The communications in this little volume, purporting to come from disembodied spirits, came in the manner hereinafter stated, and all that I had to do with them was to faithfully and to the letter transcribe them from the slate on which they were written into blank memorandum books which I procured for the purpose. Before laying before the reader the modus operandi of their delivery, I deem it proper that I should give a brief outline of my own history, especially do I feel the importance of this since I am little known outside of the circle of my immediate acquaintances.
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A Book Written By The Spirits Of The So-Called Dead
It has always been my aim in life to live uprightly before God and man, and as to the success of this noble purpose, formed in early life, I may confidently refer to my neighbors, and many of the lead...
Mrs. Laura Mosser, now Mrs. Carter, through whose mediumship I had the first slate-writing, August 31, 1879, at her residence, No. 253 Laurel street, Cincinnati, Ohio, from my spirit friend, William G...
Fredrika Ehrenborg. *This has reference to forget-me-not seeds which she sent me from Sweden. On the 24th of May, from 9 to 12 a. m., the same highly esteemed spirit friend wrote on the slate:...
In the evening of the same day I was at a materializing seance at Mrs. Cooper's, where the following persons besides myself were present: Mr. Cooper, his wife, Mrs. Annie Cooper, the medium; Dr. Josep...
They live in perfect harmony; women suffer very little inconvenience in bearing children ; the families are large, with eight or ten children; they are contented and happy. They have better painters i...
I received several other valuable letters of my spiritual friends from Louisville, and in one of them, the 18th of August, Madam Ehrenborg wrote: A request has been made for Mrs. Helleberg to writ...
After Mrs. Cooper moved to Louisville I made acquaintance with Mrs. Jennie McKee, a real lady of high moral and truthful qualities, who had wonderful medial gifts, and permitted me to come to her resi...
When the seance was over, I at once took the flowers to Mrs. Minor's to have them arranged according to her art for preservation and now have them in all their original beauty. The 17th of November, 1...
My investigations through the excellent medium, Mrs. Green, commenced the 2d of September, 1881, and I received many interesting communications from my dear and near relatives, which I value very high...
On the 8th of December, 1881,1 and my wife had a slate-writing seance in the forenoon, and were present in the evening at a trumpet seance with Mrs. Green, and as my wife received a strong convincing ...
For a long time I had regular slate-writing seances in the light and one dark trumpet seance every week at Mrs. Green's residence, No. 309 Longworth street, and at that time were generally present the...
Jennie. Good morning, my dear friend : As the marriage of our grand-daughter to your son has united my son Edward and your family, and that event caused or rather brought us in a positive condit...
March 9,1882. Our party of tourists, after having been carefully selected in accordance with their ability to utilize the magnetic currents that connect the planets in our solar system, and their ad...
As I caught the eye of this great presiding spirit 1 perceived the idea emanating from his mind, ' I am glad to meet you,' yet not one of these words was spoken. I essayed to answer to express my th...
April 3. In your solar system you only claim eight planets, exclusive of the Asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, but the truth is there are thirteen in number; five of them have long since passed int...
April 10: If you could be instantaneously transferred to the planet Mars just as you are in the form you could not live a moment of time. The intensely rarefied and etherealized atmospheres surroundi...
April 20. Your candidates for matrimony, first obtaining each other's consent, and the approval of parents or guardians, apply to the legally constituted authorities for. a license or permit to ente...
April 27. We have been*expecting you to inquire of us how the people live on the planet Mars, what kind of architecture in the construction of their business houses, habitations, etc.; what kind of ...
It is often asked in your intercourse with the world of spirits: What are the employments of spirits? what are they about ? what do they do ? etc. It is pertinent to inquire, What are the employment...
May 5. There being, at this stage of development on Mars, no winter with its concomitants of winds and storm, snow and ice, you have no difficulty in apprehending that very light material only is ne...
In some portions of Mars no structures are used at all, owing to the mildness of the climate and the total absence of inclemency in the slightest degree. In other portions the beautifully developed ...
According to this Christian doctrine we behold in man a combination of good and evil, and in the struggle for the mastery the evil is to be mightier than the good. The good emanating from and partaki...
At one period in the history of Mars the art of photography was discovered. Of course it attracted great attention and challenged admiration. It was regarded not only as wonderful but marvelous. The...
June 1. The people of Mars are not so large in stature as on your earth, nor are they as large as at former periods of their history. The process of progression in casting off the gross, and also by ...
The denizens of earth may wonder at and disbelieve these relations, but nevertheless they are as true as that the eternal God is truth. They point to the destiny in store for the future inhabitants ...
The following communications, purporting to come from the spirit of Emanuel Swedenborg, at Mrs. Green's, are arranged in the order of their reception: September 26, 1881: I greet you; good mor...
June 12,1882: If we concede for the sake of argument that there really exists a literal hell, as depicted by theological teaching, and which constitutes an article of faith in most of the Christi...
June 19,1882: The original conception of a literal local heaven and hell was a feeble monstrosity and far exceeding the intuitions and anticipations of its originators, it has assumed huge and ala...
