“PRIMARY AND ADVANCED THOUGHT.”

Evening Star, Issue 19665, 19 September 1927, Page 3

“PRIMARY AND ADVANCED THOUGHT.”

TO THE EDITOP, Sir,—Dr Pettit bitterly, resents the advent of tho new Revelation, which for deeper understanding be terms “ modern thought,” yet how dare he tamper with the purpose of the Creator? The Bible may well contain the word of God; but it is His word directed to a primitive people administered in a measure adaptable to this assimilation. It is a direct insult to God’s work to place our powers at the level of tlm halNwild herdsmen and priests (offering their children as blood sacrifice) of the times of the Old Testament writings. Since we have evolved so has the spiritual foods, tasteful enough to the dawn age, then become not alone insipid, but so repulsive that we balk at it. The clergy do not so believe, but then they preach death and sin and fleshly resurrection to empty churches. God, the All-Father, pours at our feet a new revelation of glorious light, and such as heed His voice from them drops for ever that black mantle death, that barbarous lie that has too long held sway over us, ruling out the love of God, for God and death cannot exist both in our hearts; one must go. The Christian, has surely cast away the Deity he so urgently calls upon. Those who have laid aside the body tell to me who receive them (Christ so spoke with Moses) of the wonderful life that unfolds to the liberated soul,, of the glorious realms of the astral high-

lands to wlijcli we shall by love and service come at last. To those who have cast aside the flesh there can be no odious resurrection, since there has been no death, only glorification, such as Christ the Man spoke of. The Christie n table shows itself in comparison to this great truth a poor fable, black and evil, an insult to the economy of God, who created us for a full life. Dr Pettit takes with his colleagues a morbid pleasure in picturing Christ the broken sacrifice for some supposed fall. Surely a strange God that ( would extract punishment from one Son so lotty as Christ for the sin enjoyed by a less worthy son! Again, Christ spoke truth. Did He not tell us that flesh and blood should not inherit the Kingdom? Then why does Dr Pettit complain that men deny the fable of his body resurrection? Surely the old Christian walks over traps and pits. Christ was mortal, not less nor more; in that very mortality lies his value, for how could one being the especial son, virgin born, be of any value as an example? No, Ho must be as we or not at all. As we see Him he studs at a frontier to which we yet must strive, to which we yet shall reach, but only through that very understanding Dr Pettit denies.--] am, etc., G. Masox. September 19.