Legend
<Untitled> (The pusillanimity of the men)
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<Untitled> (Another Batch of Facts)
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... that trial.<*>
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Did you have the best of them this time, O, manure, of the odoriferous “Angel World” on sweet mediumistic dung?.. I think not... Try again.
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Dr. Bloede, D.D.Home, Madame Blavatsky, and Col. Olcott
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Soul not Spirit
Says a correspondent of the London Spiritualist, “In my view, the use of the word ‘spirit’ to designate the spirit body is erroneous. In scriptual psychology, and in that of the Greek fathers, the spirit-body is termed the soul (psyche anima, and perhaps nephesh). Justin Martyr says: ’The body is the house of the soul, and the soul is the house of the spirit.’ St. Paul says: ‘I pray God your whole spirit, and soul, and body may be preserved blameless.' That ‘by virtue of the possession of which man is immortal’ should properly, I think, be termed spirit (pneuma, sfiritus, and perhaps, ruach) The question may be merely one of the correct, or conventional, use of terms. In the dichotomy of the Latin fathers, which, until comparatively recently, prevailed in the modern churches, the word soul seems to include both the pneuma and the psyche; and the proper distinction between spirit and soul has been very generally lost sight of. We talk of seeing ‘spirits’ in the same way as we speak of so many ‘souls’ perishing at sea, or elsewhere. What the clairvoyant medium sees are spirit-bodies, or souls; and what perish at sea are bodies.”
# His “Spirit guides” have you see ordered him to real the memory of a poor, honest died man who can not defend himself!! What kind of “Spirits” must they be!
Editor's notes
Sources
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Spiritual Scientist, v. 3, No. 26, March 2, 1876, p. 303