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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    workings of Spiritualism may possibly fall far short of grasping the full breadth of its scope, and the comprehensiveness of the aims of its chief managers. Sad Conditions. — In this dawning of an era of unprecedented amount of spirit return, many spirits, high, low, and intermediate in grades of intelligence and spirituality, have been revealing rather privately than very openly the existence of saddening facts not generally supposed to exist. In this treatise, though short, such facts, even at the expense of essen- tial repetition, will have farther attention. A great number, upon going out from mortal form, must, and others may, long remain in and close about their earthly material homes and haunts; will cling to their old workshops, places of business, loung- ing or loafing resorts, attaching themselves to, cling- ing to, their surviving relatives, friends, cronies, affinities in mortal, feed upon them, sap their vital- ity, engender or increase in them debilities and dis- eases, and also sway many to harmful indulgences, and excesses in eating, drinking, and other sensual gratifications. Among them will be some — and, perhaps, not a few — who to gratify the special evil propensities they had while here, and carried with them into the hereafter, prompt and incite the special mortals with whom they blend to commission of thefts, robberies, swindlings, or even murders. Results like those are represented to be so extensive as almost to force belief that departed ones are the essential producers of nearly half of the diseases and half of the crimes