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intelligent solution of the remarkable experiment in the manifestations I
witnessed at this _séance_.
It appears that every particle in nature throws off a gaseous emanation,
partaking of its particular shape. These gaseous particles are not
discernible with the material eye, excepting when by chance they
coalesce, and then a phosphorescent light ensues, which renders them

apparent.
A similar effect to this is seen in electricity, which lies latent and
viewless till by a sudden coalescing of its parts it manifests itself in
zigzag lines and flashes of light which illuminate the heavens.
Now certain material bodies have the power of drawing those atoms in
close affinity, and when they are thus drawn, the shapes alluded to are
clearly discernible by the human eye.
I discovered another fact, and that is that every human being emits a
light, and in the case of those called "mediums," it is intense like the
Drummond light, and a spirit standing in its rays will become visible to
mortal sight.
These experiments interested me highly, as they had been heretofore
inexplicable to my mind.
Apropos of the topics of to-day, I must here relate what I have heard of
the "Lord Byron scandal," which is creating so marked a sensation at
present. I am told by Byron and others that Lady Byron, recently
arriving in the spirit world and finding matters very different from what
she had expected, and that she was received nowhere as the wife of
Lord Byron (who having resided there some thirty years had formed a
new and happy alliance), was stung with jealousy and vexation and
hastened to inspire Mrs. Stowe to repeat the story which had become a
matter of faith with her, hoping thereby to inflict a punishment on
Byron, who ignored his relation to her.
If she had waited until she had resided a little longer in spirit life she
would not have pursued so foolish a course. But I must bring this long
letter to a close, assuring my friends that I have the prospect of as
active a life before me as the one I have just closed on earth.

MARGARET FULLER.
LITERATURE IN SPIRIT LIFE.

To a mind familiar with the literature of the ancient Greeks and
Romans, which has studied the Scandinavian Edda, and is intimate with
the more modern German, French, and English authors, the literature of
the spirit world opens up a mine of interminable wealth.
The libraries in this world are vast catacombs or repositories of buried
knowledge. Here are found histories of decayed races, dynasties, and
nations which have vanished from earth, leaving scarce a monument of
their progress in art, science, and mental culture. In these libraries the
student of history will find the exploits of ancient peoples recorded, and
a description of their cities, with the temples and towers which they
built and the colossal images which they created.
I own to the surprise which I experienced when I discovered that
printed books were a part of the treasures of the spirit world. But the
scholar will rejoice as I did to find the literary productions of remotest
ages garnered in the spacious halls of science that adorn our cities.
It is a principle of being--a condition of immortality--as inseparable
from spirit existence as from earth life, that thought should express
itself in external forms. Even the Great Spirit, the Creator of all, gives
shape to his thoughts in the formation of trees, flowers, men, beasts,
and myriad worlds with their constant motion, their sound and song.
It has been aptly said that the "stars are the poetry of God." He, the
Great Spirit of all, writes his thoughts legibly; and so man, like his
originator, whether living in the natural body or existing as a spirit,
gives outward shape to his ideas; hence books become a necessity of
spirit existence, and the writers from earth have still a desire to
perpetuate their thoughts.
Oral communication is too evanescent, and therefore the dear old books
still find a place in the spheres.
There are various modes of making these volumes, and the writer may
become his own printer.
Some authors prefer to dictate, and a little instrument marks off the

variations of sound which make the word, and thus, as he speaks, the
word is impressed on the sheet.
Others, if the thought be clear and distinct enough, and the will
sufficiently under abeyance, act through the mind upon a conductor,
which dots down the thought in a manner somewhat similar to
telegraphic printing.
The material used to receive the impression is of a soft, vellum-like
nature, which can be folded up in any manner without destroying its
form; it is very light and thin, but opaque, like the creamy petals of a
lily.
The phonetic alphabet is