Modern Spiritualism: A History and a Criticism

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By Frank Podmore

Published 1902
Methuen & co.

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POSSESSION AND WITCHCRAFT	7
bourignon, madini, primaeval
ON POLTERGEISTS	37
hetty, angelique, poltergeist
CHAPTER III	44
puysegur, eslon, mesmer
Vlll	47
celestes, augmentee, fludd
MESMER AND HIS DISCIPLES	53
puysegur, eslon, baquet
CHAPTER V	67
magnetisme, foissac, somnambules

CHAPTER VI	76
potet, billot, adele
CHAPTER VII	92
seeress, hauffe, kerner
THE ENGLISH MESMERISTS	119
elliotson, mesmerists, wombell
COMMUNITY OF SENSATION	132
mesmerise, hyperaesthesia, effluence
CHAPTER X	141
clairvoyance, alexis, seance
CHAPTER XI	154
harmonia, planetoids, fernald
CHAPTER I	179
rappings, knockings, capron
CHAPTER II	202
spiritualists, harmonial, adin
The early dark seances Testimony of Tallmadge William Lloyd Garrison	227
brittan, koons, austinburg
CHAPTER IV	251
edmonds, mediums, capron
CHAPTER V	264
tallmadge, izers, seances
CHAPTER VI	283
harmonial, dods, mattison

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JSTOR: Modern Spiritualism. A History and a Criticism
Modern Spiritualism. A History and a Criticism. By FRANK PODMORE. Vol. I, pp. 307; Vol. II, pp. 374. Methuen and Co., London, 1902. ...
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Either/Or: Spiritualism
The rise of "modern" spiritualism is accepted by many historians to have dated ... The level or quality of science included in modern spiritualism depended ...
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History of Spiritualism by Arthur Conan Doyle-Free Copy and Citations
Capron, Eliab W. "Modern Spiritualism: Its facts and fanaticisms, its consistencies and ... "The Identity of Primitive Christianity and Modern Spiritualism. ...
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Spiritualism - lovetoknow 1911
The first two causes have attracted many inquirers; but it is the last that has chiefly given to modern spiritualism its religious aspect. ...
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Books & Articles by spiritualists or about spiritualism
A careful comparison of Biblical and modern spiritualism. ... Being a full account of modern spiritualism, its phenomena, and the various theories regarding ...
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Bibliography
The History of Modern Spiritualism. The Scientific Foundations of Modern Spiritualism. ... The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism by A. Leah Underhill, ...
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Andrew Davis: Information from Answers.com
Medium, channel, and one of the founders of modern Spiritualism. He was born August 11, 1826, at Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York. ...
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ISS: Biography of Daniel Dunglas Home
THE GREATEST physical medium in the history of modern spiritualism. There was a certain mystery about his parentage. According to his own footnote in ...
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Rhodri Hayward - Demonology, Neurology, and Medicine in Edwardian ...
(London: Holness, 1915); Robert Brown, Demonology and Witchcraft, with Special Reference to Modern Spiritualism, so-called, and the Doctrines of Demons ...
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CПИСОК ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ1 1. Allan Kardec, "Le Livre des Esprits", Paris ...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Early Christian Church and Modern Spiritualism", Psychic Press and Bookshop, 1925. 67. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ...
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The Dream of an Absolute Language: Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture - Page 264
by Lynn Rosellen Wilkinson - 1996
... s'attribua le devoir de la faire connaitre aux hommes. Ii prend Ia plume, pour ne plus la quitter, aux dix-huit volumes des Arcanes ...
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Ghostly Communion: cross-cultural spiritualism in nineteenth-century American literature - Page xxv
by John J. Kucich - 2004 - 240 pages
In this exceptional book, Kucich reveals through his readings of literary and historical accounts thatspiritualism helped shape the terms by which Native American, European, and...
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The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Spirituality - Page 104
by Richard Leviton - 1994 - 464 pages
The heart of the book addresses the conscious unfolding of the potential for creative action infreedom possessed by every human being.
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Southampton, Mass - Page 220
Gridley was a doctor practising in Southampton, Mass. From his own account of himself2 we learn that he began life in poverty with feeble health, ...

