little work is not out of print. He demonstrates in it
most convincingly that Christ's miracles were all
within the powers of psychic law as we now understand
it, and were on the exact lines of such law even in
small details. Two examples have already been
given. Many are worked out in that pamphlet. One
which convinced me as a truth was the thesis that the
story of the materialization of the two prophets upon
the mountain was extraordinarily accurate when judged
by psychic law. There is the fact that Peter, James
and John (who formed the psychic circle when the dead
was restored to life, and were presumably the most
helpful of the group) were taken. Then there is the
choice of the high pure air of the mountain, the
drowsiness of the attendant mediums, the transfiguring,
the shining robes, the cloud, the words: "Let us make
three tabernacles," with its alternate reading: "Let
us make three booths or cabinets" (the ideal way of
condensing power and producing materializations)--all
these make a very consistent theory of the nature of
the proceedings. For the rest, the list of gifts which
St. Paul gives as being necessary for the Christian
Disciple, is simply the list of gifts of a very
powerful medium, including prophecy, healing, causing
miracles (or physical phenomena), clairvoyance, and
other powers (I Corinth, xii, 8, 11). The early
Christian Church was saturated with spiritualism, and
they seem to have paid no attention to those Old
Testament prohibitions which were meant to keep these
powers only for the use and profit of the priesthood.