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Abraham Kuyper, the most influential Dutch Reformed thinker and politician of the last century, discusses religion versus faith in this short lecture. Delivered at the Historical Presbyterian Society in 1890, Kuyper puts forth his views on the pitfalls of religious rituals as opposed to the direct faith that the Reformers held to as the most important doctrines. In true Reformed fashion, he...

In the Freemasonry you see quite the same thing. Freemasonry aims at the Infinite, but rejects all revelation, and therefore it created from the very first, and still advocates, the most explicit and elaborated symbolism. Spiritism, on the contrary, is almost choked with thirst for revelation from the other side of the tomb, and consequently knows of no symbolical fancy whatsoever. So Revelation and Symbolism are opposed one to the other by principle. Both have in view to establish a perceivable
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