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From the book "The Voice Triumphant"    Mrs. Cecil Cook

VOICES IN THE SUNLIGHT

from William Pelley's "Why I Believe the Dead Are Alive"

THE SKEPTIC with orthodox reflexes, who never has witnessed such phenomena, is puzzled or caustic because he does not know what happens. How in the name of sound sense can persons who have vacated mortal vehicles—and these vehicles been interred in cemeteries—possibly “come back” in organic equipment and give every evidence of being alive in former aspects of personality? Likewise, if this sort of thing is actual, why haven’t more people heard about it? The first is easier to answer than to second.

As you will have minutely delineated to you if you read more of the Soulcraft books treating with such paraphysics, the self-conscious soul of a human being—one hundred percent of human beings—is an indestructible and imperishable entity. Mortal life is a series of adventures in going into a physical body, using it for worldly purposes a given number of years, and “dying” out of it. But always it is the body that dies, not the soul-spirit. The soul of man is said in the Higher Realms to be a spermatozoic emanation of God Himself, thus accounting for sentient life in each and every instance. As I’ll relate to you in my next chapter, I have reason to believe that it was Mary Baker Eddy, beloved founder of the Christian Science Church, who made that clear to me that this indestructible and imperishable soul comes back again and again in many bodies over vast numbers of years, in different lands and civilizations, until it perfects its moral attributes so that nothing is ever to be gained further by coming back. Thereat it goes on about its higher cosmic business.

However, this happens—

The “thinking” of the soul-spirit is done in the intellectual mechanism of what is called the Light-Body, or the Pattern Body. This is the vehicle, operating at a higher frequency of atomic vibration that keeps the atoms and molecules of the physical body in one consistent pattern throughout the earthly sojourn. Remember, the molecules of every person’s physical body are completely renewed every seven years, but renewal or no; they always conform to the given design that keeps the physical organism recognizable from decade to decade. When the life-course is run, the business of “dying” is merely the process of this Pattern Body pulling out of the gross atomic body, and beginning to view life in its higher frequencies of Matter.

Consciousness, I repeat, is carried in the mental equipment of this Light Body, or Design-Body, else none of us would ever remember what had happened to us on earth, after we got to “heaven” … Very good then … This business of “spirit return”, giving it to something that will make the Light-Body or Design-Body tangible again in consistencies of Matter peculiar to this physical or material plane on which we are now living. So-called “Mediums”—like Bertie Lilly Candler or Mary Beattie or a hundred others—are women born with an excessive amount of phosphorus and albumin in their physical systems which under the stresses of trance they can release and provide for the use of others. Such phosphorus and albumin in combination is known by the technical name of Ectoplasm. They release prodigious amounts of it out of the orifices of their physical bodies and it becomes available for persons who have entered onto the higher frequencies of substance-in-Matter to use to infiltrate their Light-Bodies or Design-Bodies and make them appreciable again to the frequencies of this earth-plane. There is little that is necromantic about it—certainly nothing diabolical, unless we want to call all chemistry diabolical. Calling anything one doesn’t understand “deviltry” is, of course, nothing but the ruse of illiterates. What these “spirit” people truly do is “coat” themselves with a material substance provided from the medium, and when the coating is successfully consummated we say that a given “dead” person “materializes’.

THEY are emphatically not dead a person, of course, because there has never been any death. There is only metamorphosis from one rate of atomic vibration to a higher rate of atomic vibration. Higher rates of atomic vibration can be aware of lower rates but rarely the reverse. In other words, people on the more tenuous octaves of reality can be consciously aware of what is transpiring on the grosser and lower rates, but when they manifest it, usually the earth-people have an attack of heebie-jeebies at the “supernatural”… is there anything particularly supernatural about your turning your radio to get an orchestra in Cincinnati on a “low frequency rate” but a statesman talking in Europe on a short-wave frequency? The analogy is pat.

