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The Church of Divine Inspiration is a member of the General Assembly
of Spiritualists. The Assembly is an ecclesiastical governing body,
incorporated by a special act of Legislature of the State of New York, Laws of
1914, with jurisdiction in the several states of the United States of America
and the Dominion of Canada.
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The General Assembly's website can be found at:
www.generalassemblyofspiritualists.com
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- It is empowered
to issue charters to churches and auxiliaries.
- It is empowered
to ordain ministers with the right to perform the marriage ceremony and all
other offices of the church.
- It has the right
to extend its operations to the several states of the United States of America
and the Dominion of Canada.
- The status of
its churches and ministers is the same as that of all other religious
denominations, having the highest authority that may be vested by law in any
religious body.
- Its tenets are
those accepted by Spiritualists of the world.
- It supports
freedom of thought in religion, and adheres to the American principle of
separation of Church and State, opposing and legislative effort of compulsory
religious training in the public school system.
- It recognizes
the demonstration of magnetic and spiritual healing as one of the tenets of
Spiritualism.
- It recognizes
the gift of prophecy, clairvoyance, trance and other forms of
mediumship.
- It is governed
by a Constitution duly adopted by a convention of its member churches. Its
policies between annual conventions of the member churches are formulated by a
Board of Directors elected at annual convention.
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The General assembly
believes in the advancement of the Spiritualist religion as an idealistic,
humanitarian, and inspiring movement, that gives aid to the sick, through
spiritual healing, and aid to the sound of body, by well founded hope and
faith. The General Assembly is firmly and permanently opposed to all fraudulent
and dishonest imitations of real mediumship, and to the sensational display
thereof. The ideal of the General Assembly is continually to raise the
standards of the Spiritualist movement, to encourage study classes, reading
courses, dissemination of Spiritualist literature, and research work, to the
end that others may learn of the reality of the Spirit World and its meaning to
mankind.
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We believe
in Infinite Intelligence.
We believe that the phenomena of nature, both
physical and spiritual are the expression of infinite intelligence.
We
affirm that a correct understanding of such expression and living in accordance
therewith constitute true religion.
We affirm that the existence and
personal identity of the individual continues after the change called "Death".
We affirm that communication with the so-called "dead" is a fact,
scientifically proven by the phenomena of Spiritualism.
We believe that
the highest morality is contained in the Golden Rule: "Whatsoever ye would that
others should do unto you, do ye also unto them".
We affirm the moral
responsibility of the individual and that he makes his own happiness or
unhappiness as he obeys or disobeys Nature's Physical and Spiritual Laws.
We affirm that the doorway to reformation is never closed against any
human soul, here or hereafter.
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| President |
Reverend Aloma Y. Cason
Rochester, NY |
| Vice-President |
Reverend Sharon Lee-Hairston
Elmira, NY |
| Secretary |
Reverend Colleen Gordon
Rochester, NY |
| Treasurer |
Reverend Tom Burkholder
Hawley, PA |
| Board Member |
Reverend Sheila Cahill
Rochester, NY |
| Board Member |
Karlean Henry
Queens Village, NY |
| Board Member |
Reverend Enid Jester
Brooklyn,
NY |
| Board Member |
Jacqueline Trezevant
New York,
NY |
| Board Member |
Reverend Denise Knott
Pulaski, NY |
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The General Assembly’s Headquarters are located
at:
27 Appleton
Street
Rochester, NY 14611
Ph: (585) 454-9419
Inquiries can be forwarded to the above address or e-mail from our
contact page.
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