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What the work, “Art Magic,” may contain we cannot tell; but Dr. Bloede says “it is intended to establish a ring of knowing ones,” to do this it must make some wonderful revelations. Does it follow that it will “alienate the leaders from the masses,” and cause a split in American Spiritualism? We are sorry to admit that there are already too many splits in American Spiritualism, though perhaps productive of good results; but we are happy in the belief that all are ''united'' on its fundamental truths. “We see” that if the book gives us the knowledge that it is supposed to contain, and were such knowledge the property of the Jesuits, they would not publish it outside their ranks, even for the great object of “sowing dissension" in the ranks of Spiritualists Disseminating knowledge never did and never will strengthen Jesuitism, nor can it weaken Spiritualism; the former is the personification of error, the latter of Truth; they are essentially opposed to each other, and need we say which will be the winner? Jesuitism is dogmatical; it does not argue nor reason; it strikes and slays the witnesses for Truth; the vast multitudes prosecuted, starved, burned, assasinated, hung, chained to the galleys, immured in church prisons, are the best evidences of the peculiar “policy” of Jesuitism. But Truth prevails; and even if five hundred leaders, who are now teaching the truth, should be captured, body and soul, the remaining millions of Spiritualists could not be turned from their belief founded on facts easily demonstrated.

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<center>Boston, Saturday, November 27, 1875.</center>