. Death and life . steninc; crowds. How far it may be desirable to convert to Spir-itualism those who believe the gulf impassable thatseparates the embodied from the disembodied spirit,is a difficult question. The conviction that a vastmischief was being done by the spirits to the mindsof many well-intentioned persons, by upsettingtheir faith in Scripture and their love for the trueand the right, has made it seem desirable to set6 98 SPIRITUALISM. forth some of the views of the New Church, hopingthereby to lend a helping hand to those who are indanger of falling a prey to the spirits, or whoha
. Death and life . steninc; crowds. How far it may be desirable to convert to Spir-itualism those who believe the gulf impassable thatseparates the embodied from the disembodied spirit,is a difficult question. The conviction that a vastmischief was being done by the spirits to the mindsof many well-intentioned persons, by upsettingtheir faith in Scripture and their love for the trueand the right, has made it seem desirable to set6 98 SPIRITUALISM. forth some of the views of the New Church, hopingthereby to lend a helping hand to those who are indanger of falling a prey to the spirits, or whohave already fallen, by endeavoring to show thatthey are as little to be trusted now as in the daysof Saul or of Caesar; that they who attempt topenetrate the world of spirits through humanmeans are leaning upon a staff that may break,and pierce the hand ; and that, if we would walksurely and safely, we must seek not unto themthat have familiar spirits, and unto wizards thatpeep and mutter, but unto the Lord our THE BUILDING-UP OF EEGENERATE LIFE. 789889A Peide is base, from the necessary foolishness of it; because, atits best, when grounded on a just estimation of our own elevation orsuperiority above certain others,. it cannot but imply that our eyeslook downward only, and have never been raised above our ownmeasure. For there is not the man so lofty in his standing or ca-pacity, but he must be humble in thinking of the cloud habitationand far sight of the angelic intelligence above him, and in perceiv-ing what infinity there is of things he cannot know, nor even reachunto, as it stands compared with that little body of things he canreach, and of which, nevertheless, he can altogether understand notone; not to speak of that wicked and fond attributing of such excel-lency as he may have to himself, and thinking of it as his own get-ting, which is the real essence and criminality of pride. —Ruskin.
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