Sunderland - Page 194
These are nearly all reprinted in the Spiritual Philosopher, together with editorials on the subject by Sunderland. ...
more pages: 154 243 268

Poughkeepsie - Page 158
In the autumn of 1843 considerable interest was aroused in Poughkeepsie by a series of lectures on Animal Magnetism delivered by Professor Grimes; ...
more pages: 165

Brocton, NY - Page 210
Scott, founded the Mountain Cove Community; while Harris himself later inaugurated a new Spiritualist society at Brocton, NY, and afterwards at Santa ...

Auburn, New York - Page 295
The town of Auburn, New York State, had been from the first an active centre of spiritual propaganda. So early as 1850 there were, according to EW ...

Stuttgart - Page 106
From his house Werner went into Stuttgart in the afternoon, and returned, at six pm, straight to the bedside of his patient, without telling anyone of ...
more pages: 105

Bridgeport, Conn - Page 183
Thus a writer in the New Haven Journal in October, 1850, refers to knockings and other phenomena in seven different families in Bridgeport, ...
more pages: 158

Massillon, Ohio - Page 304
of Leah Fox) had on Christmas Eve, 1852, in company with a medium named Abby Warner, attended service at the Episcopal Church in Massillon, Ohio. ...

Stratford, Connecticut - Page 194
Phelps, of Stratford, Connecticut, was a Presbyterian minister, who had for many years been a believer in clairvoyance, and had himself treated ...

Paris - Page 64
had held the post of Assistant Naturalist at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and in 1828 was appointed Librarian of the Museum of Natural History. ...
more pages: xiii 41 62 68 82 89 111 113 142 147

Santa Rosa, California - Page 210
Mountain Cove Community; while Harris himself later inaugurated a new Spiritualist society at Brocton, NY, and afterwards at Santa Rosa, California. ...

Boston - Page 216
The message bade him go to Abington, a town twenty miles distant from Boston, where he then was, and call upon one David Vining; the object of the ...
more pages: 161 204 205 215 244

London - Page 147
That the description of the maidservants in the house in London, and the grey horse in the stable with sores on its flanks, applied accurately to the ...
more pages: 5 7 15 49 52 100 109 113 155 270

Montreal - Page 236
Whilst he was riding along the streets of Montreal on his way home the key came down upon his breast! "On another occasion, while alone with the boy ...

Prague - Page 13
This latter vision, fortunately enough, came whilst Dee and Kelly were staying at Prague, immediately after the former had been honoured by a private ...

Point Pleasant, New Jersey - Page 255
have fought in the Revolutionary War, to have frequently seen Washington, and to have died at Point Pleasant, New Jersey, on the I5th January, 1847. ...

New York - Page 183
A year later a correspondent of the Spiritual World estimated that there were a hundred mediums in New York City,2 and fifty or sixty " private ...
more pages: 158 166 167 169 188 243 253 269 295

Nashville - Page 207
Finally he settled in Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, and there drew around him a large and devoted congregation. ...
more pages: 256

Philadelphia - Page 183
Spiritual World estimated that there were a hundred mediums in New York City,2 and fifty or sixty " private circles " are reported in Philadelphia. ...
more pages: 200 245 272

Akron, Ohio - Page 174
The first case is published on the authority of a gentleman in Akron, Ohio. No names are given, but the editor professes himself satisfied of the good ...

Lausanne - Page 147
1851 ; that Alexis gave, in the trance, a surprisingly minute and accurate description of Townshend's house at Lausanne, its garden and surroundings, ...

Sheffield - Page 128
His attention was first drawn to Mesmerism by attending a lecture given by La Fontaine in Sheffield, in 1841 or 1842. ...

Edinburgh - Page 151
Professor Gregory describes a visit paid by him to a friend in a town about thirty miles from Edinburgh. He there met a lady who had been twice ...

Bolton - Page 152
Arrowsmith, of Bolton, had disappeared. Arrowsmith's cashier, Mr. Lomax, believed that he had paid in the sum to the bank, but the bank denied all ...

Stockholm - Page 15
Nature makes no leap, even over the grave, and heaven and hell are seen in his prosaic pages to be much like Stockholm or London. ...
more pages: 78

St. Louis - Page 256
M., and on his way to St. Louis he stopped in Kentucky for that purpose. I mention these facts and leave them to make their impression, ...
more pages: 255

Springfield, Mass - Page 204
of the same year the first number of a paper called the Spirit Messenger was published in Springfield, Mass., under the joint editorship of the Rev. ...

