Identifier: aletheiaspirit00mace (find matches)
Title: The Aletheia : spirit of truth, a series of letters in which the principles of the United Society known as Shakers are set forth and illustrated.
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Mace, Aurelia Gay, 1835-1910
Subjects: Shakers
Publisher: Farmington, Maine : Press of Knowlton, McLeary & Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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ond toJesus in the Shaker Order was the cause of her followersmaking use of the expression, Christ made his secondappearance in Ann Lee. Christ had appeared in thou-sands before our Mother lived, and also before the daysof Jesus. New truths have been revealed to the disciples ofMother Ann, from time to time, ever since the ShakerOrder has been established. Our brother, Paul Tyner, isright in this. Fast upon the downfall of the generativelife has come the enlightenment. Creeds have fallen before the Star of Revelation. TheTrinity is dethroned. God is our Heavenly Father andMother. The atonement by the death of Jesus haspassed away. Baptism by water is supplanted by the baptism of fireand the Holy Spirit, the Christ. This spiritual fire is toconsume the evils inherent in the human soul, the tares.There is a fire in Zion, and a furnace in Jerusalem. The Eucharist is understood to be received by livingthe pure life which Jesus lived — typified by the bodyand blood, which means the life.
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ELDRESS LIZZIE NOVES.Sahhathday Lake, Maine. ■ O brighter than the morning star Is the heart that is pure and free!And tlie Hght that s ever glowing there. The star of purity.The sun shall wane, the stars go down, And reign of time be oer,But the living light in the heart that s pure Shall shine forever more. EQUALITY OF THE SEXES. 73 Endless punishment is also routed, and an angry Godis no more. But the sinner finds punishment enough.Each must atone for his own sins, by bringing them tothe light and forsaking them forever. When reforma-tion is complete, the punishment is removed. Progression after death is also established — a travel ofthe soul from one degree of grace and glory to anotherfor ever and ever. A soul can recede from God afterdeath, yet the farther he gets away, the harder he willfind it to return; but return he must sooner or later.Even the Parsees bring back their first old evil one,Ahriman and his rebellious host. After being purifiedby fire they all return and a

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