IS THEOSOPHY ANTI-CHRISTIAN

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12708, 10 November 1904, Page 7

IS THEOSOPHY ANTI-CHRISTIAN

;••; ■ '■".':'. to the KDITOK. Str,-7-In a recent issue of your paper there -.'■"-, appeared a letter on the above subject in wliich the writer,-tries hard to aliow that he has been benefited by " the study of theosophic .teachings.".: Now,, sir, I know something of this subtle thing called - " thsosophy, and its elder sister,;called:■''spiritualism." I was.curious enough -many years '* ago to make a close study of the latter subt. ject, and some febort time j afterwards fol- >- lowed on to know to what extent theosophy d was dependent on spiritualism- Fortunately ~ I had been a student of the Bible, ; and found that this '' much-vaunted teaching was Q as old as the hills, and that it was thous- « ands of; years ago the special study of it sorcerers, diviners, magicians, necromancers, q fortune-tellers; soothsayers; exorcists, and ~:.. witches. :It waaWstudy in whioh those; who loved darkness rather than light* simply ren veiled, for it led them- on and; on into the c mazes of the Evil r One, and from which, '» certainly, no benefits can ever be derived. y No sin .has been denounced go rigorously '. as this iusiduous desire to be on the most a intimate terms with the great ' enemy -of the l " human race, to more closely cultivate his L * acquaintance, if not, indeed, his friendship. s Th© results have been, are, and always must '; be, • most disastrous". " Jezebel and her 5 witchcrafts" should be an example, to say a nothing of poor Saul. Isaiah the prophet f utters fids warning: *' And when they shall j* say unto you, Seek unto them that have ? familiar spirits, and unto wiaards that peep and: that mutter; Should pot a people seek " unto their God?"—I am, etc., J- J. J. Macks.