“_Ans._—Yes, many times. “_Q._—In the order of degree, which stands the higher in moral excellence—Jesus Christ, Confucius, or Zoroaster? “_A._—Confucius stands in morality higher than the other two.... Jesus himself claims to have been inspired to a large extent, by this same Confucius. And if we are to place reliance upon the records concerning each individual, we shall find that Jesus spoke the truth when he tells us that he was inspired by Confucius.” Indeed! Where are the records referred to? Where and when did Jesus “speak” the words attributed to him? And where does he tell _us_, that he was inspired by Confucius? So we are to believe, are we, that the gospel of Jesus Christ, is only a rehash of what was originally wrought out in the brain of Confucius, and not words fresh from the fountain of light given him by his Father in heaven, to speak, as he claimed them to be? Yet he was a high and _holy_ medium. We wonder what standard of holiness and perfection the spirits can have. But still later, in 1896, we find the spirits putting forth the same teaching in reference to Jesus Christ. In “Automatic, or Spirit Writing,” pp. 148, 149, we have this:— “_Ques._—Do you accept Jesus as the model of spiritual knowledge? “_Ans._—Shall you give us a better example? “_Q._—Well, we are willing to accept him as one of many, but not as chief. “_A._—Change the name. Call him by other names—Buddha, Krishna, or Mohammed, the spirit is one—is ever and ever the same. Spirit is one, not many, however often the name is changed. “_Q._—Were not Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammed distinct personalities? “_A._—No more than all atoms emanating from the same source—parts of the great All of Being, partaking of the general characteristics of the grand whole—but yielding to environments, showed marked individualism, such as the force of the times in which they appeared would create in their characters. “_Q._—Are these leaders of religious thought not distinct individualities now? “_A._—No, not on spiritual planes, which do not recognize any now.”