven secure, 
 by the crudest torture he could inflict on one who never did him 
 wrong or any one else, because I was held up among my fel- 
 low-men as a noble whole-souled pure man, and could have 
 fought against the tiger that was clutching at my mind did I 
 but know, that I was to be his victim for his own aggrandizement 
 in heaven: You see what chances there are against a pure- 
 minded man, he has led an honest sober industrious life, and he 
 is not on guard, he thinks his mind has always done right before, 
 then how can he be acting in a different way now, he is just as 
 innocent as the babe, it can't be held up that he was prepared, 
 for he had never erred before, and what was his by rights had 
 always stood good friends, therefore his only chance now was to 
 obey his own thoughts they had never failed him since he could 
 remember, that is where he did not know that he was the exact 
 requirement for another one's plan, and he had to be led or 
 driven into what he thought all the time was wrong, yet he gave 
 way because he had no idea but that some change might make 
 him sorry for holding back, this is the way of the serpent, it 
 glides into, and holds fast upon the victim it requires for an 
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 the evils wrought upon that pure-souled man, his name is 
 blighted, his goods are upheld as spoiled, and his after-inherit- 
 ance is for everlasting a plague, for those who had him in their 
 claws: You see what it is to be an holy man, he can not get 
 justice done him, because there is a power working against him 
 that is stronger than hell itself, it does not come in form of ice, 
 it comes in warmth and affection': There is where it shines the 
 greatest demonstrations of its skill: You see an honest man has 
 few pleasures, and he will submit to the tempter more readily 
 than the man who indulges with bad odors continually: You 
 see he is not very smart to begin with, and he can not see a 
 great way ahead, therefore he is liable to become wounded 
 by the first arrow of poison, then it is all over with him, no 
 retreat is possible, he does not understand that he is being held 
 in chains for an example to his fellow-men, give him knowledge, 
 and he will wrestle with his viper, and conquer for he knows 
 the consequence, when he has been shown by his own friends 
 that sin is not a crime but a victory: You are quite appalled 
 with this version of sin, but I positively show that a true sense 
 of justice has to be begun at home, and not outside, for there 
 is where the blow comes; and you have the chance of warding 
 off that blow, when it is known to you as a wrong thing to do: 
 You shall have a peaceful blessing for every sinner you keep out 
 of heaven, for no sin is there except what you permit to grow 
 up in your midst, and you shall be punished for what you never 
 did is not at all likely to be the ruling of a righteous God, he is 
 not present to see what is going on, there are no places for his 
 thong to whip with, he can feel the heat, and he can not bear 
 to see his pastures destroyed, for he lives on the moisture of 
 every garbage; you see what you have done, counted in what 
 there is not, and left out where there shall be no ending forever: 
 Strike back, and you will see that you are the beginning, and 
 not he, then what do you want with a devil, when you make 
 them yourselves; think of this and bring light in upon your 
 own darkness; don't upbraid a common wheel for a crack-jaw 
 idiocy, that is what you call getting enlightenment you hold the 
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 now don't begin to fancy that you have got a crank to lead you, 
 for you shall see that as the time rolls by, and I get in my proper 
 power of reasoning, I will lift you right out of your pathway to 
 hell: And join you on to what is called the field of knowledge, 
 that is as it should be and I can not explain a thing more defi- 
 nitely till I come to it; you think I am not able to define these 
 things, but I will show you that there are ways and means of 
 surmounting every obstacle on earth, and heaven, this is fair to 
 both sides, and it shall be done before the fall of another decade, 
 that is the last of a great big change for the better, and no 
 one who knows what a man can be till he is thoroughly well 
 tested, and when you open up the way for a thoroughly reliable 
 honest soul, and it has the helping willing hands of heaven to 
 guide it, there is no force on earth that shall overpower such 
 a one, God bless the everlasting life of our Saviour Jesus Christ: 
 He died for sinners, and made men the mouthpiece of his eternal 
 grace, bless immortality, and divine providence must come on 
 before: That is all that will have to be changed: You see 
 that as the light plays upon man, it shall ascend over the dark- 
 ness, and as man descends into the background, he is not what 
 he should be at all, instead of him being in heavy raiments, 
 he is merely a disjointed atmospheric combustion made 
 of every conceivable fragment: And his welfare is of no conse- 
 quence compared to his mighty force of doing right, therefore 
 his light is not what has been shown to him, and he did not know 
 what it was that kept striking him down, when he was there to 
 stop up: You see you have been always led by a power, that 
 was not in advance of yourselves, and you can not hope to get 
 right whilst you are behind a thong that had no beginning too 
 new for you, I have got you placed right enough, you are behind 
 the thong, and you ought to be in front of it; because you had 
 to make the whip before you could do any driving, therefore you 
 must not let yourselves be driven by your own whips; there is this 
 about it that a mind does not grow out of rawhide, neither does 
 it follow on the same principles, but you have got to be shown, 
 or you won't be able to see; that is to meet your own eyesight, 
 it is necessary to fetch mine into your views; and you must not 
 
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 think that my expressions are vulgar, because I am at your side 
 of life trying to make you wise, and not trying to exercise a 
 fluent train of eloquent articulations, for I am ready to impress 
 you with what is proper, yet I don't want you to make me appear 
 as arrogant as I feel; you know what a man said to me once when 
 I was addressing him, why, Thomas you appear as though you 
 were impressed by the feeling of God himself, and I did to feel 
 as though no living mortal was equal to me, I have never felt so 
 happy as the time when I founpl out that I had arrived at my 
 hopes, and reached the size of glory, where I now stand, no one 
 to say you are an inferior mortal, I heard those words so dis- 
 tinctly that when they buried my old books, that I cried over it, 
 and said when I get the chance of coming back myself I will hurl 
 this at the pagans, and prove them wrong on everything they 
 have condemned me for: You know who I am by this time, and 
 I will go still further, and convince the world that they never 
 were better informed than when I gave them the true light in 
 my own crude way; you see I am not a proud-souled high-spir- 
 ited mortal now, I come back with a very different showing to 
 what I went away with; and you have got many a one to thank 
 for my works except myself, I did not know what it was that 
 had me under their power, when I was here, I only know that 
 I felt too good for any earthly mortal, and I would not be put 
 down for anybody, that is the right way to feel too: Don't let 
 any one single individual come in your way, let him who shines 
 the most, come out in sure sentences and divine the life he 
 leads: Don't let him who fills his mouth as full as Othologous 
 come along and say my God man you have broken bread with- 
 out any prayer, let not this fiend alarm you, call on your own 
 angel standing by your side, and say come tell me what 
 answer must I make to this one who has chastened me for the 
 mouthful that is in my teeth; 3^ou will hear a sound, that lips 
 can not utter, it is with a stroke of pain that comes between 
 the eyes, and centers itself over the back of the forehead, it is 
 the pressure of an instrument common to all of us: You feel 
 the weight of something near the head, it seems though your 
 brains would break, when you have to answer when you can't, 
 
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 that is the after-birth of light striking the weak place behind the 
 forehead, it gives a sound, that is vibrated to the ear, and it has 
 been thus far sensed by the well-known form of hearing, but in 
 reality it is the concussion on the brain at the top of the head; 
 and it is here where the blow is struck, that produces life and 
 light thrown in together, there is the true feature of defining 
 the sense of calling back to life, it comes in the clear sound of 
 might and right conjoined, there is the secret of the touch, it 
 can be hit with a blow from an ax, but the sharp cutting word of 
 a dear friend sinks deepest: You all know quite well, that there 
 is a distinct power at work, yet you have been led away by the 
 thoughts that God had you in his especial keeping, yet you 
 know nothing of all that has been said, that he has been accred- 
 ited with having said at one time and the other: You are as 
 able to judge now as ever you were, and I am here to say that 
 you are in a much better and truer light, than you were; in the 
 days of the commencement of history, that is you have come to 
 a more enlightened age, and it is quite easy for you to define 
 the right from the wrong, it was no easy matter for the begin- 
 ners to tell whether it was God or the Devil trying to lead 
 them, and they were not very sure which, well now it is quite 
 easy to be able to tell the two apart, one is all purity, and holy, 
 spiritually good, that is, that God is the good angel, coming 
 back, to tell you how you should act for the right 
 course through life, whilst the " devil " is the one who holds 
 you chained to a certain amount of knowledge, and won't agree 
 that you should see your way clearly, he slinks round, and says 
 you must not read a work on the enlightenment of mankind; 
 because it is too deep for your own understanding, better go 
 and question your pastor on such alarming subjects; and he 
 will enlighten you therein: Now what could be a better illustra- 
 tion of the " devil " than this, he is afraid himself, and wants to 
 frighten every one else, that is just how he feels, he is a good 
 remove from righteous himself, or he would not object to his own 
 hole being looked into: That is a certain sign of the promptings 
 of the "devil," when he is afraid to investigate himself and won't 
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 may keep on forever, when you fear the torture of hell: But 
 you never knew a case yet, where the right man won, without 
 first looking in every cupboard for the thief, he is always 
 hiding, then why let him alone, when you don't want him: 
 Hunt him down, as a hare does, that has escaped from the 
 hound, I say you have only to look him up every time he comes 
 near you, and he will soon disappear as utterly disconsolate, as 
 when there was no hell to look for: Now I can show you how 
 to cultivate the grace of God, by asking for all good angels to 
 come and help you out of your troubles; that is the way to 
 prove the account I am giving you: Take plenty of time to 
 consider, and when you are in any kind of trouble, take a step 
 back, and say in your own breath, I have been wrong, will you 
 show me the right way out of my adversity, for I feel sorely 
 oppressed, and there is sure to arise in front of your views, 
 two distinct versions of the way you are to proceed, one says 
 right across the line of my eye, I can see a dark pool, and there 
 is only one way, you must jump in and swim to the other side: 
 That is the " devil " promoting his scheme of drowning you: 
 The other comes after this form, I see a cloud, in the sky, it has 
 nothing behind it, yet we all know that once there was a cloud 
 between heaven and hell: And the great Seer of all the Holy 
 God of light, did divide that cloud, and show us the great peace- 
 ful resignation as he met his doom on Calvary: You know 
 how fearless he was, his soul, was prepared, and it was ready 
 and willing for its flight; there is the true light to follow on his 
 pathway, and you will not see the night: His soul was ready, it 
 knew all things, and it saw the advantage of a departure from 
 this life: Your own soul may become the same, when you 
 are not afraid to look into the dark abyss of that yawning 
 gulf, that the " devil " has made all mankind afraid of, go 
 tell him he is a liar, and unless he will show you a clear 
 road out of the dilemma, you will not follow his doc- 
 trines, and he can either stop away from you, or prove 
 what he says in a sensible argument: You know he can 
 not justify himself in one single sentence that he has made, 
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 had been a convicted felon, and liberated by mistake: That 
 is not all, he will not lay down his hand and say I have nothing 
 to do with this state of affairs, he prefers to steal in upon you, 
 when there is no one near, and throw his poison over you, by 
 saying I am he who was your father's best friend, and your father 
 and I could always get an honest understanding with each other, 
 that is all very fine, he wants to control you for some hidden 
 scheme he has in view, don't take any notice of his affection for- 
 your lamented parent, it's all trash, it was nothing but a deliber- 
 ate plot, to get at you in some way, don't bind the miserable 
 wretch, to come and visit you again, but please him all you can, 
 and question him till his hands begin to turn round each other, 
 then you know that the serpent is feeling the effects of your 
 probing: You can always tell when you have struck him beneath 
 his coating of humbug, he will wriggle and twist and turn, and 
 try in every conceivable way to evade your questions: You 
 hang on to his very vital cord, until he is willing to surrender, 
 and don't let him off till he is well saturated with the scorn of 
 righteous dignity: There you have won a victory for yourself, 
 it does may be not, show a very marked appearance at the time: 
 Yet you stabbed the fiend so deep, that all his associates have 
 got hold of the encounter, and they will all be afraid of getting 
 near you in any turmoil, for his overthrow, is a signal to be aware 
 of the stronghold you carry underneath your own control, that 
 is the secret ever before men, and they are always blind to these 
 facts, they know that a man is dangerous by the reputed character 
 he has always borne, but they never know a stranger, until they 
 run foul of his fangs, well it is quite an easy matter to tell 
 the quality of your opponent, without even speaking to him, he 
 is surrounded by a certain class of spirits, and it is they who 
 talk, not the one who is inside of the body, and they can con- 
 verse, with any of their own class, but the quality is here even 
 more distinct, than it is on your side of life, it will not be 
 tolerated in heaven the abuses, that are practiced in hell: So 
 you see that an associate of evil, does not mix in the same 
 society as the one of good; and they are known by the company 
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 ax of an executioner, that is that a man who is doomed to death, 
 for some hideous crime, has all of those who are impressed with 
 a belief of no after punishment, can come and help to excuse his 
 faults, now you see what an influence, is thrown in the balance 
 scale when the trial is going on to acquit or punish, it is of more 
 interest to those who brought about the affair, than it was to him 
 who sentenced the criminal for doing this deed: You see what 
 an influence, is thrown on to the forces, that are at the back of 
 that Judge, it always makes my mind feel oppressed, when I 
 contemplate this position: You see he has two contending 
 powers, driving at him all the time, and he is unaware of the 
 actual position he is placed in, yet he has been quite successful 
 in a general way, he sends those to hell, who are not accountable 
 for what they are doing, and they are punished by him for the 
 crime that they were forced into by some fiend who wanted to 
 succeed in liberating himself from the after inheritance of his 
 own abominable guilt: So his chance to pounce upon and con- 
 vert an innocent being into a criminal was surely successful, 
 once he had gained his plan of torture, he would be liberated, 
 and given a position higher up on the other side of life, his sins 
 would have been made pure, by the flow of another's calamity: 
 Therefore when you come to think of this thing you will be more 
 careful, how you let loose of one devil, to crush another, so you 
 are not advancing when you let this one escape, for he is in time 
 to come to be one of the lawgivers in heaven, and he will not be 
 very choice as to how he makes punishment, his soul was purified, 
 by the actions of his own connections with bringing on pain and 
 suffering, and his escape could only make him walk on the same 
 pathway, as he had found salvation; now do you suppose that 
 any good can come of such a way of making one free by the 
 actual crushing of another; why, it certainly has the effect, of 
 showing mortals where their errors are, and it brings them 
 examples, yet it does not throw any enlightenment on what is 
 actually proceeding, it keeps the world in hell always, that is as 
 near correct as you will ever be able to define it, you can make 
 laws, to punish, without liberating this fiend, it won't help 
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 purified by showing his fellow spirits how the earth should be 
 governed, you hold out an inducement to a criminal to make his 
 life pure, on this earth, and see how soon you have reached an 
 improvement in the good cause, of holiness produces wisdom, 
 and see how soon you will be thrown back to the times when the 
 God of liberty, has grown righteous by his own government: 
 don't punish for actual crime in the way that it has been done, 
 but rather let ten innocent ones escape, than one guilty wretch 
 shall reach the kingdom of salvation; you have got much 
 intellectual skill on your side of life, then be just, and make 
 those who commit crime work out their own salvation, it is here 
 where all reformation has to be begun, for it can not be achieved 
 in heaven; "Know ye not that a man with palsy is of greater 
 value than him that is whole, I say verily verily, suffer him to 
 come unto me, for his soul is more pure, than the one who is 
 garbed in soft cloth, and surplus;" I will hold him pure who is 
 stricken by a contrite hand: You have heard what our Saviour 
 said, when he said let all those be holy, who were made to sin, 
 that is he did not mean a judgment to befall those who had 
 already suffered, yet he grew gracious in the sight of him who 
 had nothing to wear, that is the true prophecy, take not to your- 
 selves, for I have laid down the plans that ye shall abide in, and 
 ye know not what ye do, for the son of man was once a tormen- 
 tor, and he shall again be called to account for what he has done; 
 this is the cause and effect of what has to come here, and also 
 what has to follow, in the world to come, Amen. Your own 
 agreements, are as near the right course as you can follow, only 
 don't bind under oath, let it be seen that the gracious God is 
 pure, and don't cultivate men's minds to make a vow, that is 
 their object to violate, take a good case, and seek diligently, 
 then prepare a cause, that does read as a fair agreement between 
 man and man, don't let the one have an advantage over the other 
 by being sworn to an oath, that one has in his mind as a vow to 
 be broken when there is an advantage to be gained, but rather 
 say, I will do my duty to my fellow creatures according to the 
 light of justice: That is the way to bind your agreements, not 
 to say; You are here sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth, 
 
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 and nothing but the truth, so help you God: That is the way 
 to make a man a liar, he sees the Judge in front of him, and he 
 says through his breath, you are the only dangerous God, that I 
 can see; and when I manage to fool you, I have got my case 
 won, that is what is the sole movement of the light, of man: 
 You see you are dealing out the brown bread, instead of giving 
 white, where purity must come from what is shown; don't give 
 in to those who are not capable of judging, but rather accept the 
 black bread, they disobey the ignorant fools, for when you have 
 been beaten by the man who was able to lie sufficiently, to gain 
 the judge's ear, then say to your soul's great comforters, I want 
 you to help me to hunt this liar down, and bring him to justice, 
 it will be seen then who is the righteous one, and who is the 
 sinner: You know that no lies will stand under the careful investi- 
 gation of truth, and you have only to hunt, till you find the 
 proofs, that is the way to conquer hell, look up every nook 
 and corner, don't leave a single place of concealment, as the 
 hound hunts the hare, make hell resound with your good- 
 ness, and pureness of spirits; they have the right to pillage 
 in hell, when there is an innocent victim condemned, and 
 do not attempt to bar their passage-way, for even satan 
 in all his glory is a friend of God's: That is a part that 
 you don't seem to know what it is for, then keep on as you 
 have come and you will find it out for yourselves, it is the way 
 you do your business, you keep all the bad connections, to help 
 you swindle the foolish, and in consequence every one of you 
 are trying to outwit the other, so that in time you will be a com- 
 plete set of cut-throats, that is the way that has been going for 
 a period of many centuries, and it is easily noticed now that the 
 drift is greater than it was, and when an avalanche is once 
 shaken loose it is there ready to make a more rapid precipita- 
 tion, once the right current has come to move it; you keep on as 
 you are going, and it will bring you to the cannibal system before 
 a great while, it is now quite time you fetched up your children 
 to obey the giver of light, and not make them go down on their 
 knees, and pray to an image, that is purely visionary, without 
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 You know that the great angel of light, must see that you are 
 foolish, and he does not deem it the thing to pounce down upon 
 you, and call out I am coming to frighten you into my way of 
 thinking: You see it is far better to be led than driven, and 
 when you are led it comes nicely, for it is the light, that draws 
 you on, and it should be the guiding star of evening that pro- 
 tects your footsteps, for as the day is lit up by the reflection of 
 the Sun, so is the night shining with beautiful stars, and a Moon 
 to excel over them: Now it is a plain fact that where reason 
 prevails, no one can go wrong, and where the light does not 
 look in, it is no fit place for the son of man to trust his head: 
 You hear what man was once, you see what he is to-day, and 
 you have always had the privilege to look upon him as the sole 
 light we have got, this is as true as it would be did you depend 
 on the father of a beast to find the proving of his offspring, you 
 are not ready to receive this as it was placed before you by our 
 maker, yet you go on complaining, that you were not all made 
 beautiful, then what do you hope to become a great people, or 
 an outrage on civilization: Has the world got to grow beans off 
 a cabbage stem, no it is for you to guide it right, and you want 
 a more divine ruler to set you right on the ways you have been 
 walking, you know that love and hope walk hand in hand, then 
 make light and darkness prevail on earth together, and not have 
 them leading a dog and cat life, one seeking force against the 
 other, it is no use spending my time in showing what other 
 men's friends are trying to keep from you, unless you will bring 
 me back, to the very place where the earth, was first begun, I 
 can not tell you that there were no people in this land, until the 
 great giver of power came down and made a whole lot of things 
 all in one week, he made it all in six days, and rested on the 
 seventh, contemplating his handicraft, I think you will all con- 
 cede this point with me, that he has been very gracious and 
 condescending, for he sees now, that every single year produces 
 new things, that were not made last year, and therefore we must 
 deal kindly with those who have only a manner of thinking once 
 in their whole lifetime, and that was when the parent said our 
 Lord's Prayer, I shall never forget the time I was put out of my 
 
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 parents' house, for saying I believe the Lord has done well for 
 us, in making so much in six days, he ought to commence over 
 again and give us a chance of seeing how he did do so exception- 
 ally well: I can not help saying that it was very strange that 
 the ancients who compiled our history, were so very poorly 
 informed in the art of war, as to mow down their enemies with 
 such crude weapons, when they might have had a swivel-gun, to 
 bang them out of sight in the twinkling of an eye, you forget 
 that they had all their wits about them, when they were able to 
 get information about their enemies through their prophets, and 
 find that your telephone, and telegraph, was unknown then; yet 
 Moses could tell how to guide Israel out of Egypt, with only his 
 own kno-wledge of communing with those who can wipe all com- 
 munication such as you have got into insignificance, now you 
 think this is a piece of absurdity, well let those who have the 
 power of defining the God of light, prove the existence of this 
 power, and show the heathens, that there is even a greater 
 power than Moses, and his fiery torch-light, coming in the day, 
 and a pillow of light, coming at night to show the Israelites how 
 to wander through the wilderness, not by a long way is this 
 power extinct as the people think, it is now advanced to a much 
 more scientific basis, and can be used to get the information 
 from any part of the known world, and may be it can tell truly 
 of all that is unknown as well: Your own time is now, to search 
 for the truth, and when you are dead and buried, the souls, who 
 went before you will spurn you with scorn, for not having made 
 better use of your advanced intellect, why is it that you don't 
 see any one who is able to show you what is right, why do you 
 turn away your heads, and say that common person has no 
 credentials, the same as I have, he is an inferior being, his mate- 
 rial is only of the plain coarse fabric, whilst mine is of the finest 
 silk, his mouth utters words, that are horrifying to my sensitive 
 nerves, why, did Jesus Christ not take Pontius Pilate, and make 
 him a disciple, then the whole world, would have been more 
 enlightened with the assistance, of the fine Governor, that was 
 so very delicate, when it come to the exact point at stake, you 
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 heathen Governor, that he has always been represented to say: 
 " I find no fault in this man " yet although Pontius Pilate, did 
 not find any fault in Jesus: He was afraid, and said you may 
 crucify him, yet I say there is no fault to be found with this 
 man; Then why does all people who are afraid like Pontius 
 Pilate, seek the way through darkness, why don't they say, it was 
 through darkness, that our only true light, came to his end on 
 this earth, and are we to be forever held in scorn by heaven 
 because we are afraid to do what is right, let the light of day 
 seek out the dark hole, and sink forever the heathens' God into 
 the everlasting fire, that he has made for himself: You seem to 
 think that wisdom, can only come through education, it can not 
 be purified and held whole, in that way, for it is all following up 
 the strain of an after-train, and can not get loose for it is 
 attached to an ignorant set of humbugs, who do not believe 
 only, what they can look at, and never give it a thought, that 
 wisdom comes through the sense of hearing: You may think 
 you are looking at all there is to be seen, but you are as blind 
 as bats, for the fact, that you don't know how to bring the right 
 condition of understanding to bear on your own organism: 
 Now don't think I am finding fault with you for mischief, 
 because I say you are ignorant, don't you see that we are all 
 ignorant, until we know how to understand a given pure and 
 unadulterated fact: I am willing to help you with all the power, 
 I can bring with me: And you should never despise willing aid, 
 for it comes so seldom in a precious form, that the world will be 
 less likely to have a second chance of defining the truth: Your 
 own ideas may do very well, until they become so very exact, 
 that they will be wedged into a narrow space, and the growing 
 out, will be more terrible, than the growing in: There is the 
 secret of promulgation, it is all fine enough, until you begin to 
 start back, on the backward turning, then you have got many 
 ills to contend against that might have been remedied had you 
 gone into the question of selection: There is the great mistake 
 in the human races, they don't study healthful manipulation 
 enough: There is the downfall of health to be borne in mind, it 
 may be necessary for the hereafter controllers, to say I shall not 
 
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 permit these two delicate sufferers to come into propagation, and 
 that would not be against common sense either: They tell you 
 that there is no privilege, that binds two souls together for life 
 everlasting, neither there is, for each soul is of itself, neither can 
 any power on heaven or earth, ever bind it: Your own intellect 
 should be able to prove this to you, for what is there to hold 
 this ungovernable thing, but the mere ties of after light, it is the 
 moving genius, that gets entangled, and not the body, that 
 pleases you to say within your own heart, had I that divide 
 being for my partner through life, I could go to heaven, and 
 reap my bliss forevermore: That is a fool's paradise, for it is 
 not possible for him to hold that person, it is an atom, that is as 
 his own sin in painting such a picture, there is but the one sense 
 in this, and that is to be true to the one you bless with your 
 presence, and keep holy unto her you call your soul's guide, for 
 as man shall love his life eternal, then let him cleave to the one 
 breast, that has borne to him his first pleasures on this earth, 
 and as he proves his own soul to be worthy, so shall he receive 
 the reward of a happy meeting with the one he can say with an 
 honest expression, I never did yet do her wrong, and she will 
 bear him back her confidence and affection: And though she 
 may err in ignorance, be ye sorry, and say I forgive as I hope to 
 meet mine in heaven: This is the tie that lasts, through all the 
 wanderings of a pure heart, through the mind to the soul, for- 
 ever: Your divine presence is what is most thought of, and you 
 should not absence your soul from those you are bound to, for it 
 is not right, to leave the gates open; for other than good to enter 
 therein, and when there is no presence, there has not been any 
 protection, and your own sense must tell you, that you made a 
 vow to protect, and such protection is your duty, and not your 
 own salvation, for when the lion enters the lamb is torn into a 
 state of trembling and fear, and kindness from the lion, does 
 overcome the lamb that was neglected, and lost except he stood 
 by too and did save his own body to annihilate other lions, that 
 might have stolen in upon the lamb: You shall not do away 
 with your presence, and say mine is safe, it has so many advan- 
 tages, of keeping its own concealment hidden; that I have the 
 
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 utmost confidence; take warning in time my fine broiler, you 
 gave away your birthright to another; by your own want of com- 
 mon sense, give me he who says, I have done with all that is 
 wicked, I shall take this little one, and make her happy forever, 
 and stand by her grave no matter what her failings may be, and 
 whatever befalls her it is my duty to see her safely, to the other 
 shore, now let those beware, who seek out new paths of enjoy- 
 ment, they shall bear the torments of the ants of hades coming 
 against them forever, which is the tormentors paying off the 
 debts of the one who was made to suffer, through the desertion 
 of he who, should have been at his post: You can not call a 
 woman right, when she does leave her home, for any purpose 
 whatever, she took up that man to make him happy, and he had 
 none other then, then let her understand that as she fails so 
 must he, for as his duty commands so should she follow out his 
 bequests, and seek light out Of all ways of separation, for as the 
 wife sits alone she has the power to sit in her chair, and seek for 
 new light, come in unto me is her soul's calling, then ask your 
 soul's guide to show you a way that will prove more advanta- 
 geous for your own joy, and the comforts of your husband's 
 presence, now do not fret and get annoyed, but say I want this 
 consolation to be in the arms of him I promised to obey always, 
 and I will be to you faithful, will you then guide me to a way, 
 out of this separation, and I will obey you to this end, then let 
 it be a compact between her soul and the light, that they show 
 her away, for her bliss for life eternal, it is this power's will to 
 keep her straight, or to take her wrong: And to gain this 
 knowledge you must be passive, and cultivate a happy feeling; 
 banish all hard feelings, as you Would a serpent, for no spirit can 
 come near you with wisdom, whilst you have the hounds of hell 
 at your side, a fretful miserable condition is sure to get you into 
 trouble, it is the viper, putting in his sting ready to spring, into a 
 glow, immediately he has his victim on the downward course, 
 and he proceeds to make everything in his turn a haven of light, 
 don't trust the villain he is taking you to destruction, for his 
 own sense of becoming noble among the heathen Gods, who 
 guido the earth; You be aware of him, he can come and paint; a 
 
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 beautiful picture for you, and leave you to find out what an ass 
 you were for following his sentiments, his turn served his glory 
 is complete, and you are there a crest upon a wave; shown up to 
 all your friends as the easy victim led by satan, into a cove, and 
 there strangled by his coming upon you as the champion of all 
 your sorrows, banish sorrow, and don't let it creep in upon you, 
 for here is where the hated arrow takes flight, and sends death 
 and despair into atoms, keep back the trust you have in heaven, 
 for the guiding influence, that can show you where you are going 
 to succeed in obtaining your own victory: Your own hearts 
 are pure, until the very first pang of pain comes: Then don't 
 let that one, who brings that pain, approach you: For as he 
 comes with a pang of pain, his soul is not what it should be, or 
 he could not have produced that which you feel is not right, now 
 do you understand by this, that a man, who brings sorrow, can 
 not be happy under those sentiments, and will as a matter of 
 course, spread into you, a presentment of pain, which must in 
 time worm out, all the glow of passionate affection that is in 
 your own soul, therefore don't take a sad mate to be your home 
 consolation, but rather let him mend his ways first, and make 
 him understand, that a man has got to be happy himself, before 
 he can make those in his immediate surroundings happy: There- 
 fore we can say amen to those who won't consider their own 
 happiness first, and when a miserable wretch seeks pride as his 
 God, then let him have an idol, in which he may suffer in hell 
 with: Don't you go and be his footstool, and become his great 
 big sight of all which he paints as purity, that is the way to 
 make peace with the devil, is to take a great big God of gold, 
 and stick it up so as every other devil might find it coming 
 along: Then they say here are my quarters, I have found a 
 resting post for my worn head to lay upon, that is why the devil 
 does so much mischief, he is always at work, playing with 
 gold, and he knows his poison is the very thing to make misery, 
 and such is his passion for misery, that he nurses gold, as a child 
 would an old rag doll, that was not washed in order, that it 
 might wear longer: You see I am beginning to hold up your 
 devils to ridicule, and it is quite right that they ought to be 
 
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 made sport of, for they are just as happy as they can be over 
 scandalizing any little mistake that a fair daughter of Eve, 
 might have accidentally committed: Why I say accidentally, 
 is because I claim, that did the daughter of an innocent mother, 
 know how she was being led, she surely would not be tempted, 
 into meeting with an accident, for she must see for herself, that 
 many eyes are upon her, and her secret is not sacred, under the 
 / guiding control of the one she placed her trust in, and that sus- 
 ij / picion, is the directing guide to stern reality: You can not see, 
 1/ but the all-seeing eye of those, belonging to that family, are 
 upon the evil ones, who betray their own attachments: Now do 
 you see the advantage of superhuman knowledge, do no wrong, 
 and it can't be brought home to you by the unseen hand: Take 
 time, and see that you understand these things, before you make 
 any attempt to direct your own band of followers, for they do 
 not see clearly, and are often very ignorant, of what is going on, 
 and can not lead you right, because they don't know how to get 
 you going, they are always willing, but seldom wise enough, to 
 do more than keep you out of ordinary dangers; they speak, in 
 a tone that is quite distinct to them, but is not heard at all by 
 th^. undeveloped head: Now you must understand, that a head, 
 that is under the guidance, of a band of strong spirits is 
 not very easily dealt with, for it leads, and drives, just the 
 same as a horse in harness, could be managed; and you 
 know, how much superior some are to others, well that is 
 merely the power of the band, that is in possession; they 
 keep the party, that is under them, in a constant state of 
 fever, when they want to communicate, until the thoughts, come 
 tumbling one over the other, this is the way, a medium is first 
 developed, by constant, driving and leading, by the head; ruled 
 externally, by a machine, which is known to the spirit power, as 
 the only visible means, of doing this, and is called a cosmetic 
 current, and is used to deal out sounds, with these sounds, come 
 in form of words, tied together, and are liberated by the operator, 
 as he sees that their effect has been received: Now you are not a 
 great deal wiser, on this subject, than you were before, but it is 
 very difficult, for the spirit world to come, and tell you that they 
 
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 have been playing with humanity from the beginning of their 
 own intellect, and have only quite recently been able to give 
 direct communication; This is the only one of this character, 
 that has ever yet been dealt with, under this form of guidance, 
 and it is because it has been practiced in a way that was excep- 
 tionally fine at the beginning: It sprang out of the excessive 
 affections for the departed, and a constant thought of him that 
 was gone, seldom found in a strong-minded man: And the spirit, 
 knew that there was work being done secretly for the benefit of 
 this dead one's infant children, until at last there became an 
 understanding from the dead to the living, so that now it is as 
 easy, to converse as it would be for two playfellows, to make 
 up a great play-fair: You see that in this mode of conversation, 
 there is no sham controlling power, such as trance, clairaudience, 
 or any sight-seeing, known as clairvoyant, it is entirely a new 
 mode of reaching the human frame, it divides the words, into 
 two forms, and breaks them up, as they are articulated: 
 You seem to stand at ease, and listen that is all that is 
 necessary, under this guidance, and you must hold your breath, 
 and the sound of a word strikes you so forcibly, that when once 
 it is let off our semicircle of the atmospheric current, commonly 
 called a magnetic code; this is as near as you will be able to 
 define it just yet: but I will try to get more information, in the 
 latter end of our book: Your own band is all you want, and you 
 must not go running after this person or that to find out, what 
 you have been told, intuitively, it is the stem of the great knowl- 
 edge tree commonly called the dead language, for it was once 
 very strong, and it is as full of life to-day, as it ever will be, 
 because you see that to-day, it will hold on to a thread, with the 
 persistency, of a wolf at bay, it gives you no chance of proving 
 its existence, except the one, that has hold of its proper ideas, 
 you are going to get more information out of this book, than 
 there ever was told through any human body, that ever lived, 
 and let all who are fickle-minded enough to doubt, go and hide 
 their heads in shame; Ignorance is the evil one's stronghold, it 
 dares not let light in upon it, for it is afraid, and let him who 
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 mind and his voice, and let him study, the very one thing - , and 
 that is happiness, under all circumstances, he who gets mingled 
 with pain, has no business with the intellect of a decade gone by, 
 let pleasure come in with the Sun in the morning, and let a 
 whistling tune fill up the whole of the day, for it is sense we are 
 after, and no one can blame you for laughing it into some other 
 one's ear: I live for my wife, and I will get her to believe that 
 she has nobody to fear, she is in trepidation, over the baker and 
 the butcher, but leave them to be cared for by me, that is the way 
 to make a wife dream she is happy to be, for she has but the con- 
 cern of the house to attend, then let her be making her friends 
 off me, I will treat her to strawberries, apples, and cream, but 
 don't let me view her on anyone's lap, she is there by consent it 
 may be easily seen, then let her get off, before my hand has taken 
 her to strife, it is all very well, to say I won't do any wrong, then 
 bide where you know the world has got wisdom, and can see you 
 from every window: Your own shame is in being caught, but don't 
 you see that you are always caught, for the sight that sees you 
 there, has the power, of filling other men's minds withy our loose 
 habit, and can fathom the depth of your own understanding, a 
 man may say I see my chance of weakening this doll's dress, he 
 does not know why, neither can he explain it, yet he has clearly 
 seen it through his own mind as he terms it, then don't give 
 away chances, when you know it will be taken advantage of, for 
 as one has yielded to the passions of him, who prayed for a 
 pressure of those innocent lips, it sealed the bloom of love, and 
 gave to heaven, a vision of the troth, yet it has no right there 
 except in holy rights, and must not be given other than as a 
 token of eternal intentions, for as the lips are profaned by the 
 sight of those who see all things, it is known, and can be made 
 known by the heathen to his God, for he has no other thoughts, than 
 to enjoy his lustful souls with impurity, and you must not define 
 him in any other way, for he only has those to follow him, who 
 see no harm, in this great hereafter at all, and they sing songs of 
 praise, to lift the soul, they want for themselves, to live on, for it 
 is the devil's delight, to make himself into a Christ, there he can 
 shine, until he sticks his poison deep down into the heart of an 
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 innocent young thing: You know that once the mind of a fallen 
 scion is broken, that it is like the bottle, that had its neck knocked 
 off, it is done in the accent of a moment, but you have not yet 
 found the man that can put it on again, and never will, 
 for although, you can take it to the glassblower, and have 
 a new one put on, it still is not the same, for the body, of 
 the old bottle is shouldered by a new neck, and can not be the 
 same stem that stood the contest of so weak a break, don't think I 
 am putting you to shame over a common old glass bottle, I want 
 to see whether you recognize in an atom, what power there is to 
 define all things as mortally fatal, to the human intellect, it does 
 not suffer by my illustrations, it merely dives down to the bottom, 
 and shows you what can, and what will be brought up against you, 
 when you disregard the teachings of him who is able and willing 
 to stake his all on whatever good he can do for you: Your own 
 ideas, can be cultivated to bring happiness to you, under any 
 circumstances, that are in life, and you know that you are being 
 led to them by doing anything that you perceive is right, in 
 justice to what would be of a proper interest to your own 
 thoughts, it shall be shown here, that you must have confidence 
 in your own guides, or you might as well take up your quarters, 
 and say I will be the plaything of the devil at once, for when you 
 give up your own selfish desire to please others, for the sake of 
 getting them to please you, then you might do this differently, 
 say to your own guides, go and find the information, that so and 
 so has at his command, and prove to me, that you are able to 
 assist me, by laying his plans to my advantage, you then test 
 your own followers, and prove that they are of some service, 
 don't mind when they fail in the first few attempts, for you may 
 be more to blame than them, say I wish you to struggle on, and 
 prove to me, in some way, that you have been diligent on my 
 behalf, don't take them to task, and say you are a good-for- 
 nothing guide come to me now and make me your footstool, I 
 won't take any more notice of you, be sensible with your own 
 thoughts, as well as you would consider him who had given you 
 first-rate common sense, when your own thoughts come foolish, 
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 and when you are able to find a way of showing me what you 
 mean, then come back, and show me that I am improving, by 
 the fact, that you have put me straight on this question; your 
 actual kindliness of disposition, will bring plenty of faithful 
 followers, to your side, without any particular effort, on your 
 own part, and whenever a kind thought rises in your mind 
 keep it there as long as ever you can: And the same 
 exactly applies to any merry hilarious thoughts, keep them too. 
 You are all more or less inclined to lead others, than you are 
 willing to be led yourselves; that is seen in the fact, that you 
 will not give in to the fact, that you are not able to guide your 
 own selves: Now don't you suppose that it would be better for 
 you to say I will take this into my most earnest consideration, 
 and keep thinking that I have been a fool all my life, and I will 
 now see whether I can't understand why I was not able to see 
 these things before; it is no use keeping along at a foolish 
 thing, then why not say to your inner-self, why don't you help 
 me to understand these things as I should, and not let me 
 be hacked about by any common hoodlum; that is ready to 
 direct me to do what is right, you are the proper ones to help me, 
 and I want you to come nearer, and be just what I want, I will 
 be your footstool, but I don't want all the world to look upon 
 you and me as a common cloth, to be wiped, and piped by every 
 dirty piece of humanity; that has nothing else to do, than to 
 pick his own folly out, and saturate me with his bad influences: 
 Now don't you see what a man may become once he has the 
 power of directing himself, he can just say I am to be a coach- 
 man, and I want to drive livery, for the nobility, or I would 
 prefer to be a duchess, and be driven round town, in a handsome 
 brougham, or I will take my host out, and be there waiting for 
 him at the corner of this place, and when I have done with him, 
 as he is likely to be dealt with, I will bring him home again, 
 that is he will be my servant, for I shall make him understand, 
 that I did not go to that trouble for him, but it was to further 
 the kind of thing that will be my gain in the end, and it is not 
 for me to be his dupe, but mine I clearly say mine, I paid for 
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 good feelings for some object, that is either clear to me now, or 
 it will come in for another feast at his expense, and I shall may 
 be meet his dear friend: A great man no doubt, in which there 
 might be a quiet thing knocked out: Proving him to be a good 
 game one, and us as his opponents: We can lip him into some 
 kind of thin job, that will call him out of pocket, and make it 
 all serene, in the twinkling of an eye, once we have got the brave 
 fellow whipped: You see how to do it, when I have put you on 
 the job, that is all well enough, but where would they be, did a 
 man of intellectual skill fall across their path, it is plainly seen, 
 that a man is nobody compared to one who has an understand- 
 ing with God, he can say, it will be for me to decide, when and 
 how you shall act, and not give in to any idea, that does not 
 meet the approval of those great Seers of all that is visible, or 
 that which can not be detected by the sight: You see how pow- 
 erless tricksters will be once you are led by an invisible under- 
 standing of excellence equal only by the great light of eternity: 
 Don't you wonder that such a one who has this power, should 
 not say, I want a great big stack of money, for my own grand- 
 eur; to laud it over the poor mortals, that have got none, it is 
 easy to see that such a great power, can make it like the men 
 who coin the gold at the mint, but what matters it all to one 
 who has got the wisdom, he feels safe, without it; because he 
 does not know how long he is to live on earth, is not a very good 
 way, it is because he once had plenty and was wretched, then 
 he taught himself a new lesson, and said gold is only for 
 heathens, it is not for the wise, that is the true doctrine of all 
 that is righteous: You see, it won't do for you to suppose, that 
 a man is not good because he has riches, he can own wealth, but 
 it must be under favorable circumstances, that he has acquired 
 it, and not by any misappropriation; that is the true philan- 
 thropy of defining right from wrong, you must not have any 
 attachments that are dishonestly gained: And when the hand of 
 Cain is upon you, take hold of him and say you slew the 
 righteous one, and I will take you, and cast you into hell-fire, 
 where you shall remain, as a token of crime, as it appeared to 
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 for worlds would I have you come near me any more, I say let 
 heaven open, and no hell is there, then descend down upon this 
 earth, and no sooner are you there, then you bring a cold feeling 
 of desolation, in your very midst, you can realize this situa- 
 tion once you have gotten into an icicle: And it is no trouble to 
 move about, where it is warm, and cheerful; you make your- 
 selves happy in innocence, then don't pervert the time of your 
 own joy, but take comfort, in seeing sorrow, converted into pleas- 
 ure, you hold in your own hands the secret of finding out every 
 single thing there is to know, proving your own self is this way, 
 that brings you out of every thing that has proved a dilemma 
 since you were born, and it is the same as it were a certain way 
 of finding out the great hereafter, you simply, take an outside 
 view, and say I will watch nature entirely, and see what there is 
 in it, that would make me believe, that a given space, can bring 
 round a given substance, and like that, it is coming beforehand: 
 Now you don't see anything at all that is as clear as the atmos- 
 phere you breathe, for it is making you all along to see me, and I 
 am making you hear what I have got to tell you, that is I want 
 you to hold me, whilst I am trying to explain, that a movement is 
 in operation, immediately you make any attempt to get beyond 
 your own depth, that is your guides are actively engaged, when 
 you try to understand a certain passage, that is not firmly fixed 
 in your mind by some silly astronomer, they think that wisdom 
 comes through looking at the moon and stars, it is not that way 
 at all that the sense of understanding has come to the mind, it 
 must come in the form of distinct knowledge obtained through 
 the organism of the intelligence, that comes from thoughts, 
 that should be clasped, in the form of reason, when they appear: 
 You know what it is to have thoughts of affection, for some 
 silly idle companion, then remember that it is on this principle, 
 that you should make a study, of all nature's handicraft, don't 
 go and say that there is' not as much pleasure in nature's great 
 work as there is in some exquisite piece of flesh, with a fine 
 curled head of hair cut off, to add to light a common betrayal of 
 justice, don't go and say my hair is displeasing to this one, I 
 will dye it in ginger hues; but rather say my acts are in accord- 
 
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 ance with the gifts of my own kind of judgment, and I shall be 
 pleased to meet nature on a fair basis, and see what he will find 
 good for me, once I agree to walk by his side, and help him on 
 with his noble and perpetual work, of doing as no other kind of 
 perpetuity is able to show: So far as the knowledge of our fore- 
 fathers are able to tell us of, they were very devout, according to 
 the light that did shine upon them, yet they were wrong in almost 
 everything, for the fact, that they were behind, and were led 
 from a description, that was not real: You see how easy, every- 
 thing is, when you say, I will go in chains, rather than attempt 
 to walk back over a walled-in piece of oak-lining, that leaves 
 nothing on that side except a great big blank column; it has 
 nothing to back it up, and what is the object in getting me 
 there, when there is. nothing to sustain my awkwardness; you 
 leave me alone, and I will help nature, to till the soil, and make 
 beautiful fields, that our Mighty maker, might look at the earth, 
 in pleasure, and search for divine grace, through the craft 
 of my handiwork: You don't know what it is to feel the 
 good that you might do, did you but know how; Of course 
 it is not possible for the people who have got convic- 
 tions standing up on end, to see that they are wrong, but let 
 them ask what intelligence does really mean and you will 
 see people, who have no sense at all claim a knowledge that 
 is not a bit more reasonable, than the acts of one demented, 
 and they really, and truly are insane; because they are so full of 
 bad things, that no good can get near them; you call out to a 
 man who is insane, and say, I want you to tell me who made the 
 heavens to move, and he will surely say it was the life of him 
 who could not see the destruction, he would work, or it never 
 would have began to move at all: Now don't stop to think, 
 but keep right on, and see whether you can make a motion, that 
 will move right along, without there is any guiding power, and a 
 complete kind of inpouring, and outgoing, it is not possible to 
 have a man believe his ability, to make the earth round, and 
 give it no form of government, it has to have some movement in 
 accordance with natural laws, on gravitation before it ever starts, 
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 according to the order of natural intuition, but don't give in a 
 silly idea, when there is a right, and a wrong way, of placing 
 every atom that floats through the atmosphere, it is all intended 
 to make something, and it won't be left alone either, for it is 
 just as easy, to take a given speck, and tell what amount of them 
 will be required to compile a mountain into the raw material of 
 an everlasting eternity, as it would be to deal out a bunch of 
 keys, for the house of parliament on earth; you are always ready 
 to condemn your own affairs, without making any attempt to 
 improve on them, therefore you know, well enough, that a sinner 
 is always ready to pile a dreadful malediction on the head of his 
 rival in sin: because he is not alone in judgment, his guides are 
 at his side hiding his own infirmities, to show him up as the 
 solemn divine angel of good, great after theory come and show 
 yourself, for one moment to these great followers of sin, and say 
 we want purity and godliness to shine on this earth, and we want 
 to be freed from the incarnation of doubt, it is a soul's salva- 
 tion, on earth, and forever after to see the true light shining on 
 both hell and heaven; you seem to see that it will be better to 
 share with him, than to go back, and see those fairy tales realized, 
 you know how to prove a failure, then don't let hate for good enter 
 your hearts, for it shall be written, that a soul, is the worm, that 
 destroys the flesh, and you know, that a stern reality is forcing 
 you onto your knees, and with one accord, and to eternal grace, 
 we do desire to know our doom absolutely; now come forward 
 like men who would ask for the light to shine upon them, and 
 give your assistance to all that is pure holy God-like in your 
 own understanding, and deal out signs that can alone purify 
 heaven and so on afterward to keep hell in subjection accord- 
 ing to the light that is thrown open to you, at first there does 
 not follow any signs of improvement, but in years to come the 
 world will see that heaven is but the after-birth of hell: You 
 know what I mean by so forcible an appliance to your own ideas 
 as coming from the ten commandments, as given to you by 
 Moses the Prophet, he alone was ignorant as to his power of 
 seeing as he would have done did he have the great gift of sig- 
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 of reading correctly, under the eye of a spirit power, yet he who 
 listens will know much, but he who understands the form of 
 interpreting the code of a distinct and audible signal is as per- 
 fect, as though he held the flag of truce on a field of hell-fire: 
 You know what Joan of Arc did in her prayers to deliver her 
 countrymen, then believe and you will see many of her caliber, 
 don't hang your thoughts on idle imagination, but seek the 
 truth, and don't stay hand or limb, until you have reached the 
 gates of heaven; And bring all of those who are pure right there 
 with you, for it is a haven of bliss, once it could be made as 
 pure as the gold on the shores of hades; your inclinations are 
 all right, but you don't know how to take the fight out of your 
 enemies, and until you learn, you are sure to be held down by 
 them: A great many people think they can divine a power out 
 of their own ideas; but you seem afraid of doing justice to your 
 own cause, for fear of being an outcast of society, your own 
 god has a firm hold of your vital sin and he holds you enchained 
 to a commodity, that is a social ruin, help a single sinner to life 
 eternal, and you have a good cause in your own favor of reach- 
 ing the glorious salvation, that is so very precious to all 
 humanity: You seem to know that you are a whole piece of 
 something that is indescribable to you: Then why not have 
 that something made clear on this side of your own flight, and 
 let every soul know the truth, it is good, then be sure you don't 
 keep out any good in your foolish endeavor, of knowing what is 
 just; a sincere cause is a very happy one: Therefore tread the 
 dark pathway no longer: Seek for the light and life eternal: A 
 great man is never afraid, he can bring heaven and the earth 
 to an understanding, quicker than the camel can reach the other 
 eye of that needle, but you say it is simply impossible for the 
 rich man to reach the kingdom of God: That is not the right 
 thing to believe in: A donkey might see through such a foolish 
 idea, did he but reverse the order: And strike a line off either 
 eye, and say broken needles were welded into one, and an ass is 
 on the other side: You see it meant, to delude the eye, by copy- 
 ing the sight into a compass of nothing; and driving the fallen 
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 keeping a saint a sinner always: Now my fine artist, I helped 
 to make a good thing move into what is known as the delight of 
 the devil; a great man shall see that his chances are one to one 
 with the poor mortal, who does know how to keep nothing, and 
 as a full and complete illustration, you can all be rich, by first 
 learning the lesson of true honesty, it is not right to cheat and 
 thieve, for the man who does so will surely be a victim of palsy 
 in time to come, his time is the present to mend his ways, and 
 let soul keep soul in guidance of good, and may an adder enter 
 the hole in the ground, and there remain forever his life is a 
 dead letter any way you may have a mind to place him, don't let 
 the sting remain uncared for, bite out the venom, and leave 
 hades its own casting, we would to these as they may seem meet: 
 Every mortal has the same chance, and they would be better off 
 did they but understand a thing as it really, and truly is: Your 
 ancestors no doubt did their best, as a whole, and were willing 
 enough to lay aside the great understanding for fear of telling 
 you the truth, and they. might have done well to have made you 
 feel that there is nothing to be afraid of, yet they should have 
 given you something more definite to stand your faith on: 
 This is all very well preaching what they could have done, but 
 don't you see that the intellect of man is progressing so rapidly, 
 that a chaos must follow, unless you get at the right understand- 
 ing: And that must be done here upon earth, for it won't come 
 about by leaving it to the guidance of those that are in heaven; 
 they can not reach you, when you are endeavoring to look at 
 them face to face, there is no one as blind as mortals, and that 
 can be demonstrated in the following ideas of their own, they 
 think that a burning bush did appear to Moses, on Mount Sinai, 
 whereas it was the condition of the Gods, who ruled Moses, and 
 he thought it could not be other than God in that fiery foam: 
 You see what a power held Moses in all his wanderings, and 
 after the time when he slew the Egyptian, he was afraid, and 
 was alarmed when the Philistine said here is the one who comes 
 to us, and is talking loudly, yet he never knew what it was that 
 caused him to fear, he was being torn away, to become an 
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 of his rules, that had him by the vital parting, and was leading him 
 on to come some day again, with an understanding of how he 
 should be borne 'back again onto those who oppressed his coun- 
 trymen : You see where Moses committed the guilt it really meant 
 good, for one had to suffer a cause, to seek out salvation for the 
 many, and in Egypt there was too much suffering for God as Moses 
 calls his cortege, to learn to understand each other, and it was 
 only by chance, that they were ever able to reach him, and that 
 is the way it has got to be done now, it won't come to you, 
 it has no idea of how you are to be found, in language such as 
 is used by the after-birth, and when you seek information, it has 
 to come to you in a striking manner, such as " the sheep 
 caught fast in the thicket," you know that Moses was led to 
 believe through a voice whispering in his ear go take that ram 
 from the thicket: Now when you hear a voice say such a thing, 
 would you not believe it really was God himself speaking, and 
 so it was the divine phrase of a God-like action: You see 
 Moses was unable to see that the ram was held fast yet he 
 knew, when the Lord could see so much better than he could 
 that it was wise sense, and not imagination, that was near him: 
 You know that God does mean good, and when a good action 
 is brought under your own observation, then mind it: And say 
 as God appeared to Moses in the burning bush do I also wish 
 to see the divine hand of my own cortege point me an instance, 
 in which I may believe that I am watched over by some good 
 angel, that has my welfare at stake: You see what a divine 
 comforter you may bring to you by the action of listening, and 
 don't let an ill wicked thought remain, for the angel of wisdom, 
 won't associate with an ill-mannered one: And you can not 
 have the better class, with you when you want to continually do 
 wrong, for as he finds so shall he keep, and as he hunts, so will 
 he be trodden down, do ye as there is good to come after, and 
 as the hand of time brings forth good fruit, I will it were to me 
 the same: You know not what ye ask, then find it, but don't let 
 anger rebuke the good in ignorance, for the hand of love is 
 easy turned to hate, and the evil takes the place of good, 
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 of those which were trying to raise you above your own stu- 
 pidity: Now let my warnings come with pleasurable accounts, 
 and not think of sitting down and brooding over what seems 
 hard to you to believe, I don't do great things by fretting, I 
 wait until my mind is thirsting for the light of knowledge: And 
 then do not exhaust it in one sitting: Keep it fresh and feeling 
 good, it is no use running after a bird, when it takes wings to 
 evade pursuit, rather wait until you get near again, then let fly 
 your energy, when you are in a reasonable base; you know that 
 to keep walking on after a bird, that has young, is the very way 
 for it to lead you off the track of finding the little gems, that 
 are so precious to that one who is using the sagacity of every 
 known modern idea to lead you from finding that which you 
 seek for, then when a bird has this power of leaving you to won- 
 der where the right place is to get the young, then how is it that 
 you can't tell that a friend is guiding you to them, or may be 
 a sinner says he will kill those which are good to my sight, and 
 I shall lead him away from the right spot, and help lay up a store 
 in heaven, for my selfish desires are to lead men, and I will 
 practice on this boy, he is wicked, and I may have the chance 
 yet of making him kill too when my advantages are right for 
 doing it; you don't even begin to realize your position of 
 what it is to be led and driven by a hand that has such a mighty 
 controlling guidance; you think you are able to hold your own 
 with any man, and yet his power might be greater than yours, 
 on one particular theme, and so, when you have come out a win- 
 ner you thought he had been an easy dupe, yet when you pro- 
 ceed to dupe him again, he is very weary, and can lift the veil 
 from off your eyes, with less trouble, he gives his chance to the 
 devil, when he has been whipped the first time, and you have 
 given yours to the goodness of your own qualifications: That 
 is a mystery to man, he must be very cautious, when he 
 wins, and does not lose again, his sight is dazzled by the 
 success of his own ventures, and he knows, that victory does 
 make marks of men, this is the sight, that does deal out decep- 
 tion, it leads you to win, and then it drives )^ou to begin to be 
 foolish over your own conceit; that is your force of after-insti- 
 
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 gators, get mixed up, in their ideas, and lead you down hill by 
 their own folly; I must teach, before I can hope to be taught in 
 return, you know that a whim is seldom indulged too much, 
 it can't hurt you to indulge a whim when there is no harm 
 coming of it, but you must quite see through that little folly, 
 before you let it see through you; and when a mind wanders, it 
 does so to find something new; your own ideas, have to be 
 worked out, and you must not let them stop, when they run 
 after something that has not got fixed in your own mind; because 
 it is easy to see when you know a thing, but when you are in the 
 dark as to finding out what you wish to know, you had better 
 not give way to the theory, that is common to most men; I don't 
 understand this at all I shall cross over to my attorney, and give 
 him a guinea to let his thoughts run over my case: You need 
 not do that for it is a fool's plaything, your attorney is not 
 able to judge so well as your own contact, they being interested 
 will find out for you what no human skill can do, and so you see 
 that a man who has a developed mind does not need to employ 
 an attorney: That is the way the world is quite at sea yet, 
 it does not know what a man may find when he understands the 
 full extent of his own power: And you must not go on think- 
 ing that a man is a fool because he won't think the same as you 
 do, it is no use you being afraid of any man, for a mind that is 
 cultivated is able for all comers, there is no need to apprehend 
 the danger of not being the only one to understand this ele- 
 vation, you can all learn, when you know how, it is easy to bring 
 children up to this, it can be done when they are young, with- 
 out any trouble, and they will never know what the pain in 
 their heads is for; it won't come to you grown people without a 
 great deal of mental and physical suffering, but a child is differ- 
 ent, it can not hurt a child for it is gone on with as the growth 
 is being established: You see how Christ was made into such a 
 wonder, he could tell you everything invisible, and just the same 
 he answered so well on the investigation of Pontius Pilate, 
 that he was victorious, and the Governor is an ass for all time 
 hereafter, there is an example for those who hold high positions 
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 is braying, what kind of a call he will make, it is likened unto 
 two straws, the one is to mate with the other, for thinness is all 
 that has got them to hold, you see it is a man of wisdom you 
 want not an ass who is afraid to do what is just, there is the 
 question of mind over material, the one works the other, and 
 when it is well finished it leaves no chances of escape for the ass 
 to come in and begin to bray out, " I find no fault in this 
 man he is yours "though, and you can what you will with him": 
 A nice way to treat the only good man and true that the 
 world ever saw, a pretty way to make Governors who have no 
 more right to that position, than the ass that brays, you shall 
 find that a man who once held office is not the kind of a 
 man to uphold to-day as a divine, I would tear the heart out of 
 such soft impostors, they are never suited for anything but the 
 times of the mule beget mules: And when you want to know 
 what common sense is never take it from a man who is afraid, 
 he is a tinker, that should be scorned by the world as the sting 
 that satan is supposed to have placed upon us, when Mother 
 Eve is supposed to have listened to the promptings of the evil 
 serpent, you little know what that has been portrayed from, it has 
 been the left hand of good that dealt out such a kind magnet 
 for you all to follow, it can not be the right hand that dealt 
 you such a blow, you have got to learn, that Mother Eve 
 is just as good as ever the saints were who painted her pict- 
 ure, and a great deal better, it was not a question of Eve 
 tempting Adam, but a desire to live on the firmness of 
 consolidation, that brought about this union, and you shall 
 see that as he was in blindness so shall you see, and 
 when Adam was naked, Eve was naked also, and as good 
 came to them, they were so constructed as to know that 
 a man was their own idea of what they intended to make, 
 and it is this that they did do according to what is properly 
 meant as right in the good meaning of all pious people, you need 
 not blush for your Mother Eve she was not ashamed of what she 
 has done, and let you all in holiness come forward, and say I 
 was meant to make man, and I shall do that which was good in 
 the sight of my Supreme-maker: You can not hurt the influences 
 
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 of good worse than to beget a crime that is not in reality a 
 reality: You see that I speak what is in judgment upon the 
 earth to-day, they kill and slaughter the infants before birth, and 
 are burnt in hellnre, of their own conscience ever after, don't you 
 see that these infants can see the destruction of themselves, by 
 the thousands, for they are alive, and can not die as is supposed 
 by. the heathens, who commit this crime, I won't plague you on 
 this point, but it is true that a babe who is in the womb can give 
 back punishment for the affliction of this instance of brutality; 
 you seem amazed at so startling a revelation, but as the cord of 
 life is vibrated by the mother's voice, so does that mere mite of 
 knowledge seam its life into one living soul; and forever becomes 
 a spirit of eternity, life everlasting that has no end: You can not 
 destroy a germ so pure, it is attached to an ungovernable sound, 
 that shall never lie dormant, and is as fixed in its purpose as the 
 wind that blew it into life forever: Your own sting comes after 
 the form of remorse, and it can not be cured, it shall never lie 
 hidden, for it is the tormentor's theory to come and remind you 
 of your own guilt, and for hades to think well of me, I have 
 committed this crime and left my soul as black as night: You 
 see what form of judgment you are bringing upon yourself it is 
 not for him who tempted you to such a crime to say I have 
 caught her at last, she did get me into a scrape, but I have pulled 
 her out, and she shall never know my power, until I say you 
 murdered that child of ours, yet he has the audacity to accuse 
 her, when he was instrumental in that crime of inflicting all the 
 pain: You see where the brute comes in; it was he who seduced 
 that innocent lamb, and then gave her over to an illustful crime 
 for the sake of claiming hades as a place of virtue, beware you 
 are always seen, and the mark of Cain is upon you as he went to 
 the black races, so shall you be scourged with the hand of scorn, 
 as though you were the vilest of the low thing that creeps in and 
 sends the dagger to the heart of an angel in sleep, you can get 
 all the pain and punishment you have a right to for crimes such 
 as these: And there is no one who can say I am fit for heaven 
 when they have committed murder, your soul is pure, when you 
 have not got to beg for mercy; then never lead a soul to destroy, 
 
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 better for you to bear the world's black eye, than to be the tor- 
 mentor's scourging whip, he will make a name for himself through 
 your downfall, but when you hunt him down with his own weap- 
 ons, he has lost, and you have won a victory, and don't allow an 
 accident to be born again as a pure sting of hate, for the black- 
 eyed world is not able to give you salvation, and as hades is 
 seen, there are none to call you lowly, for they it is who are 
 the treacherous adder, that you have to fly from most of all, I 
 say this knowing whom I refer to better than the light that is shin- 
 ing in a given thought, your own selfish desires are upon you, and 
 the heathen is easily dealt a blow, that shall inflict the punish- 
 ment of heaven, yet there are none who dare come forward, and 
 say a magnet hath a loadstone; for they don't seem to grasp the 
 idea, that a fickle-minded man can change a rogue to a thief; 
 and a saint to a sinner; for they have not the knowledge to direct 
 them to it: You know what a grave charge is, then keep back 
 the tongue of slander by helping to make man see that a distinct 
 cause is a good one, and make man a mountain of good, and he 
 shall not reach out and say that I am he who is superior to my 
 countrymen, for one God is enough, don't follow all manner of 
 notions, it is no use, for all can see alike, once they have the 
 knowledge of what is absolutely pure, and when they have got 
 this understanding, before them it is quite easy for them to do 
 what is right: You see it won't cut two ways, as these heathens 
 are all making us believe, when we don't do what is right, for 
 the fact, that no man has known exactly what is the truth, until 
 he does, how can you explain to him that his ideas are wrong, 
 you must see yourself first; but until there is some knowledge 
 before you it is no use saying you are not right; your own bare 
 assertions, won't guide any one, for the fact that it is impossible 
 to say enough in such a short time as will lead any one to under- 
 stand what the real sense is; therefore it must come by book 
 form to you at the outset, and then you may prove it afterward for 
 yourselves; that is a good way to begin, yet no one can learn 
 that are everlastingly on the gog after any man's views, and 
 whilst you hunt down your enemies, through the system of get- 
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 in the habit of employing; why you don't reach the point at 
 stake is your own faults, now it can be proved quite conclusively, 
 that a man who is being murdered, can track down his foe, 
 through this organic contact, and once you know how to apply 
 this course of procedure, it is .easier to detect crime, for the fact, 
 that a man must be unconscious, when he dies, is no reason 
 why his consciousness; has departed forever, quite the contrary 
 it can be found and communicated with and the true criminal 
 will be brought to justice here on earth, this is not hard to do at 
 all, once you get your own organism well advanced in this 
 science; now can you understand the advantage, which has been 
 destroyed by the ignorant code of intellect, that you have always 
 followed; I want you to understand, for the good of all, and not 
 for the sacrifice of misery, and I will prove you capable of know- 
 ing what is proper by the hand of a power that is the greatest, 
 that the world ever knew, or has ever dreamed of knowing, that 
 is to separate the dividing links, and prove that heaven is not 
 above the skies as the animal nature of man will persist in claim- 
 ing: It is right here on this sphere, it is not away over on the 
 other side of the crisis as the God of Isaac, and those historians 
 have been in the act of making out for the human mind to fol- 
 low; you can not understand this except it be proved in a manner 
 which will convince you beyond any chance of doubt; then you 
 are going to see the folly, that has been keeping you back all 
 the time, it will not be very long, before you can see this change 
 in the actions of the eye, it will prove itself, once there is a 
 beginning made; and what is now a mystery, is nothing more 
 than the deception of the elevating power, that is in action over 
 every human mind; and it won't gain courage in one moment, to 
 betray itself, it has to be warmed into action by a stimulant 
 known as the eyeglass of him who sees through all men; don't 
 you keep on thinking that God is the only divining power, for it 
 is the power of all departed souls, to live in peace, once they are 
 let come out of their bad conditions, that are about them as 
 they cross from the dark side of life to the light; you can not call 
 a man to you and abuse him, he has got to be brought there by 
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 you tell us that you were never trapped into a scene wherein 
 you would have gladly escaped, did you know the result of 
 your own disturbance, well done is a perfect piece of action, 
 and in order that you may escape from this kind of decep- 
 tion, it will be good for you to know, how much there is to 
 know, in order that you might get out of a danger, when one is 
 approaching; you see that a good way of coming on is to keep 
 still, until you know how much there is and how well you can 
 play a game of checkmate, once you know how to control your 
 own knowledge, it is far superior to the flash of the wires, they 
 pass through no end of fingers by the time that your message is 
 delivered, and to tell by the hand of providence, it is secured 
 to you, without any one else seeing what you have got; you 
 might make a mistake once in a few times, at first; but once you 
 see the immense advantage to be gained over the common 
 intelligence you will experiment until there is no chance of any 
 mistaken view coming and taking you by storm, and annihilating 
 the geology of learning a simple lesson, that can track a criminal 
 to his lair quicker than he can calculate any means of escape; 
 there you have the communication, that can track all hidden 
 secrets, it will rip up the grave, and tell you where poison is, 
 and take out the eyes of the blind fools who try to conceal, you 
 have no vaults, that can guard your secrets; your very souls 
 shall be read with the dexterity of a comb taking out the fen of a 
 scum that was through negligence placed of its own accord 
 there. You can not keep a guilty wife from her husband's sight, 
 and your own wits will tell you that a knave will be the knife of 
 a deeper cut, than the accents of villainy; you know how to be 
 good, once you are afraid of being bad, and you know how to 
 leave off, when you are sure to be caught: Your own sins are 
 your worst enemies: Then let them die out, and give good a 
 chance to work wonders for you: That is the way to feel, that 
 sins have no root deeper than a suckling twig, it will be rooted 
 out, once you bring the right kind of a wind to blow directly on 
 its roots: Now fear nothing and learn to know, that the hand 
 of the unseen is upon you, and that whatever you have got to do, 
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 seam ot an understanding that is growing with you: And may 
 be you don't know this fact, but the sure way of producing hap- 
 piness, is by knowing how to live without fear of your neighbor's 
 tongue, then make a mind of skill, for your neighbor will adjust 
 his gills, once he knows that a hand is over him, that will tell 
 you how to measure his worth, by his accents of good behavior: 
 Now don't go and think that your neighbor, is going to have any 
 better messenger, than you have got, for according to the manner 
 of training, so shall that messenger serve you; as you swear, so 
 will that one do who is at your side interrogating the mysteries of 
 your desires; now make no mistake on this point, it will be seen 
 directly by you that you have a fancy friend, who is inclined to 
 swear; then you must tell him through your own breath, that he is 
 to find some other way of making himself known to you by a course, 
 that does not necessitate any language, that has to be blushed 
 for: As the man leads, so shall he drive, and as he speaks, so 
 shall he be addressed; you see that a fine man can not bear the 
 language of a guilty swine that takes his comments from the 
 gutter; there is the true philosophy of getting what you have 
 given, and bringing home the affection, after it has been dealt 
 out; you know how to wrap up a parcel in such a way as the 
 contents can not be detected, then see that your sentiments are 
 in form of sentence, that can be carried without injury; you know 
 what it is to be glad, then make the cortege of your own glad, 
 and they will learn- to bring you tidings of comfort under the 
 most extraordinary circumstances: And instead of you being 
 stricken down with grief, they will help you to find a way, that 
 will be more exquisite to your mind than the great dearth of 
 flowing tears: This is the proper way to find joy, by hooking 
 your sorrow onto those who can see all that is against as well as 
 for you; there is the thing as a judge should look at his cases, 
 both inside and out: You have your own judges, who are inside 
 to make inspection, and outside to reveal them; now there is only 
 one other question to be dealt with, and that is how to cultivate 
 this understanding: You have got to go under a complete change 
 of surroundings, you must leave off drinking, and never let any 
 flavor of spirit mole come into your mind, for it is sure to leave 
 
 
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 a feeling of comfort that is not real, it salivates the membrane, 
 and leaves the appetite courting more, that is a feeling of anxiety- 
 has come upon the mind that will not be shaken off, and is rooted 
 there by the class of spirits, who were originally outcasts from 
 society for this habit of immorality; there is the true solution to 
 this question of drink, it is a great curse, for it is the blind 
 walking after the blind, and those who love liquor, can have 
 their throttles wet after a fashion, once in a way, on the other 
 side of Pluto, or in other accents, I say a man is worse than a 
 hog for he never knows when he has supped enough, and so has 
 a hog the quality of gorging until he can not breathe; you see 
 the similarity to the pig in a drunkard; and there is the starting 
 point of all evil, he cares for that alone, and when he has a good 
 home, he was actually a brute, and could never learn a lesson of 
 peace, for his appetite had those in his van, who are the customers 
 of the sinner, and the publican: You know how saints and sin- 
 ers meet, they won all by curses and prayers, into a common 
 understanding, the one has more beer as his God: Whilst the 
 other holds his hand and keeps his tray, for holding forth on 
 sabbath day; he shall give plenty into that state, into which no 
 other soul can bring back, for it is seemly so to do, that is the 
 parson begs, what the publican can not grab, and both are blind 
 drunk with an influence that works out wheels against the other: 
 Now let me be very plain and uncomplimentary, for I have much 
 to tell to quite surprise you, and I can not do what is really well 
 when you get after making me begin to poke jollity, I shall never 
 flinch or turn my head from sticking pins where they are needed: 
 You know what saints anfl sinners mean; that is after my own 
 taking, and I won't bring on folly of other people's making, 
 therefore you must know that men are morally bad from begin- 
 ning to ending; this is all your own showing, when they begin 
 to fad it is no use talking: And though they used to play at 
 hide and seek, it all went after church began: And you may 
 tinker on at all you can: I'll wager a new set pan can make you 
 into a man without any more grinding: That is as it was, and 
 what it has come to is nothing very astonishing, for what can 
 man not treat to-day when he has got the bending: I shall stick 
 
 
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 a pin where all the uncles and aunts can lick up a paint stain, 
 wherever it may have spoiled a new ribbon: And then we'll see 
 who is going to the tavern to drown her thoughts in beer, that 
 is the way to make a fairy gay by giving her some Seer; she is 
 oftentimes beguiled away by hunting drabs in tears, they are so 
 very pious those gentle parson dears; and I can outwit them all 
 so don't please have any fears; you know me now, I am very sure 
 it was I they dreaded most when I was on them before my bier: 
 You can call and I will come don't alarm yourself my dears; they 
 knew me once before I was in that prison cell: And I never 
 knew what a frightened nest of daws they kept until I got my 
 bier; there is where you all can poke and think you have hidden 
 treasures; but I can tell you what it is, that I can prove your 
 innocent lambs beside those heinous sinners; for they can robe 
 the child in guilt, and leave her a holy terror; she shall neither 
 know her only silent giver, he was there beside her bed, in sadly 
 disheveled head seeking for the Virgin Mary; you know not what 
 a man may do when he is after fairies; seeking those he most 
 adores, and leaving those of common store to peasant priest or 
 deacon; that is the way to get a cold by heaping fire on polled 
 heads of scientific specters: You know not who it is that sleeps 
 beside you; common talk has no father and ancient men were 
 prone to pray that they should not have a daughter, that is the 
 way to bring them hay when you don't understand their slaughter: 
 A blessing rest on every holy daughter, for she can not have 
 sinned, when she does not know her seducer; that is what is 
 called the heretics' fortune; you bid your daughters be gentle 
 lambs, and you give them to a priestly reverence, that is where 
 the tiger enters, and leaves no marks behind, he has stolen his 
 meet in accents cheering, and when the time comes for hiding 
 crime his hand is for the protection of the church, and that is 
 as he taught, it: You know that once a crime is committed 
 a few times it fondly loses all sympathy for a crime; you know 
 how it was first brought out that a kind heart could understand 
 the ways of the flame, that burns up all good, it is the eye, which 
 detects the form of ill as it appears, and words are apt to soften 
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 the soul speak, and give audience to them who have the power 
 of seeing whether an evil eye is upon your own soul, there ye 
 shall be informed of the fact, before there can be any hurt 
 coming to you: And though there are the thousands seeking 
 to destroy your life and liberty, you shall lay schemes to frustrate 
 them all: A way is cleared for those who can make a path 
 opening his soul to those who know which way to turn in 
 moments of danger: Fear nothing all the lands may open, 
 and the dead may rise against you: Yet in sight of him your 
 soul is as pure as the word of righteousness can make it; and 
 after the hand of time is at all men's throats, I say they shall not 
 spurn thee for knowing what is good and the very thoughts of 
 holiness is good to be near; yet know ye not, that inside of 
 hades there lives the very soul of evil, and no good can come 
 whilst you fix your own thoughts on the life that is in the body; 
 a soul is not pure in that state, it is a mere might of atmospheric 
 construction, and is waiting patiently to become more free; you 
 don't know what it is craving after, neither does it; it won't rest 
 anywhere, for this is what it is constantly scribing, I want to be 
 free to know what the world beyond me is like, I have seen 
 much here of good and evil both, let me have something more 
 real, let me lift up my eyes, and see God once in all his glory 
 sitting on the throne of majesty: There is none like he then 
 bring me I pray in front of his presence; you poor deluded fool, 
 you can not see a piece of mechanism that does not even live 
 within your radius of comprehension: You know not what there 
 is at all; then why should you tear and fret, is it not possible 
 for you to discern this foolishness; be bright, and master such 
 foolish ideas; they are not fitted for an educated dunce to know 
 even; you see me strike your education, right in the pith of the 
 neck, it is because I will not allow you one concession whilst I 
 know you are wrong in theory, practically, morally, and physi- 
 cally; never was a soul yet purified on earth sufficiently to know 
 what heaven is like; and you shall learn for the first time that 
 God in all his glory never yet thought well enough of man to 
 enlighten him; and you know that were he the powerful scion 
 you paint him to be: There never need be any fears, he would 
 
 
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 not allow mortals to cut each other's throats for want of more 
 knowledge; you see what is claimed for him is not even begun 
 yet; and that is the world's formation; you see that you are 
 infants, and not men of sense as you ought to be; you have not 
 even left the door of heaven open for your own souls to creep 
 in, then what more proof do you want, than to be clean out of 
 what is opened to you: That is a much better way of putting- 
 it, than to tell you that you have not learned the Acts of the 
 Apostles well enough: Your own common judgment should 
 show you that those who revised the works of Moses, and all 
 others; who were blessed with intellect enough to know any- 
 thing, have been basely misconstrued by literary fools, who 
 espied out grammatical errors; And substituted what they called 
 the faults of the illiterate ancients: Where is your dead 
 language all gone to, away, in the past, anybody could save 
 himself the trouble of the flashing wires; you are advanced in 
 wickedness, as well as virtue; but you don't know what a mess 
 has been made of keeping people from learning the truth; you 
 keep on suppressing genius, and you will have pagan gods, 
 likened only unto that "calf" that Aaron made to substitute 
 Moses, you know well how Moses absented himself from the 
 Israelites, when he wished to get intelligence from a source, that 
 he could be assured of was correct, and he had to leave those 
 surroundings, in order to be away from the annoyance of a peo- 
 ple, who were as ignorant of the man who did have a power, that 
 could save them from all wheels of misfortune, it was tested 
 then, and it was considered hopeless by heaven to rule hell: 
 That is where the after-birth received a blow, that will seldom be 
 seen to a greater advantage, the ancient spirits tried Israel with 
 all manner of tests, that should have shown them, that they were 
 being led at a juncture, that is not in heaven at all, but on this 
 earth, and they knew that a mere stretch of time would pass 
 them by, and they could reach heaven quite easily, for Moses 
 did prove that there was a communion going on between him and 
 God that is the fairest way of putting it: He knew he had a voice 
 that could do what none else knew of; yet his after actions 
 show that a voice did guide him, and nothing of his own per- 
 
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 formed these great wonders, therefore don't let yourselves believe 
 that what Moses could do is extinct, for it is not, you can tell as 
 well to-day as you ever could, and without a Moses either; only 
 make your mind easy, and you could tell how many arrays ' of 
 battle there are set against you, without a balloon or the flashing 
 wires either; now don't hesitate, and discard this form of intelli- 
 gence, for it is not to be checkmated by any connivance at pick- 
 ing people's eyes out, for being better sighted than you, you have 
 no power capable of seeking a form of destruction from, for it is 
 impossible for you to learn a method of destroying a soul, and the 
 soul shall guide the soul of another, and it is impossible for you 
 to checkmate that system; you can lift up the excellency of all 
 souls by more intellectually developing the rights of defining 
 truth, and the greater growth of true facts, that you advance 
 the mind to: There will be abundance of fools left don't fear 
 for them, they don't come on a diamond bed, neither do wise 
 men drop off blackberry bushes; they are for saints and sinners 
 to select from: And a fool is often marked by your wise men as 
 eccentric, let him who basks in the sun, know that it is his to be 
 good from; and he who walks beside a tavern bar, and thinks of 
 happiness in ancient ales and brandy snaps, is a fool for all men 
 to keep him there to spring a devil from: Your own thoughts 
 are the initiation of all this, and therefore you have got to thank 
 the souls that are around you, for almost all you have to think 
 of, it won't do for you to imagine that a mind is fixed by the 
 quantity or quality of the brain matter, that is inside of your 
 skulls, for they don't begin to realize, that a mind is still when 
 it is not at work, and to work a mind, is to hold it in check, and 
 slack it out, just as you think of paying in a coil of yarn, it is 
 not more a separated organ, than your own tether line is, and will 
 be utilized, in the same manner as a cord, in a reel: You don't 
 think this is intellectually right; but it is just the way you all 
 have got of fancying you are very clever indeed: Well take 
 credit for yourselves; but remember that you have made a much 
 greater mistake; when you, don't think it worth your while to 
 calculate for your own " motor power " ; where is your guiding 
 
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 has vanished; no doubt you have supposed yourself capable of 
 all these wonders, and think that an improvement, on your own 
 skill impossible; yet you don't know, that you are being followed 
 wherever you go, but the intellectual stream of knowledge com- 
 mon to the whole of humanity, as the impressions of the human 
 mind: You got an impression, that you could invent some sort 
 of machine, that had never been thought of by the world before; 
 Yet you don't know how to set about it, for the fact, that none 
 has been made: Well you think it is all in your own reach, 
 because your ideas are so centered on this one subject; well it 
 does look feasible says you to yourself; now be careful of these 
 new ideas, for they may be a continuance of some departed 
 dream in the body; and all inventions come through this method; 
 a man is tormented to death, by some spirit haunting him to 
 his ruin with inventions; and after a spirit has gone from its bed 
 in the shell; it will preserve its course of study; and may either 
 improve or remain in a condition of chaos for many generations: 
 This is the most hurtful thing there is: for the fact remains the 
 same, a man must be made to understand, before he can 
 advance: Now you see why it would be better for the world 
 did it understand itself; there is folly in suppressing wisdom; 
 and a man might as well have no soul at all as not to know what 
 is to become of him: You can't make a man feel comfortable 
 with a worldly good position, when he does not know where he 
 is going, and though a man may die happy coming through a 
 fool's paradise, yet he is disappointed, when he finds that he was 
 always a fool: That is quite enough to retard his progress when 
 he finds a great big objection raised against him for not finding 
 out for himself before he leaped through the darkness, into the 
 light: You can just picture to yourself, the thoughts of going 
 to eternity; expecting to find a great big throne coming in front 
 of your vision; and a hand being raised up against you saying: 
 " you are here at last, and I want you to know that it was I who 
 witnessed your theft: What more could any man take upon 
 himself, than this great judgment day: Why, he is always 
 afraid to die, whilst he is living; and when he misses that seat 
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 believes no one, and always thinks of finding it in the future: 
 You see what a dream is like: Well your own thoughts will rise- 
 up like this dream of God defying man to hide any secret from 
 him; and in doing this it leaves man forever in the dark as to 
 his exact place of abode hereafter; not alone that, but you 
 make him fear death, through this understanding; but as life is 
 precious to all mankind; you see it right, and there can not be 
 any fear of the great hereafter: On the verge of departure, call 
 on your guide to come near to you; and though ten million sit 
 by your corpse, there shall not one defeat your guide, from 
 coming and claiming you to the great good will of him who was 
 your after inheritance: You see this is nothing extraordinary at 
 all;, for the giver of light, did provide the light, and he was not 
 doing it for you or me; but for the general activity of the soul 
 life; that is a much better way of putting it, than to declare 
 positively that man was made to burn in a flaming hell for the 
 remainder of his days; which means to the end of eternity: 
 You don't want anything of the kind to make people afraid, as 
 to make them ignorant, and ignorance is cowardice; therefore 
 you are at the very beginning now; the same as you have always 
 been: That is an awful illustration; But you are at the begin- 
 ning for the fact, that there is no ending, neither is there any 
 end to eternity; now then what do you want a hell-fire for; Is it 
 to pick off chunks of semi-imperfections; or is it to waken up 
 those fools who hold favorite positions in the land of light, you 
 might very easily improve this by folding up the dead man's 
 sound, and keeping it, until he gave you permission to loose him 
 from this atmosphere; where you do so very much: And know 
 so little: I am indeed puzzled to learn how you are going to 
 hold or control these souls, in your own hell; this is more of a 
 kindness tome than I ever expected to find on this sphere; and I 
 was called the great "infidel"; when you sewed me up in a sheet, 
 and said I was sure to roast in hell whilst the world did last; 
 now don't you believe that I was right then, when I can come 
 back, and tell you that you are all wrong, you know what a man- 
 ager can do, and you know how they did manage to gag me by 
 placing me in prison for telling the truth: Your own hell is all 
 
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 that God Almighty ever created: And when you get on the other 
 side, which is all and all the same for both you and me: I will 
 wager the back off all eternity, that no man ever did live yet, 
 who can speak so truthfully as I did when on earth amongst 
 you, but then I never did know how to get at the exact truth in 
 particulars such as are being divulged for the sole benefit of the 
 paternal ancestry of the minds of God Almighty's human races: 
 Your acts, and deeds: Will be forever the standard of laughter, 
 for you make out, that a man was afterward crucified dead and 
 buried: And the third day he arose from the dead, and sitteth 
 on the right hand of God: There you make a frightful error; for 
 man did not do anything of the sort, he may have been buried, 
 in whole semblance; but he never arose on the third day; for no 
 one can breathe in a body, once the lungs cease respirating, and 
 though our Lord may have risen from the dead: after three 
 days: There is no need to fling a doubt on one so good and 
 pure: That is, you are preaching, what to-day is a falsehood, 
 and a fairy tale: That is not very much could be gained did 
 you subject this book story to analysis; the way to test right 
 from wrong; is to bring actual facts to a particular kind of 
 reasoning sense, and then see what is real: There is no one 
 who has a faculty for knowledge: That will believe you: When 
 you say, " He was born of the Virgin Mary: Crucified dead and 
 buried: And the third day he arose again from the dead." 
 There is where you are lying all through your want of reason: 
 You are infinitely worse: Than you were at the very beginning; 
 for you don't know a lie when it is unearthed for you: Now 
 don't let me have to prove you ignorant: When you have 
 taught this lie from your birth upward: And stand there to-day: 
 With a whole testament of false illustrations: And you won't 
 give one soul the right to be guided to eternity in a proper and 
 righteous form: That is not the way for you to get there or to 
 help others either: You know that though Christ was a man of 
 exceedingly good qualities; that he never countenanced false 
 representation: And you know that it is enough to drive 
 heaven against hell to have him spoken falsely of: You are the 
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 say to the contrary: Won't make amends for your falseness to 
 the only good man you ever owned; for you did own him: And 
 will always be compelled to own him: And no one can say that 
 you did not prove his ownership; For you stuck the knife into 
 the only gentle Jesus you can ever hope to own: That is a 
 crime that heaven will always hold over the sins of hell as her 
 great mark of respect for true knowledge: Now 7 you take a 
 kindly word of advice; from him who divines all things: And 
 don't let fools control the rights of religion: For they are more 
 their own enemies: Than they can ever hope to gain from their 
 wickedness hereafter, they will bring sin on all that they touch: 
 And in wisdom find ye grace; for no man knows what golden 
 treasures there are for him; does he but say I will thou art holy, 
 for God gave his only Son for the salvation of sinners: You 
 know that Jesus Christ was sold by Judas Iscariot; as a peace 
 offering for those heathens who betrayed their God on Calvary: 
 That is they sentenced him to die; because he did not save him- 
 self: And they wanted him to show them a miracle that should 
 stand them in need of showing them that he could climb the 
 skies in his own body; that is as near a true fact as it can be 
 demonstrated; they could have given him another test, that 
 would have proved him just the same: But it was to see him 
 climb the heavens: That was their view of finding him worthy 
 of so great a task: And when his body did not ascend to 
 heaven: They were alarmed; because darkness appeared: Well 
 now it could have been much more easy for him to sing I am 
 coming back in darkness to bring you pain and punishment for 
 this evil hour's work: And you know they were all afraid of the 
 deed as it caused the night to appear before its proper time: 
 You think God was angry and brought on the darkness; that is 
 what you have always been taught to believe: Well your 
 theory is quite right: To believe such was the case, a dark- 
 ness did spread itself across the earth: For no man dared 
 say I am he who butchered our Saviour; and those who did 
 do it; are as much afraid of him coming back: As they were of 
 him whilst he was amongst you: You know what men I refer to, 
 they are those who will not believe he was sent down from 
 
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 heaven expressly to serve them their own purpose coming in 
 sight and disappearing through the aperture of heaven's gates: 
 That is what was expected of Christ: And you can not find 
 one sinner but wants this performance realized before he 
 will be convinced that heaven is not on the other side of the 
 stars: You see what he wants to be convinced with; because he 
 thinks as his guides do; and he never grows any better; because 
 he is always thinking of heaven as over yonder; you know why 
 he is so stupid; because you won't let heathens see the light; is 
 for the fact, that they don't know how, before they begin to see 
 light, and when they do; they are quite willing to drop into the 
 humdrum life of following some poor devil to his doom, and 
 preaching into his ears that he won't be hurt, or that he never 
 need fear; this is precisely what is in store for you; unless you 
 rise out of this foolish state of affairs before you start on your 
 eternal pathway through life; then you can't be any better than 
 those who go over the marked line, in happy ignorance; there 
 is your soul, coming home in the dark night, and the first thing 
 it knows, is a street trap has been forgotten, and the lid is not 
 shut over the opening; then a precipitous flight of may be 
 enough to spread confusion on that careless wanderer for his 
 entire life, and he becomes a raging lion, or a mad dog, it is not 
 readily defined what effect comes over such a one; and it often 
 comes before the men in power that a son shall sting his father; 
 that is a way of putting it; and a son may go mad, but no 
 hereditary ailments had been found before in the history of that 
 family; well it is the vicious attack of some one or other; that 
 had fallen short of his expectations: You can not possibly tell 
 the amount of damage you do by suppressing the right knowl- 
 edge; a course is quite clear to you, then don't go and expect to 
 find, what there is not; neither could there be such as you have 
 been made to believe, through the ignorance, of those who 
 thought they did what was best; for they were unable to foresee 
 the danger that was in the eternity; you know that- to be saved 
 is to bring happiness; then don't go and make many mistakes; 
 for in sight of all you can not be made whole unless you have 
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 prove a good saint to be wrong: The latter sticks to his belief 
 as though the haven of his soul was broken did he feel that his 
 whole life was a blank, and that he had been the innocent victim 
 of committing many a fraud; you must learn to feel what it is to 
 have all your hopes crushed in one single blow: There is the 
 lesson that is good to know, and when you do find out, that 
 nothing has happened because your hopes were blasted, by the 
 single turn of a crank: Then you will be better suited to do the 
 will of that mighty divining power, which leads all men as they 
 might hope to be led in their home of eternity: Now don't go 
 away wondering what you mean by such a talk, better still to 
 say am I gone in the regions of my own intellect, and must I 
 reallv and truly go bad before I can see to what extent my folly 
 will lead me; you see now what it is that is necessary for all 
 mankind; they must see, feel, and understand whether evil is 
 not against them prior to their own search for good: You know 
 what the cause of writing the Bible was at the beginning for it is 
 plainly understood by both heaven and those who have right 
 claims upon the knowledge of a literary genius: A wanderer in 
 a foreign land has been the first man to sink his voice deeply 
 into all men's hearts; and he shall remain as a standpoint of 
 excellency as long as the hemisphere shall crawl round the Sun; 
 you must be beguiled indeed to bring what a sinner may come 
 to, for as the hand of Cain did bring out the old philosophy in 
 our first man of mark, and that was the man who slew his fellow- 
 man; for it shall be according to judgment day, and as decreed 
 by those who saw the fight coming on; and being struck down 
 by the fear of man, but not through the fear of God, this is 
 what I say is before you in all its truth, there was a light that 
 did shine upon that noble man who stood before his mind a 
 heathen striking his fellow-countrymen: You see that he acted 
 in a moment of righteous indignation, but when the men of 
 judgment commenced to rail at him, and say it is he who slew 
 the Egyptian: They created fear in his breast, and for that one 
 act of conscientious behavior he was condemned as a murderer: 
 Now you see that when God spoke to this man in the far-off land 
 that he feared for his crime of slaying the Egyptian, yet he 
 
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 never once turned back from any danger when he knew that 
 there was a power at his back, that could sustain him against all 
 the universal callings of mankind; yet he was at times misgiving, 
 and did bewail his lot, when he saw that Pharaoh was so set 
 against his release of the Egyptians; you can't tell when angels 
 rule what manner of style of adventures they will bring to pass: 
 And as Esau did live in a second passage of discipline; so did 
 the contact of Rebekah bring confusion over his birthright; you 
 see that she loved her favorite son Jacob, and to win for him 
 the first blessing, she was willing to forego her chances in 
 heaven: You see that though Moses was the salvation of Israel, 
 he had to suffer the tortures of a lonely wanderer before he was 
 fitted for so high a position; yet he did not mix with the saints 
 or sinners; in order to be made whole, and I say that a man 
 should know evil before he can be good: Therefore you see that 
 Jacob was afraid, and did leave his father's house, for he too had 
 been guilty of a crime: He took that which did not belong to 
 him by rights; and was not prepared to face the anger of his 
 brother: Now you see what it was when the first champions 
 began to steal and kill; you must watch out and not let these 
 same passions enter your hearts lest it be said that I too must go 
 away to a foreign land, and see what I can see in the future that 
 is not already revealed to man: You are all the same as Isaac 
 in one respect, you have no one to till your land, and you must 
 take off that which belongs to another; You see that Isaac did 
 not feel happy when he saw that Jacob had gotten in first and 
 stolen Esau's blessing; therefore he made one other blessing 
 which has been interpreted wrong entirely; for as you all know 
 that the hands of Esau was made into the color of a class that 
 is supposed to be at the head of all men that are blessed with 
 hair: And now that men don't wear hair on their hands you 
 would naturally suppose that he is gone into a monkey: But 
 you do not understand this as it is meant, for when Isaac made 
 his blessings; there were no men of the class that you find in 
 this century, and consequently, they are not of the same kind of 
 man as Isaac was constituted; and are less likely to be requiring 
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 man of to-day says I am not going to place my confidence in 
 blessings; I shall make my son an estate, and he can lease it or 
 do as he pleases; last century they, all were much in favor of 
 leaving him a life interest; but when it is time for them to think 
 of the next century; they will want an estate in heaven: Which 
 you can surely give once you understand how to bring them up 
 to believe in what is true knowledge; not by making them fear 
 God, as it has been the custom to do; but rather let them have 
 the use of a freedom for good instead; and let heaven come and 
 join hands and say hell is only a place for brute; let us be one 
 common people calling each other by proper names; and bring- 
 ing each other to love the life which has been endowed upon us 
 by a merciful providence; which knows no guile, neither does 
 sinners know how to repent; for they can not see how to begin 
 to pray, to a god that neglected them always; you mistaken 
 creatures, why, not blame what in all common sense and 
 good reasoning faculties, there never has been, and never 
 could be: you simple-minded sinners, is it not wise to 
 be whole-souled and righteous: Or whether would you rather 
 I said is it not folly to be taught wisdom; Though still paragons 
 of naught that is wholesome: you won't leave well alone I know 
 it; therefore it is hardly fair to say in one year from now 
 that we always had a suspicion of the truth; You paganish 
 prigs, you would steal the half off heaven to bring your right 
 judgment into a sense of knowing all things, don't I know you 
 _ as though you were the very click of my own watch, don't think 
 you are able to bring this other sin upon us by your idea of get- 
 ting good all in a moment, you have got to practice all that you 
 preach, or go to the galley, and cook thoughts for your pagan- 
 ish folly of treating God as a fool for not knowing better how 
 to organize your stupidity: You are stupid sometimes, and you 
 know it, for it brings you home to judgment, and you don't like 
 to let the judgment of a righteous cause get the best of your 
 own stupidity; a clever rascal never knows how foolish he was 
 till he got caught, and there is where the force of wisdom comes 
 in; take time to consider whether it would not pay you much 
 better in the end to let folly alone, and live as a good soul 
 
 
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 should, keeping on as you may go, for as the sinner does know 
 what is his crime, so shall you know that a divine ruler is ever 
 at your back calling you this way and that, sometimes making 
 you sin to bring you to light, sometimes making you good to show 
 you the might: And always struggling with you for his own 
 salvation to come; your own welfare is frequently not the object 
 at all, and therefore you must see that a certain thing is to be 
 reached before you begin; now don't get led till you see the end, 
 not as you have often done, gone on in the vague hopes that 
 your mother was a good and loyal wife; but rather say my 
 father did because my mother made him: And don't go on to 
 your friend's house and say my husband is a brute I feel his 
 presence a burden to me, rather do something to make him 
 see that he is a brute, and you sit down on him carefully when 
 he sees that you are not to blame; that is a way to be proud of; 
 not making those who fling stones at all proper people begin by 
 chewing your troubles; Inside is not the place to make your hus- 
 band worry; bring him outside, and take him with you for a 
 walk in clear air, and see if purity does not fall in; where vice 
 was often so rife: You know that men can stand much from 
 women, when they hold the ribbons right, for as you drive so it 
 will be seen that you are driven; and when your husband won't 
 agree to you going out with him for a walk, take his arm and do 
 you lead him where he should go to; that is a man will not be 
 left by a true woman; and she it was who made him hate her 
 own kind, for though she scoffed and did her might she never led 
 her man quite right: Though bairnes "may come, and children 
 " dee," you take hold onto his "auld " cloak, it is the "warmest " 
 cloth that makes a noble heart to welcome home and thee: A 
 deal of sin and crime is brought home to every household through 
 the affection, they bear to idle talk with their neighbors; and 
 more still is brought, by treating your friends to social evenings; 
 that is not the way to enjoy happiness; bring your wife to some 
 amusing scene: That may help you to enjoy musi" and singing 
 for- it is good for the ear: And don't let gossiping fools within 
 your gates: Let them who cherishes home mind it for himself: 
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 harmless what is purer than the show of having friends to sip 
 and snivel at the pie that had no fruit in it for them: Take 
 your pretty wife, comely and sweetly caress her; for no one can 
 tell which of your friends is meeting his eyes to fix her: You 
 little know what games are played on husbands, and don't let 
 innocent men come into your house, for nature's God is upon 
 them: And you poor fool is made to laugh and to prate over 
 your own silly wisdom, come home to your darling, and leave 
 your friend to freeze in the snow:^ It is a proper and most deli- 
 cate purity for him; this is the way to behave to your own wife: 
 Then give other men's home, a single calling, for they may want 
 what you despise; in courting games are funny: A man may 
 laugh and appear quite gay and have a heart that is bursting: 
 You know not what a plain-thinking man can see; when he is 
 inclined to be cunning, he it is who lurks around, and calls when 
 master is away at Fanny's wooing; don't let him in, for he it was 
 who stole the cup of peace between the ancients and the priests: 
 They went out and he went in, what do you think of bumming: 
 He could not keep from his measly, talk when master's in: But 
 then he could tell many a tale of honest Jim: And persuaded 
 her to fly with him, it would be better than she should call and find 
 him with Fanny: You know it is an old-time talker that is 
 pointing you out a way to be happy whilst you may; and leave 
 no bad reflections that are certain to carry you far out of your 
 reckoning; they seldom fit where Steve and I did place them, so 
 your own chance is to mind and keep away from the after 
 reflection: For a man who walks upon his hind feet never can 
 quite measure his fore ones: They seem to be so very smart, 
 when you try to catch them: And you must know as well as me, 
 that they dodge you every way once you try to reach out and catch 
 them, that are walking on in front of you, and called by name a 
 shadow: You know what a shadow is: Then why don't you 
 see that a mark has been made upon the ground, that has no 
 other kind of appearance except the form of your own body, it 
 seems strange that you should know that it was your own 
 shadow, can't you see that it is the light shadow, that hangs 
 around you, that is making an ox walk in the light of its own 
 
