"I salute you, sir:--I am afraid that during your mortal life you will be in much the same position I was. I found it hard to maintain peace while the work of reform was a necessity; but nevertheless, I never became discouraged in trying to do as nearly right as I could under the circumstances that surrounded me, although my reign was a very short one. I am here mainly through the efforts of the hero or saint of my time, Apollonius of Tyana. He was in Rome, when I was there, for a short period. There was no other god advocated by him but Christos of India, whose disciple he claimed to be; and whose doctrines and logic he expounded in my time. That he was the Paul of the Christian Epistles I know, because he submitted them to me to read for myself. They were written in the Latin and Greek tongues by himself. I allowed him full sway during my reign, and upon one ground only--not that I believed what he taught, but simply because he was a Pythagorean as I was myself. The real secret of my becoming an emperor of Rome was, that I belonged to the secret order of the Pythagorean Brotherhood. As to whether there was any other god than Christos taught in those days, I will say, that there were about fifteen of them, among which the most prominent were Prometheus of the Greeks, Horus of the Egyptians, and Hesus of the Scandanavians. These were the principal Saviours of men that were preached in my day. The foundation of the history of each and all of them, as far as I can give it, was the theory of a woman overshadowed by a god, who gave birth to a divine man. I would further say that in my day, at Rome, all religions seemed to drift towards the central theory of a great god, who had a son who would die to save the world. But from manuscripts written at least four thousand years before my time, the same idea seemed to pervade all ceremonies and observances, but in every case relating to the great Sun of Light that you behold above you. It was useless for Apollonius to try to convince me of the existence of a god, or a son of a god, I being, in fact, initiated into a thorough understanding of the secrets of the Order of Light--that light that lighteth all men that cometh into the world. [Was that a Pythagorean idea?] It was. As to the spiritual manifestations occurring through Apollonius, although they were grand in their way, yet similar manifestations were common in my day. There were many astrologers of my court through whom the same phenomena occurred. I believe I have said all that is necessary for me to state at this time. I thank you for the opportunity you have given me to do it. [How did your being a Pythagorean influence your election as emperor of Rome?] That order had gained great power among the nobility of Rome and Greece. It was almost unknown to the common people. The order was composed of the aristocracy, and its members united to forward my elevation. I am Coccius Nerva, emperor of Rome."

King of Judea.

"I will salute you, sir, by saying:--Those who would obstruct these communications confirm the saying, 'Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.' I was born into the mortal life about A. D. 30, and departed to the spirit life about A. D. 85. I lived at the time of the great triumphs and renowned career of Apollonius of Tyana, a man and a medium who, (if people must have a God and a Saviour) ought to be the leading character in that direction, to-day. I most positively assert, that under the name of Paulinus or Polionos, Apollonius was brought before me for disturbing the peace of the country; but nothing could be proven against him, except that he knew more about the Jewish religion than my own people did. In those days, the Jews gladly killed any Gentile who knew more of their religion, and who could expound it better than their learned Rabbies. As I could find no harm in the man except what I have stated, he was discharged. He was brought before me a second time about the time of the downfall of the Jewish state, which was about A. D. 67 or 68, when he was again charged with disturbing the country, by advancing ideas that were derogatory to the Jewish Jehovah. But again his accusers failed to prove their point. Apollonius was, in fact, a disciple and initiated member of the school of Gamaliel, and so well did he argue with his accusers, that they failed in all their attempts to prove anything against him. That Apollonius was the St. Paul of the present Christian religion is plainly proven, by reading the various epistles attributed to him. Those epistles will show to any candid inquirer or thinker, that Paul was not a Jew. Everything therein goes to show that he must have been a person well versed in Greek, and just such a writer and thinker as was the great Cappadocian sage, Apollonius of Tyana. The last time, during my mortal career, that I met Apollonius, was in the camp of Titus, before Jerusalem, about A. D. 70, where I saw such spiritual manifestations occurring through his mediumship, or in his presence, as Josephus relates as having occurred through Eleazar the Jew. Josephus was in the camp of Titus at that time. Those manifestations were similar to the various phenomena now well known to be produced by spirits through mediums, and were such as to incite Vespasian and Titus to greater endeavors to overthrow the Jewish state. I have further to say, that there was no Jewish history or book, written in my time, that could prove my people to have a history extending over five hundred years before my time. The sacred writings all took their present shape in the days of Ezra, the scribe. This communication is not from a 'Jew of 'the Jews,' but is from one who despised them because they would never submit to be properly ruled, and were always in a state of anarchy. They were bigoted on all points, and it was their bigotry that destroyed them as a nation. My name was Agrippa Herodes the Younger. I was king of Judea."

