The philosophy of spiritual intercourse : being an explanation of modern mysteries / By Andrew Jackson Davis.

  • Andrew Jackson Davis
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1851
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Credit: The philosophy of spiritual intercourse : being an explanation of modern mysteries / By Andrew Jackson Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    TRUTH AND MYSTERY. The intelligent individual needs not to be informed that this Age is one of unparalleled mental activity. He who reads the popular publications of these times, and has traveled far from the home of his birth, is not startled at the announcement of any new discovery in science, in philosophy, or in theology. And discoveries are' being unceasingly unfolded. Realities, more wondrous and mag- nificent than the tales and romances of oriental lands, are being daily evolved from the deep foundations of nature ; and the familiar developments of modern sciences exceed, in their availability to universal man and in their powers of accomplishment, all the mythical achievements of magic and all the traditional wonders of enchantment. Moreover, this Age, when compared with any of the previous periods which, like mile-stones, mark the advance- ments of Time, and the events of the past, is emphatically one of Thought. The past is stained with blood ; because desire and selfishness have wielded the scepter of power ; and passion, not being well disciplined and subjugated to Reason's admonitions and Nature's immutable laws, has ruled the world instead of wisdom; and thus feeling, more than judg- ment, has guided the kingdoms and nations of earth into a vast labyrinth of anarchy, superstition and mystery. Surely, it seems strange to affirm, and it is a thing heartily to be deplored, that mankind have been victims to an excess of feeling—especially, when almost always those in power are complained of as wanting in feeling. It is not, in fact, that influential minds are without feeling, but that its excess and misapplication are vicious ; it is with them that undisciplined
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