MISS STEEL stated to me (J. J.), that her brother was a decided disbeliever in the existence of spirit, that he was a decided materialist. He went to America to commence business; he heard of spirit-power, and laughed at the foolishness of mensaid he would soon detect the imposture. He got a female medium to come to his house, and Miss Steel and her brother saw astonishing phenomena; one was, the medium was thrown on the ground and dragged round the room head first, no seen power near, while those witnessing jumped on their chairs, and saw the girl so dragged or drawn past them. The result was his conversion, and his energetic advocacy of the truthfulness of spirit-power manifestations.

LORD TORPHICHEN, 1720, Scotch peer.-"The son of Lord Torphichen was often raised up in the air, and the family had to watch him and seize him by his dress as he floated off into the air. The youth always knew beforehand when it would take place."

MARIA HEISHER.--The following instance is related of Maria Heisher by Superintendant Moller:-"When it is most violent she begins to rise in the air, and at this time it is dangerous to touch her; and in the presence of the two deacons, who related this to us, she was suddenly raised in bed with her whole body, head and feet, to the height of three ells and a half, so that it appeared as if she would have flown through the window. Iamblic, the zealous defender of the heathen religions, who from his theurgic writings, his piety and supernatural powers, was usually called the divine, was, during prayers (so says report), always raised ten feet above the earth, and at such time his skin and clothes assumed the colour of gold."-ENNEMOSER ON MAGIC.

ST. TERESA RISING.-The priest told her she would do well to beg of God that he would direct her to do what was most pleasing to him, and for that purpose to cite every day the hymn Veni Creator Spiritum. She did so for a considerable time; and one day, whilst she was reciting that hymn, she was favoured with a rapture, in which she heard these words, which were spoken to her in the most interior part of her soul: "I will not have thee hold conversation with men, but with angels." She was exceedingly amazed at this voice, which was the first she heard in that manner. From that time she renounced all company; but what business or the direct service of God obliged her to converse with. The saint had afterwards frequent experience of such interior speeches after rap

tures, and explains how they are even more distinct and clear than those which men hear with their corporal ears; and how they are so merative, producing in the soul the strongest impressions and sentiments of virtue, md filling her with an assurance of their ruth, and with joy and peace; whereas sil the like ilusions of the fevil leave her much disquieted and disturbed, and produce 10 good effects, as she experienced two or three mes. Eaving ai hat the soul has a power of resisting in the prayer of mon, but not in captures, in which her sui vas absolutely arried away, so that she could not stop it, she adds, "Sometimes my whole body was carried with it, so as to be raised 19 vom že ground, though this was seldom. When I had a mind a resist these captures, there seemed to be somewhat of a mighty brce mder my feet, which raised me 15, that I mew not what to compare it to. Al my resistance availed Isle, for when our Lord hath a mind to do a thing, no power is able a stand against it. The effects of this rapture are great. First, the mighty power of the Lord is hereby made manifest: for when he is pleased, we are no more able to detain our bodies than our souls; we are not masters of them, but must, even against our will, acknowledge that we have a superior-that these favours come from him, and that of ourselves we are able to do nothing at all-and a great impression of humility is made on the soul. Further, I confeas it also produced in me a great fear for (which at first was extreme, to see that a massive body should be thus raised up from the earth; for though it be the spirit which draws it after it, and though it be done with great sweetness and delight if it be not resisted,, yet our senses are not thereby lost. At least I was so perfectly in my senses, that I understood I was then raised up. There also appears hereby so great a majesty in him who can do this, that it makes even the hair of the head stand on end; and there remains in the soul a mighty fear to offend so great a God.

"He also gave me reasons to know that this was not the devil. Once when I held in my hand the cross, which was at the end of my beads, he took it into his hand; and when he gave it me again, it appeared to be of four great stones, incomparably more precious than diamonds. A diamond is but a counterfeit in comparison of these. They had the five wounds of our Lord engraved upon them, after a most curious manner. He ld me I should always see this cross so from that time for

and so I did, for I no longer saw the matter of which was made, but only those precious stones, though no

other saw them but myself. When I was commanded to use this resistance to those favours, they increased much more, and I was never out of prayer."

Bishop Yepez relates that the saint, when she was prioress of the convent of St. Joseph, at Avila, as she was going to receive the communion at the hands of the Bishop Bon Alvarez, of Mendoza, was raised in a rapture higher than the grate, through which, as is usual in nunneries, she was to receive the holy communion; of which also sister Mary Baptist, prioress of Valladolid, was an eyewitness, with others. Likewise Bannes, a very learned theologian of the Order of St. Dominic, whose name is famous in the schools, and who was for some time Confessor of St. Teresa, testified that the saint one day, in public, as she was raised in the air in the choir, held herself by some rails, and prayed thus: Lord, suffer not, for a favour, a wicked woman to pass for virtuous." He mentions other instances in the public choir, but says, that at her earnest request, this never happened to her in public during the last fifteen years of her life.

