Theorem or teleology of spiritualism

Chapter II

Knowledge and What It Means. Answer to Mr. Francis Darwin's Address, before the British Association, on Consciousness.

CHAPTEE III.

Letter to Mr. Shaw, Editor of the Review of Reviews from the author. Answer by him to the author.

CHAPTER IV. Sub- conscious and W T hat It Is

CHAPTEE V.

Theorem or Teleology of Spiritualism.

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WISH to say the knowledge of this book did not come through electrical or magnetic investigation, The writer had never read up on these subjects since she was a school girl, twenty five years ago. It all came to me after reading an article in the Delineator two weeks ago, "Are the Dead Alive V" these so-called scientific men believing the spirits of the dead are alive. She wrote to the Delineator denying the thought; also, to the Keview of Reviews. She received no reply from the Delineator, but she did receive quite a compliment from the editor of the Review of Reviews. Then, after writing these letters, she commenced to research for the cause of human magnetism and electrical power. Thanking Brittanica and the children's anatomy for their help, as it is only with God's inspiration and help that she received tkis knowledge. She has not used quotation signs because she has mixed questions and the opposite side together. The more compact print denotes what is copied from other magazines.

AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION 7

What is Theorem ? A theorem is a proposition to be proven by a Chain of Reasoning. A theorem is something to be proved; a problem is something to be clone.

The writer has given a true problem of Spiritualism and it is for the people to prove the fact to themselves of the truth of what she declares. The aim of the writer is to bring before the people a definite, reasonable, humanly explanation of the unseen power that the human race posesses and that it is positively no supernatural power or devices of so-called spirits from God. We do not have to enter God's unknown kingdom for maukind to research the simple subject treated.

Because she has found it compulsory to condemn the scholastic men mentioned in this book.

The monarch mind, the mystery of researching, the birth-hour gift, the truth theorem, of moulding, making, gathering, searching the mind of thousands will be moved by them.

Yours for research,

May Barnard Wiltse.

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GIENCE is a fact or truth proven by the mind of man, and to have any principle as a science it must coincide with God, not man's comprehension or understanding. Truth must be perfect. Science is built on self-evident truths. Spiritualism is not a science because it is built upon sand and is falling. Science perfects any subject. People are not careful enough in using the words Science and Knowledge.

The science of God is perfect and if man reveals any thought of weak human nature and foolishly and sillily names it Science, he greatly errs, and makes an error hard to overcome with God's truth.

True science is the collecting of certain truths about any cause, but before we name it science we should be sure we are right, then go ahead and follow the truth straight to the mark, even if the whole world turns and sneers at your knowledge. If you reveal the truth then God is truly on your side and if they receive not the truth from you, but years afterwards the truth of what you teach will be revealed to help and progress the race; and this truth revealed scientifically of extracting magnetic healing power from our people is only begun. Science used today is not the word or definition of it God intended for us to use it for these misleading definitions. It is used today by every new thought fanatic or quack, and each declares his to be the only true science to be found by mankind. There is only one science revealed to man today and that is, in a general sense, (not common sense), on knowledge; the comprehension of understanding of truth on facts by the mind.

In philosophy, a collection of the general principles of leading truths relating to any subject arranged in systematic order is puke science.

Is Spiritualism, Theosophy, Christian Science and New Thought a Science? No, never! None of these reveal any truth that leads to any of God's principles of Science.

Pure Science is built on self-evident truths, truths that can prove themselves to the world as acknowledged truths and so explain them as such. The writer can prove the Science of her theory or God's law of human magnetization of one body over another, by her own experiment and personal observation.

Mr. Hooker declares that "No science doth make known the first principle on w T hich it builds." This is positively true; no man or woman can ever step into God's kingdom and reveal the foundation principle of spiritualism or human magnetization any more than they can step into

God's principle as to how the attractions and repulsions excited by frictions in certain bodies of which amber may be taken as a type. To the causes of these unknown forces —and they will remain unknown until the day of judgment to mankind. God in his infinite wisdom placed us here to find out the beginning of His plan, but we, in our human weakness, have "strained at a gnat (magnetic power) and swallowed a camel (spiritualism)" and instead of trying to be a manly man, as God intended us, we have tried to wipe and destroy God and all of His wonderful work of man and creation and to exalt our so-called wisdom before Him and exhibit to Him our supreme power over Him and His unchangeable laws, and assert over Him our own devices of the lying wonders and followers of the prince of the people named "Beelzebub," aud as gods of this world we can reveal great scientific revelations without God's help; and we are the followers and makers of lies of New Thought, Christian Science, B. Fay Mills' Fellowship of the Devil, Mrs. Tingly of Theosophy of Darkened India— and these all show themselves as malignant against God and His scientific work of Truth. When you can explain the various bodies attracted by others as wood, stones, earth, metal, etc., tell me the foundation principle of electricity, then I will believe in spiritualism, reincarnation, hypnotism, table splitting by order of a medium, automatic writing. Wipe these all aside as the foolish vagaries of the human mind and let God simply reveal His simple truth of manifestation of His prin ciples of Magnetic batteries enclosed within these human bodies for us to finish the revelation of the truth as He commenced and founded and laid the corner stone for us to find.

Where are there sciences today that can prove with all of -their boasted selfish knowledge, their theories of any truth? Take the medical so-called science of today. What do they know? Who can explain the action of the Roentgen rays and radium upon the human body? Through ignorance of this foundation of all disease (magnetic force)— we must suffer through ignorance of the so-called medical staff, and great injury is suddenly wrought to the patient. The simple explanation is to study the magnetic power of each patient, analyze the amount of positive and negative magnetization force in the patient. If all physicians will turn to the foundation stone of medical knowledge and read upward instead of jumping here and there like a will o' the wisp on every topic under the sun except the right one, and when that is revealed all other knowledge will be added unto them; and God declares they will wander around in the dark, having eyes they see not, having ears they hear not. If a stranger should come to town and start to build a house from the roof to the foundation, what would we think of him? All physicians and medical researchers look in your glass! Pure Science is built on self evident truths. What man or woman who has written a foolish belief today and naming it mysterious as Ella Wheeler Wilcox claims she is an undeveloped god and has revealed New Thought as the "backbone of right thinking." The devil declares the same. God declares no man or woman is right. She declares some of her truths are very startling to the common people, but then they are true here and now. God declares they are false here and now. Mrs. Eddy, also in Christian Science, claims she is also equal with Christ, and that she is led by the spirit of

Christ, being divine. These fakes are all claiming "science" as their leader. Now some one lies. Who? They cannot all be scientifically led by the Spirit, as none of them agree, and science is One Truth and all must agree that they are under the cloak of science and knowledge.

People are not careful enough when writing to give the correct name to their works. What does God say to these erring ones? He declares they are calling on every theory to be a false god, and they all claim they are led by the Pure Spirit, when in fact it is proven by scientific truth that they are following the false principle of the Evil One. God declares they are all false; He says: "He that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the spirit shall of the spirit reap eternal life." These people all sow unto their own flesh. Here is a sad example of this corruption of the flesh. The devil sends out a magazine published by the New Thought people of New York City and they name it "Mysteries," because the people think under this very mysterious cloak they may find another Adam and Eve, and many will eat of the tree of knowledge of the devil and enter there into their fold by really giving you a great offer of the "Magazine of Mysteries" for the small sum of $1.25 and, lo! Adam and Eve fell, and these editors declare that you need this tree of knowledge "Magazine of Mysteries." Now the devil was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and the Mysteries declares it will make one wise. When it will be too late, the eyes of the people receiving knowledge from these erring scientific people it will be too late. For just a limited time you may have this Satanic Majestic paper and meat substitute for the small sum of $1.25 for less than Judas sold Christ, his beloved master and saviour.

Here is another of the mysteries of so-called Satanic Scientific revelations from a blind sister who, having eyes, sees not; having ears, she hears not:

"Dear Brother and Sister— I feel as though I would like to help some one to this new belief and my spirit goes out to them that J talk to them in spirit (is she a god?) and I am able to bring them before me." — Magnetization in thought— just as the juggler compelled his people to really see the snake that was not there.

In the February number I see one of the Mystics beheld the Divine Breathing Light. I wonder what this name means? Another Pagan mythology mystic god? Yes, God declares these people hasten after another god and make a god of their own device and worshippeth it. It is Divine Breathing Light (in other words the stone foundation of all false beliefs is the DEVIL).

The writer continues, "I beheld the same light about two weeks ago, in answer to prayer; I know now just how we are connected with the Almighty. Now I beheld the outer ring on which He sat, with His back turned, as I took it, the Father, a crown on His head, while facing me, on the right side, stood the Christ. I stood in the outer rays and through these rays connected with other living things, bushes and trees alongside of me; it made me very happy and grateful to God to see this in your magazine, as I know it was no illusion. I had visions years ago, when I have seen the Christ and 1 know he was with me. Please pray for me that the money which is held from me may come to me."

Poor, deceived woman, because some other Eve fell through magnetic manifestations or visions — she knows now it is no illusion! No indeed, it is no illusion— that is something we never have — even the rest of the people who are shut away in so-called "mad houses" are not crazy, neither do they have illusions. Their "switchboard" or nerve centre is crossed. I do not believe an insane person has any disease of the brain; these "brain-storms" so much talked of in our courts of today are nothing but the crossing of the telephone messages or adjoining fibres. To touch these nervous impulses and then these illusions, so-called, are sent to the brain just as telephone messages go astray if the wires are crossed, then this causes what we name insanity.

The so-called disease of the brain is caused by the nerve force transmitting the electrical current crossed to the brain and these cause these erroneous visions just as this poor woman had them. We may have only one vision, or many. We know she is wrong when she babbles so foolishly about seeing God and Christ. She had a small "brain storm." God declares "Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me and live."— Ex. 33-20.

This woman claims to have seen God and Christ and she still lives; and she also claims she saw Christ. How does she dare to declare such falsehoods? There was never a picture of Christ in the world. She did not see Christ. Every picture we have claiming to be Christ's is false, and every image that people have of man claiming to be Christ's is false, because God did not allow such blasphemy of the God-head of His only Son. He sent Christ here to remember Him so deeply and sincerely in our hearts we would not need a human false image to remind us of the real living Saviour. He did not go as a human being, but He promised to be with us always in spirit; then why do we need a picture of a false man to make us remember the Blessed Saviour? And Christ taught us that through His teachings and life and death proved to us all what He came for and He positively forbid the use of images, whether used for adoration or just as a symbol of devotion. He declares " Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above." Even a child can understand this. He positively forbid the use of images in any form and declared we must follow Him; that He is the only One Mediator, the Christ, and we need no false prophet or magnetic revelation of a false illusion or image to keep us pure and holy in our hearts; we do not need a false picture of Christ as a common man to seal His divinity. No! He is everlasting witness and we have Him always with us. Why do we need a false picture? The earliest attempts at photographing were in 1827. Roger Bacon is the first man supposed to have made a picture of the human race a success and that was in 1214. Does this not prove that this woman did not see Christ, but she simply

had an electrical phosphorescent vision of her own nerve forces ?

If when we get puzzled over man's researching for truth

and cannot make their research connect with God's Law and

Book of True Eevelation; if we cannot, then we should turn away from these human teachers and find out God's way and search for ourselves for His Truth revealed.

We know that this light from this woman's vision was nothing but a phosphorescent light— I have caused them to come into a room myself, when I was young. A human body which emits these lights is one that has great electrical power raised to a high temperature. This is probably due to the absorption of the energy of the vibration and magnetization drawn from other people, as in Faladdin's experience, to find a spirit instead she caused a light to circle round her head and emit flashes of light, and as she caused these different vibrations to act and absorb and still radiated the forces from the people in the seances, the cause of this so-called phenomena being short, rarely more than a smail fraction of a second, as it is all due to combustion of all these human elements, which oxidizes at a low temperature. Take a piece of sugar and cut it in the dark— it will emit a faint light. Is this supernatural or spirits from heaven? No! It is only another example of God's knowledge given to men to prove that spiritualism is a terrible error of mankind seeking to know the truth. This light is also due to the complete absorption of the energy of the electrical vibration, and a positive person can radiate from negative again and again. I think every human being possesses this quality in a greater or less degree. Where is science? Where is knowledge?

" W T hat is man that thou takest knowledge?"

"Oh, teach me why thou dost contend, and say Thy theories blasted, hasten to decay. Only God teaches me the paths wherein I go astray; He, only, repeals the secret error of our way. Reform, correct, subdue thy offending mind, Too often stubborn, impotent, or blind."

KXO W LEDGE

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WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?

A clear and certain perception of that which exists, or of Truth and Fact; the perception of the connection and agreement of Facts. We can have no knowledge of that which does >~ot exist. Only God has a perfect kxowlgdge of all His works. Human knowledge is very limited, and is mostly gained by human observation and human aid and learning as they reject knowledge from God, and God declares that ignorance is the curse of God. Knowledge, the only true knowledge, is from God, not man." —Webster.

