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                               Part lr
CWAP.                                                           *A0*-
 I.  Of the  Great First Cause.                                          "'
 2.  Of the formation of the Sun and Planetary System?                       *r
 ?,-  Of the formation  of the  Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms,             10
 4.  How and when God breathed into man the Breath of Life,            I1
 5.  The History of Man from the Garden of Eden to the Deluge,             13
 0.  How and why the Deluge was brooght upon  the world—The building
      of Babel and the confounding of the language,                     15
 7.  History of Man from  Babel to the Destruction of Sodom,             IV
 8.  Ot the History of Abraham,                                        1H
 0.  •«  "    "    Lot and the Destruction of Babylon,                   l->
10.  "  "'    "    Jacob and Joseph,                                   ~'
11.  "  "    "    the Children  of Israel,                               *6*
12.  Of the  pnssngo of tbe Children of Israel  over the  river Jordan and the
      wara of Joshua,                                                '■*
1.°..  Of the arrival  of the Israelites in the land of  Canaan—The ftrM  settle-
      ment of America,                                              *"
14.  Of the nations of this country,                                     3:>
Appendix,                                                          ^
  Entered according to Act of Congress, in  the  vear  18X7,  by
                         E. H.  SANFORD,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District t>f Michigan
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LECTURES
BY THE
LABAN  ALVERSON
                     EMBRACING A

           KEY TO MAGNETISM ; AN EXPOSITION
         OF THE THEORY OF THE UNIVERSE; THE
        FORMATION OF THE SUN AND PLANETARY
      SYSTEMS, MINERAL, VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL
     KINGDOMS ;  A BRIEF HISTORY OF MAN FROM HIS
   EARLIEST EXISTENCE TO THE PRESENT TIME, EMBODY-
  ING THE MOST INTERESTING PORTIONS OF HUMAN HISTORY ;
ACCOUNT OF THE MANNER IN WHICH, AND BY WHOM, AMERICA
 WAS FIRST SETTLED.BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER THE DELUGE;
   THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL ; AN EXPOSITION OF NATU-
    RAL LAWS ; A TREATISE ON HEALTH AND DIETETICS;
      THE PROPER THEORY OF GOVERNMENT ; THE
        PROSPECT OF OUR OWN  COUNTRY; THE
           PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE  AND DEATH,
              AND MAN'S FUTURE DESTINY.      .-<aS
                                          .-.• Ayt>
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E. H. SANFORD, Editor
NO. I.
      ANN ARBOR, MICH :
itfBLISHED BY SANFORD AND BROTHERS.
             1847. 
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PREFACE.
  It is true  that  the following lectures are either fiction, or reali-
ty : if the former is true, the public will be  deceived  nearly equally
with the editor and publishers ;—if the revelations (?) possess no more
reality than the mass of exciting novels which have  flooded  and inju-
red the public by finding their way by hundreds, into every periodical
and news room in our cities and villages ;  thence to, and  exciting the
passions of the multitudes, who seek them  with earnestness;—we shalt
feel that we have inflicted a deeper wound  upon society and committed
a greater wrong than time could eradicate  ;—but  if they are as they
may appear to be, unreal in point of fact, from  the  moral tone tbey
breathe, they can have no other than a benign influence upon the pub-
lic mind and help to correct  and restrain  some of the revolting and
dangerous of public and secret wrongs that are  gnawing  upon the vi-
tals of society and prostrating the finer  and  happier  feelings  of  hu-
manity.  If therefore, the Revelations  should possess no  more real
truth,and have  no other than the  influence of a mere moral tale, and
be the means of awakening  but few  to  reflect upon the magnitude of
their wrongs, so far as to know that  *' sin cannot go unpunished," we
w?u!d feai  partially justified  for sending a  "moral  fiction" into the
world.
  But if, on a perusal of the lectures in their order, there is nothing
found more deep, penetrating, searching, convincing,  and more emin-
ently useful than would be found in a mere novel, our high anticipa-
tions will not be realized, and the  paramount design of tbe publication
will be frustrated.
  The lectures  are expressed in   plain  and simple language, without
reference to its  nice and critical construction, and we prefer, as we are
instructed by the  Clairvoyant when  in a  magnetic or poshivestate, to
retain the form and simplioity of expression.  Where we have made
mistakes in writing out the manuscript, he has informed and corrected
us,  without any suggestion or having tbe  copy present—thus correct-
ing errors that would have escaped our notice, and showing in this, as
in many other instances, the superiority of his  perceptions.
  Besides,  in connexion with tbe  appendix to these teefwres, the stub-
born facts there given,  and the expositions which  the lectures  them-
selves must evince to the attentive reader,  wourd ralher show more
reality than fiction.
  If therefore, on a candid  examination,  the truth  of the principles
should appear plain and intefligible,tfoei'r beauty,importance, Mural and; 
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KEY TO MAGNETISM.
 your finger upon a hot iron and the pain would immediately pass along
 the nerves of sensation to the brain ;  the will passing down the nerves
 of  motion, causes you  immediately to  remove  your finger.  These
 nerves of sensation connect with the brain  from all parts of the sys-
 tem.  Pain can  be  removed from  any part  of the system by it.—
 Where there is pain,  there is u lack of electricity. " This can be sup-
 plied and the pain will be removed,
  In speaking of some of ibe benefits of magnetism, I should neces-
 sarily speak of the incalculable  good which must result from Inde-
 pendent Clairvoyance, or  clearsightedness.  And in  order  that this
 subject may appear plain  to  your understandings, I will  explain its
 principles and show yon why a person magnetized can have the vision
 which  I now have.  There  is  a sort  of sympathetic mag'ietism.
 Where this exists in subjects, they  are only partly  magnetized; the
 mind will follow that of the  operator,  and go  no further.  This is
sympathetic  clairvoyance.  Many  suppose  that  the  mind must stop
 here ;  but  who but an Almighty  power  shall say,  Thus far  and no
 further.   My mind goes beyond this, and also the mind of Mr.  Davis,
 who, perhaps is now the best subject  in  the world.   His brain never
 has been tampered with to gratify the idle curiosities of men.   This is
 why he can see better than I can, but I  shall say nothing  except
of that which I can see clearly.
  This nervous electricity is called into action by the operation  of the
 will, and assists the mind in performing its  various  functions; it ac-
companies the mind in every flight of the imagination, and  assists in
conveying the mind to different parts of the world.   This is the nega-
 tive or coarser mind—the mind that man possessed before God breath-
 ed into him or through his  senses the breath of liffe.  This coarser
 mind or electricity, dies with the body, but man has  an immaterial or
 positive mind which never dies, and is the breath that God breathed into
 man when he became  a "living soul."   Now Independent Clairvoy-
ance is when the  mind is not controlled by  the  operator.  The nega-
tive mind or electricity of  which  we have spoken is mostly extracted.
 It leaves the positive mind, which is at liberty to  explore  the regions
of unlimited space.  This is a pleasant state to  be in.   The positive
 mind will always  exist, because it is an integral part of  the great First
 Cause.   This mind is constitutionally handed down from one genera-
 tion to another,—it is  immaterial and endlessly   progressive  after it is
 entirely divested of the negative mind and the body returns to the dust
of the earth.
  Thirdly—By whom were the principles known and practiced.
  Having shown you  the principles of magnetism, and  its benefits,  I
 now proceed to show that human magnetism has always existed and
 that it has been practised from Adam down to the present time.   Cain
 was a magnetizer, but he used it  for a bad purpose.   Abel practiced it,
 but he was a good man and used it for better purposes.  Different in-
 dividuals practiced it down to Noah.  Noah was in an  independent
 state of magnetism when  he prophesied  the Flood ;  his vision was 
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 ■perfect and he could see future events.   It was known by few until the
 days of the prophets.   Daniel was in a positive state when he  inter-
 preted Belshazzar's  dream, and told him he was weighed  in the bal-
 ance and  found wanting.  The  false prophets  and magicians, spo-
 ken of in  the scriptures, were not in  an independent state ; neither
 indeed  coukl they be, because their desires were evil.  Joseph was in
 a positive state  when he prophesied and interpreted dreams.  So were
 many others from Joseph to the days of the Apostles.  Paul was in a
 positive state when in his vision he  was caught  up to  the third heav-
 en ; he had  a clear view of the immaterial mind  which he speaks of
 in a wakeful or natural state, when  he says, w It is sown in corruption,
 hut it is raised in incorruption  ,• it is  sown in dishonor, it  is raised in
 glory ;  it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power."  Where he says
 it is sown in corruption, he means  it is  sown in  the negative mind
 which is corruption.  Here he has direct  reference to the positive or
 immaterial mind  having connexion  with  the  negative mind  in this
 world.
    As  we trace  down, we find that Orrin Mesmer was  a magnetizer ;
 and though he was somewhat acquainted with the principles, and might
 have done much good with them, he  did not—he pretended  to refer the
 principles to  some  miraculous agency connected with himself,  and
 therefore practised deception upon the people.  The principles should
 never  be called  Mesmerism : it  is human  magnetism.  The  course
 which Mesmer  pursued, and also the  course which many at the present
 day pursue, have caused many to disbelieve.  The  principles should
 never be used for mere worldly gain.   They are  designed for good—
: and are of heavenly origin, and calculated  to bring a glorious reform
..sbuot in the world. 
 
CLAIRVOYANT LECTURES.
                         LECTURE I.

  The Deity or First Great Cause, has existed without beginning o-
days and without ending.
  Before the earth was formed there existed on© unbounded immen^it
of space.  This was the  residence of the Great First Cause, whos
wisdom is unbounded, whose love is unbounded, and whose power i-.
unbounded—unbounded in love because His nature is love—unbounded,
in wisdom because His nature is wisdom, love, and power.  Immensi>
ty of space is unbounded ; hence, His power and wisdom have create^
the sun, and other suns besidesours, and other planetary systems which)
revolve around their sun.  All of these  planetary systems are  sup-i
ported by positive and negative electricity.
   Positive electricity is an attractive power, which keeps  each* planet
from striking or going off beyond its proper limits from the sun.
   The negative electricity has a repulsive influence. Were it  not
for the positive electricity, which keeps each  planet in its place, the
negative electricity would drive  them off on a  tangent,  and with an
immense velocity, going at  the rate  of  500,000,000 of miles  in a
minute,  they would be  dashed against other  worlds  and destroy the
whole planetary systems.
   Each sun,  therefore,  by its positive and negative power, keeps all
its planetary systems in  motion, each  acting  in harmony  with the
Great First Cause.
                        LECTURE II.

  Having spoken of the Great First Cause, whose attributes are Love.
Wisdom and Power,  I shall now proceed: to. give you anaccount of the
formation of the sun  and planetary systems.
  The Great First Cause  had' power to,speak all; things into existence
in a moment; but it  was his nature and wisdom to  bring  it about by
progression.  Hence we  see the formation of the sun was the com-
mencement of the work of progression.  The sun, around which the
planetary systems revolve,  is an  immense body  of heat,. 300,00ft
times hotter than melted ore..   This  is composed of electricity and
beat—both positive and negative.   The sun was more millions of years
in forming  than can  be enumerated. 
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   In the progression of time, by  the  power  of negative  electricity.,
there were'large bodies struck off in a tangent or straight line, with
the almost incredible velocity of 500.000,000 of miles in a minute.
   These  planets are supported in their places, or kept  from  striking
off by positive  electricity.  Were  it not for this positive  electricity,
which keeps them from continuing with that velocity, they would come
in contact with, and destroy the whole planetary systems.  Thus we
see a beautiful  system  working  within  itself, and proving the  exist-
ence of the Great First Cause.
   It will be useless  to enumerate here the  planets that  are being dis-
covered, which, with a  knowledge of the laws regulating and control-
ling these worlds, as well  as our own,  should at once  put at rest all
our fears of their destruction,and satisfy us that it is imposible for any
planet to strike either this earth or the sun.
   Having shown thus far the formation of the sun and  planets, 1 will
go on to show  the formation of the earth which we inhabit.   Millions
on millions of  years rolled round in forming this globe—past and fu-
ture time being present with the Great First Cause-  X'1US» tne earth
was long progressing from a floating mass of fire.  By  the power ol
the^un upon this fire, which was continually attracting the finer par-
ticles of electricity, in the process of time there begin to be parti-
cles o| coarse sand.   Thus you see in the  works of progression, that
the earth continued  on till we had land, and by the power of electrici-
ty, this earth began  to be one uneven mass of sand and rocks.
   The works of progression still continued on, dividing the earth, and
forming coarser minerals and land.
   The coarser  minerals were first formed ; such as  stone, then iron
ore, und continuing on, forming  bituminous coal, lead,  zinc, copper,
silver, gold, &c.
   In the process of  time, I discover that water began to accumulate on
the earth.  This was many million years dividing oflf, till at length we
have waters and dry land.  These waters have continued to progress,
and were formerly thicker and more like the Dead Sea, which I shall
dwell upon hereafter.
   Having tthus hastilyigiven you a brief history  of the world, I shall
leave this subject for your consideration until Monday evening.
                         LECTURE ill,

