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 TO ALL 
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 OF THE 
 
 WORLD IN GENERAL 
 
 THIS VOLUME IS 
 
 AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 
 
 BY THE 
 
 SPIRIT OF W. T. STEAD 
 
TCectures 
 
 I Allotment of Man in the Spirit World 13 
 
 II Vindication of Man 15 
 
 III Stages of Development in First Sphere 18 
 
 IV Continuity of Man 22 
 
 V Science of Psychology 25 
 
 VI Science of Astrology 28 
 
 VII Evolution 32 
 
 VIII PSYCHOLIZATION OF MAN 35 
 
 IX Spirit Molecular Magnetism 37 
 
 X Spirit Levitation 40 
 
 XI Central Sun of All Sun's Spiritual 
 
 Levitation 43 
 
 XII Conclusion or Review 47 
 
"preface 
 
 In presenting this volume to the public, I will not 
 burden the reader with many words in the preface — 
 but will give a brief explanation how these lectures 
 were obtained. 
 
 In the first place my friend R. A. Boner and I went 
 to have a seance with W. B. Murphy, the medium, 16 
 Barnet Street, Dayton, Ohio. After the control, 
 John Murphy, a brother of the medium, opened the 
 seance, and a few friends communicated, the control 
 announced that we will hear from a spirit way up in 
 intelligence. And shortly W. T. Stead took the trum- 
 pet and gave us his first message through this medium 
 — by trumpet. He stated, that he wanted to give a 
 number of lectures to the world, and he told me that 
 he wanted me, Dr. S. Toman, to record them and have 
 them printed and circulated all over the world. I 
 asked him how I may know that the intelligence talk- 
 
8 Preface 
 
 ing is really the spirit of W. T. Stead, of London, 
 England. He said, "The Control introduced him as 
 W. T. Stead just the same as if you would have come 
 to London and some one there would have introduced 
 me to you. You would not want me to prove my 
 identity. I am no other than the Spirit of W. T. 
 Stead and I find the conditions favorable to communi- 
 cate to the people of the Earth plane — and I would 
 like to have you record them and send them broadcast 
 to the world in general. 
 
 W. B. Murphy developed trumpet talk in about four 
 years. He also got the peculiar method of what he 
 called slate writing also, in the light. 
 
 He sat near a stand and held the slate in his left 
 arm and pencil in the right hand and used the whole 
 arm movement all the time, running the pencil in cir- 
 cles, curves, sweeps, etc. I could not detect one letter 
 or word, but he could see the words flashed upon the 
 slate and would read them aloud, and I recorded them 
 as he uttered them. I asked W. T. Stead how he did 
 the writing and he said that the control hypnotizes 
 the medium and then he is brought into a negative 
 condition, and by wireless mental electro molecular 
 induction the words are flashed upon the slate visible 
 to the medium. Words come forth similar to the 
 words upon a graphaphone. The spirit intelligence, 
 purporting to be the spirit of W. T. Stead, after that, 
 gave a lecture every Wednesday, and I recorded them 
 
Preface 9 
 
 as faithfully as possible. These lectures, you will see, 
 were all given in the light in the presence of the 
 named witnesses in the latter part of the book, and 
 each and every lecture was read in the presence of the 
 witnesses and approved by W. T. Stead in the seance 
 room. He used that room for proof reading. 
 
 THE MEDIUM 
 
 W. B. Murphy, the medium, is a common house 
 painter — is a man of common education, having never 
 advanced farther than the Fifth Grade in the common 
 school. For a man of such primary education, and 
 no reader, to deliver these lectures himself would 
 certainly be nothing less than a miracle. The medium 
 stated that he could only read the words as they came 
 fresh at the end of the pencil. 
 
 The Intelligence communicating is a very positive 
 character, when he talked, it was apparently with 
 authority — loud and distinct. 
 
 I had received eleven lectures up to the time of the 
 famous flood in Dayton, Ohio, and did not get the 
 twelfth lecture until June 4, 1913. I lacked one lecture 
 to complete the series. 
 
 A Verification 
 
 The Spiritualists of Dayton had a mass meeting, and 
 a strange medium from Hamilton, Ohio, told me that 
 W. T. Stead said I should keep on and the book would 
 
10 Preface 
 
 be finished I was a perfect stranger to the medium, 
 who gave me the test in the presence of 50 or 60 
 witnesses. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 SAMUEL TOMAN, 
 1839 W. Third St., Dayton, Ohio. 
 
Appeal to tl)e Worl6 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 To Dr. S. Toman, of Dayton, Ohio, U. S. A. 
 
 I, W. T. Stead, wish to express to you tonight, 
 through the medium W. B. Murphy and his Guide, my 
 heartfelt thanks to all mankind on the Earth Plane. 
 I, W. T. Stead, do hereby acknowledge the great truth 
 of Spiritualism — founded on the grandest truths of 
 progress of all things that were and are in existence. 
 
 It was the wonderful truths delivered by the Amer- 
 ican seer Andrew Jackson Davis, that started me in 
 my investigations of psychical phenomena and the 
 grand truth of Spiritualism. My son, also having 
 passed over to the spirit plane of life, brought me in- 
 disputable facts relative to spirit return. And I, W. T. 
 Stead, give to you the right to record my series of 
 lectures, and publish them to the world in general. 
 (If at the end of this series of lectures you see mis- 
 
12 Introduction 
 
 takes or typographical errors, you will please correct 
 them and charge them to my account.) 
 
 I wish to thank all the people who manifested an 
 interest in me, and all the editors who espoused my 
 cause. They all receive my heartfelt thanks, for rec- 
 ognizing me as an intelligent man and had the courage 
 to expound what I thought to be the truth regarding 
 Spirit return. 
 
