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... | {{Style P-No indent|the very Revd. Pius Melia, D.D. entitled “Words of a believer on the ways of Providence towards man here and hereafter,” (8vo. Dolmans, 1879) and they will enjoy the advantage of perusing the original passages at the foot of all the quotations given.}} | ||
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|C. Carter Blake.}} | |||
79, Chancery Lane, W.C., March 20th, 1880. | |||
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... | Sir,—Three subjects are prominently before us now upon which it would be well to have a general expression of opinion from your readers; they are Mysticism, Will-Power, and Sexualism. | ||
Mysticism seems to have been the great weakness of mankind from the earliest times, and even to-day how prone we all are to have a secret. What an important part the “Mystery man” plays amongst aboriginal races, and with what bated breath the mystery writers tell us of the mysteries of the Egyptians. The secret of the Rosicrucians, and of the wonderful meanings underlying the signs of the Zodiac. When we come however to examine them in the daylight of reason and science we find, as Thackeray found on taking off King George’s last waistcoat, “nothing.” | |||
''The Spiritualist'' has always set its face against this mystery-mongering and endeavoured to set what facts it has before us in a scientific and intelligible manner; it is time therefore that this bugbear of humanity, this Mumbo Jumbo business were relegated to the limbo of “old Bogey” for ever. I do not mean any alliteration when I say that this mystery is a ''mist'' which must be dispelled. What we want is not so much “more light” but “less mist,” and I would ask any man who has dabbled in this mystery business, either as an Astrologer, Freemason, Theosophist, or any other form of it, to say candidly is it worth one pinch of snuff as a matter of useful knowledge? | |||
Will-Power: This is comparatively a more modern invention, and taken in a qualifying sense such as determination, persistence, never-say-die meaning is right enough; but when we are told of the things done by Yogees and Fakirs the question naturally arises, supposing it to be so, of what practical use is the power to cut oneself to pieces and put oneself together again? To do this requires according to their own shewing, a long course of training, takes the individual from the field of earthly labour, for which it incapacitates him, and absorbs his faculties from his earth-life duties. | |||
Sexualism: A tirade against the so-called “animal” man is fashionable just now. We are told to crucify the sexual instinct, that spirituality can only be attained thereby, and that the virgin and celibate only can attain to the higher beatitudes. According to this doctrine the present creation is a mistake. It is reported of Philip of Spain that upon one occasion he remarked that “if the world were to be created again he could suggest some very valuable improvements.” Had he been a Theosophist he would probably have made us hermaphrodites, or bi-sexed like the snails, and thus have saved a double creation, as well in the interest of the economies of nature as of the welfare of our souls. | |||
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London, March 19th, 1880. | |||
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