Channel of Communication Between This and the Following Stages of Being.

Animal magnetism he finds to be the conduit or channel through which the thoughts of these intelligences come to us, he finds magnetism to be no intelligent entity but an element bound by the page 11 fixed laws of its nature, stern and invariable, and, when he becomes acquainted with these laws, he guides them to his use, as in the case of the electric telegraph. But animal magnetism can no more be considered as the cause of this intelligence than electricity is the cause of an intelligent message transmitted through the telegraph wire from one station to another.