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"Always act in conformity with your convictions of duty (obey your conscience).
"This rule includes two others, first, try to understand clearly what is your duty in every matter then, when you are convinced what your duty is, do it, for the sole reason that you are sure that it is your duty."
Spiritualism, as I understand it, adopts and emphasizes this law, even as Jesus did--in his sermon on the mount and as all good Christians do when they truly interpret him.
The criterion of morality is the conscience, not another man's but your own.
I do not mean that one should not take counsel of other men's consciences in arriving at right conclusions, but I assert the very contrary, that one should do so. Not for the pursose of lessening the sense of responsibility, but for the confirmation of truth and right.
This is the common practice of mankind, and so is that certain things are settled, because universal, or concrete conscience of mankind through ages, has made them so."
Having thus noticed some of the mistakes prevalent in respect to my people and our religion, history and
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