New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-14
GHOSTOLOGY.
sx,d,rhors,s Doctrine on spiritual manifsstatiens


svedeubors,s Doctrine spiritual Manifestation.
IITrER TO EoS >. P.TALLsADGE OK FIRiTVAL AA'F
TrsrArIoss
S,p In an article in The ~ Y TribsAe OF June the Nh'
Won s1pre.s the opinion that the spirit nsntsns himself
"a Won was the venerable John c. Calhoun.
Tb. question and desire TO call Year attention TO ny
and 10 make long story short VIII simply say
that Emanuel Swedenborg, who lived century ago. HA
Of sceuce snd acknowledged worth and integrity PROGRESSED
10 have full, open intercourse with inc sPfi'u- WIN
see and converse with its inhabitants face to face Tor sne
-, ne;od ofa7 vears and mo, than this be claimed to
have been n edum prepared by the Lord through whom
He revealed to men the Spiritual Sense of His ord which
be declares to the second coming OF the LORD NOT
this all; he claims TO have been permitted 10 see inc
heavens and the bells and to have been protected IN order
thatbe might describe the state OF man ~er de.n
In regard TO the truth Of his claims have only say ns
admit them in their length and breadth From ms VIII
ings desire make few quotations for your considers
ton First as to the identity of spirits who appear to man.
he says:
spirits may induced who represent snoner pesos sna me
spirit also he Who was tSyn to 'h P SnP Zen ,sorn % me
lhst the pp .PeslIs With me GA Pc, ,b & s,r ,rir know
otlsrw yest.rdsy to-day hno-n to ne 70 ne wv
70 F y fbey -.re ino~n to me nothing Ike
wherefore let .hOse who ssk with .pIts es.e les, "a ss,
s sey d., vssa they say that they '''' 'A'
Not few instances have occurred already where spr
its have appeared through rappngs or writings pro
Tossing to be the spirits of living and that they
were dead, as the of Capt West reported in IAS
Atfh, otoloeiL Again we are told by SSedenborg
There and species Of spirits Of. like faculty .0s , snS
similar things called up n The emory Of maa ana arc b ,bs
them, they think that they are the ,ame pe.n
things called forth from the meuo shieh nt tlsss
ds that they thus other .p inspire than.
for tey the fantasy Of these and think they are 'As same
l74S, Angus; r. Spiritual diary, 2seo and -tei.
We By the experiments Of biology that spirits IN the
body n men, have similar control over men. Butwe
sha see ore fully why no dependence be placed up
on the identity of spirits from the following extracts
Iis not Law u for sTt with man nom
his own memory cut '1' H''- ''' u "' Heaven and Hell
"A.on spirits .ress with man. they their
spiritual tie Of and in hs ,ss my snow
~ se tnos rLs lie aonas hcusni.
speak with lin II IS o-lae 70 M % 80 3, - n. .ne,s,
,.t Is we 'i ir9e Or Espi IsS
are u tHf .Tis Which BSTe ercoG-e know
al the thousk@ himself knows aud also the smallest
Inow yea such Tim IS Is Impossible the fe Of
he oo Ard s.3 they tnT, INTO al s a. sI ou on al
which are EIn nSHuGs ,es ,sy sRo" no 0he' 'n l'
Then if It is that spirits come, are here told
into tie knowledge Of mem earth and lose their own
memory of spiritual things is NO; evident that we look in
vain to irits for any spiritual knowledge have care
fully and diligently read Dayss Mature Divine Revela
tiors ard have taken to three Of the period
Gals devoted the Spirit Mantle stations and have yet to
see any evidence that spirit, which holding
verse with man, have given any spiritual knowledge or
idea or philosophy, above different from that which
was already known to man The most that have is,
that they possess carvoyant power 10 what exists in
ply steal nature, and is already in the minds Of
earth I'm illustration Of this will state but short time
ago in The Epiyd MsseHg,y flaming description Of
method to rain by A. J. Davis which he pro
hayerece from spirits and do not doubt but
what his statement is correct and yet had read the
IDEAS in Tie Journal q Man weeks before Mr.. Waugh
mar the writer Of the article in The Journal Of Man
Ar Davis OF plagiarism, yet he does him injustice for
be may be, have by the extracts from Sweden
borg and doubtless is as innocent as the child unborn
In Dayiss Revelations will be found description Of
the inhabitants of the planets of the solar system almost
verbatim from Suedenborgs Esrths in the Universe"
In regard to the dependence that be placed upon
communications from spirit nil make few selections
The al certain Iuts called natural and corporal spirits
who when hey sPoseh men, DO not Ike Other spirit conon
zion OF al his er. 70 sPah ty Ls mouth aud act by ms menu
THAT ir re&e hiDss exceedingly fetit9us AID lie When
tl htsin aA win nan ne usl e" sfe st ne 9esve VIZ
them and ley lie fr they permitted relate what heaven
Hdsed With sn hat man woudbe astohed wisre-
de- ttHs 1b Ii related For they srs eIes6ns fond Of fab
is % s OF ,Ssy
her one 10 one way End sno5er 70 another stosher - 4 they
tho ly IS L si1 S diary s Wherefore let men beware lest
We informed in The Spiritual Diary that nearly the
whole world of spirits which is state intermediate be.
tween Heaven and HELL fansca and seeks nothing else
but to teach and esd-svng to possess the bodies
Of men Whereas we informed in Swedenborg's
Divine Providence that good spirits and angels
teach men doctrines because the Sacred Scriptures
from the Lord and the medium of conjunction between
Heaven and Earth pOr they predict future events
because the future is certainly known to the l3ra oe
and for man to know it would destroy his freedom.
With the full assurance, after careful and dgent inqui
~ that there is no other source from which reliable ntor
nation can be obtained in relation to the state OF a
ter death the relation which this life has to the future the
laws of the spiritual world and the association Of spirits
with men save from the Bible snd the writings of Emanu
FL swedenborg through which acknowledge the Lord in
His Second Coming remain most respectfully yours
DctroI, June 7, 1888 JOHN ELLIS