Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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Science reverses the conclusions of personal sense in
Science reverses the conclusions of personal sense in
every instance, and abides by a given statement of man
to bring out the harmony and immortality, that theories
have failed to do. No condition of matter can change
the fact in numbers that four times three is twelve;
science should govern thought, and nothing can mar or
destroy man controlled by science. Mediumship is
without a scientific statement or proof, and claims to
gather Wisdom from "spirits," personalities, outside of
matter, while the basis of its evidence is admitted to
be matter conditions. The theory called spiritualism
admits that God is Principle, but leaves this admission
without practical proof. If God is Principle, science
alone reveals God; then wherefore ask personalities of
another plane to explain Life, Truth and Love? why
not strive to reach these beatitudes through science,
and hold them your own instead of another's to bestow
on you. Person cannot interpret Love, for Love alone
explains itself; science reveals and explains Principle,
but man cannot explain God; six feet, nor the stature
of ancient giants can represent "the fullness of the
stature of man in Christ," in other words, the idea of
Truth. Measurement may represent the man of per-
sonal sense, but this is not the man of Soul.
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Mediumship communes with person instead of Prin-
Mediumship communes with person instead of Prin-
ciple, the only Intelligence, Life and Love; and accepts
a personal version of Principle, praying God to be God,
as if Love was idle, and omnipotence uninformed. To
call on light for light, is absurd. "Let there be Light,"
is the will of Wisdom; and this full effulgence has no-
thing to do with mortal stint, but shines for all. Uni-
versal Love bestows all good without respect to per-
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sons; and man receives, or rejects it; but a prayer or
sons; and man receives, or rejects it; but a prayer or
tear changes not divine economy, or eternal order. Sin
shuts out light and blessings, and is the author of all
tears and prayers. Wisdom helps those only who help
themselves, and cannot bless evil; it destroys sin only
as man gives up sin, acting in this direction only as we
act. We have seen patients who could not be healed
through science, until they gave up the belief of medi-
umship, and controlled their own bodies; for man is not
governed in science except by his own Spirit.
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Harmonious man is governed by the Principle of be-
Harmonious man is governed by the Principle of be-
ing; the inharmonious by a belief of personality; there-
fore, the folly to desire personal control that leads into
all error; there is no Truth except Principle, the one
God, and thou shouldst "have no other."
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We learn in science that God and His idea are all
We learn in science that God and His idea are all
that is immortal; but mediumship would establish the
immortality of error. Science reveals progression only,
but mediumship retrogression. Should a pupil continue
in the primary school, when fitted for a higher school?
If the departed are unfit for the advanced understand-
ing of Life through which they take a spiritual place in
the scale of being beyond us why impose their igno-
rance on us as oracular; and think mediumship privi-
leged to be a strainer for error. That the so-called dead
return to torment us, or to comfort us, or to seek aid
from us, is but a belief and error. When wandering in
Australia, are you seeking comfort, or giving support
to another, dwelling in the snow-caverns of the Esqui-
maux? Two different dreams, or different awakenings,
separate consciousness. What is named mediumship is
a phenomenon of belief, without reality, or science; and