Strange Visitors: A series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government, religion, poetry, art, fiction, satire, humor, narrative, and prophecy, by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Brontë, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and others now dwelling in the spirit world; dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance stateHorn, Henry J.
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Strange Visitors: A series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government, religion, poetry, art, fiction, satire, humor, narrative, and prophecy, by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Brontë, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and others now dwelling in the spirit world; dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance state
Horn, Henry J.
Spirit writings
One by one, they will give up this point of difference and that point
of difference, this creed and that creed, for the sake of harmony.
This vestment they lay aside, and that form, until they will all
be swallowed up, and neither Methodists nor Calvinists, Baptists
nor Lutherans, Armenians, Jews, nor Gentiles, will remain. Then the
primitive Church of Christ will be revived again upon earth, simple and
unostentatious; its creed will be the creed of Jesus Christ:
“The brotherhood of man, and the love of God for his children.”
This creed, you perceive, embraces the whole of the spiritualistic
faith, which is causing these great changes throughout the Church of
Christ on earth.
* * * * *
At this point it will not be inappropriate to make some allusion to the
mysterious sounds which occurred in my house in Lincolnshire, England,
at intervals within the space of three or more years during my earthly
ministrations.
These mysterious sounds, even in that day, were supposed to have been
caused by spirit agency. I have ascertained that that supposition
was correct; and my attention has since been directed to the fact in
Church history, that every separation from the Church body which has
originated in a desire to return to the simplicity and purity of the
primitive followers of Jesus, has been attended by similar mysterious
demonstrations.
Luther and Mclancthon, Knox and Calvin, and the earnest dissenters
and reformers of every age, have been haunted in like manner. I say
haunted, for they generally have misunderstood the aim of these
spiritual visitants.[A] It has devolved upon the scientific researches
and the skeptical but investigating mind of the nineteenth century to
form a process by which the spirit of the departed can communicate with
the dwellers in Time.
[Footnote A: The spirit of Rev. Dr. John M. Krebbs, of New York, states
through this clairvoyant that the cause of his mental aberration while
on earth was a misinterpretation by him of a spiritual vision which
he was permitted to receive. Thus misunderstanding the aim of his
spiritual visitants, he became haunted with a fallacy which ultimated
in his death. ED.]
To me this science was unknown. Had I been acquainted with the facts
with which I am now familiar, I might have established a more liberal
Church, but as it was, this daily association with an unseen spiritual
presence enlarged my views of the condition attending the soul after
death, and caused me to give utterance to thoughts which happily have
aided in preparing the world for the Universal Church which ere long
will lift its towering dome toward Heaven.
N.P. WILLIS.
_A SPIRIT REVISITING EARTH_.
(A FRAGMENT.)
How wondrous I
Through illimitable space, where myriad suns
And systems roll their mighty orbs,
The spirit moves like some strange wingless bird,
Darting through space with rapid flight
Until he nears his native home,
The earth.
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