other portions of the American continent, obviously demonstrate, as shown by symbols of sun-worship carved upon rocks, that they pushed their shipping all along our western sea-coasts. Wherever they anchored they left their ideas of magic and spirit intercourse. "Light "Sprung from the deep, and from her native East, To journey thro' the airy gloom began." In Pococke's "India in Greece," the author, from a translation of documents existing in the Sanscrit, proves conclusively that, "In the great conflict between Brahminical and Buddhistic sects in India, the latter being defeated, emigrated in large bands, and colonized other countries. It is demonstrated in this work that the principal locality from which this emigration took place was Affghanistan and North-western India; that the Indian tribes proceeding thence colonized Greece, Egypt, Palestine and Italy; that they also produced the great Scandinavian families, the early Britons inclusive; and that they carried with them to their new settlements the evidences of their civilization, their arts, institutions and religion." Herodotus informs us that, in the lofty tower of Belus in Babylon, there was a consecrated room upon the summit in which was an oracular gold table; and here a woman of priestly office stayed each night to obtain information from the presiding deity. A similar apartment adorned the Temple of Jove at Thebes, in Egypt, and other Nilotic cities. These media, virtuous in habit, accustomed to fasting and bathing, and other purifications, before divining or conversing with the gods, to give information, were required, in accordance with the laws of the country, to occupy those temples the night previous to the entrancement. This more thoroughly magnetized them. The teachings then brought from the world of spirits were considered sacred. "I have seen," said Apollonius, "the Brahmins of India, dwelling on the earth and not on the earth, living fortified without fortifications, possessing nothing and yet everything." This he spoke somewhat enigmatically; but Damis (the companion of his journey in India) says they sleep upon the ground, but that the earth furnishes them with a grassy couch of whatever plants they desire. That he himself had seen them, elevated two cubits above the surface of the earth, walk in the air! not for the purpose of display, which was quite foreign to the character of the men; but because whatever they did, elevated, in common with the sun, above the earth, would be more acceptable to that deity. * Having bathed, they formed a choral circle, having larchas for their coryphæus, and striking the earth with their divining rods, it rose up, no otherwise than does the sea under the power of the wind, and caused them to ascend into the air. Meanwhile they continued to chant a hymn not unlike the pæan of Sophocles, which is sung at Athens in honor of Esculapius." (Philostrat. Vita Apollon. Tyanens. Lib. iii. c. 15, 17.) Without the light of Spiritualism, the above statements can be regarded in no other sense than chimeras of heated imagination in an age of superstition; but now they appear as embodied facts traceable to causes which our philosophy analyzes. As a common magnet will lift up a piece of steel, so by spirit attraction did Jesus walk upon the sea; and as a table, or other object by invisible hands, under the same law, is carried above the heads of the spiritual circle, so were the Brahmins of India floated in the air, which many a medium to-day can testify is true. How beautiful is history under the light of Spiritualism! We seem now to feel the very breath and heart-beats of those olden seers! CHAPTER IV. EGYPTIAN. "The Egyptian soul sailed o'er the skyey sea "Old sphinxes lift their countenances bland, "Those mystic, stony volumes on the walls long writ, If there is a charmed country beneath the bending skies, it is Egypt-land of the Nile and the Pyramids, of the Pharaohs and the Ptolemies-land where art and science gloried in splendid achievements before our historic records, and whose powerful dynasties held sway for long generations. over fertile valleys and mighty cities. Thebes, the hundred gated, Heliopolis with its magnificent temples, Memphis with its shining palaces and evergreen gardens, left memorials so wondrous that the men of to-day are attracted thither-to Luxor and Carnak, to the avenues of sphinxes and the summits of the pyramids. Egypt, whose mystic hierophants vied with the gymnosophists of India-whose "lost arts" have never yet been discovered-whose learning "Uttered its oracles sublime Before the Olympiads, in the dew they sleep upon the ground, but that the earth furnishes them with a grassy couch of whatever plants they desire. That he himself had seen them, elevated two cubits above the surface of the earth, walk in the air! not for the purpose of display, which was quite foreign to the character of the men; but because whatever they did, elevated, in common with the sun, above the earth, would be more acceptable to that deity. * * * Having bathed, they formed a choral circle, having larchas for their coryphæus, and striking the earth with their divining rods, it rose up, no otherwise than does the sea under the power of the wind, and caused them to ascend into the air. Meanwhile they continued to chant a hymn not unlike the pean of Sophocles, which is sung at Athens in honor of Esculapius." (Philostrat. Vita Apollon. Tyanens. Lib. iii. c. 15, 17.) Without the light of Spiritualism, the above statements can be regarded in no other sense than chimeras of heated imagination in an age of superstition; but now they appear as embodied facts traceable to causes which our philosophy analyzes. As a common magnet will lift up a piece of steel, so by spirit attraction did Jesus walk upon the sea; and as a table, or other object by invisible hands, under the same law, is carried above the heads of the spiritual circle, so were the Brahmins of India floated in the air, which many a medium to-day can testify is true. How beautiful is history under the light of Spiritualism! We seem now to feel the very breath and heart-beats of those olden seers! CHAPTER IV. EGYPTIAN. “The Egyptian soul sailed o'er the skyey sea "Old sphinxes lift their countenances bland, "Those mystic, stony volumes on the walls long writ, If there is a charmed country beneath the bending skies, it is Egypt-land of the Nile and the Pyramids, of the Pharaohs and the Ptolemies-land where art and science gloried in splendid achievements before our historic records, and whose powerful dynasties held sway for long generations over fertile valleys and mighty cities. Thebes, the hundred gated, Heliopolis with its magnificent temples, Memphis with its shining palaces and evergreen gardens, left memorials so wondrous that the men of to-day are attracted thither-to Luxor and Carnak, to the avenues of sphinxes and the summits of the pyramids. Egypt, whose mystic hierophants vied with the gymnosophists of India-whose "lost arts" have never yet been discovered-whose learning "Uttered its oracles sublime Before the Olympiads, in the dew |