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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued |Religious Hostility to Spiritualism|10-352}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued |Religious Hostility to Spiritualism|10-352}} | ||
... | {{Style P-No indent|great deal of anti-Christian sentiment among Spiritualists is not the result of Spiritualistic teachings, but arises simply from the fact that Spiritualism is chiefly concerned in restoring the belief in soul to people who had lost that belief along with a prior rejection of Christianity. It cannot do more for them, and the emancipated intellect does not always return to the totality of a discarded faith on discovering that its negations have gone too far. Free thought is not the offspring of Spiritualism, though free-thinkers, being more deeply obliged to Spiritualism for its proofs, are likely always to figure more conspicuously in its ranks. Thus their opinions seem to give a tone to the movement which is not its essential significance. If orthodox Christianity is on the decline, as I believe it is, that is due to intellectual causes with which Spiritualism has no connexion. Our battle is against materialism, and materialism only. Other associations in sympathy with Spiritualism on this essential point, have other and further reaching aims, but these are not now in question. If the orthodox choose, as it seems they do, to join their forces with materialists in reviling the only agency that can deal effectually with the latter, that is their affair. But it is desirable that they should not do so under any excusable misapprehension of our pretensions or character.}} | ||
Temple, 10th May. | |||
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