"I will salute you by saying: There is no God we can serve that will do as much good as the truth. I am claimed to have been the writer of the Ketubim, called by others the Hagiographa. I was at the head of the school of Sora, in the third century. I was not the transcriber of either of the classes of writings mentioned. They were put into their present shape, in the ninth century, by a Greek Jew named Georgius. Whether you will be able to corroborate this I cannot say. But I did put in shape the Jewish writings of the Minor Prophets. I also wrote a great deal upon the teachings of Gamaliel; but the real Jewish records, before the time of Ezra the scribe, are all plagiarized from ancient sacred Armenian writings. The whole of the Pentateuch really belongs to the time of an Armenian king, who was contemporary with Psammeticus the Egyptian, and was extant in my day. By this I mean that these Armenian writings were in the library of the academy at the head of which I was. The actual writings and teachings of Gamaliel have been very much tampered with by Christians, and this was known in after times, as shown in the writings of Moses of Chorene, who is claimed to have embraced the Christian religion, but who in reality was an Ebionite follower of Krishna, (as the name was spelled in Armenian); and when you read about Josephus having been an Ebionite Christian, you must understand it to mean the same as when the term was applied to Moses of Chorene. I think that the most that I have said here to-day can be corroborated by that celebrated Armenian spirit, Haico, who has communicated with you before. I mean corroborated by the history of Haico. The Ebionites of the time of Gamaliel and Josephus were all tainted with Gymnosophism. They were Jews who had become acquainted with that Indian philosophy through Apollonius of Tyana. It has been one of my most imperative obligations as a spirit, in conjunction with many spirits of the sixth century to bring to light the Armenian, Pythagorean, Judean, Gnostic and Eclectic systems, the writings, concerning which, are sufficiently extant to overthrow the purpose of the Christian priesthood to conceal or destroy them. I will be with you, with all my spirit power, to crush this gigantic superstition--Christianity. I was known as Rabba Joseph, sometimes called the Blind."

The Learned Moorish Jew.

"Peace be with you:--My teacher in the mortal life was a follower of the Alexandrian or Aristotelian philosophic principles. His name was Averroes. I became deeply interested in what he showed to me in writings that were then extant. But owing to the fanaticisms of my countrymen who were Mohammedans, I was obliged to disguise my real views through life. In reality I was a follower of Aristotle and Apollonius of Tyana. There were two Apollonian systems; one that passed toward the East, and the other toward the West. The Western system passed through the hands of Potamon, Ammonius Saccas, Plotinus and other men of that school. It was a strange position that I occupied--an Eclectic philosopher in a Mohammedan country. But my school was private. Our investigations had to be carried on very much as your investigations of Spiritualism are carried on now, in private apartments of our own. In Cordova, in my time, about A. D. 1200, our investigation of alchemy and science, although not interfered with by the government, could not be openly exposed. There is one point on which I want to enlighten you. There are thousands of spirits who would kill me this instant if they could prevent what I am about to tell you. It is this. The Augian Codex, which is claimed to have been written in the 9th century, and which is now in the Cambridge Library, affords the clearest and most positive proofs that Apollonius was St. Paul. Another think I want to tell you is, that the Alexandrian Codex was well known and read among the Moors of my time, and was believed by many of them. You will have to close my communication."