 I studied about all the branches that were taught in 
 the colleges, and the reading of Thomas Payne stimu- 
 lated my reasoning facilities. In delivering these 
 series of lectures, I will endeavor to be as explicit and 
 concise as possible. This is only a preliminary to one 
 of the grandest lectures ever given to mankind on the 
 Earth Plane. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. T. STEAD. 
 
Cecture 5t<x t 
 
 Allotment of Man in the Spirit World 
 
 The first of a series of lectures that will be given 
 will comprise the "Allotment of Man" after he passes 
 through the Earth Plane to the "Summer Land." 
 
 The coming forth from the material to the spiritual 
 is a passing over and is of great importance, in which 
 I will make plain as possible the astrological, phenom- 
 enal, and what scientific research has achieved. It is 
 the philosophy of Andrew Jackson Davis, in which the 
 spiritual phrenology has been unfolded. 
 
 When the material life is eliminated from the ma- 
 terial body, all men seem to think the end is there — 
 and that worse is waiting for that one soul, but no 
 vein of any description indicate than an angel or a 
 devil can be made out of the departure from the ma- 
 terial to the spiritual. 
 
 The atoms of which the spiritual is composed, do 
 go to the Beautiful Summer Land, expressed by An- 
 drew Jackson Davis, and which no man ever made it 
 more specific than he has done. He should be lauded 
 to the skies by the inhabitants of the Earth Plane for 
 
14 Lectures by the Spirit of W. T. Stead 
 
 all that which he has written. It was a preconception 
 to him of the great truth, which I can now verify. 
 
 I cast all my energies and ambitions to unfathom 
 the great future of the principles of psychical phe- 
 nomena. 
 
 I, W. T. Stead, do affirm and declare that I will 
 henceforth give these lectures weekly instead of 
 monthly, as per previous agreement, until one dozen 
 are given for humanity's sake. After such periods 
 have elapsed and the periodicals have had a chance to 
 comment on these articles, etc., I will meet again at 
 stated times and cause them to turn tail and meet me 
 at fair combat. 
 
 The Summer Land is a grand sphere of rejoicing. 
 The loved ones on the Earth Plane weep over the de- 
 serted body. If they could only see the rejoicing in 
 the Beyond, when a lovely one from earth meets loved 
 ones over there, they would instead of weeping, laugh 
 for joy. It is a land of comfort and contentment, 
 when those loved ones commingle. It is inexpressible 
 joy at their banquets. No death, no sorrow, no pain. 
 The Earth's inhabitants have no conception of the 
 joys in the Upper Spheres. 
 
 May the Good God enlighten the denizens of the 
 Earth Plane, so as to perceive the glories of the here- 
 after as those who have gone over. May the God of 
 fraternal fellowship be with you all. 
 
 Good night, 
 
 W. T. STEAD. 
 
TLecture 5to, 2 
 
 VINDICATION OF MAN 
 
 Dr. S. Toman. 
 
 Dear Sir — This is the second of the series, to be 
 known as the "Vindication of Man," after passing over 
 from the material Earth Plane to the Spiritual. 
 
 I want to vindicate him from all thoughts of Hell 
 Fire, and all the false doctrines promulgated from time 
 immemorial. 
 
 Here w r e wish to vindicate mankind. Mankind, ac- 
 cording to Biblical statutes, has always been imposed 
 upon in an unmerciful manner. In the first place, our 
 forefathers were driven out of the Garden of Eden, 
 of which, was said, of disobedience because they 
 tasted of the tree of knowledge. Even according to 
 the Biblical statement — we will take the Bible state- 
 ment to verify the truth of this assertion — "He tasted 
 of the tree of knouledge." 
 
 What foolishness to man to preach to man. But it 
 was given to that ignorant class of people — ignorant 
 
16 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 
 
 class today, as in the past. As I said before, this is 
 for the vindication of mankind. There never was a 
 soul lost in all time. 
 
 Man is the grand ultimate of all the evolutionary 
 forces. His evolution takes notice of the present, not 
 away back to the rear as the churches teach. When 
 man, as I said before, passes to the Spirit world, he 
 is the same man in every sense of the word; man, 
 with intellect and affections. The vein tends to 
 eternal progression and unfoldment of all his being. 
 And we endeavor to instill into the veins of all races 
 so they can appreciate all the principles progressing on 
 the Spiritual side of life. The great doctors of divinity 
 on the Earth Plane do not believe one iota of what 
 they say. They often wonder why so many supposed 
 intelligent persons will sit and listen to them preach- 
 ing a lot of bosh. Is it any wonder that I, as an 
 intelligent man on the Earth Plane do repudiate such 
 false doctrines against immortal man, the highest 
 form of evolution, and vindicate him that he is not 
 born totally depraved, and worthy of Gehennal dam- 
 nation. 
 
 Let me go back a few years and I will show you 
 that woman has done more for the Spiritual cause than 
 man. The Fox sisters were given the messages and 
 they gave them to the whole world ; without fear they 
 gave them to all. Then man followed suit. Then they 
 both began to work in harmony. 
 
Vindication of Man 17 
 
 There are noble characters today, who will stand 
 up for the right, as Maggie Waite has stood for the 
 right in Chicago. She has vindicated man, and all the 
 mediums vindicate him. There are some on the 
 Spiritual side not honorable, the same as on the Earth 
 Plane. If the Spiritual truth be spread over the uni- 
 verse, oh how much better for all. Andrew Jackson 
 Davis has spread the truth vindicating mankind. 
 Thomas Payne vindicated man, Robert G. Ingersoll 
 vindicated man; and I, W. T. Stead, from the Spirit 
 side of life do also vindicate man. And I trust that 
 we will all bear witness that these truths have been 
 given to Dr. S. Toman, of Dayton, Ohio, through W. B. 
 Murphy, medium. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. T. STEAD. 
 
Hectare 3to* 3 
 
 Stages of Development in First Sphere 
 
 Dr. S. Toman. 
 