WE ARE finding now, in this age of radio and nuclear fission, that we have hoodwinked ourselves by saying that “if you can’t measure it, it has no existence”. There are all sorts and degrees of atomic vibration that you can’t measure, and yet one may not be aware of the other, in that both can operate in the same spatial area without their phenomena conflicting. That is what these materialized persons do. They operate in several spatial areas without their phenomena conflicting. They have never perished or gone off to the biblical heaven or hell when their bodies succumbed. They have simply pulled their soul-consciousness out of their defunct organic vehicles and operated on a higher velocity of atomic matter. When we ask them to present themselves to us in the séance room, we provide them with access to a coating or covering for their higher light-body atoms that make them recognizable to this earthly plane. Their Light-Bodies or Pattern Bodies are just as real to them as our physical bodies are to us. By coating them with ectoplasm they become real to us also. But the people inside them are exactly the same individuals that they were when their vehicles weighed 150 pounds on this plane, had to eat three meals a day to “keep their strength up” and get six to eight hours sleep o’ nights or find their nerves misbehaving.

It is a long and somewhat involved technical study, and I am giving it to you in a nutshell as I can, so that you may understand that there is little or no hocus-pocus in one of these séances when honestly conducted by an honest and competent medium. If you want more technical information about it, get the Soulcraft books Star Guest or Beyond Grandeur.

Actually it is the mass ignorance of hoi polloi that creates the phenomenon we call “grief” in this world. Truly informed people never grieve. Principally they lack anything to grieve about. Grief is a sign of ignorance—always remember that. If you know what is transpiring, you find nothing to feel sorry over or lament. I am giving it to you as I have had it expounded minutely unto me. However, this proposition about so few knowing about what goes on, is another story…

IN THE first place, it stands without argument that there are not enough bona fide and competent mediums to go around. In the second place, traditional religion—constructed mostly on allegorical theory—has built up a great superstructure of theological conjecture about the Afterlife, and protected itself by announcing that anybody who challenges or disproves it is in league with the Devil. Naturally the illiterate communicant doesn’t care to become classified as in league with the Devil, so whenever the phenomena of psychical research manifests itself, the orthodox communicant runs a mile. It is all very tragic; all very silly and childish and immature.

An age of Science is undoubtedly slated to put the blitz on the whole of it, but not for a little time yet. Science must pave the way to make spiritual emancipation creditable. It jolts some people to be told that if the optic ensemble of the human eye could accommodate a light wave one ten-thousandth of an inch longer than it does commonly at present, the whole aspect of the material world would alter. We would see scores of items and conditions that we do not see at present, whereas another score of items and conditions would become electrically invisible to us. Of course, becoming electrically invisible we would doubtless declare they had ceased to exist. I am told on reliable scientific authority that if the common human eye could accommodate rays of ultra-violet length, the race would suddenly become aware of the complete non-occurrence of death.

We should see the Light Bodies of those who have made the metamorphosis ahead of us, realizing they are often moving closely about us. It is their invisibility, owing to the enhanced rate of vibration at which they are moving atomically in their vehicle-composition, which makes us regard them as “gone”. Their entire world of material reality is similarly composed of a vibratory frequency swifter than ours. So it is intangible to us. Not sensing it commonly, we contend it is ethereal. But we are constantly getting indications that it has a reality equal to our world of slower atomic frequencies, that we are visible to those inhabiting it although they are not visible under ordinary conditions to us. Conversely, they tell us that there are octaves of reality above theirs that are quite as uncomprehendible to them as theirs is uncomprehendible to us.

References to discoveries of Science should not overlook the possibility that a gaseous chemical now being experimented with, may crack the enigma of death for the lay rank-and-file, making all the “invisibles” in a room where such chemical is released, opaque to mortal sight. It is a sort of synthetic ectoplasm, I am told. But try to envision what such a chemical discovery would mean to orthodox theological concepts of the afterlife. When the “dead” can be located visibly by means of a peculiar gas released in a room or house, what of the exaggerated allegorical concepts of the departed dwelling in some far-off celestial locality populated by the angels and cherubim, or—without facetiousness—“asleep in Jesus”? Still another school of scientific thought is considering the possibility that the ultra-violet vibratory rates of the “dead” may be slowed down to the rates of our mundane world by the same variety of resonating magnetic force that is said to materialize and propel today’s Flying Saucers.

YOU note that this narrative is singularly clear of stories of phenomenal attributes distinguishing others. I have tried to make it the accounting of what I myself have had attested through the medium of my own senses. But during the twenty-six years of affairs which it covers, I most certainly have encountered plenty of persons whose abnormal eyesight permitted them to see into realms of the ultra-violet. Those twenty-six years have been replete with the presences in my affairs of individuals able to discern at a glance, and describe most minutely, the Light Bodies or Pattern-Bodies of presences not discernible to me or the man in the street.

