HPB-SB-1-103: Difference between revisions

I cannot conclude this painful but necessary warning without expressing my decided opinion that persons calling themselves Spiritualists and pretending to seek for light and progress, should be ashamed of themselves thus to attack one who has spent the best years of her public and useful life in endeavoring to serve them and their cause: that they should be ashamed of the narrow-mindedness which Hies to arms the moment they hear of some one’s attempting to enlarge the borders of their knowledge, and deem every one is in a conspiracy to upset their faith, who happen to know, or think they know, a little more than themselves. I undertook to help the author of Art Magic to bring forward his magnificent work, because I had long known him in Europe as a gentleman more capable of instructing me and others on dark and occult points of our faith, and man's spiritual nature, than any other individual I had ever met with. I undertook this task with my dear husband’s help alone, because I knew that my husband’s experience in matters of book publishing would supply our foreign friend’s utter lack of knowledge on all matters of business. I also undertook it because Mr. Britten's

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