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4 MODERN SPIRITISM
Spiritualism, was the highest and noblest study
that could engage the thoughts of mankind. In
its true meaning it is to seek to know and understand
the Father of spirits ;
it is to seek to know
and understand the real, the true, the invisible, the
eternal; for all that we know, all that is obvious
the material and physical are not the real, and the
things that are seen are temporal.
Not only so, but God is a spirit, and in the Bible
we are told that St. Paul, discoursing on Mars' Hill
to the philosophers of Athens, desired that men
should "seek God, if haply they might feel after
Him, and find Him, though He is not far from each
one of us." Here the real object of true Spiritualism
is shown and enjoined; and we ask fearlessly, Can
anything be nobler or more Divine than such a
quest ?
I think not.
'But, alas! when we turn from this, and consider
what so-called Modern Spiritism has become
to-day in the midst of great Christian nations,
we may well ask if we have not succeeded in degrading
this Spiritual Cult almost beyond recognition.
The difference in the concept between the
words "Spiritism" and "Spiritual" to-day is only
comparable, to a Christian mind, to that between
"Jesuit" and "Jesus." Without any offence to
Catholics, all will agree
concept.
as to the contrast of the
Evil Associations of Spiritism
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Is there in this company one Spiritist who has not
recoiled with, at least, disgust from the puerile
pranks, too often steeped in falsehood and deception,