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Unscientific investiture

This simple truth lays bare the mistaken assumption that man dies as matter but comes to life as spirit. The so-called dead, in order to reappear to those still in the existence cognized by the physical senses, would need to be tangible and material, - to have a material investiture, - or the material senses could take no cognizance of the so-called dead.

Spiritualism would transfer men from the spiritual sense of existence back into its material sense. This gross mate- rialism is scientifically impossible, since to infinite Spirit there can be no matter.