From the INTRODUCTION. THE RECORDS OF COMMUNION with the high-born spirits of another sphere, now presented in the following pages, were made for the most part, without reference to the public. We took them down as worthy of preservation among our private records, and the thought never entered into our mind that they would be spread before the reading world, tillwe were called upon by our Spirit-monitors to know, whether we would confine such blessed intuitions of divine wisdom and love to our narrow circle, or give them forth to relieve and elevate a common Humanity. We were called to a sense of our responsibilities and privileges by being reminded that we were in danger of undervaluing those benign influences, intended to follow man from his cradle to his grave; that the knowledge of their enjoyment by any would serve to awaken our fellow-mortals to their just appreciation of most blessed privileges, and bring them to a sense of their gifts as men, inherited from their God, out of which so many have been cheated by false fears and unlicensed assumptions over their Spiritual Nature; that the most hallowed influences would everywhere accompany and surround these evidences of Spirit-influx, awakening desires, high and holy, that cannot be satisfied short of the great ultimate of universal good promised and found in the recognition of an eternal destiny: when each shall know that God is the Universal Parent-Man the Universal Brother, and an endless Union and Felicity the Universal End of all rational intelligences.