futurity. Dee, in his veracious diary, says that one day
while he was sitting with Alburtus Laski, a Polish nobleman, there
seemed to come out of the oratory a spiritual creature, like a pretty
girl of seven or nine years of age, with her hair rolled up before
and hanging down behind, with a gown of silk, of changeable red and
green, and with a train. She seemed to play up and down, and to go in
and out behind the books, and as she seemed to get between them, the
books displaced themselves and made way for her. This I call a
spiritual manifestation of the most interesting and fascinating kind.
Even the books felt the fascinating influence of this spiritual
creature; for they displaced themselves and made way for her. Edward
Kelly, an Irishman, who was present, and who witnessed this beautiful
apparition, verifies the doctor's statement; therefore it would be
unreasonable to doubt a story so well attested, particularly when the
witness was an Irishman. Dr. D. was the distinguished favorite of
kings and queens, a proof that spiritual science was in high repute
in the good old age of Queen Elizabeth. But of all the professors of
occult science, hermetic philosophy or Spiritualism, the Rosicrucians
were the most exalted and refined. With them the possession of the
philosopher's stone was to be the means of health and happiness, an
instrument by which man could command the services of superior
beings, control the elements, defy the abstractions of time and
space, and acquire the most intimate knowledge of all the secrets of
the universe. These were objects worth struggling for. The refined
Rosicrucians were utterly disgusted with the coarse, gross, sensual
spirits who had been in communication with man previous to their day;
so they decreed the annihilation of them all, and substituted in
their stead, a race of mild, beautiful and beneficent beings.

The "spirits" of the olden time were a malignant race, and took
especial delight in doing mischief; but the new generation is mild
and benignant. These "spirits," as this petition attests, indulge in
the most innocent amusements and harmless recreations, such as
sliding, raising and tipping tables, producing pleasing sounds and
variegated sights, and sometimes curing diseases which were
previously considered incu