Another mind said, “There is a work which must needs be done. The
rudimental condition needs improvement. There will come a time when
the spirits, as they will call us, can communicate with minds in
the body. I see a work of great magnitude, which will be required
of us. This work requires a change in the social condition of such
minds. As society is now controlled, poverty and riches are unequally
distributed. Minds wrangle about the productions of earth. They disown
the relation of sympathy, and their professions of love are nearly
empty. Sincerity is devoid of active energy. The forms of worship are
forms of display. Pride governs the heart. The poor are wronged. The
rich wrong themselves. Skill and craft oppress the former, and luxury
and extravagance injure the latter. Both are wronged of enjoyment.
The oppression of poverty should be corrected. The indolence of
riches should be vitalized with love. Society should be reconstructed;
industry should be encouraged; love should supplant fear. Works should
take the lead of words. Acts should speak for mind. Wrong should not
tell her tale of woe. Purity should cleanse the impure. The blind
should see the righteousness of God. The harmony of nature should be
imitated. Nations are communities. Communities make nations. Social
order should be established. War should cease. Honesty should abound.
The love, which we feel, should inspire all minds.
“But who will work the necessary change? I see a change in the human
condition approaching. I see a mighty revolution in the organization
of human society. I see means which can accomplish the result. There
is a progress in the rudimental world. The crowns of kings are
growing old with mind. Reverence for human authority will not last
forever. The relics of other days, are monuments of wrong. The tide
of progression will sweep into oblivion the injustice of tyranny. The
sun of truth will enlighten the nations of earth. The glory of God
shall be revealed, and all flesh shall enjoy it together. But, until
the change shall come, no human wisdom can control the disorders of
society. Efforts will be made by philanthropic minds, to rectify the
evils, but without success. Organized communities will be established,
but the evil, in some form, will remain. Something more than a change
of external conditions is required. Externals affect internals, but
the external should not control the internal. The external is the
stream, the internal the fountain. Nature provides that the internal,
the fountain, should control the external, the effect. Not until the
fountain becomes pure, will the stream be worthy. The wrongs of
society, are the manifestations of wisdom in embryo. It is enshrouded
in the darkness of other days. The night of superstition is far spent.
The morning light of truth must break from this sphere. The fountain of
pure water must refresh the desolate earth. The well of sympathy must
flow freely, to nourish the plants of immortal progress.
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