Unguents
There are many kinds of unguents, each with its peculiar properties. It is known that the devil compounds them in order to harm the human race. One such unguent is composed of human fat, and is used by the witches to enable them to fly through the air to the Sabbath. Many old recipes exist for unguents to induce sleep, visions, etc., and these are compounded from various strange ingredients. (
See Salverte "Les Science Occultes.") Union Spirite Bordelaise (Journal): (See France.) Univercœlum, The: An American periodical having for its aim "the establishment of a universal System of Truth, the Reform and Reorganisation of Society." It made its first appearance in December, 1847, under the editorship of Andrew Jackson Davis (q.v.), and lived for about a year and a half. Its supporters and contributors looked for a new revelation to supplement those of the Old and New Testaments, Swedenborg and Fourier. Attention was given in its pages to prophecy, clairvoyance, somnambulism and trance phenomena generally, while it also taught "an interior and spiritual philosophy" whose central idea was that God was the infinitely intelligent Essence which pervaded all things-the Universal Soul, expressing itself in the material universe and the laws of nature as the human soul expresses itself through the material body. Though the Rochester Rappings broke out some time before the Univercælum came to an end, the adherents of the paper did not seem to connect the disturbances with their propaganda. However, many of those who were associated with the Univercælum afterwards became editors of spiritualistic papers. In July, 1849 the paper passed out of the hands of A. J. Davis, and became
The Present Age, under the editorship of W. M. Channing.