Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism - Couverture souple

Home, Daniel Dunglas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1602068178 ISBN 13 : 9781602068179

Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2007

Synopsis

Scottish spiritualist DANIEL DUNGLAS HOME (1833-1886) may well have been the most famous celebrity medium of the Victorian world, his hundreds of séances attended by some of the biggest names of his day. Though not everyone was a fan-Robert Brownings' 1864 poem "Sludge the Medium" is a thorough lashing of Home-he remains renowned to this day for never having been exposed as a fraud. It's ironic, then, that this 1877 book, is best remembered for Home's exposing of the "false prophets" and phony mediums of his day. But that doesn't come until the first third of the work. In Part I, Home explores the spiritualism of the world's oldest civilization, from the faiths of the first pagans to the spiritualist beliefs of ancient Greece and Rome. And in Part II, he discusses spiritualism in the Jewish and Christian eras, including the spiritualism of the Bible and the great seers of recent centuries. Modern paranormal debunker James Randi has noted one instance of the medium's dishonesty: though published under his own name, both this book and Home's 1864 "autobiography," Incidents in My Life, were in fact ghostwritten by Home's lawyer, W. M. Wilkinson. Whether Home was a fraud or not, though, this remains a fascinating, is biased, history of spiritualism.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

These descend to ns, among the fragmentary records which, with shattered temples and decaying cities, form the only remaining proofis that snch nations as the Assyrian and the Egyptian were once great upon the earth, many CT idences of the vividness with which light from another world hroke in npon man during the earlier ages of onr own. Every spiritual phenomenon which has in the present day startled the Christians of the West was, centuries ago, familiar to the Pagans of the East. On the common foundation of a belief that spirit visits were neither few nor far between every mythology of those far-back times was based. The most superhuman virtues, and abominable crimes, of Chaldean, Phoenician, Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, and Boman, are traceable to a spiritual source. For then, as since, the good of the truth that man cannot die, to live again, but, living once, lives eternally, was at times largely perverted to evil.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1877 edition by Virtue & Co., Ltd., London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1602068178
• ISBN 13: 9781602068179
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 428
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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