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| source details = | | source details = No. 284, February 1, 1878, pp. 59-60 | ||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}},—In the present divided state of opinion among Spiritualists, perhaps few more useful services can be rendered than a critical dissection of the evidence published from time to time in your columns of spirit presence or identity. In a large proportion of these accounts I have noticed, when they are given with proper detail, some ''outre ''or perplexing circumstance. Such features are overlooked on a cursory perusal by minds whose suspicions are not already aroused, and the possible significance of them is lost, notwithstanding the conscientious fidelity to fact which their recital evidences on the part of the narrator. A fortnight ago I called attention to a very instructive case communicated by Mr. Carson, who put it forward expressly as a test case, demonstrative of the presence of a particular spirit; whereas it seemed to me, for reasons derived from Mr. Carson’s own narrative, to be especially instructive, from the very opposite point of view. Now let me shortly advert to the letter of “X” in your number this week. (1) The original communication about the infected and cursed lounge was “some months since.” The spirit is supposed to have identified itself “to-day, while reading of the death of a dear old friend” (Dr. Carrol Dunham, of New York, presumably, from the context, though not especially said to be, the spirit in question). ''When ''was the death? Apparently “X” was reading the news of it some months after the spirit communication; and the inference is that the death itself was more recent than the latter. In that case either Dr. Dunham was alive in the flesh when his spirit gave the warning “some months since,” or the implied claim “to-day” on the part of the voice that it came from Dr. Dunham’s spirit was false, or Dr. Dunham’s spirit was deceiving “X” as to its identity with the spirit communicating some months since. (2) “X” not unnaturally reproached the spirit of “some months since” with not giving him, earlier information of the danger. Did man or spirit ever make a more absurd reply? “As a rule we are not allowed to interfere with your reason and intelligence, &c.,” this reply coming upon, and connecting itself with, the previous reproach of the spirit, at the outset of the conversation, that “X” had exercised “so little judgment” (in this matter of sitting on the lounge), “when G-od had given him reason to guide him.” How on earth was “X” to have exercised “judgment” in reference to a fact of which he was utterly ignorant? Truly we Spiritualists are indulgent to spirits in the matter of logic and common sense; for if “X” had been thus reproached by a friend in the flesh, who had also thus excused himself for past neglect, he would both have remonstrated at the approach, and would have failed to recognize the sufficiency of the excuse. It is no part of my present plan to propound or insist upon alternative theories, but solely to call attention to perplexing and suggestive inconsistencies with the belief of popular Spiritualism. | ||
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|C. C. Massey.}} | |||
Temple, January 25th, 1877. | |||
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We have received a long communication from Madame Blavatsky | {{Style S-Small capitals|We}} have received a long communication from Madame Blavatsky, of New York, upon Theosophy, but are obliged, for want of room, to delay its publication fill next week, in common with many other contributions of interest, to the extent of ten or twelve columns. | ||
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On Monday evening, | {{Style S-Small capitals|On}} Monday evening, 4th inst., Miss Kislingbury will open a debate, before the Dalston Association of Inquirers into Spiritualism, on Col. Olcott’s letter to ''The Spiritualist, ''on “The Views of Theosophists.” | ||
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london_spiritualist_n.284_1878-02-01.pdf|page=13|London Spiritualist, No. 284, February 1, 1878, pp. 59-60 | |||
london_spiritualist_n.284_1878-02-01.pdf|page=5|London Spiritualist, No. 284, February 1, 1878, p. 51 | |||
london_spiritualist_n.284_1878-02-01.pdf|page=4|London Spiritualist, No. 284, February 1, 1878, p. 50 | |||
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