The Penetralia; Being Harmonial Answers to Important Questions

DAVIS, Andrew Jackson

Published by Boston: Bela Marsh, 1856

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First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall 8vo, original blind embossed black cloth, gilt stamped on spine, very good, some moderate soil and spottiness to endpapers, old ink stamp from a New Brighton PA art gallery, the old owner has lightly and neatly gilded the fore-edge and bottom edge of the text block - so neatly that it's hard to notice at all. Text otherwise bright and clean. 328 pp. The spiritualist here examines some philosophical and theological questions, including evidence of immortality, the utility of utilitarianism, etc., and a "psychometrical examination of William Lloyd Garrison. This work allegedly predicted the development of the automobile, road systems, typewriter, and other modern technology years if not decades before they were developed, and claimed the speed of light was 200,000 miles per second 94 years before it was scientifically calculated by Louis Essen showing the true speed was 186,000 miles per second. Angeles excellent copy of a pretty uncommon book in commerce. Andrew Jackson Davis (August 11, 1826 January 13, 1910) was an American Spiritualist who From age 14 claimed to be able to diagnose illness via clairvoyance. able to diagnose illness via clairvoyance. In 1843 he heard lectures in Poughkeepsie on animal magnetism, the precursor of hypnotism, and came to perceive himself as having remarkable clairvoyant powers. In the following year he received, he said, spiritual messages telling him of his life work. He described himself as "the Poughkeepsie Seer. For the next three years (1844 1847) he practiced magnetic healing, a form of therapy regarded as pseudoscience, and in 1847 he published The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind, which in 1845 he had dictated while in a trance to his scribe, William Fishbough. He lectured with little success and returned to writing books, publishing about 30 in all (Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # 579

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Title: The Penetralia; Being Harmonial Answers to ...

Publisher: Boston: Bela Marsh

Publication Date: 1856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition