and the Mpongwe. 
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fications of good and evil; the Brahma, Vishnu, 
and Shiva, creation, preservation, and destruc¬ 
tion ; the beginning, the middle, and the end of 
all things; the Triad, adored by all Triadists 
under some modification, as that of Osiris, Isis, 
and Horus, father, mother, and son, type of the 
family; or Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, the three 
great elements; these outward and visible ex¬ 
pressions lose force and significance, making 
place for that Law of which they are the rude 
exponents. The marvellous spread of Spiritual¬ 
ism, whose god is the Unknowable, and whose 
prophet was Swedenborg, is but the polished form 
of the Mpongwe Ibambo and I logo ; the benefi¬ 
cent phantasms have succeeded to the malevolent 
ghosts, the shadowy deities of mans childhood; as 
the God of Love formerly took the place of the God 
of Fear. The future of Spiritualism, which may 
be defined as “ Hades with Progress,” is making 
serious inroads upon the coarse belief, worthy of 
the barbarous and the middle ages, in an eternity 
of punishment, easily expressed by everlasting fire, 
and in ineffable joys, which no one has ever success¬ 
fully expressed. The ghosts of our childhood 
have now become bond fide objective beings, who 
rap, raise tables, display fireworks, rain flowers, 
and brew tea. We explain by “levitation” the 
riding of the witch upon the broom-stick to the 
Sabbath; we can no longer refuse credence to 
