Mysteries by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 22.

Mysteries

By Editor

Mysteries.—Some one asks us what we think of the Magazine of Mysteries. Nothing. It is a mixture of Hinduism, Buddhism, Hypnotism, Spiritualism, and New Thought, in which it is trying to mingle Christianity. Its scheme of saving men leaves Christ the Saviour outside. Its teachings are based on the old Edenic falsehood, "Ye shall not surely die; . . . ye shall be as God." "Death," says this magazine, "is as natural and as good as life." It is more natural to the sinner; but there is no good in it. According to the Bible it is an "enemy," not a friend. Here is another sentiment from the same paper: "You can not die. You can not be lost. You must always exist." Of course, it is argued that you are a part of God, and God can not die. But a better authority tells us that "the soul that sinneth, it shall die;" and that man by nature is "separate from Christ, . . . having no hope and without God in the world;" "alienated from the life of God." Eph. 2:11, 12; 4:18.