WHAT is Spiritualism defined to be?
“A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rapping, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a medium; spiritism.”- Webster. Spiritism: “The theory that mediumistic phenomena “are caused by spirits of the dead.”- Webster. NOTE.-“The very central truth of Spiritualism is the power and possibility of spirit return, under certain conditions, to communicate with those in the material form.”- N. F. Ravlin, Spiritualistic lecturer, of California. 2. Did this doctrine exist in ancient times? “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.” Lev. 19:31. NOTE.-“The phenomenal aspect of modern Spiritualism reproduces all essential principles of the magic, witchcraft, and sorcery of the past. The same powers are involved, the same intelligences are operating.”- F. F. Morse, in “Practical Occultism,” page 85. 3. How does Go