"IMPOSSIBILITIES" PERFECTLY POSSIBLE AND SIMPLE.

Evening Star, Issue 3610, 17 September 1874, Page 3

"IMPOSSIBILITIES" PERFECTLY POSSIBLE AND SIMPLE.

To the Editor. Sir, - Crooke’s materialised ghost : why incredible ? Its solution is very easy. The whole universe is permeated throughout, within its every part, with an active, conscious, omnipotent power, ever pressing outwards wherever conditions exist to require its living manifestation, and this clothed in forms endless as the forms of matter itself. This power it is which works within the bee . to construct its cell, and guides the swallow .in its unerring flight thousands of miles across the pathless ocean. This is the power which directly effects all those strange things we stare at in the history of the animal and instinct worlds, and ignorantly ascribe to blind instinct, just as if that would not rather mystify than explain them. 1 his is the power which silently and surely accompußneß all those marvels we see daily happen* ing, whether they are performed through the agency of living organised forms, occupying the placetpe agent or medium! or other* wise. This is the power which, with equal ease, manufactures a daisy, or a star, or a man, or a materialise 1 ghost. This the mysterious guiding, creating, and over-ruling power of the univt rse, which alone is equai to the performance of all those things 1 we read and talk about, whether in ancient or modem Spiritualism, which, according to our knowledge of science, may fairly be termed “ impossibilities* ” There being but one Otunipoteneein the universe, andno power short of Omnipotence being sufficient to do “ impossible ” things, it fallows as a necessity that disembodied human or any other created spirits of their own strength, could not be the cause of one-half the mysteries of modern Spiritualism—for it being admitted that such intelligences are limited in knowledge, they will ,be equally limited in power—and therefore the great mysterious cause of all things must be the operator, directly and indirectly, and for purposes sufficient to Him, and none of our business, of all those higher spiritual manifestations now engaging the study of the scientific world. Foremost among these stand the materialised ghosts of 1874, which to place their existence as real entities, beyond'- the possibility of doubt, hare stood boldly request, undo; a brilliant

magnesium lights and permitted themselves to be photographed by London photo grapbera—Mr Crookes, MrVarley, and other eminent scientists of the English metropolis having watched and superintended the proceedings from first to last to prevent fraud. Seethe .Fortnightly’ and other magzines. What a |' ty t hat photography was not known to rhu ancients. It would have been highly i> tcreating to posterity had Abraham a;id his <! sienJants handed down photomantis of s'. ,Ie of the leading angel forms which at various epochs appeared to and talked with them.—l am, &c..

_ Frederick. Dunedin, September 17.