The Greek Secretary of Belisarius.

"I greet you, sir:--My name when on earth was Procopius. I was the Greek secretary of Belisarius. The principal period of my life was, from A. D. 534 to 565. I wrote a history of the emperor Justinian, and this is the only part of my writings that has not been concealed or destroyed. But I also wrote on many religious topics. I was a follower of the emperor Julian, that is I was a Pythagorean or Platonist, those two systems of philosophy being nearly the same. I did not feel inclined to embrace either of the other religions of my time. There were none that seemed so sensible as the writings of Pythagoras and Plato. I think the Eclectics by their amalgamation of religious and philosophical doctrines, ruined the beauty of the text of Plato. I had no sympathy with either of the parties in the contention that was carried on by Eusebius Pamphilus and others of the disputants of that and subsequent times. The Krishna of India which had been worshipped before the time of Eusebius, was a black man, and it was Eusebius who changed him into a Jew instead of a Hindoo. He thought that more followers could be obtained for a white Christ than for a Hindoo one. But prior to that time, in all the temples erected for the worship of Krishna, he was represented as a Hindoo. The words put into the mouth of Julian in relation to deifying the Judean Savior, in his dying hour, are not true in any sense whatever. He defied all the gods. He was in fact a Deist or believer in one overruling power, or God. But in my time gods were not looked upon as spirits. The god idea meant something great--immeasurable; something that mortals could not comprehend, and with whom only spirits could converse with. I knew that mortals could converse with spirits. I conversed with them myself, when in the mortal form; and I was told many things by them that were both true and false, as I have found as a spirit. But it is due that I should say this for many spirits; they do not lie wilfully--they know no better. When I lived everything relating to religion was in a fearful chaotic state, and many spirits were as much confused as mortals, especially in relation to such matters."

The Great Arian Leader.

"I greet you, sir:--Strong, positive, and brief, must be my testimony, on account of my spirit having little or no affinity for the present mortal life. Therefore, what has been said by the guide of the medium, must suffice for my introduction. I attempted, in my day, from B. C. 165 to 155, to combine the Christism or Christosism of that time, with the Pythagorean and Platonic systems of philosophy, and met with great success, simply because Pythagoras was a worshipper of Prometheus, and the life, character and career of Prometheus were almost identical with those of the Christos of India--the story of Prometheus being nothing more than a plagiarism by the Greeks of that relating to Christos. The Platonic philosophy was derived from, and was a combination of, the doctrines regarding Christos in the East and Prometheus in the West. As far as I was concerned, I knew that all the god-systems, or Christs born in the flesh grew out of the heathen idea of sacrifice as a propitiation for sin. Man in his primitive state, first offered up the lowest reptiles for this purpose; in time he substituted beasts as offerings; and finally ended by human sacrifices as the noblest offering to offended deity. I so instructed the inner circle or school of my philosophy. After I was transferred to the spirit life, I found that Christosism was changed into Christianity between the 4th and 5th centuries by different bishops of the Christosite churches. The reason why they made this change was to meet the wave of western doubt which flowed upon their teachings through the Hesus element of Western Europe, the two teachings meeting in Rome and Alexandria, about A. D. 250. I have made my statement as clearly as I could under the circumstances and thank you for this hearing."

A Roman Emperor.

"I will salute you, sir, by saying: You are a man after my own heart. I loved my friends and opposed my enemies. I was known in my mortal life as Septimus Geta, son of Septimus Severus. I was murdered by my brother, Caracalla. There is one thing that I now know, and that is that my brother would never have murdered me had it not been for the meddlesome priests of my time. About from A. D. 200 to 212, there was a fight between what the spirit who preceded me (Sotion) calls Christosism and the worship of Apollo the pagan God of Rome. The followers of the first using the word Maia to designate the mother of Christos, which was afterwards by the Christians changed into Mary. The followers of Apollo, regarding him as identical with Horus the Egyptian Saviour recognized the great Isis as his virgin mother. I said, when appealed to decide between the two parties, during my brief reign, that they were both too ridiculous to be worthy of any official recognition. In doing this I sealed my fate. I gave offence to both parties. And finding my brother a more pliable tool in their hands, the priests helped him to murder me. As far as I was myself concerned, I was a fully initiated member of what was called in my time the Diamond or Mountain of Light Circle. I was a believer in and a follower of the Eclectic system of philosophy. I think that one Photian wrote a history of my life. It is now in the hands of the Maronite Christians of Mt. Lebanon in Syria."

