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{{Style P-No indent|the ''Daily News'' publishes on the Psychical Research Society. The Proceedings of that body would seem to have found their way into the editorial hands, and to have been assigned to someone whose ignorance of the whole matter is apparent throughout his article, with instructions to be funny at its expense. The fun is dreary enough, and the article falls very decidedly under the President’s class of “uninstructive contempt.” “The unbelievers say that given two psychical researchers, a large family circle, and a little girl, and granting that the little girl reads the thoughts of all, then collusion is a more acceptable hypothesis than the presence of some unrecognised mode of perception.” The writer surely cannot have read the elaborate experiments recorded in the Proceedings. If he has, some sterner criticism is his due than that of mere carelessness. But given a leader-writer, with a little knowledge, and “a largest circulation,” and granting that his little knowledge is to be aired in dire fear of the great god Circulation, before which he bows, and who knows what stuff may come of it? It is by such utterances, respecting which it is not too much to say that they are by no means creditable to writer or journal, that the public is led to form its idea of these obscure matters. A few flippant sentences, a little airy sneer, and the scribe trips off—to return, perhaps, to deal in similarly exhaustive and accurate fashion with the future of Egypt, or the origin of life, the nature of comets, or the prospects of the discovery of a big gooseberry next spring. Such is penny journalism!}} | |||
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The latest of the Leake Bijou reprints is entitled “Christ and Buddha Contrasted.” It is extracted from a larger work by an Oriental, who has visited Europe. If any one desires to see himself as this other Oriental sees him, he will find a possibly instructive, probably one-sided, and certainly plain-spoken expression of opinion in this little book. I may as well say at once that it is not complimentary, and the writer has in many cases signally failed to do justice to Christianity, chiefly because he has, almost of necessity, taken a superficial view of its teachings. The parallel made out between the sacred books of the two faiths might be greatly extended, but it is sufficiently elaborated to attract merited attention. The parallelism in the events of the lives of Gotama, Chrishtna, and Jesus are many:— | |||
{{Style P-Quote|Jesus Christ’s mother was a virgin wife, like ''Gotama’s''. | |||
Her name Mary, like ''Maya''. | |||
Announced by angels, like ''Gotama''. | |||
Conception by the ''Holy Spirit'', like ''Gotama’s''. | |||
Received by an old ''Saint'', like ''Gotama''. | |||
Endowed with prophetic vision, like ''Gotama''. | |||
Presented in a ''temple'', like ''Gotama''. | |||
Great men brought gifts, like ''Gotama''. | |||
The great angel said, “Happy art thou, oh Queen! for blessed is the fruit of thy womb!” like ''Gotama''. | |||
Baptised with water and afterwards with fire, like ''Gotama''. | |||
Murder of the new-born children, like ''Jesu Chrishtna''. | |||
Miraculous flight or escape, like ''Jesu Chrishtna''. | |||
A ''Carpenter'' for a time, like ''Gotama''. | |||
Theological dispute with learned doctors, like ''Gotama''. | |||
''Temptation'', like ''Gotama''. | |||
Seven weeks’ fast, like ''Gotama''. | |||
''Thirty years old'' before he began to preach, like ''Gotama''. | |||
''Miraculous draughts'' of fishes, like ''Chrishtna''. | |||
Friend of ''Publicans and Sinners'', like ''Gotama''. | |||
''Sermon on the Mount'', like ''Gotama''. | |||
''Transfigured'' on a mount, like ''Gotama''. | |||
''Blessed'' those who struck him, like ''Gotama''. | |||
Became a ''Mendicant'', like ''Gotama''. | |||
Had a ''struggle'' with the ''devil'', like ''Gotama''. | |||
Never wrote anything, like ''Gotama''. | |||
''Hangs'' dead on a ''tree'', like ''Jesu Chrishtna''. | |||
Descends to hell, and rises to heaven, like ''Gotama''.}} | |||
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''The Christian Herald and Sign of Our Times'' (rightly named—it is a sign of the times) gives an extraordinary account of Christopher Blumhart, founder of the German faith-healing homes. He used the apostolic “prayer of faith” alone, and, if the reports can be relied on, worked some marvellous cures. There are, it seems, some houses of healing in London, the chief one at 6, The Terrace, Green Lanes, N. conducted by Dr. Boardman. It is vain to quote any of the cases recorded. The record is loose, and the critic is met with the same difficulty that he finds in dealing with all—or almost all—cases of alleged healing. There is no exact scientific description either of the symptoms that demonstrate the presence of the disease, or of the permanence of the cure said to be effected. But, with all limitations, Blumhart’s life work was one of beneficence. | |||
