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SPIRITISM AND CHRISTIANITY 233
practice of Spiritism is, indeed, at the opposite pole
to Christianity.
Not that it always so represents itself. It is rather,
it says at times, an effort to change Christianity,
to save it from perishing; and unfortunately it
appeals to ignorant masses, already alienated from
it, not by their reason or as the result of examination,
but from apathy and indifference.
The Child of
Theosophy
It was when faith thus declined that the whole
problem of the future life became insoluble, and was
left to the necromancers of Modern Spiritism.
It is to contend against this state of things this
book has been written. It is, indeed, time that some
attempt should be made to put this new religion in
its true light ;
and that it should be revealed as a child
of Theosophy and not of Christianity.
It is possible Theosophists may repudiate their
offspring; but none can read "Raymond" and
other books without coming to the same conclusion.
To compare small things with great, we may
therefore venture to think that even this puny
effort
may be a faint reflection of the great conflict
of the powers of darkness and light. "For our
wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against
the principalities, against the powers, against the
world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual
tests of wickedness." Eph.
vi. 12.
The "Nineteenth Century"
I will close with a few words from an abler pen
than mine Mr. C. E. Hudson, in the Nineteenth
Century (May, 1919).