Waterford, NY - Page 255
At a circle held in Waterford, NY, on the 5th and 6th March, 1853, there communicated, through the mediumship of Mr. ...

Baltimore - Page 193
After this it is surprising to read that the gentleman from Baltimore drew the conclusion," that we were communicating with an intelligence not ...

Rochester, NY - Page 182
Shortly after these incidents Margaretta Fox went to Rochester, NY, to stay with her married sister, then known as Mrs. ...
more pages: 179

Plymouth - Page 142
At Plymouth, in 1846, the clairvoyant powers of a boy of fifteen, Thomas Laycock, were investigated by a committee of twelve responsible persons, ...

Salem, Massachusetts - Page 21
This fearsome being entered the dairy where she was churning butter, and con-versed with her.2 The outbreak at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, ...

Dover - Page 248
in May, 1855, went to Dover township, had several sittings, and recorded his experiences in a letter of some length in its columns.4 ...

Vienna - Page 51
He studied for the medical profession, and took his doctor's degree at Vienna in 1766, choosing as the subject of his inaugural thesis De planetarum ...
more pages: 97

Abington, Mass - Page 214
As a child he worked in a cotton factory, and thereafter was apprenticed to a shoe-maker in Abington, Mass. But his earnest desire was to be a ...

Manchester, Conn - Page 244
by Brittan :—'' "On the 8th of August, 1852, several gentlemen were assembled at the residence of Ward Cheney, Esq., Manchester, Conn., where in ; ...

Cincinnati - Page 175
Curtis, president of a medical college in Cincinnati. Later, however, being taken in hand by JP Cornell, of the same town, he " developed a wide sweep ...

Winchester, Virginia - Page 206
He went to school at the age of eleven in Winchester, Virginia, and two years later, at the age of thirteen, was chosen by the Presbyterian Missionary ...

Syracuse - Page 183
in Auburn, in Syracuse, " some two hundred" in Ohio, in New Jersey, and places more distant, as well as in Hartford, Springfield, Charlestown, etc.1 ...

Weymouth, Mass - Page 214
aroused against him by his advocacy of the un-popular cause that he was forced to resign his pastorate in New Bedford, and removed to Weymouth, Mass. ...

Brooklyn - Page 295
In 1850, by direction of the same apostle Paul, given through the raps at the circle, James Scott, minister at Brooklyn of the sect of Seventh-Day ...

Hammersmith - Page 112
The last-named lecturer's demonstrations at Hammersmith in 1790 were so crowded that three thousand persons are reported to have attended on one ...

Keokuk, Iowa - Page 257
"From a letter dated Keokuk, Iowa, March 7th, 1854, signed William Wittinmyer, we are informed that two mediums were developed at circles held on the ...

Southport - Page 211
In 1838 they moved to Southport, in Wisconsin, and for some years en-dured the bitterest poverty, living through a whole winter with their one child ...

Brighton - Page xviii
It must be admitted that the older evidence is far from demonstrative; possibly, apart from two recent items—the experiments at Brighton con-ducted by ...

Marseilles - Page 43
whose phenomena seem to have closely resembled those of Angelique Cottin, had landed at Marseilles with the intention of giving public performances, ...

Buffalo, NY - Page 184
In the middle of December, 1850, the Fox girls came to Buffalo, NY, and stayed there for some weeks, giving public exhibitions of their marvellous ...

Austin - Page 205
The author of the hoax was a clergyman named Austin, who wrote in the ffevo York Express under the pseudonym of "Shadrach Barnes. ...

Calcutta - Page 134
Esdaile's first experiment of the kind was made at the hospital in Calcutta on a patient who could scarcely be supposed to have heard beforehand of ...
more pages: 125 131

Don Pedro - Page 88
He has followed the emperor, Don Pedro; he has been imprisoned for five years; he has suffered a great deal, and will use every effort to return to ...

Jerusalem - Page 13
Again, the destruc-tion of the kingdoms of this world and the restoration of Jerusalem were foretold, all which things were to take place in the days ...