  I now proceed, according to previous engagements, io show the for-
nation of the vegetable aad animal kingdoms, uptoithe time that God
breathed into man the breath of life, when he-became a living soul.
  Having briefly shown you the formation of the earth—that it was a
progressive work, I now remark  that -when the waters were divided
from the earth, and-daylight and darkness appeared,  vegetation was
formed, both  male and female, from the eorth., by the power  of elec- 
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tricity. each bearing seed after their own kind ; and the seed again re-
turning to the earth,  vegetation again started from this.  Thus you see
this is ft progressive work.
  A million of years rolled around before there was any thing in the
shape of animal  liil*.  Nov.-  from the vegetation we discover a dark
slimy substance emanating, similar lo substances seen at  the present
day.  On touching it with a finger, I discover it will quiver or shake.
This is a connecting link between animal life and vegetation.
  One grade above this we see a small insect which we discover has ani-
mal life. A s we ascend above this in the scale of animal life,we discover
various kinds of insects and animals moving about with more animated
life.  Their minds  do not enlarge. Still wesee the work of progression go-
ing on.  We also discover animal life in the waters,where we see a small
insect, but the natural eye cannot see it move.  As we continue to as-
cend in the scale  of being,  we discover  various insects which live in
shells, and various other animals move in the waters of the great deep,
until we arrve at the whale, which Job refers to  when  he says,—
  " He maketh the deep to  boil like a pot:  He maketh the sea like a
pot of ointment.  He maketh  a  path to shine after him ;  one would
think the deep to be hoary. Upon earth there is not his like, who is made
without fear."                                                *
  In   tracing  the  progress   of  these  animals,  we  have found the
connecting link between animals which live on land and those which
Mve in water.   These  are called amphibious animals—'•they would not
live without access to beth land and water.
  I will now continue the history  of animals which live on land.   As
we ascend, we discover a species of the Monkey resembling the Sloth,
slow in motion, which never improves in intellectual faculties. And
ascending still  farther, we  find another species, more active, which
we call at the present day, Ourang Outang.  Their minds  are suscep-
tible of a small improvement.  Three millions of years have now pass-
ed since vegetation was first formed.
  The fourth day, according to Moses, or 4.000,000 of years  from the
time vegetation was first  formed, the species  is formed which we call
man.  But man,  like the beasts of  the field, is not yet suceptible of
moral improvement.  I shall now leave this subject,and my next lecture
will commence with Adam,when God breathed into him the breath of life.
                        LECTURE IV.

  I now proceed, in the fourth lecture, to show how God breathed into
man the breath of life, when he became a living soul.
  The Book nf Moses informs us that God rested on the  seventh Day
from all his labors.  This does not imply rest, because God does not
need rest, but it implies that God ceased from his work of progression in
the animal kingdom, 
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  There are now one million of years from the  time God created man
till he breathed into him the " breath of life," during which time man
lived  and multiplied like beasts, and did not progress in knowledge and
refinement.  After this God breathed into Adam the breath of  life and
" man became a living soul."
  This breath  of life  which God  breathed into him was not animal life,
but it was an  integral  part of the Great First  Cause.   This body.
with the  common mind, shall return  unto dust; but  the breath  of
life which  is the soul,  shall  return unto God ivho gave it.  Thus we
see man  became a living soul, and had the power given  him lo expand
his moral and intellectual faculties.  At this time there was a deep sleep
brought upon him, which was something similar to what is termed a trance
nt the present time, and the nervous electricity or common mind left him.
He remained in this state about four days.
   After he was brought back to his natural stale, ho saw a female beside
him, which he  discovered to bo his wife.  A  rib was not literally taken
from his side, as  many suppose at the  present time ; but he  supposed
from the  impression  made upon  his mind that it was literally  (he case.
Hence he respected  her, and took her to himself for  a  wife.   An im-
pression was wrought  upon Eve at the same time, which made her know
that Adam was to be her husband.
  There were  other   inhabitants  in different  parts that  became  " livin"
souls" about the same time.   Before man became a living soul, the hu-
man species had  no more regard  for each other than the brute creation.
  Now that they wore  made susceptible  of  moral improvement, thty
were placed in a  pleasant garden, surrounded by the beasts of the field.
  As all the works of nature were governed  by laws, it was necessary
that man should have a law by which to be governed.
  If he had not been governed by a law,  he  would not have been sus-
ceptible of improvement.   Hence the command was  given that they
should not partake of all the fruit of the garden. There was a certain fruit
they were forbidden to eat.   This ftuit was  no better than the  rest: it
was merely given lo  them for a law by which they  were  to be governed.
The law  given them was, " the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die."                                                           '
   This death did not mean a literal death of the body, nor soul.   It was
a mere death to their  present ease and happiness.   Had  it been a literal
death, they would have died.   Had it been a  spiritual death, the breath
of God which was breathed into ihern would have died,  thus destroyins
an integral part of Deity  himself.   Thus  you see his laws cannot be
transgressed without  punishment.  By this  their minds were opened,
nnd they saw they had broken the divine commands, and  that they were
about to suffer the penalty.
   They were driven  from this state of happiness, and  were obliged to
get a living by the sweat of the brow. 
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                         LECTURE  V.

  I now proceed with my fifth lecture according to engagement, to trace
man down from the time* he was driven from the Garden of Eden to the
lime of the Deluge,  having previously shown that mankind  were not
susceptible of moral and intellectual improvement before they  broke the
law by which they were  to be governed.   The intention of this law was
not that they should  not literally eat the fruit of a tree, but it was a com-
mandment given for their good ;   and   when  they were driven from
this garden or  place of happiness, they were compelled to get their living
by the sweat of the brow.
  They were  unacquainted  wilh any art or science of  cultivating the
earth, or of manufacturing utensils.  Hence the manner in which they
began to cultivate the earth was hard, and their  facilities, limited.
  By seeing different fruits, which ripened and fell to the ground, and
seeing them  spring up  and vegetate  by  the  process which I have
shown in a previous lecture, Adam saw  that it was necessary that fruit
and  grain should be cultivated for  his subsistence.  Hence he went  to
work with sharp stones  in cultivating the  soil.   But  he soon became
tired of this slow process, and began to invent tools.  Here we discover
the first invention of utensils for cultivating the soil.
  You will here permit  me to  digress and mention, what I have previ-
qusly hinted,  that there were  other inhabitants at this time in different
parts of the country.  Moses gives us no account of  any  others  than
Adam and Eve ; neither does  he deny  the  existence  of any others.—
There were other inhabitants that received the breath of life and became
livin" souls.   These also had commandments given  them which they
broke, and with Adam,  were  drive.j from their (then) present state  of
ease.
  In speaking of man, Moses selected Adam more particularly in order
that the commandments might be  handed down in the most condensed
form possible to future generations.   Hence the account does not destroy
the validity of Moses' history of the world.   You see that after a while
Cain was born a living soul.   He partook more of the  nature of his pa-
rents ; and hence as he advanced in years, he indulged  more of the nat-
ural inclinations of  his parents to do evil  : His brother  Abel being born
after  this, was more meek and humble;  his parents had, on  taking the
second thought, become  more righteous, and were trying to  regain their
former state of happiness.   This was caused by reflecting  upon their
former state and comparing it with the present.  Thus you see why Abel
was thus meek and  innocent.
   At this  time men  began  to follow different employments.  Some were
cnltivating the soil, and  some were attending herds.   We discover,  in
the process of lime, that God required an offering from  the children  of
men.  This offering was to be the  best of their flocus, and made with a
willing mind, or they could not receive a blessing for making the offering.
  This offering was the  type of an offering which the Great First Cause
was to make, in the process of time, and  was designed to prove to the 
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 world that there was to be a spiritual  body raised  in the likeness of trwr
 Great Positive Mind.  This subject I shall dwell upon in a futurp lecture
   Thus we discover tha,t in making the offerings, Cain made his offering
 not willingly, being possessed of a tyrannical mtfid; hence in making hi*
 offering ftp d;d not receive the Messing.  Abel being meek and of a wil-
 ling mind^ne made the offering  of the best of his flocks and  receives* the
 blessing.   This blessing was an enlargement of the positive  mind, which
 was visibly seen mi his countenance.   Cain being angry at this, rushed
 upon his brother and slew him.   Here  we see the  first murder that was
 committed since man became a living soul.  When Cain came to reflect
 upon what he had done, his mind troubled him—the voice which he heard,
 saying unto him, Cain, where is thy brother Abel ? was  not the literal
 voice  of  the  Great First Cause—it was an impression made  upon  hit
 mind, speaking in language which could! not be misunderstood.   He
 tried to excuse himself by saying he did not know where his brother was.
 But the guilt preyed upon his mind like  a canker—there was no peace to
 his mind,  and  it had such an impression upon his mind, that  it was easily
 seen upon his  countenance iii language which could not  be misunder-
 stood that  he was guilty.  This  is the mark which Moses' history informs
 us was put upon him—a  mark which every  murderer cumes  upon  his
 countenance.   It is plain  to be seen upon the countenance of any that are
 guilty of crime.  There was no  place for Cain here—the innocent blood
 of his brother Abel  often appeared to him in his dreams—it was th*
 spirit of Abel on a mission  to punish and refoim Cain.
   Cain supposed  that every one that  saw  him would kil'l him n» be re*
 venged.   As he could not enjoy any peace here, he left the country ;  he
 started —he knew  not where he was going : be went east to the hir.d of
 Nod, as the Bible informs us.   He found a settlement here and married
 his wife—(here were other inhabitants at ihe time the breath of  life was
 breathed into man, as I have previously stated—and here was one of the
settlements.  Cain immediately  went to cultivating the «oil—his knowl-
edge of agriculture was very limited.   He was still troubled on account
of the murder of Abel—it still preyed upon his mind and wore upon his
constitution, till at last he died being only about 500 years old—it short-
ened his life about 200 years from the effect it had upon his constitution.
Here is another evidence that sin cannot go unpunished.
  The descendants of Cain partook of the nature of his mind, rendering
them overbearing,  ignorant and  degraded.
  On continuing the history of the human family down, we see that they
practised all kinds of evil: they  became very immoial and had no reg-
ular laws by which to be governed.   We see that they weie very inac-
tive ;  consequently there was no force lo their physical  constitutions
Their thoughts and imaginations were evil continually ;  they  were not
improving in the moral faculties ;  were given up to  drunkenness and li-
centiousness—all save Noah and his family.
  KWfleik had become corrupted by amalgamation of man and beast.
Hence it was necessary to destroy both man and beast from cite earth. 
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save what went into the ark, (of which  I shall speak hereafter,) or the
work of progression  couhi never have went on.
   Moses' account of its repenting God'  that he had'made man, in »lite-
ral point of view, is not* so.   Repentance implies sorrow for an act done
—God is never sorry.  This should have read, God saw ii was necessa
ry to destroy both man and beast, on account of the sins of man*  Hence
follows the flood, of which I shall speak in  my next lecture.
                         LECTURE VI.

