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.

Into what condition has sin brought the entire creation?
What is another evidence of divine acceptance?
Why did not Christ work many miracles in His own country ?
What, therefore, did God do?
And how may we know that we love the brethren?
13. At the instance of church bishops, what still further law was secured under Theodosius the Younger, in 425?
2. What sign had been foretold by the prophet Isaiah by which Christ, at His first advent, might be known as the Messiah?

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