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described, not as they are, but as they exist in the
sitters' minds when they were known to them on
earth.
Evil
Spirits
But enough for the present; we must conclude
this most indigestible chapter with one word about
the spirits.
The doctrine of Modern Spiritism is that the only
spirits "on the, other side" are those of the departed!
"Devils," says Thomas Jay Hudson, a leading
American scientist, "are out of fashion, and their
place is taken by bad spirits of dead men."
In Spiritism, as Allan Kardec, the great French
apostle, clearly teaches, there are no devils. The
bad spirits are only imperfectly developed "angels,"
which are the spirits of the good.
"Some spirits," wrote Stainton Moses, "will say
anything without any moral conscience. Such
motiveless lying bespeaks a deeply evil nature.
Such an imposter, acting with an air of sincerity,
must be as Satan clothed in light."
Dr. Peebles, a veteran Spiritist, recently says that
"an evilly inclined spirit may often be present.
Many Spiritist seances are the seed-grounds of
demons; their manifestations are from the hells.
They constitute the very essence of witchcraft under
a more polished name" ("The Demonism of the
Ages," p. 217).
Possession
It is clear the whole atmosphere of the stance, and
the ultimate object of Spiritism, is the reduction to
passivity and the eventual entire surrender of the