p. 133 | PEEPING AND MUTTERING by M. E. Cornell

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 17, 1859

PEEPING AND MUTTERING.

By M. E. Cornell

IN Revelation xvi, 13, 14, we learn that "spirits of devils" "like frogs" are to be manifested in all the world. And in Isa. viii, 19, they are described as "familiar spirits," or "wizards that peep and that mutter," and in Isa. xxix, 4, the voice of one that hath a familiar spirit is represented as "out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust. . . . thy speech shall whisper out of the dust," &c.

Mark, it is not a voice of clearness, light and wisdom from above; but it is "low out of the dust," even "earthly, sensual, devilish;" communications that none can understand. All is confusion, mystery and darkness. As the slimy croaking multitude came up from the muddy Nile, and covered the land of Egypt, so have the spirits of devils appeared in all the world; the peeping and muttering is heard from every quarter, and the whole world is fast being turned into one universal frog-pond.

God's ancient people were about to be "delivered from the bondage of corruption" in Egypt, to become a separate people.

"So when the Jewish leader stretched his arm, And waved his rod divine, a race obscure, Spawned in the muddy beds of Nile came forth; The croaking nuisance lurked in every nook, Nor halls of legislation 'scaped, And the land stunk, so numerous was the fry."

So now when God hath set his hand the second time to gather the remnant of his people out of modern Egypt and Babylon, the same evidence is manifested that God's frown is upon the multitude of oppressors. The frog-like spirits have been suffered to go forth, and Babylon is fast becoming their hold and cage.

The following specimen of spirit muttering is from the Mountain Cove Journal:

"God the life in God the Lord in God the holy procedure organized the first Orb-Creation in form of appearing as one globular ovarium, which was the germ of the terrestrial universe of universes: and within the globular was the embryo of the external of the universal, impersonal creation, as one curvilinear ovarium; and within the curvilinear the germ of the external of the universal, personal or intellectual creation, in form of one vorticle ovarium. . . . In the beginning of the orb-formation preparatory for man-formations; vehicles of the quickening spirit into intellectual formations, the universal concavity and the universal convexity were co-enfolded and encompassed in the universal Zodiac, and within the concavity was the visible disclosure unto the germ of the terrestrial."

Whether there is more intelligence in the above than in the croaking of frogs might perhaps be doubted. The likeness of the spirits to frogs is very striking in many respects. It is said that the frog has a strong current of electricity, and it is well known that modern mediums and their spirits have much to do with electricity.

Many have said that Spiritualism was decreasing and would soon be no more, but recent developments prove to the contrary. It stands out as a prominent and increasing sign of the end near.

M. E. CORNELL.