accompanying answers received:--

"_Ques._--It is said in the Bible that man is made in the image of
God. Please tell us what that image is.

"_Ans._--He is made in the image of everything that ever was, that
is, or that ever shall be. He holds within his caliber everything
that exists, that ever has existed, or that ever will exist. Now,
God is included in this. If he exists at all, he exists everywhere
(and we have taken in everything), every place, every name, every
condition. I believe that the human stands above all things else,
and holds within its embrace all the past, present, and future. In
this sense he is created and exists in the image of God.

"_Q._--What is God essentially?

"_A._--Everything. Essentially you are God, and I am God--the
flowers, the grass, the pebbles, the stars, the moon, the sun,
everything is God."

The Devil, through the serpent in the garden, taught Adam and Eve that the
soul is immortal, and has transfused the same idea very successfully
through paganism, Romanism, and Protestantism; but he also said, "Ye shall
be as gods;" and now, it seems, he is trying to make the world swallow
this other leg of his falsehood; but by putting it forth under the form of
the old pagan pantheism, that everything is God, and God is everything, he
betrays the lie he uttered in Eden; for in that case, Adam and Eve were no
more gods after they ate than they were before.

Another seance, reported in the _Banner_ about twenty years later than the
one quoted above, April 28, 1888; an inquirer addressed to the "spirits" a
question about God, and received answer, a portion of which is presented
below:--

"_Ques._--Some Spiritualists, I learn, believe in a God; otherwise
they would not pray to him--taking for granted that there is such a
being. Please enlighten us.

"_Ans._--We have yet to come in contact with a thorough
Spiritualist, one who understands something of spiritual life and
the revelations made by returning spirits, who directly believes
in a personal God. True, many Spiritualists and many returning
spirits offer their invocations to the 'Great Supreme Spirit of
all life and intelligence,' not because they expect to change the
order of law, or to come into direct communication with, or
nearness to, a Great Supreme Being, clothed in the image of man,
but because they desire to