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. "Yon, sir, lIS President of the Republic,
iue cnlled to the poSition you occupy for"
~ery Important purpose. The world Is not
only groaning nnder the weight of mental
iWd spiritual bondage, but four millions,
made In God', Image, are enduring pbysical
~Iavery. Their yokes must be brok.en; the
fotten mu.ot. be severed, and tbe physically
J,nslaved most bo set free, before your nation
can be ...... tored to lUI proper .tatiou. Jo"reedom
was germinally planted In the fares ....
lands of the West in Washington'. time, and
. Is DOW abont to bud aud bear precioWl fmlt­
. age. This republic bas beretofore led ,the
. van of nallons in lUI line of free-thougbt, but
tho dark plague-epotof slavery stains lUI liaulIer.
This national evil must bo removed.
• There is a spirit,!al congrEss supervising tbe
· ' afraire of this naUon: This oivU "'.... will
1I0vor cease; the shout of. victory wIn never
.ring through the Nortb, will. never reverberate
a10llg the n1leys of the Sonth; the olive-
SPIB1TUAL SCmNTIST.
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br:mCh oJ ps.:1Ce will, nover w"ve over your
fteld., I>Dd lakos, and mounllliD8, till yon wue'
a. proclamation 01 freedolll-a pl"Ocla.lllot!on
that shall set forever free tho enslaved 1IIiJlion.
of your dl.tracted country."
SpiriUl virtually repeated tbl. at subsequent
seances, and in le88 than three weeks from
the reception of these "plrl.... messages from
the splrlWolIgtesll, l'resident Lincoln wned
that great l'roclamat!on of Emancipation.
. And from that time, !.bough they were
twenty·.ix battlee fought, every battJo-wl!.b
the exception, It may be, of unimportant
.klrml.h~B-~e8Ulted In-a Northern victory •
l>re&ldcut Lincoln, though the pride of
.America, was no secta.rlst, no creed·bound
pbarisee, but a great broad huma.olterlan,.
JIving a free-Ihlnker, and dying a Splritualt.t"
The "plrit world is the world uf causes, and
this .piri~ngrE9ll, th""e spiritual Influences
,...In a word, Spiritualism, abolished Amer!­
~ slavery.
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Tnt: l'lIlI.OSOI'llY O~" 'Tm: Rl1>l>F..N SC.IF.NCF.8.
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• OCCULT QnALm£B.~(AmonB' tbe anclen\ pbUollopben)
a. ""rID Vf!.td 8A an A.,1om for 'JrnoTant'e~
"bo wbea ,bt'y could gh. nO account. of a pben.
emenon. were wont to •• ,. It. wu by aD ()('ltolt
quDll,y. - [8A~LJ:1"a DICTIONARY: 1
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Step by step, slowly througb the ages, by
guessee of tell crudo and absurd, specUlation
a.nd eXperiment, We escape from the unknown
tq the known: l'oslllvo philosophy would
never have been had it out been proceeded by
occult and _ speculative philosophy. This
proce.s I. necessarily dow under ~be most
favorable conditions, but the conditions of
progre.s have .not been the most favorable.
Uuman vanity, self conceit and the' most
narrow minded and short sighted .eiftshnts.,
alded and abetted by an honest, thuugb bigoted
fear of secu lar prugTe8' as,an eneDll' to
religion and spiritual progress, havo been tbe
prillcipal causes of hlndranco to elllighleument
a.od knowledge.
Every buman heart beato and every brain
throbs t.he feeling. "I v.'an't.' to know," ye~
bow few 'there are wbo .in a manly, honeU
manner will openly alld squarely eontc .., 1.
do not knowl And this eonfel'llion of iglloranee
ie tbe only legitimate pa~b'Yay to knowledge;
and the puttiug 011 of all appeara.nee of
knowledge \\'bere there bas been ollly Ignorance,
has kept natural, spiritual and theological
philosophIes conrad' over, burled
'beneath assumptions, pretentions and osten·
tatlous ebow, hidden away from bumau In
vestigatlon, rendering discovery a.od advancement
almost impossible •
When COtlfotanline raised the Christian
ciel'gYlllan from self Imposed poverty to that
of a gentleman of lelsuro, power and pride;
wben phUooopby was outlawed a.nd knowledge
placed under !.be supervision and ca.re
of ignorant priesUl and monks, then science
and progreS!!, in despair, ded to the moun·
taine and took refuge In dens and caves.
Then it beCame necessary to bide under as' .
sumed names or my&tery, every prlneiple in
pbilosophy wblch wao, or appeared to be, in
opposition to Christian articles of {ai!.b.
Then secret associations were formed, in
wbich the principles of pagan philosophy becam~
occult philosuphy, hidden, concealed
from e!Jewl"", and made known onlv to Ibe
membolll of the craft, who were Init.iauod Inte
the order "Under the 1II0st binding oaths and
peualliee. Tbe necessity for esoteric pllpll""e
bad always been considered n..ceasary on Ibe
plea of not casting tbat which I. holy unto
tbc dogo, but to this ....... nOw added the more
important plea, "';\1 pl'C8ervation.
Th..., secret .... ocl .. lJon. have since sO 1ar
degenerato!d, that the Ideas. III tended to be
conveyed, are enUrely lo.teigbt of,.a.od no!.b·