 Dear Sir — I, W. T. Stead, do hereby start the third 
 series of the lecture, which will be entitled "The Stages 
 of the First Sphere/' of those who have passed from 
 the material side of life to the Spiritual side; as I 
 have said in lecture number one, The Allotment of 
 Man in the Spirit World. 
 
 The Spirit is always welcome to these shores. They 
 are all welcome as can be, they are treated with the 
 utmost kindness and charity, and are examined by 
 experts in wisdom, to see what place is best for their 
 welfare and unfoldment. They enroll each in his or 
 her proper sphere of progression, where one is to a 
 certain extent progressed. He or she is placed in a 
 class suitable to the next line of progression. As there 
 are various classes on the Earth Plane, so it is in the 
 Spiritual Plane. If a Spirit passing from the Earth 
 Plane to the Spiritual Plane has progressed to any 
 extent, he gets along better than one who has been 
 fed upon error. 
 
 I will now treat of the First Sphere. There are 
 fourteen different classes or stages in the First Sphere. 
 
Stages of Development in First Sphere 19 
 
 In as few words as possible, they are all classed ac- 
 cording to their Spiritual growth. All eligible can- 
 didates are placed in such a class suitable to their 
 further advancement, in love and truth. The criminal 
 class are in certain stages according to their degree 
 of inharmony below the First Stage of the First 
 Sphere and must be instructed and evolved up to First 
 Stage of the First Sphere through the a. b. c. or 
 Kindergarten instruction until they are far enough 
 advanced to occupy a place in the first common stage 
 of the First Sphere, and then and not until then are 
 they able to comprehend what is necessary for them 
 to know, that they are on a level with common people. 
 
 The number one class is designated as the class 
 including all races, black, white, yellow and red. They 
 all comprise the number one class. They all will pro- 
 gress from number one to number two, and rejoice in 
 their promotion the same as scholars advancing from 
 one grade to another on the Earth Plane. They are 
 satisfied in their respective stages of promotion, but 
 rejoice when they come up the line to the second land- 
 ing. Eternal progress is the prize of effort. It is not 
 a lazy life, it is not without effort. Quite a large num- 
 ber seem to wish to remain in their old accustomed 
 channels, but they all will eventually aspire to higher 
 spheres, from sphere to sphere. 
 
 So it behooves us all to do the best we can on the 
 Earth Plane. Advanced Spirits are doing all they can 
 
20 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 
 
 to go up higher and higher into more brilliant spheres, 
 nad so on. After passing through the First Stage of 
 the First Sphere, we find loved ones in the Second 
 Stage lending a helping hand and cheering us up, tell- 
 ing us to stick to it, and they try to help all aspiring 
 souls up another notch, which gives both parties great 
 joy, just the same as advancement on the Earth Plane 
 causes rejoicing. Yet we have some who for many 
 years do not try to advance. I have been through the 
 Second and Third Stages of the First Sphere. Andrew 
 Jackson Davis met me and showed me the wonderful 
 beauties in the Second and Third Stages. (Dr. Toman, 
 in making out these remarks, you will please rectify 
 mistakes.) Andrew Jackson Davis escorted me in a 
 gentle manner, as he had the permission to lead me up. 
 The Third starts from the close of the Second, and 
 the Fourth from the close of the Third, and so on. In 
 the Fourth Stage the workers and mediums come to- 
 gether with renewed strength to aid in the work of 
 progression. In the Fifth Stage of the First Sphere, 
 many Spirits linger long, apparently satisfied that 
 that heaven is good enough for them — and many re- 
 main here through ages of time. At the close of the 
 Seventh Stage there you will find dear lovely ones to 
 welcome you up to the First Stage of the Second 
 Sphere. They hold out their loving helping hand to 
 all those ready to step upon their lovely shore. This 
 seems a short time to tell it, but cycles of time are 
 
Stages of Development in First Sphere 21 
 
 passing while one passes through the First to the 
 Second Sphere. 
 
 Thomas Payne, Robert G. Ingersoll, and all great 
 Spirits, who have passed on, have joy, contentment, 
 and happiness. 
 
 Good night, 
 
 W. T. STEAD. 
 
TCecture 3to* 4 
 
 Continuity of Man 
 
 To Dr. S. Toman, through W. B. Murphy, Medium, 16 
 Barnet Street, City of Dayton, Ohio, U. S. A. 
 
 The fourth series of these lectures treats of the 
 ''Continuity of Man." After a review of the preceding 
 lecture of the continuity of man, involving the evolu- 
 tion of the most gigantic forces and aspirations 
 brought together and focused in man, and which are 
 destined to live on forever more, the Continuity of life 
 per se is in every form manifested on the material 
 plane. Life is eternal. The manifestations of life will 
 live in the archives of eternal destiny. There are 
 so-called anthros and semi-anthros, that will reflect 
 like a mirror the unfoldment and aspirations of the 
 future. There was a time on Earth when it was sup- 
 posed that God made man by his omnipotent power 
 and wisdom, a full-grown anthropomorphic creature, 
 and that He Himself was also an anthropomorphic 
 being. God is the great spiritual power of wisdom and 
 love Who forms all manifestations, the Great Central 
 Sun, the Focus of all Anthropology, and so far as we 
 
Continuity of Man 23 
 
 are concerned, makes a concession of his wisdom to 
 each and every man. (The guide and control do not 
 understand anything about anthropology.) 
 
 The various citadels that imprison our social age 
 ere long will all be empty, and new conceptions far 
 above the old will be openly given to man. 
 
