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242 The notion that one man, as spirit, can control another man, as matter, upsets both the individuality and science of man. The notion that material bodies return to dust, hereafter to rise up as spiritual bodies, with all the material sensations and desires, is absurd. So is the notion that God, Spirit, is mesmerizing mortal minds and bodies.

Shadow is not tangible. No more is Spirit, How then can Spirit communicate with man through electric material effects? The supposition is too ludicrous for serious argument. God is not in this medley, where matter cares for matter, and mediumship takes the place of Science, making God's government contingent on mesmerism and electricity.

God controls man, and is the only Spirit. Any other control, attraction, or so-called spirit, is a belief, an error that ought to be known by its fruits. The caterpillar, transformed into a beautiful insect, is no longer a worm, nor does it return to fraternize with or control the worm; but such a backward transformation would be as sensible as allowing mediumship to befool reason. The Divine Principle of Science is unfolding higher forms of thought, but it never turns thought backward.

Our only resignation at the rise of a new ism, or a new disease, is the hope that another stir in the waters of belief will help to expose their muddy undercurrents.

Spirit needs no wires or electricity, in order to be omnipresent. Spiritualism, with its material accompaniments, would destroy the supremacy of Spirit. Truth pervades all space, and needs no material method for the transmission of messages. Spirit blesses man, but he “cannot tell whence it cometh.” The sick are healed