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| source title =Spiritualist | | source title = London Spiritualist | ||
| source details = | | source details = No. 373, October 17, 1879, p. 185 | ||
| publication date =1879-10-17 | | publication date = 1879-10-17 | ||
| original date = | | original date = 1879-10-11 | ||
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... | <center>By J. W. Farquhar.</center> | ||
{{Style S-Small capitals| A few}} words in explanation of the relation of the Theosophic Society to Spiritualism and to creeds. | |||
As a society we have no other creed than that stated in the first paragraph of my paper—“Belief in a great first intelligent cause, in the Divine Sonship of the Spirit of Man, and hence in the immortality of that Spirit, and in the universal brotherhood of the human race.” Theosophists are so far, and no further, Spiritualists with all sincere clergymen, young or old, with all intelligent members of the Church of England, and all other religious denominations who can accept that statement of faith. On such basis we are, as theosophists, simply inquirers, learners, and helpers of each other. | |||
If the “Young Clergyman” had not put the qualifying adjective to his designation I should have been as much astonished at his confession of surprise as he is at my assertion that the Aryan knowledge of God ''is ''more advanced than the Semitic. Is it not so? Otherwise, why is not the writer of “Spiritualism and the Church of England” a Jewish rabbi rather than a Christian preacher? I thankfully acknowledge the world’s indebtedness to the Semitic race for maintaining the Divine Unity. But the descendants of the “Romans, and of our Gothic ancestors,” have risen from a lower conception of Deity to a higher than the Semitic races can as yet receive, viz., the union of Deity with Humanity, or the Divine Humanity; a faith which is the basis of endless progress in science and art. | |||
While thanking the writer for his suggestion that I should “try my skill in preaching to a popular audience,” I beg to refer him to an authority of his church—St. Paul—who, in Ephesians iv. 11, treating of diversities of spiritual gifts, enumerates apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. While I heartily acknowledge the great need of “evangelists” for “costermongers and needy knife-grinders,” I am content with the last and lowliest office of “teacher" of young clergymen and others to aid in qualifying them for the higher vocations of evangelists and pastors. I am glad' to find a seal of my calling in the writer’s acknowledgment of his extreme indebtedness to me for an exposition of the mystery of the Trinity, &c. | |||
October 11, 1879. | |||
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