 The tradition of Moses and the children of Israel 
 crossing the Red Sea and Moses stretching forth his 
 magic wand and destroying the whole army, mirrors 
 forth what we will achieve — a greater victory. What 
 I say of that tradition, we have the gift to know that 
 we will stretch the wand of intuition and intelligence 
 and destroy the whole army of superstition and igno- 
 rance. We have the gift of the conception of what is 
 about to unfold to humanity. We have been taught 
 about the white and black sheep. Peter is supposed 
 to be the white sheep and Judas Iscariot the black one. 
 Now Judas was no worse than Peter who denied 
 Christ. He repented as well as Peter, and the great 
 law of purification operates in one the same as in the 
 other. 
 
 Peter is not standing at the gate any more than 
 that God is an anthropomoric God. You will please 
 bear with me as it may seem a radical departure from 
 what you have been reading and hearing propounded 
 from all the pulpits for these thousands of years. 
 
 Andrew Jackson Davis and I travelled together 
 many millions of miles and examined many undevel- 
 oped conditions. Hence we can both vouch for the 
 
24 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 
 
 truth of the above assertions. The God you worship 
 is all right, but your say so does not make God. The 
 real God is the divine within you. You live in God 
 and God in you. The child will make up in its im- 
 agination what you have taught it. The impression is 
 left stamped upon its plastic brain, whether truth or 
 error. It is simply ludicrous to think such evils still 
 exist in this age of enlightenment. Those old things 
 that were preached thousands of years ago. Man con- 
 tinues to live by virtue of the inherent principles of 
 the divinity — within; it is the grandest blessing we 
 can have. The teachings of Andrew Jackson Davis, 
 Thomas Payne, and Robert G. Ingersoll are true. The 
 continuity of life is what all men are looking out to 
 grasp. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. T. STEAD. 
 
TCecture 5to* 5 
 
 Science of Psychology 
 
 The fifth of the series of lecture will be entitled 
 "The Science of Psychology." 
 
 This is a subject that will not be very easily digested 
 and assimulated into the constitution of those upon 
 the Earth Plane. This is one of the greatest and most 
 difficult to comprehend of any that has ever been 
 given to man. There is no scientist on the Earth 
 Plane that does not receive scientific truths from the 
 Spirit side of life. There are scientific principles on the 
 Spirit side of life. There are scientific principles on 
 the Spirit side of life just the same as are on the Earth 
 Plane. There are also grades of development in knowl- 
 edge and wisdom the same. There are some who are 
 continually delving into the secrets of the universe, 
 while the many appear to be satisfied to only use 
 the scientific discoveries of others. The scientists on 
 the Spirit side of life must conform to the laws and 
 principles just the same as scientists do on the Earth 
 Plane. We must work to precision or get no results. 
 Not to preclude any possibility of a doubt, we must 
 
26 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 
 
 strive in a scientific manner to promulgate to Earth's 
 inhabitants the very same as all on the Earth Plane do. 
 We are put to a more critical test than they are. 
 
 The common orthodox world simply accept emo- 
 tional manifestations and think they have something, 
 but when we examine psychology, we must know the 
 science of the various effects of the fine psychical 
 forces, and when we do that, and call it science, the 
 orthodox world are dumbfounded. The science of 
 psychology simply means Spirit work in its various 
 stages or phases of manifestations. The various man- 
 ifestations recorded in history are not miraculous but 
 only natural scientific principles are brought into ac- 
 tion and Spirits have a perception of these principles. 
 Hence Spirits, that have evolved up the line in wisdom 
 have finally experimented with the various psychical 
 principles, so as to be able to establish communication 
 between the two spheres of existence — oh, what a 
 grand achievement to do. The dead do now return and 
 give messages to Earth's inhabitants. It is also a 
 psychological fact that Spirits do communicate 
 through different phases of mediumship. They must 
 concentrate the forces to meet the requirements 
 scientifically or they will get no results. 
 
 The use of the trumphet requires a great amount of 
 wisdom, so that the various forces may perfect all of 
 the various languages, etc., similar to the telephone 
 or phonograph on the Earth Plane — very simple to 
 
Science of Psychology 27 
 
 use when once arranged. We must also have science 
 on the earth plane to deliver the facts (or in other 
 words various stations of reception. Truths are being 
 grasped from the Spirit side of life daily and hourly, 
 and this inter sphere communication is the greatest 
 of all the scientific discoveries vouchsafed to the 
 Earth's inhabitants. Of the different phases of medi- 
 umship, let me instruct every one, the scientific planes 
 are the same as a collegiate course. To get at truth, 
 we must eradicate all erroneous impressions to prepare 
 a proper soil for truth to grow. 
 
 There are primary phases of mediumship and then 
 they gradually unfold in strick law into more complex 
 forms, etc. This is one of the grandest things to give 
 to man each and every phase must be handled scien- 
 tifically, or we get no result. These are the sciences 
 of psychology which are so very intricate and complex, 
 yet so valuable to man. As man evolves on the Earth 
 Plane so it is with the Spirit Plane. It requires both 
 planes the physical and the Spiritual to get the oper- 
 ation of the principles. There are men now on the 
 Earth Plane tabulating various phenomena endeavor- 
 ing to reduce the various manifestations to a scientific 
 basis and let me tell you all there will be ere long 
 scientific demonstrations handed to man the grandest 
 ever yet given to him. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. T. STEAD. 
 
TUchire 5to* 6 
 
 Science of Astrology 
 
 Dr. S. Toman through W. B. Murphy, Medium, 
 
 The sixth series of the communications will be en- 
 titled "The Science of Astrology." 
 
 The science of astrology is also one of the deepest 
 that can be obtained from the Spiritual Sciences. The 
 relationship of the Spiritual astrological science to the 
 scientific researches upon the material plane of life. 
 The great astrological system is so great that it is very 
 difficult to explain on account of doubt. To give only 
 an ordinary conception it requires so large a scope that 
 very few, even the most intellectual, are able to grasp 
 it — or even at most have only a very small conception 
 of its immensities and glories. Hence you see it is not 
 easily made plain to the inhabitants of the Earth 
 Plane. 
 