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{{Style P-Quote|1=“In a short time several claimants will arise to the throne of Jerusalem. Anti-Christ the Sultan (!) will support one of them. . . . In a short time all the nations of the earth will be in trouble. . . . A sharp winter shall end the year. The spring shall be sickly. . . . Israel in England and America is fruitful in saints of the Lord. In England the Jewish religion shall prevail. . . . Not one ignorant man or woman will be found on the earth. . . . One universal language will prevail (English). . . . Simplicity of living will always characterise the best society in the new earth.”}} | |||
These anticipations of the good time coming are not culled from the pages of Zadkiel, nor are the excerpts from “The Great Tribulation,” which the late Dr. Cumming arranged for us. They are scattered up and down in the first few pages of what is described as a “Spiritual Essay,” and is called “The New Earth.” According to the writer, who seems to know all about it, that new earth which is to replace this effete old planet will be a highly uncomfortable place to live in. It is distressing to read that “when children have attained the age of twelve years they will be obliged to go through an examination of their knowledge. If it is not satisfactory, they will be relegated to the care of teachers for another period of time.” Plucking children of twelve! and in the millennium too! No; surely there will be an Act to apply to such cruelty to animals. | |||
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“Ingersollism or Christianity” is a camp-meeting discourse by our friend Dr. Peebles. It is published by Plato and Peebles—(has the Pilgrim gone into partnership with a materialisation? He is quite capable of it, or of anything that will advance the cause for which he labours)—and is a strong assault upon the position of the sceptic, and a somewhat successful defence of the Christianity of the New Testament as understood by the writer. Truth to tell, the position of Ingersoll which Peebles describes as “I don’t know,” is a very strong one, for when the total of human knowledge is summed up, it does not amount to much, while the Agnostic would require much time and space to formulate all his “I don’t knows.” How should it be otherwise, being what we are, and living in a world of mystery? | |||
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| source details = October 21, 1882 | | source details = v. 2, No. 94, October 21, 1882 | ||
| publication date = 1882-10-21 | | publication date = 1882-10-21 | ||
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<center>''To the Editor of'' “{{Style S-Small capitals|Light.}}”</center> | |||
{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir,}}—The difficulties acknowledged by your correspondent “Trident” are due to his lack of knowledge—experimental or other—of the nature and method of spirit, and consequently of the constitution of man. To expound these in your columns would be both impossible and superfluous; impossible on account of the space requisite, and superfluous because already done in the work cited by me in my last letter, and since largely alluded to in your paper—viz., “The Perfect Way.” Of this book I can speak with confidence, since only by the statements in it have I been enabled to resolve the numerous perplexing problems of my own experience; and this in a manner so full and satisfactory as to leave nothing to be desired. And I can accordingly re-echo the surprise implied in Madame de Steiger’s letter, at the continuance in your columns of controversy on subjects already cleared up in that work. For it seems to shew that too many Spiritualists are more eager to write than to read, to teach than to learn. | |||
To “Trident’s” question, “How many of our past selves are in existence?” “The Perfect Way,” replies, “A single ''Neschamah''” (or ''anima divina''—the past of the man which becomes re-incarnate) “may have as many of these former selves in the astral light as a man may have changes of raiment.” And the reason why “the (interior and higher) spheres of our own systems are not ordinarily accessible to us,” is that we are accustomed to live so much in the outer and lower as to incapacitate ourselves for the requisite aspiration; or, in biblical language, because “our conversation is not in heaven”—the celestial kingdom within us—but on earth, the bodily and material part. In my last I commended to “Trident” and others the first part of the third appendix, as containing an invaluable instruction concerning Inspiration. I will now commend also the second appendix, and the second, third, and sixth lectures, as containing, for a mind at once percipient and teachable, all that can be desired on these and the other allied topics referred to by “Trident.” | |||
To his concluding question, however, I must confess myself unable to reply, inasmuch as I have not the pleasure of his personal acquaintance, and he has not accompanied his signature by his photograph. I gather, however, from this question and his general vivacity of tone, that he has not yet succeeded in bringing to the study of things Spiritual and Divine that serious and earnest frame of mind to which alone the understanding of them is possible.—Yours, &c., <span style="float:right;">{{Style S-Small capitals|Cantab.}}</span> | |||
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