Arcana of Nature

477 Pages·2012·22.66 MB·English

by  Hudson Tuttle

ARCANA OF NATURE
By
HUDSON TUTTLE
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With an
INTRODUCTION
Giving an Account of the Phenomenon of ita Authorship.
and the "Superior Condition" of ANDREW
JACKSON DAVIS, EMANUEL
SWEDENBORG, and
other Psychics.
By
EMMET DENSMORE, M.D.
SECOND BDlf'ION, l'll'TH THOUSAND, RBVISBD AND AUOMBNTBD
LONDON:
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.
NEW YORK:
STILLMAN PUBLISHING CO.
313 Forty-lint Smet, BrooldJil
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BY EHHET DENSMORE
[Printed in United Stat.]
Eleoond EditiOD PubJiaht April, 1909
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the
earth, and the top of it reached to heaven ; and behold
the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
GeneSis, 28. 12.
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the things ·which are
mighty.
I Cor. 1. 27.
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SUMMARY OF CONTENTS.
Page:
illustrations-Portraits, Plates I-IV.
Editor's Pref~~Ce . . • . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • 7
1 Introduction, comprising:
Memoir of Emanuel Swedenborg. . . . . . . . . . . 11
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" " Andrew Jackson Davis .. ·. ...... 23
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" " Hudson Tuttle 39
" " Cora L. v. Richmond .......... 65
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" " J. Colville ................. 74
Clairvoyance of A. J. Davis .. . .. .. . . .. .. .. . . . . 99
ARCANA OF NATURE, reproduced from origi-
nal plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
PHILOSOPHY OJ!' SPIBIT, extracts from . . . . . . . . . . 407
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . • . • • . . • . • . . . . . • . . . . 461
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Index 469
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PREFACE.
The Psychical &search Society waa organized in
England in 1882, by prominent men and women inter
ested in the problem of a continued life after death,
and for tne purpose of examining into the validity of
alleged psye>hic ·manifestations. One result of its
activities has been to enlist the cooperation of noted
men of science, and to create a popular interest in
these manifestations.
The writer is imprest that the phenomena to which
attention is called in this volume deserve consider
ation from the psychic student as well as from the gen
eral public. As explained more fully in the Introduc
tion, the utterances of none of these seers are to be
accepted as authoritative; and the Arcana of Nature
is republished because of the phenomenal nature of
its production rather than from any claim that it is a
valuable contribution to science.
The Arcana of Nature is herein reproduced as it
first appeared, including the charts and diagrams.
The orthografy of the Introduction, including the
biografies, quotations and Appendix, is made to con
form to the recommendations of the Simplified Spelling
Board.
EMMET DENSMORE.
N:a:w You, September, 1908.
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PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
Mr. Colville in his biografy on page 85 givs strong
testimony as to the beneficial effects, •both upon his
mental and physical powers, resulting from the exercise
of spiritual gifts.
Like benefits •are even more strikingly shown by
Dr. Davis, a graduate of medicin, who, now in ·his 83rd
year, is busily engaged in the practis of his profession.
~he facts of Swedenborg's life ·afford a further
illustration of the ·benefits •associated with the use of
psyehic powers. It is well known that he W88 ·activly
occupied in the production of his philosophical works
until within a few months of his death. "The Rev.
Nicholas Collin, Rector of Swedenborg 's church in
Philadelphia, who visited Swedenhorg in 1706 (N. Y.
Sun., Sept. 6th, 1908), thus depicts his personal •appear
ance: 'being very old (seventy-eight) when I saw him,
he was thin and pale, but still retained traces of beauty
and had something very pleasing in his physiognomy
and a dignity in his tall and erect stature.' Sweden
borg's bodily activity in his later years was much
remarkt upolll. Cuno (also a contemporary) bears
witness that when Swedenborg was in his late seventies
he W&s for his age a perfect marvel of health. He says
that altho Swedenborg was more than twenty years
older, he (Cuno) would be ·afraid to run a race with
him -becaus '·he -was ·as quick on his legs as the young
est man.' Somewhat later Cuno testifies: (When I
dined with him the last time he told me that a new
set of teeth 'W'8S growing in his mouth; he was then
a man 81 years of age'."
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