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Emma Hardinge Britten, in her correspondence to the Banner of Light, says Col. Olcott’s letters to the Tribune have “raised the very devil.” She thinks any human form presented, or human intelligence rendered in spiritual phenomena, has a human origin; and yet, she knows of the existence of other than human spirits, and has seen apparitions of spiritual or ''elementary'' existences, evoked by cabalistic words and practices. She says, —

Emma Hardinge Britten, in her correspondence to the Banner of Light, says Col. Olcott’s letters to the Tribune have “raised the very devil.” She thinks any human form presented, or human intelligence rendered in spiritual phenomena, has a human origin; and yet, she knows of the existence of other than human spirits, and has seen apparitions of spiritual or ''elementary'' existences, evoked by cabalistic words and practices. She says, —

We are on the threshold of a grand temple whose name baa been “Mystery," but whose future cognomen will be {{Style S-Small capitals|Nature}}: we stand waiting at her portal, whilst one or two bold mystics venture to cross the spell-bound circle which has hitherto barred all mortal entrance. Let those who dare follow. God lives and rules and reigns. We who trust him need fear nothing which he has made, and hence it is for all his creatures, that incline to search the profoundest depths of his kingdom, to avail themselves of all the lights that science can give into the mystery of that creation, the study of which ultimates into faith in God; confidence in Immortality, and recognition of the eternal reign of truth, justice, and love.

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and we re-echo the closing paragraph: —

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Soon we shall have the opinion of other writers, and as Channing truly says, “The more discussion the better, if passion and personality be eschewed; and discussion, even if stormy, often winnows truth from error—a good never to be expected in an uninquiring age.” Heretofore many of the minds in Spiritualism have found activity in the discussion of free-love and other “isms;” it soon became an encumbrance awakening bitter divisions and checking all progress. So we welcome the subject of Occultism, in the hope that it may teach us something worth knowing about the Cause that is so dear to our hearts. Truth comes from agitation, never from stagnation.

{{Style S-HPB SB. Restored|“ass” for announcing my belief; or to the editor of the Times,}} who said I had been made a stool-pigeon for skillful jugglers or to the editor of the Commercial Advertiser, who thought it more important to inform his readers that there was a misspelled word in a manuscript which I sent him on the subject, than it was to lay before them one of the grandest scientific truths the world has ever discovered.

 

If none of these gentlemen accept this challenge it is open to any atheist, infidel, magician, doctor, lawyer, clergyman, editor, or any other skeptic on the face of the globe. The money shall be deposited four weeks in advance of the time of submitting the tests.

 

If the parties accepting this challenge should desire to risk anything further on the honesty of this medium I will put up two dollars to their one to the extent of my entire fortune. The reader will notice that I do not ask to have a unanimous verdict of this jury, but that only a majority shall decide that this medium is a fraud, and to show how this fraud is produced, before the question is decided as to who gets the money.

 

The losing party is to pay all expense of the investigation, and any receipts for the admission of spectators shall go to the medium.  

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{{Style P-Signature in capitals|E. P. Miller, M. D.}}

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