Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations / Demonstrating the existence of spirits and their communion with mortals. Doctrine of the spirit world respecting heaven, hell, morality, and God. Also, the influence of Scripture on the morals of Christians.
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DEMONSTRATING
THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS AND THEIR COMMUNION WITH MORTALS.
DOCTRINE OF THE SPIRIT WORLD RESPECTING HEAVEN, HELL, MORALITY, AND GOD.
ALSO,
Influence of Scripture on the Morals of Christians.
ROBERT HARE, M.D.
EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, GRADUATE OF YALE COLLEGE AND HARVARD UNIVERSITY, ASSOCIATE OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, AND MEMBER OF VARIOUS LEARNED SOCIETIES.
Verba animi proferre , vitam impendere vero.
Robert Hare
Transcriber’s Notes
CONTENTS.
APPENDIX.
PREFACE.
Author’s Reply to the preceding Address.
Communication from an assembly of eminent spirits, sanctioning the credentials transmitted through the mediumship of Mr. Lanning.
Postscript by the author.
SUPPLEMENTAL PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
THEOLOGICAL AXIOMS.
NARRATIVE OF THE AUTHOR’S EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SPIRITUALISM.
HYMN CHANTED TO MY SISTER, AND HER REPLY.
CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS.
FOREIGN CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE.
SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS IN FRANCE AND GERMANY.
SPIRITUALISM IN GREAT BRITAIN.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD.
SPIRITUAL BIRTH OF MARIA.
CONVOCATION OF SPIRITS.
EXPOSITION OF THE INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD.
APOLOGY FOR MY CONVERSION.
MORAL INFLUENCE OF SPIRITUALISM.
THE HEAVEN AND HELL OF SPIRITUALISM CONTRASTED WITH THE HEAVEN AND HELL OF SCRIPTURE.
DISCORDANCE AS TO THE WHEREABOUT OF THE SCRIPTURAL HEAVEN.—INSTINCTIVE IMPRESSION AS TO HEAVEN BEING OVERHEAD.
“THE TRUE DOCTRINE”
OF MEDIUMSHIP.
ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE ILL-TREATMENT OF MEDIA, ON SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS.—OF COUNTER-MEDIUMSHIP.
ON PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS.
MODERN PROCESS FOR ALPHABETIC CONVERSE WITH SPIRITS, AS NEW TO MAN AS THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
INFLUENCE OF MUNDANE WEALTH IN THE WORLD TO COME.
MRS. GOURLAY’S NARRATIVE.
ILLUSTRATION OF THE PRACTICAL BENEFIT OF SPIRITUALISM, IN THE HAPPINESS IMPARTED BY THE CONVERSION OF AN UNBELIEVER TO A BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY.
MARRIAGE ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN.
THE MORALITY OF CHRISTENDOM BEING IRRECONCILABLE WITH THE NEW TESTAMENT, CANNOT BE ITS LEGITIMATE OFFSPRING.
ADDITIONAL CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS.
A VISIT TO THE SPIRITUALISTS OF OHIO.
OF MATTER, MIND, AND SPIRIT.
RELIGIOUS ERRORS OF MR. MAHAN.
PAGAN FEARLESSNESS OF DEATH.
CONCLUSION.
APPENDIX.
LETTER TO THE EPISCOPAL CLERGY.
A LETTER FROM DR. HARE.
FARRADAY’S SPECULATION.
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