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| author =M.D. (F.T.S.) | | author = M.D. (F.T.S.) | ||
| title =The Authority of Spirit? | | title =The Authority of Spirit? | ||
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| source title =Spiritualist | | source title = London Spiritualist | ||
| source details = | | source details = No. 439, January 21, 1881, pp. 34-5 | ||
| publication date =1881-01-21 | | publication date = 1881-01-21 | ||
| original date = | | original date = 1881-01-15 | ||
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... | Sir,—I thank Mr. Bryan for his letter. As I understand him the only creation is the creation of ideas, which are created by the elemental substance—will (or wills)—which puts itself (themselves) into the shape of the objects we see around us in order to impross us, through those, with the ideas it is seeking to communicate to us. That is to say, his theory substitutes a system of personation for the system of nature, while unable to tree itself from the methods of nature, since its teaching is carried on through the natural. | ||
He admits, however, that this system of personation is inadequate for its purposes, since this will, these wills, as gods or deifie intelligences, is (are) developing him in some way whether as spirit guides, controls or otherwise, through which ho is enabled to realize not only that natural objects are unreal but that those who so teach him are deifie intelligences. | |||
I will not ask him how ho has convinced himself that his habitual personators are not porsonating deifie nature simply to give him an idea of what deific nature is, without being deific themselves—though it would be instructive to know bow this idea was imparted and in what it consisted—for I have already trespassed too much on his good nature. | |||
The question that underlies the form this correspondence has taken, is of far deeper import than any theoretic view of the reality or unreality of nature; though oven as it has been represented to Mr. Bryan, nature, whether real or unreal, must be real to us, as the channel through which we are formed or receive our ideas, if the deific intelligences are obliged to act through or personate it in order to impart their ideas {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note |to us}}. | |||
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london_spiritualist_n.439_1881-01-21.pdf|page=12|London Spiritualist, No. 439, January 21, 1881, pp. 34-5 | |||
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