The gods of the Greeks and the Latins, the _lares_ and _lemures_, or hearth-spirits, the pagan and the Christian elves, were ever held as delegated agents of the Deity, who worked, not by a fiat, but by an instrument. Such were the _Cemies_ of the American islanders, and the _Kitchi_ and _Matchi Manitou_ of the Indians; and, if we consult Father Borri, we shall learn that in Cochin China _Lucifer_ himself promenaded the streets in _human_ shape. Psellus records six kinds of devils; and the arrangements of Agrippa, and other theologians, enumerate nine sorts of evil spirits, as you may read in one of old Burton’s eccentric chapters. The mythology of the _Baghvat Geeta_, the sacred record of the Hindoo theists, is based on the notion of good and evil spirits, the emblems of virtue and of vice under the will and power of Brahma. Indeed, the Hindoo mythology is but that of the classic in other words. _Agnee_, the god of fire, _Varoon_, the god of the ocean, _Vayoo_, the god of the wind, and _Cama_, the god of love, are but other names for Jupiter, and Neptune, and Œolus, and Cupid. The creed of Zoroaster asserts a perpetual conflict between the good and evil deity, the types of religious knowledge and ignorance. The southern Asiatics are people of _good_ principle, and the northern nations people of _evil_ principle. And why may not the Persian thus coincide with Bacon himself, who in his book “De Dignitate,” confesses his belief in good and bad spirits, in charms, and prophecies, and the varieties of natural magic. Or is it inconsistent that the Hindoos should incarnate the malignant disease, small pox, in the person of the deity _Mah-ry-umma_, of whose lethal influence they lived in abject fear. IDA. In the holy records, it is true, we read that demons were even permitted to enter the bodies of other beings, and that when they had so established a possession, by divine command they went out of those possessed, as, for sacred example, into the herd of the Gadarenes; that they were also commissioned, for the fulfilment of the inscrutable will of the Creator, to try the endurance of Job, and even to tempt the divinity of the Saviour, and that they were the immediate cause of madness and other sad afflictions.