SPIRITUALISM A SATANIC DELUSION.
MODERN SPIRITUALISM IDENTICAL WITH ANCIENT HEATHENISM.
Floating in the Air.—At the house of Dr. Gray, New York city, “Mr. Henry C. Gordon, a medium, was taken up bodily, and conveyed about the room, without any visible power to support him. He would float about the room in the air, for several minutes.”—Three-fold Test, p. 64. Iamblichus, on ancient mysteries, says:— “The inspiration is indicated by the motions of the whole body, and of certain parts of it, . . . the body likewise is seen to be elevated, or increased in bulk, or to be borne along sublimely in the air.”—Iam. Dem. Myst. Speaking Mediums.—“He [the spirit] sometimes makes some stupid man to speak wisely, etc.”—Idem. “At Corinth, a certain Chaldean stranger is just now disturbing the whole city with his wonderful replies to questions asked him, and is disclosing the secrets of the Fates to the public for payment.”—Apuleius, Met., lib. 2. Mediums mostly Females.—“Those who are precedaneously inspired by the mother of the gods, are women; but the males that are thus inspired are very few in number, and such as are more effeminate.”—Iam. Dem. Myst. Like some modern mediums, they could handle fire and not be burned. “Their energies likewise, are not at all human; for inaccessible places become accessible to those that are divinely inspired. They are thrown into fire, and over rivers, like the priests in Castabalis, without being injured!”—Idem. They also had in those days a spirit machine (as described by the same authors) which had a circular plate, on which was “skillfully engraved the twenty-four letters of the alphabet;” the pointer, “falling at regular intervals upon single letters, composed heroic verses conformable to the questions asked,” etc. This reminds us of the modern “Spiritoscope” invented by Dr. Hare, and the “Planchette.” Thus we see that modern Spiritualism is only a revival of the spirit wonders of ancient heathenism, and that the demons are at their old tricks, for their own amusement in deceiving men, and exciting them to behold, wonder, adore, and perish. “TRY THE SPIRITS . . . BECAUSE MANY FALSE PROPHETS ARE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD.” 1 John 4: 1.