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binding, or sealing, them in bundles for the heavenly garner.” This
little company looked careworn, as if they had passed through severe
trials and conflicts. And it appeared as if the sun had just risen from
behind a cloud and shone upon their countenances, causing them to
look triumphant, as if their victories were nearly won.
I saw that the Lord has given the world opportunity to discover
the snare. This one thing is evidence enough for the Christian,
if there were no other; namely, that there is no difference made
between the precious and the vile. Thomas Paine, whose body has
now moldered to dust and who is to be called forth at the end of
the one thousand years, at the second resurrection, to receive his
reward and suffer the second death, is represented by Satan as being
in heaven, and highly exalted there. Satan used him on earth as
long as he could, and now he is carrying on the same work through
pretensions of having Thomas Paine so much exalted and honored
in heaven; as he taught here, Satan would make it appear that he is
teaching in heaven. There are some who have looked with horror at
his life and death, and his corrupt teachings while living, but who
now submit to be taught by him, one of the vilest and most corrupt
of men, one who despised God and His law. [
To appreciate the force
of these remarks the reader needs to understand that a work was
published through the mediumship of “Rev. C. Hammond,” entitled
Pilgrimage of Thomas Paine in the Spirit World
, In which Paine is
represented as an exalted spirit in the
Seventh Sphere
. And in the
“Investigating Class in New York,” it was said that Christ himself
had conversed with a medium and revealed that he was in the
Sixth
Sphere
. The disparity will be understood when it is remembered that
they represent the spirits as progressing in the spirit world, and that
Christ, after more than 1800 years of progress, has reached the sixth
sphere, while Paine, in about 100 years, has reached the seventh! A
further explanation of this may be found in the statement of doctor
Hare, that his spirit sister said her progress had been retarded by
her belief in the atonement of Christ. Thus does spiritualism exalt
infidels and infidelity. See also appendix.
]
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He who is the father of lies, blinds and deceives the world by
sending forth his angels to speak for the apostles, and to make it
appear that they contradict what they wrote by the dictation of the
Holy Ghost when on earth. These lying angels make the apostles to