June 29, 1882: Since I have been inducted into higher light and blessed with the true knowledge I have been utterly amazed in reviewing my writings, resulting in the discovery of two facts, namel...
July 6, 1882: Before the mythologists of antiquity had constructed a hell they had on their hands a personal, individualized spirit of evil, known as the serpent or satan, and more modernly as th...
July 27, 1882: Why seriously discuss questions that are fast fading out of sight? The advancement of mind and the development of spiritual discernment are on the eve of relegating old antiquated ...
July 31, 1882: Instead of there being one, two or three states of the dead, the truth is there are an infinite number and variety of conditions in which the children of men exist in the spiritual ...
August 10, 1882: While the Universalists are considered liberal and progressive, yet their doctrine is equally dangerous and untrue. Indeed, I have more respect for the others. They (the Universal...
On the 16th of June the following communication was received, and those following at the dates mentioned, from the spirit of George Washington : u From my home and congenial associations in the spirit...
August 14, 1882: We are not permitted, for prudential reasons, to tell you how the new system is to be fashioned. To do so would not facilitate its accomplishment, but might possibly operate detr...
August 18, 1882: It is the duty of government to foster, uphold, and defend labor in its unequal struggle against the greed of capital to the end that capital may not utterly crush it beneath its...
It is nonsense to talk about the absence of constitutional power over the subject. Your national legislature has ample warrant, under the constitutional provision conferring authority upon Congress ...
On the 26th of September, 1881, at the hour of 9 o'clock, forenoon, it being the same memorable day on which the body of the late lamented Garfield was buried, I went to Mrs, Green, 309 Longworth stre...
Nov. 21. Among other things during this sitting with Mrs. Green I received the following: Good morning friends of truth. On passing out of the physical form and awakening to the consciousness of t...
The 29th of December, 1881, I received with many others the following communication : Good morning, my dear friends, for such I will call you, although I have never had the pleasure of seeing you...
Jan. 26,1882. And the following came on the slate, which I then copied word for word, and herewith reproduce verbatim et llteratum: My dear old friend. According to promise I am here, and I will ...
During the visit of the celebrated medium, Henry Slade, to Cincinnati, recently,'a reporter of the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer visited him and secured a sitting, during which Mr. F, B. Plimpton, ass...
On the 7th of April, among other things, I received . the following: Unless some changes are made in the conduct of your government direful consequences are to be apprehended. Under the present m...
On May 25, 1882, came the following communication from a spirit, who declined to give his name, for reasons which he claimed to be prudential and personal to himself. It is here given in his own words...
I remember that the new light of spiritual truthfc came to me first, and I was the humble instrument in the hands of higher intelligences to assist you in obtaining it. I was a medium for exalted sp...
On the 4th day of August, 1882, between the hours of 9 and 11 a. m., came the following, which can not fail to be of interest to all who feel that our Indian policy has been either wrong or ineffectiv...
August 28,1882, the following was received, viz: I lived in the body thirty-five years and eight months. I went out by my own hand into the great beyond. I was a singularly constituted man, and a ve...
Aug. 31, 1882. The following from the spirit of Thomas Paine, on capital punishment, was received: I am here to-day, sir, to say a few words in opposition to capital punishment. What is the argum...
Sept. 1, 1882, came the following writing from the spirit of Margaret Fuller: True prayer is the yearning of the soul for something it feels the need of. It need not be expressed in silent words ...
The following is a partial history of the development and mediumistic experiences of Mrs. Lizzie S. Green, the medium chosen by the spirits in transmitting the matter contained in this volume: She ...
In 1869 while holding a circle at Aurora, Ind., composed of a few intimate friends and neighbors, a gentleman—a stranger to all of us—applied for admission, stating that he had been left by the east...
On another occasion I saw a fire raging. I saw it was a two-story brick house. I saw men rolling barrels out of the burning structure, and from the rapidity of their movements and the ease and facil...
My wife and myself, by invitation, were present on Thursday night, January 26th, at a seance given to a select circle of ladies and gentlemen by Mr. and Mrs. Green, at No. 309 Longworth street, this...
Mrs. Green's home proper, is at Aurora, Dearborn county, Indiana. Aurora is a beautiful and enterprising little city of live or six thousand inhabitants, and is located on the western bank of the Ohio...
On Christmas evening myself and wife secured an independent slate-writing sitting with Mrs. Lizzie S. Green, at 309 Loilgworth street, Cincinnati, Ohio, and we received the following communication fro...
Good night, good night, to all that's here, I leave and go to a brighter sphere. Wishing you all success in the new year, dear pa and ma, ever hold sacred the Christmas gift I present you to-da...
Dear Brother: Oh, how happy I am to-day to be able to write you on the inner surface of a double slate with your own precious hands holding it with the medium. You did not need this as a test, for yo...
I desire to speak of a recent manifestation, which baffles my ability to understand, and proves that spirits by some chemical process are enabled to operate upon material substances and cause them to ...
In closing it has been deemed advisable and proper to append an extract from each of two funeral discourses delivered by two eminent divines—one the eminent Methodist Bishop, Mr. Simpson, and the othe...
Chapter I. Introduction
