The Spiritual Magazine, Volume 5F. Pitman, 1870 - Spiritualism |
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... effect is not to create supernatural terrors and morbid feelings . My children , who knew all about it , and were present , never showed any signs of trepidation , such as ghost stories excite in sensitive and young people . " I have ...
... effect is not to create supernatural terrors and morbid feelings . My children , who knew all about it , and were present , never showed any signs of trepidation , such as ghost stories excite in sensitive and young people . " I have ...
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... effect in producing sounds . For instance , many of our readers , we doubt not , will snap their fingers at this Buffalo explanation ; we go even further than Dr. Flint , for we consider his theory as an illustra- tion that minds no ...
... effect in producing sounds . For instance , many of our readers , we doubt not , will snap their fingers at this Buffalo explanation ; we go even further than Dr. Flint , for we consider his theory as an illustra- tion that minds no ...
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... effect ; but it appears to be admitted on all hands that the child was paralyzed and unable to move , and , therefore , that if she were fed her food must have been brought to her by others . If it were so , it could hardly be without ...
... effect ; but it appears to be admitted on all hands that the child was paralyzed and unable to move , and , therefore , that if she were fed her food must have been brought to her by others . If it were so , it could hardly be without ...
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... effects upon myself of this strange power . Among other strange things they have caused me to do , I have been made to hold my hands in gas flames where they were not hurt . On one occasion , at a séance with Mrs. Marshall , grapes were ...
... effects upon myself of this strange power . Among other strange things they have caused me to do , I have been made to hold my hands in gas flames where they were not hurt . On one occasion , at a séance with Mrs. Marshall , grapes were ...
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... effect of massing together bodies , which , for anything we know , may be as far from each other as our sun is from any of the fixed stars . And each spot of light in the Milky Way is in all probability a sun , round which are circling ...
... effect of massing together bodies , which , for anything we know , may be as far from each other as our sun is from any of the fixed stars . And each spot of light in the Milky Way is in all probability a sun , round which are circling ...
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Page 182 - Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God...
Page 483 - And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they who see not, might see ; and that they who see might be made blind.
Page 356 - Then, when the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place — when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall and arch, and most of all, it seemed to them, upon her quiet grave — in that calm time, when...
Page 359 - I emphatically direct that I be buried in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner; that no public announcement be made of the time or place of my burial; that at the utmost not more than three plain mourning coaches be employed; and that those who attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband, or other such revolting absurdity. I DIRECT that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb, without the addition of "Mr.
Page 356 - The ancient rooms she had seemed to fill with life, even while her own was waning fast — the garden she had tended— the eyes she had gladdened — the noiseless haunts of many a thoughtful hour — the paths she had trodden as it were but yesterday— could know her no more.
Page 84 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret...
Page 454 - 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...
Page 564 - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us...
Page 351 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 38 - Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car, Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon, Or animals feeding in the fields, Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...