The law of psychic phenomena : a working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc / by Thomson Jay Hudson.

  • Hudson, Thomson Jay, 1834-1903
Date:
1909
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Credit: The law of psychic phenomena : a working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc / by Thomson Jay Hudson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    principles of right and wrong are a part of the fixed and immutable laws of God, it follows that the soul of man will, under favorable conditions, have a clear perception of those laws. Those conditions may or may not be present during the life of the body. They certainly will be present when the soul is freed from the clogs of the flesh, and is able to perceive all the fixed laws of nature. In the mean time, while it is an inhabitant of the body it is amenable to con- trol by the power of objective suggestion, and hence is de- pendent upon the objective education of the individual for its standard of right and wrong. This standard may be high or low in any individual case. There will be one stand- ard in one community, and another in another, all depend- ing upon education and social environment; but in each case the subjective mind will follow the suggestions im- parted to it by objective education. If the standard is high in any individual case, the sentiment will gradually become instinctive, so that the subjective impulses and emotions will play an important part. If the standard is low, the instinctive emotions will only be conspicuous for their absence. Man stands in his relation to the principles of right and wrong in just the same position that he occupies in his rela- tion to the laws of electricity or any other natural law. He is struggling to ascertain the laws in each case for the pur- pose of placing himself in harmony with them. His knowl- edge is of slow growth, but each century finds the general standard of right and wrong higher than it was the century before. If the soul possessed, in the normal condition of man, an instinctive knowledge of those laws, he would not have to await the slow process of evolution to develop them. History records the name of but one man in whom the eternal principles of right and wrong were instinctive. That man was Jesus Christ. He perceived those laws, as he per- ceived all spiritual laws, while yet in the flesh. We may profit by his example and his precepts, but otherwise we must work out our own salvation, knowing that, when the