In particular do I recall a naval commander in Norfolk, Va. who attended a week of lectures I gave there—a man of Scottish birth gifted with Second Sight—who described again and again personages who were visible to him as being on the platform with me during my delivered remarks. And those descriptions were so distinctive that I could identify the personalities thus invisible to my normal human vision. However, to get back to what we term the phenomena of the materializing séance-room. These graduated people in the swifter velocities of Time and Space gather into the apartment where a materializing séances seems to be imminent, and when the ruby illumination has supplanted the yellow actinic rays of light, stepped their more tenuous personal selves into the exuded ectoplasm derived from the medium’s physical self. Forming themselves in the low-rate earthy pattern again by the direction of their Thought Powers, they walk out to us in their previous aspects of earthly reality, speak to us in voices that we recognize, and reminisce with us on activities together when they were constituted as our present selves.

The layman thinks of the process as Spiritualism. It is only Spiritualism as we identify the necromantic activity by the religious cult of that name that openly accredits such phenomena in the religious manner. Those of us who have approached such wonders along the secular route, as I myself have done as described in these pages, no more consider the supernatural aspects of it as Spiritualism than the Spiritualists consider the super-natural aspects of radio, radar, or television as Spiritualism. What the Spiritualists seem to do truly in practice, is furnish opportunity for hoi poloi to form contact through mediumistic professionals with relatives who have moved their habitat into the higher atomic frequencies, and their “religious” services take on the pattern of Questions-and-Answers intercourse with those on the next immediate octaves of consciousness. Is grandma suffering any more in her higher vibration, in result of the malady that carried her off? Should Uncle John sell the house lot on the corner of Main and Third Street or hold it for a higher price in the autumn? Is the young man who has started to “go” with Betsy Jane serious in his attentions? Fancy making a religious ritual of such personal trivial. And yet the Spiritualists have come closer to Truth in appreciating the literalities of the post-mortem state than any other sect distinguishing the modern religious scene.

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1851

Buchanan’s Journal of Man (Cincinnati), November

The Magnetic Society of New Orleans, 1846-1851.

The Spirit Messenger (Springfield, Massachusetts), May-June

The Harmonial Brotherhood.

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1852

Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 16-19

Spiritual Convention and concurrent events in Cleveland. New York Times, September 23 & Massachusetts Spy (Worcester), October 6 Convention of Believers in Spiritual Manifestations, at Worcester. New York Times and Boston Journal Spiritualist Convention in Boston, December 29-31. The Mountain Cove Community Various Accounts of an Early Spiritualist Utopian Community.

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1853
 

Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican, April 7-9

Spiritualist Convention in Springfield, including notes of a trance anti-slavery skit.

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1855

The Spiritual Telegraph (New York), July 14 and August 11

Paid notices of mediums, spirit circles, and healers; agents for the Spiritual Telegraph newspaper. The New York Daily Times, September 11-14. Spiritualist activities in New York City.

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1856

The Spiritual Telegraph (New York), August 23 and September 6

Spirit and Clairvoyant Mediums; Spiritualists’ Directory—Public Lecturers; Journals, Magazines; Mediums’ Advertisement.

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1857

The Spiritualist Register, with a Counting House & Speaker’s Almanac; Containing Facts and Statistics of Spiritualism, for 1857. By Mr. & Mrs. U[riah and Eliza] Clark, Auburn, N. Y., U. Clark, 1857

What Is Spiritualism? Ancient and Modern Spiritualism; Modern Spirit-Manifestations; Number of Spiritualists;

General Register

Speakers in Public, Test Mediums & Others; Publications on Spiritualism; Spiritualist Journals; Public Spiritual Meetings; Spiritualists’ Homes.

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1858

The Spiritualist Register, May 1858, May 1859; Facts, Philosophy, Statistics of Spiritualism. U[riah] Clark, Editor and Proprietor. Auburn, New York: U. Clark, Spiritual Clarion Office

General Register—Public Speakers; Mediums—Test, Healing, etc.; Public Meetings; Spiritualists’ Homes. The New York Times, June 29 Reporting on the Free Convention in Rutland, Vermont, June 26-29; New York Free Love League. The New York Tribune, June 29 Reporting on the Free Convention in Rutland, Vermont. The New York Herald Reporting on the Philanthropic Convention, Utica, New York, September.

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1859

The Spiritualist Register for 1859; Facts, Philosophy, Statistics of Spiritualism. U[riah] Clark, Editor and Proprietor. Auburn, New York: U. Clark, Spiritual Clarion Office

Individuals Responsible; General Register—Public Speakers; Mediums—Test, Healing, etc.; Spiritualists’ Homes; Spiritual Schools; Journals, Wholly or in Part Spiritualist. The National Spiritualist Convention

Plymouth, Massachusetts, May 5-8.

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1860

Fourth Annual Spiritual Register, with a Calendar and Speakers’ Almanac, for 1860; Facts, Philosophy, Statistics of Spiritualism. U[riah] Clark, Editor and Proprietor. Auburn, N. Y.: U. Clark, Spiritual Clarion Office

The Spiritual Theory; What Spiritualism Has Done; The Soul’s Authority; Living Inspirations; Re-Union of Friends; True Reform; Individual Freedom; Spiritualism and the Bible; The Spiritual Dispensation; Mediums Defended; Agitation; Radicalisms, Reform; Spiritual Progress; True Marriage; Vision of Progress; The Spiritual Theory; Spiritual Intercourse; Trial and Triumph; Divine Love; General Register—Public Speakers; Regular Meetings; Mediums—Test, Healing, etc.; Journals, Wholly or in Part Spiritual; Schools; Spiritualists in America; Summary. The Herald of Progress

Annual Meeting of the Infidel Association of America

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1861

A Spiritualist Register; with a Calendar and Speakers’ Almanac, for 1861; Facts, Philosophy, Statistics of Spiritualism. U[riah] Clark, Editor and Proprietor. Auburn, N. Y.: U. Clark, Spiritual Clarion Office

General Register—Public Speakers; Mediums—Test, Healing, etc.; Journals, Wholly or in Part Devoted to Spiritualism; Schools; Healing Institutes; Home for the Friendless.

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1862

The Progressive Annual for 1862; Comprising an Almanac, a Spiritualist Register, and a General Calendar of Reform; Published at the Office of “The Herald of Progress.” New York: A. J. Davis & Co.

Writers, Speakers, and Workers, in the Different Fields of Human Progress: Literature, Morals, and General Education; Spiritualism, Philosophy, and Reform—Traveling Lecturers; Local Speakers; Physiology, Psychology, and Spiritualism; Prominent Foreign Spiritualists; Universal Freedom, Political and Moral Progress; Social, Mental and Governmental Movements; Temperance, Health, and Dietetic Reform; Freedom and Equality of the Sexes; Practicing Women Physicians; Practical Dress Reformers; More Women Physicians.

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1863

The Progressive Annual for 1863; Comprising an Almanac, a Spiritualist Register, and a General Calendar of Reform; Published at the Office of “The Herald of Progress.” New York: A. J. Davis & Co.

Writers, Speakers, and Workers, in the Different Fields of Human Progress—Progressive Writers and Speakers; Spiritualism, Philosophy, and Reform—Traveling Lecturers, Local and Occasional Speakers; Magnetic Operators, Clairvoyants, and Medical Mediums; Anti-Slavery Reformers; Temperance and Health Reformers; Social Agitators; Woman’s Rights Reformers; Practicing Women Physicians; Instructors in Light Gymnastics; Practical Dress Reformers; Trans-Atlantic Progressives; More Women Physicians.

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1864

The Progressive Annual for 1864; Containing an Almanac, a Spiritualist Register, and a General Calendar of Reform; Published at the Office of “The Herald of Progress.” New York: A. J. Davis & Co.

Writers, Speakers, and Workers, in the Different Fields of Human Progress—Progressive Writers and Speakers: American and Trans-Atlantic; Spiritualism, Philosophy, and Reform—Traveling Lecturers, Local and Occasional Speakers; Magnetists, Clairvoyants, and Mediums; Anti-Slavery Reformers; Temperance and Health Reformers; Social Agitators; Woman’s Rights Reformers; Practicing Women Physicians; Dress Reformers; Medical Colleges for Women. The Chicago Tribune, August 10-18. The First National Spiritualists Convention, Chicago, Illinois. The Religio-Philosophical Journal, November 11, 1865. The Formation of the Religio-Philosophical Society, 1864.

