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what he says generally is) about the cause of the lying communications given by spirits. He puts this query. “Why was this? ''Was it that the messages came from very inferior beings, who surrounded particular individuals?''" And he truthfully adds— “circumstances such as these very much opposed the progress of Spiritualism.” No more pertinent question has been asked; no truer assertion made. It is high time that this question should be pondered by every intelligent person interested in the subject. We have gone on for nearly thirty years, receiving communications and viewing phenomena, and taking it for granted that all those which are genuine are made by disembodied human spirits. This has caused all the trouble, and made all the odium. | |||
{{Style P-No indent|what he says generally is) about the cause of the lying communications given by spirits. He puts this query. “Why was this? ''Was it that the messages came from very inferior beings, who surrounded particular individuals?''" And he truthfully adds— “circumstances such as these very much opposed the progress of Spiritualism.” No more pertinent question has been asked; no truer assertion made. It is high time that this question should be pondered by every intelligent person interested in the subject. We have gone on for nearly thirty years, receiving communications and viewing phenomena, and taking it for granted that all those which are genuine are made by disembodied human spirits. This has caused all the trouble, and made all the odium.}} | |||
But the Eastern people make no such mistakes. They do not believe that all their communications are from departed friends, nor all their physical phenomena produced by them. They know better. There is not a hungry fakir or tattered sheikh who could not have taught us where to seek for the truth. They could have shown us how to produce slate writing ourselves, or any other form of physical manifestation, by controlling the currents of the “Universal Ether” by will power, and calling in the help of the elementary beings who exist in its bosom. They could have taught us what a direful calamity it is to yield to physical mediumship to the extent of perfect passivity—which is the same as saying to give oneself over as the helpless slave of the “elementaries.” Let us hope that when men of such character as Mr. Jencken formulate questions like that which I have quoted above they will be pondered over. | But the Eastern people make no such mistakes. They do not believe that all their communications are from departed friends, nor all their physical phenomena produced by them. They know better. There is not a hungry fakir or tattered sheikh who could not have taught us where to seek for the truth. They could have shown us how to produce slate writing ourselves, or any other form of physical manifestation, by controlling the currents of the “Universal Ether” by will power, and calling in the help of the elementary beings who exist in its bosom. They could have taught us what a direful calamity it is to yield to physical mediumship to the extent of perfect passivity—which is the same as saying to give oneself over as the helpless slave of the “elementaries.” Let us hope that when men of such character as Mr. Jencken formulate questions like that which I have quoted above they will be pondered over. | ||
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| title = What Col. Olcott Believes | | title = What Col. Olcott Believes | ||
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| source title = Spiritual Scientist | | source title = Spiritual Scientist | ||
| source details = | | source details = v. 3, No. 21, January 27, 1876, p. 243 | ||
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{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|<u>Nota Bene</u>. This is Col. Olcott’s <u>personal</u> belief and has nothing to do with belief of other Theosophists.|center}} | {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|<u>Nota Bene</u>. This is Col. Olcott’s <u>personal</u> belief and has nothing to do with belief of other Theosophists.|center}} | ||
... | {{Style S-Small capitals|COL. H. S. Olcott}} has put his personal belief into a few simple paragraphs which are easily comprehended. He says: — | ||
''First:'' I believe in the existence of {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB crossed out|a First}} {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|an Eternal}} Cause, the source of all things visible and invisible. | |||
''Second:'' I believe in the doctrine of Evolution, and believe that it applies to ''both sides of the Universe ''— spirit and matter. It has produced man upon this sphere, and it follows him beyond the death of the body. | |||
''Third:'' I believe that in the course of this Evolution of man, successive forms of spiritual entities were brought into existence, just as there have been a countless succession of physical forms of plant and animal. | |||
''Fourth:'' I believe that, after the death of the physical body, man’s spirit survives; and that, under favoring conditions, he can communicate with those whom he has left behind. This manifestation may be made either through mediums or in other ways. | |||
''Fifth:'' I believe, as the result of study and of personal observation of practical experiments, that the human mind can control the occult forces of Nature, and subjugate all spiritual beings lower than himself in the scale of Evolution, just as he has natural dominion over ail the lower animals. | |||
''Sixth:'' I regard Modern Spiritualism, in its present form, as only a record of sporadic phenomena; which do not occur except under conditions not of our choosing; which cannot be controlled; and which are accompanied with so much that is contradictory and untruthful, that more investigation is necessary before we can be said to know anything definite about the laws of spiritual intercourse. But, still I believe that, even under such unfavorable conditions as are now- furnished us by our uninstructed mediums, disembodied spirits are often drawn into communication with us by the attraction of our intense love for them. | |||
''Seventh:'' I regard Mesmerism and Spiritualism as portions of a broader and a demonstrable science — that of Magic. This science was known to the ancients, has been practiced for countless ages, and is now practiced in the Orient. | |||
''Eighth:'' I believe that the forces known as Animal Magnetism, Odyle, the magnet, psychic force, and the spiritual force, are all various manifestations of the same force — the Astral Light. This is the medium of which our spiritual bodies, the astral bodies of animals, and the vital force of plants, are portions; and the varying vibrations of which (under the name of “Ether,”) are severally designated as light, heat, electricity, and chemical action. | |||
''Ninth:'' While I believe that, often, human spirits have appeared to us in materialized form, more frequently a lower order of beings have appeared in the forms of persons who are Called dead. Spiritualists have no means of distinguishing between these spiritual beings: Cabalists have, and need never make mistakes. | |||
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spiritual_scientist_v.03_n.21_1876-01-27.pdf|page=3|Spiritual Scientist, v. 3, No. 17, December 30, 1875, p. 202 | |||
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