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Originally Posted by Eph
This is a good one.  |
Actually the good one, as to Nee's book, The Spiritual Man, was the remark that, yes, there's a serpent in that paradise.
The serpent in that book is/was Jessie Penn-Lewis. There's claims that he, Nee, pretty much got the book from Lewis, claims of plagiarism even.
Jessie taught that Christians can be possessed of demons. That's why, I suppose, I was told that some brothers had become demon possessed from reading TSM.
If you ask me, and I have good off topic reasons for thinking this, Jessie Penn-Lewis was the demon, the serpent, in Nee's TSM paradise.
At this point, 1920s, we're at the West coming to the East, and bringing it to Nee and Lee. This was actually the point when syncretizing between East and West began, and a new Christian hybrid was born, that deformed both Watchman Nee and Witness Lee into Chinese Minister's of the Age.
Every paradise has a serpent.