The Spiritual Magazine, Volume 7F. Pitman, 1872 - Spiritualism |
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... ideas concerning it were derived from the misrepresentations of the newspapers . Many of the local journals , in reporting and commenting on these lectures , treated the subject more respectfully and in a more appreciative spirit than ...
... ideas concerning it were derived from the misrepresentations of the newspapers . Many of the local journals , in reporting and commenting on these lectures , treated the subject more respectfully and in a more appreciative spirit than ...
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... the death his " dominant idea " of " unconscious cerebration ; " or rather , he is ridden by it . What then is this " unconscious cerebration , " and what light does it throw on the phenomena of 8 THE SPIRITUAL MAGAZINE .
... the death his " dominant idea " of " unconscious cerebration ; " or rather , he is ridden by it . What then is this " unconscious cerebration , " and what light does it throw on the phenomena of 8 THE SPIRITUAL MAGAZINE .
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... ideas that have long been dormant in it may be awakened . Now , admitting all this , we ask what explanation does it afford of the phenomena of Spiritualism - of the rappings , levitations , movements of ponderable bodies without ...
... ideas that have long been dormant in it may be awakened . Now , admitting all this , we ask what explanation does it afford of the phenomena of Spiritualism - of the rappings , levitations , movements of ponderable bodies without ...
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... idea of the possibility of such phenomena as I saw produced by Mr. Home , being performed by any of the resources of his art . " M. Houdin has borne similar testimony in favour of Mr. Home . Other professors of legerdemain have publicly ...
... idea of the possibility of such phenomena as I saw produced by Mr. Home , being performed by any of the resources of his art . " M. Houdin has borne similar testimony in favour of Mr. Home . Other professors of legerdemain have publicly ...
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... ideas of the spiritual , " " said the stranger , are still dark and obscure . But this is no cause of wonder . Here , all is brought to the test of our sensuous perceptions ; and it is hard to rise above these and withdraw our thoughts ...
... ideas of the spiritual , " " said the stranger , are still dark and obscure . But this is no cause of wonder . Here , all is brought to the test of our sensuous perceptions ; and it is hard to rise above these and withdraw our thoughts ...
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Page 312 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Page 518 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 288 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has...
Page 565 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 112 - A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.
Page 178 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie, - an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Page 92 - Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) 10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go.
Page 129 - I see my friends, my parents, my family, my people, my fellow-citizens ; when I look upon a whole race, all involved in this sin and danger, and when I see the great mass of them wholly unconcerned, and...
Page 185 - For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 232 - And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh...