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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1900)
T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, F E B R U A R Y 1, 1900. 6 Six Tracts to Promote Hr. Swank Explains. Concluded from 3d page, organized m aterial form, for an in dwelling aw the life thereof, and ex pressing therein life’s unfolded in herent attrib u tes of consciousness, and m ind or soul, then it is to be In Place of C h ris tia n ity : inferred th a t th a t soul-principle 1 Can Sin« be Forgiven? had this aspiration for in d iv id u al 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil ity of itself, and sought the o rg an i ization? zation and perfection of m aterial 3 Is Religion or Science More Reliable? form for its own indw elling and 4 Evolution and Comparison of Religions. uses, as the individualized occupant 5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit? of such living organized iorm or 6 Immortality or Annihilation? e n tity , and th a t when such m ate rial form was perfected for the in J U S T T H E T H IN G dwelling of the soul, the occupancy to h and to your C hristian friends. Send thereof would be prom pted and im 2 cents for 6, or 6 cents for 25 tra c ts, pelled by this aspiration of soul- to E liza M owry B liven , Brook principle for individuality. Hence, lyn, C onn., or send 10 cents when the m aterial, organized, liv for 50, e ith e r kind or as sorted kinds, to ing spirit-form was unfolded and perfected by germ-life as an en tity , THE LIBERAL UNIVERSITY CO., soul-principle individualized, or 8ilverto n . • Oregon flowed into it; and thus pervaded and anim ated with the sufficient and the only elem ent as an ideality. Spirit-form thus organized, a t tained perm anency of being as a m aterial organization against decay from surrounding influences there on, and thereafter became im m ortal in its identity, as an organization in a perfected form of m atter by and through the soul-principle, thus individualized and dwelling therein. And thus, for the first tim e in e a rth ’s history, was e x h ib it ed th a t union of anim al or physical . . . IS A BOOK O F . . . life and nature, with spirit and soul-life and nature, which consti tuted the dual ch aracter of m an as an im m ortal being. R espectfully, Scientific Wisdom TORCH OF REASON . . . . N ÍÜ $ N o. 2 i« » § RIGHT LIVING ¿ * S ix ty E x c e lle n t C h a p te rs D. E. S w a nk . fir. D. E. Sw ank’s Self-Report. /And now conies again our“spirit- ual-essence” friend, Mr. D. E. Sw ank, and tliiuks he can go the Torch reporter “ one b etter” on the report and explanation of his lec S e lf C ontrol ture. S e lf R esp ect Dear reader, “ you pays your W h a t is M o rality? money and you takes your choice” , for we p rin t the lecturer’s own re W h a t is Ignorance port just as he writes, and he writes plainly,— for which let the “ spirit- Fraud a C rim e es8ence”(?) be praised! But for H a b it, 2nd N a tu re our own single, simple selves we are still compelled to bet upon the Politeness original w rite-up of the Torch as W isdom the more intelligible report of that lecture. It is not so long as Mr. E tc , e tc ., e tc . Sw ank’s, but it seems to us one of the clearest expositions of “ the One of these c h ap te rs is W orth m on to sp iritual im m o rtality ” we have Young and old th a n th e ever met. All you had to do was Price of th e book. to take for granted “ th at p rinciple”, and it landed you safely in the . . . IT SHOULD BE IN . . “ sum m er la n d ”. But w hat and where is Mr. Sw ank’s “ in d estru cti ble spirit-essence” ? It used to work un til science came along and ex plained the whole business as the result of correlative assim ilation,— and then th a t game was up, and so ,© ijdl $ Q , @ ® a n d re c e iv e a rem ains. Our reporter did bis lev n e a tly c lo t h - el best to “ principle” a bottom u n bound co p y, post p a id . der M r.Sw ank,and expected tbanks. 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