Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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other. We are holding a belief of them as dead, in one
other. We are holding a belief of them as dead, in one
sense, and pursuing it, and they the opposite, under-
standing, and pursuing that, therefore our directions
commence from that hour apart, if they commence in
science, for ours is error, else we would not bury the
body, and the old and familiar faces would not disap-
pear; a new field of action should be taken by the so‑
called dead, and the old left to us. Any departure
from this natural result in progress is but a belief and
error.
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Some mind here retains the image of the departed,
Some mind here retains the image of the departed,
or they have left this image in the atmosphere of mind
in general; the words and acts of great men other
minds may repeat, at least in part. Belief says the de-
parted produce the phenomenon of Spirit communing
with matter, but all there is to mediumship, is belief.
To say the dead assert the reality of sickness and death
after the falsity of these are proved by those who have
learned disease did not kill them, while we say it did,
is a very erroneous effort through post-mortem evidence
to confirm an error of personal sense, that ought to be
fading away to the departed and to us. The science of
Soul destroys the dream of Life in matter, consequently
of sickness, sin, and death, saying, "let the dead bury
their dead," that is, let the error of personal sense be
destroyed and not resurrected through mediumship, and
"follow thou Truth," the Life of man.
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Intercommunion between the so-called dead and liv-
Intercommunion between the so-called dead and liv-
ing is a belief only and not a reality; it is another 'ism
that makes war on science and opens wide a Pandora
box on mankind. Just as the age is getting ready to
emerge from dogmatical error, to have the fountains.
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of thought poisoned and dammed up with such mystery
of thought poisoned and dammed up with such mystery
and madness is a miserable catch-penny plot, or an igno-
rance worthy the dark ages. As mind throws off its
cruder beliefs of matter and becomes more spiritualized,
phenomena resulting therefrom will become more won-
derful, and should be understood on the basis of Soul,
throwing off its own idea of Intelligence and Life, and
opinions of mountebank and charlatan, that perpetuate
sickness and sin, discord and mortality, be held back.
But here the advanced thinker must wait before some
'ism, and the vain pause before caste, so the vultures
that prey on the hour have it much in their own hands.
Supineness and hypocrisy on the one hand and persecu-
tion on the other, are porters at the door of error to shut
out glimpses of Truth. Although the science of being is
greatly in advance of to-day as our iniquities declare, it
is demanded even more for this, and he that layeth not
down all for Truth, is not worthy of it. Every step of
spirituality is linked to Wisdom, but it carries us
thither through much tribulation; greater violence will
be done Truth as the capacities of mind develop, until
mind is better understood, and can be met and restrained
with science.
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Penal law may restrain the manifestations of error,
Penal law may restrain the manifestations of error,
and punish them, but cannot reach the subtle thought
before it is manifested; but the higher law of science
destroys the mental error before it results in deeds;
thus avoiding the penalty, and affording a remedy for
dismay and wickedness between the periods of materi-
ality and spirituality. The contest between error and
Truth whereby all 'isms will finally disappear, and the
age pass into science, has been going on with pen and