1902 | Spirit Identity

1902 | Spirit Identity

William Stainton Moses

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Published in 1902 | 176 pages | PDF reader required

CONTENTS
Preface.
Introduction.

  • Difficulties in the way of investigation.
  • Divergent results of investigators.
  • Attitude of public opinion represses publication.
  • This results also from the nature of the facts themselves.
  • The Intelligent Operator has to be reckoned with.
  • The investigator has little choice in the matter.
  • The higher phenomena are not susceptible of demonstration by the scientific method.
  • The gates being ajar, a motley crowd enters in.
  • We supply the material out of which this is composed.
  • No necessity to have recourse to the diabolic element.
  • Neglect of conditions proper for the investigation.
  • Agencies other than those of the departed.
  • Sub-human spirits—the liberated spirit of the Psychic.
  • These have had far more attributed to them than they can rightly claim.
  • Specialism in Spiritualism.
  • Religious aspects of the question.
  • Notes of the age.
  • The place of Spiritualism in modern thought.
  • The Intelligent Operator at the other end of The Line.
  • Scope of the inquiry.
  • The nature of the Intelligence.
  • What is the Intelligence?
  • Difficulties in the way of accepting the story told by the Intelligent Operator.
  • Assumption of great names.
  • Absence of precise statement.
  • Contradictory and absurd messages.
  • Conditions under which good evidence is obtained.
  • Value of corroborative testimony.
  • Personal experiences.
  • Eleven cases occurring consecutively, Jan. 1 to 11, 1874.
  • A spirit refusing to be misled by a suggestion.
  • A spirit earth-bound by love of money.
  • Influence of association, especially of locality.
  • Spirits who have communicated for a long period.
  • Child-spirits communicating: corroborative testimony from a second source.
  • Extremely minute evidence given by two methods.
  • A possible misconception guarded against.
  • General conclusions.
  • Personal immortality.
  • Personal recognition of and by friends.
  • Religious aspects.

Appendix 1.

  • On the power of Spirits to gain access to sources of information.

Appendix 2.

  • On some phases of Mediumship bearing on Spirit Identity.

Appendix 3.

  • Cases of Spirit-Identity.
  1. Man crushed by a steam-roller.
  2. Abraham Florentine.
  3. Charlotte Buckworth.

Appendix 4.

  • Evidence from spirit-photography.

Appendix 5.

  • On some difficulties of inquirers into Spiritualism.

Appendix 6.

  • Spirit-Identity—Evidence of Dr. Stanhope Speer.