Post-mortem confessions : being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College : with comments by Allen Putnam / by Allen Putnam.

  • Putnam, Allen, 1802-1887.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Post-mortem confessions : being letters written through a mortal's hand by spirits who, when in mortal, were officers of Harvard College : with comments by Allen Putnam / by Allen Putnam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    vent eloquence in exposition and advocacy of the cause while they wore robes of flesh. Its assailants once, they now reveal their incompetence when using their most efficient mental weapons to crush or even bruise it. Few others could or can wield such weap- ons with force equalling theirs. Where such ones failed, who can anticipate success? Had they not been assailants baffled while in mor- tal, no words from them now, as spirits, could take such tenacious hold upon the minds of their succes- sors in high collegiate positions, of graduates from colleges, of thinking, logical minds in all grades and classes in society, as their grasp now gets and will retain through all time. As skillful testers of spirit- ualistic metal, they found it precious, valuable for a currency whose worth would command wide and abiding circulation. Their post-mortem stamp of ap- proval upon it more than overbalances their mun- dane allegations that it was spurious. Investigation ? ? ? Yes, such it proved to be. By it discovery was made that some intelligence, with powers other than mortals possessed, was broadly applying forces among men which brought out into mortal view operations requiring operators not known by ablest mundane scientists. Who did this ? Harvard's abler expounders of theology, liter- ature, natural sciences, and mathematics combined did it. Their report, now made ki after twenty-nine years' consideration, involves such strong testimony that Modern Spiritualism has basis on solid fact that their work begins to be and is long and widely to be helpful to the cause of Spiritualism, that this writer