The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-25
close the eyes OF those we love In the last Sleep
we bid them farewell, foreveri M. A. G..
Man Mortal-Immortality Only Through
! Christ.


would admit OF It, should Ia the beginning Of this
article petake myself to the pleasant duty Of thank
ing you for the gracious privilege OF giving to the
world the truths have been trying humbly to de-
fend; and those who have from time to time thrown
themselves within the breach and in helping me
have also indicated the true doctrine Of the NOR
tally OF man against the rampant but harmless as
saults OF orthodoxy But here 1t is out OF place.
have been frequently assaied with the charge OF
inconsistency In believing the Bible and denying
the immortality Of the soul but all Of my
have signally failed to show the point wherein
the inconsistency lies. On the other hand, the
Bible, which is given to us to show us the way Of
salvation, which Is the way OF life, becomes clothed
with greater beauty and q greater glory when
considered in Its efficacy as being able to bestow
eternal lie upon beings who In every particular
subject to death and decay In the most absolute
sense OF tho terms.
The great desideratum in the purview OF mans
existence Is life-with life there is hope, at least
II not happiness. In death there is despair and
oblivion. The loss OF life is apparently mans great
est afflIction the enjoyment OF life his greatest
blessing. In the good book which has been given
his mortality, and promised on certain
conditions the GIT Of immortal existence;
loses its charm its declarations become meaDpg
less and at variance with all the phenomena or
nature; and the Bible as whole, tissue OF false.
hoods and absurdities. It seems to me only to re-
quire little divesting Of old prejudces, and the
exercising OF little reason and common sense, to
be able to see the force OF this plain statement. II
1t be true that man Is inherently immortal, and
must and will live forever, what use is there Of the
plan Of salvation, the resurrection from the dead
AMI OF what utility Is the whole scheme of the re-
demptiOn OF our racer
Again, part of infnity is equal to the whole
IN Of Being wh the
were free from Its earthly thraldom 1t would
leap into perfect equality with Divinity
the popular theory, then, living, we are men |;
dying, we become gods Such, have before said
was the superstiious belief OF the anti Christian
honest mind that investigates and assumes as true
the principles OF the prevailing Christian faith. II
this philosophy OF the Greeks had never become an
appendage OF the Christian Church in the days OF
its spiritual darkness the idea of PurgatOry would
Jesus; and if men and women Of q later period In
the history OF the world had not suffered
to be led By despOo priests
Spirituasm would never have become an
attache Of Christianity. For once assume the i'm
mortality of the human soul, and ten thousand
wd and baseless theories founded only in the fruit
ful imaginatons OF the visionary, start into life.
Men in the hallucinatlons Of their morbid lancies,
cease to deal with things they are, and walk the
earth with their heads In the clouds. Restless
ghosts haunt the quiet dwelling places Of sleeping
hideous with the appearance OF their rightful ap.
partitions ClairvOyants, like heartess vampires,
invest tue aDOQeS OF the ignorant anu prey unner.
cifuy upon the fruits OF their hard-earned toll.
Communicating mediums throw out their busi-
ness cards with impunity among the credulons
harvest from their work OF deception and
fraud. Taken In its best and purest form,
height Of attained to by the
heather fathers OF our ancient literature, from
which the world relapsed into still grosser cOndi
ton OF confirmed and hopeless superstition but
'.the times of such ignorance God now winks at"
The whole mystery OF our being having displayed
now becoming unravelled, and old ideas and Old
theories are topping to their fall. Are we so
blinded by the prejudices Of education or 80
OigOted In the pride and arrogance OF our hearts
that we will not heed the light OF truth A base
less fabric is our boosted civilization, reeking
sacriege our canting religion, II built upon a
foundation so treacherOus and q faith 80 untrue.
CATO.
spiritualism, True and False, Good and
EVIL.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Your correspondents jerome R0ss" and "Bi-
BILE Spiritualist " both have admitted, In your col
umns, that there are two kinds Of spirtuaism; the
one good and true, the other evil and false.
In the First Epistle OF John we are directed to
&C. believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God ;" and the following II the
criterion -" Hereby know ye the spirit Of God ;
every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ Is
come In the flesh is Of God;" and we are told that
every spirit that confesseth not this doctrine IL
not Of Coo. And in First Timothy we read -" That
in the latter times some shall depart from the
faith giving heed to seducing spirits and
doctrines OF devils" The divinely commissioned
seer for the New Jerusalem dispensation, which is
now being established on earth, Emmanuel Sweden.
| borg, assures US from actual observation in the
| spiritual world, and from most intimate knOwl.
edge Of the laws OF that world and OF spiritual In
tercourse with and influx into this world, that to
speak with angels OF heaven granted to none but
such grounded in truths originating In good,
especially In the acknowledgment OF the Lord and
OF the divinity in His humanity; this being the
truth in which the heavens established. For the
Lord Is the God Of heaven the Lords divine sphere
constitutes heaven, and the Lords divine sphere In
heaven Is love to Him and charity towards the
neighbor derived from Him." Swedenborg found
in the spiritual world, and described carefully
three heavens, all the Inhabitants Of which &C
knowledged the Lord Jesus Christ as God, the
sacred Scriptures as revelations from Cod and
were actuated in all they did and said by either
love to the Lord, charity to the neighbOr or love
OF obedience to the Divine commandments. He
also found three other societies opposite the
| heavens. which he denOminates hell, all the In
habitants OF which deny the divinity Of the Lord
Jesus Christ. deny that the sacred Scriptures are
the Word OF GOD, and are actuated in all that they
do by some form OF selfshness. He found inter-
mediate between heaven and hell what he calls the
world OF spirits, which is the common receptacle
for all men when they leave this world, where their
ruling loves are developed and they are prepared
to enter either heaven or hell. He assures us that
the world OF spirits Is like this world, from which IL
Is constantly pe0ped to great extent filled with
lying and deceiving Inhabitants or spirits, who
deny the Lord the necessity for regeneration and
heavenly truths. Unless guided and protected by
the Lord and His angels for q special purpose
man In open intercourse simply comes IN
contact with his associate spirits, or those
like himself, In a similar faith and life; c0nse-
quently, when man Is believing false doctrines,
II he has intercourse with spirits, he necessarily
comes In contact with evil spirits Therefore, says
Swedenborg, Ito speak with spirits Is at this day
spirits then know that they present with man.
which otherwise they do not and evil spirits Of
such q nature that they regard man with deadly
hatred and desire nothing more than 10 destroy
him." Especially do they strive to destroy all
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