"I salute you, sir:--I was born in Jerusalem, in the year 2 B. C, as it is now called. I was the highpriest of the Jews, from A. D. 45 to A. D. 65. My name was Ananias. You will find a brief account of my doings in the twenty-fourth chapter of Acts. I was one of the accusers of Apollonius before Felix. The name ought to have been Apollos, instead of Paul. The charge that was there set down against him was, that he was a seditious and pestilent fellow. That was not the charge made against him at all. The charge was that he had attempted to enter the Holy of Holies, claiming the divine right to do so. When the priests and populace attempted to restrain him, and keep him from entering there, such was his power that he entered the Holy of Holies, and none present could stop him. We called this power, the power of God, but you people call it mediumship. It was for this I accused him before Felix. He had violated and profaned the temple, and I accused him of it. As a spirit I must confess that I was more governed in this by a feeling of jealousy than anything else. The Jews had sworn to destroy him, but he had proselyted a great number of them to his faith. [What faith was that?] It was the faith of Christos or Chrishna. You read of Paul or Apollos having been let down from the walls of Damascus, in a basket; but that occurred at Jerusalem and not at Damascus. From A. D. 35 to A. D. 65, the only Christ that was preached in Judea was the Christos of Apollonius. [Of what faith by name was Apollonius?] He belonged to the Essenes. The Essenes were not Jews, as has been wrongly supposed. Any person who followed their teachings could join the Essenes, no matter what his or her nationality. This Apollos or Apollonius, was summoned before Felix and his wife Drusilla, where he produced such extraordinary spirit manifestations, that as he [Felix] could not let him go, not having the power to do so, he did the next best thing for Apollos, and kept him in prison until his successor arrived, where he was sent to Rome where he was liberated. I am Ananias son of Nebedus. I am particular in telling you this, because there was another highpriest of the Jews about that time who was named Ananias."

King of France.

"I will salute you by saying:--I hope the truth will triumph although it has many opponents. I was a warrior--not a priest. I am known as Charles Martel. I was the grandfather of Charlemagne, and secretly--not openly--a materialist in my belief. I overcame the Saracens in battle; for which I am heartily sorry as a spirit, for I believe that my victory over them kept Spiritualism back, for a thousand years. And what a singular army it was that I commanded! It was in three divisions, each of which had to be kept entirely separated from the others, or they would have killed each other about their different religious beliefs. The first division was composed of troops drawn from what you term Italy, Greece, and in fact from all the countries along the shores of the Meditteranean Sea. Their religion was the worship of Jupiter and their standard an imitation of your plow. The second division was drawn from Gaul and Germany, and they were worshippers of Christos. Their battle standard bore the figure of a lamb. The third division came from Britain and Scandinavia and their standard had upon it a pine or some other evergreen tree. They were worshippers of Hesus. Those were the principal religions of my time; and there was much similarity between the last two mentioned. The followers of Jupiter were distinguished for their multiplicity of gods, as every force in nature and every human passion had its presiding god or goddess. You may imagine the difficulty that I labored under to have to control these three hostile forces and to use them without allowing them to intermingle. Their religious hatred of each other would have overcame them much sooner than the enemy could have done it. The spirit who will follow me, will be Radbod. We always fought against each other when we happened to meet; but as spirits we are endeavoring to pave the way for a true knowledge of the past, in relation to the Christian Church. As I before said, as a spirit, I have one grand regret, and that is, that I ever stopped the advance of the Saracens.--Fraternally, Charles Martel."

King of Friesland.

"I will greet you for the spirit for whom I will speak. I will also greet you for myself--Aronamar. The spirit for whom I will speak, drove out from his domains a disciple of Boniface's who came there to convert his people from Hesusism to Christosism. He says his name was Swivert. He says he heard all that this Swivert had to say, and he became convinced from that that he had originally gotten his religion from Hesusism, and Christosism was only an offshoot of Hesusism; but as a spirit he has found that the reverse of this is true. On his driving out this Swivert, he went back to Charles Martel and enlisted him in his favor, and this finally brought on a war that had for its object the establishment in Friesland of the religion that was taught by Boniface. But finally it became the desire of Charles Martel to possess the whole of the territory of Friesland, and they contended for the remainder of their lives for the supremacy over it, sometimes one gaining and sometimes the other. This Radbod says that Hesus, as he understood the matter, was not the god of their religion. He acted in the same capacity for them that Apollonius did for the Greeks and Romans in bringing the Hindoo gospels into the Roman provinces. Hesus brought the same gospels to Marseilles about B. C. 800. He was a merchant, or trader, but became a propagator of the doctrines of Hesusism. The book from which he taught was called Arjouna, after Arjun the disciple of Christos. As the name of Pauline Epistles was given to the writings of Apollonius, so they gave the name of Hesus to similar writings which were given to his disciples and carried all over Northern Europe. Therefore, Hesusism began eight hundred years before the Christian era; Christosism did not begin in Western Europe until seven hundred years after that era. Hesusism had gained a great ascendency there and had some of the finest schools in Ireland and Gaul, and was ardently taught by St. Patrick and others. The communicating spirit says this is given you to be published, so that there can be some light as to his times to those who are not too blind to see. His name is Radbod."

A So-called Christian Saint.

I greet you sir:--It is strange that the Catholics of to-day claim me as having been one of the expounders of their doctrines. They are wide of their mark. I was a priest of Christos. I was born in 680 A. D. and died about 734 or 736. I had three disciples. One of them went to Britain, another through Germany, and Swivert, the third, went to Friesland, with what success the king of that country (Radbod) has informed you. The other two met with failures. I had a good deal to do with influencing the zeal of the Christosite division of Charles Martel's army. In fact my position in that matter was similar to that of Peter the Hermit toward the Crusade in after years. I belonged to the religious faith which I called reformed Christosism, and, as it was taught by me, it was set forth in the books that were rejected at the Council of Nice. In that way I was at war, spiritually speaking, with the teachers of the original Christosism--my position being about the same toward them as Martin Luther's position was towards Catholicism. About the only remnants of my teachings now extant, are to be found among the Maronites of Mt. Lebanon. I believe, and in fact I may say that I know, that the books rejected at the Council of Nice were of more importance as truly defining Christosism, than those which were adopted. My original name was Winfred. It was afterwards changed to Boniface. I was a Briton. I was born in the vicinity of what is called Durham."

The Secretary of Damis or Demas.

"Peace be with you:--My name, in the mortal life was Lucius of Cyrene. I was the disciple of Apollonius and one of the greatest propagators of the Apollonian Christosite religion. I had three different names, owing to the different languages in which it was written--Lucius, Lucas and Luke. I was the writer or transcriber of the Life of Apollonius, as dictated by Damis or Demas. It was I, who helped him to write all those epistles in the New Covenant. The four Gospels were translated from the Sanscrit by Apollonius, and they were sent out by him in four different languages--the Greek, the Roman, the Armenian, and the Syriac Hebraic. The Apocalypse was written by Apollonius himself. The other books were in the form they were dictated to me by Damis and as transcribed by me. I copied them in the Cappadocian tongue, which was a mixture of Greek and Syriac. I am referred to at first as Lucius of Cyrene, in Acts xiii, 1. The second place I am referred to is, in Rom. xvi, 21. I am also referred to in Col. iv, 13, as, "Luke the beloved physician," and Phil. verse 24, as Lucas. I have been called by those different names. It was Lucian the Satirist who afterwards placed these things in their present shape. Lucian and Marcion were the St. Luke and St. Mark of the Christian Scriptures. Apollonius was deified by the Romans and his statue was set up in the Temple of Jupiter. That is all I can now say. I thank you for the privilege."

Patriarch of Antioch.

"I greet you sir, by saying:--Our efforts are directed towards such points we think will be likely to attract attention and cause thought. In this mortal life I bore the name of Severus. I was the founder of a sect of Monophysites--a foolish sect, continually in my time and afterwards contending about the Trinity. We were then trying to shape the Christian religion as it now stands. The greatest difficulty that I found at Antioch was when we undertook to make Hesus Christos a Jew. When we taught that, we were frequently mocked and ridiculed. Even the most ignorant people of those times had their traditions and it was difficult to make them relinquish the teachings of their forefathers. When in the mortal form I never thought that this Christian system would gain the foothold it has to-day. I used it in my earth life simply because I thought it was better than the religions of the numerous gods that were worshipped by the people. There was one Jacob, a Syrian, who did much more than myself to place the Monophysites in power; but they lost all they had gained in a short time after his death. One Felix II, a pope or bishop, I think, finally exterminated them. And so ended, when my sect ended, my connection as a spirit with this mortal plane. Since that time I have never returned to this earth until you see me here to-day. Myself and all my followers now belong to the school of Plotinus in the spirit life. We are Spiritualists in this way: We do not think spirits have any right to meddle in mortal affairs for evil, and try to intercept all meddling spirits who bring nothing but confusion to earth's people; and in this way we hope to help you. There is nothing worse for mortals than babbling and foolish spirits. That all of us may be blessed with the sunlight of truth is my greatest hope and most earnest desire."

A Supposed Christian Prophet.

"I salute you, sir:--My name was Agabus. In Acts xi, 27, 28, you have an account of me as fortelling a famine in Judea. In reading that chapter you are led to suppose that I came from Jerusalem, which was not the case. I was an Armenian and a proselyte to the doctrines of Apollonius the Cappadocian. I was won to that faith through the logic or teachings of Damis or Demas. Our meetings in those days were simply for the brethren to give way to the spirit; and you will notice that after all those meetings, some who attended were sent in one direction and some in another, but in all cases the most powerful mediums were sent to the most skeptical people. In this laid the success of the Apollonian religion. Apollonius, as well as Damis and his other disciples knew that success was to be won by evidence. Apollonius learned this from the Gymnosophists of India; and for that reason, in the first and second centuries, they used mediums to propagate their system. The followers of the religion of Apollonius, treating of Christos or the Indian Christ, were made up of nearly all the nations that he could then reach, and in fact had very little to do with the Jews, who are made to appear, by the Christian books, to have been the principal adherents of that religion. The fact is that the most powerful propagators of it were Greeks and Romans; and that is why you find most of the epistles written in Greek or Latin. These two nations and those tributary to them were the most powerful adherents of the Christosite Apollonian system. You will notice that I do not call any of these movements religions, but only systems, because there can be no religion, as I have found out as a spirit, but that which is founded on the scientific book of nature. This idea of a descent of God among men, or of men being god-made, is something that all humanity will have to get rid of, and the sooner they do it the better. I passed to spirit life in A. D. 97."