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 shadow, you have seen a cow jump at their own shadow: Then why- 
 should the cow be afraid of what is nothing but her own shadow, 
 she is not half as blind as you are; she sees a movement coming 
 in her way, and it disappears when she has made a jump it is 
 gone underneath her; and she fears it no longer, because it 
 stood by her side until she made that leap, and left her nothing 
 to see beside her: You have got me on a string, that is little 
 short of a swindle: It may appear quite plain to you that I am 
 mad to pick up with such trifles; yet you know that a man who 
 speaks truly often is a lunatic, for the generality of mankind are 
 apt to think that lies are better than truth, for they don't know 
 any better: You see I am going to make a point out of your 
 own shadow, and it will serve to explain that a man's mind must 
 be wandering, when the cow can see danger in her shadow: 
 You don't seem to catch my drift it is hardly plain enough for 
 you yet, a shadow is the reflection of your own body; and must 
 be part and parcel of the whole, or it would not cast a reflection; 
 you know as well as the cow now that a reflection is dangerous: 
 And when you want to measure your own reflection, why just walk 
 backward, it is there seen what a long fellow you once were, for 
 you are getting behind your own shadow, and the hand of him 
 who started you to grow, has stretched you out backward, and 
 is now a towering trunk where you first began to shoot. You 
 are a mighty fine fellow to be always stepping on your own 
 shadow, you don't think of these things, they are too brittle for 
 your compos mentis: It won't suit you to say I was once a 
 shadow, and now I am too proud to own it; cause I mustn't 
 mind what wisdom does it makes me sore to be represented as a 
 tiny little atom measuring out a great long shadow: You know 
 not what you are, then don't begin to ridicule too soon, and don't 
 forget the sakes of him who once did make a mate for all man- 
 kind; it was a noble deed, and one well worthy of the man who 
 made another, it can not be told without some remorse, for 
 though the trees were bare yet Adam came there, all the same 
 he had no clothing to wear, yet he sewed leaves up before 
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 bare; you see that a fable is not well told, unless you can 
 get right down to facts; there is nothing in the Bible that speaks 
 of a foundry for Adam to get his needles from, and yet he and 
 his wife have gone to the trouble of sewing leaves together 
 to hide from God, because they were naked, who said it is 
 immoral to be naked in the presence of one a wife and the 
 other her husband: You do not even begin to preach 
 when you have a true knowledge; therefore is it possible that 
 a sinner could so quickly see pain when there was no punish- 
 ment to fly from: You forget that these two were the first 
 that were understood to be made by God: Well why were 
 they afraid of their own nakedness: No Becky Sharp could 
 tell them that they were disgracing morality: You see that it is 
 a one-sided stroke of the pen that has caused all this confusion: 
 You don't want a heathen to tell you there is no God: He 
 must be able to show you what there is then, or forever may 
 he speak to the Moon and Stars for they are as real as the 
 wax that has been sent broadcast over the heavens claiming a 
 myth as geologically correct astronomy: You must confine 
 yourselves to sense and you can know all that there is to be 
 had out of earth or heaven; I don't want you to sit down and say 
 I am a wonderful man, I want you to search for good solid facts, 
 and say when you have got them that a man was born, and 
 not go on like fools trying like Darwin did to connect the 
 human races with monkeys: They are well enough for idiots 
 as men to hold communion, with the phonograph to make a 
 monkey drink water by the impersonation of its mate's voice: 
 It only shows still further that man has got to come to the 
 specific voice before he can learn anything; and further all 
 nationalities have a language that is plain to them, does not 
 the horse know where to find his mate, without any apparent 
 voice; does he not go twenty or thirty miles direct across 
 mountains; and does he not find those horses in which he is 
 in search after, is his language not purer than yours, I say that 
 not one of you can as well see the horse he wants to find in 
 that valley twenty miles away: You know it is called instinct, 
 well what is instinct, it must be a message from the dead, or 
 
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 it is nothing at all: You know what I mean by a message 
 from the dead, it is an understanding between the dead horses 
 and the living, I am not going to say you came from horses 
 or any other animal: I simply say that Adam and Eve were 
 the first man and woman: And they knew that they were to 
 make man, and they did this according to what is right and 
 proper: And a man who does believe that they were ashamed 
 of each other's nakedness is a greater ass than ever brayed: 
 You know I am speaking truly, and it matters not to me whether 
 you believe it or still remain a quadruped: You know I don't 
 care for anything but the truth, and when you can show me 
 that I have lied then it will be good for you to do it; no 
 lies have any right to exist, and the sooner you banish hell; and 
 make the haven in one place of lowly everlasting peace and 
 pleasure the better for man and mute: You don't know how 
 much better it is to live innocently, or you would forsake hell 
 and give no man a chance to chide you for being the folly 
 of all ages; You are a gormandizing people never satisfied, 
 and never filled: You want what you will never get, and you 
 have got what you don't want, that is an inheritance to sin; 
 better far to take a path that is open and clear than to cling 
 to one that is made doubly dark through sin crime and ignor- 
 ance: You shall know the truth, and then select for yourselves, 
 whether I be an infidel or a sainted angel: It makes no dif- 
 ference so long as you are enlightened and shown what is 
 right: A man may climb to the top of a high mountain, and then 
 he will find nothing but space in front of him: You may per- 
 haps call it a beautiful view, yet you know that there is a 
 something between you and the skies: That won't admit of 
 your sight being able to penetrate through to the other side 
 of heaven, as you wish it would: That is why you are obtain- 
 ing the most powerful glasses: You want to see through the 
 heavens, and what is it all for, it may be very nice for you to 
 make charts, but that will not avail you anything for it is the 
 sense that guides and not the sight; so your great glasses are 
 no use, unless you make them so as to look at either a man 
 in his ethereal form as well, then you must have them capable 
 
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 of holding his voice as he speaks, for he can not stand there 
 and make you understand him, for he is not able to hold con- 
 versation with you, without you make him see as you see; his 
 ideas are quite changed from yours, and he laughs at you, for 
 he knows you are not able to understand anything from that 
 form of guidance; and you may as well give it up at once; it 
 is no good to try what is a simple failure without any reason- 
 able grounds for thinking otherwise; you make a glass that is 
 powerful, but you can't make it magnify to what is not there 
 to be seen, it is a substance you are in search of, and you 
 have got a substance to use against what is not a substance 
 after your own theory; then why keep on trying for what you 
 don't possess, and can't hope to ever obtain: You want a mirror 
 to look God through and through: Then you must go after 
 you are dead, and see what it was that puzzled you so much: 
 You need not depend on me, but go right away, and look for 
 yourself immediately you get rid of that old shell: Why don't 
 you do as the line of light distinctly shows you: Bring your 
 focus into play, to read the minds of dead men, and see 
 whether they will tell you more than you ever knew or not: 
 You can't get hold of this space, for it is so infinitely small in 
 
 I your own ideas, that it is not worth troubling about: Do you 
 suppose for one moment that all the space you see contains 
 nothing but vampire: Why it is the essence of life contact, that is 
 being spread around you, and you must grow to learn that 
 when that life goes away into space, that it becomes larger, 
 through the appendix of a great fan-wheel, that is keeping all 
 matter turning; and when it turns, it keeps on gathering as it 
 ascends, and with it there is life, for nothing is moved with- 
 out life; you see that once you get up a good way in the 
 atmosphere it becomes more pleasant to the fluid that governs 
 the light; and you would be satisfied, that once you are able to 
 ascend, that it becomes more pure the higher you get, it w 7 on't 
 may be suit all; but as a common thing it is better for the 
 spirit life; which is all there is to be had up there; and a man 
 may be able to breathe in any atmosphere, once he has gone a 
 few times through this atmosphere without stopping to take any 
 
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 notice of it; you see that to keep on going is all quite well 
 enough for a departed man, but it won't quite agree with any- 
 one who is in the earthly body: You see that a soul is com- 
 petent to squeeze through any space, whether it be a given 
 or an ungiven space; so that when you are anxious to 
 know what there is in the bowels of the heavens: You have 
 only to command your spirit guides to go and bring you the infor- 
 mation: And unless they willfully mislead you, it will be seen 
 that I have given you a perfect description of what is there, 
 and you can easily prove your guides wrong by getting at the 
 common-sense view of what it takes to make a certainty: Now 
 you must know that to punish those who have not been there 
 to see, you must take them to task for not having gone, and 
 looked the whole of heaven up thoroughly: You have a right 
 to demand this from them; for when they come to you with no 
 other knowledge than bare outside useless talk, you can very 
 well wait until some better guide is able to force his views 
 upon you; and they must be such as will bear the closest 
 scrutiny; you don't want the assistance of those who know 
 nothing: It is wisdom and not folly that we want: Bring your 
 guides up to this understanding: And don't let them be 
 loafing round whilst you are sleeping: When they can't tell 
 you, be careful and understand their answer first before you 
 condemn them: They may be divided in opinion, and that is 
 what you will find a great deal of questioning: They don't feel 
 disposed to be always led by the one head, and may be that 
 there is a strong discussion going on between them; that will, 
 often affect you most materially, so you had better not give in 
 to either side but hold them steady, until they resolve themselves 
 into a compact body again: You know what a disorganized 
 parliament is: Then remember that a band of powerful spirits 
 work under the same organization, and are often struck with 
 this continued prohibition from doing exactly as the majority 
 wish; and they often reorganize once it is seen that a field of 
 culture is not being executed like it should be: A verdict of the 
 minority is not taken without it comes from some one who is able 
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 reverse the opinion of the whole majority, for he is accepted, and 
 promoted in a manner that is more enlightened still than any- 
 thing that you are aware of in the ground parliaments: You 
 know that a man who is intelligent enough to make himself 
 understood in your own parliaments will quite often carry the 
 whole of both parties with him; so you want wisdom, and you 
 are always right; a man can be wise one way, and he can be a 
 fool in another; for the fool is he who leads himself wrong, and 
 the man who is wise enough to go right is what is known as a 
 genius of experience; so you can not be wise unless you have 
 first paid a high price for your experience; and left fools to keep 
 on as they are going, don't you attempt to lead them lest ye be 
 made fool also; don't seek the acquaintance of one who indulges 
 in anticipation, for he who anticipates is a son of folly: Call 
 him what you may, but don't go along with the one who is 
 expecting a mine of wealth to pitch onto him: But you go your 
 way at your own gait, and fall on top of that wealthy mine that 
 has all the world to make you bite, it is your own, then take a 
 slice of what is free from no other man's rights to claim: You 
 are what is known full well as the waif of misfortune, then ye 
 be not cast down and saying there is nothing for me to rise on: 
 Take a pan and bake your bread, it is off the pan that the 
 Almighty universe is drained from day to day, then what are you 
 that you should expect to be fed with silver spoon: When the 
 maker made you to help thyself: Quote scriptures: But do it 
 well: And bite the rind off every liar; for they have sown the 
 seed for you to reap, and don't let them be keeping what is not 
 theirs to steal: You know not what a man may do once he has 
 eaten of the knowledge tree: He may rest in peace, or break a 
 kingdom: For once he knows how to interpret right, his fingers 
 are at every one's bedside, and they may think as they would 
 wish; Yet he can counterfeit all they may think is sacred to 
 them only: You don't want another man's crown, but you have 
 a right to mend your own frown, and keep away quite clear for 
 the chances are you can make a town know you as their crown: 
 and what is better than the loving respect of every honest citizen; 
 for when you are pious straight and good; they know you when 
 
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 you have passed from here, with an honest mien you walk, then 
 you have only got to show your thoughts are honest, and you 
 will not be chided for your tears: A way to do is to act accord- 
 ing to all, as you would take all to you: Then don't try to make 
 others fall; lest they do fall on you: For once you seek a quar- 
 rel; it is easy to pick a quarrel with you: And mind don't let 
 an angry feeling get the better of you, for satan pulls what is 
 best suited to his whims: Thus you are thrown when he has to 
 win: And you are very good pastime to make him grin: Don't 
 begin to poke your fingers in, for they are sure to come out with 
 no tin: When a punning man walks up to you, just hold him 
 steady: For he has got one more to throw, and you are his 
 brother: Keep him steady while you try to come another: They 
 make a pitch and toss, whilst you can make him slink and cough 
 when he finds you are into his butter: I don't want to funny be, 
 yet you will see that I take pleasure in making my time agree- 
 able: So that instead of you withering like the grass, I say you 
 had better make a man to smile, it keeps him from the whisky 
 tap, and glues him to affection, that is the way to live in berry 
 tarts, and don't begin to make it smart in terror; for you can go 
 and make a start, without any loose habits; for it is right to 
 laugh, and playing is a pleasure, then don't begin to press your 
 cheeks against the window; for there it wears a pane of glass, 
 that must go into your thinker, as a cold winter, for sure you are 
 a merry man and can not afford to be made senseless by such a 
 cooler, you don't know how to live once you press your face 
 against the window: a man may be a very great thinker for he 
 can not do much while he gets whisky in, and has to place his 
 face against a clinker: It won't help you to drink water ingrained 
 into malten whisky, for that is the way to split your own grains 
 in two; and make a bloody mark upon your brains, that sees 
 nothing except a spark of lightning hue comes after; there is 
 no one who can be cured of evil ways once they let the influence 
 of whisky come and crush out their own intelligence, for it is but 
 the farthest hand that controls their weakness, and he who craves 
 and lusts for more liquor can easily reach the main point by 
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 broken reed by plaster, so you have got to grow another: That 
 is a very fair illustration of a drunkard, they make a man to drink 
 himself, for all is welcome to the last that wears a shoe off any 
 taker; you know that whisky comes in and virtue is of any man's 
 asking, for it a sottish pleasure; have an understanding of how 
 to make pleasure, it is all well enough for you teachers of 
 prayers; to come and say that there is no pleasure in getting 
 drunk: It is all in the light that you see it, then don't begin to 
 rail and to pray shut up the heathens, first learn them to see a 
 better way, and don't be keeping them down with your prayers 
 that have no wits in them; don't you know that a drunken sot is 
 able to see through your innocent lays, that have got no grit in 
 them: You mistake a complexion of drunkenness, it is able to 
 tell you what men don't know, for it is happiness to the cortege 
 that gives them all their thinkings; you don't understand what 
 it is that makes a man drink, except that it be inflammation of the 
 brain as you call it; it is the inflation, of the real spirit that was 
 here a drunkard, and always will be a drunkard as long as there 
 is a smell of it within his grasp: You take a man that was drunk 
 all his life, though you think this impossible; yet, I will show 
 you that a man can be drunk forever; his mother was a drunkard, 
 and did he not feel the essence of drink as he inhaled the nourish- 
 ment from her vital column; it stained her flesh with the lust for 
 that powerful influence; and forever made that man a drunkard; 
 His little lips were made to pale before that current of damna- 
 tion, and in those lips he held the drains of contamination: And 
 though you may think that it is no harm for a mother to have a 
 drop of something hot before she retires, you mistaken brutes, 
 don't you see that it is a complete skinful for her child: You 
 don't believe it well it is easy to prove it to such weaklings, you 
 go and practice on the cow that gives you milk; and give her 
 turnips for her keep, see if she won't make you bitter tea; that 
 is one way of testing it; but you can have all the tests you want to 
 prove this side show of making men to weep and wail; why was 
 I made to like this tormentor, I feel as though my lights would 
 burn in two; unless I have my grog at intervals; mostly all day 
 long; you see me now most thirsty being you ever knew, I have 
 
 
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 no throat that does not chafe and scratch against the upper side: 
 unless you pour down some liquor all the time, it sticks fast and 
 makes me cry I wish I had another: You can whim and whine 
 I once had a mother: She was all the time soaking in, to make 
 my mouth another's; It has got to serve a dozen throats besides 
 my mother,s; she had all the soakers in the land at her side; 
 wishing they could borrow her throat to have another, you may 
 all both laugh and grin I have struck you where you have got to 
 be hit; before you are fitted for my brother, don't you see that 
 once a mother drinks with one child in her womb, that she has 
 gone into fits of disorder, that will produce marks of a similar 
 character on almost every child she may have through this same 
 happenings with the first; and though she may be the mother of 
 ten children; she will hold them all to a resemblance of the first: 
 you can detect this in one way or in another right through a family; 
 notwithstanding the fact, that their father has been changed; 
 even more than once; for it is the consequence of a great big 
 time of making a thing that has not been made before; and the 
 mould that is first prepared may be somewhat crude in shape, 
 yet it was the fist that did the shaping of its own moulding, there- 
 after leaving a mark that would hold every other to that which 
 was placed in order by the first hand of man, you see that this is 
 but one of nature's small pieces of art, for man must be made in 
 a mould, that is the very first work of art that he sets his enter- 
 prise in; then to view him hereafter is merely a form of good 
 guidance; you don't know what a man may not do, then why do 
 you fall short in understanding; it is easy enough to see what nature 
 is trying to do, and that is to make man in two: for it is where 
 you feed the flocks; then know ye not that you have given place to 
 three in one; and where you once supposed there was only two, I 
 have proved there are three drinking off one tap: your wife is the 
 mother of your child, where then is your share coming in; when 
 your ancestor is using her as the instrument of drenching her with 
 gin perhaps, or some other favorite beverage, that he or she was 
 a slave to: you are three in one, yet, it comes when you are 
 inclosed in your mother's womb; don't you see how I interpret 
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 you could only understand them, and make them right where 
 ignorance has led you wrong: The way to do, is to be 
 governed entirely by reason, and you will encompass all that is 
 there or elsewhere to know: don't go and say there is no sense 
 in this argument, for as you keep on weeping so shall tears 
 follow on after each other: and though your heart would break 
 in two parts, it is your own folly in letting it break, for as he 
 who casts a rope to catch a friend, let him know that you are 
 going to merry wend; and through your tears of pain, let the 
 joyous strain come flooding: And make a man begin to train his 
 eyes for another's coming; what do you want with tears of pain, 
 does it not make you feel ashamed; to be the stand-by for some 
 foolish funning, better call your dead father to your side and 
 ask him to be cunning, and wipe away those tear-stained eyes, 
 he can more assistance give than all the humming money: Now 
 don't begin to weep and wail for a dead brother, for he may 
 get on top and drive you round at eighty knots an hour without 
 any punning: You should mind your life as you will guard your 
 wife from other men's sunning: For they may leap and dance 
 around when you are not whistling: You know it is all 
 the go to make man a martyr, but you get on and make a 
 show before the old man has crossed the garter; for don't you 
 see, that he is sure to come to thee from off the strata: because 
 you are the only thing for him to make a spree, when he is across 
 the border, you don't go and make a fuss as stupid fellows do, 
 make your respect according to decency, and get out of reach of 
 the cemetery as quickly as the movements of good grace will 
 lead you, for there it is that leads a man to tears, when he 
 should be down on his knees praying for good of him who went 
 away, and asking him to come back again to point a way to 
 follow: You don't catch on to hindmost fellows, for they are 
 interested in the pleasures of ancients who would think you 
 come from some queer region to wish to join your lot in sin 
 and resurrection: Don't you see that those who pass out well 
 and strong, with no bad qualities can come back immediately, for 
 they have no sin to fear, no crime to walk in hell for: And they 
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 their joy in earth; now don't you see that affectionate ties are 
 quite as strong as the love of liquor, and will last endurance 
 such as sainted sinners have no knowledge; then don't begin to 
 play at tools, but come along bristling, for it is nothing to be 
 tied to a guide that pulls you through with pleasure, he can 
 dance and sing, and play a tune that will make the floor ring 
 with honest vibration: Don't you take in gin and soda smash 
 when you go out walking, it is quite enough to let the angels 
 mocking, laugh and sing I want to play at ring, and don't stop 
 me I pray for you are a great big dunce, and we want to bring 
 you in tune; there is the way then do ye follow the lead that is 
 given to you: for as sure as you take a walk out, and ask your 
 angel friends to come near and sing some pretty song, such as 
 they teach in heaven you can be filled with sweet music: now 
 don't imagine that you are going to have angels flipping their 
 wings about your head, and making a noise like a cowboy's horn: 
 You will be the horn, and they will be the music: So you see 
 that an angel is full of nothing but sound, and it is by the 
 manipulation of this musical sound that you are brought into 
 an understanding, and not with the cow-slogger's whip: You 
 are very ignorant indeed when you can not comprehend this 
 practical demonstration of how you are to get at the wing of a 
 fairy, yet you go along speaking to yourself saying I wonder 
 when those angels are going to make me understand them, I 
 think I had better get a few glasses of whisky into my skin, and 
 see whether that won't help them along; they don't seem to talk 
 to me, like the way they did to Moses about that sheep in the 
 thicket, you keep on wondering; and just you keep getting 
 drunk, on angels' voices every day; and I will undertake it as a 
 stern reality that you will hear voices; the first that comes 
 may say get me a glass of old, "O, K"; but you need not 
 let your passion for such a wonder let your appetite wan- 
 der; better tell him to go back and see if he can hot 
 come again to you with the same voice, more distinctly audi- 
 ble singing "we won't come home till morning"; that will 
 encourage him and not do you any harm; then you have estab- 
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 one other message; which will bring }^ou more information; than 
 "O, K"; and maybe you won't drink any more; for it might 
 hurt me now; you see that the angel would be so frightfully 
 crestfallen; at his bold attempt being turned into ridicule by his 
 following of angels; that he would quit right there and then; 
 and begin on new tactics; don't you understand that an angel 
 can not bear to be frustrated in his beginning; and he will lament 
 in agony such as no mortal ever witnessed: You must not use 
 the thong; when any one speaks; for it may be the means of 
 your own downfall as well; use some sensible answer the same 
 as you would to a prince; for is not the angel who makes his 
 first attempt a greater prince than any mortal with jewels at 
 every point; you must not think it is easy for your father to 
 make a sound such as you will understand; and when he does 
 ask you for a little drop of the famous "Old Kilmarnock "; you 
 should remember that when your own dear father kept house; 
 that he never allowed any specific commotion to occur at his 
 home without bringing on to the table a specific contact of the 
 angelic stuff to creep down men's throats: And stake a peg of 
 fire in every one's eye, you are sure to wound your best friend 
 most keenly when you refuse him his first glass when he has 
 been capable of bringing you an intelligent sound: You must 
 know how to rebuke, before you venture too far; for it reiter- 
 ates; and brings a bad reflection with it; there is the difficulty; 
 with new beginners; they think they have the powers; whereas 
 it is not them at all but the ones who are able to get the right 
 way of converting these sounds into actual sounding sense: You 
 may go a long way before you will find one that can dig up the 
 right meaning to a word; for the very thin edge of a wedge 
 must be of a necessity quite small at the start; there 
 is what you have got to get at first; don't teach men by 
 the cable-string; fetch them on with a gait of common sense: 
 And you will get there all quite soon enough: You know it 
 took the cake when the ancients gave -you to believe that God 
 did make the whole world in that incredible short time; and 
 it is no use you ever trying to beat the ancients in telling the 
 ggest liar that ever lived; is but a mite compared with theirs; 
 
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 and I don't need to dwell on it, for no whisky tub, can ever be 
 found who will get at a beginning to smear such a snub as those 
 ancients have given us: And you may rest quite content, it is 
 no Yankee that is able to whip the ancient fable of .the universe; 
 in six days' speculation: Don't try it my bold American you are 
 sure to get wiped out; rather say go on my fair fabrication; we 
 have got a country that can whip the seas; and we will give up 
 the breeze that blew an ancient topper; for he could neither smell 
 a whiffer; coming along both tall, and strong; he has got an ax 
 with all its edges sharpened; and you quoth he will have to 
 make a shuffle, and bring his seat where it ought to be, in a 
 stiffer breeze than he ever saw growing: And you will be 
 astonished to find that the American soil is the first to blow the 
 dust from off the feet of Moses; for he could not see what had 
 him in all his smartness: You may know it will be counted 
 rather cunning; but you may know that it is all a funning, when 
 old Moses went to take a sneeze he was constantly blowing God 
 out of his nose; don't you see that it is on the artery of the 
 organic nasal string that the complete self-acting membrane 
 hangs: and it is here where the noise is held in one accord for 
 the moment, before it reaches the after-sound; near the part that 
 takes in the sound; and you are blind for the fact, that a sound 
 does not carry the vision of sight with it: your only way of ever 
 getting this organ attached so as to make them work harmoni- 
 ously together; is by constant practice with the eyes shut, during 
 the time it is being struck by sound, from the interior of the 
 nasal fork: that is the way to connect sound and sight; both 
 being in active operation on one version, it will give to the eye, 
 what it did not seem, to come before it, when it was open: Now 
 you have gotten a much better description, than you are pre- 
 pared to accept, for anything that is new will be hung up for 
 centuries as a fable like the one you cling to in happy ignorance 
 and fear: Don't let the Sun shine upon your folly fable any 
 longer; but wipe it out like the ancient did his sinners: He 
 could whip eternity in one great blast, then don't let him have 
 the last: He was a charming fellow who invented that story, 
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 Don't think I am sacrilegious: for I have more respect for dear 
 old Moses and his God than you ever knew how to hold: I keep 
 his memory warm by following in his footsteps: You keep his 
 cortege cold, and making men to weep in both their eyes in 
 folly: You may be very smart no doubt in a kind of a way: but 
 you don't begin to talk, once it is all over with your mind in 
 you: Don't you see that as men walk along through life that 
 they don't know what a noble thing they are missing; where is the 
 man who will not guard his soul here when he does know how: 
 then give him what he has a right to protect; and though he be 
 dead or dying, I will help him on to heaven; his conscience can 
 be relieved at the last moments of his life did he but know the 
 consequence of his folly; then don't deprive the dying man of 
 unloading his guilty soul of its contents; then it is brighter and 
 better for him in heaven; for he will not shed tears of anguish, 
 when he has gone to his bier; and sees it sadly prayed over; as 
 though it were a sorrowful sight; You know it is oppressive to 
 see these streaming crape black hats; then why torture the dead, 
 when you know that they are the chief mourners; don't you 
 believe that every human being has more affection for its own 
 body, than any weeping friend could have; don't you see that 
 a man may look over his crimes, and feel that he was not 
 ready to die: Is it not possible to take away these sins, 
 and when you reach the other side to be free from any 
 pain; It is just as possible as it is to walk inside of a 
 paling fence: The one is the wrong side, and the other is 
 the right: Take ye the gate, that leads to the right always; and 
 never go in at the left: For a saint may lead you to hell: But 
 a sinner will help to hold you there always: You have got two 
 in a row: Select the one who is at neither hand, and call on 
 your mind's guide to follow, you know that the saint may tell 
 you that a little wine in sickness is quite divine he takes it him- 
 self too, then you know that a taste of the devil's tail is quite as 
 bad as his whip, you go on bravely well for keeping steady, yet 
 before the cottage is worn and faded, you are sitting on the 
 grass bemoaning, I have mortgaged her, and I have lost my crop, 
 it went to Father Doolan: You may take it now, and make a 
 
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 nest in heaven with the rest: It is all coming out of that whisky- 
 tot from Father Doolan: And he it was who made me swear I'd 
 never touch or taste another drop for muling, but only for that 
 whisky tot I'd be in a railing: you know what gave me him to 
 spot, it was his railing on the ground and making himself into a 
 sot; by keeping what he got from that old spot of a trailing; for 
 don't you see that once the saint had said to him take a drop in 
 sickness, there would be a dozen throats beside his, wanting the 
 whisky slings; and they would pitch right onto him, in taking 
 gin he would be theirs forever: His end was none of his mak- 
 ing: The parson taught him how to begin, and that is the way 
 he caught his fling: So you see that where the saints commence 
 to peg out a claim, the sinners are ready to work it: You are 
 quite mistaken when you think that a parson is the only one who 
 helps to trail a devil: I have seen many mothers who give their 
 girls whisky for the first blush of womanhood, and then again at 
 all painful seasons; what then do you expect of that innocent 
 girl, she did as her mother made her think best; and was ever 
 after a weakling from her frame: You see that it is not what a 
 man does but it is what others have gone on doing for him: 
 And once you see that a son is the first pin off his mother's drum 
 stick, how is it that you can't keep quiet: For the fact: that a 
 pin is a sharp-pointed instrument, and the pin that pricks in pain 
 is an outrageous bad lad: and you want to see that a pin is not 
 covered with verdigris when it is to be made with a wholesome 
 casting: for as the 'verdigris is sticking in, it takes a lot of 
 fomentation, before you are able to rub it out, that is the way to 
 make a beginning rub off the verdigris, and leave nothing but 
 the bright shining pin, that is fit to be cleaned with any righteous 
 man: You may not see the force of my illustration, but you 
 know that a practical demonstration is the best kind of a cure 
 for a broken arm and that is a first-class surgeon to make it into 
 a whole one, and as man was made before the whisky pap, you 
 may rest assured he will not want to go back again and get into 
 that sap, you are all very curious to grow men into a strong 
 likeness to God, well do you know it, but the time that was set 
 apart for worship by the heathens; was a very mere resem- 
 
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 blance of what it is at the present period: And the intellect 
 was not so much cultivated as it is at the present period, there- 
 fore the ancients knew what was good as well as you do, and it 
 was discovered that certain herbs made into a brew, had the 
 effect of making men quite brave; and as the spirits of the 
 departed friends became a great nuisance; walking about and 
 poking their noses into everybody's business, the ancients had to 
 make this brew of spirits to encourage them to drive the ghosts 
 away, and it was through this medicine of mixed spirits that 
 caused intoxicants to come into fashion, thus, the spirits and the 
 priests were intoxicants, and did not realize that they were wag- 
 ing war against each other, until at last it became so bad that a 
 hand of main had the situation in hand, and the dead could not 
 stand to be wiped out by common mortals; so when the 
 priests were driving and drinking spirits, and driving spirits 
 away; the dead became furious at the mortals for getting 
 a greater share of the slush than they could get; it 
 became a dreadful state of affairs; and the spirits were 
 so much more in favor of licking those, that were the 
 body, that they gave it their sole attention; and made up 
 their own understanding like this, whisky is the only thing on 
 earth worth taking to heaven; so we will not trouble the earth 
 much with our presence in the ethereal form; because these 
 priests are afraid of us; besides we- might be debarred from get- 
 ting any, and they won't make it for us; unless we stop out of 
 their sight; you know it will send them crazy, when we turn up 
 again, and tell the fathers, of the priest method of going in to 
 the daughters; on the pretext of searching for the Mother of 
 God: You know it is the idle worshipers who don't see through 
 this great sin of unrobing Venus; by the light of everlasting 
 traditions of how the one little ewe lamb is stolen from the flock, 
 and is made to lie down beside the angry lion: Enraged at not 
 being able to find the lioness; he seeks his prey from the lamb, 
 which never yet gave suck; and his hand is on her mouth, you 
 but dare to make a squeak, and I will expel you from the house 
 of God; this is the time that our blessed Virgin Mary should 
 come from behind her screen of impurity; and say as hell is so 
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 bad, I have nothing to fear, my Son was the only true living 
 mortal, and I shall share with him my honor: As I did live so 
 did he come from my life: And I will not allow a lie to be cast 
 on his father; for as he was a man: So was his father the one 
 who begat the greatest man who ever drew the breath of light 
 from heaven; and it is for this also, that the angels have kept 
 from explaining more fully the condition of the heavens; you 
 see that they are afraid of risking the life of any good man who 
 would do their teachings thoroughly; for it is seen that angels 
 can do almost anything; that does not necessitate their actual 
 constructing force; yet you know that the sinners were often 
 times killed by the power of God as the ancients call it; well 
 now since I have run onto this subject let me finish it, you 
 know that a man who is in the ethereal form, has no idea of his 
 strength, unless he be taught it; and it was stopped by the piers 
 of heaven; for did they not hold some check over their own 
 subjects; it would be an easy matter for the heavens to open 
 fire upon all mortals, and destroy them forever: You wonder 
 how this can be done, well it is just as easy to set fire to the 
 earth, as it is for you to strike a match, and that is not much 
 trouble you will admit, the earth is hollow beneath, and it is on 
 fire in many parts; thus it will be found, that a magic fall will 
 produce a great feature in the evolution of time, and the fact 
 that the Sun is a ball of fire; it would be an easy matter to take 
 the Sun out of twisting the heavens round the ground: Don't 
 you see that when you get up near the Sun and Moon, that your 
 bodies are restored, to a perfect healthy condition of cosmical 
 form; that will serve you to fix up any kind of a habitation, that 
 you have a mind to make; therefore what is to stop heaven from 
 letting fire rain down upon you; it is there in abundance; and it 
 would only be a question of turning a crank: And dropping a 
 part of the Sun onto you: You don't understand that some of 
 the spirit world have been very much in favor of letting down 
 a dose of fire onto the earth; and destroying it; instead of 
 attempting to mend its ways first, by the method of more knowl- 
 edge: You may think it is a great big blow, but such is a true 
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 wickedness, the earth will be destroyed by fire after and accord- 
 ing to the manner of form which I have shown you: You may 
 think it outrageous, but you don't know what sin is until you 
 are governed by sinners forever: They save their souls by sin: 
 And you have got to do the same, well what is crime but sin, 
 and what is crime but the after working of the dead: Now 
 pause and think, whether is it not better to turn good, and 
 make a nest of comfort in heaven; or would you rather be the 
 drunkard's toothpick, or be against crime forever: And yet 
 made whole by this trick of making men commit crimes when 
 drunk to escape the punishment of the hereafter, that is pre- 
 cisely what you are going to do; and it is for you to decide 
 whether you will give up the drink: And mend the earth: So as 
 to fit it for heaven: now it is in your hands, you know what it is, 
 and you are sure to go on till you have made a spill of the Sun 
 on top of your own ground, unless you say, let hell bind hell, 
 and no more walking over my head to get your heels stuck fast 
 in my throat; you are carrying a pair of boots down your throt- 
 tle at every whistle, " come landlord fill those glasses": And the 
 word is no sooner said: Than the beggars are after the grog 
 you drink: Of course you don't know anything about it: And 
 why should you; since spirits and drunks got made into monks 
 at the beginning; they tried very hard to get at the skunks, 
 when they were making the bunks; but it all fell through, for 
 want of a better lining, and oh! dear me, it's now out of hiding; 
 for drunken Jim and saucy slim, can have their fling, without 
 you ever knowing; and ancients were afraid of them, before 
 they knew how to hide in your old skins: That is rather slim; 
 because you won't believe it; then you take off a grog shop; and 
 see what comfort you have left, why, it will show you devils in 
 abundance; then now then don't think me very cunning; for old 
 Father Doolan was a great old sop:' And he it was who first saw 
 the devils outcrop: There is where the origination of gamblers' 
 hall has come on so tall; by honest invitation: You know when 
 you take a friend in to dine, he is very courteous very; then 
 don't let him stop, but bring him right along, and introduce him 
 to my book, and say as he says, so shall I follow: You may save 
 
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 yourself from many an evil maid, and many a drunken lover; 
 for I know full well what I am talking about, and don't you seek 
 to collar; for I can overthrow every man that will try to measure 
 swords with me at butter: And you must not frown on me; 
 because I don't sanctimonious be, for it is no use being a saint, 
 when you have got to raise a gutter: There you are and there 
 you be, I say no man is too wise for me: I will continue by add- 
 ing my mite to, the endless inheritance drunkards have of being 
 the farthest from heaven; they know it is a sin to smoke and 
 swear bring in another pint " landlud"; yet you see them slink- 
 ing away with as many pints as would thrash an old wooden tub 
 out in the time it will take to run through a man's body; your 
 ringers get stunk, so very much, in the awkward shape of the 
 nails; for no saint ever cuts his nails, and it is a terrible job to 
 pull the ringer nails off a drunken man when he is in stupor, 
 they smell so of whisky tint, that it will be quite a relief, when 
 something is known, of how these smell so very badly, you see 
 that the spirits, and the anglers are so much of a class, that they 
 get fastened into one another by the finger nails: And it is quite 
 a job to separate them: For they don't cling onto nothing as is 
 generally supposed; that is how you don't know anything, there 
 is the grog in a spirit; and there is the spirit in that grog; there- 
 fore it is impossible to divide them from each other, without 
 you take and prohibit the use of it altogether; it is no use talk- 
 ing, it has got to be done without, or otherwise you will have 
 the hell turned into a flame of fire right down here; and that is 
 what will become of the earth: You know it need not be neces- 
 sary for the heavens to stop winding to accomplish this feat; for 
 the earth is quite round enough, to take a tumble once she is 
 fired at both sides and over and beneath her bottom, there is a 
 great well, that can be let out, to meet the division on its fall; 
 so you see you are not going to get at us in the whole fall; we 
 can rebuild another earth just as easily once we mend the old 
 one, and the Sun has burst many times before, so she can stand 
 this one other extravagant issue for the sake of sobriety, you 
 can't imagine what a difference it would make to have no 
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 much faster, and make more worlds only for this intoxication 
 that she is always inhaling; and you know that she has to throw 
 over a veil every decade or so; for she feels the effect of the 
 intoxicants so keenly, that it is in very shame that she has to hide 
 her pretty face from view; don't think I am joking, so sure as 
 the sun resounds with heat; so sure does this Moon call her black 
 face, for sucking up such stinking jims; for they are all taken up 
 after a time in the suction of the Sun: and that is the way they 
 go to get knowledge, they never know anything till some day 
 they find themselves sucked in by the Sun; and thrown out of 
 the Moon, and there is where it is that the stars are caught hold 
 of, and kept moving round so fast; the men who got drunk first 
 were' let go into pigeon holes; and made to drink water ever 
 since, and hold their mouths open so as to show people on earth 
 what a fiery place the heavens are lit on every point: Do you 
 see what the ancients have done, they made every drunkard hold 
 a candle till he got ossified in his place of holding a light in 
 heaven to guide his drunken acquaintances home at night; then 
 there were as the Bible tells you only eleven stars, the Moon and 
 Sun; so that you see how many more stars we have got now. 
 The heavens are full of them, you may think that I am purely 
 ignorant as to what I am talking about; but you can not turn a 
 table without a motive power; neither can you turn the axis of 
 the world without some power to keep its motion going around, 
 as you have known it to do since the year one, that is the start- 
 ing-point in my new history of the earth's circumference; and all 
 that contains therein: You may start on a new leaf, and see 
 whether there can not be some improvement made, your own 
 knowledge is the way that you have been taught; and it is hard 
 to wean away a strong understanding, although it might be 
 right to do so; am I so very far reaching that 3-ou will still sing 
 out the old one is at his favorite theme again, and he has the 
 world at his back now, to make him go down and tear the lights 
 out of every liar: You are afraid of God, but you won't J)e 
 afraid of an innocent old mortal who says I am the light, and do 
 ye follow me, and no darkness shall come upon me; they say he 
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 home with a knife in his loins; his sin is forgiven him who tried 
 to speak the truth: And no man who does suffer for heaven, but 
 will reach the throne of good, you may play and plunder; for it 
 is your business so to do, but he who stands like a rock, on the 
 tower of true construction; will never fail in reaching a good 
 home in heaven: for as the men of old were banded together by 
 saintly Gods; they provided the withal in heaven wherewith to 
 bestow a golden crown, wreathed in scarlet robes for angels to 
 walk over, and those who sin and truly become workers in the 
 cause of those, whose dictations are followed, have a soul to 
 walk beside them across this scarlet robe; but that is not every- 
 thing; it shall be for the judgment of bringing him home who 
 was lost to all that was righteous; and all those who save a soul 
 on earth, will have a certain redemption for all their wicked deeds 
 on earth: You may call this sacrilegious or what you choose; 
 but as you have laws on earth, so does heaven guide them for all 
 men to follow; and as the time comes more fully to your minds 
 you will see that I am right; and that the heavens are at the 
 head; same as usual: for in the beginning there were many 
 schemes tried to destroy the earth; and the heathens thought 
 that it would be well filled with what they had there; without 
 any more; so you see that they were in a selfish condition, and 
 might have killed a few people prior to their being stopped; for 
 it is quite an easy chapter to become skilled in the art of angels 
 killing mortals by a magic power which does not throw any 
 reflection beside it; and you may govern the lightning with such 
 skill as to direct it in any given way that it is intended to kill; 
 but you must always bear in mind that a spirit guide can manage 
 to frustrate any of his fellow guides; and though he turned a 
 current of electricity simultaneously on you, it can be broken 
 like the wave of your hand; and your guards are good guides; 
 they make you feel the presence of danger; and will not allow any 
 willful harm to reach you; providing you obey them intuitively; 
 for this is their work of keeping you free from harm, and it will 
 be seen as distinctly as possible that the kind of fear that you 
 feel is quite warranted; for as the fine point of portraying the 
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 that a reflection is to be a warning; and that it was through that 
 warning of imminent peril that prevented the shadow from catch- 
 ing the cow; therefore you keep this in your mind; that a 
 drunkard, can see his own shadow; but not what it will turn him 
 into; he is a good deal faster astern than he thinks for, and 
 once he gets pitched over the other side of heaven; and is made 
 to hold his hand on a certain parting in the sky so as to allow 
 raindrops to come through, when there is a flood on; the better 
 he will understand how to keep oiit of the way of drunkenness; 
 for as you have said before the waiter on water is often very dry 
 in his hole above the sky; and he must not be held back to die; 
 for his time is very precious when the water is high; you think it 
 an easy matter to hold water to filter through a cloth, well you 
 try standing there forever; and see how you like to look upon it 
 through that light; well may be you think this quite a matter of 
 detail; what do want rain for; when it is dry you are always look- 
 ing upon the sky as though it was not doing its duty; and when 
 you don't give it proper nourishment why it is sure to cry out, I 
 want more rain too; and when you soak the sky with whisky 
 fumes; it is sure to burn the more water; for the drink is sure to 
 fly, when it has wet the nether eye; and you can cork up your 
 bottles as fast as you please, unless you want to hide your old 
 still in the after dole behind the rill, you can't make matters 
 much worse than they are at present, for as the heathen drinks; 
 so does his eye become moist with wet, and as the star shines, in 
 heaven, so does it become wet, therefore we won't take a tear 
 away, when you have one wet eye left; your own thoughts are on 
 drinking, and your eyes are on the whisky-tap: Then keeping 
 in weeping, for it is your brother Pat, who is weeping for you to 
 send him a little dew: For he is often famished in his hole 
 behind the rack: You don't think of this, as you ought to do, or 
 you would either break away, from that pistol in your eye, or 
 mould a better bullet, that could not hit poor brother Pat, he is 
 the sufferer, because he is on the inside of your eye; keeping 
 moisture dripping through; and making a very fair picture of 
 this heavenly eye; you don't want him to stop, for he is making 
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 there you have got to stop, and leave a margin open, to let a 
 little drop fall on master ground, you are very fine sport for 
 devils and minds; when you get on top of the weather that is 
 fined; he can boast of nothing else; but a great big fine; it is only 
 the drunkard's salvation: and he must keep on till he grew 
 another weather higher, for as sure as he came down a spout, he 
 has to get up higher, and broken backs or straw hats won't catch 
 on fire, they were used for lighting fires; and you must know that 
 razors grow above the fire, and cuts are smart, where angels 
 grow up higher: You have gone on long enough at getting into 
 the tire; there are plenty of stars now, so don't go and make many 
 more; for it is usual to get on very well without much hire, you 
 can blow hot and cold, without setting yourselves on fire, you 
 are at the very entrance of the gums, when you want to hide your 
 hire; it is easy for a sinner to be hidden in the mouth of a 
 drunkard, and he will find a way of drinking in a drop, as 
 it comes fresh from the bottle, you may think it is an 
 easy way to make him stop, without corking him up in the 
 bottom; for he is sure to see the end of that little tot; before he 
 leaps into the bottom: and you may blow your nose from dawn till 
 dark, he is always round that bottle; there is only one thing left 
 for he who carries his bottle tacked on to the end of his face, and 
 that is to strike a light and fire him: You see what to do 
 with a brand new flue; for it will have to grow anew afore you 
 can reach heaven; and that is not the worst part either, for 
 as you grew, so will you go on growing forever; they used to 
 bawl out give me a hollow tube to hide myself in, but now they 
 have grown quite calm, and don't want any one to help them 
 lift up their hole above the sty; for it is at the old game of 
 making many a big black eye, you are as susceptible to the 
 touch of that great big eye as ever your Grandsires were, and 
 they have a great deal more to be grateful for than though you 
 would peep at them now and say we want you to be our friend 
 and govern our bodies to make our souls more pure: they would 
 tell you at once, that they could not do this thing, for k, would 
 interfere with the stars in heaven: Only for that they might 
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 they talk; knowing- full well that unless you keep on drinking 
 and making brutes entirely of yourselves; that they never could 
 escape from their forced positions: Of holding up the stars from 
 tumbling down upon you; this is the theory of every drtfnkard, 
 he thinks that once he leaves go of his hold upon the unfortunate 
 mortal, he has, that a time must not be spent in his own selfish- 
 ness; or he will be driven from knowing what has been his share 
 of the grog consumed on earth: and that will be his desire to 
 know what amount of stuff he consumed here forever: One who 
 drinks water, is prohibited from the suction of any spirits in the 
 body, of this likeness to God; therefore the sooner the stars 
 don't help each other out the better; for as the weather beats so 
 hard against the side walls of heaven; then may heaven have a 
 resistance, that will bring food around the better: They don't 
 want any one to be hungry, for it would be a great mistake to 
 have a man hungry for want of some kind of food: Don't 3^ou 
 see that a good deal hangs on the crank wheel of heaven, and 
 that is not saying a little either; for at the gates of the west end 
 of this great hemisphere, there are the greatest number of pails 
 of water to be emptied in a specified period, and there is where 
 the drunkards all sit leaping round and round, leaving nothing 
 to escape, for, they are the people who vegetate on the banks of 
 the show clouds, and leave a hole open so as to get the style of 
 the actual measurement of the internal workings of the sky: 
 You see that to prop open a hole, and make it tight at the same 
 time is not such an easy job, therefore once you have this to do, 
 will you wish, I had left alone the whisky tap, your only enjoy- 
 ment is an occasional run to earth, to fetch up a new conscript; 
 for you are not allowed to mar the present head by your absence; 
 they don't want the same class of man as yourself, may be it is 
 not a fit position for him, he has been made into a biscuit or 
 some other thing; for it will be seen that you are no more 
 suited for the work of dyeing the waters red, than you are suited 
 to cleave your own selfishness to the wakings of the dead: 
 Your only chance is to make a great big covenant with the head 
 of those governors of the stars, and precipitate your souls into 
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 You have got quite well used to this kind of reasoning, by the 
 time you have remained a hundred years in a crab hole, propping 
 open the aperture of this star of yours, for as you leave it open, 
 there will be plenty more there ready to take your unexpired 
 term, and relieve you of your job altogether, and as the saint 
 says there are all kinds of people in this world, and that is quite 
 true you know; well what is good to work the heavens is quite 
 good enough to prop a hole open; so as to show master Pat a 
 decent burying place for his saintly body; I want to call your 
 attention to the fact, that a man-hole in heaven is quite as neces- 
 sary as the hole in a common boiler flue; for the one is a gener- 
 ator of gas; whilst the other is intended to escape from drown- 
 ing the occupants' hole out; and that to work a gigantic heaven; 
 there is no end of necessary constructions; and this is practically 
 what you have got to do when you die off here, for you must 
 understand at once; that a man has to work in heaven; the same 
 as he does here; and there are so many things that require to be 
 done, there is this home that we speak of to be decorated; and 
 made to stand thousands of tons of pressure, and it must be made 
 with exceeding care, for it has to be built by nature, and this 
 natural element of our own to improve nature is so strongly 
 impregnated into our bosoms by our own construction; that it 
 is one of the strongest points they have in heaven, as it is on 
 earth; there is no sliding back, you must get along as nature 
 drives, and it will be seen that it is quite natural to elevate some- 
 thing; thus the drunkard is higher in his own estimation once 
 his skin is filled with alcohol, that is his, ideas are quite uplifted, 
 because his soul's champion is at the head working up a fevered 
 excitement: that was not there before; well the spirit of the 
 dead is strongest in fevered heat, and can work more successfully 
 on this uncultivated head, therefore you see the spirit you drink 
 is not master; as the ordinary intelligence has been always reck- 
 oned on; your own spirit is mastered quite readily when you 
 are drunk, and you are quite often made to commit crime in this 
 state of intoxication; for the purpose of the spirit of the head 
 of some class legislation, who want a certain kind of example 
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 fact that your own body came in contact with this crime through 
 the promptings of this drunken spirit who had its power over 
 your own soul, now it is quite well to know what makes drunken 
 men swear, they are not insane through drink, but they have a 
 noble drunkard at their backs, promoting this blasphemy; for the 
 spirit who promotes this course of action, is quite safe, knowing 
 that no harm can come to him, he just has all the spree he wants 
 at your expense, and you are blamed, whilst he is applauded for 
 accomplishing your ruin; therefore we can sit by and tell you 
 how you sat and made the ground shake with your boisterous 
 conduct, before you pulled a gun, and shot your friend, yet, we 
 know who made you take that fatal step, and why he did do it; 
 but, you only know that the devil got into you, and made you 
 commit the rash act: you want to know now how we can tell you 
 the name of this spirit that brought you to commit such an 
 atrocious crime; well it is the simplest thing you ever knew; did 
 you but know how to probe the subject to the top; for as heaven 
 is full of such characters; you might be looking a long time to 
 find the right man: but you don't get your information by scour- 
 ing as you would look up and down investigating this idea and 
 that one; as the police do in tracking down the famous White- 
 chapel murderer: that has gone to gory deeds without detection: 
 For he can not be found by your theory of detection at all; 
 while I will undertake to trap him the first time he commits 
 murder; no matter where he is hidden; and I only want the 
 dead body as my guide; a palpable contact is enough for me; 
 you may have my services for nothing; and I will never under- 
 take a job, without I execute it in such a way as to make it dead 
 sure in its entirety; therefore you give me the chance of hunting 
 down this famous Whitechapel murderer, and I can do it; pro- 
 viding he carries his practice into effect when I am near the 
 scene of recent tragedy: That is the way to find the murder, 
 by taking his soul into your confidence; and bringing him into 
 a condition of understanding, you mean to requite the wrong, 
 which has been done to him; therefore he becomes your friend, 
 and will direct you to the spot where your man is to be found, 
 and in this way you place your questions; so as to make the 
 
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 man who did the deed commit himself to you in the presence of 
 witnesses; always tiding off the particular parts for a final 
 charge; therefore you master the murderer's soul companion, and 
 the rest is easy, you don't want a clumsy guide for this work, for 
 unless he prepares the dead man's soul for the charge, he will 
 spoil everything by his determination to seek revenge: And drag 
 you down with him, for as certain as lie sees this one, who did 
 destroy his earth career, he will charge him, in a moment with the 
 crime, and tell his soul's companion, how he is going to do it; then 
 the communication, is flashed to his own spirit; causing, an 
 instantaneous avowal of not guilty; but there may be ways and 
 means, which it^appears would be better not expressed in this 
 work, for when you give up your whole hand you might spoil 
 the actual surrender of the culprit: And bad wisdom is a fool- 
 ish thing to begin to explain, what is wanted; is to stop all pos- 
 sible chance of a criminal escaping, and he would be doubly 
 armed did he know how he was caught, therefore I have decided 
 not to give this up until some methodical way is found of sup- 
 pressing it from the public at large; you see what my theory is: 
 And you must own that it is a science, that will not be easy to frus- 
 trate: Therefore you can test it whenever you choose: And what 
 is wanted is to master your own sinners, before that they reach 
 our hole, in keeping awake forever to light poor foolish Patsy 
 home: You can laugh all you have a mind to but remember 
 that a happy grin, is the stepping-stone to wisdom: Now don't 
 imagine that I mean the play actors' boys: who sit up among the 
 gods, and set up a giggling noise whenever an attempt at merri- 
 ment is made on the stage, I have a secret fear within me, when 
 I sit in my box, and see that the play manager has scoured the 
 city; and found the boy who was intended for the Australian 
 jackass, but who came short of feathers, through his ignorance, 
 in not being able to climb the skies: You will therefore see that 
 the manager of that play, has more grains of sense in him, than 
 the company, who perform; they need it says the shrewd man- 
 ager: I can't get up a laugh without this boy: well let him 
 work it as he may; but he has reckoned me out, for it is merely a 
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 of my lost money, and ill-spent time; no fuss is a bad thing, for 
 where there is genuine excitement, there is food for our souls; and 
 you don't want to be a synagogue, without and within, take life 
 in pleasantly: And don't go and say it is wicked because a child 
 may fling up their wings a little higher, than the woman of forty 
 summers, take in a common-sense view: and say I once tried it 
 myself, and got very near equal to her, only my uncle looked 
 over his spectacles, because he couldn't see well enough through 
 his glasses: And said I ought to be ashamed of myself, but he 
 looked until I had done all the same though: now I want you to 
 be merry, for there never was a genius yet; who stuck his toes in 
 the wall, and wore his knees out with praying; so you mind me, 
 and don't go to the other extreme, and commence swearing, for 
 he w'ho swears, is a constant cuss; and he won't grow any higher 
 therefore he can be a sniggling fool, for all his pains, where he 
 did bring them from the cotton fields: and you don't know it 
 either, but master Cain was sent there for killing poor Abel; 
 that is just enough to let you know that Adam was no shiner, 
 for he could make them black and white, just as well as any 
 common sinner; that is he got sons, who killed and lied, when 
 you believe the story is true, and they were not drunkards then; 
 but you see it is not told how many fools were made before you 
 got any men; and that is the way to reckon up the spirits; they 
 had started to improve the heavens, before ever Adam got to 
 know that he was alive, and he ought to be a very sure man 
 indeed, who attempts to knock Mr. Adam down, for he 
 has stood the hail of many a storm, and grown quite gray 
 
 ■in harness; yet you can go and pitch him over any time you 
 have a mind to: His faith was no stronger than the crab-apple, 
 that brews your own cider: and he could withstand them all 
 indeed he did; but oh! my what a fall he had, when Mrs. Eve 
 stood out, "and said my dear Adam you must be wise;" for my 
 sake, and so she went on. brewing cider, until it began to taste 
 of apple jelly, then my dear husband must taste of this, it is a 
 very delicate dish, and so we eat of jellyfish; because you made 
 it nice, and no man can resist the call, when there is a lovely 
 woman in the fall; you may not like my picture; but you should 
 
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 peep at " Parry," for I can show there a picture, that would take 
 the paint out of any tree; therefore, when you want to see an 
 idea of Mrs. Eve, standing quite at ease, and Mr. Adam in a 
 breeze, you take up painting, and we'll stake a freeze that you 
 can't beat that picture, your eyes may wander through the great 
 halls as they may, but once your eyes seek such a theme, it is for 
 me to say, that you can not miss the picture; it is standing right 
 in the doorway fronting the Aux-urlary De Paris; and it can be 
 pointed out to you by any guide you may call to your aid in this 
 easy search for Adam's downfall; I don't begin to breech 
 through, yet, for I have only been playing with you, to show 
 you how it is possible to get at a given thing in a more enlight- 
 ened way; for I shall take some time to proving myself superior 
 to all men: Only it is best in my opinion to give them easy 
 things at first; before I dive in to make you understand what 
 there is round and about the sky; that is what is felt to be a 
 necessity, for a man is nothing without he can master the whole 
 universe in its entirety: Not as it was supposed to be, but as it 
 actually is, therefore you will see that I have undertaken a work 
 on science into my confusion of frolic and fun: You must not 
 suppose that a judge who sits in cold chambers, knows any 
 thing, because he does not: His ideas are all spoilt for want of 
 a little warmth, and his blood becomes after the spider specie; 
 somewhat creepy: Like that song says about the spider and the 
 fly: It is nice to be a spider, walk in pretty fly: Well the 
 spider would be better with some of the blood from the fly, then 
 why doesn't he go out and gather a little for himself, he could 
 get it by basking in the Sun, but no! he would rather stick to 
 the cold damp walls, and suck the blood of a foolish fly, so you 
 see that the judges, have only got what is not theirs to keep, 
 they are there in the cold damp halls; wasting their time hunt- 
 ing up particulars, for lawyers to ape the figure of making 
 believe, that they are industrious; whilst they are only weaving 
 the web for Mr. Judge to suck the blood out of that very foolish 
 fly; you see that I spin my web, with the care of an artist, for I 
 have got something to show you in this same illustration: Your 
 own idea is that a spider is a distinct specie; that he has no 
 
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 assistance whatever; well you don't know much, and I shall let 
 you down softly, when a spider makes his web, he spins it into 
 two parts, the one he leaves the housemaid to keep, whilst he 
 goes on, and crosses from wall to wall, without any web to climb 
 over; therefore you see him cross from floor to ceiling, without 
 a strand of cobweb: Therefore you say he does it by magic, well 
 then, what is this magic, it must be something intact, or it coulcf* 
 not be utilized by this harmless spider: You dreamers, don't you 
 see that the spider has more friends than you have, for he can 
 cross the air, without you being able to detect his helpmates: 
 You can't see, because you don't know how to look, there is the 
 trouble you have got, you are a blunderbuss compared to that 
 rope tjie spider flings across rivers, you think he does it in the 
 night by going down and swimming over the strong current, 
 Fools' paradise, can a spider stem the current, when you are 
 unable to do so; why, you have got no more sense, than to sup- 
 pose that he climbs up to heaven, with it and drags it off the 
 other side; why can't you understand, that the spiders have 
 invisible friends as well as you, and they climb the ropes, first 
 before the body has to be carried, and their invisible strings are 
 made, and fastened to each side of the river, before the body, of 
 the spider is risked on their rope; now you understand how the 
 spider has his fixtures made, he does not do that work, till 
 after he has been dead for many years, and learned how 
 it has got to be done, there is the problem solved of life 
 immortal: You can't explain this any better, because I am 
 telling you the truth, and should you attempt it, I will riddle you 
 with bullets, at every point: Now then, the judge has his law- 
 yers to fatten, and he is their own sustenance; the same as the 
 flies feed the spider; but the spider, does not feed his dead 
 brethren, as the prophets said the ancient spirits lived 
 on them, and used up their substance, the fault is altogether 
 the one who dives into subjects, and only touches the upper 
 crust, when you want to .be led right, you must follow on true 
 principles, and not go and get mixed up with all classes of infe- 
 rior humbugs: I want to show you that the lawyers act the 
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 at all, for he sits down, and hears them spin their webs; whilst 
 the spider he leaves it all for his friends to do with him as they 
 choose, he is not busy, until the work is done, then he takes a 
 fall on the rope, and you see him suspended by what you call his 
 tail-string, whilst the spider web is already spun for him, because 
 he held it in his vim: So does the judge come on after and 
 take a fall on you silly little fly; and his vim comes right on 
 after; then skin you like a pancake squeezed out in fat, and 
 make you fine and lean, like the web that carries the spider; you 
 are what is known, as the very picture of a great soft-head; 
 for you were quite right too, only you were stretched out, 
 and made to fly a pair of liars; and that is what the judge 
 does, he sits there, and makes motions and sets you on 
 to fight against each other; this is right, and that is wrong: 
 And so does Mr. Spider, come tumbling down upon his 
 dead brethren, without any emotion, he can feel just like the 
 judge, I have nothing to do unless these fellows, should want 
 me to hunt them up a motion; for I can see quite well which is 
 the finest hand at sticking in his promotion; and it just depends 
 on this for a successful winner; There is the point right here, I 
 want you to believe me, and you want me to believe the judge, 
 who said that magic was an incomprehensible something: Well 
 I tell you all that I will prove to you beyond a shadow of doubt 
 that magic is a reality, and I say I will down every opponent 
 who attempts to prove he has a stronger cause to bring, why 
 magic shall not be governed by reason as well as any other 
 thing; you say it can not, well I say, that there is nothing 
 that I can't prove, whether it be seen or unseen, I say it know- 
 ing how much, and how little, there is in all this great universe; 
 you can't hide anything from me, whether you are a dead mes- 
 senger, or a living moving vision; so you may try anything you 
 choose, I can find a way out of anything I am put in; and you 
 can't hold water in a bucket that leaks: Now you may try, but 
 it is all no use there is some escaping all the time; therefore 
 you have a leak on earth, and that is the road to heaven; the 
 sky is a leakage spout for heaven, it drains the whole of hell; 
 and that is how you have got so many bad people, they all come 
 
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 out of hell before the}' get to heaven; therefore you can't find 
 any hell except your own: And that is what you have got to be 
 peacemakers for first, don't think that you are going to be 
 gorged up for anything you didn't do; the hades of hell 
 will make you plenty of sins; they can't keep quiet, for they are 
 dreadfully busy always, trying to get salvation; and they never 
 find it, for it is not there to find, unless you get your souls into a 
 good condition before they commence on that long journey: 
 How can you find a place, that has no proper directions to it; 
 you might just as well cry out, I am going to be hung, you don't 
 know whether it is a fact or not; for nobody is safe, when they 
 don't know how to protect themselves; and they are right at the 
 rcy of any scheming hound, who wants their bodies to cancel 
 
 wn crimes with; I have got to this point, when you are 
 anxious to know what there is to find when you have crossed 
 the border line: You may go and see but that won't help you 
 uch, for it is all so wonderful, compared to what you have been 
 used to hearing about, that you are dumfounded, and you lose 
 what little reasoning powers you had, for a time; then you 
 come to the conclusion, that you are not any better, than the 
 rest; and you prepare yourself for the understanding that, what 
 others do, you must do also and that is the way to do, for no 
 one can count his time in any other way; except that a few may 
 begin to understand right off: Then they want to go right back 
 and tell their folk; but what is the use, it is only certain disap- 
 pointment; their friends are quite enough afraid of ghosts, to 
 keep clear of dark corners, and it is only in such places, as the 
 dark still calm hours, that a spirit is at first able to approach 
 his earthly bodies; they have a kind of dread to, about going 
 near the frame of another person, for it sucks them toward it; 
 and it clings on to a spirit, and frightens nine-tenths of them 
 right away; so when you go over at first you will see that it is 
 not any easy matter to do very much of anything; the sooner 
 you learn all the rulings of heaven the better, for I am sure 
 that all those spiritualists, are better prepared, than those who 
 don't know anything at all: They claim to be the right cause, 
 but they have not got into the right method of receiving their 
 
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 information correctly yet: And it will be seen that they are all 
 trying to convince a few skeptics; where they ought to launch out, 
 and grasp the root of the question, and say here is the point right 
 in here; you know that a spirit can come and walk all over your 
 body, and this is not all, you see them materialize, yet, you can't 
 find out: What they are constructed of, when they don't seem real, 
 you are just as far behind as ever you were; for you don't 
 know what you hold in your hands, when you have got a spirit 
 formed; and you know that they are the most angelic creatures, 
 that you can possibly have in your hands; therefore you are non- 
 plused; because you don't see anything after they disappear: 
 And wonder what it is that has made them go so effectually: That 
 is how you fell: I want to show you, that it is the solidity of the 
 problem that has to be solved; there is no way out of this diffi- 
 culty, only to tell you the truth; and that is, to place a com- 
 mon vessel of a basin-shaped circumference; and see whether it 
 won't evaporate, well it is sure to do it, yet, you can't tell where 
 it has flown to; therefore you are no farther advanced, than you 
 were in the beginning; you say the sum total of this solu- 
 tion is, that no man knows what became of that something; yet 
 you believe that you did have the water, in the basin; I can 
 make you believe that much, without much trouble; and you 
 won't believe me when I say that I have materialized: And 
 gone underneath people's heels to watch them look for me, 
 when I was gone as they thought: You may take me by the 
 hands, and I shall know what is going on within your most 
 innermost soul: As surely as though they said I am he; and 
 he is me; therefore you don't count me out: though you think 
 I am not able to tell of you, yet it is quite plain, that once I 
 get my own instrument; he can understand me, just as easily; 
 As though you said I will believe him: Now do you understand 
 that it is easy for me to tell how to materialize; when I can con- 
 verse with him in an intelligent code; and your Moses could 
 do no more; and I say that did Moses live to-day, that he 
 would have been willing to call me God; and I feel that I am 
 quite the equal of Moses' God; therefore you can see that what- 
 ever you do, I shall be able to rectify; should you make a 
 
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 blunder, and get wrong; now, don't think I am boasting, for I 
 want to show you the impossible to be nothing after all, 
 except what is natural: and you don't believe me when I tell 
 you, that I can come and walk beside you every day; no, and 
 you would be foolish did you believe such a sentence; but when 
 I tell you that the power of the Sun obliterates the stars, 
 and you don't see them all day, you will believe me; 
 for it is true: then again, you won't believe me, when I 
 say that the Sun doth hold you in chains; and you can't 
 see; because the after-skin of your own eye is calloused 
 for protection against the light; as you could see me, were 
 you able to discern, without the light; it is the light 
 from trie strength of the Sun which prevents you from 
 seeing me: now will you believe me, when I say that you 
 are blind, like the stars after daylight; you want me to be 
 always telling you how to find the light; when you are as blind 
 as the owls, for they have no coverings on their eyeballs; there- 
 fore they can screech and call out at night, knowing that it is 
 their daylight, they are capable of discerning their prey, when it 
 is impossible for their prey to see them; they don't fear that their 
 prey is going to run away, for it is quite patent to them, that a 
 prayer, will save the owl who balls loudest, you see that there 
 was once a time, when all men slept in the daytime, for they 
 were afraid to walk abroad during the day, and as simulating the 
 tread of the stealthy cat, coming home in the morning early, was 
 what they thought the correct thing then; no fear of being seen 
 by the hawk's eye, he had gone out of sight, for he could fetch 
 the owl in; you see that to be given an understanding you must 
 be ready to accept all reasonable ideas; or you will be shut off 
 from knowing anything: you may think it possible for your 
 spirit guide to tell you almost exactly what you want to 
 know, but you shall be taught, and then you have a better 
 chance; and after it is sent round in a way that is justified by 
 reason, you will adjust yourselves accordingly, therefore my 
 mind is made up on this subject, and I will give it to you now 
 right here, the way to hold conversation with the dead as you 
 are pleased to call them, is by being quite sure that they will 
 
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 help you: And then sit in dark still lonely spots, and call them 
 to you, the same as you would a reasonably good friend: And 
 ask them to help you; Therefore you will have the best friends 
 you can get, providing that they agree to be your guides; for 
 they won't accept half measures: You have got to be theirs com- 
 pletely: Or mind you don't take upon your own self, what they 
 have told you not to do: Or it will be just the same as kicking the 
 e)^e off its own shell : They bargained for a whole eye : And you want 
 to leave them without any crust on theirs; that is you are willing 
 to accept what you don't know; and you are not willing that 
 they should share your small amount of common stock; such as 
 you have already stored away by your own experience; remember 
 you won't make a good band with half-hearted confidence; for 
 they can reach you, but you can not get near them: And that is 
 the point: Your ideas, by want of tone is nothing; but when they 
 are brought out: It helps to fill in many a gap; and well- worked is a 
 bottomless shaft: Therefore instead of you being a nonentity, you 
 are stored full of genuine wisdom; by the process of adjustment; 
 and this is what is called the enlightenment of humanity: You sink 
 by yourself; but helped by the all-seeing eye, you swim lively 
 through the greatest current that ever graced the deck of mien: 
 And' you are the very impersonation of the deity; for you have 
 reached that standpoint, where no man can hide anything from 
 you; better still to be able to learn others as well as yourself, by 
 showing them how you came by this process, and that is quite 
 as difficult to explain as all the rest put together; for it is an incom- 
 prehensible something; well to commence with you sit quite still, 
 and wish for the dead to come back, and show you by some sign 
 that they are still alive; and you seem quite careless as to them 
 appearing in your presence; until at last your imagination makes 
 you feel a creeping sensation, like as though an iceberg was 
 approaching, and chilling your blood: This is the first you feel 
 of their presence; instead of being horribly afraid, you rejoice in 
 this, for it is the approach of one dear to you as the air you 
 breathe; and you must not say ghosts are walking, for it is the 
 attempt that causes them to shiver with fright at your presence- 
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 your system; now don't you understand that once you assist 
 them to suppress this fear, that you are going to be assisted; for 
 the spirit is not afraid of mortals, providing the mortal won't 
 hold him chained always; and it is not a nice thing to be drawn 
 into a mortal, and held there for an indefinite period, which is 
 often done, for the spirit is willing to be used, but not abused; 
 And you must be a curious specimen of humanity to help, when 
 it comes from such a powerful course; I won't press you on those 
 points; it is only to show what can be done that I am after: The 
 next thing for you to do is to inhale the essence of fruit, flowers; and 
 bring home sweet-smelling odors; for it is this that the spirit world 
 live upon: And not the sap of bodies as the ignorant ancients 
 have it: you take a pail of cold water, and stand it in your room, 
 and put flowers in there; then your angel friend can bathe and 
 swim in glory: That is all he looks for or expects from his labors: 
 And he will gather from those flowers, and inoculate his poison 
 into you thereby producing an inferior odor, that stinks him out 
 of countenance, when he approaches too near, and causes him to 
 lay back, when his essence is being poured into yours; and it is in 
 this fashion found to be safe to approach near enough to com- 
 mence operations, on the head of a mortal: now don't you see 
 that providing, that you are only willing, that there is no other 
 difficulty at all, and should you want to make an invention, or 
 communicate with your friends at the antipodes; you can tell 
 what they are up to, whilst they are may be planningyour downfall : 
 And are thinking of nailing you to the mast when you are quietly 
 rejoicing in their childish ignorance; you have the whip always, 
 when you are guided right; and it is no use you saying there is 
 nothing to be gained by such a power; for you know what is the 
 true meaning of their letters before they have got them into the 
 mail bag, now if you can't see an advantage in this argument, 
 well I'll tell you what it is a man may be born wise, but he never yet 
 knew the full extent of his own power; and like the little spider, 
 that came in yesterday for his fair share of shortcomings; is 
 not without his advantages; and when he is allowed to pass his 
 web across the gulf, by an unseen hand, then are you to be less 
 material, that you can't hold }^our own departed brethren in 
 
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 affection also; and say to them, I have my enemies across the 
 ocean, you go forth, and bring their ideas across to me, I want 
 you to beat them out of sight, for I will bide by what you say, 
 only be careful you bring me correct information so that I do 
 arrange my plans accordingly; and it is done like the flash of 
 the wires; only this time the method is secret, and is woven with 
 a texture that has not been given to man so far; for he can not 
 read the angels' letters; and they can't be understood by mortals 
 did they know how to make them; it is as easy for an angel to 
 carry information, as it is for the paper to print it; for it is all 
 printed in his sack, prior to his journey; and he will travel across 
 the ocean, and bring it back on his back, just the same as you 
 would take and write it on paper; his companion writes it on the 
 carrier's back, in such fine lettering as is used by the most skilled 
 artists; and they have got nothing to carry, as you spiritualists 
 say, there is the mystery again revealed, it is written over the 
 spine ; with phosphorescence ; so that the interpreter, can ply it when 
 he sees it, and make you understand what to do, before ever the 
 letters come to hand, the same applies to al.1 documents, the 
 angel has the privilege of going where he pleases; and he will 
 get his code out of all men's safes; and they can not stop him 
 either by fair or foul means; his mission is an advancement to 
 him, and he will take it out of the very gutter, rather than come 
 back without it, meaning that he will fool your opponents' guides, 
 so as to get his points worked in; now don't you see how war is 
 to be carried on in the future; that instead of you fighting foolish, 
 you will know how to get right into the enemy's confidence; and 
 make him change his tactics; until he will be a messed up hopeless 
 hull of confusion : Your wildest thoughts never carried you thus far 
 before, and I venture to say, that once this theory is put into effect, 
 that there will be no wars; for the fact, that you can be mastered so 
 easily, that you will be afraid to try, and much good will come out 
 of it; therefore you will be more like Christians, and less likely 
 to be butchered, this is the fruits of solid wisdom; your enemies 
 will not want to fight, once they have no tactics to play against 
 you ; there is the point, what is the use of trying to fool this method, 
 you are fooled yourself, once you try it, for the heavens have the 
 
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 power, in their own hands; and you are to do as you are bid, or 
 come into confusion; that is as easy talked; as it would be to act 
 upon, and you are not very secure now, not knowing anything, 
 for as soon as you are cultivated sufficiently to understand the 
 proper ideas; you can find plenty to do, to be brought into a 
 form of government, that will stand all fidelity, and can be made 
 to suit both heaven and hell; you may not appreciate me for 
 calling the heaven a one-side show; while you think it is the only 
 real place there is; you know that when you choose, you can 
 make a heaven of your own, just as easy, as you can a hell; 
 therefore you have only got to choose, which place you want; 
 but in choosing you must be guided by reasoning faculties, 
 there is the secret of having a side show, you make your own 
 heaven here by doing no harm; and you have fulfilled the chap- 
 ters: They say like heaven we must live to reach the kingdom 
 of God: Well this means, that you have got to do no wrong: 
 And that is all there is in it; you know what is wrong, by investi- 
 gation only; and you must not be guided by anything except 
 common sense, or you will fall short of reaching the kingdom of 
 God: Now you think when I say the kingdom of God, that I 
 mean a God mortal, this you are entirely mistaken in, I mean by 
 the kingdom of God, everlasting peace; this is all the God you 
 want, and the only one you can possibly find; there is nothing 
 else that could be, for without some sin you can not tell what is 
 right; and you must learn to climb, or you won't reach the top, 
 therefore you have to keep from sinning by knowing what there 
 is to be afraid of; don't you see that the baby must creep, or he 
 can't climb, therefore he is a good boy, till he does climb, he will 
 only reach the top of the ladder by climbing; and he gets there 
 all the faster, when he knows how many chances there are against 
 his slipping off the end: You see him near the top, and he is so 
 anxious, that he won't wait for anything, he must get there; yet, my 
 friend you had better go slow, and you will be sure to reach the 
 top: What is the object in possessing yourself of the whole of 
 hell, when you loose your grip on the last bar of the ladder, and 
 fall back into hell forever: your step is not the steadiest, when 
 it has to negotiate that last step on the great big ladder of time, 
 
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 it sits at case, when it is well in hell, but the moment severe sick- 
 ness sets in, it is entirely different, you then feel a sinking nerv- 
 ous sensation, and wonder how you are going to face your 
 maker; that is you feel afraid, for you don't know what he is like; 
 you wonder, and conjecture all manner of ideas; this is precisely 
 what you do; then make your mind easy my friend, the devil was 
 never yet painted like he is; and you can make up your mind 
 that as you have lived, so will you enjoy the life of eternity; 
 either good or bad, just as you grew; you may think I am wrong 
 my friend and brother; but you will see the harlequin is no fool 
 at his own table, and as you grow, so will you propitiate, and 
 as you sow, so will you sweep; and as you have reaped so will you 
 keep: Therefore your society, in the eternal life, will be exactly 
 the same as you have led here on earth, which is established 
 as the hell of eternity; there can not be any other for it is con- 
 structed, according to the formation of material forms; and as 
 they are all defective works of art, they must abide by the nature 
 of the most almighty power of heaven and hell, you don't want 
 me to tell you everything, for fear of there being nothing for 
 you to do, well my honest Job's comforter: I can only say that 
 a work of art has but one maker, and that is the painter, as he 
 moulds his model, therefore you are blessed with all my ingenuity; 
 did you but know how to use it, and it is in these simple little 
 words, (I do not know how); and you have the same right as, 
 myself; providing you are willing and able to contradict my logic 
 by some unknown power, which I shall be most happy to make 
 myself acquainted with; because I am not too proud to be taught; 
 though you may be: And I want to show you what I know is 
 the truth, and I want you to point out my errors; and not say 
 the subject is too deep: It is not at all deep, and I will show 
 you that you are entirely wrong by this stupid folly that has 
 always got the upper hand of the earth-bound spirits; they tell 
 you in their reasoning, that the subject is too deep, well what do 
 you do but make it deeper; because some idiot is preaching it into 
 your head, and you think all the while that it is the meat in your 
 brains that is working out your thoughts; well now you are 
 ready to take up the cudgel, and fight me down on that question; I 
 
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 guess not, y ou are afraid, of what, that your motor scum is no match 
 for mine; you know it; and I do too: thereis the point right here 
 are you lawyer, clergyman, or priest, I say you are no match 
 for me under the thoughts I pin my faith to; and all the fiends 
 you choose to bring, can not circumvent my theory: And I claim 
 for heaven and earth a proper hearing; you may pitch into me 
 all you like, I say you shall be met with a foot for a foot, an eye 
 for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth; that is true religion; as the sun 
 goes down, she falls to rise again, and so does the man she has 
 made, you can't believe this; no! it is too gigantic altogether for 
 you, for you have never had the right intelligence before; 
 simply because, the sun had not given sufficient strength to her 
 vim before, and you and your ancient Gods, were not able to 
 give you the truth; and they were quite willing you will admit, 
 but they have circumvented your understanding in a marvelous 
 way: And grown in your thoughts, for it is in this mode that 
 they have got you to believe, that a greater than Jesus, can not 
 live, you are quite wrong on this point also; for he was one of 
 many, that had been practiced; and they all got killed for know- 
 ing too much, and you are sure to kill a good man now did you 
 know who he is; therefore it is better for wise men not to come 
 among you: you know that I am speaking truly, that you are all 
 afraid of a man who is able to interpret correctly, therefore I do 
 know that there is danger, attached to telling you exactly what you 
 ought to know; but it has to be a struggle to the death this time so 
 you won't get off by sticking your knife in; and the instruments 
 we use don't care any more for your life, than our Saviour did: 
 That is much more than your religious humbugs think; they tell 
 so many lies, that they are afraid: And would not for worlds, 
 go and sit in a dark room, and invite spirits to materialize round 
 them; you see that it wants a spirit, that don't fear any deity, 
 who will put himself down to such a test; there are very few who 
 can stand this strain; yet you know, that a materialized spirit is 
 nothing to be alarmed at: For didn't Saul go and call Samuel 
 out of the witch of Endor, don't you believe your own Bible, 
 don't you believe that Saul, knew how to reach the dead surely 
 you must be dreaming, when you say that spirits can not come 
 
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 back; I want you to read your Bible, and understand it; and not 
 play the fool with it; I don't say you intend to be dishonest; what 
 I do say is that you can't understand, because your intelligence 
 is all wrong, and the more you get wrong, the less likely you are 
 to grow in heaven, there is the point, right here, what Saul did, 
 you are all capable of doing, and you learn by this that Saul fell 
 through banishing his magicians; that is he divided his thoughts; 
 he gave to God his refuse; and to Mammon he sold his crops: 
 You do the same, by your own determination to put God over 
 with the refuse; He is good, and must mean good, or he won't 
 persevere to make himself known: Then don't drive him and his 
 artful witches from you, restrict them to common sense: And 
 they must be goodly conductors of what is called the handicraft, 
 of Christ the Saviour: For a sinner to say that a witch is bad, 
 simply because she knows too much isn't enough, he should 
 explain himself and say why she is bad, and prove her wrong, don't 
 condemn her because he says so, let him be raked up too, and let his 
 sorcery, come in for the same investigation; but don't you let his 
 ignorance pollute you; lest ye fall like Saul, and be a sinner for 
 hell: That is right, call the witch to the galleys, with the sinners, 
 and when she does not explain herself, in proper sentences of 
 sense, then condemn, but do likewise to the sinner, who plagues 
 her without any cause, am I right: Let the sinner show you the 
 way to find God, and I am done: He dare not try, for he never 
 knew how, and he is cast on a shoal of breakers; once he makes 
 the attempt, his Bible is constructed by the power of the great 
 spirit power, who led Israel out of bondage, and he was no 
 slough, or such wonderful feats could have never been per- 
 formed; therefore don't go and say that there is no good in God, 
 for Moses, and his God are the greatest thunders you will ever 
 know, you can't find either of them, because they performed 
 their mission: And conveyed an armful of people under either 
 arm: Both have got the praise, and are both deserving, for 
 neither was worth anything without the other; you can not say 
 God did it, and you admit that it was too much for Moses, with- 
 out his God: Therefore let honor abide, where the honor 
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 I lead you to heaven: And though ten thousand Pharaohs 
 stand in our path, I shall wipe them all away: That is the way 
 to feel, and that is the way to act, it shall not be cast aside, 
 though a thousand swords are glittering in the breeze, heaven 
 and hell shall not be my fortress wake, it comes and goes, and 
 no man knows where he will stake his pleasant life hereafter: 
 Your own ideas, are as much wronged, for want of knowing 
 better! and once they do know better, it is quite easy, for you to 
 get to heaven, that is where you all want to go; and as sure as 
 you get the right way of understanding what it is you have got 
 to steer clear of, it can not fail to lead you right along to where 
 you wish to go; and as you can't die, there is only one other 
 thing for you to do, and that is to stop where no harm can 
 reach you: This is a point, that you must see before you 
 believe, what God did through Moses; is good, for it teaches 
 you to see that there was a power, and his infinite wisdom, 
 proves that you are under guidance; therefore you have only got 
 to become under the same conditions as Moses, was placed 
 under, then you can be a Moses too: For he was banished 
 through fear to a foreign place, and he found the true God, it is 
 easy to see that he was a suitable subject, to work upon, for he 
 had no friends on earth, and he had to look to heaven to be 
 consoled, his very life, and his reason demanded it; then don't 
 you see that it was in sympathizing with nature's great callings; 
 that made Moses, look for the food, which supplies the inner 
 cravings of man; they are made after nature's great mould, and 
 they will yearn, and squirm, for more life; immediately they are 
 thrown out for some heinous offense; they are not to be 
 tampered with, any more than the Sun is, and you must feed the 
 Sun on the best herbage, succulent, and full of life, or she will 
 scorch up every bit of garbage you have; for she is thirsting 
 for more life, and she must have the knife wherewith to cut it; 
 You seem to think I am deranged, because I call the Sun a she, 
 and talk of her as a woman, does she not make all there is, that 
 is worth anything, then why would you say he, man is nothing 
 without a woman, and I say that the Sun is the mother of all, 
 and she is entitled to all the glory, as for the Moon, which you 
 
 
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 can classify as he, I don't think much of him, because he is a 
 second fiddle, and does not do the amount of good, as he should 
 do-to be placed first; therefore we can call him he, and when I 
 have been through the Moon, with you, you will better under- 
 stand why it is more like a he, than the other; which purely 
 represents a woman: In all stages of its conformation: I want 
 you to be patient as you can, for in a work of this character, it is 
 not found by mere guess-work, and I have to be exceedingly 
 particular: There are a multitude of things in a precise nature, 
 that have got to come in at a given place, that you will be aston- 
 ished, when you come to find that there is no exact cause why 
 they should not come in like a mechanic's lien; serrated, without 
 technicalities; therefore you can't call me what I am without 
 striking foul of a cause, of action; that was not in regular form, 
 at the time when Moses, held commune with his God; and you 
 see that unless you have a new face, you can't look well enough 
 into the future; a brand-new face, is what you expect to fade, but 
 an old one is all well enough, till you see a better one, therefore 
 you will have to get a cleaning, before you can see through a 
 dirty mirror; and you must remove some of the quicksilver off 
 the back, or you can't see what is on the other side, that is not 
 the way to do it at all: You must keep on straight, until you 
 have got a fresh face, then you see both sides of the looking- 
 glass at once, in other words, you have got to rise above the 
 mirror: Then you see both sides at once: This is all very well, 
 but while you are at this job, of peering through and through, 
 you have left one thing out, and that is that the looking-glass 
 was no good, till you attached the quicksilver; and you have it 
 right there, neither was God any good, without Moses: He, 
 could let down fire and brimstone upon you: Yet, he could not 
 tell you what he was doing it for: Now do you see that Moses, 
 was an instrument, prayed for out of heaven; and he had to be 
 lost by the world, and found by heaven: therefore he is not any 
 more than mortal, only, that he had to be compelled to commit 
 crime, in order that he should be got at: and you have to do 
 wrong, or you can't get right: under the present understanding 
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 that leads them wrong, they will soon know that condition is the 
 supreme motive; and as the Sun governs the whole, she is 
 making man after her own form: Perpetually generous: And 
 everlastingly pure, with this one exception: that the Sun does 
 scorch up, whenever she approaches too near, and so does man 
 bring offense, when he inhales the odor of fumes, which are 
 offensive to the rag conductor: I mean that man is the cloth, 
 that acts as a sponge to the dead, and he sucks in more material 
 forms, than he has any right to, and instead of him scorching 
 up his refuse, as does the mighty great big mother: He lets in 
 the grains, that suck up his vital constitution, by being a pest- 
 hole for every inebriate, this does not apply to healthy mortals, 
 so much, for it does not hold them in such strong chains; and 
 they can free themselves, by reasoning out the problem of how 
 much, and how little the influence has power with them; you 
 think that I am all mightily particular to put down drinking 
 strong essence, well you don't see the sea depreciate in size, 
 although you do see, lakes and rivers run dry, well the sea is not 
 used by the Sun, for it does not bear any properties, that would 
 propagate gas; and you can solve this problem easily; the sea is 
 a whole constitution of its own, entirely different to anything we 
 have, it is a sewerage from the mountains; and is not attractive 
 to the heat of gaining cold or heat; although you find the sea 
 hot in Antarctic regions; you never find that it depreciates 
 materially; for its evaporating qualities are nil, compared to 
 what the fresh water is, this shows you, that a man drinking beer 
 is consumed quicker by the rays of the Sun; than a man drinking 
 water; His hide is filled with gas; while the man who drinks 
 water is not consumed at all, for the fact, that he did not drink 
 of the same brew, causing him to be purer by his changing his 
 food into a condition of purity; causing his appetite to be sus- 
 tained by a food of the ocean, while the man who drinks of the 
 tap, is filled with gas, and causes him to be sucked from more 
 readily; that is the way a man who drinks heavily can not cough 
 much when he is in the heat, his throat is sucked dry by the 
 evaporating gas; and this gas is used as fuel in the Sun, the same 
 as all gassy nutritions; you may laugh at me all you please, but I 
 
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 have got the laugh on you: My tights are filled full of breezes, 
 that can blow where breezes blow: And I can show you fine 
 logic, as well as any one who ever sailed underneath a wet sheet 
 of canvas, it is easy to show you how you are wrong, but it does 
 not follow, that you will go right after you are shown, you know 
 that a man who goes to bed quite sober, is a jolly fellow for his 
 mother made him so: And a man who wakens up at night, with 
 his throat on fire is quite another kind of fellow, his mother 
 never meant it so; she was very sorry for poor Bill, he had been 
 such a good boy, yet, she couldn't tell why, he should have 
 grown so fond of beer, his father never drank any to speak of, 
 and all his relations were quite sober on his father's side, none 
 of the men drank, it was only a little drop of beer that my 
 friends drank, and I only took it you know to keep Mother 
 Marshall from thinking I was mean to sit and see her drink 
 her little tots; before our Bill was born; He hadn't been in 
 more than eight months, when Mrs. Marshall came as nurse, 
 and I wonder why it comes out that Bill should take to drink 
 in his old days; his father never did: And none of my rela- 
 tives to any account; yet Bill proves the exception, because 
 the nurse tempted his mother; when he was clearing his road 
 to help himself to gain heaven; that is my theory friends of a 
 drunkard's downfall: and I shall be pleased, when you can 
 show me a better, there is nothing that can not be explained, 
 and when you go on fighting in the dark, you shall always be 
 fooled, for intelligence is born on the right side of justice, 
 and when you treat the babe to foul blasphemy, don't expect 
 him to be anything expect, a blasphemer: There you have 
 what is called in heaven as the world flung into hell; meaning, 
 that as hell pitched in a fire-brand, the after consequence must 
 be a fire; and now since I have reached you so successfully, I 
 intend to tell you of all that there is to know, both good bad 
 and much worse than you ever thought I would dare to tell 
 you; You are quite anxious to know what there is in heaven; 
 about hell it is all bad, and you don't feel much interest; there- 
 fore I think that I had better wind up with something nice at 
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 impersonified; I don't want you to believe that all is bad, for 
 it never helps any one to keep them constantly facing the black 
 cloud: You must see a gleaming of light, or you won't face 
 the cloud at all: I only want to show you how much better it 
 is for you to know the truth, so as you can find a straight road 
 to heaven, and by this I mean to explain what heaven is, and 
 leave you to the fact, that you will not have to go down on 
 your bended knees, and supplicate for an offense, which is not 
 an offense at all: You must know what it is that you are 
 going to ask forgiveness for; as you do now know that God is 
 not going to help you, unless he is permitted to be an indi- 
 vidual God: Then you will have to be broken of this theory, 
 that a man was once consumed in a flaming fire, and never 
 burned away, I tell you now and am prepared to prove it, in 
 all sense and reason, that you can't affect a soul by firing him 
 at all; His body is proof against all the fire that was ever 
 kindled, and it is only when he is in close proximity to human 
 beings, that he feels the heat, through taking on their condi- 
 tions; and when he is away from the body matter: He can 
 climb through fire millions of miles deep; and investigate its 
 most sternest awe: You don't know anything at all about what 
 it is to be free from that old useless carcass there is nothing 
 we feed upon, to give us any pain, and then you know that 
 we don't want any meals, unless we feel disposed to fill up 
 with essence, off some delicacy that you hold as sacred to 
 your own touch; why, can't we have what you don't even 
 miss; you can't stop us taking it; for you don't even know 
 when we are laughing in your eyes; and playing destruction 
 on you, when you have wronged one of our friends; you 
 think the ancients told you correctly: Well they were not 
 going to give myself away, that is how they felt, they 
 thought it a great punishment to be kept away from earth by 
 the higher powers; who said constantly they must not know of 
 us; or they will be after our thoughts coming home at night 
 from their daily occupations; and they won't work, did you once 
 let them see how to get on both sides of the question, like us; 
 therefore it is as well to keep them in the dark side of life as 
 
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 long as it will keep that way; now don't you see that there is an 
 object in keeping you from knowing all things; you would not 
 work at all did you know how to scheme and get at the proper 
 way of making money, for that is all you are after while you are 
 on earth; you don't even dare to look at God in the face, for 
 you know you are a humbugging parcel of hypocrites; and that 
 is a true fact; you don't even know what it is to be honest, you 
 are all the time planning a way of getting the upper hand of 
 John Brown; and you know he is trying to do the same by you; 
 therefore you are so evil in your thoughts that you can't make as 
 much money as you wish, for the fact is quite plain you have got 
 too much mind on Brown, and he is minding you; instead of 
 doing his level best to leave you alone, and go and find some 
 way out for himself to make money, out of something that you 
 don't understand; you see that there are plenty of new things 
 coming to the fore every day; then why don't you try something 
 that your neighbor does not own, then you can't want his pro- 
 visions; his wife is your dangerous point, well you keep away 
 from his wife, and leave her alone, and you go and get one of 
 your own, and see that your neighbor leaves her alone too; that 
 is the way to live, keep off your neighbor's premises; and don't 
 go inside of his threshold; and you will be better off by doing so; 
 you know that a man who is tinkering after your farming ideas; 
 may be there to steal your wife's affections; and he knows 
 enough, to help your blindness off color, I don't want you to be 
 hermits; go and enjoy yourselves all you have a mind to; but you 
 must do it in public places; for it is there that all eyes are upon 
 your wife, and she is not to be found fault with by all the world, 
 for she knows that it won't do to be a backslider, in front of her 
 own sex; this is what keeps her good; Her fear of her own sex, 
 and better that way, than to be afraid of her God; for she is lost, 
 once she has committed an offense in sight of him: She is 
 taught, that his eye is always upon her, then may she not be 
 holy, because she once fell: I say she can be righteous, though 
 she falls any number of times, for she did not do it, it was the sin- 
 ners, who are guiding her; who caused her to fall: And not the 
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 light, and she can't fall at all: For in doing so she gives the 
 cause of her soul's champion away, to all men, and women alike, 
 and she will not do this, once she knows, that a hand is upon 
 her; who can reveal her soul's prompter, and burn him through 
 her, with the burning brand of shame; you have here what can 
 not be concealed and it is in this form of soul's preservation, 
 that brings you to heaven; you know as well as I can show you, 
 that once your secrets are known to your fellow-men, that they 
 will spurn you, with their pointed finger of scorn at you, knowing 
 at the same time, that their own souls are ten times more guilty: 
 And they are more dubious of you, than ever they are of one 
 who is not worthy, of notice; for you have had a tare, and are 
 familiar with the stick that marked you; therefore their own 
 crimes are dangerous, in your hands; and they know that they 
 themselves; are well worthy, of the pointed finger of scorn; 
 therefore to shield themselves, they seek out your weak spot, and 
 divert the hand of hades upon you, this is the true code of 
 sinner's diversion; and you must strengthen your own court, 
 and make it secure, before you can lift out the plague of sinners: 
 You may want a little grace, to turn your own folly from the 
 eternal workings of hades, then never stoop, so low as to counsel 
 with any one you know to be infamous, for they are always ready 
 to sting, to shield them in their own wickedness: You go to 
 the venerable man, who has borne a pure character all through 
 life, and ask him what you could do, should you not have the nec- 
 essary power with you, for I don't expect all men to be blessed 
 with a superhuman counselor; therefore I say knowing, that I 
 am doing so to an advantage, talk to an honorable upright man, 
 who has borne the blast, from a sterling gale, and ask him by 
 questions, that leaves him no grounds for anything but pleasure, 
 and tell him openly why he is called upon to give you this 
 advice, say to him, I know you to be an honorable man, therefore 
 my reasons for wishing for your advice: A dishonorable man 
 always seeks the man of sharp practice, for he knows, he is 
 going to get at the essence of villainy, in this method; but 
 he forgets, that the sharp-practice man has -a goad of pointed 
 
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 is fortified beyond any comparison; There is where honesty 
 shines, and hell is a dead letter; for the one is subject to 
 flames, whilst the gentleman is insured against fire: You see 
 now what doctrine is worth, you may have the sharp sinner, I 
 am going to tackle you with honesty, and I am game to fight 
 the greatest rogue you ever saw, with reasonable arguments, I 
 don't want you to tell me what is going on in his mind, I can 
 get that all out of his guides, and transmit it, to my own 
 pocket; there to lay plans, that are honest, and show you where 
 he was dishonest; you can say it is an unfair way of getting at 
 him, but you must remember that I do my work openly, and let 
 him have the chance of doing the same, now do you see again 
 where I prove you are honest, under my theory; you can walk 
 the deck proudly, when you say my spiders spun a better web 
 than his, and I again refer to the brethren of the living spider, 
 I say that they fly round the fly, and drive the fly into the web 
 of the body spider, and it is this that makes the fly so stupid, his 
 eyes, are not protected, like yours are, and he is able to see the 
 spirit spiders coming after him; therefore he escapes, from what 
 you call the dead, and is grabbed by your living; thus proving, 
 that the fly is not a fool at all as you call him, but a genuine 
 real frightened fly, that is all there is in it, you see him flying 
 this way and that till at last he flies into the spider's net, you 
 have watched the little fool, but were the skin off your own eyes, 
 you would say oh! the villains, they are after blood; and you are 
 the simpleton, not this foolish little fly, that was working like a 
 distracted demon escaping, from the fear of God; now you see 
 how I place my theory again, have you got anything to hoist me 
 off my pinnacle with: Come on and try and knock me down 
 over this reasonable theory, I want an argument, you can't 
 approach me, you say so, don't I explain, how I am working out 
 my problems: you can't attack me without I bring my theory 
 down to a scientific basis; then come and take me at my work 
 of showing humanity where they are wrong, and give them a 
 fair show of getting right; I don't want all the field to myself, I 
 will help you to get a start, and bring you all the courage you 
 lack, Don't go and say that Thomas Paine, was an u Infidel," 
 
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 when you can't show me anything at all that is reasonably 
 correct, I won't fight with straws, and I am going to leave you 
 and your book of books alone, till you pick out all the most 
 difficult parts, and say my son you are an unbeliever, and I want 
 you to explain some mystery, that. has beaten all the world 
 before you: Now Mr. whatever-you-call-yourself come down 
 here and explain this passage for us; We are hungry and 
 dying for want of this form of intelligence; you shall be satis- 
 fied on all questions of importance, now I never go back on my 
 word, and should you knife this instrument, I will get another, 
 and answer you: You may know by this, that I am at you now, 
 for my suffering in prison, and I won't rest till I have shown 
 greater things, than ever the world saw before, you are not going 
 to throw me over, for I mean to stick to you, till I have fulfilled 
 my idea, of what is right and proper; and }^ou can't get me 
 now, and imprison me, for I will go into your cells, and show 
 the prisoners how they were brought there, and how it is 
 possible for them to keep away from your prisons, you under- 
 stand me now, that I owe you a grudge, for putting me in prison, 
 because you thought I knew too much, well had you known me, 
 I should have told you, that there is more than I knew, but you 
 were afraid, and locked me up, now I tell you, that I know all 
 and you can't change me neither can you deal with me at all; 
 for I will prove that you are all wrong, before I will stop; Don't 
 you begin to bellow out for mercy, for you would not show me 
 any, and I won't help you now to tide over your ignorance; you 
 may sing out, all you have got a mind to, but never mind me, I 
 will get even yet, for those books you buried, of mine: I won't 
 tell where it is, for I know you pagans, will seek for them, but I 
 will yet show them to the world by some means or another; you 
 don't think I can find hidden treasures; well you wait a little bit 
 longer, and I will cultivate the mind to reach down into the 
 bowels of the earth, and show your minerals, before you make a 
 scratch, at the surface, this is what you would shut me up now 
 for did you get at me, for your mean intellect, would say he 
 won't allow us to earn an honest pound, by taking an instigator's 
 part, no I don't intend that you shall have instigators, in the 
 
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 twentieth century; I intend to wipe out agitators altogether, that 
 have no scientific certainty to base their claims on; and you 
 can't go on cheating and swindling as you have been, for I 
 mean to stop it entirely: I want to know, what right you have 
 to the theory, that a man is an infidel, because he shows you 
 what must be falsehoods; you dare call me liar, but you can't 
 prove it, and you are ready to toss me over, once you see a little 
 error, without even giving me the opportunity, to straighten it 
 out, now don't you see that all mankind, have been full of 
 errors, well then be charitable, and let us pull these errors 
 straight, we know more than the ancients did, for our intellects, 
 have grown, and formed a material substance, that is greater 
 than they knew; then let us keep on improving, till we say, 
 there shall not be sin, that is the right kind of spirit to have, 
 don't go and knock about, in the throes of darkness; when 
 you may have the pure bright light, to guide you to that happy 
 plains of everlasting eternity; this is the way, by finding out 
 what man is, and how he comes to be formed, and what is his 
 future destiny: Once knowing what a man is, then knowing 
 how he is driven, is the way to lead you all: And not by 
 filling your minds with mystery, that neither helps the foolish 
 priest, or the learned bishop, you don't find them any better off 
 in heaven, because they are worse, in a sense, they were always 
 fed well, and looked up to with reverence, on earth, but in heaven, 
 they are a miserable set of tools, because their prayers, have 
 fallen on an empty drone, it came near a stupid soul friend, 
 and that is all: Never reaching the ear of the great deity at 
 all: Because there is none to reach, with the same under- 
 standing, as you have: That is where the waif is more pro- 
 gressive, than the parson, his life has been led in the streets, and 
 his ideas, are trained to be careful, to know more of evil, than 
 he does of righteousness, and his aim is to follow, and see 
 what there is to be found, his soul works the same in heaven, 
 and his thoughts have been trained to reach out, and grasp 
 every situation; therefore when he finds his soul is nothing 
 the worse for its transfiguration, he feels quite happy, and 
 he leans on the same staff as he did before, his natural wit is 
 
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 untarnished, and he says halloo "Bill" I have got over here, 
 immediately he meets an old acquaintance; and is the same waif 
 for all time hereafter: His idea is to follow, and he copies 
 quickly and is an old hand, before the parson is able to realize, 
 that he is not Deacon of some Old County Parish, there is the 
 parson lamenting his fate, because he had always misled his 
 parishioners, and his soul is disturbed, for fear of meeting any 
 of his congregation, who are certain to stop him - with " what an 
 old humbug you were, didn't know any more than me, that 
 is the kind of souls you will meet in the other world, once 
 you get there, and they have a dead set against the parsons, 
 for they would have gone on right enough, they claim, only for 
 having believed in what their clergyman said: . Now it is 
 easy to foresee, that such must be the chastisement, meted out 
 to all clergymen, for they are taught to believe in what therq is 
 not, and the consequence is quite clear, they must be shown, or 
 they can not believe otherwise, and you are miscalling your 
 clergymen, in error, for he did but do his duty according to his 
 light of what was right, but then he must know that it is a 
 frightful feeling of remorse, to him when he finds that he has not 
 only misled himself; but that he was misleading the whole of 
 his parish always, and he does feel mortified, when some ignorant 
 spirit comes to him and gloats over his conduct in believing those 
 who had taught, without knowing any better; you can't imagine 
 the discomfiture of a good clergyman, when he is besieged by 
 an overwhelming host of ignorant spirits, who seek pleasure 
 out of the discomfiture of an unlucky divine, who is meet for 
 their own distraction; "you have hit me often enough, when I 
 was disobeying your thoughts of right and proper, now what 
 better are you than me, you can not hold me in subjection now; 
 and you won't get any more thanks for all them prayers you said 
 over that old corpse; it had nothing to reach after all except the 
 restriction of ancient mortals; who are a great deal less intelli- 
 gent, than we are, and you are now made to drudge at teaching 
 infants to go on working out their lives, on education for the 
 world of immortality; " you see that children are all taught in 
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 school, with the idea, that it is necessary to have them educated, 
 for joyful purposes; that is they have to make joy for the elders; 
 as the ancients are called; and they sing, and play on instru- 
 ments, for the merriment of having an age of pleasure, and by 
 doing this, they are toned down to keep the orders of light in 
 life of eternity: That is the reason for all this discipline, it must 
 be so, the ancients have always made music their Gods, and 
 wherever a beautiful singer is found, she or he are kept ever- 
 lastingly at the music halls of those who hold seats of power; 
 you don't see what is wanted, with all this learning, and work, 
 but it has to be done, in order of this kind, or how do you sup- 
 pose, that a given surface, can be reared up to any particular 
 standard, that is the way to arrange, all things; by keeping on a 
 perpetual overgrowth, and bringing what is needed into a deep 
 pasturage; or else you will be torn out by the roots, and sent 
 flying away by the wind, and driven away entirely; this is right, 
 it has to be done in order of manifesting to the young, or they 
 will not grow, in accordance, with the old; that is their reasoning 
 for having every one taught, to keep up the knowledge of advance- 
 ment always, that is quite on a par with what you are doing 
 to-day; only you don't bother, with the stray waifs, and the 
 heavenly bodies do, they take every soul, and put it through a 
 specified conditional regime; that is called the questioning of 
 the idle, because they keep the priests, and parsons for this work, 
 of educating the young, and fallen subjects of humanity, to take 
 up a regular system of doctrine, according to the testament of a 
 given order, which have the power of ruling the head; and this 
 controlling power, is mixed up with the ancients of a strong 
 proclivity, to the notions; that there is a God somewhere in the 
 heavens; and they have ignorant notions; the same as they had 
 at the beginning of the intellect of man, you see them taking on 
 the priests, and clergy, it is because they don't know anything 
 about education themselves; and they want to know how many 
 men is made by this form of selfishness; before they can be 
 knocked out, and let intelligent men rule heaven, the same as 
 hell is directed; now you won't blame me for starting this work, 
 for you see that I am aiming at the throne of God, because it is 
 
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 governed by spirits, who have no intelligence; and instead of 
 them giving way to learned spirits, they hold fast to what their 
 own characters are, in the earth, before ever they crossed the 
 border line, that is the way heaven is governed: And you know 
 that there is ignorance, in the ancient history, for it shows it at 
 the very beginning, and as you are an enlightened people, let 
 there be no "monkey business "; at the head of affairs, you may 
 think that I am comparing your deity with no learning, that is 
 precisely what I will show you to be a fact, I don't want you to 
 believe that monkeys are a species apart from man, for I must 
 say that once and for all time, that I do hold to this theoretical 
 view, that monkeys are a specie of man, but not of the form, 
 that is generally construed, that we come from monkeys; I don't 
 hold my views that way, I say distinctly that monkeys are a 
 specie of man; but not under your form of constructing man; I 
 have a theory, that can frustrate that idea totally; you may think 
 that I am running wild, for to jump from heavenly government, 
 to the very depths of immorality, but you see, that it calls for 
 desperate efforts, and you will have to follow me, without fail, 
 do you wish to get at the truth, and I know that I can lead you 
 there right surely, only I have got to be humored, or it will be a 
 failure; you want to know, the difference between my theory 
 and the general thoughts, such as Darwin's, for instance; 
 well he could class them as he choose, but I won't for there 
 is one thing, that prevents me from getting his idea, into 
 my theoretical basis, and that is the nose, and mouth of the 
 monkey is canine, whereas the teeth, are straight lined; this is 
 nothing, but the tail is a feature of the canine specie, and does 
 not belong to men: For the human is a differently constructed 
 kind of quadruped, and has no nails on the feet, like a monkey, 
 his are canine; and must be called such for the fact, that he is a 
 canine quadruped, and can not be termed anything else; you 
 have got my objections to him; now let me see whether I can't 
 give you a better solution, to this problem; and when we have 
 done let it be hoped, that man has benefited by the revelation; 
 you must not suppose that I can strike off this subject, at one 
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 track by saying, that a man is a whole, and is not a half, he is 
 lit as anything to discuss, this gigantic subject, and I am blessed, 
 should the monkey attempt it, he would get no farther, than to 
 swing his tail round the pole of eternity, that is the point, I am 
 going to run my ring round the pole of eternity, and drive you 
 all in there too; that is too much for Mr. Monkey to attempt, 
 and I don't believe it will pollute your sensitive ears, to hear a 
 direct avowal of what you really sprang from, I don't want to 
 punish you, by thoughts of an alliance to monkeys; for I don't 
 wish to give you an unreasonable theory: And I must set your 
 minds at rest on this problem forever, or you will say he is no 
 better than Tom Paine originally: And is not the great wonder 
 he boasted he would be, when he come back, that is he shall 
 knock over the immortal gods of all the ancients, or go to 
 hades again in chariots on fire: You have hit me right in the 
 hind quarters; when you say I can't tell you what made man 
 more distinguished than the brutes; I shall teach you how to 
 grow good, but I am not going to accept an appellation, from 
 Darwin, that I was once a monkey, no I am made of better 
 material, and you can't get me to be a common man I won't give 
 in to such an absurdity, I will fight you all to death, rather than 
 be classed with the monkey, you don't know what I can do when 
 I get roused, I would pour all the fire there is in heaven on you, 
 rather than be classed with a monkey, I say you are wrong Mr. 
 Darwin, and all silly heads like you; your eyes may see, but your 
 ears, can't catch a flea, when it comes to be cooked: I want a 
 whole loaf of bread to cut at, and not one that has been chawed 
 by every stupid tinker; you know I can crack a whip, when I 
 want a loud report, and I will show you that " The old infidel," 
 can smack is crack, to burst all known theories; you may chime 
 in with your wood and waterjoey system, but I go and get the 
 whole cartload, and put it on my fire before I let them stick the 
 match in, you may think I am a great boaster, but when you see 
 my fire, it will burn up all the rest, because there is plenty of 
 kindling wood always there to replenish with, I can fire up forever, 
 and you can't stop me; because I took in perpetuity: You never did 
 Mr. Darwin, or any of the more enlightened prophets; you may 
 
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 call out he is only an infidel, but you will find that the old fellow, 
 knows more than all your saints and sinners put together, and I 
 will yet show you, that a man can't work out any problem, that is 
 afraid of good sound reasoning, I tell you, that reason is the 
 foundation, of all that is holy, righteous, and illustrative of evil, 
 that is it exactly, you must have reason to guide you from evil, 
 and you must have reason to keep you good, and no God in 
 heaven is any use, unless he will spit fire at you continually; you 
 can bawl out all you have got a mind to, I love his dearly beloved 
 Son: You know you lie, when you say it: For it is not possible 
 to love an indescribable something; had you understood what 
 Jesus Christ really is, you would have all tried to be like him; 
 but you can't be like him, for you don't know how, yet you would 
 lay down your own life freely, for such a power as he did 
 have, and yet you don't know how to obtain it, for the fact is 
 plain, his soul was the tool of him who guided it, and while there 
 is one stone standing upon another, he shall stand first, for he 
 paid the penalty of your brutality, and was forever the hero of all 
 men in the light of the living, you don't know what it is to be pun- 
 ished, then how can you expect, to be taught any better, I tell 
 you distinctly, that Christ is not the man you took him for at all; 
 his soul was a docile nonentity, and gave way to the great power, 
 which governed, and his life has been perpetuated for its good 
 sense, in submitting to the great divine, that led it to certain 
 victory, you may judge as you like, but I know, that I am speak- 
 ing truthfully: And you are all wise, when I have finished tell- 
 ing you how to become so; there now you want me to go on and 
 explain all that there is in heaven, I shall do so, but as I have 
 the privilege of doing it, and not you, I shall do what I consider 
 just and proper, in my own way of delivering myself; you can't 
 make me do anything, for I am out of your reach, and I will 
 only indulge you just as I feel in the humor of my own accord, 
 that is I am going to tell you as I am able to deliver my own 
 reasoning, and not as one of your crack university students, 
 would do, his language is all cabbage, mine is all my own; you 
 can criticise my autobiography; but you can't read one word that 
 the dead speaks; therefore I say what does your Cambridge edu- 
 
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 cation amount to, it only fits you for the seduction of some 
 handsome woman, or to give you an idea how to talk in the best 
 society, it is all a fake, there is nothing in it at all but rubbish, 
 compared to living a life of eternal bliss: You may get at my 
 work and tear it to pieces, but you have destroyed my thoughts, 
 and written up in eloquent English, what was intend Ji to repre- 
 sent wealth, for as heaven shall divulge her secrets, so shall the 
 earth benefit by such an enormity: For as the sea divides, in two 
 at the wave from heaven, so shall Moses cross the Red Sea on dry 
 land; you see that I don't leave your great guns alone, I want to 
 annihilate their great works, and show you the absurd part of all 
 your grand theories, you say that Moses, stretched his arm 
 across the Red Sea, and drove the waters back; you are very 
 smart at giving away to fancy, and I am just as smart at burst- 
 ing through them, well Moses did divide the Red Sea, with his 
 arm; but he first went in with his host of Israelites, and set them 
 apart, that is why he was able to drown all the Egyptians; and 
 you can do the same thing, providing you will ask heaven to 
 open a way for you to cross over the most difficult past, you wish 
 to obliterate; when Moses came to the Red Sea it had to be 
 crossed ; and in consequence, he was obliged to ask God to help 
 him; thus far shalt thou go Mr. Moses, and no farther says the 
 Lord I want a miracle performed here to perpetuate my name 
 forever with, that is precisely what the position of affairs was: 
 And God said to Moses, let these heathens see my power here 
 again, so that they shall believe still greater things of my infinite 
 power over all my dominions, here is the place to manifest my 
 great strength, you wade in the waters, and they shall divide at 
 your approach, yet, he did not wade in; for fear of being drowned 
 himself: You know it is an ill wind that blows no one any good, 
 and Moses, was no fool at making God show him how to get the 
 waters to stop apart, while he crossed with his army over the Red 
 Sea, you must know how to talk to your God: For he won't sub- 
 mit to your Cambridge cultivated tongue, he wants his own way, 
 in form of sublime address; therefore you have got to tell him 
 what you want, before he will divide the Red Sea for you; you 
 may be ever so learned in arts of fine address; but you won't 
 
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 reach God, through pleasant speeches, it has got to be done in 
 earnest, and not like Jack the sailor coming home to his wife 
 and children either; in a shipwrecked craft: I want you to save 
 me this time, and I'll never trouble you any more; that won't 
 induce God to show you a ship in sight coming over the seas to 
 help poor Jack, clinging to the last mast he will ever lift his 
 earthly leg across: that is not the way my friends to get your 
 God to help you; neither will he do it, though you pray to him, 
 in the most graceful language, that ever graced the lips of a 
 ht^e divine, his supplications, must be understood; before you 
 can get- the advice which is necessary to reach out and perform 
 the miracle that is wanted; you know now, that you are not 
 right, or God would do for you, that which he did for Moses; 
 ?:id you could divide the Red Sea, did you know how to divide it 
 at both sides; this is the point right here, Moses was told that 
 at the neck of the sea, there is a place which is narrow; and by 
 sweeping into the sea a quantity of rocks and stones, he could 
 cross over on dry land, but that he had only to wait until the 
 Egyptians got near the center, and turn the waters on again, 
 therefore it being certain destruction for the Egyptians; you see 
 that Moses, was a man of power, he could be told where to find 
 the narrow parting, and he could be advised by that all-seeing 
 eye; and it wasn't necessary for him to watch the Egyptians at 
 all; they were in the midst of the Red Sea, " Now Moses you 
 let down the waters: " The Israelites were so ignorant, that they 
 blew all the wind off Moses' back, and drove away any sense 
 that there might be in it, you can't fool me by such a wonder as 
 Moses even, I want you to see him as he really was, and I say 
 that the power he possessed is all that can be claimed for it, yet 
 you don't know how easy it is to fool people, with such a 
 strength of intelligence as this is; your own thoughts, have been 
 taught wrong that is the only question for you to master, and I 
 say that instead of you being independent as you are claiming, 
 you are not at all independent: That no one is, and nothing 
 can be independent, for the fact, that no work can be done with- 
 out a powerful motor stem, and that is the great secret in life of 
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 always, and this form of guidance guides all life material; Now 
 you are able to see for yourselves, that it is a question of culti- 
 vating this life material, that gives you this wonderful power, of 
 pleasing God, and his soul does rejoice so much in this exceed- 
 ing deportment, that he will excel all manner of obstructions to 
 prove that he is the superior being, you may feel sorry, that God 
 is not the only one, for you have this power, of bringing a good 
 God to your own side, and leaving alone, the one who refuses to 
 listen to your supplications; and call the one, who will bring you 
 to light and life everlasting; that is he who has the right to be 
 your God: What was there in Moses, that he should have a God 
 to help him, and you have none to help you; I say you have the 
 same specie of God: And I further state, knowing what I am 
 saying is true, that you have the power to teach your God how 
 he should help you to live in a proper way, to prevent harm from 
 reaching you, and he is no good does he allow you to 
 come to harm through his directions; for he is able to decide 
 which is good, and which is bad for you: You may have all the 
 good guides you want, but remember they won't associate and 
 work with bad ones: So you have got to exert your ingenuity 
 to keep bad thoughts out of your mind: And so drive away evil 
 spirits, for they won't torment you once they know, that 
 there is no work for them to do: That is how you have to 
 obtain a good guide, by rejecting all comers, till he comes in 
 form of wisdom; then you say to him I will obey you until you 
 have proved yourself a failure, that is the road to victory, by 
 keeping on straight, till you come to such a difficulty as Moses 
 had to contend with, and you see death and despair sticking like 
 faint gleamings of pure thoughts coming to you; I will lead you 
 across this sea; but you must be guided by me: You see how 
 easy it comes, your thoughts are knocked out of shape by 
 dreaded fear: But Moses' God whispered to him fear nothing, 
 I will take you across on dry land, you do but follow my direc- 
 tions; you may rejoice in being the associate of such a wonder: 
 And as the light is spread out before you call on him who speaks 
 as though he knew, and I know he dare not deceive you: For 
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 withered forever after, because he led one true soul wrong: 
 Which is the greatest crime he can be charged with; what more 
 could you ask of a righteous soul than to follow me; and I will 
 give you light, then do you but destroy that faith, and you will be 
 punished by the hand of the great divine: Who is at the head 
 of clairaudience; this is the secret connection between heaven 
 and hell; and hell must not be allowed to think that there is no 
 honor in heaven, because it is known there is none in hell: 
 You may learn to pray, but you can't obtain salvation through 
 an illiterate code, you must know the truth, before you are able 
 to reach the true understanding: I won't put myself upon you 
 as the only sure prophet, for I know that there are others equally 
 able,' did they have the opportunity, afforded them of reaching 
 you with common sense; and as sure as the day follows the 
 night, this is the beginning to the great fortress wisdom: You 
 may have all you want, providing you stick to true doctrine, and 
 don't abide by what heathens speak, for they shrink from the 
 path of truth with fear, and shrug their shoulders, with dread: 
 You must be wise, and say as Christ walked on the sea, so shall 
 I see how he did it, therefore you are not to be fooled into the 
 notion, that it was an impossible feat: You have only to learn 
 how, and there is nothing in it at all: You may save yourself 
 from drowning, by obeying your guide's form of reasoning: 
 Only comfort yourself that you are sustained by God, and all 
 else comes easy, that is the teaching, which is for you to learn, 
 but you must know how: Or you will surely become a hopeless 
 wreck: Now do you see that a friend indeed is a friend in need, 
 and you must trust to the sagacity of that friend, and he will 
 bring you over the sea, in the same way that Christ was 
 sustained; you can think this is impossible, but you are entirely 
 wrong for the thing is as plain as a millwheel, once you know 
 how it was done: You don't believe me, well you take a given 
 substance, and take a decided body, and drift them along, till 
 you soon reach what is called the climax; When you have 
 reached this, you have gained the point in which you were in 
 search of; that is you brought your mission to its climax, by 
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 produce a climax, by keeping all there is, and driving off all 
 that is of no importance: You see how I reach mine, by courses 
 of rejection, I don't accept any but the pure, I won't help the 
 inferior, and I won't be driven by any foolish God therefore you 
 have got to come down to sober facts; before I care to have you 
 near me, and it is by this process; that I lift you up carrying all 
 the bold fearless Gods along with me; now it must not be for- 
 gotten what I have said in regard to God being the supreme 
 being; and that God means good, for I can't have you thinking 
 that I am the only true God: I claim as much for those who 
 work with me; and you are not to believe that you can't have a 
 God equal to this one, who is showing you how foolish it is to be, 
 able to be one only; whereas there are thousands who can be made 
 to walk on the sea, once they are trained to it, now you see I 
 am making you all believe that you are equal to our Saviour; 
 but you are not, for the fact is as plain as day that you can't 
 walk on the sea, yet, when I tell you how he did do it; you are 
 all at liberty to try, don't you see the fact, that he was a born 
 miracle, His birth is shrouded in mystery: Then what have you 
 that is mysterious to be taught to know what ailed you, you are 
 not a son of the blessed Virgin Mary, you are nobody, you are 
 only one of the common class, you don't know anything to 
 begin with, you are an ignoramus, you are a mere nothing com- 
 pared to our Saviour, you have no rights to be placed on a level 
 with him, for you are not even intellectual enough to see your 
 own errors; you are a stupid useful beast of burden, that is all; 
 now you don't want me to get after you in earnest do you, for I 
 mean to make you understand me ere I leave you alone, you 
 won't come kindly so I shall make you know who and what I 
 am before we have gotten through with each other: you may go 
 now, and get on your shoes, for I intend to tell you how Christ 
 walked on the ocean, you may think I can't but you will have to 
 do as I say, then it is easy to go on the water without a boat; 
 you have got into this pickle, and I mean to show you how it is 
 that you can't get over the fact, of his having walked on the sea 
 without any assistance; this is it exactly, his soul frame carried 
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 lifted him along, aqd he was allowed to walk quietly; believing 
 that he was the Son of God all the time, and doing just what he 
 was told, you see how easily it is done, I won't tell you it was 
 God who carried him, for it was a powerful band of spirits com- 
 bined who had his future in" their keeping: And could make him 
 act, just as they wished: Now you see what they did, so will 
 you do, once it is intended to move heaven to show you the 
 truth, you can't see the spirits walk, or talk, but they can do this 
 too; once it is all arranged for them by your instrumentality; 
 Don't think that the spirits are going to believe you, for they 
 won't, they will accept their instructions from heaven, by the 
 organized government there: And not according to your theory 
 at all r you have got to come into a position, where Christian doc- 
 trine shall be a work of necessity; and not a work of pollution: 
 As it always has been, you can't get at our doctrine, like you 
 could at a mystery, you shall not know anything except the 
 truth, and you have got to submit to it now, you have been 
 played with long enough, and you shall now take your choice, 
 either get out of this paganish system of lying, or die by the 
 hand of ferment, caused by the dropping of the Sun's essence; 
 now take heed for things are in desperate earnest, I won't keep 
 back one truth from you, and I won't allow you to slip past me, 
 thinking I am afraid to loosen the socket organs of that immense 
 volume of flaming fire, hell itself is no match for me, I can roast 
 heaven on the one hand, and I can consume hell with my right 
 of power: you take warning; and don't go after this form of 
 proving you to be without sight, you are no more fit to govern 
 your own selves, than you were in the early history of the 
 Roman Empire, they said we are the first nation, under the 
 heavens, let us bring down our Gods, and despoil all else with 
 our armies: Yet when they had conquered, it was all for noth- 
 ing, they were subdued, at last: and are now a standing effigy 
 of the past, you see what a mighty power can be, and how easily 
 it is crushed, when imbued by the spirit of that divine who 
 looks from both sides of life; what appeared to you yesterday 
 as a thing to be afraid of is to-day a mere speck on the deserted 
 
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 tion of importance that you cling to; and I shall show you these 
 feats, in which I speak of as mere toys in my hands; you know 
 that I can materialize, and talk to you, then why can't I take 
 you to heaven in the body do I wish it that way, you are a mere 
 speck in my power, why can't I prove what you asked Christ to 
 do, when you wanted him to climb the skies; you have no faith 
 in me, I say, that a body can be made to do this wonderful feat; 
 you don't believe it: well it will be seen yet, that our dead 
 fathers, can walk beside you in your homes, and they will learn 
 to guide you to walk on the sea, as our Saviour did, and they 
 will take you to heaven in the body: I say it knowing what I 
 am telling you can be done, and how it is battled for by those 
 who are struggling against paganism to show you what a learned 
 prophet can do: By his own efforts: Now you can not tell me 
 what is in heaven, but I can tell you quite easily, therefore you 
 must be willing to learn, and let us make heaven a home forever, 
 and hell the stepping stone to reach it, that is what has been 
 attempted before, but from want of the right directions it has 
 been a miserable failure, now don't give in and say we can't win 
 a battle, that has been one forlorn hope; rather say as our 
 Saviour did cross the threshold of sin, and come out purified: 
 So will we accomplish this great feat, of knowing all there is to 
 know: And as his soul was pure, and as holy as ever we wish to 
 be, then come down ye saints, and lift us up to thee; that is the 
 doctrine you want to order, and not go on forever saying God 
 ordained it, and man must abide by his teachings; how do you 
 know it was God, he never helps you, and he never shows him- 
 self, his only chance, was when the Israelites stood at the bottom 
 of Mount Sinai, and said we must tell them to keep afar off; 
 lest the Lord in his anger should break through, and destroy the 
 people; you see how Moses' God provided, for not being 
 proved, he knew he could make Moses afraid, and he had him 
 veiled so as he could only see how much danger there was to 
 his being God in earnest: For had the people only known how 
 Moses was taught, they would have held his hand, till they got 
 the power transmitted to them; you see it is by this form of 
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 it by squeaking out I want to be wise like Moses; he was driven 
 to it by fear, but that is not all, it is transmitted, by coming near 
 to a person who has such thoughts as I am giving to you; you 
 may try your hardest at praying, that won't bring you into the 
 condition of being the same as Moses, your God can't reach you, 
 that is the trouble, you can call him forever, and he won't pay 
 any attention; but you just sit with one like Moses, for a few 
 times, and you will receive a transmitter's pregnature; that is it 
 in its entirety; you might get it through fear; but you will do 
 far better, by sitting with a Moses, and finding all the best 
 thoughts you can; and not driving back, what comes to you; 
 you are an ass to reject a God, because he can't approach you in 
 a fiery chariot the first time he makes his effort: Now as you 
 first began to walk, so does the light organ appear at first, no 
 one does reach this frame power, at first pop: It has to be grad- 
 ual and slowly cultivated, or it would not be lasting; you know 
 that what hinges on is pure advancement, and not merely a sell; 
 you are to become a great people for inventive genius: Then 
 tack on this theory of seeing both sides at once; and you can 
 whip Uncle Sam hollow, for he did not grow in a day, and you 
 can't hope to reach him either in a minute: So as faith guides all 
 your hopes, come and see how to realize them in earnest, I want 
 nothing for my work, and you get it without paying a red cent; 
 take time and consider before you reject the man who once led 
 you right, and can do so always, when you understand how to 
 speak as he should; who wants to know what the British Bull- 
 dogs are after: I tell you plainly, for I want to prove you are 
 right in listening to those who hold independent views, and are 
 prepared to stake their all on an invention, that is to reach 
 heaven by a way unknown to humanity, I say that you are right 
 in giving free coinage to men who want to be the most enlight- 
 ened of any people, which has trodden down slavery, and shown 
 the world that she is superior in intellect to any other nation 
 under the heavens: Take back the thoughts, that you are an 
 alliance of Great Britain, and other countries, it was the 
 same, only a very few centuries later, that Great Britain her- 
 self did drop off the Asiatic regions, and become a fortress, 
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 in the central seas, what right have they to an English Church, 
 it was given to them by the history of Moses the Prophet, 
 and yet they set the world agog, by being considered pure, 
 I say they don't know anything at all; neither do they grow in 
 intellect one bit more than the heathens, who followed Moses 
 through the wilderness; your own chances are right here, and a 
 free country, where all men have to obey the laws provided by 
 the States: And you have a chance of reaching God: By keep- 
 ing away ignorant infidels: Who come crawling to you blessed 
 only with a cause, that was begotten of ignorance, and supersti- 
 tion, now listen to me for one moment, and I will tell you some- 
 thing, that you don't perhaps realize, and that is this, that had 
 God allowed Moses to see his face, when he said I am not to be 
 seen; " You stand in the crevice, of the rock: I will put my 
 hand on your face, and you may look at my back parts as I pass 
 on"; Now do you see the familiarity, that existed between 
 Moses and his God; there is the secret right in that very action: 
 Had God revealed his countenance, to Moses: He would have 
 betrayed himself, for he was none other, than the father of 
 Moses himself: And it is for the sake of a Father's pride in a 
 son, that he will do so much to make his throne in heaven a 
 happy one; and the son may perform these feats of valor, but 
 the father is the one who guides that son, it is his privilege so to 
 do: You see how a man may be wronged; yet his " Father who 
 art in heaven hallowed be his name "; thou art thy son's pride 
 and treasure, what thou wilt must come of the father which art 
 in heaven; so it is written wrong, for as the son prays to his own 
 father: so shall he be heard, but as he prays to God Almighty, 
 so shall he not be heard, and as his father is living, so shall he 
 pray to his father's father; for the one is a likeness of the other; 
 for they both are endowed with the same body, whilst the one is 
 living; the other does guide from his side of life, according to 
 the scriptures; He doth move in sundry places; as it is written 
 in the book of the prophet Isaiah; you may look for this, and 
 you will surely find the passage: Which distinctly says the 
 spirit moveth thee at one and the same even: This is to mean, 
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 without him: you see that; "thy kingdom come will be done on 
 earth, as it is in heaven": Meaning that as the earth is guided 
 by heaven, so shall the earth do, therefore your sins are heaped 
 upon you, in order to make heaven a standing menace between 
 you and God: You are not prepared to look at God full in the 
 face, for he is a wicked God to make people afraid of him, and 
 it is nothing but subtility of the maker of light, which produces 
 this form of everlasting fear; you are the good creature, did you 
 but know how to treat your God: For he is your own relative 
 always; and not an atom of mortal form, sprung into existence 
 out of a trap-gun, that could not have been made before he was: 
 You are trunks of nature's handicraft, and nothing else: You 
 think should there be no miracle about your special case, that 
 you can't exist hereafter; but this is just as absurd as the idea, 
 that it was necessary to have the one sure God to bring the chil- 
 dren of Israel out of Egypt; you don't want a magistrate to 
 help you to eat sleep talk, walk, or fetch, your own conclusions; 
 then what do you want him at all for; I'll tell you, you are so 
 bigoted; that you want him to fill that position, for some special 
 motive, that does not come after the right form of reason; you 
 are too hazy, to see why you want, him, for it is plainly to be 
 learned why he is there: You think he is going to give you a 
 special benefit, in some way, that you have not discovered; and 
 when he has gotten into his billet, he takes no further notice of 
 you ; and you can go and make all the magistrates you have got 
 a mind to; they won't listen to you, once they have found how 
 comfortable the billet is: And you can look upon God as the 
 same thing, it is a fine billet, when no other one is capable of 
 shoving you out; you are the sure try master, he made you lie 
 down, beside the lion, his strength was too powerful, for you, 
 and he won't interest himself in your cause, no more than he did 
 for the Egyptians, when he told Moses, to let the water down 
 upon them, when they were in the middle, you see what kind of 
 a God he is: One day he hardens their hearts, and the other day 
 he softens them; showing you quite clearly that Moses' father was 
 a skilled man of war: Whereas Pharaoh's father was a slough, 
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 and more at times before he could reach his son; therefore it 
 was all to no purpose having a father like his; that is the correct 
 way of looking the matter full in the face, and you must be a 
 very stubborn son indeed, when the old father comes and says 
 my child you are going to be hung by the neck, whether you 
 like it or not, but I tell you how to be saved from those men; 
 should you wish me to do so, the old man says I can keep you 
 out of their reach, you follow my advice, and it is done my 
 child only obey your father, who art in heaven always, hallowed 
 be his name: That is for you to decide, not for the father, 
 which art in heaven, I say you are to obey him always, then how 
 do you expect to obey him, when you don't know what he wants 
 you to do; why, that is just where the point comes in: You 
 must know him like Moses did his Father, before you can han- 
 dle his directions; you may go to church, as long as there are 
 any churches, but no father can reach you that way; it is not 
 possible for him even to approach you at all under such a 
 method, and there again Moses' father did preclude every man 
 from knowing the truth; that has been a condition of the hea- 
 thens; under whom he got his instructions: You can't help it, 
 neither could Moses or his father, they were instruments of the 
 one power, and that is a clear case, in which you should under- 
 stand, for when you are governed by heathens, how can you be 
 wise, and how can these people who are fighting for you stand 
 up and say I will not submit to inform my child that it is wrong, 
 now don't fear for the future, it is as plain as daylight, coming 
 along after the dark shadow: You can't help feeling better for 
 knowing the truth, for on one side you have the opportunity, of 
 protecting yourself, and on the other hand you have the privi- 
 lege of everlasting pain, brought on by your refusal to listen to 
 reason and the truth; you can't call this kind of judgment 
 wrong, because it is a full explanation of what there is to appear 
 hereafter, and it gives you the advantage of knowing what to 
 expect, I have been most careful, that you should know all, 
 because you were so foolish before I came away from you, that 
 I vowed a sacred and holy plight, to come back, and tell you of 
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 for the evil, you did to me, and I say that it is all folly to do this 
 in a spirit of this sort, when a man does smite you on the 
 furthest cheek, you reach out and strike him back on the near- 
 est, and give him ten for every blow he hits you; that is the right 
 doctrine, not an eye, for an eye; but a bruise for a bruise, and 
 an additional ten per cent, that is the punishment to those who 
 won't mind their business, and leave yours alone: I will show 
 you how I pay my debts, when I come to them; You shall have 
 a demonstration of this fact, which will open your eyes, quite 
 as much as the gaping Red Sea; I want a clear course, I 
 shall make it, though ten thousand stood before me; and it 
 is in practical illustration, that there is profit, so I will prove 
 this thing to be accomplished by strategy, and not by mira- 
 cle, as your great forefathers have been able to convince 
 you by what you term miracles, I shall prove by strat- 
 egy; and illustrate them to be all wrong, you can't believe 
 it, but you will before I have got through with you; I won't sit 
 on a fence, and brag, I mean to demonstrate as well; you think 
 I am going to fail in walking on the sea, in a body; well we will 
 see about that, I can generally do what I undertake, and I 
 am going to an extreme course to meet my ends; you can't 
 show me, so I must do it now, or you won't belive me; now 
 comes the tug of war, how are you going to shape at my 
 body are you going to stick it full of lead, or have 
 I got to do it where only one or two can see me, I want 
 to be sure about this point before I risk the body apart, from 
 its own spirit; for I don't claim, that I can take any body 
 that has not been prepared for such an experiment, and when 
 you stand there with loaded guns, I am not going to 
 hold you off by any miracle; but I will venture, where you have 
 not got the opportunity of seeing how to shoot, that is how to 
 get at you; you think I am a braggart: Well we will see, before 
 the nineteenth century expires; and I mean to choose a court of 
 inquiry myself, and not submit it to unpractical heathens; who 
 are thirsty for the blood of any one particular body, that is 
 chocked with knowing how to be ridden and driven blindfolded; 
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 and ridden to your graves, by the dead relatives coming at you, 
 by the thousand, and saying this is my rival, he stepped into my 
 shoes when he came to my estate of manhood, and left me in a 
 cold miserable grave, as he supposed, and got into my warm com- 
 fortable bed: You see I am entitled to his scalp to walk over 
 whenever I choose; don't you see that I trace my property back- 
 ward instead of forward, and I say you good-for-nothing son 
 of pain, I will either have my share of the wine and biscuits, or I 
 will live with you in luxury, which is it to be, you can make a 
 fortune now, and I shall make you work it out: but should you 
 curse the old father, for not leaving you more, I will just get on 
 and ride you down the hill, until there is not a cent left to get a 
 pint of beer with; now then you are going to grow wise, for when 
 you know who has got you by the upper works as you call them, 
 you will see me at you night and day, and believe me capable of 
 all I claim to know; don't you understand that I am God, for I 
 can pull you down or mould you over again, just the same as 
 though you were so much clay, and you are not clay at all, and 
 never was anything so ridiculous, that is as you see it, and you 
 ought to be ashamed of yourselves, to think you could be made 
 out of clay, such absurdity is impossible to believe: I want you 
 to go to the happy homes full of joy, and everlasting peace, not 
 a world of strife forever; you can't come back complaining, and 
 saying, that God is an ignorant God, for not showing the people 
 what was right, when he was here; you may please yourselves, 
 once you know how it is, and you can go on praying over your 
 sins as long as you choose, they won't be forgiven, when there is 
 none to get up and say this ignorance is the soul of damnation, 
 and I won't listen to it any longer: You may think of this when 
 you get across the border line, and when you run about, without 
 any wings, and look for some deluded sinner, who has got it into 
 his head, that he is the Saviour, because he is unable to find any 
 one who will forgive the sins, that he believes he committed; and 
 he has been looking for Christ for centuries, and has grown so 
 reconciled, that he fancies, that he is the only one who takes any 
 stock in sinners; therefore he comes to the conclusion, that he 
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 cross: You can not believe what a state of pity, this is, for in 
 heaven, there are thousands, who are quite right in their other 
 faculties; only on the one subject, and that is that they are The 
 Saviour, and it is all on account of this atrocious act: you may 
 be ever so ignorant, and ever so learned, in your own form of 
 intelligence, but you all look for Christ, and it is this constant 
 sell, that impregnates your mind, at form and likeness, there 
 can not be one single thing to guide you, for you can't be expected 
 to know what Christ looked like, and when you are shown the 
 cross, and the nail-maker's work, you are confounded, beyond 
 measure, and it comes to this; that you are trapped into the 
 delusion, of being the especial servant of Christ the Saviour: 
 Whereas you are the servant and slave of an impostor; and you 
 don't get free from this wretch. easily; for he will not release you, 
 till you meet some other impostor, that is strikingly more of a 
 direct imitation of the best pictures of Christ; well you go on 
 with this new one, until at last, you come in contact, with God 
 the father, God the Son, and God the holy ghost, all imperso- 
 nated, in one person: That is they can transfigurate themselves, 
 in the flashing of an eye, well you have another conclusion, 
 brought to bear on you; that is the holy spirit, can do every 
 thing which is imagined for it; therefore, you are doubly dum- 
 founded, by this new reconciliation; to the deity you are in search 
 of: Therefore you have been surprised into another delusion, 
 for no sooner, have you been chained by this new soldier of 
 Christ, than he begins, to teach you that you are a fool, and that 
 there is no such person as Christ at all; that it was himself, that 
 went down, and made a fool of the Jews: That is his idea of it: 
 And you can not believe him, for he tells so many lies, that his 
 very essence is contagious, and you feel the breath of sin and 
 crime coming upon you, with the flying speed of an arrow, for all 
 noble souls, will spurn you, do you hold acquaintance with such 
 as he: I want you to be pure, and I must show you the pitfalls; 
 or how can you escape: Now let us talk on the subject, of the 
 resurrection of the dead, it is written, in the book of Matthew, 
 that there shall not be any sins forgiven, for the adulteress; why 
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 peace, and sin no more, his very words bear out a pure meaning: 
 that is this, her sins were forgiven, because she had faith, in him; 
 because he knew every atom, of her entire composition; you see 
 he did not walk on the other side of the street, for fear her 
 garments might pollute him; I say that a man who knows sin, is 
 a better judge, than he who knows nothing of it; now take my 
 arm, and see whether you have not found a better instructor, 
 than you ever heard tell of before, I can lead you, direct to 
 heaven, without a faltering step, for I do know an impostor, 
 when and wherever he is found, and you can't deceive me; there- 
 fore Christ was right in his words, I love the ideal of my soul; 
 and she had a companion, who was nothing better, than a harlot, 
 and it was this lustful spirit, that was directing her own soul: 
 don't you see that this spirit, that had the power, of bringing her 
 own soul to shame, was the one who had been guilty of 
 that false pride, in the body, and as she sinned, so shall she be 
 made to sin, that I may become acleansed: You wicked prophet 
 to keep this infidel's shame, from the eyes of humanity: Heathens 
 can only govern heathens: and as sinners rule, so shall the sins 
 of the world be governed by its own after inheritance to a sin- 
 ner's tomb: You know now why Christ did not tell you all he 
 knew, he was only supposed to do as he was bid, and it was not 
 policy, to tell you all that is good to know, for you would be 
 wise, and know how to govern the earth, in accordance with 
 morality; there is nothing on earth, that can be used to so great 
 advantage, as the true intellect of man; you can by the correct 
 process make him turn mountains upside down, without the 
 muscle of one single finger being strained in the effort, you can 
 judge a beefsteak, by the odor that springs from it; and you can 
 make ships to lie at anchor by the merest form of strategy, for 
 they are tied there by the power of an unseen hand; you may 
 think this a miracle, but it is the power of the almighty giver of 
 light; being utilized in a correct method, you can't steer a ship by 
 its own guidance; yet you have succeeded, in many generations, 
 to come pretty near perfection; only you don't know how to 
 utilize power, you are as far off this process, as you were at the 
 first beginning; you say the times are becoming so inventive, that 
 
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 a genius, will do almost all the work, without labor, well so this 
 ought to be, for the ass is only fought for his cable, and his tool 
 is an ass at each end, that is man has to work, to make up for 
 his folly, but you cultivate knowledge, and you will see the ass, 
 at each end of the trolley: But there need not be any ass in the 
 middle; for out of gratitude to him who works all the time, you 
 want no middlemen: they should be abandoned, and each do his 
 own labor, his corn can be sown, by the wheat coming in at the 
 field by machinery, and his hand is on the thresher; for it is 
 threshed by the air, and his hand shall guide the wind, to 
 where he wishes his power to come from, this is the way 
 to work, his field is sown with corn, and his hand is on the brake, 
 to sow in accordance with nature's provision: the wind is the 
 power he uses, by promoting this scheme, you don't use fuel 
 at all for mechanical power, but by utilizing the properties given 
 to you by nature's hand, you are enabled to use this immense 
 power free of charge, and it is the rights of all men, to use 
 as much as he wants, and not to destroy, for he has no way of 
 destroying this power, it is used, without any impeachment or 
 waste: And is the custom of every \iand to use, in accord- 
 ance, with right and reasonable judgment; now you know that 
 I am turning your attention to what you think is quite impos- 
 sible; well you don't think I know much, or you would not fol- 
 low with your eyes, what is quite impossible to the sight, I can 
 see but you can't, well supposing I give you my power, what are 
 you going to do for my own cause, are you going to let me lead 
 you into this truth, r jT are you going to stick my medium with 
 some instrument.; that is the question; you know as well as I 
 can tell you; t'nat should I reveal this power to a few, that they 
 will jump at the chance, of knowing how to utilize a power, 
 that will debar you from making a living with your railroads, 
 and ships: You know 1 can wipe them all out, at one hour's 
 stroke of my pen, this is a revelation, that you are not calcu- 
 lating upon; and there are plenty of you who would knife the 
 instrument, that does it; so I must be cautious, how I deal with 
 such a gigantic subject; you think I can't do anything, mere 
 imagination: You see whether it is not possible for me to 
 
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 turn the world upside down, in a few hours, did you commence 
 rough on the one who can direct the true knowledge to your 
 heart, I am not going to disturb you much, and should you be 
 willing to go on nicely, I will help you; that is enough to do at 
 once; a good beginning should not be made fast, at both ends at 
 once, and should I see that you are willing to be taught sense, I 
 will help you, with a willing hand, you can't come home in the 
 dark always, it is impossible for you to be anywhere near home, 
 when you have missed the right directions always: You don't 
 know how to escape, then it is forme to show you; I will take you 
 home, with a candle that never burns down that is, my knowl- 
 edge is supreme power, and I can reach heaven in cane-seated 
 chairs, just the same as in one of silk; you don't have to be 
 rich, and it is not necessary for you to be poor as Lazarus was, 
 I say I can get you there in any of these garments; and it is 
 according to common judgment; and good sound sense, that it 
 is all one way, for the rich and poor alike, there is no distinc- 
 tion, it is easier for the sinner to repent, than it is for the rich 
 to buy a kingdom, there is nothing in a sinner repenting, for he 
 is always at that game, when he has his old garments on, he 
 never knows how well he i.ooks, till he has got rid of them, but 
 a sinner comes home easy; his sins are a11 engaged, when he 
 is turned adrift to pollute, sou 16 hol y saint > wno never knew 
 aught but folly; that is not so with the rich man > his art is g° ne > 
 he is not able to purchase, a place K heaven, like he does on 
 earth, his means have flown, behind, fns^ tead of S°' m S in fr °nt, 
 as they always did at home in his mansion below; you see him 
 in a worse mess, than ever he was in before, K° r he has got t0 
 work out his only problem, and that is to save fiW self > no 2 reat 
 difficulty in that you imagine; but you wait till it fr |>, ut . in P rac " 
 tice; it is the hardest of them all; the man has no J dea ' of 
 what he has got to do, he is sent in with a number of others," t0 
 make a great big sneeze, for it is in this process, that a hole fc>~ 
 made in the wall of a cave, and you have got to fill it with all] 
 the snuff, that comes from your essence; and then it is fitted up, 
 with kind of larkspurs, for the countess to vegetate in; she is 
 supposed to remain there daily, doing penance for her sins, of 
 
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 being harsh to her domestics; you think this an odd practice, but 
 it is a fact, nevertheless; she is there held for a number of days, 
 no count is kept, and it might mean centuries; until some count 
 achieves his spurs, by being drawn out from among his fellows, for 
 some grave offense, committed, for lord only knows what, it is 
 not generally known, but perhaps he spilled a little juice on some 
 sainted father's head, you must know that the heavenly fathers, 
 have a little luscious fruit, that is grown beside the feet of 
 angel beds, that are made by the hands of these skilled artists, 
 in producing fruit of all known varieties; now don't you see that 
 they make a count or a duke wait on them, because they have an 
 idea^, that it is only the very best, who are fit to approach digni- 
 taries; you see that these " old-timers," have got a pride for 
 dignity: And they won't be debarred from the best; so that 
 instead of having an expert waiter, they select his master; and 
 in so doing declare him to be perfect, for he knew the art of 
 making a good servant himself; and must be a proficient 
 instructor; to enable him to serve without any orders; you see 
 what kind of reason these old heathens have; I once went out, 
 to get a dish of fruit, and behold when I returned it was 
 impossible for my master to swallow, he had stoned his own 
 peach, and was unable to find the kernel; So he says, I have 
 a good mind to make you sit on the countess' lap for a week; 
 I begged for mercy, for I knew that might mean my everlasting 
 disgrace, so I begged to be excused, and lent him a hand to find 
 the kernel; you may poke fun at me all you wish, for I am here 
 to be played with, and I can give you more blows, than any man 
 you have ever set on to freeze: I won't let anybody come near 
 me who has nothing better to do, than to let slip on top of my 
 head some juice, that has not been here before, it is hard to find 
 anybody who would not get into a box, should they be bound 
 to wait upon a number of old fossilized saints, who have built 
 up the kingdom of God as they are pleased to call heaven ; this 
 is practically what it amounts to, they sink into more ignorance, 
 as they become older, and they want a man to hold the same 
 ideas as they did, when they were boys on earth together; this is 
 practically what they call sense, because it had been theirs and 
 
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 they could not see that a given point may be changed to quite a 
 different meaning; well now when you come to examine minutely 
 the teachings of our Saviour, you seem to see the entire mean- 
 ing of his work: It was for the good of humanity, and he had 
 to suffer, or the world would have been more than ever lost by any 
 revelation, that might come to us by any one source except the 
 actual son of Jehovah: .Thus you are affirmed of faith, by such a 
 scribe having been born, under a mysterious cause; therefore you 
 will accept it better now than ever before, that the ancients have 
 brought on these causes, to produce an effect, that should be eter- 
 nally lasting; now you don't get much encouragement from a fact 
 having been perpetrated, for the sole benefit of misleading you, 
 into a righteous idea, when there is not an atom of truth in the 
 whole understanding, for it is plainly seen that Christ did not 
 die for sinners, of his own voluntary act, but by the power of an 
 ignorant specimen of humanity: Who had been used for that 
 purpose, and were as much governed as the blessed Virgin who 
 conceived our Lord and Master; this is the proper way of look- 
 ing that matter full in the face, and not by making any mystery; 
 for no mystery exists in heaven, therefore why should any be 
 tolerated on this earth, I want to send you a message, that is 
 quite in accordance with the keeping of my thoughts, and I will 
 do this thing, in such a way as to convince you of my entire 
 proof of after-birth; this is a complete record of how men can 
 reach heaven through an easy path, and not by the circuitous 
 route commonly called purgatory; this is not what you believe 
 it to be, but yet it has a significance, that produces fear, 
 well I want to say to you, that a man can reach the 
 other world, without fear, he may come along, in a condi- 
 tion that will never injure him by any possible chance; 
 for his cortege can convey him and he will never know, 
 till they have him dressed up in his heavenly garments, this 
 is by a process of comparing yourself to a sheep, and leaving 
 your fleece upon the floor, it comes in like a similarity; they 
 dress me in garments of white array; thus explaining that you 
 are shorn, and made white, in other phrases you are nude for 
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 are dressed in a loose garment, that has no covering at all, 
 it is purely an exit method of escape: And is governed 
 entirely by light, or more properly speaking you are clothed 
 inYaiments of white, leaving nothing but the finest thread in 
 texture it is known as the web of light, no mortal eye can dis- 
 cern it; therefore you are forever in the dark as to being able 
 to see your departed relatives; and it is this form of itself, that 
 moves round you unseen ana unheard, thatdirects every living 
 tomb, it gathers in what you don't seem to value, and stakes its 
 theory accordingly: you may look for this till the end of your 
 days on earth, but you can not see it for the reason of your 
 unconsciousness; and it is proper that you should know of this 
 inevitable something which can appear in your presence, and 
 make notes of your actions without your knowledge, your own 
 safety rests entirely on this point, and you can not be true to 
 any cause, till you know what has got you on its body; that 
 is you are transfigured by a complete code, that can master 
 your ever) r effort; you don't remember what you have been 
 doing always, then how can you be prepared for this magic 
 wheel, that has you all the while turning round and round, why 
 you are as flax, in the hands of that unseen artist, he can tie 
 you up in such shape as the ends of time can not extricate you 
 ever: this is the point you might watch more practically, by 
 never allowing any thoughts to come into your head, which do 
 not possess themselves of a perfect conclusion: you may think 
 this impossible, but it is just the way that this work is written, 
 by holding each thought intact, till it is found to rebuild 
 another; showing how distinctly all comes round to the cen- 
 ter where all is started from: you might as well tell me that 
 you can't hold my views onto your thoughts, yet you have got 
 thoughts of your own, why, don't you sift into your thoughts, 
 and make them build you up a castle, instead of them making 
 you build a castle, why, they are laughing at your folly all day 
 long, and are not helping you as they could do; did they have 
 the proper method explained to them; you see I am as proper 
 as I can be, but you don't see me at my worst, for I take care 
 to be in a condition to do this in a way, that prevents failure; 
 
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 and you ought to do the same, you are quite as much to be 
 guided as this one whom I shall call my medium; and you are 
 quite as easy to handle, for I am out all night watching out 
 for any new method of reaching my own in a better way, than 
 any one else and I intend to be first on the list of excellency; 
 so you may sharpen up your own wits, and come on for I 
 mean to be on an equality with the very best that have any 
 sense at their disposal, now then as to this other kind of 
 teaching, I mean to tell you that there is no one who does 
 not lead a duffer or two occasionally; they will persist in 
 coming along at the wrong time, and making some complaint 
 that has no sense in it: therefore you seem to find out who is 
 who, by the cortege they carry: And it is easy for me to 
 tell the man who carries round a bag of sovereigns with him; 
 therefore instead of asking him what cash he has in his pocket, 
 I just pop my hand into his nether garments and find it out 
 for myself; you see that a man can't lie to me, for I have so 
 many ways of reaching him, he thinks he has stuffed him I 
 guide, but immediately we are in cover of our own corner, I 
 tell him what to do, so you see where he is I am able to get at 
 him, and unsatisfy his craving for more of the cause, which 
 has been laid before him; you are the worst man to lead for 
 you don't get on to this fault at all, it is done without 
 any one knowing, for at such times as you are present, 
 there is no whispering permitted, but it can be bounced 
 into the sense by a concussion blow after the form of a 
 gun-cap setting fire to the powder, it comes in a great 
 flood of sense, and then you are helped to frame the 
 words, this is the just method: When a preacher is delivering 
 an address, for he knows what he is going to talk about, and he 
 has nothing then to do, but to select his version of his dialogue, 
 that is he can't speak in a given tone of voice, without his 
 thoughts having tacked on to them the idea that he got into a 
 fuddle, and had to extricate his version in an unorthodox fash- 
 ion, this is the best thing to do with a bad preacher, for he is all- 
 powerful, when he is mixed up, but when he is sailing along 
 without difficulties, his very demeanor is not commanding; there- 
 
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 fore he looks to an advantage in a fuddle, his intellect is mys- 
 terious, and when a minister is bothered he is perplexed beyond 
 his powers, this lends grandeur to his oratory, and makes him 
 speak columns of unspoken words, and his audience is mystified 
 thus compelling them to wonder what an hidden treasure the 
 good chaplain had not discovered by his talk on something that 
 had not been thoroughly investigated before, this was all a mis- 
 take, to believe that there are any hidden treasures, they are all 
 under the mystification of God who made them to believe such 
 a thing, and you must not be surprised when I tell you that he 
 had a purpose to perform, and he did it nobly, for his own son's 
 sake, and you will see by this that a man who dies right, and 
 lives right, will come back, and take his son home right; you are 
 as far off the eternal home as ever, till I tell you how it is pos- 
 sible to get there; and you won't agree to my helping you by my 
 idle words, I must show you how; and what you are, and where 
 you sprang from before I can claim any real attention from you, 
 this is perhaps, a great deal too much for any one mind to under- 
 stand, yet I have an innumerable quantity of friends at my side 
 suggesting this and that, yet they all agree that you have sprung 
 from the giound, at first; and this is not easy to establish from 
 the fact, that you are here in importance, and not of anything 
 that is earthy; therefore I shall explain later on my theory as to 
 your origin: And you will find that when I have got through 
 that you are as nearly perfection, as ever your grandsires were; 
 only for this fact, I should not tell you anything now; you are as 
 a whole quite a mystery, and this is why, because you have never 
 been taught right in the first place, and that is as plain as the 
 nose on a man's face, he snorts, when he has too many nuisances 
 up his organic tubes: And why, because the essence of life has 
 gone up there, and is tormenting him, with their ideas as to how 
 much more he wants to help him along; you see how I construct 
 my thoughts, well yours are connected by a vein of pressure that 
 has not been placed properly before you hitherto; now I want 
 to show you the fact, that a man having a nuisance of this kind, 
 should hold his nose in one position for a few minutes, and then 
 see whether he will not feel a creeping sensation; this is his cor- 
 
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 tege coming down his face, they can't reach him right when he 
 has got his nose twisted, therefore they must get back again, by 
 a different route, and in doing so they leave a feeling like the 
 pangs of an electric battery, this is all you have, a cortege, that 
 does not know right from wrong, well you hold my nose on one 
 side, and I simply ascend into the brain-pan, and hold commune 
 with my fellow workers up there, they can hear me speak 
 quite distinctly all over the head, but yours can't, for they 
 are driven backward, and are not able to force their method 
 into play, for the simple reason that they don't know how; you 
 see now what I mean by digging into the brain-pan, and fetch- 
 ing up grains of gold; or in any other form, called the germs of 
 wisdom: you are as contrary as ever you can be, when it is 
 found necessary to punish you by an entrance of the manner I 
 have spoken to you often about, you are quite firm enough in 
 one idea, and that is self-esteem; this is a fault with all spirits, 
 they find that they don't die, and they have no real dread of 
 death because they seam their souls together, and bring over a 
 complete cord across the head of him they intend to follow; and 
 by this process, they have a complete connection along the whole 
 route of their intentions, thus establishing a presence, that has 
 the eternal ending to this man's existence on earth, and after- 
 ward in heaven; for as he did on earth, so shall he be rewarded 
 in heaven; you know that the scriptures tell you, that a righteous 
 man can have his judgment by the hand of God; well it means, 
 that the rulers will designate him in his duties; that is all the 
 trial you can ever hope to have, and when you have gained this 
 point you are indeed in luck; for you touched the throne of him 
 they call God, and this is the deity, that has forever been at the 
 head, it is not a man at all; but a distinct form of government, 
 that is settled by the highest authorities in the kingdom of 
 heaven: You were once the ideal Gods, when you said, we could 
 come down and play with man as though he were so much touch- 
 paper; his very actions are guided by the hand of him who is 
 prepared to influence him to evil; you are just as easy to per- 
 suade to kill as you are to be led into a bargain of magnitude, 
 and it is quite as easy to let you slip off a bargain as it is to pre- 
 
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 vent you from destroying, therefore you might know when a 
 feeling of murder is upon you, that it is a demon spirit that has 
 you in hand, and is working you for some purpose of his own 
 destroyer, that is he has been guilty of crime, and he has to 
 commit crime through you, in order that he may expiate his 
 own crime, there is the sense in its true light, it is a form of 
 example all through from the beginning to the end; and you are 
 as certain to destroy as you are sure of being saved from 
 destruction; now I want you to show mercy to those who have 
 suffered here, by letting them go their way, and don't you com- 
 mit sin, for it is the right hand of this one who represents 
 heaven, who requires his doctrine carried out; that I want you 
 to avoid his teaching is one of the most abject apologies I have 
 to make for calling your attentions to the true state of affairs: 
 You seem to keep in line with my thoughts, for you know there 
 is always something mysterious happening, that has an unac- 
 countable origin; then why can't you detect, what I am trying to 
 show you by every conceivable light imaginable; you are merely 
 a figurehead, you are not a genius at all, it is those who work 
 you from behind, which have all the ingenuity; that is how you 
 come by this ingenuity that has always had so much attraction 
 for you; now let me see you have got nearly all the points it is 
 necessary for me to give you in regard to your own individual 
 selves; I think you could do well by accustoming yourselves to 
 telegraph without wires; this is one of the easiest methods of all 
 clairvoyants, to seem able to follow, they see the object they 
 want to write about, and then it is easy, so you have only to 
 cultivate the sight so as to see indefinite features: By holding 
 the eyes closed, and commencing to think of what you are after 
 discovering; this gives the first impression to the organic tubes 
 following the brain-pan out closely throughout, and then you 
 get what is called the ideal of a worshiper's folly, that way: He, 
 is able .to lift the veil from your hazy condition and reveal what 
 you are seeking for, this is practically the work of your guide, 
 he has only the assistance necessary in this book to direct him, 
 and you can find all the doubts you have erased from his vision 
 herein contained; now I want to add one more thing before I 
 
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 finish with you; and that is to never let those who know so much 
 stuff about developing mediums have any control over you, for 
 they are all playing for some game that it will take your 
 guides a long time to convey the right meaning to you, now 
 don't think I am hitting at your own genuine friends, they are 
 good to talk to and especially about your hereafter, this encour- 
 ages your friends on the other side to come back and help you, 
 for they are always anxious to make their presence known; now 
 it is enemies such as half-developed mediums, who want to hold 
 hands, and teach you the way to become great, when they are 
 totally messed up, and are unfit to do anything perfectly them- 
 selves, these are the class of friends I consider you should 
 avoid, you may think I am very hard on the spirits who govern 
 mediums; but you have got to be good to do what is necessary 
 to show the public that there is no humbugging fraud at the 
 back of you, and I say that to teach you have to be learned 
 first, therefore I say justly you must transmit these messages 
 perfectly or what is the use of timing your spirit guide against a 
 telegraphic communication: It has to be done in such force 
 as to insure the successful transmittal, now then I have given 
 you the point as to these matters of importance in reference to 
 transmitting messages: therefore I want you to begin quite ration- 
 ally by calling your guides first by name, and afterward by 
 some recognized character; such as the method in which hi 
 first approaches you, that is the way to distinguish one guide 
 from another; and it is quite essential that you should 
 know which it is who misleads, for should you be governed by a 
 spirit who is misleading, you must banish him from your inti- 
 mate vicinity till he knows how to be true and faithful; now 
 then you can not do better than to lead them on to all you 
 want accomplished, by cheering them on to glory by gain- 
 ing victories; no matter how small at first, your success is 
 assured providing you listen to what they tell you is certain 
 to come out correct: and when it is as they have predicted why, 
 you have a right to follow them to their proper calling, and 
 that is my God is true; he led me truthfully, and I shall need 
 no other God but he; this is the pure doctrine, it can not be 
 
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 any other way construed in sense and reason: And you 
 have no right to say within yourself I wish I had father some- 
 body else to guide me in my work, for as the son is led by 
 the parent he should be satisfied with his controlling power, 
 and not go seeking after some other, whom he has heard 
 discoursing on some unknown wonders; now I will tell you 
 right here, that the one who is fit to direct you right on one 
 occasion is competent to guide you always; and you have the 
 right to ask and question your guide and find out his views 
 on the subject before you ever enter into this or that venture, 
 for he is able to see the end of the line, before ever you 
 place. your foot upon it; and when you don't commune with 
 him, he is justified in pulling you round a few thorns to teach 
 you common sense, that is he has to bring -you right some- 
 how: And whether he leads you into difficulty, or makes your 
 approach easy is entirely dependent upon his will-power; so 
 that you don't gain much by being independent as you are 
 everlastingly bragging about, there is no one independent of 
 his or her cortege, therefore why do you imagine yourselves 
 so awfully clever, when it is not you at all: I am going to 
 stop right here, and leave you alone for the present, and teach 
 you about our works in heaven; you think we can't do any 
 work without anybody; but there you are entirely wrong, my 
 back is stronger than yours, and I can move round without 
 any trouble; whereas you have got, to lift up your feet and 
 hop when you want to get along faster; I just have to close 
 out these ideas, and jump on to where I want to go, that is 
 I leap over the southern extremities of the firmament in a 
 whisp of the earth's government; falling short only by the 
 flexibility of my own superiority over you: this is the way to 
 go when you want to by the art that governs the dead; I 
 shall just keep on pounding my views into you till I come 
 right out in front, that is it is a good thought coming in 
 front, and I want you to be favorably inclined toward me, 
 for I never do anything except it is willingly gotten up for a 
 purpose, and I have to wind round, and teach you by a method, 
 or otherwise it is no use trying to teach you by any course 
 
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 whatever; I have been expecting an interval of some magni- 
 tude, for I am waiting patiently to be heard on the question 
 of light and darkness; now you will observe, that the dark- 
 ness follows after the light, and this is a question of great 
 skill and important construction; for a mind that can fathom 
 this is capable of seeing through everything else, it is the fore- 
 runner of a theoretical point, that hangs every other word, it 
 is the sight of the human mind which ought to be immovable 
 otherwise it will never reach this great theoretical view: Now 
 what I want to impress upon you is the fact that the Sun 
 and Moon are the factotums of ievrvetris; they are the mov- 
 ing machinery of heaven, and for a matter of fact, they are 
 the all-powerful machinery, that does guide this firmament; 
 and you can just as soon do on nothing, as to attempt to dis- 
 card them entirely; you have nothing without these two 
 organs, and it is a pity to waste so much valuable time as I 
 am doing, in bringing you to a proper understanding; you are 
 no more fit to believe me now, than you ever were, only 
 I have got you to rack this question into such shape as to 
 tell you in plain words, that you have got to believe the truth, 
 and not disbelieve everything that is said; you must just hold 
 the plain facts, and nothing more, I don't want you to remember 
 this from beginning to end, you can't be supposed to do any- 
 thing of the kind; you are only supposed to hold such views as 
 will insure your own safety, and not go into a question that is 
 so terrifically deep, that a rational man would become insane 
 did he fill his head full of such a lot of facts, as I am 
 going to divulge for your sole benefit; I don't want you to 
 believe me only on points that are just and fair, and those 
 in which you are quite acquainted with, you may dispute all 
 you choose, for I am not prepared to stake my fidelity on your 
 theory at all; It is not this that I would interest you in, I want 
 you to talk to me in a way that will be understood by the many, 
 therefore it is not a question of interfering with your set ideas, 
 that I am dealing, I have a duty to perform, that will last while 
 the earth hangs together, and I can hold converse with the 
 living; you may think I am crude in my ways, but you see I 
 
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 have to govern according to circumstances; and when I have 
 found a means of transmittal you can't blame me for using it to 
 advantage, and I want to show you all that there is to see before 
 you die, so that when you meet me across the border line, I can 
 say I am here, what I told you is substantially correct, and I 
 will instruct some other bright spirits to return, and show you 
 how much I have erred in my delivery; now as to the dark- 
 ness coming on after the light, it is a clear case of pregnature, 
 for it must be so, there is nothing else for it, a mind may 
 conceive upon its own responsibility, therefore it has one 
 thought, and that is it disburse what it knows, and a mind who 
 does not disburse has nothing to hide, therefore the light shines 
 out a certain pure light but the Sun does not require a greater 
 amount of substance, than is necessary for its conductor, to see 
 his pathway, and in this form of self-control, we have the action 
 of the Moon to work as well, it moves in exact accordance with 
 the Sun, and when the one end is tired the other shows out, 
 or by illustration, the Sun is a form of its own, whilst the 
 Moon is only an escape for "the Sun; leaving an outlet, for the 
 Sun to unload its surplus water, and material that is not used 
 in exuberance, for the sun is greedy to an enormous extent, 
 and will sap off all there is, with that juice, that is satisfactory 
 to its own particular requirements, and it is the entire master 
 of all it surveys, being properly speaking an actor on all the 
 earth, it must be fed according to its natural requirements; and 
 you must not imagine, that a Sun is a mere orb, for it has 
 factions at its entire end, that are doing the work of propelling 
 the circuitous motion continually; there is the point for 
 your observance right here a mind is governed according 
 to the construction of the interior of the inner workings of 
 the Sun's cranium, and is a lively mass of matter, in 
 correct accordance with this organ, and has nothing out 
 of the ordinary at all, it is only a fac-simile of the inside of 
 the Sun; this is practically the way man came to be constructed, 
 he is only an organ of its selfish ordinance, and nothing more; 
 you may find this in a correct illustration of a factotum, it gives 
 in to nothing neither does the maker of it; you see how I have 
 
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 got at you, you think I don't know anything, you hold still till I 
 have finished, and I can explain the whole eternal goddess of 
 divinity, she is on intimate terms with her functionary the Moon, 
 and as she inhales the breath of life, so does the moon dislodge, 
 what she refuses to accept, giving you another instance of her 
 capriciousness; for she will not accept of only, that which she 
 is infatuated with; and again you see her to advantage taking up 
 the drink and meat of the earth, and making new mountains of 
 it in other countries, for what she dislodges here, she finds fault 
 with, and throws it to waste on another world as you call it; for 
 the Moon has a disloading machine, quite different from that 
 which you understand it to have, and that is this, the Moon is 
 dropping a quantity of material all night long, and this material 
 is forming into matter; through its style of exit; and it is one 
 great manuring machine, as also a huge monster at watering the 
 whole firmament; and you seem to have taught in your ideas, 
 that there was nothing but clouds used for making water sprinkle 
 so evenly all over the face of the earth; why, it is possible to 
 believe anything, when you don't know any different, but you see 
 me trying to bring down beside you what in earnest is mighty 
 and big in heaven; therefore it is quite possible for me to reach 
 you, when you are unable to see through me, and I want to 
 explain more fully this wonderful movement inside of the celestial 
 bodies, for it is entirely unknown to man, and I have my mission 
 to perform, so as to gain my own history record, and that is 
 before you in the past, I never wavered from a point, or did I 
 ever fail yet in anything that I was engaged in; so that you have 
 my creditable notes by you to look at now, when I reaped the 
 harvest of my confinement in prison, was the only time you ever 
 scored one against the veteran who braved your hated cause, 
 and that is disbelief in a supreme power in its wrong place; you 
 have given me enough to do for that cause through your stubborn 
 will of making man to mourn over his dead thoughts, I will 
 strike you back now, for what you did to me when I was on 
 earth and helpless; and you shall feel the ignorance that belongs 
 to mankind through his obstinacy in his pictures of morality; 
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 say your thoughts are not your own, and I shall conclusively 
 prove it; now do you listen to the very one you imprisoned for 
 being able to prove his faults were more sacred than yours; I 
 shall get you on the rack yet about your Saviour, whom you 
 knifed for not being able to take the cross and all to heaven as 
 it stood, you have more need to pity him, than to give him 
 credit of being your Saviour; He, could not help himself, and 
 you know he did not submit to that torture without a moan of 
 agony, you frightened thieves, you said his body had been stolen, 
 knowing full well, that you are evil, combined to sin, and you 
 never could hold one pure thought; I shall show you yet that 
 you are all bad, and I won't tell you why till I choose either: But 
 there is a good and substantial reason why you are so inclined 
 to do harm unto yourselves; and this is what you would like to 
 know, for when you are able to feel the sin creeping upon you, 
 and yet you are meant to be pure, it is all a folly to let you know 
 too much, for that is the very reason why you crucified our 
 Saviour; yet did I tell you right out how you were annoyed with 
 him, I could reach you on the spot, and that is altogether too 
 smart for you, and you would be at a second crucifixion in the 
 twinkling of an eye; this fellow knows too much my friends come 
 let us string him up; there is where you make the mistake, you 
 want to know everything, that there is to know, well you stop 
 that finding fault in a man for knowing more than you do, and 
 you can have the benefit of his ideas for next to nothing; and 
 you can gather in to your grandsires, without any fear of death; 
 that is what you never knew how to accomplish until I come 
 back to show you, and now you will find me out to be the same 
 as Joseph was a Saviour of his brethren, yet you don't say that I 
 should be bound to save you, though you did tie my hands, you 
 left me out when you ought to have taken me in, and put me in, 
 when you should have let me out; you, ought to know by this 
 time that a genius gets all his good qualities from the help of his 
 maker, and you should never keep that from his' view, because 
 it is not right for any man to be kept away from his divine God, 
 that is he ought to be allowed a certain amount of the sun's 
 rays every day, it is his as much as it is yours, and you ought 
 
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 to think twice when you incarcerate a man, that he is not put 
 into a shady damp cell; for as you construct, so will your con- 
 struction be enforced, and those who have no intellect, can't 
 expect to be found with your microscope, for they are not solid 
 in their judgment, neither do they know what it is that they 
 have been taught, and they can't come back and say you were a 
 brute to me while I was in jail, yet, they can do this thing easy, 
 by sending you a drop of magnetism, that may prove your death; 
 and believe me or not, this is a common disease among women 
 who have fallen so low as to have but one hope, and that is to 
 punish the bobby who ill-treats them, and they can reach him 
 quite easily, by spilling a dose of prepared magnetism on his 
 cloth coat near his chin, this produces madness for barbarism, 
 and can be injected into his eyes, without any apparent effect till 
 it becomes a decay in the intestines; this forte is the sure way of 
 producing disease, for the eyes are the tender point, and may be 
 inoculated with any deadly medicine, not known to the human 
 power; a good deal of stuff is said about disease, yet you don't 
 know the cause of half the diseases you have got, it is plainly to 
 be seen, that your diseases are inoculated, through the high 
 pressure of your own thoughts, and then engineered by the 
 process of a great many changes, of which you can have no 
 knowledge for the fact, that you are stupidly nervous about this 
 unseen hand, and he is at you all the time driving his peg in 
 wherever he finds his road is clear, that is you are so foolish, for 
 this reason, you don't see what it is that is undermining your 
 whole system, for it is not shown to, because you say I am afraid 
 of "Spooks": And drive them from you, when you ought to 
 call them to you: Now do you see where you are all wrong, 
 instead of making friends you go and make enemies for your- 
 selves, and just at the very time you want to be well and strong, 
 some one you have injured will charge your whole body with 
 fulsome matter that is prepared by the atmosphere in its deal- 
 ings with the art of a nature, that is divided into columns of 
 period elements, that stand on end, till they meet the very verge 
 of conviviality; this is a frictionous matter, that will add more 
 fumes together, by a sulphurous odor commonly called the exit 
 
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 of hades, which means the flow from the body, or in other words, 
 it is the matter; that has a flowing tendency throughout the sys- 
 tem, I want you to understand that a man who is poisoned is only 
 incapable, till the juice has all escaped, and it is this condition 
 that produces insanity more frequently than any other cause, and 
 when it is caused through concussion it is the defective part, 
 that prohibits a clean exit, that is the sole reason of it being 
 permanent insanity; so that the great object is to heal up the 
 wound as speedily as possible, in order to relieve the offensive 
 magnetism, that is whole or partly remaining; now do you see 
 the advantage of understanding thoroughly how to treat a 
 disease: It is not for me to tell you where the unseen trouble is, 
 you must take that from the spirit who has commune with your 
 soul, and those two together can advance the idea of clearly 
 showing how to approach this unseen disease, you can not reach 
 out and find an unseen circumstance, but you can be told where it 
 is and all about it, just the same as you may be heard to repeat 
 a message through the phonograph, it repeats itself. in accord- 
 ance with the pressure brought to bear on it, and when the 
 idea has reached you clearly where the locality is indicative of 
 that specific disease, it will be distinctly shown how you had 
 better approach that disease; now it is a great help in finding 
 the correct spot of a calloused part, for in the approach is the 
 difficulty, and not in the remedy; therefore you should be 
 cautious at first, and ask particularly for the injured place, 
 thereby seeking an opening to get out what is in, you have not 
 given me the right part at first is the cry of the soul and its 
 familiar friend, and they are agents in conspiracy, and they 
 frustrate all the skill you are able to produce, because you don't 
 agree with their views, and they don't allow for your ignorance; 
 so that the safest plan is by far the best, and after a careful 
 examination, where no intelligence is found, is to be guided by 
 the patient's inclination; that is practically the theory of an 
 honest medical man: He, does not know where to find the 
 billet except by interrogatory, and he will do well to accept, 
 much that is said by his patient, always being considerate and 
 careful to see that his patients are made happy, for this is the 
 
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 great feature of success in almost every case, and don't threaten 
 an obstreperous spirit, rather do the opposite agree with him, 
 and learn the art of securing his confidence, this brings him 
 down, and helps you to ascend, for when a spirit knows so much, 
 It is wise policy to make him think that you know exactly what 
 he knows, then he must be a hard one indeed should he fall out 
 with his own views, but not this way will he escape, you have 
 him quite tame in a short time by agreeing to all he says, then 
 he is nonplussed by such an unexpected amount of good humor, 
 and will be rooted up completely by you for he has given you 
 his stronghold, and it is no use him trying to recover lost ground 
 his soul is offended with him for being so foolish as to give you 
 an easy victory, and it is in an easy victory; that you have 
 scored the greatest point you can ever know, for you have suc- 
 ceeded in mastering a spirit by stratagem, and this is a lesson 
 worth knowing by all men, you understand that a spirit is a free 
 agent, he can go to whatever part he likes, once he has been 
 instructed by the power that governs his dominion; there is 
 where you are so often wrong, you allow your own spirit power 
 to quarrel with some others who are just as ignorant as yours 
 are, now see the point, and don't neglect it, for you are free to 
 be calm or passionate, and you have that good God as your 
 guide call him to you, and say as I am so shalt thou make me, 
 and as thou art so am I; this is the teaching of pure wisdom; 
 don't allow hades to rule, but instruct and in accordance with 
 this instruction so shall your happiness be governed. I wish to 
 say that there are no diseases, which can not be reached through 
 this form of approach, it is the correct theory, of arriving at a 
 definite conclusion; and may be dedicated to the author of 
 home without a conscience, for as the home sees fit to disregard 
 the teachings of a troubled spirit, it is natural for that spirit to 
 seek another home, and where a spirit is the true cause of a 
 disease, it is proper to remove that one by ill-treatment, and 
 adjust his place in some other quarters, for as the son is to be 
 the instrument of torture through his father's ailments, it is best 
 to banish that father from whose privileges we want a discre- 
 tionary power to decide, therefore when you have a diseased 
 
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 family, you must be watchful of the coming back spirit, lest he 
 fetches that same condition of which he died; and you are 
 afflicted by his former complaint; now you see that the conduct 
 of heaven should be taught as well as the doctrine of preaching 
 stuff in hades: your own welfare demands that spirits should 
 not return till they are cleansed, or what protection have you, 
 the spirit has all his old conditions till he becomes purified, and 
 he is subject to the same failings, immediately he comes back to 
 within reach of a body; therefore it is only natural that he 
 should reproduce, the disease he passed away with; and you 
 must look for these signs and symptoms more where there is a 
 great amount of responsibility; as the intellect is more used 
 than any other portion, and where a father dies leaving an 
 'n.iumerable amount of cares behind him, then it is just the com- 
 plaint of which he departed, that you have to fear, for he is 
 certain to be around looking after that business, and he will 
 bring his old conditions back, once he sights his own familiar 
 face upon another; now won't you get prepared for these obsta- 
 cles, and conclude, that you are better off with a little informa- 
 tion of this character, for you can say to him who is producing 
 this disease in you, " I know you don't understand what you are 
 doing, or you would be the very first to remove this trouble of 
 mine, and as the remedy is entirely with you, I will let you know 
 the cause, and I feel certain you will bring me a messenger who 
 can act for you, and through his instrumentality, we can sur- 
 mount the greatest difficulty, that has ever been known: yet it is 
 uncertain, whether the spirit has this intelligence before he 
 departs, for should he only understand, that he will be able to 
 reach his son from the other side, it is a question, whether, he 
 won't come back in spite of all the endeavors to stop him, 
 though he should know this folly would injure his own offspring, 
 you see it is essential for the perfect insurance of good sanitary 
 laws, that he be brought under this persuasion, before he leaves 
 us, then you give his soul full power, to understand his rights 
 and privileges for good conduct, and further you are teaching a 
 better moral lesson, than, the world has ever known, for morality 
 surely depends on health, and this is one of the main features in 
 
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 propitiating the right covering of infirmities; now you know what 
 to do in the future, don't drive your spirits away from you, but 
 on the contrary teach them intelligence: I want to ask you one 
 question, and that is to be more considerate, with your dead; 
 you don't feel the right way toward them and they don't appear 
 right toward you, for the reason, that they have got no mercy on 
 you: yet you did the best you could yet: you have always been 
 tied down to a wrong peg, for you adjust your cause according 
 to the light you see this in, and you are eternally left in darkness 
 from this cause; I will give you the right course to pursue, and 
 then you may just be as happy as you can possibly do with; I 
 tell you, that a man who dies in his birth is a lucky finder, for he 
 never knew what sin is, therefore he is a most delightful com- 
 panion to have around you, and he is able to seam his course in 
 a true philosophical course, for he has been in the seam of the 
 ocean, without coming in contact with crime; therefore he never 
 had any soul to save, and in consequence he is a very apt 
 scholar, and is able to define all things quite right, for he looks 
 at you, and he says within himself that is a rascal, I see what 
 kind of a condition he is in, one wants him to kill;' while another 
 has got him firmly in hand, asking him to cheat instead; while a 
 third is praying for him to leave them both alone, and come to 
 the whisky tub and drown all of his sorrows in there; you see 
 what an innocent mind can picture, while on the other hand he 
 sees the dotard, whispering his nonsense into some charming 
 woman's ear, who does not care a fig of all his soft talk, she 
 would rather have the one who can brag and boast of how many 
 conquests he has made within the last summer, for she knows by 
 intuitiveness; that she has got to be very smart to tackle him 
 and when he makes her feel this way, she is as certain to run 
 into his net, as a rabbit would in haste to escape from the bier of 
 his own doom; I want to show you how easily a man may be 
 guided, once he is led by this child-like innocence, for it is 
 written that all of those who suffer in childbirth must be the 
 chosen of God: and it is this meaning which you have been 
 taught wrong upon, they are the chosen, for this reason, for tljey 
 never knew aught of sin, yet they are as the angels of light, for they 
 
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 see in life the inevitable struggle for mastery between man and the 
 brute, and they have no hindrance; they can walk out into the 
 arena and challenge the champion, and say here am I to defeat yet, 
 you are not done, till you can show me how to fling thi-s tyrant 
 out of him; you see where the tyrannical monster is at bay, he 
 has no soft ground to tread upon, his firmness is all taken from 
 him in an instant, for the sinner is no match for my innocent 
 babe when it comes to a downright fight for mastery, the babe isi 
 the strongest, for his soul is pure, and he can turn a soft thing 
 into a towering pillar of might, his thin-edged sword is too 
 tough for the tyrannical monster, the tyrant sees his aptitude to 
 lie, whilst the babe defends his honor with the knowledge that 
 he never offended against the holy laws of judgment, and there- 
 fore he is strong in wisdom and sense, for the facts are quite 
 plain the one is full of hardened crimes, and the other is pure as 
 the granite rock, a whole town full of sinners can't make him 
 blush; whilst the sinners are always on the alert to defend the 
 sins they have committed; and the babe goes on with nothing to 
 fear; then you see you have a steeled one of champion build, 
 when you have the babe for your soul's champion; and you can't 
 be beaten, for he will feel no shame, therefore you have got into 
 a happy condition through having him beside you; and you may 
 be after all the very one to torment the sinner, for you are proof 
 against them who call you out in open warfare, the babe is able 
 to judge the power of him who calls himself your enemy, and he 
 is but a mere tool in baby's hand, for the babe just flings off the 
 crust of Cain, and slings in a broadsider, with how do you know 
 that Cain killed Abel: The giant tyrannically exclaims, because 
 the book of Genesis says so; well and who saw him do it; why, 
 God did of course; well then assuming that God did see my 
 friend Cain kill Abel: You are just as wicked as ever Cain was, 
 for you have taken your authority, from a man who did kill him- 
 self, and you are no more pure than Cain, for you are upholding 
 the deed of him who could not reach God by any other course 
 except that he did slew a Hebrew Brother: and it was from this 
 course that history has first sprang; you never would have had 
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 your whole time to investigation, I have got to pick you up 
 where you fell or how am I to reach you by any divine provi- 
 dence, therefore when the sinner is beaten by one of innocence, 
 it is caught by a fly, for the fly is more than a match for the 
 spider, when he is not surrounded by the dead spider's cortege, 
 and so can the babe outdo the ruffianly tyrannical tyrant, when 
 he is sent as a messenger to the living to come under the direc- 
 tions of a higher power, you want me to explain all things, then 
 how am I going to do this great work, unless you give me the 
 purest of the pure to work over: I want a good strong man to 
 do my messages right, therefore I must have a saint, from 
 another calling to yours to do my bidding, this one is able for all 
 comers, and can do the will of his father who art in heaven, 
 "Hallowed be thy name;" and you seem to understand now 
 why it must be better for your own father to select a son of his 
 relatives whom had passed away in childbirth, than to approach 
 you himself, for this is he who had no sin, and must be awfully 
 clever to be near you, for he is bright and cheerful, and gets in 
 lots of pure thoughts besides those messages which he is ordered 
 to deliver; now you have found the Christ that you all want, and 
 that is the baby messenger coming from those who love to say 
 my son I am here to stop that disease, which has carried off the 
 whole of our family in the past: I say that this is wisdom of a 
 proper timed access; for you must understand before you die, or 
 it is a dead letter forever, and you know that I mean death as it 
 is always the sentence of humanity to be rebuilt up or in other 
 words the reconstructed power of living while God shall reign, 
 and not fall back into that happy stage of belief commonly 
 called the scaling of an outer skin, I don't want you to run across 
 this idea, for it is not a question of shedding a new skin, it is the 
 question of scaling a particular kind of the great nature's power- 
 ful problem, that has never been divulged to the man of any 
 generation, and you can't feel disappointed in me for telling you 
 that not even the greatest prophets, that ever lived could reach 
 this point in nature's great evolution of wonders, no man born yet 
 of woman or otherwise has been able to tell what a magnificent 
 search there has to be made hereafter in the search for problem- 
 
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 atic solutions of these difficulties, and you are now fairly com- 
 menced to know what man is and where he sprang from, for I 
 am going to begin to carry you out on to paths that are dark and 
 mysterious, that will make you feel as though your handsome 
 head was not fitted for so many curiosities; this is what you 
 must call the providence of the future, for you are quite done 
 with the past, I want to show you that you are as much out of 
 your reckoning as Job was, when he gave comfort to the sinners 
 by leaving only a consolation to think about, and that is you 
 can look back on the foolish and say, weren't they stupid donkeys 
 to believe that Christ is alive in heaven, and is taking up his 
 time by the myriads of governments that there are there to sup- 
 plement and govern, do you think that Christ is troubling him- 
 self about anything now at all: I tell you distinctly that he filled 
 his position here upon earth, and he never did another thing- 
 after he left the earth, his mission ended in his final action at 
 his resurrection, and you ought to think of this closely, and 
 understand that man has got to rise again, whether he be rich 
 or poor, favored or otherwise, it is part of his action, in the 
 understanding we have gotten from the beginning, and it is not 
 to be denied now, only think of this why is it that man can't die, 
 and you must see through this mystery for it is according to the 
 natural state of perpetuity, and you must never doubt an earnest 
 and pure certainty; I want to explain this in another way to let 
 you know that I am dividing the great with the lowly and the 
 riches with the meanest of them all, that is the worm, he has no 
 right to crawl about, for he never did live except in a whole 
 state of entirety, and you can't say that he is without any here- 
 after, he knows nothing you say, well I must differ with you 
 there, he is capable in his way, and has shown, that he is cap- 
 able, for he has paved the way to a greater mountain, than ever 
 you did, he is the model of his maker, and that is as near as you 
 are, he has grown in his hole according to the construction of a 
 being, and he is as much alive as you are, and always has had 
 the right of formation, according to his wormy theory, and that 
 is a round hole, in the ground, now don't think that I made this 
 to point out your declamations by, I only attracted your atten- 
 
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 ticm to a fact common with the whole of germinated nature, it is 
 round; and you should not look upon this little fact, with the 
 faith that has all along been a failure, that is a round bed is as 
 much more satisfactory as a pitcher of cold cream is to the fam- 
 ished dog who laps his tongue into the water, it is all around his 
 mouth in an instant, for he has got teeth, and they are round 
 by nature^s ordinance, and you see that he does not lap a quan- 
 tity of water down his throat at a swallow, his teeth are all 
 against this form of procedure, his tongue swims round the 
 corners, as though they would divide the meat, into two parts, 
 the first is for thirst, and the other is for meat, now the dog has 
 a division different to most animals, his tongue is an instrument 
 of quite a different order to most any other portion of his body, 
 and that is his mouth protrudes out farther in proportion, than 
 the other feline tribe, this gives him a disadvantage, over the 
 rest of animals, yet in this pure singularity, I am going to illus- 
 trate upon, his nose is sharp and round at the three corners, 
 and his teeth are round at the end, well it is a significant fact, 
 that he is begotten of some theory, different entirely from the 
 modified form of the kind of thing that monkeys are, and yet I 
 said they were of a canine specie; you have considerable more 
 tact, than to believe me lying, when I say that the dog and 
 monkey are precisely the same kind of specie, yet, I have said it, 
 in a way that does mean more than appears to your comprehension: 
 I shall not divide your time into two parts, without I see fit to 
 so do; for as man is the very root of what we are after, I must 
 get you a specimen to devise his thoughts, so as to reach your 
 own thoughts, this is about as easy a thing as all the rest once 
 you know how, and I must illustrate from nature, or you can't 
 believe me, for you have gotten a theory riveted to you, that it 
 is a. God you belong, whereas you are perpetually wrong, and I 
 must put you right on this same mistake, for you have no more 
 right with the theory, that you sprang from God; than I have 
 the right to exclaim my fancy, and say that you sprang from a 
 dog; you see me to a disadvantage, for I have never been 
 packed away two thousand years as a memento of the great 
 feats, that were practiced then; thus, you say who is this fellow 
 
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 who begins to teach a doctrine that has no foundation to come 
 along with our forefathers; don't you see me now at an advan- 
 tage, when I am able to tell you that a man is nothing more 
 than a contact form, of nature's great problematic solution of 
 eternity; you think I am broken down at that little speech, but 
 you just hold fast a minute, and I will show you different; there 
 is not a man living to-day or ever did live that can hold the same 
 light upon reason and common sense as I shall show you; you 
 are no more allied to the dog, than you ever were to the monkey, 
 and I shall show you, that you neither belong to the one nor yet 
 to the other; for you are in reality a portion of the part of either, 
 and you are divided by the nature's great God the Sun: She 
 has taken you out of her bowels, and made you quite in a dif- 
 ferent mould, she does her work by the excellency of suction, and 
 not by force at all; this it has to be clearly demonstrated by the 
 action of her contortionists: She makes a mound to rise from 
 the ground by suction, and she gives every living thing a round 
 surface, through her action upon her own advantages; for they 
 are so numerous, that she is imbedded in a confluent mould, and 
 she circles round and round the whole time she is making matter 
 to grow, therefore she seeks a mould on earth of her own con- 
 struction commonly called the adhesion of light, this is the exact 
 formation of a distinct character, and to become a distinct char- 
 acter it is quite a marvel of wonders combined; you shall see 
 what T have got for you in the future, it is not easy to master all 
 these signs of wonder in one brief moment, and I shall be con- 
 tent to move you quite slowly round to reason, as your fore- 
 fathers have been graduated into a belief of God Almighty sitting 
 on the throne of judgment, and making all this great wonderful 
 firmament in one brief space of six days; you don't expect him 
 to ever believe such a story himself did you; then why should 
 you ask us to do what you can't do yourself; you are only one 
 God, the God of Jacob, Isaac, and the prophet who was acted 
 upon by such a God, I don't want any one to believe me as a 
 God, though I am prepared to show you more than ever that 
 God ever knew; and you shall see who knows most when I have 
 done, the one who led the Israelites through Jordan on dry 
 
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 land, or this one who is making fast to man and cutting him up 
 into all the decisions he can see fit to divide him; you don't 
 know how to look at man right yet, for you were never told by 
 all these Gods, who have compiled this great work the Holy 
 Bible, it is not for me to deride the Bible, far from it, for I say 
 it is the most wonderful book you have got, and I appreciate 
 it more than you do, for I am reading it continually, and finding 
 my way from its mistakes; and trying to gather in from it what 
 no other book gives; you might think this absurd, but it is not, 
 any one who truly understands this book of books, is quite able 
 to re- write a better; therefore you see that I am not condemning 
 your Bible, I say that it is the best book you ever had, and it is 
 the only book written yet, that is worth the translating, for it 
 marvels ill as well as good, and this is according to nature, your 
 Sun has two qualities, and that is one burns up, whilst the other 
 is a drawing machine, which makes all there is, to grow accord- 
 ing to the effect it passes over, now you see that as your own 
 hand does paint a picture in the interior of which there is an 
 after effect, so does that same thing appear according to the 
 Sun's wish, for the Sun has the power of an artist in its confla- 
 gration and when it drives its essence into the deep roots of the 
 earth, it draws out what there is in which is suitable to its hur- 
 ried greed, and drags round a conflagration, meaning I am here 
 to propagate a conflue, that will make or mark in time, so that it 
 has given you a soft face, by leaving you before it ever did you 
 hurt, and thus showing, that your face is as much pleasure to 
 the Sun as though it had essence of some fluid, which is good 
 for it to eat, you are as much pleasure to the Sun as the green 
 grass, that has been sapped dry by the rays of the Sun, and your 
 own face, is quite as good to its functions for food, as the essence 
 of which you live; now I have got at your use to the Sun, let 
 me see why you were born with two eyes instead of one, the 
 Moon only looks at you from one, the Sun has only one, and 
 what right have you with two, it is possible for you to live and 
 do well with only one, then this is a provision of nature, which 
 has always been provided for, it is a sole organ that keeps the 
 entire universe in order, therefore it has to be divided into two; 
 
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 one for the right, and the other for the left, now you can't tell me 
 why this shall be, whereas I can show you where you are 
 wrong, it is a good way of reaching a thing by a circuit, for 
 in going round you come in contact, with the aerial gar- 
 ters, and you have got to move round to come to any- 
 thing, now I will explain this to you, it is well known, 
 that I can see the earth, as well as heaven because I am 
 as great at one end of heaven, as I am at the other, and I 
 should be able to tell where and what I can see just as well as 
 you can go to one end of a farm and tell what you have seen on 
 your journey round, this is what makes a man's priceless sight so 
 valuable, and he has to tell it in such a way as his master can 
 discern his autobiography by; or what is the use of his thoughts 
 coming in at this end: Without they are properly joined at the 
 other, now when I see you fussing over a prayer-meeting, and 
 praising God, and you don't know a thing about him, it makes 
 me feel wild to go and see such folly, instead of this you ought 
 to be acting in common sense, and saying your prayers to the 
 dead, who shall keep on wailing out I know what I have done 
 myself, and those silly folks are no better than I was, and I had 
 two eyes to look through as well as they have, I want to be 
 heard is their constant cry but they don't know how to make 
 themselves heard, for they were not told before they went over 
 the border line, and they are seeking what you can not find from a 
 source that comes not, neither can it come, because it was not told 
 to look right, and to look right, you must know which end of the 
 heavens you are going to before you begin to travel, it is funny to 
 ask such a question, but when you go round your farm, you ought 
 to be able to tell which end of the farm you are going to place your 
 dwelling house, therefore is it not quite as necessary for you to 
 go and say, I want to go under the flag of England in heaven; 
 or I have a desire to come under the Stars and Stripes of the 
 United States in heaven; I say you will find these kinds of gov- 
 ernments when you cross over to fairyland as silly folks call it, 
 but you are not required to question your financial circum- 
 stances, for God in his deliverance of his theoretical views has 
 always explained that no man in his hereafter need heed 
 
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 what he shall wear, or the wherewithal to find his raiments: 
 you see it is not for me to explain why it is not right, for 
 you to use this mind of mine for any greater purpose, 
 than to enlighten ,you on these questions that are at stake, 
 your eyes are before you, then why don't you see; because 
 you can't tell why you are blind there is the mystery; and 
 you are as bad to-day as you ever were, for the sun is upon 
 you, and it has never made your construction perfect, and never 
 will till you are into a different stage from' the present, you 
 are as fast on time as though you had a great big climb to take, 
 your only course now is to reach these difficulties through a 
 sense of what is required of you, and not through your looking 
 through these two eyes; I fought this question right since I 
 became acquainted with my second self, and we two have been 
 working assiduously ever since I crossed over to him; and we have 
 come to this plain way of putting it, that is this, a man is con- 
 structed from the Moon and Sun together, the one is his governor, 
 and the other is his father, they two together are propagators, 
 for they make the whole business combined, and they are as 
 nearly like a man in their commodities as it is possible to find a 
 conflagration, that is the governor guides which is the Sun, and 
 the moon acts according to its dictation, therefore you have the 
 Sun forming man by a concession that has been driven into her, 
 by the Moon flowing over of its natural construction, and thus you 
 have a complete propagating machine, which has its own powers 
 of deliverance and reorganizing according to the eternity of 
 modelizing: therefore you must see by this that man has come 
 after his kind by his own formation, after the constructing forces 
 which remould according to the exact requirements of their own 
 likes and dislikes; they don't want sand, because it came across 
 their path, in the beginning, but they raise up the sand for it 
 makes an undesirable commodity, that has to be used in a model: 
 I will not hesitate in telling you now that a man with two eyes is 
 according to his magnet, he has drawn the two parts, the one is 
 for the egress, and the other is formed by an opening, which has 
 to be closed by a concession; therefore- you seam him together 
 according to the idea, that ha is a whole force, instead of a part, 
 
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 and he is acted upon by the gravitation of a given specie, and 
 not as a complex part of any other distinct animal, he is a whole 
 undoubtedly, for he would be in other words a frightful bearing- 
 down machine, did he possess the qualities of the lower order of 
 animals, and I say knowing it to be true, that man is made of 
 a distinct sound, caused through the gravitating noise of the 
 wind and sun coming in contact with the earth, they two 
 together have made all there is as to matter being material, and 
 not through the Sun alone, but by her action on the effect of the 
 wind in its whistling moments, coming through the essence of 
 life, and producing a mellow mould in conformation according to 
 the theory of grouts internally, that is it must be bound together 
 by grouts of affliction, they one and all afflict the other, and 
 when it is seen that your disease is contagious, it is positive 
 proof, that the contagion has an emblematic problem, that does 
 not beget itself of us; you are to all intents and purposes, the 
 very factotum of the inner organization of the Sun, for she is 
 exceptionally fine in her interior construction, and it is precisely 
 the same as our internal workings, without a single exception, 
 such is the profit of our entire investigation, and you can't see a 
 single item, that is unnecessary about the interior of this gigan- 
 tic contrivance, it is all perfect, as your own bodies are, they 
 have been built in accordance with the plans specifications and 
 details gone on before by the gravitation of the earth's great 
 charter, and that is the moulding up of material over atoms, 
 which wander around the firmament in space, they are gathered 
 together in a similar mode to your own factory system of gov- 
 erning bodies by light and darkness; this is the wedge, that 
 founds all things, it first appears, in the guise of a clothing, then 
 it comes in the shape of a coloring, and finally it appears as a 
 fundamental vein, coming out from the odor of essence, you see 
 it like the organs of lightning flickering in the distance, they 
 appear and disappear, come again many times, before they give 
 life to matter, this is the solution to all your troubles, you have 
 gained this point, and no further, you say that heat generates gas, 
 but you never knew what generated heat till I told you; I am 
 going to begin to teach you now how to smell the essence of life, 
 
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 by being too plain is not to do any good, so I will give you the 
 first lesson, in an easy style, for it is quite plain that a man was 
 not hurried at the start, and must not deal with him in a hurry, 
 should you want to turn him round successfully, and I will just 
 stick him up in front of you as a model at first, for he is a model, 
 according to gravitation, he is the incarnation of something that 
 has no foundation to stand upon except this one instrument, and 
 that is the essence, that produces a factum of itself, and you will 
 quite mind what I am saying, when I explain to you the condi- 
 tion of man at the starting point, for I have got to begin to 
 mould him myself, before you can see how he got into that body 
 of his, and then you must not leave me, till I have got him in at 
 both ends, for this is the way to satisfy mortals, that they were 
 never made at one sitting, and you can't hold him intact, till you 
 seam him together; therefore I must begin to heed what is said, or 
 I shall not be able to reach this gigantic question of making man 
 after his own formation, you think I can't do this thing, well 
 enough for my memory to have served me from the beginning, it 
 is all foolishness to suppose that a man can't know anything 
 because he has not been alive before Noah and the Ark fable, 
 why, his very thought, must come from the present age, or never 
 at all, you might as well state to man that he is a dead cart, and 
 wheel him up a hill, and then let him run right down to the bot- 
 tom, there is the solution of a mystery right there, he went to the 
 top of the hill, and then he ran backward by the length of time 
 that it took him to get there, but no he would naturally go faster 
 down the hill, for his time was on the wheel, and he ran back 
 with it, yet you are hardly able to get the clean meaning this 
 road, it must be done differently, you must take a bead of perspi- 
 ration, and let it drop from your brow, it will reach the floor in 
 an incredible short space of time, whereas the wheeling around 
 of that expectoration, was circling around some time before it 
 became in a fit attitude to drop, therefore your eye is formed by 
 the magnet coming in contortion with the heated elements, and 
 it grows there by the constant dripping off the eyelid, which is a 
 part of the shelf, that leads to the drip, you are in the course of 
 formation now, and you are very near perfect, when you have 
 
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 the eye made, for it is the sole organ of light, and you have 
 nothing to apprehend except this sight, for it is the only organ of 
 your whole development, that need give you any concern what- 
 ever; and I am going to show you why it is that man has only 
 two features of importance, and that is this, the one is quite a 
 whole part of the other, and that is the reason why he is divided 
 into two, his material form is nothing at all, and he should be 
 quite connected without them, for they are just so much foolish- 
 ness, and are wrapped up in essence of scent, for they don't give 
 you anything but smell, and it is thus, that propagation is fast- 
 ened, by the smell of an eternal organ of some manure to the 
 essence of light, and as the one can not propagate, without the 
 other? it must be as this is said, for you have only the art of tell- 
 ing what two commodities together do make, and you have the 
 entire formation, now you don't seam these together at one 
 stroke of the pen, neither do you learn to understand, 
 with one momentary flash, therefore you have a right to 
 come and call again before you can be heard, and this 
 is the way to believe, you have to see fit first, and then it is all 
 that is demanded of you; now I have got you into an advanced 
 state, will you permit me to say one word against your whole 
 ordinance, it is this I want to speak of, and that is to let you 
 be away from the conditions of the other stages of life, and 
 you seem to realize that there is a longing for some distant 
 object, this gives you full power to see what it is that you are 
 defaulting, you are not perfect, for you can't remain content, 
 without you have that gratification granted, and in so doing, you 
 are but the instrument of nature, in its first stages, calling out 
 loudly for the affinity of your growth, and you can't help this, 
 neither did nature work her ways different before man was propa- 
 gated, she went on calling loudly for that which she desired to 
 meet, and she found what she wanted by her own attractive call- 
 ings: Now you seem to see that I am going on all right, and 
 I can have your indulgence to the end now that you see me act- 
 ing with you as I would you could ask no favors of me that are 
 not in accordance with common sense and favorite themes on 
 knowledge, you are as near the truth, as I would care to indulge 
 
