By Cathy Gutierrez
In its day, spiritualism introduced millions of american citizens to s?ance tables and trance lectures. It has alternately been ridiculed because the apogee of fatuous credulity and hailed as a feminist flow. Its tips were uncovered, its charlatans unmasked, and its heroes' names misplaced to posterity. In its day, even if, its leaders have been family names and politicians nervous approximately taking pictures the Spiritualist vote. Cathy Gutierrez areas Spiritualism within the context of the 19th-century American Renaissance. even if this epithet often indicates the unexpected blossoming of yank letters, Gutierrez issues to its unique which means: a cultural mind's eye enraptured with the prior and the classics particularly, followed through a cultural efflorescence. Spiritualism, she contends, was once the spiritual articulation of the yank Renaissance, and the ramifications of taking a look backward for suggestion in regards to the current have been far-reaching. The Spiritualist flow, says Gutierrez, was once a 'renaissance of the Renaissance,' a tradition in love with background up to it trumpeted growth and futurity, and an expression of what constituted non secular wish between burgeoning know-how and colonialism. Rejecting Christian principles approximately salvation, Spiritualists embraced Platonic and Neoplatonic rules. people have been shot via with the divine, instead of noticeable as helpless and inexorably corrupt sinners within the arms of a transcendent, offended God. Gutierrez's research of this interesting and critical stream is prepared thematically. She analyzes Spiritualist conceptions of reminiscence, marriage, medication, and minds, explores such phenomena as machines for contacting the lifeless, spirit-photography, the belief of everlasting non secular affinity (which implied the need for marriage reform), the relationship among healthiness and spirituality, and mesmerism.
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Still later Tallmadge would become the man responsible for getting Abraham Lincoln to look into Spiritualism, which in Lincoln’s case proved an unsuccessful attempt at proselytizing, but it appears to have been highly successful with Lincoln’s wife. The books are a series of transcriptions of séances, written down verbatim from the medium and the other participants’ conversations. Many of these conversations alight upon the problem of memory and progression. Judge Edmonds reports receiving lengthy messages from the lower spheres by a woman who had been a queen during life.
As Cicero recounts it, the art of memory began at a banquet. A poet by the name of Simonides had been hired to entertain the guests, and during his recitation he praised Castor and Pollux in addition to his host. His employer, Scopas, was apparently displeased that the poem honored anyone other than him, and he announced that Simonides would only receive half his salary and that he could get the rest due to him from the gods he had mentioned. Two callers then requested to see Simonides, and as soon as the poet had left the house to greet these strangers, the roof serendipitously collapsed on the banquet guests and host.
Despite often being tangibly afraid of these spirits, Judge Edmonds counsels them to look inward and find the good; once this is accomplished, a light will appear, guiding them physically out of this area and leading them over a mountain to a higher realm. Those who would repent are once again tortured by the memories of their crimes, and the judge advises them to replace those memories memory 33 by helping their fellow criminals: “Bury there [in the heart] the memory of past sin in the consciousness of present good.