ESV THOUGHT claims to have all knowledge and Mrs. Wilcox is the voice of the people; what she thinks is clearly a lovable philosophy of simple construction from her pen. New Thought is the right knowledge, and Mrs. Wilcox declares the brain cells which have been shaped by the old theology of a true God cannot all at once be returned to the maker of human theology (devil). How mysterious men and foolish women try to make their foolish knowledge seem so great and mysterious. Here is a

• so called New Thought in New York City and Ella Wneeler Wilcox is one of the contributors. They name their false god " The Great Cosmic Controller of Immensity," and these declare He prospers the truth. If that is knowledge, it is knowledge not found between the lids of the bible from Adam to Revelation. The writer has a number of bibles in the house, and cannot find "Great Cosmic Controller of Immensity." Where did they rind this name? Never in God's holy book! Then, if God's knowledge is true, their boasted and exalted false knowledge is false. Then, if their foundation is false by giving God a false name — the founder of all truth— their knowledge will surely fall, as it is built upon sand.

If as much time was spent in seeking the truth of human magnetism as these false people spend in drawing God down to them instead of climbing up to him; as these so-called professors and noted men claiming to search for the truth of spiritualism; if they would spend as much time in discussing and searching out God's trutnas revealed to them by Him, they would have found the truth before this. They have been searching out unimportant questions and retrograding into useless spiritualism, table-rapping and all the rest of the foolish, unimportant and useless search after knowledge without God. Spiritualism is not knowledge, it is merely the sensation of electrical force masked under the name of spiritualism and unseen force or spirits. Spiritualism is nothing only the hypnotism exercised by a medium over her audience, and as the air is also charged with these electrical currents, they are all helpers in her self-deceived belief of her own foolish power.

Spiritualism is nothing but the opinion of mankind, and it may be true or not be; they try to remove misconception of the subject out of the mire of ignorance, rend the cloak of receiving knowledge and light, but instead of receiving more light they are getting deeper and deeper into the slough of ignorance. How many have read Plato's Eepublic where he gave as a theory of what he thinks is knowledge and gives this illustration that is true, and by it teaches these people seeking truth under the cloak of spiritualism, as the bible teaches us that we see through a glass darkly; and that there is only liberty from this knowledge through the Spirit of Christ. This is the picture Plato gave: He pictures a majority of mankind (seekers after spiritualism and find it not) as prisoners in a subterranean cavern, chained with their backs to the fire (God) looking at the shadows thrown by it on the rocky wall and mistaking them for realities, at last turning around to the true light (God's knowledge and truth of human magnetism revealed) their toilsome ascent up the steep slope to the mouth of the cave, the gradual training of their eyes to see the real thing (knowledge of human magnetism).

How foolish to continually talk about fraud with spiritualism. One of these so called noted professors of general pathology at the University of Naples claimed " that at the conclusion of several tests of sittings by Eusapia (medium) and that at this time a great majority of investigators had come to consider fraud a dismissed solution, but it w T as hoped that with increased knowledge of conditions favorable to mediumistic manifestations. They claim they may also find new results, and perhaps more startling results might be secured. That is what they are seeking— 'some new and something startling' — in other words, results to deceive the deceived people." The professor continues: "In this we were not disappointed. They wanted documents and proofs that there were spirits."

Yes, she gave them the document and proof they requested; it was this : Everything must be registered by writing and photography. Will she (medium) be able to illuminate a screen treated with platino-cyanide of barium ? Will she be able to discharge a gold-leaf of electroscope without touching it? And these foolish professors call her wonderful, and this was documental and proof of her spiritual power to bring back unseen spirits.

This automatic writing is only done by magnetization, as she can discharge and recharge her magnetic power at will, without touching the object she wishes to control. Of course she will be able to illuminate a screen composed of platino-cyanide barium. Platino is a metal composed with cyanide of barium. Yes, barium will make a great electric current. Now why, with all these simple magnetization articles, should she not illuminate the screen? and these people call this document and proof of spiritualism.

When the writer was young, the young people of the town used to hold so-called seances or parties in sittings for fun, and one out of the crowd we would blindfold and take hold of his hand, and some one else would go and hide a thimble or any article in some other room in a book in a large book case, or under a bed and this blindfolded person would immediately walk to the place take the exact book out and find the thimble. Nothing supernatural about this!

