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65. What is the Mission of Spiritualism?
Spiritualism is a World Teacher, Inspirer and Comforter of humanity. It aims at the unfoldment and uplift of the race. It emancipates the mind from error. It interprets to man the great volume of nature. It is the best key with which to unlock the storehouse of Spiritual Knowledge. It is an illuminating teacher on the Bible and Christianity: It explains the enigmas and riddles of life. It brings all realms of nature under law and asserts that man’s whole duty in life is to find out the laws of nature and conform to them.
66. What is the attitude of Spiritualism upon the subject of Metaphysical Healing?
It asserts the efficacy of Metaphysical healing and finds evidence of its practice and value in all the great religions of the past and in its diversified forms of treatment today.
67. Does Spiritualism antagonize the Medical Profession? Does it deny the value of drugs, ordinary medical practice, surgery, etc.?
No. Spiritualism recognizes candidly the great value of medical studies and in part the value of medical practice. It acknowledges a potency in drugs and a necessity for, and great benefit in skillful surgery. In this respect its attitude is quite the reverse of that of Christian Science.