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(Unscientific investiture)
This simple truth lays bare the mistaken assumption
that man dies as matter but comes to life as spirit. The
so-called dead, in order to reappear to those
still in the existence cognized by the physical
senses, would need to be tangible and material, - to have
a material investiture, - or the material senses could take
no cognizance of the so-called dead.
Spiritualism would transfer men from the spiritual sense
of existence back into its material sense. This gross materialism
is scientifically impossible, since to infinite Spirit
there can be no matter.
(Raising the dead)
Jesus said of Lazarus: "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth;
but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep." Jesus
restored Lazarus by the understanding that
Lazarus had never died, not by an admission
that his body had died and then lived again. Had
Jesus believed that Lazarus had lived or died in his
body, the Master would have stood on the same plane of
belief as those who buried the body, and he could not have
resuscitated it.
When you can waken yourself or others out of the belief
that all must die, you can then exercise Jesus' spiritual
power to reproduce the presence of those who have thought
they died, - but not otherwise.
(Vision of the dying)
There is one possible moment, when those living on the
earth and those called dead, can commune together, and
that is the moment previous to the transition,
- the moment when the link between their opposite
beliefs is being sundered. In the vestibule through
which we pass from one dream to another dream, or
when we awake from earth's sleep to the grand verities
of Life, the departing may hear the glad welcome of those
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