An English Theologian.

"Good day, sir:--During my mortal life I was a Socinian writer. My name was John Biddle. I was many times in jail for denying the truth of the Trinity; and I finally died in jail, of what is termed jail fever, and all because I could not raise one hundred pounds sterling. To convey to your mind any idea of the indignation I feel at the way I was treated by the Christians would be utterly impossible. They knew, as did President Bradshaw, my most bitter opponent, that what I asserted was the truth. My doctrines were founded upon the same facts that your Modern Spiritualism rests upon, with this exception that what you call spirits, I called angels. All this drew upon me the hatred and malice of the priests of my time, who petitioned parliament and the king to have my teachings suppressed. My writings were burned. But since I entered spirit life I gathered around me a force of congenial spirits, and if I do not succeed in making my mark upon the Christian Church before long, it will not be because I have not tried hard enough to do it. I would say to you, foster skepticism wherever you can, for it is the axe that will cut down the tree of superstition. I am sorry to see your difficulties, sir, and that you find so few helpers in your battle for truth. I was thrown into prison in May, and died there in September 1662."

A Bishop and Priest of Geneva.

"I greet you sir:--When here, I never hesitated to preach the truth in the presence of heretics. I wish to ask you how you, a small body of people and in so small a minority, expect, successfully, to beard the powerful Catholic Church? What does it matter, even if you know the truth in relation to Apollonius of Tyana, or in regard to Crishna Hesus, or the other gods? You forget that all the valuable manuscripts concerning them are in possession of our church. You will need proof to show that your standpoint is correct; and like many of the Protestant Churches (all of which are nothing more than bastard churches) it will appear that it has nothing more to support it but the sayings and doings of a lecherous monk. You may know, when I tried to convert the famous Theodore Beza, on his death bed, to the Catholic faith, that I was in earnest about propagating my religion when here, and I am yet so in spirit life. The priests of my church have hidden their tracks well, and it will cost an immense outlay of time and money to prove that these apostate spirits have been communicating to you the truth. You cannot do it, and I challenge you to the trial."

A Disciple, not of Jesus, but of Apollonius of Tyana.

"I greet you, sir:--I was one of the most intimate disciples of Apollonius of Tyana, sometimes called Paulinus, Paul and Apollos, according to the different dialects of the various countries which he visited. About the first mention of me, you will find in the 15th Chapter of Acts, 22d verse. You will also find mention of me in the 1st verse of 1st Thessalonians. The book of Acts, is set down by the best commentators as having been written about A. D. 59, while the Epistle of the Thessalonians is set down for A. D. 52. Both of these statements are wrong. The 1st Thessalonians was written about in A. D. 40; and portions of Acts about A. D. 60--other parts of it later. It never assumed its present shape until the time of Lucian. The 1st Epistle to the Thessalonians was the first ever written by Apollonius; and you will note, if you examine that epistle, that he does not charge the Thessalonians with those vices that are named in the other epistles. The reason for this is very simple when understood. It was because the Thessalonians were Chrestus-Christosites, Thessalonica being the capital of ancient Macedonia, and he, Apollonius, had made a few converts there. He had to write to them very kindly, fearing that they would go back to their old teacher, Chrestus. The propagation of the Apollonian system of Christosism was opposed by the Greek Promethean system, and by the teachings of Chrestus concerning Christos; and also by an Ethiopian version, of which you will hear more hereafter, from the spirits. I think I have said all that can be of benefit or that I can now recall this morning. Yours for the truth, Silvanus, surnamed Silas.

An Abyssinian Bishop.

I salute you, sir:--My name is Frumentius. I was an Abyssinian bishop in the fourth century, and the original writer of the Ethiopic version of Christosism, as contained in the four gospels received by a pagan priest of the sun, not historically named, from Calanus, in the days of Alexander the Great. I was a sun worshipper myself and so understood the matter that I regarded Christos as the Child of the Sun. In my day it was a common thing to believe that all the pure spirits of the dead upon this earth passed to the sun. Consequently, I wrote this Ethiopian version to show that the god of the sun, in his kindness, sent his son here, to die for the sins of mortals. If my version had been left intact this would clearly have appeared to those who read it; but as will be explained by a spirit who will come after me, and by tricks well known to Christians, they left just so much of my record stand as suited the propagation of their own faith. The rest was destroyed; how, will be explained by a spirit before these sittings are ended. Bless you for the good work you are doing; but you will find that none are so blind as those who will not see."