 In the first place, the cycles and orbs in the ethereal 
 dome of which the sun, moon, and millions upon mil- 
 lions of stars that the telescope reveals to the material 
 eye, is very small compared with the wonderful beauty 
 and magnitude of the orbs that roll in immensity and 
 
Science of Astrology 29 
 
 are viewed by the Spirit eye. It is so grand and sub- 
 lime that material man in his highest development 
 cannot comprehend it. There are eight different kinds 
 of suns in the astral world, and millions of spheres of 
 great planets— and there are many so beautiful that it 
 simply baffles description the grandure they display. 
 These planets have interplanetary communication and 
 visit each other. 
 
 The focus of astrological science is the place where 
 all spirit forces meet each other. The Spirit of Fact, 
 the Spirit of Perception. Material Fact, Perception of 
 Truth, and Home Fact, of which all partake of to an 
 absolute certainty. There is a Great Central Sun, of 
 which the great American seer, Andrew Jackson Davis, 
 had a preconception of. This Great Central Sun has 
 fourteen orbs, fourteen suns and fourteen moons and 
 many lesser ones in this great system of grandure, of 
 which it is utterly impossible to give you but the faint- 
 est idea. We have access to this great focus of forces 
 to get our spiritual illumination. We are gradually 
 unfolded in love and wisdom by the Great Central 
 Sun the same as the petals of the flower are unfolded 
 by the genial influence of the material sun. There we 
 gather spiritual forces to send out to the people in 
 general. You, Dr. S. Toman, can see how difficult it is 
 to make these Spiritual truths digestable to man. We 
 w r ant to reciprocally assist those upon the Earth Plane 
 to perceive the grandure of the Spiritual that they 
 may be able to comprehend that it is necessary for 
 
30 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 
 
 them to send forth good thoughts and be able to over- 
 come all evils by positive illumination and live up to 
 the requirements of Divine Law. Then they will be 
 able to travel from sphere to sphere, and orb to orb, 
 and aid in the advancement of the material. For we 
 must take all along to raise ourselves. We must give 
 good thoughts to others — by so doing all receive im- 
 petus. We are all linked together into one solid unit. 
 Those who have unfolded their inherent principles are 
 able by conforming to the laws of the Spirit to travel 
 al through the astral fields of infinity. I would further 
 remark that Andrew Jackson Davis, Robert G. In- 
 gersoll, and Thomas Payne assist in giving this lecture. 
 The astrological researches on the material plane are 
 very insignificant compared to the science of Spiritual 
 astrology. 
 
 The Great Sun from which we receive stimulations 
 in love and wisdom, ever expands and sublimates our 
 Spiritual nature. 
 
 The Great Brain and Heart is what religionists call 
 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 
 
 Not a literal God — no, no. This grand sign of as- 
 trological fire is surrounded by all orbs and planets, 
 and all to the outer-most fields of infinitude receive its 
 wonderful energies. The science of astrology simply 
 shows that all stars and orbs, including the Great 
 Central Sun, are interlaced by magnetic affinities, that 
 they all cooperate and have reciprocal relationships, 
 
Science of Astrology 31 
 
 and each acts in sympathy with all the stars in the 
 fields of immensity. That all error retards progress 
 to a certain extent in the great unit. But that they all 
 also contribute to the elimination of error. Hence we 
 should send forth good thoughts to all parts of the 
 universe. By so doing we will aid in the preservation 
 of the divine harmonies of the Great Whole — the 
 normal physiology of the Universe. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. T. STEAD. 
 
Xecture 5to* 7 
 
 Evolution 
 
 To Dr. S. Toman, through W. B. Murphy, medium, 16 
 
 Barnet Street. 
 
 The subject of this lecture will be entitled "Evolu- 
 tion." The evolutionary forces start from Spiritual 
 principles evolved from whole solar universes. The 
 principles of evolution also require an enlightened 
 mind to form any conception of their wonders — both 
 in the material and Spiritual workings. Material evo- 
 lution must come from unit forces infinitesimaly 
 small. They have inherent power to gradually attract 
 about them similar forces only a shade higher, thereby 
 increasing their size. 
 
 The combination of similar atoms make a whole 
 molecular unit, in mineral and vegetable. These evolve 
 up still finer and finally merge into the animal unit. 
 They in turn, still keep on by the great law of pro- 
 gression evolving higher and higher until they reach a 
 sphere wherein all universal, material and spiritual 
 forces focus in the grand ultimate man by the same 
 progressive principles. He, man, is the highest or- 
 ganization in the universe. And then the time to 
 evolve a perfect harmonial man on the material plane 
 
Evolution 33 
 
 of life will require ages upon ages. Animal matter 
 will continue to progress until the evolution of the 
 material man will be complete. And man on earth will 
 then be a beautiful harmonial character. The brain 
 will develop in symmetry and proportion until he will 
 be an all-around beauty, a god. 
 
 The evolution on the Spirit side of life is in strict 
 accord with the evolution on the Earth Plane — all are 
 as one solid unit growing more refined. That is, those 
 in advance keep on getting finer and finer. The top 
 grows as well as the branches. They keep on pro- 
 gressing through higher spheres. It is one of the 
 psychological truths that all Spirits conform to. 
 
 There are five different stages of evolution, of which 
 we go higher up from one stage to another. There 
 are four on the material and five on the Spiritual; 
 childhood, youth, manhood, and old age. Then they 
 start on the fifth, which is the first stage on the Spir- 
 itual plane. Spirits, who have evolved up into those 
 higher and enlightened spheres with their banners 
 flying, are now sending back peace on earth and good 
 will to man, aiding and assisting him up the steps or 
 stages of evolution. They are handing to man prin- 
 ciples that otherwise he could not have enjoyed for 
 ages of time yet to come. The whole astral world con- 
 tributes to the evolution of man. 
 
