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From Pat Deveney's database:
Spiritual Manifestations. |
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| Spiritual Manifestations V1 N01 January 1854 | |
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Spiritual Manifestations is an early American Spiritualist periodical — its very title a period marker of the 1850s movement — dominated by mediumship and spirit communication. Its most telling passage lays out the graduated mechanics of spirit writing, developing by degrees from an alphabet to words to whole sentences, placing it squarely in the automatic-writing tradition. A harmonial philosophy of the 'harmony of minds' and the inadequacy of finite language to convey spiritual truth runs alongside, over a thin mesmeric substratum of emanations and trance. The panel's New Thought signal is anachronistic for a text of this period and is set aside. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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