Patti, At 06:16 PM 5/24/2004, you wrote: >>In placing the work in the fiction category, one probably has a bit of skepticism >>regarding people speaking from the next world (and I usually do--although speaking >>as a scientist I have had inexplicable things happenn me-- so sometimes I have to >>be willing to suspend my disbelief).<<
I am also extremely skeptical regarding spiritism (spiritualist) mediumship, channeling, etc. The premillennialist Christian doctrine of the rapture, or translation, of the church was first developed by Margaret McDonald, a teenage Scottish spiritist medium. However, I think it is important to understand that Wellesley Tudor Pole did set out to write fiction work. His book lacks some of the drama of Oahspe, the Urantia Book, and other channeled works of his period, but the likely intent, to give supernatural mandate to one's own belief system, is substantially the same. Mark A. Foster * http://markfoster.net "Sacred cows make the best hamburger" -- Mark Twain and Abbie Hoffman __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
