can count, and have talked with her through a private and unpaid medium in the direct voice for fully five minutes at a time on personal matters. I may say that while I am in the cabinet I am fully conscious and the sitters outside report to me anything that I do not see for myself. Some say that I am destined to go to America. If ever I do and am sufficiently developed to sit with others than my own circle, I shall have pleasure in giving you a sitting, of course free of charge, so that there can be no suspicion of mercenary motive in it." A RITHMETIC has no doctrines; it is governed by its own natural laws. Number naturally exists in it. Arithmetic does not conceive number, nor does it plan thus to express itself. The Science of numbers is perfect. Number itself is perfect because it is the natural expression of mathematics. We know there is a principle back of numbers, and that numbers exist, without a doubt, because it can be demonstrated. Hence we do not need some one to descend out of the Unmanifest Realm of numbers to make us believe. And when we employ symbols or figures, we understand why in their use we get right answers or wrong ones, that it is because we use figures to represent numbers in their right relations or wrong. We are not ignorant enough of the law in the use of visible figures when we have so placed the symbol as to get wrong or undesirable results-as to pray mathematics to change its principles to suit, or to overlook the law and let the error go. For we know that truth must rule, and that the longer we use the wrong figures the further are we carried from the right results we seek! So we have discovered, through experimenting and study, that the best and quickest way to success, is not to waste time in an attempt to reconcile arithmetic to our blunders, but to search out its truths quickly, get into line with its laws and work all our problems by its rules. We need not loitre on doctrinal points of primary students and that do not exist in mathematical economy, nor stop to deem Number the whole conception of mathematics and its potential expression, with figure, the symbol of that idea carried into visibility. The poetry and charm which have covered the natural history of the divine science of being, and that have been superadded on account of the difference between the nature of the science and that of mathematics, whose figures are dead symbols while those of being are animated, have been overgrown almost entirely by the misconceived notions arising out of that poetry and metaphor, doctrines and disciplines, traditions, influences and superstitions. It has not been long since a man would collar and burn his neighbor at the stake to save him from hell. 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