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Rh commune together, they are unfit for separate states of existence. This simple truth lays bare the mistake that man dies as matter, but comes to life as Spirit, or God. The so-called dead must reappear to the physical senses, tangibly and materially, or these lower senses can take no cognizance of them.

Absolute Truth only is true; and absolute error is more readily corrected than beliefs that are partly true and partly false.

Spiritualism assigns the dead to a state resembling that of blighted buds; to a poor purgatory, where their chances of improvement narrow into nothing, and they return to the old standpoints of matter. Men are transformed from the spiritual sense of existence, back to its material sense. This is scientifically impossible, since to Spirit there can be no matter.

Jesus said, “He is not dead but sleepeth.” This restored Lazarus, by the understanding that he had never died, not by an admission that he died and was raised again. Had Jesus believed that Lazarus was dead, he would have been standing on the same plane of belief with those who buried the body, instead of resuscitating it.

If you can waken yourself, or others, out of the belief that all must die, you may claim Jesus' spiritual power, to reproduce the presence of those who you say have died, — but not otherwise. Longfellow's lines are true: —