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Banner of Light V23 N3 4 Apr 1868 id Banne: LIGHT Bl. In. ,c< et, ct, OC- 311-, >21 .10 >>. > In VOL. XXIII. 103,00 PER YEAE.l J0IHGLB COPIES,} I In Adraioe, » BOSTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1868 * Eight Out*. > NO. 3 tlve and negative, spirit; nnd matter as a solidified Jewish nation oak .of its chronic clannishness and for thnt many-mnnsloned house in tho upper out of him” when the negative woman touched form of force, the former depending upon tlie dwarfing formalisms, into, the diviner regions of kingdoms of tho Infinite, ho assured his followers tlio hem of bln garment. latter for its manifestations, Tbe masculine can­ tbe absolute rellgtecJD^dAlUaws, as delfic moth- ) that future believers in him should do "greater WE BELIEVE IN BAPTISM. not create. There was never a higher formation ods ol action, airt^bangolcBa and Infinite. All works ” than ho had done. The Greek word bapllsma, rendered baptism WHAT DO SPIRITUALISTS DELIJjVE ? X'dKe" > two'forces, positive and negative. conceptions anch^lrth* being spanned by cause Saying nothing of science or philosophy, Jesus from tho verb baptise, implies rito or ceremony. ’ • A LECTURE DELIVERED BY Philo, a profound Jewish writer and cotempo­ and effect, as WedLaa transpiring within the realm stands in relation to the past the best embodi­ Relative to this matter of baptism wo accept tho rary of Jesus, asserted in the most positive man­ of fixed law, are Mnssurily natural. Joseph and ment of Spiritualism, the richest Judean out­ following Paulino teaching: J. M. PEEBLES, ner tbe masculinity and femininity of God and Mary (wisdom and love, tbe spiritual predomi­ growth of tlio spiritual idea, nnd looking lovingly " Ono Lord, ono faith, one baptism.” la Music Halt, Boiton, Sunday ARemooB, “Ono God nnd Father of all, who Isabovnall, March lit, 1808. the sexnal order of creation. He repeatedly rep­ nating) wero hannonialiy conjoined, and Jesus down from the celestial heavens sweetly says, resented Wisdom as " spouse of God and mother was a natural mm, a human being, humanly be­ “ Come up hither.” By tho exorcise of sympathy and through all, and in you all." (Eph. Iv: 5-<J.) (Reported for tbe Benner of Light.) of all things”; and he further says, “ We may gotten. Mary vnaq susceptible to spirit influence. nnd aspiration—by effort and consecration to tho This ono genulno baptism, however, Is not, novar inis water baptism. All outward baptisms “May Vishnu—who is apirit, self-existent and rightly call God the Father and Wisdom the Tbo relatioLal moment of tho incarnation (the truth—by dally holy living, he camo into tlio imporinliablo, who, with the three qualities, cause Mother of the universe.” Also according to Miclte- descent of the divine man—essential spirit—in highest heavenly relations. Quickened, intensi­ wore Mosaic. After every act of defilement, tho of creation, preservation* and destruction, is the lange Land, the Egyptian Hieroglyphs, inter­ consonance with the celestial law of concentral- fied from the celestial heavens, his original pre­ Israelites wero commanded to batlio ami wash parent of Nature, intellect, and all tbe ingredients preted in tbe light of Egyptian theosophy, taught ism.) was a sacred otie, the maternal determining existent homo, (fur before Abraham tlio mortal themselves clean witli water. of the universe-rbe.stow upon us understanding John tho Baptist, disorderly and fanatical, a and final emancipation.’’— Parana. that both the male and female principles Inhered tho mentality. * Interested immortals, conscious was, ho had a "glory with thn Father,") IiIh in­ “Overt* e porticos of the most ancient Egyp­ in Deity, spirit and matter, ns father and mother. of tills, and knowing her to bo a future mother, most yielded an elemental How of pure spiritual sort of undeveloped medium, crying in Judean tian temples of worship was written: ‘I am all Indian Gymnosopliists also admitted, in the most overshadowed her with their baptismal influences life. Tlie finest textured type, the most har­ forests, never embraced Christianity as taught by that was, is, or shall be."’—Trismegistus. ancient periods, the duality of the Divine Exist­ nnd beautiful molding magnetisms. monist brain organism of this planet, in tliat ora tliu Nazarene; neither <1Id lie spiritually enter tlio ‘•Hermes in dying, said': ‘Until now I have Kingdom of Heaven. Hence, said Jesus, "Ho' as been exiled from my true country, to which I am ence. Abraham, arenegade Brahmin, inaugurated Accordingly fronrchildliood tlio Nazarenean re­ lio virtually lived in two worlds—tlio Christ of abput to return. Shed no tears for me. I return tbe worship of a unltive masculine god. Moses former was precocious, pleasant, loving—clair­ tenderness nnd love, experiencing sweetest union tliat is least In tlio Kingdom of Heaven is greater to thnt celestial country whither all must repair built upon the same rock; hence bis masculine, voyant, ImpresslonaK inspirational—a mediator, witli God. A thorough intuitlonist by nature, lio than he." John camo under the law dispensation. in their turn. This life is but a death.