6 The following philological law or canon of criticism is universally admitted, and all dictionaries, grammars, and translations, are formed in accordance with it: “Every word not specially explained or defined in a particular sense, by any standard writer of any particular age and country, is to be taken and applied in the current or commonly received signification of that country and age in which the writer lived and wrote.”—_Campbell._ 7 This possession by demons is similar to the mode by which pretended spirits claim that they communicate through mediums. One of them, purporting to be the spirit of a departed son of Adin Ballou, in answer to the question, by his father, “Can you describe how you are able to write through a medium?” says, “I feel as though I enter into her for the time being, or as if my spirit entered into her. I am disencumbered of my spiritual form, and take hers. More than one spirit can enter the medium at once. The mediums all go into the trance by means of several spirits entering the body at one time.”—_Spiritual Telegraph, May 8, 1852._ 8 The word is _demon_ or _demons_ in all the instances referred to. 9 Necromancy is derived from the Greek words _nekros_, dead, and _mantis_, a diviner. The Greek, _Necromantia_, is defined: “The revealing future events by communication with the dead; necromancy.” And Nekromantis: “One who reveals future events by communication with the dead; a necromancer.” 10 This is in the Syriac, “Until the fulness of the time of all things.” Irenæus says, “Till the time of the exhibition or disposal of all things;” and Œcumenius, “Till the time of all things does come to an end;” and we have the suffrage of Thesychius and Phavorinus, that “ἀποκατάστασις is τελειωσις, ‘the consummation’ of a thing.”—_Whitby._