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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    him prior to the morning of the day of its presenta- tion to the scribe. He sa}rs that early that very morning he, Dr. Bell, Prest. Walker, Prof. Peirce, and Dr. H. F. Gardner met, and, by united will-powers, forced me to visit Mansfield. Why those spirits, rather than any other of his and my many old associates and friends now in spirit life ? Obviously, in my view, it was because each one of those men, while mortal, took part in, or surely had accurate knowledge of, onslaughts by Harvard professors upon mediums and Spiritualism. Whatever may have been the views and feelings of any one or all of them after viewing their acts pertaining to Spiritualists in the light of a spirit- sphere, amid which truth would reveal itself and justice make demands for righting wrongs committed as far as circumstances and conditions would permit, they probably up to that time had found it difficult to command befitting mediums, magnetisms, and re- cipients for information so combined as to render it expedient, if possible, to satisfactorily put their pres- ent views and feelings before mortals. My relations to those men, in matters pertaining to Spiritualism, did formerly, and still do, differ some- what from those of any other mortal. This fact may cause them to view me as prominently deserving and well fitted to be recipient of their present views of some of their mundane transactions. The statements contained in Felton's response apparently have the sanction of all the persons he names, as one band which, after consultation, joined in applying powers which forced me to go and submit my letter.