Spiritism in the Bible.

It is known that the Bible contains a number of passages in relation to the principles of Spiritism. But how to find them in that labyrinth? It would be necessary to make of that book an attentive reading, which few persons have the time and patience to do. In some of them, even, especially by reason of the language being most often figurative, the Spiritist idea appears in a clear manner only after reflection.

The author of this book made of the Bible a profound study, and only the knowledge he has of Spiritism gave him the key to things that previously seemed to him inexplicable or unintelligible. It was thus that he was able to inform himself with certainty about the psychological ideas of the ancient Hebrews, a point on which the commentators were not in agreement. We must, therefore, be grateful to him for having brought these passages to light, in a succinct summary, and for having thus spared the reader long and tedious researches. To the citations he adds the commentaries necessary for the comprehension of the text, and which reveal in him the enlightened Spiritist, but not a fanatic of his ideas, seeing Spiritism in everything. The name of the author indicates that he is not French; he says in the preface that he is Polish and explains in what circumstances he was led to Spiritism, and to the moral succor he drew from that doctrine. Although a foreigner, he writes French, as indeed the majority of the peoples of the North do, principally the Poles and the Russians, with perfect purity. His book is written with clarity, which is a great merit in philosophical matters, for nothing is less suited to the popularization of the ideas that an author wishes to propagate than those books whose reading fatigues to the point of provoking a headache, and whose propositions are a series of indecipherable enigmas for the common run of readers. In short, Mr. Stecki has made a useful book, which is why all Spiritists will be grateful to him.

We personally thank him for the gracious dedicatory epistle that he saw fit to place on the frontispiece of his work.

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