Spiritualism is the belief that people have immortality in them and therefore live on after death, and can therefore be communicated with, or invoked. It was a foundation in heathen religions, and finds it’s way into various forms of Christianity through the doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul.
This book traces the connection between the immortality of the soul, self-exaltation, and the decay into immorality. There are sections dealing with the rise of spiritualism (in Waggoner’s day, which now finds more popular acceptance in teachings such as “New Age”), sections on Protestantism and Spiritualism, and sections on Catholicism.
Certainly since this book was written (1888), Spiritualism has made huge strides into the so-called Christian churches through Pentecostalism. But as always, the doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul lays the foundation for this, as Waggoner carefully points out in this important study. 109p
Contents
- The Spirit of Antichrist
- Natural Immortality
- The Cause of Sin
- The Source of Idolatry
- Miracles
- The Spirits of Devils
- Using Good Works to Deceive
- Christian Spiritualism
- Communication with the Dead
- Preparing the Way
- Calling Evil Good
- Imitating the Second Advent
- Purgatory and Indulgences
- Mariolatry
- Mary in the Place of Christ
- Encouraging Wickedness
- Let Them Laugh
