A Temple of Love and Light

Our Minister: Renee

Twentieth Century Bible

     By Robert Addison Dague

Pages 46-51

     The Old Testament Scriptures are literally filled with accounts of departed spirits communicating with those in the flesh. Abraham, Moses, Isaac, Jacob, Daniel, Solomon, Elijah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Elisha, Jesus, Paul, John, Peter, and all the prophets, and the twelve disciples, where mediums and Spiritualists. All down the ages, in both Christian and so-called pagan countries, seers (mediums) have been inspired by disembodied intelligences to keep alive the faith of humans that there is life after death. Were it not for that truth, humanity might have degenerated into atheism and materialism. Confucius, the great Chinese prophet, was a medium, so was Buddha. Socrates, the great Athens philosopher, who lived five hundred years before Jesus, conversed daily with his spirit guides. He is still regarded as one of the wisest philosophers the world ever saw. 

     Spiritualism has always taught the true doctrines. It was the religion of all the prophets and seers before Jesus was born. His birth was announced by a company of angels (spirits). He conversed daily with spirits. When he began his ministry, he selected twelve disciples, every one of whom was a clairvoyant or possessed mediumistic power. Often when the disciples were met together, spirit phenomena occurred. When Paul and Silas were confined in jail, the prison doors were unlocked by spirits and the prisoners walked out. It is a historical fact that for three hundred years the early Christians often held séances and received spirit messages. . . .

     Spiritualists do not deny that the Christian Bible contains inspiration. They do insist, however, that it was not all inspired, nor is it infallible. Spiritualists say that if you take out of the Bible its Spiritualism, but little of value will be left .

     When our clerical critics assail Spiritualism they are assaulting all the great and good seers and prophets not only of the Bible, but of all the ages. Spiritualists admit that ignorant spirits can sometimes obsess mediums, and communicate, as well as the good. Jesus well understood that, for he conversed with them, preached to them, and cast them out of obsessed persons (undeveloped mediums). The Bible says Jesus preached to the spirits in prison (hades), which proves that souls may progress in the Spirit World.

     Spiritualism does not dispute the divinity of Jesus, but does deny his deity, or that he was Almighty God. He made no such claim himself. Spiritualists say he was an inspired man, possessing marvelous psychic powers. He was seer, prophet, healer, and Spiritualist. He often conversed with the spirits of Moses and Elias and others.

     Spiritualism does not deny that there exists mental and moral conditions in this and the next world which may be designated as "heaven" and "hell." They say that there is punishment in the Spirit World, but it is not of a wrathful, vindictive nature, nor endless, but is for educational and reformatory purposes. All souls will progress and become happy some time, but they must gain that happiness=2 0by right thinking and right doing. . . .

     It was a sad day for true Christianity (Spiritualism) when, in the latter part of the third century, Constantine, the bloody, tyrannical Emperor, captured Christianity, made it a state religion, and paganized it. He had most cruelly murdered his wife, put his son and many others to death, and had committed so many atrocious crimes that even the pagan priests condemned him. Then he professed to embrace Christianity. Writers tell us that the spirits of the people whom he had murdered haunted him, and he became furious and determined to put a stop to the séances of the Christians, and to eliminate Spiritualism from the church. He did not wholly succeed in doing that, as many of the church fathers (Catholic) since Constantine's day were clairvoyants, and mediumistic; but that church, becoming rich and powerful, finally forbade consulting the spirits outside of the Catholic Church.

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