Psychomancy : spirit-rappings and table-tippings exposed / by Charles G. Page.

  • Charles Grafton Page
Date:
1853
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Credit: Psychomancy : spirit-rappings and table-tippings exposed / by Charles G. Page. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    and often morbid appetency for tne supernatural and marvellous ; a proneness to inquire beyond what is actually revealed ; and, worse than this, a prurience of power, either real or specious, to exalt one above his fellow mortals, and give the weight of Divine authority to his words and acts. From this desire originates priestcraft, astrology and sorcery, and in the former habitude of the mind lies the secret of their success and perpetuation. It has been a real source of distress to us, to see professing Christians, even among our immediate friends, pushing their inquiries beyond the confines of realities into the spirit-world, forgetting or mis- apprehending the injunctions of Scripture forbid- ding us to look into such things, and unconscious of the fact, that their well-meant invocations of spirits by the tipping of tables and rappings, was, in every step and act of repetition, lending encour- agement to the mercenary and nefarious schemes of a certain set of vile impostors, who originated the cheat, and were continuing its practice for the sake of filthy lucre. To them, and to all, we say Stop ! ere this temerity be visited with the right- eous judgments of an offended Deity, who has pro-