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 in fancy dreams, for I can not injure my work by being any 
 plainer, for it has to be all the time in accordance with reason- 
 able judgment, and to reach that standard of excellence, it will 
 be shown, that a man must have the thoughtfulness to explain 
 himself in moderate language; now I want you to come back to 
 the point of the eye, where the lid is dropping over the nether 
 eye corner, and see there the front piece protruding, it is like a 
 bright star when expanded, and it shoots right at you, as though 
 it would penetrate the depth of your own eye, well it is merely 
 watching for the inside of your eye, it wants to go in there and 
 find out, whether it is welcome or not before it requires any 
 further knowledge, you know by a man's eye, whether he is your 
 friend or not, then this is the way you find out, you touch him by 
 the hand, and you feel the warmth of his eye mingling with your 
 own, and these two lights have struck an affinity, they are both 
 in unison at a glance hereafter, and they know by the glance 
 that protrudes, whether any change has come in there to mar 
 their united light, it is the foul sound of a blighted noise, which 
 can change these two orbs, and nothing else, will come between 
 them, you seem to think that I can not tell by these two currents, 
 yet it is easy, for the one has a leaden hue, whilst the other is 
 bright and penetrating, you seem to seek what there is not, and 
 it throws back its gloom, onto your eye, and instead of your 
 eye remaining bright and cheerful, it closes up, and has settled 
 down into a morbid mood, that helps to bring the respiration 
 into a sluggish condition, that will unsuit you for any other 
 encounter with that same eye, for it has shown the seed of decay, 
 and you are under a band of life, for he threw his essence of evil, 
 odor into your eye, and when it was open and bright searching for 
 the light of pleasure; he flung in his stink, and made your eye a 
 nest of his impurity; therefore you seem to have got to this stage, 
 where a man has a chance of being hit unconsciously, for he does 
 not realize that his light was poisoned, yet he had it injected 
 into him by a foul wind, coming through no stale essence of his 
 own, now you see that I am reaching you by degrees, and I can 
 fetch you under my mould as easy as can be, for I am all points 
 on pointed facts, which no man can withstand, you have gotten 
 
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 a very fair idea of the eye from this theory, well enough you seem 
 to say, but more conclusion would help us materially; well I am 
 bound to reach you, so I shall begin at the beginning, and lead 
 you slowly over this grand sight again; Well it is this, you are 
 blind when your eyes are closed, but you see very plainly with 
 them opened, why is it that so small a covering can make such 
 a large amount of difference, it is the sight of light that is cut 
 off from its calling, and when you extinguish the light, where 
 have you got the sight, it is gone, then your composition is light, 
 and darkness is dead without it, therefore I have given you the 
 true solution to the mystery of our eternity, and I have shown 
 you 4iow to perpetually live, therefore I will no further trouble 
 you on that head, but I won't leave you alone, until I have made 
 the whole body in its entirety, and you will find me quite per- 
 sistent over this job, it is not a mechanism of steel or copper, it 
 is the real article I am after; and you are my dissecting churn, 
 for I have got to take you into parts, and make you stand up on 
 end, without any holding, for you are quite old enough, to be 
 left out of the cooling pan, and made to freeze or thaw, just as I 
 have a mind to mellow you, this is quite a genius, who has hold 
 of the bowl, his ancestors were all mechanists, but they never got 
 beyond a piece of tin; therefore it is no use to be playing flat, 
 when you have got to steer a course, that is very near an impos- 
 sibility, yet you have been told by me time and again not to say 
 the word "if," or "shan't or can't;" they are all three bad words, 
 and it is no use you ever going to eternity, when you can't turn 
 round without staining the governments with a word such as if, 
 it is enough to break my back, to have to put that contemptible 
 little if into my book at all: and I feel grateful to you for never 
 hearing me say if, this is my trouble you want to know how your 
 hide is manufactured, well it is this wise, it became a torture to me 
 to have to manufacture a thing so common so I have just got it 
 fixed, you seam it together like a coat of mail, and then it is grown 
 to you like the bark of a tree, it grew there to hold the sap in, and 
 as its functions are very polite, I will stick it on and pull it off again 
 just to seam it to you in its just form; when the reeds began to 
 rustle through the breeze, it gave them no peace, because he 
 
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 had no coat to wear, so the reeds began to climb above each 
 other, and call out I want a seed, to grow me a new coat, I have 
 missed it so much, that I can't stay here without you get me 
 something to keep my juice in, so the wind became a whistling 
 tune, and in it says you have got to case yourself in, or I shall dry 
 you up till you make another; this was satisfaction quite enough, 
 and the reed began to shake and shiver until it begat another; 
 why, should I so smoothly talk, when parsons' sermons they 
 preach and pray of ancients who clothed their wives in rich 
 array, and called them only sisters, you must make an allowance 
 for me in explaining this great practical research, I don't want 
 my book to appear except in modest language, and I dread the 
 accents of those bears, who come and call me funny, for I don't 
 see their names except upon a bare tree, and that is not very 
 cunning: they may fling their accents at me though, and I will 
 hurl them back a Seer, who can profit make of all their queer 
 ideas, for it is seen at a glance, who wears the master's coat, and 
 let him who shakes and trembles alike be careful how he attacks 
 the Seer, for he is taught to wear out old clothes, before he fetches 
 out his new raiments, and I will prove to you before I am done that 
 raindrops are quite as precious as the stars that lit my friends 
 the dear at home, for you seem to pink me on the cheek when I 
 get out my angry fist and flip you over the nose, this is awfully 
 hard to do, and it is only by this common code that I am going to 
 reach you, at all events, you know what I mean and that is quite 
 enough for you; so you seem to stick to me like wax upon a gum 
 twig; it grew there first upon an old stump, and gave the wind so 
 much trouble that it fired the blister, and gave it to a new cot- 
 tage grove called the honeymoon before the sneer, for the wind 
 quite angry grew, and lifted up those roots so true, but oh my what 
 a sight I beheld in passing through the news, it came out of hell 
 that awful raging whistling tune, it is got me by the teeth, and I am 
 going to blow it into you, for that is what the wind did, it hid itself 
 behind the grinding stones of melancholy, and waved it back I am 
 gone to glory, for I am around the ragged rocks, and underneath 
 the heavens,they have risen up against me in my storm, and quelled 
 my angry calling; eternity has got them after me, and I am going 
 
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 to down them all, this is what the angry wind had gotten into 
 its theory, but oh ! my what a mistake to make the Sun and 
 Moon uprose, and said we are going to voice that question, you 
 have been bellowing after us till I am starting a combination; 
 that will see fit to hold you fast, and make you work a decent 
 understanding, and this is what you have got to do, take me into 
 your secrets, and I will let you blow me round till I have got up 
 on heaven so high, that you need not fret and fume at being mel- 
 ancholy, for I mean to help you into something new, and that is 
 to blow me round the world in accents jolly fine, you seam into 
 two, and I won't want you any more except to fume and rage, and 
 make my belly go: for I can't work without I have got a pair 
 of bellows, that are called a pair of lungs by queer things that I 
 shall have to make, to save me from getting on too late, they 
 will time me, and get me up both early and late, for they are 
 going to help me make a funny fate, and that is what you are 
 after trying yourself, but it did not work without a combination 
 that is clear; you see you have been wandering round and round 
 for centuries, and have got nothing except a whistling mood, that 
 turns things round and round, and you were quite a funny 
 thing till I became a peep-show, for your genius to blow me 
 out, and draw yourself in; this is what you did to get me out 
 of tune, when I didn't know that you were so precious to me, 
 that I was obliged to lift you on top of my funnel, and suck you 
 in; you see I have got part of you now, and I will use you to 
 discern everything, for I shall make a peep-show for you: and 
 you can ask me what I can see; then you may come beside me 
 and see whether I won't explain things to you a little better 
 than that whistling roaring sound of yours, that means noth- 
 ing, I shall have to work out a tune myself, that will produce 
 something that is tangible, that is all I care to know, and you 
 can get me into shape, by blowing this way and that, till you 
 have knocked me into a sitting position, then I can be termed a 
 cyclone, for I have got no mate, and you can raise a hurricane, and 
 knock me into halves, one is to carry bread, and the other juice; 
 you see that I want a cocoa-nut, for it is there the illustration is 
 to be found, the one is meat, and the other is food: So that 
 
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 combination has given itself both food and raiment, and this 
 fruit is a fair mark as example on nature's great problematic 
 theory, the one has the meat, the whole contains the juice, and 
 in earnest there is the hide that covers them all, so you see that 
 I have fairly got at your skin, and you dare not tell me that the 
 wind and sun do not make the crust of that fine fruit the cocoa- 
 nut; now you have gone on so well, I want to illustrate, that you 
 are not intact yet, I want to bring you out more on a line of 
 light, for it is this darkness, that we have got to spring a mine 
 on; you can't reach me through a given soft sentence, I won't 
 come to you by your saying, that you want me to lift you up on 
 high, and show you all these mighty giants of nature, which have 
 gone on growing since the world began, I come down to you on 
 one condition only, and that is to display my ingenuity, by doing 
 as I would you should do unto me, and that is justice to the 
 dead: For they are not capable of an understanding such as I 
 have, and you can't tell me anything, for I can just as easy pile 
 up an insurmountable barrier, as your greatest prophets did, and 
 I will show you yet, that a man is the power you all term the 
 supernatural being, dormant for the action of his own conscience 
 is the greatest cure he can find; now do you seam me into this 
 single instance of a supernatural something, I tell you clearly, 
 that you are capable of greater things than I am; but, you have 
 got to be taught, or you don't improve npw, or ever, as long as 
 the world shall go; and it is your own faults, for you don't do 
 right, and you can never have anything right till I tell you how 
 to commence, this is a mistake you all have of thinking that a 
 superhuman being is an unholy instrument, I tell you freely and 
 fairly, that a supernatural commodity, is nothing but a thing that 
 is in accordance with the natural glow of light, and it is not a 
 machine to be held by any distinct understanding, for it is like a 
 gale of wind, it has a sudden turning point, and must come into 
 such an advantage, before it ceases to follow on; now do you 
 see what I am doing this for, why, the world has to see the 
 point, or they can't stop; do you see that a mind is a machine, 
 and it is governed by this something that is caused through the 
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 that there is some devilish influence at work, your own theory is 
 right, except in this particular, and' that is the idea of you being 
 guided by a devilish influence, it is plain proof; that you are 
 under an influence, that wills you evil, then don't come and say 
 that my soul is troubled, rather find out what it is that troubles 
 the soul, and then do as the wind and Sun did, rise up in con- 
 clave, and discuss these questions together, and beat each other 
 till at last the strongest shall predominate, as they did in their 
 mastery for power; I say you have got the same footing here, 
 you shall say my soul is troubled by an influence, that has 
 sought out a master, and it is going to survive this struggle, and 
 come out the greatest power of the two, otherwise it shall sweep 
 my path clear; and I will be conqueror and it shall know my 
 power, which is the elements, which govern my light: And this 
 is the power which you must understand is not animal magnet- 
 ism, as theorists, have designated, but it is the afterbirth of light, 
 of the soul-sounding eternity: which is the communion of the 
 tremendous arabic forces come into light through its quiet waving 
 of the winds, in germinating the powers of immortality; there is 
 the theory for you, not as it is said, that gravitation is the prime 
 ruler of might, no given surface is quite what it looks, and 
 therefore the Sun and wind in unison combined to go hand in 
 hand together, and they germinate this great will, by soothing 
 the ruffled edges, till at last the Sun has drawn a climax, and 
 they together are one combination: And the wind is lulling to 
 sleep whilst the Moon is pouring its balm upon those troubled 
 scenes, you see the morning's dew lit up by a gentle breeze, 
 and the summer sky is radiant with pleasure, for why is it so, 
 there you have again fallen foul of that mysterious something, 
 and I too dull to exclaim I am cotched; as the old man does 
 when he sees his niece in the arms of her lover; no sir, I appre- 
 ciate their warmth, and say no again I am your friend and I 
 feel my great manipulating powers are as valuable as the scent 
 of sweet odor; your hearts are linked together by that fatal press, 
 and it drags you nearer, for I in my own way have leaned upon 
 my summer season, with the same glowing pressure, and I will 
 bless you by the same lips that joined my hands in times gone by, 
 
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 love on sweet maiden and youthful scion of my wondrous work 
 of art: You are my joy and pride, it is not meat that I ask 
 from you, but the essence from your bodies, which delight my 
 soul, Goddess of divinity has no greater charm for me than this 
 pair walking side by side in the summer morning, each in his 
 charms alike arrayed, tell them true my boy and girl, you are 
 carved by my own image, for as the Sun doth shine upon 
 you, she is welcomed by every living creature; and you 
 are the carnal blessings of my own great joy, God bless 
 her noble face, she is gladdening hearts, and meeting the 
 summer breezes full upon her brow; this is the entire 
 joy of a Moon-governing body over that radiant mistress 
 the Sun; which is you all know the mother of germination: 
 She is qualified in every way to be an established matron, 
 she is the mother of our good salvation, she is the 
 mother of everything there is, and she is our all: I have 
 said it, and I won't retract for any theory on earth, now my 
 soul is saved by this one clear avowal, and I say I am as much 
 as saved by this clear explanation of this contraction of mar- 
 riage between the heathens, as ever it is possible to show you, 
 and it is no more sin to be an unmitigated father of this great 
 germinating machine, than it is to be the begotten of a misal- 
 liance, you must obey the laws of your father who art in heaven; 
 and you are bound to respect the laws as laid down by his germi- 
 nating propensities; but you will do the will of him who sent me, 
 and that is to be just in your enlightened discrimination, for there 
 is no pollution in our makers, and they should know what is 
 right and proper, since they govern all, therefore you see nothing 
 wrong except in a great while, and that is the mother is troubled 
 in herself, and she has a bad head-dress once in a great many 
 seasons, this is the flatulency of cause and effect on her constitu- 
 tion, which is the right method of expression, in this theory, for 
 she is faced by a providential circumstance common in the 
 interior of all mammal tribes, and it is this that causes her face 
 to darken, you are suspicious of me, but I am telling you truly; 
 whereas you have doubts, I have facts and proofs, that will here- 
 after remove these quaint ideas of yours, this is the way to look 
 
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 at matters straight in the face, and not have you calling a super- 
 stitious name, when it is as necessary as the life we breathe; you 
 can't stick a pin into my throat, when you can't find my throat, 
 well you can do this to my medium, and I have got to be careful 
 on his account, or I would soon show you that I am able to teach 
 you in such a way .as would convince you right off; this is not an 
 argument for a coarse kind of juggler, I have got to set you 
 right on every point, you have to-be told not only of the trick, 
 but how it is done, and all there is in it, now what you are going 
 to find fault with, I might consider essential to this work during 
 the centuries that are to follow, and I am not writing for you 
 alone, I am writing a perpetual work; that is going to be the 
 means of making heaven and hell combine, and effect a settle- 
 ment about the differences there are at the present time existing 
 between us; you can't say that I have no right to come here, and 
 print such a book, for I have the sanction of the most high 
 judges, who, are writing my work down, for the use of heaven, 
 and you know that it will be adopted there as an established 
 fact, that you are against us, and we are going to seam our souls 
 together, and frustrate your scheme of knifing this one we call 
 ours; now we are not going to quarrel with you, but we have a 
 large number of works to show you besides this book, and it is 
 our duty to threaten; for you can't expect us to stand quietly by, 
 and see a number of fanatics use violence: And I promise you 
 Vengeance in a way that you least at all expect it, should you do 
 anything to this machine of ours; for we might not get any other 
 who will accept what we say, and write it as distinctly; you must 
 remember that our machine is a peculiarity; and can't be replaced 
 in perhaps this next thousand years, therefore we want a man to 
 be careful who has got this idea of shooting on his brain, for we 
 intend to punish the one who attempts anything against this 
 body; you are gross at all that is pure, and I say you don't 
 understand how to be taught, for you have never had any instruc- 
 tions, that amount to anything of valuable compilation; therefore 
 it is essential that you don't put on that murderous cap, and say 
 this one has got too many points at us, let us kill him, to prove 
 that he is human; now that is the doctrine of your fanatics, they 
 
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 won't do anything for you themselves; yet they are ready to run 
 the knife in to see whether it is a genuine body or not, well you 
 see that I do declare it to have a similar body to that of your 
 own, only with one exception, and that is this, that it is a 
 thousand years and more ahead of your common souls; this is 
 the difference my friends, you are behind, because you use the 
 knife instead of the grains of precious jewels; that might be 
 yours, when you keep that murderous hand quiet; there is noth- 
 ing more easy than for the hand of time to reach out and help 
 you along with every difficulty, that you may inherit, from a bad 
 system of knowledge, that has been given to you, with the very 
 best intentions, and it is for you to remain quite passive: and let 
 a flood of sense be your guidance, and not by a fantastic folly 
 prevent it coming, for you know quite well that as the time rolls 
 on my theory will proclaim itself by the throw of system; it is 
 bound to come to the light of man in time that he is the center 
 of attraction; and must be useful as a pulverizer of the gorgeous 
 arrays that are pleasing to his father, which is the exact require- 
 ments, that have the essence of life, which are used for the scent 
 of flaming the heavens, and are gradually consumed every hour 
 by that splendid array of sunshine, which is your sole benefac- 
 tress; thus, you see that it must be that she foresees the life of 
 her own judgment, and has willed everything according to her 
 eternal powers, which are the same as the divine maker, which 
 you have always worshiped; it is the same precisely, only that 
 the intellect of man is not capable of discerning the one from 
 the other; your God is a great God, whilst mine in picture is pre- 
 cisely the same, these miracles you have reference to in your 
 scriptures are nothing more than plain facts, by wonderful 
 experiment on the effect of spirit over matter, and you see that 
 the spirit is the ruler sublime, and not the matter; now I will 
 name you quite nicely, you are a superstitious people, for why, 
 because you are afraid, and why, because you don't see right, 
 this is why, and when you see right, you won't be superstitious, 
 for you can see that judgment seat, and it will be happiness you 
 will call it, instead of a throne of terror; I say this distinctly 
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 sec, for your sight is dimmed by the fluctuating weather, you see 
 imperfectly, for the fact, that an air is passing you that catches 
 the breath, and prohibits you from calling it anything, and you 
 seem to be in a daze, for there is nothing that helps you out of that 
 stage, it is the effluvia of the currents, that cross between the wind 
 and the air currents that are constantly filling with atmospheric 
 currents; that contain the elements, that carry up the water to 
 the sun, this is what causes your blindness; and but for this, you 
 could carry more current of atmospheric elements, than you could 
 be made different, and that appears to be the standing power, 
 and has been for seventy or a hundred centuries, for at the time 
 of our Saviour, it was quite common to be able to seam a mist 
 together, and lift it over our heads, and call it a cloud, well now 
 this can only be done by metallic pressure; and not through the 
 acting forces of our enlightened fathers, well to demonstrate this 
 more fully, it is easy to show you this cloud, but you must have 
 a sky that is leaden first, or it can't display the same amount of 
 effluvia, as it would otherwise have been brought to seem to suit 
 the peculiar parts the ancients used to play in increduling their 
 subjects into awe; I want to tell you how this is done, and I am. 
 going on by degrees to it, but you are so just atguessing; that I 
 like to hold back from your eyes, till I have made an impression 
 on your intelligent forces; now the, right way of seaming clouds 
 together, is to talk them into it, and you know that a scandalizing 
 fiend is quite capable, of reaching out, and fetching a black cloud 
 to hang over any one's head, he, first says you are a pretty 
 fine specimen of humanity; did your forefather out of a sweet 
 little fortune; and then he goes on to tell how he did it, 
 you know very well that he is lying, yet it is so interesting, 
 that you have caught his contagious ways, and you seam 
 his story together, till you have made the black cloud 
 stationary there; I am illustrating now the difference between 
 the days of Moses, and that cloudy pillar that traveled across 
 the wilderness as a land mark for the Israelites; well now 
 you are going to raise up a question, and say I am sure he 
 can't surmount that obstacle, yet you seam me together, and I 
 have it: there is nothing in that miracle at all: It is plainly this 
 
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 your ancestors were governed by a strong government; and they 
 just had orders, to prepare enough effluvia to show this sign in 
 the sky and keep it where Moses, and the Israelites could make 
 a bee line across the country, for they were wandering four 
 hundred years; and God was teaching them all the while, he 
 never told them that he had them playing the stupids, or they 
 would not have done as he wanted them, he could guide them 
 where he willed them to go, but they never doubted him when 
 that cloud was there, and why, because it was a covenant between 
 them, then will you permit me to make a covenant with you; I 
 guess not as the Yanks have it, you are too smart for even the 
 boastful American, he would run should I come down to him in 
 a fiery pillar; and I would be left all by myself, yet he could 
 understand me did I call him up to me, and show him how to 
 make that pillar, and he would appreciate me too, for the 
 American is a genius common only in his own country, abroad 
 he far excels all that come in his way, and why should he not 
 know how to seam a cloud together; his very manner enables 
 him to seam his soul into halves, for he looks to his own charac- 
 ter first, and this is the great thieving propensity common to 
 man; for he gets this from the clouds they gather in together, 
 for it is his natural constitution to mellow the wind, and drop a 
 dish of cotton into a yarn; this is the way to spin a yarn; by 
 picking up the ends first and then placing them together so as 
 they knit, now you have it the wind knits the clouds together, 
 and by fanning the air by compression you have discovered the 
 art of making a cloud; now assuming that a gust of air came 
 and blew the pillar off Moses' tabernacle, it would take just a 
 movement of the air to move that wind in an opposite direction; 
 for the essence of life is no more good once it is cut, by the 
 effluvia of mould, and this phosphorescence is rare stuff for 
 pitching the wind either back or forward, so that a host of spirits 
 can take the wind in any direction they choose; you may laugh 
 and think I am joking, but it is spirit power that handles all 
 these forces, and it will be shown much greater hereafter, than 
 it has been in the past, you are quite just in saying that wind is 
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 there is*; It is first got by the essence of light on air, and then it 
 is ripened into a trance-metallic attitude by the connection with 
 gasogine which rises from the outer edges of manure; heaped 
 up there by the elements of cancuthercul, it is commonly termed 
 the affection of nature, which are to be found in all things dis- 
 tinct or otherwise, therefore you seldom seem to get it in a gift 
 of explanatory proper; therefore it must be mildew in its first 
 stages, and then it comes from that to lice or openings in the 
 tomb, which raises up the dead to life, you see I have brought 
 you face to face again with dead atoms, clothed in nothing, yet 
 they came to life in a natural way, and as you follow me farther 
 on in my career of dissection you will find me always throwing 
 away the useless, and picking up the germinated dead: What 
 you call nothing is just what I find to be the exact necessity of 
 this self-establishing whole: I have been very careful to avoid 
 any contact with the life we lead in heaven, except to show you 
 our government in its theoretical way of causing crimes to be 
 committed for the benefit of example, etc.; now I want to show 
 you that the middle course is to bring nature to its highest 
 gravitation, by the best method known; and that will be found 
 essential and quite right too, for as man remoulds, he wants 
 something to entertain him, and he has to be kept employed still 
 after his departure from his material surroundings; therefore he 
 is bound to choose some occupation other than being a groom or 
 a mountebank, you find him hard at work on the other side, just 
 the same as he was, in the body; only this time he is working for 
 any way that is explained to him, he does not get off and go his 
 own road as you call it, his actions are under surveillance; and 
 he will have his thoughts led about on a string, not connected 
 by his own external appendage, as you seem to think yours are, 
 his are caught in a government trap, and they are sent round at 
 will by the artful instructors, who have traversed this wide uni- 
 verse many centuries before; and they are under the regime of 
 others who went on before them; so you have caught onto a 
 string at the tail-end as it has been made plain to you; now I 
 want to show you something that I have been calculating upon 
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 great line, and it is clear profit, for it can be demonstrated in one 
 single stroke of the pen, and that is this, we want to cut the 
 string in two halves; and you take the one part and I will manipu- 
 late the other; you have the first string, and I have the second; 
 now your string is cut before mine, for you hold the beginning, 
 now who holds heaven and hell apart, you do clearly; and I 
 must make you see this, or I shall be compelled to blind your 
 eyesight still more till you have caught the right theory of what 
 is wanted of you, now just take for instance your own common 
 theory; and when you hear it from your own common platforms, 
 coming from those who are able to talk spiritualism by the yard 
 to you, and they get up a story of the few grains of wheat, it is 
 quite logical in its way, and you seem to wonder about it, well 
 now let me talk to you on this little subject from my point of 
 view; you sow a field with wheat, and the field is clean, yet there 
 does spring up some tares in that field, the ancients say that the 
 serpent in man did come through that wheat field and sow the 
 seed of dissension, commonly known as the grab of the devil; 
 now I don't put it in that form, it is the coward who sowed the 
 seed of evil, for he is afraid of his own inferiority, and he dared 
 not look at God in the face, and say why, did those tares spring 
 up in that clean field of wheat, you see where I strike the ancient 
 between his back and his front, he was a coward, and there has 
 not been anything except cowards ever since, you see me explain 
 that phenomena, it is as the soap upon glue, it is the effluvia off 
 the ground, that causes the change in the wheat, it is the essence 
 in its entirety, that grows the glue, and the essence together, and 
 makes a passive discord, between the wheat, and the mildew, it 
 gives to the one, and takes away from the other, and will leave a 
 distinct difference, for it is in accordance with nature, I want you 
 to take a sheaf of oats, in one hand, and a sheaf of barley in 
 the other, the one is classed as the oats, and the other is found 
 with hair on the end, why so, because the ground did design it, 
 for the barley was carried off in the noonday sun, and it went 
 into the sun by its essence, and it was driven through the interior 
 of the sun, and then it came down at midnight in a fall of dew, 
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 out any hair, and why because it had a distinct round invisible 
 shape, and was through time and changes passed along under 
 the rays of the sun, and from the essence forming through its 
 revolutionary course driven round inside the sun, till it was 
 emaciated, and thrown out at the tail end of the sun which is the 
 moon, and it has always been the call of essence, to be distrib- 
 uted through the outer edges, by constant pressure, that is caused 
 through the overloading of the sun, which has to be dislodged, 
 every night, just as the sun has to be fed each day, now you are 
 awfully smart, why didn't you find this out before, and not allow 
 the old infidel to give you a black eye; He, has many a one 
 to give you yet, for that imprisonment in jail for trying to 
 explain reason to you; you may suffer his ignorance, but you 
 have got to be put in order, before he forgets that insult, and 
 though ten times ten shall say he is wrong, still he will convince 
 the world of the errors they have made, and I say it again, you 
 dare to imprison any medium: that I have the power over for 
 just and equitable causes, and I will stretch the neck of time but 
 you shall suffer for your misplaced folly; you are here but I am 
 all powerful now, and you may kill those I love but you shan't 
 escape though ten thousand held you by the hand, you are as wax 
 in my hands in heaven, and I will do to those of them who injure 
 me as I would to him I love, keep the one I promised justice to, 
 by my aid, to wreak vengeance on them I hate, Tom never fails 
 — you mark my words well; for I can in majestic form deliver 
 judgment as the prince of hate, you love my instrument, and 
 your path is plain, I will guide you and instruct you, and I will 
 lift you ahead of man by the generations unaccountable, you are 
 the very picture of misery now after death, I will make you 
 rejoice as though you were seated at your marriage breakfast; 
 and now it is plain, that I have you with me, for I have explained 
 many of your mysteries away, and you have only got to trust 
 me, and I shall make all the rest, as clear, as the first blush, on 
 the maiden you call wife for the first time; she hears that ominous 
 word, she sends the glow of health vibrating through her honest 
 form, and you know she is pleased with an appendage, which is 
 the rights of all honored of her form, I want to show you by 
 
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 this that I am not mischievous, but I have an object to bear out; 
 and in order that I may fully bear this point to its ultimate issue, 
 it must be dealt on a throw of sentiment, you see the maiden 
 blush at that faultless word, then let her know the reason why, it 
 is right and proper that she should have her pleasure gratified, 
 and she is the one who ought to know, why, she does thus blush- 
 ing contest the frame of her cortege; she sends back to them a 
 message of gladness, that is more fruitful of good, than ever your 
 vain outer glow of compliments can ever enhance her value; now 
 you see that her body is under the protection of an honest 
 power, who reiterates those sentiments, and say to each other we 
 may trust her now, she has proven; for in that simple blush there 
 is the pride of vanity displayed, she is honored, and we have 
 seen it from our side of life, and we judge her according to those 
 who have brought her scathless to the altar, and she is a favorite 
 with the assemblage, for they all touch the cord of each other, 
 and it is signalized through the assemblage, that mine hostess is 
 worthy of her court, and she is the gem of the hour in conse- 
 quence; But the fame of the one who takes the matter without 
 consideration is the one we seek to destroy, for she hath shown, 
 that man is a commoner class of humanity and is more than ever 
 to be pitied for making such a common thing his better half; his 
 name is coupled with an actress, who sees men only for her com- 
 fort, and it is thus with the two kinds of wheat, the one is black, 
 and the other is white, it shines of two odors, the maiden who 
 blushes is the white bread, her life has kissed the Sun who 
 came and spared her name by a kiss of gladness; the other is 
 the one bears false fruit, she came with a cold glassy eye, and 
 had no cheek turned toward the glow of welcome, her hide was 
 tough, and it seasoned oddly beside* that glowing bliss, it was 
 caused through an inferior assembly, and never could turn back 
 again and feel that pressure of pleasure, her eye did not know 
 what glowing meant, her soul does not see the rhetoric force of 
 nature, and she is a withered flower from that day forever, and 
 why should she be the doom of descension, for she had this bad 
 influence round her, which you must understand is life eternally; 
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 yet they held back from her the very natural consent of a natu- 
 ral glow; and thus she became morbid from that hour to the day 
 of her departure to eternity; and will always be the black sheep, 
 wherever she wanders, for it's this that made her the black sheep, 
 she was moulded, as the wheat, and when she germinated, the 
 other beside her was the favored of the sun's rays, one was 
 coming forth on the dull and shady side of the essence, whilst 
 the other one did fall more fortunate, and arose up first, and 
 came with a glowing, that pregnated in philoprogenitiveness; and 
 was taken aloft, in a sooner attentiveness; whilst the sec- 
 ond bride came on the shady side, and had lost the glow, for 
 it did not strike the second one alike, and was weaker, and had 
 no vim left; its gorging had been satisfied by its essential require- 
 ments, therefore it could not be as good, as the first and favored 
 root, and in consequence, it had to stand behind and seep out an 
 existence on the cord, that hung behind; therefore it is shown 
 that a stone on the back part, in coming through the surface, is 
 invariably dun-colored, for why is it thus, because it has left the 
 heart, and is crawling slowly out to be warned by its creator, and 
 it becomes better looking after the Sun has looked upon it favor- 
 ably a couple of days, and a man who should help his stone 
 ought to make her sit on his lap, till she did feel the rays of 
 moisture from the essence of his manly bosom; thus striking out 
 that cold stone which had settled round her cord, and made her 
 a sting for a hard-natured influence; Now you want me to explain 
 this hard circumstance a little further, it is this wise a certainty, 
 that a man can't see very far, and he never did know much, there- 
 fore it is a little doubtful whether he can be made to know what 
 all of this does mean, it is hard to find out how much you folks; 
 would really appreciate, a common theory; for it is after all but a 
 very simple thing that you can not comprehend; and I have got 
 to explain it in so many different fashions, that it might bewilder 
 some common journalist's ideas; He is of course a magistrate 
 in his theory, and he is a judge in his capacity, but he never 
 knew why he became a journalist, and this is what I am going to 
 knock him over with; He, says he has been to school, and 
 learned the art, well who was the first one who attempted jour- 
 
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 nalism, why, anybody knows it was our great prophet Moses; 
 when he did that perish for forty days, and forty nights in the 
 mountain of Sinai, well he was taught by God, and no school 
 taught our God, according to the learning of Moses; now I 
 want to draw your attention to the fact, that Moses had a good 
 thing to do, when he did that first journal business; he only laid 
 there on the broad of his back, and never did that writing at all: 
 It was done by the instrument known as metallic structure, or in 
 other words it fell from the clouds, that surrounded that mountain, 
 and not by the hands of anything supernatural at all, you think 
 may be that I am off my base, but I can explain it quite well, 
 Moses was an out and out Medium, and he could be dealt 
 with in any way that it was thought best to get at the Israelites; 
 so we can not now dispute his passion for his God, when he went 
 into the Mountain, knowing that God was to deal with him as he 
 thought fit, and he allowed this God to entrance him, and after- 
 ward the whole thing is no trouble, for he could use Moses just 
 as he pleased and there was no one to stop him, for Moses, had 
 given the necessary consent, by going there; you seem to think 
 I am going to reveal something extraordinary, but that is not 
 true, it is all a complete theory and practical test, nothing else in 
 the world, Moses was fed by essence, and had the breath of life 
 poured into him, by suction, for as the spirit worked on Moses, 
 he never allowed him to breathe more at one time than another, 
 and that held him just the same from one day to another, and 
 this is the true doctrine of self discovery, the Moon does not 
 breathe at all, neither does the Sun go on at all without inhal- 
 ing and redistributing; now Moses was held by a conflux of 
 ether, his sides were perched upon the entrance of his hips, 
 and he was propelled to motion by a conflict between the 
 air and a fluid called the ethereal fluid of Genesis; that is 
 where the book begins, and it is a fluid common in the heav- 
 ens; to do whatever spirits desire, it can be used for the 
 flow of good or evil, and it is an atmospheric contact, 
 that may be dealt with to sustain life without injury, or it can 
 be adulterated from this to a seed, and grown from a form, 
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 aster, it can be brought to produce visions, and it can be used 
 for a different purpose altogether, it may starch the essence so 
 as to produce rigidness; and in this latter form you may hold a 
 body for any number of days, I shall not commit myself to 
 any specific period; for I am able to enlighten you on this 
 subject further, you are to me a specimen, and I have nothing 
 to do with you as a man, when I get after you in a theoretical 
 sense; so you see now that I am going to show you how God 
 did hold Moses, and commit that first piece of journalism to a 
 fact; He did it by the essence of Moses' body; and that was 
 all that it was necessary for him to use; you can not describe 
 it any better; though you should take your life over it, I want 
 to add, that it is a good point to note this, for you may have all 
 that is noble in heaven brought down to earth by this process; 
 I want to come right at you journalists, and sow you up in 
 your own cloth, for you never did write the first article on earth, 
 and it was not yours either, for it was written in heaven before 
 ever Moses went up into the mountain, and I mean to go on to 
 claim that you have nothing on earth that is not fully completed 
 in heaven, before it is handed down to you: I am just as 
 capable of showing you one process as another, and when you 
 want to have the whole of heaven brought down in drawing or 
 sculpture, it can be done, without any difficulty; therefore you 
 must be kind to our instruments; and I shall have you learned 
 in all the arts, that your great-great-grandchildren will find out 
 for themselves in the centuries to follow; now you may take 
 this to heart, and have your footing fairly established before 
 ever you leave this earth, and you can come back and tell your 
 children ho^w to behave, so as not to incur the displeasure of 
 the Gods who govern heaven, now I am ready to proceed with 
 more knowledge; There are no means where you have the 
 right to dictate terms to your fathers in heaven; but you can 
 be shown how they desire you to move in order that you may 
 be fruitful and happy, this is the blessing you want instead of 
 an empty flow of words; not as the prophet Hesiah has shown 
 you how good Jacob was to his offspring; but to lift you off 
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 knowledge; what was the blessing to be in the days that 
 followed; why, Jacob served his apprenticeship for Rachel, and 
 then he was met by the discomfiture that his mother had made 
 Esau to suffer; therefore you see there what I am telling you 
 is the government of heaven; God said to Rebekah I will that 
 you deceive the good husband of your bosom, and make Jacob 
 appear as Esau, that is he shall have the blessing that belongs 
 to Esau by rights, so you may kill the venison, of which Isaac 
 is so very fond, and you may secure the blessing for thy 
 favorite, by the subtilty of the other that I have penetrated 
 thy mind, now what God did to Rebekah, he was quite well 
 able to take the same method, and penetrate the mind of 
 Laban her brother, therefore he did what his government had 
 wished, and that was to show Jacob as an example to the 
 world, forever; therefore that when Laban saw the fruitfulness 
 of Jacob, it was but a freak of God to show him how he 
 might sit upon Jacob, and make him serve other seven years 
 for Rachel, and thus it was no miracle at all, only the doctrine of 
 the government in heaven, which said I will make Jacob the head 
 of your constitution on earth, and that is the examples which you 
 must prostitute on him, so as to show the examples which have 
 always been our golden rule, before we can reduce the heathen 
 mind to comprehension; your fault is this, you dare not take upon 
 yourselves the thoughts, which are constantly before you, there is 
 the point, that has always been your trouble, for you have hold 
 of the proper thoughts, you do make enough laws of example, 
 but you don't know how to keep from those examples; that is 
 where you get wrong for every time you pick a hole in this 
 religious code, you have caught on to the fact, that there is a 
 screw loose somewhere: well now I only desire to show you how 
 to tighten that screw, and that is by adopting the plan that was 
 lost through an inadvertency of Jacob's, and that was to omit to 
 have an agreement to the following effect, " and that is, I am to 
 serve Laban for seven years for Rachel, and that then he gives 
 her to me," or he may defaulting give me all that he hath; this 
 is the agreement which Jacob was erring in his own astuteness; 
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 to carry out that which he has made agreement for, and you will 
 find that this law is to be amended so as to read thus: I will 
 bind myself to thee as thy servant, till I have fulfilled thy con- 
 tract, and as thy servant I am thy God, for as thee asked, so 
 shall it be given unto thee, but when thou gets, that which thou 
 asked, it shall be proven that the laborer was the worthiest of 
 the two; for as he did complete his contract, he was no more thy 
 servant, but to all men alike he had dealt honestly by thee, for 
 his contract was complete; therefore you have no right to call 
 him laborer any further, for he is thy equal, and it is to be given 
 to him that did fairly earn that which he so agreed for, or the 
 defaulter on either side is to be strewn to waste, and it is accord- 
 ingly to be given to either him who deals as he so agrees, or 
 faultless one, and the other has to be stripped of all that he 
 hath, this is the missing link, and it can be constructed so as 
 each shall be found faultless, and otherwise it is an example, 
 which is equivalent to God himself, there is the link of this chain, 
 which has been a strong fault, and was the defaulting sting of 
 Cain; your grandsires worked their government wrong at the 
 beginning, for they did not in righteousness cause good feeling 
 to exist, and when they set up this primary system of example, 
 it was not covenantly agreed, for the one side might shuffle/ 
 whilst the other had to be true or fail entirely to come out at all 
 on a just basis; now you have to look at Cain and Abel, the one 
 was favored by nature, and was loved by God, he had the sheep- 
 fold, and he dealt in a fair way, for God drew him to the sunny 
 parts, where the verdure is great and luscious, and his sheep grew 
 in abundance; whereas his brother Cain was an ill-favored one, 
 and he had his occupation drawn for him from the first, his size had 
 been stunted, for he grew on the shady side of nature, and he 
 held his hatred to the earth, for his mother had been prostituted 
 by an evil thought, while she carried that man; by his conduct 
 in life afterward it is plainly visible, he thought of the ground, 
 and he was always turning it toward the Sun, for he knew 
 instinctively that it was all it craved for, was the light and life 
 of that brilliant radiance to make it perfect, and he battled and 
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 with his brother Abel, because he had been an offshoot con. 
 tinually, and he was always on the dark side of everything, and 
 all on account of the beginning, Abel had grown on the side of 
 sunshine always, therefore he was never at home at ease, unless 
 he basked in the Sun, and his sheep browsing in the enjoyment of 
 the same luxury, he could not bear the raw cold side of the mount- 
 ain, for his sight would not permit him to look that way, and he 
 felt the warm glow of the hillside because he had grown on that 
 side, when he had been cast adrift by the Sun; in some thousands 
 of years before that time of his herdsmanship; you may take the 
 same theory for an illustration of the way that Cain behaved, 
 and you will find that I am the nearest to ingenuity, that man 
 has ever grown, and when you take the time of Cain's first 
 crime, it will be advanced against my theory that he was pro- 
 pelled to his action of murder by the one great power, that gov- 
 erns us all; that is the hand that picks no stone up at all, but 
 does his work in an unseen way, known by the hand of the great 
 giver of light, and it can be brought against me, that it was 
 caused through the power of the subtilty of those who wished 
 to produce an example, but I am fortified against all of these 
 theories, and will calm your thoughts in a more ingenious method; 
 that is, it is not for Cain, but for the whole of humanity, and that 
 is this; before man there were mountains made, and on those 
 mountains, there are two sidlings, the one sidling is a steep 
 grade, and on the other it is not quite as steep, but either sid- 
 ling will precipitate you down the breast of that hill, well the 
 one is steeper than the other, and it is on the steep sidling that I 
 will prove you to have grown Cain, and on the smooth side you 
 grew Abel, the one next to the south, was the place where the 
 essence fell out of the Moon, that propagated Cain; and on the 
 north did the essence fall from the Moon that propagated Abel; 
 now these two in that start were herbs, but after they became 
 men and women, they never got the better of that beginning, 
 and will always have a dark cold side, and a bright and cheerful 
 one, now it is quite an easy matter to prove this part of life, for 
 as Cain killed Abel, he held in his bosom the trust of no access- 
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 and he failed, for he could not do what was in his mind; for he 
 had no way of accomplishing that which was contrary to nature, 
 his thoughts were to manipulate that barren land, and make it 
 more productive than his brother could do with his sheep, I want 
 you to note well what I am saying for I am going to help you to 
 the right cause, which will benefit you forever, and that is this 
 plain fact, whilst the goats did feed upon the mountain side, it 
 was fine weather on the top, and yet they did not like it there so 
 well as though it were down in the little hollows, that are on the 
 northeast side, for the rain falls on that side more like dew, it is 
 finer, and is more like essence, than it does on the other quarters, 
 for I shall show you that on the southeast corner it comes with 
 a colder blast, for in the Sun there are as many divisions; as the 
 body of a man has, and it is through his organism, that a cold 
 and a sequel has to be driven, that is his many pores, are shut up 
 till some heat is made to develop them, and he can't always see 
 these things, for he never knew why his skin had so many little 
 holes, till he became enlightened by natural causes; and he ought 
 to think twice before he has gone to the extreme idea, that a 
 man can drink water, and not have it back again through a 
 screen, don't you see that you can take a dose of liquor to-night, 
 and to-morrow it has generated to what you might say is steam 
 and gas mixed: There is the theory, that you have a right to 
 explain, why is it that man has two compositions pouring out of 
 his skin, at the same time: I will tell you because you could not 
 find it very conveniently yourself; the mind is one machine, and 
 the bowels includes the machine that works the belly, into a 
 heaving motion, thus it will readily be told, that there are more 
 tubes inaccessible, than the interior of the mind which has no 
 nocturnal evolution: therefore you see the motion in the pit of 
 the stomach, and you leave the brains alone, well it is very near 
 a climax, for you are doing a constitutional work with the 
 bowels, yet you have not understood, that it is driven by air, 
 and not by anything else; therefore its motive power is not 
 attached to the body, at all; only an element, that draws in and 
 out, so does your hide, and your hide is porous, just the same as 
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 hand of time, for there is no necessity of man wearing out and 
 in together, he can be made without any holes in his skin, 
 but he must not go on according to a natural theory, for 
 he would soon become in a state of putrefaction; did he 
 live without the natural inflow, and outgoing, but that is 
 not what I am trying to show you, it is this: my time is 
 devoted to my fellow-man, and I must either show him all that is, 
 or he can't believe, and that is why I am drawing him after me 
 all round the whole entirety; so you see that it is not the object 
 of our theoretical views; but it is the way to convince man, by 
 taking him right through the labyrinths of nature to prove him cap- 
 able is what you call producing the God, and not making him 
 run away when he has clasped the corn, that will produce his 
 column of strength; there is the benefit of throwing away the old 
 worn-out ground, and going to bind the corn in a new pasture, 
 that grew on the southeast sidling of this mountain, it does grow 
 there, and it is longer to ripen, and when it is grown, there may 
 be more of it, it is harder to thrash, and has tougher straw, and 
 is not so mealy, it wants some other grain mixing to it, before it 
 is made into flour, it is a starchy kind of wheat, there is no mel- 
 low in it, for it grew on the southeast corner of that mountain, 
 and it is hard to grist, for it is soapy, and sticks to the millstones, 
 there you have the manure from the moon, for it falls in cold 
 congealed clumps, and does not rest on the mountain side, where 
 the Sun shines perpetually; the Sun would lap it up again, and 
 make it over again, causing it to be brought into a finer grade 
 the next time, thus distilling it into a more beneficial manure, and 
 sowing it in some other part, on the second or third time, and on 
 each occasion of its period of progenitiveness; it would come 
 into a different stage of perfection; therefore that any number of 
 times would all have the effect of changing it to some other 
 species of corn, till at last it becomes a formed essence, and then 
 the wind and the Sun glowing together has made it into a moving 
 mass, to be fed by the breath of life; so you see that I am not 
 afraid of any of your artists, I have been to blame in the past, 
 for I never could keep my mediums from reading books, and 
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 few moments, then he is watched closely by some of our friends, 
 this is the only way to get at a medium, by keeping them off the 
 old track, and making a new road to travel over; you see how 
 necessary it is to give you the genuine truth, by keeping 
 out of the old road, and getting along on a new plan, for did 
 you work out the old plan first, and then come to the new: why 
 for a certainty it would misguide you always, now I want to 
 exclaim, for I have been experimenting for years with mediums, 
 and I can't get them to drop the old ideas, they always want to 
 go and visit some one else, or they want to be after some other 
 medium's guide; I will say that a soul who is never satisfied is 
 as the wheat coming through the Moon a great number of times, 
 it becomes so perfect that you have got to hold it up to a mag- 
 nifying glass, to find it; for it has changed so much, that it has 
 become an oat; and when the essence is destroyed of that oat, it 
 leaves a hair, which is part of a tribe, that does not belong to the 
 oat family, and must go on again into essence, and bring 
 forth another essence, this time it is a black oat, that has 
 sown itself on the face of the earth, and why a black oat, for 
 it did die on the surface of the ground, and was buried, and out 
 of that burial there sprang an unclean kind, for it had no con- 
 ditions to help it this time, and the way it became black was 
 through its face being to the Sun, when it has an outside shell; 
 that came off by the burning Sun, for the rays of the Sun does 
 strike two ways, one is the side to the cold, and the other has 
 the warm side, now you see that a hair is very fine, and in con- 
 sequence, it is only small, and can be reached from both sides by 
 the power of the Sun in its greed for essence, it must draw out 
 the filth from underneath the hair, and in so doing it will grasp the 
 corner that has the nearest thorns on its end; for the thorns are 
 grabbed by all as the mesmeric charm; but you have erred my 
 friends, there is an error right here, the thorn is the benefit, and 
 not the clean end; there are many who shy clear of the thorny 
 end, but I say you are all at sea over this, your maker is extrav- 
 agantly eager to have the thorny end approach first, and I can't 
 explain it better than to allude to my instrument again, he is 
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 like these of his own, and he agrees to work out my problem; 
 providing that I make his as secure as he wants it done, now 
 there is that about his, that will take a mountain to move him to 
 the top, and I don't know whether he causes me more art or 
 what it is; but you see that he is doing the struggle of nature to 
 perfection, for he is able to seam a soul together, without the aid 
 of God; And this is what no living being has ever done before on 
 either earth or yet is it known to God, for he never did any work 
 uch as this is through any instrument he ever used; now I will tell 
 you that a mind such as this, is the very purest corn that ever grew, 
 and I know when I touch him that he feels like the governor of 
 heaven, for he can direct as also can he seam those -directions 
 together, for as he does, he has that manifest faith in me, that he 
 does not proceed till I say you are right, and when he is not cer- 
 tain, it is no good to try and make him move, for he is like an 
 ass, in an instant, he is sitting down on the thorns: And you 
 have him to thank as well as me, for he could not be made to 
 take the thorn in his right hand; when it should go in at the left, 
 and herein lies a mystery, his soul is divided into two, one is as 
 black as the dungeons of hades : and the other is as white as snow ; 
 His heart is as pure as gold, and his kindness is sublime; but his 
 mind is fallen where there is no God in heaven that would not 
 make him move a peg unless it was through a clean opening, and 
 the summer-sun has tanned his face on neither side, it is whole 
 on either side, there are no half-measures in his life, his kindness is 
 superior to any I ever saw; and his mad passion for revenge is 
 exactly the opposite; that hate is his canker-worm, and that there 
 we hold him in awe, for it is plain to us all; that any deception 
 on our part, is going to ruin our cause entirely, and we can 
 never again reach you on earth, by this same instrument: For he 
 will either have us clear ourselves by stratagem, or he is ready to 
 abandon our cause, there is the mystery of the black wheat 
 explained, his soul is white on one side, and it is as black as hades 
 on the other; now have you understood the theory, his eye is 
 watching me now like a hawk, I have to press my strength to its 
 utmost capacity, for I have gone further than he considers I 
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 his soul is turning round on its axis, and I am annihilated; but 
 he is stilled by this confession, and I still keep my superior antag- 
 onist in the squirm of a fleshy creeping sensation; you have my 
 theory, it is the live atoms that creep over the dead, that causes 
 animation; and the Sun is the live atom, and the wind does its 
 duty as the perpetrator of God in his entirety; now you have 
 caught my soul in its true form, mine is a combustion of elec- 
 tricity inculcated with an atom of hydrogen, it sounds in two 
 halves, for it concentrates by elocution, and is vibrated back to 
 essence, like the light of darkness passing through the currents 
 of hate and fury, mine is nocturnally jealous of every other Jonah 
 that ever lived, and I can't tell how he swallowed the fish, but I 
 do know that God did not make that fish, for it is too big, for 
 the essence of the sea to have made in those times, and God was 
 not a bit more able then, than he is at the present period, and I 
 think that to straighten out the coiled web you could not do any 
 harm by sneaking in a contrary version, as I have placed it; with 
 this proviso, and that is this, in the whole of Jonah the prophet's 
 story, there is nothing remarkable, and that was an outer pitch, 
 it fell by the roadway, and grew no more of that character, and 
 we must patch it up as best as we can, by saying that as Jonah 
 has eaten of the famous fruit, I must prepare a little salt for his 
 relish, and you won't think unkindly of me, when I show you how 
 the corn grew, that fed such a fine fish, you know by this that I am 
 going to pitch Mr. Jonah overboard, for I am into that whale of his 
 already, and you know the sea won't dry up till I have explained 
 how it grew, therefore we must tackle Mr. Jonah by keeping on 
 a hook for a fish to snatch the bait from, and as the sea is a tor- 
 rent, that is mightily constructed, and is the flowing together 
 of many atoms, it is only natural that you don't believe in a 
 whole story, when there are any bites left out; now I want 
 you to look at these little pieces of fish, that grow in the 
 ocean, and see whether you don't think that they have a right, 
 to be classed as living material, well now you think that a fishy 
 substance, is net very material, well you are wrong my friends, 
 there is the whole thing itself over again, it is material and 
 atoms, nocturnally divided, and that is the gas escaping from 
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 the mountains has left a coloring behind it, which does not exist 
 anywhere in the heavens, it is the essence of salt, which is 
 fetched out of the hills through their prefillousness in propa- 
 gating gravel, and this is done through the surface of the hills 
 being decayed by -essence thrown out of the moon, by its hav- 
 ing corroded in its interior deformity, it is by this process, that 
 lime forms, by the revolving stone of time, sweeping off the 
 adhesive pieces, and they fall with the essence of rain drop- 
 ping through both the stars and the moon, now you see that 
 I am going to begin to count the stars in again, for the last 
 time we peeped at them was for the purpose of taking poor 
 Patsy home off a drunk, and he will feel quite proud, when 
 I say that it is an old house that does not leak for the want 
 of a new thatching, but he shall not go on forever without 
 knowing why Father Doolan, never showed up again after he 
 walked across purgatory, and never saw any Murphys there, 
 well I am not going to say much about the Doolans or the 
 Murphys; but everybody knows that a finish is nothing, without 
 the Irishman is there; so I don't want to leave a good man 
 out, when I have a chance of piloting him in; and you know 
 that an Irishman is always welcomed wherever he goes, 
 because it is a roaring welcome he gives you opposite the 
 coast of Flanders; his home is upon the rocks; and his heart 
 is burning to see, the sea; for he never knew till now, why 
 his throat was always wet, when it should be dry, and his coat 
 it used to be a long one, before the English cut it off, and 
 they fixed poor Pat, when he gauged his eye by the soft sum- 
 mer sky; you see I am writing fully of my friend the Irishman, 
 for his whole life is but a span, since he crossed the border-tan, 
 and he used to be a fisherman's toy, for in the days that 
 have gone back, his eyes were the same as that great whale that 
 Jonah swallowed, his teeth didn't stick in, and that is the way he 
 missed being that big fish, his toes grew so short, and his 
 eyes were protruding so far, that they never swam without 
 catching a grain of salt on his tail, and in time it became a 
 fable, that the Sun won't shine on a striped pig, for it goes in 
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 the idea, that man was a fish at first, because he is not alive 
 to-day any more than he was then, has nothing to do with it, his 
 nose is meant to blow through, and his eyes are meant to 
 find salt water, his ears are the same as those little fossils com- 
 monly known as the gems off a hard surface, and are the back 
 part of the fin of a fish's ear, it moves back and front, 
 at a very curious gait, and it sinks into the sides at a very furi- 
 ous rate; then what is there that resembles man, why the 
 ancients are full of stories about how christians should get on, 
 but they never saw any fire in a man's eye, without speaking of 
 the devil has him, sure, well you see my friends that the fire in 
 the man's eye, is the essence of life, and it is here where you 
 came to get it from, there is the salt in italics, and there is the 
 rind in metallics, and there is the see in the eye; and there is the 
 fish in Jonah's belly, he blew it out, when he swallowed that great 
 fish, and you have got none of the same species left, because he 
 divided the spoil, and said as I am thou can not be, as you are, 
 I can not see; therefore you are the whale, that swallowed me: 
 And this is not bad for a beginning, you thought you had me, 
 but I am the fish, that never runs away, when anybody attacks 
 me, and I find that a fish that swims, can not be other than 
 a grave side of the stroke that plays his part, in the ancients' 
 side, you seem to think that I am a leading light, well who 
 did place the essence in my side, why the fish that swims is no 
 more fought, because he is the one who could skip the ocean did 
 he try, yet you see that I am a very fine specimen, and I 
 can do the whole business in one act, my size is just whatever 
 I choose to make it, and you can't hide me though you tried, 
 for I am of the essence of the sea; and you may try to blind 
 me, but you are no use to me, for I can both sides see: whilst 
 you are looking at the sea, I have your measure made, and 
 can ruin you or make you my divine star; you are quite hideous 
 enough, when I look upon your accents as they used to be, for 
 I am what they call the accents of another, and you shall soon 
 see why I am a tree; for in days gone by there is once in away 
 a curious serpent, it was caught in a log, and it could not get 
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 you see, it had many a spree, for coming along, on a wooden log 
 is quite in tune with a very fine specimen of humanity, only you 
 loose the log, and there is no sea-serpent there, well as a joke is a 
 poke, I may as well tell you that a man is born in a great big tree, 
 his sides are the roots, and his arms are the limbs, whilst his 
 teeth are the essence off fruit, and his toe nails, are the 
 creepers, that come on after they shoot: I want you to remem- 
 ber this, because I shall show you how it all comes to this after 
 the beginning; you little know how easy it is to be taught once 
 you know how, and as long as ever you keep off making up 
 stories, it is quite easy to reach out, and fall on top of the truth, 
 you are just as handy at picking fruit, as though you knew 
 why it was made sour, that is you can count apples that are 
 green by the sides they hold away from the Sun, and you can 
 look at yourself in the glass, and fetch in a pair, because you 
 stole the fruit out of Eden, why, because there was a pair, 
 that did it; now I have got you, you thought I couldn't catch 
 you, but it is down tail and run, I have mastered the whole of 
 creation, and I will stick in a plum for every pair I can get; this 
 is the way man grew first his eyes are the ends, that stick out, 
 on the two stems; so I made you follow me into the very center 
 didn't I, well you have found the core, and there is the begin- 
 ning; not as the forefathers had it, that an apple came upon 
 the head of a juniper, but as a head did appear, so must 
 a center be entwined, in that very head, and as the Sun 
 shines on that head, so will man appear to be the center of 
 attraction, for he is the all-spoken creed of humanity, and he is 
 the one gem, who has that power of saying I am he: Who dares 
 dispute my power, I am the divine ruler to-day, and it was so at 
 first, and it shall be ever so; God be my guide, as the good 
 comes on after, and as the fruit is ripe, so shall my time be spent 
 in the ripening of that which was my good propagator: And as 
 heaven did see fit to entrust me with a commission, I will do 
 my duty as the highest post of man to lift me, and as man to 
 man I invite you one and all to meet me foot to foot, and knee 
 to knee, and I say that there is not another man living to-day, 
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 world's old man Thomas Paine; I lived for this hour, and I have 
 reached the top, my path is founded upon a rock, and your 
 castles shall all bend the knee to the true doctrine of the 
 once famous " Infidel " who stood like the reed that waved in 
 the wind, his soul to his thoughts, and his eye upon heaven ? 
 prayer after prayer he blurted out, show me my God what does 
 all this mean, and as the thoughts came flowing back wait and it 
 can all be made plain, I died with that thought pressing on my 
 burning temple; but never has that soul deserted me, he is here 
 beside me now, and us two have this work to finish for 
 you, and we intend that it shall be as complete as anything that 
 will ever be, for it is all the time drifting you on to a certain 
 proof, which will settle the question beyond dispute, and this is a 
 matter of magnitude, as it gives to man the advantage of know- 
 ing his hereafter, which is what he must study, as it is an eternal 
 bliss or an eternal torture for no one can tell how long, that may 
 be forever, or it may be of an indefinite period, it is as the fish 
 of the sea, you swim on always, always on the look out for some 
 little charm, that there is nothing to keep you from, yet the 
 nearer you get to the charm, it is still creeping on, and you don't 
 ever catch up to it, it is the same with us dear friends, I am 
 struggling on, trying to catch up, and I am always behind, for I 
 don't try my own wind, neither do I escape without being puffed 
 about by the elements, that come in contact with me; therefore 
 I have caught up to mankind many different ways, yet I never 
 had him made quite fast before, and I had to leap on him now, 
 or I should not have been able to do so now; so you see what 
 has made me patch him up so strong this time, is because I find 
 him trodden down by an infuriated fool, who has no thought but 
 sacrifice, and I am going to make him whip that same ass, for it 
 is balm to his soul, to know that heaven is going to attack hell, 
 and drive destruction with it; thus for two souls that have suf- 
 fered you are to know all there is to learn, and I say you are to 
 have a cheap burial in the future, for in sin there is no offset 
 against the sinner, you must punish him here in hell or forever 
 suffer in hell, which way ever you do it is all one to me, I am 
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 a fellow-soul, who will beat any one at the cause and effect of 
 dead feathers, you thought I had got left, but no you see I am at 
 you again, I have found out a way of getting round an effect, 
 by springing a mine on top; that is the way to pull a string, by 
 searching out for the very shark that would bite, did he know 
 how to reach a surface, without getting seen himself: now it is 
 quite easy, for I have taken a dive down, below the alabaster, 
 and I find ivory there; how did that appear in man, why it is the 
 same as though you callou out a clay hole, by dripping fine 
 flour in, why the clay hardens because the Sun shines upon it, 
 and dries it up: Then the wind plays round about the clay, till 
 it grows quite hard, that has nothing to do with ivory, or a man's 
 bones you say at once; yet it is this wise, a man was amphibious, 
 and he dried in the rain, and that is how he sopped up the moist- 
 ure, now don't you pull with me, and see that a clay hole is 
 porous, as your hide, then be careful how you dry in the dew off 
 heaven, for it is of this that you are made first, and as the night 
 throws down dew, does it not also cause the best fruit to grow 
 riper, I say you are as the season makes you, either ripe on one 
 side,. or else you are a green peach bitter, your soul is a faultless 
 mould, or it is a sting off nature's great producer of good and 
 evil, the bad fruit is sour, for it does nothing right, and the 
 wholesome fruit is that which is produced, under favorable sur- 
 rounding; and you can't tell why this is; well you have it now, 
 the sour fruit is that which grew, on the safe side of heaven, it 
 was pitched out, by the moon distilling it in a grievous condition, 
 she has always been waxy on one side, for you seam glue 
 together by nothing, then how do you get at the fault in the 
 Moon, she did make outside first, then why did she not do it 
 inside true blue, instead of having any green there; why it is 
 altogether too difficult for you to reach the Moon, while I can 
 pop in and out of her, just as I elect to do, this is why she 
 grows green fruit, her internal garbage pan, is filled with white 
 slime, and her external attitude is externally greater, than it is 
 on the other outside place, so she is driven in at the end, that 
 fetches up the green herbs, and casts them over the earth as it 
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 be shown, that a mind is a mixture, for it is taken on after the 
 green had been deposited in the after ferment of the Sun; for the 
 Sun drafts every single piece, and it is this, that makes a man so 
 sour when you don't please him, his soul is soled together by 
 the thoughts of a contrite spirit, and his very mind is mixed up, 
 till it has so many different views, that it could not be very well 
 denned did you take what comes out of it into actual facts, but 
 you must go right behind, and take what goes into that mind 
 first, or you can not ever find what that composition is; therefore 
 you ought to look well at what I am saying, for lam going to 
 show you how the mind is made, and this is about as much as 
 you have any right to expect of any one gifted of God or other- 
 wise; now do you know that a wandering mind is the fruits of an 
 ill wind, it moves round and round, and there is no stopping 
 place, for it has gone on a wrong turn, and this will be as I am 
 showing it to you: the wind moves round till it takes a turn off 
 by itself, and then it turns back, till it strikes that which is left, 
 and in turning, it comes across the elements, that had bursted 
 off before, and they were drifting off in space, and when they 
 were hit again by the concussion of thought coming in contact, 
 with the exact part that atoms followed on; why, you seem to 
 have caught up with me, I have struck the cord, that drove the 
 heavens together, for in that twirl, there arose a cloud, which 
 gave life to its own account by concussion, and you see that I 
 have mastered the idea of thought, it was done by concussion, 
 and you have me bound hand and foot now: as I have given you 
 the idea of what man came from; and that is the concussion of 
 sound; now do you seem to take in what there is at all hazards 
 left besides; no you are thirsty, and I must give you more drink, 
 the skies were made from the combustion of the clouds, and not 
 by any other power, for as the fleece shall knit together, then 
 mortal man was soled together in the same way; and as the 
 clouds gathered, so has the heavens been made, and as the 
 access of the wind played upon that sky, so does the heavens 
 get along, for the wind did blow a straight line in one particular 
 direction, but when it rested, there was a cloud formed, for the 
 seam had broken, and there was the wind hushed in sleep, and 
 
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 when it awoke, it was yawning for more, and in yawning, it gave 
 place to a gust of atmospheric concussion, that engulfed the 
 soul of life, and breathed, it did not not do this at one cough, 
 nor at two, but after many attempts of puffing in and out, it gave 
 a greater and greater excavation; till at last it seamed a hole 
 clean through, and when it had gained this point, the Moon was 
 poked out, for there is the nose and face of a woman at the 
 entrance of this hole, and at the other end there is the face, of a 
 man, and he has got in his head a huge great big cannon, and he 
 can draw no end of water through his front end, but at the rear, 
 his sides are just as thick as the wind has had time to make 
 them: And the wind is still making, and rebuilding all along, 
 and you can see these freaks of nature every time you choose to 
 look for them; and not mind how they are made, till I show you, 
 your eyes are the very same as a hole in eternity, for you can 
 seam a cloud together, in the same method, and it is this way 
 we do all things, by the hand of time; it is easy for a man to 
 raise up a black cloud, against his fellow-man, for he had this 
 in his composition; and he was seamed together; and so was his 
 afterbirth; for you see that when the Sun got the upper hand, 
 she gave so many kicks to each and every cloud that came in her 
 way, that they were forced to shove off, and let no obstruction 
 appear near her; she became a roaring tigress, for she had been 
 cut off from her main affection; and was not allowed to keep any 
 of these clouds, that came to do her homage; for her mind had 
 got disturbed by the confluence of a seething mass of fire in her 
 belly; which is quite in accordance with nature; her lungs became 
 a fixture, by the constant drumming noise that kept on drawing 
 air in and out; and by the time that a hole was penetrated; she 
 was half full of wind, in consequence her sides have got on fire, and 
 she was set on fire, by the foul air, that filled her stomach; this 
 of course is a recognized fact by all our astrologers: they do 
 know, that a given quanity of gas in the bowels of the earth, will 
 explode and cause fire to commence, and in so doing it will pro- 
 duce a greater or lesser fire, as the wind should blow, so that 
 when the wind blows, it expands, and drives the fire through its 
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 must be able to seam a flame of fire together; or make a 
 mountain of fire; but this is not the theory, in which you can 
 look upon this phenomena: for the Sun is lighted internally, and 
 in consequence she is breathing out these fumes of gas and tari- 
 phine: at a very furious rate, well she is generating steam by 
 enormous quantities; and she is furling her anchors at every 
 point, she is shading her face, by a great big mouth, that presents 
 a horrible noise, that comes pouring out of her like the wail- 
 ing of a screeching woman, it makes dashes of desperation 
 like the sisling of a sea lion, and it bellows like a mad bull, 
 awful, is nothing to this terrific sound that emanates from the 
 regions of the Sun; well now I have made you get interested in 
 me, and I want to go on more rapidly, and will give you an idea 
 of the moon, at his end of the business: He, is the factotum, 
 that is being used as a dislodger, for he does this in a way, that 
 has nothing at all extraordinary in it, except that he is covered 
 with all the dirt, and is a pitiable looking fellow, his nose and 
 mouth resemble a man crying, and he plagues himself by this 
 attitude of getting very wet in his eye; which made us pity him 
 many a time, as we pass him by; this face is awry, for it protrudes 
 across the mouth of a cannon, and you would think that was a 
 tissue of his thigh, that protrudes out in his nose, but it is noth- 
 ing of the sort, his mouth is all cleaned at every stage, that 
 comes round once in a new Moon, for this is what effects him 
 most his eye is quite moist, by the end of the Moon, for it is 
 cleaned by the sun firing her angry looks at his dirty face, and 
 his mouth gets on fire, and it is all burned off, for the nose is 
 white, with the acid and stuff that accumulates during the whole 
 month, and it has to be wiped by something, so the noonday 
 sun comes round, in its affectionate embrace, and sets fire to his 
 majesty's nose, for the fact is plain as day, that the mouth is a 
 dislodger, but the tongue is an escape valve, and the eyes are the 
 places, where the raindrops fall from, so that his nose is a vent- 
 pipe, that has to be in order to be left open in case of excess; 
 well now I want you to observe the lugs of a fig tree, and there 
 you will see on the leaves the approach of a kind of skin, well 
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 and when the moon has gone outside her twenty days run, she 
 will show a disposition to retract, and though you see those 
 great big lugs of hers retract, it is evident, that there is an 
 eternal change on the wing, for every time those wings flap back 
 into the solid rocks at the back, she changes her front attitude, 
 and the next time she opens up again, through the pressure of 
 this excess inside, which has to be dislodged; then you seem to 
 have seen this change, for she does not produce alike, and she 
 sifts a finer grade each time, for the fact comes plainly to your 
 senses; her eye is about closed, after the burning up of one 
 month's growth, and when it opens, it is stained with blood- 
 colored glassy looking seething ore, and it contains a streak of 
 grey, or may be white acid, well this acid is the first to make 
 force work, it brings about a color that looks like red sandstone, 
 but it really is the plague of a contrite spirit, for no sooner than 
 possible, it gets used to the air, then it takes fire from the Sun, 
 and away it burns till it has reduced this end of this gigantic 
 machine to its normal condition; well now you are very curious 
 to find out, what a curio is, well it is this; my man Friday as you 
 some times will call that strange substance you see upon the face 
 of the Moon is what I have got to explain to reach you in any 
 soft way of picking up the crumbs, and you know that to let 
 these fall upon a given crust, is the form in which to distill them 
 to grow anew; well now it is this, that a given space of time 
 elapses between each dropping, and in consequence: there is this 
 to be considered; your earth is watered by the stars as well as 
 the Moon, and out of these gas-jets, you seam an essence together, 
 that hovers round in shapely forms, till it becomes calloused; 
 therefore it has not been able to show its own form yet on the 
 stars, for they have not become large enough; there is the mys- 
 tery of the man in the Moon, his soul life is oozing out, by con- 
 stant pressure, till it actually shows signs of enlarging to such 
 an extent, that it has formed into an essence that contains a 
 complete fog of its own, which is different from any other live 
 matter, and is practically the inside skin of the Moon, which 
 grows outside the other causes; and this time it shows itself in 
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 that is protruding, through this sheet of gas, which comes from 
 the interior of this immense giant: You see I am telling you 
 from a scientific basis, and you must judge of this skin as you 
 would of the rest of nature's requirements"; therefore you will 
 find that I prepare the inference, and you must draw a common 
 sense conclusion, there are the various parts, of the Moon which 
 protrude, well it is a plain fact, that the Moon is a disloader, and 
 in disloading that it carries more loads, than one, and as I have 
 distinctly told you that a change takes place every period of the 
 Moon's disgorge, for the facts are clear, you never have two 
 things alike, because your propagators are increasing always, and 
 in consequence you can not have the same twice; now I have 
 given you the fallen crumbs, it is you or I for them, you can pick 
 them up, but I showed you where they dropped from, well you 
 just hold yours while I get mine from the next wagon trip, ah! 
 yours have diminished; and almost gone by the next appearance 
 of the wagon, well what did you do with them; why I have to 
 tell you, yours went back to the wagon, and I have got them in 
 this wagon load, and they are changed so much, that your own 
 essence is deceived in their looks: you come and pick them out 
 of my wagon load, it is my friends the good has always run off 
 with the bad, and my brothers and fine scholars I am going 
 to take you all upon my back, and carry you off again, and make 
 wiser truer, men of you: I see the way to make you all as happy 
 as the Sun, who rejects the bad and carries off the pure, heaven 
 reward her for this great work; (Amen): I am sure that you 
 will be just what I think, for I have been happy ever since I 
 found out, that my life was not a fault-finding soul, as they used 
 to say to me, when I asked for more gruel, they said I was never 
 satisfied, and I never did feel quite happy till I saw that they 
 were all wrong, and that I had reason to be dissatisfied with the 
 food they gave me, why, it was the essence that I am composed 
 of, that was always crying out, give me drink, give me milk, give 
 me meat, till I grow stouter; this is the craving of the Sun, she 
 is always hungry, and she only shines in summer, the Sun has got 
 no winter; because she swelled so as to round off all other points, 
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 and she never tires; because she is full of the essence of life, 
 and before she breaks into another hay pasture, she dips her 
 beautiful face, in the sea of brine, it is on the edge, that she 
 says I want a pink cheek come kiss me quick I must hurry on, 
 or he will catch me on the next round, and it is this sweet press- 
 ure, that makes her leap round, she feels the night air, and she 
 slips her hand in, but it rebuilds another bound, her innocent 
 face, is caught for one precious instant only, and that is as it 
 faces the morning in a different climate: She did not make the 
 round bend, it was done for her by the confluescence of time, 
 but what she has a right to claim is the womanly pride 
 of getting away on ahead of man, and setting his shift 
 behind, for the fact is quite clear, her eyes are turned 
 sideways, when looking upon his disgraceful face; his nose 
 was not pretty enough, so he had to be shifted round to 
 pantry work, and I have to seek him out of all the dirty grime 
 that has been plastered over his sun-burned face, till I look at 
 his eye, it is impossible for me to take a theological view of 
 his quaint-looking nose, and say this is the man whom all man- 
 kind have given a good many sights at, but he always had his 
 eye on them, but they never yet knew what it was that developed 
 more wonders than one, and as for more fire in one man's eye, 
 you can never find, and this is why, his nose is set on the side; 
 and his teeth is just the same, they protrude outside of the edge- 
 rim, and are always holding on to the gas, as it escapes, this is 
 what we call the hammer-head, for it is like the nozzle of a great 
 big cart-wheel, it keeps turning round, and is constantly revolv- 
 ing round, thus you can see why we seam things together in an 
 oblong round fashion, here is where it is done first, for the 
 Moon is revolving round and round, and every time she drops 
 her cud, it is round for it is ground round by the constant 
 churning that it gets inside of the Sun and Moon together; now 
 you know why you always have things round; don't you seam a 
 hem round, then why don't you believe me, for you have nothing 
 that is any other way, till it is done by machinery, of a different 
 kind, and there is the round thing made, by the fashion of its 
 own maker, why; because you seam a round pan, in the first 
 
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 place, by making a mould first, then you pour in the molten slag, 
 and it comes out according to the shape you have made your 
 mould, now don't you see that our Sun draws up the essence, by 
 her heat, coming in contact, with the earth, and she draws in 
 what she requires each twenty-four hours, and then she churns, 
 for she can't hold it any longer; then the time it takes 
 her mouth to become filled to overflowing, for she must not lift 
 up her eye too far, for fear of letting down the safety-valve, on 
 top of her own thigh; here is where I am going to claim that the 
 Sun is a woman, her main features, are adjusted, so as to receive 
 the exact courage, of a head, and prolonged gait of atmos- 
 pheric essence, and she is seaming in her entire surface, the 
 whole time it is going round, her nose is wet from morning to 
 noon with a clear atmospheric moisture, and her teeth comb the 
 air, like a weaver's dowel, all along the entire surface for thou- 
 sands of miles outside the Sun, and she is filling her pan all the 
 time with the cream of the earth, for her man Friday, is helping 
 her to grab at everything that is good, he sprinkles his left 
 hand on all nature, and with his right, he is serving out a mag- 
 nificent shower of covering, that resembles the farm-yard in its 
 autumn gathering of the accumulation of the summer; now I 
 have sown the seed, it is for you to reap the corn, and when 
 you seam my story together, you will have a proper idea of 
 farming, and never before did man know the actual art in farm- 
 ing; His thoughts have been on colleges; but I say that a farmer 
 who wants to grow hay, which means money, must study nature, 
 and he must go according to the theoretical basis of farming, 
 not place a slab-sided cow in the same fold with a queer-looking 
 stag, it is not the one or is it yet the other, that does tempt me, 
 I want them both round, no squeezed-up side-boards for me, 
 give me the man or woman, with a round formation, it does not 
 matter of all the weaklings, they shall be ground together as 
 the Sun and Moon did propagate them, and as the summer 
 seasons did develop them, well now what more have we got to 
 talk about, your Moon and Sun are my property, they were mine 
 to make known to man, and what right has any one man more 
 than me with them: you say God is the ruler of all mankind, I 
 
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 tell you that I am he who rules this Moon and Sun, for I can 
 stop it quicker than you can count, but you would not be 
 any the wiser did I do so; and you would not be told, that you 
 are my enemies, this is satisfaction to me, to tell you how an inno- 
 cent man can face his foes, he came through that hell of flames, 
 with you all; and he is not going to sink the ship, that has 
 carried so many lives to eternity; now you even do not know 
 where you came from, though you have had the benefit of my 
 telling, so you must not be too anxious, and spoil all by any fit 
 of impatience; don't you believe me capable of telling you, well 
 it is all one to me, whether you know it or not, but I have time 
 now, and I could explain it, but I have a very great mind to 
 leave you without this finishing touch to man, only for the fact, 
 that you say I can't, or I would dearly like to mystify you 
 beyond your own perfect understanding of me in days gone by, 
 and that is the time, when they used to save the pieces, and 
 stew them up to give me my victuals off; well now it would be 
 quite fair for me to give you all a good stewing up, for you 
 know you deserve it, and Old Tom is hard-hearted enough to 
 practice this upon you too; should you play any tricks on his 
 man Friday, for as the lad who could not help himself to get 
 away from the black devils coming after him, he had to seek the 
 protection of his white brother; and you know the fable yarn, 
 of how Friday and his salvation castaway come on the heathens, 
 from behind those guns, and drove them to heaven in a starlight 
 element, you shall go the same road, does it mean mischief or 
 friendship this time, I will blow your earth into essence, or I will 
 be first from this day henceforward; now man mind thyself or 
 fall by the wayside, I have crept and crawled along, and I mean 
 business; it is knowledge to the world, or I die in the attempt, 
 you can choose between heaven or the blotting out of the whole 
 concern, as far as your earth goes, it can be swept to atoms in 
 the suggestions I am about to make, and you may think you are 
 dealing with God, but I distinctly tell you no, you are dealing 
 with Thomas Paine, who will drive this earth round at a greater 
 speed, and can lift heaven up higher, with one stroke of his ax; 
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 play pitch and toss with heaven, and why because I see all you 
 do, or ever could do, whereas you are only clay in my hands, I 
 can patch you up, to what I think is best; or I can blow the 
 whole of eternity to seam a vein of fire, that will make a roast- 
 ing-machine in hell that will strip the back of hades in the hap- 
 pening of one single day. Now I am writing this because you 
 are so precious ready with killing any one who understands the 
 art of clairaudience; this is not the right word, but it is as you 
 understand it, and you had better show me a proper welcome, 
 before I do too much for you; I am not afraid of you, nothing 
 of that sort is concerning me in the least, but when I feel my 
 own coat is trembling beneath the body, that is used for this pur- 
 pose, it is quite time for me to say to you, now it is not for me to 
 come here, and say all this to you, and then you just wade in 
 with knives, and butcher the body we are using; this is what I 
 want to protect, it is not that I fear you; because you are power- 
 less when attacking me; but you are always ready to kill my 
 means of giving you wisdom; now it will be a black Friday, I 
 promise you, should you kill my man, he is harmless to you, and 
 you must not take his body, and that is all I have got to stipu- 
 late in this agreement, you may fright me through the papers 
 or any way you choose; but you must draw the line outside of 
 murdering my instrument or using violence against him; or I 
 give you timely warning, that I do as I have said, and that is to 
 open the upper half of the Sun, and drop it on you; Now 
 William Atkinson is the name of this my instrument, and 
 I will divide the honor with him of showing you all there 
 is to learn in the future, for he is now advanced so 
 far that he can write more books in a quarter the 
 space of time that it takes an ordinary author; so 
 you see that you may have the advantages of his skill 
 for the next twenty or thirty years may be at writing the 
 works of heaven, and bring them down to man, in its full 
 force and understanding, or you can blot out the past, which 
 I am distinctly and expressly opposed to; I counsel a steady 
 and careful supervision of the past, and I say the past has all 
 been a benefit to man, and I desire it to be thoroughly under- 
 
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 stood that man is materially advanced now to what he was when 
 those prophets came and wrote those works, of which we claim a 
 supernatural Spirit God; and you must know that I could have 
 impersonated God through my own instrument, and told you all 
 there is to tell in this nineteenth century, or I could now make 
 you believe that it is an imposition of God's own conscience; for 
 I can twist you and turn you about as I have a wish to do, but 
 then you would be still afraid, and that is not the way to be, you 
 are cowards, for this reason, it is boldness that makes the man, 
 and not fear, therefore you have to be made happy by the sense of 
 knowledge, and no man can be wise who is afraid; therefore you 
 have to be taught sense, or there never will be anything except 
 fear in your composition: I want to take time by the forelock, 
 and seam you and your conscience together, why, do we eat, 
 sleep and talk, because you are the seamed essence of light, and 
 you are the very picture of misery without this light; because 
 you are not an entirely formed man, you are a something greater 
 than what you think, you are the soldier of Christ, for you are all 
 soldiers of the cross; there is the theory on which we must work 
 together; I don't have to tell people, that I despise the work of 
 God, he is good; that is all my friends; he has done for you, that 
 which you are unable to do for yourselves; and I will show you 
 distinctly why you can't be all in one, because he did not know 
 to reach you, that it is the point that you have gained in this 
 last two thousand years, he has been just the same true God to 
 you, only he never could reach you right; therefore he is now as 
 much your God, as he ever was, and he is quite willing to help 
 you; now then you need not come out and say what does this 
 blasphemer know of God, he can't tell us we have no need with the 
 Bible, I say distinctly that is more need of that Bible now, than 
 there ever has been, for it is as clear as the atmospheric breath; 
 that a history such as that is by far the best guide you can keep, 
 till your knowledge becomes founded on a theory, that will not 
 admit of mistake, and when you have found the real article, it is 
 then plenty soon enough, to say we know all, and not till then; 
 your Bible is worked from an entirely different method to what 
 the present author is compiling his; and he is dividing his up in 
 
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 such forms as to insure a correct deliverance; therefore you must 
 not condemn too suspiciously; it may be prudent to see the next 
 work, before doing anything in the way of condemning: A beau- 
 tiful axiom is to stand steady like the marble oak, it glistens in 
 the noonday sun, and comes on as steady as the crested waves of 
 time, no changes in an instant for it, it cleaves back to God, that 
 which God hath, and it remoulds anew, and propagates a wedge, 
 that seems harder to believe than the hand of time, you may take 
 this little instance of mine, as a true sentiment from me, and 
 believe me well and truly yours, I am soft in my expressions, but 
 you forgive me as the hand of time rolls by; there never was a 
 more radical mind than mine; but I say to you to-day, that I will 
 wield the fortunes of this kind-hearted man, or -forever bemoan 
 the fate of a black oat, for as the hand that lifts the golden 
 treasure overhead, his mind is not mad, it is the torments of 
 his soul that drove him to the crime of separating his thoughts 
 with one who never loved or cared a scrap for all his helping 
 hand, and as though not content with tearing his home to atoms, 
 she did in full vent her spite upon this head, by unloosening her 
 dragon friend, now, as though she is not content, her fiendish 
 vengeance is wreaked upon some other head, and that a boy of 
 his: I will not despoil my work with such as she, may heaven in 
 its bounteous turmoil recoil upon her head, and in the sinner's 
 home make her bed: I have sought in vain for an instrument, 
 till I have found the one, who can make my work as clear as the 
 turn of a savage beast at bay; you know what this is, it is the 
 way to define power, by taking an accursed one, and driving him 
 until there is no possibility of escape, then he is bound to fight 
 or die, and before he dies; as the saying goes, he will throw 
 back his horns, and make one supreme effort this time it will be 
 proven who is the divine, and who the scoundrel: I want you to note 
 well what I am saying, for in this little speech hides a mystery, 
 that shall go forth to man as the history of the mind I now 
 guide, and it is for you all to stand apart, and see the power of 
 heaven in its agony, strike hell; you may hope on my friends, 
 you will see a blow struck at hell, which will convince you that 
 there Is a power ^hat can reach the wrong-doer, from our side of 
 
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 life, I know you are as unbelieving as you were in the days of 
 our Calvary, but you shall know that in that day, a man's mind 
 had not the stretch and scope of the present time, and as they 
 worked wonders, so can the present hour be as wonderful, now 
 don't imagine, that it is a course of lightning treatment, that is 
 to be played upon you, but another mode of warfare entirely, 
 it is to be stratagem against hell's own weapons, that is all 
 my friends, you are to be shown that stratagem is the gift 
 of an overwhelming power, and it is by the effect of ether on 
 the mind, now you see I have told you what my appliance is, 
 and shown you what I am going to do; and when you have dis- 
 played not hurtful signs of breaking loose, I will show you how 
 to use the ether, it is quite easy for you to use this ether in an 
 unskilled way, but you are powerless to use it to the advantages, 
 that I make of my method: I don't want to keep knowledge 
 from you, I only want to show you what can be accomplished; 
 then I am willing to give up my proofs; but you must not come 
 forward and rob and plunder, that is not what I am here for, I 
 could annihilate you, much quicker than a minute, did I so 
 desire to; but that is not my object, my pet scheme would be all 
 frustrated, did I take and dose my men with an overdose, there 
 is my own thoughts to be considered, and I don't want to hurt 
 any one, it is no use my temper becoming enchained, and then 
 breaking loose, I can treat you fairly, and then win without any 
 effort, but you must respect me as I do you, and as my hand 
 waves you knowledge common sense, and the happiness; which is 
 all the Godliness you have any right to; then you must not 
 interfere with my agent, or it is no use me timing my own court 
 without a fright, as your court is yours, so is mine made accord- 
 ing to the knowledge of sense, and when you ask for grace, or 
 time to make your pleadings, I grant you all this, but I won't 
 wait on you, when you are preparing some diabolical scheme to 
 frustrate my house in its entirety; you shall work fairly and 
 openly, and not apply the acid, that comes with you from the 
 Sun, you are not to use that acid, I am not going to give you right 
 out what the acid is, for did I do so the fiends of hell would 
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 this fluid, but should they do so it would be all no use to them 
 for they don't know how to use it, so I am saving a corps or 
 two by not divulging all my own power; you can not ask me 
 a question, but that I have the ability to answer it, and you can't 
 get at me through any source, for I am known to be a match for 
 all the heavenly Gods, that came along before me, and as this is 
 the case, you need not think to master me, as I will fight you 
 fair, and I will go on any expedition, of peace, that you say is not 
 plain or comprehensible to you ; so I am not dogmatical, I will show 
 you the way to do everything, it is no use my coming down to 
 earth, and telling you a one-leg story, I am here to make 
 you meet, both heaven and hell are united once you wish it; 
 and express yourselves willing to know all: I can under- 
 stand you better than you can me, I can read your papers, 
 without paying a cent for all the information you are possessed 
 of; I can reach in and see the actions of all secret socie- 
 ties; I can find out all the brigands you have got I can 
 go into the contents of any paper of importance you have, 
 and I will do more, I will break up any society, that is not of 
 good to the community at large; I have the power, of going into 
 any, parliamentary body, and sowing confusion among them, your 
 ancients did destroy, but my plans are different, it " bells bellow," 
 to go and kill, I don't like it, for instead of helping civilization, 
 it augurs evil, I say down with murder of every description, and 
 live like princes; the weaker is to be made strong, and the strong 
 is to rule the head, and protect the weaker, this is the way to 
 govern mortal man, and not have him looking ill always, when 
 he ought to be bright and happy, I see the future generations a 
 very different specimen of humanity to what the present men 
 and women are; there are no faults to find in an improvement, 
 once we are sure it is a benefit; but you must not run away with 
 an improvement, before you have got the idea fixed right, then 
 you might do all well enough, but an improvement is only a suit- 
 able machine for common sense, and not a gauge; it should be 
 borne, in mind, that a fakir is a person who ought to be tried but 
 not let fall; lest his fakes might break in two, and you are safe 
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 so cornered off, till he either breaks or falls; give him all the 
 known tests possible, then make him try experiments; that have 
 not been heard of, that are imaginary, and are the difficulties, 
 that a man should surmount, and he gets stuck each time this is 
 the way to test a fakir, and I want you my friends to try 
 me as that same fakir, and when you have broken me down, or 
 slipped me up; then it is time for you to condemn me, and not 
 till then; your duty demands that you should try any improve- 
 ment, and your attitude is altogether of this worldly version, of 
 seeing what there is to be seen; then why can't you say I am 
 going to tackle this boaster on his stoutest points, and see 
 whether I can't knock his feet from under him; this is the way 
 to try a fakir, knock his legs clean from under him, whether he 
 is a mortal or immortal man, he has no business to come to you 
 and say I am the one who is able to talk to you truthfully; 
 then I say you have the right to question his theory in all his 
 ideas; this is only fair, and don't go and say his surplice, is a 
 sainted garment, it is not at all made of anymore righteous text- 
 ure than your own, it was woven by the fleecy clouds, in the 
 first instance, and it is part and parcel of your own common 
 raiment, and as such is no more sacred than yours, and the man 
 that is encased beneath that cloth, is not of any more righteous 
 quality than you are; now there is this to be considered, and that 
 is the point, that I have got to learn you, you are very ignorant, 
 and you don't know a single thing about this astrologer, coming 
 home alive, he is a fine specimen of what is called the modern 
 model man: And he has to be respected, against all comers, his 
 home is on the high, then don't you seam him to your eye, but 
 you just go and talk to him, and say friend what is thy calling, 
 it shall be his duty to say my friend I am the servant of Christ, 
 he was the only true prophet, that ever understood the language 
 of the dead, and I will listen to no man that says he has the 
 right to pile infamy upon his head: Nov/ my friend I am a servant 
 of Christ, and not an " Infidel;" as the heathens called me, and in 
 Christ's work, he never claimed the art of any supernatural 
 being, he said I am here to do the will of my father who art in 
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 as his father did, so was he told to do, and as he 
 did so was he obliged to do, and last but by no means 
 least, my father who art in heaven is not what you all make it 
 appear, it is this, my father is my guide, for he dictates to me, 
 and I do his bidding, so that to say my father who art in heaven 
 means this, it is a given father, not an entire one: this father 
 which our Saviour spoke of was the one appointed by those who 
 had him under their control, and he was there by appointment, 
 I say that you are all wrong on this question, and as such is 
 quite certain to be proved any number of ways, I say you are as 
 the black sheep left out of the fold, you don't know what that 
 means either, it is this, that your fathers who art in heaven, have 
 not told you where the white sheep grew, therefore you are 
 pagans, till you learn where the white and black sheep became 
 divided; now I say that you are an oat for I have not designated 
 you as such, and I am going to prove it, and this is the way I 
 start in, your shell is the husk, and the kernel is your bod}% and 
 the life of that oat is the essence, that came through the Sun and 
 made man, in the first instance, now then my friends, what is 
 the difference between a black oat, and a white one, why my dear 
 friends the one has found a black husk, and the other has on a 
 white husk, they both came out of that churn, that I have told 
 you of, which is the dividing link in man, the Sun does the divid- 
 ing, in her interior, there are many chambers; and in the one, 
 there is found, the essence of grime, and in the other is the 
 essence of pale white glue, in neither is there any mouldings, 
 but on the outside rim of the Moon, there is the interior lining; 
 thus sowing the seeds of time, according to the different grades, 
 that have become mixed in- the inner chambers; now you want 
 to know what Christ said about my father saying that there are 
 many mansions in my home on high; You little dream of how he 
 meant you to construe this passage, and instead of you taking 
 out the grains of wheat, you have saved all the clean seed, and 
 not allowed any of it to grow husks, that was not the right defin- 
 ition, it is thus, that you should read, my father hath many 
 mansions beyond the sky, but they are holes for daylight to 
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 designate, mansions; now don't you see that a mansion is lighted 
 from the inside, and not from the out, therefore he is right, my 
 father hath many mansions behind the ceiling of my home on 
 high; now you don't suppose, that I am going to tell you, that a 
 man who is able to fight the scriptures, from their beginning to 
 the present hour, is afraid of you, nothing of the sort, it is all a 
 folly to think that I am afraid of you breaking me down, or doing 
 anything to disgrace my book, I tell you positively, that you 
 can't trip me, and I will show you this all soon enough, and you 
 are as the lamb lying down in green pastures, you were not 
 afraid of the l-ion, when he had no teeth, well now I should think 
 you ought not to be afraid of me, I have got no teeth; and I 
 can't bite you, so there is a very good reason why you should 
 class me as the lamb, and let me lay down beside you, for I can 
 do it, whether you object or not, only that when I am to sleep 
 beside the lioness; I want her to keep on watch, and do not 
 destroy my slumbers; this is what I call happiness: You can 
 come to me as the baying lion, and I can go to you as the lamb, 
 yet neither can I see any fear in you, neither can you seam the 
 danger that is in me, so I say that the lion is strong, but the 
 lamb is the power in his father's home on high, for in heaven there 
 are many gates, that close behind the death-knell of those roaring 
 lions, that disturb the peace of man, and where the lamb is 
 caught in slumbers, a barred gate rests on hinges; and the lamb 
 is safe, for the lion is placed on the inside, whilst the lamb, may 
 rest on the outside, and when the lamb lies down on the outer 
 edge, it is taught to say welcome all ye sinners, for there is 
 enough work on the inside for you to make a picture of hades 
 with, and I say that you can cause the lion and the lamb to 
 lay down together, for the one is master over the other, and the 
 lamb may call upon the lion to repair a state, in which his power 
 ^is needed, for his huge form, can be made use of in heaven for 
 a purpose, that no earthly one dreams of; whereas the lamb, can 
 direct him straight, this is how it comes to you in scriptural 
 learning: And you don't understand it, the lamb has a talk 
 that surpasses all understanding, and she says to the lion, you 
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 must stop outside till I do enjoy my slumbers; now the lion 
 obeys her,- for he sees she is not afraid of him, and this is why 
 she does not fear him, his mouth is lined with ether, and instead 
 of him taking his earthly teeth, with him to heaven, his soul 
 departs, without that part of his regimentals, and he has a soul 
 as also does the lamb; neither one or yet the other carry teeth in 
 heaven, and it is no use for man to suppose that the lions are 
 dangerous in heaven, for they are not, and it is outrageous for 
 you to suppose that heaven is beset with dangerous animals, for 
 they all acknowledge man as a superior being, and it is reasonable 
 so to do; for man is able to see further ahead, and he discerns, 
 things that the lion never has any thoughts of, now you keep 
 quiet, and I will show you why it does not grow teeth in spirit- 
 home, the fact is this, you don't get on to the right thread of my 
 story, before you see through this idea, and that is the cause you 
 have for complaint, and you must digest this awful chasm by 
 piecemeal, and not by whole quantities; the first thing you do is 
 to swallow, and that is not all, you breathe, but then again you 
 have to reel round a time or two, before you pick up the right 
 motion to keep yourself from falling to pieces; thus you will see 
 that you have caught on to my thread, it is thiswise, a man must 
 begin by eating, and not by drinking, you see that he chews his 
 fist first, and he is always afterward a chewer, for he can't exist 
 comfortably without he gets something in his mouth, well he is 
 awfully hungry after dying, and naturally he would feel empty, 
 for he has lost all his stomach, at one great loss; but he still pegs 
 away at that hand, and he begins to tucker up again, and places 
 his mouth, as he used to do, but it won't work any way at all, so 
 he gets famished, and then he eats again, but it is this time 
 awfully poor pie, and he wants to know whether there is nothing 
 to eat in heaven better than the present thin air, well it is 
 assumed, that there is, but he won't keep still, he is always after 
 that right arm, and hand; now my friends I have been leading 
 you round, after death, and I want to show you why no teeth 
 comes, and it is from the fact, that at first there has been no 
 teeth, and at last there can not be any teeth, for the fact is clearly 
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 the whale is not found eating, and the teeth he has are of no use 
 to him as a whole muncher, they are for fancy, and not for mas- 
 tication; now you will see that heaven is a second sea, and the 
 ocean in heaven, is the atmospheric elements, and are not allied 
 to the skies at all: But are the afterbirth of the ocean, for the 
 sea is the past, the earth is the present, and the heaven is the 
 future; I have said this in sheer earnest; knowing it to have been 
 proof positive of my assertion to be founded on facts, which you 
 can never throw away, this is why the heavens are a bounteous 
 miracle, and it is not for me to say that God does not know what 
 he did in the first history to man, but what I shall prove to you 
 in theory and fact is this, he was unable to comprehend this 
 gigantic magnitude, and he did all that was in his power for man, 
 thoroughly believing what he did to be true: Now you have no 
 idea of the worry and time it has taken to bring about a correct 
 theory of this immense great topic of immeasurable disputes and 
 circumference, for the heavens are full of contestants for supreme 
 power and knowledge, they fight from morning till night on this 
 question, and do every thing possible to discover the right 
 thoughts, for it is a boon sacrifice to be called heathens, when 
 we know, that we are so, and yet it can't be otherwise, for we are 
 all on the very verge of worshiping a deity, that never was, and 
 could not be in the sense known to man, well I say what right 
 has man to a belief in something that can not assist him, for the 
 very fact, that this God who is in spirit and was the leader of 
 the prophets, was at the head of the government in heaven then, 
 and was the most able, and best spirit that lived in heaven in his 
 time, and was no more than I am to-day, a theorist, capable of 
 throwing light upon a head that does not see, and can't see, for 
 he has not advanced to a stage, wherein he might understand did 
 he but know how to look; now I tell you why you can't grow 
 teeth in heaven, for the fact, that none ever were known to propa- 
 gate there, and without propagation, there can't be teeth, and it 
 is this wise, a man is born without teeth, but his hands are salty, 
 and he inhales the breath off this hand, and he sucks this hand, 
 and he does as he pleases with this hand, and he loves his hand, 
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 till he had teeth, well his hand has bone in it; and he is afraid of 
 that bone, still it does not make him teeth; well my friends you 
 have got me at last, and I must throw up the sponge, it is this 
 very sponge; that brings teeth, and you don't know why, well I 
 am pretty near a cobweb, and I must get out of this tangle some- 
 how; you know my friends that a little cobweb might get us into 
 more trouble than every other thing together, well don't you see 
 that I once wrote to you about a web being made by the friends 
 of the spiders, that had departed, well what was it then, that 
 took the first line across the river, well my dear friends it is the 
 same with you, my little baby is without teeth, and he can't eat, 
 good: So great big granddad comes and makes them come, by 
 poking in a little bit of salt, and this is the fish that swallowed 
 Jonah; he never got beyond this little bit of trouble, and he 
 stuck fast to that fish ever since, it was the corker; "that took 
 him altogether too small; " he could not swallow the whale, so 
 leaped upon his back and rode away, and my friends you should 
 know me by this time, and let me have an easy ride too; don't 
 you think you ought to now, come I deserve a ride, and you have 
 a right to lend me a little assistance, well you get an ivory ring 
 and give it to the baby, I surely ought to have one too, and get 
 on a little faster, at chewing, the baby has no teeth, for he had 
 none to begin with, and why because the whale is the fish that he 
 was chopped out of, and how came this to be discovered, well it 
 is this my friends; that the sea, was even with the sky at one 
 period, and the ocean was the first body, by its own construction; 
 and there is the silliest thing there is to knock you out with; 
 your own court is the very thing that does it, the sea is always 
 in you, and the land is not, your veins are full of blood, and your 
 mouth is full of muscles, because your teeth, were made from 
 muscles, and your head is made of blubber; and your eyes are 
 from the essence of the salt, and your nose came from the bubble 
 of the fish that spouts water in the atmosphere, I don't care 
 whether the whale was alive when man propagated or not, his 
 nose came from that sort of fish, and his ears, came from the fin 
 behind the head, and his nose was made round by the constant 
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 the atmosphere coming from heaven upon it: Now I have made 
 fun enough of you, I am going to begin to show you why you 
 don't become amphibious again, because you are lifted up higher, 
 by the adhesive currents of malaria, it breathes contagion into 
 you, and you are fetched along by the stagnation of heat and 
 air together; this is why you don't go back again into the water 
 and live, it is the heat germination, that causes you to grow into 
 this stage of perfection, so I will get off and carry you 
 along, when we all get stuck, for I must get you there 
 on a correct basis some way; and you only hamper me 
 by taking off my back, and placing my load on the eye 
 of that camel, that never has reached the other side of 
 that needle, that helps the rich man to fail to find Lazarus, 
 I won't punish the rich man, for I love to play with science, 
 and the rich man has no particular interest for me, my idea of 
 him is partly play, and part earnest, his nose might have had a 
 yellow tinge, or he might have been buried in a quick-sand, that 
 contained the acrimony of gold dust, it does not matter to any 
 of us, whether he ever does take hold of Lazarus, or whether he 
 did ever do what the scriptures say he did, I have known rich 
 men, who are quite as generous, as ever this man was who said 
 we could not go to heaven, without paying toll, I say that my 
 fare did not come that way, and I got there, as you see me more 
 particularly demonstrating, than any man who ever hired the 
 ceremony that gave him an inside berth, and when you want to 
 go, just shake yourselves loose, and remember that as fishes 
 swim, so will you have to divide your conscience into two, the 
 one is I want to ride, in a seething mass, or I want to part my 
 raiments, and just divide my half in two, the one is to go in at 
 the cemetery, and the other takes a bee line forever and a long 
 time after; no one has had time to make the change, and I say 
 you must either take what is given to you, or go without, there 
 is no picking and choosing, and I want you to understand this 
 much, the man who does his duty here, is the one we all like to 
 see come home, for he is a welcome guest in heaven, and not one 
 but will welcome the just stranger, who says my hand brother is 
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 we all welcome, not the one who looks afraid, as though he knew 
 of his own transgressions; and would fend them off with a 
 scowl, my friends are welcomed, because there is a palace pro- 
 vided, for those who serve heaven in a righteous way, and I say 
 that sense is righteousness, and not wisdom, for in the one we 
 have the permission of knowing, and in the other; it is as you 
 choose to make it, and wisdom may be a leper, in garments of 
 glittering gold, whereas the one who carries God in his pocket, 
 has sense; now you see what I mean by these terms, the one is a 
 tiger leper, and he is ready to devour; by the throws of subtility; 
 and the other has God in his pocket, for he lets no beggar starve; 
 and'he extends his hand to the brother who fell from an ill wind, 
 I say this is the God who has a heart for every good shepherd; 
 And as Isaac did bless Jacob in error, let not a wind that cursed 
 by error go unrequited; for as Esau was blessed, so that he 
 founded his throne upon a rock, and as the kingdoms of the 
 earth sprang from such a tribute of affection, let Adam look and 
 see whether sense or wisdom has fought the battle straight, 
 Isaac, has gone to the throws of Cain, and is hunted on every 
 hand, while the subtility of God did make the hand of Isaac 
 supplant the seed of his wife's duplicity, and Esau reigns 
 supreme, I say again my friends that sense is all, and wisdom is 
 a sting of vengeance, you can blight my path, but you shall 
 never master, though there were ten thousand birthrights 
 dragged from me, and as I was born on the sunny side, and did 
 break off the white wheat, I say you can never annihilate me. 
 I am as the winter oat, I came black, but as the God of light 
 did shine upon me: So you see me, a master of that oat, and 
 driven from heaven by an angry wind, I have been propagated, 
 till I have reached the top, and you can't throw me down, I shall 
 ascend higher and higher, till there never will be left any moun- 
 tain to climb; now my friends and brothers', are you welcoming 
 me, or are you anxious to fight me down again to the bottom 
 rungs of the ladder, I have been to the top, and I am ready to 
 climb again, but you ought to go up with me, for I like company, 
 and it would be a treat to see you ascending that ladder, which 
 no man living or otherwise, has ever yet ascended, now my 
 