  Having stated, in my previous lecture, that  it became necessary to
destroy man and beast from the face of the earth because they had'  be-
come corrupted and sinful, 1 shall now  proceed' to show the manner in
which they were destroyed;   Here we discover that all the haman iamily
were destroyed- but  the righteous.  Noah and-his family, including his*
children who were married,  and their families,, the only righteous ones
that then existed upon ihe face of the earth, were saved.
  Noah had often warned, the human  family  that there was a storm
gathering—that they  would be destroyed unless they repented ;  but they
regarded not his counsel and were finally destroyed in the flood.
  I shall  here explain a mystery which Moses did  not fully unfold in
his history of the flood..  Moses was a good man, and'so far as he  under-
stood,  he  was  correct.  His knowledge did not extend over the whole
earth at this time ;. he did* not know the  number of the different kinds of
beasts  that inhabited other par>ts of the earth.   There were many differ-
ent kinds of animals destroyed of which he does not speak..  It would bo
impossible to get two of each kind into the Ark that then existed on the
earth.   An impression was made upon the mind of Noah that he  should
build an ark, that he and1 his  posterity might escape the Deluge  which
was about coming upon the  world.   There were existing previous to the-
Deluge, about one feundred million beasts and human beings ;  and  Noah,
his family, a few fowls of the air, and beasts of the field of each k ind, so
far as  Moses knew, were saved.   Tbe  beasts and'fowls which.entered.
the ark were tamed and had  not been corrupted.
  Now comes the Deluge, of  which Noah  had long an impression:—
Various opinions exist in regard to the manner in which the flood came
upon  the  world.   Some suppose that it  actually rained io torren's  for
forty days and  forty nights,  and some suppose that a comet passed over
the earth and attracted the waters; others are of opinion that the poles
of the earth changed  ^ bur neither of these theories are correct..  Twill
now  simply explain it so that you will all understand it by way of com-
parison.   You may take a pail of water and pass it with suchrjpidity
over your head, that the water will not move in the pail.   You may stop
this pail when it is bottom side  up, and- the water will immediately rush
out.   It was so with the earth, which was stopped' in its motion around
the sua* as incredible ae it  may appear to some The watess immedi- 
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ately rushed forth, and rapidly covered the face of the earth, destroying
man, beast, the fowls of the air, and many of the large animals that lived
in the water, sweeping the forests and burying large trees in the earth.
   When the motion of the earth was again started, the waters immedi-
ately rushed back to their former places.   The rush of the waters to and
fro upon the earth  is what cnused so many hills, valleys, mountains, and
so many different sources of streams, as I shall  show in  some future
lecture.
   Further  evidence  that I have  told you correct, may be found in the
fossil remains of large animals buried deep in the earth.   These animals
existed before  the flood, and we have no  history of their existence 6ince
that time.   These bones  will never become decomposed  till they are
exposed to the air.   There is an electricity which attaches itself to them
and prevents  their decay while they are covered in the earth.   Large
forests, as I have hinted,  were  swept down by the flood and covered in
the earth, and  by the process of heat caused by the electricity contained
in the trees when they were buried, they have become so far decomposed
as to produce coal.
   We shall now proceed with the  history of  Noah, his  posterity, and
also the animals which  were saved with him.  Immediately after the
flood, we see Noah, his family and the beasts  again upon  the earth, and
the fowls in the air.
   Oh ! how sad a change !  Would it not be well for the children  of men
to take warning and improve the moral faculties and prevent their sudden
destruction!
   We see the posterity of Noah fast increasing.  They were commanded
to multiply, and replenish the earth ; and passing over many events that
would be interesting had  1 time to trace  them out, we see the  posterity
of Noah multiplying  and again following different pursuits—some tra-
ding, some hunting ;  forming different settlements.
   Among the mighty hunters, we see  Nimrod, spoken of by Moses.
He had become  a  great  hunter, and also a very wicked man—he had
become so profane and wicked that his conscience told him in language
that could not be misunderstood that he justly incurred the displeasure of
the Almighty.   Hence he formed a  plan to build an ark  in which to es-
cape in the event of another flood.    Ho  had often tried to invent  an ark,
of which Moses does not speak—but he finally invented a plan of build-
ing a Tower.   Hence there was a tax laid upon the  inhabitants  for ma-
king bricks.   These bricks were made in a different  manner from those
of the present day.  They commenced  a greet building,  covering two
acres of ground, and were making great progress, when we see another
interposition of Divine Providence.  Here  we see their language con-
founded, and they were  in confusion and consternation.   They aban-
doned the project and passed  into different parts of  the earth,  forming
different nations and different languages.
   I will now pass to the close of  this lecture by a brief  remark on the
animals which left the ark.   From them sprung the different animals
which inhabit the earth atthe present day.  Climate,  amalgamation, &c.
are the causes of the different species which exist at  the present time. 
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                        LECTURE VII,

   I shall continue on with the history of man from the time the lan-
guage was confounded  down to the destruction  of Sodom.
   When the langjage  was confounded, you recollect I said all was
consternation  and  amazement.   No two  could  understand   each
other except families.  They necessarily separated and went into
different parts of the earth ; some went  East—some went West—some
went North and others went South.  At this time they, were all of one
blood and of rather a swarthy or copper complexion.
   Going in different climates from warm  to cold and from extreme
heat to extreme cold,  reason will  show us at once,  would  entirely
change tbe blood and  complexion.  At once  therefore, we  discover
why there are different nations, different languages and people of dif-
ferent blood.
   I will now turn te the  family which  went Northward forming dif-
ferent settlements, multiplying and replenishing the  earth.   But you
will perceive that in passing along with  my lecture, I must necessarily
leave many things interesting which I  have  not  time to dwell upon.
In tracing this company which went north, we  soon discover that they
pass along Bhering^s straits into North  America.   They crossed upon
a  narrow  neck  of ice.   These straits have since been widened by the
current of water.  Before the  flood they were  connected by  land.
Now we see the Western Continent settled for the first  time after the
flood.
   Many centuries have passed away since this was  settled  after the
Deluge.  We see this  company  still passing on,  forming larger set-
tlements,  building cities and forts, the remains  of  many of which, are
plain to be seen at the present day.
   We see these settlements often at war with each other, the  stronger
overpowering the weaker, one driving the other further away until we
find South  America settled.
   These companies built Forts as they passed along ; and as they were
driven from these by their enemies,  these forts  were  enlarged and
strengthened.   At last  these in turn were  overpowered  and taken  by
three of the lost tribes of Israel, which I shall dwell upon more particu-
larly  in a  future lecture.
   Permit  me to turn your altention back to  the tower of Babel, and
trace down  the history of other  individuals;   We see  some  going
south following  various pursuits,—some hunting,—some cultivating the
so\\,—some working in metals,—and  others building vessels with
which to navigate the water.
   I cannot follow each family down separately—time will not permit.
f design to follow Abraham and Lot, with  whose histories tbe human
family are especially concerned.   We see Abraham  and  Lot,  about
seven centuries after the Deluge, traveling with their flocks together
until they come to a large plain.   Here they formed a settlement and
lived  until  their servants got contending about their herds.  Here we 
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see, notwithstanding all  the wrongs they had been punished  for, they
were yet inclined to do evil, contending, fighting and stealing, till  at
last Abraham proposes to Lot that they separate;  that there was room
enough without living in contention.   Abraham  was more  peaccablo
(bun Lot, he having moro  positive mind, as he  partook  more of the
nature of Noah than any  of  his descendants..   We  follow  Lot along
till at last he is settled in a  city.
  Here we see that the inhabitants had given  themselves up to  all
manner of wickedness.   It became  necessary to destroy them ; and
here we see again that the wicked  cannot escape  punishment;  the
time had arrived for the destruction of  the city; Lot  was  warned to
escape by two good men  whom he supposed were angels.  These men
were the descendants of Abraham  and  had  (he power of  prophecy.
Lot warned his wife and family to escape with  him ;,. they  would not
go, but his  wife started.  She, disbelieving, stopped to return, and here
we discover she died.  She was in a certain state of atmosphere which
petrified her.  She did not literally become a  pillar of  salt.  There
she remained for a long time.
  Here we see that many  Infidels are made on this point of scripture,
believing it impossible for  not only Lot's wife to  turn  into  a pillar of
salt, but for fire and brimstone to rain  down  from heaven ;  but let us
for a  moment look at this subject.   Here  we see large  quantities of
brimstone and sulphur; many dealt in  the article ; and the springs
were  very  sulphurious.  Yon see it was in  the  extreme  heat of sum-
mer.   We see this took fire by the rays of heat from  the sun, as the
city was filled with eombustible matter, and almost instantly  we see the
city was in flames.  This  took place about 12 o'clock,  about  the 15th
day of the 5th month, answering  to July.  This  was  the 10th Century
from  the time of the flood.  Tbe city presented  the appearrnce of fire
and  brimstone raining dawn from heaven, as seen by Lot on the hill.
   Turning your attention  to  the promise given  to  Abraham, we see
that in him and in his seed should all the nations  and kindreds of  the
earth be blessed.  These promises have stood, which  I shall  show in a
future lecture.  Though all the powers of wicked men combined should
try to overthrow them, they are  promises on which we  may rely.  I
have only  to state, in  this lecture, that the historv  of Sodom  was
written by  Lot  on a piece of goat skin and afterwards handed down
to' Mosee,
                        LECTURE  VIII.

   1 shall now proceed with the history  of  Abraham, the human family
being more particularly interested in his history ; because it was to him
and (o his seed that (he promise wes given, and through them that all the
nations of the earth should be blessed.
  It arongly appears to many incredulous  persons that a man at Abra- 
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ham's  advanced age,  should  be blessed with children.   But when wo
consider the physical constitution of man at that day and age of the world,
that they lived at an advanced  age—some five, some  six, some eight,
and others  near ten hundred years of age,  it is not to be  wondered that
Abraham should be favored with children when he wosone or two hun-
dred years old.   Man's life has  been  shortened by breaking physical
and mora!  laws, as I shall  show in soma future lecture.  But thero are
here,  many things which 1  must necessarily  pass over  for want of time
and hasten  on to the birth of Isaao and show another fulfilment of pro-
phecy.  Here we discover  the peculiar state of mind Abraham was in
when he thought he was required: to offer up Isaac as an offering to God.
Moses  supposes  that it was a voice from God which Abraham, heard
when he was impressed with the idea of offering up Isaac  as an offering.
Abraham accordingly took  Isaac ard started with him to a mountain.
When  he  arrived at  the  mountain, Isaac did1 not know  Abraham's in-
»ention  of  offering him up as a burnt offering.   After the wood was all
prepared and everything was ready, Isaac asked his father what the of-
fering was.  Abraham  still laboring und.eirthe same impression, told him
that God would prepare an offering.   Here you, see he bound Isaac, and
as he raised his knife to slay him, Abraham's attention was arrested by  a
noise in the bushes near by ;  and here the impression that Isaac was to
be offered  left hirn.  Abraham, then discovered a large  ram that w;\s
entangled  in  a thicket of bushes so that he could not  get away, and  Abra-
ham offered  him instead of Isaac.
   Now Abraham was laboring under a high state of nervous excitability,
and in his dream, his mind  being  seemingly diseased', he got the impres-
sion that God required  him  to. offer up his own son a. sacrifice.  But
God did not  require this sacrifice to be made, as Abraham and  Moses
supposed.   Bui as Abraham had'his miftd thus excited with the impres-
sion resulting from what I  have  just stated,, and his profound reverence
for God and  au unbounded faith in His dealings with men, it was no pro-
vidence in procuring Isaac for  an offering:  but it was a prov;dence  in
Abraham's taking Isaac to the mountain where ihe ram was entangled ;
for if Abraham's atlant'on had.notbeen arrested by the noise, Isaac would
have  been killed..
                         LECTURE IX..

  Here permit me to turn your attention for a few moments to the his.
tory of Loi.  We have seen that  he was saved from  the destruction of
Sodom  on account of his righteousness.   Hij posteiity was all  cut off
save his two daughters.   It was necessary to  have his seed  preserved ;
and here we see  his two daughters got him  drunk  on wine.   At the pre-
sent enlightened nse of the world, this would be, as it would appear, very
unjustifiable and wrong;  but when we come to eon>iderihe dark agent 
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 which they livtd, it  does not appear so  inconsistent  and immoral ag it
 would seem at the present day.  1 shall  now leave the history of Lot for
 the present, following the history of man dowu to Babylon, passing over
 many things which would be interesting, had I time to relate them.
   We set the most  of the human  family had forgotten to place that de-
 pendence on the Great First Cause which was essentinl to their prospe-
 rity and happiness.   We see them wandering into sins  of all kinds, fol-
 lowing out the inclinations  of their own evil  propensities,  committing
 depradations upon, stealing and  robbing from, and imbuing their hands
 in the blood of, each  other.   Many cities were buik; the builders of
 which, were often overcome by more powerful tribes.  One tribe suc-
 ceeded by  a  more  powerful tribe, were driven from  their  habitations
 without any humanity, again seeking a home in some  distant country.
   Tracing them along in their cruelties,  and following a history marked
 with blood and crime, we se« them  finally building the city of Babylon,
 a description of which I will now give.
   This city wa9 overthrown  several  time.*, and a great many of the  in.
 habitants were murdered and taken into bondage worse than  deatb itself.
 We at length see the city built, surrounded by a wall of stone.  These
 walls have the appearance of being one solid stone, but they  were small
 stones cemented together.
   Now we see the city surrounded by a solid wall of store, which crosses
 a large stream that waters  the city.   The bottom of the stream is a solid
 rock.  There are three pillars built from the bottom of this to the top of
 the water  (where the wall crosses the stream,)  by  which the wall is sup-
 ported.  This wall surrounds  several acres.  Here  is where the Jews
 were  brought when  in  Babylonish captivity ;   and here they remained
 400  vears;  both male and  female  had  to labor  early and late—were
 obliged to carry  heavy  burdens,  sometimes falling under fatigue und
 heavy loads.   They  sometimes were taken, stripped  and  whipped very
 cruelly; some were  whipped lo death ; some perished with hunger after
 they  had worn themselves out with work.
   Here we have another  prophecy  of  Moses fulfilled :  When it was
 morning they longed for night; when it was night they longed for morn.
 mg ;  they longed  for death  when  they  could not die—these scenes of
 cruelty were long practised upon them.
   Here I  will give a description of  the hanging  gardens  which  thev
 were compelled to build :  Stone walls were built up several h-et above
 the  top of  the main wall.  These  were so arranged that  they could
 be covered with dirt.   The Jews who  were brought here were compelled
 K>  carry materials for the gardens.   The King had many wives, and  lie
ordered these gardens  built  to please them.  Thev  were one hundred
years in building the garden*; many kinds of fruit were raised in them,
making it a  beautiful  resort; the scenery around was pleasant to be-
hold,  having a  view  of the  distant hills  and plains :hat surrounded the
waJis, and  nUo the  stream  ihat run through  the city.   This scenery
would aim ><t render the city  a paradise below,  were it not for fhe mise-
ries that warn practised upon the people,  and other tins that were  corn. 
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mitted.  Had the Babylonians known their God and1 obeyed his com-
mandments, here they could have enjoyed happiness beyond expression,
but they were destined to fall on account of their sins.   The  king in-
dulged in luxuries, was often intoxicated with wine, and for want of phy-
sical exercise or industry, he was afflicted with the gout—his whole sys-
tem had become diseased—his brain was consequently impaired and his
mind had become shattered.   This was the condition he was in  when he
dreamed he was  " weighed in the scales and found wanting."  He often
had the Delirium Tremens ; and the city could not stand  amidst all  the
scenes of cruelty and misery.  Hence  the destruction,  the manner of
which, I will now relate—and is  it to be wondered  that they  were de-
stroyed ]  The  walls could not be broken, nor scaled;  the gates could
not be broken, scaled nor opened ;  and how were they to be taken? Here  >v
let  us look  a moment at ihe situation of the stream whieh  run thi'oughjho
city.   After passingthrough the city, it runs to the south ; and in about
two miles of the city, it nearly comes together, running around a strip of
land, and bearing some resemblance  to the crook and  form of an ox
bow.  The besiegers  dug a trench  across this strip, and altered  the
course of  the river, leaving it dry under the arch which was over the
river, so that the army could pass through in the dead of the night when
many of the inhabitants were drunken and most of them asleep,  and  took
them by surprise ; and here 1 must leave this subject until some future
lecture.
                          LECTURE X.

  I shall now  proceed  with the  history of Abraham,, with which the
human family are so deeply interested.  The promise that was given to
him I have already mentioned, and have shown how Is*»c  was preser-
ved.
  I shall now pass over many things of interest and profit and come
immediately to the birth  of Jacob and Esau, who were the sons of Isaac.
Jacob and Esau are spoken of  as  the heads of two nations where  it is
said, "Esau have I hated, and Jacob have  I loved."  This prophecy,
as I have  just hinted, was in  a  national  point of view.   Tracing the
history of Esau and Jacob we see Esau selling his birth-right, just as we
see many at the present  day, to satisfy their evil propensities.   Here we
see the manner in which Jacob got the blessing instead of Esau.   Now
I must necessarily leave the history of Esau and trace that of Jacob.
We see Jacob traveling east  of  Canaan—night overtakes him, and he
lays in the  open field.   Whilst the dews of  heaven were falling upon
him, he had a vision.   In this vision the promise again appeared to him,
that in him  and his seed  should all the nations  of the earth be blessed,
and that hisseed should be multiplied as the sands upon the sea shore.
In tracing this history down, we see this promise was fulfilled.  I must
uo.w pass over the history of his marriage, which any one can learn by 
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 reference to Moses' history.   I must pass along till after the bir'th of his
 ten children.   Many  of them practised bad habits; they were  given to
 lyiug, stealing and contention among themselves  and others.   Joseph
 was more mild and meek—he was kind and affectionate to his  parents,
 to his brothers and to  all around hirn.   He was so kind and affectionate
 to his parents that they placed much confidence in him.   His father loved
 him with all the attachment and affection of a tender parent;   and his
 brethren envied  and hated him.  Being young he was necessarily under
 his father's eye.  He was often sent with errands,  while his older breth-
 ren were in the field taking care of herds.  Now Joseph was possessed
 with  the spirit of prophecy on account of his having so much more of the
 positive mind than the rest.   You see thn  manner in which he related
 liis dream lo his brethren when he dreamed they were in the field binding
 sheaves; their sheaves  made  obeisance to his, and  when  he  told his
 brethren of this dream they envied him and laid plans to lake his life.
   And when   he dreamed the sun, moon and eleven  stars made obei-
 sance to him, they envied him  the more.   They supposed that  he  was
 aspiring to be  their ruler, and they iaid plans to destroy him ; and they
 fell upon him and beat him with clubs.   They supposed they had killed
 him, and they  threw lum in a ditc1:.   They then killed  a kid and  lore
 and blooded his  coat and sent one of their number with  the coat to his
 father to excuse themselves, adding sin to transgressions.   While  one
 of them was gone with the coat the rest left him in the ditch.   One of the
 number returning again, saw signs  of  returning life, and called  the  rest
 to know what  should be done with him.  By this time he had so far re-
covered that he was able to stand up.   While  they were devising means
 to make way with him, they saw a company of Egyptians who had been
 out on a trading expedition and were  returning.   They  sold Joseph to
 this company,  and he was carried into Egypt.
   Here let me  turn your attention lo Jacob.  He mourned and could
 not be comforted.  On Joseph he relied for support in old age,  because
 Joseph was so  kind to  him,  but still his confidence was unshaken in the
 promises.   Here I shall dwell more particularly upon  this subject,  be-
 cause Joseph was a type of the  promised Messiah which was to come.
   Now I must follow Joseph into Egypt: After a while we see him cast
 into prison, of  which Moses has spoken.  But he received much  ill treat..
nient  not mentioned by Moses.   At one time he was cast into a loathe-
some  cell.  He was condemned to remain here for life : no rays of light
penetrated his  cell; and he had no  friend to administer to his wants.—
He remained in this dark and dismal  cell for nearly one  year, when he
 was removed.  In all this, he did  not complain; his confidence  was  un.
shaken in God—he  believed that  he would yet see  his father  and his
brethren.
   The manner in which  he was delivered from the prison, I will now
tell.   Moses spoke  of two individuals being cast  into prison about  this
time.   These men had  dreams, and Joseph intcrr.reted  the dreams in
prison :  one was to  be  liberated in three days, and the other was to be
executed.   This did literally take place—one was liberated and the other
was executed. 
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  Passing now to the history of Pharaoh the King, who ruled th.3 Egyp-
tians at this time, we see that he too had a dream.
   "And it came to pass, at the  end of  two  full years, that  Pharaoh
breamed; and,  behold, he stood by the  river.  And, behold, there came
up out of the river seven well favored  kine,  and fat-fleshed;  and they
fed in  a meadow.   And, behold, seven other kine  came up after them
out of the river, ill-favored and'lean-fleshed, and stood bv the other kine,
upon the brink  of the river.   And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed kine
did eat up the well-favored  and fat kine.  So  Pharaoh awoke.   And he
slept and dreamed  the  second  time:  «nd, behold, seven  ears of corn
came up upon one stalk, rank  and good.  And, behold, seven  thin ears,
and  blasted with the east wind, -sprung up after them.   And  the seven
thin ears devoured the seven rank and  full ears.  And Pharaoh awoke,
 and, behold, it was a dream-1'—Genesis, xli :  1—7.
   This dream  troubled  him  much.   He  sent for  all  the magicians
throughout all the land of  Egypt,  to  interpret  his dream.   This they
could  not do.  These magicians were false  prophets; they  prelended
to do miracles and deceived mnny people; they practised the art of leg-
erdemain, and made many things appear real  which was nothing  but
their own deceptions and the works of  their own hands.
   Here you see that Pharaoh  was still troubled.   His mind was like  the
troubled waters that cast up mire and dirt because of his wickedness.—
 He finally sent for Joseph to interpret  his dream.  Joseph interpreted it
by telling that there was to be  seven years of  plenty and seven years of
famine.   On account of this we see  Joseph gains  favor with Pharaoh
and is immediately liberated from  prison, when at length we see him
ruler overall the household of Pharaoh and the land of Egypt.   He does
not once abuse  the power that is .given him;  still retains  that peaceful
mind, looking forward to the day wneo he  would see his father, and all
his brethren, whom he yet loves,—another type  of  our saviour, showing
that he loved his brethren who supposed they  had destroyed  him ;  still
providing for their wants and giving them time to come unto him.
   Here we see Joseph laying up  provisions during the seven years of
plenty throughout Egypt, preparing for the  seven yenrs of famine, till
at length we see a famine raging throughout  all  the different  countries,
 with aplenty in Egypt, the provision that Joseph had made.
   Here we  see, had it not been for the preservation of Joseph, all  the
nations of the earth would again have been  cut  off.   Here again we  see
 a beautiful type of our saviour.  Joseph's brethren supposed that they
 had slain him, but he lived to be their saviour.   The Jews supposed that
 fiaeyhad slain  the  Saviour, but he still lived, and will continue to  live
until all the nations of the earth are freed  from sin.-,.
   At  length we see Joseph's brethren  coming to him to  buy provisions.
 He knew them  but did not let  himself be known unto them ; he accuses
them of being spies;  and we see them bowing do\vn to him, pleading
their innocence, fulfilling his dream respecting the sheaves of wheat.—
See with what earnestness  he inquires  for his father, the  old man.  We
see his brethren tormented on account  of their "fins— proving that  sia 
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 cannot go unpunished, till at last Joseph retains one of thffitr number ana
 sends  the rest back to Canaan Men with provisions.
   Now turning your attention to Jacob for a  moment, we see that when
 they return with the provisions the old man mourns tbe lossof Joseph,and
 another beloved son.  He tells them it will bring his grey hairs with sor->
 row to the grave.  We see them again compelled to return for provisions,
 and they go into the presence  of Joseph, who does not yet make himself
 known unto  them.  He loads them down  with  provisions, orders the
 money to be  put in each  of  their sacks, and places a silver cup in the
 sack  of the younger brother; and  while they are journeying towards
 Canaan, Joseph sends a messenger after them with orders to search  their
 sacks, commencing with the oldest and searching  down to the youngest,
 and also with orders to bring  the person back in whose possession the
 silver  cup should be found.  When  the silver cup  was found with the
 youngest, they were about to take him back, and here we see the brothers
 of Joseph are again troubled on account of their past transgressions, and
 supposed it a  punishment sent  upon them for the murder of their brother.
 With sorrowful hearts they  all returned to Joseph.  Here we have a sol-
 emn season :  they  all bow before Joseph  and  plead their innocence,still
 feeling guilty for their past offences.   They refer him to their father;
 tney told that they had had a  brother Joseph who was dead ; they said
 unto him that if their youngest brother were  retained, their father could
 not survive the shock  which it would produce upon bis mind.   What a
 solemn time they had!  Even Joseph could not refrain from weeping.—.
 He went into a room by  himself  and  wept  aloud.  They were all  in
 tears, when Joseph ordered all out of the room but  his brothers.   He
 now lets himself be known to his  brethren ; and here again is a solemn
 event in their history : they embrace each other with  all the tender  feel.
 ings of an affectionate family.   They began  to make excuses to him.—
 He tells them to  weep not;  they meant it for evil, hut God designed  it
for good.                                        *
   Now here permit me again to return  to the promised  Messiah,this
 being a type of him.   He  was a brother to the Jews.  They supposed
they had murdered  him, but he is yet providing for their wants, spiritually
—and he will not let himself be known to them  all, until the last one is
brought in—he will yet be their deliverer, as  \ shall show  in some fu-
ture lecture.   So Joseph did not let himself be known unto his brethren
until they were all gathered  around him—thus showing  that sin cannot
go unpunished, and that God over rules in the counsels of his own  wis-
dom.   Here Joseph lets his brethren be known unto Pharaoh, who im-
mediately invites Joseph to send for all the family, of Jacob that they  may
dwell in the land »f Egypt.
  In. passing along, we see  them all arrived in Egypt, being, severity  in
number, and  again  we have  an affecting scene, the  meeting of Joseph
and his father.   Joseph's  father receives  him with fond  embraces ; he
says, " can this be Joseph whom f supposed was dead ?*'  Joseph says,
M My father, my father | let us not again be separated."
   In passing along we see that Jacob dies and was buried by Joseph, with 
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ftiis fathers in the land of Canaan.   But I must pass over  this pleasant,
though affecting scene, to a further  history of the natien.
   We see them multiplying in the land of Egypt, not intermarrying with
the Egyptians.  But at last a decree had gone  forih,  that every male
child should be destroyed;  many  were  thrown into the river.   About
this time Moses was born, of whom, also, I shall speak in a special man-
ner; for in  him is another  type of our saviour.  This  type represents
the decree given out by Herod, in  order to destroy our saviour;  but he
was preserved to  be the Deliverer of the world,  of mankind ; whilst
Moses was saved to be the  deliverer of the Israelites.
   The mother of Moses placed him in a tight basket made out of a sort
of willow which would not  sink in the water, and left him where he was
found by Pharaoh's daughter.   When she went to  find a nurse to take
care of the child, she found  his own mother !   How affecting to have her
own son restored to her arms!  But notwithstanding this nation  contin-
ued to multiply till they became so numerous that they were about to be
delivered from bondage, the  Egyptians still continued to oppress them and
place heavy  burdens  upon  them which they could  not bear.  At length
they were compelled to gather up their straw and make bricks, when we
see Moses pleading with Pharaoh to let them  go out of  the land.   Now
Pharaoh was a wicked king, and it seems that the time had about arrived
for the Egyptians to be destroyed  on account of their wickedness;. it
seems also that Pharaoh was raised  up for the very purpose of destroying
the Egyptian nation, on account of their wicked indulgences; showing
that nations, through the dispensations of Providence are  liable to be
swept from the earth.  We see Pharaoh often  promising to let the Israel-
ites go,, and as often refuses,  till we see  the plague sent upon the nation :
ihe first born throughout all  the land of Egypt are destroyed in one-night,.
but the Israelites were saved.   The sprinkling of the doorposts of the
Israelites with  blood which Moses speaks of, is a figurative representation
of our Saviour that was to he crucified.   This blood, therefore, was not
literally sprinkled upon the- door posts.
                          LECTURE  XI.

