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Modern Spiritualism Laid Bare, Unmasked, Dissected, and Viewed LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. flap..--... §mm¥ 1* Shelf_3£i04-2- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. V Modern Spiritualism Laid Bare, UNMASKED, DISSECTED, Viewed from Spiritualists' Own Teachings, and from Scriptural Standpoints. What It Is ; What Its Influences ; To What It Leads ; And What Its Final End Will Be. Complete in Two Parts: Part Second being an Appendix to and continuation of Part First. Also containing Autobiographical Sketches of the LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, And of His Travels on the American Continent, The Holy Land, and in Europe. - Q \y I Addressed and Dedicated to His Son, By Dr, John Bourbon Wasson, Author of "The Land of Sacred Story,'' (Written while Exploring Egypt, Palestine, and Syria ; Revised while living at Rome) now Ready for the Press. Also of A Popular Treatise, published while Engaged in Practice—"The Family Guide to Homoeopathy." Also, " Homoeopathy Explained from a True Standpoint ; What It Is." "The Prntrl ._ Messenger," &c, & c. v^^^^X JUL 19 1887 >)' SAN FRANCISCO : Bacon & Company, Book and Job Printers, Comer Clay and Sansome Streets. 1887. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by DR. JOHN BOURBON WASSON, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. PREFACE. (In Brief.) The wisest man concerning whom we have any record, either in ancient or modern history, tells us that " There is nothing new under the sun," etc., and the Author of this little book, be- lieving this to be true, claims no originality in anything he may write, whether it relates to what he may have read or heard from others, or indeed what he may have seen with his own eyes, heard with his own ears, or even passed through, either in the material or spiritual form, however startling, mysterious or strange, and spiritual or spirituelle, many of the things he is about to relate may indeed seem. Suffice it to say, in concluding this short preface, that all that will be found written in this book shall be facts, and veritable facts only—so far, at least, as the author's personal knowledge may be given—feeling deeply not only his personal responsi- bility to every reader into whose hands this may come, but his deep personal and individual responsibility to his Creator—God —also, in the last great day of final account. Respectfully and truly, THE AUTHOR. San Francisco, Cal., a d. 1887. INDEX. Preface 5 Introduction.., ,... 13 CHAPTER I. A Mysterious and Lonely Island ; A Strange Book taken from It, which tells of the Most Wonderful Visions, Revelations, and of Celestial Spirits or Beings in Another World ; Written many Centuries ago ; Has been Seen by Many, Read and Studied by Some, and but Little Understood by Any 15 CHAPTER II. False Teachings ; Some of the Beasts in the Apocalypse, representing Modern Spiritualism, Goddess of Liberty in the French Revolu- tion, her Nudity, and the Frenchman's Chickens without Feath- ers, Novel- Reading, etc., etc 19 CHAPTER III. Spiritualism, or "New Christian Science," so called, viewed from Scriptural Evidence, and their own Teachings ; The Touch- stone Applied 22 CHAPTER IV. Marriage, Free Love, Socialism, etc 29 CHAPTER V. Spiritualism and Spirit Teachings, as Testified to and Viewed by Spirit- ualists themselves, 32 INDEX. CHAPTER VI. The Politics of Spiritualists, which Combines Church and State, all to be Controlled entirely on Spiritualistic Principles, such as Taught in the preceding Chapters, and which is to Crush out and Break in Pieces all Present forms of Government 36 CHAPTER VII. Questions for the leaders in the New Government ; to be answered freely, without Mental Reservation, and Subscribed to Promptly, as a test of Qualification ., 42 CHAPTER VIII. The dreadful doom awaiting those who shall oppose the New, or Celes- tial government, or revile and scoff at Modern Spiritualism. They must speedily be brought to the altar of human sacrifice, after un- told, fearful calamities have come upon them. An awful retri- bution awaits those who oppose " Spiritual Communion.". .... 44 CHAPTER IX. The Common Evidence of Spirits unreliable as to Identity, either in Character, Age, Sex, Origin, or Future Condition, or whether Human or Animal ; all depending, no doubt, upon the Astuteness and yEstheticism of the Developing Medium in the occult and mysterious Science and Art 47 CHAPTER X. The Old and New Testament Scriptures all clearly Declare against Spiritualism, and its Teachings can Nowhere be Found in the Bible. The Subject carefully Examined, Weighed in the Balance, and found Wanting. " To the Law and to the Testimony; if They [the Spirits] Speak not According to the Word, it is Because there is no Light [or Truth] in them."—Isaiah 8 : 20. Also, I John 4:1, " Beloved, Believe not Every Spirit, but try the Spirits, whether they are of God for Many false Prophets are Gone out into the World." 