by admin | Dec 15, 2020 | Forerunners of Spiritism
Despite his obvious impact, Swedenborg’s name is still not well-known three hundred years after his birth. He was an inventor, a scientist, a civil servant, and a philosopher before he accepted God’s call to be a rational revelator during the Age of Enlightenment....
by admin | Dec 15, 2020 | Forerunners of Spiritism
Andrew Jackson Davis is often referred to as the John the Baptist of Modern Spiritualism; for it was he who firmly set into place and definitively proclaimed the coming revelation of Spirit communion. Andrew Jackson Davis grew up in poverty. He was born at Blooming...
by admin | Dec 15, 2020 | Forerunners of Spiritism
“I am attacked by two very opposite sects – the scientists and the know-nothings. Both laugh at me, calling me ‘the frogs’ dancing master’. Yet I know a have discovered one of the greatest forces in nature”. Galvani, discoverer of electricity. William Crookes was born...
by admin | Dec 15, 2020 | Forerunners of Spiritism
Twentieth Century Psychic and Medical Clairvoyant Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) has been called the “sleeping prophet,” the “father of holistic medicine,” and the most documented psychic of the 20th century. For more than 40 years of his adult life,...
by admin | Dec 15, 2020 | Forerunners of Spiritism
Imperial Councilor to the Czar, the pioneer spiritualist of Russia, a Swedenborg enthusiast whose introduction to modern spiritualism was effected by Andrew Jackson Davis’s “Nature’s Divine Revelations” in 1855. In order to form a correct judgment of both...
