# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1900_S73
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Weltmerism.“ 73

erprobt und durch Erfahrung zum Wissen erhoben. Zugleich behauptet aber
auch Weltmer, daß sich seine Lehre in der Schrift finde, die er von Anfang
bis zu Ende für wahr halte.!) Von der Lehre, daß der Mensch die Gottheit
sei und Kraft und Vermögen zu allem in sich trage, hätten Emerson, Ward,
Wilmans, sowie auch schon die Patriarchen, Hiob, Salomo und IEsus und
seine Apostel gewußt. Christus habe laut die Einheit Gottes und des Men—
schen verkündigt. Er habe das Göttliche im Menschen erkannt und es auch
verstanden, diese Kraft anzuwenden. Aber er sei mißverstanden worden und
diese seine Lehre von der Einheit Gottes und des Menschen habe ihn das
„Leben gekostet.?) Die heutigen Christen und Prediger des Evangeliums
seien Materialisten und mit den Atheisten und Agnostikern in dieselbe Klasse

zu stellen. Sie legten die Schrift falsch aus und statt die Menschen auf
Erden glücklich zu machen, vertrösteten sie dieselben auf einen Himmel im
Jenseits.) Wie Mrs. Eddie so zerrt denn auch Weltmer allerlei Bibel—

everything. The faculty of imagination seems to be absent and the subject
appears to be able to know anything that can be known, or is in that con-
dition which the Mental Scientists describe by the statement that human
mind cannot deny anything that does not exist, nor ask a question it can-
not answer,“ 116.

1) Weltmer schreibt S. 48: „I have had the experience of being consid-
ered, by friends and enemies alike, an infidel, an agnostic, a biblical enthu-
siast, a fanatic, and a scientific man; and have been viewed and deétermined
to be, by my critics, almost every kind of à literary character that can come
under the head of criticism. Some have said that JIam a spiritualist, some
that Jam aàa Christian scientist, some that Lam aà mesmerist, and so on with-
Out end. The truth of the matter is just this; I helieve the bible to be true
from beginning to end; further, IAnO some of it to be true. This latter
statement not one person in a million can make; more of the lay members
than ministers can make this assertion with truthfulness.“

2) Weltmer schreibt S. 24: „No man has ever tried to explain Wwhy these
life forces exist, how they exist, and in what manner they are applied, except
Jesus Christ. His explanations were misunderstood, his deéfinitions Wwere
misinterpreted, his directions were not followed. His doctrine has been
COovered up, and its foundation principles hidden by all this mass of rub—
bish through which only an occasional ray has sparkled. These rays were
caught dimly by such minds as Milton, Bunyon, Spurgeon, Emerson, Wood,
Wilmans and others of lesser mental training. These pearls have been cast
before an unappreciative public, they have only here and there béeen under-
stood, and by the masses have been trampled under foot. Occasionally, some
of those to whom the word of life has been given have turned about to rend
the giver.“

3) Von den christlichen Predigern schreibt Weltmer: „They describe the
Kingdom of God to mankind and hold out great inducements to seek it,
Hnally winding up by putting it Completely out of man's reach in this life
but encouragingly telling him that he will get there as soon as he dies, put-
ting religion on the same basis as à life insurance policy; making it a great