 The stellar world and all men grow and unfold to- 
 gether, making one grand whole. So evolution is con- 
 
34 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 
 
 tinually going on both in the natural and Spiritual 
 - — due to the influx of the principles of wisdom and 
 love, reason and liberty. 
 
 Primary from the Great Central Sun, which is both 
 material and Spiritual, and secondly from the evolved 
 Spiritual intelligences, all men and even Deity mu- 
 tually reciprocate with each other. 
 
 My ideas as given above are the absolute truth. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. T. STEAD. 
 
TCecture 3to* S 
 
 Psycholization of Man 
 
 The eighth of the series of lecture will treat of the 
 "Psycholization of Man." 
 
 The psycholization of man indicates a higher force 
 than has ever been written of before. The forces of 
 these psychological principles tend to fit man for a 
 higher allotment than was ever given to him, I mean 
 the Spirit sense of the force. Men are, to a certain 
 extent, hypnotized by Spiritual forces in general more 
 so than they are aware. Nature hypnotizes us all 
 and evolved intelligences aid in the work of unfolding 
 him through the action of these Spiritual forces. 
 These Spiritual forces may be taught to others. They 
 are great factors in his development and give him 
 force and knowledge. Many men are so psychologized 
 by this force being operated upon them that they do 
 not realize what power does these things — for the 
 force is so sublimated that it is inperceptible. The 
 whole world psychologizes man to a certain extent — 
 and Spirits who know how to handle this subtile prin- 
 ciple also can psychologize his brother man. And this 
 truth extends to the Spirit side of life the same as on 
 the Earth Plane. It is in other words the power of 
 enchantment that one has over another. Hence you 
 
36 Lectures by the Spirit oe W. T. Stead 
 
 witness great results so and so. We wonder why we 
 cannot do so and so. We wonder what is the matter. 
 A great amount is due to the manipulation of this 
 psychical force from the Spirit side of life — unequal 
 densities of the psychical etherium in which Spirits 
 reside may warp their judgment. 
 
 These are principles that may be learned by the aid 
 of teachers of truth. There may also be several re- 
 flections that may sway the perception and many feel 
 the enchantment as literal truth, but inner and upward 
 judgment will clear away the appearance of truth — or 
 psychological mists* — and we perceive from another 
 viewpoint more clearly. The truths of phenomena are 
 taught in various classes according to their degree of 
 unfoldment. Man and all nature reciprocally psycho- 
 logize each other. Nature acts upon man, and man in 
 return acts upon nature physiologically, psychologi- 
 cally, and spiritually. These are great truths. The 
 Spirits focalize inherent forces, thereby energizing by 
 will upon the forces to such an extent that they are 
 able to control persons on the Earth Plane or on the 
 Spirit side the same as a leader may influence the 
 so-called forces as they have intrinsic power to handle 
 the currents by will and hold negatives at wilh The 
 grand focalization of the vital electrical forces can be 
 so liquidated and so used to centralize the forces so 
 that manifestations may be given to man on the ma- 
 material side of life. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. T. STEAD. 
 
- lecture 3to. 9 
 
 Spirit Molecular Magnetism 
 
 To Dr. S. Toman, through W. B. Murphy, medium. 
 
 Lecture number nine will be entitled "Spirit Mole- 
 cular Magnetism/' 
 
 Spirit electro molecular magnetism is composed of 
 the centrifugal force atom from the units of Spirit 
 force. The material atom is a force whereby the Spirit 
 atoms are manifested to make the Spirit. The mole- 
 cules of the electric forces are so construed to make 
 the electric force. The same in stone or mineral, even 
 in a grain of sand, thousands upon thousands of atoms 
 unite to make a molecule; and millions upon millions 
 of grains are united to make the stone or mineral 
 block. Millions upon millions of Spirit atoms mole- 
 cules unite to make the soul, and ages upon ages and 
 cycles of time are required to form it with its infinite 
 possibilities. 
 
 It requires ages of time for the atoms to form a 
 molecule of Spirit. What a grand thing it is the cen- 
 trifugal force. It requires of the little atoms to form 
 a Spirit-molecule. It takes you to the end of time. 
 
38 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 
 
 And to you there is no end of time, but one continual 
 ever present. 
 
 The electrical and magnetic forces have been called 
 Spiritual — as they have been in action for ages of 
 time. The electric forces have electrified the atom in 
 one place by focusing the energies on a point there by 
 forming the atom, and the molecule is formed by the 
 magnetic attraction of other atoms causing them to 
 cling together. By this same magnetic force that 
 causes atoms to cling together causes, upon a more 
 advanced stage, brother to cling to brother to form 
 society, or association of human molecules, and the 
 grand centrifugal force concentrates to form the Spirit 
 body. 
 
 I want to transfer your imagination to a Spirit 
 group of which the electric forces have been com- 
 pleted, and see how they stand togther as one solid 
 social molecule. They stand solidly as one man and 
 view the panorama of the heavens, all similarly 
 evolved by the great electrical force. They see many 
 wonders displayed by this wonderful force simply 
 amazing. Thus you see that from the tiny atom to 
 the molecule and continually advancing on and on 
 until you see the fully developed human form, and 
 finally the most beautiful angel face. This great force 
 forms the face and body of the Spirit. It gives us 
 power to use a trumphet and communicate to Earth's 
 inhabitants. It is the vehicle of clairvoyence. It con- 
 ducts vibrations to your hearing organ. It is the same 
 
Spirit Molecular Magnetism 39 
 
 whether to your natural hearing of clair audience. It 
 has everything to do with seeing either in Spirit or in 
 the material. 
 
 This magnetic force is the all in all of the Spirits' 
 agency to produce manifestations on both sides of life. 
 It is so attenuated that Spirits cooperate with it by 
 will power. It is the most refined and most powerful 
 force in the Universe. It forms a molecule associated 
 with all atoms of oxygen, and the various gases. 
 Spirits can centrifugate this force by induction and 
 impress a sensitive in the material. That is why we 
 can perform this mode of communication. 
 
