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<center>From the Boston Herald</center> | |||
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| continues = | | continues = | ||
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| title = The Spirit Picture | | title = The Spirit Picture Business | ||
| subtitle = | | subtitle = | ||
| untitled = | | untitled = | ||
| source title = | | source title = Spiritual Scientist | ||
| source details = | | source details = v. 4, No. 10, May 11, 1876, p. 110 | ||
| publication date = | | publication date = 1876-05-11 | ||
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| notes = Part of title is lost | | notes = Part of title is lost | ||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals|Horatio Eddy}} is reported to be in the spirit picture business at Chittenden, having probably learned the mystic art of Evans during the visit of the latter worthy at Spirit Vale last summer. A correspondent of the Religio-Philosophical Journal declares that Horatio and the spirits make these pictures wihout camera or sunlight. All that is necessary is a chemically prepared plate. Horatio also claims to be inspired by some spirit artist of the brush and has adorned the walls of the Eddy homestead with some “fearful and wonderful" products of his genius. Speaking of spirit photographs, the writer of this has had two sittings with Mumler, two with Brown, one with Hazelton, the “specialty” photographers of Boston, one with Evans, and in every case the result was most unsatisfactory and worthless as a test of the extraordinary claims of these artists. Some sitters appear to have better success, but a large majority are unable to identify the companion shadows which appear with their pictures. The explanation, very simple if not satisfactory, is that only certain spirits have the power of impressing themselves on the photographic plates, and when the friends of the sitters fail to put in an appearance there is most always somebody present glad to improve the opportunity, even at the risk of being asked why he comes. | ||
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| author = Buddha, by California | | author = Buddha, by California | ||
| title = What is Occultism? | | title = What is Occultism? | ||
| subtitle = | | subtitle = "What’s in a Name?" | ||
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| source title = | | source title = Spiritual Scientist | ||
| source details = | | source details = v. 4, No. 10, May 11, 1876, p. 109-10 | ||
| publication date = | | publication date = 1876-05-11 | ||
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| notes = The ending is recovered by HPB in handwriting. | | notes = The ending is recovered by HPB in handwriting. | ||
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. | {{Style S-Small capitals| I believe}} Occultism to be essentially a re-incarnation of ancient paganism, a revocation of the Pythagorean philosophy; not the senseless ceremonies and spiritless forms of those ancient religions, but the Spirit of the Truth which animated those grand old systems which held the world spell bound in awe and reverence long after the spirit had departed, and nothing was left but the dead decaying body. | ||
Occultism asserts the eternal individuality of the soul, the imperishable force which is the cause and sustaining power of all organization, that death is only the casting off of a worn out garment in order to procure a new and better one. | |||
{{Style P-Poem|poem= | {{Style P-Poem|poem=“So death, so called, can but the form deface. | ||
The immortal soul flies out in empty space, | The immortal soul flies out in empty space, | ||
To seek her fortune in another place.}} | To seek her fortune in another place.”}} | ||
Occultism, in its efforts to penetrate the arcana of dynamic forces and primordial power, sees in all things an unity, an unbroken chain extending from the lowest organic form to the highest, and concludes that this unity is based upon an unity of ascending scale of organic forms of being, the Jacob’s ladder of spiritual organic experience, up which every soul must travel before it can again sing praises before the face of the Father. | |||
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london_spiritualist_n.196_1876-05-26.pdf|page=7|London Spiritualist, No. 196, May 26, 1876, pp. 245-6 | london_spiritualist_n.196_1876-05-26.pdf|page=7|London Spiritualist, No. 196, May 26, 1876, pp. 245-6 | ||
spiritual_scientist_v.04_n.10_1876-05-11.pdf|page=2|Spiritual Scientist, v. 4, No. 10, May 11, 1876, p. 110 | |||
spiritual_scientist_v.04_n.10_1876-05-11.pdf|page=1|Spiritual Scientist, v. 4, No. 10, May 11, 1876, p. 109-10 | |||
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