SPIRITUALISM.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3708, 12 November 1880, Page 2

SPIRITUALISM.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sis, —The tSpiritaalisf* say that many / ] philosopher* *n»ke a mistake in only studying the external or outward form, and' not trying to find out the invisible toiriciple that caused that which is sesn, for that which produces ill outward things is as much superior as the artist is to his painting, or as the sculptor is to the statute he makes, which is lifeless, and although life like is nothing to the living, breathing man. A tree and an apple upon it is something to study, but nothing compared to the intelligent invisible principle that caused it. A true philosopher goes to first principles; the outward form is only a reflection of the interior principle, and to take the outward form for the thing itself would be as bad to take a landscape painting for the landscape itself or to take the photograph for the person. Yet this is the very mistake made by many who take the outward form for the real thing, when it is only the outward form of. an internal principle, and we Hrightaswell call the picture the man's self, as say that outward forms are the real thing. The outward forms change and pass away, bat the hidden principle is immortal, and can never perish. Our bodies must disappear, but the spirit or soul must continue for ever in existence. For a philosopher not to look deeper behind the form is equal to looking at a reflection, and not looking at the thing reflected. When we see a reflection in a glass or water, that proves that the thing exists for the reflection could not be there otherwise, and your person reflected in the mirror is not you. It is in this way, that all outward forma prove i he existence of hidden principles, and this is the way Spiritualise prove the exigj. tence of eoul or spirit, and it is that . which confirms them that Spiritualisn) is true, and all the phenomenon which are continually witnessed are in strict, accordance with this philosophy. A\V trae philosophy must lead on to the reality of things, and not to be everlastinjrisi<? dwelling upon the externals, the pictuijjp^ or the reflections. When the interior eye is open to scs beyond the shadow, to see the grand and sublime world of realities the effect is transporting. The Spiritualist goes to the spiritual world to find out the. real cause of all things. The external ■; world, and the laws connected with it, are the expressions of the eternal mind. London first existed in thought, and so did the outward world first exist in the eternal mind; and it is our great work on earth to try and learn God's thoughts thus manifested. Fain is attached to the breach of God's physical, moral, and spiritual laws, and by thus doing how 1 could he possibly make His thoughts or mind more plain. Of wbat a mighty architect, what a mighty laborer art tbou 0 God.' O i that we could but realise the thought that thou art our Father, and that we are all brothers and sisters.—l am, &c, J. Hora.