INTRODUCTION. As the reader has been engaged with the visions of Mr. Davis, all of which are directed against the Christian Religion, the following visionary narrative is introduced as a suitable antidote. We do not represent this as an authoritative revelation, but claim that it possesses evidences equally as favorable, and has as much to secure the world's credulity as the visions of Mr. Davis, or the productious of the various "spiritual media" of these times. If their statements may be admitted as worthy of confidence, this should be. If this is imaginative, and the scenes represented unreal, others of similar origin are quite as likely to be, which may be suggested as the most rational conclusion with regard to the subject. We employ this peculiar production, and it is in truth peculiar, as before noticed, to prove that the minds of this age, as in all other ages, which incline to visions, are as contradictory as in former times, and also, that modern visions and transe disclosures are not all anti-biblical; and because it is equally as novel, and in style as poetical, and sublime as any modern anti-Scriptural effusion of this strangely visionary age. This vision bears date Louisville, K. Y., June 14, 1855, and is reported to be the substance of what was uttered at the time by a person while in an abnormal state. In view of the above considerations, and to place în opposition with Mr. Davis' visions, this is here introduced and offered to the reader, who will by comparing the two perceive at once their antagonistic natures, and by this determine that a production originating under somewhat strange and marvelous circumstances, does not necessarily en dow it with especial merit. ANTI-PANTHEISTIC VISION. CHAPTER I. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE ENTRANCED. 'T WAS mid day in the month of June, while meditating upon the state of man on earth, how little peace, how much of care composed his lot: together with his hope of future bliss, that suddenly the world grew dark, my eyelids closed, and I thought the hand of death upon me. Strong seemed the efforts of the outer man to resist the power now rapidly subduing the energies of my being: but failing I seemed to sink away. I knew no more until apparently awakening in another realm. I thought the struggle over and my soul had found its long sought home of peace. A new and exalted world began to reveal its glories. Immortal groves stood before me fanned by the gentle zephyrs of that holy land. Floral lawns lay smiling in the beau ty of divine perfection. Music, infinitely excel ling all human thought moved along the heav enly atmosphere. Myriads of immortal beings, whose excellency was above a name, appeared before the vision of my enraptured spirit. It |