* "-Chai- blood-thirsty,retaliatory laws, founded upon "thus i. e., medium—a mortal brother of the immortal was a practical SPIRITUALIST in word and deed. Immersion wns ills method of Initiating converts. cidius in Tinueum. Many of ids more aspirational disciples soon loft " Wlmt you do not want done to yourself do salth the Lord.” And tlio popular Pauline Chris­ gods and goddesses^hattemperamentally helped Ho worshiped in spirit nnd in truth. Ills king­ not to others.. • • • What I do not wish men tianity of the past eighteen centuries is Judaism, fashion him, that; inspired by them aud a “legion dom wns a spiritual kingdom, with the center in him, however, and followed tlio man of Nazareth. IM, to do to me, I also wish not to do to men.”— Chi­ only sparingly galvanized. ' • of angels,” he might'aid in uplifting and fashion­ humanity’s great throbbing heart, and lore tho John, by the aid of ids mediumship, canglit a nese Analects. The paternity and maternity of tho Divine Na­ ing tho future ages. ■ king. His church was a spiritual church, built glimpse of tills superior teacher and testifier, “ I " Who hath believed our report?”—Isaiah. ture, the fraternity of human souls, originating Not the infinite God, not a supernatural being, up in tho souls of men and extensive ns tlie races, Indeed baptize you witli water unto repentnneo; “ Master mind nnd you havo mastered the uni­ but lie tliat cometli after me, whoso shoes I am verse."— Perasec Lendanta. from the same primal fountain, and the progress­ then, ho was a man. 'He colled himself the " Son dis second coining wns spiritual—coming as a “I testify of myself. • • • I go to prepare a ive evolutions of nil the races, are truths thnt of mnn.” The Apostle termed him “ our elder spirit, In spirit nnd power. Tliat “ second com­ not worthy to bear, shall baptize you with tlio Holy Ghost mid witli firo." • • • "But Jesus place for you; and if I go nnd prepare a place for will bloom into wider acceptance as the ages brother." 'Heate,drank,slept, hungered, thirst­ ing" in tbe "clouds ot heaven," with holy angels you, I will come again and receive you unto my- himself baptized not” with water. (John Iv: 2.) Belf."—Jesus., ripen. True, we cannot comprehend the great ed and weary from jburneyings, rested by Sa­ and ministoring spirits freighted with truths and infinite, underivod Existence; neither can we tho enunciation of eternal principles, is in process His disciples in a few instances baptized by im­ n.ta, “ Are they not all ministering spirits?’’—Paul. marin’s well. He was tempted; endured pain; “ It doth not yet appear what we shall be.”— perfectly, fathom our own .existence. Only the impetuously cursed a fig-tree; “learned obedience now. Multitudes of tho mediumistic feel tho di­ mersion; so, not having attained unto the higher John. Infinite can completely know tho finite, the supe­ by the things he suffered ”; wns " made perfect" vine, tho down-flowing influx, as the breath of mid more spiritual, tliey also in tlio earlier years Human beings, the crown-flowers of Nature’s rior grasp nnd dissect tho inferior. The mnnl- by draining liitter life .cups of experience, nnd an eternal spring. of their mi'dliimsliip occasionally eireumclsed formative forces, stand erect like polished shafts festational order of the past, however, demon- finally, with so.til. aglow to the logic of love and Beautiful is tills faith, tills belief In I lie ascend­ and practiced other Jewish ceremonies. None of upon tbe summit of earth’s granite-floored pyra­ striftes that the Divine Energy— God—was. Tbe intuition, and prayer-words of forgiveness drop­ ed Son of Nazareth; but infinitely deeper,grander, them, save Jolin tlio evangelist, understood .losus, mid. Aud as men and women—spiritual individ­ fixedness of law nnd the uniformity of Nature’s ping from fevered lips like gems from a crown, he that divine trust in God, the life-power, tlio un­ or tlie import of liis spiritual kingdom. Tliey re­ BS ualities in whom are .focalized the sublimated processes, prove that he now is. Yea, “ of him died a martyr! folding Christ-principle. In holiest fellowship ceived tlm Nazarenemi baptism of fire, of love, of ultimates and djvlnest attributes pertaining to and through him and to him are all things, to The early education of Jesus was in Egypt. witli Jesus nnd angels, on the bosom of God, then, consecration and lioly spirit Influx, only In part, tbe Infinite—they are endowed with the inalien­ whom be glory-forever.” Looking from the The scholarly M. Denon, describing a very beau­ Is our rest forever.
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