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116 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
ments are played upon
without visible hands. Persons
are raised Dodily from the floor, and carried through the
air, contrary to all received notions of the laws of gravi
tation. Often, the messages which are received from
friends in the spiritual state, are affectingly impressive.
There seems to be no reason for denying these
facts. I have not stated one to which I could not sum
mon hundreds of witnesses, the oaths of any two of
whom would send a man to the gallows. There is no
lack of intelligence, honesty, or numbers in the wit
nesses. There may be some difference of opinion as
to the causes of the phenomena. But it seems to me
that the simplest way is to accept the explanation of
those who avow that they are the real agents in pro
ducing these effects. All the other explanations yet
attempted are absurd. I can readily believe that there
is much delusion connected with pretended spiritual
agencies ; and I see no reason to believe that spirits
are more infallible out of the body than in it. Admit
ting these facts, we have proof of two —of things spir
itual existence, independent of our present material
organization ; and of the power of spirit to act upon
even the gross forms of matter, through certain media,
or with the presence of certain aromal conditions.
In our present organization, the soul appears to act
both independently and through the finer matter of
the brain, the nervous fluid, or animal spirits, upon tho
bodily organs. Each faculty and passion of the soul
has its own special organ, over which it presides as a
bouI ; and as in the organs of the body, the individuality
of these organs is consistent with perfect harmony, and
their harmony with entire individuality.