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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|Spiritualism in Russia|1-101}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|Spiritualism in Russia|1-101}} | ||
... | {{Style P-No indent|Prof. Boutlerof’s account of personal investigations in Spiritualistic phenomena, was to appear in the next number of the Russian Messenger of Moscow, an official journal; and Prof. N. Wagner, the distinguished zoologist, had sent to the same journal a lengthy notice of Mr. Crooke's experiments and a review of my own work, “People from the Other World.”}} | ||
Our eminent correspondent truthfully adds, in concluding: “We are crossing a real epoch here.” | |||
Yours Respectfully, | |||
{{Style P-Signature in capitals|Henry S. Olcott}} | |||
New York, Dec. 16, 1875. | |||
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The phenomena of Spiritualism are not sufficiently understood to warrant a belief that we are familiar with all the causes at work to produce them; the possibilities of the spirit in the body, are too vast to justify an assumption that it takes no causative part in the manifestations that are now ascribed to an outside force. The latent spiritual faculties, will-ability, the law of influences, the relation between the spirit of man and the spirit that pervades each atom of animal, vegetable, or mineral life, should receive profound investigation. The revelations cannot effect the truth of spirit-communion. | The phenomena of Spiritualism are not sufficiently understood to warrant a belief that we are familiar with all the causes at work to produce them; the possibilities of the spirit in the body, are too vast to justify an assumption that it takes no causative part in the manifestations that are now ascribed to an outside force. The latent spiritual faculties, will-ability, the law of influences, the relation between the spirit of man and the spirit that pervades each atom of animal, vegetable, or mineral life, should receive profound investigation. The revelations cannot effect the truth of spirit-communion. | ||
Future Existence and Spirit-communion are simple facts which cannot be uprooted from the minds of those who have once accepted them. They are truths, and as truths are of the spirit—literally, a part of the spirit that can never be destroyed. It teaches us progression here and hereafter. Shall we then halt and form a line of battle to defend our weapons—future existence and spirit-communion? Rather let us arm with them and press forward, firm in the faith that we possess the power that shall conquer every force that may oppose us, be it the Catholic or Protestant Church, Occultism, Natural Magic, or Elementary Spirits. Every truth is ours, and let us seize upon them whether they be found on heathen or on Christian ground. Clash our truths against the claims of Occultism, or any other “ism,” and we shall | Future Existence and Spirit-communion are simple facts which cannot be uprooted from the minds of those who have once accepted them. They are truths, and as truths are of the spirit—literally, a part of the spirit that can never be destroyed. It teaches us progression here and hereafter. Shall we then halt and form a line of battle to defend our weapons—future existence and spirit-communion? Rather let us arm with them and press forward, firm in the faith that we possess the power that shall conquer every force that may oppose us, be it the Catholic or Protestant Church, Occultism, Natural Magic, or Elementary Spirits. Every truth is ours, and let us seize upon them whether they be found on heathen or on Christian ground. Clash our truths against the claims of Occultism, or any other “ism,” and we shall {{Style S-HPB SB. Continues on|1-103}} | ||
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