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Plain Guide to Spiritualism; A Handbook for Skeptics, Inquirers, Clergymen, Believers, Lecturers

Plain Guide to Spiritualism; A Handbook for Skeptics, Inquirers, Clergymen, Believers, Lecturers

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General United States History

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ISBN10: 1151240737
ISBN13: 9781151240736
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.42 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...and men and women be trusted as brothers and sisters, regardless of the, sham and heartless conventionalities enslaving popular society, and without being exposed to the corrupt and suspicious slanders now so rife against Spiritualists. But let none seek to pervert fraternal love into mere lust. The love we owe all our brothers and sisters is neither sexual nor conjugal, and whoever attempts to play the libertine beneath its mantle will finally become unmasked. The love seeking its ideal companion is special, central and eternal. The beloved one becomes an embodiment of the most perfect conception of earthly and heavenly attractions. All that is lovely, beautiful, adorable and divine, is centred there jas the star of duty and destiny. God is incarnate as another Emmanuel in the form, the soul, and heart of the beloved, and we worship in beams of beauty, holiness and bliss, bathing the entire being with transfigured beatitude, and peopling all the universe with scenes and images of seraphic glory. Oh, holy, holy is the altar on which the harmonic man and woman kneel and plight the love of God and eternity! And happy are they whose affectional natures have found their congenial mates for time and forever! But though time bring not the meet companion of your souls, O ye unloved, know ye there is another land where freed spirits shall walk no more entrammelled by the false and fleeting, and the beloved ones wait to crown you home with the bridal chaplets of everlasting love. Objection 6. It is objected that Spiritualism leads to insanity. Answer. There are individuals whose organizations predispose them to insanity on whatever subject comes uppermost while they are in certain states of body and mind. Persons have gone mad on money, lands, houses, love, law, rel...

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