The God of Spiritualism
By George B. Thompson
From the bogs of ancient witchcraft and necromancy modern Spiritualism has lifted its head into this age of light, and in a half century has spread its deadly miasma around the globe, gathering within its embrace millions of the most learned and distinguished persons in the world. This crowning deception of satanic spirits bids fair to capture the world, and lead all to perdition. The following quotations from leading Spiritualists state clearly the kind of god which is worshiped by this huge system of error:— Mr. Jamieson in the Crucible, April 22, 1871, says: “A personal God would be a monstrosity. All prayer addressed to a supposed Supreme Intelligence is idolatry.” The Banner of Light, April 28, 1888, a leading exponent of Spiritualism, has the following in answer to a question: “We have yet to come in contact with a thorough Spiritualist, one who understands something of spiritual life and the revelations made by returning spirits, who directly believes in a personal God. . . . We know of no Spiritualist—let us repeat it—who believes in such a11personal God, but we can believe and accept the idea, though it may pass beyond almost our finite comprehension, that there is a grand universal spirit permeating all forms of existence, that this great source of light, of activity and vitality, vibrates with intelligence, and that it is superior to all organic forms, however grand they may prove to be.” Again: one of the “spirits” in the Banner says this: “God’s face is seen in the violet, and man may well worship this tiny flower.” This is pantheism, pure and simple, and, when received in the soul, it leaves no place for a real, actual, personal God, such as is revealed in the Bible. It is the same mysticism which the Hindu in his pagan blindness believes and teaches. How true it is that to represent God as an “essence pervading all nature,” followed to its logical conclusion, “sweeps away the whole Christian economy.” This, Satan designs, through Spiritualism, to do.