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The Spiritual Scientist, the most courteous of my critics, enters more fully upon the merits of my “Cautions." To the main objection raised by the Scientist against my denunciations of the Jesuitical origin of the announced “Magic Art,” I will briefly reply. When the Scientist says: | The Spiritual Scientist, the most courteous of my critics, enters more fully upon the merits of my “Cautions." To the main objection raised by the Scientist against my denunciations of the Jesuitical origin of the announced “Magic Art,” I will briefly reply. When the Scientist says: | ||
“If the forthcoming work was destined to accomplish what the learned Dr. Bloede seems to fear it will, money in any quantity would be at hand, and not only five hundred, but five hundred thousand copies would be printed, and everv Spiritualist would find one under his nose. No! no! When Jesuitism strikes at Spiritualism it deals a powerful blow” | {{Style P-Quote|“If the forthcoming work was destined to accomplish what the learned Dr. Bloede seems to fear it will, money in any quantity would be at hand, and not only five hundred, but five hundred thousand copies would be printed, and everv Spiritualist would find one under his nose. No! no! When Jesuitism strikes at Spiritualism it deals a powerful blow”}} | ||
the Scientist entirely misunderstands Jesuitism. This scarcely ever deals “powerful blows," that is ''open'' ones, and never where it feels itself to be in the minority. The nature of this dangerous foe of mankind is to be ''sly'' and ''slow;'' it acts in a covert and stealthy way its principal stratagem is that of gradually but persistently and surely undermining the foothold of Its adversary. It does not go at him in a straightforward, but in a crooked line, like the formidable weapon of the New Zealand savages, the boomerang. One of its most used and efficient means is to sow distension in the ranks of its opponents. Does not the Scientist see that it would suit such a policy very poorly to publish a work like the forthcoming in five hundred thousand copies? —a work which is ''not ''intended to enlighten the masses, but to establish a ''privileged caste, an esoteric clique, a ring of knowing ones,'' and thus, by separating and alienating the ''leaders'' from the ''masses'' cause a split in American Spiritualism. — ''Dr. G. Bloede in the Banner.'' | the Scientist entirely misunderstands Jesuitism. This scarcely ever deals “powerful blows," that is ''open'' ones, and never where it feels itself to be in the minority. The nature of this dangerous foe of mankind is to be ''sly'' and ''slow;'' it acts in a covert and stealthy way its principal stratagem is that of gradually but persistently and surely undermining the foothold of Its adversary. It does not go at him in a straightforward, but in a crooked line, like the formidable weapon of the New Zealand savages, the boomerang. One of its most used and efficient means is to sow distension in the ranks of its opponents. Does not the Scientist see that it would suit such a policy very poorly to publish a work like the forthcoming in five hundred thousand copies? —a work which is ''not ''intended to enlighten the masses, but to establish a ''privileged caste, an esoteric clique, a ring of knowing ones,'' and thus, by separating and alienating the ''leaders'' from the ''masses'' cause a split in American Spiritualism. — ''Dr. G. Bloede in the Banner.'' | ||