Immortality proved by the testimony of sense : $b In which is contemplated the doctrine of spectres and the existence of a particular spectre — John Shaqi
Immortality proved by the testimony of sense : $b In which is contemplated the doctrine of spectres and the existence of a particular spectreCummings, Abraham
Religion
Immortality proved by the testimony of sense : $b In which is contemplated the doctrine of spectres and the existence of a particular spectre
Cummings, Abraham
Apparitions; Immortality; Spiritualism
Sometime in March, 1800, she talked a few minutes without appearing,
at eight o’clock in the morning, and promised to come again that day.
At two o’clock, performed her promise, and talked with four people
two hours. It was then she uttered these words: “Though my body is
consumed, and all turned to dust, my soul is as much alive, as before I
left the body.”
This conversation was indeed in the cellar, but the place was
enlightened by her radiance.
May 21, at ten o’clock, she appeared to two persons, and sent a message
to another.
May 25, 10 o’clock. Appeared and conversed with two witnesses, while a
third person only heard the conversation; and revealed that by which
the same was proved to others.
May 26. She appeared at eight o’clock in the morning, and talked with
four persons an hour and a half. In half an hour after, she appeared
and talked with the same four persons, while two others only heard a
voice without knowing what was said.
May 27. Talked with two persons, and promised to be present at a
meeting of about twenty people, which was to be held the next day
in the evening.[21] Accordingly she appeared at this meeting to two
other persons, who were ignorant of the promise. The assembly were
immediately interrupted by the declaration, that “the spirit is come.”
None however, could distinctly see her, but those two persons. The
next evening after, she conversed with a third couple of persons in
company with the first two; mentioned her promise as being fulfilled,
and told them by her inimitable voice to whom she had appeared. As a
further confirmation that she had been really present on this occasion;
she did about two months afterwards talk several hours in the midst of
the assembly of forty-eight people, while she was visible to two, and
only two, of that number.[22] These two people were a fourth couple
distinct from the other six. Such is the testimony of these eight
persons.
Her conversation was always with grace, seasoned with salt, very
affecting and delightful.
August 13, at 10 o’clock, she talked with three persons invisibly. At
two o’clock the same day, she appeared and talked to three people in
the hearing of five other persons.
Thus have you received a general, but very imperfect account of these
extraordinary events.
And now because a juggler will appear to check a musket ball with the
point of his knife, form animals, and perform a thousand other idle
wonders, will any lover of truth indulge the inference that all the
preceding phenomena are of the same nature? Do these magicians reveal
and establish truths, the knowledge of which is of great importance
to certain persons now, and of public utility hereafter? No: Their
miracles are without meaning, and their design is pecuniary profit,
or else to shew what they can do to gratify the vain curiosity of
spectators.
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