General Instructions Reiterated.

Admit no ill-disposed, mischievous, ill-tempered, dogmatic, or very sickly persons to developing circles.

Seek harmonious, friendly, and spiritual natures; candid minds, reverend or truth-seeking spirits, and pure, healthful, or at least moderately healthy organisms.

Endeavour to observe the rules laid down concerning temperature, and freedom from disturbance, within or without the circle room.

Never give up in discouragement with one party, under six experimental sittings; and after evidences of medium power are exhibited, even as slight as shaking of the hands, quivering of the nerves, silent entrancement, or erratic movements, continue to sit for development for at least twelve séances.

Study and follow out your impressions, and especially when they urge you to withdraw from circles.

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Respect the Circle, and faithfully keep appointments made with spirits or each other.

Never seek the spirit circle in a trivial or deceptive spirit—then and then only have you cause to fear it.

Never permit any one to sit in circles who suffers from it in health or mind—especially those who arc exercised with violence, or who become unmanageable. If such phenomena continue after three trials, assure your-self magnetism in the case of such persons is an intoxicating drug, which operates perniciously on their constitutions, and it should be carefully avoided.

Every seventh person in the world can be a medium of some kind, and become developed for external and obvious manifestations through the due and judicious operations of the spirit circle. When once mediums are fully developed, the circle sometimes becomes injurious to them. When they feel this, by impression or spirit direction, to be the case, let none be offended if they withdraw from circles, and only use their gifts under spirit direction, in other times and places.

All persons are subject to spirit influence and spiritual guidance and control; but only one in seven can so externalise this power as to use it consciously, or as what is significantly called a "medium; ' and, finally, let it ever be remembered that, except in the case of "trance speakers," no medium can ever hope successfully to exercise their gift in a large or promiscuous assembly; while trance speakers, no less than mediums for any other gift, can never be influenced by spirits far beyond their own normal capacity in the Matter of the intelligence rendered—the magnetism of the spirit and the spirit circle being but a quickening fire, which inspires the brain, stimulates the faculties, and, like a hot-house process on plants, forces into abnormal prominence dormant or latent powers of mind, but creates nothing. Even in the case of merely automatic speakers, writers, rapping, tipping, and other forms of test mediums, the intelligence or idea of the spirit is always measurably shaped by the capacity and idosyncrasies of the medium. All spirit power is thus limited in expression by the organism through which it works, and spirits may control, inspire, and influence the human mind, but do not change, or re-create it.