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Part 2 of the Findlay Trilogy - Christianity vs Spiritualism, 6 Jul 2009
'Truth, whether in or out of fashion, is the measure of Knowledge. Whatever is beside that, however authorised by consent, is nothing but ignorance or something worse.' - Locke. Findlay chose this quote carefully for the title page of a book which in 1933 was one of the first to present to the popular reading public a truthful, historical account of the rise of Christianity, and emphasize the difference between the historical Jesus (assuming he existed merely on the principle of cause and effect, there to this day not being a scrap of historical evidence he actually existed) and the biblical Jesus, as well as Jesus' original message versus the one put into his mouth over three centuries by early Christian scribes. These alterations, plainly evident when comparing early versions of the Gospels, reflect the changing (and clearly man-made and borrowed) Christian doctrine until the Council of Nicaea fixed these evolving scriptures in 325AD. To consider these man-made books to be the Word of God is possibly the greatest blasphemy against any Creator one could make, to be exceeded only by equating this Infinite Intelligence with the murderous, immoral Jehovah.
For those who doubt these results of decades of research by Findlay, consider that in September 1933 he published a challenge to all the Protestant clergymen in Great Britain and Ireland, 28630 of them, to expose any errors or misstatements in The Rock of Truth. A copy of the newspaper in which the challenge was published was personally mailed to every one! A footnote in The Unfolding Universe, which is the third book in the trilogy (the first having been On The Edge of The Etheric), states that no reply had been received after 15 years. That's simply because Findlay didn't make any of this stuff up. It all came from published works in Theology and Religious History that most Christians are completely unaware of, but which are old news to theologians and biblical scholars.
That is essentially part 1 of the book. Having disposed of Christianity, he sets about in part 2 explaining the precepts of Spiritualism, at least those that were promulgated before WWII. He emphasizes the need for a return to a world where behaviour is governed by ethics, those best expressed by Greek philosophers such as Plato, Socrates and Aristotle, whose wise words were all but obliterated by Christianity, but thank God, survived. He shows that a religion which promises salvation on the grounds of belief and not conduct is immoral and unethical, and guaranteed to lead to bloodshed. And, considering too the material in On The Edge Of The Etheric, his own personal 'field reports', he convinces that communications can and do take place between our physical world and the etheric. This is all material which Findlay later expanded on greatly in The Curse of Ignorance and other works, but this book represents his first real expose of it, and is recommended reading. 206 pages.
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