   I sha.ll;still continue the  history  of  the Children of Israel, on their
journey from the land of Egypt to the land of Canaan..
   When Israel went into, the land of Egypt there were-but seventy
persons young and old.  After remaining a  long, time in bondage,  as
I have shown you,  they started, from the land of Egypt,, being a large
company, and number over twelve hundred thousand,  young and old j
but Moses mentioned 600,000 men on foot.
   Moses being the leader, they  follow  his direction and left the land
of Etrypt.   From the time Joseph was sold to Egypt till the time they
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   On leaving this country,  they borrowed  all the gold  they  could,
 from vhe Egyptian women.   This was  done in order to destroy the
 Egyptian nation as we shall presently-see.   They were n short way
 on their -journey to the land-of "Canaan, when we see Pharaoh, with a
 large army, pursuing them  to bring them back again into bondage,
 after he'had once let them go.   We-follow them on their journey only
 a short way, when we see them  complaining and murmuring.  They
 were soon in a suffering condition for want of provision.   Moses gives
 an account of manna being rained down from heaven for them.  This
 manna was  something similar  to honey dews  which we have at the
 present (day, but it was in a much greater abundance.
   They continued along until we see  them  in  a land where >there is
 an abundance of quails,  with which they are supplied, but still we see
 them continually murmuring and complaining.
   The pillar of fire;by night and the cloud of smoke by day, by which
 they  were  guided, was not  literal.   The pillar of  fire was a
■figurative representation of the Savior, the  promised Messiah.  The
 cloud of  smoke was a  figurative  representation that they were to be
 delivered from the'Egyptians.
   In passing still further we find them at length complaining for water.
 I will here mention the Rock,  which  Moses smote  when tho water
 gushed forth.  This rock was a  large slate stone, from which a spring
 runs at the present day.   Moses broke off a piece  of this 'rock and
 found an abundance of water, for their  supply.   As they pass along
 we see they  are again complaining.  At length  they arrive at tho Red
 Sea.   Here they have the Red Sea in front,  with hills on either side,
 and in their rear the Egyptian army,; so that it was impossible for them
 to retreat. And here it would appear that they were to be taken.   But
 Moses' confidence wasgreat;  and as he viewed the Red Sea, he saw
 the waters were receding.   This was near  the  shore—a distance of
 about two miles.  The tide passing back,  Moses and  his  company
 passed through, and he supposed that he caused the waters to recede.
 They arrived safe through  on the opposite side; Pharaoh  and  his
 company followed in the rear.   There were many stories and rocks
 here;  and in  their passage, the wheels to the  chariots  belonging to
 Pharaoh's army were broken, and the army was consequently delayed ;
 and when the tide returned  with a strong wind, they could not make
 their escape, and the waters rushed back upon them very suddenly and
 overwhelmed them in a watery grave.  'Here Moses looked back and
 saw  them driven to the shore, and destroyed,  and the company were
 greatly rejoiced at being again delivered from the Egyptiatis.
   In passing along with the company, we see Moses leaving them and
 going to  the  Mountain to write the Law which was handed down by
 them to succeeding generations.   Here in this Mountain Moses had a
 Trance ; and in his trance the Law was plain to his mind; and after
 coming out of itliis trance he wrote the Law in hieroglyphics, with his
^finger, on a  parchment of goat skin, which he bad prepared.
   Returning to the company, with the Law  or  Commandments under 
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his arm, he found that the childreu of Israel had made 'golden images
and were gone to worship them.  Here we see Moses was angry and
sinned, by destroying the commandments.
  He finally  returns to the mountain and has  another vision, which
was not as perfect as the first, and after writing the commandments, be
returned to the company.
  These commandments  were kept, and he proceeded  with the com-
pany.  In following them along, they were often afflicted on account
of their sins.    Many died with various  diseases, until we find them
among the fiery serpents spoken of by Moses.   These fiery -serpents
were stings of conscience, of which many died.   The brazen serpent,
upon which they looked and were healed is a figurative representation
of our Savior.   All who  look upon him and believe are saved from
these stings of conscience.  Still pursuing them along,  we  see them
lost in a  wilderness  of sin and unbelief,  till at last Moses dies.  He
had become so imperfect  and  took so much prsise  upon himself, he
was  not permitted to  pass into the promised land.   This account is
handed down as though it had been written by Moses, but it was written
by Joshua.
  Jn passing along, we see the company arrive at the river Jordan.
                        LECTURE XII.

  In this Lecture I shall continue the history of the children of Israel
across the river Jordan to the land of Canaan.  And here  permit me
to digress from the main subject, lo mention that lam placed in rather
critical and  delicate circumstances.   These lectures are to be  pub-
lished to  the worid.  There  is yet much opposition to the principles of
Clairvoyance, especially by many professed followers  of our Savior.
They ignorantly  fear that  it will overthrow their particular creeds.
Many things, which  I have mentioned, and will  mention hereafter,
that have not been handed down by Moses, as history,  they will deny.
Many dark and  mysterious passages which have been translated, I  shall
make plain, adding the reasons  for my conclusions.   Those dark and
mysterious passages have  made many infidels  in  our world, but the
time is fast approaching when all men shall see alike.   Mr., Davis, of
New York, will be the means of assisting in bringing this great reform
about.   He is engaged in the same cause in which 1 am now engaged,
in bringing about a great reformation in ihe world.  And although we
are many miles separated in ouruatural stale, and have never had any
communication with each other, when  we are both speaking upon the
same part,  our statements, (.except in reckoning dales,) will in no wise
come in collision with  each other.
   1 will  now turn  your attention-to-the children of Israel at the river
Jordan where I left them last evening.  Moses'  history  informs  us 
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that the waters were divided  and set back.   The manner in which
they crossed is plain to my vision.  The bible  history informs us that
the Israelites remained here three days before they  could cross the
river.  This was a longer period according to the  mode of reckoning
time at the present day.  The  period of time which  they remained
here was three years, during  which time  they cultivated  the soil to
some extent.  They often had views of the inhabitants  on the  other
side of the river.   Before crossing over,  they  built  a monument of
stone ; some of the history by  Moses was left in the monument.   Du-
ring the period they were here, they were applying means by which
to cross the  stream.  During  the  first two  years of which time, the
water continued high and filled the river to the top of the banks.  This
high water or  flood drove all the wild beasts from  this portion of .'he
country.  This year they sowed an abundance of rice,—the next year
they had an  abundant harvest.  Tbe third year they had a very dry
season, and  the waters fell uncommonly low.   The bottom of the river
was rocky—a  ledge of  rocks lay in the bottom of  tbe river and exten-
ded across the  stream.  While  the children were  remaining here, the
waters fell very suddenly and passed through a fissure in the ledge of
rocks,  leaving the top of the  rocks dry.   It was on  this rock, they
crossed the river ; and here on these rooks they built a monument in
memory of their passage over the stream, which run under the rock.
   When the river again arose, it swept the monument away, which is
not to be  seen ^- the  present  time.  After the children  bad passed
over, they  raised  a monument in memory  of the Twelve Tribes of
Israel.   This monument was raised in a round or  circular form,  about
10 feet high :  and on the top of this monument there were 12  hewn
stones raised in equal distance from  each  other.   On each stone was
engraved the head of each tribe ;  and under  each one was engraved
the name of the one represented by the engraving. While remaining
here for about two years from the time they crossed the river, for the
purpose of erecting the monument and engraving the heads and names
on the stones,  they raised some  corn and some rice  on which they
lived, and many of the children died' with various diseases.  During
this time the nations were preparing to defend  themselves  against the
Israelites,  and  the Israelites were also preparing themselves for war—
they were making machines, with which to beat down  the walls of the
enemies;  and  after being prepared with several battering machines,
and also with engines which  they could use in throwing  heavy stones
with great effect,  we  see them continuing  their march  until they
arrive at  the walls of Jericho.  These walls  surround a  large city-
After surrounding this wall, all communication with the inhabitants of
Jericho, was cut  off.  I  can  here  only mention  ihe giants  that
were  seen  by  the  spies  that  were  sent  out.   They  were a
race of  people  that  lived  in the land of  Canaan—they  were
Yery ferocious  and lived mostly upon animal  flesh.  The inhabitants
had  prepared  themselves  with seven years' provision.  When tbe 
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■children t»f Israel had surrounded the walls, they commenced the siege
which 'lasted seven years.
   I will here explain the reason why it is that it was termed seven days,
and a'lso why the bible speaks of the children of Israel being only three
days at the river Joidan.  Those who wrote the account, had charac-
ters by which they expressed numbers.   The translators did not fully
understand the nunber of these characters.   Some of these characters
expressed days; others denoted months un«? others indicated years, and
this is where the error originates.   They also had characters denoting
centuries, and these were often translated days.  A million of years is
also translated a day in Moses' history of the world.  1 hope you willnot
consider me visionary for giving you this -explanation,  for it appears
plain  to my  vision ; it must be  pound to agree  with Geology.
   After continuing this siege for about seven years, wearing out several
'battering machines and building new  ones, the walls at last fell before-
 the powerful machines.   The bible informs ms the walls fell down the
 seventh day, by sounding the ram's horns and by shouting.  This is a
 mistake in the translation.   These walls could not have fallen by the
 sounding of these horns, or by  these shou'is, nor was it done by an
 earthquake.   If it had been translated right, it would  read, the walls
 were  battered  to the ground and fell.
    About 100,000, young and old, male and female, fell into the hands,
 of Joshua and his soldiers:; and a cruel scene immediately after this
 took place ; no age, no sex, nor condition was saved from  the sword
 of the Israelites.   None were saved but Rahab, the harlot, her father
 and household.   This young woman was  beautiful and attracted the
 attention of Joshua.  Every beast, and  every domestic animal which
 they took, was immediately put to death  and the  entire city was des-
 troyed.  Many suppose it was a command from God to inflict all these
 cruelties..   It does not so appear to me.
    We see the Israelites are still a cruel and barbarous nation, not-with-
 standing  their escape  from the  land of Egypt—they were ready to-
 inflict all  the cruelties upon those  who  happened to  fall into their
 power that they had inflicted upon themselves in the land of Egypt..
    In continuing  their history along,  we find  them during one entire-
 century engaged in war ;  in this war they are generally successful ;
 the males were trained to war very  young ; and often the females are
 engaged  in  deadly conflicts. They  lived  during  this period on the
 spoils which they took from their enemies.  We often  see them  with
 their  engines, with their swords  and  their  clubs in hand, rush  into undi
 engage in deadly  combat, putting forth a hideous noise and destroying
 each  other hand to hand ; and all that have the misfortune to  fall into
 their  power, neither young nor old, and no sex is spared, or regarded?
 and yet this history is handed down to  us, as though it were the com-
 mand of God to treat their enemies thus cruelly.   That they did thus
 treat  them, is  literally true—the  half  has never beent told ;  but Goi
 never commanded them to treat their  enemies with cruelty.   It was
 a mistake in the translation.  In a few  cases only do  they saxe an^ 
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 from  a  cruel and unrelentingdeath.   A  few of the most  beautiful
 females were saved to gratify iheirown propensities.
   As we pass along, we find thern  at war  with Ai, and also with five
 kings  who waged war upon the Gibeonites for submitting to the Israel-
 ites.   The  Gibeonites  were  protected.  At length  we see the five
 kings flee to a cavern in a ledge of rocks  in the side hill, with  many
 of their subjects ;  and here they hid themselves.   This was a retreat
 well known to the kings and  many others.  They had a large flat
 stone,  by which to stop themselves in,  and hide themselves from the
 enemy.  But they were discovered.  After the battle they weretaken
 and carried to the place of their execution by the  order of Joshua.-—
 In the first place they were taken and  laid upon  the ground.   Here
 the Israelites attempted to choke them to death with  their feet.   Not
 succeeding in this, they hung  the  five kings  up by their necks with:
 ropes made of raw hide;.  and thus they put them to death.
   Iwould like now to explain the sun and moon standing  still  while
 Joshua fought in one of the  most hard and severe battles the  children
 of Israel had. ever engaged  in.  Some suppose the sun and moon ac-
 tually  stood still, but this was not the case ; some suppose that the earth
 was stopped in. its motion  which kept the earth in the  same position  to
 the sun.  If this had taken place, the waters would them have rushed
 over and covered the whole face of the  earth, as  they did at the time
 of the flood.  This battle lasted  till near night, when the enemy was
 defeated and Joshua gained  the battle.  The bible  does not teach  us
 that the sun stood still.  But many read it thus, Joshua  said unto the
 sun stand thou still ; but it does not read so.   It reads thus :   " Then
 spake  Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the
 Amorites before the children  of  Israel, and he said in the sight  of Isra-
 el, Sun, stand thou still upon  Gibeon ;  and  thou Moon, in the valley  of
 Ajalon."   It had  no meaning and no reference to our sun and  moon.
 The bible tells us that God is our sun which gives uslijht and sustains
 us and  is our shield ,\ while the rnoon represented the government with
 which Joshua was at war.  Notwithstanding the scenes  and cruelties
 Joshua passed through, he often prayed and was the most moral man
 of the  whole company—he could not always control his soldiers which
 he did  not often tiy to do.  This battle he came very near loosing^he
saw, if they fell into the hands of the enemy, they would all be put  to
death.  Hence his  prayer to. the Lord,  "Sun stand thou still."  His
 intentions were, as I. have hinted, that the enemy shouldnot be victori-
ous and that the battle should: cease.  Here I might continue  the his*
tory ai;df:il many  large  volumes, but permit me now to  turn your
minds for a few momeufs  and make some reflections.
   We  see a company 1,200$00, started  from the land, of E^ypt many
years ago.   They  had  laws set  before them in plain language which
could not be misunderstood: and on  condition of obeying theso laws„
they Were lo have a prosperous journey ;  ihey were to have health and
peace;  thev  were to arrive in  the land  of  Canaan, a  land of plenty,
where  there would  be no nation or power upon earth that could  destroy 
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them, and their enemies were to be to them, as chaff before the wind.—
Their constitutions were such that their physical wants were.lo hare been
supplied ; they were to inhabit and possess the  whole  earth in time ;
other nations that had  broken the  laws of God  were to be destroyed :
and  the temporal wants of the children of Israel were to. be supplied;
but the commands given, them were broken, and the curses which were
set before them have followed therm
   They  wandered in the wilderness a much longer  period than  we un-
derstand by reading Moses'  history.  Strange as it may appear, they
wandered about 400 years without a home, exposed to all  the seasons
of the year;, the scorching heat of the sun in the  summer, and.to the
cold and chilling rains  of winter.   Many were literally starved to death ;
 many were destroyed.  l>y wild beasts—all  these curses and miseriasthey
 brought  upon themselves-by, disobeying the laws of God..
                        LECTURE XIII.

