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Charles Partridge spintral Publish

New Michly 1857

PUBLISHED BY

J. SDFIELD, CLINTON HALL, NEW YORK

I. REICHENBACH'S DYNAMICS OF MAGNETISM."Physico-Physiological Researches on the Dynamics of Magnetism, Elec tricity, Heat, Light, Crystallization, and Chemism, in their Relations t Vital Force: By Baron CHARLES VON REICHENBACH. With the Addition of a Preface and Critical Notes, by JOHN ASHBURNER, M. D." With al the Plates. In one Volume, 12mo., 456 pp. Price, $1 25. "This book is a valuable addition to scientific knowledge upon subjects tha have hitherto been involved in obscurity and mysticism. Charlatans have s long availed themselves of a slight knowledge of the phenomena of magnetis for mercenary purposes, that discredit has been thrown upon the whole subject and men of science have been deterred from pursuing, or at least from publish ing, their researches. The work before us gives the result of a vast number o experiments, conducted with great philosophical acumen, testing the truth bot of modern theories and ancient superstitions. Phenomena attributed in pas ages to a supernatural agency, and by the superficial skepticism of later time lismissed as mere impostures, are in many instances traced with great clea ness to natural and explicable causes. It requires, and is eminently worthy of an attentive perusal."-City Item.

II. "THE CELESTIAL TELEGRAPH; or, Secrets of th World to Come, revealed through Magnetism; wherein the Existence, th Form, and the Occupations of the Soul, after its Separation from the Body are proved by Many Years' Experiments, by the Means of eight Ecstati Somnambulists, who had eighty Perceptions of thirty-six Deceased Per sons of various Conditions. A Description of them, their Conversation etc., with Proofs of their Existence in the Spiritual World." By L. ALPE CAHAGNET. In one Volume, 12mo., 410 pp. Price, $1 25.

"M. Cahagnet has certainly placed the human race under a vast debt of obl gation to himself, by the vast amount of information vouchsafed respecting ou hereafter. What we have read in this volume has exceedingly interested us i many ways and for many reasons-chiefly, perhaps, because we have peruse it as we would any other able work of fiction. As a work of imagination, it almost incomparable. Some of the revelations are as marvellous and interestin as those, or that, of Poe's M. Valdemar. We commend this work to lovers o the wild and incredible in romance."-Ontario Repository.

III. STILLING'S PNEUMATOLOGY.—“ Theory of Pneuma tology; in Reply to the Question, What ought to be believed or disbelieve concerning Presentiments, Visions, and Apparitions, according to Nature Reason, and Scripture. By Doct. JOHANN HEINRICH JUNG-STILLING Translated from the German, with copious Notes, by SAMUEL JACKSON Edited by Rev. GEORGE BUSH." In one Vol., 12mo., 300 pp. Price $1. "We have, in the course of the discussion, a philosophical account of th magnetic influence, as showing the influence of mind upon mind, as well as o various other analogous subjects. The array of facts brought forward by th author is curious, and the work will interest any one who is engaged in studyin the different phases of the human mind."-State Register.

THE

APPROACHING CRISIS:

BEING

A REVIEW

OF

DR. BUSHNELL'S RECENT LECTURES

ON

Supernaturalism.

BY ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS,
AUTHOR OF "NATURE'S DIVINE REVELATIONS," "GREAT HARMONIA," ETC., ETC

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.
1852.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852,

By ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,

for the Southern District of New York.

PREFACE.

THE GREAT QUESTION of this Age, which is destined to convulse and divide Protestantism, and around which all other religious controversies must necessarily revolve, is exegetically foreshadowed in this Review; which is composed of Six Discourses, delivered by the Author before the Harmonial Brotherhood of this City. Religious truths present themselves naturally to a good mind; and by such a mind they will be most accurately comprehended. Men of the greatest talent and learning frequently reason themselves into the profoundest errors, by commencing with the confusing impression that Truth is complex and supernatural. He who would apprehend the simplicity of Truth and worship at her shrine, must be ready at all times to divest his mind of prejudices and of preconceived opinions, whenever Truth reveals their falseness. The Author's method will be found to

be plain, because such is truly the seal of reason.

The views presented concerning the "Word," it may be remarked, are mainly connected with the external peculiarities thereof; as the occasion does not now demand a deeper criticism. The Author is acquainted with a more spiritual Logos, within the original symbolical expression, (8 λóyos тov Ocov, “the word of God," to be found, with identical meanings, in the Zenda Vesta, in the Vedas, also in the Bible,) which lies quite untouched in the present work. Indeed, the spiritual "Word" here alluded to, as originally signified by JOHN, is not (ô λoyos and λóyoɩ) Divine "Truth" and "Reason" dependent upon the paper and ink habiliments of the Old and New Testaments; but upon the intellectual progress and religious development of the human soul-a growth of parts into a completeness. The organizing, unfolding, and energizing Spirit of God (which is the true translation of John's meaning) will surely be more manifested, or inworlded, in a New Dispensation than in any conceivable number of sacred canons. Supernaturalism adheres to the form; Rationalism seeks the spirit.

Among all the Author's recent impressions, there stands no one question so important and conspicuous as that set forth in the succeeding pages. The most external and superficial aspect is first presented; but deeper investigations are certain to follow. There is much to illuminate our present existence, and far more to joyfully anticipate.

HARTFORD, FEB. 25, 1852.

A. J. D.

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