55 INDEX. CHAPTER XL Miracles and Wonders claimed by Spiritualists. The voice of God against consulting Familiar Spirits pointed and plain. Unclean Spirits described. Texts of Scripture claimed by Spiritualists, to prove their Doctrines s 62 CHAPTER XII. King Saul, the Witch of En-dor, and Spirit of the Prophet Samuel, when Shown Up in the True Light, Prove Nothing in Favor of Spiritualism, neither does the Spirit which Eliphaz Saw, when its True Character is Brought to Light 7] CHAPTER XIII. The Spirit which Eliphaz, the Temanite, Saw, Job. 4 : 12, 21. Its Character for Truth Questioned. The Angel which Balaam's Ass Saw, and the Voice with which It Spoke, Considered. Also, Moses and Elias, on the Mount of Transfiguration 79 CHAPTER XIV. Spiritualism a Demonstrated Fact. Its General Nature and Character as Taught, and Believed, and Practiced, Dissected and Laid Bare. 86 CHAPTER XV. Being a continuation of Chapter XIV 95 CHAPTER XVI. Influences of Spiritualism on the Human Mind, and What it Leads to in its Final Results 101 CHAPTER XVII. The Divinity of Christ. His Resurrection, Miracles, etc., Viewed from a Christian Standpoint, in Contradistinction with Spiritual- ism and its False Teachings 103 IO INDEX. CHAPTER XVIII. The Age in Which we Live, Viewed in the Light of Prophecy and its Closing Scenes 108 CHAPTER XIX. Continuation of Subject of Preceding Chapter, Further Showing the Vivid Imagination of Spiritualism, Together with a Narration of the Author's Personal Experience on the Subject 119 CHAPTER XX. Subject of last Chapter continued, with Spirit Manifestations Dis- closed 124 CHAPTER XXL A brief History of the Origin, Development, and Rapid Progress of Spiritualism, and the Alarming Attitude it has Assumed, etc 132 CHAPTER XXII. What the Author Thinks he Believes, and What he Thinks he Does Not Believe about Some Things. Addressed to Every Reader, Personally 139 DR. J. B. WASSON IN PALESTINE. INTRODUCTION. In presenting this volume to the public, the Author does so without the usual form and stereotyped apology, such as " deep- ly feeling his utter incapacity or inability, etc.,'* to grapple with the subject before him, for he feels nothing of the sort, but rather to deal candidly and tersely with facts as they present themselves to his mind, remembering the old maxim, Que iex- 1 cuse, s accuse (He who excuses himself, accuses himself) ; feel- ing the better enabled to do so after much study, careful inves- tigation, and deep research, together with the advantages of much travel and extensive acquaintance in different countries, and close observation, endorsed by long personal experience in many ways, often the most mysterious and strange that could possibly happen to any one in the body, or in mortal flesh ; and this, too for a full quarter of a century, as he desires to give a brief auto- biography of himself, which will be found in the closing chapters of this book, and which may be read perhaps with both interest and profit before perusing this work further, if the reader pre- fers to do so. In this autobiography will be found reminiscences and many incidents related of the most interesting character to any one who takes the trouble to read ; which often appear more like tales of fiction or romance than real or personal history ; and however startling or mysterious and strange many of these nar- rations may appear, during a life of more than half a century 14 INTRODUCTION. which the author has passed through—often the most checker- ed and eventful—and during his travels and residence in the United States and on this Continent, as well as many travels in Europe, in the far East or Orient, as well as scenes and incidents related, which transpired while traveling in those countries and living in some parts of them, as well as his residence in Rome, etc., yet every word is true as truth itself, or as actual history can be written. And all the writer would ask, further, is that the reader will at once lay aside all prejudice, either for or against the subject, and study and read carefully this small treatise for the purpose of becoming more enlightened, as well as edified and instructed in this great and wonderfully mysterious and strange phenome- non—Spiritualism— which lies before him, and which has raised up its hydra-heads, even like unto those "great and dreadful and terrible beasts," with their many heads and horns, etc., such as Daniel and John the Revelator speak of in the Prophecies, Revelations and Visions, which will be explained in the most clear, succinct and pointed manner in connection with this, so far as relates to the subject before us. modern Spiritualism Laid Bare. CHAPTER I. A Mysterious and Lonely Island ; A Strange Book taken from It, which tells of the Most Wonderful Visions, Revelations, and of Celestial Spir- its or Beings in Another World ; Written many Centuries ago ; Has been Seen by Many, Read and Studied by Some, and but Little Un- derstood by Any.
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