The clairvoyance was good, if genuine, but it offends me to see it turned off and on like a turn at a music hall
- Date of account
- Published 1921
- Source
- The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
- Reference
- The Wanderings of a Spiritualist · selected passage 49
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
The clairvoyance was good, if genuine, but it offends me to see it turned off and on like a turn at a music hall
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyThe clairvoyance was good, if genuine, but it offends me to see it turned off and on like a turn at a music hall. It is either nonsense or the holy of holies and mystery of mysteries. Perhaps it was just this conflict between the priest with his ritual and the medium without any, which split the early Christian Church, and ended in the complete victory of the ritual, which meant the extinction not only of the medium but of the living, visible, spiritual forces which he represented. Flowers, music, incense, architecture, all tried to fill the gap, but the soul of the thing had gone out of it. It must, I suppose, have been about the end of the third century that the process was completed, and the living thing had set into a petrifaction. That would be the time no doubt when, as already mentioned, special correctors were appointed to make the gospel texts square with the elaborate machinery of the Church.
Historical context
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Modern context
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