124 The Fundamentals Spiritism he was all that could be”desired. When he took to Spiritism he came in touch with a certain Spiritist woman, who claimed affinity. The result was this, that the man cruel ly deserted his wife, and left her to die, as she is dying today, of a broken heart. That man today is passing as a leading official of a Spiritist circle in England.” The charge against the “three black I ’s” of Modem Spir itualism is well proved. , IX. WHAT SPIRITUALISM OFFERS I shall now describe what Spiritualism offers in place of the Bible as our guide, Christ as our Saviour, heaven as our eternal home. According to the author of “Outlines,” man is made up of a soul, a spiritual body, and a physical body. “There is something more than the nerves which we can not see, because it is as fine in its nature as the perfume of flowers. This fine something is called ‘nerve-aura’ . . . All above what is required for daily use is thrown off like perfume from flowers. . . . Our spiritual bodies are formed of this fine nerve-aura, which is spiritualised matter. . . . When our spiritual friends and guardians visit us, they . . . look . . . at our spiritual bodies, and by their purity or otherwise, they can see at a glance what kind of lives we live. . . . People who indulge in evil habits, such as opium or tobacco smoking, and laudanum and intoxicating drink, carry the appetite with them at death; it is because some of the narcotic and alcohol from these things help to compose the spiritual body, that they crave or hunger for their kind. So that these spirit people seek those in the body who still indulge in these bad habits, and get their craving satisfied through other people” ( “Outlines,” pp. 30-32). So we read on: “I have explained to you how the spirit- body is formed—that it is the spiritualised or refined particles of our physical body: so that you will understand me when I tell you that the spirit world is made up of refined or spir-
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