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1865

The Banner of Light (Boston), July 1

Notices of Meetings; Spiritualist Lecturers’ Appointments and Addresses; Prospectus of the Banner of Light, with Contributors, Terms of Subscription, and Wholesale and Retail Agents. The Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), November 11 Second National Convention of Spiritualists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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1866

The Banner of Light (Boston), February 10

Massachusetts Spiritualists Association: Membership List.

The Banner of Light (Boston), June 30 Spiritualist Lecturers’ Appointments and Addresses. The Banner of Light (Boston), August-October The First Spiritualist Mass Camp Meeting; announcement and proceedings. The Banner of Light (Boston), August 25 and September 1 Michigan State Spiritual Association. The Banner of Light (Boston), September 1 Third National Convention of Spiritualists, Providence, Rhode Island; delegates. The Providence Journal and The New York Times, August 20-27, September 1 Reporting on the Third National Convention of Spiritualists, Providence, Rhode Island.

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1867

The Banner of Light (Boston), February 9

Massachusetts Spiritualists Association: Membership List.

The Banner of Progress (San Francisco), June 1 Progressive Lyceum Register; Spiritualist Societies and Meetings; Spiritualist Lecturers’ Appointments and Addresses. The Banner of Light (Boston), July 6 Spiritualist Lecturers’ Appointments and Addresses. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 3-7 Fourth Annual National Spiritualist Convention, September 3-6, Cleveland, Ohio. Banner of Light (Boston), January 18, 1868

Officers and delegates of the First Convention of the Ohio State Association of Spiritualists, Clyde, Ohio, November 8-10, 1867.

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1868

The Banner of Light (Boston), July 4

List of Spiritualist Lecturers. The American Association of Spiritualists Constitution; resolutions on spiritualism. The Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser Fifth National Spiritualists Convention (American Association of Spiritualists) in Rochester, New York, August 21-25.

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1869

The Banner of Light (Boston), August 28

List of Spiritualist Lecturers. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser Sixth National Spiritualists Convention (American Association of Spiritualists) in Buffalo, New York, August 31-September 2. The New-York Herald, May 29 Reporting on the Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, Boston. The New-York Herald, June 15-16 Reporting on the Annual Meeting of the Friends of Human Progress, Waterloo, New York.

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1870

The Banner of Light (Boston), June 18

List of Spiritualist Lecturers. The Indiana Radical and the Richmond (Indiana) Telegram Seventh annual convention of the National Convention of Spiritualists:  September 19-22, 1870.  Lyceum Hall, Richmond, Indiana.

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1871

The Year-Book of Spiritualism for 1871; Presenting the Status of Spiritualism for the Current Year throughout the World; Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Essays; Review of Its Literature; History of American Associations; State and Local Societies; Progressive Lyceums; Lecturers; Mediums; and Other Matters Relating to the Momentous Subject; by Hudson Tuttle and J[ames] M[artin] Peebles. Boston: William White and Company, 1871.

Spirit-Art; A Song and a Truth; How to Form Spirit-Circles; The Anniversary of the Advent of Modern Spiritualism: The Thirty-First of March; California—Its Ways and Wonders; Spiritualism in Washington, D. C.; Spiritualism in Philadelphia; Names of Prominent [Foreign] Spiritualists; History of the National Organization of Spiritualists; State Organizations of Spiritualists; List of Societies of Spiritualists in the United States; List of Lyceums; List of Lecturers on Spiritualism and Relating Subjects; List of Media in the United States, with Post-Office Address; Spirit-Artists; Journals Devoted to Spiritualism. American Association of Spiritualists: Henry T. Child, “American Association. Official Report of the Eighth National Convention of the American Association of Spiritualists; Held at Troy, N. Y., September 12th, 13th, and 14th, 1871,” Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), September 30, 1871.

Minutes of the First Day, Including Delegates; Report of the Board; Address to the Association from the Utah Spiritual Movement.

Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly, September

General notices, and reporting on Conventions, including one in Vineland, and some of the events at the annual convention of the American Association of Spiritualists in Troy, New York.

North Collins Friends of Human Progress

“Meeting at North Collins,” Religio-Philosophical Journal, September 30, 1871.  Minutes of the meeting.

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1872

The Banner of Light (Boston), July 27

List of Spiritualist Lecturers. The Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), March 30

        List of Lecturers; Mediums’ Directory.

The Banner of Light (Boston), The Boston Investigator, The New-York Times, The Brooklyn Eagle Reporting on the Ninth annual convention of the American Association of Spiritualists.

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1873
 

Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly (New York), April 5

Proceedings of the National Convention of Liberalists and Spiritualists, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 19-22.

Pennsylvania State Society of Spiritualists

Henry Teas Child, “Spiritualism in Pennsylvania. Official Report of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania State Society of Spiritualists, held at Institute Hall, Philadelphia, April 1st, 1873,” Religio-Philosophical Journal, May 10.

The Banner of Light (Boston), July 12 List of Spiritualist Lecturers. “Reformatory Lecturers,” Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly (New York), August 16; “Directory of Social Freedom,” August 30

List of Spiritualist Lecturers; List of Lecturers on Free Love.

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Convention of the American Association of Spiritualists, Held at Grow’s Opera Hall, Chicago, on Tuesday, Sept. 16 [1873]. Chicago: 1873 List of delegates recognized by the Chair.

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1874

The Banner of Light (Boston), July 18

List of Spiritualist Lecturers. The Religio-Philosophical Journal, October 10 The Universal Association of Spiritualists, convention delegates, resolutions.

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1875

The Banner of Light (Boston), August 7

List of Spiritualist Lecturers. The Religio-Philosophical Journal, June 26 The Miracle Club and Protective Committee of New York: Letter and Card.

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1876

The Banner of Light (Boston), July 15

List of Spiritualist Lecturers. The Religio-Philosophical Journal, July 3, 31 Spiritualist Campmeeting, Dubuque, Iowa.

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1877

The Banner of Light (Boston), August 4

List of Spiritualist Lecturers. Brief History of Spiritualism in Chicago History of Chicago. Onset Bay Grove Association History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

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1878

The Banner of Light (Boston), August 17

List of Spiritualist Lecturers. Watkins Freethinkers Convention, August 23-25 Selections from the Proceedings of the Watkins Glen, New York, Freethinkers Convention.

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1879

The Banner of Light (Boston), February 1

List of Spiritualist Lecturers; Spiritualist Meetings. History of the New England Spiritual Campmeeting Association at Lake Pleasant, Mass.; by H. A. Budington. Springfield, Mass.: Star Publishing Co., 1907 List of Members, 1879; Lake Pleasant Newspapers; Presidents of the Campmeeting Association; Clerks, Treasurers, Vice Presidents; Speakers and Mediums Employed by the Association. The Word (Princeton, Mass.), July The New England Labor Reform League; The New England Free Love League. Spiritual and Liberal Association of Grand Rapids, Michigan Albert Baxter, History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Neshaminy Falls Grove Spiritualist Campmeeting Bucks County Gazette (Bristol, Penn.), August 7, 1879. New York Spiritualists Conference

The New-York Times, May 12, 1879.

Wisconsin Spiritualists

Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, February 25, 1879.

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1880

The Banner of Light (Boston), July 31

Spiritualist Lecturers. The Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), May 15 Directory—Lecturers; Mediums, Clairvoyants, Trance; Healers; Mediums Located in Chicago—Lecturers; Mediums, Clairvoyants, Trance; Healers; Mediums—Physical Manifestations. Professional Spiritualists 1880 Federal Census listings for those identifying themselves, either for the census, or in the national spiritualist newspapers, as having the occupation of medium, trance lecturer, spiritualist, psychometrist, etc. The Word (Princeton, Mass.), August The Union Reform League, Second Annual Convention. The Word (Princeton, Mass.), December

The Anti-Death League, Third Annual Convention

Spiritualist Camp Meetings

Survey of the Spiritualist summer Camp Meetings operating in 1880-1882.

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1881

The Banner of Light (Boston), July 3

Spiritualist Lecturers; Michigan Mediums Medical Association. The Word (Princeton, Mass.), October The Union Reform League, Third Annual Convention Camp Etna, Maine The Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, August 19, 1881. Founding of Liberal, Missouri in 1881 Sikeston (Missouri) Herald,December 1, 1938.

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1882

The Banner of Light (Boston), August 12

List of Spiritualist Lecturers.

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1883

The Banner of Light (Boston), April 7

List of Spiritualist Lecturers.

Niantic Spiritualist Campmeeting

Denton (Maryland) Journal, August 25, 1883.

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1884

The Religio-Philosophical Journal, August 2

The Southern Association of Spiritualists: Convention.

The Religio-Philosophical Journal, July 5

The New England Spiritualists Campmeeting Association: Announcement, Schedule for Lake Pleasant Spiritualist Campmeeting, and Officers of the Association. The Religio-Philosophical Journal, September 27 The American Spiritualists Association: Convention at Lake Pleasant, August 21-23. The Banner of Light (Boston), February 9 List of Spiritualist Lecturers; announcements for Lansing Union Convention and Michigan State Spiritualists Convention. The Truth Seeker Annual and Freethinkers Almanac Formation (1877) and Early History of the New York Freethinkers Association. The National Liberal League Meeting of 1884 A rift develops among Liberalists between Spiritualists on one side and Atheists and Materialists on the other. Neshaminy Falls Grove Frederick (Maryland) Weekly News, August 21, 1884.

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1885
 

The Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, July

The American Society for Psychical Research (Boston): formation, officers, members, and associates. The Religio-Philosophical Journal, July 4 The Western Society for Psychical Research (Chicago). The Banner of Light (Boston), July 4 List of Spiritualist Lecturers. Philadelphia Spiritualists Association, Seventh Annual Meeting Schedule & Reporting Bucks County Gazette (Bristol, Pennsylvania), July 23, 1885; Trenton (New Jersey) Times, July 20, 1885.

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1886

The Banner of Light (Boston), January 9

List of Spiritualist Lecturers. The Southern Spiritualist Association The Atlanta Constitution.

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1887

The Banner of Light (Boston), June 11

List of Spiritualist Lecturers.

The Peacemaker (Philadelphia), October

Officers of the Universal Peace Union, 1887-1888.

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1888
 

The Banner of Light (Boston), May 26

List of Spiritualist Lecturers. Oregon State Spiritualist Society Morning (Portland) Oregonian, April 7, 1888.

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1890

Maine Spiritualist Campmeeting

Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, September 6, 1890.

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1891

The Veteran Spiritualists’ Union, Boston

Pamphlet Announcing Formation of the Veteran Spiritualists’ Union, and Membership Application.

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1892

A Visit to Lily Dale

Olean (N. Y.) Democrat, August 9, 1892.

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1893

Proceedings of the National Delegate Convention of Spiritualists of the United States of America; Held in Chicago, Illinois, September 27, 28, and 29, 1893 . . . Washington, D. C.: Stormont & Jackson, 1893

List of Delegates. The Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago), February 11 Advisory Council of the 1893 World’s Congress Auxiliary on a Psychical Science Congress.

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1894

Proceedings of the Second Annual Convention of the National Spiritualists’ Association of the United States of America, Held at Washington, D. C., Oct. 9, 10 & 11, 1894 . . . Cincinnati: Light of Truth Publishing Co., 1894

List of Officers, Trustees, and Delegates.

Camp Benson Spiritualist Campmeeting

Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, August 28, 1894.

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1895

National Spiritualists Association

Third Annual Convention, Washington, D. C.

First Spiritual Temple, Boston

Fort Wayne Weekly Gazette, December 26, 1895.

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1896

“A Review of the Progress of Spiritualism,” in Workers in the Vineyard [. . .] by Julia Schlesinger.  San Francisco, 1896.

Early History of Spiritualism in California and the Pacific Coast.

Meeting of the New York Chapter of the National Spiritualist Association

Lima (Ohio) Times Democrat, February 27, 1896.

Fourth Annual Convention of the National Spiritualist Association

Fort Wayne Gazette, October 10, 1896.

Tri-State Spiritualist Meeting (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois)

Fort Wayne News, August 17, 1896.

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1897

National Spiritualists Association

Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Convention.

The Philosophical Journal (San Francisco), May 13 and May 20

State Spiritualists Associations’ Annual Meetings—California, Ohio, Texas.

Camp Chesterfield & the National Antispiritualist Association

Newspapers from 1895—1897.

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1898

The Philosophical Journal (San Francisco), September 23

California Mediums

The Philosophical Journal (San Francisco), June 23

The Golden Jubilee Celebration of Spiritualism, held in June in Rochester, New York, under the auspices of the National Spiritualists’ Association.

