Seek Knowledge Aright.--To those in quest of spiritual light, this word of counsel: Seek it only in the Lord's appointed way. Follow the advice of the Apostle James and the example of Joseph the Prophet. [10] Never go upon the Devil's ground. Keep away from all deceptive influence. One may believe in hypnotism, without being a hypnotist, without surrendering one's will to the will of the person exercising that power--a very dangerous power when wielded by an unprincipled possessor. In like manner, one may believe spiritualism real, without becoming a spiritualist, without attending "seances," without consulting "mediums," without putting trust in planchettes, ouija boards, automatic pencils, false impersonations, or in any way encouraging the advances of designing spirits, who thus gain an ascendancy over their victims, leading them into mazes of delusion, and often into depths of despair. Go not after them; and if they come to you, put them to the test. "Try the spirits." [11] If they speak not according to revealed truth, if they conform not to divine standards, "it is because there is no light in them." [12] The Great Return.--Yes, the dead, or the departed, do return. They are no more dead than we are. Nay, not so much. The Savior's reappearance after death to his amazed and incredulous disciples--what was that but a return, a real return, from the realm of the departed, where in the interim between his crucifixion and resurrection, he "preached to the spirits in prison?" Moreover, the ascended Lord promised another return, or his angel promised it for him, when the "men of Galilee" stood "gazing up into heaven," after "a cloud" had "received him out of their sight." [13] That glorious return is nigh. All the signs so indicate. May the kingly Traveler from heaven to earth meet a royal welcome when he appears! Footnotes 1. Luke 24:36-39. 2. 1 Peter 3:18-20. 3. 1 Cor. 12:4-11. 4. Gen. 8:9. 5. Luke 24:39. 6. Acts 19:13-16; Mark 5:12, 3. 7. Ib. 16:17; Hist. Ch. Vol. 5, p. 403. 8. D. & C. 129:4-8. 9. Hist. Ch. Vol. 4, p. 576. 10. James 1:5; Hist. Ch. Vol. 1, pp. 4, 5. 11. 1 John 4:1. 12. Isa. 8:20. 13. Acts 1:9-11. ARTICLE FORTY. The Goal Eternal. Dante and the Divine Comedy.--In the thirteenth century a great Italian poet, the immortal Dante, produced a wonderful work, "La Divina Comedia"--in English, "The Divine Comedy." In one part of the poem the author represents himself as passing through Hades. In the first circle of the infernal depths, a region called "Limbo"--described by a footnote in my copy of the work as a place "containing the souls of unbaptized children and of those virtuous men and women who lived before the birth of our Savior"--he comes upon such characters as Homer, Virgil, Plato and others of their class, and the spirit guide who is conducting him through "the realms of shade," says: