SPIRITUALISM.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3693, 26 October 1880, Page 2

SPIRITUALISM.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib,—My last letter concluded by saying that Spiritualists held that man's only true guide to wisdom and happiness is God's spirit speaking to man's spirit within, and all departing from this guide are punished, not vindictively, but correctively; and according to this, strictly speaking, there is no forgiveness of sins, for when punishment always follows wrong doing, it is not forgiveness. They say that all virtue consists in living in harmony with all God's laws, and all sin consists in breaking this harmony, and living in discord. A drunkard is not in harmony with the physical law of his constitution, coveteousuess and selfishness, is discord or disharmony, loving our neighbour as ourselves makes the interest of the whole our interest, this is harmony^They do not acknowledge an external Saviour, everyone mast save himself or he, will not be saved. The only way for a drunkard to be saved is for him to cease drinking the drioks that make him so, neither God nor Christ can save him in any other way; and so it is with covetousness, revenge* malice, dishonesty, hatred, impurity, selfishness and all other sins. All woo are saved must be so by obeying the voice within or going by the inward light, there is no other salvation. All God's moral and spiritual laws are not arbitray, no man has the power to make them, neither Moses nor Jesus had this power; they might reveal them, but not make them, no more than they could make a law that man shall live without air or food ; and as it is a greater difficulty still for a man to forgive, they might as well say that fire shall not burn. It appears that all learners of SpitituaUsm commence- with forming circles 1, Vand being answered by raps, but those that make fun of it, or those who go.quite sure it is not true, and they have nothing to learn will not learn much. It might look, simple to a looker on to thus learn /the first' rudiments, to commence in such' a very simple 'way;; but does not all knowledge commence in a very simple way. When we learn the twenty-six letters in the £nglish language we do not then know what a world of knowledge is thus opened into by those twenty-six letters. We get to know astronomy, geology, physiology, geography and all other sciences, and so it is with Spiritualism, to learn the first rudiments, we then have\ the key to open the door of the spiritual world, and knowthatourfriends' are alive, that they hav^, power to come, again to this earth, and git Joknow; their mode of Hfe, and what is the best.to t qualifiy for that life. I may. give : yo4 an interesting account of the vanou* mediums they have in 1 another letter.—l am, Ac,

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