SPIRITUALISM.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3697, 30 October 1880, Page 3

SPIRITUALISM.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Bib,- —There is a common notion gone forth that Spiritualism is <i sort of uonjuving or clever legerdemain tricki but they (the Spiritualists) clnim that it, is bused upon the most profound philosophy, and they fearlessly invite the strictest, investigation. They go ' with the scientific as far as they can go, to what they call the unknown, and thro they take them forward into a world of grandeur and beaut? they never dreamt of. Tliere.l cause of things as seen is far back out of sight; that which is seen is temporal, but that which is not seen is eternal. The cause of all forms is the same, whether vegetable, animal, or human. The form does, not exist first, and then life, but it is the life that produces the outward form, and this outward world is the product. of an invisible cause. The Spiritualists assert they have such a cle«r insight into this, and which is.tl«e key that unlocks the door of mystery. I will give you an outline of creation as given by Andrew Jackson Davis, the,great American seer, while in a trance: a roan who had no education, and had not studied any of the sciences. He says, while in a clairvoyant state, that God, matter, and motion are co-eternal; that the great positive cause operated upon matter, aad caused the, motion, the one being positive and the other negative. The matter first «^xisted in one large ball of fire, which might be called infinite; and which reached back into eternity, and cannot be calculated by time. The positive and negative forces made this immense ball go round, and in revolving round it threw off six cantral suns, and each one of those suns in revolving round threw off thou-. sands of suns, and each one of these suns threw off the planets or worlds; those again in revolving round "threw off the moons or satellites. Our suns belong to the fifth system of iuns, and as the moons revolve round the planets or worlds, so the planets revolve round the subs, and the system of suns revolve round the central suns, and the whole of those; systems, with their dependents, have one grand motion, around the first great grand central that produced alt the rest. This is the way that the infinite positive spirit eauied all to exist as it is. God employed motion to produce vegetable life; then vegetable to produce animal; and then again animal to produce man ; and instead of God making man in one day, it took Him millions of years before He could make him. This was His great work—His. masterpiece—when He'produced this wonderful being man.—l am, Ac, ; . J. Hobnv-