Page:Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1906).djvu/94

78 The decaying flower, the blighted bud, the gnarled oak, the ferocious beast, — like the discords of disease, sin,

and death, — are unnatural. They are the falsities of sense, the changing deflections of mortal mind; they are not the eternal realities of Mind.

How unreasonable is the belief that we are wearing out life and hastening to death, and that at the same

time we are communing with immortality! If the departed are in rapport with mortality, or matter, they are not spiritual, but must still be mortal, sinning, suffering, and dying. Then why look to them — even were communication possible — for proofs of immortality, and accept them as oracles? Communications gathered from ignorance are pernicious in tendency.

Spiritualism with its material accompaniments would destroy the supremacy of Spirit. If Spirit pervades all space, it needs no material method for the transmission of messages. Spirit needs no wires nor electricity in order to be omnipresent.

Spirit is not materially tangible. How then can it communicate with man through electric, material effects?

How can the majesty and omnipotence of Spirit be lost? God is not in the medley where matter cares for matter, where spiritism makes many gods, and hypnotism and electricity are claimed to be the agents of God's government.

Spirit blesses man, but man cannot “tell whence it cometh.” By it the sick are healed, the sorrowing are so comforted, and the sinning are reformed. These are the effects of one universal God, the invisible good dwelling in eternal Science.