Plain Guide To Spiritualism

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...living in spotless purity, laboring with unselfish philanthropy, and dying, as Rousseau's hero said, " like a god,"--we may love, honor, revere, and regard as a divine type of God and humanity. But, according to the Protestant idea under which we profess to live, every man must be allowed to interpret the Bible for himself, and frame his own creed. The orthodox sects have their interpretations; the liberal Christians theirs; the Rationalists theirs, and the Spiritualists theirs; and all must be permitted to enjoy their conscientious opinions without being denounced either infidel, heretical or time-serving. No human interpretation is infallible. It will be a long time before we all arrive at the absolute truth, and it were unwise for any to assume the authority to pronounce absolute judgment in wholesale condemnation of any class of our human brotherhood, because they are not on our plane of understanding. However, there are those who seem so perverse in their dogmatical interpretations of Scripture, it becomes difficult to withhold the thunderbolts of denunciation Jesus hurled at the hard heads of Judea. Wrapping their creeds around them like coats of mail, they resist everything like appeals, unless it comes like the thunders shaking Sinai and jarring down the wails of Jerusalem. We must give them their Bible as a literal book, until some idea of its spiritual significance is literally knocked into their materialistic sconces. But not so with the masses of religionists who cling to the Bible with uninformed reverence. Their religious nature is weak, sick, diseased. It were humane to remember this, and to go to our brothers and sisters, who, with sickly, diseased and misguided natures, are in vain seeking to satisfy their souls with the...

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