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| title = Cabalism
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| source title = Spiritual Scientist
| source details = Spiritual Scientist
| source details = v. 4, No. 5, April 6, 1876, p. 57
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{{Style P-Author|On regimen. By Lex et Lux. }}
{{Style P-Author|On regimen. By Lex et Lux. }}
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{{Style S-Small capitals|The}} self-initiated, that is, spiritually initiated, ancients and many modern ones also, as in the case of Jacob Boehme, arrived at the climax of soul government after a fearful amount of perseverance and under very disadvantageous circumstances, especially in their Regimen. Poverty undoubtedly prevented undue surfeiting of the organism in his case, but he must have had the seeds of organic disease hereditarily as well as been often deprived of the bare necessaries of life, during a great part of his existence, for we see him dying a natural death about fifty—quite young for a Cabalist, not killed by violence nor taken away by his own desire. Hence I infer that Boehme had not got a correct knowledge of the value of food, and may have gone on the old principle of absolute starvation or lasting from all foods. It is the animal only we are to avoid and to keep free from surfeiting by using the fruits of the earth in moderation; these mankind quietly submits to and accepts as intended for all at all seasons, at least as a part of our food.
This knowledge of food contributes immensely to accelerate the best form of ''soul regeneration; ''for that is under true conditions, after all but a question of time with any one with a ''Witt ''so disposed. Drugs, chemicals, tobacco, yeast, and all alcoholic drinks must be scrupulously avoided.
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P.S. I am delighted to see {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB crossed out|L}}{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|Z}}eus's article in Spiritual Scientist...
P.S. I am delighted to see {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB crossed out|L}}{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|Z}}eus's article in Spiritual Scientist of Feb. 17; he certainly comprehends the spirit of Cabalism closer than any I have met, except one or two perhaps.
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I differ slightly with him in the “animal passions’’ being ''“essential ''for this life.” That they are inseparable from a life in the sensual world is undoubted; but the fact that we make laws to restrain them is a proof that even man, as he now is, admits that they are out of place and that he would be better without them. The fact is that the ''great work ''cannot be accomplished until all the ''animal passions ''are {{Style S-Small capitals|completely silenced}}. It is this that occupies the time for the intellect or ''Will ''to effectually overcome and obliterate ''every shallow of prompting ''to evil thoughts—which ''will keep cropping up ''long after the hard line of duty to your neighbor has been laid down and carried out rigidly, and so prevent the influx of the soul.
I quite agree with Leus that we have a great advantage over the spirit-world in Cabalism, at least with all I have been permitted to come in contact with through mediums.
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| author = Denton, Elizabeth M. F.
| title = Mrs. Denton's Reply to Berkley
| title = Mrs. Denton's Reply to Berkley
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{{Style S-Small capitals|Dear Sir}}: — When your correspondent Berkley shall ask of Barnum’s Talking Machine, “Who are you?” and its black leathery tongue shall slowly and solemnly answer him, “Gen. Grant," I shall not dispute his right to accept his testimony, nor that other right of his to exercise the prerogative of masculine superiority and vote accordingly. So I shall not dispute his right to accept every claim imposed upon him in regard to “mediumistic emanations,” whether of mind or matter, if he prefers this method to the more laborious one of using his common sense for purposes of investigation while adhering to a firm resolve to accept nothing but the truth.
That there is a truth underlying this mountain of rubbish, I am glad to believe. But that it will require time and labor and perhaps long and patient effort, so to bring our minds to a conception of that truth as to render it practically available to the race, I am also satisfied. Shall we then prepare ourselves for the effort? or shall we adopt Berkley’s method, and folding our hands in sweet content, accept as demonstrated that of which we have no proof?
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Yours for investigation, and a refusal to believe without proof, all claims which contravene the known laws of matter and of mind.
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“{{Style S-Small capitals|Startling Facts in Modern Spiritualism}},” is the title of a book of 543 pages, handsomely bound, and containing an account of startling and significant phenomena which have occurred in the presence of the author, N. B. Wolfe, M. D. of Cincinnati. He deals with facts and arranges these facts for the critical inspection of the minds eye. The author expresses freely his personal opinions, shows where fraud may be perpetrated, advances and discusses theories and in general it may be said that the subject is handled in so masterly a manner that the book will always remain as it is at present, — A {{Style S-Small capitals|Standard Work}} on Modern Spiritualism. For sale at the office, 18 Exchange St., Boston, Mass. Price $2.00.
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