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1899

Seventh Annual Convention of the National Spiritualists Association, Chicago

Daily Herald (Delphos, Ohio), October 21, 1899.

Proposal for a Spirit Trust

Fort Wayne News and Atchison Globe.

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1900

International Congress of Spiritualists and Occultists

Atlanta Constitution, October 28, 1900.

Indiana Spiritualist Association

Fort Wayne Daily News, July 19, 1900.

History of Lily Dale

A History of Cassadaga Camp.  Compiled by W. H. Bach, Lily Dale, N. Y., and Presented as a Premium to the Patrons of The Sunflower.  Lily Dale, N. Y.: The Sunflower Print, July, 1899.

Below is something of interest for those who have been to Stansted Hall, The Arthur Findlay College of Psychic Research.

Source: Access to Archives (A2A): not kept at The National Archives

Fuller-Maitland family of Stansted Hall 88741
Fuller-Maitland family of Stansted Hall Essex (Stansted Hall in Stansted Mountfitchet, Birchanger, etc) deeds and papers bills and accounts for repairs

Date range: 1544 - 1921.


Bentall, family of Stansted Hall 86844
Bentall family of Stansted Hall Essex (Stanstead Hall in Halstead) and Suffolk (Bildeston) family and estate papers, with papers of the Linnett family

Date range: 1747 - 1856.

Copy of Marriage settlement of Roger Martin, Esq. & Tamworth Horner. 613/608
Stansted Hall; Stansted Water Mill (occ. by Thos. {Thomas?} Deekes). Manor of Alton or Alpheton; Messuage etc. Dexters, in Melford & Gt. Walding-field; some fishing rights on River Stourmer; Messuage etc. Gugges in Liston & Foxyard, Essex; (except Manor

Date: 1663.

Copy of mortgage (Over Hall in Stansted Manor) by Rev. John Gent of Stoke-by-Nayland to Robert Thompson of Tendring, Essex, gent., for securing £1530 upon 30 May next, on copyholds: 4/5ths of:- Over Cowpalls (10a.), Stepers Down (10a.), Nether Cowpalls (14a.), 8a. late parcel of Nether Cowpalls and way from Boxted to Sudbury with messuage built thereon (1/2a.), Pungs Grove (11/2a.). HA 519/2018
Copy of mortgage (Over Hall in Stansted Manor) by Rev. John Gent of Stoke-by-Nayland to Robert Thompson of Tendring, Essex, gent., for securing £1530 upon 30 May next, on copyholds: 4/5ths of:- Over Cowpalls (10a.), Stepers Down (10a.), Nether Cowpalls (14a.), 8a. late parcel of Nether Cowpalls and way from Boxted to Sudbury with messuage built thereon (1/2a.), Pungs Grove (11/2a.). HA 519/2018

Date: 1776.

Source: Access to Archives (A2A): not kept at The National Archives

The hall is a C16 manor house, there is a coach house and has a coach gate at the far end of the bridle path towards the Village of Stansted Mountfichet, possibly has in its grounds a C12 hunting lodge. This is possibly the mansum for which Robertus Bourghchier the owner was granted a licence to crenellate in the year of 1341. There was a moat around the property but has now been filled in. There is a dip going around parts of the surrounding perimeter walls of the garden that can still be seen in places, OR was the moat only surrounding the hall itself ?

The Arthur Findlay College, which is in Stansted Hall, at Stansted Mountfichet, near Stansted Airport, Essex, England, teaches in its course all manner of Psychic awareness throughout the year. It was once the manor house of the parish of Stansted Mountfichet. It is known by historical records that in 1658 the hall was partly finished and the owner at the time was Thomas Middleton. The Hall had originally been owned by the de Vere family but was sold to Thomas Middleton, a wealthy Londoner who became Mayor of London, in 1613. It was owned by the Middleton family until 1715. In later years was owned by the Findlay Family. The hall, all the farm and land were left to the trust in the will of Arthur Findlay 1883-1964 [who was an accountant, Shipping Merchant, Broker, and a Magistrate] for the purpose of psychic research to prove that there was indeed life after death. The Hall building has a purpose built church attached to the main building and connected to it now is a new healing centre. There is a Divine service on Sunday and one on Wednesday both start at 6.15 pm.

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