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| source title =Spiritualist | | source title = London Spiritualist | ||
| source details = | | source details = No. 377, November 14, 1879, p. 232 | ||
| publication date =1879-10-14 | | publication date = 1879-10-14 | ||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals| Sir}},—I have never had anything but the highest opinion of Dr. Slade and his great gifts; and he was ''not ''the American medium who was in my mind during the interview. I must decline continuing a controversy unbecoming to gentlemen and Spiritualists. Mr. Massey need not trouble about an apology. He commenced the controversy, and he can close it when it best suits him. I am quite indifferent to what he may say. | ||
J. William Fletcher. | |||
22, Gordon-street, London, W.C., November 8, 1879. | |||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals| The}} first number of ''The Theosophist, ''a Bombay monthly periodical, edited by Madame Blavatsky, was published in India on the first of October. It is a large, well-printed journal, full of interesting reading, much of it contributed by natives of India, and affording an insight into the religious thought of the far East. | ||
The Editor, in answer to the question, “What is a Theosophist?” gives Vaughan’s definition as a good one, namely, “A Theosophist is one who gives you a theory of God, or the works of God, which has not revelation, but an inspiration of his own for his basis.” The man of science is inspired in like manner with new ideas, but he puts them to the test of experiment in the outer world, whereby he discovers perhaps four-fifths of his speculations to be false, but proves the truth of the other fifth. The Editor of ''The Theosophist ''does not say by what standard the speculations of Theosophists who draw upon their inner consciousness are to be tested, for the purpose of verification or rejection. | |||
''The Theosophist ''says: — “The primary issue between the theosophical and spiritualistic theories of mediumistic phenomena is that the theosophists say the phenomena may be produced by more agencies than one, and the latter that but one agency can be conceded, namely, the disembodied souls.” Probably no educated Spiritualist holds the creed thus put into his mouth. Obscure physiological and mesmeric influences are probably at the root of a large proportion of the phenomena, and all are agreed that good instances of proof of spirit identity are exceedingly rare. Moreover, probably no Spiritualist has any objection to admit the action of sub-human intelligences in connection with the phenomena, if any theosophist can give conclusive evidence of the presence thereof. No reason exists, that we know of, why theosophical inquiry should not be one of the sub-departments of Spiritualism. | |||
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london_spiritualist_n.377_1879-11-14.pdf|page=6|London Spiritualist, No. 377, November 14, 1879, p. 232 | |||
london_spiritualist_n.377_1879-11-14.pdf|page=8|London Spiritualist, No. 377, November 14, 1879, p. 234-35 | |||
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