the _spiritual rappings_.--Clairvoyant interpreters between men and spirits.--Spiritual postmasters, letter paper, and envelopes. --Letters received from the spiritual worlds.--The _Spirit Journal_, in Auburn, New York.--Its pages edited, controlled, and superintended by _spirits_.--The _prophets_ and _apostles_ its conductors, acting under the LORD SUPREME.--Blunders and errors of the rapping spirits. --Ignorant spirits.--Mischief produced by them.--Swedenborg's account of their stupidity.--How to distinguish the sounds made by an ignorant or an intelligent spirit.--Wonderful precocity of infant spirits.--Progression of spirits, both upwards and downwards.-- The spirit of Dr. Channing _deteriorated_ in the other world.-- Theological teachings of the rapping spirits.--Prophecy of Swedenborg concerning the year 1852.--Noises of the _rappers_ indicative of the approach of his prediction.--Are to be considered as _omens_ of a new advent.--Compared with the Miller prophecy of 1843.--Miracles, both of the rappers and the Millerites.--A sick man and his bed taken up by spirits.--The body of a Mr. Gordon taken up by spiritual hands.--Miracles wrought in favor of _Millerism_.--Miracles wrought in favor of _witchcraft_.-- Millerites taken up by spiritual hands.--Strange noises made by _spirits_ among the Adventists.--Houses shaken, mirrors shattered to pieces, furniture broken.--Four women carried through the air on a _pole_.--Testimony under oath respecting it.--Account of a bewitched _ventriloquist_.--Witches in 1850. --What the editor of a Boston journal says of them.--Witches, ghosts, spooks, and hobgoblins, in all ages of the world.-- Account of a haunted house in Boston.--Every window illuminated at midnight.--A young man frightened by the scene.--Singular notion of the Greenlanders respecting the cause of thunder, and of the Aurora Borealis.--Notion of the ancients concerning the foundation of the earth.--Of the mathematician Kepler.-- Performance of Signor Blitz.--Effects produced by _ventriloquism_. --Singular vibrations of the guitar.--Spirit rappings considered as a new science.--Noises heard by the Wesley family, in 1716. --Noises heard by Martin Luther.--Empty barrels and hogsheads tumbling down stairs.--Information of past, present, and future events.--The fortune tellers in comparison with the spirit rappers. --Spirits unwilling or unable to spell their own names.--Spiritual communications on the decline.--Contrast between the doings of ancient and modern spirits.--Swedenborg's information concerning the spirit of Melancthon.--A clairvoyant interview with Tom Paine. --Account of an interview with Mr. Sunderland.--Dialogue with a young lady.--Interview with a clairvoyant medium in Lowell.--Facts respecting mesmeric operations.--People deceived by "sympathetic spirits."--Judson J. Hutchinson made insane.--Exposure of the deception practised upon him.--Davis's account of Benjamin Franklin.--Dr.