The Biblical criticism of the present day - pagina 21

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Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.

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Even among us

ours.

who

there are sometimes spirits

capture and hold other spirits so entirely in their powers that they use them literally as their still,

multiply their

own

own

spirit a

doubles, or who, stronger

thousand fold

Think of a Napoleon

panies of men.

man

not the spirit of that one

whole com-

in

Austerlitz.

at

Is

it

of short stature which there

causes the whole phalanx of his generals, and

many

the.

thou-

sands of horsemen, to turn as one mighty wheel about the pivot of his will

ogy,

appears

it

?

And

domains, by anal-

in these several

if

possible

to

human

render a

and

psychical

physical being, by the entering in of another spirit in his spirit,

serviceable to the will of that other spirit,

God

should the possibility be disputed that does this same thing in a divine,

Holy

Spirit,"

says Jesus, will

i.

why

Holy

the

absolute sense.

e.

bring to mind

"

memory

an intellectual capacity to employ the

;

is

then Spirit "

The

not that

in one's

im-

mediate service?

And would

able equally easily

and surely to introduce new and conscious

thoughts into the

human

not that same Holy Spirit be

spirit?

You

transmit conscious thoughts into the

accomplish this you speak.

yourself are able to

mind

But what

is

of another.

To

" speaking " other

than a passing on of the thought from your heart in the vibration of air-waves? and what the voice, and those vibrations of air-waves, other than conductors along

thought

is

dressed? and what

is

this auditory

nerve in turn but a con-

ductor or wire along which your thought the spirit of that other in

which your

carried to the auditory nerve of the person ad-

man?

is

introduced into

Your motor-nerves which

set

motion the muscle of your organ of speech, the air-waves

which were

set to vibrate

by these muscles, the sensorial audit-

ory-nerves of the ether which were affected by these vibrations

and passed them on

to his spirit, are altogether

nothing else

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