It was simply the electrical current in my hand sending the message in my mind and transmitting it to his mind— the writer simply connected the electrical wires of the sender (by clasping hands) to the wires of the receiver. Nothing supernatural about Usapia (medium). These noted men crossing the Atlantic to seek knowledge from this poor woman, had better wipe the hallucination of unseen spirits from their minds and eyes or sight and unbind their bondage of chains and seek the truth of the power of magnetism, of human power and not "Are the Dead Alive?" As Mr. William Stead, a prominent noted journalist and writer, declares, "I do not believe the dead depart; they are still with us." This is erroneous; he should ask "Are the living dead?" God's Word says dead men live and are full of dead men's bones (foolishly). These people had also a telegraphic key which had been placed in a cabinet. Why not use some other kind of a key and not a telegraphic key ? They placed this outside of the reach of the medium's hand, as they wished to show to a "credulous public" a "graphic tracing" of the movements of the electro-magnetic needle, connected with the keyboard, recorded on a sheet of smoked paper, at a considerable distance from the medium. Now it is always possible to suggest that Mr. X was the victim of hallucinations. It will not avail to add that the sounds w T ere heard by all present. The obstinately incredulous will reply: "That may be a brainstorm on electrical hallucination," but in fact it was nothing but positive electricity. What is foolishness? What is jargon ? If this is not confusion or babbling of tongues and confusion of mind, what is it?

Here these searchers of truth declare these noises are produced by an "electrical telegraphic key" and the motion caused by an electro magnetic needle, and after knowthis must be nothing but human magnetism and electrical power that causes these acts, these people close their eyes to the truth and hold up their hands in astonishment and bewilderment of mind to see the great truth God tries to lead us into by the effect of the cause of the telegraphic key and its work and the work of the electro magnetic needle. Then they think in their ignorance that we are all going to cry "incredulous" and declare they have hallucinations. No, we must understand the effect from the cause, and do not cry anything but "ignorance."

Just see Britannica and read on page 2167 and use your own brains that God gave you and you will receive enough knowledge without going across the Atlantic to find Eusapia or her $500,000 room, erected by more foolish benighted people than herself; and what do they seek? These foolish men traveled far to find the unknown treasure of knowledge, that if they had listened to God, instead of man, they w r ould have received His revealed knowledge at their own door, under the human name of human magnetism.

The mechanical movement produced by a person's hand by magnetism depends upon the strength or quality of attracting distant objects. To arrive at any sensible or general understanding of the electrical key making a noise, and also the electro magnet needle, we must have a general understanding how a dynamo produces a volume of magnetism and a motion receives the same and is moved by it. Unknowingly, by her invisable magnetic power, Eusapia was the cause of all noises and the writing. Where can you make an unseen spirit with man's magnetic power? You may go to the greatest medium in the world and if the electrical and magnetization is not there you will not find one of these foolishly so called spirits from the heavens. It is necessary to know what is meant by an electro magnet, as these foolish men were deceived by the more than foolish medium as she knew she could not have obtained results by any other method, since the electricity is in her that is the compelling force over the people in the seances, and they are helping her in the foolish work called spirit rapping, and marvelous demonstrations of the spirit forces from heaven. The electro magnet is the chiefest part of both machines — the medium is the electro magnet.

The difference between a natural magnet and an electro magnet is that the first part is a piece of steel, which having been applied to, or drawn along some other magnet, retains its magnetic quality (medium) and continues to attract other pieces (people in seance) of steel or iron for an indefinite time. This is commonly seen in the shape of a "horse-shoe" magnet. An electro magnet is one which is only a magnet. An electro magnet is one which is only a magnet temporarily, which under the influence of an electric current is passed round and round it through a wire with which it is wound in many layers. When the current traversing or passing over this wire is cut off, the electro magnet instantly ceases to be a magnet, or to attract, and releases that which it held by attraction, and when the current is put on again it again attracts or pulls. So that it may not retain its magnetism it is always made of soft iron instead of steel. Why cannot men think ? If any one will step into a telegraph office and do a little thinking for himself, he can observe the little instrument on a table, pulling down and letting go again. This little instrument, placed in men's hands by God's law, will teach him what spiritualism is without any- help from a medium, and he will at once understand the action of the electro magnet.