 Yours truly, , 
 
 W. T. STEAD. 
 
"Xecture 5to* 10 
 
 Spirit Levitation 
 
 To Dr. S. Toman, through W. B. Murphy, medium. 
 
 The subject of this lecture will be entitled "Spirit 
 Levitation" to which so much research has been given 
 to find the cause of ponderous articles resisting the 
 law of gravitation and rising up without any percep- 
 tible or known power operating upon them. It is 
 amazing to scientists to see ponderous articles obeying 
 to them, an unknown law. I will say that it is a very 
 fine form of magnetism, that is used by Spirit intelli- 
 gences. This fine force is generated and centrifugated 
 upon an object and it permeates the article, and by 
 magnetic attraction by the will power of the Spirit, 
 levitation of the article takes place. 
 
 The article is charged with a sufficient amount of 
 this magnetism in proportion to its weight. To the 
 Spirit sense it is seen to be electro magnetism — the 
 same as that generated by the animal kingdom, includ- 
 ing the human. It is done then by molecular induction 
 by an act of the will of the Spirit. Sometimes this 
 power is naturally collected and certain phenomena 
 may occur without the aid of Spirit intelligences and 
 
Spirit Levitation 41 
 
 ponderous bodies may be moved without any visible 
 power. The action then is due to two different elec- 
 trified forces. A Spirit also may then operate with 
 these forces. It is often asked "How a trumpet can 
 be raised." Yes or any other thing. In the first 
 place, we have a sense of power to raise an article by 
 molecular law. 
 
 Psychical Research has pointed to the yet unknown 
 law which is as yet beyond the reach of the material 
 scientist whereby the levitating manifestations occur. 
 The electric power by the Spirit, through the medium, 
 is that great power of magnetic force. The levitation 
 of a piano, table, or even a feather is all the same, only 
 *t requires more voltage in one than the other. The 
 same as a man lifting a heavy article, it is necessary 
 to apply more molecules of this force than in lifting 
 something lighter. Even a house might be moved 
 from one place to another by the united force of a 
 large number of Spirits centrifugating their powers 
 upon it and then using their combined power of levita- 
 tion. It is a force millions of times more sublimated 
 than our ordinary terrestrial electricity and much 
 more powerful, and you can see how much power ao 
 small spark of earthly electricity has. Even a moun- 
 tain may be moved. It is stated that the Central Pyr- 
 amid of Egypt was moved a considerable distance by 
 a sufficient number of combined molecules of this 
 great force. 
 
 One little molecule, like a grain of powder, does not 
 
42 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 
 
 amount to much, but when millions upon millions are 
 combined to act as one — then the power is proportional 
 to the number of molecules. That is, the law is the 
 same. 
 
 It was Julius Page, long before the Caesars placed a 
 record in one of the Pyrimads stating of the moving 
 of the Central Pyramid quite a distance by the electric 
 power. This levitating force is called the magnetic 
 or lifting force. This great levitating force is beauti- 
 fully displayed in all the astrological realms, whereby 
 all planets and orbs are held in lovely association. 
 This same force lifts the trees and grass toward the 
 sky, and everything turns to the Great Central Sun, 
 wheerin light and force are supreme. And yet many 
 will wonder that a little tin trumpet can be lifted. 
 The action of the Spirits operating upon this force is 
 called modern Spiritualism. It always has been mod- 
 ern, only we did not know it. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. T. STEAD. 
 
TCecture 3to* U 
 
 Central Sun of All Sun's Spiritual Leviation 
 
 The last lecture was levitation of the material by 
 Spirit intelligences. This lecture will be known as 
 "Spiritual Levitation of the Great Central Sun." 
 
 It pertains to the inmost portals. It centrifugates 
 its forces through all bodies in space propelling them 
 forth into the great open fields of space. It also at- 
 tracts magnetically all orbs in space with what we 
 might term levitating power. These powers, centri- 
 fugal and centripetal, act and counter-act upon every 
 orb in the Universe — holding all planets and all atoms 
 of the whole astrological world in harmonial union, 
 each acting in concert with the whole universe, con- 
 tinual action and reaction similar to a number of 
 balls attached to a number of rubber strings and 
 whirled around, being held in the center. They would 
 all curve around the center as they could not get away 
 from the central point of attraction. So it is with 
 all worlds that must revolve around the Great Central 
 Sun, and all men should conceive the same fact to 
 control themselves — that all of the souls desires may 
 have their centrifugating tendencies held at bay or 
 
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 from running wild by the Central Sun within. Action 
 and reaction are the same in man as in all nature. 
 
 In the first place we gave levitation on the material 
 plane, but this is Spiritual and takes you onward and 
 upward. You often wonder what keeps the Sun, Moon, 
 and all planets from falling, but they are held by this 
 great levitating power derived from the Great Central 
 Sun, of all suns which keeps everything in its relative 
 position to forever remain so. You are living in one 
 constellation. There are many constellations rolling 
 in space, all being protected from plunging into the 
 depths of infinitude never to return were it not for 
 this great levitating force of the Central Sun. Hence 
 the Great Central Sun has the most distant sun or 
 constellation of suns held in its lovely embrace by this 
 great principle of levitation. Hence it follows that no 
 Spirit can go out of the bounds of this affectionate 
 f orce — which will ever protect it like the planets from 
 being lost. Hence no soul can ever be lost in all the 
 wide fields of immensity. 
 
 Huge spheres revolve around certain centers, which 
 result in the changes of the season. But the whole 
 coterie of world systems revolve around the Great 
 Central Sun. And all receive light and heat from it. 
 This principle of levitation is found in all systems of 
 worlds.. 
 
