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Robert Hare. Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations
Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations
Table of Contents
APPENDIX
PREFACE
Author’s Reply to the preceding Address
Communication from an assembly of eminent spirits, sanctioning the credentials transmitted through the mediumship of Mr. Lanning
Postscript by the author
SUPPLEMENTAL PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
On the Evidence of the Existence of a Deity. BY THE AUTHOR
THEOLOGICAL AXIOMS
INTUITIVE EVIDENCE. OF THE. EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS
NARRATIVE OF THE AUTHOR’S EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SPIRITUALISM
Letter in reply to an Inquiry respecting the influence of Electricity in Table Turning
Of manifestations founded on table movements without contact, or such contact, as cannot be sufficient to cause the result
HYMN CHANTED TO MY SISTER, AND HER REPLY
CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS
Corroborative evidence by the Rev. Allen Putnam, of Roxbury, Mass
FOREIGN CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE
Manifestations which occurred in France, in 1851
Letter from T. R. P. Ventura
Letter of Dr. Coze
Letter of M. F. De Saulcy
Spiritualism in Paris
SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS IN FRANCE AND GERMANY
SPIRITUALISM IN GREAT BRITAIN
Account of Mr. Robert Owen’s Conversion
Letter of Robert Owen to the Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph
Mr. Hume at Springfield
COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD
Remarks Introductory to my Spirit Father’s Communication
My Spirit Father’s Communication.[10]
Communication from a Spirit Son of the Author
Additional Communications from Spirits who died while Infants
Communication from a very young Spirit child to its Parents
OF THE SPIRITUAL BIRTH,[13] CALLED DEATH, OF HUMAN BEINGS, CALLED MORTALS, ALTHOUGH IMMORTAL
Of Spiritual Birth
Narrative given by Spirits of their translation to the Spirit World, the abode of human souls in a future state
Narrative of his Spiritual Birth, by W. W-—-, a most benevolent Spirit of the Fifth Sphere
SPIRITUAL BIRTH OF MARIA
The Spirit Maria’s Narrative, as given through the Mediumship of Mrs. M. B. Gourlay
My Sister’s account of her Spiritual Birth, or Translation to the Spirit World
My Brother’s account of his Spiritual Birth
CONVOCATION OF SPIRITS
EXPOSITION OF THE INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD
APOLOGY FOR MY CONVERSION
Apology for my change of opinion and belief in the existence and agency of Spirits
Invisibility of the Soul
On the Whereabout of Heaven
In reply to the preceding, so much of a letter from the Author as relates. to Spiritualism
Some parts of a letter to Mr. Holcomb, in reply to the parts of his letter relating to Spiritualism
MORAL INFLUENCE OF SPIRITUALISM
THE HEAVEN AND HELL OF SPIRITUALISM CONTRASTED WITH THE HEAVEN AND HELL OF SCRIPTURE
DISCORDANCE AS TO THE WHEREABOUT OF THE SCRIPTURAL HEAVEN.—INSTINCTIVE IMPRESSION AS TO HEAVEN BEING OVERHEAD
“THE TRUE DOCTRINE”
OF MEDIUMSHIP
ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE ILL-TREATMENT OF MEDIA, ON SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS.—OF COUNTER-MEDIUMSHIP
The Author’s Discovery of his powers as a Medium
ON PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS
MODERN PROCESS FOR ALPHABETIC CONVERSE WITH SPIRITS, AS NEW TO MAN AS THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
INFLUENCE OF MUNDANE WEALTH IN THE WORLD TO COME
According to the Spiritual Code, riches elevate or degrade according to the virtue displayed in their acquisition and employment
MRS. GOURLAY’S NARRATIVE
ILLUSTRATION OF THE PRACTICAL BENEFIT OF SPIRITUALISM, IN THE HAPPINESS IMPARTED BY THE CONVERSION OF AN UNBELIEVER TO A BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY
Letter from a Spirit Daughter
MARRIAGE ON EARTH AND IN HEAVEN
The Hymeneal Tie in the Spirit World grows out of the necessity of the Connubial Union in the Mundane Sphere. “Free love” imputation refuted.[19]
THE MORALITY OF CHRISTENDOM BEING IRRECONCILABLE WITH THE NEW TESTAMENT, CANNOT BE ITS LEGITIMATE OFFSPRING
Inspiration can have no higher authority, than the human testimony on which its existence is arrogated
Injurious Influence of unreasonable Restriction
No one would believe that a capable farmer would make such a mistake as to sow garlic instead of wheat. Yet God, while represented as having intended to sow Protestantism, is considered as having caused, throughout Christendom, a crop of Catholicism, in the Roman or Grecian form, for more than a thousand years; those weeds still occupying more than half of the whole soil
Letter of William Pitt
Offer of Guidance by a Mundane Spirit
Improper use of the epithet Infidel, as used in the parodied quotation from the Clergyman’s Letter
On Atonement
On the massacre at Sinope, as a probable consequence of Religious Fanaticism and Intolerance
Opinions of God held by Sir Isaac Newton.—Enfield’s Philosophy, Page 638
On God and his Attributes, by Seneca
