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GOD make about them here, and that is that in some cases miracles are supposed to have been performed by their founders--a fact which in the minds of unthinking masses is generally associated with divinity or divine grace. You will excuse me if I cause any of you pain by saying that I frankly disbelieve these modern miracles. Some of them have been exposed in works written by Messrs. Maskelyne, Farquhar ('Modern Religious Movements Etc'), Joseph McCabe ("Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud") and others.
But even assuming them to be true, which I think would be rather rash to say the least of it, miracles are alleged to have been performed by Hindus, Mahomedans, Jainas, Christians, and others, including savages and fetish-worshippers. whom to believe, then ? I think the true secret of wonder-working in all genuine cases lies in the development of certain 'mysterious' faculties of the soul, normally or abnormally brought about; but these are like athletics which have nothing to do with the beliefs or disbeliefs of men. :. To revert to the pluralistic conception of Godhead, Hinduism in almost all its phases teaches the divinity of the soul, and is altogether pluralistic in form and belief, so that it is unnecessary to dwell upon it any longer. Amongst the rest, Allah, tlie muslim name of God, which is in fact Al-ilah, is really pluralistic in sense. The Encyclo. Religion and Ethics has the following significant comment to make on the word (vol, vi, p. 248):
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