THE SPIRITS' BOOK.

Question (to Hahnemann). — Since we shall soon have finished the first part of the book, it occurred to me that, in order to proceed more quickly, I might ask B… to help me, as a medium; what do you think?

Answer. — I think it would be better not to make use of him. — Why? — Because the truth cannot be interpreted by falsehood.

Q. — Even if the familiar Spirit of B… is given to falsehood, that would not prevent a good Spirit from communicating through the medium, provided no other Spirit were evoked.

A. — Yes, but here the medium seconds the Spirit and, when the Spirit is a rogue, he lends himself to aiding him. Aristo, his interpreter, and B… will end badly.

NOTE. — B…, quite young, was a very pliable writing medium, but assisted by a very proud and arrogant Spirit, who gave the name Aristo and who flattered his self-love. Hahnemann's predictions came true. The young man, believing he had in his faculty a means of growing rich, now attending to medical consultations, now carrying out inventions and lucrative discoveries, gathered only disappointments and mystifications. After some time, no one heard of him anymore.