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The monks and priests, whose acts were not in accordance with purity, raised a hue and cry against her; and Butler, in his life of the woman-her church afterwards made a saint-states:

"It was her earnest desire that all her heavenly communications should be kept secret; but they were become the common subject of discourse in every conversation, and even in the public schools; and she was everywhere censured and ridiculed as an enthusiast or hypocrite; her confessor was persecuted on her account. Six religious men of note, who had been her friends, after a conference on this subject decided that she seemed deluded by the devil, and prevailed on F. Balthasar to go with them to her, and to order not to communicate so frequently (which was her greatest support and comfort), not to live so strictly retired, and not to prolong her meditations beyond the time prescribed by the rule of her house. Her very friends reviled and shunned her as one who had a communication with the devil, and some stuck not to call her a devil. F. Balthasar, indeed, bade her be of good courage, for if she was deluded by the devil he could not hurt her, provided she laboured only to advance in charity, patience, humility, and all virtues.

"A confessor whom the saint made use of once during the absence of Father Balthazar, told her that her prayer was an illusion, and commanded her, when she saw any vision, to make the sign of the cross, and to insult the vision, as of a

SECTION III.

RISINGS-ANTI-GRAVITATION.

THERE can be no stronger proof of supernatural agency in producing results, than Anti-gravitation. With manifestations through the cerebral powers of man, there is the loop-hole for argument and for fertile imaginings as to delusion, collusion, &c.; but when a solid body, without any mechanism attached thereto, rises from its place and floats in the air, at the mere request of a few persons who desire such a proof that unseen intelligences are in the room, and that they are powerful for weal or for woe; it at once puts silence on the lips, and the conviction of the mind is, that we must enlarge the area of our conceptions as to the Divine creations of life. Their mode of existence, and the leverage by which such creations move and act, are mere curiosity thoughts.

If a heavy table is raised off the ground, it is obvious that there can be no difficulty in raising a human being off the ground-grant the one, and we must grant the other; and that the one has been done, sufficient evidence has, in the past section, been produced; and that the other has also been done, is now about to be proved, by the narration of facts recent and remote. Some loudly proclaim against furnituremoving as being absurd—that apparent absurdity, is the result of the continued opposition of man to the evidence of angels and devils, as developed in their action on the cerebral power of a human body; and the bluff denial of supernatural action, in the "curious coincidences," and other modes of spiritual display. Wisdom or folly is known by their results—these results are not always obvious to the witlings who decide so dogmatically. Let me give a proof:-Look at the absurdity so called, of the physical manifestations detailed, as witnessed by two or three literary characters, whose previous ideas were point blank against the possibility of such physical manifestations; and whose command of the current literature of the age, enables

them to assist or resist, any given developement of nature during the time they hold the reins of power. Would mere fence logic convince them? Would a pulpit sermon convince them? Would Scripture convince them? Has it convinced them? The answer is, no. Such men ask, what "The Lord" stated should result from effective belief in his mission; they ask that signs and wonders should be effected, as proofs of the alleged life of spirits-and within the year 1860, they have had it to the full:-manifestation of spirit-power so effective, so convincing, that one of those witnesses prepared an article of some thirteen pages, which was inserted in the "Cornhill Magazine," which has a sale of some 100,000 copies; now supposing only ten persons had read each copy; we have one million persons suddenly presented with a faithful narration of certain phases of spirit-power, and it went like an electric shock through the newspaper press; every newspaper in England-has referred to the article, and has copied portions of the narrative; so that millions of the population are roused. This rousing will, like the wave-ripple when a stone is thrown into a pond, extend and extend till it reaches the circumference of the British Empire. The lever of physical manifestations of spirit power, has been put under the mass of terialism," in the church and out of it; and however rough and ungainly that lever may appear to the vinaigrette men of society; the agent, the mind, the spirit, is moving the mass with power and with wisdom; making the weak and foolish things around us to confound the mighty and the strong.

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Wisdom, we have said, is justified by the results produced. These mighty marvellous evidences of spirit action on inanimate substances, and on human physical substances; subdue the mind, and prepare it for receiving the more subtle evidences of spirit existence and power, as will be developed in other sections.

HUMAN BODY FLOATING IN A ROOM.-The following incidents transpired in my presence on the 7th of May, 1860; the other incidents on the same evening, the reader will find on page 337.

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