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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, August 20, 1867

BEAUTIES OF SPIRITUALISM.

The reader will recollect the account of the creation given by the spirits, quoted on p. 37 of Bro. Waggoner's Modern Spiritualism, an outburst of nonsense, which we have supposed even Spiritualists would be ashamed ever to reproduce. Some of their modern productions, however, we find do not come much short of it. A late Banner of Light contained the following desperately luminous description of spirit life—or something else:—

“Celestial man takes on six enveloping clothings in his descending cycle, his outcoming life, his incarnations; or, perhaps, better worded, he grows outwardly from himself, as spirit into six degrees of expression, his seventh degree being himself, most internal, most deific in the special or analytic sense (which is the larger diviner) when making his upward cycle of movement; for then he exercises his negatives, his superficial and artificial characteristics, and makes himself more consciously immortal in wholeness—in the seven degrees of his trifold being, conscious of his past consciousness—a harmonic trinity in unity, and Lords and Lords.”