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St. Peter was the only one of the remaining eleven that denied his Christ thrice before the Pharisees, that is just the reason why, of all the apostles, he is the most revered by the Catholics, and has been selected to rule over the most wealthy as the most proud, greedy and hypocritical of all the churches in Christendom! And so, half Christians and half believers in the new dispensation, the majority of those eleven millions of Spiritualists stand with one foot on the threshold of Spiritualism, pressing firmly with the other one the steps leading to the altars of their “fashionable” places of worship, ever ready to leap over under the protection of the latter in hours of danger. They know that under the cover of such immense “respectability” they are perfectly safe. Who would presume or dare to accuse of “credulous stupidity” a member belonging to certain “fashionable congregations”? Under the powerful and holy shade of any of those “pillars of truth” every heinous crime is liable to become immediately transformed into but a slight and petty deviation from strict Christian virtue. Jupiter, for all his numberless “Don Juan”-like frolics, was not the less considered for it by his worshippers as the “Father of Gods”! | St. Peter was the only one of the remaining eleven that denied his Christ thrice before the Pharisees, that is just the reason why, of all the apostles, he is the most revered by the Catholics, and has been selected to rule over the most wealthy as the most proud, greedy and hypocritical of all the churches in Christendom! And so, half Christians and half believers in the new dispensation, the majority of those eleven millions of Spiritualists stand with one foot on the threshold of Spiritualism, pressing firmly with the other one the steps leading to the altars of their “fashionable” places of worship, ever ready to leap over under the protection of the latter in hours of danger. They know that under the cover of such immense “respectability” they are perfectly safe. Who would presume or dare to accuse of “credulous stupidity” a member belonging to certain “fashionable congregations”? Under the powerful and holy shade of any of those “pillars of truth” every heinous crime is liable to become immediately transformed into but a slight and petty deviation from strict Christian virtue. Jupiter, for all his numberless “Don Juan”-like frolics, was not the less considered for it by his worshippers as the “Father of Gods”! | ||
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{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|Dec<sup>ber</sup> 13. 1874|center}} | {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|Dec<sup>ber</sup> 13. 1874|center}} | ||
... | In one of the numbers of the Buda-Pesth Society’s ''Reflexionen'', a communication is reported, alleged to have been given by an order of beings who say that they live in the woods, in the sunbeams, in flowers, in dew, in water, and in the mist. One signs itself the “heat-spirit,” whose office it is to distribute warmth, to aid in the production of life, in the growth of plants, the ripening of fruit. This class of spirits know nothing of earthly wisdom and achievements; the names of all men are alike to them; they only know of the elements and forces among which they dwell. The male principle of heat is said to be light; the “heat-spirit” is female to the “light-spirit.” The “storm-spirits” are borne hither and thither on the wings of the wind; they clarify and purify the atmosphere, driving out the damp, mephitic, vaporous spirits. Christ could still the tempest, because the “storm-spirits” were subject to Him. The “air-spirits” are gentle, beneficent beings, the spirits of tender women. All nature derives its life from these spirits, who correspond to the nymphs and naiads of the Greeks, and the gnomes and elves of the Teutons and Scandinavians. Bad spirits dwell in swamps and morasses, and cause malaria, resulting in cholera, ague, and infectious diseases. | ||
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