On the Better Employment of the First Day of the Week
Additional Remarks respecting the Observance of the Sabbath, so called
If Creatures be not so created as to love their Neighbours as themselves, precepts can no more alter them in this respect, than change the Colour of their Hair, or the Number of Cubits in their Stature
Attacks upon the authenticity of Scripture cannot endanger the prevalent morality, which, while it is superior to that of the Old Testament, indicates a recklessness of the precepts of Christ, excepting so far as they make faith a counterpoise for sin
The Doctrine of a peculiar Belief being necessary to Salvation, and a counterpoise for Sin, a source of discord originally confined to Judea, expanded with Christianity and Islamism; verifying Christ’s allegation, that he came “as a Sword, not as a Messenger of Peace.”—Superior Morality, and far more unquestionable Certainty of the Communications from the Spirit World
Quotation from Mosheim
Quotation from Gibbon
For more than a thousand years the Grecian or Roman Catholic Clergy were the sole depositories of the word of God, so called, and Regulators of Religious morals; yet during that time the Clergy were for the most part pre-eminent in vice, as compared with the rest of the community; whence it is inferred that, like Pope Boniface, the wicked Clergy in general were really unbelievers in the truth of the Gospel. If the morals of the modern Clergy are better, it is neither from the barbarous example furnished them in the Old Testament, nor the ultra precepts of the Gospel; being too much enlightened to be governed in practice by either
Reasons for not proceeding farther with Quotation of Details
Any religion, like that of Moses, which does not make Immortality a primary consideration, must be chiefly confined to worldly objects, and of course unworthy of consideration or respect
People profess Christianity more from a desire to do right, than they do right in consequence of their professions
It is a calumny against human nature to represent men as wilfully ignorant of the true religion
To appreciate the Jewish representation of the Deity, a reader should first form an idea of this planet and its inhabitants, comparatively with the hundred millions of solar systems, and the inconceivable extent of the space which encompasses them, which fall within the domain of one common Deity
Our actions dependent, under God, on organization, education, and the extent to which we are tempted extraneously
On Probation
World least moral when the Christian church had most sway.—Honour and mercantile credit more trusted than religion.—Virtue due more to the heart than to sectarianism.—Bigotry acts like an evil spirit
Progress of Literature and Science in Arabia under the Mohammedan Pontiffs, called Caliphs
ADDITIONAL CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS
The Opinions of MM. de Mirville and Gasparin, on Table Turning and Mediums, (considered in relation to theology and physics) examined, by the Abbot Almignana, Doctor of the Canon Law, Theologian, &c. Introduction
First Part
Second Part
Mechanical Movements without Contact. By Mr. Isaac Rhen, President of the Harmonial Society of Philadelphia.[35]
Communication from J. M. Kennedy, Esq
Communication from Wm. West, Esq
Koons’s Establishment
Communication from Joseph Hazard, Esq
A VISIT TO THE SPIRITUALISTS OF OHIO
Letter from John Gage.—The Home of the Mediums and the Haunts of the Spirits.—What they did, said, and wrote. LOCALITY OF JONATHAN KOONS.—A HILLY LAND
THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITUALIST.—PRESENCE OF ELECTRICITY
THE ROOM WHERE THE SPIRITS MANIFEST THEIR POWER
THE FURNITURE AND OCCUPANTS
THE MANIFESTATIONS COMMENCE.—THE SPIRITS PLAY ON DRUMS, HARPS, FRENCH HORNS, ACCORDEONS, AND TAMBORINES
THE MANIFESTATIONS CONTINUE, AND THE HEAD SPIRIT WRITES A COMMUNICATION
THE SPIRIT’S LETTER
THE ABOVE IS CERTIFIED TO
CONCLUDING REMARKS
An Evening at Koon’s Spirit Room. By Charles Partridge, Esq., New York
Experience of the Hon. N. P. Tallmadge
Letter from Mr. D. H. Hume.—Spiritualism in London
Lord Brougham with the Spirits
Evidence afforded by the Rev. J. B. Ferguson
An Exposition of views respecting the principal facts, causes, and peculiarities involved in Spiritual Manifestations; together with interesting phenomenal statements and communications. By Adin Ballou
The Hon. J. W. Edmonds’s Testimony
Testimony of Henry Lloyd Garrison
Testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Newton
Testimony of Members of the New York Circle
Testimony of the Rev. D. F. Goddard, Boston
Manifestations at Stratford, Conn., in the House of Rev. Eliakim Phelps, D.D.—Remarkable Exhibitions of Power.—Singular Occurrences.—Image-making.—Destruction of Furniture.—Incendiary Spirits.—The Spirits identified.—Unhappy Spirits, from the remembrance of wrong done in this World.—Wrong-doing revealed.—Directions given for restoring ill-gotten Gains.—Discontinuance of the Manifestations
Idea of the existence of a spiritual sun, and a vital spiritual oxygen, found to exist independently in the mind of a much esteemed author
OF MATTER, MIND, AND SPIRIT