 So action and reaction is in all nature to the re- 
 motest orbs in the fields of infinitude. With each and 
 
Central Sun of All Sun's Spiritual Levitation 45 
 
 every molecule in the Universe, what is apparently 
 lost in one molecule is restored by reaction in another. 
 Planets are repelled by the centrifugal force and then 
 magnetically drawn by the centripetal, or what we call 
 levitating, force. 
 
 The Central Sun is the greatest of al powers com- 
 bined. "Up" and "down" are only terms to express 
 the action of these forces. There is no "down" (as 
 we look at it), to the Great Central Sun. Hence it 
 cannot fall, but must forever remain the positive, the 
 center of all powers of both the centrifugal and cen- 
 tripetal forces. All forces, both Spiritual and ma- 
 terial, are derived from this Great Central Sun- 
 After a Spirit evolves up to the Seventh Sphere he 
 does not stop, but goes on higher and higher, and fin- 
 ally acts as one of the additional forces of power. A 
 Spirit never ceases to progress, for the Spiritual cen- 
 trifugal force is rebalanced by the Spiritual levitating 
 force. Here action and reaction on the Spirit side are 
 again equaled. These evolved Spirits return to the 
 Central Sun and bring with them their own inherent 
 force and to a certain extent enhance the power of the 
 fountain source and contribute to the twirling of 
 worlds through space. 
 
 The levitating force is an endless chain that binds 
 and holds all worlds and ail people together. It is 
 the universal tie that binds world to world and soul 
 to soul. Science used to follow the Bible, but now the 
 
46 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 
 
 Bible must follow science. Hence, scientifically speak- 
 ing, no soul can ever be lost, for this great Spiritual 
 levitating force holds each and every atom in its lovely 
 
 embrace. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. T. STEAD. 
 
TCecture 5to* 12 
 
 Conclusion and Review 
 
 Dr. S. Toman, through W. B. Murphy, medium, 16 
 Barnet Street, Dayton, 0., U. S. A. 
 
 In concluding this series of lectures, I wish to state 
 in a very brief manner a few things relative to the 
 previous lectures. From the first lecture to the last, 
 I have endeavored to bring out the various conditions 
 relating to man, the grand ultimate on the material 
 plane and on to higher spheres, from the Allotment of 
 Man to his astrological relationships, in as concise 
 manner as possible. It is useless to enter into 
 minute details of the lectures as they are complete in 
 themselves. Everything is true therein, as I have 
 examined all of them. The conditions were favorable 
 on the Spirit side of life as well as on the material 
 side. And I was able to keep myself positive to the 
 
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 forces of the medium and the circle of witnesses. 
 Hence I could give the truth as I wanted. These mes- 
 sages were all given in the light in the presence of 
 not less than six creditable witnesses. 
 
 All of these lectures were given by W. T. Stead 
 through W. B. Murphy, the medium, by wireless men- 
 tal induction. They were flashed upon the slate plain 
 enough for the medium to read them. And Dr. Toman 
 acted as a faithful recorder of the messages, which 
 were proof read in the seance rooms with the trum- 
 pet. These messages were given to the people of the 
 Earth Plane for the enlightenment of the whole world. 
 The hell fire and damnation theory has been exploded 
 long ago by science, nature, and all enlightened souls. 
 
 The old creedal doctrines are fast decaying and man 
 is coming into the Spiritual light. The Spirit side of 
 life rejoice to see the light shining into the dark cav- 
 erns of superstition and ignorance. We have taught 
 in all these lectures what glories to expect when the 
 mortal puts on the immortal. These truths, coming 
 from the Spirit side of life, are certainly the grandest 
 of all truth. I have given the various stages of pro- 
 gress from the time a soul enters Sirit life on into the 
 advanced spheres of love and wisdom. 
 
 Read the lectures often and carefully and you will 
 find a balm for your soul. For we come back from the 
 shores of the so-called dead and tell you of the dis- 
 covered land after death. "From whose bourne no 
 
Conclusion and Review 49 
 
 traveller returns" we now can say is not true, although 
 it was said by the immortal great poet. For we do 
 return from that shore. 
 
 The following are the witnesses that bear testimony 
 that these lectures were gives in the light and proof 
 read in the seance rooms : 
 
 Miss Jennie Boyer, Troy, Ohio. 
 
 William B. Murphy, 16 Barnet Street, Dayton, Ohio. 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Murphy, 16 Barnet St., Dayton, Ohio. 
 Robert A. Boner, 556 West Fifth St., Dayton, Ohio. 
 Samuel Toman, 1839 West Third St., Dayton, Ohio. 
 Fred Grundish, 233 N. Williams St., Dayton, Ohio. 
 Mary Manning, 233 N. Williams St., Dayton, Ohio. 
 Frank Dietrick, 528 East Second St., Dayton, Ohio. 
 Frank Flinn, Troy, Ohio. 
 
 Mrs. John Shafer, South Broadway, Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 I will also give a number of intelligences on the 
 
 Spirit side of life to also verify from their individual 
 
 consciousness that the foreging lectures are aboslutely 
 
 true in every detail: 
 
 Andrew Jackson Davis, Thomas Jefferson, 
 Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Payne, William 
 Denton, Robert Ingersol, Elizabeth Ross, 
 Henry Carter, Henry Ward Beecher, Moses 
 Hull, Horace Greely, Henry Webbert, Robert 
 E. Lee, La Fayette, Robert Burns, George 
 Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, J. R. Fran- 
 cis, Queen Victoria, Samuel I. Tilden, Count 
 
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 Tolstay, Bismark, Johnathon Barnes, Henry 
 Clay, Fernandinez, Christopher Columbus, 
 Cicero, John Q. Adams. 
 And now I wish to thank you all for the interest 
 each and all of you have taken in securing these lec- 
 tures. 
 
 Yours for the cause of truth, 
 
 W. TV STEAD. 
 
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