from dear ones; only a wider opening of that same door of love—a higher, purer love, a Golden or God love—to admit not one or two or twenty but to embrace all.
CHAPTER XV CHRIST AND SPIRITUALISM
CHAPTER XV
Unfortunately the word "spiritualism" has been associated with so many misconceptions that it affords scope for misinterpretation, and for this reason thousands of people misunderstand the word and suppose that it deals only with forms of fortune-telling and chicanery of all kinds, and must necessarily be wrong and dangerous— therefore the work of anti-Christ.
For this reason it is a barred subject. Not only do these people know nothing about it, but they are so horrified at the travesty they themselves have created that they would refuse to hear, see, or read a word upon the subject.
To all people who have knowledge of Spiritualism, this attitude is tiresome an regrettable; nevertheless it exists today, and in great force.
In my concluding chapter I want to say a few simple words on this point.
Spiritualism is not the work of anti-Christ.
All the teachings of Christ are to be found in the teachings of Spiritualism. Christ taught love amongst mankind, generous thought and generous help for one another. "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and so on. Spiritualism teaches these same doctrines. Christ was imbued with the Divine Spirit, and He laid down laws upon which His disciples were to model their lives and their work, and in those laws you will find the laws which govern Spiritualism.
Because one of the disciples was a dishonest, weak man, and because some of the workers since then, workers in the churches of various and many creeds have been, and are to this day, weak and sinful in their lives, you do not, any of you, think for one moment that the whole is bad and evil. You realize that the teachings of Christ were of the highest. Always He spoke of Love as the binding link and the force of all good. I want you to understand, perhaps for the first time, that Spiritualism is based upon the same foundations. All its rules are rules given by Christ Himself. All the creeds existing upon earth are based upon these same rules.
They vary in minor points considerably. What one will
allow, another will condemn, and it is for the individual to decide which particular one of all is most fitting to himself. By his choice he will show his ability to grasp the meaning of God's laws, and according to his development so will he select.
The teachings of all alike are limited but some go farther, see farther, and understand more. Just as all roads may converge to a given point, so many creeds follow in the main the teachings of Christ. Some by narrow little roads and byways, some by wide roads, and some by main highways. Spiritualism is God's Main Highway.
THE END