Of Matter
Strictures on a Speculation by Farraday, respecting the Nature of Matter
On Whewell’s demonstration that all matter is heavy
Additional Remarks on the Speculations of Farraday and Exley, above noticed
Of Mundane, Ethereal, and Ponderable Matter, in their Chemical relations
Suggestions of Massotti, respecting the Nature of Matter
On Electro-polarity as the Cause of Electrical Phenomena
Of Mind, as existing independently, and as distinguished from Matter
Of Spirit independently, or as distinguished from Mind and Matter
Of the Soul, as distinguished from Mind and Matter
On the Odic, or Odylic, Force
RELIGIOUS ERRORS OF MR. MAHAN
Proposition of Mr. Mahan
Of the origin of the Books of Moses no higher evidence exists, according to the testimony of the Bible itself, than that of an obscure priest and a fanatical king
Scriptural Account of the Finding of the Books of Moses by Hilkiah, the High Priest.—2 Chron. xxxiv.; 2 Kings xxii
Account of the Finding of the Books of Moses, by Josephus
If the Pentateuch had been previously known to the Jews, it is incredible that it could have become obsolete and forgotten prior to the alleged discovery of it in the Temple, in the reign of Josiah
Great Importance attached to a Belief in Immortality by Cyrus the Great, King of Persia, as contrasted with the recklessness of Moses respecting the same Belief
The Worship of a Book, Idolatry
Evidence of Josephus and Gibbon vs. Mr. Mahan
The Worshippers of the Golden Calf more righteous than their Assassins
Just denunciation of the religious imposture and usurpation of Moses, by noble-minded Israelites.[54]
Remarkable observance of the Golden Rule by Moses, in his last advice to the Israelites.[56]
Straining at Spiritual Gnats, while swallowing Scriptural Camels
The Evidence which is insufficient to establish the Iniquity of a Sinner cannot be sufficient to establish the Divine Authority of a Book
Word of God, impiously so called, or the Golden Rule inverted by God’s alleged Commands
PAGAN FEARLESSNESS OF DEATH
Opinion of Mr. Huc, a Christian Priest, that it is their religion which makes Christians more fearful of death than the Chinese, (746.)
Observations of the Missionary, Mr. Huc, to whom reference has just been made
Conclusion of Strictures on Mr. Mahan’s Religious Errors
CONCLUSION
The Pentateuch inconsistently represented as the basis of belief in human immortality, as will appear by the prefixed quotation, as well as the inability of any of its devotees to point out any part which conflicts with the right reverend author’s opinion, above mentioned.—Injustice of representing disbelievers in the Bible as not having as good grounds for belief in immortality as those who rest their belief on a work which, by its silence, tends to discountenance the hope of a future life.—Those who uphold the Bible against Spiritualism, the real antagonists of the only satisfactory evidence ever given to man of a future habitation in the spirit world
APPENDIX
LETTER TO THE EPISCOPAL CLERGY
Letter from Dr. Hare to the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church, offering to lay before them the New Evidence of Immortality. (Submitted to the late Convention, Philadelphia, May 15, 1855.)
A LETTER FROM DR. HARE
Preliminary Remarks
FARRADAY’S SPECULATION
Motives for republishing my Memoirs on Electrical Theory
Objections to the Theories severally of Franklin, Dufay, and Ampere, with an effort to explain Electrical Phenomena, by Statical or Undulatory Polarization.[58] By Robert Hare, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania
Supposed grounds for a Theory
Proofs of the existence of an enormous quantity of Imponderable Matter in Metals
Electrical Phenomena attributed to Stationary, or Undulatory, Polarization
Ignition, Electrolysis, and Magnetism, Secondary Effects of Frictional Discharges; or, in other words, of Polarizing Electro-ethereal Waves
The extreme Diversity, as respects striking Distance, between the direct Effects of Frictional Electricity and those directly arising from Galvanic Reaction
On the perfect similitude between the Polarity communicated to Iron Filings by a Magnetized Steel Bar and a Galvanized Wire
Process by which the Ethereo-ponderable Atoms within a Galvanic Circuit are polarized by the Chemical Reaction
Difference between Electro-ethereal and Ethereo-ponderable Polarization
Competency of a Wire to convey a Galvanic Discharge is as its sectional area, while statical discharges of frictional electricity, preferring the surface, are promoted by its extension. Yet in proportion as such discharges are heavy, the ability of a wire to convey them and its magnetic energy become more dependent on its sectional area, and less upon extent of surface
Difference between Frictional Electricity and Galvanic does not depend on the one being superior as to Quantity, the other as to Intensity; but on the different Degrees in which the Ethereo-ponderable Atoms of the Bodies affected are deranged from their natural state of Neutralized Polarity
Of Ethereo-ponderable Deflagration
Summary
INVOCATION OF SPIRITS.[80]
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