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21. From the standpoint of Spiritualism how is the character and work of Jesus to be interpreted?

Jesus was a great Mediator, or Medium, who recognized all the fundamental principles of Spiritualism and practiced them. The existence of a Supreme Power; the Spiritual nature of man; man’s continued life after death; the open door between the two worlds; the efficacy of prayer; the power of healing; the gifts of clairvoyance and clairaudience; and the practice of communion with angels and spirits, are all to be found in the teachings and examples of Jesus.

22. How does Spiritualism answer the objection: “the Bible condemns spirit communication?”

The fact that a few isolated passages are found in the Old Testament forbidding the practice of communicating with spirits is admitted. But this prohibition establishes at once the fact of spirit communication. There were special reasons for this prohibition at the time because of the abuses to which the practice had been subjected. Old Testament laws and regulations are not now considered binding upon professed Christians, being abrogated in the newer and more spiritual dispensation of Jesus. Jesus himself communed with angels and spirits and took his favorite disciples to a seance on the Mount, where Moses and Elias appeared and communed with them. Surely there can be nothing more authoritative or binding in Christianity than the example of Jesus.