What is Spiritualism defined to be?

Answer

"A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by
rapping, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a
medium; spiritism."-Webster.
Spiritism: "The theory that mediumistic phenomena are caused by spirits of the dead."-Webster.
NOTE-"The very central truth of Spiritualism is the power and possibility of spirit return, under certain
conditions, to communicate with those in the material form."-N. F. RavIin, Spiritualistic lecturer, of
California.

By what is this cleansing from sin and fitting for God's service accomplished?
What duty does God require of children?
How enduring are His commandments?
Through whom did God create the world?
How did Christ, from the Old Testament Scriptures, prove the resurrection?
10. Under what illustration from nature are the resurrection and the final salvation of the righteous taught?
By what may we be partakers of the divine nature?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle