The Nature Of Spiritual Existence, And Spiritual Gifts, Given Through The Mediumship Of Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond | by G. H. Hawes
The Fifteen Discourses comprising this work were delivered in the order here arranged, in San Francisco, during the spring and summer of 1883, and are published with the consent and approval of their authors. To those unfamiliar with spirit control it may be of some interest to know that Mrs. Richmond in all her public speaking is in a trance or unconscious state, the influencing spirit using the voice and controlling all the movements of the body with ease and grace. Every discourse is preceded by an appropriate prayer, and usually at the close a poetic control gives an impromptu poem upon a subject selected by the audience.
| Title | The Nature Of Spiritual Existence, And Spiritual Gifts, Given Through The Mediumship Of Mrs. Cora L. V. Richmond |
| Author | G. H. Hawes |
| Publisher | G. H. Hawes |
| Year | 1884 |
| Copyright | 1884, G. H. Hawes |
| Amazon | The nature of spiritual existence, and spiritual gifts, given through the mediumship of Mrs. Cora L.V. Richmond |
To The Reader- The Fifteen Discourses comprising this work were delivered in the order here arranged, in San Francisco, during the spring and summer of 1883, and are published with the consent and approval of their ...
- Reporter. Spirit Life
- The Spiritualist 1ms done away with a literal Kingdom of Heaven - its walls of brass, its streets of gold, its gates of pearl, its throne of alabaster - and declares to the theologian that those terms...
- Reporter. Spirit Life. Part 2
- When you are, therefore, in the spiritual life separated from the organic body, you are in the same realm of reality that you occupy now in your thoughts, feelings, affections, aspirations, hopes, pro...
- Reporter. Spirit Life. Part 3
- So you can conceive of an existence where neither cold or heat are found, that there would be no need of the organic raiment of earth. Why not be surrounded by that which constitutes the reality of th...
- Spiritual States That Border On The Material
- In our last discourse we endeavored to show that the reality of spiritual existence does not depend upon its materiality, and that by far the greater portion of life is not material, but is real in it...
- Spiritual States That Border On The Material. Part 2
- If you go out into a fog or mist, with the intention of running down a ship at sea, you will be very likely to be the victim of your own intention, especially if the ship has a light that is far above...
- Spiritual States That Border On The Material. Part 3
- You ask any dozen individuals a question similar to that which people are accustomed to ask the spirits, (assuming that all spirits know everything,) and these dozen people will answer you in a dozen ...
- Spiritual States That Border On The Material. Part 4
- Here you are, gathered together in this room. You are not afraid of one another; the law of humanity and the amenities of life bind you together in one society, without the aid of the strong hand of t...
- Spiritual States That Border On The Material. Part 5
- No food so sweet as that which the mother's hand prepares; no place so lordly as that which the father provided for his children; no blossoms of the garden so fragrant as the thyme, and the rose, and ...
- Spiritual States That Border On The Material. Part 6
- But often the state that overshadows the whole will usurp the thought of form and surroundings, and in the absorbing light of the loved ones' eyes, in the glory of their presence, in the thoughts that...
- Spiritual States That Border On The Material. Part 7
- The spiritual states form themselves and are adjusted to that which is central. No one can be a slave save the supremely selfish man; no one can be an orphan who is not from his own nature orphaned of...
- Exceptional Cases Illustrative Of Extreme Ignorance, Depravity And Extreme Progress In Spirit Life
- The occurrences which will now be related have come under the observation of the one who is addressing you, and are, therefore, literal experiences. In proof that the spirit world is what we make it a...
- Cases Of Extreme Ignorance, Depravity And Extreme Progress In Spirit Life. Part 2
- He discovered also that when this change came to his body his spirit became more active; he could perceive more distinctly the principles of life around him. Instead of a fading away of the senses, th...
- Cases Of Extreme Ignorance, Depravity And Progress In Spirit Life. Part 3
- Often those who mourn the material loss are exalted into the atmosphere which he inhabits, and must follow, by one step at least, to where he leads. A great man never leaves the earth through the chan...
- Cases Of Extreme Ignorance, Depravity And Progress In Spirit Life. Part 4
- And if he has been an earthly ruler, and sat restlessly upon his throne of power, working against the rights of others for his own individual prominence, how much more galling, how much more appalling...
- Occupations And Employments In Spirit Life
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- Occupations And Employments In Spirit Life. Part 2
- In spirit life employments are such as are adapted to the condition of the individual, and if not conscious or wise enough to know, then the inferior spirit is acted upon by some power above that guid...
- Occupations And Employments In Spirit Life. Part 3
- He who is intent upon the stars, calling them by their names and discovering their mathematical relation to one another, still in the kingdom of the spirit finds himself powerless to turn his spiritua...
- Occupations And Employments In Spirit Life. Part 4
- The royal road to knowledge which is given to seers. prophets and inspired mediums, is not a road unaccompanied by growth or spiritual unfoldment; nor is it unaccompanied by anything that the world ca...
- Occupation Of Geniuses In Spirit Life
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- Occupation Of Geniuses In Spirit Life. Part 2
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- Occupation Of Geniuses In Spirit Life. Part 3
- As stated in our last discourse, astronomy, geology, chemistry, and the various sciences, as applied to daily life, are not to come to you by the royal road of being dictated step by step, constructio...
- The Condition In Spirit Life Of Those Afflicted With Kleptomania, Lunacy, And Other Kinds Of Mental And Moral Disorders
- The spiritual life consists of states and conditions rather than locations, places, and those things pertaining to time and sense. The conditions of human life which are here imperfect are not necessa...
- The Condition Of Those Afflicted With Kleptomania, Lunacy, And Other Kinds Of Mental And Moral Disorders. Part 2
- The words of Christ pierced the scribes and pharisees and hyprocrites of the Jewish dispensation because He said: He who thinks an evil hath committed it already; he who covets his neighbor's goods ...
- The Condition Of Those Afflicted With Kleptomania, Lunacy, And Other Mental And Moral Disorders. Part 3
- In the worst cases of human crime, the shadowy land into which no light seems to penetrate, this consciousness may not come to the individual, but it certainly conies to all who have the faintest glim...
- The Methods Of Communion Between The Spiritual And Material Worlds
- The ethical or moral proposition as to whether spirits should commune if they can, is not under consideration. Those whose theological convictions are such that they do not permit departed spirits to ...
- The Methods Of Communion Between The Spiritual And Material Worlds. Part 2
- But the marvel is that the mind of man, instead of accept ing. the fact as he would any other fact in the universe and waiting gradually for the methods to develop to his consciousness, pauses on the ...
- The Methods Of Communion Between The Spiritual And Material Worlds. Part 3
- No physiologist can explain the added palpitation of the heart under the stimulus of divine emotion; no physiologist can explain the desperation which comes from grief and the gradual dying away of th...
- The Methods Of Communion Between The Spiritual And Material Worlds. Part 4
- The ordinary human mind only reaches out towards Spiritualism through curiosity or love. If through curiosity, it is a surface growth, and will be cut down like stubble in the early harvest of spiritu...
- The Methods Of Communion Between The Spiritual And Material Worlds. Part 5
- Without considering- at all the abstract proposition of the ethical nature of spirit communion, many individuals arc desirous of knowing the modus operandi. It was stated in our previous discourse ...
- The Methods Of Communion Between The Spiritual And Material Worlds. Part 6
- And so palpably do your thoughts affect one another that the shadow, or darkness, or light accompanies you the shadow enveloping you with a kind of mist, the radiance penetrating the darkness of other...
- The Methods Of Communion Between The Spiritual And Material Worlds. Part 7
- The physical phenomena are introduced to show you that even if you doubt the impression, (which is the nearest to heaven,) even if you refuse the thought that is traced upon the tablets of the brain, ...
- The Methods Of Communion Between The Spiritual And Material Worlds. Part 8
- This you do know, that all mundane laws seem to be set aside; that the law of gravitation attracting bodies toward the earth; that the law by which the pressure of the atmosphere affects organic subst...
- Mediumship
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- Mediumship. Part 2
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- Mediumship. Part 3
- Now, mediumship is whatsoever and whomsoever is necessary to convey the message of the spirit world to man. A table may be a medium, a horse or dog may be a medium, and human beings may be the highest...
- Mediumship. Part 4
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- Mediumship. Part 5
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- The Gift Of Healing
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- The Gift Of Healing. Part 2
- From long- experience I discovered that the remedies I prepared myself, and conveyed personally to the patients, invariably produced beneficial results, while the remedies entrusted to others and conv...
- The Gift Of Healing. Part 3
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- The Gift Of Healing. Part 4
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- The Gift Of Prophecy
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- The Gift Of Prophecy. Part 2
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- The Gift Of Prophecy. Part 3
- The distinct predictions in history that have tended to serve the purpose of man's spiritual growth, have either occurred in marked instances of individual life, where the revelation and design of the...
- The Gift Of Prophecy. Part 4
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- The Gift Of Miracles
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- The Gift Of Miracles. Part 2
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- The Gift Of Miracles. Part 3
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- The Gift Of Miracles. Part 4
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- The Gift Of Knowledge
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- The Gift Of Knowledge. Part 2
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- The Gift Of Knowledge. Part 3
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- A Summary Of Spiritual Gifts
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- A Summary Of Spiritual Gifts. Part 2
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- A Summary Of Spiritual Gifts. Part 3
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