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 friends let us journey together, and make all men feel happy, 
 give each one the truth my brothers, and there is the happiness, 
 assured, show each designing immaculate brother his folly, and 
 you have God by the hand, this is what we call the destruction 
 of the devil, for no devil can exist, against common sense; and 
 you must whip the devil or you never can hold God by the hand, 
 thus it is easily seen, that man is whatever you choose to make 
 of him, and he is easily made to believe evil, but you climb the 
 ladder with me, my friends will never look upon that devil again, 
 for he will be bare, absolutely naked my brothers, I have got the 
 only devil there ever was, and that was why you could not mas- 
 ter him before, I tailed him off, and shut him up, and made him 
 explain his code, I fought him down, till I had him surely fast, 
 and I have to thank nobody but my own courage, you can't whip 
 Satan without courage, he is bold, and he is daring, yet he is a 
 coward, and it is so with all animals, that have the blood of the 
 serpent in their veins, and why, because the serpent is a bloody 
 hate, he was the first black wheat, and he shall never lie, who 
 does not know this bloody weapon that he uses; I want to tell 
 you my brothers how to reach this hidden skin of Cain; by a 
 process, that is beyond the perception of man in his normal 
 condition, it is through the subtility of the Jehovah, that you 
 have got to reach it, it is by the good cross, that our Saviour 
 perished on: Now my friends I have brought you to the cross 
 on Calvary, will you permit me to tackle man as you find him, 
 and in the struggle for mastery, will you die fighting, this is the 
 way to come to the first rung of that great ladder: I say my 
 heavenly father hath the top, while I am at the bottom, and by 
 the grace of God help me to ascend this steep incline, well now 
 my brothers you are with me at the bottom, my father is at the 
 top, I will suggest to him, that we want to go and see him, his 
 answer must be, you are not ready yet; well when we are ready, 
 may we come up to you; His answer is I have nothing to stop 
 you with, and so my friends you see he can not threaten to stop 
 us, for he has nothing to stop us with, we are not to be driven 
 back by angry words, which contain no meaning, and as Christ 
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 and we know that he did good, and we know that he did die on 
 that cross, and we know that the pagans did kill him, but you 
 are all wrong, when you say that God willed his only begotten 
 son to death for the sake of bringing sinners to repentance; his 
 thoughts were quite different, his idea was to show the mother 
 of Jesus, what she had done by preventing our Saviour from 
 being born again, by being afraid she lost all, and when she 
 went to the sepulcher, it was found empty, and who was it that 
 did remove that body, I say you are all mistaken on this point, 
 the Lord God of Jacob, and Abraham, were there, and they did 
 make that body, and they were able to make that body move 
 after death, as well as though it were warm and life-like, and 
 you must not go on in this ignorance any longer, the body was 
 no more dead than it is to-day, but the life-lung, was extracted, 
 and when you take away the life-lung, you are bound to decay, 
 but there is the query, it must be sown together, according to 
 the method of governing matter, and when you are capable of 
 governing matter, you are able to seam a soul together, by the 
 process of ether it is held, that a man may be dead for forty 
 days, and then brought to life again, that is his body may be so 
 impregnated with ether that his soul is made dormant, and it is 
 this that we can find by examination of the snake species, they 
 are subject to fits of dormancy, and can be cut about till they 
 are hacked in two almost, well you see they knit together again 
 under such circumstances; and you find them so powerful after 
 the fit of dormancy has gone, that it is almost marvelous, at 
 their suppleness; and protracted ability, now you seem to think 
 I am reaching you in a subtle way, and so I am, for my own 
 instrument is full of this poison known as ether, but it is not 
 prepared the same way as those who killed Christ; for there is 
 no manner of doubt, that they did kill him: for they made Mary 
 the mother of God come down to the sepulcher, and see how 
 Christ was laying, well you see he was gone, and they hastened 
 to tell of the body being taken away, well the angel, that stood 
 in that entrance, was no other, than the father of Christ, not as 
 you interpret our father, but the selected father of our Saviour, 
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 be conscious of the actual state of propagation, neither is it 
 necessary that she should be aware of the father who caused 
 propagation to take place, it is immaterial of either of these cir- 
 cumstances to be within her own knowledge of certain facts, it 
 is not a common practice, but it is possible to produce these 
 effects, through the right sort of stratagem, which you might 
 call wisdom, for it is through the subtilty of the devil that it is 
 worked, now you think because I am able to master this devil, 
 who did deal in poisons, that I must be the greatest devil that 
 ever lived, well you can talk to one who is very capable of 
 holding you at arm's length, and see whether he looks like a 
 devil or not, and you will find that I am not very far away from 
 my own instrument; this is not all you can take a lesson or two 
 that will be of magnificent construction: And you may learn 
 how these secrets of writing is done through this form of clair- 
 voyance, and teach some one to see that there is nothing decep- 
 tive or fraudulent in the construction of a work, that surpasses 
 all understanding up to the present period: I have no intention 
 of cheating you, and I want to briefly make my humble protest 
 against fraud, I know you will believe me, for I intend to make 
 my theoretical resources, so very plain and comprehensive, that 
 you can not get away from me, and this is the benefit I intend 
 to confer upon mankind for the treatment, that they meted out 
 to me, when I had no knowledge of the actual state of things, 
 I was puzzled over the fault they committed in killing our 
 Saviour, and I vowed to fell the first one who came to me with 
 any lies about him, so when I got on the other side and found 
 them all lying about our Saviour, I went for knocking them over 
 one by one, till I found them all afraid of me, and I sent my 
 arrows flying right and left, till you can see the multitudes of 
 sinners all ready to take a back entrance, when the veteran 
 approaches, never mind I have my friends, and all of them who 
 get me on their thoughts feel better for an encounter, and never 
 go off hungry, I give them all my assistance, and when it is time 
 to get ready for another charge I go on, this is the way to get at 
 the pagan mind, by holding him fast onto his devil, till he is 
 broken, then heave in a broadsider like an English Jack Tar, he 
 
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 always leaps sideways, when he has got to face the British flag, 
 and why, because there are more devils in England, than there 
 ever were in any other place, that I ever stepped across, and I 
 know why too: The English are all bull-headed, and they come 
 along with the shark, he won't turn his nose away, when he 
 smells meat, and their heads are round like the fish, that is mon- 
 arch of the ocean, they are just as hungry as sharks, and are 
 just as avaricious as the dolphin; it is between these two guns I 
 am going to sail a straight cutter: My log is a true one, and I 
 am going to measure my find according to time, this is it, the 
 dolphin is a fish, that swims on its back, when it takes food in, 
 whilst the shark is on his back in an instant when he is prepared 
 to take a bite, so you see that the fish are both against me, I go 
 straight, whilst these two keep on the same tack, I want a whale, 
 to pitch these two into one, and you can't help me, so I won't 
 'ask Mr. Jack Tar to help me, for he would sling in a broadside, 
 and knock my theory to the dickens, before I found my Charly; 
 This is all well enough to go out on a fooling excursion, but 
 you know what it will be, when the white squall arrives off the 
 coast of Dover, she heads inland, and brings up sharp to the 
 rear front ranks; you can pitch in a broadsider now Jack I have 
 caught you, the shark has bitten, and the dolphin is on top of 
 the plank my boy you didn't see that, it was too quick for you 
 lad I came upon you too sudden, I shot my jaw off Jack in that 
 one supreme effort, don't take it badly lad we have all got to go 
 some day, and you are mine you know, it is brutus against the 
 beast, and I saw him do it, it was all a fake my lad, the baker 
 never got had for so much breat, it came on naturally, and that 
 is propagation between the shark and dolphin, this is news Mr. 
 John Bull, don't seem to like my expression, but when you are 
 monarch, of the ocean overhead, you ought to be civil to the rail 
 that carries you, and not find fault with the ancient mariner, that 
 was sent away from home in a leaky craft, and came back a rol- 
 licking statesman, you started the boy adrift, and you cared not 
 whether he sank or swam, then don't go back on your old 
 friends, for they are what has made you crop the seas with 
 ancient time luggers, and though you should hear me tell you of 
 
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 it, it is oddly enough to grace your please; that I should boast 
 of such modern vessels, I say you are descendants of the shark, 
 and I know how it came about, the ancients grew upon a slip- 
 pery plank, and never propagated beneath the Sun, they layed 
 their eggs upon the brink, and softly glided back beneath the 
 steps of ancient little turtle doves, this is the way to make you 
 feel quite creepy, it is not once, neither is it thrice, that I am 
 going to make you feel me put in my harpoon, for I mean to make 
 you shiver; yet with all that you are my brother: And I know 
 you will rebel, and quite kick off your hind feet, for you are 
 what is called the back scum of a great big invention, it is not 
 anywhere that would make you sink beneath such a load, but it 
 is the load, that has to be left off, and not puton, that I am mak- 
 ing sure of, you can take off a load, easier, than you can place it 
 back again, well you see that in playing round about, you get 
 into many queer corners, and the way to fetch them all into 
 a center, you have got to help them off with one foot at a time, 
 and not take two feet away together, it is this way that a mighty 
 giant is made, you pull off his toes, one by one, then you get him 
 round the middle, and still you have caught him out of tune, for 
 you never took in his sound, and you have got to mention this 
 or he can't swim round, his. tone won't let him, and you know how 
 this is brought about, why by placing him into a sound position, 
 you see me struggling under this great load, and 3^et I make it 
 easily understood, for I am a whale at finding faults, and this is 
 the way to do it, you keep on my old black coat, till I come and 
 take it off, and that suits you, for you have got none to wear, 
 and that is the way to get at you, because you are wearing out 
 my old suit, and that is why you look so shabby, you once had a 
 pair of whiskers, but now you clip them off, and split them in 
 half, and that's the way you don't take me in, for I can see 
 through these whiskers too, and that's the way to get at you, 
 because you think I would never know you, with those whiskers 
 slit in two, and that's the way to split you in two, and you don't 
 seem to think it strange, that I should make it do, when I have 
 got you made in two, that is it is already, into two halves; and 
 that is all very well for you, but you don't know why you split 
 
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 those whiskers in two; for it will make you cry to know the rea- 
 son why, this is it, I told you that I would make you sit up until 
 I had you made fast to me, well here you are, sitting up, your 
 hind legs, are the frog's feet, and that is what you do, keep them 
 for to eat, and that is what you don't do, is make them piece 
 you into two, for you have got a mighty poor pair of whiskers, 
 when you sell this pair of feet; I can show you how we digest 
 the frogs, and that is his eyes were made to look and peep, and 
 he can see you when asleep, for he is always croaking out more 
 sleep, and that's the way he does, he is always after hens' eggs, 
 for he can peep in and make chickens squeak, and that is where 
 you change to two feet, I saw you wink at me, but I have no 
 time to blink it back a second time, and you are off upon a spree 
 thinking that I am all a gee, going home upon a pretty white 
 elephant, but I only showed you where the subtilty of the devil 
 might lead you wrong, and so I have fetched you back to the briny 
 ocean, to make you take a swim, this is quite enough to make you 
 play at finding fault, so I have caught you at the right clap, and 
 that is this, the motion which you swim, is just the same as Mr. 
 Frog, when he is off upon a cruise, across the Pacific Ocean, 
 there it is my fine friends, you have all got to the point where 
 I can catch you, it is by the feet, and I know how to make 
 you mind me, for I will just pink you on both cheeks when 
 I get time, and don't you keep on finding fault with me, when 
 you know you can't take a fall out of the old Jack Tar; He is 
 coming home to drown all you land-lubbers, and he will pitch 
 you and tar-rope you, and then he can afford to give you all 
 the money, as he invariably does and besides this he is going 
 to bring you home all the glory as he has always done before, 
 for you cut him adrift, and pitched him to sea, and said here 
 old fellow you can either sink drown or swim my boy is in 
 the green billow now, and no one heeds the lad they cut away 
 from yonder great -big ship, he sank beneath those cold gray 
 eyes, and heaven was looking on, it is the old story poor Jack 
 is drowned, but never mind my dear we can meet him on the 
 homeward-bound voyage, it is all the same my love you can 
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 Jack got drowned, he never thought of us dear he had no time 
 I am sure, he will lament the day he went out to sea, for it was 
 a stormy night, it is very bad you see to be caught on that 
 green sea, in a wrecked old tub; for she never keeps dry, and 
 she is always wet in under her eye, for we feel the fishes are 
 making her cry come back, to dine, you land-laden gossoon; I 
 want to make you kiss my lips, as your mothers used to do, 
 this is where I want to place the famine pie, it is here 
 my love that poor Jack has gone to kiss his ancient mothers 
 in quaint Patrick's Dive; Yes my darling it's after missing 
 him I'd be; but you see its a foine toime he'll be a 'aving 
 wit my o'll German maid: This is the way my friends to split 
 you up, you are a mixture, of all that is, and you are a great 
 deal too fine a specimen, for me to leave you out of my 
 calculation, and when I wink one eye, you must shut both, for 
 this it, you are heathens to-day, saints to-morrow, and angels 
 the day after, this is my theory, the maid is a German, the 
 first is a Spalpeen, the third is a land-mark; well this is how 
 we go, there are three bodies, one is the sea, which has all 
 power, for it contains the exact formation of everything, it 
 is the essence, which propagates therein, for it is the soul 
 life of all material, and you see the very beginning there, it 
 is in the brine, it is there, which produces, the floating cur- 
 rents, that have always been divined by the right of power, 
 it is the atmosphere that dwells there, it is the air of the waves, 
 that brings life to the surface, and it is good essence, which 
 propagates, beneath that element, known as the heat that clasps 
 together; you have this ocular demonstration, within your own 
 grasp, it is the effect of the power of the Sun over a magnifying 
 glass; it propels together, and produces the heat in veins, that 
 grow the blood, it divides the waters, and creates a new fissue, 
 by dirking in between, it is a magnificent vein, to throw power 
 with, there is the secret of mortality; you have been a long 
 time at this great secret, but you have found it at last, and all 
 through the gray-eyed Englishman cutting poor Jack adrift, 
 and making him either sink or dive, well my friends and 
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 a shilling, it is the duty as I read it, to give to the youngest, 
 which ought to belong to the eldest; now my brothers, I am 
 the eldest and I want to know why I can't have that honor 
 that Jacob lost, he duped his brother, and you see he lost, well 
 my brother is the same he duped me, and I have won, like 
 Esau, I am going home in front, and I want the right to be 
 carried on my own plank; this is as you have always done, 
 and I say that custom shall no longer be the laws; for right is 
 might, and as I master heaven, you shall not get me down on 
 earth, to be made a tool of for nothing, I am here because 
 you sent for me, and I am here by right, you pray for 
 enlightenment, and I am here to give it to you: And as the 
 sand of the seashore is mine, to perpetuate my diligence to, you 
 have the right to be counted in as that sand, and not as the 
 earth's great instructor, for as man did hide beneath that sea- 
 shore; so did the sand aid in producing life, it is here where the 
 ancients went wrong, they saw the sand rise in clouds of dust, 
 and propagate beneath the arid sky, and they saw it hurl to 
 heaven, that which belonged to the earth and when it was on the 
 heavenward journey, it took a turn, and went over to the east, this 
 is what surprised them, it never came back, they could not see 
 that when it went east, that it dropped in the west, for why 
 should it turn to the east, and fall in the west, this is the 
 point right here, you went home without your coat, and you got 
 there all the same, did you miss the road, because you had no 
 compass to steer you by, no my friend it never has been necessary 
 to carry a compass, on such a journey, for the wind falls right, 
 in every instance, she goes in at the one end, and comes out at 
 the other, that is why you can't miss your road, you must go 
 with the wind, whether you are going home or not, it is no use 
 going against the wind, it is all fault, when you go against the 
 wind, there is the point right here, the wind is good, for it is 
 your direction through life, don't go against it, it is all good, 
 when you feel a contrary wind, veer round to the west a point, or 
 come circling round again, and meet the west wing, it all goes 
 the road we come, and go on the road, that was traversed before 
 my friends, and you can't get wrong: I am your moralizer, and 
 
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 you will find me quite right every time, for you know I keep 
 bending my way so as to keep with the wind, this is what I am 
 doing, now I am following the wind that is all my friends, and 
 you have got to do the same, or you will suffer by not obeying 
 the laws of nature, for the wind is what governs all things both 
 great and small: And you have to be governed according to 
 this wind, for it is the one great faction, that has all to do with 
 moving heaven; thus you see that the wind is the power, that 
 moves the sky round, it keeps the one end of the Sun full of air. 
 which is breath, and it drives in to both the east end, and the 
 west end of the Sun, and these two join together, and they pro- 
 duce a furl, which causes the interior of the Sun to circle, and it 
 moves to a center, coming in contact, with a great wheel, which 
 is of solid material; which I don't intend to explain, for I propose 
 to invent a machine on earth, that has to follow on this principle, 
 and you won't know how the Sun does actually work till I have 
 made this machine; you are welcome to assist me, but you must not 
 be too inquisitive, till I show you how to look at things in a 
 proper light, now we are going to stop right here, and either get 
 this full knowledge, or never know the rest, this is what I have 
 made up my mind for you to do, and that is to be very careful 
 you don't meddle with my instrument, and I will produce per- 
 petuity on earth, and show you how to go to heaven alive in 
 your old shells, and make you stop up there till you have got the 
 entire business so complete, till there will be no possibility of 
 lying: Now you can't do this by cheating, it has to be fair play, 
 and I will make this machine, so as you can't be hurt, by ascend- 
 ing up or down, and that the Moon or stars, can't have any effect 
 on you, they will be as harmless as the little turtle doves, and I 
 want to take my own instrument up first, because he will not 
 be afraid, when I show him how it is to be done, and that is 
 something more for you to look at than this great big balloon 
 ascension, carrying toys up, and dropping them out in angel 
 wings, that is where they get that idea from, it is the angels' dis- 
 pleasure, that caused you to get up those sights, bits of side-shows 
 I call them, now you know I took you into the Sun and propped 
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 because I am going to give this invention to my own friends 
 only, and that is the spirit world, it is to be the invention 
 to crown the success of spiritualism, and not to be a mortal 
 theory at all: So you see I am not going to desert heaven again, 
 for the sake of giving hell a benefit, that will outreach the 
 throne of God, it is his by rights, whether he be one great spirit, 
 or whether he is the power supreme in this great throne of 
 glory, now my friends I think you are satisfied with me this 
 time, and I feel that you ought to be, for I am going to with- 
 hold very little from you, in comparison to what I have told you, 
 and ^you ought to know that I am able to lead you straight, 
 when I am capable of dividing you up so accurately, this is only 
 a beginning, and I won't let you see the end, till I am more 
 satisfied with you, it is no use my taking you to heaven, till you 
 are ready to go: I want to know how much longer you will 
 resist the temptation, of seeing God, he is quite as ready to meet 
 you, as ever you are willing he should do so: Now my brothers 
 I want to speak a little more on your beginning, for it is work- 
 ing toward a finish of this volume, and you must have a few 
 more facts laid bare, before I go and leave you, because you 
 know I want a reception from you before proceeding any farther, 
 and that is a substantial one, it is a necessity I am asking; or 
 you would not hear me mention the coin, the only question is 
 this, my own guide is a good one, and the others are willing to 
 try this experiment, of going to heaven in a perpetuity book, 
 made of composition, in the form of a machine, that shall work 
 according to the construction of the Sun and Moon, with the 
 stars fixed according to the construction of heaven, but you 
 must admit my friends that I can't do this without means, and 
 when I find the intellect, and the constructive genius, you must 
 supply my medium with the means of procuring such material 
 and labor as is necessary to furnish this skillful appliance, you 
 can then have the fullest information that there is on the other 
 side of life, for he will write always, and you can buy his works 
 and in this way we hope to procure our assistance to prove all 
 that we claim, and not by asking alms for nothing, we are here 
 to do the work of raising humanity to the level of God, and not 
 
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 as venders or as impostors: Now friends we don't ask you to 
 come forth with your purse, and say here is money to build your 
 craft, we say that our work is worth your gold, and our laborers 
 are worthy of their hire, now don't think it is a begging expedi- 
 tion, that we are after, for such is not the case, we don't want 
 your gold, it is no use to us, only as an experiment, and we con- 
 sider that our work is sufficient to merit this consideration at 
 your hands; God bless the giver of light, and may souls be got 
 together, in earnest on a question, which is to show mankind the 
 eternal truth, and the divine providence, that is going to make 
 man a power, such as has never been known before: I want to 
 write you such works as will make you a perfect machine, which 
 you are, and instead of you having to grope in the dark, as 
 heretofore, I want to show you the light, so as you may look upon 
 life in its true form, not by any imaginary course at all; now I 
 think when I explain in my other works how you are to look for 
 the treasures in the earth, without even so much as buying a 
 pick-handle, it surely must be right that I must come and tell 
 you of these things, no fear of there not being sufficient to do 
 for all; for as the Sun shines, she makes more lands for you to 
 settle upon; And instead of you going begging for work, you 
 can have the advantage of seeking what you can find, this is the 
 advantage of sense, not a hypocritical sense, such as wisdom, a 
 sense, that shall show you where you have a right to go for the 
 benefits; which every man has a right to look for: And I will 
 show you this by degrees, as I find you ready to accept the 
 advantages, such as I have spoken of, now don't doubt me, for a 
 mind and a man combined, that can show you the internal work- 
 ings of heaven, and the machinery that guides heaven, is quite 
 capable of teaching you where to find the gold, that is made in 
 that Sun before it falls to the ground, now don't be foolish and 
 think that I mean, the Sun is dividing her elements up in heaven 
 so as to propagate gold for you, it is nothing of that sort I 
 assure you, it is this fact, she can't help herself, she has got to 
 produce the kind of matter, that grows gold; and when I tell 
 you of this fact, you have a right to believe me capable of find- 
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 tell you now, it is right also, for you would cheat me, and I don't 
 want you to do it, for it would make me your inferior, and that 
 is not the way to get your affection and confidence; now we 
 won't fall out only I intend that you shall treat me with consider- 
 ation, or I won't tell you anything that is a benefit to you in dis- 
 covering the treasures that you have got; And it is the simplest 
 thing in the world to find when you know the right method of 
 looking: I can show you how the forests grow, so as to give 
 you an insight into my theory: And then you can trick and 
 cheat away all you have a mind to, it won't help you with the 
 mineral product; well it is this, a green slime is formed around 
 the basin of the interior of the Sun, through the atmospheric ele- 
 ments becoming congealed, through remaining in contact so long 
 by stagnation, well this is only a party to the great secret, for the 
 Sun has got to revolve round to this side-show of hers; two more 
 years, by that time she gets her left hand cortege in the side-show, 
 and then she brings out this green saliva, and precipitates it into her 
 main disk, which is a flange-wheel, that resembles a churning 
 procedure, this time she fires her excess, and the balance is 
 precipitated into the after part, where it is sent onward by pres- 
 sure to the funnel, which you call the Moon, this how it leaves 
 the moon, in little round globes, or perspiration drops, and it has 
 the fall according to its right to drop, and my friends, when this 
 reaches your earth, it propounds the composition necessary to 
 grow your forest, not by the sole right of propagation in the Sun, 
 but as a distinct deposit, laid on the ground; and then by pro- 
 cess of time it is soldered to this earth by a calling sound of 
 eternity, that is the Sun and wind take back that which they 
 know is useful to them, and they use that over again, for the 
 use of firing that great volcanic body, that is in the Sun; now 
 you have found out two things by this illustration, the one is to 
 show you how the forest is grown, and the other to show you 
 that everything is round that leaves heaven, then why do you 
 doubt me, for the fact, that you are round, that is why, you can't 
 see anything around you: And you say I see nothing, why, my 
 friend you were many times greater than you are now, before 
 ever you became a round surface, and it is this that made you 
 
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 round, the Sun and sea have fought a battle in some remote 
 period, that need not be described in figures; it is so remote, that 
 I may say that no human thing was alive to tell the tale, the Sun 
 in her ambitious spirit, did one great good, she leaped over the 
 sea in her flaming anger, and creeping all over as she gained 
 upon her enemy, drank all from that great body, that was 
 included in her desires; she raged and stormed, and set her fiery 
 eye upon the ocean deep and wide, and kept up a hissing sound 
 of wrath, till the sea gave way in sheer fright, it is plainly to be 
 seen, the sea is gradually diminishing, this is the turning-point 
 in my history, and I can show you better by the outcrop, of 
 natural history, than ever you can be shown in any other way: 
 The Sun sets in an Arctic region, and it rises in a Torrid Zone, 
 why, because a given space of time is to eclipse the shoal of 
 getting beyond the sky, and in going round she touches the 
 water, and drinks in her fill, that is why the world is growing 
 larger, she looks angry at you in the morning, when her head- 
 dress is all ruffled, by coming in contact, with the atmospheric 
 coarseness of depression, her nose is wet, with tears, her eye is 
 bleared with weeping, and her soul rebels at the thoughts of 
 having to submit to such tyrannical conduct, her face is muddy 
 and her eye has caught the cloudy blear of a rough-and-tumble 
 fight, for as the sun approaches the ocean, she hits her sides with 
 agony, and she pelts her enemy with fire and oil, and instead of 
 the sea beating her, she is quite a masterful Majesty, she licks him 
 up, and exceeds the chastened thoughts, by skipping in a quan- 
 tity of governing elements, that hail her as their queen: It is here 
 where the propagation of man is seen to grow, for all around 
 this arid region, the waters are streaming with fish of a different 
 order to those we see in our well-known waters, there is the giant 
 fish, which measures about a thousand feet long, there is the lion 
 in course of propagation, there is the sea-owl, which is a night 
 prowler, the same as the one who wakes you up at night, calling 
 moulpolk; that is the bird, that gives me more consideration, 
 than all the rest put together, his beak, has a hook to the end 
 point, and he likes nothing that is called fat, he does not care for 
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 way, his attention is drawn to trees, he likes looking into holes, 
 and he sleeps there; well now you all think you know more 
 about an owl than I do, well I want to show you that you don't 
 know anything at all: This is why, when you walk abroad at 
 night, you think of the darkness; well the owl is wishing, it 
 would become blacker still, for he sights his prey by the light of 
 his own eye; And not by the light of yours; well you know 
 that, but you don't steady your thoughts sufficiently to say, he is 
 the master of the night, whilst I am master of neither light or 
 darkness: You see my friend how hard I have struck you, you 
 are neither a light mortal, neither are you a living conundrum to 
 him, he has your picture painted on every tree, he knows you at 
 night as the one great seed of humanity, he knows you as the 
 awful taunting bush of life, and he knows you as the com- 
 panion of his soul, for you groan beneath his call, and it is this 
 that makes you his, he is the king of night; he sees clearly, all 
 that is visible and invisible, he is the soul of eternity, he comes 
 on after the day is spent, and he screeches out moulpolk; well my 
 friends what did that denote, it might mean food, but it might 
 mean anything else, no my friends it is the solution of that great 
 mystery, that divides you from eternity, it says I am the king of 
 the darkness; and to read you must bow down, and discover my 
 pride and glory, I am the one great terror, that enters your souls, 
 I see you hear me, I see you feel me, I will never deny you, yet 
 you are the giver of the good we ought to thank you for; for 
 there is nothing without this night, it comes overhead in an 
 opportune kind of way: It is the star-spangled banner of our 
 life, we search, but we never find, for there is the night, he is 
 ' s ever present, well and why ; for the very good reason ; that he has the 
 fright, and why, because he does know it is his duty, that forces 
 him to cover up all nakedness by the shadow, that follows after, 
 and as your own shadow comes before, it is the sign of another 
 rising day, it broods on insanity, it throws reflections out, that 
 you are the divine, for it is here sought out, that you are the 
 propagated soul of hell, and in the hereafter, you are the shadow, 
 for you have two parts, a dark and a light part, your light part is 
 the one you wear after you have crossed over, and your night is 
 
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 that which you have to bear in hell; which means -the earth: 
 Now I want to explain to you that a shadow is a reality, for it is 
 the duplicate of your own counterfeit, and must be so, for the 
 fact, that you are not in an entire form, till you have been made 
 by shadow, the sea is your propagator in its way, because by 
 reflection you are propagated, in the first instance, you are 
 ascended by draft, you are accented by prorato, and you are 
 gravitated by the power of the whole striking at once, it is the 
 reflection that is caught, by the method of folly turns the wheels 
 of time, and that in fun you play the game of reaching perpe- 
 tuity; not by sober earnestness; you are away off, for you think 
 that perpetuity is a dreadfully hard matter to get at, whilst it is 
 one of the easiest things imaginable, once you plant the right 
 seed, and that is what I will make you believe, in time to come, 
 instead of you wearing out, I will make you all wear in, this is 
 not all I mean to do either, I mean to make you give me a good 
 many things, that you don't want, and that would be more service 
 to me than you: You don't think I want anything, well you 
 don't know what you are thinking about, I know what I want, 
 and that is a commercial negotiation with you; It is not for 
 your gold or silver, it is for your own souls that I want a civil 
 contract, well you think they won't work for me, I don't want 
 them for the work that is done through them at present; I want 
 them to stop it, that is the contract in its entirety; well you say 
 they don't do anything, well you agree to the contract, and I can 
 make you all assign your interests to me, for you are the minds, 
 that I am in search of, they hold you as tight as wax, well I don't 
 want you to be so rigorous in regard to raligion, I want a soul to 
 know what and how he came to be, and I want him to know how 
 to talk to God, for when he talks to his own superior, he can't 
 get cheated, and that is what I want him to do: I will tell you 
 the way to do this, once I know that there are sufficient of you 
 willing to be taught, this includes both sides of life: And you 
 know I won't have anything that is not in strict accordance with 
 sense, and sense is all: You seem to appreciate a man who 
 speaks truly, well now why can't you have all truth, and no lies; 
 it won't stop you eating and drinking, it will not break up the 
 
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 sagacity of the world, it will only make every mouthful you eat 
 more delicious, for you will be ready for the next, and its pride 
 will bring all the rest, why need you care, whether you were the 
 king of darkness once, or not: You are the shining light to-day, 
 and you have always been at the head, then don't get annoyed 
 because you did not see a construction, that is only visible to 
 those who have an understanding equal to God, for it is the same 
 class of deity, as did lead the Israelites through the wilderness; 
 only that a stage has passed along, and the man of to-day is able 
 to see the shades of evening coming down, and they descend 
 more gradually, they fall more like a reality, they lift off that 
 black glooming, and say I was afraid once, but there is nothing 
 to fear; the Sun has got so far ahead, that she can never be 
 caught up to, and I must content myself by following on: This 
 is it my dear friends you have gone behind, for the heavens 
 uprose; and it was in a bitter strife that this raging torrent got 
 backed from both waves, it caught the wave in agony, and settled 
 down to genuine business; and you can not do any harm in fol- 
 lowing me, for I have settled down to business; and I shall 
 explain the unseen, and that which you know about, this perhaps 
 is more to your liking, I will suggest to you a road, that looks 
 like a straight line, the one that leads nowhere, it is a straight 
 line, for it has led you round, and you absolutely found nothing, 
 yet you went round all the same, and that is a factotum, for it led 
 you round, and you touched on nothing of importance; well now 
 let me bring in your notice, to a second road, that has no line at 
 all, it never had any, we can say so, for we can't see any begin- 
 ning, well now there is this difficulty to face my friends, you had 
 no beginning, is that correct, or am I to give God more credit 
 than he really believes himself, this is what every man of sense 
 knows to be a dead certainty, you say my God did make heaven 
 and earth, and all that in them is, inside of one week, I say he 
 never did, and he knew no better way of misleading those poor 
 heathens into a decent behavior, or he never would have used his 
 ingenuity for them at all: Do you mean to tell me that God 
 did wrong, I say he has done the noblest action that ever breathed 
 the breath of heaven, and why, for he gave to them that which 
 
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 has propelled on civilization, to such a pitch, that no one with 
 sense can say but what he is the best God we ever had, and I say 
 to-day that his work shall never die; God bless the man who was 
 so sincere, and earnest in his devotion to man and good causes; 
 now I must explain that in my theory there is no one God, but 
 in order to meet you on a sound basis, I must take you by the 
 hand, and lead you straight, and in leading you straight, I must 
 get you to understand, and when you come to me, and say it 
 is all dark in front, I must then grab you by the hand, and 
 say I will show you my friend that you are wrong, there is a 
 road all right, and I am going as pilot, come along then 
 and see the beginning, j^ou say there never was any beginning, I 
 say my friend there is always a genuine article, before there can 
 be a counterfeit, well now since I am stuck with you in my hand, 
 looking over the broad expanse of nature, I can see but you 
 can't, well you must let me blindfold you, and then I am going 
 to give you a sight worth looking at, it is not much, yet it is all 
 the world in an egg-shell, you have seen an egg y you have never 
 been so near swallowing one as you are at this moment, for I 
 have got two, one is me, and the other is you; the one is a hen, 
 and the other is his maker, I thought you could not recognize 
 me, I have never been in that egg at all, it is you, that came out 
 of that shell, it fell from you, when the heat had warmed you 
 into animation: You don't believe me; " well you try a duck in a 
 storm;" and see whether the end does not take a fly, when it gets 
 quite mellow, I say you have nothing to fear, I have not got you 
 on the apple of my eye, I only want to show, you that you are a 
 great big man now, only you jumped and spoiled me just as I 
 had you coming out of the shell, well what of that, why don't 
 you see, - the bubble has broke, and it is all amazement, for it 
 didn't grow in a minute, it took three weeks to hatch that egg, 
 and it is only as big as a pin point compared to what you are 
 telling people every day of your life happened in six short 
 minutes; I have been talking to you for about five minutes, and 
 I brought you out of a hen's egg, yet you want me to believe 
 that your own God did make the world and all that in them is in 
 six days; well you see my friends, it takes a man to believe this 
 
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 story, and it will take a greater than ever Moses was, to show 
 you how it can be done, now I love and admire Moses, but he 
 can't come down and tell you now how it came about, that he 
 did do this great work, in the last few hours of his life, it was 
 spent in prayers to his God, and then he never said I am willing 
 to own up, that I don't know how this great world has come 
 round, you see my friends that Moses was the greatest general 
 you ever had, he could annihilate whole armies, by the wave of 
 his arm, yet my friends he could not explain the art of making 
 you know what it is that governs the universe, as I have shown 
 you, and as I intend to make you understand the beginning, 
 whether you take my hand, or I lead you there with your eyes 
 tied up, it is all one to me, so as I get you there; and now when 
 I have made quite fast to you, it is quite easy for me to tie the 
 rope at the other end, and make it fast in heaven; well that 
 would not avail you anything, so it is altogether too smart a 
 trick to be conjuring with; so I might as well take you by the 
 hand, and lead you on your journey to heaven, and when I have 
 reached the middle, I can throw the rope to you, and you can 
 catch on, and I'll pull you up along with the rope, it isn't that at 
 all, I must make you climb a ladder, with my arm around your 
 whole body, first by piecing you together, as a sailor does the 
 rope's end, he gets it on his mind, that there should be a new 
 way to make a rope, from the old style, and he is always puzzling 
 his mind's good guardians with this theory, that a rope's end, 
 has something to do with the good government of a ship, and my 
 friend he is just as near heaven as you are, for poor Jack is sim- 
 plicity impersonified, and he has got that great thought impreg- 
 nated in him, that a ship is all he loves, and his sole aim is to 
 make that ship taught by the one theory, " a rope end;" well my 
 brothers and good friends, that poor fellow, has gotten his 
 theory from God, and it is this form of unselfishness; that taught 
 him, he soled his feet to the deck, and he gave his soul to his 
 God, now my friends did you do this, no you have not got nearly 
 as far as Jack, he can show you the rope end, that he plaited, and 
 he will use it too, should occasion arise for any such casuality, 
 but my brothers you did not plait my story as it came along, for 
 
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 you never did get the end, like poor Jack; he has found the end, 
 in his simplicity, he has the end made fast: But with all his great 
 knowledge, he is without sense, for he never knew what he had got 
 to, and that is to the end of time, it is there so sure as the world 
 wags her great big pendulum; it came through this fashion, by 
 the hand of time, Jack became a hand-craft, he was able to sit 
 up and make a little wearing apparel, for his back became quite 
 sore, from the dripping storm, it blew so soft upon his clothes, 
 that they became so very wet, that he was anxious to be rid of 
 them, and by degrees, he was sitting up, and looking out at both 
 back and front, he could not stand the dreadful strain, so he 
 made a dead set upon that shell, and raising might and main, he 
 lifted off the shell; this is the way poor Jack, has caught the end, 
 he broke the egg, by striking it between the two ends, one end is 
 for the ladies, and the other end is for poor Jack, because he 
 gave the greatest push, when it was to be his last sitting in a 
 basin that had no end, till he poked his head outside; this is the 
 way the world began, by propagating in the sand, it is quite 
 necessary for me to begin by illustration, fo» you must bear this 
 right along in front of you, that life is germinated through heat, 
 for it is heat, that brings life, for the fact is quite easily demon- 
 strated, by the weakest intellect, and not as you suppose a diffi- 
 culty at all; now my friends you just keep your eyes on me, and 
 don't look till I tell you, it is the way a worm moves, when he is 
 creeping, that causes his hole to get round, his nose is in the 
 ground, and his body is working, at that hole, and he will have to 
 move very cautiously at first, or he won't prevent himself from 
 being crushed, by the falling dust; Well he is struggling, and' 
 wiggling, with a confounded nuisance; his back won't strike the 
 rear end of that hole, till he has touched it with his front end, 
 well don't you see my friends that the worm, is obliged to abandon 
 the surface, or he would be swallowed up, carcass and all by that 
 pouring rays of sunshine, in order to live, he has to burrow in 
 the sand, well now my friends don't you agree with me, that 
 worms have both legs, and eggs, there is the first end my friends, 
 where is the old infidel to-day, why my friends he is back at you 
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 paint of the present age, don't think I am not capable, for you 
 will find out yet that I shall show you everything in a quaint way, 
 till I pipe my very eye in shame at your ignorance; well I suppose 
 you won't give me much time for wallowing in the dust, I must 
 muv'-o-un as the Irish peeler says when he sees a decent coupel 
 making eyes at his mother, in a quick stand; this is the way the 
 worms do, they get at each other, and in a course of propagation, 
 they lift each other higher up, by decent funerals they bury the 
 wicked, and let the live; live, that is, they preach and pray, whilst 
 taking on the gray, for a worm is fond of phosphorescence, it will 
 wake and grow quite calm; in going through some essence, its 
 idea is to melt quite smooth, by lying in the shade, it lives on 
 essence, for there is nothing else that mortal man can see, his 
 eyes are made from essence, because you don't see him with any is 
 no reason why he should not have them, well, why is it that he can't 
 keep quite still; for the fact is so plain, I feel ashamed to own, that 
 he has no idea of why he moves, except, that he wants a bigger 
 hole, and he will wriggle and twist, for his body, is growing so 
 fast, that he will be pinched, unless he makes a bigger impression 
 on his covering, and here my dear friends I have got to make 
 my first impression, your own thoughts start in just at this 
 instance, as the worm feels pinched, he moves his body, and it 
 recedes at the touch of the earth, well the worm is at the game 
 of fight, he is making his bed, and he has it to make; no kind 
 godmother, he sends the earth flying in agony, for it touched 
 him, and made an impression, and it had its agony, in an instant 
 returned, his soul was disturbed, by the touch, of what appeared 
 to him as an unworthy stranger, and in battle array he drew his 
 little hide around him, and cut his way through, the victory 
 is won, my soul has caught that which stimulates me to a 
 greater effort, and my worm is the soul of honor, for in 
 its agony, it planted the sting of covetness; it greedily drew 
 that team from off the Sun, and warmed its way to life, yes my 
 friends you are very near a beginning now, I have made you 
 understand where the first time an impression is made, it is not 
 much after all, but your God did not know it, and I don't 
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 friend, and I afh your friends; at least I mean to be: Now 
 since I have been so very fortunate in placing your skin, and not 
 getting tangled up, why you ought to congratulate me, with a 
 pair of boots, it is not easy to wear out sole-leather where I 
 belong to, and I pinch my feet to save my hide, so I have got 
 to get into your coat, and see how it fits after it is o/i, you seem 
 to be wearing a loose-fitting jacket now, for in moving my back 
 round, I have made my whole hide rough, and it is quite soft 
 on top, I wonder whether that can mean me or is it some one 
 else, it feels quite soft and velvety, but I don't like that touch, 
 it is a kind of clayey kind of touch, it has no warm feeling, it is 
 dead, I wonder how I came to get that upon my back, it is a soft 
 kind of substance, it feels like any other worm, only I don't like 
 it, for it is a kind of oppressor, it is a just manipulation of 
 evil, it is the hide-sore, it has got a pin that pricks me, it is a 
 feeling of horror, I feel quite creepy, I have got the ague, it is 
 an affliction, to my core, it is drying into my very earthy sub- 
 body, I don't feel proud at all now that I beat my body through 
 that hole in the sand, my very soul revolts at the thought of 
 being an affliction of ague, I will not move again, I shall die in 
 misery, there is a nasty hump getting on my back, I feel it is 
 so sore, that I can't peel myself off, no matter what my selfish- 
 ness does, I want to keep moving, yet the blessed thing, keeps 
 on getting worse, it is going round my belly, and it is now quite 
 near my front, with its nasty yellow hoop, I do so hate this hoop, 
 I was all glory, till my jacket caught that hoop, through the 
 sweating and heat, in my hole, it is ague and cholera combined; 
 a combination of gasoline, and the essence of tartaric acid 
 coming out of the end of the Moon, and then being deposited 
 in a seething mass of yellow clay, called the attic artista of 
 desuvelorum; or the atmosphere in its attitude of gory strife 
 with nature; this is the first formation, and you can afford to 
 let me come out of that worm, and sit down a little, I want a rest 
 after that toil of mine, it is a rapid man you want, well my 
 friends are satisfied with me, and I am no rapid man, I am 
 plain Tom Paine, that's all; now since I am not ashamed to 
 own to you that I was a worm once, what right have you got to 
 
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 be better than I am, I did what you never could do: And when 
 a man whips the land of cotton yarns, and spins a wonder it is 
 right that he shall be appreciated; and I never asked yet for a 
 thing without it contained a meritorious effort in the start, and I 
 have demonstrated, the word impression for you, as no Webster, 
 or Bulwer-Lytton, ever knew how to approach my theoretical 
 illustration of a fact in its entirety; You can plague me all 
 you choose, but I have stuck heels into boots long before you 
 were born, and I mean to teach the young men of America, more 
 than they ever hope to learn outside of me and mine, for I shall 
 lay claim to some of their best geographical pictures yet, they 
 don't know paints for them, they think their eyes are their own, 
 I can make pictures through any one's eyes; and when you 
 get my eye upon you, it is like the wax before the maw, it makes 
 meat into mulch, and it pounds advice into you like a mealy 
 potato, I can wheat your own bread, for I know how to sow a 
 field of corn, and as soon as I get properly established, I mean 
 to show you how to make McCormick hop to another kind of 
 dance; instead of tying up devils in the form of crab- 
 spooks, I'll pull him off his high horse, and make you invent a 
 thing, that turns out flour at the turning-home point, that is the 
 way to stick such fools as paint me and my friends tumbling 
 out of sheaves of corn; I hate to be made the laughing-stock 
 of people; by who hardly know one shock from another, it is 
 as easy to tell one bundle of corn, by the ears, as it is to stook 
 up a pile of impossibilities; but never mind that just now, it is 
 the spook we are after, not McCormicks; but the genuine one, 
 who frightens you, when you get full of the wheat made into 
 meal, that is what I am going to get after I have done making 
 my game of you, this is it; it is a great deal easier to come 
 home in a wheat-sheaf, than to die in a corn-stalk, the one 
 begets the meal and the other has gotten back into the heel, 
 now you are startled, you caught me off guard there, I was 
 not ready, I had been out fishing for what you call the clover, 
 it comes in little tufts, you know what I mean, the shamrock 
 from Ireland home and rarity; the women sell it to you, as you 
 leave the blossom behind you, I know where you got that dreaded 
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 poke from that old spook; the " hobgoblins off the famous Green 
 Isle"; it's only to take care of the weeds my boys, that I'd 
 be tasing you now, but where did the spooks belong to fust, 
 why, my dear boy, it came along wit old Colleen bawn, and the 
 weed they call my beautiful clover, but as all the world knows is 
 that sweet-smelling shamrock of the dear old home beyond the 
 seas; I'd die murther, until your ghost appears when you gets 
 drowned in that far away America; but where is the spook, 
 he is not in the clover, and I can see how he changed from 
 shamrock to Ireland, well my friends in sportive jest it is not 
 wise I know, but as you are afraid of spooks, they are equally 
 afraid of you, and though you can't see them, they can see you, 
 now how are you going to take me by the hand, both are frightened, 
 this is different to the worm, he only pushed, and there was a 
 yielding sensation, your place is on earth, mine is where I choose 
 to make it; and I have got nothing from you, yet, well you see 
 me and you don't see me, as that great preacher hid, when the 
 cask lid fell through, he was gone, sure enough, he demonstrated 
 the theory, more forcibly, than may be polite; yet he did 
 prove more in that action, than you ever gave him credit for; 
 for he woke the jeers of the boys, and they have to be awake, 
 to find a spook, it is like the dog bingo, coming through the 
 sausage-mill, it is clear, only the purty wee doggie had a chain, 
 and the collar stopped in, that was a sure find dot toime, cause 
 de collar voise in mit de meat; veil de poor yettle dorg got dare 
 by mistake, his nose it vas tin, and his troat it vas big, and he 
 vas ferry vine dorg till him goot dare; now I want to show you 
 where the mistake has always been made, you take a mistake, 
 from a beefsteak, and what have you found, well the whole 
 affair is wrapped up in a shell, it is the sound, that tells you where 
 we are, it is the sound who tells you who I am, it is the coach, 
 that throws an uncertain thing, and you have that uncertain 
 thing defined, it is a spook, I have the right to demonstrate 
 how I please, because I am what you call a tyrannical spook, I 
 won't leave you alone, because I can't, and how is this, have we 
 no rights at all, have we not got heaven, is it ours or yours, 
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 cry content, because you are mine, 1 am above you, because I 
 am higher up than you are, I am away up above you ever so far, 
 I should think I must be about twenty degrees higher than the 
 best scholar you have got, and I want to make him feel inferior 
 to me, because he says there are no such things as spooks, 
 he don't know how to look for them, that's all, he is no 
 better than a blind sea-eel, that never had any eyes, it 
 couldn't see, its eyes were not grown yet, and they won't 
 grow my friends; because it is a worm, that does not 
 get cholera, its sole aim has been to live underneath banks, 
 and, as soon as it can get near water, it divides its 
 time with one thought, and that is how to make a division, 
 one is this thought, that it must be sent on, for it 
 is in a corral, hemmed in; its idea is that a whole schoolful 
 of snakes are on it, it is afraid, and goes sneaking round, for 
 fear it might come in contact, with a something it never felt, and 
 this is a spook, for he is always prowling round, looking for 
 something he can't find, it is the same when he is in his old 
 raiments on earth, he thinks he is going to catch a spook, some 
 day, and he is all the time afraid a spook is going to catch him: 
 Well there is the blind eel for you, he has a notion, that he will 
 one day drop on to something nicer, than he ought to, and this 
 is to see; which he never does, for the fact is as plain as day, 
 his eyes are growing, and it is in this blind eel, that sight is first 
 advanced, his eyes are the color of a scum, and he can not see, 
 for they are only at their maiden maturity, they have not been 
 touched by life, and are just as far advanced as ever they can 
 be, till they are brought into play by the action of longevity, 
 there is the secret, it is the length of time, that they live, that 
 brings on this sight, and it is done through the adhesive can- 
 descence of getting in tow with other enormities; such as the 
 weeds, that grow in the sea, they are tumbling about, and in 
 time this skin wears off, and you find them pushing their heads 
 back, by growing in tight to the roots of these sea-weeds, for 
 they dare not look at the light, it is a horror to them, and this is 
 where our feeling of horror begins, we are afraid of the light, 
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 for he is in the air, yet he will not harm you, for he is afraid of 
 you seeing him, and why, because he sits down beside you, and 
 you are quite close to him, and yet he is all the time aware of 
 your presence, and you don't know that he is there, this is the 
 whole secret, your nose is in the dark, like the eel up against a 
 bunch of sea-weed; why, because your eyes have got a thin skin 
 over them to protect them from the excessive heat and light, 
 and your mouth is opened, for the purpose of letting in gas to 
 escape through the eyes; this is the cause of no teeth, till you 
 advance further on, it is the same with the eel, his mouth, is 
 made, by his nose being placed against the sea-weed, his first 
 thought is to eat, for the essence, that came into him at first, had 
 a tendency to grow, for it had grown before it was drafted to 
 fill the rays of the Sunlight, which drew it up as food for the 
 Sun, and when it came down again, it was the Sun that had 
 made it hungry, as it does everything, that passes through, and 
 why should it make this essence a hungry essence, for the fact is 
 quite like you placing a powder in the water, the water is so 
 evaporative, that it swallows its own self, and makes its body 
 grow larger all the time, and why should it do this, for it is a 
 minister of the good that follows on, and leaves the bad to go 
 behind, this is why, it is all good, and it keeps on flowing from 
 the time of its first great struggle with nature, and that was at 
 the beginning, but how could there be a beginning to anything 
 so immense as water; well it is just as easy to master as any of 
 the rest, the beginning is all the time going on like all the rest 
 of nature, it's got to be made like I am making you understand 
 me, you will want to know how I write through a mortal next, 
 and I won't show you that, well but let me see how is it that a 
 mortal has blood, well that is easy too; only you have to get 
 water first, and then the blood is grown after; and the water is a 
 flume from off the back of wind, as the wind blows, it draws a 
 draught after it, and it is here where you get the advantages of the 
 spook, for he is constantly traversing the atmosphere, from 
 heaven to hell continually, and he knows what draws rain, it is 
 the wind, that draws it after its funeral, its own death, is the 
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 genitor of water, its very life, demands that it be held back, and 
 its very soul is in its own winding current, for the wind rises, for 
 the reason of its own lightness; and it falls by the hand of its 
 own power, for as it rages and storms, it is bellowing forth its 
 own sound, and as surely as the wind whistles, here is the solu- 
 tion to the great mystery of God, his soul is wrapped up between 
 these two elements, for as the wind does howl, she propagates the 
 life of immortality, and it is done in this wise, her ascendency is 
 the hanging of the elements, that suspend the heavens, and she 
 is driving at heaven, like a giant at the famous dragon of old, 
 pulling the mansfild in two; it is the harvest home, the corn is 
 ripe/the Sun is glittering in the morning, and the dew from 
 heaven is descending upon nature, and all the time, no one looks 
 at the pretty little mushroom, that has propagated, since last 
 night, it is a fungus, it came in a moment, and it was sufficient 
 to sustain armies; for many a long season; where is the manna 
 gone my friends; is it this mushroom, that you have been deluded 
 for generations over; God was good, he could manipulate this 
 little waif, as easy: As you can my knife, it is herein demon- 
 strated, that the seed of the earth, does spring from this same mush- 
 room, for as the Sun saps back, the life of that fragrant fungus, 
 she warms the roots, and from the phosphorescence, she does 
 propagate life, it comes in the form of a little worm, that grows 
 and swells, till it has nothing left to gather from, then it dies off, 
 on the surface, for it too can not bear the sad loneliness of 
 nature, and is died to the earth, by the stain of crime, for as it is 
 drawn to the center, it feeds on the upper surface, of the ground, 
 and when it has found no more essence to live upon, it dies too; 
 leaving a reddish mark behind,, this is blood my friends, for the 
 wind had made it live,, and by living it had paid the penalty of 
 death, by its own maker, there we have murder in the first 
 degree; and I have not done, for the worm in dyeing the ground, 
 left behind it the sting of shame, it was there it first lived, and 
 after living, it gave up its life freely to God: That is where you 
 have the beauty of nature, it came by degrees, and. sublimity is a 
 slow cultivator, for the Sun moves as she loves, and she hates 
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 appease her appetite; now my friends you think that worm died, 
 well you are just off your base there, it did not die, for instead 
 of dying it went on again, and is still going on, for the agony of 
 death caught it upon its own bier, and it went to God, and is 
 there right up in the mountains, that are around the sky, and 
 instead of being that little worm, it is now about as big as a 
 calf, and is food for other animals, that are more powerful than 
 it: Now you want to again investigate, and you have under- 
 neath that canker, for that blood, is the death-sting of the living, 
 and beside that blood, is the sin, it is there, as sure as the Gods 
 above us hold the life we eat, and you know they do, for they 
 are the masters, they are above us, and they are over us, and as 
 they crept along the ground, there is how they expect you all to 
 creep to-day, and in this form of creeping you are still doing, for 
 you are creepers, and the vine is the husbandman, for in that 
 vine there is strength, though it be but a suckling as it ascends, 
 it matures and ripens as it proceeds in growth, and when it has 
 grown the stem is tough, but the roots are many, and the place 
 where the worm died sprang to life a little twig, a small one at 
 first, and then as large numbers of worms died, large numbers of 
 twigs grew, and still larger worms grew, because of the moisture 
 of these twigs; still larger twigs came and planted their heads 
 in the ground, and grew still larger bushes, till finally there 
 came a tough kind of a worm, and it did not die like the 
 rest, it raised its head up, and commenced to gaze about, its 
 eyes had been protected so long by the bushes, that it stood the 
 test, and was able to creep and crawl, and could eat leaves, its 
 own progenitor having passed along before, and it was well 
 aware of this fact, for it had seen the other, in its infancy, 
 and whenever it came to be anxious or alarmed, there was 
 a feeling of dread, that this other one, would come and devour 
 it; and this is what it did, to sustain it from death, it grew to 
 the stump of a tree, to keep it from being blown away, and here 
 you have the wind whistling round the ground, calling for more 
 life, and the atmosphere became so heavy, that you could not 
 see at all: And in this atmosphere, there is a clump of mush, 
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 is the mystery of our backbones, it is in this punk, that we get 
 our first backbone, because it is a union, between the dead and 
 the living; and the dead is the essence coming out of that old 
 log, that does produce, a spider, which is a breeder, of no mean 
 order, he will give you all the colors, you want, and then he is 
 just as good, he gives you all the kind of feet you want, for he 
 is a hen and chickens combined, his idea is nothing but pleasure, 
 and he lays eggs, till he feels ashamed of so many, so he hides 
 one here, and he plants another there, till at last he has got so 
 much to do, till he does not know where he has laid his last egg, 
 well the consequence is, that he is in time a great deal farther 
 ahead, than he thought for, and one spider is off on the water, 
 and the other is off on the land, well you have all seen this, and 
 yet you don't believe anymore to-day than you did two thousand 
 years ago, well why don't you believe I am telling you as Thomas 
 Paine, from heaven, that is not the reason, it is because you are 
 all too lazy, you never get up to look, and you are just as bad as 
 your father the spider, He had so many eggs, that he forgot 
 where he put them, and he never hurt himself to look; now my 
 friends you know you are lazy, well why is it, that you are lazy, 
 for the fact is as plain as day, you are a little too cunning, and 
 you got that all in a sunshiny way, your fathers and mothers 
 were rollicking kind of blades, they liked the river best, because 
 it sported you about so much better, and in doing it, your 
 fingers fell out: In an awful fright, the mother began to praise, 
 and the father began to shout, I-have-got-no-more-work-to-do; 
 who cares-for-you; Kirk, shouts another, and out pops a pigeon 
 pair; it's all over shouts the pigeon, I am here as proud as any of 
 the finest feathers that ever flew, and I want you to come and 
 play parrot underneath, for you can put your little head beneath 
 my wing, and I can give you some consolation, by placing mine 
 over yours, and we can make a little sound, that says sweet little 
 wife I am going to have plenty more; when you throw me out of 
 your little parlor; and get me in together, it is "alwite"my 
 pretty per-per, ker-ker, kerky-workerk; It is little use going 
 into minute details as to the first noise, for it is all bound 
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 of arduous toil from you by leaving out this matter in correction 
 of sound, for you know that the wind was the progenitor of 
 the first articulate sound, and it is this wind whistling, that drew 
 the breath of life, for in its whistling moments, it caused the live 
 moments to grasp at the atmosphere, and think it is the wind, I 
 wonder why it howls so; and the moaning of the wind, is the total 
 element, which brings this mind together, it is like a blasted 
 asp, it sucks in venom, like the mind we meet, and that is why, 
 the wind whistles, and in drawing it sucks poison with good, and 
 the two together sow the seed of good and evil, there is the folly, 
 that we have all been looking for; and you don't think it strange 
 at all, now that I have told you, that the wind gathers in 
 your evil sounds, and draws them off to some other part, 
 and there deposits them to grow, you don't think I know 
 anything about good and evil, you wretches, you called me 
 a man of mild reasoning faculties; what have you ever done 
 to enlighten the germs of humanity, I save you time by 
 the thousands of years, and I am still an old infidel in your 
 opinion, I tell you what it is, I am more Godlike than ever any 
 of those are, who talk about things they can't explain, and I feel 
 like that pigeon, when I have unraveled a hidden mystery, for 
 the pigeon, is quite proud, that he lived to see his pretty feathers, 
 and play rounders, with his affinity, his soul's love, what is there, 
 or what can be more righteous, than this pair of pigeons, coming 
 along together, they bring home the eggs, and deposit them in 
 their little nests, and there let them remain till they have got 
 ready to make them grow into a pair as pretty as themselves, 
 and sometimes, it turns out quite a nest of love and purity, and 
 then again on the other hand it is fraught with a miserable nest, 
 for the pigeon is not prepared for the evil-sounding wind, he does 
 not gather in enough straw, and he has altogether too much 
 buried under his eggs, it lays on the wrong side of the weather, 
 this is all the theory of our every-day life, John won't keep his 
 bill from picking the eggs before they are ready, and Sail she, is 
 too bounceable and wants the nest all her way, well my friends, 
 one jaggle fetches on another, till Mary Jane is born, then the 
 trouble is quite alarming, well the end of it all is that the pigeon- 
 
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 pair, have grown quite spiteful toward each other, and they set- 
 tle down to tearing each other's eyes, well the result is a great big 
 tussel, and then the wing who flipped the hardest, was the one 
 who caught the most pain, for it worked against time, and the 
 consequence is that the Sun never shined on those wings any 
 more, they had gathered in the congealed atmosphere, and were 
 quite full of blood, that had been put in by an excitement that 
 will defy all resistance, and there you plant your disease, it is 
 through these struggles, that disease starts, and it is for the 
 hand of man to say whether he is to be healthy, or whether he 
 is going to suffer, his life is his own, and he must either fight it 
 out in agony always, or he must stop fighting, it's the weakest, 
 who win, not the strongest, for the weakest, is a soon job against 
 time, and he goes over like a shuttle-cock, he is the best worth, 
 when his earthly career is ended, for his work on earth amounted 
 to nothing, and his toil in heaven, is not looked upon as valuable, 
 for his soul, is not suitable for aught but common labor; this is 
 what I want you all to learn, that a soul has to fill a capacity, 
 according to its ability, and when it is done it is happy, for it never 
 knew what strife is, and as a natural sequel, it is not any more use 
 at writing to you, than the pigeon could be, at saying our Lord's 
 prayer, his soul was that of a divine, and he did his work, with 
 accuracy, following the instructions he was given, well my friends, 
 what had these pigeons to guide them, did they not have their 
 fathers and mothers before them to guide them how to build 
 their nests, why of course they did, and it is through this, that 
 they have always been taught, by their fathers and mothers, and 
 now you want me to explain, how the spider who begat all men 
 and women did, before they had any fathers or mothers, well it 
 is quite simple, and you can find it for yourselves; it is this, a 
 punk is porous, and it is drafted through, by a flume, that has got 
 a piece of velvet on that outside shell, well this flume, is quite in 
 accordance, with the world's fair, it brings in elements from all 
 parts of the globe, and deposits them in a cavity, that swells, 
 from the impression made by those things, that come floating 
 from everywhere, as you know that a drifting takes the form of 
 impression, well it is this, that keeps moving along, till it is 
 
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 sucked in by the punk, well after it was sucked in, it came out on 
 the other side, for it had graduated, it was the best of its 
 character, for the punk, would not allow it to remain, unless it 
 was profitable to keep, its very life depended upon its suitability 
 for this exposition, and in this exposure, it inhaled the cortege, 
 that surrounded it, and was supported by this audience; now my 
 friends you will agree with me, that I have done what few men 
 ever knew how to begin to think about, and I want a place 
 among you, that will prove me capable of doing what no man 
 has ever done, or is ever likely to do again, for the first is the 
 creditable one, not the one who walks along, with an unpaid-for 
 suit of clothing, I pay for mine by the sweat of my own intel- 
 lect, and I wear no man's raiments, let the lazy youth, come for- 
 ward and give us his opinion of old Tom, and his recorded win, let 
 him come and show us something better, he is no better than I am; 
 why can't he strip off his coat, and come down here and say 
 I am also a competitor for the enlightenment of man, I want 
 to see this youth, who is capable, of beating me, and I want 
 to grasp him by the hand, and say you are a genius, I want to 
 tell him myself, that he is a nonesuch, for I will know him, don't 
 you fear, I will not sulk, because I have met a greater man than 
 myself, I will go to work over again, and beat him, that is what 
 I would do, I wouldn't allow him to be able to say he conquered 
 me, and I shut down like a fellow, who has nothing but brag at 
 his back, it is true that I have always been a bit of a blow, 
 but you know where it came from, and that is the beginning 
 of the world, in its entirety, and what I don't explain in this 
 book, you shall have in the next, so you can rely on me, for 
 this, that I won't put on my coat again, till you beat me, now 
 then you want to know where the determination of man is 
 gotten, it is like all the rest, it comes from the one great 
 thought, and that is the wind, for as the wind blows, she gets 
 heavier, by the force of water, she is drawing after her, and as 
 she gets heavy, she also comes to strength, by the force of her 
 own weight, and as the light air ascends, the heavy atmosphere 
 is at the heels, and is gaining and gaining all the time, on the 
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 all along, till it masters the light air, and then you know the rest, 
 it comes tumbling down in miserable confusion, because it got 
 spent and couldn't keep on, because there was nothing else for it 
 to conquer; then my friends when I have reached the top, you 
 ought to help me stop there, and not go on and let me fall 
 down like the miserable rain, don't you believe me, when I say 
 miserable rain, why it is nothing else, it is the end of a battle, 
 for as sure as you get there, you can see the turning point, 
 just as I have described it: I don't want you to go up in a 
 balloon, I want you to listen to sense, and go and look, immedi- 
 ately' you have got clear of that miserable old carcass; you can 
 then pop off, with your comrades, and see whether old Tom, did 
 tell the truth, about the wind and rain, making this great fight 
 by themselves over your head; and that you were always missing 
 good things, when you were in that old shell: Now then to 
 demonstrate more fully, I want to show you that your own 
 vim comes from this battle, it is there, that a fight takes place, 
 well my brothers, it is your own fight at the beginning, it is 
 the elements of congealed atmosphere, that has thrown each 
 other, in battle, and they did it, for a purpose, and that purpose 
 is the propagation of all live material, you seem to think I am 
 bordering on insanity, but you know what the fool did once, 
 and that was to rip open the curtain of a pair of sheets, and 
 the one went to heaven, and the other could not be seamed 
 together again, for it had lost its fac-simile; this is the same as 
 the wind coming in again, it is drawn into the water, and 
 these two together, make life, they are altogether two distinct 
 bodies, till they get together, and then they make life, by being 
 together, for a period, of a few minutes, now you see what I say 
 is true, for you can prove this, you have only to get a pail of 
 rain-water, and make it stand steady for a little time, and then 
 it begins to propagate, this is food and meat combined, for the 
 life is in the water, by its own consent, or because it was mas- 
 tered by the man who carried the most good sense, and that is 
 the water, which is the strongest body, we have, and the water 
 is just as good for us, as it is for the live material, which it con- 
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 afterward, for it is down by consent, and in bringing it back, it 
 is made to stay down, because the earth is here, and it mingles 
 with the earth, and porous progenitiveness sets in, and this is 
 the atmosphere turned into lungs, there you have the sound, that 
 I was speaking about being wrapped up in the wind, I might 
 have fooled you, but you see I can't help being honest, and as my 
 kind are not as plentiful as the raindrops that fall, because; I 
 am as the heathen, only a little different, you said he is an "Infi- 
 del," and I am going to show you some more ways and means of 
 putting down crime, it is seen at a glance, that you commit mur- 
 der, immediately you boil water, for it is this life, which you 
 destroy, that is preparing lungs, that is killed in the heat, well 
 you attack me at once, and say the Sun does always murder, and 
 this is how she delights her selfishness; because you see her ris- 
 ing with gladness, from behind that black rain-cloud, that has 
 fallen upon you: Well the Sun might destroy the lungs, that 
 fell upon the ground, but that which fell beneath, the fruitful 
 soil, is growing steadily on, for it is this I tell you that our 
 Saviour alluded to; when he spoke of the grains of wheat falling, 
 he meant the wheat, that fell on the dry hard stony land was per- 
 ished, before it could mature, but that which fell on the soft 
 loam, was all right, it had some protection, and was hereafter to 
 propagate, but that which falls on the water, is mingled into sea, 
 for it had another element added to it, and was crowned with 
 glory, for its soul had found rest, and it was covered up by its 
 fathers; you see what a range of science I am drawing around 
 you, it is the wind, that is the cause of all this, it is the air, which 
 is the great prognosticator of this wonderful thing, called the 
 life immortal, it is this great sign of nature, that I am carving, 
 and laying bare before your eyes, don't fret my brothers, you are 
 going to die happy in the sight of this far-off land, you are to 
 see the road there, as your sons, shall see the father, so shall the 
 son of man ascend to heaven, before he leaves his carcass behind 
 him: You want to force me into telling you how, well it is this, 
 you are a magnificent specimen, and I won't leave you alone, 
 that is how you are to get there, in the body, I shall make you 
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 there in mind, it is the mind that will go there, and not the body, 
 it is the thoughts, that can be made to believe, and once they 
 believe, they are sure to follow, this is the way to do it, by 
 keeping your eyes shut, and then you shall see everything I 
 explain, it will come in at the right end, and go home to the 
 other end quite easy enough, you think this impossible, but it is 
 not, I can show you the way, so as you can't help but believe me, 
 and then I have taken you to heaven in the body, and what do 
 you know to the contrary, it is this my friends, these who are 
 about you, will go to heaven, and inspect it, and come back sat- 
 isfied, that what you read in this book is correct, and they 
 will then make you believe, that is how I am going to take you 
 to heaven, before it is time for you to take a look at there your- 
 self; well ydn wonder why those who are around you can't do 
 this for themselves, and not wait till Old Tom, has gone and dug 
 up the whole earth, to find the right grounds to start out upon; 
 well it is here, my friends are numerous, already, on my side of 
 life, and they are very often round you, but you don't 
 seem to understand how this is; for the fact, that your friends 
 use you for their own convenience, and not for your good, this is 
 why, and it is the same, with all humanity, to do this, for they 
 see it in that light only, and why, for the fact is quite easily 
 explained, it is this, the Sun is content, with what she is doing, 
 and the moon has no choice, it is obliged to operate in accord- 
 ance, with the natural work, of peopling the earth, by a calling 
 of its functions together, and dividing them into as many paper 
 packages, as possible, in other words, the moon drops the essence, 
 as it is adjusted, by the internal organ of its own contrivance, 
 for so watering, and manuring the earth, or again I will show 
 you the facts, as they actually stand, the Moon delivers 
 as she sows, or in plainer language, it throws out the 
 refuse from the Sun, after that body, has prognosticated, 
 and made food, for fattening her own great body on, this 
 is as near the identical man as I can make you, for what 
 do you care so long as your body is fattened, about the 
 hereafter, it is all one to you, whether you go to heaven or 
 hell; as long as you get there, and as most people the majority 
 
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 for instance, are able to believe that there is a hell and heaven, 
 what does it matter, which, so long as I get there, this is the 
 theory of man, he can't see clear enough, to go himself and look, 
 and he dare not leave hell for fear, that he can never reach 
 heaven safely, and this is his thought, when he leaves the earth 
 and his body, so he is lazy still, and he hangs on to the earth 
 and you, and when you are dying, you find yourself afraid of 
 going, and why, because everything is dark beyond, your soul 
 speaks the word, for there is no fooling then, and you have no 
 camel, to ride through that great needle upon, and you are lost, 
 there is no chart, that amounts to anything, the parson couldn't 
 answer some little simple question, and in those last dying 
 moments, you think to yourself, I will remain here, till I am 
 taken, well my brothers, it is natural to do this, for the sun did 
 not move, till she got the right kind of machinery stuck in her, 
 no more will you on that great judgment day, coming home you 
 will have a machine stuck in you, that is not perishable, it will 
 last, as long as the world is in unison, with anything, and it will 
 be there to propel you round the world, as long as ever any one 
 else's body can last, and instead of getting weaker, it wiil go on 
 growing, and get stronger all the time, this is your body, after 
 you die, as everybody says, when I die; it's all a lie, you couldn't 
 get killed, why, because you are a sound, that is come from the 
 beginning, and it will sound the death note, and then it is gone, 
 where, why wherever it can get the chance of course, what 
 else would it do, it might be held, well my friends you have got 
 me here this time, I can't tell you how to hold a sounding seam, 
 it is here, and it is not here, and the parson has told you so, when 
 he fell through that cask lid, he went in at one end and came out 
 at the other, and that is all you make out of it, for should I tell 
 you the exact way to stop a soul, you would catch this one right 
 here, and make him shut up: So I might as well reserve some 
 rights and privileges, for my business; you do so every day, now 
 I think you have got a pretty good share of everything, except to 
 make that ship go, which is so wonderfully constructed, as to 
 have capsized the whole of your genealogical trees, that ever 
 grew before, I guess I can have a blow afore I begins, for its 
 
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 going to make a much much talky, when it is found out, who lit 
 the match, that set the world on fire, well a little blow, and a 
 little talk, is all right, when you are going to board a suspicious 
 looking craft; and her crew, might by pirates, or they might be 
 pretty much the same as a friend of mine, the parson not welcom- 
 ing me as he ought to; I don't care, come on boys we'll strike in 
 and help ourselves, it is all fair in love and war, I might as well 
 have left our the war, because I am not going to fight to-night, T 
 only see darkness in front, and I don't want a tussle with the 
 parson in the night, it is all a mistake to attack a party at night, 
 I shall be obliged to fire my gun off to-night, and clap her in 
 ready for a clean sponge, before I board this gigantic frigate at 
 day-dawn, well you see in the morning we all have got the advan- 
 tage of going round with the sun, and it is at dark; that I am 
 going to lay down, and watch the sun take her dip in that great 
 ocean, that is at the equatorial corner of heaven, it is no use me 
 sketching my advantages, this time, for I can lay bare, the exact 
 truth, and let the artists take up their easel, and strike off a des- 
 cription after I have gone over this scene, and portrayed a just 
 course for them to take, it is easy for them to follow a lead, and 
 I won't be there to stop them, and they can cabbage all my illus- 
 trations, too; but they will only lead you wrong my friends, the 
 leader is the one who ought to be followed, and not a junket of 
 knowing all minds alike, they are capable of seeing, when it is 
 demonstrated for them, but before they knew nothing absolutely 
 nothing of that great volume, of fire, that whirled the sun round 
 at a rate, excelled by nothing, and it is now for me to show you 
 what causes this great revolution to take place, it is the actual 
 melting of fire, that causes this excessive heat, which pervades 
 the earth, it is the heat being generated into soda, of a fine kind, 
 and it is this class of soda element, that is made into a great big 
 churn, that is built of soda, and is soda in its entire construction, 
 that it melts, and is propelled against the side walls, with a great 
 speed, coming from the after-flange wheel, that is made of a 
 soluvium of potassium, that dissolves, in the heat, and these two 
 running together combine, and are formed into a hard substance, 
 that is crusted over, with a flint surface, that is of a porous nature, 
 
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 and it is all the time supplied through these pores, with an 
 essence, that is generated, from the adhesiveness, of the sky, 
 which is in its entire form of a great big sweat, for it is sweating, 
 and inhaling all the time, it draws in, and is pouring out a quan- 
 tity of saluvium, it is quite a machine of mechanism on the 
 inside, and seams life together on almost every point, well the 
 real guidance, is the quantity of matter, that is drawn in, it is 
 this, which causes the fire to be kept burning, and the fire is hot 
 as the very mischief, for it burns a great pile of vapor at each 
 flame, it turns round and round, causing a revolution to come in 
 the form of a big blast, it whirls round and round, till it reaches 
 the mouth of the Sun, which is what you see from the earth, well 
 this great pile of heated matter, causes a movement, of the 
 interior of the sun, it causes the adhesive fluids to move, and 
 they keep on a circle, and are drawn in motion, by the extent of 
 the heated generator, that is generating acid all along, and this 
 acid is forming into a liquid at the other end of the Sun, which 
 you all know is the Moon, well it is here where the Moon is 
 working her part of it, by the outside cortege, for it has an awful 
 sight of auditors here, they keep on pulling and hauling at an 
 immense rate of speed, it is the end, that I have brought you to, 
 and this is what is going on there, the end is nothing more than 
 an escape-valve, or a great big blow-hole, from which all kinds of 
 material. is flung out, it is here, where the Sun takes satisfaction 
 in destroying garbage, by setting fire every time the Moon gets 
 chocked up, which is once a month, or thereabouts, it is all fired 
 out, and it commences to fill again, with the acids, that is seen 
 through the mortal eye from the earth, and this is what you see, a 
 whole mouth full of garbage, intact, before it has caught fire by 
 the heat of the Sun striking a light to it, and when you seam 
 your vision together, you can understand, that the Moon is not 
 made of stones, and rocks at all, neither could such a thing be 
 true, for the fact, that these stones and rocks could not move 
 apart, and show you the interior, as plain as what you see it, well 
 I am not going to vex myself over your theory, I am going to 
 make you see it through my eyes; and they are pretty near per- 
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 suppose that thing is that we call Friday, and the Lady in the 
 Moon picking up noodles, I want to show you that she is actually 
 folding up something, and not picking at all: And this is what 
 her majesty the Sun has been doing for centuries, and no man 
 has ever discovered it, why it is as plain as the nose on your 
 face, it is the Sun, in her accessible mood, taking from the 
 Moon, that which she wants again, it is the Sun drawing back to 
 her own selfishness, the food, that has not perished by fire, and 
 in that manner, she does get it so clear, that it makes her 
 begin to propagate, when it has re-entered her furnace, for 
 it is one more mixture, that has given her new life, and 
 is greedily sapped up by her, in the essence of her own life, 
 now do you see that the Sun is burning the Moon up, when 
 you see that black mark, in the center, and she is practically 
 eating the center out of the Moon, and drawing it back 
 again, to use in her internal workings over again, now don't 
 you believe me, or what have I left out: There is this, it is the 
 entire enterence, that I don't seem to make you clearly get at, 
 and that is this, the moon is only a body, that is the other end of 
 the world, it is the end that we poor mortals never reach, for it 
 is not a place, that any one cares much about living near, it is a 
 stinking place, and is as full of smells, as the abomination, of a 
 filth hole, it is the termination of the end of all concealed com- 
 binations, it is the end of hell and heaven both, it is the very 
 funnel end of an unholy essence, for it is the foul end of all that 
 has been made and propagated on this earth below, and it is the 
 most awful smelling place, that there is, on earth or in the inter- 
 ior of any place known, it is the very worst of all filthy places, there 
 is, and I don't want to make any mistake, it is the place, that 
 ends up all eternity, for it has nothing left, but essence, and that 
 is the essence of the hereafter, it is a place, where saints and sin- 
 ners alike have both got to go through, before they are made 
 whole, and this is at the beginning, for it is written, that the Sun 
 shall cease to shine, and there shall be total darkness pervading 
 the earth, at the time of the advent of our salvation, it is this, 
 the moon shall refuse to throw her light, and the sun shall cease 
 to shine, upon the son of man, but that is at the beginning, not 
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 at the end; so you must understand, before you can believe, 
 therefore I say to you, that there is a beginning, and I must 
 show it to you, or how are you to believe, then take me in, and 
 I am going to show you the most wonderful thing of them all: 
 And that is the Moon is only a common man, and the Sun is only 
 a common woman, and why; for the Sun, she doth warm the 
 man, and in so doing the man hath a chance to give her the 
 essence of his body, and these together have in their way propa- 
 gated and brought into existence, all the rest, except the mere 
 fact of a few little details, you have got the whole in its entirety, 
 and you must be very dull indeed, when I have explained all this 
 to you, should you still go on unbelieving in the hereafter, or 
 that it was a great spirit God who worked all these wonders, you 
 will find I have made, it all in different ways from any known 
 pathway before, and it is necessary to believe, that I have 
 shown you the truth, for it is in this particular that I shall ask 
 you to allow me to leave out the whole of the stars, and not 
 go into their part of the work, in this book, it is not necessary 
 that you should know any more, about this at all: Only I have 
 made it a point in all my works to write two books, and this 
 shall not be the exception, as I could easily show you what part 
 the stars play toward this firmament, only I have got a method 
 in my works, and I will show you why, it is this; my works have 
 all been found to contain too much material substance to be taken 
 as facts, and they don't go off well on the market as salable 
 literature, for they are like the atmosphere, there are so many 
 turns and twists, that it is evident, that the author is made of a 
 grain, that is like the laughing-stock, he came through a terrific 
 storm, and like the sailor who wants a tornado, to help him 
 along, in an open sea-faring atmosphere, there is almost sure 
 to be a blow once in away, and it is this blow, that has always 
 got the ship at home, from a long voyage, and you rnust not 
 suppose, that any tornado is coming along to stop you from 
 getting home, for it is here already, the storm, that blew the 
 Sun into shape, is the same wind, that has her on the go now, 
 and she is there just as contented and quite as happy as poor 
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 still going on, as best he may, he however keeps mending all 
 the while, and he gets on by degrees, as the sailors go, his 
 place, is mended, and gets up a step higher on the ladder, 
 till at last he is on top, and then he looks around, and gives 
 his hat a wave in the air, and calls out hurrah, for I have won, 
 I am on top, and I never had a soul to help me get there, 
 it is the wind that drove him up aloft, he could not help it, 
 it came on to blow, and he saw these billows heave and fall, 
 and in they went, nobody ever knew where, but it is all along 
 the line, they never rose to the surface again . where they 
 should have risen, and not dropped back, and left you in ignor- 
 ance all those many centuries since the beginning of reason; 
 now I have given you as much as I can afford to about heaven 
 in this volume, except this, there is the constant dropping of the 
 wave back into the sea, as the moon does make her adventure, 
 behind the horizon, and it is this, that when the Moon passes 
 round the ocean, and dips down, through the edge of the ocean, 
 it has to be cleared, of all refuse, and he forms a smooth 
 outer surface, by these passings, that form a thin skin over the 
 whole surface of the Moon, that darkens in the center, as it mops 
 up the mud and earthy substance, that it passes through, well at 
 this particular pass, there is a peculiar shade of green mud, that 
 has a kind of slime in it; and this is what you see in that Moon, 
 that has the appearance of a man, in its dark formation, this is 
 not all, the Moon in passing round, is moved from the inside, 
 and protrudes out, and when he is on the very act of disloading, 
 his heap becomes fettered, by an actual force of impression from 
 either side, by the touch of the Moon on the edges, as it passes 
 round the horizon, now you have a very fair demonstration of 
 how the man makes his Friday, and how he is standing up mak- 
 ing obeisance to his upper construction: Now I want to say that 
 I have done entirely in this volume, with the ethereal forms, for 
 it can not be completed in this work, without injuring my method, 
 and you can have the second volume in another addition of per- 
 petuity; I want to say that you are to look forward to more 
 sublimity, in the next addition, and less working on actual facts, 
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 to materially assist your own individual selves, so as to bring 
 home more happiness, and less liability to come into harm, and to 
 assure you of this fact, it will be thrown out here, the idea of a 
 work, that can never fade away, it is the time of all others, to 
 help mankind, and not to gather round him difficulties, that 
 should weigh him down, and drag him below his creatures, I say 
 that man is superior to all creation, and there is no God too good 
 for him, that he has God within himself, and he is a prince in 
 disguise, he is a nobleman of all the great fountains of the earth 
 and skies, he is glory impersonified, he is God himself, but he 
 never knew it till I have made it known to him, and as the peacock 
 walks around, I say that bird is more like the deity, than we ever 
 have been taught to learn to live, and I say that pride is the 
 foundation, of all that is holy, in its integrity and truth, your 
 days of paganism are ended, and you are now to know 
 that a man is the deity of the world, he is sublimity, in its true 
 form, he is good beyond a doubt, and to make him this you have 
 to let him know what he is, where he came from, and he has to 
 live to belong to his calling, and his throne of glory; is it not 
 better to be taught that you are here according to the throne of 
 glory, than to be taught that you are to be held there, and 
 judged by a God who is imperishable himself; I say there can not 
 be any sense in such teaching, you are to be judged, there is no 
 manner of doubt in life, but it is by the hand of nature, that 
 does this work, in its own way, according to specific order, and 
 not by any God, there is no manner of doubt at all on this theory, 
 it is this form of man, that I am going to describe to you, and 
 that is this, the man I want to show you, will be a man after I 
 have shown you how man was first made, and not by mystery, 
 or magic, I am going to make you out of the fish, in the sea, and 
 I am going to prove to you, that man is being made right along, 
 from the beginning to the present time, and not leave you in 
 doubts any more, this is what I intend to do, instead of giving 
 you the whole of heaven in this work, I shall join man together, 
 link by link, as you have a chain made, when you want to fasten 
 him up: Now then I want to show you what a great many 
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 earlier stages, it will be quite an interesting feature, for 
 you are all prone to the imagination, and that is the 
 reason, that so many minds have gone wrong, it is because you 
 don't think right, your own head, is all right, but it is the thing, 
 that is around you, they don't do right, that want all the sense, 
 and you have to be content, by following on, it is this, that 
 instead of your mind becoming unhinged, it is this, your hand 
 does not guide right, it is wrong, from the first, it is not a 
 hand, it is a fin, therefore it is taught to swim, and in swim- 
 ming, it is to go in front, and in going on in front, you must let 
 it wave all obstructionists out of Ihe way, your fingers, are the 
 claws of the crabs, and this is how you claw so much, you 
 had better let me explain the whole of this to you from the 
 beginning, and then you can see and understand, it is only a 
 great deal better, than you thought before, and that is the idea, 
 of springing off the tail of an imagination; I am going to first 
 place myself, as the man in the Moon, as you have always 
 been lead to suppose, there is a being of some sort in the 
 moon, that appears; and disappears, at periodical intervals, 
 well it is natural to suppose, that you would be struck by this 
 as a mean kind of way to annihilate the old ancient theory, 
 but unless you have such a spirit as mine to go back to you, 
 and face all sorts of storms, and every kind of weather, how are 
 you going to get the right understanding, I say you will be 
 cursed forever, should you reject this information, and do any 
 act of violence to the man who writes for me, and it is just 
 like what you have always done, to kill the calf, that laid the 
 golden egg, now let me inform you right here, that you are no 
 more able to control your passions, than you ever were, and it 
 is all on account of your blood, being mixed, with the foul and 
 the fair, now let me show you how your blood became mixed, 
 it is this, when your forefathers, the entire population of the 
 earth, was a kind of sheep, well when it was killed, it grew 
 hair, in the land, instead of wool, well now the thought has 
 often struck you, how is it, that my brother's hair, is black, and 
 mine was light sandy colored, well this is the theory for that, a 
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 that is subjoined to the mountain, that is nearest to the Sun, 
 whilst the one who has the black hair, came from the mountain 
 side, next or nearer the Moon, this is according to the shadow, 
 coming first, and the life afterwards; well now there is this in 
 that theory, it is quite obvious, that the Moon did deliver, those 
 two, but in falling, one was a black sheep, and the other a 
 grayish white, now the one, that came along alone, must be a 
 good deal better, than the two first, for the fact, that it came 
 close together, and when it grew, it was a leopard, it had 
 spreckled wool, and was naturally a kind disposition, for it had 
 the ingredients, that make a whole, it was a good kind, for it 
 had the different staples of wool, now you see my friends, that 
 I have brought you to the form of disposition, which is a very 
 sure way of getting you to understand my worst fears, and 
 that is from a point of sanity, your saneness, is brought along 
 by the necessities of life, and I would like to know who gave 
 you the first idea, how to move round in harmony, with one 
 another, it was certainly not the tiger, or the lion, it must be 
 the sheep, for they are intelligent, and call across the ranges, 
 to this other one, that they wish to bring over to them, now 
 then I assume, that you have the ingredient of the sheep in you, 
 for in danger, you will all follow each other, and in trifles, such 
 as these, I have to pick up a great amount of lost links; thus 
 you can gather, that a great many things have to be brought 
 together, for a very material gain, and in bringing out those 
 important testimonies of how the animal does, is properly 
 speaking the theory, that we must grant nature a fair and 
 impartial hearing, you must not condemn the good, before 
 you look into the bad, vice-versa; it is here, that we have 
 this point of man getting stronger, for he does become 
 weakened, once you see him stripped bare of all his virtues; I 
 tell you, that a man must belong to the goat, and sheep, 
 for it is here that he gets, this great preponderance, of 
 evidence, against his being separated from his kind, he 
 hates separation, and he will gladly do on mean fare, and scanti- 
 ness; rather, than be sent abroad from his people, he dares not let 
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 good soldier come home, and he is boiling over with pleasure to 
 see those dear faces again, well then don't you see the charm, 
 that hangs to him, that when he is away, he is always surrounded, 
 with his home ties and affections, for instead of his mind being 
 free, as you would imagine, it is incased, by the good sheep of 
 former days, they are all about him, and he can't forget the old 
 home, for he is fleeced inside of the wool that grew before he 
 was born, and could not be otherwise, as the wool, that grows on 
 the sheep's backs, is woven together, by a fine lustrous web, that 
 is being brought out in time, it is the thread of God, he is the 
 good sheep, for he it was who soled this thread together, and 
 made it into a fleece, well now I want to show you something, 
 this time, and it is this, it is a very plain fact, that a man's mind 
 is not what you think it is at all: Your mind is woven, by the 
 spider, it is got together, at first by a kind of thin net, and here 
 is how to show you the way to find out about this great secret of 
 mind running onto matter, it is this, my selfishness, in seeking, 
 has laid bare the secret, of telling you how the mind is made, and 
 it is thus; your own thoughts, come naturally, and you think it 
 is a meaty substance, that is the whole secret, but you are entirely 
 off your basis of common sense, it is thus you do not know how 
 to mend the head, when it has broken adrift, and in showing you 
 this form of substance, you can easily make mad people sane 
 again, for you can deprive them of their madness: Now to get 
 on, I must show you how the madman has been working, all 
 along, he thinks, that he has been the victim of some great 
 wrong, and so he has, for he has broken a cord, in his own head, 
 and in breaking this cord, he stuck fire to the rest of his head, so 
 you seam him together, like this, his head is deranged, for the 
 fact, that his own people, have become entangled, and they have 
 crossed the lines of light, one is in front, and the others are be- 
 hind, so that he can't see straight, because this shadow, in front, 
 is struggling to get back again behind, and it can't do it, by 
 reasons of a very plain fact, the angel cord is snapped, and this 
 is the cause of insanity, his bosom friend, or champion for his 
 soul, is gone into the eye, and it has to stop there, till its friend 
 in the body dies; well there is a remedy for this disease, and that 
 
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 is to torture the eyes, by stopping them from looking out upon 
 the light, and by keeping them in total darkness; till the mad- 
 ness disappears, and this is the easiest cure you ever hear of, 
 well it is quite on a theory of sense, that you have got this for- 
 mally demonstrated; the eye is the great center of attraction, 
 and the spirit, that is next to the soul, has a sure access, and 
 egress; and he can't remain in darkness, for any great length of 
 time, so he has to vacate, and when he has vacated cnce, he is 
 altogether dumfounded, for he has lost his power, to return, by 
 reason of his own sight failing, but it is this for only a period of 
 a very few months, and then he will regain his ordinary vision; 
 now you see where I have given you an advantage, instead of 
 keeping asylum institutions, you may now keep farmyards, and 
 give the lunatics plenty of soft-boiled eggs, for in cases of mad- 
 ness, it is essential, that they should be fed on food, that will 
 make their sight grow again, and not by poking meat and rub- 
 bish down their wallets, now then you know why I have given 
 you egg diet, it is the essence, that comes from the eggs, that is 
 the theoretical eye, and as your eye originally sprang from the 
 egg, it is natural, that the heathen doctor, would suggest his ap- 
 plication, according to the necessary bandages, and as the wind 
 threw the bow to leeward, it cast a bow, that should grow again, 
 when it is bandaged by its own slayer, or more definitely, it falls 
 short, because it grew too strong, and as the wind did clip the 
 fingers off time, it is barely probable, that time can cast its own 
 mould back again, and discover the mould that grew so strong, 
 that it centred its eye, in the after part of the heathen Chinese, 
 for you find the eye, the most difficult part to understand, and I 
 have some very tough work before me, to make you thoroughly 
 comprehend the sight in this wonderful eye of yours; it is so hard 
 to tell, that is where the awful trouble is found, and I don't ask 
 you to accept any unreasonable theory, I was just as hard hit 
 myself once, when the jailer came and said I had to go out to 
 play dodger, in the after guardroom, it was so awfully bad for 
 me, I was so frightfully hasty, and I had a spirit friend, who was 
 made of gunpowder, he couldn't keep still an instant, and so he 
 moved in me, and I shot a dart of disdain on the guard, that 
 
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 would have crushed a feathered sinner, but this one, had only 
 one theory, and that is "eyes front"; so I shall tell you to keep 
 your eyes in front, till I get mad, and come right through yon, it 
 is this then, that has made sight, the hair on top of our heads, is 
 porous, and it settles down, so close to the scalp, that it will very 
 near break off there, only, that it grows to the scalp, and this is 
 the way it came to grow, it is caught, by the flannel, that was 
 first raised upon the sheep's backs, and then it came to be raised 
 more plentifully, for raw material to patch men together with, 
 well it is this kind of getting this wool, that propagates sight, it 
 is this form of living beneath, the skin, that progenerates sight, 
 at first, it gives life, and it looks back, for there is a hole, coming 
 right through the hair, and it is this determined will power, that 
 draws back, and then makes an effort to conquer, and then after 
 conquering it sees; this is the theory, it has been demonstrated 
 to you in a perfectly sane and rational manner, and it is true in 
 fact and substance, now since I have mastered your eyesight, I 
 can make you don't be alarmed: I mean to make you from the 
 beginning, according to the natural laws of nature, and I will 
 make you entirely on a basis of truth, now then you seam a crutch 
 together, the same way, that you do a pig, for in finding a pig, 
 you must first take care that he does not bite, and the next thing 
 to do is to grow his hair, well once you get hold of him, you want 
 to know where he came from; well it is a corker, to tell where a 
 pig came from, I wish I knew, don't you attempt to tell me, or I 
 won't be on the high horse again in a thousand years, it is thus, 
 that I am going to tell you, and I don't want you to tell me, I 
 was once in England, and they keep little black porkies there, 
 and they have got little jaws, that poke out, to an alarming ex- 
 tent, well you could imagine a pair of cheeks, when you seam 
 these together, it is awful the fat that is on those two little 
 cheeks, I don't know how ever anybody could think the world 
 was all done up in six days, when he beheld this little English 
 pig, and his two cheeks, I would suggest, as a calm reminder, 
 that an English hog, is a finer specimen, than the one, that Abra- 
 ham, had when he went into all those many told prayers, that 
 showed, so strikingly, when he told King Abimelech, that Re- 
 
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 bekah, was his sister, Abraham was more afraid, then I am, or 
 you never would get any more pork chops in England; for I am 
 going to take a pig's cheek, to mould your eye with, and this is 
 the way I am going to do it, your eye, is hollow on the inside, 
 and your nose protrudes across the center, well the eyelid, is at 
 the bottom of the left shoulder blade, it grew there first, and was 
 held back by time, coming in the front of it, and drawing over 
 the fore end, by putting in a combustion, that caused a 
 protrusion to stand out, in the front of the nose, it is here to 
 be found, to-day, on the left side, of a seabird called the exile 
 of the fallen races; and inhabits the shores of central Asia 
 Minor; it is here to be found as plentiful, as the fish, that come 
 into Yarmouth harbor; now I have proved my eye, and it is the 
 stolen cord of life, for it is this sight, which gives this man his 
 meaning, and it is this sight, that gives the mind a chance of feel- 
 ing beautiful or sad, the eye denotes, the kind of wife he will 
 marry, for it is this champion, coming through the eye, who 
 makes the choice, and not the soul, in this body, I want to show 
 you, that you have got a chance here, of finding out, whether 
 your own hereafter is to be happy one, or otherwise, it is this, 
 you may tell your guide to see what kind of husband, you are 
 going to marry, and should this guide have any faults to find, 
 you make him say what they are, and when he is frivolous, it is 
 easy for you to make him look up to you, by withholding from 
 him, the charm of your social intercourse, viz; by being more 
 anxious to look out for one, for yourself, for you have got this 
 distinct trait in your individual self, and that is your feelings, 
 they don't cut any figure in an argument, but they are all you 
 have, that as a right belong to you, so your feelings have got a 
 big show against your guide in this selection, and when your 
 guide detects anything wrong, you are sure to know it from your 
 feelings, that is a powerful incentive, it is thus, the eye bleeds, 
 because it sees what it can't get, and the mouth is watering for 
 the food, yet the eye says distinctly no, well why, because the 
 eye is blessed with a governing influence, that sees straight 
 along, whereas the mouth is altogether too selfish, and it must 
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 this, to prevent unhappiness; it is here as in other things, your 
 eye may wish for a certain new bonnet, but it says no, I can't 
 take that one, for it is too expensive, your mouth says oh! why 
 not, my husband, can pay for it, well your guide knows exactly 
 what your mouth does not, the eye is the governor, and not the 
 mouth, for the eye can go and see whether that husband is able 
 to afford that particular bonnet, now then you must be con- 
 tent with this one illustration, and consider it as applicable, to 
 both men and women, in business; and all matters relating to 
 their common well doing; you have caught a bad cold in taking 
 top much rum, it is the thing of all others to show you what did 
 it, and when you run out from a hot room to a cold one, it can 
 show you what did it, but when you are out late at night, and 
 you tell your wife a falsehood, your soul champion, will 
 say I don't believe him, and that is where you can stop your 
 lying husband, he is dead gone every time, when this champion 
 goes after him, and the same with the knife, she can't go and 
 kiss Jim, without your soul's champion knowing it, it does not 
 matter where or how it was done, it is the knife, that takes the 
 piece home, so your suspiciousness, is no more the mysterious 
 thing, that you have always said it was, now I must show you 
 how suspiciousness, is the treasured God, of a contrite heart, it 
 is this, the eye, that looks through yours, is able to come back 
 and forward, and when the eye expands, it is looking out upon 
 the world, when it is closed in; it is away from that point, and 
 is looking over the brink of a yawning gulf, perhaps in some 
 parlor, where no one heeds the little stranger, it's his privilege to 
 go where he pleases, and he can take a seat, and watch Mary 
 kissing Harry, when they know it's not right, and he can make 
 you feel, when he settles back behind your eye, that your spouse 
 is not what a blessing he should be, and it this little urchin, that 
 makes you so wretched, he saw it, and was frightfully miserable, 
 and he brought home his misery, and took you out a few paces 
 to let you see, what had been going on in Jane Sly's parlor, this 
 is the way of the world my friend, and it is not for me to be 
 after setting snares to catch you, but it is with an idea of letting 
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 sense you have the chance of growing good, now my friends X 
 want to help you, and in doing so you will be sure to remember 
 Old Tom " The Infidel "; for he it was who dissected the world, 
 and was hard pressed, when he was on earth, well when you get 
 hard pressed, always say this, my guide is good, and he it is who 
 must find me a path more smooth, and he shall know that I 
 found him through poor Old Tom Paine commonly called " The 
 Infidel," and this is what he told me, to leave out a kind heart, 
 and obey his guide, and in the end, a kind heart would be my 
 treasure, for in you my faithful guide I find my heart's best 
 friend; this is the gold, that reaps the harvest, of honest reward, 
 for in that saying lies the flooring of success; and on that friend 
 bears a sunken mill-wheel, for his hand is there to grind decay, 
 or make a man a prince, his soul is known to no one, his gifts 
 are all his own, and his friends are those he likes to lead to vic- 
 tory, - he is proud, as a man of main, his might is like the moon 
 and Sun, his ability is just the same, and he can pour down the 
 glittering wealth of health, or he can sow you full of odor: I 
 want to come and expound the truth, from a theological point, 
 for then you can see the plain facts, and after these facts are 
 before you, I can then show you the beautiful side to everything, 
 and until I have accomplished this theology, it is no use my say- 
 ing to you, that you are bad or very good, it is not the mortal 
 man in the body, that I am after in particular, it is these who 
 guide the men, that I wish to train and instruct, for the morally 
 good man, in his own body, is not safe, while there is this danger 
 outside of him, which he has knowledge of, this is what I am 
 after, to teach guides the right course, to pursue, to help their 
 mortal friends, before they die, and when they die or actually 
 leave the body, it is known beforehand what they have to 
 expect, on the hereafter side of life, now you seam a soul 
 together, by this process, for it is only mere assumption, that I 
 have got him, well now I must show him first, that I have found 
 his slipperiness, before he will give up the creeping and crawling 
 around by himself, and in showing you how he does, is just the 
 very way for you to find him, and once he is caught, he is always 
 bound, this is a theological ghost, in its entirety, and I have 
 
