The ages, the aeons required for the perfecting of any given soul, are known only to its Creator, or how great must be the accumulation of ages ere the whole human family—­the children of God—­will respond to the eternal roll-call that shall usher in the redeemed of every land and clime, not one “Lost,” or gone astray.  Those who have stepped forth into the arena of this present manifestation of life on this planet, have, each in their place, their responsibility and task, to keep alight the beacons of reason, and intelligence, as guides to truth, and to pander never to the powers of ignorance and superstition, however manifested by Church or State.

MEDIUMSHIP.

Mediumship today is clearly an abnormalism.  But the history of the world has been that the so-called abnormalisms of one generation are the accepted, commonplace realisms of the succeeding types.  Sight, the desire to see, existed first in the mind of the unfolding human brain; the will joined its forces to aid the work of liberation and the visual nerves began to form and grow.  The imprisoned soul within kept pushing on, until gradually the beautiful, complex organ of sight was evoluted and the soul possessed a window through which it could see things for itself.  The evolutionary processes attending mediumship quite correspond to this physical process.  Man demands to know concerning those things that have long been hid, and to understand the “deep things of God,” and so the soul of him is saying, “I, too, have visions unspeakable,” and closing up the avenues of his external sight, he sees and apprehends truth, a light upon his path, of which in his previous, darkened state he had never conceived.  The intuitional faculties being the true interpreters of the immortal soul, are capable of unlimited cultivation, unlike those of the intellect which have always the limitations of cerebral organization.  These powers are as limitless as God, and only through the expansion and recognized rational, practical use and application of these faculties—­now sometimes falsely named supernatural—­can the human race pass out from its present environment of darkness, and crime, and reaching upward expand into a saving knowledge of the truth, as made known by the Christs.

THE MIGRATIONS OF OUR RACE.

Vast numbers of times has the human race marched around this world on which we live.  Each journey of the whole family has embraced a cycle of time.  Each cycle has been rounded up by some great cataclysm of nature, which has left the earth desolated, in ruins, to rest from the invasions of its nomadic children.

Of the truth of these great convulsive throes of the planet we have many ancient legendary accounts.  The Biblical accounts, and the irrefutable testimony of the globe itself, as recorded in the veined strata which have held their record for ages inviolably concealed, until man should finally bring to the unmasking of her secrets an intelligence clarified from the mists of superstition, and illuminated by the intuition not only of the soul, but of the intellect and reason.