"Good Day, sir:--It seems to be the misfortune of Germans that they have names that are very hard to force through mediums who speak a foreign tongue. My name was Jacob Joseph Von Gorres. Although I wrote on all the topics of my day, the principal point of my communication will have relation to my work Die Christliche Mystik. It is upon this that I wish particularly to dwell. I was a mystic follower of Boehme, Agrippa, and such writers on mysticism; but I tried to reconcile the mysticism of the 16th century with the mysticism of my time, about all of which I would have told the truth had not prejudice prevented me from doing so. All mysticism of that and previous times, centered in the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus and Christos of India. I use the Greek work Christos instead of the Indian name Crishna or Christau. Now, that was the central or commencement point of all modern Christianity, as it was taught by Apollonius of Tyana, Potamon, Plotinus and the Alexandrian School in general; but afterwards it was greatly altered at the Council of Nice, to suit the views of Eusebius and those of his school. There is only one direction in which you must look for the evidence that will substantiate the truth of these communications, and that is among the Catholics, for Protestantism is only a bastard Catholicism. The bishops and priests of the Catholic church know that what I here assert is positively true; and they have, in different parts of the world, the documentary evidence to prove what I here assert. But they have thrown the responsibility of most of their sacred writings upon the Jews, because they claimed to be God's chosen people, and that their prophets had direct communication with the deity, Jehovah; and as none but the learned few could read their Hebrew text, so Eusebius and his followers thought it a sharp stroke of policy to conceal the fraudulent proceedings in which they were engaged, in founding the Christian church. Almost the whole of the books that make up what is called the Bible, or the ancient Jewish history, is taken from the writings of the elder Zoroaster, and were taught by the Armenians, Chaldeans, Moabites and Samaritans. There is no Jewish Rabbi of any learning, to-day, who could prove from any works I met with, that they had a literature extending beyond the Babylonian captivity of the Jews. All tradition prior to that time shows that the Jewish narratives were taken from the legends of the people I have named. As a spirit I have investigated all kinds of sectarianism, and I find that the one common mistake of mankind in all ages has been in mistaking the communications of spirits for the outgivings of God. If they will, now and hereafter, correctly understand this, all sects will come together in the fatherhood of truth and the brotherhood of men. Other spirits here may have something more important to say to you, than what I have given. I thank you for this hearing. Farewell."

A German Orientalist.

