“7.  The Resurrection was a most powerful display of electric force.  It will be remembered that the angel who was found sitting at the entrance of the empty sepulchre ‘had a countenance like lightning,’ i.e., like electric flame.  It must also be called to mind how the risen Christ addressed Mary Magdalene:  ’Touch me not, for I am but newly risen!’ Why should she not have touched Him?  Simply because His strength then was the strength of concentrated in-rushing currents of electricity; and to touch him at that moment would have been for Magdalene instant death by lightning.  This effect of embodied electric force has been shadowed forth in the Greek legends of Apollo, whose glory consumed at a breath the mortal who dared to look upon him.

“8.  The descent of the Holy Ghost, by which term is meant an ever-flowing current of the inspired working Intelligence of the Creator, was purely electric in character:  ’Suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.  And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and sat upon each of them.’  It may here be noted that the natural electric flame is dual or ‘cloven’ in shape.

“Let us now take the Creed as accepted to-day by the Christian Church, and see how thoroughly it harmonizes with the discoveries of spiritual electricity.  ’I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of all things visible and invisible.’  This is a brief and simple description of the Creator as He exists—­ a Supreme Centre of Light, out of whom must spring all life, all love, all wisdom.

“’And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages.’  This means that the only absolute Emanation of His own personal Radiance that ever wore such mean garb as our clay was found in Christ—­who, as part of God, certainly existed ‘before all ages.’  For as the Creed itself says, He was ’God of God, light of light.  Then we go on through the circumstances of Christ’s birth, life, death, and resurrection, and our profession of faith brings us to ’I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son,’ etc.  This, as already stated, means that we believe that since Christ ascended into Heaven, our electric communication with the Creator has been established, and an ever-flowing current of divine inspiration is turned beneficially in the direction of our Earth, ’proceeding from the Father and the Son.’  We admit in the Creed that this inspiration manifested itself before Christ came and ‘Spake by the prophets;’ but, as before stated, this only happened at rare and difficult intervals, while now Christ Himself speaks through those who most strongly adhere to His teachings.