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 given you abundance of proof, in this book to convince a pig 1 , 
 that his soul is what he calls his mind, and not his at all, for it may 
 be removed, without injury, and a better one put there instead, 
 so you see that I am gradually wearing you into a theory, that can't 
 live, for it is dead, to the mortal eye, yet it is the very thing that 
 is more important than the end, for the end is no man's time, 
 and it is a long way off from us, for it has been, and is to be, 
 then where is this end going, and I am forced to say back into 
 your eye, there is the end, it strikes round, according to the 
 theological code, of the tree of life, and is thrown round, by the 
 access, of its own understanding, so that when you die, you are 
 incifcled, in a great big eye, your own eye, is gone, but the new 
 one is come, for it is forming, whilst you are being developed in 
 the body of your own eye, this is the theological tree of life, it is 
 the light, and the sound, which propagate, in that body of yours, 
 and the two, are grown into one, the instant they leave the body, 
 now then you see how a soul is propagated, and how life becomes 
 eternal, I live for you alone, is the sound of eternity, and I love 
 thee alone, is the voice, that calls, and it this collusion, that strikes 
 the point together, it is the mortal, that calls the material together, 
 and throws the mind into one great kind, only begotten, not made, 
 as the scriptures have demonstrated it, therefore, that you seam 
 an eternity together, as I have seamed all else, now I want to 
 show you, that a blind man can see, this is how he does see; his 
 sight is gone, by the method of divine deliverance, he can see; 
 and it is done in a way, that you can not yet comprehend, it is 
 this, the man with no eyes, is quite contented, he has no little 
 humbug, to make him jealous or feel wretched, his soul, is tied 
 to eternity, by a thread, that has gone on before, it is the 
 vision cord that is linked to the sound and is made fast, 
 by its own mend, it is connected by the thread, that 
 holds the sense of hearing, it is contested, by the authori- 
 ties on this point, that a soul dying of blindness; is a 
 great deal better, than one who is held whole, for his sight 
 had gone on growing whilst he lived in the body, now you 
 see my friends that a disadvantage, on earth, is held as an 
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 such utter folly, there can not be any good at all, in punishment, 
 it is foolishness to suppose, that there is, it is simple-minded 
 spirits, that fetch you all such like ideas, they are wrong, and 
 are quite wrong always, for they never had any chance of 
 becoming educated, before they crossed over from the earth, to 
 the side of life, we must call the haven, for it is all happiness; 
 once you know how to live right, and you can only live right, 
 by letting poor mortals live peaceably on earth, and not by going 
 round, with a firebrand, to stick in their eyes always, this is what 
 spirits do, they are always round mortals, and they teach them 
 all kinds of things, that is pure wickedness, and what else can 
 you expect, the spirit, that lived in their eye, was a wicked man, 
 and he had been grown by a wicked man, and was always a 
 wicked man, for he had been dropped at the beginning on a 
 black sidling, his soul, was formed by nature, and he had the 
 greatest hardships always to' undergo, and this is why, that a 
 wicked mind, is grown from natural causes, and not through any 
 evil in that body, that you seem to condemn, and hold fast, as a 
 criminal: Now I have given you more this last two hours, than 
 you ever had given to mortal man before, and I have dug up a 
 pit from under his feet, that you might be satisfied, did you 
 receive this sense, in the next million years, because you seam a 
 time by its own conflict, and not by its machinery, it is not to be 
 assumed, that I can't find out the end of time, for I could end it 
 as far as the earth goes in a few hours, but that could not be the 
 end, for the earth, would rebuild itself again, and go on growing j 
 just the same, in another way, it would take the whole earth, to 
 make a seed, and its seed, would be the geranium flower, it is 
 here, that I am going to attract your attention next, this gera- 
 nium flower, is a kind of herb, and it grows superbly in Italian 
 waters, or in other words, it grows in luxuriance, in the tropics; 
 and is a plant, that cattle and sheep are very fond, well they 
 don't die like we do, they die in a kind of semi-conscious state, 
 they are driven wild, by this plant, and are always seeing devils, 
 as the drunkards call us, for we do make these blue lights, and 
 red ones too; but that is all for fun, but what I want to attract 
 your attention to most is this sun, well it is in tropical countries, 
 
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 the same sun, as we have here in America, only, we have it in 
 moderation, and the Hindus and Boers have it in a form, that is 
 bordering on severity, well those people, don't have grass, grow- 
 ing as it does in America, and the consequence, is very much 
 marked, it gives the cattle a stain, that makes them wild, and 
 they don't get tame, easily, and why, because it is in their blood, 
 and why, because it came there first by eating the geranium 
 flowers, and why does it stick to them after they leave these 
 tropical climates; because it became a dye of nature, it stinks, 
 and there is the essence, there that perfumes, it is the colored 
 races, that I am after; they are black, for the fact is as clear as 
 the nose, on a man's face, it is there, by the natural laws of 
 nature; and why, because it came of living on leaves, instead of 
 grass; don't you seem to understand, that I am poking "borax," 
 as the blacks say, it is this then, that makes the colored and the 
 white alike, except on one or two exceptions, and these are the 
 exceptions; why man was made to mourn, as Burns has it, I will 
 give it to you in a theological manner, the first man has been, 
 and gone again, the second man has come and gone again, but 
 the third man is a holy terror, he gets back again, and plagues 
 the very life out of you, by his own impertinence; this is what it 
 all means, the last man is a model, because he came through fire 
 and brimstone, to save the world, but you don't seem to have 
 any world to save, the black African is just as much a man, as 
 any white man that ever walked, and he is just about as near 
 perfect, as he can be made, once I let him know of how to get 
 at the right way of mastering sense, and that his thick skull, is 
 nothing to me, once I get him to know how he is to lead an 
 army, he can whip three Jack Tars, at one sitting, but I never 
 said I would show him this, neither will I show him how to whip 
 any nationality, his own hand, is what I am after, to get my own 
 science developed, well it is this my fine African, you have just 
 the class of hand, to knock slavery, out of existence, but I want 
 to show you, that your hand is all I want with you, and not your 
 ingenuity, it is not that which has to be carved to mould a new 
 genealogical tree; but your hand, is the palm tree, that makes 
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 and thumb, there is an opening, and in that opening there is a 
 vein, it has got two marks across it, and there is a seam dividing 
 those two veins, well it is easy to see, that this hand was not 
 made, at one sitting, it is only black, on the outside, its color is 
 dark red, underneath, and as black as a coal on top, there is the 
 difference, it is white one way, and it is black the other, or it is 
 dark red; now I have been playing 'possum, it is only a gumtree 
 trick, to shoot off one way, and bring you up standing at another, 
 well you see this great big African, is a finer specimen, than any 
 dwarf of a Chinaman, with his long pigtail, hanging down 
 behind, what sense is there in this, I want to show you, and you 
 shall just see how funny I can be, the African is a giant com- 
 pared to Mr. John Chinaman, yet these two are singularly alike, 
 one is an olive brown, and the other is black and red, well you 
 have got two nationalities; and both, have two distinct colors: 
 this is it then, that a color is what is wanted, it has to be divided, 
 into parts, then you mix them together, and they change, every 
 time they are mixed, you see how well I have caught you on 
 this question of races, I gave you the ingredients, and you have 
 only to mix them up in different ways, and my friends you have 
 the coloring perfectly formed, I want to say that in this art I 
 have made a study, and I must take you by the hand, and lead 
 you right to the spot, where the first man and woman were ever 
 formed, and it is in Turkestan, it is here, where the first man and 
 woman ever were produced, and it is here where the buzzard is 
 making men and women to-day, it is right on the border of the 
 cliffs, near the old palisade, in the interior of Turkey; it 
 will be noticed, that there are a number of people being born, 
 that have no hair, on their lower jaw, it is seen, that they are the 
 same as the gorilla tribe, yet they are different in this feature, 
 the two eye-teeth, are the same, as a man's, and are quite differ- 
 ent in particular as to the movement, it is this, the teeth, are the 
 same as a wolf, and they snarl, like an angry wolf, for it is the 
 Hyena of Hindoostan, that I have drifted you on to; and he is 
 the one I want to illustrate from, the Hyena, or laughing-jay, is 
 the animal, that has been the one to scatter humanity broadcast, 
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 proceed to go on connecting my man; the laughing-jay, is a 
 bird, or what is called the personification of evil omen, it comes 
 in the night, and makes a noise, that can't be mistaken, it is the 
 notes of a laugh, and it is the same kind of a bird as the owl, 
 it sees, at night, and is the one, that has diverted, the man from 
 the chattering ape, to the present genius, that we now find him, 
 it is this, the ape is a canine, because he is a distant quadruped 
 of the jackdaw tribe, and it is in this particular sound he has, 
 that I mean to demonstrate from, the jackdaw coughs, whilst 
 the laughing-jay, is a distinct laugh, which has a sound, like the 
 humari voice, this is an imitation of the two, " Laughing-jay, 
 sacsac, yasyas, sassas "; this is as near as I can get it put, but 
 the jackdaw, is a different note entirely, his is this, "hackhack, 
 thackthack, and smacksmack"; meaning that a good deal, 
 would be said, only the monkey, has no note, that ends in rhyme, 
 or this ever-winding mind, it is entirely without note, it is stupid, 
 from this cause, it can't make a mark, without its tail coming in 
 to wipe it out, and this is why its tail is so long, the monkey is 
 never able to reach backward, for he has no after cortege, there is 
 nothing to amonkey, for he did not loosen, in times of old, he 
 stuck to the plank that he drifted on, he never broke the record, 
 by pulling off John's pigtail, and placing his own instead on 
 John's head, or has he ever done anything but jabber out, and 
 screech ever since, and he is not likely to ever propagate a man, 
 that can tell you of all things possible, and impossible, therefore 
 you can say Mr. Monkey is not good enough, to place his own 
 tail on any one's head, for he never did have anything to steer it 
 by, and it is just the same error, that you all see every day, that 
 has occurred from the beginning, it is one matter run to waste; 
 and that is the same, as you have right in front of your eyes, it 
 is the mule or mute, it has gone to this distinct kind, and runs on 
 to this ass tribe, it is the foal of a mute, by an old gray monkey, 
 that propagates a jack, and after that jack is brought back, he 
 can get no farther, for he has run to waste, and is a mute, his 
 sight has gone, he can't seam any more: I wanted to show you 
 this, for it is herein illustrated, that the horse, is so nearly allied 
 to the monkey, that shows you where to find that stain carried 
 
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 to the extreme, it is this, the horse is not the same as the jack, 
 and he is different in this particular, the horse is the same in all 
 except the sound, which is a kind of cold, that gives it a kind of 
 a grating sound, this is all the difference, that is observable at 
 first, now I want to show you how the horse became estranged 
 from the monkey, and it is this way, the animal kingdom is not 
 in Hyde Park, it is in the jungles of Africa, Asia Minor, and 
 India; besides other places; too numerous to particularize as the 
 showman says, when he has a pair of blue pants to air, I have 
 got to make you understand me, or what is the use of my coming 
 down here to explain the truth; it is no use my staying away, 
 and when I tell you that a goose laid an egg, you say what a 
 pity, he put that in there; it might have done without him saying 
 that in such a splendid work; why, my bashful friends, can go 
 and look inside the egg, or remain dunces, forever, that is as 
 straight as I can place it, and when you cross to Paris, you go 
 over the English Channel, instead of going round by Australia, and 
 coming home through Suez; this is what I mean you to see, that you 
 have got to look at sense, right between the eyes; as it would 
 appear there first, and you must look at a problem, from a problem- 
 atic point, before you can narrow down to the end, this is what I 
 call sense, it has to be made, or you can't have it, and I am making 
 sense; joining it link by link, till I have got so much sense in one 
 chain, till you and no other man who ever lives can break it; and 
 when you have bound this chain about you, I shall say here 
 comes the man I made: And after he is bound, by one endless 
 chain, I venture to vociferate, that he never laughs, like a mon- 
 key, or talks like a sign of wisdom coming from the records of 
 old, that were made by the best men, that ever lived, and were 
 in accordance to their judgment, the very purest work, that 
 could be positively made, now my friends I tell you distinctly 
 and emphatically, that a man must read the Bible, or he can 
 never be any good, for the soul, that lives hereafter, or he can 
 not be fitted for sense, because the Bible, is sense, only you have 
 to grow in advance of it, before you can understand it, and where 
 errors were made, in the transcription, it is now for you to pick 
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 made, and not sit down, like a lazy good-for-nothing set of 
 less bipeds, and say we can't do as our forefathers did; I say that 
 you are better, then ever your forefathers knew how to be, only 
 that you are so confounded in miserable laziness, that you won't 
 do anything honest, you are willing to trick, and your souls, have 
 got to be saved by trick, or you think it would never be any 
 wiser, than the old fellows, who were afraid to trick God, and 
 you know what that God did, why he turned a chain of light- 
 ning on to those he wanted to make an example of, and that kept 
 the others right, and I can chain you in with hydrogen, and 
 glycerine, and some other materials, that are not combustible 
 machines, until I turn the crank wheel, this is myself, for I too 
 can turn lightning on to you, just the same as that God of old 
 did, and I will chain you up, in heaven, as well as hell, with the 
 gift of common sense, it is no use you trying to trick me, for I 
 have got the grip, and I mean to hold fast, you stick to me, while 
 you think I am going to show you something, but you shan't 
 throw me overboard again, like I had to sleep under a wet 
 blanket, once you stole the credit of my life, from me, and that 
 is the propounding of the United States of America, it was the 
 heathens, who let me go, once they had taken all my points, and 
 they said it was too great a thing to do, to take a paltry country 
 like this, and bre y from the father home, I said then it 
 
 could be done, and I prepared the crust, that broke the yoke of 
 :v. for it was nothing better than slavery to be tied to Eng- 
 land, and her confounded bad system of making her home suffer- 
 ers come abroad, to teach a system, that was nothing better than 
 slavery, her laws, are the laws of the shark, and I say again, 
 that her men are descendants of sharks, and I will prove it; 
 that is more than you ever dare say in a country, that is 
 brought up to a paganish belief, brought on through ignorance, 
 and vile pollution, for English laws, are not the laws of civiliza- 
 tion at all, they are the very laws, that a shark would make, and 
 it is here, that I have got them, the shark, is a bold fish, he is 
 able to skim round, and directly he sees his prey on the act of 
 swimming away, he is after it like a shot, and he pounds that 
 other fish, into a melley, for he has got the game ahead, and it is 
 
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 this style of his, that breaks the back, of the dolphin, for it is 
 seething in agony, at the approach of this gigantic monster, and 
 when it is seen that she has no more chance of escape, it yields 
 to this brutish passion for victory, and in the struggle, there is an 
 exchange of union, and this union, is the result of man, for the 
 shark, is the outraged scion of immorality, and the fin of the dolphin 
 is stuck deep into the shark, well the result is this, the shark, is 
 bound to dive underneath, and when he gets below, it is the op- 
 portunity of the dolphin to propagate, and these two in anger 
 and wanton lust, have gained the mastery, of all humanity, for 
 they have bred a sea-calf, or commonly called a whale, it is this 
 far advanced, when the fish is seething, and there again is a rup- 
 ture, it is this, the sealaff, and the seal are both allied, it is a fish, 
 that contains a difference, in this respect, the sealaff, is a fish 
 closely allied to the seal, well it is in this one particular, that they 
 change, the sealaff, is a fish, with a nose, like a moth, it protrudes 
 over at the end, and it comes through the flesh of an animal, in 
 its own kind, it is closely allied to the black bear, for it leaps 
 upon its prey, and attempts to strangle first, it is through these 
 close embraces of nature, in struggling for mastery, that propa- 
 gation sets in, they fight for victory, and are just the same in 
 their sportive moments, always trying to see who can win, it is this, 
 that causes the mind to wander from the actual subject, it is the 
 animal kingdom, that are so inferior to man, that man disdains, 
 to look in that direction to find the theoretical starting point, and 
 it is this kind of superiority, that makes man so elevated, that he 
 won't come down to the level, of the brute, in comparison, I say 
 that a man who is elevated so high, that he desires to be God 
 entirely, is not fit to be a subject of any civilized community, and 
 he ought to be started off in an air gun, and fired into heaven; 
 there is surely no use for him on earth; now I have given you a 
 taste of the salt water, how do you like me anyway, as the girls 
 say, when they have got a new fishwing in their straw bonnet, 
 is it purty, or is it nasty to hail the salt sea, the girls are all 
 fond of Jack Tar, and it is this likeness, for their old friend 
 the shark, that makes them feel at home in the society of 
 Jack Tar, he apologizes, most humbly, whenever he swears a 
 
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 round oath, and he says d~— because he has got used to it, 
 and so the way he talks, is pretty briney, and it is this salty 
 notion, that makes the girls take kindly to Jack, she says he 
 loves me, and Jack Tar does, he seldom has the liberty of 
 loving a girl, and when he does, she sees it like a flash of gun- 
 powder, the eye begins to wax hot, the pupil protrudes a little, 
 and the mouth is coming into action, and the blood begins to 
 mount the brow, and then the signal comes, it is the fire in poor 
 old Jack's eye, that makes her dance, and feel aglow, her very 
 mirth, is mounting high, when she sees that ghastly smile, it is 
 the coming storm, it is the raging torrent, that strikes that deck, 
 that shivers her timbers, and makes her blow, it fans the air, and 
 makes the eyes, come into tow, and once they meet, it is the 
 signal of distress, I am doomed whispers the purty girl, I have 
 fallen a victim beneath those starry orbs, just look poor Jack, is 
 worst off of the two, his eyes have bristled forth in agony 
 waves, his eyes are moistened with the dew, it is the essence of 
 light, he has seen the heaven of his dove, his victory is assured, 
 and he sees the girl is pretty far gone, for she drops her eyes, 
 and looks down, it is the signal of distress, her eyes are dip, her 
 soul is rent, and her love has caught the breeze, to blow her to 
 the old wave, that brought her onto this, she is lying like a 
 crested wave, it is all the glory, that she ever knew, it gave her 
 back the old sigh, that so few seem to recognize, when they pass 
 the hour of bliss, yes my friends, it is there I have drawn it from 
 her, and she will know who gave her that glad sigh, it was her 
 mother in the deep, she nursed those little waves, that come by 
 us as we sleep, and little knowing, or little heeding, it was those 
 waves, that nursed us into life, yes my friends we have gone 
 back very far, to find the little eggs, that lay beneath the rocks, 
 and there upon their little beds, they sleep in happy bliss, and 
 are nursed to life, by the ancient times of giving sleep to the 
 happy babe beneath the tide, yes the wave is the mother of time, 
 she is moving softly on, and her gentle husband Mr. Wind, has 
 given her his helping hand, and they tow once in a while, but 
 they always pull together in the end, and say we must be careful 
 now, for the babies are beneath our feet, and we must after a 
 
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 while bring up those subjects, that are before us now, and hasten 
 away, to calm those troubled babes, and glorify them to sleep; 
 this is my friends the beginning, I have been a long time getting 
 you to the beginning, and I have showed you many a way in 
 going there, but with all that I am here, and I want you to 
 look round, and anticipate all that came of making up a row, it 
 is here my friends that you should pause upon the brink, and 
 say as that wind and water does agree, so shall we two make a 
 point of agreeing, for though we fought in agony strife, it has 
 come to this in the beginning, and though we fought our battle 
 well, each other caring most for the other, yet you are not con- 
 tent now, I must show you the beginning, and my friendly 
 brothers and sisters you take each other by the hand and make 
 a beginning, for here it is as sure as you can silence bring upon 
 the tide, and time is plenty in every bay-window corner, for 
 there you can sit and play at beginning, and listen to each other 
 cast a sigh, it is only the beginning, you can count each other's 
 time, from the beginning, and you will know full well, that as 
 hands were made round in the beginning, that they have wan- 
 dered quite astray, in coming home to dinner, for they used to 
 be, in the bay, in little shells, not much longer than your peanut 
 then don't fling yours into my face, as I come home to dinner, 
 for we could do quite well enough without those peanuts at the 
 beginning, it is frightful odd, yet it is true, that the wave of the 
 sea is not nearly as bad as it used to be, and this is the reason 
 why, it always has been very dry, at the bottom of a basin, for 
 there it is in accents sweet and homely, and when your wife has 
 brought you a basin of soup, remember the beginning, for there 
 he lay all spat and span, in a lonely basin, and he set down, to 
 his lively meal, on nothing better than the bottom of a basin, 
 and in that rolly-polly pull me out, he hatched a revolution, for 
 in that great big sea, is the wave, that made the insurrection, and 
 you don't see, but I can make you believe, and that is all the 
 way, that you ever get insurgents, they come upon you like a 
 golden butterfly, and tell you all is wrong, when you know no 
 such thing at all; well then you listen to me, and see what I am 
 going to show you, I came out in a great big fright, and I saw 
 
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 another's head, come popping out, it gave me such a fright, that I 
 could not begin to shout, till I had come away from yonder, it is 
 this, the fellows, were after me, and I could not see what they 
 were going to do to me; so I came popping along, when I met 
 you; this is what you find, the eggs are deposited in that basin, 
 and the waves beat them back and forwards, till they hatch them 
 in some way, and it is this, the water is of a soft pliable nature, 
 it moves in and out, it breathes on the fallen treasure, for it was 
 made by the air of the eternity, and there it is my friends you 
 have the eternity, in that same water, and when your eternity 
 goes in and out of that shell, why can't I go in and out of you, 
 it is as plain as the road I come, that is all, you can see, that the 
 wind made the water first, and the water made a move, then 
 when you and I go together, I am going to make you move, for 
 the fact, that I go in and out of you, just the same as the water 
 does to the little fish, in the bottom of the basin, now where have 
 you found yourself, in the bottom of the ocean, that is the 
 theory, that gives you life, it is the wind, acting upon itself, it 
 does this by spontaneous combustion, it is bursted, by the 
 atmospheric high pressure of entering into communion with the 
 elements, that flow together, it is the exact time, that you have 
 to count the weeks by, it means this, that as the heat is, so is 
 the rain, caused through the heat being melted, and this is the 
 folly fable of man, it is this, that brings him to understand, his 
 soul is the atmospheric current of air coming through his wind- 
 pipe, and he is the off-shoot, of any number of connections, in 
 the past, and to-day, he don't know anything, for the plain fact, 
 that he rolled and lolled about at the beginning till he became a 
 baby, and since that time he has been lolling ever since, he 
 came into the world a rolling stone, and since he has rolled along 
 thus far, and he will continue to keep rolling always for he never 
 can do anything else, he is a roller that is all, and he rolled the 
 hind feet off time, once he began to count, his theory is this, 
 that the sun sets in the west, and it rises in the east, and it goes 
 round to the other side again, for it was ordained, that it should 
 go round, in one short twenty-four hours, well you see that man 
 made a grievous error at the start, in not coupling God, and the 
 
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 Sun, it is this, the Sun does her work in twenty-four hours, and 
 God did his in six days, well you see that whilst we can't see 
 God, we know that the Sun is our benefactress, and she spills 
 glory over us every twenty-four hours, don't you see that our 
 visible benefactress, does not dare to deceive us, she can't, and 
 why, because she is alive, therefore she must die, did she stop, 
 her whole life has been one long summer, her very soul is lit up 
 with love, and she came of the wind, coming in contact with 
 the water, that it begets, it is hereby proven, that the wind and 
 water did beget the Sun, and the water did upheave, and throw 
 the wind on its back, and did cause a prolific propagation to ensue, 
 and it caused the heat to come through, the afterpart being stopped 
 up, and herein hides the mystery, it is this, the Sun having gone in, 
 and commenced to heat and fire, it gave place to the wind, for the 
 wind was inside, and could not getaway, it had got fast, by the over- 
 bearing pressure of the fluid combustion, and in this form it came to 
 the end, or it would have been entirely drunk up with the water, well 
 you see the wind is always light till it gets filled with water, and 
 then it gets heavy, and sinks; well you see the sun had caught 
 fire, and in taking fire it does produce an extraordinary odor, well 
 this odor, will not mix with water, for it is essence, of a peculiar 
 character, and it gives way to nothing, it is a substance, in a 
 minute, and it contains an adhesive ingredient, which is potas- 
 sium of soluvium, which is water and gas mixed, or wind in water, 
 from the extraction of gum, and this gum or potassium of 
 soluvium, is the ingredients, that form the heavens, and grow 
 again, which is the afterbirth, now my friends you see what a 
 scientific man you have made me, since I left you, and you are 
 to benefit by this considerably, for the facts are plain, you are 
 going to gain peace and contentment, in accordance with nature, 
 your souls will have mastered the struggle, that has been so long 
 denied to you, and you will have the good always, and the 
 wicked are gone forever, they will no more crave after that 
 which, is battled for and won, there is nothing to win, your honor 
 is preserved, you are on the top, I have scaled the ladder, and 
 you can come where I paved the way, I am here, and where 
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 and grace, I shall descend the ladder, and when you meet me at 
 the bottom, I expect a friendly greeting, from all those who 
 called me "Infidel," and you must no more be alarmed at the 
 wonders of "The infidel;" for he is going among you to scatter 
 good, with both arms, his victory is won, he has no more con- 
 quests to make, that can not be aspired to without injury to any 
 one, and he won't object to the old appellation, considering 
 that it was only the heathens who made him suffer, and as suffer- 
 ing is the crown before success, it is no use you fighting any 
 more about your classics, they are done, it is no use you fighting 
 about religion, it is begun a new life like the Sun, it has buried 
 the past in a bitter strife, and it is forever behind the waves, 
 the God of old is our God still, only we have learned to recognize 
 him, and understand his true holiness, and his agony, in his 
 struggle for mastery, and it is now to be in accordance with 
 good judgment common sense, and the Sun to be our guide, she 
 has done it so long, and so faithfully, that no man ever did 
 recognize her before as he ought to, and now I will chasten you 
 a little less, and make up for my many faulty demonstrations of 
 facts, to bring you home in the sublime form of your present 
 existence: You are as the seashore, a surging mass, you move 
 along, and you break into, without knowing where you are going, 
 or what leads you, you are just the same as the tide, it turns 
 back, the moment it has a little steep ascent to rise, you are 
 afraid, for fear that you should climb a shade higher, and it is this 
 great tide, that calls out I have gone far enough, it is no use my 
 going on any further, for when I get up so high, I hear the 
 seething mass, in my rear claiming assistance, and I must go 
 back, to help that lonely brute, from being annihilated, in his 
 own trough, this is what it then amounts to the trough of the 
 sea, is your God, and you can't break from it, for you were not 
 allowed to go beyond the tether of your own sound, by this you 
 are held by the sound of eternity coming on behind, and the 
 sound of the eternal ones, who are free, like the tide, don't leave 
 you entirely, they only proceed on as far as the sound of the tide, 
 will let them leave you, this is then the reason, why you know so 
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 own tide, they went only a little way beyond the seething 
 masses, and did not dare to go beyond the flowing of the wave, 
 that held them to you, now you see my friends that you were 
 led as well then as you have any right to expect, and though 
 your God had not been very far, he did miracles such as has 
 made his name sublime, since that time, and he is a great God 
 still, and always has a right to be, he made laws, for you which 
 are very fine, and are holy laws, and he did well for you, then 
 you have no right to turn on him now and say that my God 
 is a foolish God, he is a good God, and the best the world 
 ever knew, and it is wrong to cast him away, he gave you all 
 the rights and privileges, of helping and protecting yourselves, 
 and he went the farthest of any God yet, and he is our monarch 
 of old, and till the world can see the way more clearly, it is right 
 and proper to stand by the old flag, and don't allow foolish 
 aspirants of my doctrine to come and say this is what Tom Paine 
 means, you wait till I have shown you the better way, and I can't 
 do that in a minute, and I don't want you to believe me till I 
 can show you something, that can help you materially, you are 
 here to stop, and you are not to be annihilated with one false 
 prophet's sayings, you must see the right road, or you can't 
 believe, and heaven has to be made as plain to you, as the house 
 you live in or you can't understand the parlor is not the kitchen, 
 and that your own bedchamber is not either of the other two, now 
 you see I am placing three distinct places, the parlor bedchamber, 
 and the kitchen; so will you have to comprehend, that there are 
 three places, in the universe, it is heaven hell, and the ocean, or 
 in other words, the three great execrators combined, and the one 
 deity, the Sun, she is Majesty over all fraternities, and as the 
 recent ideas are in favor of the world being governed by the 
 women, it is best that she be designated her Majesty, for in 
 reality, it is so, and what is the use of calling it- a he, when the 
 gust of wind has founded a fact, beyond all dispute, it is a great 
 deal, for man to take upon himself, and it is more than he should 
 do, to be the father of all creation, he can't do it, and he never 
 should have attempted a thing so absurd, for the mother is the 
 one, who nurses the young cub to sleep, and as the Sun began to 
 
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 shine, she went down, and smoothed the troubled waters, and 
 made them lie down and behave, and I say that she is our mother, 
 and I will designate her in calling, according to the dignity she 
 deserves; now my friends I want your assistance once more, and 
 that is this, you must not take too many liberties with the Sun, 
 for she is a woman, and as such, I mean to protect her, with my 
 life, and as you value anything, it is for you to be respectful 
 toward her Majesty, and I will show you how it is that my Sun 
 is the great factotum of all the good there is, and when you have 
 got all the good, you must not expect any more, and it is this 
 great good, that will bring you happiness, and after that you are 
 not to be miserable; Now I want to show you, where the word 
 God is brought from, and then you can better see what it has 
 been to raise up a deity like what you have always had, you must 
 not tinker with my theoretical points, till you have mastered the 
 whole of them: And I want you to take precautions to see 
 through my views, in accordance with my thoughts, or don't let 
 any others tell you what they are, but read them and grasp their 
 meaning according to how they seem to strike you, now it is not 
 the Bible, that you learn by, it is through the inaccurate mode of 
 deliverance, that you get your thoughts, and instead of looking 
 at the Bible as the work of a great number of spirits, you cling 
 to one deity, the great God of Abraham, Isaac, Moses etc; now 
 this is entirely wrong, the God of the Hebrew people, is the God 
 to-day, except, that the God of to-day, is the same, and the sole 
 life of every living being, in its entirety, meaning, that the father 
 who art in heaven, is the father of love, the word God, cometh 
 from the word I seam, for it gathereth together, and it is my 
 God, who is my guide, for he seameth my soul to his own, and 
 when his soul, is seamed to mine, it's my God, for it has joined 
 hands, and everything, it is linked to me, and I see good, through 
 my God, now can you seam a more correct understanding, of 
 this deity, his life is my life, and my life is his, for he hath me 
 enchained to his soul-cord; and his soul-cord, is as he has made 
 it in the earth, by the God he followed, for his God, did make his 
 soul to suffer, according to his own contentment, and I shall 
 prove it, by more ways than one, ere I cease to beat a retreat, 
 
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 now you must look at God as your devoted friend, either for 
 good or evil, his soul, is as his father made it, and it is not by 
 any meansassured, that it is his own father, it might be his great- 
 great-grandfather, who appointed himself the governor of your 
 soul, it has to be taken according to the reason of order, in which 
 the authorities over heaven can manipulate its own childish 
 theories; now you see that I am going to wade into the other 
 side of life, and show them their follies, for they are simply as 
 they grew, and this is why you don't advance, you can't see any- 
 thing, for the fact is plain, it is the bold spirit, who has to shove 
 ahead, or you can't get on any farther, and until your friends on 
 the other side see you reading this work, they don't know any- 
 thing of heaven, they have never been any farther, than the foot 
 of the ladder, they dare not climb a rung higher, till the man in 
 the moon has been explained to them, why they are all afraid to 
 go, till it is shown, what that curious object is, that keeps poking 
 his head, and shoulders, etc, out every month can be; I tell you 
 as soon as ever you understand, that it is not a great big furious 
 God, that your spirit friends will go and look at it, and come 
 back, and tell you in expressions of anxiety, that they did not 
 take this look before, and say you were as safe as the house, that 
 never fails to give shelter to those who fear no man's tales, and 
 see stars, only when they are visible, now my friends you can 
 investigate these things after I have shown you the way, don't 
 you think, that I am wicked, to come and tell you that God is all 
 love, according to the light he looks upon things, and that our 
 God, is the best God, for he guides our footsteps, and drives us 
 along, as far as he can see, and when he goes thus far, he says, it 
 is only safe to go that distance, because I took you to the end of 
 the tidal mark, and beyond there, it is all confusion, I must not 
 bear your body, away from my own limits, this is how far you 
 have been, to the end of the earth, and no farther, you never 
 went to the upper regions at all yet, it is only this folly, that pre- 
 vents you from going, it keeps you tied to the sound of the sea, 
 now the sound of the sea, is a great deal higher aloft, than it is 
 on the ground, and your tidal sound, is ascending always, so as 
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 you to, it is this, the floor, that you are now making your habita- 
 tions, on are the foot-hills, they are not away up above you at 
 all, it is only the foot-hills, that you have gone to, and not the 
 heavens at all: Why, because your tide does not admit of a 
 greater distance being covered, and it is this, the heavens are full 
 of sweet essence, for the strong aromatic odors, are falling before 
 they have descended, and they lodge beneath the crevices, and 
 accumulate, and are growing, in luxuriance everywhere, and the 
 skies, are as full of virtues, as the seaming of an affectionate 
 blossom can be; Now the love of romance, is here in its full 
 bloom of glory, it's here that the stranger wanders, he can see 
 these great changes come upon nature, he can see the sweet 
 forget-me-nots, tying each other up in leaves of affectionate bliss, 
 and the sole companion of their daisy days, are here entangled 
 in their veins, I say it without hesitancy, that those flowers, are 
 greater in heaven, than any earthly bliss, that has ever been 
 grown, they live in life, of a summer clime, it is all radiance, and 
 glowing beauty entwined in each other's arms, there is no malice 
 or envy or hatred, it is this great joy, that they bind life anew, 
 and glorify their God, in nature's sweet embrace, in summer 
 it is, and why, because the earth, is not old enough to know 
 why summer is, then I want you to tell me why this summer 
 does exist, it is the grand good, it is the warm end of life, 
 it is the veins have dislodged their blood, and given back 
 to earth, that which belonged to the earth, and taken of 
 that which belongs to the realms of dew, it is the essence off 
 the light, that gives to heaven those glories, that are not for 
 man in the body to inhale, and why; because he can't use both 
 blood and veins, he must use, that which it appeareth according 
 to nature, I say he is the soul life, because he can not 
 promulgate his theoretical knowledge alone, and why, because 
 his blood, is off the side of that mountain, that hath no 
 sunshine, and why; because the blood is of a mixture, that does 
 not sustain life, it is only a matter, that comes through afflic- 
 tion, it is brought about through corruption and diseases; this is 
 why, it gets into the maggot by promulgating, it makes the mind 
 happy 5 by soaking up the water fluid, and driving away the acid, 
 
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 from the formation, so you see it is not blood, that forms the 
 life, it is material that lives, and not immaterial; therefore your 
 material is not casen to anything, once it leaves the body, it only 
 floats, and is a mere nonentity, till it fills with ether; and why, 
 for the ether is ever porous, and your hide being gone, it soaks 
 into ether, and makes you go on growing anew, and you get 
 quite fat, and stout, on this ether, which feeds you, it loads you 
 with all kinds of nourishment, till at last you have become so 
 unwieldy, that you gain an ascendency over the ether, by too 
 much pressure, and it produces a combustion, and this combus- 
 tion is called the good of heaven, for it settles you back into 
 your old form, and leaves you with an entire whole body, accord- 
 ing to the one you had on earth, with this one singular exception, 
 and that is this, that mortal eye is nothing more or less, than 
 the acandaesment of glycerine; it is white, and does not sight at 
 all, it is sense, only that you have left, it does not come back to 
 you, in the form of a beauty spot in the center, it falls short, 
 with this other exception, that the new eye, has a sight, all over 
 the eye; or in other words, it sees all round, and has no hidden 
 corners at all; the eye is a visionary orb, it takes in at one 
 glance, that which takes mortals a whole lifetime to make clear, 
 now you have the magnet, in the loadstone, it feels the eye, by 
 its own brightness; and a great many people, think, that angels 
 can't see, it is this, that makes them see, their eyes were the 
 acandaescence of life, in a degree before, but after they died, it 
 became a vision, and in that vision it is the light, that is thrown 
 in upon them, and not this great stain of crime that forgets any- 
 thing, it is the whole of eternity, that goes on one basis, that the 
 Sun drives in her light, and you must live while she lasts, for she 
 is the living light, and can't die, for she has the soul of eternity 
 within her own congruity, it is the greatest wonder we have, and 
 that is the Sun being drawn into her own eternity by the wave of 
 the ocean calling her back, or in another way of putting it, it 
 is the time of the tide, that calls her back, she can't get on any 
 faster, for she is too heavy at one end for her to lift up the 
 other, till she spills her own time, therefore the Sun is weighed 
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 the world began in twenty-four hours, and not in six days, it is 
 this, the whole firmament was in the Sun for the space of one 
 day, and the stroke of time burst through, for it had to be 
 blown out, in the afternoon, of the third round, or it would have 
 been got to pieces, only for the hole breaking at the end, where 
 the Moon is drawn out, to an extent of a league, farther at one 
 end than the other, it caught fire in the center, and was bursted 
 open, by the gas, coming in on top of the unabsorbed wind, and 
 these two mixing, it caused a burst at the ulterior quarters, and 
 allowed the water to drown the whole of heaven and hell, and 
 all that there then was, it came out, and in running dry, it turned 
 the Sun up, for the weight was all down at the end of the Moon, 
 then the Sun was high up in the heavens, and the sky was clear 
 of atmosphere, and the Moon, had gone down, and was disload- 
 ing again, it came up, with a rush, for the axle is broke, and the 
 Moon ascends, the Sun has gone down, because the water in her 
 own belly has run back, because the Sun drew it up, the moment 
 she became equalized, and caught hold of the flames anew, from 
 the other end, and she is burning again, at that which does not 
 drop out, as the Moon leaves off descending, so that the Sun is 
 drawing on one end, when she ascends, and when she descends, 
 she is eating her fire from the other end, this is perpetual motion, 
 and it is quite time that somebody discovered the secret of 
 manipulating it; therefore I claim it for my pains, in making this 
 announcement to the world, and all rights titles and interests, I 
 bequeath to the man who has dealt so affluently, with my 
 speeches, and I name my successor in trust for the world and its 
 conflagrations as the great and truthful medium the Seer William 
 Atkinson, I must say that you can not deprive him of this honor, 
 for he richly deserves this title, he has won it fairly by the action 
 of his own devotion to the cause of investigation, and you must 
 not rob him, for he can get any message from any part of the 
 universe, and print it down on paper, and he can find you any- 
 where while I am beside him, his life is in his own hands, but it 
 is governed by me, and a strong band of spirits, who can waive 
 their claims in honor of this great future, and they are skilled 
 to such an extent, that no one can tell where they are, or what 
 
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 they are doing, and it is hereby purposely avoided, the naming 
 of any of his guides or controls, and it will be thrown out as an 
 advantage, that no man shall know his neighbor, and none can 
 tell what the other person may do, and the next but not 
 least reason, it is approved by my own special government, not 
 to give the names of any but myself in this great work, as I am 
 at the head, and I shall take every precaution that no advan- 
 tages are taken of my subordinates; now you know why the two 
 names are only mentioned, it is not two that is doing this work, 
 but simply an innumerable force, sufficient to carry out any 
 work, that the spirit world intend to demonstrate to mortal man, 
 now I have told you honestly and candidly all about my affairs, 
 and you must judge me according to what light you see me in, I 
 want fair play, and I see no valid reason why it should not be 
 accorded to me and mine, this is all, I have to say, and I must 
 speak, or you can't know: Now there is one more reason for 
 speaking to you, and that is this, I am informed and believe that 
 you have wronged this man William Atkinson, and that it is this 
 that I have engaged to set right, and I am not going to do it in 
 an underhanded way, I merely want your court to try the case 
 according to its merits, I don't come and say you shall do this or 
 that I merely want a fair and impartial trial, and I can see 
 whether it is such or not, and it is to be in England, that this 
 trial will be asked for, now it is an engagement, that has been 
 entered into between this my instrument and myself, that he 
 does my work, according to my dictation, and that as an equal 
 balance, and adjustment of accounts, it is stipulated, that I 
 should help him, now there is simply this in the case, it is a 
 proven charge of a criminal nature, and is not in anywise true, 
 that a man can upset this, without any assistance from me, there 
 is not a shadow of doubt, but the tribunal, where this was tried 
 is in the colonies, and is no more or less a place than New 
 Zealand, this little country is in the controlling interest, a British 
 possession, and can not be free from the laws of Great Britain, 
 and is in the main, a small country, I can not go into any details, 
 as I don't wish it known that my intentions are such, as will 
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 court, but I mention this for the man who works on your behalf 
 has been cruelly wronged, from the beginning by a number of 
 judges, and their accomplices; who did their bidding, to commit 
 robbery, and not for any right cause of justice, as they have 
 made out, in their accounts of this case; I will not leave any- 
 thing undone, to in the future establish his innocence, and it is a 
 fight, between heaven and those on earth that is all: Now my 
 kind friends you may consider that I have outdone myself by 
 such an omission, but it is to show you, that the earth can't 
 master the heavens, for they never did, and they can not now do 
 it, or ever will be in a position to accomplish it, you may yet take 
 me in some cases, as acting in a revengeful spirit, but I say 
 such is not the case, that neither I or my guides have any 
 feelings of unkindliness toward mankind, it is quite the contrary, 
 we love man as much now as ever, and our lives are bound together 
 for his good, I only want to say that I did take this method 
 of getting ahead of these rascals, and I intend to stick to the 
 good I have found, and wherever it leads me, I don't intend to 
 flinch or go back, it is my sole comfort and joy, and I mean to 
 follow, wherever this intelligence takes me, and should I err, in 
 my right interpretation, it is for the people on my side of life, 
 to come and say what is the meaning of this or that as the case 
 may be, and I shall give them in reply whatever I get, whether 
 it be against or for them: Now I can do no more, and honesty 
 is my motto, I never did a dishonest action in my life, and I 
 won't begin now: So you can take me for all I am worth, and 
 in time I do not believe there will be one single detail, that can 
 not be shown you, by this form of interpretation: You may 
 think that I have gone out of my way to place things in an 
 incomprehensible style, but it is as I was told, and I do this to 
 the letter, always, what comes I get, and what does not come, I 
 don't put; now you must either accept it as I have put it, or ask 
 me, to try and explain it, for I am perfectly independent as an 
 instrument, and I see no one, and I ask no questions of any one, 
 and I don't investigate, or get my information except from my 
 guide, that is it came on in the beginning through a desire to 
 reach my own friends, and since that time my experience has 
 
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 been so faithful, as to show you many things, that has never been 
 brought to your knowledge before, and I will carry on this work 
 steadily, and see where it leads me, that is all I have to say on my 
 own behalf, except that I have been investigating for something 
 over a year, and I have written what you now have in about six 
 months, this is as near as I can get it without trying back, and I 
 don't try back, because it produces confusion, in my spirit band, 
 and they don't like any one to take liberties with their accuracy, 
 this is I find a difficulty, it is this, to ask a question, and then doubt 
 the authenticity; of what they say, for it must be remembered, that 
 it takes an immense amount of power, to deprive me of anything 
 like unconsciousness; and I do all my work under a semi- 
 conscious condition, or moderate coma power, that is I am only 
 listening to the sound, when at work, and the sound is often so 
 weak, that I have to appear in a conclusive mood, to hear it 
 repeat, now you see that unless I distinctly understood the 
 signaling of this band, I should be often wrong, and it is a 
 complete code, that is practiced, it gives one two or three raps, 
 on the wall, or anyway to reach me, from this old-fashioned form 
 of intelligence, is withheld for the present, but I assure you it is 
 impossible for me to write one single word, that the band refuse 
 to accept, now you have as much, as I am permitted to give you, 
 in this instance, through my complete sense of receiving these 
 communications, I wish to add, that I don't attend any spiritual 
 meetings, or church either, for I want the pure cure or nothing 
 that is my own theory, and I have always had an aversion to any 
 doctrine, that is not quite clear, it is true that I read the Bible 
 every night, except when I don't want to from some cause, that I 
 have not succeeded, in yet reaching, and it is as easy for me to 
 leave it unread, as it is otherwise to do the opposite, I don't 
 know why I am governed so easily by my band, but I used to 
 drink, and smoke, and since I gave up these habits, it is much 
 better for me, I don't feel any desire strong within me: And 
 I can be happy, without any trouble now, it used to be a 
 terrific fight, for some purpose, I don't exactly know what, but I 
 used to fight, for my own way, till I gave up this theory, and the 
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 reading about the American continent, and thinking that I 
 would like to look it over, so I got into trouble, and then my 
 mind soon resolved itself into shape, I don't do things by halves; 
 I must be either top or bottom, it must be one extreme, or the 
 other, before ever I knew anything about the spirit power, I 
 went on fixed rules, that is near as I can remember, the one 
 great feature was, that there was no God, that I had never seen 
 anything to lead me to believe there was, I thought that all the 
 people were blind, to think that I had a soul, or any one else; 
 This is practically what I did think, it is this, I thought we had 
 come from the beginning by the efluxion of time, that we started, 
 on the principle of men and women, and that nature was all a 
 quiet affair, of its own, that it drew from some source a covenant 
 or agreement, and that it went on promulgating, or something of 
 that sort, I knew absolutely nothing, and the first thing that hit 
 me hard was the fact of a medium being able to tell me, how 
 many letters I should get from my folks at home, and the other 
 thing was a most remarkable coincidence, it was this, a medium 
 told me, that I would beat a play, on each hand would be a friend, 
 and that I would meet a lady, that I had known in England, well 
 this I looked upon as all passed and done with; but sure enough 
 this came out exactly as I have described it to you: Well I was 
 very hard hit, for I could not grasp the situation, in any way, 
 and it gave me quite a serious turn, for I knew no one in the 
 country, and I picked up friends, by the carload, I never went 
 long without a companion of some kind, and although I did not 
 tell any one where I came from or much about my affairs, I 
 avoided lying by evading their queries, and told them nothing 
 that I considered they had no right to know; this is all I have 
 been well treated in America, as far as I have gone, and I don't 
 lie unless it is in error, so I have no difficult anticipation for the 
 future: I am sincere in all I do and say except a little bit of a 
 fixture, in order to make game of some morally dutiful son of a 
 landmark; I have no other intentions of scaling the liberties of 
 perfect good faith, combined with facts, and demonstrations of 
 what appears to me as the exact identity of a righteous judgment 
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 theory different to the one I am engaged in, it is not necessary 
 to be pompous or great, I want you to understand, that I look 
 upon man as a machine, and should he be a little better machine, 
 than I am I don't think he ought to show it, without telling me 
 why he is a better one, and I am just as willing to show a street 
 arab, the right way, as I would be a higher dignatary, so that 
 pride is only what I feel in actual work, not in sense, the sense 
 is a gift, and it can't be given without we understand, so I am 
 just as anxious to stop a street arab, from swearing, because it 
 brings an evil influence, to his detriment, as I am to tell an 
 English dude, that I hope he won't injure his mouth, in those 
 abominable fashions, he calls bon ton, or we will give him his 
 right appellation, and say " Don't you know, my fauther is 
 HAUH THE HAUGH; T-Y TU-M TAUGH; Don't-You- 
 Know:" This, is quite enough, to make any sane man look for 
 an ass, for it is very near the appellation, I don't want to be a 
 university student, or a classic scholar, when you point me out 
 such fellows, as these, as well-bred gentlemen, give me a man, 
 who can work a miracle, by stratagem, and I am going to follow 
 him, this is the style for me, I don't mind your dudes, in a field, 
 coming a fall, across a stone fence, or making a backward jump, 
 only don't put those horrid notions in my head about A-UH, 
 that is quite sure to make me feel funny, I can't help it; for that 
 sound must come from some place, besides the genuine language 
 of birds, and as I am to give up now, and assume the second 
 party again, I will let you off gently, and hand you over to Paine, 
 he can make a better showing, as to the way, the noble horse got 
 estranged from the ass; now it is herein described, that the horse 
 is an animal, that had no toes, to amount to anything, till he 
 became crossed with an animal called the giraffe, it is seen at a 
 glance, that the giraffe, has no front toe, it therefore can not be 
 said, that the giraffe, and the horse, are the same, yet you 
 see them both, together, in one field, or desert plain, they 
 eat together, and sleep the same, yet in nine cases out 
 of ten, the horse and the giraffe are opposed to each 
 other, well why is this; the horse is not a very spiteful animal, 
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 well this is then the cause, of the two disagreeing, the ass 
 and the horse, will mate together, but the giraffe, can't come 
 near the ass, for its smell is abominable, compared to the smell 
 of the horse, then why has the ass no smell, for it came of 
 a clean kind, and does not touch the leaves, as high up as 
 the giraffe, well the ass, is down on his knees, picking up the 
 soft little grass, the giraffe, is pulling at some bough high up, 
 out of reach of the ass, well it is no use, you telling me, that I 
 don't know, but I will explain it to you, the ass, is the poverty- 
 strickened peasant, and the giraffe, is the dude, the one who 
 reaches high, till he stinks, and the other is so low, till he grows 
 nothing big enough, to make a silly odor with, now the horse is 
 what you might designate, the middle man, a merchant or a cow- 
 herder, according to his avocation in common life, this is the dif- 
 ference in the three, it is this: The horse, is the degenerated 
 quadruped, or known as the leliel felon, he droops his hind quar- 
 ters, and has a sloop-like appearance, all along his shoulders, he 
 is quite on a par with the rest of his make-up, he can not touch 
 a giraffe, because the latter lives on leaves, and is an abomina- 
 tion to him, for they do not smell the same, while a she ass, and 
 a horse, are exactly the opposite, one calls in tones of accents, 
 like a great big toad, the other, has the scent of a whale, the 
 horse is an after construction of the whale specie, the ass is 
 a specie of the carmigure, or seacalf, whilst the giraffe, is the 
 after construction of the feminine sow bear: or a kind of fish, 
 that is in the Arctic Ocean, it appears on the surface, only once 
 in a great while, and is in Japanese quarters, it comes from their 
 specie of tribe or specie; now you want to know why the horse 
 got estranged from the ass, and why, for it is the very same 
 nature as the other, it does look alike, and it does propagate 
 once, well it is this, the fish in the sea, are all layers of eggs, and 
 though some of them may have eggs, that don't lay at the bottom 
 of basins, the whole of them get mixed up, at times, and the one 
 is venturing away from the other, that when a whole number of 
 these eggs, are found in the one basin, they break away, at one 
 and the same time, and in so doing, they mix together, and 
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 in time of spawning again, they take precaution to be near each 
 other, and their eggs are mixed; well the water, that is seeping 
 into the one set of eggs, is seeping into the other set of eggs, 
 and in consequence these changes are brought about, through 
 the constant mingling of the waters: Now you don't wonder at 
 this promulgation, of ideas, the sea is the great producer of 
 thought, for it makes the young ones different, and in there, it 
 tells them, that there is a mighty monster over head, that can 
 crush them, or make them do what is best, and below the little 
 fish, are making their struggles to escape, and the first sight, 
 that they get, is the bed, they were born in, and it is a pretty 
 fine bed indeed, the moon, is above, which is round, and beneath, 
 is the reflection, of some great giant, that looks after them, and 
 when they peep out of the shell, the first thought, is to run, or 
 swim away, for in the flashing of an eye, a spout of water, is sure 
 to meet their eye, it is the essence of the water, and in it, is 
 always, a coloring, it is green red, or any amount of colors, well 
 the fish, are sensitive, and they don't like this color, and are apt 
 to break away, to some other water, that has nothing so hideous 
 about in it; this is accounted for in this style, the Moon, is drop- 
 ping the essence from her funnel, always, and she is just sure to 
 make all the colors, in the water, that has been sent out of that 
 great big mass of propagation above, and it is dropping on the 
 sea as well as the land; And the fish, are made white gray or any 
 colors, in accordance, with this essence, that is always falling 
 from the Moon; now you have a yery fair idea of how the horse 
 became estranged from the ass, and when you don't understand 
 such a simple little piece of science as this is, you had better 
 come along, and look down the ass's mouth, and get a peep at 
 his tongue, and when you look right back, in the throat, you can 
 find a little tongue, or tonsil, this little tongue, is quite enough 
 to show you, that a sound coming through its hinderance, is quite 
 different to the mule, this mule, has the same tonsil, only it is 
 parted, and drives a hole, in the side, instead of coming out at 
 the side, well now I have taken you right into the ass's mouth, 
 and you don't know anything more: But you have learned this 
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 we are, and this is a great thing to venture, on saying, in this 
 country, where the people are so brilliant, and bright: But you 
 must permit me to follow on the principle of the school-master, 
 he says dunce, he says blockhead, and he vociferates in agony 
 sometimes you consummated fool; I could fetch an ass in to do 
 that, now why do lady teachers, make the "cap " and put little 
 girls in one corner, there is an impression, that comes from the 
 sea, and it is this; the lady herself, is impregnated, with a 
 theory, and that is likened to the ass, she has caught the syllable 
 wrong though, it is asinine, the same as canine: Now do you 
 understand clearly, that this impression did come from the ming- 
 ling of the waters, in the ocean, and that these thoughts are the 
 impregnation of the waters mixing together, and making an ass, 
 of one, and a horse out of the other, or in other words, the ocean 
 is propelled by the wind, and that wind does wave back and for- 
 ward, and so do the thoughts of man till at last his brain becomes 
 confused, and he is a simple-minded ass: Now I have taken no 
 liberties, you teachers have developed this theory for me, and in 
 finding their theory, I found you, for in hunting, I could not 
 master the difference, in thought till I came to this point, and 
 that is this; why, is it that man has so much more intelligence, 
 than the beast: He is no more beautiful, and a horse is much 
 prettier than a man: So I wondered and puzzled, till I have 
 solved every problem that there is, I have books in my home in 
 heaven, that would make your hair stand straight on end, and I 
 mean to translate them, and bring them down to posterity, it is 
 this great study, that has made my life so peaceable, I don't 
 want so much as a thing, I have all the joy, that any one indi- 
 vidual can have, but any new theory, or new thought, it is balm 
 to my soul, it leaves me in a state of intoxication, that never did 
 quite satisfy me yet, and in going through the Sun, I noted the 
 different features, in a manner, that is marvelous, to a degree, 
 that would astound man, and make him so elevated, that he 
 would reach heaven by a mode, that could be accomplished in 
 all other ways, except, that he can't see when he would arrive 
 there, for this reason, the Sun is hot, in the flames, but it would 
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362 THE UNIVERSE. 
 
 more practical illustration, the Sun is a sucker, she makes herself 
 so fat, that she can't move, without she is filled to a bursting 
 point, she gorges, and is feeding always, so that she can't stand 
 still, for her own weight is increasing always, and she is getting 
 heavier every minute, and in time she will suck in every living 
 thing, that grows, now this is the only danger, that there can be 
 at all in the world coming to any end, it is this, that has been 
 going on, since the beginning, and may have been in the begin- 
 ning, for no one can tell, it might be a second world, or it might 
 be a world of the past, there is no theory, that appears to fix 
 herself sufficiently strong in my mind, the only thing I can say 
 is, that once the world has grown short of fuel, it is sure, to 
 get thin, and so that in getting thin, she does permit a renewal 
 of propagation, and she lives on the fattened calf, and goes on 
 forever, now are you satisfied, that Old Tom is not to be bested, 
 I say I like to angle, it makes me feel, that I could whip every 
 general you owned, but give me a regiment of soldiers, to guide, 
 and I could make them maneuver, into the exact fit of delusion, 
 I would make them believe, that God was their guide, and when 
 they had done fighting, you would have so many Napoleons, 
 that there would be an eternal fire on earth, that would feed the 
 Sun always, well it is this, that I want to show you, the Sun has 
 to be fed, or she will get thin, and that is how it is done, her 
 season in one country, is longer, than in the other, for the simple 
 fact, that she dies down", in the autumn, for want of food, and 
 in the spring, she rises, for the fact is plain, her axle is sure to 
 run short of grease, with constant turning, and she begins to 
 go slower, till at last, she slows down to the right pace, that is 
 the death, of all virtue, in the country, that she has been feeding 
 on: And she feels the Moon has poured sufficient oil or 
 essence, out on the other world, that is her half sister, it is this 
 twin screw, that takes the cake out of your miserable inventors 
 of perpetual motion, she feeds off her twin-sister only moder- 
 ately, for she is a great deal farther away, and can't reach the 
 little beggar, to get a full kiss at her, that is why she does not 
 take this to heart much, her idea is the mission of her journey, 
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 now you are getting into a fog, it is just as much, as I can keep 
 my balance, and you ought to be liberal-minded enough to see 
 that you want a case-hardened man to work through, or he 
 would be off- tail and end, to tell his bosom friend, that he had 
 got the right theory of perpetual motion, well so he has, only you 
 won't learn much through a man who is to be made into a first- 
 class instrument, and then to have him break away, just at 
 the moment, that he saw a flash of current strike him, for you 
 see what strain, there has been brought to bear on this man, 
 only a common mortal too: And yet he either does not realize, 
 or he is so wrapped up in thought, that he takes no notice of 
 me, which of the two is it, I shall tell you, and it is this, I won't 
 break the tag, that holds me in its vise, he is constantly thinking 
 of home and those he loves, and he means to get there, or break 
 his axle, that is it, and he is going to go home, or there will not be 
 a man left on earth, that is his theory, and it is the same with 
 the Sun, she means to go home, in her lavish splendor, she never 
 begat a man, that was more determined to reach the glory of 
 winning yet, and he would blow the roof off eternity, to win, so 
 you must not fancy, that you will get off lightly, when he crosses 
 to heaven, should you injure his home-views, and he is just 
 about as able to accomplish anything as I ever was, for he has 
 the advantage, of getting" the best advice, once he crosses the 
 border line, now you see where I have led you, to a passionate 
 spirit, that is according to its own propagator, it is fighting to 
 master its own maker, that is what you have in your midst, a 
 man who is fighting for God, or the meaning of God, and 
 nothing satisfies his craving, till he reaches the turning-point, 
 he is going to die with a firm conviction, that he did his best, 
 and when that is done, what are we to say, why that he has done 
 well: That is all my friends, you see in that last illustration, the 
 Sun, she did her best, and her best is to scale the turn, it is all 
 she is able to do, her axle, is just on the eve of breaking, and 
 when it breaks, she bounds, at her little sister, with the rapidity, 
 of a famished wolf, her sister is freshened by the absence, and 
 she faces round to her, and meets her monster full in the face, 
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364 THE UNIVERSE. 
 
 and help thyself, it is meat and drink I have to give to thee, for 
 thy peace, I must appease, come sister you can revel in this 
 cheese, it is a little tart at first, but then with these blooming 
 lips, it will cast a smile at every touch back, in response at thee: 
 You see I take my cue, and dip it in my ball, just as fancy leads 
 me, for I see in those I love to tease, a picture of my quaint 
 description, I would have done it this way, as the Sun moves, 
 she turns round, and why, couldn't Old Tom say so, but he gets 
 every mule muddled, by his style of putting things, that is not 
 the way I should have suggested, to do such a work, Why Old 
 Jack Tar, would have made a better end than that, he would have 
 given us a rope-end, and that is what you give my friends, who 
 criticise my work boys, they ought to have it, for it is no light 
 matter, to come back here, and tell you what it is that governs 
 the whole universe, it wants two souls, a black one, and a white 
 one, it has got to have a summer, and a winter, it has got to have 
 an object, or it can't be done, my object is to conquer, and I 
 have won, I went in at the Sun, and I came out at the Moon, 
 now don't you see that I have got a rope in each hand, and both 
 have ends, so that when they banished me from home, for not 
 taking both ends, I did lick them after all, I came home, in front, 
 and that is where they never knew how to go, I will show you 
 how the Sun is guided, it is this, her axle, is a kind of storm- 
 cloud, it comes in the middle, it is in her center, and when she 
 forces this cloud out, it takes in all the evaporation, and 
 descends, to the Moon, and there it is staid by the adhesive- 
 ness, of the elements, that close in around that body, it is quite 
 on a par, with all other elements, it has a certain use, and for 
 that purpose it is used; thus you see, that a cloud can't pass 
 through the Moon, till it is cleansed of its impurities, and when 
 that occurs, it is still a cloud, for it never becomes pure, and 
 when the Sun, has gouged out both of her own waters, suffi- 
 cient, it comes to this settlement, that is blocked against the 
 interior of the Moon, and there it is, the Sun, starts back, on her 
 own way, and eats, her surplus supply, till it is all evaporated, 
 then she is dry, inside, and she has nothing more left, it is gone, 
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 little sister, that I told you about, now my friends you have got 
 a notion, and though I have been a long while, in giving it to 
 you, it is here at last, and it is this, your own thoughts flood in 
 upon you, till they become so crowded, that no man does know 
 exactly what is taking place, well you have got me at last, the 
 Sun has broken her thoughts, and there is where man begins, I 
 have him, in my eye, he is my own specimen, and I will make 
 him mine, till he dies, and afterward, he can take a trip through 
 where I have told him about, and he can there investigate for 
 himself, it is this he will find, a certain amount of rubbish col- 
 lects round the sides, and when the Sun becomes exhausted, she 
 takes fire at the back end, next to the Moon, and she is pro- 
 pelled back, to where this accumulation has been laid, and in 
 here, is her great revolutionary wheel, and she feeds this wheel, 
 by the access of her own torch-light, it is herein illustrated, that 
 the Sun is a fire, well it is a fire, but not in the meaning of man, 
 she is a powerful flume, that makes her own time, into a differ- 
 ent style, to the ordinary fire, it is a heat, that gasps, and sops 
 back again, it absorbs, as it goes, and is all the while taking in 
 at the time it is pouring out, it keeps on heaving and drawing, 
 and is worked under the theory of a bellows, it takes in, and 
 pours out, and renews this till it comes to the end, then it 
 revolves round, till it drops, and in dropping, it fetches out a 
 complete new set of wheels, that make a circuit, and they start 
 on the old plan of driving in, and pulling out, till they become 
 so exact in shape and make, that they keep on running evenly, 
 till they reach the other end, it is here, that the return has to be 
 made, and the Sun has been eating off the track, that she made, 
 when she has eaten it all clean and bare, the fact is clear, these 
 great wheels go back on its own axis, or rewind, it is a screw, 
 and is as plainly visible as the groove, that it works in, now I 
 don't think you are entitled to any more, till I see how you are 
 going to shape, and then you can have a machine made on 
 this principle, I can give it out, in a brief sketch, without 
 any mystification at all: And you may want it, or you might 
 be like the aborigines, say too much rope make big choke, 
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 a sentence, he does not ask anyone, whether it is right or not, he 
 says you were found by fair and unlimited justice, to be guilty, 
 and I see no reason why you should not receive the full penalty 
 of the law; well my friends he can't kill, but he can frighten, 
 and when the Sun takes a backward turn, she is very much agi- 
 tated, it is no use saying otherwise, she moves back fast, and is 
 seen to rise with a glow of eagerness, that is marvelous, it is her 
 dead sister, that she left, and found the live one, and that will 
 be the experience of every unfortunate wretch, he will leave his 
 dying sister, it will be the last of a decayed hope, his soul will 
 leap into the arms, of his friends, and say what you will, there 
 never has been a man hung yet, who did not find joy in heaven, 
 and it is this, his soul is crushed on earth, his sight is dimmed, 
 and his hate is perpetual, his flight is joy, and he goes away agi- 
 tated, and his soul is full of grief, his eye is once again made to 
 feel, that it is there still in spite of all, and he feels, that his 
 heart is saturated with joy, that alone could kill, but it does not, 
 for it is the great good of knowing that he was once a martyr, 
 and he was caught in whatever wrong he did, and his soul says 
 I will sin no more, that is the word, that breaks from his grip, 
 but it is all folly, his soul was taught to run backward, and it 
 crosses back, on the same road, that it had gone over before, it 
 was the screw cleaned, that is all: And you will find that you 
 had better clean those screws, on earth, it will make you a purer 
 and better people, and your prisons, ought to be turned into 
 farms, for the cultivation of good, instead of placing men as 
 guards and sentinels over these unfortunates, set them to teach 
 the prisoner how he should live, instead of teaching him that he 
 is a beast, when you don't call his sentinel a brute, I tell you 
 distinctly, that a prison is nothing but a hell, made by man in 
 the nineteenth century: Now do you understand that I said a 
 prison was hell, and I don't mean to go back on this, I have got 
 a screw, and my worm, can go in and rake your laws, from stem 
 to stern, I can sweep you cleaner, than any screw, was ever 
 swept by the Sun on her return journey, and I can make you a 
 wholesome people, fit to grace the kingdom of God, that is what 
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 it is the penalty of all, who have had no chance to learn, I am 
 sure you are in advance of the ancients, and it is a black crime 
 in your eyes to say that God came to us once, and we were so 
 wicked, that he failed to submit to our wickedness, and we 
 crushed him with our sins, that is what you did, well you crush 
 him now, and see whether Old Tom does not make you sick, 
 before you get very far, I understand you better, for I mean to 
 make your lies come back, and cheat your own eyesight, that is 
 a pretty fine tale of yours, about that Whale, that Jonah, had in 
 his mouth for three days, you don't mind me pulling out my 
 toothpick, and demolishing him and his whale, now that I have 
 given you so many points, but it is my turn to fight you, and 
 lift Jonah higher, than he ever knew he was going to leap, Jonah, 
 was the first man who ever got the right theory, and he leaped a 
 whale, and fell in the struggle, that is how Jonah came to become 
 famous, he dreamed it, and we know that God in all his glory, 
 never told you to believe in dreams, for this is the reason why 
 the God of Neptune is a great God, it lifts up souls, that never 
 fell off the body of man, and in that soul you have caught a fish, 
 it is the one, that so many Englishmen have found upon their 
 breakfast plates, and this is how he comes to propagate, it is not 
 me, that I should tell you the story, but poor Jonah the prophet, 
 he lays rolling in the deep, he tried to formulate this victory, by 
 creeping on a whale when it was asleep, but you see that the 
 whale began to peep, and swallowed Jonah, with one eye, he 
 never got any farther though it is a monstrous pity, for he might 
 have crept inside, and looked at the eggs, before they came to 
 hatch him; this is the way to try them, it is the Sun, who casting 
 her reflections, upon the deep, that has made all nature a howl- 
 ing wilderness, and made the Sun and Moon, a propagating 
 abyss of the deep, she glistens, and glints upon the deep, and 
 in her fondness for the Moon, she has cast a shadow toward that 
 orphan of the deep, and between those two, they manufacture 
 all the rest, yes my friends I have struck you like the whale, it 
 is a great big invention, but you are upon the deep, and can see 
 the reflection of the Moon, beneath that great water stand, and 
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 in infancy does toy beneath those rocks, and behind each turn- 
 ing corner, he sees his shadow, in the gloom, it is here, it is 
 everywhere, it is lightning all aglow, he has struck the magic of 
 his own hereafter mould, so my friends your shadow, is the 
 theory, of what I have learned of, and in bringing your shadow 
 into existence, I have made you into man, you are the shadow I 
 want to demonstrate, and I do know how to do it, it is this your 
 shadow, is the caricature of yourself, and in this I strike you, 
 it is this; your head is round, well your soul must be found too, 
 since your head is, well what right have you got to a round soul, 
 it is this, the Moon in her divergencies, came in contact with her 
 own father, and in taking a look at him, she did make a sight, 
 that is not easily found out, and it is this, the Sun looks down 
 from her nest upon high, and the Moon does the same thing, 
 well the two together, have cast a shadow, and in this method, 
 the one does run into the other, well the pair are lit upon the 
 wave, and in motions of sweet harmonious bliss, one keeps time, 
 with the other, and the two have propagated this shadow, well a 
 reflection is not much to begin with, but it is all that is needed, 
 and you have got the other; that is the solution to the mystery 
 of promulgating the gravel, it is all owing to this shadow, one 
 begets the other, and once you get the shadow, you have all the 
 rest, it is as easy as picking stones off the turnpike gate, the 
 stone has to be propagated, or it can't be made, and when it is 
 made, you will admit, that I have got a start, well it all comes in 
 this form, the stone is the wax end of my theory, it makes an 
 old gardener smile, when he sees the first stone made, it never 
 struck the old fellow, that any one from heaven, would come and 
 help him out, he is mighty clever in his method of picking up 
 seeds, well he does not mate them right, or he could produce 
 such a mixture, that would make the Dukes and Lords 
 propagate a Quaker, for it is as plain as a toad, the Sun in her 
 agony, to reach the Moon, is all the time spitting at him her 
 flames of roasting oil, and the Moon is all the while distributing 
 his essence, so that when they too mate in united lust, they make 
 the whole formation, at the bottom of the deep; and the water 
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 adhere alone, but the Sun does not always hit a union with the 
 Moon, and therefore it is a miss, and there is the secret of the 
 gravel, it has caught a miss, and that miss became a stone, 
 and these stones, are rolling, well the stones are misses, and the 
 gravel is a miss, so that these misses, are drawn together, by 
 lime, from the other stones, that keep on continuing to miss, 
 therefore you see that in time you have got a number of stones, 
 and a number of misses, and the end is very nigh, for the time 
 is come to treat you to a little more lime, and the gardener's bed 
 is in a stage of propagation again, do you see my friends how 
 easy it would be for me to tell you how to find the gold, but I 
 won't, for you are not prepared to accept me, and I am no loafer, 
 I want a welcome, and you must demonstrate it in your own 
 way, and not throw any bones to the " Old Infidel "; his time is 
 valuable in the other world, and when you want him, it is for you 
 to bury the hatchet, and say " as he lived so does he die, 
 like his soul, with immortal coils around him," I cribbed that 
 from Shakespeare, his soul is his own, and he can better fetter it 
 than any one who made mud pies at the bottom of the ocean; 
 Now again my friends I am here in earnest doing battle in my 
 old cause, and where is Shakespeare, why he is one of my 
 warmest friends, and I can get him to write you something 
 better than you ever saw, as he lived, so will he keep on, and 
 his books now are the greatest, the world has ever known, out- 
 side of me, I won't give way to Shakespeare or any one else, 
 and I say that I will get him to write you one of the finest 
 plays, that the world ever saw; and you shall have the benefit 
 of demonstrating it on earth, and he will lend me his name to 
 foot it with, do you say peace; because I say it is to be as you 
 make it, and I will be your friend, or your enemy, now I am not 
 going to drop the Sun on you, till you do something to merit 
 my anger, and I offer you my hand, in tokens of faithful inten- 
 tions. You are to accept or reject, as you please, I can't show 
 you my old body, as identification, but you can in this book 
 identify my writing it is peculiarly my own, it strikes the reader, 
 as a fool's, but after you have proceeded some distance, you 
 will see that it is winding, like the wind, it always comes back 
 
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 onto the point of the compass, where I intend to propagate my 
 plan, and it is quite different to anything you ever read, but 
 this is the reason, I was born, beneath an Asiatic hemisphere, 
 and I have grown according to my own construction, and my 
 Sun is the one I adore, it strikes me all over at once, and in 
 doing so I am careful, to be the essence of light, that my Sun 
 has given me, now this is a strange way of putting this to you, 
 but you must know, that the Sun, is the giver of light, and in 
 giving light, she must burn oil, for she can't throw light, 
 where there is no oil, thenyou do just listen to me, the Sun is a 
 filterer, she burns all she wants,- and she retains all she cares 
 for as food, or she in other words fattens on that which she 
 selected, now do you understand why man is such a genius, he 
 is the selected of the Sun, for he has that voice, that is just as 
 charming to the Sun, as ever it was to the most brilliant lady; 
 now my friends, why is this; well the Sun is a magnet, and in 
 drawing, she begets, in accordance to her own light; and this 
 is it, which she has selected, in the first place, she is awfully 
 particular, and it is for this, that she will be so seductive, 
 her warmth is ever between your hands, and feet, and she 
 saps you quite dry, in a southern. clime, well the result is mar- 
 velous, she is greedy after this -essence off your bodies, and she 
 sin'^s beneath the weight of your bands and feet, foe they make 
 perspiration, and she is all the time drying it off your bodies: 
 Thus it is seen, that your bodies are a delight to her, and in 
 this form, she is propagating, other' men and women, of a 
 different specie entirely, and they are in the ocean now, coming 
 along with the original cast, so it is for me to tell you something 
 of the future as well as the past, therefore you don't loose any- 
 thing by me, it is -all gain, only I must have a fair field for my 
 literary genius, and not bury it any more, or I believe I should 
 make the Sun my grandson, and let her bury the whole kit, 
 basket and all: You have profited less, since you took it into 
 your heads to burn witches, well you ought to be careful and 
 not burn witches, should they attempt to become a nuisance, 
 you give them to understand, that they must go back to the sea, 
 and hunt for these phenomenas that I tell you about, it is 
 
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 quite easy, for these, crazy spirits, who inhabit bodies to make 
 mischief, and it is free, for them to go and hunt the oceans, and 
 come back and tell you what is at the bottom of the deep, well 
 they can go through the Sun, and out at the Moon, and discover 
 perpetual motion, thus showing a good work, to their patrons, 
 but I certainly object to spirits going- about raving of God, 
 when they have not left the earth, for more than a couple of 
 leagues or so; now you see what kind of spirits, who have been 
 governing these witches, which you burnt, it was" pure ignor- 
 ance on your part, you had no idea of the fury you were 
 producing, and in burning that body, you have raised up a 
 fear and dread among the whole of the spirit world, for it 
 is this, their intelligence, was only of the earth, and they 
 had seen these imitators, in the guise of Christ, and they 
 were ready to rave about him, and he could not stop them; 
 but you can stop then quite easily when I show you how, and 
 instead of using violence, I will simply use a strategic course 
 of punishment, that won't harm any one, and that is for them to 
 take other spirits along with them, and guide them, to the deep, 
 and there let them sit down upon the rocks, and let an expert 
 write a clear description of what there is at the bottom, and show 
 it to an instrument-such as I will make, and have it taken off on 
 a type-machine, and should it prove of value, to send the same 
 parties back, with other witch spirits, and have them used as 
 instruments of mail-conveyors, at 'first, and then, when they have 
 been a few times it will be seen, that you can't stop them from 
 this science, of investigating unknown regions, and in this 
 fashion, you can have all the treasures of the deep, in sight, it is 
 only a question of a little training, and you . make a skilled band 
 of spirits, that can tell you almost to an inch, where to lower your 
 divers, and shake the pearls, from the bottom of the ocean, now 
 I have shown you how to thieve from the Sun and Moon, and 
 you thought I was helping you all the while: But" I was angling 
 for a big fish - , and that is the thieving propensities, of man, where 
 do you get this thieving idea from, it is strange, that man, will 
 thieve, no matter what his moral principles are, he is sure to 
 thieve, he can't help himself and why, because he is all the time 
 
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 at it; no but why is it, that he does thieve something in the his- 
 tory of his life, it may not be an apple, or even a peach, yet he 
 will steal something, although he may be a bishop, or a clean, it 
 is all the same, he is bound to thieve it somehow, and it is the 
 rose, that he can't pull away from and say I love thee sweet 
 blossom, but I dare not taste that sweet perfume, it would kill 
 my sanctimonious notions, to be seen at plucking a rose from her 
 pretty bosom, yet he does it nevertheless; and though hades, 
 were a stone fence, or a barrier of insurmountable obstacles, he 
 negotiates the theft all the same, and he will as long as that great 
 big pendulum, shall continue to swing to and fro, now why is it; 
 because his eye, is not his own, and he dare not give it credit for 
 what he can't see; that is why, his eye, is there, but the phos- 
 phorescence, is the eye of a third party, but how can this be, be- 
 cause the Moon, in her propagation, drove the sight back, to- 
 ward the Sun, and the Sun drove it back into the water, and in 
 the water, the eye was made whole, by the reflection of phos- 
 phorescence, and it thus distinguishes; the light, and now you 
 see where I have brought you, to this point, and that is this, 
 that the phosphorescence in the ocean, is the glow, with which 
 we love, it is a mingled candescence; that has been the feature, 
 which I shall hereafter call the sight of light, it is here, where the 
 mind is moulded, it mingles with the light, till it becomes so 
 fragrant, that it gets into a normal state, and in this normal state, 
 it is able to see light, and in looking at light, it has the power of 
 distinguishing the difference between day and night, and in this 
 respect, it is quite possible to develop, any number of lights, for 
 the eye, is formed in this fashion, that it grows by promulgating 
 the afterbirth, and the afterbirth, is this soul, and why this after- 
 birth is made into soul, is a reflection, on the move, when the Sun 
 and Moon meet together at the bottom of the wave, and in their 
 embrace, it is seen, that this shadow appears, of a re-unite, or what 
 my friend the Seer would call a cow jumping off her shadow; it 
 is exactly, the same, he drove cattle once, and had many oppor- 
 tunities in observing their vagaries, and it is from this style of 
 his, of making me use the whip to round up, that I am able to 
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 word go, and don't you make too free with him, in angry moments, 
 for he is quite capable of making a practical demonstration on 
 any body, that does not mean what you would call a punching 
 set to, but it is meant to explain, that he would get the best of 
 almost any man by some resource, that would not be thought of 
 by his opponent; and it is only to be wondered that no violence 
 was used on those New Zealanders, for it is only one thing, that 
 stopped it, and that is this, he has a will of iron, and you can't 
 break this will, he resolved to save the money for his own family, 
 or in the event of losing it, to shoot the judges, and those at- 
 torneys, that were under their guidance, this is the secret right 
 here; the man you have got to demonstrate this world by is a 
 good specimen, of your own folks, they are pretty handy with 
 the gun, and it should be stopped, your sole aim, is to kill, for 
 that is the intention, that has always mastered man, he does not 
 know where he gets this theory from, it is his idea to kill, when 
 a wrong is perpetrated against him, well how does he get that 
 fire-eating spirit; why, it is in his eye of course, it is there, by 
 the little stranger, who nestles close beside him, and says you 
 robbed my parents, I saw you do it, and I am going to kill you; 
 that is where the right murderer is, not in that body at all, when 
 you fire the fatal shot, he is in the other man's eye, that you are 
 going to kill, and he being an expert, his chances are ten to one 
 against you, for this little beggar works on a theory, of his own, 
 and that is to dim the sight of your opponent, so as to give your 
 friend the opposite chance; now I have been puzzled a great deal 
 about this, and you are going to be very much more puzzled still, 
 but I hope to be able to get this more clearly put, the enemy, is 
 standing in front of you, well it is this, the apple of your eye, is 
 the spirit of your Godfather, may be, according to appointment, 
 as I said before: Well now it is this, this little eye contains blood 
 and fire mixed, the Sun put in the fire essence, and the water put 
 in the meat, and the Moon put in that star, that you see in the 
 middle, well the three have gone thus far, that it has got no more 
 light in it, till the candescence, is lifted up, by the light, of a di- 
 vine being, that can go in and out of there, at will, and make his 
 home there, that is what you have always thought was the devil, 
 
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 and instead, it is this spirit, of the body, that has gone on before, 
 and come back again to dwell upon earth, there you have had 
 what you might term a practical stockwhip round-up of the devil: 
 I mean to make a final development of him one fine day, and 
 make you see him act, on the sly, in the way, that will make you 
 feel proud of your own devil, he has only to be taught, that his 
 game is run, and I shall show you what a fine big priest, I have 
 given you, it is all about this drink question, that I would like 
 you to give me a commission to propound a scheme, that would 
 stop humanity from drinking this drug, it can't be entered into in 
 this book, but I have hit upon a plan, that would make all 
 nations of the earth sober forever, and without injury to their 
 pleasure, it is not much, either, it is only to give the spirit in your 
 eye a better chance of distinguishing himself, and making a bet- 
 ter man of you, it is the way to stop thieving too, it is the way to 
 stop all foul deeds, it is to teach this little stranger in your eye; 
 the way to play its game honorably, and not take from his neigh- 
 bor, that which does not belong to his own friend, now you see 
 that I am able to show you everything, from an anchor to a 
 shadow hook, and you don't see my instrument doing harm to a 
 living being, then don't be afraid, let the old hard looks pass 
 away, I don't want your religion, I have not a particle of use for 
 it, I don't call you heretics, I say you are all one equal to the 
 other, and you are all good, only you ought to see everything 
 clearly, or you can't be content: Now then it is no use you 
 thinking I am here to deprive you of your churches, or anything 
 of that sort, I don't care anything about yonr churches, I have 
 got a theoretical resource, and I want that, it is all I care for, and 
 I can show you everything, in reality, and I can't stand being 
 told that anything is impossible, now when you have got anything 
 impossible to seam together, I can do it; and when you want to 
 sew up old rags, I can do that also, I can mend and darn, and do the 
 whole business complete, it is no use telling me that perpetual 
 motion, has to be proved, in iron and steel, I say it won't work that 
 way, you have to make perpetual motion, in accordance with my 
 instructions, or you can't do it at all, I have mastered this in its 
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 speed you have a mind to, and you don't want any eoal at all, 
 and you can make railways jump a mile a minute, without an 
 ounce of steam, but I won't do this, till I am ready, I have 
 engaged to make a fortune for my Seer, but beyond that I have 
 no contracts, and you can please yourselves, whether you accept 
 my services or not, now this is what I am after, and that is your 
 spirit guides, they are playing havoc with humanity, and they 
 don't see it themselves, and until they see it through you, it is 
 impossible for them to know anything, therefore you are just as 
 hopelessly astray, as you have always been, now I don't care what 
 you say or do, there are none of your spirit guides, who can do 
 as I have done, and I challenge all the universe, to make a show- 
 ing equal in its entirety to this my first book since I left the 
 world of Cain; I mean this as I have said it, it is a world of 
 Cain, for it has no sense, because it does not know its own 
 fathers, neither does it know where the right way is to be found, 
 neither is it capable of keeping on the right path, did it get 
 entered therein; now my friends, what harm have I done to you, 
 that you should style me "The Infidel"; is it right, is it fair, I 
 never injured any man, yet I shall be called " The Infidel"; as 
 long as the clock is in the Moon, and has to be wound by the 
 Sun, I don't care for the name, but it is this, which has always 
 hurt me most, when I died, there were none to see my remains 
 put away, and they were sewed up in a sack, and cast into the 
 ground, and when I saw that, I was ashamed of my own body, 
 it looked so bare, not a soul to look upon me, and I had done 
 nothing wrong, I felt then, that my heart would break with 
 anguish, for it fairly tore me in twain, and I saw my friend the 
 man who drove me on to abuse religion, standing by my side, 
 and he was quite as miserable as myself, for he had done it all: 
 Now you know that instead of having a welcome, when I crossed 
 the border line, it was one of misery, and all because the man in 
 my eye, had made me a monster, and had made me stand up and 
 fight this religion question, till they put me in prison, and there 
 is where I broke my last fast, it is all the way I ever grew, and 
 as I was taught, so will I continue to teach, because I am able, 
 that is why, my old guide is with me now, and you have his old 
 
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 friend beside me, and we three, can make you happy, though you 
 did make me eat a felon's diet, and sewed me up in a sack, I am 
 more alive, now than any man that ever lived, and I have more 
 friends, than I know how to satisfy, it is Tom how do you do 
 this, or how should we make a pick for picking up fools with, it 
 is always Tom, and they don't call me " The Infidel " now; since 
 I went through the Sun, and came out at the other end, it is all 
 the way, that a man is brought up, and when you fetch them up 
 right, they can go through the Sun too: I don't want any extra 
 inducement, to call me out, I go, whenever it has any attraction 
 for me, and I want to make you see that you were born a fish, 
 and you swam together, and you lived together, and you died 
 together, and you can go back, and duck in the sea, or you can 
 come home to the old house, and see the Christmas tree, just the 
 same as it used to be, and for a matter of that sort, you can give 
 the directions as it used to be, and keep the old game alive, no 
 advancement, not even an ancient theory, to be brought back, not 
 even the idea of our Lord's supper, being eaten as they did 
 eighteen hundred years ago, when the Lord came and gave his 
 blessing, aren't you all ashamed of yourselves to think that what 
 such prophets as Jonah, and any amount more could do that you 
 are incapable of talking to God, I say you ought to be well whipped 
 for owning it, didn't King Saul bury the dead by witchcraft, didn't 
 he send all those with familiar spirits away from him, and didn't 
 he get left nicely for his ideal heathenism, his own familiar spirit 
 was driven out of his eye, which is possible, and practicable, and 
 can be held in subjection forever, for disobedience to the laws of 
 heaven, I tell you that you have all got familiar spirits, and they 
 change about, as frequently as it is agreed upon among them- 
 selves, now I want you to tell me how you can detect the differ- 
 ence, I'll bet anything, that you don't know when an enemy is 
 leading you, and when it is your own friend, you just ponder 
 over this question, and I think you have got a more difficult 
 question put to you, than ever was made before; it is this, that 
 makes you afraid of spirits, and they have tricked you from the 
 cradle up, for they are the shadow, and it was their shadow, that 
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 trick, and always may be a trick, for that is a trick of the Moon 
 and Sun, to get together on reflection, and sow the seed of 
 humanity, therefore it is here where you are caught at thieving, 
 and that is this, the Moon is stealing along, and he quietly steals 
 on the sun, at the bed, which I wish to attract your attention to, 
 and that is the propagation bed, at the bottom of the ocean, it 
 is, as the Moon, is high overhead, and as the Sun is on the wan- 
 ing, that this affectionate embrace is indulged, at the bottom of 
 the ocean, there is the propagation bed, for it is here that the Sun 
 is able to receive the Moon, for her head is toward home, and she 
 is going down, and the Moon is ascending, that this propagation 
 is imitated, and it is this effect, that has produced all that we see: 
 Now I want to tell you, that all those spirits, that have no better 
 occupation, can go and watch for this, and bring me the right 
 theory of the next people, that are coming to earth to dwell, for 
 I have seen this change coming along steadily, for some time, 
 and I can get you all this information, by the time I write my 
 second work, on science; Now I want to get at the right method 
 of teaching, and then it is all easy for you, but I must confess, 
 that I am not master of this yet, for of all your mediums, and 
 all your spiritualists, both past and present, I don't think you 
 have ever had one yet, that is able to do this work, right, and I 
 don't know how I am to teach you either, for your heads are not 
 fixed right, it is this, you won't keep away from society, for any 
 given time, so as to all on your heads to grow spiritual, you 
 make them mortal, that is true, but you don't make them spirit- 
 ual, they are not strong enough, they want somebody else's head 
 to support theirs, well now, you have the best of me there, I 
 can't make you into good useful spirit guides, whilst you will take 
 notice of what all the world and his wife has to say, your mother 
 the Sun, didn't do that way, and I can't alter what she has done, 
 she kissed the Moon deep in the ocean by reflection, and 
 here is where she has made a reflection, it is here she 
 did as she liked, and waited to see whether the moon would 
 look at her, and when he saw her brilliant eye, he piped his little 
 bit of a face across hers, and it was a complete embrace, don't 
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 and how can I stop you, well it is this then, that when you try 
 to learn, you must not associate, with any society, till you become 
 developed, for their essence, is altogether too strong, for you, 
 and you are not capable" of resisting their power, by this you 
 must see that seclusion, is the proper method, to adopt, in order 
 to advance, for purposes, such as this work, and not by exchange 
 of sentiment, for sentiment must be abolished, should you wish 
 to be thorough mediums; and you must make this be your first 
 lesson; Or don't try, for the fact is easily understood, the Moon 
 can go forever; without looking at the Sun, but the Sun, is always 
 eager to meet the Moon, this is why, the Sun is hot, and can 
 drink always, and she can't make up her mind exactly, whether 
 it is possible for her to divulge this great secret, till one fine day, 
 she will take the Moon, and suck him in body and soul, that is 
 about the way your mediums develop, you sit in the shadow, and 
 you are earnest enough, but you are always talking spiritualism, 
 and what does it all amount to, why I can tell you, it amounts to 
 this, that you have all got a black countenance, and that is why, 
 you . talk too much, and do too little, instead of keeping at 
 home by yourselves, you are always out hunting for spiritual- 
 ists, and in consequence, your own guides, never go down to the 
 ocean or anywhere else to cast up pearls, and as a matter of 
 course, they are birds of a feather, none of them capable to 
 do anything; this is what you call a correct theory, and a right 
 road, I say it is the worst road of them all, for you do know better, 
 and yet you will cling together, like the fish, that you were brought 
 from, and I shall be surprised to find any fish in my net at all, 
 that came from spiritualism, soon, they will all claim Tom Paine, 
 to make money out of my name, but it won't do my friends, you 
 can't keep me that way, I have two mediums only, that is this 
 one, and the one he developed through, and I won't give her 
 name because she disowned me, and said I was a fraud, now we'll 
 see who is the fraud, she can remember who gave her the back- 
 hander for that accusation; and she might have had this work, 
 only for disobeying, so I tell you all, that you never know what 
 you can do, till I tell you, and when you reach. out, for spiritual- 
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 honest, for you can't trick a spirit, and that is the way to master 
 your enemies, be honest, and honesty, is the best policy, by far, 
 an honest man may succeed at becoming a tolerably good instru- 
 ment, but a. dishonest one never, his guides are altogether 
 opposed to trick, they cheat, to beat a thief I am well aware of the 
 fact, but they won't help you to cheat, when you are in the 
 wrong; so now it is time I told you how a cheat is made, it is. 
 thus, I made a man sit down beside me once, and tell me how it 
 is, that he was such a great rogue, he said he could not say, but 
 supposed it was because of God being too weak to get the upper 
 hand of the devil, and I thought then, that he had spoken truly, 
 but I did not know; yet he said you ought to be able to tell me, 
 so I -can- 1 replied, it is quite easy, the Sun has got to breathe, in 
 one way, and pull her breath out the other; to-wit it is either one 
 or the other, and she does her best to catch the Moon, and when 
 he lets her, it is a devil, but when she lets him catch her it is 
 right and proper, and is a God: That is the way a devil is 
 made, for it has a long thin tail after it, and is the string, that 
 the Moon made, as he tore away from the Sun; now you see this 
 fish quite frequently beneath the tidal wave, and he is a fish, with 
 a great big tail, like a swordfish, he caught the sting, and it has 
 clung to them both, well why should it cling to to these fish; 
 because it is the stain, as it drops from the Sun, and adheres 
 to the droppings from the Moon, they both drop considerable 
 when they propagate beneath the ocean, this is the way to 
 find out that fact, a stingree, has a tail with sharp saw-like 
 teeth, well the Sun, in her propagation gave a squeeze to the Moon, 
 and it causes a tare, and in so doing it brings out these teeth, by 
 the front of a miracle, I don't care to admit a miracle, for I don't 
 agree that there is a miracle, so it is a good beginning to hold 
 this up as a miracle, and see me knock it into a balloon, or an air- 
 bag, don't you seem to understand yet, that there are no miracles, 
 '.hese are what I might shirk my business by, and take you on 
 y ith an undiscovered something, it is all fudge, the miracle, is 
 n\\t of this century, and it never need be, unless you people 
 cliVig to it, in happy ignorance, the way to meet these difficulties, 
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 obstacles, and that way, you are alone responsible for errors, the 
 way to get the thing, into a nutshell, is by planting your hand 
 upon Jacob's thigh, and making a double joint, it is done in this 
 fashion, you meet the two bones together, and they grow, so did 
 my shark; he was crippled, on account of the Moon rushing, in 
 passing the Sun, and she flung her sting upon him, because he 
 did not behave, in a proper manner toward her, and God did 
 the same to Israel, for disobedience, he cast his anger upon them, 
 for they were a stiff-necked people, now my friends, I want to 
 have a word with you, you all remember the time, when you were 
 in a cradle, or just on the eve, of leaving it, the first thing you 
 are precipitous in doing is to lift one leg over the other, and 
 begin to climb, and after you climb a few times, you are inclined 
 to keep up your climbing, till you get accustomed to the art, and 
 then you grow careless, well this is precisely, what the Moon 
 does, after he has climbed over the heavens a number of times, he 
 becomes quite careless, and he simply plays with nature, and 
 when he reaches the spot in the deep, where he is to meet the 
 shadow of the Sun, he will give her a smack, that does not mean all 
 play, or all harm, but it is sufficient to rouse her ire, and she flings 
 him back her fire, this is what causes hatred and the reverse, the 
 Sun is all glory, and when she sees his face, beneath the waves, she 
 is dying to be on top of him, and that is what he wants to do, 
 the pair are both distributers, and the one is anxious to do the 
 same as the other, it is thus, where the grief is spread, for the 
 Sun is above, till she meets this monster, and she feels the slight 
 most keenly, when she fails to find herself on top, and it is thus 
 far shown, but that is not all, the Sun is away from the earth, at 
 the time she is approaching this Moon-shadow, her flanges, are 
 striking back, into her interior, and she is not on a par with the 
 Moon, for her power is on the droop, and it is thus, that she 
 can't fill her intense desire to appropriate, this gigantic monster's 
 essence, for he does not deal liberally with her always, and he 
 scatters this manure, that he is dropping, according, to the 
 pressure, that is brought to bear on his interior, well it must be 
 seen at a glance, that the Sun is reclining, at the period, that she 
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 is half, or more than half over her shadow, well as this is the 
 case, it is shown, that she has not the full power at him, that he 
 has at her; in consequence, she is down beneath him, before he 
 is entirely aware of this fact, and he has no chance of throwing 
 this shadow, and of course, it is a propagation, for the fact is 
 clear, the meeting of these two shadows, in opposition, must 
 beget another, and the one does not release the other, in a 
 moment, for it is strung out to a tail, and by this tail it means 
 something, for the water is between the two, and they can't sepa- 
 rate, for they are a united reflection, and are the means of beget- 
 ing others, for they are three, the moon, the time, and the Sun, and 
 this is how we have got this time, it is caused through the regis- 
 tration of the flood, in two parts, it is the seaming together of 
 something indefinite, and this point, that we call indefinite, is the 
 period of the stars, they are propagated first, by the same method 
 as the Sun and Moon, it is a constant inpouring and outgoing, 
 now you see I am driving you on to the stars, though I have 
 told you, that I am not going to deal with them in this book, 
 neither I am, only so far as I can't avoid reasonably, and that it 
 is this great feature, that I must formulate, ere I pass it by, the 
 season of the year, is the same in heaven, as it is upon earth, 
 and in speaking of this I mean you to see, that the Moon, is not 
 the only factotum, that has the gift of making shadows, the Sun 
 is just as anxious to have connection at the deep, with these 
 stars, that you see at the bottom of the ocean, and she can dye 
 their reflection, with her radiance, as she is going home, and 
 leave a miniature propagation, there I can show you the starfish, 
 it is here that you begin to come into brilliancy, for the starfish 
 is the effect of a brilliant adhesient, or mixture of glue, and propa- 
 gated matter, that is lying at the bottom of the deep, now you 
 seem to clearly understand, that I don't accuse these bodies of 
 any material connections, it is only by their effect of collusion, 
 beneath the waves, not by any sign of any absurd idea, but 
 strictly in accordance with facts, in a scientific way, therefore you 
 must understand, that I don't deliver my discourse, with any ulte- 
 rior motives of ridicule, but in writing this work, I cast my pearls, 
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 careful investigation of the truth, and you must never bring 
 this into ridicule, for the holy union of natural laws, in union, 
 are as sacred, as the very best polished marble slab you ever did 
 honor to; and you know you have placed your hands before you, 
 and prayed to many a marble slab, for beneath that tomb, it is 
 a waste, there was a once living mortal in that waste, but now he 
 is going on, according to time, his soul is the third, his first, is 
 his matter, his second is his life in the clay, but his hereafter, is 
 time; that is all, he gave his sin back, to where it is made, and 
 he does not carry it any further, except in memory, his sin was 
 the reflection, caused by the adhesion of crime coming into that 
 body, by the thoughts, that were conveyed there, by the soul of 
 his after-birth, which is his shadow, that forms round about him, 
 and is governed by the reflection of his own cortege, which 
 come after, for they were his guides, in accordance with nature, 
 and are the transparent essence of light, thrown in on top of 
 him, through the fire, having struck the shadow, in getting at 
 the moon, now you have a burnt miniature, and its name is the 
 same as yours, it is called the man in the Moon, for it is here, 
 that man is formed after, through this piece of dirty-faced mush, 
 that stuck to the seaming, as it strikes the earth, in passing 
 round; the same is applicable, for all animals are struck, from 
 the same mould, only that the stages, are different, when these 
 appurtenances, are made, therefore we have the earth, to make 
 next, and it is a tedious job I can assure you,, this is not the 
 gratifying work you think it is, it is all a complete drudge, and 
 not a bit pleasant, I would rather make a mound, with scoops, 
 than to begin to put mother earth in shape, and I won't make 
 her all in this book, I am just going to give you a faint idea of 
 how she is formed, and then you must excuse me from the pres- 
 ent, for I can't do this justice, and make it over again, at one 
 sitting, so I intend to do it at one pop, and you can see that 
 Tom is a bit of a God in his own way, well it is now or never, as 
 the Patricians say, when they did a miracle, I guess you have 
 got to make an ash heap somewhere, to hold all that manure, 
 that is consumed in behind the sun, and you might just as well 
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 fond of, and call terra firma; 1 don't want your miracles, they 
 don't cut any figure with me, and I just rip them up, like you do 
 an old doll rag, that has too much grease to hold any water; 
 thus you see, that I keep my grease, and give you the rags, or in 
 other words the sun fattens on the grease, and she casts back to 
 you the bones, and they come down here, in form of essence, 
 and that essence, is alive, the moment it mixes with cold air, for 
 the heat, is never dead, it holds matter, and anything, that con- 
 tains matter, no matter how infinitesimal, it does contain life, 
 and it is only to be consumed, according to its properties of 
 adhesiveness; therefore it is called soluvium of potassium; this 
 is why, the main heat, is not dead, the water holds the ingredi- 
 ents, that contain the life, and cold air is alive, because it is 
 filled with air, and the air we breathe, is alive, so that we are 
 held together by life eternally,, and can't die, because we are 
 coupled to sound, that has no governor, or catalepsy, it can't be 
 tamed, because it has no adhesion, therefore it is a free agent, 
 and will be in this stage, forever, so you must not suppose, at 
 all, but wait for some man more skilled than I am to propound a 
 scheme, for mixing sound and material, the Sun and Moon can't 
 do it, for they are a pair of sounds together, and the one runs 
 the other, for all they are worth, and it is no use, for their sound 
 is constantly escaping, and it propounds other sounds, by the 
 affection of its own external evolutions, and makes a distinct 
 vibrating noise, that would seem to say, I am at my wit's end, 
 no one here, to take me in, I am the mad factotum, that nobody 
 wants, and I shall bury my head, beneath a great evolution, and 
 come here in sound no more, it has gone to waste, there is noth- 
 ing more of it, it is here, and it is not here, it is a mixture of 
 elements, that don't adhere to each other, till they are grown on 
 the ground in flesh and blood, and then it dries onto the verte- 
 brae, or spinal' column, that is the quick, and it is herein, that it 
 propagates, and makes a second adhesion, then it can't make any 
 more adhesions, and goes to waste, in a gigantic growth, that 
 never ends, for it is soluvium of potassium in texture, and not 
 in reality, it is the ass turned loose, for he is a wanderer, forever, 
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 than some other ass, is after his place, and he has to take some- 
 body else's place, in accordance with ignorance, as set out by the 
 heathens at the beginning, that is why I am writing this work, 
 not for you, but for the spirit world, who have all begged me to 
 do it, in direct opposition to paganism, they say we can't go on 
 like this forever, one man is a God, because he was the first of 
 an intelligent time, and he set the world agog by his wonders, 
 and he did well, but he had no power, and could not reach far 
 enough, that is all there is to it, he was capable, you must admit, 
 and he is capable now, and he need not be ashamed of what he 
 did, for he has had a season of upward of two thousand years, 
 and that is not a bad innings for one spirit, I don't hope to live 
 that time, at any rate, I should like a vacation, should you place 
 me at the head, to govern it all those years, I want to tell you 
 how to live, so that you can die good, and stop away, when you 
 have gone, what right has the mortal, with a dozen spirits round 
 them, all making confusion and dissension, it is absurd, the 
 heavens are ruled by three, and what more should there be 
 attached to man, he is not a bit skillful, like the machinery, that 
 works the entire universe, and I don't think he is entitled to be 
 any more than a good government, of his own understanding, 
 therefore it is sure work, that does the best, and you ought to 
 give up that see-saw business, which is altogether too much, for 
 the well-being of the human race, it is not right either, you keep 
 a whole band of spirits round you, well stop that see-saw, and I 
 don't think you will get far wrong, you know what I have refer- 
 ence to it's that confounded confusion, that spirits deal in, they 
 agree upon a certain method, and after agreeing, they go on 
 agitating, till they make a complete tool of the one, that has to 
 be guided by them, till at last, one or other of them snap the 
 angel cord, and is in there for good until some radical change is 
 brought on through this mystery, in taking time by the forelock, 
 and shut him" up, till he makes an example for the others, which 
 is understood, to mean death in heaven, it means this, the spirit 
 who gets in the eye, and can't get back, is forever banded about 
 as the tool, and the rest keep on advising him to this extreme. 
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 any of them, now you see I have given you the lunatic spirit to 
 remove, well how are you going to set about it, why it is the easiest 
 thing in the world, to remove a dead spirit, by closing up his 
 grave, that is why, and then shut out the light, and you have got 
 him buried alive, and he is sure to find his way out of any dark 
 corner, for he is able to light his road, by the essence, that is in 
 his own eye, which you imagine is quite a wee tiny wee thing, 
 because it is inside of the other man's eye, here you are wrong, 
 for the eye is an illuminous body, and the reflection is internal, as 
 well as external, and the fire, is burning both ways, as in the 
 Sun, for the Sun glistens back, and so. does your eye; therefore 
 it is this eye, that has to be illuminated, from the back, or how 
 could you see in front, and this eye, is the eye, of the light, of a 
 new and intelligent spirit, only the brain has to be developed, 
 or it could not do this work, and after it becomes reflected, 
 it surpasses all understanding, for it is being changed ever and 
 anon, by changing spirits, who pass to and fro, as the agree- 
 ment is engaged, and they change, according to their own indi- 
 vidual characters, and instead of a boy, in this country, knowing 
 more, he does, but he does not retain as much in English, as he 
 ought to for the fact is quite clear, you have all nationalities, and 
 in consequence, he is followed up by German French, and Span- 
 ish extracts, and he is a division of either, according to the spirit, 
 who is in his eye, at any particular time, now you don't recognize 
 me as an intelligent power, well let me inform you mentally and 
 physically I am all that a power can be, but you don't realize 
 this, for you never knew your own power before, neither did you 
 know anything, except, that Columbus crossed to America, and 
 he understood how to do it, well now you do know, what brought 
 Columbus to America, and Captain Cook to Tasmania etc., well 
 it was this little devil in their eyes, who had been spying 
 about, and wanted to make great men of them, that is the secret, 
 and we have got the same thing in our animals, to this extent, it 
 is to be found largely in hogs, and the horse specie have got it 
 the most except ourselves, now I told you not to class me with 
 the monkey, and I am going to run you a race on animals, that 
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 you can't tell me anything about ourselves, that I don't know, 
 but you are going to learn something about yourselves, that you 
 never hoped to hear, and that is this, you are an amphibious 
 creature, and not made out of clay and dust, you are a whale 
 specie, and so is the horse, it is in this, that I am going to manip- 
 ulate the greatest ingenuity, that was ever formulated by the 
 astuteness of man, and you must bear in mind one fact, and that 
 is this, that I always leave a loophole of escape, and when you 
 tackle me in publishing my dishonor, I give you fair and ample 
 warning, that I wind like the wind, and I shall plant my dirk, 
 where you leave the body unprotected, so when you attack me in 
 print, look sharply after your own person, for I am very near per- 
 fection, at finding weak spots, and when you run your own body 
 against a sword, don't expect it to do other than prick, this is my 
 candid warning of all common people, who intend to assail "The 
 Infidel "; you can make your papers shut me up, by not printing 
 what I write, but you can't do it by honest open warfare, for I 
 can place my arrow, where few can find the end, it has sunk so 
 deep, that a hide of leather, has no show against my dart, there- 
 fore you will be satisfied, when I give you to understand, before 
 I begin, that I want some grace shown to me, should you have 
 any theory, that is able to annihilate me; and I would remind 
 wealthy newspaper holders, to beware of "The Infidel's pen"; 
 for it is sharpened at the bottom of the ocean, and the grind- 
 stone is hard to reach, yet it is there quite nicely prepared to 
 take a siege, and will make a faithful battle fling back her ring: 
 Now I don't want any man's favor, and I would like to see 
 capable men take up this question, and fight it down like men 
 should do, who love fair play, there is not one atom of sport, in 
 a foul and base attack, and as the fish, in the ocean is always 
 sporting, in glee, and cleverness, can't you and I have a little 
 sport, without making ourselves, into clowns, of a bad odor, I 
 say that you can tackle me in any scientific point you choose, 
 and ask the people to be our judges, you must not go outside of 
 my book, for it would totally unfit any of my future works for 
 publication, because you could then say I cribbed from you, so to 
 put matters straight, I want you to knock this one out first, you 
 
