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Rh belief are destitute of Principle and Science. Error is a network of mystery that cannot be united with Truth or Immortality. The gulf is impassable that separates material belief from Life that is not subject to death.

To unite in belief such opposites as Spirit and matter, the Infinite and finite, leads to the error seen in sin, sickness, and death, and exemplified in the mischief and mistake of mediumship. As readily can you mingle fire and frost as Spirit and matter; in either case one must destroy the other. To suppose that Spirit, or God, communes with mortal mind through electricity, or matter, is ridiculous. If this were true it would destroy the divine order and Science of Mind.

If communion were possible between the so-called dead and the living, either the departed must necessarily go backward in the scale of being, like the oak returning to the acorn; or the so-called medium must immediately advance to Life that is independent of matter, like the acorn becoming instantaneously an oak.

Persons on communicable terms with Spirit would have no organic body; and the restoration of that material condition would be as impossible as the restoration of the acorn, already absorbed into a sprout which has risen above the soil. The seed that has germinated higher has a new form and state of existence. When the belief of life in matter is broken, it leaves the old condition, and never returns to it. No correspondence or communion can exist between persons in opposite dreams, such as the belief of having died and of never having died.

There is but one possible moment when the dead and the living can commune together; and that is the