All about Devils E-Book

Moses Hull

• Herausgeber: Moses Hull
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

An Inquiry as to Whether Modern Spiritualism and other great reforms come from his Satanic Majesty and His Subordinates in the Kingdom of Darkness.

CONTENTS


PREFACE
CHAPTER I. – THE CASE STATED
CHAPTER II. - DEMONS WHAT ARE THEY?
CHAPTER III. - ORIGIN OF DEVILS
CHAPTER IV. - A FEW MYTHOLOGICAL DEVILS AND HELLS
CHAPTER V. – THE DEVIL AS A REFORMER
CHAPTER VI. – DEVILS IN THE BIBLE
CHAPTER VII. - WHY DOES THE DEVIL EXIST?
 

Leseprobe

Moses Hull

ALL ABOUT DEVILS

or

An inquiry as to whether modern spiritualism and other great reforms come from his satanic majesty and his subordinates in the kingdom of darkness

First digital edition 2016 by Anna Ruggieri

CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. – THE CASE STATED

CHAPTER II. - DEMONS WHAT ARE THEY?

CHAPTER III. - ORIGIN OF DEVILS

CHAPTER IV. - A FEW MYTHOLOGICAL DEVILS AND HELLS

CHAPTER V. – THE DEVIL AS A REFORMER

CHAPTER VI. – DEVILS IN THE BIBLE

CHAPTER VII. - WHY DOES THE DEVIL EXIST?

PREFACE

As a general thing I do not intend to write anything that needs an apology. As for the matter of this book, I am sure no apology is needed. The world needs it. Devils and hob- goblins have long kept the world back from progress. In some passages the manner of presenting the truths here given may seem to border somewhat on the sarcastic; possibly on the blasphemous. Should any apology be needed for that, let it be found in the fact that the whole question, if it were not so ridiculous, would be a sublime sarcasm. The clergy have been misrepresenting the devil; slandering the devil; libeling the devil and firing their heavy guns at the devil for over a thousand years; but they are very careful, in all they do, never to hit him, for they know that one effective blow dealt the devil in the right spot would stop all their business, and dry up the fountains of their support. The devil is truly the drive-wheel of theology. Ministers preach and pray and fast, and beg money, and take immense salaries, as God's especial agents to fight the devil. When they kill the devil there will be no one to tempt Christians no one to lead astray no one to sow Infidel or Spiritualistic doubts; in fact, there will be no further. use for the church or its clergy. Rest assured, the clergy have seen the point, and hence they, in all their shots at the devil, have aimed to just miss him. This farce of the church and its ministry has, perhaps, caused me to, in places, seem unnecessarily sarcastic. This pamphlet has been hastily written with the design of starting the reader to thinking in a rational manner on the questions introduced. If the devil, in these pages, has had his due, no one will be better satisfied than

The Author. Chicago, Jan. 16, 1890.

CHAPTER I. – THE CASE STATED

It was not to be expected that the churches and the ministers who have had a monopoly of guiding the religious thought of the world, would sit down and tamely submit to seeing themselves flanked by the spirit world, insomuch that the people in great numbers turn from them to the light of the spiritual philosophy, without entering some kind of protest. In their efforts to stop the onward march of the new religion, which, in the minds of the people, is rapidly supplanting the old, they will, of course, use the arguments which seem to them the most effectual. To-day, the most common and popular resort of the clergy in its opposition to Spiritualism, is to Rev. xvi:14: "For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." I really see but little in the argument drawn from this text, unless it is that the sound of that horrible word, devils, is calculated to frighten a few who are moved by sound rather than by sense.

WHY THE POPULARITY OF THIS OBJECTION

Why it is that this objection should become so popular with a certain class of ministers, I must frankly confess I cannot tell, unless it is for want of mental capacity to invest in objections which do not sound so loud, and yet really have much more weight. Indeed, this is the only objection against Spiritualism which does not, in some way, place the onus probandi in the hand of the objector. Every other objection implies some knowledge and requires knowledge to back it up. Let an objector, anywhere, or any time in the nineties, arise before an audience of twenty persons and undertake to argue that the facts do not occur, and he is liable to be met, not by fools and know nothings, but by men and women of brains honest men and women, who say to him, "Sir, you are mistaken; I know the manifestations occur, I have seen them." It takes a man more bold than wise to run against the united testimony of more than ten millions of witnesses. It is dangerous ground; few care to tread thereon.

ARE THEY TRICKS?

Should another step to the front and say, "Yes, the manifestations occur, but they are all tricks played by persons who pretend to be mediums." An editor in the city of New York steps to the front and says, "I have $10,000 deposited in the First National Bank of New York for you, when you explain, on the hypothesis of tricks, certain things I have seen and certain tests and communications which have come to me." He afterwards says: "I am authorized by certain capitalists to increase this olfer to a round million." No trickster takes the offer. Mediums are poor; they need the money ; many of them are avaricious; they want the money, but they do not take this offer. The country is full of "exposers of Spiritualism," all of them after money, and yet none of them can be induced to accept this man's million dollars. I submit that that looks bad. It makes very thin m ice for those to skate on who say Spiritualism is a trick. On this point I am tempted to give the testimony of one o [...]