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beauty of this work appear to be above the average of her writings. She says: “Faith is an attracting, unbelief a repelling force; therefore, by faith the grace of God and Spiritual gifts are drawn to us, as by unbelief they remain far from us. This is a natural law, and not the effect of imagination. On this account unbelievers cannot receive Spiritual tests and signs, and therefore by virtue of this power which resides in faith, believers attract to themselves the greater number of Spiritual manifestations. Those full of material learning despise faith, and consider it the first step into intellectual darkness; yet it is the first condition of knowledge; it is the letter A, where knowledge is B; for before we can know positively, we have the impulse to believe. Only those can comprehend the power of faith who do not live wholly the material life, but who perceive the light of God, that is their own spirit, with an unclouded understanding; for how can that which is crooked conceive of that which is upright?”
It is to be hoped that the agitation produced by the German press in Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, and elsewhere, on the subject of Slade’s manifestations, will not subside without leaving some lasting impression, and will lead to a practical investigation and pursuit of Spiritualism in all parts of Germany.
The Griterio Espiritista of January and February are before us. The January number contains a communication which purports to come from the spirit of the late Senor Palet, suggesting various alterations in the social, moral, and political customs of Europe. The article, by Don R. Caruana Berard, contains a popular account of the recent discoveries in practical telegraphy, such as the telephone and phonograph. The February number has for its first article one by Viscount Torres-Solanot, entitled “Espiritistas y Espiriteros (Spiritists and Spirit-bringers), in which we think we recognise a new word in the second term. An article on “Spiritualism in Germany and Austria” is translated from Be Rots. The general news of the subject is as usual, collected with the greatest care.
The Revista Espiritista, of Monteviedo, for January, contains an article by a lady, Dona Amelia D. y Soler, on the subject of obsession, but named “Al fin lo conseguimos.” J. de E. contributes an article, entitled “Todo por la verdad” (All for truth). The paper is especially devoted to the ardent Reincarnationist platform, and indirectly alludes, in an article extracted from the Buen Sentiolo, of Lerida, to the Brahmanic conceptions of creation, preservation, and destruction, which the Parsees divide into action, word, and thought, and which the Spiritists term power, intelligence, and love. The Aquinatic conception of action to sin in cogitations, verbo, et opere, is that proved to have existed as a thinkable reality centuries before Christ. The trimurti of thought is thus coincident with the trimurti of mythology.
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We desire to receive no more communications at present about Theosophy, except the reply which Madame Blavatsky will doubtless desire to give when she sees what has been published. The occasional examination of various hypotheses like those of the Theosophists, will bring up many ideas about the spiritual nature of man for consideration.
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“Serutator,” otherwise “M.A. (Cantab),” writes that his use of two signatures was not for any special purpose, and that any of the controversialists may privately have his name and address.
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Editor's notes
- ↑ image by unknown author. colored vignette
- ↑ We desire to recieve no more by unknown author
- ↑ Serutator, otherwise M.A. (Cantab) by unknown author
- ↑ image by unknown author. colored harlequin
- ↑ image by unknown author. colored musician
- ↑ Birthday of the Spirits by unknown author, World, The, Monday, April 1, 1878
- ↑ image by unknown author. colored figures of woman and man