It is the corner-stone of heathenism.
--All or nearly all the gods of heathenism are believed to be dead men who were turned into gods by dying.
--Catholicism is indebted to this doctrine for all its saints who are believed to be mediators with God.
It is a fundamental idea in the system of purgatory. In fact, Romanism is as much dependent on this doctrine as is heathenism.
--Spiritualism is simply the embodiment of this doctrine of natural immortality. 
It is incapable of existing without it. Is it not strange that this corner-stone of heathenism, Roman Catholicism, and Spiritualism, should be also the corner-stone of modern orthodoxy? Yet such is the case."
J.N. Andrews
