understanding for Wisdom, and thereby, deeming themselves like unto God; and even believing that a part of God or immortal Light and Wisdom is in them. Thus it is that the devil (material understanding) has translated himself into an angel of light ; but this light is really darkness, and the real Light (God) shineth in the darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth it not. No man has been, or ever will be, wiser, in the world's wisdom, than Solomon, for it is written, Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been. before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like." Yet Jesus, who had never learned letters, said, speaking of himself, "behold a greater than Solomon is here." In this growth of the so-called wisdom from the beginning of the world, Cain. killed Abel. In this same wisdom the prophets, Jesus and his disciples were slain;

and many others who understood and followed Jesus' teaching, were persecuted and tortured, burned at the stake, beheaded and cut asunder with swords. To-day the people would not take the same measures perhaps, the opinions and beliefs regarding such deeds having materially changed, but they would, if possible, slay them with the tongue instead of the sword, and the tongue is full of deadly poison. They would endeavor to prove them insane or foolish, not realizing what they were doing, any more than did they of old who crucified. Jesus. The wisdom of Jesus was not their wisdom, and so, in their conceit, they called it foolishness.

There are many who believe that they can see the spirits or souls of the departed. and communicate with them. Let us see whether this power which they claim to possess can possibly be from Truth (God), or whether it is a delusion which man (soul) has taken upon himself by reasoning from a

material standpoint. We have proved before that the sight of man cannot be depended on, and certainly less dependence can be placed on the eye of imagination. Eternal Truth (God) teaches only that which is unchangeable and good, and it cannot lie, because there is no lie in Truth. The spirits that they claim to see, and by whom they claim to be controlled, seem, sometimes, to have lost, since leaving this phase of life, much of the necessary knowledge which they possessed while here; and, again, they often tell great falsehoods, and there are usually many inconsistencies in their statements, and they are often unintelligible. The medium who produces the manifestation which the believer accepts as a fact, cannot explain how it is done, thus it seems to be an accident rather than a demonstrable knowledge, which can be made use of, a something which may happen, rather than a something which is and which must be, according to a given rule of truth. Can

such communications be from immortal Truth?

Again, they tell us of things that are familiar to us, and their thoughts and ways accord with ours, and the scriptures say, "my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord." Did not Jesus know all things? Were not all things delivered unto him of the Father, and would he not have taught it unto his disciples? He never said that the spirits or souls of the dead should return, and were it possible, would not Jesus have continued to instruct his disciples and those for whom he laid down his life, and for whom he had more love than man has for man to-day? Can Jesus have grown less righteous or self-sacrificing since his ascension? Man is governed by the material understanding, which I have shown you is not of God (Truth), and which is unreal and temporal; man is not governed with the understanding of God (the real and eternal)

until all this material understanding is destroyed or counted for naught, and until that is destroyed he is still governed by it, and knows no more truth in another phase of life than in this. At the change called death the soul leaves the body, but is not changed, and is governed by similar beliefs and opinions until they are destroyed by a true spiritual understanding. This material understanding or these beliefs and opinions, are not truth, because not from God, therefore, in that sense they are not real. A dream is not real, although it has every appearance of being so to the dreamer, and because it is not a real state, but is an imaginary one, you cannot communicate with the dreamer in his dream, for you cannot enter into his imagination. life, as I have shown you, is a dream compared with the eternal Life, and no one can communicate with you except they be in your dream, any more than you in the waking state can communicate with one

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