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 have just the same chance as I have, the little man at the back of 
 your eye, can show his bright intelligence in front of you, and 
 you can see what he tells you; that is the way he ought to do, 
 go and investigate, and then come back, and stand in your eye, 
 till you catch his meaning, that is the way, it is simply a dive 
 between a shadow, and a mirror that produces this sense; not by 
 clairvoyance, or any other kind of wretched plain meaning, it is 
 caused through the eye becoming illuminated by a kind of 
 essence, that is on the body of the spirit, who enters your eye; 
 and it is from his reflector, that you gain sense; it is not from the 
 theory of sight at all, for unless he shows you how, he can't get 
 there, and he must show you how, or he won't reach his point; 
 therefore he has to get into your eye, and show you how to work, 
 or you don't see how it is done, now my friends, should you keep 
 on telling your guide to show you, he can't for the fact is as plain 
 as day, you make him know what you mean, by doing everything 
 opposite, to his theory, till he sits up in agony, at not being able 
 to reach you, then he is lost, for he must give up, to some other 
 guide, who comes in and tries this very same thing, till he is lost 
 also, then another, and again another, still you take no notice of 
 any of them, till the one comes, who can tell you everything, that 
 is mastering good, you reject all, till the right spirit sits down in 
 your eye, and tells you of all things possible, and then you ask 
 him impossible things, it is easy, you follow sound, and you catch 
 the thought, this is the reflector in your eye, which produces this 
 sense, not outside, as the men of mystic cloth tell you that God 
 took Moses up into the mountain, and there did stand beside him, 
 and make him tremble with fright, he did no such thing, he was 
 there in the eye of Moses, and he told Moses, to take this or that, 
 as the case might be, and you don't believe me; well you can 
 wait till doomsday, and you will never get one of your guides, or 
 any God, to come and stand behind you, and preach such stuff 
 into your ear, I tell you again, that you have a lot to learn, before 
 you knock Paine out, he is such a terrible fellow, and I would 
 like to hear what you have to say against him, he is not perfect, I 
 am sure, but he is ready to defend his honor, and that is as much 
 as you ought to ask any man to do; this is where you all fail, it 
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 is in upholding your own dignity, I have done this, I said I 
 intended to come back to earth, and see how faithfully I have 
 kept my word, I went away it's true in a bit of sacking, though 
 you didn't see me weeping, it is true, that my heart was crushed, 
 yet it was all right, after I got the old one back, and properly 
 stuffed" with ether, it came along pretty quick, I can tell you, 
 when I knew that I might have a chance, of going back, and 
 telling the people that I had not died; this was my great thought, 
 and it has been my study, ever since I passed over the boundary 
 line; thus you see me back, and I mean to tell you every blessed- 
 thing, whether of importance or not, I won't even hide one secret 
 from you, and you have the privilege of discussing my book at 
 length, and when you hold up your finger, at any error, why I 
 am there ready to do my utmost to correct it; I won't be dog- 
 matical, and say you are all wrong, when I know that you are as 
 pure, as nature, will permit you to be; Now it is this, that I want to 
 speak to you about, the people on the side of life, that I belong 
 to; are anxious to show you the truth, and they have been strug- 
 gling for centuries to do this, they always did try, to come back 
 to you, and it is just the same, as the whale, he always comes to 
 the surface to breathe, well the spirits, are always glad to inhale 
 the breath on earth, for they can't leave it, it is a tie, that they 
 are unable to break, it is the tie of affection, that brings them 
 back, they know that you don't know anything about them get- 
 ting back, and they see you in the body, isn't it natural, for them to 
 like that body too, and swim in, where there is nothing to prevent 
 them going, a spirit is able to reach out often, and throw 
 some obstacle in your way, when you are going to certain 
 destruction, his soul is free, and he has the opportunity of look- 
 ing up your journeys, before ever you set out on them: And 
 he can go ahead, and come back, and sit in your eye, till that 
 journey is safely ended, or he can break your neck, just 
 as easy, then why don't you try to learn, how to distinguish 
 the good, from the bad spirit, that is in your eye; this one 
 wants me to smoke, because he likes it, his little eye likes to see a 
 chimney-pot, because he can smell the smoke, his eye is always 
 on his own interest, his nose is always, on the lookout for some 
 
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 essence, because it helps him to grow, that is his theory, and he 
 wants to grow, well it is this little satisfaction, that pleases him, 
 and not your desire at all, he is the one who wants this smoke, 
 not you at all, and he is as infatuated, as ever he can be, over 
 this smoke, it is his delight, for he holds your own sense at ease, 
 over this essence, and he can't work, neither can any one work, 
 while this smoke is always curdling through your essence, it is 
 physically impossible to do anything out of the merest routine of 
 everyday life, when you have this smoker in your eye, his only 
 hope is tobacco, and his only thought is the sense of knowing, 
 that you don't expect him to work, when you have that pipe 
 between your lips, it may be a pipe, or it may be any other fix- 
 ture, it is all a mixture, of dead weeds, and that is a complete 
 description, of the little fellow, who claims you as his very own; 
 well you see the steam rising from thwart the whale's head, and 
 you say there she spouts, well what makes her spout, it is the 
 machinery, that is in her is it not; thus you see my friends, that 
 the whale breathes, she does it once in a great while that is true, 
 yet she breathes all right enough; now what is inside of that 
 whale, to make her breathe so hard, it is the lungs, that fill, with 
 air, and ascend, to the surface, to get filled, there is the solution 
 of lungs, they are first made, to blow a hole through, and then, 
 it is used to fill the body with breath, thus you have the first pair 
 of lungs, that are made, it is in this whale, that our lungs, are 
 made first, there is the missing chain of evidence, that places the 
 first link upon man, it is this ivory tooth, and why, because that 
 tooth, is the first one, of a make, that does beget another; it is 
 the tusk off a whale, that is formulated into teeth, by the growth 
 of an ass, it is this tooth, that has brought us so far, it is this 
 tooth, that killed the folks Balaam went to kill, but they stood in 
 the way, and the ass, saw the two teeth, it was all over with 
 Balaam, he couldn't get Mr. Ass, to see the way he did; the ass 
 saw two people in front, and they had linked hands, and the ass 
 was too cowardly to peep at them, that is all owing to this tusk, 
 it is the tooth, that slayed Balaam, and the ass did speak, for an 
 old ass can bray a note, that would deal a death-blow, at any 
 other ass, that tried to drive him through; now my friends you 
 
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 see that I don't count the Balaam mystery, as anything at all, it 
 is merely the way you choose to place things, the ass saw a vision, 
 for the spirit of some ass, was looking through Balaam's eye, and 
 he cast a reflection, that made Balaam believe it was an angel in 
 front, and the ass, wouldn't go, for the fact is clear, there were a 
 number of spiritualists, in those days, who practiced those fear 
 tricks, and it may have been a magic lantern, or it might have 
 been a Quaker who made the ass scared, it was not angels, in a 
 materialized form, for they are unable to do this, without you help 
 them, by consent, and other forms, which are not here described 
 for the simple reason, that it can't be done, in a way that 
 would satisfy any but a true believer; then it is all right enough, 
 but the moment you introduce a skeptic, the charm has lost its 
 power, and you can't hold the spirit intact, for it is afraid of this 
 skeptic; it is this cause, that makes all spirit power hard to suc- 
 cumb, the fact, of you killing Christ, has had such a fearful 
 effect, that it is always the same thing, he might shoot at me, or 
 some such dread, now you see this is only reasonable, the spirit 
 in the body, knows that a gun is no foolish thing, and they know 
 that any explosion is dangerous, in consequence, you can't get 
 them to submit, to a proper treatment, or it would not be much 
 trouble to get them materialized; and this is where you do wrong, 
 for they can help you all through your whole life, and they are 
 there in your eye certain; so what do you want to make them 
 afraid of you for; it is quite possible, for you to play a game of 
 hide and seek with mortals, but you can't make spirits in your 
 eyes see it that way; they like it themselves, but it is an abomi- 
 nation, in others for it is the essence of that evil odor, that they 
 cast over others, that prevents you from seeing their tricks, this 
 is it, they plant a sting, wherever they find you out in telling an 
 untruth, and this is what it is for, the first man and woman came 
 of a whale, and it was this, that embittered all creation, and it 
 was brought through in this fashion, the whale is an amphibious 
 creature, to this extent, it rises to the surface, to breathe, and 
 does breathe on the surface, therefore he is amphibious: He dare 
 not breathe below the water, for it would let out his breath, 
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 is obliged to blow his breath out, and draw it in, on the top of 
 the water; so you see I am at the whale, and he is my subject, 
 though I don't care to go for him like a whaler does, and stick 
 him in his blubber, and make him feel bad, I want to teach you 
 how to tell a whale, from some other kind of fish, and that other 
 fish, is man; now do you see why I don't go and get on his tooth, 
 and ride him round the world, like the Arabian Knights did of 
 old, I want to teach man science, and not fables, they are all 
 stale, and it would not interest you at all if I were to go through 
 a whale, like Jonah did, he had his reputation at stake, and he 
 had the making of the fable, so it was his business, to collect his 
 own hide, and seam it to please him, I am going on a different 
 basis, and I must go according to my maker, or die in the attempt; 
 so as I am amphibious, I can't die by drowning, then I suppose I 
 can't be killed by air, because we don't live on anything else 
 geometrically speaking, and as I have to fight all the universities 
 in the world, why I dare say I can't do better, than by carving 
 them out, when I begin to count time, so you see that as I am an 
 amphitheater, in all my dealings, I must be a king of a whale; or 
 you would be at me like a pack of hungry sharks, thus you see, 
 that I am only " The Infidel," and as an " Infidel," I am more of 
 a human, than those who talk of me; now you seem to see that I 
 have made fast to this whale, and that I am going to investigate, 
 it is thus then that we have caught, a fish, with a pair of lungs, 
 and he blows them, and you own it: Then such being the case, 
 my friends will agree with me, that the whale is an amphibious 
 quadruped, in this respect, that he is tied to some unknown mat- 
 ter, that has a tendency to inhale fresh air, and he lives, by the 
 air alone, he can't bring his mouth to the top of the surface, 
 without air rushing in; that is certain, and when it fills, he is down 
 again, and he rises to the surface, and blows it out again, did he 
 blow it out, below the water, it would choke him, and he would 
 burst, so it is plain, he must not blow it out below the water; so 
 you see he is the first fish, with lungs, and he uses them by force 
 of circumstances, and not by mystery, now my friends, you admit 
 his lungs, well what have we found, it is the missing chain, that 
 has caught you by surprise, it was Darwin's theory, that we were 
 
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 from the monkey, it is our old mistakes, that have always 
 dragged us down, and that is the hair, it could not be placed, on 
 top, because it belonged to the bottom, therefore, instead of mak- 
 ing hair out of the mungoose, we must go and look for it, on the 
 pelican, for he is the thief, who poked a hole in us first, it is this 
 bird, that produces hair, and not the giraffe, or the monkey; now 
 my friends I have been rounding up the forest, and have done 
 nothing at all with it, it is my whale, that I am going to pin 
 my faith to; and it is all in him, that we want to make a man, 
 that is the beginning of man; I don't prescribe a dish of cocoa- 
 nuts, when I want the air to breathe through me, the cocoanut, 
 is three, one is the milk, but the other, is the cow, that made 
 the milk, and the third, is the nut, that has to be cracked, before 
 we get to the cow, that has made the milk, now then we 
 want to find where it is that you hide your shame in for not 
 knowing better, it is this, your whale does suckle her cubs, 
 and her milk is good, notwithstanding, that she lives in the deep, 
 her cubs are all the same as the Chinamen, they come rolling 
 along, and suck the milk of nature, and it is in this gait of the 
 Chinamen, that I discovered the missing link, I could not fill the 
 bill, till I got to China, and watched that walk, it is the way a 
 cub comes to his mamma, for some of the blessing, that nature 
 has distributed in her bountiful way, that is the theory of the 
 wind, she rolls and lolls, and sucks, and draws, and drives, and 
 takes in, at last she lifts up her head, and makes a rear, then she 
 dives down, and up again, and away at full speed ahead coming 
 tumbling head foremost across everything, that is precisely how 
 a whale goes, her head is up and her tail is in the after part, 
 throwing back that great big lash, till it is drowned in immensity; 
 Now then you see it is very hard to pitch on to hair, yet we must 
 take it from the whale, and this is how it is done, the whale is an 
 amphitheater, for it has every ingredient necessary, that makes 
 the whole of mankind, and I have to put him together piecemeal, 
 or not do it at all: So you must take out some fine whalebone, 
 and see what effect the air has on that piece, it is whalebone, 
 when you take it out of the whale, but after you have made it 
 fine by exposure, it turns into a hairy substance, and is no more 
 
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 whalebone, but actually it is grown to hair; there is the mystery 
 of hair, it will be shown, that your hair has to be made plainly, or 
 you can't believe, yet you have this hair, in its first stages, in 
 the whale, and I will plant it where it is sure to grow, therefore 
 you must go with me, or I can't show you; and when you get 
 used to going round looking for things with me, you will be 
 quite of my opinion, that the world grew naturally, and that the 
 man who works against nature, will climb a higher hill, than the 
 hump on the back of a whale, and his ankles will require to be 
 better adapted to climbing, than they are now, or he never will 
 get there; now do you see what I have done, your gristle, is the 
 back of the hump, that has been placed there by constant expos- 
 ure to the atmospheric elements, and then it is tempered by con- 
 stant dives below the deep, you have the first piece of gristle, in 
 the world, because it is grown, on the hump of a whale, and 
 is produced there by the constant motion of the sea, in its anx- 
 iety to drown everything, for as the sea is washing a wave comes 
 quickly back, and drives its pause against the hump, and is drawn 
 away again, by the current of atmosphere, and when it leaves the 
 hump, it cause a draft of fresh air to penetrate the hump, and in 
 so doing has propagated gristle, through its adhesion to nature, it 
 is propelled on by this course, till the whale has lived a number of 
 generations, and then it changes to whale oil, by inflation of the 
 atmospheric currents, in course of divergencies; thus it is plainly 
 seen, that a whale does not die, of its natural free will: For the Sun 
 does not set forever, neither does a whale die, for the fact is 
 clear, it can't die, for it is amphibious, the one does not injure it 
 any more than the other, and the whale is fastened to no other 
 cord, for it has the water to live in, and it has the air to sustain 
 it, therefore the whale can't die, it is tied to nothing, and is a 
 pure machine, neither more nor less; it is a machine, that does 
 all the work, of an invention, it breathes, and it swims, and it 
 dives down, because it feels the air too cold, on the top, yet it is 
 on the top, for it can't live altogether, in one way, now you have 
 a good chance of poking a hole through the Infidel's coat, by 
 skipping the rope, and showing him how Christ was born a saint, 
 but you can't fill me with no such nonsense, I am here to stay, 
 
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 and this whale, is my standard of excellence, it can do better 
 than man ever knew how to do, it can live in heaven, or it can 
 dive down to the regions out of sight, and find out, whether hell 
 has any more such fish as Jonah, this is the one he tried to swal- 
 low, and was almost gobbled up, he has been, you say, but you 
 have his tale; and that is where he propagated an ass, for it is in 
 this same whale, at the tender part, that I am going to bring up 
 all asses; you claim me as the man who was so soft as to tell you 
 everything, that I knew, then why do you hold me up to-day as the 
 Infidel, I was good to you, I told you all I knew, but Jonah never 
 did, he saw the whale, and he rode on his belly, many a dozen of 
 times, and that is where he grew, he rode on the belly of this gigan- 
 tic fish, and he knew it, and would not tell you; then he does 
 deserve a name in that great book of God, and I am out of it 
 because the fools, were made first, and I came after, that is why, 
 and the fools, are so silly, that they keep a number of fools to 
 come after and do their work over again, that is always the 
 way of the world, and it is this way to-day, you have got 
 about one good man, for every barrow full of useless ones, and 
 the barrow that held this Jonah was no exception, for he could 
 have told you all about the entire business, did he remain on the 
 barrow of that whale's belly, for three consecutive days and 
 nights, it is all a mistake, Jonah got there, but the spout it was 
 bare, and Jonah fell in, what a brave man was Jonah the fair, he 
 had on a sealskin coat, and the abject horrors was possessed of 
 his hair, because he could not stare, at the length of that whale, 
 you may count it from the time of Noah's Ark, another fable 
 story, it has fallen in, very well, for it must have been this same 
 ark that Noah built, and the two together have made a great big 
 story, and neither of them could make any more, because the 
 whale went to glory, and they were left in the lurch upon a fable 
 story; this is the way they did it then, it must have been, out of 
 the ribs of a whale, that Noah built his craft, and the first man 
 he saw, he clapped him on the back, and said you come with me, 
 and they two got tied up in so many knots, that they were 
 drowned in a craft so big, that stunk them out of existence, and 
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 you dry of essence to continue with, but it is a pity, to hold one 
 man up to the world as an " Infidel "; and the other liars to be 
 pitched upon as the genuine men, when you know they told such 
 awful stories, that no man ever lived, that could keep pace with 
 them: Now I want you to remember me, for I am of the Esau 
 extraction, and as I am a descendant of Esau, I mean to place 
 the peg where it belongs, and instead of Rebekah gaining any 
 advantage over me, she has lost the game, and the hairy son of 
 Isaac, is to be the one to cast the net, and lead humanity home to a 
 good and true God; Now my friends I am just as much entitled 
 to your consideration, as any God you ever knew, and for a mat- 
 ter of fact, I can show you more, than any God who ever lived; 
 and you know it's true; now you know that I am here among 
 you, and you shall have all the advice and assistance, that you 
 need, and more than that I will show you the gold in abun- 
 dance, and that is your God, and you know I am not lying; now 
 you admit, I can make this whale grow, into anything I choose, 
 well it's high time I went to pieces, and made myself, for you 
 would be horrified, did I make one of you; and that is all I can 
 do, is to make myself, and you can make yourselves after me, 
 and then do as Tom does, when you have fallen into the state of 
 coma, and gone away to the North Pole, and seen these atoms 
 develop, now it is not such a wonderful feat as you people imag- 
 ine to get on board a craft, and go to the North. Pole, you must 
 get prepared, it is purely a matter of preparation, and I will 
 show you how to do this thing, but you must not try the bullets 
 on my machine, or you will cripple the adventure totally, and I 
 won't go on forever, I only give one chance, and I won't do you 
 any harm, but it is a bargain, that you keep your hands 
 off, "eyes on hands off," and you shall be convinced with- 
 out a possibility of doubt, I know you think I might have 
 left this absurd threat out; of dropping the Sun on you; 
 but you know it has taken eighteen hundred years, lor 
 the spirit world to comfort their souls, into a sense of jus- 
 tice, and they are all afraid of you, I don't think, that th ' 
 are many on my side of life, that know that a bullet c 
 hurt them, you see them always in terror of a gu-ii, and 
 
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 are afraid of your gun, and knives, and how can it be otherwise, 
 you cut them to pieces on earth, and you turn electricity on 
 them, why this is precisely what you did, at the beginning, 
 you turned an electric current onto mortals, and they died, 
 without a visible mark, and it has been handed down, as the 
 work of God, and that is precisely who did it, but instead of it 
 being the God, that you all go hunting for, and never find, it was 
 this spirit, who has represented himself as God, and none other, 
 than the one, that has always been at the head, and is so now, 
 and I say that he is a mortal, just the same as we are, and that 
 he was born, of a fish, and came from that part of the body of the 
 whale, where electricity is found, and that he is an electrician by 
 birth, and is no more God than any of us; now you see where 
 you are finding yourselves, in a whale, well it is my business to 
 take you out of that whale, and place you on dry land, and show 
 you how to walk, and talk, and quite any number of other things; 
 well now this is the point right here, your backbone, I made, in 
 the punk, and you thought I might have compared you to some- 
 thing prettier than a spider, but now you say this Tom Paine came 
 out of a piece of pulverized stone, for he did not begin to talk 
 about himself, till he got by that spider, well you see my friends, 
 I must show you either on myself or you, and when it is you it is 
 me, and when it is God, it is us too; therefore we only do our duty, 
 when we show respect for each other, I don't claim to be any 
 better than you, and I say that God is no better than we are, he 
 comes of better material, that is all, and as he led you so long, you 
 ought to be grateful to him, and go with him, rather than against 
 him, for he is our good guide, and you ought not to cast aside a 
 good guide, till it is absolutely proven, that there is a better, and 
 you must meet him face to face, and know that he is true, or 
 don't destroy the good till you are quite sure you have a better, 
 and I say that science is good, and it was good laws, to kill a few 
 of those heathens by currents of electricity, till they became 
 horror-stricken into good behavior, what has been done in the 
 past, is not necessary in the future, and I say that you have 
 no right to kill for any offense whatever, it is entirely wrong, it 
 has a tendency of evil about it, that bears malice, and it is much 
 
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 harder, to bear punishment in jail, than to be strung up, and 
 the proper course is to bury the men in dark cells, for murder, 
 for they are speedily liberated from the actual murderer, and 
 he is powerless to go on committing crime, for the fact is plain 
 as anything, he becomes a saint, his eyes are both shut up for a 
 long time, and he is unable to get back, for the fact is here 
 demonstrated, the eyes lose the phosphorescence, and he is 
 totally blind, till he regains a couple of months of liberty, now 
 you see the power I am giving you, that is to cure all murderers, 
 by science, and not by threats of dire punishment, etc., you try 
 the experiment on lunatics, and murderers, and see how quick it 
 will knock out both of these evils, the one is a plague, brought 
 on, through the sea seeping into the eggs, by being brought out 
 again by the confusion of egotistical effusion; it is a complete 
 scientific research, that can only be investigated, by the spirit of 
 all powerful organism; for it is in laying flat down in the ocean, 
 and watching this process, that I discovered so much, and I can 
 explain my theory of getting about, when I write more, as it is 
 quite impossible for me to put my knowledge in less than 
 twenty volumes, and I can do what I can, at these works, without 
 injury to any one; but you must let me know in some substantial 
 way, that I am welcome, or I can't be made the tool, and then be 
 thrown on one side, in an instant of hatred, for I am not going to 
 abuse you any more, and I will deal strictly with science, my 
 theoretical resources, are such, that I can make my medium's 
 fortune in a few months, and I know how to give him all the 
 gold he wants, but I would rather keep him back, till I am cer- 
 tain he won't break away from me, then he can have all the 
 wealth, that is good for him, and his relatives; now you see I 
 don't want you to load him with riches, it is all well enough to treat 
 him right, but not to make him too strong, in monetary points, 
 I don't want it, till I go further, and then you can pay the laborer 
 for his hire; that is what my religion is; and I only want what he 
 is entitled to for his work, I don't want you to come near him too 
 much either, for it will interfere, with his duties, in casting pearls, 
 it is against the laws of nature, to make too much of a mortal, 
 for they are prone to flattery, and it is easy to flatter them, till 
 
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 they become insane, and it is the little demon, that is hidden 
 behind, that does it, he gets working on the imagination, till he 
 sticks his fingers through too far, and you must be very careful, 
 not to press this instrument to social evenings, and that sort of 
 thing, for the man who is a transmitter, must be a machine, or 
 rare construction, he must be always on his post, and he must 
 never lie, or make the inner soul afraid of him, neither must he 
 be able to turn about, with exultation, and drive his head above 
 the spinal column; for it is here, that you injure the work, of 
 passing between heaven and hell; there is the trouble, you make 
 a man think too much of himself, and he will burst all boundary 
 lines, and his law, is right, whether it is or not, so you see that 
 imagination has to be dealt with next, and it is this, that I must 
 deal with, as I find it, and then show you how you get it; this is it; 
 it is the very impersonation, of the evil, for it is the false prophet, 
 that goes with your band, he does it to enlarge the vertebrae, 
 it is his place, to expand the vein, that crosses between the ear, 
 and the eye, and should he be a great boaster, he is sure to carry 
 the vertebrae, high up, should he be a great talker, he rises up the 
 lower vertebrae, and escapes by the axis of his own ingenuity; 
 now you have a perfect understanding, as to imagination, it is 
 quite easy for you to see the cause, of imagination, it is a fool's 
 paradise, and there is the little fool, who did it, now then you 
 can get one spirit and leave him there, by constantly making it 
 known, that you are happy under his guidance, and while he is 
 delivering some splitting hair scene, I am not there, for it is his 
 business, to divert the attention of my work off the mind of the 
 man we all appreciate, or he would be dumb in a short while, for 
 the sounds I put in its head, remain there, till this imaginary 
 mind is acted upon, and then the mind takes a spell, for it is 
 soon away in dream-land, nursed by the thoughts, of some 
 fairy tale, or that which does not have any resources to fathom, 
 now you see I am giving you a great big story, but I have 
 brought you to this, it is the way to attract attention, 
 by flinging in a sense of knowing, and to know you must learn, 
 therefore we have to teach, after we have been taught, and in 
 consequence, when your mind is acted upon, it is in a candescent 
 
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 state, that means that it is in a jelly form, or in other words, it 
 is sensitive to touch, and when I touch it hard, it makes you 
 begin to tremble, then you alarm me, because I have been too 
 strong, and made you jump; now how is this, well it is this, the 
 spider has a great big round wet web, and he feels his body, is 
 in the warm side of that web, because he caught the mind first, 
 and it is, through his own feelings, he is struck by the intense 
 desire to shield himself, and he spins a web, that has a network 
 all around him, and he sleeps on the weather side of it; and after 
 sleeping on the weather side of the net, for a few times, it 
 attacks him, in the way, that a net generally does, it has roped 
 him in, for the fact is as easy, to be seen as can be, the mind has 
 got inside of that net, it was woven, by the silk-worm, and 
 then it became a spider-web, the spider, is brought over, 
 by his adhesion to the silk-worm, and he makes the web, for 
 his own protection, and his mind is made, for the silk- 
 worm is his godfather; and he knows it for the silk-worm 
 came out of that piece of punk, in the cottonfir tree; and it was 
 this cottonfir tree, that bursted out, by affliction of nature, 
 and has made a wart, or more generally called the punk on the 
 bark, well it is beneath this punk or wart, that the glow-worm 
 resides, and he is all the time moving in the glooming, till some 
 evening, it is very close, and sultry, and the moon is on the wane, 
 she drops, in this tree, as she is passing, a little bit of colored 
 gas, and in this gas is an essence, that smells, a sickly kind of 
 smell, like the bark of cotton trees, and this gas, is the scent off 
 the bark, once it has passed through the Sun, and come in contact, 
 with many other odors, now we have the right ingredient to prop- 
 agate silk-worms, for they live on essence, for a long time first, 
 and then they go into a decline, and their eggs are remaining 
 unhatched, and uncared for, till an east wind blows, then the 
 little worms are bound round and round in the odor, that has 
 fallen from the Moon, and it makes a kind of smell, that decays 
 all, that is around, and then the little shells decay, and in the 
 summer, with the heat, the worm begins to move, and he thrives 
 on all he can catch, and he makes this home grow anew, for he 
 is all the while engaged by his parents, who had sown the first 
 
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 seed, in their time, now you see that the silk-worm, is the builder 
 of our minds, and we have to begin at the bottom end of the 
 ladder, and rise it one foot at a time, here then is the elephant, 
 what time do you suppose it took to grow him, when the silk- 
 worm, is made one season, and dies off the next, why according 
 to my estimation, it must be about a century, before I get my 
 first beginning made, and you are told, that it only took six days, 
 to rip up the entire business; now don't you see that I make 
 a gas-jet, cost me a hundred years, and this is all I can do to 
 make it in that time, now you know that the God of David, was 
 a great God, and he made his name secure, but you forget, that 
 his chosen people, are worthless, without him, they don't pro- 
 ceed, at all, and they are hunted from one end of the earth to the 
 other, they are simply the one that slew our Saviour, and it is here, 
 that the curse falls, it is the essence of that crime, that stands at 
 their back to-day, and they are properly afflicted, they gave the 
 only true God we ever knew to be tortured to death, and he is 
 there, as a landmark of their barbarism: Now then allow us to 
 find this little worm again, and I can show you where the sting 
 of death appears at first, it is this then, the little glow-worm, is 
 the one who propagates the silk-worm, and he does it, through 
 his glow, in the evening, but when the scent of Cain falls; he 
 dies, for he is killed by essence of poison, and that is mag- 
 netism, coming out of the Moon, it falls, on the little glow-worm, 
 and kills it; then the little stink is propelled on by the life, that 
 he flung away, and he rears up his little head, in life, for he died 
 by the hand of his own skilled workman, and did not disappear 
 forever, he grows, again beneath that wart, in the guise of a 
 spider; and is propelled onward by the gift of gain, he was 
 dead once, but retained his life, by his own artery coming in can- 
 descent state, through its being bled into the tree; and that 
 tree promulgated a knot, or in other words, it is the death of the 
 one, to bring sustenance to the other, and you die, to live again, 
 because you can not help it; that is all there is to the whole 
 affair, and I don't want any glooming spirit near me, for it is 
 this sting, that I hate and despise, it is through the summer Sun- 
 set, she is all radiance, till she disappears behind the bank of 
 
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 clouds, then she casts back a kind of wearied reflection, it is the 
 time she is bathing her face, in the ocean, and it starts the whole 
 of heaven to glow, for while she is in the sea, the sky is filled 
 with steam, and her mouth is choked up, with dirts from thwart 
 the ocean, and she is setting back her hair, it comes upon her, 
 before she is aware of the fact, and in her dying anguish, she 
 yells, with fury, and is what you might call the sting of death, in 
 her entirety; now you see what produces that yawning gulf to 
 throw back her head in anguish, and appear in agonized distress; 
 for such is in reality what is taking place, the sky is all made to 
 suffer, and expand, when she goes down, for her bath, this is all 
 there is to it, it is natural, that she should plunge into the sea, 
 for a brief moment, and ascend to take breath, for she has to go 
 down to that ocean, to rise again, without injury, and as she 
 rises, she expands, and so does all the world besides, she is our 
 government, our protector, and our all; then why shouldn't she 
 have a dip, in the death of each day as it passes by: My friends, 
 it is here seen, that the rising and the setting of this Sun, is the 
 all that there is, to be mystified about, she rises, with a bleared 
 and agonized eye, and she sets, with a gloom upon all nature, 
 that says precisely, what it means, my work has been executed in 
 grand style, I must dip my face, in the briny tub, and clean it off, 
 before another journey meets my way; now fruit is the essence 
 of time, and when you look into this great future, is it not nat- 
 ural, that your face has become very dirty, and that your bath, 
 is all a blessing, instead of a detriment, I say that my own body 
 now is all I could have desired, with an additional burial, 
 that is peace in eternity, I would like to dive down below the 
 waves, and never look upon the stormy battlefield again, for it is 
 constantly in my mind, I can't help it; something, is at the back 
 of me, that tells me we must conquer, and that is the whole busi- 
 ness, it is conquest, which makes me drive the earth round my 
 little finger: And that is the way it was at the beginning, the 
 Moon caught foul of the sky, and it brought out the eye, it is 
 this, that causes, the combustion of matter; it is the way we live 
 that produces the atmospheric currents, the Sun draws, and she 
 bellows forth, for more food, and she is always crying out give 
 
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 me more food, and meat to eat, and this is it; the sky, is the 
 great live world, and the earth and sea are mere peel-apples com- 
 pared to the skies, and what in them is: for the sky is the uni- 
 verse, and the waters under the skies, are mere bead drops, in 
 comparison to what is going on up above; now you understand, 
 that I mean the earth, as well as the waters, beneath the earth; 
 now I have made this little expression of lightness; in regard to 
 the waters, beneath the earth, it is this then that I mean; the 
 waters below the earth, are the waters; that encircle the earth, 
 that is what my meaning is; the waters beneath the earth, are 
 the waters, that are wound round the earth, and not the earth, as 
 it is understood by man, the earth is shaped by the waters, and 
 they are a circle, in circumference, to this point, that they are 
 round, to this point only, the Sun moves round, in a disk, and she 
 gathers in all she needs, and then she casts all the balance 
 away from her; well at the beginning, it is all water; except the 
 wind, and these are the two factotums, that began the world, so 
 you seem to see that I have began my book wrong, for this is 
 the way of it, you people are all right, till you begin to try 
 experiments, then you are all wrong, for the fact is quite c!e?r. 
 you always go behind, and try to gather in the lost thread, and 
 you forget, that the thread you want is this thread, that is made 
 to-day, and every day, and as long as you keep on the old path, 
 you are sure to be left behind as the wind has been, it is 
 right here, the wind is the first factotum, for it blew itself 
 in two, and remained a machine ever after, and it is in 
 this machine, that you have got to study, and not the begin- 
 ning, well what made this machine to move, it is the central 
 organ, that makes it move, and not the external orifice, as you 
 people seem to look upon that external Sun, as a dish; and so it 
 is in one sense, it dishes all the dishes, there are upon the earth, 
 well how did it begin to dish them, it wasn't able to dish them at 
 first, for there were none to dish; well now that is a pretty fine 
 state of affairs isn't it; well the Sun fed on life, from the begin- 
 ning, she was a great big buffoon it is true, yet she lived on food 
 all the same, well how could she; well it is this, she drained all 
 the waters, of the meat there was in them, she sucked, till there was 
 
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 very little water left, and that began to foment, and when it 
 foments, the grass begins to grow, for it is green, and produces a 
 green herbage, on the top, that floats to the edges, and takes 
 root, to any kind of matter; that has accumulated on the 
 bank, well this bank comes of the interior of the water, the 
 water is full of soluvium of potassium, and these two are the 
 ingredients, that go toward making the bank, thus it is seen at 
 a glance, that the world, is round, at one point, and at the other 
 she is oblong, for she must sink down at one end first, and then 
 she droops at the other, and in thus drooping she is all on one 
 side/with her head turning toward the Sun; and she bears her 
 head erect, to the sky always, for she is in the sky, and outside of 
 it; and not in the middle, for she is down at one end, and not up 
 at the other; thus you see that it is no use my telling you, that 
 the world is round, when she couldn't be, for the plain fact, 
 that she is oblong, and that is why, because, she is in keeping, 
 with the rest of nature, and instead of being perfectly solid in 
 the center, she is a little hollow, for the fact is plain, she 
 could not be quite hollow, or she would shake to pieces; 
 now you see that a drum is hollow, but it has a handle, to turn it 
 round with, but you could not have any handle on the world, 
 for it would wear away, but this great world does not wear away, 
 for the fact is clear, it can't; why, because it is fed, on itself, and 
 second it does not revolve on its own axis; it goes round by 
 combustion of atmosphere, which is gas, encentered, in its own 
 abdomen; this is the secret, and as your stomach, is moving 
 round, it moves, precisely the same way, and in propagation, it 
 is according to its own maker, for the wind is just on the same 
 principle, and it has gas, in its composition, and turns over and 
 over, till it becomes one steady whirl, and then it gets furious, 
 and sends spouts, in all directions: The most noticeable, are in 
 the colony, of the Argentine Republic, they keep on formulating 
 their governments, till they will strike up a Sun of their own, 
 and be off to heaven in a four-soft-tile, or what you might call an 
 Indian quarter-deck, it is a hat, that makes the most of people 
 stare, that come from the Antipodes, and my friends have daubed 
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 pinch in one of these hats; well you see the Turban of Asia, is 
 quite notorious for his hat, and it is quite a mark in its way, well 
 you could not expect God to do his work right, when he had 
 those thick heads to penetrate, and in getting his sounding 
 trumpet to operate, on such thick skulls, he must be a better man 
 than me, for I never could reach those Asiatics at all, they stunk 
 me out of countenance, and drove me away, with their whirl- 
 winds, I could not steady, any of them to a fit state of commu- 
 nication, they drove me out of Quebec, with lightning and storm 
 water, and I reached the Atlantic by a forlorn hope, it gave me 
 more concern, than anything else, for it has taught me a lesson, 
 the " little trumpet," won't work, it has to be blown out of the 
 fellow's head, that he knows anything, then you have got a begin- 
 ning, otherwise it is all no use, he must be a know-nothing, to 
 get this plan of ours to work, and they don't care about admit- 
 ting in New Zealand, that the Seer knows nothing, since he did 
 all the cleverest thieves, they had there, before he kicked them 
 in the wind-bag, and brought away his own money; I just want 
 to show you, that in New Zealand, that the law courts are fixed 
 by judges, who are practically thieves, who rig up their own 
 lawyers, for judges, and make them obey the mandates of these 
 lawyers forever after, that is the colony, is libeled in this book, 
 to make them fight, they have stolen the honor of your humble 
 servant; and they will be branded as thieves as long as the 
 world hangs her head above us; they stole my rights, for gain, 
 that they were not entitled to; and they are the hypocrites, who 
 call their court an honorable tribunal, they are clan bandits, and 
 are pure brigands, now they have to fight, or stand the shame I 
 have placed upon them: I mean to do them up too; or you 
 would not find such an outrageous threat in a work that has no 
 equal: I want to make it quite clear, the accounts of the Arabic 
 tongue being spoilt in the translation of the work of God, is not 
 quite true, the Arabs are a hard-headed people, and it is quite 
 impossible to make a faithful impression on them, they are the 
 backbone of a whale, in its entirety, they are afraid of being 
 caught at lying, for they "have been driven ashore by a foul wind, 
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 all that is evil, they are men as treacherous, as the adder, who 
 flings his side jump, into its opponents, before the other dreams 
 of an attack, and this is what is called the stythe of a melo- 
 drama, it is the essence, that is unseen, that is going to hurt 
 most, and I want to illustrate this, in a tangible form, it is this, 
 then that I am swinging about for; the adder, is a serpent, that 
 grows outside of anything else, it is a worm at first, and it grows 
 quite repeatedly, on the after candaescence, of the grouper, or 
 death-sting, it is the worm, that I have had reference to before, 
 it is this, the grouper or death-sting, is the serpent, in its first 
 stages; and it comes to maturity, for the specific purpose, of a 
 charm, it is the handsomest creature on earth, and can only be 
 found on the plains of Arabia, it is the creature, that is called in 
 scripture as the atteel; or Asp, and this is what I must refer you 
 to, when I say that the Argentine Republic, must get a Sun of 
 their own, it is this then, that I refer to: Your ancestors, were 
 very fond of making game of the learned people who said noble 
 things, and spoke, as though they meant to annihilate all people, 
 well it was generally understood, that you only had to get an 
 Asp, and play with it, till it bit you, then you could be wise; for 
 its beauty exceeds all of the reptiles, that I have ever seen; well 
 it amounts to this, the Sun does shine stronger on the Argen- 
 tines, than it does upon the North Americans, and they have 
 many suns, in publication, on the North American continent; 
 but yet, they don't come up to the Sun of the Argentine Repub- 
 lic, in this one instance, and that is this, that they always keep 
 old Tom Paine's Declaration of Independence; and that is what 
 I would like to see fly across the whole universe, I wrote that 
 for the United States, and I will stand by it, and when it falls I'll 
 do the rest; that is where I have found the union between my own 
 soul, and this man's, the Seer, he is as subtle as an Asp, and he 
 can drive me through anything, and you can't find his equal, in 
 the United States, or any other known part of the world, and I 
 won't take back anything I have said through him, without a 
 desperate encounter, for I know w T here to pitch my voice, so as 
 he can hear me speak, and when I have spoken it is as good as 
 begun, for he is not afraid of me, and though I stood out, and 
 
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 put my arms round him, he would not flinch, or do anything, 
 except make me welcome, and when you get a human being, in 
 the body on earth, who can stand the cold trembles of a spirit, 
 in the dark, and alone, on the face of the earth, not a creature, 
 who cares one straw about him near, you know that you have an 
 instrument, that is capable, of uniting heaven and hell; and your 
 fears, will be annulled by this fearless man, who does not seem 
 to realize, that a spirit, is not a nice thing to deal with in 
 the dark, his first experience, was a severe test, and it was this, 
 he knew nothing of spiritualism, at all eighteen months ago, and 
 he was ashamed to own, that he did believe that a spirit could 
 materialize, and after some tests, he consented to pay for the 
 seance, and in consequence, it is about this seance, that I mean 
 to relate, it was at the medium's house in the East of New York, 
 that there was a medium, that gave private seances, well it was 
 here that we got hold of him, and after a number of forms had 
 materialized, I thought, that he stood it tolerably well, for a 
 green one, it does make mortals tremble quite a " much," when 
 they are surrounded with these spirit forms, and he did not shake 
 quite like the rest of beginners; so I thought well he is quite a 
 specimen, so I kept my eye on him from that time; In the winter, 
 we agreed to try materialization on the way home,and we settled this 
 way he was to stop outside of the cabinet, and I was to help with the 
 medium inside, and give instructions, well the first form, that came, 
 was a man, that is known as the Sissler, he does nothing but hisses 
 at you, and has no other way of making himself known, so this being 
 the outset, of all our trouble, I thought it would be a case with the 
 whole thing, when the Sissler appeared, but not so my friends, the 
 instrument you have to-day before you, just did not turn tail 
 and run, as was thought he would, but just returned the compli- 
 ment, and made the Sissler turn back, and when he went out the 
 second time it was who could hiss the hardest, and in conse- 
 quence, the Sissler has never been near our band since; well 
 this- is to show you, that I have got a kindred spirit, for myself, 
 and I can make him do anything, I want him to do, but not 
 through harshness, it has to be by reason alone, therefore it is 
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 reach heaven, because he is reasonable, and will not go only 
 when he knows, that it is going to be a success; therefore, the 
 way to make a bridge, is by doing it thoroughly at the begin- 
 ning, and making a step forward, and then investigate, before 
 you proceed, well it is done, through the light of knowing, 
 before you proceed; well this instrument, won't move, till I have 
 shown him the way, and he goes with me, and sees for himself, 
 and he then takes the initiative steps, to get into action, well 
 you see that a spirit, that does not move away from the body, is 
 no use, it must go out, and investigate, or you can't make it see, 
 that there is a piece of bark off a tree, and where that bark, came 
 off, it had been torn loose, by the wind, and fell, from sheer 
 decay, well you look beneath that bark, and you find a worm, 
 and that worm, has a pair of legs, and it is moving toward the 
 end of the bark, well here is our first creeping thing, beneath 
 this bark, it has found its way, by the mode of its own body; 
 and why, because the worm came off the tree, and it fell, with 
 the bark, and it was not taken back, well the tree had been so 
 nutritious, that the worm, was a kind of lost, when it had no bark, 
 to suck, well it had this piece of bark, or log; then it lived only, 
 while it was eating of this dead bark, not so fast my friend, 
 it took root, with the body, for in rooting with the bark, it stole 
 the essence of the bark, and was afterward, a creeper, and a 
 worm no longer, and this is the Sissler, or the glow-worm, it 
 gives you a sound, it is not perceptible, to the human, but for all 
 that, it has a sound, and I call it the Sissler; and it sissies or 
 sings; you may not look at this in the proper light, for you are 
 dreadfully determined to have your own way, and I want you 
 to see it as I do, for it has two feet, and these two feet, are the 
 hen's feet, it grows the same, as the prongs of a tree, and has 
 the essence embodied in the trunk, as well, well you see, that 
 this worm, is a specimen, of a generative order, it is porous, 
 for it grew in the wood, and had a kind of left wing, for it was 
 of the silk-worm specie, and came from that ilk; therefore you 
 have found the missing link, to the web, that I made as a speci- 
 men your brain, and the wing, is the web, after it is finished 
 with; now you have caught the theory, on which I work, and 
 
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 can plainly see, that I have wound my web around you; for the 
 fact is as clear as day, the silk-worm, is the first to make a 
 web; but the spider, is the one, who manipulates it, and 
 he takes it for his own, and makes a coat out of it, he takes 
 the cob, and does as he pleases, with it, for it is his; his grand- 
 mothers, were the inheritors, and the grandsire, did bequeath it 
 to the grandson, by right of lineage of descendant, and it was 
 the privilege, of the grandson, to use it, for the grandsire, was 
 there, giving orders, by the means of his invisible impression, 
 and he can use the air, for finding his mind, and he does use his 
 grandson, to do, what he sees, is right; now you have the whole 
 theory, and it is all easy enough to understand, only you must 
 begin by saying, as I did, so will I do hereafter, for that is 
 according to the beginning, it begins, and you make this 
 according, to the first you have seen, and so you are propelled 
 along, accordingly; now don't you see; that I have made your 
 mind, for in that making, I missed only one thing, and that is 
 this, I forgot to give you the machinery, that guides the mind, 
 and it is this, the Sun is a warm combustible, and she generates 
 gas, and she makes her atmosphere, without any superfluity, it is 
 exact, it is not one moment, one thing, and the next something 
 else; well she has dissolved the solution, to all mysteries; she 
 has made gas to generate, and she is the hydrogen, in contact 
 and person; her lungs, are the great bellows, that blow and fan 
 the flames, and she is eternally great, because she is the power- 
 ful condenser, that gives life immortal, it is her, which creates 
 the sound, that has caused so much trouble, and difficulty, it is 
 her own congealed atmosphere, that produces this sounding 
 trumpet, that you find in almost everything; now don't you see, 
 that a mind is the generated sound, and not the adhesion of 
 matter at all: You are all wrong to pieces, when you take a 
 piece of material brain, and look at it, and say here is the 
 machinery, that caused his death, I tell you, it is the sound, that 
 kills, for the sound, has to be in order, or it won't propagate the 
 accents right, and the sound is destroyed by the uncomplete- 
 ness, of its own calling, and let those who surround their friends, 
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 from them, should any material ailment have been in their own 
 bodies, before they passed out; or it will wind itself round this 
 sound, and make a mark on the living body, that can not be 
 removed at all, for it is the sting of poison, that tastes the vital- 
 ity string of life, it is the coarse sting of satan, it is the vibra- 
 tion of hell, for in hell there are but two sex, the neuter, and 
 the gender, and the neuter, is commonplace, and the gender is 
 superlative; thus it is shown at a glance, that the Sun is the super- 
 lative, and the Moon is the neuter, for it is only a secondary 
 instrument of throwing waste away, and is not a particular 
 motive-power at all; now we have the right definition, and it is 
 this, the Sun is the passion, that governs the entire universe, 
 she makes the whole rebound, with the vibration of her own 
 sound, and when these live lungs, are filled with essence, that is 
 her life, and they must call as she does throw her essence, 
 because she is fighting for her life, as you fight for yours, and 
 she bellows out more potatoes, more corn, more sweat; sweat 
 from off every man's brow, the one is for my beauty, and the 
 other is for my life, and the third is to make my belly go; that 
 is the true solution of immortality; it is the life, that kills, so 
 you be warned by the "Infidel"; and don't take too much life, 
 for the Sun has to have more corn every day, and when you 
 drink beer, she is at you stronger, than she will get at he who 
 takes no froth, and is full of soul-light; for the one contains oil and 
 gas, whilst the other, is full of light, and must be rejected by the 
 Sun, as she only wants, and won't accept of that which she makes 
 in abundance; for that is her waste-pipe, the light, is what she 
 wastes, it is the fire, that is within her soul, that lets her angry froth 
 out, and the light we see by, is her froth, it blazes, till it amounts 
 to an essence, that brings down the good God of light, and it 
 shines in upon us, and sets us on fire, with an ulterior motive, 
 it intends to gather in all, but in its angry moments, it escapes, 
 and the froth, is wasted, as the beer you have gulped down your 
 gullet, and thought you had it, but not so my man, you only 
 gave it back, to your own maker, and he has it for the honest 
 intention of making many more such as you, I don't care about 
 you drinking beer, I like it myself, but it is no use, to me now, 
 
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 for you have got it, and I did not have it when it was good, but 
 now they make the beer in such dirty-looking tubs, I think I 
 could not take a glass, for fear of getting my eyes into some- 
 body's pie, it would make me so very thirsty, that I might 
 fling a sigh, and hit you in the other eye, and come out of 
 the poker, that is it my friends I am now growing so very slick, 
 that I don't think beer would keep me down, I believe it 
 would make me spring a mine, on the next electioneering 
 campaign, and I should want to blow the right man 
 into that chair, and it would have to be a good one, or he 
 should not fill the chair, I could dissect him, in such 
 a way, that would make both Judge, and Puck, comb their hair, 
 and try to find something in its composition; I see their work, 
 and think they are very funny, only they have got the frog's 
 feet, the wrong way up, and pin their holes too much like an 
 ant, they fix them in, like a great big toad, and methought I 
 saw an adder, but it had no feet of any sort, when it propelled 
 together, and made a mark upon the sand, it was quite grimy 
 sand, in comparison to an adder; for you don't see my sting, I 
 have buried it beneath the other; for I can't fling a dart, that 
 can stick my man, beneath his shoulder blade, and get at his 
 waist above his trousers; and that is the way, to cover it up so 
 clever, that even Abraham could not find it, till he reached the 
 fire, and then he saw a kid come up, and place his fingers on 
 the nip, it was so very fine, that no one was there, and it had 
 no sticks, to burn it up with, for on the top, it was so slick 
 and smooth, that not even Isaac could see the grip satchel, that 
 carried all those hidden treasures; and when the Lord got 
 Abraham and Isaac there, he had a kid, come in before Abra- 
 ham's eyes, and it was a kid, of no such stuff as any but the 
 ancient heathens could have made a pie off; but it stuck, and 
 that is all the glue he had, a Yankee notion, that is all, it took 
 the people two thousand years or thereabouts, to fathom a 
 Yankee notion, that is all: I don't want to behave badly toward 
 father Abraham, he lost his scarf-pin, and I found it climbing 
 up that mountain, and you can place one to Thomas Paine, when 
 you find his; I was rather afraid of those Americans, when I 
 
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 came from England, and they had such a reputation, " don't 
 you know;" but I've been thinking, that they are almost too 
 smart for grease lightning, yet I don't you know; somehow or 
 the other I like them, they don't do anything crooked, it is 
 straight out shrewdness, they are the shrewdest set of men on 
 earth that is all, while the English, are stubborn, and crafty, 
 they are slow and roguish, they make a plan, by links, and cut 
 off the tar-barrel before it is ready to fire, they are deliberate, 
 in all their dealings, they place their whole trust on Englishmen, 
 and never know anything, till an American teaches them, then 
 they* are afraid of it, till it has been tried for half a century; 
 It is all the go, with them, as soon as a German has got it 
 fixed up, and made some improvement, that propels it around, 
 at a slower rate of speed, and the Dutchman has proved it to 
 be safe, then the Englishmen can help themselves to it, because 
 they know, that the old Dutchman won't kick, when it is only 
 an Englishman that took his patent; because he says mine got 
 vat you tink, da Anlish have tooken my vine piatent, an I vos 
 got from de Yankee dooddles, da tinks I vas make im I solds 
 im as von ferry vine Germans; dem blessed old varmers didn't 
 tink I vould do it; now my friends you see that I can keep at 
 home, what that old Dutchman couldn't sell, till he had made 
 it go slower, the German is ahead of the Englishman, but he 
 has to go behind all Americans, for this reason, an American is 
 straight out an honest man, for he only copies our Patriarch, 
 the honest Abraham; the first man, who ever understood, the 
 difference between cheating and thieving; it was Abraham, who 
 did know his God, and you know that an American does too; he 
 knows that Abraham, was the son of Ishmael, and that he was 
 of the tribe who did nothing else but pilfer the minds of those 
 who could tell them of the other world; and the Americans are 
 just too smart for any Israelite that ever broke the bread of 
 life, and I say to-day, that there never has been any difference 
 in my sentiments toward this people, they are thoroughly 
 honest, as the God, who led Abraham and Jacob, and they are 
 quite as capable as any people, on the face of the globe, and 
 why, because they investigate, science, till it has become their 
 
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 nature, to get at the back of everybody, and they will do it 
 too; that is, they will try till they do succeed; now you have a 
 little opinion of My United States from "The Infidel"; and he 
 can make you go faster, than you ever dreamed it possible, his 
 soul; is made of nitro-glycerine, it is simply a soul that can 
 make matches fire themselves; that is all about it, and you 
 want the gold, I tell you honestly that you can have it in 
 abundance, only don't cheat me out of my rights; I can show 
 you how to get it, in sacks full, abundance is no word for it, 
 the right way to apply the term, is to give it to you in a shower 
 of manna, like the Israelites, had it, in the deserts of Arabia, 
 not simply to crown my success, in old mushrooms, I might turn 
 on the crank, and pour it down, just where you would like a bit, 
 at each man's back stairway, I don't think you would kill my 
 man, did I do this thing for you; or how would it work, should 
 I take you by the hand, and show you a country, where it is 
 wasting in tons, like the famous story of that great big fellow, 
 who had a balloon, that lived for five weeks on thin air, you all 
 know the story, I mean it is called the victory of the great balloon 
 ascension, or the tour round the Southern hemisphere; now lean 
 show you that this fable is the work of fiction, only that there is 
 a sequel to it, and that there is this place, that has this mountain 
 of gold, and it is the place I will give to the United States; 
 providing they won't prohibit my works being published; that is 
 all I have to offer, in return for my advice, and my thoughts, I 
 won't stop you looking for the gold, but you can have it sure, 
 do you give me the right to publish all my books; now it is 
 simply this, that you can not stop me, but I would like to feel 
 that I was not trespassing, and that I did not do as some might 
 say, he had his fling on earth, and he has no right to come back 
 here, and disturb the minds of men, with his theoretical views; I 
 want no favors, that I don't give an equal proportion in return, I 
 was once a living genius, and now I am at the head of my class; 
 and you may stop me, from talking to you, but you can not help 
 me more than to take no notice, and let my works go in for sale, 
 as common literature, give my medium the copyright, as is his 
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 for; now is it a fair recompense, or am I to write through him, 
 and exclude my own name, you can not stop him writing in any 
 part of the hemisphere we live in, then it is no use to say that it 
 is him, when you know it is not fiction, but a solemn reality; 
 therefore you can have my books, and the patent, I shall bring 
 you, which will demonstrate the work perpetual motion, this is 
 what I claim for my medium, and I shall call it Tom Paine, 
 whatever you do to the contrary notwithstanding; all rights 
 and privileges accepted; now you know it is only a question 
 of whether I am allowed to go on, or whether it is this old 
 fable, ^of too much brains, has danger in its gains; you can do as 
 you have a mind to about testing the medium's qualities as an 
 orator, he has not been taught it, and I don't want him to learn 
 either; for he can't write and speak both, nobody can, but there 
 is one of his guides, who is a desperate fellow to talk, and I 
 should not wonder before long, that you will get a lecture, and 
 should it come, in the form of clairvoyance, it will send the 
 world crazy, for it is a speaker, of no mean order, that is apply- 
 ing for the position of taking him on to the platform, you will 
 surely hear more in one brief hour, than you ever heard from 
 mortal man's lips before, for I declare honestly that you can't 
 stick me, at this work of practice makes perfect; but I must give 
 up to the speaker I have mentioned, who has all the dash and 
 fire, that is needed, to make an adder jump crooked; once he 
 begins to talk, and he has been working on this same instrument, 
 for a considerable time; now it is quite possible, to make this 
 man talk well; but he wants a little more time, than we have 
 given him, yet; for it is hard to do such work, in a minute, and 
 you can't do all at once, this book is about a six months job, and 
 it won't take so long over the next one, and the speed is getting 
 on as a good racer, would come into training, with slow work at 
 first, now it is a good swinging canter; when the two hands go 
 at the machine, it will be a gallop; there is the idea, it means 
 to make a worm, with four legs next, and you can give us this 
 one more opportunity, of showing our ingenuity; the first worm, 
 that I made, had no legs, at all; he had a ring around his 
 neck, and that was pretty good, since he caught it through the 
 
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 fever, off the ground, that had ague in it; for it was produced, 
 by the cold damp raw air, in connection with the effluvia off the 
 sediment, that was adhering to the essence, which had been 
 thrown from the Moon, in her daily tour round the world; now I 
 have got this way of telling my stories; till I don't know whether 
 you understand me right, and to put my style more demonstra- 
 tively, I will make you so sure, that there can't be any more 
 mistakes; this is. the point, the men, who were engaged in pro- 
 pounding the scriptures; did not do it, in any way, other than 
 through clairaudience, they heard the sound, by this form of 
 bugle, or trumpet, and this trumpet is a little machine, that 
 angels wear round their necks, to let each other know, when they 
 are in the vicinity of their own contact, that is this, the angels 
 have a method of seeking for the good shepherd, and they call 
 each other by name through this little instrument, and they work 
 it in accordance, to a given sense; that is it is, the sense of 
 knowing how to manipulate this little bugle, that has the method 
 of divining down, to a pitch of notes, that have no equal in this 
 impressional construction of made voices; and they make the 
 note appear, like a voice, and it sounds so loud, that it is often 
 taken for a human being, in the body; that is it is the sound, 
 that is manipulated, so as to strike the ear, in a funnel shape, for 
 it has been delivered off the top of the head of a board, or door, 
 that is the way to produce this sound, and you can find any 
 amount of people, in this country, who have heard this sound, 
 sometimes it comes as a message, but more frequently as mis- 
 chief, for the spirit of those, who have climbed the hill seldom 
 do much, except play, at one piece of mischief or the other, 
 and that accounts practically for your troubles, for they are 
 always at some mischief, or the other; now you know I am telling 
 you truly of this sound, for you have heard it scores of times; 
 and it is the little trumpet, that is used on a doorway principally; 
 you have heard it distinctly say your own name, and you know 
 that when an instrument can be made to speak one name, it can 
 be taught, to say any amount of names; well this instrument, is 
 the spirit power of manipulating sound, it is this, it takes a good 
 while to make a man believe, that he is not alone after one of 
 
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 these signals, and he does not know it, till he has heard it many 
 times; and knows how to learn to listen for it; well the idea of 
 your friends coming back, and standing on the threshold, and 
 telling yoa lots of things, why the greatest heathen you have 
 got, would scout the idea as preposterous; he would at once say, 
 well why does he come and stand in the doorway, when he 
 knows I would be only too happy to make him welcome; well my 
 heathen brother, you can't make four legs go where only two 
 was intended, so you can't welcome a spirit, unless you learn to 
 do this thing right; it is all I can do to make a sound, with this 
 machine myself, and it is as easy, for my friend the Seer to hear 
 his father call his mother, as it would be for him to sit down to 
 dinner with the greatest heathen you have got, and make him a 
 complete mountebank, in as many words; meaning, that the 
 heathen might make a mountebank, but he never could hear 
 these sounds, for he would not hold still, to do the requisite 
 amount of practice; therefore he never will be capable as an 
 instrument, for his ears, are too thin, they are thin, for they have 
 got no soul, that is worth anything as a feeling constructive 
 body, it is a substitute, that is all; it won't make any difference, 
 it can get on first-rate, at poking in the flint, into a pickax, but 
 it won't do for this special work, of telling you how to make four 
 legs, when you only had but two before; and it is by piecing the 
 clouds together, that you get rain, and by this mode of seaming; I 
 am going to astonish the world, and make them happy in spite of 
 themselves; for knowledge is with you, from the word go, and it 
 helps you across every stile, only stop it from making you jump 
 a ditch, that has no turning; that is don't allow your inclinations, 
 to jump you off that imperial bend, for in that you have my 
 advice, just go round the bend, it is all right, it is sure to have 
 another road, at the turn, and you get round that bend as 
 peacefully as possible, it must be a nice road, for it does not 
 admit of any turning back, and the heathen, can't jump back 
 into his friend's arms, and say halloo old fellow, I would make you 
 the best man on earth, to-day, did you only listen to what I can 
 show you; now then my friend is dumfounded, for he does not 
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 why; because the shadow of your friend, is a duplicate of your- 
 self, and you can't see this, and why; well it is so, as the heathen 
 would tell you; but why, is the query, well the shadow, of the 
 dead, is the shadow of the living, and the impression of the dead, 
 leads the living, and the dead, are those tormentors, who are 
 constantly at your side making you feel miserable when you 
 ought to be happy, and you are sad, when you should be merry, 
 and you are in agony, when you should be glad, and it is the 
 dead, who make all of those conditions, and why, for they are 
 wretched, in their own misery, and one miserable spirit brings 
 an army of miserable wretches with him, and they produce this 
 horrible feeling around you, and he is all the while plaguing you 
 to do something, when he knows it is for his own edification, 
 and not for your benefit, well why does he do this thing, for he 
 is like the worm, that he sprang from, he was a miserable wretch 
 himself in the body, and he is always a miserable wretch, from 
 that time, till the crack of doom, when that is, I don't know, and 
 you can reach it only by cracking the heavens in two, and I 
 don't believe any one can do this, unless I stood by and gave 
 the order, for it is about as ingeniously constructed, as I would 
 like it to be; and you know I am just too particular to hold 
 down a heathen, when I might lift him up: You think I might 
 go on forever, and never tell you why that shadow can't be 
 caught; well it is quite an artist, who can catch a shadow, and I 
 think you will admit, that I am he; when you see me tie you up, 
 in your own shadow; well it is quite a struggle I assure you, and 
 the way to get at it, is by standing off, and leaping on to it, that 
 is about the only way, you can ever catch a shadow; it has a 
 sequel though, and that is this, you jump, and I will keep it down 
 for you; that is about the style of the way, that the heathen 
 plays God, when he falls over the boundary line, his idea is to 
 keep you constantly in terror, for fear, you should grow too 
 wise, that is his style of acting good toward his friends on 
 earth, and I don't do this, and you see how much knowledge my 
 man is giving you, when he might rip and tear, and sew you up 
 in that shadow, just as he likes, for he is giving me my head, 
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 to drive a horse at a stone wall, kill or cure is his motto, and it's 
 this fire, that gives wisdom, arid wisdom is sense, till you know 
 how to guide your horse across a stone fence, but all the same 
 for that, you must rush the fence, or it won't reach the shadow 
 on the other side, and you see how he drives me about, till I am 
 forced back onto the shadow; well it is quite time I began to see 
 my way clearer; and get myself out of this tangle over the 
 shadow, the Moon is responsible to us, for our shadow, in this 
 way, she is what you might call the end of the Sun, and it is 
 this, that causes it, the shadow is the made counterpart, or dupli- 
 cate of another; the one is begotten not made, and it is a 
 reflector, and casts round continually for the same as it has 
 made, and is in accordance, with its own maker, and does 
 beget itself according to a proper theory, and that is, the 
 theory, of a reflector, it strikes you, as a seaming reflector, 
 and it shows you, that it is the one great theory after all; 
 and that it is the one who propagated first come back to 
 life, and he is there standing as a monument of idleness; 
 and he does not move except you do, and he only moves, 
 when you do; this is it then his shadow, is your counterpart, 
 and you are in the case of another, because his reflector 
 is in your own eye, and your own likeness, is the one he 
 is trying to impersonate, therefore he is a duplicate of you, 
 and you are a duplicate of his shadow, for he is the one, 
 who was first made, and you come after; therefore it is his 
 mould, that you are laying in, and not your own mould at 
 all; this is horrible, because instead of you being free, you are 
 quite unable to get free, the shadow is always too quick for you, 
 and as long as you can't catch that shadow, you are never able 
 to quite mix up with a good guidance; for when you are guided 
 right, you know that it must be luck, that is what you call it; 
 well now when you are guided badly, you call that bad luck, well 
 it is neither one nor yet is it the other, at the time you have 
 good luck, there is a General sitting at the back of your eye, and 
 when you have bad luck, there is a cursed opponent, that is 
 sitting in the front of your eye; so that it is the one old tune, 
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 is a clever loser, he makes light of his losses, and makes up at j 
 the beginning, so I must take you back with me to this fellow, 
 that only had one wing, it was a worm, and he had got off the tree, 
 without flying, well he did it, all right, and he came down the 
 tree creeping, and when he got down, he became so hungry, that 
 he eat the sweet young shoots off at the bottom of the tree, and 
 then he crept up the tree again, well my friends, I have made 
 you a worm, with two feet, and they had claws, like the hen, 
 because they drained the essence of that piece of bark, that was 
 on the ground by accident; well now his feet, were made from 
 essence, that came out of the bark, and it come to this point, the 
 feet, had no nails on, so I have to show you how they came to be 
 made, and the first thing I must do, is to take you on the sea- 
 shore, and that is naturally the boundary line, and. as the begin- 
 ning is there, it is the place to commence: Therefore we are 
 quite right well able to see, that on that beach, there are any 
 number of shells; from the eggs, that were cast ashore, from 
 the spider eggs, that had gone down, with those spiders, that 
 inhabit the sea; now do you see, that this little fellow, with no 
 toe nails, is badly off, so he has to get his as nature provides; 
 and take a turn in the salt-water to do it, his eyes are open, and 
 he can see, by this time, for he has been precipitated back to the 
 land, and he is coarse, in his construction, and he takes life easy, 
 and rolls round, he does not mix with society, for he does not 
 seem to care, for society, his eyes don't open, and he keeps on 
 waking and sleeping, and he dozes off, at intervals, till at last he 
 feels something touch him, and it is the grouper, or cotton- 
 worm, who has also come down to the beach for feet; this is 
 what this pair do, they set to, and fight, and in their agony of 
 death, the one dies; and the other is afflicted, by the ague pains, 
 through this encounter, and in consequence, he is afflicted, by 
 another disease, till he can't see his mother, for the swelling 
 between his knees, it is the propensities, of evil, that has caught 
 hold of him, in course of his struggles with nature, he is at last, 
 in a breathing atmospheric candescence, through his condition of 
 his evil, and he is obliged to breathe, for he gets this cold, or 
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 move, his wind is stopped, and he is obliged to feel for life, for 
 his appetite, is almost vanished, his tongue is growing, and he 
 feels frightfully queer, his body is big, and he has got into a 
 vile state, and then this fever, has to be handled, and he is what 
 you call a broken emaciated body, yet he is swollen, and he can't 
 get rid of his swelling, but the fever does it; and once this 
 fever sets in, he is blown out to such an extent, that you know 
 he is a goner, as the priests say, when you don't believe in the 
 holy divine God of Ephraim, or some such God, well this little 
 grouper, is a great big grouper now, and he is swelling higher 
 and higher, till at last, his body begins to turn green and black, 
 and then it is all over with him he is a goner, and his little belly, 
 has to burst open, and let the juice escape, and then he dies 
 poor little fellow and has gone to rest, and his sick-headache is 
 no more heard of, well my fine scientists, you have got glasses, and 
 you can go and investigate, it is thus, that you can prove what I 
 am saying, and not out of your books, they are no use to me, 
 and I know you can't do anything with them; well the grouper 
 died, and after he died, a whole school of flies, with two wings, 
 and two feet, and a body, and a head, and feet undeveloped, and 
 nose, and mouth, are seen to spring out of that body, that had 
 suffered so much agony, from that fever ; do you see my friends, that 
 I have given you this cue, and you can prove me quite right, should 
 you wish to deal liberally with the Old fellow, who has paid toll 
 on the other side, and brought back his passport; now I am going 
 on more rapidly, for you have got such a start, as no man ever 
 dreamed of getting, and I will give you five minutes, to come to 
 me, and say whether you are able to get ahead with these flies; 
 why it is easy, the flies lay eggs, and the spiders suck them, and 
 by doing this, it gets into their blood, and poisons the spiders, 
 for it is rank poison, that the grouper died of, and his poison 
 begets the flies, and they are poisoned, and they dry their eggs, 
 where the flies don't keep watch, and the spider goes to the flies' 
 eggs, and suck them, well he dies, and his death, is the fruits of 
 another pair of feet, that counts four; and he is so bad, from this 
 poison that he did not hold anything in his stomach, and it dyed 
 the stain of a great big hole, that has made the next one, that 
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 came to life from his body, a bird, of miniature construction, but 
 it is a bird, and you call it a singer, it chirps, and it is to be found 
 round spider nests; and they trap the singer, and he is killed, and 
 then comes the grasshopper from his death, and after the grass- 
 hopper comes the linnet, and after this, it is a bird, of a different 
 feather, the eggs, commence to mix, and they get on friendly 
 terms with each other, and it is then according to selection, as 
 the bipeds say, I want a wife with a red head, and I want a hus- 
 band, that has no beard, and I must look at beauty each, as the 
 little designs, so at last, it is a chip and a chat, and won't you 
 come to my house to have a cup of tea, till at last you have the 
 nightingale; and that is far enough in bird theory, I must be more 
 reserved in my admission, or some cockatoo, will be coming 
 along, and nipping my fin off, and I won't be able to swim any 
 more, this is it then; the idea of you being able to cut my fin off: 
 is quite enough for me to keep- you on an angler's hook for a 
 couple of weeks, at least, and that is how I am going to do in 
 the future, I am going to angle between sublimity and grace, and 
 when you don't feel very happjr, you can look into sublimity, and 
 when you feel sublime, you can take a cup of grace, that is, the 
 one is essence, and the other is the means of making each other 
 amalgamate, it is this amalgamation, that is for us the most 
 puzzling, it leaves no manner of doubt whatever; but you see it 
 is so fine and fussy, that you must doubt, or it would not get 
 into you at all, and this is what has taken place, the sea is full 
 of unknown species, and in consequence, you can not look at 
 them, and my task is a most difficult one as I admit, but you 
 know that a fish-bone once stuck in, is a hard thing to swallow, 
 and when it is in, it is much easier to swallow, than to take it 
 back again, so I am going to swallow a fish-bone, and I won't 
 pull it back, for it can't choke me, and I'll answer it will not get 
 the best of me either; there is the rub, in this little incident, the 
 fish-bone, is the same as your finger-joint bone, and it is this, 
 that scientist, may experiment with, it is whale oil, that is all, 
 that attaches these joints together; and you have found the 
 secret, a whale is helped by nature, and you are helped by the 
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 to dive and duck, and that is where your love comes from, 
 there is the point right here, the Sun has given essence to 
 the Moon, but she has done it in greediness; for she knew 
 it would all come back, and that is the way you have begun, you 
 gave all your affection to your wife, but you kept plenty back for 
 your son, and that is it then your wife is a pleasant little body 
 enough, but she loved you most, before she gave you any 
 affection at all, and that was when she had an idea, that you 
 might marry some other girl, and get her out of conscience 
 by keeping two homes, when you ought to keep but the one, that 
 is tire time, that she thought you were all the world to her; don't 
 you see, she was disturbed, and justly so too, for her agony had 
 commenced, and she never cared a jot for you at any other time, 
 she kept the rest of her love for her daughters; now my friends, 
 there is a moral in this, you get these sentiments, from the whale, 
 for as it plays, in earnest, or in lolling, it is always attached to 
 its young, and no matter what the trouble is, you can't persuade 
 a whale to leave its young, here is the difference, with the fowls 
 of the air, they hide their young, and make believe, that you are 
 after, a lame bird, it is their nature so to do, because they were 
 born in a nest, and were hidden from view; well here, is cheat- 
 ing, it is easy to see where we get the cheating from, it is from 
 the birds of the air, and not from any devil, that is in us, we 
 were born cheats, and I can show it to you in a hundred and one 
 ways, the birds, are cheats, of necessity; they cheat, for they 
 were birds of poison at the beginning, and they keep the blood 
 of subtlety in their blood forever, you fire a gun at game a few 
 times, and it is then seen, whether they can't tell whether you 
 have a gun or not, and though you keep it hidden behind your 
 back, it is still to those birds as dangerous, as though it were 
 loaded, and in front of you, why, because they are full of 
 impression, and they see you stalking round a fence, and looking 
 for hiding-ground, well you are no better than they are, you 
 found out their tricks, by watching them, and their tricks come 
 to them naturally that is all; now then which is the smartest, the 
 duck or the drake, why the duck every time, she quacks, come 
 on Mr. Drake, I have good game at home, that wants my inge- 
 
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 nuity to hide, you can follow me, and I will lead you astray, 
 that is the way my friends, the duck plays coy, but the drake, is 
 altogether too slow, he keeps waiting about, till his wings get 
 burned, at her flipping past his eye, and at last out of sheer des- 
 peration he must go after her; this is the way my friends the 
 ladies do, and they have my sympathy, they can fool man, all 
 they have a mind to, I don't sympathize with him a bit, his rights 
 are few, but then he must not make such blunders, as to go after 
 a duck, when she is playing coy, get another, and let him do the 
 hide-and-seek business; and then the feathers fly to quite a dif- 
 ferent understanding; for she will not run in agony, it is his 
 turn, then to make the match, and not hers, and he can always 
 keep her good, by smiling on some other duck, it is all the way 
 you have got, my grandfather taught it to his aunt, and his 
 cousin did it too; they thought I was too young to notice, but it 
 is young soft ears, that pick up all the tricks, and arts in war, 
 they are ever on the dodge, to catch a pair of twinkling eyes go 
 out upon the run; I knew more, when I was in the nursery, than 
 many men at seventy, and I bet there are others, who can tell 
 you of little incidents, that happened when they were very young; 
 now I have to bring out these points, for there is no sentiment in 
 some souls, for they are descendants of the whale, only they 
 came off that hump, that whalers call the jelly, it is so much 
 pulp, it has nothing to it, except the brain, without any governor, 
 it is mere blubber inside; now you see that I have got no further 
 work to do, but knock sense into blubber, and that is what some 
 people are like, they have no phosphorescence, at the back of 
 their eye, it is some old fossilized old salt sea-wave sitting there, 
 that was propagated, before the year one, and he could not 
 find the sea and get back again, did he know how to find his 
 way home once he started; I don't approve, of people, who take 
 too many liberties, but I do like to see a smart dashing fellow 
 spring up, and take a turn at these old salt horses; for the horse 
 is slow, in comparison to man, in some things, he makes the eye 
 glisten, as he comes home from a race,and looks for his companions 
 first, he never thinks of his own corn, till hehas made a sign of 
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 trait of character too: It comes through his likeness to the 
 whale, they both have it strongly marked upon them; and it is 
 the friendly feeling for their friends; the horse is as devoted, to 
 his friends as man, and they have a kindly feeling for each other; 
 the horse, is just as much attached to man, as the man is to that 
 animal; and it is reasonable too; the horse is from the back of 
 the whale, and the man comes more from the hind end of the 
 wmale, and I shall be able to illustrate this more fully by a code 
 of evidence, called the Greek begets Greek, or the soul of man 
 can not wander from its companion; this is all I have to offer, in 
 commendation of my arguments, except this, that wherever you 
 see a man, with any extent of sound intellectual qualities, he is 
 in principle a lover of that noble animal the horse, and he is 
 easily interested in the turf, as they raced together on the waves, 
 they race together on the earth, and as man feels his blood 
 tingle, when he sees an animal of his abused, he feels it in his 
 veins, that he could kill the scoundrel, that abused the horse, it 
 is the likeness to himself, that he has seen abused, and he can't 
 stand by, and see his old comrade go under his eye as a beast of 
 burden, when he knows intuitively, that a horse is his own 
 brother, he never knew why, but it is the same as the adder, that 
 springs, it is the flesh, that creeps, and crawls toward its own; 
 now my friends whenever you see a man chastising a horse 
 unreasonably, you remember this, it is my motto, never to allow 
 any man to take my hide off, and when you sit by and allow a 
 horse to be abused, you are not worthy the name of man, and 
 ought to be dealt with as that brute is dealing his folly on that 
 dumb animal; now I have told you that man and horse is accord- 
 ing to my theoretical illustration one and the same creature, with 
 a variation, and .that is this, the whale does lay eggs, but they 
 don't hatch, for this reason, that the eggs are not laid in any 
 part of the sand, they just lay them about promiscuously, and 
 they are all over the ocean, and not in any particular place, well 
 the consequence is that some of these eggs, are laid on gravel 
 beds, and some of them are laid on the bottom of earthy clay or 
 sand, according to whatever you choose to make it; thus it is 
 seen, that my eggs, that are laid on the ground, or gravel, are 
 
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 the same eggs, that are laid on the sand; so that one lot of eggs 
 come to be made in one locality, and another, in a distinctly 
 different part, well the whale is fed we know on suction, and has 
 no way of living than by the water she drinks, well she is natu- 
 rally an amphibious creature, for this is the reason, she can't live 
 in the ocean alone, she has to breathe, and go in again, well the 
 whale is the fish of all others, that you should be most particular 
 to watch, she is dead, only when she dies, by sheer exhausted 
 circumstances, and not by age, because she is only on the sur- 
 face just long enough to come into a safe way of getting caught 
 with amouration, she does not dive down, to meet her affinity 
 at all, it is on the top of the water, that she floats sluggishly 
 along, and meets her affinity; thus you see that she is only 
 engaged at her affectionate moods, when the Sun is at its 
 extreme moments of heat, and she seldom misses a male when 
 she is ready, that is the reason of her taking fire, in her oil well, 
 this can be noticed, in the extreme South quite plainly, for it is 
 in the North, that she is able to come to the point of preparing 
 her advantages, for the development of her conditions; now it 
 is easy to tack about on a ship and watch these vagaries of the 
 whales, one has a note like a cow, and the other has a sound, 
 like the bellow of a buffalo, or some have a kind of rustle, like 
 a cow in distress; you see how I have pitched on again to sound, 
 it is this, the man who invented this telephone of yours has been 
 with me, in his travels, for over the greater part of my life, and 
 he has got another machine, in this life, that can outwhip all the 
 sounds you ever heard, it is just a complete waste of sound, for 
 it goes Eaugh, or imitates the bray of an ass, well this sound, is 
 taken from the bull whale, as he scents his affinity, and he does 
 this to such perfection, that he could be heard for miles round, 
 and you can scream as you will; but you will never get a better 
 imitation of the donkey, and when it is handed down to man, 
 you will see that I have spoken truthfully, and don't you forget 
 this, the whale is quite as much amphibious, of its own calling, 
 as ever any other creature, that comes in and out of the water, 
 and remains, for some period, in one or the other; now you see; 
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 monarch of the deep, well man is monarch of the earth, and he 
 is able to till the soil, and make her prolific, so does the whale 
 till the ocean, and make it prolific, for the one is made to reap 
 and mow, the other is made to scatter seed in abundance, and 
 the whale does make the seaweed grow, and as he lies asleep on 
 the waves, he is protracted, for he is just making in one way, a 
 complete overturn of nature, his belly, is full of insects, and he 
 is digesting them, and after they are digested, they are ready 
 for sowing, and in sowing this waste, it is the beginning of the 
 weeds, that afterward are called kelp, and seaweeds; which are 
 the beginning of the earth; they are the roots of our mother 
 earth, and it is this great fish, that made the earth, and he is the 
 founder of all nationalities; now you see where Jonah fell, that 
 I am standing on top, and I mean to be there, when all is over 
 too; you may think I am a braggart, but you know quite well 
 that did you contain half my learning, you would want a tail, on 
 the end of your coat to wag at people, and say I am the great 
 "I am"; so you need not be jealous of any little piece of 
 bravado, that I put in my book, it is the tale, that drops off, that 
 has to be counted, and not the whale of a yarn; for my tale is all 
 so well pitched, that it is absolutely water-tight, and your stories 
 about the missing link, won't bear the inspection of a school- 
 boy, he could dirk you every time, did I just give him a few 
 points; now you are all at sea, about the monkey, being the 
 bread and butter, that plastered man together, he is not in the 
 race at all, the man and the monkey are two different species 
 entirely, the one is a Moon strike, and the other is a strike off 
 the Sun; and I will show you how it is done, the Moon is at her 
 full, and she travels round quite close to the Sun, for when she 
 is full, it is of a magnitude quite alarming, and your little pea- 
 nuts, would be stretched to a gigantic size, did you see the 
 Moon, just before he is fired, by his affinity; for that is what it 
 all amounts to; now the Moon is at its full, and the Sun is 
 waning, well the Sun strikes a shadow, and the Moon is on top, 
 and it gives this shadow a quintessent stare, or contact, that pro- 
 pels it forward, this movement is perceptible to your eyesight, 
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 your own homes; well this monkey, is the effect of this abrasion, 
 or scrape of this shadow, and not as a specie of man at all; it 
 follows out this theory throughout, and when you find an infe- 
 rior, it is due to this abrasion, or contact, when the Sun is 
 waning, and it proves to be an inferior, for the Sun, is kept in 
 her normal condition too long, and she should have struck her 
 shadow off, by the time that she was at full, and not when she 
 was waning, that is the solution of man and monkey, it is the 
 one being blown, in the heat of passion, and the other being 
 blown, when the tide had turned, now my friends you can see 
 how perfect I have grown, in this absence of time, I have found 
 more specimens, than any man who ever lived, and you do very 
 wrong indeed, should you tell me to go and mind my own busi- 
 ness; as you did when I battled on earth, for a brief period, 
 you are not afraid of a shadow, and that is more, than you are 
 ever likely to see of me, and when I tell you things, that are a 
 benefit to you, you surely don't say I don't want them; but when 
 I tell you something, that is perfectly true, you should not be 
 depressed, and say I wish he did not do those things; it is all a 
 matter of justice, and when justice reigns, you can't have your 
 own way, I don't want my father who art in heaven, to be able to 
 say of me, that I am afraid, I don't want him to tell me I am 
 unworthy, I don't want him to say that I am not capable; rather 
 he should say, his son was the greatest man who ever lived, that is 
 what I want my father to say, and when he does so truthfully, I 
 know that I have done my duty, now my friends you have the 
 sentiments of your most devoted slave; I have that in me, that 
 will never be satisfied, with less than I have spoken, and you want 
 me to lay down and die, and be nothing, I can't do it; should 
 you force me to cease in my own title, I will work in another's 
 name, and you will still have Paine, and it is well known, on my 
 side of life, that you hardly pass a thing on this earth, that I 
 don't join in; and it is the same as in the old days, the man who 
 has the quickest eye, is the one who meets the maiden flush, and 
 as I have made you all flush, as I struck Mr. Man off the Sun 
 and Moon on their meridian, I have a right to be able to tell you 
 my history, and you may stop my life being published, as "The 
 
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 Infidel," or as Thomas Paine, but you can't stop it as some one 
 else; and it is this, that will startle you all the most, I will in fic- 
 tion write my autobiography, and put it in the name of some of my 
 friends; they won't object, to be the wonder of the earth skies 
 and seas combined; now you see how I am going to do my work, 
 and the less notice you take of me the better, as then I can come to 
 you with open arms, and help you with a cherry hand ; and show 
 how to cure every evil you have, from the tic-douloureux 
 to the flames of inferno; this is all the two evils, that I think are 
 worth enumerating, because I see by your papers, that the medi- 
 cine men have a remedy for almost all else; they could not stand 
 a moment, did I open up a shop, and say here you are my friends, 
 come and be cured, and I can do it, without them even telling 
 me what is the matter; you don't believe in magic, neither do I 
 but I do believe in finding everything I want from the soul's 
 champion; and that is where you can't trick magic, and I can lay 
 him out, in such style, as he is my friend always; now do you 
 know what magic is; your trickster is no earthly good, in my 
 hands, he is a mere tomahawk for me to chop him up with; or in 
 more refined language, I unbare his secret, by being foolish, and 
 being wise simultaneously; that is the manner in which I get at 
 these fellows, who are tricksters; you have a great man, or two, 
 well they are very smart, you give me the opportunity, and will I 
 unbare their most intricate tricks ; you give me my own instrument 
 a private box, and pen paper and ink, and he can write down all 
 the methods, that are used, for deceiving the public, now this is not 
 for foolishness; it is just to show you that I can make every trick, 
 that is perpetrated as wonderful, a mere exhibition; to demon- 
 strate, that I am no fraud, but the reality; combined to a reality; 
 that is all I want to prove nothing else, you may take any clever 
 trickster, who says he is willing I should take the sail in taut; 
 it is not the way, but it is the means I adopt; while the trick is 
 being played, I sit above the trickster, and he has no chance of 
 seeing my guide, because his are actively engaged in their arts, 
 of putting him through his facings; that is the way it is done, only 
 I have complete communication with my instrument, by tele- 
 phonic communication, in the guise of messengers; they take 
 
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 what I have written out, to the transmitter, and he delivers the 
 message to the instrument, who guides his hand by the gift of 
 clairvoyance, or a new method, that I have discovered, which you 
 can not expect me to divulge, to any one, it is a patent, of reaching 
 mortals, and does not come through the office for registering 
 patents; now my friends when you think I am a fraud, you try 
 how these signs will work, and not give away the greatest gifted 
 genius, that you ever were possessed of, I don't want your money, 
 except as for experimenting with; and surely my ideas, are worth 
 all the few pence, it costs to buy them; and I can recoup you an 
 hundredfold: Now I have done quite enough bragging, and that 
 sort of thing, to let you know that I am right on the job, and 
 can make the world better in every way, than it ever has been; 
 and I don't understand why any sane creature, should object to 
 take all the good gifts, that have been given to him; now as to 
 this question of going into religion, I don't want to have any 
 more than I can possibly help to do with it, you shall know all, 
 only wait a little while longer, and don't go on in the dark, there 
 is a religion, that could do much good for humanity in general, 
 but it should be tested first, and not made the dissenting organ 
 of strife, it should be held sacred, according to evidence, of 
 specific character, and when a person does not know, they ought 
 to proceed with care and caution, for in religion there is danger, 
 and I do not like to have my name again mixed up with it; it 
 can be dealt with, when the world is unanimous, but it would 
 never do for me to usurp any cause, I said I would show you the 
 better way, but I don't want to do this thing, till the world has 
 been taught to see the opening, and when the opening is made, 
 it would then be time plenty to show the world, that a way had 
 been found, that would make every soul happy; now I will say 
 no more on this question, and let it pass from your minds, for 
 the Sun never sets, that does not bring your minds nearer to 
 intellectual wisdom, the question, is, does wisdom bring good, 
 that is it, I distinctly say that wisdom is the evil genius, and not 
 what it should be at all; it is sense, that is the God we should 
 adore, and not wisdom; now you understand, that I draw a 
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 is derived from senitoram, and the other from the word senitora; 
 these two words are very near akin, but they have two distinct 
 meanings, the one is a bad word, the other is a good one, for in 
 it lays all the self interests of life, you have sense, you have got 
 enough, you have wisdom, you have just what you did have, 
 before you were re-born, and that is it, a man who is born twice, 
 has sense, but whilst he is in the body, he has wisdom, and that 
 is why he fails to see the difference; I don't begin to teach, for I 
 don't want to be taught, that is what we mortals have, and why; 
 for they did nothing, till they were born, and they have done 
 nothing since, that is how wisdom comes, it is a thing, that is 
 not what it ought to be, it is a sound, that has nothing in it, but the 
 meat, it does not sound right, for it is begotten of nature, and it is 
 unnaturally sounding, for it has the life incased the meat, whereas 
 its own maker, is not incased in meat at all, that is one reason, 
 for calling it unnatural, but this is all quite right, for it has to 
 grow in the meat at first, or it could not be; and therefore it is 
 according to the natural laws of nature, because you know that 
 the wind is filled with water, and the two propagate life, and that 
 life is carried into the Sun, at the beginning, and always after, and 
 the two produce putrefaction, which has the essence of life in it; 
 thus, we have life eternally, the one begets the other, the essence, 
 is as essential, as the Sun, the one is waste, from the other, and 
 of this we all came, it is so, and that is all there is to it; that is 
 what we have been taught to believe forever, it is so; and that is 
 all there is to it; now that you know is the most utter rot, that 
 ever was uttered, it can't be, there must be a foundation, or the 
 whole would fall to pieces; and although you do take two thou- 
 sand years to gain a thing, it is merely a pin's point in comparison 
 to what it is, in the end, where is the end, that is what I would 
 like to know, can any of you define the end, I would give the 
 rest of my life, did I but find that end, it is the sound of eternity, 
 and there is no end, because your own end, is with us, and you 
 can't have any end, because there is nothing to sound it with, it is 
 quite beyond me, I can't fathom it, it quite makes me feel miser- 
 able, because I can't tell you what the end is, and I never shall be 
 able to master this, there is no end to sound, it is here there and 
 