  Havingshown that- thechildren. of Israel were  pu lished for  their
sins, and that sin cannot gounpunished, I must pass over many events
in the history of the human  family, to notice some  other  things  in
their history that  are interesting and profitable, though they may ap-
pear to some mysterious.   And  here it will be neoessary to read the
28th  chapter  of  Deuteronomy.  In  order  to see the blessings  and
cursesthal are set before them.as a  nation by Moses, I shall necessa-
rily refer to this chapter in my present as well as future lectures.
  In tracing the history, it appears  that they often break the com-
mandments, and the curses threatened have followed  them  to. the
present day.
  On arrivius at the land of Canaan* we see they do not  keep the
commandments;  during a  long period of years they met with vari-
ous changes of fortune ;- one nation.is often at war with another ; and
the nation  that  conquers we  see often treating. their> prisoners with
cruelty.
   I must  now for want of time pass o*er many events-to • the wars of
Samuel, who  died and was put  in a sepulchre under a< house, for they
did not but bury  in those days as we do now.  Saul  was very anxious
to  know how the battle that  was pending betweembimand his enemies-
would terminate.  He inquired of false prophets ;  they couldmot tell
him : he freely went to an old lady that was called a  Witch onaccount
of  the wonders which she performed.  She went where Samuel was
laid and raised him up out of the sepulchre.   Saul  was  alarmed and
fell upon  his face.  The old woman, who  was a ventriloquist, spoke,
■ which seemed to Saul as though Samuel were speaking.  She judging
of  the  event  of the battle, prophesied that Saul would  be defeated.—
 This so disheartened Saul, it bad a  great effect in discouraging him, so 
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 that he was defeated in battle.   I will now explain how the old woman
 deceived him :  A person to make a good ventriloquist must have large
 lungs, which in connexion with an effort of the throat and all the vocal
 organs, enables one to convey the voice in such a manner as to make
 the sound appear in any direction.  This was the manner in which
 Balaam was deceived, as there was one of these ventriloquists near,
 whom Balaam did not see.
   I shall now pass on to the foundation  of Jerusalem.  This city was
 commenced before Josephus or the Bible gives any account of it, by
 one of the tribes of the children of Israel.  It was finally abandoned,
 but was afterwards  rebuilt,  and the inhabitants  were prospered  for
 some time ; but they are finally overthrown and the city  entirely  de-
 molished.   After this the city was again  rebuilt, of which Josephus
 has spoken  and corresponds with  the Bible account.  But here also is
 contention and  wrangling among themselves.   At this  time they do
 not believe  in anothtr existence and supposed that the promised  Mes-
 siah was to  be a king or ruler on the earth.  Believing this, and  prac-
 ticing the many enormous sins which they committed, they were left
 to themselves and seem to be  their own destroyers, and  were carried
 into Babylonish captivity;  and here we have  another  prophesy of
 Moses fulfilled.  During the 400 years  of captivity, they enjoyed  no
 peace, night nor day ; they were treated with severity :  when it was
 morning they longed for it to be night;  when  it was night they longed
 for it to be morning—they were compelled to endure here many cru-
 elties and wrongs, of which the Bible does not give us any account.—
 They were treated even worse than they  had treated many of their
 own prisoners.   Here again is another  evidence showing that sin can-
 not go unpunished.
   Your attention  will now be turned to the three tribes that wandered
 from the land of Canaan to this country.  This was about 200 years
after Christ.  They crossed over what is now called Bherings  Straits,
on the ice, which was then much more narrow than at the present day.
 This country being settled previous to the arrival of these tribes, they
 were soon at war with the natives of this continent; they had many
 long and  bloody wars; and the *emains of many  of their forts and
 cities are to be seen in  different parts oi our  country.   The  last  in-
 habitants principally lived by  hunting ; while the natives  cultivated
 corn, the only grain  that was taised ;  and being'unacquainted with
 firearms, they were often surprised and taken tn their forts and cities.
   These forts were built for  the  purpose  of protecting themselves
 from the large animals I  have spoken of.   The  natives  gradually  re-
tired from the north and were followed up by the  three tribes to  the
south.  These three tribes being acquainted with the ails of firearms
and agriculture, increased in population much faster than tbe natives.
   Now the natives  lived in continual fear all the time until  we see
them  surrounded in a fort near what is now called Buffalo, in the State
of New-York.  The remains  of the fort  is plainly to be seen at the
prseent dav.  Here the natives had  a large village and cultivated
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fields; and here they made a strong stand and were determined to re-
sist any further encroachments upon their rights.  The  fort of the
natives was completely surrounded by the tribes ; and here they had a
bloody and haid-fought battle.  In attempting to take the fort several
hundred lives were lost.  This fort was surrounded by a rise of ground.
On this rise of ground or hill, the tribes were obliged to build a fort
before they could conquer  the natives.   And here, after surrounding
and cutting off the supplies from the fort of the natives,  and having
the advantage of fire-arms, they destroyed the  fort and  killed the in-
habitants.  "This was about 100 years before Christ.   This caused the
natives throughout  that region to abandon the country and to remove
to Ohio, where they built forts on what is now called  the  Muskingam
River ; and the remains of  these forts are likewise to be seen at the
present day.   They were finally driven from their homes  here, still
retiring before the increasing armies, until we see them making one
bold effort near  what is now called Chicago,  111.  Here they built a
large fort, the remains of which are also plainly to be seen. They  « ere
finally driven from here, and at length retired to South America.   Now
permit me to leave this subject and give a description  of this  country
previous to the flood.
   Previous to the deluge,  the most of this and the western  countries,
was a large  body of water, containing many islands.  There was a
large river passing from Michigan Lake and what is  now  called  Chi-
cago down to, and emptying in, the Mississippi river, wnich emptied it-
self into the  Gulf of Mexico.  At the present day a canal is building
in the bed of  this ancient river at Chicago.
    After the waters had returned  to  their places, and  when the  earth
started in its motion, (lifter the flood,) the falls of Niagara broke
away several miles below  where  they  are  at present.  These  falls
have gradually worn away  since the deluge  and drained the water
from much of this western country, and started the course of the wa-
ters over the falls.   This is why there is so much low land in this coun-
try—it has once been covered with water.  The falls gradually wear-
ing away and the land becoming dry, the most of the soil is left rich
and easy Jo be cultivated.
                         LECTURE XIV.

  In this lecture I shall continue the history of the lost tribes of Isra-
el whom I have briefly spoken of in a previous lecture.
  Dunn- this lecture I shall call them tribes.   The inhabitants who
resided in this country who came here previous to the tribes, I shall
denominate natives.  By this designation you will know what  party 1

^Afier overrunning this country and  subduing the natives, the tribes 
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gained entire  possession of this country.   Many of them who were-'
taken prisoners, were compelled to work as slaves and  treated with
cruelty.  In this, the tribes  were not temporally prospered, as I shall
show  hereafter.   The  natives  gradually  retired  before them and re-
moved west of the Mississippi river.
  I  will now state the manner in which the tribes  cultivated the  soil.
They understood the scienee of agriculture to  a considerable extent  :
Ihey had onimals about  the  size of mules; with  these they plowed
vith a kind  of wooden  plow which had a little  iron  fixed on for a
snare.
  For about 100 years they prospered, built cities and  seem to  have
been doing vveli, but they had broken the laws which Moses had given
them, and they could not continue in prosperity.   About this time con-
tention arose between the tribes respecting three individuals that  were
aspiring  to be  rulers ; and these three different tribes soon  got to war
with each other.  They consequently began to depopulate.   Their at-
tention was turned from the cultivation  of the soil to war with each
other: and here we have a series of years of bloodshed and carnage.
^L-.":ie of the ciiies were reduced to extreme  starvation.   Instead  of
F-eeir.g sympathy and love exercised for each other, they are in contin-
ual  fear, and cherish exterminating hatred.   In  this state  they could
r.<■?  piosper.   The beautiful fields  that  were cultivated and produced
f. uit and grain in abundance, were left to waste and become overgrown
with grass and herbage.   We see starvation and desolation  throughout
the land.  These fields being often fired  prevented trees from growing.
This i» why we have so many  openings and large prairies.  Nations
car;  never be prospered in war and contention as we see here, and as  I
have shown in  previous lectures.  An  exterminating war is a curse
in any country or people,  and the sword of justice will not fail to fall
upon them sooner or later.   Would that nations would think of these
things when they are  about waging a deadly war  upon each-other.—
Our country might here learn a lesson of peace.
  1  have now traced the history of the three lost  tribes who wandered
to this continent, down to the time of the birth of our Savior.  They
had  lost all the hi-tory they had brought with them—their fire-arms
 were all lost and they had  not the means with <vhich to manufacture
more.  There was one true prophet amongst them,  fie died about
 100 vears aftertbe birth of our Savior—they had  lost all history ; and
having no guide, they were left to grope their way in ignorance, till fi-
nally we see them worshipping the sun and moon.   This is  the state in
 which they  remain ; and one tribe  is in continual fear of another more
powerful I ribe.
   The firmer inhabitants or natives had all become extinguished, rum
out and destroyed ; and this is the condition this country was in  when.
Cnrislopher Columbus di-covered this  Continent.
   The three losl tribes of  Israel, the  natives  at the present period, as
we have seen, have wandered far from, their native place, are forsaken 
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by God, given  up to wander in ignorance—have become a by-word
and a reproach, as Moses told them.
  This is the state in which I shall leave them, and continue their his-
tory in some future lecture.
           CERTIFICATE OF THE COMMITTEE

  We, the undersigned, having heard Mr. Alverson, in an Independent
Clairvoyant state, deliver the foregoing  lectures, do hereby certify, that
these lectures are a faithful transcript of the original.
                               DWIGHT  KELLOGG.
                               DAVID M. BAGLEY.
                               ERASTUS LESEUR.
  Ann Arbor, January 4,  1347. 
APPENDIX.
          CLAIRVOYANT EXAMINATIONS,—No. 1.

