Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained: Judge Edmonds Refuted; Or, An Exposition of the Involuntary Powers and Instincts of the Human MindDe Witt & Davenport, 1854 - 252 頁 |
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Andrew Jackson Davis appear astonishing back brain believe body called catalepsy cataleptic cause cerebrum charged Christ Christian communication convulsive creatures departed spirits diums doctrine earth electrical electro electro-magnetic electro-psychological Emanuel Swedenborg existence experiment feel feet fingers friends front brain habit heard heaven Hence honest human mind immortal impression individual instance intelligence intuition invol involun involuntary motion involuntary nerves involuntary powers jerks Joan Judge Edmonds LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Lectures light magnet manifestations matter medium's hand ment mental mode moral truth move mysterious nature nervous force never Odic-force perceive perfect performed persons phenomena philosophy pression produced proof psychological subjects Quakers rapping and writing reasoning faculties regards Reichenbach result revelation Rheims seen Seeress of Prevorst somnambulism somnambulists sounds speak spirit-manifestations spirit-rappings spirit-writings stuttering substances table-tipping tary thing thought tion tip tables tricity trick true ture untary powers voluntary and involuntary whole witness wonderful writing mediums
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第 63 頁 - Stays till we call, and then not often near ; But honest Instinct comes a volunteer, Sure never to o'ershoot, but just to hit ; While still too wide or short is human Wit ; Sure by quick Nature happiness to gain, Which heavier Reason labours at in vain.
第 106 頁 - Thus then to man the voice of nature spake, 'Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
第 106 頁 - Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let Reason, late, instruct mankind : Here subterranean works and cities see ; There towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each small people's genius, policies, The ant's republic, and the realm of bees ; How those in common all their wealth bestow, And anarchy without confusion know ; And these for ever, though...
第 63 頁 - till we call, and then not often . near ; But -honest Instinct comes a volunteer, Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit; While still too wide or short is human Wit...
第 219 頁 - Sudermalm, (Gottenburg is about three hundred miles from Stockholm) and that it was spreading very fast. He was restless and went out often : he said that the house of one of his friends, whom he named, was already in ashes, and that his own was in danger. At 8 o'clock, after he had been out again, he joyfully exclaimed, ' Thank God ! the fire is extinguished the third door from my house.
第 220 頁 - On the same day the news was spread through the city, and, as the Governor had thought it worthy of attention, the consternation was considerably increased; because many were in trouble on account of their friends and property, which might have been involved in the disaster. " On the Monday evening a messenger arrived at Gottenburg, who was despatched during the time of the fire.
第 218 頁 - Gentlemen, I give you a sign. To morrow at twelve o'clock, you shall have such a storm of thunder and lightning, as you never had before since you came into Flanders. I give you a second sign: as little as any of you expect any such thing, as little appearance of it as there is now, you shall have a general engagement with the French within three days. I give you a third sign: I shall be ordered to advance in the first line. If I am a false prophet, I shall be shot dead at the first discharge. But...
第 219 頁 - September, on Saturday, at four o'clock pm, arrived at Gottenburg from England, Mr. William Castel invited him to his house, together with a party of fifteen persons. About six o'clock, Swedenborg went out, and, after a short interval, returned to the company, quite pale and alarmed. He said that a dangerous fire had just broken out in Stockholm, at the Sudermalm (Gottenburg is about 50 milesf from Stockholm), and that it was spreading very fast.
第 96 頁 - And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye : for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here; for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
第 225 頁 - A dead silence prevailed during the whole narration, which I alone occasionally interrupted by inquiring whether I spoke the truth. The startled young man confirmed every particular, and even, what I had scarcely expected, the last mentioned. Touched by his candour, I shook hands with him over the table, and said no more. He asked my name, which I gave him, and we remained together talking till past midnight. He is probably still living...