0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents Mary Baker Eddy Subtitles Category: Book Book#: 00 Series: 1875 & 1910 Textbooks Total Books: 39 Book: Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures ~ 1910 Final Ed. Section#: Section: Science and Health Total Sections: 4 Chapter: Christian Science Versus Spiritualism Chapter#: 4 Subtitle: Progress and purgatory Total Chapters: 34 Subtitle Level: Subtitle#: 21 Beg Pg#: 77 Total Subtitle: 175 Beg Line#: 22 Total Pgs: 1 End Pg#: 77 View/Download: available later End Line#: 32 Topics: Life as Spirit ends the dream of mortality Tags: communications from spirits, “material spiritualism”, spiritism, blighted, purgatory Description: Spiritism teachings and endless round of material existence Text Content: Even if communications from spirits to mortal consciousness were possible, such communications would grow beautifully less with every advanced stage of existence. The departed would gradually rise above ignorance and materiality, and Spiritualists would outgrow their beliefs in material spiritualism. Spiritism consigns the so-called dead to a state resembling that of blighted buds, — to a wretched purgatory, where the chances of the departed for improvement narrow into nothing and they return to their old standpoints of matter.