I will salute you, sir, by saying:--Fools always oppose the truth, and as the fools are in the majority, and those who are willing and trying to learn the truth in the minority, you may get nothing but kicks for trying to enlighten mankind. It was so in my day, and, as a spirit, I see it is the same in yours. The Hebrew language is nothing more than the ancient Chaldean tongue. I know this as a spirit, and I knew it when here. The proof of this may be had by a comparison of Chaldean and Hebrew alphabets, and in making such a comparison, to use one of their scripture terms, the wayfaring man though a fool cannot err therein. The whole of the Jewish traditions in the Old Testament were revised and placed in their present shape, about B. C. 650, and were taken from the Chaldean traditions, and you have the proof of this when you see that the ancestor of these Jews was Abraham or Ibrahm as the name was in the Chaldean tongue, or I the one, and brahm the soul--the one soul of all things. This man, we are told, was a native of Ur of Chaldea, and not a Hebrew at all. This was all set forth by Zoroaster the Younger, or Daniel, as the Jews have called him, at the courts of three or four Chaldean or Assyrian kings. But Ezra, sometime later, made a revision of the account of Daniel or Zoroaster; and while the tradition in relation to Daniel, before the time of Ezra, is adhered to, to-day, by the Greek Church, the revised version of the same tradition by Ezra is adhered to by the Roman Catholic Church. So much for the Old Testament, and now for the New. The Rabbies of the time when the latter Testament was in course of taking shape, such as Gamaliel, Akiba and Onkelos, were so superstitious, and imbued with the idea of what they termed Moses, that they regarded the Jews as the lineal descendents of Abraham, or Ibrahm. But Moses was only a combination of two names, Moab and Sesostris; Mo meaning the man, and ab meaning the father, or Moab the father man; and the other, Sesostris, a king of a people, known in ancient times as Sethites. This seems to have been the derivation of the name Moses. These people looked upon the combination of those names, and the traditions connected with them, as showing that they were lineal descendants from Ibrahm, or Abraham, as the name has been called by the Hebrews; so that, when Apollonius disputed with the learned Rabbies, when he rode into Jerusalem on an ass--and when he discoursed with them about their traditions, and defeated them in arguments, he had to fly from Jerusalem to Tarsus, where he became the celebrated Paul of Tarsus. My communication needs no other corroboration, than the penetration of a critical scholarship and clear sound sense, to determine the truth of what I have here set forth. My name is Frederich Heinrich Wilhelm Gesenius. [We will do what we can to corroborate your testimony by the facts of history.] I think you are the man to do it well. You may rely upon my help in your efforts to get the truth before the world."

A Christian Father.

"Good-day sir:--Are ecclesiastics and theologians of any benefit to humanity, whatever? This is the question that is uppermost in my mind to-day. After thousands of years of contention about the truth of their respective systems, whether Pagan, Jewish, Mohammedan or Christian, what real benefit have those various systems of theology conferred upon mankind? To me, all those systems blend together and amount to one thing, and this is misunderstood spirit-control. Men and women of all nations of the world, have, throughout all time, been mediums for spirit control, but their minds were so confused with the superstitions of their day, that they could not give what the controlling spirits really intended to give to the world through them. You will never obtain the unadulterated truth through mediums whose minds are prejudiced. If the mediums leaned toward error, no matter how wise and truthful the controlling spirits were, the utterance became tinctured with their own thoughts, as the thoughts of the spirits flowed through their brains. But here and there, among the mediums of antiquity, there have been minds that were unbiased, and it has been through these mediums that you have received the gems of truth that constitute your treasures of knowledge to-day. In my mortal life all was confusion and strife, and the conflict was fierce and heated--not as to how much truth there was in religion--but upon such useless topics as the Trinity, Baptism, etc., which I call foolish by-paths. There has been so many spirits here who have given their testimony as to the history of Jesus, that it seems like a repetition for me to testify upon that point. But I will say this, upon all my hopes of an immortal life and the happiness to come from it, that the real Jesus was Apollonius of Tyana. This I know, and I will at some future time write a pamphlet, any one of the statements, of which, I will challenge the Christian Church to disprove. In it, I will prove conclusively, that there was no Jew named Jesus Christ, nor any such person as Jesus of Nazareth. The document that will prove this, is the Epistle sent to the Emperor Trajan by Potamon of Alexandria, which is in existence to-day, in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, but the Roman Catholic priesthood are far too cunning to let its existence be known. Why then, you may ask, do they preserve it? I will tell you why. Every pupil of the Roman Catholic Church that becomes priest, is entrusted with these secrets of that church, and is sworn to keep them with strictest good faith, under the penalty of death if he betrays them. By such means they compel them to cling together. I come here to-day, only because I want to do something toward emancipating mortal man from superstition. I lived at the time the Christian religion first took shape, and helped to found it. I think I am a competent witness as to its merits, if it has any, and as to its demerits which are many. I passed to spirit-life in A. D. 406, and my name was Chrysostom."