perception of the observer, neither hot nor cold words annihilate Truth, however strange it may seem. We, therefore, are, so far as our knowledge allows, laying principles down, based on Facts; and by an attentive examination of the laws which seem to develope themselves as we advance,—we are prepared to believe, and partially understand other and higher phenomena, than those we are-and have been familiar with, from boyhood;-phenomena not one whit less wonderful than others our attention is now directed to.

Mesmerine is luminous; this fact is proved by the evidence of sensitives and clairvoyants, but without such evidence we have in latent heat, the principle of light; and as it is developed, the light is developed. The light or mesmerine from the human body is of various shades of colour, principally blue, red, and yellow, depending upon the preponderance of the chemical constituents of which the person may be composed; for it is with man as with animals, some are of a finer quality than others, as is the meat we buy at our shambles; therefore it is that the power one man has, is superior to another in producing artificial clairvoyance in individuals. The mesmerine from some is so firm, so dense, that it cannot produce clairvoyance; but is powerful for healing diseases, and producing phenomena of the denser kind. In others, their mesmerine is so fine, so ethereal, so transparent; that on entering the patient it clarifies the nerves, amalgamates with the weaker mesmerine of the patient, and produces a result analogous to the mixture of substances which produce glass, by which the opaque substances of the body become transparent. We shall in the section on Clairvoyance more fully explain this phenomena. Suffice it at present for the reader to remember, that even solid silver can be dissolved in nitre, and become a transparent fluid; and that if we could make a double glass case, large enough to contain us with ease, and line it with silver, so that we could not see one ray of light, could not see one item of landscape; yet let sufficient nitre be poured in to fill the space between the glass, and the opaque silver

would be transformed into a transparent fluid, and our range of observation would be extended; we should be normally clairvoyant. The power of mesmerine to mingle with other substances is prettily developed by the following experiment made by mesmerisers with water and seen by sensitives. I find it among some memoranda, doubtless copied from some work on mesmerism, and it coincides with the experience of persons I have known, when, some years ago, I gave much time and thought to the subject of mesmerine.

MESMERISED WATER.-Take a tumbler one-fourth full of water; place the tumbler in the palm of one hand, with the fingers of the other hand pointing downwards into it. The position of the hands should not be changed, as it interrupts the process to throw or dart the finger at the water.

Action-The light falls from the fingers till it reaches the bottom of the water, resting there till the whole of the surface of the bottom is covered, it then begins to rise till it reaches the top of the water, making the whole very bright. The process occupies from four to six minutes, according to the power of the mesmeriser. When the water is quite full of light, a movement, like boiling water, or the waves of the sea, takes place; increasing till the whole quantity of water is in commotion, one wave pushing on another; this disturbance then gradually subsides, and the water becomes quite still.

SECTION III.

INSTINCT.

THERE appears to be a two-fold action in each department of man's existence. We have the corporeal, and its companion, the incorporeal, or ethereal. So far as we know, this has been overlooked in tracing man as a spirit; and by not observing this junction, or union, we lose connectedness. That becomes a maze, a labyrinth, which would otherwise lead us onward in the right path for understanding the phenomena of our own life; its powers, and energies. INSTINCT has been given up to the lower animals; to fish, to birds, as a power necessary for them in lieu of reason. How it exists, why it exists, to what extent it exists, has been little studied. Instinct is a rich shrubbery of beauty, and would amply repay the observer if he would enter with zest into a practical examination of the elements therein developed. Let him take the woodman's axe, cut down the underwood of error which intersects and covers the pathway of knowledge as to man's inner powers, and make that clear which now defies the mental powers of the timid investigator, who fears the time and trouble it would take to find the landmarks. Error is like the luxuriant confusion of the Ceylon forests so vividly pictured by Sir Emerson Tennent, when he tells us

"But it is the trees of older and loftier growth that exhibit the rank luxuriance of these wonderful epiphytes in the most striking manner. They are tormented by climbing plants of such extraordinary dimensions, that many of them exceed in diameter the girth of a man; and these gigantic appendages are to be seen surmounting the tallest trees of the forest, grasping their stems in firm convolutions, and then flinging their monstrous tendrils over the larger limbs till they reach the top, whence they descend to the ground in huge festoons, and after including another and another tree in their successive toils, they once more ascend to the summit, and wind

the whole into a mass of living network as massy as if formed by the cable of a line-of-battle ship. When, by-and-by, the trees on which this singular fabric has become suspended give way under its weight, or sink by their own decay, the fallen trunk speedily disappears, while the convolutions of climbers continue to grow on, exhibiting one of the most marvellous and peculiar living mounds of confusion that it is possible to fancy. Frequently one of these creepers may be seen holding by one extremity the summit of a tall tree, and grasping with the other an object at some distance near the earth, between which it is strained as tight and straight as if hauled over a block. In all probability the young tendril had been originally fixed in this position by the wind, and retained in it till it had gained its maturity, where it has the appearance of having been artificially arranged as if to support a falling tree."

So it is with the trees of Principles, they get tormented by the climbing errors of man's luxuriant imagination, till they are lost or concealed in their network.

Let each bear a portion of the toil necessary to clear the jungle, and all will be well for us and for others. The phenomena which ever arises as we progress, will amply repay us for the labour bestowed.

GATHER FACTS.-They are the gems of science, and arrange themselves each in its own order, as certain as crystalline substances take each its distinct angle. Throw away guesstheories as you would the piece of pebble-shaped sandstone you may have picked up on the sea-shore in mistake for an agate. There are voluntary and involuntary powers of a physical character in man. The voluntary appear to be under the entire control of the mental or intellectual reasoning powers; and in a minor degree these powers appear in all animals. The involuntary powers and life-action, as laid bare by nerves, heart-beat, pulsation, blood-forming, and assimilating processes, are completely removed from mental supervision and control; they have as their companion or counter

part INSTINCT. Instinct perceives, comprehends, and provides for the wants of the consumer; instinct gathers, and the consumer, involuntary, scientifically, harmoniously arranges and distributes the stock so given, to the several members of its household, lime for bone, fat, oil, sulphur, iron, &c., are all duly manipulated and given to each needy member; and when any portion is fully supplied with its proper nutriment, the popular expressions of "The stomach rejects it," and "The appetite is cloyed," at once signals the need for a change.

Instinct has under its control, Smell, Feeling, Sight, Hearing, and Taste-deprive it of those powers, and it is helpless-give it those powers, and in proportion to their sensitiveness, so will the powers appear to the careless observer as the product of Reason. This sensitiveness displays itself in various animals under one or more of the five faculties of Smell, Feeling, Sight, Hearing, or Taste. The bloodhound by smell, appears under that power to be, almost supernatural; but for our knowledge of how he is influenced, we might demonize him. We point to the spot a man has stood on; or we show him a coat, or vest, or stocking-he looks as close at the clothes and the earth, as a man while reading a book; and onward he speeds reading the dust on the road, and the dirt in the field, till at last he reaches and lays hold of the person he was sent in quest of. Feeling is another power, and the extent of its sensitiveness is generally overlooked; if we examine the actions of the animal tribe, including man, the subtilty of the faculty is manifest. Some men are conscious of atmospheric changes coming on before the change is apparent to others; the more delicate or sensitive the person, the more quickly is he thus conscious; those who, during a previous illness, have been dosed with that curse "calomel," are miserably sensitive to all ethereal changes; "weak nerves, and foolishness," get the credit for the action of quicksilver in the system, which, acting in the same manner as it does in the barometer, makes the machine or body uneasy, and the