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MODERN SPIRITISM
For our comfort let us remember that there can be,
as I have said, no invasion of our human personality
without our own consent.
Only in great moderation, and in retaining full
self-control of ourselves, is any measure of safety to
be found.
5. What I feel, having written thus far, is that no
arguments are needed to justify to the full the very
severe way in which Divine wisdom has forbidden
all such intercourse with the unseen world as is
deliberatedly courted in Spiritism. I only touch on
this point here, as it is my subject later on.
It seems strange that the same voice of Spiritism
should, with one breath, candidly acknowledge the
great dangers surrounding the practice of necromancy
and, with the next, scoff at the solemn
warnings of Scripture against them. "Not for
nothing," says C. E. Hudson, in the Nineteenth
Century, "has the Church throughout her history
discouraged the practice of necromancy, the morbid
concern with the dead which must inevitably interfere,
and does in fact interfere, with the proper
discharge of our duties in that plane of existence
in which God has placed us."
The special evils of necromancy are pointed out in
the Times of July gth, 1908. It says: "After every
effort (to the contrary) theory came round to the
ancient explanation that the baffling personality is
a spirit, some sort of daemon. When we die are we
then to join the wordy rabble, whose jargon does not
seem as a rule like revelations of the secrets of the
prison-house, but rather more like gibberings from
a lunatic asylum, peopled by inmates of vulgar