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238 MODERN SPIRITISM
Apotheosis of
Man
What an apotheosis of man is here. No Spiritism,
no Modernism, no Science (Christian or otherwise) has
ever pictured, or has ever conceived^ the glorious
destiny reserved for him in the counsels of God.
Purblind bats, as we are, to turn our backs on the
grace of a God who "will have all men to be saved,
and come to a knowledge of the truth," that He may
raise them, even now, up to Heaven; and there,
spirit, in eternity with Christ, survey the incredible
destiny of man, who is destined to display throughout
eternity to the created universe the wisdom and the
love of the Divine (Eph. ii. 6, and iii. 10, 18, 19).
"For eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither
hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive, the
things which God hath prepared for them that love
Him; but God hath revealed them unto us by His
Spirit" (i Cor. ii. 9).
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Man's Pitiful
Pride
Talk of super-men, of the dreary outlook of
"Raymond's" other world, of the seven spheres of
Theosophy, of the dreams of visionaries! Their
concepts, one and all, are necessarily bounded
by the capacity of the minds that conceived
them.
It is thus that man, rejecting in his pitiful pride the
which somewhat lowers him in
doctrine of the Fall,
his own eyes, turns his back with cold indifference
on God's Divine love that would not spare His Son,
that men might be for ever rescued from "sin and