  This was the case of Mrs. Bradley,  aged 70 years, examined No-
vember 6th, 1846, -vhen the  lady  was absent, without  Mr. Alverson's
having any knowledge, in any way, either of her person or disease.
  Description  of her  person".—"She is rather a small  woman;
fingers small; at the present time  she seems to be bent forward.  She
is a woman of a good deal of energy and cannot bear  to be idle.  She
appears to be an elderly lady  and  not very talkative ; fingers look as if
they were drawn up and her hands have the appearance of a chronic or
rheumatic affection."
  Description1  of her  disease.—'• Her liver is affected.  She is able
tc  be about  the  most of  the  time.  Her  feelings and  disease  are
not  uniform—disease is  not steady.  At  times she  appears  to   be
distressed and taken very suddenly ill—this illness is similar to fits—but
k is not fits.   These spasms are irregular in  their occurrence—some-
times they occur very often,  and sometimes at longer  periods.  Some-
times those who see her in these spasms think she cannot live but a few
miiiutes.
  ■' Very often food does not digest well, caused b)'  the disease of her
liver which sympathises with her stomach.
  " She will be  helped if she follows the directions which I will  give—
but  she cannot be cured."
  Prescription.—"Get an ounce  of pulverized gentian root  to one
pint of best  gin—mix,  and give her a teaspoonful,  three times a day,
before eating."
  A second examination  was made, by Mr. Alverson, on the 27th De-
cember,  1846, at her place of residence.  The following  is the  result :
  Symptoms.—"Her health has improved very much.  She has been
eating milk to day, and it does not agree with her.  This she  should
not  use.   She occasionally  feels chilly.  This is occasioned by using
milk and over-doing."
  Prescription.—" Take two pills this evening, which I will give her,
and one every evening until  she takes ten.
  "Take one pint of gin and one ounce pulverized gentian, mix  it well,
and take  a tea-spoonful of this  three times a  day before eating; and
also every  morning take  three grains of quinine  in  her gin until she
takes 21 grains;  and continue taking the gentian and gin  until  she haj
taken it up,  when she will want another prescription—her health is im-
proving  midling fast." 
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  The following  note  we have since received from D. Kellogg, Esq.
whose testimony respecting the above examination must have no trifling
bearing upon the minds of those who know him :
  Mr. E. H.  Sanford.  Sir:—In  relation to the above case, I have
simply to remark, that, the lady is the mother of my wife; that she lives
in my family—and  has lived there for the most part of the  time since
October, 1844 ; that for more than a year past, she has once in a few days,
more or less, had sick spells, and we often supposed she could not live
through  another attack;  that immediately after the prescription, we
proceeded and gave her the medicine ; and that since that time, she has
apparently been on the gain and she has had no spasms since.  In fine,
I consider the description of her person and disease correct, and ihe
medicine as producing the desired effect.   DWIGHT KELLOGG.
   Ann Arbor, January 1st, 1847.
          CLAIRVOYANT EXAMINATIONS—No 2.

  The case of Mrs. Haviland, examined about the 10th Nov., 1S4G
  Disease.—" There is a good  deal of nervous irritability about the
system, a pressure of b'ood about the forepart  of the  head causing a
dizziness,  and is troubled with cold  feet and hands.  AVhen she over
exercises, or is suddenly excited, she is troubled with the palpitation of
the heart; her liver is inflamed  ; digestive organs  are deranged, which
often causes her food to distress  her; is very often troubled to breathe ;
distressed undei the clavical bone—this pain is often very severe.  There
are other diseases about her which I will mention to her husband after I
am demagnetized."
  Remedy.—" Commence by taking 2 pills,  (which  I will furnish,) at
night, and follow on, taking  one at  the usual time  of retiring,  until she
takes  15 pills.  Bathe regular, once a week,  in  soft  warm water, rub-
bing down the vertebral  column and over the pain which 1 have men-
tiound under  the  clavical  bone, and also over  the stomach, then wipe
dry with a coarse towel.   These directions should not be omitted—bathe
just before going to bed."

  " Take one ounce of Nervine and one ounee  valerian root —put these
in one pint of best port wine.   Dose: a teaspoonful three  times a day
until ttistaKen up.
  •' There are a few other directions, which I  will tell to her husband
when  I am brought back to my natural  state—which it will be neces-
sary to follow.
   A second examination was had at our office, while the patient was at
home, January 2nd, 1847.   The following are  Mr. Alverson's remarks
at this examination : 
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CLAIRVOYANT
   '« Her health is improved. Her feet are not as cold as before ;  physi-
cal strength  is better  and not quite as nervous ;  food digests better ;
distressed turns of breathing do not occur as often as they did ; nor has
she had the palpitation of the heart as  often until a few  days past, but
now it is again frequent—she has not taken any medicine for nearly two
weeks.  If  she had continued  to follow out the directions she would not
have had this attack of the palpitation of the heart.
   Tbe above Examinations were strictly correct, and the patient  has
since been materially benefitted by  the prescriptions.
          CLAIRVOYANT EXAMIANTIONS,—No. 3.

  This  was  the  examinntion  of Mr. Jacob Volland, of this village.
The following is Mr. Alverson's description.
  "He has a good many different feeling?. There is an inflamation of the
l;ver and blood.   His flesh is not solid and good—is too soft; when he
presses his finger on his face, it will remain indented.  The fullness of
the flesh  arises from the blood vessels being  too full  about the cellular
•issue.
  " Pain in the left side, extending below and above  the lowest rib:  on
raising the left arm, or turning very suddenly, this pain seems to increase.
On going up a pair of stairs very quick with a load, his knees feel weak
and trembling.
  "He is opt to have the palpitation of the heart, and a pressure on the
brain ;  bending over forward suddenly, causes a dizzniess.
  "There is  a  seeming  fullness  intheloiver  part of the abdomen—
rather weak across the kidneys.
  " His stomach sympathises with, and is troubled  by, the disease of tho
liver and spleen.  This  causes  food to  lay upon  his stomach  without
digesting; and this organ seems  to be losing its  digesting power; his
mouth, in the morning, has a very bad, sour, bitter taste.
  Ilr.:iEDY.—" If he will follow the prescription strictly he can be cured.
Bathe every other morning in cold water, on rising  from bed, particu-
larly down the spine, over the  abdomen, on the left side, and also  over
the stomach;  rub dry with a coarse  rough towel—wash all over, out
more particularly  as directed above.   Eat no pork—what meat he  eats,
iet it be  beef—may use some  good butter—milk does not agree with
him—do not drink tea—if  he  hankers  after  coffee, he  may drink it
weak—ralher he would do without it.                 >,
  " Take some pills as I shall direct on awaking, (if you let me remem-
ber).   After  taking these pills get one  ounce  of tincture of Columbo
root, and he should take ten drops at a time, three  times a day, before
eating, until it is all taken .up.
  " Then get one pint of best gin, and one ounce of pulverized gentian ;
put this last into the gin ;  take a  tea-spoonful three  times a day ;   and 
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;vcry morning, for three weeks, put in three grains  of quinine into each
tea.spoonful of gin."
  Respected.Friend, E. H. Sanford :—In  regard to the above examina-
tion, I can say, that it is a true statement, in every particular.  Pie (La-
ban Alverson) being a stranger to me.     Thy Friend,
                                         JACOB  VOLLAND.
   Ann Arbor, 1st Month, Gth, 1847.
                . STATEMENT OE MR. KELLOGG.

  I hereby certify thai I have, within the past four weeks, heard Mr L.
Alverson /.vhen in a magnetic state,examine some dozen cases qf chron-
ic disease, when the patients were  not present.  They were distant from
thr!  clarvoyant  from 5 of a mile t > 500 miles, and so  far as demonstra-
tion;* have been had, they are definitely correct.
                                      DWIGHT  KELLOGG.
    knn Arbor, Jan 7, 1847.
  In addition to what we have  given by way of certificates of  the won-
derful and eminently useful facility  and correctness,with w'aich Mr. Al-
verson examines into, and prescribes for, diseases of the mildest or most
alarming character when the patients are present with, or  hundreds  of
m;ies from,him, we might give more that would be interesting,as wo have
received  statements-from various sources, respecting the descriptions  ot
disease which ho has made ; but we have already discharged our  duty,
by way of apprising the public  of the great good arrising from this de-
partment of magnetism, as well  as in giving the candid, sufficient or rea-
sonable assurance of the independent  vision of a proper  clarvoyant—
whether  it  is in examining into the operations of the  systems of individ-
uals previously unknown to the clarvoyant and magnetizor, or in r.earch-
in<» out the hitherto unexplored  laws and mysteries of nature.  That a
Clairvoyant can see every thing under all circumstances, we have some
doubts;  but that a  clarvoyant when  in health, properly magnetized and
the atmosphere is not unfavorable, other circumstances being equal, can
do all that we have claimed, we are not permitted to entertain a doubt.
   We might speak of the most startling exposures of wrong, theft, &c.
but we prefer to leave a discriminating public to infer these from the na-
ture of clarvoyance and the evidence presented of it.   We might warn
individuals  against secret  and  gross wrongs in view  of the liability of
havinq; their dens of vice and desperation ferreted out—if  not immedi-
ately—when magnetism will be more generally known, appreciated and
practiced ;  but weehoose that they draw their own inferences. 
PHRENOLOGY.
                    KEY TO  THE  CHART. -
  The following scale is used in marking the temperaments, size of the head, ar-.e'
the respective organs.
  Figure 1 Denotes the organ very small, or idiotic.
    do.   2 Small,  influenced by other organs.
    do.   '3 Moderate, exerting little influence.
    do.   4  Average, exerting some influence.
    do.   5 Full, exerting a proper influence.
    do.   6 Large,  capable of a powerful effort.
 ^  do.   7  Very large, a controlling influence over other organs.
  * Add3 to the figure after which it is placed.
  tSubstractsfrom afigure.                                    ,
    Temperament,      (see p. 43.)        Bilious,         (seep. 44.)
    Lymphatic,   '      (""«•)        Nervous,        (<<<<<<)
    Sanguine,          ( " " "  )
  The following are some of the principal organs, and  by  observing the explana-
 tion, those that are deficient may be cultivated, and these  which are too large may
 be impeded :  thus persons having a Chart, possess a regulator, by which they may,
 if need be, correct and direct the development of all the  faculties- 
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               NEW CATALOGUE OF ORGANS,

