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... | Sir,—Pray give me a little space in which to request Mr. Campbell to explain what he means by his strange allusion to Allan Kardec in his paragraph marked “6” on page 285 of the current number of your paper, which has just reached me. | ||
Allan Kardec was educated at a Pestalozzian Institute in Switzerland; while still a mere youth, he studied the New Testament carefully for himself and thus arrived at a belief identical with that of the Unitarians; he never entered any church or chapel and had no dealings with priests or parsons of any denomination. According to the directions contained in his will, his remains received “civil burial,” that is to say, they were buried by his friends, without the presence of any minister of any denomination whatever. | |||
Perhaps the printers have left out a comma after the words “her own angels,” or have omitted brackets that should have made a parenthesis of the thirteen following words. I am unwilling to suppose that at this time of day, any writer on the great movement of our age could be guilty of misrepresentation so utterly preposterous as the insinuation which appears to be implied by the latter part of the paragraph in question. | |||
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... | Sir,—All who have had experience in Spiritualism allow that while there are certain phenomena which occur spontaneously, there are others equally wonderful, which are evoked through the agency of mediums. And it appears that the more fully developed the medium, the more remarkable the phenomena; also that two or three mediums are proportionately more powerful than one. It is with reference to the last circumstance that I wish to throw out a hint. | ||
If this accumulative power really exists—and all that I have seen or read goes to confirm me in the opinion that it does—it seems to me a matter of regret that some effort should not be made to allow a considerable number, or all of our ablest mediums living in England, to hold a yearly or half‑yearly session, say of a fortnight’s duration. The result of such a sitting, I believe, would be in the highest degree satisfactory, and tend to give unity to the movement which is now wanting. It might also be the means of enlightening us upon many subjects, which we can but suppose spirits are better able to instruct us upon, than we, in the embodied state, to acquire a knowledge of, without their direct aid. I submit that notwithstanding the hundreds of thousands of avowed Spiritualists that we are as far off as ever from possessing a knowledge of soul or spirit force. | |||
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... | An old Scotchwoman was once asked whether she did not think it improbable that all mankind would be damned except herself and her neighbour, Jamie Weaver, who formed between them a select church of their own. “Well,” answered the dame, “I have often had my doots about Jamie Weaver.”—''St. James’s Gazette''. | ||
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Giving up altogether the hopeless endeavour to discover what life is, the truly scientific people of the world have contented themselves with observing the progressive manifestations of its activity. “We can think of life only as the forming power in nature, the power which gives their several shapes to things, or capacities of shape, the power which gives to things their several feelings or capacities of feeling.” As we ascend the scale these workings become more complex, more lovely. The life of a flower is a higher thing than that of a crystal, the life of the petals a higher thing than that of the other leaves, the life of an animal is a higher thing than that of a flower, the life of a man than that of an animal. The life of the part of him that seeks God and interprets in their relations to him the mysteries of lesser being a higher thing than that of the part which merely feeds or desires. | |||
Broadly and practically the line was drawn at the last distinction. Formative and appetitive life below it, grouped under and expressed by one set of words. Intellectual and God-seeking life above it, grouped under and expressed by another set of words. The first you will find invariably associated with the notion of structure of some kind, the second never so associated. | |||
<nowiki>*</nowiki> The lower life was called by the Greeks the life of the ''Psyche'', the higher the life of the ''Nous''. The definitions of each are thus given by Aristotle. “The ''Psyche''” he says, “is the simplest actuality of a physical body which potentially possesses life, that is of an organic body.” | |||
The ''Nous'' alone enters in from without, and is alone divine; realisation of the bodily conditions contributes nothing to the realisation of its existence. | |||
10. When S. Paul—I take him as the representative of New Testament writers—began his Epistles, he found ready to his hand {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|10-406}} | |||
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> Of subdivisions I am here taking no account. | |||
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Allan Kardec
Sir,—Pray give me a little space in which to request Mr. Campbell to explain what he means by his strange allusion to Allan Kardec in his paragraph marked “6” on page 285 of the current number of your paper, which has just reached me.
Allan Kardec was educated at a Pestalozzian Institute in Switzerland; while still a mere youth, he studied the New Testament carefully for himself and thus arrived at a belief identical with that of the Unitarians; he never entered any church or chapel and had no dealings with priests or parsons of any denomination. According to the directions contained in his will, his remains received “civil burial,” that is to say, they were buried by his friends, without the presence of any minister of any denomination whatever.
Perhaps the printers have left out a comma after the words “her own angels,” or have omitted brackets that should have made a parenthesis of the thirteen following words. I am unwilling to suppose that at this time of day, any writer on the great movement of our age could be guilty of misrepresentation so utterly preposterous as the insinuation which appears to be implied by the latter part of the paragraph in question.
Wimille, Pas de Calais.
June 13, 1880.
Accumulated Medial Power
Sir,—All who have had experience in Spiritualism allow that while there are certain phenomena which occur spontaneously, there are others equally wonderful, which are evoked through the agency of mediums. And it appears that the more fully developed the medium, the more remarkable the phenomena; also that two or three mediums are proportionately more powerful than one. It is with reference to the last circumstance that I wish to throw out a hint.
If this accumulative power really exists—and all that I have seen or read goes to confirm me in the opinion that it does—it seems to me a matter of regret that some effort should not be made to allow a considerable number, or all of our ablest mediums living in England, to hold a yearly or half‑yearly session, say of a fortnight’s duration. The result of such a sitting, I believe, would be in the highest degree satisfactory, and tend to give unity to the movement which is now wanting. It might also be the means of enlightening us upon many subjects, which we can but suppose spirits are better able to instruct us upon, than we, in the embodied state, to acquire a knowledge of, without their direct aid. I submit that notwithstanding the hundreds of thousands of avowed Spiritualists that we are as far off as ever from possessing a knowledge of soul or spirit force.
Northampton.
<Untitled> (An old Scotchwoman was once...)
An old Scotchwoman was once asked whether she did not think it improbable that all mankind would be damned except herself and her neighbour, Jamie Weaver, who formed between them a select church of their own. “Well,” answered the dame, “I have often had my doots about Jamie Weaver.”—St. James’s Gazette.
Psychonomy in its Relation to Religion and Ethics
by j. a. campbell, b.a. (cantab.)
Giving up altogether the hopeless endeavour to discover what life is, the truly scientific people of the world have contented themselves with observing the progressive manifestations of its activity. “We can think of life only as the forming power in nature, the power which gives their several shapes to things, or capacities of shape, the power which gives to things their several feelings or capacities of feeling.” As we ascend the scale these workings become more complex, more lovely. The life of a flower is a higher thing than that of a crystal, the life of the petals a higher thing than that of the other leaves, the life of an animal is a higher thing than that of a flower, the life of a man than that of an animal. The life of the part of him that seeks God and interprets in their relations to him the mysteries of lesser being a higher thing than that of the part which merely feeds or desires.
Broadly and practically the line was drawn at the last distinction. Formative and appetitive life below it, grouped under and expressed by one set of words. Intellectual and God-seeking life above it, grouped under and expressed by another set of words. The first you will find invariably associated with the notion of structure of some kind, the second never so associated.
* The lower life was called by the Greeks the life of the Psyche, the higher the life of the Nous. The definitions of each are thus given by Aristotle. “The Psyche” he says, “is the simplest actuality of a physical body which potentially possesses life, that is of an organic body.”
The Nous alone enters in from without, and is alone divine; realisation of the bodily conditions contributes nothing to the realisation of its existence.
10. When S. Paul—I take him as the representative of New Testament writers—began his Epistles, he found ready to his hand <... continues on page 10-406 >
}} * Of subdivisions I am here taking no account.
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Editor's notes
- ↑ Allan Kardec by Blackwell, Anna, London Spiritualist, No. 410, July 2, 1880, pp. 5-6
- ↑ Accumulated Medial Power by I.P., London Spiritualist, No. 407, June 11, 1880, p. 287
- ↑ An old Scotchwoman was once... by unknown author, London Spiritualist, No. 407, June 11, 1880, p. 287
- ↑ Psychonomy in its Relation to Religion and Ethics by Campbell, J.A., London Spiritualist, No. 408, June 18, 1880, pp. 289-92
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London Spiritualist, No. 410, July 2, 1880, pp. 5-6
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London Spiritualist, No. 407, June 11, 1880, p. 287
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London Spiritualist, No. 408, June 18, 1880, pp. 289-92