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 everywhere, it is a myth, and that is the mystery of my life, I 
 can do all but this, and I can not trace this sound, it is an 
 ungovernable power, that has never found its own affinity, and it 
 breeds the last time in the human body, and that is when it 
 adheres to, or column, of the spine commonly called the quick, 
 it is in this, that you have the starting point, and you are 
 forever growing, once this adhesion, is made, you keep on grow- 
 ing, always, and yet, you are able to close up again, till you are 
 not larger, than the point of the finest needle, that was ever 
 made, it amounts to nothing, yet you can expand to whatever 
 size you have had time to grow to; now this is a most extraordi- 
 nary affair, and it is this, that I claim your attention, for a brief 
 space, the Sun is a shining orb, and her reflector is impercept- 
 ible, well what has it done, it has struck a reflector, that is all, 
 you and I, and all of us, are reflectors, and we are the quin- 
 tessence of nonsense, that is all, we are nothing, in this factotum's 
 idea at all; she has reflected upon us, and we took root and grew, 
 and after we die, we are of no value to her whatsomever; that is it, 
 in its entirety, whilst we live in the body, our lives are valuable 
 to our maker, but after we are dead, the Sun has no power upon 
 us at all, neither does heat or cold affect the spirit, it is the soul, 
 that frets, for the wasted hours upon earth, when it might have 
 grown so much better, and have been happy now, instead of 
 miserable; that is just the very thing, that you want to avoid, is 
 to try and get a turn on the home journey, in front, or in a 
 pleasant happy mood, in a frame of mind, that would say, I would 
 like to be a spirit, to go down in the Sun, and look at her 
 machinery, or to go down to the bottom of the ocean, and see 
 what the fishes are doing, or go round the world, and see 
 whether Tom is telling the truth about this mountain of gold, 
 you know my friends that I would not make this statement, 
 unless it was absolutely true, and that I could do this thing, 
 what is the use of this gold to me, I would like to see you get 
 it, and I would like to have the privilege, of making books, for 
 people to read, that is the only return, that I would appreciate, 
 to get my books published; and you know it was my last wish, 
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 know that my heart is bound up in a book, and 1 have nothing 
 too good for this privilege, it is the one great craving of my 
 whole life, I love to sink my name as deep in literature, as the 
 men, who guide me, I am guided still, there is a power, at my 
 back, which says, you were always fond of writing, and you must 
 write, or the world would not keep on, this is my world, it is all 
 I care for, it is all I love, and to deny me this, is worse, than all 
 the agony, of eternal hell-fire, and this is my hell: For I am 
 scorched at every burning pain, that fills my eyes with tears, and 
 I cry and weep bitterly, whenever my books don't go as I want 
 them, I would die any time to get my heart thoroughly saturated 
 in literary works, you know now how much I respect and wor- 
 ship this opportunity of making my heart glad again, for the day 
 this book goes -jrth to the world, I shall show my friends in 
 heaven, that all my labors, have not been thrown away, and my 
 welcome there, will be greater than words can express; you 
 know how I dreamed of this, well it was to be a failure always, 
 and that is why I have never been quite sure, whether it is just 
 ready for publication or not, the world has been advancing 
 steadily, and I have been growing older, all these years, and the 
 Sun never sets, without making men come forth, with more intel- 
 lectual powers, but dreams never yet did cut much figure, and I 
 am not to allow this one to stay me in the least, it is this, a 
 dream, is the pressure of the soul valve, upon concussion, it pro- 
 duces the thoughts, when they are not manipulated, they are the 
 after reminiscences of the vortex coming in contact with matter, 
 and are vibrations of the nerves, it is merely the slumber of your 
 soul's champion, who sleeps in your eye, he is there, and he stops 
 there, to keep others, from coming in, but he is oftentimes 
 away, when he should be at his post, and that is the way that all 
 mediums are spoilt, they are kept awake at night, instead of 
 being allowed to sleep, through these foolish spirits coming and 
 playing games with them; now you know what it is to be made 
 a fool of, then remember this, it is this little watcher, that has 
 more business to attend to, than he can well look after, and 
 instead of him trusting to others, he has left his post, and gone 
 off, in some direction, to look for other material for his purpose, 
 
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 and now I have told you all my troubles; you may as well go 
 back with me and ride the whale, it is large enough in all con- 
 science for us to fight about, and you can have a piece, and I 
 will take another piece; this is mine, because I got there first; 
 and I want you to take the head, and fall in that hole, at the 
 top, because Jonah did, and he went to sleep after that feat, for 
 three days, and three nights, and he was so big, that he filled 
 the whale up with nonsense; that is about the full extent of 
 what he did, and you know when anybody is stuck, or afraid, 
 the young American is sure to want to know who the Jonah is; 
 for he feels afraid, too; and wants to tackle a whale, he is heart 
 and soul in all that has a scare in it, and you will find that the 
 American boy, won't despise old Tom Paine, in days to come, 
 for the United States, will whip the world at everything apper- 
 taining to skill: She has taken the right precaution to get 
 ahead, and that has been her great secret of success; it is the 
 flag, that carries, the emblems of the deep, in its entirety, the 
 skies are full of stars, and the waters are full of stripes, and the 
 two, strike off a vivid reflector, and it is this, the stars are 
 emblems of brilliancy, the stripes are the emblematic form of 
 good, for in a line you must have a distinction of greatness; the 
 star, is the candle for the day before the dawn, and the stripe is 
 the coming thorn; it means, that a prick from the thorn is always 
 a welcome visitor, when it is on our side of greatness; but when 
 it is, on the other side, it means a great big thing, that does not 
 know the power of its own sting; so I have attached the Ameri- 
 can flag to my whale, and as I was there, and nobody cared any- 
 thing about me, or any of my resources, I just planted my own 
 countrymen's flag, and said you are here to stay; and it is this, 
 that I have done, with my mountain of gold, it is for the old 
 flag, or no pioneer, on earth, shall have it by my agency; now I 
 must get back, on that whale, it is no use my trying to tell you 
 a good story, he has got the worst pair of hands I ever saw, for 
 one thing, and that is this, he won't let me go round about half 
 enough, he is always poking me back on to the point, and I 
 could tell you a splendid yarn just now, only he will have me go 
 back to that whale, and I can do my theoretical points up better, 
 
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 by keeping off the sharp end, when you have got an instrument, 
 and come back here, don't you let him know anything, because 
 when you do, he is sure to make you face the sharp end, and I 
 don't like my medium's style of poking me on the end of every 
 point I approach, it makes me very cross at times, and we have 
 many battles over this question, he argues, that it is better to 
 have a practical demonstration, than my science, and I am going 
 to give him his way over this book, but the next one, it shall be 
 all science, and you shall learn the way, to whip a cruiser, out of 
 sight, that is in a theoretical form of demonstration, and this is 
 the Way to catch a whale, you want to watch him, in the 
 act of diving, and then see how long it takes him to appear 
 again, this is it then, the whale dives, and it has gone totally out 
 of sight, and when it reappears, it is some distance away from 
 where it started, well in that journey, it made a spring, it did not 
 dive at all, as you say it did, it made a jerk, or spring off its 
 tail, that is where you have that spring, that makes you so 
 supple, in your walk, for the whale feeds on blubber, and it 
 is so fine, that it makes you have muscle, that causes you to 
 move, in a way, that indicates whalebone, you are the attics 
 of this whale, in sinewy power, and you are the very growth 
 of imperfection, for you don't do right, your bones are made 
 from the rocks, and your head is made, from the jelly, that 
 the whale feeds on, and you are a whale of a man, that 
 is not all, I mean you are better than Jonah, because I won't 
 let you fall; now you see that I put that point in, and it 
 is buried so deep, that you can't make head or tail of it, and you 
 are just what I told you a "whale of a man," and don't know 
 where to find my dirk, well it is right here, the sinewy, has to 
 come from some place, because you all know we had it, and it is 
 this, the one who made it, had all the benefit, of knowing what 
 it is, that is not all, the whale is a fish, of the sea, and we are 
 men of the land, now how to bring these two into united appro- 
 bation, I guess, it beats a Yank, for it was the last cord, that 
 whipped a Gemaka, and that is what I call putting in spice, for 
 I lift you up one minute, and drag you down the next, and 
 pop you on top when you least expect it, that is what I call a 
 
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 maximum; it is the left hand, that is a mystery to the right, and 
 you all know, when a man is full of whisky, that he does not 
 know, which is one, and which the other; so you have to get 
 drunk, before you can dissect me, for I have quite a number of 
 things, that puzzle myself, one is the eye-teeth, that have got to 
 be drawn, before a man knows anything, then there is the wis- 
 dom tooth, it comes and goes, and is nothing but a nuisance 
 while it lasts, now why don't you tell me what a wisdom tooth is 
 for, it makes your gums ache, and it lasts just about long enough, 
 to make you wish you had been born without any wisdom at all; 
 that is the tooth, that comes off the whale's belly, it is a mole, 
 that sprang off nothing, and never was anything, and that is 
 how Jonah made fast to the whale, he got hold of the wisdom 
 tooth, and he was in agony, all the time he had it, but as soon 
 as he let go, it fell in, and Jonah, was let out of the hole, 
 by putting his history into the Bible, now you see my friends 
 that Jonah has come in for more amusement, than any prophet, 
 that is mentioned in that great work, and I have made fun of 
 him, you have all made fun at him; then what has he done, why 
 he had the right theory, only he was not advanced sufficiently to 
 demonstrate it, and you know he has come in for more sport, 
 than all the rest of that great work put together; you know that 
 Jonah is a fish, by this time, and he can swim all around the 
 world, and investigate, and he will be pleased, when he reads 
 this, to know that in folly he fell, and in sense he has risen, over 
 the top of all the rest, for he was the first man, that ever pinned 
 his faith, on to the right stick, and you have got to be careful 
 how you speak in regard to Mr. Jonah, in the future, for he will 
 be elated, at his success, and you boys might get a pip of light- 
 ning for your trouble, when you call out where is that Jonah; he 
 will not take those remarks so friendly as he has in the past, he 
 is a great man to-day, and he knows more how to manipulate 
 boys, than he did, and you should just work "keerfully," when 
 you want to be afraid, a man who is afraid, is sure to borrow 
 trouble, and when you want to be afraid, just take a stick, and 
 make a whole nation afraid, the consequence is alarming, the 
 Sun does not set, but some great villain has been executed, for 
 
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 some offense, that made the nation afraid, you are all afraid of 
 your own shadow, till I told you it was the reflection of your 
 strike off the Sun and Moon, in union, well how do I get that 
 notion, so firmly fixed in my mind, it is this, the Sun is a magnet, 
 and she draws, and the Moon, is a loadstone, and it recedes, 
 from a magnet, and this is what a loadstone, and a magnet do, 
 they both compress power, and drive one through the other; so 
 you see now how it is, that this stone is so powerful, it is a load- 
 stone, because it is generated heat caused through gas coming in 
 contact, with the soul, which is the ocean, the soul of hell is water, 
 for you know that this hell, is the idea, commonly known as the 
 flames of inferno, you see that these flames are actually in exist- 
 ence certainly, but what their power is, is not yet defined, no 
 more than what I have told you, and this fire is not of any value, 
 except to turn the heavens, and to make the earth an ash-heap, 
 now you see that I have done nothing absolutely in regard to 
 science yet. I must make the machine on earth, in accordance to 
 the miniature of this gigantic machine, that turns the heavens 
 around, and you will then be convinced of my whole theory, that 
 there is no danger, and that there is nothing to be afraid of, you 
 think I dare not do this thing, and why, because you think it 
 would be a sacrilege, against our own maker, I tell you distinctly 
 that God is good, and not harm, that you must look upon God, 
 to mean the right definition, of the word good so it is not a sac- 
 rilege, at all, but a boon, to know what we are, where we are 
 going, and what our work is hereafter, that is all you have to 
 think of, and the question is not what we ought to be doing here, 
 but what is going to help us on the everlasting life of eternity, 
 you go to glory happy, and you are in glory forever after, should 
 you go home miserable, you are going to be miserable on and 
 off continually; so it is better to know the future, and not stop 
 intelligence, till it has injured you, then your duty is to guard 
 your own, for it has to be guarded, or how can you go home 
 happy, that is what you must do, and in guarding your own, you 
 have caught the right theory, for it is protection, that makes 
 happiness; and not free lust, therefore you must look upon free 
 lust as a crime to be suppressed, by the hand of science, rather 
 
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 than barbarity, thus you must become scientific, when you 
 attempt to do down such a question, and not by ruthless barbarity, 
 it is done by virtue of common sense, and not by trick, that is 
 the way to promote civilization, and you must reach in to every 
 nook, to tackle the lust of the evil one, because this passion, is 
 not alone to be dealt with, in the mode of hardships, it has to be 
 dealt with, in a manner, that does not leave the power, in the 
 hands of indiscriminating dolts, who are not fit to see what is 
 right, for they have the mite in their own eye, which is their 
 own devil; now don't you see that you can't expect a devil to 
 treat a devil, except in barbarous form, and when you want a 
 heathen punished, you should not place another heathen, to whip 
 him, you are not fit to make laws, that does help you materially, 
 you look at the laws of any civilized power of to-day, and they 
 are simply trick from stem to stern, a juggler, is nowhere beside 
 this abomination, and every day it is becoming worse, not better 
 by a long sight; your lawyer of to-day, he does his best, but 
 what does it all amount to, he is hit on every side by laws, that 
 he does not comprehend, neither does he know which way to 
 turn, to find that particular code of intelligence, which exactly 
 suits his case, he knows there is no justice, and he resorts to 
 trick, to beat his opponent, the consequence is, that you have 
 got so many tricks, that it is all a man can do to say he has got 
 a claim against inferno, it has been so disgracefully tricked by 
 the lawyers and judges, that inferno stands on such a rickety 
 basis, till I will kick the last straw away, before it breaks the 
 camel's back, and ride him myself, it is the straw, I have it, and 
 you shall not break any more camels' backs, the judge who 
 lynches, has to be shut up, till the mite drops out of his eye, and 
 the judge who drives nails in any man's coffin, for thieving, has 
 to be closed up in a dark cell, till his mite drops out, and the 
 judge, who is reasonable, and trys my experiment, shall make 
 his fortune, because his mite, is worth keeping: now I can treat 
 you to any number of laws, but three is good enough, for you to 
 practice on, because I have no doubt, that you will object, as 
 that is the principal qualification common to all attorneys, of 
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 comes all roads, and is any way, that pays best, you can take a 
 turn at knocking me out on law, I am going to practice for the 
 Seer, in his case against the New Zealand government, and you 
 will find that I know something, before they have shook Old 
 Tom off: Now I might as well give the parsons, one little pickle, 
 for old acquaintance sake, they did not like me, because I knew 
 too much, and that was why poor Old Tom went under his soul was 
 bound up in thoughts of how to convert a parson, and he never 
 reached the goal till now, and this was owing to the whalebone, 
 it seems to be better attached to the parsons, than to any other 
 class of men, it is this, the parsons, are so very supple, they know 
 just so much, and beyond that, God did the rest, he never 
 explained why, or what his motive was for promoting so many 
 miserable circumstances, he never did do anything, but make 
 mischief, that is what they call the will of God, to make mis- 
 chief, and get everything mixed up so, till nobody knows any- 
 thing, that is the full extent of any requirements, that you have 
 to attend to, a simple know-nothing, that is the billet, that a 
 parson has to be placed in, then what right have I or any one 
 else to blame the parson, he does his walk in life, and he knows 
 nothing, and he is from the part of the whale, that feels but 
 speaks according to his avocation, and feels, without daring to 
 say my God why don't you take this veil from my eyes, and let 
 me see this vision of truth, I say that the parson is my greatest 
 enemy, for he is my bosom friend, outwardly, he knows I am 
 right, inwardly he holds the sting, that kills his own body, and I 
 feel sorry for all parsons, for their life is a torment to their own 
 souls, and I have nothing but pity, and sympathy to offer them, 
 and I feel that I would like to help them, but I must draw the 
 mark in here, they would not accept me before, and I never go 
 back and knock a second time, you know that it is not good man- 
 ners, and it is bad breeding, to knock a second time, I will wait 
 till they send in a card of welcome first, that is the way a gentle- 
 man should always behave, Now I have said nothing I hope 
 that has been in any way against the Bible, for I won't consent 
 to have one word said against that book, whatever I did say in 
 the past, I recall now, and I say it is The best book, that ever 
 
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 was written, and it shall always be respected by "The Infidel"; 
 he loved the Bible always, and he never criticised, except in 
 illustration, and his own works are written after the same guid- 
 ance, as that Bible was wrought from, and he is now a stronger 
 believer in that work, than any man alive, for it demonstrates the 
 hereafter, and is a work of God, whether he be one genuine God, 
 or whether he be many Gods, now you see that I will not say, 
 that there is no God, for the simple reason, that I look upon my 
 own Guide as God, and that is why I don't realize, that you have 
 no God, so you must not call me "Infidel" when you speak of 
 me, for I do believe in God, the one I know, that is all the God, 
 I can find, the rest are spirits, as my own, and I don't believe, in 
 any other supreme being, except this one, who urged me on to do 
 what I did, and you know, that I would not lie to you, for did 
 the other God, according to the ancient theory exist, he would 
 be at me, and stop me for writing what I have to say now; for it 
 is in opposition to his rights and privileges; and not according 
 to his theoretical resources, and you see I am not afraid of him, 
 at all; now do you understand that when I say my God, that I 
 mean the champion of my life, and not this Omnipotent God, it 
 is the same with every soul, it has its own God, then the ques- 
 tion is, do you know him or not, that is my theory, and I say that 
 this man William Atkinson does know his own God, and he can 
 talk to him, just the same as he can to any mortal being, and it 
 is not me; then why can't I tell you, anything, I have only to tell 
 this man's God, what I want, and it is transmitted, and is written, 
 as )^ou read it; then what more perfect communication can you 
 have between heaven and earth, and what more can you ask for 
 we are all quite willing to give you full and complete informa- 
 tion, and you can write home, and get your letters, answered, by 
 dispatches, that would beat all telephonic communication in the 
 world over short distances; and for the space of ten thousand 
 miles, it can be hurled through the sky, in twenty-five minutes; 
 that is the time it takes from the United States to England, and 
 then across to Australia, by way of Angel flight, or passage, so 
 you see that you are not the smartest people on earth, after all 
 said and done, and you can test this science, as soon as ever you 
 
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 ! choose; it is all owing to this absence from home, which has 
 I developed this medium, he can receive messages from his people, 
 j and transact all his business, without opening their letters, it is 
 easily done, the spirit is reading their letters, as they write them, 
 well they are at a loss to comprehend the answers they have 
 received, and believe their distant relative is certainly a lunatic, 
 ! whilst there are many in Denver, who can answer for his sanity, 
 ! and you can judge yourself, as to the saneness of this individual, 
 j| you may poke fun at spiritualism, and that sort of thing, but you 
 wait, and see whether you are going to get the upper hand of this 
 medium, you will need to rise early, or sleep late, his pillow, is 
 j well guarded, and he can be wakened, without the slightest 
 trouble, it is merely a movement, of that little fellow in his eye, 
 and the sleep is all gone, and a voice, to wake you, might be 
 annoying to him, bat this voice speaks out the message, and it is 
 told in an instant what is the matter, now you see how well your 
 man is trained, are you game to test this man, or are you afraid 
 ' to trust him, you think he is dangerous, because he is the means 
 of telling you what none else ever knew how to set about it, you 
 are off your base, to refuse an opportunity, when it is thrown at 
 you, and I, want to prove it is no fraud, this machine, and when 
 you think it is, you have only to play "keerful" as the Texas 
 men don't keep steers that won't rush, you know I go to all 
 plays, and it is no trouble to make your test, in an audience, it 
 can be done in one of the box theaters, it does not want any con- 
 ditions, the conditions are already made, and they are made to 
 stay, the whale, that I fall off, you never need get any other Jonah 
 to look afterward; now you have been challenged, and you know 
 the old saying is, that a challenger, has all the world to fight, and 
 it is as well to flip your wings and crow, before you begin, for I 
 mean to make a mark, that is what my men say, when I enlist 
 them, you have to be bold, or it is no use, the fighter, has to taunt 
 his opponent?, it is no use any other way, you must put up the 
 first show, or it is impossible to get on; Now I will really go on 
 with the whale, I had to fight out my story first, I was obliged to 
 go through this yarn, or die of gas, so I had to explode some, 
 before I could talk science, and it is this, that has brought me on 
 
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 so well, I have always been a wind-bag, and it gave me so much 
 joy, when I found the missing link, that I promised myself a 
 treat, should I ever tell it toman; now you know it is no use tak- 
 ing up too much space, in telling my story, I might as well go 
 and join the beginning, and it is right here, that I have to take 
 you, the whale is amphibious, because has lungs, well his Jungs, 
 not of the fish of the sea, his lungs are off the face of the 
 earth, they are lungs, in accordance, with the lungs of birds, and 
 they are from the forest, for they grew on the weeds, and are the 
 same as groupers they are the style of lungs, that keep floating, 
 in eternity, they are the lungs, of the deep, for they sound the 
 same, and are just the same as picking up squeak bubbles, they 
 are exactly the same as this great gigantic well; that is in the 
 ocean, no one knows much about it, it is too deep, for any mortal 
 to fathom, it is even too great a feat, for the Arabian Nights to 
 tackle, even the Egyptians, could not hide it, when they had 
 Jacob and Joseph both, it was too much for all of them, yet the 
 one who has to make his mark, must go down there, and carry 
 sea-weed, from a long way away, before he can ever tell you 
 much, and that is how I have gained my sense, is by carrying 
 sea- weed, from one place to another, that is quite a trick, for you 
 to learn, when you shake off mother earth, it is no use, you tell- 
 ing me, how to wheel a barrow across a tight-rope, when you 
 know that I have been through all the seas, and found the 
 mysteries of the deep so interesting, that I would give much 
 more time to this book, only I want to tell you how to make 
 a man, and it is right here, the main point in a man, is his 
 hair, the only question, that you have got to doubt at all, is his 
 hair, and it is this y that causes all the trouble, it is hair now, 
 and it is hair always, well the whales die, on the beaches, 
 and otherwise, and they decay, and after decaying, this 
 whalebone is distributed through the sea, and after a time 
 it becomes quite putrid, and is spread about, the consequence i? 
 this, the whalebone, is quite pliable, and soft, and it is very near 
 whole decay, when the Sun strikes it, in its way, and causes it to 
 burn, this burning, produces a smell, and that smell, is the life 
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 the hair, for it is turned to make a feeling of glow come into 
 the air, and this glow, is so perfect, that it causes sprouts, to grow 
 on the stubs of trees, and makes branches, of trees grow; so 
 you have a kind of tree, that comes from whalebone, and it is 
 this whalebone, that makes dust come and go, and the coming 
 is the same as the flies, it brings with it, a kind of thing, that 
 has no legs at first, for it is the worm, that grows upon our earth, 
 and she has no legs at first, but when the grouper dies, he 
 brings flies, and he has the wings too; it is all the same, you get 
 legs by degrees, the same as other things come, well it is the 
 lung-worm, that is taken from the whale, when it decays, that 
 produces so much, it is this, this worm, is so strong, that noth- 
 ing can break it, it is the lungs of this whale, that produces the 
 lungs of horses cows asses, and maybe more than I know 
 about, and it is done in quite a scientific way, the lung-worm, is 
 very tough, and it is so strong, that it makes the hide of all 
 creation, it is the essence of that whale, that produces this tithe 
 of power, it is this worm, that grows intact, and breaks into 
 threads, when it dies, that has brought about all this mass of 
 human races, it is the lung-worm, that has reached all over the 
 Western hemisphere, and produced the man of to-day, it is this 
 confirmed strangler, that has produced the animals, as well, it is 
 this great worm, that has averaged more deaths, than any other 
 thing, it is this worm, that has driven whole herds of men and 
 women to eternity, this is what it is, it is the quintessence of 
 all diseases, and it drives one color to the other, and it makes 
 man come into the world a raving lunatic, for he never did 
 know how he came, and that is why his troubles are always 
 greater, than he should have had them to bear, and this is how it is, 
 that this whale is the generator of man, it is practically this, 
 the Moon is a powerful decomposer, and he is driving his essence, 
 in right and left, and he is always at this work, for it is as I 
 have said before an unloading machine, this is it, it is this, the 
 Sun is very powerful as we all know in . the midsummer, and it 
 leaves a balmy essence behind after Sunset, well it is this, that 
 propels the gas to escape from the dead fish, and this dead fish, 
 is saturated, with the essence, from the Moon, well this essence, 
 
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 is so strong, that it falls to the ground, and is^alled effluvia, or 
 common dust, it is the adhesions of the body, and is prepared 
 by the Sun and Moon together, well this is, that which causes, 
 the ague, and the ring round the neck of the worm, that I told 
 you about, well now I have a worm, with lungs, and it is not 
 easy for you to find this king- worm, unless you make a diligent 
 search, and then you have a better chance of finding it, in the for- 
 est, where the calves are, for they take it commonly, and are apt to 
 die with it, this is what makes the sheep cough so much, they 
 have the lung-worm too; so you might be able to get this little 
 worm dissected, and find the lung inside of him, for it is 
 here, that we have to find our own lungs, and not from any 
 other cause, for I know it to be a fact, for this lung-worm, is the 
 life and essence from that whale, it is the same as a fish, in its 
 ways, and it is the same as the mole, that comes with it; now 
 you see it is a mole, in its first stages, and grows to be a man in 
 time, let me see whether I can not grow myself, because it would 
 be a liberty, did I grow one of you people, who are so very 
 clever, at getting eternally wrong, now then it is very hard, for 
 you people to follow me growing, for I am going to cut out my 
 ancestors, and leave them to a better fate, they have been all on 
 the field of battle, one died mad, the next, was a soldier, because 
 he had to fight against frogs, and the other ones were made into 
 sheep, and goats, and all kind of animals, these were my rela- 
 tives, at the beginning, and I don't want their pedigree, it is too 
 much trouble for me to take over all the atoms, that "were gath- 
 ered together, at the beginning, so you must be content, with a 
 few specimens, and not be too avaricious, so you will be content, 
 to have the bare facts as they are, in the generation of man, and 
 a few of the common animals; I was once a toad, for it is here, 
 that I get my lips, it is this, that makes me so good at swimming 
 through the ocean now, for I had to get my living, on the phos- 
 phorescence once before, and I can live for any length of time 
 on it now; so you don't think I am very far gone, when I live 
 on the essence of the ocean, this is what has taken place, at the 
 beginning, the Moon strikes the water, and it produces maggots, 
 or cod-worms, that is the fish, that the Moon propagates alone, 
 
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 that is he is responsible f'-jm his attitude to poison with his 
 essence, now then you keep this well before you, and don't for- 
 get it, I was once a toad, and I can swim three months, in the 
 water, without dreaming of coming out, now then what do you 
 think of that for a story, I can do it, because I am not of the 
 body, but am composed of the phosphorus, that is generated, 
 by the Moon, turned into lightning, and those little flickers, that 
 we see in the air, are the after-effects of gas, they are the born 
 generators of electricity, and are the first generative germs, not 
 actual lightning, as we supposed, they are the germs of elec- 
 tricity, and grow from thence on, till they become acquainted 
 with matter, in an adhesive state, and can not hurt you, for they 
 
 ! have no power whatever, it is the fluid, when it is compressed 
 with weight, that causes death occasionally, and not this light, 
 that is seen in the air, when you want any tests, on this subject, 
 I can write it up, and give it full explanation, I have studied the 
 subject, and am thoroughly acquainted with this power, and 
 
 | could aid inventors materially, but I don't want to infringe on 
 their patents, for they are my own friends, and I would not 
 instruct, unless it were their instruments, that wanted knowl- 
 edge, so you know my reason for withholding this information, 
 it is not for me to injure any one, that is not my theoretical 
 intentions; especially those who are battling for science, it does 
 me no credit, neither would I have it said, that I took anything 
 away, that belonged to another, I am no crib, and I want my 
 own rights protected, therefore I will only assist my own 
 friends, in getting through any difficulty, that they may have in 
 the shape of reaching their own instruments, and not as a gen- 
 eral thing, what takes a man years, of labor to discover by the 
 old process, I can put to man in half an hour, and I call this an 
 invention, because it reaches man from heaven, in lightning 
 speed, whereas you would grow gray, battling over some little 
 invention, that I could hand down in half an hour, whether the 
 old dads, are going to approve of this rapidity, is more than 
 
 ; you or I are going to judge, for my own father thought I was 
 
 I too fast, and all the world thought I was right ahead of the 
 times, and now when they read my work, they will perhaps say 
 
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 I wish I might have asked Tom, a few questions twenty-five 
 years ago, I would have been a duke now: That is altogether as 
 the essence of life put it; the time before I went into Her Majesty's 
 service, I was quite a lad, and then I had to be quite still there, 
 I was afraid of so much pomp and passion, that was displayed, 
 and I had to curb my temper, it was all I could do, to stand by 
 and be ordered about, by men, that were not fit to loosen my 
 shoe-leather, I could have marshaled those men round, and 
 made them fit to fight for a queen, in decent order, in half the 
 time it took those old shellbacks, to give their orders, 
 I was always ahead, and I am right at the top of 
 my class now; so don't think I belong to any mad 
 family, the family I sprang from are as good to-day, 
 as ever any other family are, so don't think I mean 
 that my relatives are mad, they were once, that is 
 what I said, and all men were the same, it is this, when 
 the Moon and Sun strike a picture, they drive into it a con- 
 dition of essence, that produces the adhesion of water, and this 
 adhesion of water, produces inflammation, and it propagates gas, 
 that is the cause of life in form, it comes through this form of 
 life in its entirety, for the Moon is all essence, and the Sun is 
 all fire, and the water is all meat, because it contains soluvium 
 of potassium; which is life, and when you drive life into any- 
 thing, it must grow, there is the secret, and I have made you a 
 man, surely you ought to be satisfied now with Tom, he never 
 worked harder for you in his life, and he never beat the records 
 more fully, well it is quite easy, to get at this man, once you 
 have propagated life in its entire form, it is just as easy to 
 make man now, as it is to get on top of the whale, and cut off 
 the flitches as the old whalers do; you don't know how many 
 whales I have seen dressed; and I never saw but one dressed 
 right, and that is the one I did myself, it is this, the whalers 
 are all too anxious, to do their work in a hurry, they don't go 
 at the business properly, they keep on pulling and hauling, when 
 there is a right and a wrong way to do everything, well it is so 
 with them, they take out a cut, when it is right across grains, 
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 square, now the whale is not made that way, and instead of 
 cutting square, you should cut along the hind end, till it is 
 quite bare, then strip it along slanting, till it has formed an 
 oblong shape, this is diametrically opposite to what it was made, 
 and it then creases in, and is brought out, without any escape 
 of fat, I can see the fat tumbling out, every road, according to 
 the whalers' style of cutting up, but the way I have shown, is 
 just the salvation of the oil: Now let us go on to this whale, 
 and see what it is like, there are gallons of oil in the sea, well 
 what have I found, why it is the oil of a man, out of that blub- 
 ber, you have the oil, that is identified as man's blubber, and 
 the ox, and the horse, and the cow elephant, all of them have 
 the same oil, in their bodies, is it possible, to keep this from 
 man, when he has been dissecting these animals all this time, 
 yes it is so, the moon is a mystery, she has all this in her abomi- 
 nation, and much more, you see that it is all fancy, about call- 
 ing the Moon he or she, it makes no difference, it is only a word 
 that is all; you might as well say a woman as a man, only that 
 in illustrating, it makes this much difference, that a man has to 
 bear the badger, and a woman must be respected always, that is 
 it, now we have it, then why don't woman have whiskers, that is 
 a simple thing enough, they are not so strong as man mentally, 
 they lack energy, and they don't care to work, because it makes 
 them coarse, that is not the reason at all, the woman, is the 
 worse, because she is more venomous, it is all owing to this 
 sting, she has got a sharper tongue, and she bites deeper than 
 a man, no you can't get Old Tom, that way it won't do, she is 
 a specimen, and she has to bear investigation, it is this, the 
 woman, has to be made first, and the first one, is not so perfect, 
 that is the cause of her not having any beard, she has to be 
 grown again, before she will be perfect, and that may take 
 another century longer than the first one was made, that is 
 this, that a century later, there has been a change, come over 
 the human races, and that is this, that every century, she makes 
 a revolution loose, or not in contex, it is like a miss in joining, 
 by the axis of a half turn, it is in this manner, that we take the 
 hundred measure, it is a half miss, and that half miss, is called 
 
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 the conflagration, or flowing in of the vortex, now you see that 
 a Moon, is not liable to wind itself out, in a half circle, because 
 it must turn twice, whilst the Sun does her half round, or more 
 materially alleging the contex, of an abbreviation; that is a 
 difference, well the woman has to be caught in shadow, in the 
 Moon, as it takes a vortex, and it must meet again, or it will 
 strike off a man, thus you see that it takes over a century to 
 make a woman, at the beginning, because she is a vortex, and 
 not made the same as a man, for she is colored by the 
 adhesion of a complete change, now you see that a man, 
 may be struck off, in a momentary flash, but a man, has 
 no hair either, when he is a reflector, he gets that by the 
 adhesion of grease, it is a mixture, of tar and soap, that produces 
 this, in the atmospheric odors, that float around, well you see 
 that a man is always in propagation, but a woman, is born, at the 
 vortex, and she is a weak reflector, she does not come at the 
 time there is much power, and in consequence, she is always the 
 smallest, and weakest of the mammal races, for she has that 
 difficulty to contend with commonly called the breaking apart, 
 and it is this half circle, that causes it to come on flowing at every 
 wane of the Moon, it is this, that produces inflammation, that was 
 struck by the passion of agony, in the region of activity, at the 
 birth of a new century, she is not responsible for all evil, she 
 only did turn herself more fully to the Moon because she was on 
 a downward tendency, and was struck off as a weak reflector, 
 because the Moon, was two whole days late, in his circuit, and 
 he is filled with slow essence, in consequence, this has been quite 
 a study, how to fathom the change, and the man who discovered 
 this is by my side, and he is the one, who led me on, when you 
 knew me, I have always been governed by him, and that is why 
 I am so able, for he is an old spirit, that has never been on earth 
 longer than the time he takes to make discoveries; he is an 
 inventor, and invents all kind of machines, he can make a 
 plow, to till the ground, without any one going near it at all; 
 just by measurement, it walks away, by itself, and will turn 
 over a week's work in a single week, or make a circuit and 
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 it is no gas, but you might as well be whipped clean, when you 
 think you know so very much; I don't want you to have this 
 plow, till I get perpetual motion, or you will not give me any 
 privileges; and say that the plow is all the perpetual motion you 
 require, but my friends you can't have the- plow, unless you 
 welcome us to your shores, for my friend is a machinist, but he 
 can't get this plow to the knowledge of man for half a century 
 yet, unless he says Tom you take your man to mine, and we will 
 show them how to turn a field upside down, it is quite easy to 
 do, when you know how, and as he helps me, I am going to do 
 it for 'him after this motion of mine is demonstrated, you think 
 I have gone out of my way to punish you for being so slow, but 
 it is not that you are so slow, but that you know so much, that a 
 man can't approach you with an idea, till you scuttle off to the 
 patent office, and run the thing ashore before it is ready, now don't 
 you see that my man has mastered the whole business, and he has 
 not gone wild over an idea, and what would you do, supposing I 
 were to give you a pair of balls in either hand, and tell you that 
 was perpetual motion, why you would want it straight off, and 
 not wait patiently, till you were told properly, how to make 
 application, and how to further the scheme, this is it then, the 
 two balls you hold in your hand are the beginning, but what is 
 the motive power, that keeps them turning, I don't intend to 
 tell it, in this book, for I have no business to rob my own self of 
 the pleasure of writing a full account of the world, and when I 
 get an account of the world printed, you can then have the 
 power, that so many men have failed in, I want my own instru- 
 ment to have the full benefit of whatever luxury there is to be 
 had out of it, and you can't stop him, either because he is not 
 afraid, and he will have this, as sure as the Sun goes round, and 
 no power in the heavens has any more right to it than I have, and 
 I propose to give it to him, for the work he does to gratify me; 
 now you know the compact, is settled, and whenever you want 
 this thing, and the pile of gold I offer, it is mine to give, for you 
 can't find it, without I make a map, and take you to the spot, so 
 you can make yourselves content with this book, and be hungry 
 till you get the next, for I am going to study elocution in 
 
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 the meantime, and I don't care to have my instrument used 
 in a hurry, his mind has to be rested for a year till I get ready too, 
 that is I am going on improving him so as when the next volume 
 appears, it can not be said that any fool can work under Tom 
 Paine, it shall be a work of art, from beginning to end, and it 
 shall last forever, that is the book I mean to write as a sequel to 
 this, now you know my intentions, and I will draw the line at 
 humbug, and take you home in rollicking time as the Sun does 
 her duty every day, so shall I do mine, in a modified form; now 
 we want you to see this through, and make us a decent burial 
 for all humbugs, in the future, and you can have a limited space, 
 in the geography of science, once we come to it, and instead of 
 sending Stanley through the dark continent, I will make a map, 
 that can last you as long as the world hangs together, that shows 
 all the countries, that are missed out of the Southwestern hemi- 
 sphere, and take you back, on the region of the Arctic ocean, and 
 North pole, and drive a line through the whole of the universe, 
 and make no mistakes either, but give you a specific account of 
 all countries under heaven, that are unexplored, and tell you 
 exactly why it is that you have not been able to find more coun- 
 tries, than you know of, and generally tell all there is to know at 
 all; that is pretty near the sum total, of what will be in my next 
 book, it is no use asking for it before it is ready, for I can't break 
 my word, and "you will not get it till a year after this is published, 
 and doubtful very at that; now we are ready to go on building a 
 man, I have let go the maintop-gallant, and I shall not pull in 
 sail, till I have made you look at yourselves; that is what I call 
 under the hatches, for you know that a man has to run ahead of 
 fair wind to catch up, for the wind is so short in this country, 
 that a man must be very dull, when he can't tell how the first 
 man is made, old Adam had to make a whole host of sacrifices, 
 till Eve, came and took compassion on him, what a pigeon 
 pair they must have looked, Adam so shy, and Eve so coy, it 
 must have been a pleasant walk, when they went out together, I 
 wonder why the girls don't hang on to the men's arms, as they 
 used to do; it looks bad to see a girl hugging a great big soft 
 head round, she with her pretty arms so nice and round, and his 
 
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 great rough hand resting on her arm, I do feel inclined to slap 
 the pair, it is bad for a man to have to be tied to a woman's 
 apron-string, when he is a boy, but then when he goes on resting 
 his great paws, on her pretty arm, when his whiskers are gray, I 
 don't wonder at this generation saying we are going too slow, 
 why in a few more centuries, you will have the men in bibs, and 
 the girls will be riding in front on one horse, as they did at the 
 beginning, for a man can not be born without a woman, and you 
 see that Adam was an unnatural man, for he Came before a 
 woman, and in consequence could not be tied to her apron-string, 
 or even play at sop, come I want to be carried, as the men of the 
 present age seem to think, that it is theirs to be made babies of for 
 a whole half time, instead of a whole turn, therefore the men must 
 be degenerating fast, and you must get a whale to make some better 
 specimens, as they are the quintessence of nonsense, when they 
 have to be lugged about, by a fine big handsome woman, I think it 
 is a shame, that the sea ever gave up such noodles; and it is a 
 pity, for they ought to be left at the bottom always, and when 
 Adam took of the apple, he must have bitten it very tenderly, for 
 it had no juice in it, the trees were sour then, and the grapes held 
 no wine, I wonder how he ever came to put his arms round Eve's 
 neck, he must have been a better man, than those we inspect, in 
 our botanical gardens of the present day, for I think they are 
 getting almost too weak, to put their arms round a woman's neck, 
 since they can't raise their hands higher; it is too absurd, but 
 considering that they are the stronger according to dame 
 nature's Goddess, I think it fair to show why the man has grown 
 weaker, instead of keeping his place, as all men should, he is 
 always after some woman, that he has no business with; and in 
 that condition he finds himself, that he has robbed the fruit, that 
 Eve was charged with, and I place the sin on man, and not on 
 woman, for it is thus, that we know she is the weakest of the two, 
 therefore he is the vilest creature alive, for not showing her more 
 respect, and I say as a scientist, that no man has a right to hands, 
 when he rests them on a woman, for in this, he sinks so low, that 
 he is barely a better, than the toad, that he sprang from, and it 
 is this, that makes a man, a woman is made by the contex of her 
 
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 own sphere, a lady, because she is the first generative organ, 
 having come in the vortex, of a concussion by abbreviation of 
 access to an internal concussion on time, she is therefore the first 
 being, because she had to be broke by a blow of the Sun 
 descending on the Moon, when he was two days later than his 
 regular course, and he felt the blow of adhesion, for he has made 
 her straight, instead of crooked, as is his wont in striking off man; 
 I don't believe the men of to-day, will appreciate me, because I 
 don't pay compliments, they seem to think that a man must be a 
 soft milk-sop, or something of that kind, because he dawdles 
 round, and talks to the girls, as though he were afraid of them, 
 and they keep on putting him off, as though he were sheer non- 
 sense, which he undoubtedly is, well what has made him so why 
 he is the longest-waisted animal alive in proportion to his height 
 and weight, and it is his bone, that has not got enough adhesion 
 of grease, he is a defunct ass, and nothing more, for he keeps on 
 growing longer instead of shorter, and he gets his meat, by the 
 sweat off his brow, but it comes with a bad grace, and he feels 
 afraid, that there is not enough grease in it; he is so fond of 
 drinking, that he does not know how he will have enough beer, 
 to sap his strength up with, that is about all I can do, till I get 
 you fast to this ass, that makes you all willing, that his neighbor 
 should be tied to, but none of you want to go there yourself, well 
 it won't hurt me, since I know so little, and all of you are so very 
 clever, I might as well "Hook on Marm "; and take a walk, with 
 Mr. Donkey, he is awfully stupid, but you know that the braying 
 ass, has made many a man turn round, and look for that ominous 
 sound, it comes from the throat, and has a tube more than the 
 horse, that expands, when the nostrils are pulled back, by expres- 
 sion of countenance, this is the mucus, that fills the throat, and 
 draws down till it was driven back down the throat, it is the old 
 saying, that a wind-bag, is not blown till -it has been filled, and 
 the ass' mouth, does not breathe, till his wind-bag is filled, then 
 he is just as full as he can hold of wind, and he puts his tongue 
 out, and draws his breath hard, it is the thorax, that becomes 
 slackened, and lets out the sound, on a grating, that is at the root 
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 you don't pay extra, well the Sun was making this peculiar noise, 
 when she struck off the shadow of the ass, and propagated his 
 sound, which comes directly from the bull whale, of the ocean, 
 now you don't appear to recognize man in this note, it is the 
 dark shade, that has flung a shadow over you, that has concealed 
 you so well, till you don't know yourself, that is about the sub- 
 stance of this thought and theory; I am afraid you will be asking 
 some question, that will make me feel ashamed, that I tied you 
 to an ass, yet when you are all of the asinine specie, why can't 
 I place you where you belong, it is this, that I want to develop, 
 by this adhesion, and it is the throat, there is a tonsil, that has 
 not been adjusted, it is in the back of the throat of the ass, and 
 you speak, through this tonsil being filled, with attachment to 
 the throat, and it is through this attachment, that the ass, has 
 that great coarse note, and he would talk, should he ever regain 
 his wisdom tooth, that has been left out in his entire construction, 
 it is only the want of sense, that hinders him from speaking, and 
 should an ass, be constantly with children, he may yet be made 
 to speak, it is nothing to hear him cry out, when he is in agony, 
 like the scream of a whale, for he has got this same sound 
 perfectly: Now I have done with the ass, you might as well be 
 linked on to the bull whale with me, for I am going there, and 
 you can go or wipe your eye, and say he is all science, he might 
 not like me near him, and play some joke upon me, that is 
 exactly what you do think, when a man wants you to go and see 
 for yourself, you thought me tied to that ass to stay, but you see 
 I only went there to graft a little piece of his throat, and put it 
 on to my own, now I am after the foundation of all men, and you 
 think I am going to play a trick on you, that is just what a man 
 did to me once, and I said my friend you are so clever, that you 
 must have broken your axle in two, for one-half is this way, and 
 the other half is sticking right through you, he looked surprised, 
 and I said why the axle you carry has lost its grease; when I put 
 my finger in your eye, it did not see the way I meant it to, so 
 you see that when you go after researches, you must look till 
 you find, and many fools make one good man; now you can go 
 or stay, but the theory is this, that the ass having the tonsils, 
 
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 must be right and proper, that the bull whale has the same thing, 
 when they both sound the same note, it must be, that they are 
 nearly akin, so it does in reference to man, his throat has tonsils, 
 and he uses that little machine to talk with, so you see that what 
 is no use to the ass and the bull whale, is quite valuable to man, 
 for it is his very mouth organ, that has to be used, to throw 
 about this intelligence; now my friends you seem to have got a 
 very fair understanding on this point of sound, I want you to go 
 with me to the horse, and find what there is there, that has 
 attracted my attention, you mean to say because he has a tail, 
 that he can't be the same as me, well I don't think you will ever 
 find a much longer tale than mine, once I have done, but it is 
 quite short now, to what I hope to make it; now you see that I 
 am always putting in my silly jokes, because you think I can't do 
 anything else, well it amounts to this, the silly jokes, poke my 
 tale along, and make you do as you ought to; the jokes are happy 
 nonsense, which are the faults of the horse, he is always playing 
 with his companions, and he keeps chewing their manes and tails, 
 and is just as ready to have a bout at kicking; he is quite as 
 scientific as any man, and he can handle those feet, to such per- 
 fection, that I doubt if any man yet attained the same skill with 
 his fists; now you don't think I have got any fun in me, well I 
 can assure you that when I was at the Antipodes, I used 
 to play at riding horses, till they broke their necks, at 
 flinging their heels in the air, to try and kick me off, it is 
 not the mortal man, that they are afraid of, it is the 
 immortal man, that can tantalize them into committing suicide; 
 well you call this barbarism, because I wanted to find the 
 missing chain of evidence, you would call me a barbarian, 
 that is just what you would say, well I am not going 
 to leave anything alone, that suits my purpose, to inves- 
 tigate through, and what makes me so successful is this, 
 that everything I tackle comes to like me in the end, and 
 that is why your own man has taken such a great fancy to me, he 
 says- that he can't ask me a question, that I can't answer, 
 and he does make me puzzle a great deal more than ever any 
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 with cattle and sheep, and horses, and he knows more of their 
 qualities than I do, but he never says, you shall not put this or 
 that in about them, he leaves it entirely to me, to show you what 
 I choose, and that is how you get on best with a horse, you let him 
 have his own way, and you are going to get much more work out 
 of him, than when you tug him about, because you must under- 
 stand, that the horse is able to tell right from wrong, and when 
 you are kind and gentle with him, he loves you, and when you 
 abuse him he hates you, and will do all he knows how to fetch 
 you trouble, so when he sees you are good to him, he will 
 worship the very ground you walk over, and roll on the spot, 
 that your feet rested, and he licks your hands because they are 
 salty, the same as his own hide, and this makes you and him 
 brothers, both of you have salt in your bodies, because you come 
 from the same place, and you are the very impersonation of each 
 other in likes and dislikes, the horse is fond of catching at little 
 things, and nibbling it all away, the horse is fond of chewing his 
 grub, and he relishes it when given in small quantities, he likes 
 to be fed on a variety of dishes, he appreciates you more, when 
 you ask him whether a little dessert is better, after mid-day noon 
 is past, and you take him in a little thistle, he will neigh and call 
 you back for more, just the same as any English dude, would 
 bray; "wai'taugh; some mo'r ta-ta-th-ta-r't; don't you know; " 
 that is "A-ugh- E-augh; some goos-ber-rey twart" ; some more 
 it means, and the ass could speak quite right, only his eye-teeth 
 were cut too high up; whereas the horse has teeth, that change, 
 till he is full grown, and he never carries any flesh, till he has 
 done with his wisdom teeth, in proportion to what he has after- 
 ward; thus showing that the eye-teeth of the man are just the 
 same, and the boy and the colt both shed their teeth, so you 
 have evidence here of a similarity, because these teeth come 
 from the whale, they are the one, that has been so long in 
 dispute, whether this is ivory, or mere bone, it is either one or 
 the other, according to where it next grows, should it be useful, 
 it is ivory, and should it be useful, it is either; according to its 
 intrinsic value; for it decays, and is made use of as the essence, 
 that produces the life of almost all mortals, for it is concealed 
 
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 in essence, and when the air strikes the gums, they bring this 
 gum to inflammation, and the teeth grow by adhesion to the jaw, 
 through a mixture of soft lime formation, that has floats, which 
 strike cold to the jaw, and this jaw is full of pores, and the wind 
 is quite naturally drawn toward the gums, because the breath is 
 pulled in and out, and in consequence the teeth are absorbing, 
 from the atmosphere, till they take cold, and then it is an afflic- 
 tion of nature, that is all my friends and Old Tom has brought 
 the babies teeth, independent of my grandfather's old fossilized 
 notions; that a man was made first, and he is to walk about as 
 the lord of creation; a pack of stuff, you couldn't make a man 
 out of heaven, unless he came of a woman first, and since they 
 made the first man, I say they shall have the credit of doing, 
 what man never can accomplish by himself; and as for woman 
 being an inferior, I say that the man who thinks that way was a 
 misconception, he should have gone to waste, and has no busi- 
 ness with any soul, for he has the tail of a coward still hanging 
 to him; now I don't want you to think that I want to curry 
 favor of woman, for that is not my object, the man is a noble 
 creature, and the woman is the same, but to class one before the 
 other, why it is monstrously wrong, the man has to lead, for he 
 is the strongest, and the woman has to obey, for she is the 
 weakest, but your own son is a portion of each, and one and the 
 same, so how can this being be bad on one side, because his 
 mother gave him suck, it is not that way at all, he is inferior to 
 neither, because those twain are one, and one begets one, or 
 united affection has but one current, and that is magic, it is the 
 magic of the eye, one loves the other little stranger, who sits 
 there, and these two are the magic wand, that hand and band 
 two souls together, or they with mutual consent or otherwise 
 separate these two souls, which they have united; thus you know 
 now who does the work, of making lives happy or miserable, 
 and not as you call that husband the beastly wretch, he is a very 
 good man, till this little chap saw his wife kiss another man, then 
 he begins to feel wretched, and his whole aim is to catch some- 
 thing, that he imagines is taking place, it is this little eye-witness, 
 who has seen, and he wants to make his man see two; that is 
 
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 the whole affair, and you have got the upper hand of magic; it 
 is not what men think it is at all; they make a calculation, of 
 different whys and wherefores, and put them together; it is quite 
 another thing entirely from what men think, the little man or 
 woman in your eye, knows exactly whether you are a faithless 
 sire or not, and they just manipulate the affairs accordingly, they 
 know whether it is wise or foolish to make a man tear his hair, 
 they know whether it is better blinked at, or not, they know 
 exactly what should or should not be; and they have the power 
 of agreeing or disagreeing, all is in their hands, and they are 
 your'Gods, so you have to understand them, or know nothing, 
 that is the point, now you say this can not be, and yet you are 
 reading this book, and you say that can't be; I tell you it is 
 through this intelligence, that you are getting this knowledge, 
 and you can prove it, any time, as well as it is proved in this 
 book, you can rent a hall, and you can have such tests, as were 
 never made known to the world, that is what you can do, and as 
 for going on to the platform, and giving ten-cent dive reckon- 
 ings, I won't permit it, and I am not going to permit anything 
 in the common way when I am at the head, you shall have 
 eminent men as conductors of such tests, and they shall be 
 alone for scientific purposes; and not for just advantages of 
 those who want to know whether their great-grandfather was 
 happy or whether he has made a machine yet to fly with wings; 
 I won't permit stupidity; and when the speculation fails as to 
 my ability, I want to be allowed to tell why it has failed, and 
 what the cause of failure is through, because I am not to be 
 done at one trial, there are elements, that frustrate me at times, 
 and I am obliged to wait for the tide to come flowing back, and 
 then I ride home on the wave, and I won't be satisfied when you 
 are, I have to be satisfied, before I knuckle down as vanquished, 
 you are not to take advantage, because a difficult trial is a 
 failure the first time, you must give me the opportunity of 
 winning back my lost laurels; and then when I can't get home, 
 you must allow me to try, till I do; because I have an idea; that 
 I am to be tried; and when I am tried, I want to be fairly dealt 
 with, because it is easier to mend a net, than it is to make a 
 
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 whole one, and you know what failure, does, it makes both horse 
 and men cowards, once they are whipped, it is a win for their 
 opponent every time, so you know what I fear in a failure, it is 
 this drop of the tail; your own fell off, so you never had a better 
 tale than this one to paddle your own canoe with; and I want to 
 show you how to govern yourselves, so as when you go over the 
 west wing, you won't want to come back, and be a nuisance, to 
 all those you would wish to help; that is as much my business, 
 as anything else, and to do this, you must be willing to be 
 taught, while you are growing, and not when you are waning, 
 for you know that every inferiority is caught on the wane, it is 
 the decline, and it dies declining, and drags satan with it; that is 
 fear, well when you know all, there is nothing to fear, and in 
 consequence, you go rolling round the bend, and pick up with 
 your old pals, on the other shore; that is the way, not weeping 
 and wailing, and making both the dead and the dying miserable, 
 you know what I do when I see a body cremated, why I say 
 what a fine essence they have made, it makes me sneeze, to 
 think, that that same essence, will produce something, for me 
 to speculate upon, let the fools alone, I might get a whale 
 on earth yet, that is my theory, that when the Sun lives 
 on essence, she knows how best to place her substance, and 
 this essence, may yet show me something that I never saw; 
 so I don't mind what becomes of the dead bodies, they are no 
 use, except for this science, of propagation; they may make 
 a good man yet, and that would be something more valuable, 
 than all the dead bodies, that has ever been buried; so you see I 
 don't want you to stop this essence, from the fire, you burn 
 everything but the essence, and that is more than a match for 
 your fire; so you see you have something besides your friend in 
 an envelope containing his ashes; that is more than any man can 
 ever tie up, it has gone into evaporation, and it mingles with the 
 dust, and it propagates again, for richness, was never known to 
 remain idle, it has to float round: I have touched you on the sore 
 point over this question of cremation, and it is rather hard to 
 tell what has to be done with so many live people, that I think 
 you had better make him discuss cremation from the platform, 
 
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 ie is bound to talk, and it will be a good beginning for a young- 
 ster, he is well guided, and he will get at something, sure to 
 please you; and whenever you think it wise to get this question 
 threshed out, it will be well to have the opinion of those who 
 have passed out, and that is what you want, for they don't want 
 you to die, till it is your turn, because they get knocked out of a 
 billet, watching over you, and they will look after your bodies 
 much better, once they gain knowledge sufficient to know how to 
 make evils disappear, and the good to stop always, for it is this 
 radical change, that will knock diseases higher than the rays of 
 light; and make you a stronger race of people, and as I have 
 only two diseases mentioned in my work; fearing to mention 
 more, in case I infringed on some quack medicine vender; I 
 only' undertook two, that was the banishment of the flames of 
 inferno; which you will admit when you have read thus far, that 
 I have made him about as small as you could possibly have him 
 made with one dose; and as for the tic-douloureux, I have not 
 much use for it any way, it is not a science, it a sign of a weak 
 back, and a weak back is brought on through not enough whale 
 oil, so that when you can get on top of a whale like I do, your back 
 will be so greasy, that it will be pitch pine resin, or some ingre- 
 dient, that does not admit of aches, but is what you want, when the 
 back aches properly; that is a new one like mine, and after reading 
 my book, you will be quite satisfied, that you are to have a new 
 one like mine, and that is more than you were ever certain about 
 before; that is my last known disease, and I have cured the ache, 
 that has frightened you so much, it is the back, that was made, 
 through that punk, it lets in the weather, and soaks up the moist- 
 ure, that is why it is so hard to keep right, and you must give it 
 a dose of the dog that bites; the Sun is the remedy for a bad 
 attack of lumbago, or tic-douloureux; it is thus, that I found out 
 many of my scientific senses, through watching people treat 
 patients, they have got all kinds of theories; and I would like to 
 make a medical work, for I know it would be worth more money 
 than any one man could spend, it is this that has always puzzled 
 me, why don't people try the remedy of getting back, what they 
 have given; the Sun draws from your body, and she saps the life 
 
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 out of you, and in consequence, she is all the time feeding, and 
 making herself fat, well at the same time she is feeding herself, 
 she is making odors, that bring back to earth that which she 
 took away, therefore she is scented on the eyes of her own 
 essence, and when you want a remedy, you have got a sore back, 
 I will rub your back, with my sore arm, the one counteracts the 
 other; because in poison, there is an adhesion, that drives the 
 flames away from any pain, and then when it is met by its own 
 poison, it kills itself, now you have understood what I say, then 
 don't do anything else; and say that Tom does not know his 
 business; you pitch pie at me, and I will throw it back at you, 
 and I may go one better; so that when you try any experiment, 
 that I have told you of, you do as I say, and don't do as you think, 
 which is baiting the bull from behind the fence; don't make me 
 mad, and I won't touch you, is a common expression, but when 
 you have to go mad, they kill that is all; so two people with 
 cankered eyes, are going to kill the canker, because it won't fight 
 an enemy, when it is met by a bitter enemy, it is all the same, 
 with affliction, it is the disease that spreads, but it is not the dis- 
 ease to kill; it is the eyesore, that has to be attended to; you 
 must fight the eye, and when you have a thoroughly bad case of 
 small-pox, you bring another patient, that is worse still, and put 
 them both in one bed, the poison, is sure to abate, and disappear, 
 for the eye, can't stand the evil of its own essence; and it will 
 die or leave, that is one theory, and I want to give you the pure 
 cure for small-pox, and that is the eye extractor, which is myself; 
 so you know now what I mean, and what I would do; it is all 
 easy when you know how; only you can't learn till I am ready 
 to tell you; that is not likely to be ever; for I don't intend to tell 
 my own business; it will be a nice job for you medical profes- 
 sionals to attempt to get science up to the standard of my achieve- 
 ments; when you run the gauntlet, and jump into eternity; Now 
 then I am going back to the bad land again, and show you where 
 the first man has to go to get made up into a sheepskin; there 
 is the place, that will rather puzzle you, for it is in the interior of 
 Arabia; that we are off to; the Sun is as hot, as the knights of old, 
 who wore spurs, like the wheel of a cart, but who poked their 
 
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 horses on behind; and went in front themselves; this is what I 
 am going to do now; the way it all comes out is this, the Arabs, 
 are the first people, and they are so small and shiny, that you 
 don't get near enough, to ever find out much of them, and when 
 they get grown up, it is no use trying to trace them back, for they 
 only learn to lie, that is the capability, which speaks for itself, it 
 is this little Arab, that has caused all the trouble, and he is by far 
 the worst liar on earth; notwithstanding his protestation of inno- 
 cence, he is a jugged hare, from the beginning, and he is always 
 jugged ever after, that means, that when it is done up in a jug, 
 you can't tell how many liars, have had their black hands in it; 
 or in other words the Arabs, are a set of thieves, and liars, that 
 would make a criminal ashamed of his own jacket; and it is this 
 thieving lying little race, that is responsible for all your funny 
 fables, they saw many a wasp, that had wings, and they have seen 
 all manner of curious things, that no one else ever saw, and they 
 are the ones, that the Eastern people have all sprung from, that is 
 the story, as it goes; well let me tell you, that a Jew is a Jew, 
 wherever you find one, and wherever he is, there are sure to be 
 more, and this Jew, is the greatest hypocrite under the heavens, 
 yet you all follow his ancestors, and say he is the Simon-pure, 
 and why, because every little wonder, that a Jew does it's a mir- 
 acle, and he loads it with lies; and you are so thick-headed as not 
 to see through it all, when it is right under your nose every 
 blessed day, take London, the largest city, in the world, and she 
 is full of Jews, and pagans, and laymen, and hypocrites, that 
 would lie the teeth out of existence, did they know how to do it; 
 now then you tell them that I say so, and they will say no me 
 "velly goot, me got no pig-tail lik' em chilemen; me von't tell 
 von lie to please father Abraham "; at the same time, they would 
 hang their own brother, for a bell-topper, or a mud-colored scarf- 
 pin; I tell you, that you pin your plank to a rotten craft, when 
 you stick to a breed of people, that can't eat pork, it is a sign, 
 that they know more about the pig, t v an the pig has knowledge of 
 them; so you can just look out, because I mean to hit them a 
 wipe over the head, that will make them grin from ear to ear, and 
 I won't take it back either; you can make a much better fit of a 
 
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 Jew, when you link him on to John Chinaman, than ever he had 
 his hat stuck on one side before; you know I am a radical, well I 
 am going to place the Jew and John, together when I get a little 
 more advanced in my story, but you must wait till I put him 
 together properly; now it is no use kicking, I mean to take you 
 out of essence, and make you up, till I get you on top of the 
 central isle-way of the stairs to heaven, that is where I asked 
 you to give me permission to climb, the same as any other 
 artist, and you know that I have achieved what no other man 
 could, and further you know I will keep my word, and bring ) t ou 
 this Jew linked to John Chinaman, but I like the Chinaman, 
 because I found out that man sprang from the whale through 
 him, but I don't like the Jew, because he as a specimen, is no 
 use at all, he is simply a fraud, and I can't beat him, out of sight 
 at anything, except to whip him every time he lies, that is just 
 where I have the pull on that Jew, and you can take me with 
 you, and you can find, that I will dissect his store, from stem to 
 stern, and he won't know, but that he is sucking a pet lamb, but 
 I am too many potatoes, for any Jew, and when you think you 
 have got a smart one, bring him along, I can clip his wings every 
 time, and he shall not know anything, that is how you should be, 
 and not able to cheat me or any one else, you should be able to 
 detect a thief, when you meet one, and not have to investigate 
 his character, this is then the way you do that, it is by taking 
 notice of the mite, that sits in your own eye, and ask him, what 
 the character of that Jew is, he explains the whole theoretical 
 admonition, of whipping a Jew, and you can get it yourself, it is 
 done by the method of thought, that is you hold a thought, and 
 don't allow it to pass, till it is resolved; it then forms another 
 thought at the back, and when you get them moved into a body, 
 they have told you something; so now you can go and take up a 
 good position, and talk to Father Abraham, and see whether he 
 won't spin you the longest yarn, that ever was caught yet; and 
 when he has done, you won't find anything in it but lies; for he 
 dare not let go of one end, till he has caught hold of the other; 
 and that is just what you can't accuse me of, I let go, and pick 
 up my story anyhow, because I lie to please you, when I want to 
 
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 make you laugh, and when I am in earnest, I do it so sincere, 
 that you will never be able to say, that Old Tom was ashamed of 
 what he did, well now in reference to lies, they come from frolic, 
 they are the foam of the sea, intermingled with our blood, and I 
 tell you how it all comes to this, the foam is a very troublesome 
 thing to attach to anything, it has to be brought out again, or 
 you can't make it adhesive, for it is strongly inculcated, with car- 
 bon of potassium, and in consequence, it is not made to last, it 
 is only the fits, of water, it is the lunacy of water, it has the dol- 
 drums, as we all know, and that is rage mixed with connuvilum 
 of potassium, it is the essence of the sea fighting the wind, that 
 is inside of it, it is not the wind, that is overhead at all, that 
 causes the sea to roll, I don't want you to run off with false 
 ideas, it is what I call a savage theory, to come here and lie upon 
 the most vital importance, I say you may lie to make people 
 laugh, but you must not lie to give them pain, and that is where 
 I hold that the foam is the danger, because it is not adhesive, but 
 the water, throwing itself in anger, that is pure fun, it merely 
 goes splashing up against each other, and you see both men and 
 women doing the same daily, that is fun, I don't want you to go 
 without bread, I don't want you to stop eating meat on any day in 
 the week, it is all one to eat, and drink in sense and reason, for 
 the Sun must feed off you, and the bigger you grow, the faster 
 she will have to go, to keep up with her own development; now 
 you see she is growing, and in consequence, she gets bigger and 
 bigger, and her stomach is going on improving, till it will be hard 
 to tell where it ever will stop; but the Jew knows, he has meas- 
 ured it, when he refuses to eat pork, he knows, that the stomach, 
 is not right in the pig, he knows it is a fac-simile to his own, and 
 that is exactly why Father Abraham had to conceal so much; It 
 is a good day, to the pagan, and man may know what the other 
 world is, by taking a sense view of it, and when he falls off this 
 coil, that Shakespeare, has defined, in a crude way, I think you 
 will all be the better of knowing how to go home, when old Tom has 
 put you on the right track, and shown you how it is to be done, 
 that is all I ever intend to do, and when I have made all clear, 
 you can't miss the way, for it will be the road of eternity, and it 
 
 
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 be defined by science, and not by theory at all, when I say my 
 theory, it means my science is so strong that no man can come 
 back here and upset it: There is one way only of right, and 
 that is the way of truth, let all religionists have their way, but 
 science is the certain method to every conclusion, it can but be 
 true or false, and when it is not true, it is false, there is no half 
 measure, it is a whole Sun, and none other, it is a whole Moon 
 and none other, it is a whole earth, and none other, the three in 
 one, which is the odor, that is the beginning, the smell, it is this, 
 that makes all things, the smell: Now do you know what causes 
 smell; that is the turning-point, and you have to be taught, that 
 a smell is infinitely greater than anything else, this it then, the 
 smell is caused through its own adhesiveness to nature, so when 
 the man dies, he has to be kept from you by some method, and 
 when he comes near you, he brings back his affliction, because he 
 died of this disease, and he has not reached a stage where he can 
 throw it off, and when he returns, he pollutes your flesh, by the 
 essence of his own condition, there is the problem solved of 
 adhesion, it is his smell, that you have to avoid, and it is done by 
 elocution, that is what I want to bring to the understanding of 
 man, now you know that I am scientific, and you feel that I'have 
 very nearly upset every folly you have, then let me show you how 
 to tell one dead man from another, and you have got the key to 
 health, and that is what you know is about the best medicine you 
 can take, there is the theory, that will make man the greatest 
 machine, that has ever graced God's earth, you ought to be 
 pleased to reach heaven as you like, and get your friends to come 
 and show you the work, that their time is occupied in; Now it 
 is elocution, that has to be mastered first, and I am working dili- 
 gently on this question, I can see how to do it, but I must have 
 an instrument to practice on, and this man is working all he can, 
 though we don't despair of making a demonstration through him, 
 yet it might not result as favorably as I could desire, for the fact 
 is clear, a man has a power for one tone, and that is bass, the 
 other is a soft tremble, caused through it being driven through 
 weaker organs, and not by any other reason, the fact of a woman 
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 what the power is at her side, and the easiest instrument I ever 
 tampered with, is a good clairvoyant, but she lacks the knowledge 
 of stability, she has not power enough, to define the difference 
 between right and wrong, she is all right, in my own hands, 
 but immediately I release her, my time is all thrown away, she 
 can not see that I am away, and that is just what you have to do, 
 or the work is a failure, now I don't claim all this, for this instru- 
 ment, but he can tell when it is all right, as he defines it, and 
 that is pretty near perfection, but I want it demonstrated, how to 
 tell one spirit from another, that is how we reach the truth, 
 but you know it is the difficulty this imposition system of spirit 
 return, and that is how we are at fault so much, the spirit of him 
 who governs us all, has not told us, and we must find this 
 direct communication, by elocution, it is that which will drive 
 the black sheep off the walk, and show you how to get good 
 specimens, and make the men who die to-day, the happiest mor- 
 tals, that have ever passed away, well you know you are sure to do 
 this thing, and you may as well go over, with a smiling face, 
 because a welcome is not complete, without a laugh, and a laugh, 
 is the way to make friends; now it is this, that makes a man so 
 happy, he knows that to-morrow he might die, well should he 
 feel sure that this is impossible, he is as happy on one man's land 
 as he is on another, he does not care about death, because he is 
 sure, that it is impossible, and then he will not feel so lonely, 
 when he is on top, and knows, that no break, can make him feel 
 any inconvenience, except a current of pain, that makes life 
 feel so scared, that it quickens, there you have the sequel, it 
 quickens, and that is all, it has attached itself, to the sound 
 of eternity, or in other words, it has drawn over the skin of 
 sound, and is the theoretical skin of ether, for ether adheres to 
 the sound, after the body has left, and this is what stops death, 
 for the death is caught, in its grip, and torn from itself, that is 
 defined according to the light of a given thread, it is the bull 
 whale, that has taken you in, he sucked you back, for he drove 
 his horns, on the top of the wave, and gave eternity a shove 
 higher, that is this, the whale is fed on juice, and he lives on 
 air, and in consequence, he is an amphibious creature, and can 
 
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 live in two atmospheres; that is, the sea is his home, but immedi- 
 ately he dies, his body, is gone to odor, that has the qualities, of 
 making nearly all else; that is the way to put it, for his stink, is 
 the stench, of the two, of earth and heaven, and the two com- 
 bined will make a mix, for they are divided, the one is of the 
 land, and the other is of the sea; well they are both of the sky, 
 for it is after all, the life of potassium, or mixed by soul, to 
 mean a soluvium of potassium; that is the wind in water propa- 
 gates life, and you know what absorbs the essence, and then 
 throws it to waste, on the desert, and on the plain waters; now 
 I am back at the bad land, the desert of Arabia; you see how I 
 flit about, I have no ends to hold up for fear of falling, I don't 
 use electricity, to ward off miracles, and I won't kill, unless you 
 make me, that is you will bring it on yourselves, and I doubt 
 you are actually going to begin to see that sense is worth all the 
 miracles, you ever heard tell of; now I must get on a little bit 
 farther, and not let you off, this bad land, till I have got on to a 
 pig, for that is where I am going, as sure as the weather beats 
 the grayling into shore, it is all I do is to keep you on a hook, 
 and you fish for all that, and eat pork too, it is one more sacri- 
 fice that makes no difference, it has to be done, or it won't last, 
 and I guess it has to, for I won't die, to please any one, there 
 now, you know you can't kill me, and you are wasting time, to 
 think so; it is all this blessed little Arab's fault, or the world, 
 would be hitched on to heaven long ago, you know it too; only 
 you have to be fetched up by the hand, or you won't get on to 
 anything worth knowing, that is pretty near a "stoucer; stacher" 
 I should say, for the present enlightened eyes; I wonder how 
 they will like these strong expressions; I expect some little Arab 
 elf ; will say "Oh! it is a thousand pities, he was not educated, 
 and a gentleman;" wait till I paint my picture, it will be oh! the 
 "wetchquawmer I qawt im actwaly in a werry fine powint 
 quawmer it iswint in his quawmer its in whis quawmer "; that is 
 he don't stop, when I would say " quawmer and make me blush 
 quawmer"; there now I think I have to illustrate, and I can do 
 my duty, when any little elf, comes in with the first language, 
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 that I am a man; she knows, what constitutes a man, she sums 
 him up six feet, by the intelligence he carries, not by the coat he 
 wears, I know a lady, won't blush at sense, she is before man, 
 and always will be; that is how I size her up, and I won't stand 
 back, and put it any other way. for any little child, that has not 
 cut his apron-string "adwift"; now then you practice as you 
 preach, and then you can reach any one, you have no loose ends 
 to hold up, you can go back to the bad land, and make a fasten- 
 ing, wherever you please, that is all, I have caught the knife, 
 that takes no notice of any man's rope, I cut it that is all, where 
 you can see where it has been severed: Now then we are on the 
 bad lands, we might as well dissect them, you know you went 
 through that whale tolerably well, and that ought to have taught 
 you to make me afraid of you, instead of you being afraid of me, 
 for you got over as well as me, and we both did the feat, with- 
 out a fall, now you are going to dissect the bad lands, it does not 
 matter about you having been raised on the Island of New 
 Zealand, you might as well have been a cuckoo, from the shores 
 of Arabia, it will not make you write any more fluently, it is all 
 the same I say where you were brought up, the Laplander, won't 
 require any coat, when he follows me, so now get out your 
 minds, and send them off on a cruise with me over the bad lands, 
 he must be quite at home, and get on his investigator, that is all, 
 he does not want any machine to carry him in, it must be a mere 
 handful of sense, that he lets go with his mind, and not cigars 
 or beer, none of that class need apply, they are cut out of my 
 list altogether, they are no use for science, it all goes off in 
 smell, so they are wasted, for the next few thousand years, they 
 are gone over to some other theoretical research, and may be 
 applied for, in the year eighteen thousand; that is nearer the 
 mark, than they will ever be; I don't want to discourage them, 
 but the Sun does not like tobacco after it has been burnt, she 
 prefers it before, and as for the beer, it fires her coppers too red, 
 after she has it adulterated; that is a fair definition of smoke 
 weeds, after they pass over; I don't want you to keep on making 
 me be funn}^ but these thoughts strike me through going to 
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 band in public; that is all I want to show you, that your minds 
 can go with me, and you can stop and do the light phantasy, 
 whilst they are away; this is the way we used to play, when we 
 built our castle beneath the sky, so you can copy me, and make 
 a good thing out of the rest, whilst I go out, and take your minds 
 off on a journey through the bad lands; I want you to write me 
 a poem, on phantasy, whilst the minds are away, for the time 
 being limited, I would like to see which foot you will place first, 
 the left or the right, or the one, that came through the heel of a 
 boot, or the other one, that is falling out of the heel of a book; 
 you see I am on you; again where did you suppose the foot 
 would come from, why out of the sheep of course, can't you see 
 him standing looking at me, while I make it; you "Great Scot"; 
 have seen many a sheep, then don't bleed like a pig, and get your 
 dander up, when you go off on a journey with me, it is all on the 
 west coast of Africa, that makes me smile and think, that the 
 big African that beats all the Englishmen, that he feels himself 
 so important, when I take him as an illustrating machine, with 
 him by my side, you won't dare take offense, I can get him to 
 go with me, he is the man to topple over smokestacks, he won't 
 mind when I spin a yarn with a joke in it; it is fun to be free, 
 and it's grace to see, then don't be afraid of my African scout, I 
 can show all the people more fun, than they ever let out, when I 
 get back to Ireland and Wales, for they can hang on to each other, 
 till I get my whip out; that is the way imagine you are able to 
 drive buffaloes into Chicago, and then you are fit to go with me, 
 that is what I want men who are not afraid, of being turned over, 
 with a buffalo above, and Old Tom below, then you can get at 
 me, the way is easy, but the hill is -steep, and I want you to go 
 at it full tilt; that is how we jump on to the horse, when he is 
 adrift, and we have to fly on top of him, without wings, you say 
 it can't be done, but you see the white patch over on his shoulder, 
 then you have been there, I saw it myself, and it has some gray 
 hairs, in the center, and why, because you caught the affliction 
 of the saddle, in your eye, the moment you saw that white mark; 
 now then don't say no, when you know you lie, it is a white 
 patch, from the effect of a saddle, and why did it turn white, 
 
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 because it was so very sore, that it was struck with the Moon, 
 and poisoned, that is why my friend, you know how the Moon 
 strikes fish, and makes them smell, and you know that it pretty 
 nearly killed you, when you had eaten poisoned fish, through the 
 essence dropping on to the fish, you knew it was the Moon, yet 
 you don't know that I had to tell you, or you would have still 
 believed, that there were rocks in the Moon, what would rocks 
 do toward poisoning fish do you suppose, well I can't tell is 
 your answer, yet- you don't give Old Tom credit for anything, 
 not even for your Declaration of Independence, you stole that 
 away from him; and now you will steal this from him, that 
 you knew how to cast your mind over to Arabia, then why 
 didn't you go there first, and not come to the United States of 
 America, and preach to those heathen, till they lied you out 
 of all intelligence, that is what the Arabs have done, they lied 
 away all intelligence, and were so frightened, that they drove out 
 the Seers, for fear of being found out, that is exactly what they 
 did, you all know that King Saul, was so frightened, that he 
 banished all the Seers, that had familiar spirits, and you know 
 that when they did him up, that he went to the Witch of Endor, 
 and called Samuel from the Tomb, as it says, then when Samuel 
 came, out of the Witch of Endor, how is it possible, that he came 
 from his Tomb, you all know that the Bible says this, then when 
 Samuel could come to Saul, why can't I go to you, it is only a 
 question, whether I deserve to be held up as much from my 
 qualities as Samuel is, he dealt good works out for the Hebrews, 
 and I can do every bit as much, for the Americans, whom I love, 
 and have stood by at many a crisis, and welded the ropes together; 
 you say no dead men ever returned, did not Samuel do this thing, 
 does not this work show that I^am here, in active operation, for 
 the benefit of man; don't I do my work, as none other before me 
 has ever known how to do this thing, what is there, that I am 
 not able to do, tell me I pray, and let me see that you are mis- 
 taken, and that I can hold my position at the head of my class, 
 what matters about a few people, who have no intelligence; you 
 know I am born to govern, and I shall learn you how to root out 
 all diseases; " is this worth nothing"; to sixty-five millions of 
 
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 people, the thing can be done, through education, and not by 
 poisonous roots, they are good only for the blood, for the blood 
 is of the tree, in the first instance, and what begets one, has an 
 everlasting power; that is all: I won't say any more on religion, 
 I must be a genius, and I don't see it in religion, there. is nothing 
 there, that makes me great, I can't fool the American, by relig- 
 ion, he is too far advanced for religion, to be of any special 
 benefit, and he has to be benefited, or he is not going to believe; 
 now do you see that a good way of getting on, is to see how we 
 are constructed, and then we know how we are to reach disease, 
 for once you know where to pour in the grease, it is easy to 
 make the cart wheel fly round; but when you forgot the hole, 
 that has been made in a place, that no carpenter, can place his 
 peg, you are not in it, that is all: Now I want to go back, to 
 the bad lands again, and see whether we can't make a stick of it 
 this time, you know how hard, it is for me to manage this work, 
 of telling you right off, it makes me nervous, and I feel afraid of 
 you, you are so dreadfully down on man being naturally born, 
 that I almost wish I had not started to tell you, it is only those 
 who are backing me up, or I should turn tail and run; well they 
 say I had a cool courage once, and what am I sticking for now; 
 that is it, you beat me once, by letting me fall out, before I had 
 got through with you, and I don't like facing the old enemy 
 again, he won't like me I feel sure, and I know he will be glad 
 only for the telling part, and that is why he won't like me, for 
 he will say I am too forward, and not sophistical enough, he is 
 so egotistical, that he forgets, that I was made of hydrogen, and 
 he of gas, that is the difference, but it is only an expert, like 
 myself, who could tell the right definition of these two common- 
 place words, the one is made of hide, and the other is made from 
 pitch, the two together combined, with sodium, is first rate medi- 
 cine for a sick monkey, so I will drop the tale, and give the poor 
 fellow a dose, you know I feel proud, of the parson, for he beat 
 me once, and I like a man, that can whip me, it makes me respect 
 him, and I feel so much respect for the parson, that I would 
 willingly forego all my pleasure to get him pleased, and I know 
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 the wrong, that they had done me, that made them so glad, for 
 they knew it was wrong to wish Old Paine a roasting in hell as 
 they called it; and that is why it has always been a desire of mine 
 to shake hands, and convince them, that I never merited their 
 wish, and that I am just as strong in argument, as I ever was, 
 that is the way to be, all the intelligence, that I have been capa- 
 ble of gathering has not done me one bit of harm, it has only 
 made me stick to the men I once sought to convert; and they 
 are all against me to-day, but you let me make the machine, and 
 they'will say it works like a daisy, that is the expression of all 
 land-owners, and they never got that word from the bad lands, 
 I will father it myself, and when the parsons come and inspect 
 perpetual motion, they will say it works like a daisy, that is the 
 theory I have, I do my work like a daisy, and you now see the 
 daisy of Arabia; that is what I call a ship in distress; for the 
 daisy of the bad lands, are the first specimen, that I intend to 
 introduce my specialists to; and they will admit I have planted 
 my growth very low indeed, on the shore side of life, it is this, 
 the daisy is small comparatively speaking on the bad lands, and 
 it has no nutriment, worth mentioning, at all; for it withers up 
 
 I in dry hot sands, and is very much thought of by the birds of 
 the air, they come down, and make a great picking off this daisy, 
 it makes them stout, and fat, and they live on this perpetually 
 in the short days, and long nights, they live here, it is a roosting 
 place for the birds, and they like it, for the place is warm, and 
 comfortable, and it is not inhabited, so they make friends together, 
 and have quite a jolly time, and that is where the guano is so 
 thick, well it is here, where the first animal is grown, it is this 
 animal, that has broken the spell, he is a little one it is true, but 
 never mind that, he is an animal all the same, and you want him 
 to be a pig, but it won't do, I want him to be just what he is, 
 nothing more, and nothing less; this little fellow is a toad, and 
 it is blown, from this manure heap, and is driven down to the 
 seashore, by the wind, in her desire to blow out the interior of 
 Arabia; that is why you don't see a man grow, because his 
 growth has been so slow, that he can't get on any faster; you 
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 machine, I can't do that, you must take time, to do anything 
 well, it has to have time, for the work, or it won't count for any- 
 thing, after it is done, you may make a man for yourself, out of clay, 
 but you don't get me to do that thing for you, it is no use, I have 
 to have time, that is what I make my toad out of, he is made of 
 time, it is in this mint bush, sage bush, that I get him, don't you 
 see that the birds have laid and hatched young ones here, and 
 they laid their eggs on top of that manure, and when they were 
 hatched; it is all they dare do, to sit there it is so hot, and with 
 their little bodies, in the guano, roasting all the while, it is 
 natural, that life would spring of some such essence, and there it 
 is, the first thing, that strikes you at all as living, is this toad, it 
 is blear-eyed, about the size of a peanut, it is no longer than your 
 thumb, but it still is alive, and has both hands and feet, it is like 
 a crab, or crocodile, in appearance, facing the front; and behind, 
 it is like the crab, it is a fair specimen of a toad, and that is all 
 that I can call it; well you see that the feathers are there, and it 
 is the likeness of a bird, yet it has those feet, and wings Or hands, 
 whatever you choose to call them; this is what you may term a 
 kind of lizard or toad, for it is back behind the frog, in appear- 
 ance, a couple of hundred years, at the least, it is formed of time 
 and sage, with mint and other ingredients; well it is this speci- 
 men, that I am going to start with, and when he goes to the 
 seashore, he is what you call a bright object to begin with; yet 
 I have done my work fairly well, and I said that Cain and Abel 
 came from trees, and you see that I have illustrated it all right, 
 they did; it was out of these sage bushes, that the toad sprang, 
 for after the wet season is over, the desert gets quite bare, there 
 is not the sign of life, and this is what it all comes to, the sage 
 bush dies, and the eggs, are often rotted away, and these ingre- 
 dients together, in the sand, cause an effluvia, or side sow, that 
 causes putrefaction to set in, and when this putrefaction sets in, 
 it is bound to propagate something, and this is it, the toad is 
 lyed by essence till he grows, that is the solution of this problem, 
 and you will find this true, whenever you choose to investigate 
 it; now I have my first land animal, and he is of course 
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 well as on the land, for he answers the purpose of both, 
 and here we have the beginning of amphibious creatures; 
 this is where we start breeding, from this toad, and the sea- 
 nymph; that is what is called the small sea-serpent, it is a thing, 
 like the head of an owl, but it has feet, like the feet of a human 
 being, as nearly that shape, as anything I can compare it to; 
 and this head is round, and has eyes, and can pelt stones, that is 
 what it does, in the water, it does not throw them at a codfish, 
 for it will lay hold, as well, and eat the codfish, or anything else 
 it fancies; well this bird or seafowl, can not swim like a bird, it 
 must go underneath the water, and is there in abundance, and 
 you can catch it quite easily, with a fish-hook, it is no more a 
 human being,' than the toad, and the clodhoppers don't respect 
 the toad, they crush them, beneath their heels, knowing no bet- 
 ter; poor ignorant people, they don't know that it is their 
 paternal ancestors, that is going under all the time, they are 
 afraid of nothing, so long as the mouth is filled, and you can 
 have this specimen in your hands, too; and when you get it, 
 you will see, that it has feet, and hands, like the human being, 
 well now I want to show you, how this other little sea-nymph 
 grew, it is the shadow, that brought this one to life, it comes this 
 way, the shadow is struck off the union of the Moon and 
 Sun, and when it is struck off, it gets inflamed by the heat, that 
 has struck it, and it gives back to the earth, the exact coessence, 
 that it was caught on, it has struck a shadow itself, and is shad- 
 owed ever after, it is a walking machine, and has nothing to steer 
 it by but this shadow, for the sea-nymph, is the shadow, that I 
 mean first, this shadow, has a growth, in water, and is adhered 
 to the essence of a body, that is the mould, that it lays in, it is a 
 quantity of mulk, or pulk, that is what it is called, and it is pulk 
 one time, and pulk the next, for it has only got blubber or kelp 
 inside, well this kelp, is the essence of the sea, combined with 
 the essence of the Sun and Moon after contact, they both hand 
 each other, something, it is maybe the right word to use, and 
 that is propagation, for these two bodies have begotten this 
 shadow, that steals along, till it meets, another shadow begotten 
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 linked together, and when they die, or become emaciated, 
 through the cause of decomposition, the fish is hatched, for it is 
 in this decay, that life is first observable, beneath the sea- weed, 
 and when you want to prove this, you take a body of decayed 
 sea-weed, on the seashore, and you will find so many different 
 animals propagated, from this bunch of decayed sea-weed, that you 
 will wonder how it was possible, that there could have been such a 
 mixed circumstance in anything, well that is all owing to the 
 way it is brought on shore, it comes in heaps, and it is all blub- 
 ber mixed; well this blubber, is the result, of the Moon and Sun, 
 having made shadows, in the deep-down ocean bed, they have 
 got it mixed, by constantly making shadows, they don't do it, by 
 any mysterious intention, it is according to nationalities; that it 
 has grown together, it is nature to adhere, you see the present 
 age, where the nationalities are uniting, to keep peace, and to 
 make diplomacy a science, you see that what was done at the 
 start, is being executed, at the present time, and with advantages, 
 to all nationalities; it is diplomacy to marry into a different 
 country men, for it is adhesive to proper ingredients, that susci- 
 tate the laws of nature, and bring out the proper ingredients, 
 that compose the intellect, and calm the passion of nature, for it 
 puts a brand between the two, that makes one respect the other, 
 and brings holiness to a point of scientific advantages, that will 
 not be produced, by any other theory; now I am moralizing, for 
 the benefit of man; you keep away from relatives, whenever you 
 marry, and as soon as you are old enough, you strike out for 
 some foreign land, and make a country lass of that country your 
 bride, and keep her away from her parents, and don't let them 
 interfere, in any way with your affairs, keep her at home, and 
 make her see that her home is attractive to her, and make her 
 obey to such extent, as shall insure respect, that is what every 
 husband must do, or make his life a lugger; meaning, that she 
 will jump the bows, should you fail in your duty; that is, she 
 soon measures you, till you look about as small as that toad in 
 her eye, and that is what you brought about through your own 
 mismanagement, she was what you might call afraid of you at 
 the first, well take my advice, and never allow her to quite break 
 
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 away from that fear, it is a mighty fine pole, that wants no whip 
 on the other end, it should always have a little attachment on 
 the other end, that will say, you dare not take that end on to 
 your shoulders, or I will make the whole of that pole devise 
 some scheme of application, to come in upon you in diverse ways, 
 meaning that she must not go across the boundary line, till she 
 has made you satisfied, that she understands how to conduct 
 herself when she gets there, that is what it amounts to, the fish 
 in the sea are made across the border, and not on the ocean 
 wave, they are prepared in the water, then they are thrown onto 
 the .and, and are made there, by decomposition, and are liber- 
 ated, according to the power of decomposed matter, it is this 
 rot, that produces, the deep to swell, it is this sad circumstance, 
 that we have to apprehend, for the ocean is full of sharks, and it 
 is produced, on the land; for the shark is made on the land, as 
 well as all other fish, and when you comprehend, it will be seen, 
 that a shark, is not very easily discerned, when he is made, it is this 
 shown, that I had the Englishman, when I said he was a descend- 
 ant of the shark, he thought I was the biggest fool he ever came 
 across; but he will admit that Old Tom shoots straight; and at a 
 very long range, and that my gun, is choke body and bore, for 
 it hits in what the Jews call a miraculous fashion, but don't you 
 believe any more in miracles, I can hoop them all up, without the 
 aid of any Jew, he would lie his head off, unless John Chinaman, 
 had placed it on for him, when they quarreled over the pig; John 
 got his tail, and the Jew got sick, because John had too much 
 belly for him, so the pair split the pig, and the Jew got his half 
 in tripe it was all that is left of that pig; for John is now wear- 
 ing the tail, and the Jew got stinking fish, and said it had an 
 unclean beast in it; and the reason he thought it very fine 
 pork, only it had got no tail, and made him sick, because the 
 Chinaman eat it all but the tail, and the Jew was not satisfied 
 over the sale; so he took hold of that tail, and spun a yarn, that 
 has lasted the world two thousand years, and they are both at 
 war still, the Jew, is known to be the greatest yarn-spinner, that 
 God Almighty ever breathed upon, and the Chinaman, is the 
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 and the two together, have mixed up humanity, into such a mess; 
 that a whole team of giraffes, would not steal an opening from 
 them; he was once a pig, and he is always a pig, is what mortals 
 call a true prophecy; it is fair to illustrate, to draw a comparison, 
 and when the Jew has done so much, for the human masses, it is 
 time to take the burden off his shoulders, and make the China- 
 x man carry the load; he shirked his duty once before, but I won't 
 let him hop clear this time, with only the tail, to make him a 
 mark by, no Mr. John, you have got to come up to the scratch, 
 and bear inspection, the same as the rest of us, you are not 
 going to play innocent this time, I have got your flavor on the 
 point of my bayonet, and you know Old Tom, is keen upon 
 scent; so you mind, I am at you like the heathen Chinee; they 
 make marks in ink, that would make a bridgewater stare, it is 
 awfully cunning, but I have mastered the link, and those figures, 
 won't stick me, they belong to the pig, and he knows how he 
 came to be educated, he is awfully sly, but a Scotchman and an 
 Englishman, will make him sing Shanghai; for he is what you 
 would call a pretty fine duck, is that great Shanghai, he can 
 eat a pig, because it was pure, and he knew it was pure, 
 because he never saw nothing, but the Russian goose, come 
 floating across; that is quite enough, to make him feel sick, 
 when it is awfully queer, to get so mixed up,.it nearly upsets 
 the pith of my story, to be handling a Russian, when I ought 
 to stick fast to a Jew, and the pig-tail, so you must forgive me, 
 when I swing off the tail of the Chinaman, and get fixed on a 
 Russian, for you know that a goose, and a loose Russian, 
 might get a mouse, and that is the way, to make yourselves easy, 
 about pedigree, it is all according to the time it takes to raise 
 pure stock; that is a theory, that is as common as the bread we 
 eat, for you have to change the wheat about, till it makes better 
 bread, and then you mix it again and again, till it is what you 
 might call fluxed, it is thus, that you get the pure, by mixing, 
 always selecting a better sample, that is the way to get me, is to 
 be sure you have a better sample, you test the flour, you test 
 the wheat, then why not test me, I am marketable goods, I am 
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 able, it has the machinery in it, that winds up the clock, and 
 keeps her going forever after, a long wind you say, well I want 
 the money to make you look upon the Daisy, of America, and 
 Old Tom's name written in large letters; that is what I want you 
 all to buy my book for, it is to make the Daisy; and your real 
 estate, won't miss it, it can go on just the same, and when you 
 see the Daisy, you will understand why it has a depression, and 
 why real estate don't sell every once in a while, it is a demon- 
 stration of this fact, that I want it known to man, that there is 
 a substantial reason for these depressions throughout the civil- 
 ized world; that is worth knowing, and when you see the Daisy, 
 you will all know why the country had a depression, in the year 
 of ninety-one, and the early part of ninety-two; that is all I can 
 answer for just now, because I am not on this question, and you 
 must not be quite sure of this till you see the Daisy, and then 
 you will know more than ever went in my grandfather's hat; now 
 I must tell you, that a Chinaman is not the only sinner alive, and 
 a Chinaman, is what you might call a hard-working slave, he is 
 out, in the morning making hay, long before the Sun has had 
 time to shine, and he is making more hay, whilst he is doing 
 that, for he is watering his vegetables, and getting them ready 
 for market, and he can show you how to grow calabaleges; with 
 any country in the world, and that is pretty good considering 
 that the world has a good many nationalities; it can't be said, 
 that John, is not useful as a machine, he makes the Sun go 
 round, faster than any nation on the face of the earth, and his 
 smell puts more fire in her heart, than any other two nations 
 both joined together, that is not all, his essence is that of the 
 pig, that gets its living, more hungrily, through its own industry 
 after the glow-worms, than any other animal alive, it is this 
 glow-worm, that I am going to pitch John right onto, he comes 
 from the glow-worm tribe, he is a good specimen, of a worm, for 
 he pulverizes the ground, and makes it speak, and that is more, 
 than any other man knows how to do, this is the idea then, when 
 John made the ground to speak, he wiped out the Jew, and that 
 mark of a libertine had no more companionship for John, he 
 burst the bonds, and made a blue streak for Russia, that is what 
 
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 occurred, after the pig was divided, it squeaked out, " I don't 
 like it," and the two, John and the Jew, came near a collision, 
 only the Jew gave up; we know he is a coward, and John has 
 retained the tail, in commemoration, of that great battle, that has 
 been fought between the battle of the pig and the giraffe, they 
 two are one body, and one life, and they two are significant of the 
 Jew and the Chinaman, it comes out this way, the Jew was the 
 monarch of all the lands, that ever were, in those times, and the 
 Chinaman, was monarch of the ocean, for he had power to steal 
 and rob the Jew, of all his virtuous wives, and maidens fair, and 
 the Jew was just the same, he could down upon his knees, and 
 send a prayer, that John would miss him certain sure, whilst he 
 went prowling round the deep, till out of fishes' mouths, he 
 made them sing hallelujah, for the new-born king; I want a 
 wife, from the deep, she must be fair and bright, with new legs 
 upon her toes, I don't mind that so much, but she must have a 
 pair of sharp shiny eyes, that is what I want for my new-born king, 
 that is the way sir; that your godfathers brought you wives, and 
 made you such fine people to-day, it was not done through any 
 other cause whatsoever, it is possible for you to prove this to the 
 entire satisfaction of every one, for the ass, is the animal that is 
 capable, of being utilized in such a way, so as to produce this 
 phenomena, again, as he did in the past, it is by making the 
 ass, and the pig propagate, that is the sequel to man, and then 
 by making the pig from them, mate with the Chinaman, that 
 is it, you can do this, back, till you have a crab again, I have 
 given you man, that way, or I can give you the animal kingdom 
 throughout, should it be deemed advisable, I won't go any fur- 
 ther now on this subject, as you can see that I am able, and 
 that is all you want, it is not necessary for me to link you 
 together complete; or I prefer not to do so, without the present 
 people wish it, it is easy for me to give this to man, in its 
 entirety, for I have a work written, that will prove it most con- 
 clusively, but I don't want to give this up, till I think the time 
 has arrived for it, it is a work of some five hundred pages, and 
 it contains my life as well, coupled with all my searches, of the 
 ocean, and the whole of my entire investigations, that would 
 
THE UNIVERSE. 477 
 
 be worth at least a mint of money to any man, who is able to 
 publish it, for it can be had without thought, it is the way I 
 write, that is the puzzle, and I could write it through my own 
 instrument in about eight months, that is he would be obliged to 
 seclude himself entirely from the world for that period, for it is 
 not possible to write, when there are any intruders, in the way, 
 it can't be done, it is not possible, it would be impossible for me 
 to work, with any interruptions, for I must hold him entirely 
 free from occupation of any sort, and keep him pure of all 
 essence, that has odor at all in connection with it, and you see 
 how successful I have been with this work, it is entirely owing 
 to this secluded life, and the sentiment, of aversion strong 
 within him to best his opponents, that has caused this life of 
 sacrifice, and you know now, that he is bent on revenge, and it 
 is this, constant thought, which makes me able to reach 
 him at all, he will be mad, till I have accomplished this purpose, 
 and that is his madness; it is revenge, for the cruel wrongs per- 
 petrated against him by a set of collusionists; who are banded 
 together, for the nefarious purpose of robbing every specimen 
 of humanity, that comes within their limits; now you know that 
 I am bound to follow out this concern to a finish, for I am engaged 
 by the ties of friendship, and I will never desert a friend, so 
 when the case comes on for trial, you know it is heaven against 
 hell; and when heaven looses, it will be a sorry day, but when hell 
 looses, it is nothing, for they are loosing the God, that a noble 
 destiny has made them that is not all, the God I speak of is the 
 eye, it is the organ of trust, and it is the eye, that feels the 
 keen thrust, that I have given every soul who reads my work, 
 and I say that I will not make this mark, unless I know for 
 certain it is right to do so; your eye, is the eye of a bosom 
 friend of mine, your soul's champion, can come and talk to me, 
 your very essence is the life I give to that soul, and your soul is 
 the haven I intend to capture, that is what I am in quest of, it is 
 the hand of time, that I send my arms round, and make you 
 glad with, it is this soul of yours, that I am going to entrap, it 
 is the will of my father, that leads me on, and I can't 'resist that 
 hand, he is there, and he is here, and he is everywhere, as given 
 
478 THE UNIVERSE. 
 
 to you, in your own Bible, yet you never knew what God meant 
 until now, it is the same God, that led me before, when I was 
 at the earth in my own body, He led me then, and He will lead 
 me to the end of time, and that is the God, that was given 
 to me, by my forefathers; and I would not change him for 
 any other God, he is my leader, he is my champion, and that 
 is he, who made me so radical, coming home, he cried, and I cried, 
 and we both set down crying together, and when it had lasted 
 a long time, he said Tom I warned you not to say those things, again 
 and again, and I said you never told me at all; but he exclaimed 
 in agony I did tell you right in the body, and you know it 
 was him, that sent me, who said you were to be good, and not 
 lie to save your own soul, and that is what has brought me to 
 this, I was told, by a consciousness; that I must not lie, to save 
 myself, and that is the battle I died in, I died in that battle, and 
 that was when I said we were all from the rivers, and the sea, 
 and that is what killed me, I knew it, but I dared not give away 
 my thoughts, for I had not the courage to sustain me, I was not 
 used as I should have been to commence such a work, I had been 
 treated, in a way, that has never succeeded, it is the way of all 
 men, who have special intelligence, I was forced, too much, I had 
 genius plenty, I had soul fire plenty, but I did not have the right 
 power of comprehending, and you can't get it, in a minute, it 
 takes years, and this instrument, was worked on for twelve years, 
 and upward before I ever knew him; but he was not acted upon 
 right either, and it was his own father, who struck the cord right 
 at first, it was in the train, at the junction of Boston, and the 
 railway terminus, he gave him a word he knew, could come from 
 no other source, and he felt the blow, so sharply, that it made the 
 whole band shake, for it was the missing link, that had been 
 caught, it is the theory, that has done this, and you can go where 
 you will, you can't find his equal, at this phase of developed 
 mediumship, it is simply clock-work, that is all: They can tell 
 you, that I can write through any medium, I can do nothing of 
 the sort, for I can't make my own go till I have got the old man 
 with me, and one look from him through clairvoyant sight is the 
 signal to start, and no medium, was ever made this way or is 
 
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 there one to-day, that can write a poem, or a scientific lecture 
 properly except this man; now you can judge whether he is mad 
 or not; and I won't detain you much longer, it is my first work, 
 and the man who says it is not clever, or capable, in every way, 
 I say he had better get over, and try his hand, for I don't think 
 it can ever be beaten, and you know that I am a General, of no 
 mean order; that is, in science, I don't want anything more of 
 your religion, I can't make you believe miracles, so don't expect 
 me to attempt it, I have caught the parson round the middle 
 once or twice, but I won't throw him down, for I consider the 
 Bible has been a good book on the whole, and it is now the 
 standard work of to-day, so remember I practice what I preach, 
 and my medium reads it almost every night, before he turns out 
 the light, so whether he or I are "Infidels"; you had better be 
 careful how you take the Bible to pieces, in our presence, for 
 neither he nor I will uphold you in any allusion of disrespect; now 
 there is not much more to say, I have made you a comfortable 
 pocket-journal, that is all, one that you can read on the train; 
 and read at home, and when you have finished, you have plenty 
 to think of, not like the books you are in the habit of reading, 
 the two-faced novels, a book like this finds food for reflection: — 
 


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