Spiritualism is no new thing. The serpent's form was assumed by Satan in the Garden of Eden, and his myriads of demons have been busy at their work of deception ever since.
Written over 2,600 years, the questions asked then are being asked now on all hands.
The answer is emphatic and wholly condemnatory.
" To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word it is because they have no light in them " (Isa. 8:2020To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isaiah 8:20)), Spiritualism then, as now, had no divine light in it.
We are warned of this latter-day activity of Spiritualism.
" Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God bath created to be received " (1 Tim. 4: 1-3).
Where is this latter-day activity to be found but in Spiritualism? The large amount of trickery in Spiritualism answers to speaking lies in hypocrisy, as well as in demons purporting to be the spirits of the departed. The whole thing is deceit on this side and on that side. " Forbidding to marry " is the trait of Spiritualism, which sets aside honest marriage for " spiritual affinity." " Commanding to abstain from meats," is fulfilled in the fact that mediums are largely vegetarian; the eating of meat militates against their occult powers.
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