Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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they cannot perish, or be marred in Spirit. The senses
they cannot perish, or be marred in Spirit. The senses
of Soul are not matter, but Spirit, that apprehend and
reflect Intelligence, and Life; hence, their immortality.
Inspiration is the utterance of Soul, giving forth its own
idea, or spiritual sense. It is safe to trust this commu-
nication; but it would no longer be so if matter, or per-
sonal sense interpreted it. The garment in which be-
lief, error, hides itself is, that Soul is in matter, holiness
in unholiness, and literally God in man.
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Midnight foretells the dawn; and beholding a solitary
Midnight foretells the dawn; and beholding a solitary
star the wise men of old were led by spiritual vision to
foretell the hour of Truth. But what shepherd-sage to‑
day, seeing the light is allowed to explain the darkness.
The world is asleep! lulled by stupefying beliefs; in the
cradle of infancy dreaming away the hours under its
spell. Entering upon an unknown eternity, personal
sense will be found as an outlaw escaping to a foreign
land, where he is doomed to an unlooked-for death. The
footsteps of belief have not advanced man a single league
toward immortality; and the unwillingness to learn man
and God of science, holds Christendom in chains. So
much hypocrisy swells the catalogue of society, the
honesty that demands demonstration is not desired, and
incurs the enmity of mankind. Science never plays the
hypocrite. To claim you understand a problem of Eu-
clid, and fail to demonstrate it, would exhibit folly or
dishonesty; but to solve the simple problem according
to its rule proves you perceive the Principle. Science
is the rule of harmonious and immortal man; Jesus the
example, and Christ the Principle. This rule of man is
embraced in Life, Love and Truth; and the spiritual
sense of the Scripture reveals the science of being.
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The prophets did anciently what the worshippers of
The prophets did anciently what the worshippers of
Baal failed to do, yet in some instances, artifice and the
faith of belief feigned the work of Wisdom. Necro-
mancy and legerdemain are the inventions of man that
originate in brains, or the so-called mind of matter,
while science is the mind of God; one proceeds from
Soul and the other from sense. The beliefs of man
manifest error only; but this is sometimes called a phe-
nomenon of Truth, that proceeds from "spirits"; the
phenomena of Principle are outside of matter, and not
in the least dependent on person. Mesmerism and me-
diumship are dependent wholly on belief or the so-called
person of man. Mind evolves images of thought, and
these are the apparitions seen by the so-called medium;
it is not more mysterious, only because it is less com-
mon, for us to see, than to feel a thought. To feel the
grief of another's mind is not unusual, but we think, to
see the mind's images of departed friends, is to see them
in reality; here are two equal senses, seeing and feeling,
that we separate in power. There are those that feel
another's pain as quickly as their own; the sick may
not have touched them, or spoken on the subject, and
yet they feel their pains and can tell their locality, and
this because of sympathy the same as yawning is pro-
duced. Seeing belongs no less to personal sense, or
belief, than feeling; then why more difficult to see a
thought than to feel it? Education alone determines
the difference, and in reality it is not more marvellous.
Haunted houses, unusual noises, voices, apparitions,
dark-seances, etc., are tricks produced by tricksters; else
they are images and sounds evolved by mind on this
plane. The mind of Soul embraces all that is real and