Three Articles on Modern SpiritualismCrosby and Nichols, 1863 - 74 頁 |
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第 16 頁 - Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you, seek and ye shall find, call unto the 'Light' and the Ascended Masters will answer you, for they are the 'Light
第 41 頁 - It was amongst the ignorant fishermen that he, the Nazarene, the carpenter's son, found his first disciples; simpleminded men, who had nothing to unlearn, and little, if any, intellectual antagonism to overcome. The educated men of his day would not receive him. To the fishermen it was enough for him to say, " Follow me," — whilst it required a miraculous intervention to reach the heart of Paul.
第 41 頁 - ... spiritual things. Too great confidence in their intellectual acquirements, or, to speak in plain terms, though not in unkindness, their self-reliant intellectual conceit, has repelled, or made impossible, all direct approaches from the spirit world. Herein we find the key to what has heretofore been considered the mystery of faith.
第 43 頁 - Sewall, later in life, did for himself; or to admit the facts in some way, and wonder why such things had so entirely disappeared in modern times. We now understand that this cessation of spirit manifestations has been owing to the power of mental forces, held by the will in antagonism with the spirit forces. Let it be supposed, then, for the sake of the argument, if the position cannot otherwise be admitted by...
第 33 頁 - ... state of the antagonism between intellectual, and pure spiritual culture. This branch of the inquiry may not be interesting to all readers, but we deem it indispensable that it should be thoroughly examined, and fully comprehended, before the more educated part of the community, as a whole, can be in condition to receive the truth.
第 34 頁 - ... of which he has slowly attained, is a question which we believe might be carefully considered with much profit to self-sufficient humanity. The fact is admitted by all ; and the leaders in these opposite positions are deemed the extremists of their time, and properly so considered, whether they are on the side of progress or conservatism.
第 44 頁 - How could it, under the condition of things which we have endeavored to explain, how could it signify its approach and near presence ? It has often been objected to modern spirit phenomena, that their method of expression is so mundane, so unspiritual, though claiming to be of spirit origin. The objectors have demanded that the spirits should come with gentler approaches, and in more ethereal guise.
第 63 頁 - Where demonstration will not convince, nor things beyond all comparison determine the choice, it proves an insensibility in the mind which no further outward application can cure. If those who hear not Moses and the Prophets would not believe, though one rose from the dead; neither would he that is not touched with a thousand years of severest punishment, be moved with an eternity. For it is plain the present wholly engrosses his imagination ; he has no regard for the future : and you may as well...
第 35 頁 - We have remarkable instances of this in the political relations of the American people at the present time, when the most ultra conservatists give expression to violent sentiments which fairly leave behind many of those whom they formerly decried as dangerous, if not unprincipled reformers.
第 50 頁 - Purify your homes, purify your hearts, purify your bodies, purify your lives ! Wait not for the purification which shall be a consuming fire. Even now does the mighty voice sound through the air, as heard of old by the Prophet of Revelations, and audible to him that hath an. ear to hear are those momentous words, "BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW !