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Updated: June 19, 2025
If the picture be not overcolored by the critic's eye, we must believe this to be the culmination of the morbidly spiritualistic tendency which we meet in Scheffer's works. Yet it never exists unrelieved by redeeming qualities. Many will remember the original picture of the "Dead Christ," which was exhibited here by an Art Union about ten years ago.
A feeling of anger arose within me. I was chagrined to think that I had begun to interest myself in a person who merely came to interrupt me in my business by trying to sell me tickets to a spiritualistic exhibition. My instant impulse was to turn from the man and let him see that I was offended by his intrusion, but my reason told me that he had done nothing that called for resentment.
Yet it was perhaps in demonstration of the real significance of the allegory that a spiritualistic doctrine always an impiety to the orthodox was insinuated by the Pharisees and instilled by the Christ. The basis of it rested perhaps partially in the idealism of the prophets. The clamour of their voices awoke the dead. It transformed the skies. It transfigured Jahveh.
The attempt to rationalize the conception of deity as embodied in the Jehovah of the Old Testament gave rise to the class of opinions described as Gnosis, or Gnosticism. The signification of Gnosis is simply "rationalism," the endeavour to harmonize the materialistic statements of an old mythology with the more advanced spiritualistic philosophy of the time.
On the contrary, as soon as Eliphalet and the officer went into the house, there began at once a series of spiritualistic manifestations a regular dark séance. A tambourine was played upon, a bell was rung, and a flaming banjo went singing around the room." "Where did they get the banjo?" asked Dear Jones, sceptically. "I don't know. Materialized it, maybe, just as they did the tambourine.
Seymour, and the rest of the fortune-telling crew, would be repudiated by Andrew Jackson Davis and the rest of the spiritualistic firstchoppers, but it is none the less true that these gifted women sell their pretended knowledge of spirits and spiritual persons and things, with as much pretentiousness to unerring truth, as that veritable seer himself, and at a much lower price.
His spiritualistic faith was a reality to him, as unexciting as Christianity to the normal Christian; he entertained no manner of doubt as to its truth. Beyond all the fraud, the self-deception, the amazing feats of the subconscious self, there remained certain facts beyond doubting facts which required, he believed, an objective explanation, which none but the spiritualistic thesis offered.
She was proclaimed a medium, much to her disgust, and made to sit whole evenings at the table. 'I only did it, she says, 'because it was a way of recompensing my hosts, whose desire to keep me with them prevented their placing me in a convent. Finally I took up laundress work, thinking I might render myself independent and live as I liked without troubling about spiritualistic séances."
The truth was that the Empress, full of spiritualistic beliefs, had suddenly developed a religious mania, centred around the amazing personality of the mock monk. Thrice had Her Majesty sent him commands through her pro-German puppet Fredericks, and thrice he, at Stürmer's suggestion, refused to comply.
The Wrandalls had been routed from their comfortable fireside for what? They were asking the question of themselves and they were waiting stonily for the answer. "It is very stuffy in here," Vivian had said with a glance at the closed doors after Sara had successfully placed her jury in the box. "Keep still, Viv," whispered Leslie, with a fine assumption of awe. "It's a spiritualistic meeting.
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