Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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Mediums describe sickness, sin, and death; and this
Mediums describe sickness, sin, and death; and this
description is supposed to come from Spirit that is
wholly unconscious of matter or error, thus perpetuat-
ing the error that needs to be dissected and destroyed.
Mediums have a certain circumference, and never go
outside of these limits; at the same time protesting
mediumship is progress that takes hold of immortahty.
But the majority of what is termed mediumship, is sim-
ply imposition, not even clairvoyance, or mind-reading,
but a catch-penny fraud. Until the so-called communi-
cations between the dead and living are stopped, sick-
ness, sin, and death will continue; talking error and
believing it, make all the reality there is to it. What is
termed mediumship rises no higher than personal opin-
ions and mortal views. A ball propelled upward or
onward and subject to gravitation, will never pierce
immensity. The gravitation earthward must be with-
drawn, or the ball stops. So with mind that would
leave matter; and would you fetter the unbound with
ties of earth to matter conditions? But you cannot if
you would; we commune together only as Spirit with
Spirit, the immortal with the undying; or matter with
matter, the mortal with mortality; and do you hold
yourself free from mortal fetters, or your dear departed
bound with you? The dream of Life and Intelligence
in matter is destroyed when heaven, man's harmony, is
reached. The dead to personal sense are alive to Soul,
and preserve all the prerogatives of being, but because
personal sense buries their bodies it loses sight of this
fact, showing virtually we are separated, and they no
longer in sympathy with us, for there is no conscious
change to themselves; hence we lose sight of each
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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.