Lehre und Wehre St. Louis, Missouri — April 1907, Seite 179

German transcription machine transcription, uncorrected

Cited in Eckhardt's Reallexikon (1907) under: Papſttum 4 · Spiritismus

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Kirchlich-Zeitgeschichtliches. 179

We are Catholics, but we are also men, and although the essential articles
of our faith are immutable, we change with a world which changes. Con-
tent to submit to their consequences, we accept with a frank sincerity,
With a joyful acquiescence, the principles of government of the people, by

the people, for the people.“ Die wesentlichen Artikel unsers Glaubens sind
unveränderlich, sagt Spalding. Unter diesen Artikeln stehen obenan die fol—
genden drei: „Der Papst rühmt sich zum ersten, daß er aus göttlichen Rechten
der Oberste sei über alle andere Bischofe und Pfarrherrn in der ganzen
Christenheit. Zum andern, daß er aus göttlichen Rechten habe beide Schwert,
das ist, daß er müge Könige setzen und entsetzen, weltliche Reiche ordnen ꝛc.
Zum dritten sagt er, daß man solchs bei Verlust der ewigen Seligkeit zu
gläuben schüldig sei.“ (Schmalkald. Art., 328, § 1. 2.) Von diesen Artikeln
läßt der Papst nicht und kann er nicht lassen, ohne sich selber aufzugeben.
In wirklichem Frieden leben kann darum auch die Papstkirche nur mit einem
Staate, der sich dem Papste völlig unterstellt. Alle andern Zustände kann
die Kirche zwar dulden („tolerari potest“), aber nicht billigen und gutheißen.
F. V.

Daß der Spiritismus nicht immer auf Betrug beruht, dafür ist Carl
Schurz ein Zeuge. Die Keviere and Herald schreibt: Mr. Schurz had been
invited while in Paris, to attend àa seance, but was prevented from doing
Ss0 by à sudden trip to London. It occurred to him before leaving, how-
ever, to provide a test of the powers of theé clairvoyant by whom the seance
Was to be given. He says (in his reminiscences): I cut off some of my
hair, wrapped it in a piece of paper, and put this into a letter envelope
Which I closed with sealing wax. Then I tore a little strip from à letter
I had received that morning from the Hungarian General, Klapka, the
celebrated defender of the fortress Komorn, and put this strip containing
the date of the letter also into a folded paper, and enclosed it likewise in
an envelope sealed with wax. When Strodtmann had returned to me,
gave him the two envelopes without informing him of their contents, and
instrueted him to place them in the hands of the clairvoyant with the
request that she give a description of the looks, the character, the past
career, and the temporary sojourn of the person from wihom the objects
concealed in the envelopes were coming. Then I left for London. A few
days later I received a letter from Strodtmann in which he narrated the
results of the seance as follows: The clairvoyant took one of my envelopes
into her hand, and said it contained the hair of a young man who looked
thus and s0o. She then described my appearance in the most accurate way,
and added that this young man had won notoriety by his connection with
a bold enterprise, and that at the present time he was on the other side
of aà deep water in a large city, and in the circle of a happy family. Then
she gave a description of my character, my inclinations, and my mental
faculties, which, as I saw them in black on white, surprised me greatly.
Not only did I recognize myself in the main features of this description,
but I found in it also certain statements which seemed to give me new
disclosures about myselff. I received, so to speak, a revelation about
my ovn inner self, a psychological analysis which I had to recognize as
just, as soon as I perceived it. What the clairvoyant said about the other
envelope w'hich contained Klapka's writing was hardly less astonishing.
She deseribed the writer of the letters and figures contained in that en-

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