The British Spiritual Telegraph

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... BEING X GENERAL RECORD OF SPIRITUAL PHENOMENA. No. 9.--Vol. III. APRIL 1st, 1859. Price Id SPIRITUALISM AND THE HON. R. DALE OWEN. On Thursday evening, the 10th of March, 1859, there was a large and influential meeting of the Thinkers on Physical and Vital Science, as developed in Sleep, Dreams, Somnambulism, Mental Epidemics, Apparitions, and Spiritualism, held at the large room, Great Mary-le-bone-street, Portland place, convened by private circular, to hear the Hon. R. Dale Owen read the introduction to a work he is about to publish on the Probabilities of Ultra-mundane Communication, which are exciting so intense an interest among thousands of our countrymen, as well as in Europe generally, and in America. We perceived amongst the audience several of the writers in prose, poetry, and science, who have stamped their image on the literature of the age: there were also several seers and seeresses (now-a-day- called Mediums,) through whom many signs and wonders have been wrought in the privacy of domestic life. Looking on the assembly, so constituted, a ieeling akin to awe stole over our minds as we thought on the past, which produced the present scene, and on the present, as fraught with that which will tinge the literature of the next generation--for in the quiet of domestic life, our sons and our daughters are witnessing scenes of intense interest. The mothers of our day are training their loved ones for the mental future of Man. God, in his power, is opening a pathway to Let the glory through and in, and by the power of its rays, as on Jacob's ladder, there are angels ascending and descending. From the nature of the subjects treated of by Mr. Owen and from his indomitable perseverance, in verifying the truthfulness of the facts he reli...