The Early Christian Church and Modern Spiritualism E-Book

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 30

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Arthur Conan Doyle draws parallels between the practices of the early Christian church and those found in modern spiritualism in this bold and thoughtful essay. Arguing that both traditions embrace communication with the divine and the afterlife, Doyle presents a spiritual lineage that connects ancient faith with contemporary belief. It's a unique theological perspective that attempts to bridge doctrine and psychic experience.

Leseprobe

The Early Christian Church and Modern Spiritualism

Individual Articles, Letters & Pamphlets

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Prepared and edited by: Rafat Allam

Copyright © 2025 by Al-Mashreq eBookstore

First published by The Psychic Press, London, 1925

This e-book edition: Roy Glashan's Library, 2019

No part of this publication may be reproduced whole or in part in any form without the prior written permission of the author

Table of Contents

The Early Christian Church and Modern Spiritualism

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Early Life and Education

Medical Studies and Early Career

The Birth of Sherlock Holmes

Other Literary Works

Personal Life

Spiritualism and Later Life

Honours and Legacy

Landmarks

Table of Contents

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A book in which Doyle argues that manifestations from the spirit world were prevalent in early Christianity; first publication of The Psychic Press, Doyle's own publishing house specialising in esotera.

"The Early Christian Church and Modern Spiritualism," The Psychic Press, London, 1925

When one surveys the slow progression of religious ideas amid mankind one can, I think, see clearly that God releases definite instalments of teaching from age to age, adapting each instalment to the fresh requirements of the human mind and modifying it to the environment.

What prevents the more speedy development of truth is that each revelation, though it may be fluid at first, sets presently into a hard mould. It shuts itself to new inspirations from the beyond. A priesthood rises which resents any change, and brands as heresy every fresh influx of spirit. Vested interests form and a Church becomes a worldly organisation which opposes new ideas. Above all the sinister figure of the Theologian rises. Instead of admitting our ignorance and waiting with open mind for fresh waves of God-inspired truth the human brain has exerted itself to build up an extraordinary man-made edifice which starts by the proposition that all that pertains to God is so infinite a mystery that none can comprehend it, and then proceeds in flat contradiction to lay down the law about the degree of divinity which existed in Jesus, the number of persons in the deity, the nature of the Holy Spirit, and other great dogmas about which we in truth know nothing whatever. Yet it is these nebulous things which have from early Christian days been the cause of more division, of more misery, of more bloodshed, than any single cause. In the sad history of humanity the dogmatic Theologian has been a greater evil than the smallpox.