   I.  The Organs of the External Senses.  The senses have, not
only their respective external apparatuses, but also separate cerebral
organs located in the anterior inferior portion of the parietal lobes.
   2.  Form.  The judgment of shape, symmetry,  faces,
   3.  Size.  Judgment of dimension and distance.
   4.  Weight.  Judgment of equilibrum, and gravity.
   5.  Color.  Perception of color, complexion, &c.
   6.  Order.   Power and disposition to have a place for every thing,
and every thing in its place.
   7.  System.   Arrangement, Classification of  ideas.
   8.  Calculation.   Judgment in numeration,  computation and math-
ematics.
   9.  Language.  Power, in the application of artificial signs to ideas—
in the expression of thoughts—the retention of namee, &c.   This organ
is located over the centre of the super orbiter plate, but is the  most
easily excited from this place.
   10.  Change.   Perception of events and changes.
   11.  Abstraction.  Abstract and necessary ideas.
   12-  Time.   Recognition  of the lapse  of time—duration—date>—
beating time  in music.
   13.  Tune.  Love of music—power to compose and to appreciate
music.
   14.  Memory;.  Recollection—power and disposition  to  refer to
the past.
   15.  Comparison.   Reasoning by analogy—-logical acumen—power
of analysis.
   16.  Causality.  Perception of causation—of the relations of ante-
cedents and consequents—of the tendencies of events.
   17.  Reason.   Argument by antithesis—by tracing the more remote
results—philosophical research.
   16.  Plan.   Adaptation  of means to ends—mechanical invention—
disposition to construct, to invent, to operate by new modes.
   19.   Wit.  Perception of the incongruous—the ludicrous—making
jokes, and witty replies.
   20.   Humor.  Disposition to laugh, and to be merry.
   21.  Poetry.   The rhyming power—the  love  of the mere jingie of
poetry.
"  22.  Ideality.   The love of the beautiful,  the   perfect, the ideal, the
 imaginary, the high-wrought and fantastical.
   23.   Supernaturality.  Love of the  Supernatural—the marvellous,
 the astonishing, the wonderful, the  novel.
   24  Admiration.  A disposition to esteem,  confide in,  admire tne
 works of nature and  art,  the institutions of  society,  the character of
others.                       .   .    .     .      ,         .
    25.   Imitation.  Power of imitation, ef copying and  aping  others-
 disposition to mimic, to  mock and caricature. 
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PHRENOLOGY.
   26.   Expression.   Disposition  to divulge  thoughts, plans and  se-
crets—frankness—confidence in others.
   27.  Friendship.   Kind feelings to others—disposition to form attach-
ments, and to seek the welfare of associates.
   28.  Conjugal  Love. Pure, true and sentimental love for the other sex.
   29.   Filial  Love.  Sentimental—human love  of children.
   30.   Paternal Love.  Love of Parents, and ancestry.
   31.   Adhesiveness.  The gregarious feeling,  friendship.
   32.   Amativcniss.  Animal  love, sexual  appetite.
   33.   Pliiloprogenitiveness.  Love  of  offspring as a  mere  animal
feeling.
   34.   Patiiotism.   Love  of country;  fondness  of political display
and controversy.
   35.   Love of Home.  Disposition  to  remain stationary ;  unwilling-
ness to go abroad.
   36.   Caution.  Disposition  to keep out  of harm's way,  to foresee
the evil, to look out for danger.
   37.   Sublimity.  Love of the grand, and awful.
   33.   Reverence.   Respect for superiors,  deference to those in place?:
of influence or power.
   39.   Modesty.  Distrusting self, bashfulness.
   40.   Submission.    Yielding to the  dictation of others.
   11.   Servility.  The crouching, and slavish feeling.
   4i.   Fear.  Disposition to cower and  shrink  at danger.
   43.   Irritability.    Inquietude,  restlessness,  fretfulness.
   41.   Desperation.  Readiness to resort to desperate measures-
   45.   Assassination.  Destruction, the  murderous spirit.
   46.   Combativeness. Energy, disposition  to  contend.
   47.   Anger.   Ill-nature, wrath, clamor.
   iS.   Resistance.   Preservation of self, contention.
   40.   Infidelity.  Distrust of every thing, jealousy.
   50.   Secretiveness.   Cunning,  sly deception.
   51.   Acquisitiveness.   Avarice, grasping, hoarding.
   52.  Restraints,  Reserve and deliberation.    (This region when
excited shuts off the  voluntary action ;  and  suspends  the action of the
test of the brain.)
   53,   Love of Power.   The over-bearing  tyranical  spirit.
   54.   Vanity.  Coquetry,  love of flattery, and praise.
   55.   Self-Esteem.  Dignity, reserve, haughtiness.
   56.   Indifference.  Insensibility.   Wilful disregard of others'views,
aad a readiness to face opposition,
   57.   Temperance.  Loathing of food  and drinks.
   58.   Hunger.   Thirst, and Desire for stimulants  ; when excessive
produces  gluttony  and drunkenness.
   59.   Playfulness.  The lively buoyant spirit.
   60.   Conscience,   Feeling  of ought  and ought  not, moral sense,
justice, love of  right. 
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  61.  Honor.  Manhood, the elevated manly spirit.
  62.  Firmness.   Decision of character, stubbornness.
  63.  Patience.  Contentment, re&ignition, long-suffering.
  64.  Perseverance.   The staple, unwavering power.
  65.  Dread of Death.
  66.   Hope.   Bright  anticipations, the  power of bearing  up under
trials, looking on the bright sides ;  immortality.
  67.  Philanthropy.   The expansive love  of mankind, in distinction
from mere patriotism.
  63.   Veneration.   The feeling  of silent awe in contemplation of the
Deity, or his works.
  69.  Religion.  Love of religious topics, and influences.
  70.   Poljteness.  Disposition to please others by  agreeable words
and actions.
  71.   Faith.   Confidence in God.
  72.   Devotion.   The adoration and  praise of the Deity.
  73.   Benevolence.   Kind feelings to all, good  will to man.
  74.   Sincerity.  Candor, truth.
  75.   Sympathy. Compassion for those  in distress, disposition to weep.
  76.   Liberality.  Actitre benevolence.
  77.  Clairvoyance.   The region of intuition, foresight, clairvoyance.
 This power is  necessary to explain  the phenomena so often exhibited
 in clairvoyance ; but it is a power so seldom  brought into action in the
 oresent a"e that we may consider it Dormant.
                    THE  TEMPERAMENTS.

  In judging of the quality of the brain, much light is derived  from a
knowledge of the Temperaments;  for they are the index to the whole
system whether nervous, voluntary, vital or nutritive.
  " There are four temperaments accompanied with different  degrees
of activity in the  brain—the  Lymphatic,  the Sanguine, the Billious*
and the Nervous."  In the  nervous temperament, the nerves and brain
are predominantly active—in the sanguine, the lungs, heart and blood
vessels;—in the biilious, the muscular and fibrous systems,;  in Ue
lymphatic, the  glands and assimilating organs.
  " The different temperaments are indicated by extemal signs, which
are open to observation.
  " The Lymphatic is  distinguishable by a round form  of the body,
softness of the  muscular system, repletion of the cellular tissue, lair
hair, and a pale skin.  It is accompanied  by  languid vital  actions,
weakness  and  slowness in the circulation.  The brain  is also slow,
languid, and feeble in its action, and the mental manifestations are pro-
portionably weak,                „,„■,*        j   .   ,
  The 8an°uine is indicated by well  defined forms, moderate plump-
ness of person,  tolerable firmness of flesh, light hair, inclining to ches- 
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nut, blue eyes, and fair complexion, with mildness of countenance.  It
is marked by great activity of  the blood vessels, fondness for exercise,
and an animated  countenance.   The brain partakes  of  the general
state,  and is active.
  The Billions temperament  is  recognized by black hair, dark skin,
moderate  fulness  and much firmness  of flesh, with harshly expressed
outlines of the person.   The functions partake of great energy of ac-
tion, which extend to the brain ; and the countenance, in consequence,
shows sirong, marked, and decided features.
  The Nervous temperament is recognized by fine thin hair, thin skin,
small thin muscles, quickness in muscular motion, paleness of counte-
nance, and often delicate health.   The whole nervous system, inclu-
ding the brain, is predominantly aetive, and the mental manifestations
are proportionably vivacious."
If Magnetism be true, who can be against it ?
  The great and grand inquiry  respecting magnetism should be, is it
true ?
  Now, in making the above remark, we do not mean to refer partic-
ularly to the removal of the "head-ache,"' the paralysis of an arm, so
as to produce rigidity  to the muscles, and destroy sensation, so far as
to enable the»surgebn to cut off an arm without the  experience of pain
by the patient;  we do not speak of the utility of the principles and tbeir
power in throwing individuals into a deep sleep for the removal of any
local or genera] debility, or in producing a uniformity in the magnetic
forces of the system ;  we have no particular  regard to the inestimable
importance of magnetism in so far producing insensibility lo the body,
as to enable the surgeon to penetrate, with his knife, the very bottom
of an aggravating cancer on the human breast, without producing un-
easiness or pain to the patient;  nor did we intend to speak  of the as-
tonishing accuracy with  which the sympathetic  Clairvoyant  may de-
scribe other countries, persons, and things known  to the person  with
whom he is in communication ;—these sire doubtless all truths, and we
should have been safe in speaking of them as such ; but we go farther
—far beyond all this, however straining upon the credulity of some, it
may be—we refer especially to the principles of independent or positive
sight, when one is in a magnetic state, or when  the mind is exalted to
perfect vision!  We have shown, as we  believe,  satisfactorily,  tbe
truth of the principles until we arrive at this  noble,  and important, but
startling inquiry :  Is the mind of man capable of  being so immeasu-
rably exalted above the confines of common thought as to enter at onoe
into  the realities and mysteries of the invisible  world, and  range un-
controlled from place to place;  from eurth to heaven ;  from world  to 
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■world,  and discover planets or systems unnoticed by mortal eyes 1—
This is the question ! One which at the present advanced age, is pro-
per—and one therefore which must arrest the attention of the thought-
ful—the philosopher and the philanthropist.
  We  now call attention to some developements which  we briefly hin-
ted  at in our last number,  and to others equally as strange from Mr.
Davis of New York.   Sometime since,  Mr. Alverson, while magnet-
ized and speaking of the planetary system,  remarked that one planet
had been discovered.   This announcement was unexpected.  He sta-
ted also that another planet would be discovered within  a year.
  This planet is the ninth, to which Mr. Fishbough, in the  communi-
cation  which follows, has especial reference.   And in that communica-
tion, it will be seen, that Mr. Davis had spoken  of,  and  pointed out the
eighth planet in March last, before even an  anticipation of  the exist-
ence of such a planet was  announced by any other person known, for
it was only discovered by Mr. Galle, of Berlin, Sept. 23, and seen from
London, Sept. 30.   On, this point there can be but  one  conclusion, for
names of witnesses, dates &c. are given by Mr. Fishbough.   And there
appears to be  a strking coincidence between the announcement of Mr.
Alverson and those of Mr. Davis!   Mr. Dwight Kellogg of our vil-
lage, and several other gentlemen were  present at one announcement
of  Mr. Alverson respecting the discoveries mentioned above.  But it
may be.supposed  that  there has been a correspondence between some
of  the  witnesses of New York, and persons who witnessed the experi-
ments here.   We would not say that it  is impossible for such to be
the case, but we believe there has been no such information tiadmit-
ted ; nor did any one here, even suppose that Mr. Davis had made the
discoveries, till we had the pleasure  of  receiving the  announcement
from Mr. Fishbough, through the Daily  Tribune of the 10th ult:
   From a paragraph in the « Tribune " of the 28th ult., credited to tbe
" New Haven Palladium," and bearing the signature "O." (doubtless
Prof. Olmstead,) I learn that news has, by a late arrival from  Europe,
been received at Yale  college of the actual discevery of an  eighth
planet !   It was discovered by M. Galle, of  Berlin,  on the night of
Sept 30.  The existence of this body was inferred a few months since
by  the French mathematician Le Verrier, from certain  disturbances
in  the motions of Uranus ;  but the announcement of this inference was
not made in this country before some time in May or June last.
  '•Not to deprive the discoverers of this body of their deserved honors,
and with no attempt to excite the marvellousness of  your readers, I
would sav that the existence not only of an 8th but a  9th  planet was
distinctly announced in March last.  I will explain : Your readers were
informed some time since, that A. J. Davis,  while  in an abnormal and
exceedingly exalted mental condition, is engaged in  the  dictation of
the whole structure of the Universe, and developing that knowledge of
the universal  Laws of Nature on which can be based on an organiza-
tion of societv on principles of harmony and reciprocation, the same
as  pervade  the  celestial  spheres.  His abnormal condition, (induced 
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 muda,) H. G- Cox, 73 White St., Theron R. Lapham, 308 Staiton St.,
 B. S. Horner, 9 Murray st., and others."
  "In the same manner, Mr. Davis has revealed the formation, consti-
 tution, geological developements, inhabitants, &c,  of all  the other
 planets of our system.  Indeed, his books aims to present in a general
 way, a knowledge of the constitution,  laws, principles and develope-
 ments of the whole universe.  He displays while in his superior state,
 a power of analysis and generalization perfectly unparalled, and ab-
 solutely  overwhelming;  though while in the normal state,  he is al-
 most entirely uneducated,  and he is novv only about 20 years old.  If
 these are facts, (and if not, their falsity should, can,  and will be ex-
 posed,)  the  reflecting mind cannot  fail to recognize the unspeakable
 importance of their bearings.  The only rational explanation of this
 pscychological  phenomenon is that which Mr.  Davis himself gives,
 viz:  that his mind, while in the abnormal state, receives the influx of
 the science understood in the spiritual spheres with which his mind as-
 sociates."
   Now,  that there is positive proof that Mr. Davis's discoveries, while
 in an abnormal and highly exalted mental condition are  correct, and
 that Mr.  Alverson, while in  the same mental condition has corrobora-
 ted the statements of Mr. Davis, it  must carry conviction to the think-
 ing mind of the truth of this most useful of sciences.   These are facts
 which cannot be overthrown, and they cannot fail therefore, to have a
 proper, and their desirable impression upon the public mind.
   And now we repeat, if these principles be true, who can be against
 them ?  They will force their way  upon the admiration of the great
 and good.  Like the genial rays of the morning sun,  they will drive
 back the  darkness from the face of  the earth ;  and the powers of dark-
 ness, with their combined sneers, sarcasms and opposition can no more
 resist the onward march of truth, or prevent its warming influence and
 irresistible light, than they can drive back, or resist the light of the king
 of day.—fCem of Science.


                    EDITORIAL NOTICE.
  The present number of  Mr. Alverson's lectures, as will be  seen on
 reference to the-title page, comprises only a small portion of what yet
 remains to be published in different numbers, all of which will neces-
sarily make several volumes.
  He has already given thirty five lectures, fourteen of which, are
published in this number.   The others comprise a brief outline of tbe
most important history from  Saul down to the resurrection of  our Sa-
viour, the curiosities and history of  many of  the  ancient pyramids in
Egypt, the history of tho lost tribes of Israel, and the lives of  several
of the Apostles.
  He proposes not far distant, to complete the lectures on the apostles,
and will proceed as fast as  convenient, with what remains to constitute
the matter for future numbers.
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