these knocks to a supernatural case; but Dr. Jobert, after some investigation." discovered that they were caused by the peronæus, a muscle of the leg. There are, indeed, two muscles of this name, the longus and brevis, the former arising from the fore part of the head of the fibula, and ending at the root of the metatarsal bone of the great toe, and the other arising from the external part of the fibula, passing under and ending at the metatarsal bone of the little toe. Both these muscles aid in turning the foot outwards, and extending it a little. The tendon of the former runs along the groove in the os cuboides, and it seems it is there it may produce the noise described. In the case of Dr. Jobert de Lamballe's patient the noise was involuntary, and owing to a slight local imperfection, but with a little practice it may be produced at will; and this acquired faculty, as Dr. Jobert showed, is the whole secret of mediums and spirit-rappers. The muscles and tendons, both of the leg and shoulder, are equally liable to produce such noises. A lady has been known to produce them from her hip by assuming a certian posture. Certain conjurors are so clever at this kind of exercise as to produce a kind of harmony by a succession of knocks. Some have been known to imitate the tune of a dance or a popular march; others to make their audience believe they heard the dead rising from their tombs, or soldiers reviving from the dust of the battle-field, and falling into rank again to continue their march.

Some years ago Dr. Schiff, in the United States, made a similar discovery and delivered several public lectures, in which he showed that what were supposed to be the replies of spirits were nothing more than the effects of muscular motions caused by some local injury. But credulity is so tenacious that few paid any attention to him, although he accompained his lectures with practical demonstrations. We cannot foresee whether Dr. Jobert's fresh exposure of such impostures will put an end to the superstition of spirit-rapping, but his communications produced an immense effect at the sitting, some wishing him joy, others on the contrary, giving him to understand that his disclosures were by no means palatable to them.-Aberystwith Observer.

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A writer in the Spiritual Telegraph and Preacher, for May 7th, under the above title, gives the names of several very creditable persons, who have witnessed "with their own eyes a man suspended in the air without physical contact, and wafted up and down, and carried backward and forward for about twenty minutes" : this circumstance, together with several analogous physical movements he considers as illustrative and confirmatory of a common law by which similar phenomena possibly occurred as recorded in the spiritual history of past ages. He says:--"Among the stories, concerning which we must modify our suspicions of falsehood, are a considerable number which speak of suspensions of persons in the air, similar to that referred to as witnessed by Dr. Gray and others. For instance, Galloni (as cited by Butler), mentions several extraordinary raptures of St. Philip Neri, in which his body was raised from the ground some yards high, "at which time his countenance appeared shining with a bright light." In a note on the above, Butler continues:

“We find the same authentically attested of several other servants of God. St. Ignatius Loyola was sometimes seen raised in prayer two feet above the ground, his body, at the same time, shining with light. The like elevations are related in the lives of St. Dominick, St. Dunstan, St. Philip Beniti, St. Cajetan. St. Albert of Sicily, B. Francis of Assisium, in his life by Chalippe, and others. Many of the authors

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Canterbury, one day opening softly the chapel door, saw his Archbishop raised high in the air, with his knees bent and his arms stretched out; but falling gently to the ground, and seeing his chancellor, he complained to him that he had hindered him of great spiritual delights and comfort. Dom. Camlet, an author still living, and a severe and learned critic, assures us that he knows a religious man who, in devout prayer is sometimes involuntarily raised in the air, and remains hanging in it without any support. Also that he is personally acquainted with a devout man to whom the same has often happened, (Calmet Diss. sur les Apparitions, chap. 21.) See in the life of St. Theresa, written by herself, how, notwithstanding her resistance, her body sometimes was raised from the ground. Whether these persons, and others to whom the like may have happened, were raised by the invisible ministry of angels, or by any supernatural operation immediately derived from God, is uncertain, and probably what they themselves could not determine, any more than St. Paul could perceive whether he was carried up to heaven in his body or out of his body.-(Butler's Lives of the Saints, Vol. V., May 26, St. Philip Neri.)'

The case of St. Philip the Apostle, after he had baptised the Ethiopian eunuch, being caught up by "the Spirit of the Lord," so that the eunuch saw him no more, and afterward being found at Azotus, some thirty miles distant, has often been cited as a more ordinarily emphatic demonstration of an existing divine or spiritual power or law by which these suspensions and transportations may take place under favorable conditions. As the types of all spiritual possibilities are set forth with more or less distinctness in the life of Jesus, so we find exemplified in his experience this law, or power, of physical suspension and transportation, and particularly in the case of his suddenly, while walking on the water, appearing to his disciples, while the latter were in a ship far from the land, they having, when they embarked, left their master behind, on which occasion the disciples, as it appears, were alarmed, thinking that it was a Spirit instead of Jesus that they saw, (Matt. xiv., 25: 26.)

The occurrence of such extraordinary phenomena must not, however, he regarded as a demonstration of the absolute truth of the religion of those who are their subject, inasmuch as, regarded in this light, they would prove entirely too much. For it is related by Eunapius, a Platonic philosopher, in his lives of Jamblichus and Porphyry, who were enemies of the Christian religion, but eminently endowed with spiritual gifts of an order di ffering from the Christian, that they were often raised ten cubits into the air, and were seen surrounded by a bright light. The suspen

sion of Henry Gordon in the air, as witnessed by Dr. Gray and others, and the same thing that occurred to Dr. Edward Fowler, must also be offset against any argument for the infallibility of the Romish religion, that may be derived from the like wonderful prodigies as happened to the, no doubt, very excellent and Christian devotees whose cases are referred to above. A deep abstraction of the mind from the scenes of the sensuous world, and an entire absorption of the faculties in supersensu-, ous and spiritual themes, furnish the requisite conditions on the human side, for the occurrence of these phenomena, whatever the religious principles of the subject may be. These are the conditions which, when sufficiently perfect, admit of the direct conjunction and action of an ultraterrestrial power, and when that power is supplied, the result will ensue, irrespective of the specific moral character of the agent, whether divine, angelic, or of an opposite nature."

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THE Spirit from the Lord, acts upon Man now as in olden days; there are diversities of gifts, but the same sun shines, and by its light and power, vivifies and developes the Rose, and the Forget-me-not; notwithstanding the difference of shape and color: many roses and forget-me-nots, seem natural to the soil, and develope their powers and beauties without any apparent effort; whilst others, from unfavourable circumstances, require the aid of cultivation, they require the gardener and the conservatory: so with spiritual Mediums, some develope their powers without cultivation; whilst others, require artificial stimulants: this is more needful in northern latitudes, and flat countries, where the chillyness of the surrounding atmosphere, preys upon the vital heat; requiring man to eat coarser food, and that, more plentifully, to keep up the temperature of the body; and again, on flat alluvial lands the powers of seers are kept in check, and only by fits fits and starts ts are u those seen to flash into existence, causing the action of spirit beings on such to be occasionally perceived under the phase of Dreams, Visions, Apparitions, Presentiments, and got rid of by the every day expres sions of "strange" "curious" "imagination"&c. Remove those persons to hilly quartz districts, and the developments are much more frequents because the aura proceeding from the Crystals clarifies the nerves of the human body; and like a mirror, when freed from the humid exhalations of the valley, they become the instruments for producing those extraordinary superhuman manifestations of power, developed in various ways. The more tropical the climate, the more powerful the manifestations Northern mediums are mere dwarfs in comparison with those in

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