THE SPIRITUAL MAGAZINE. SPIRITUALISM is based on the cardinal faćt of spirit communion and influx; it is the NEW SERIES. VOL. I. LONDON: 1866. Page DAVENPORTS in Ireland... 92 in Belgium 426, 527 Death and Immortality--Martineau 189 - and Life 369 Dreams, Remarkable Physiological Effect of Certain 553 ... ... ... Review ... ... ... ... 559 ... ... ... ... BEECHER, H. W., on Control of 317 Bengal, Spiritualism in 545 Bicorporeity 94 BLIND Tom 450 BOURIGNON, Madame 96 Book Notices:- Inspirational Discourses, by Emma Hardinge 569 Report of the Second Convention of Progressive Spiritualists 570 Lecky's Spirit of Rationalism 140 Miss Hardinge's Addresses 228 Vital Magnetism Dammerung 383 BREMER, Fredrika-Obituary 72 BREVIOR, T., Poetry 16, 210, 368 What it is to be a Spiri- 27 What is Religion ? 118, 160, 217, 269 Maid of Kent 111 Ancient Mariner 454 481 Secularism as seen in the Civilisation of China 402 Remarkable Physiological Effect of Certain Dreams: Instances of Clairvoyance in Dream 553 BROTHERTON, Edward-Obituary 240 CANNING George, Anecdote of the Mother of ... 553 CATHOLICS, Roman and Spiritualism 12 Charterhouse Monks 282 Chicago, Artesian Well 3, 432 CHINA, Secularism as seen in the Civilisation of 402 Christian Spiritualist 557 Convention of Spiritualists at Darlington 87,570 Creed, Men without a 110, 401 Crystal-seeing in Lancashire 516 EDMONDS, Judge, and Edinburgh 68 FAIRY Seeress--Ann Jefferies 156 Freed Soul, The French Spiritualism and Re-incarnationists 17GERMANY, Spiritualism in 145 Ghost Belief of Shakespeare 194, 241, 289 Glasgow Medium 64, 183, 263 GOETHE Family, Manifestations in 416 GUNDERODE, Caroline von 77 HARDINGE, Miss, Winter Soirees, 48, 70 At St. James's Hall 87 Lectures 385, 433, 529 Heaven, and how to prepare for it 569 HILDEGARDE, ST. 354 House that Jack built 137 Howitt, Wm., Spirites, Fusion ists, and Re-incarnationists in France 17 Caroline von Günderode 77 Bettina von Arnim 97 Spiritualism in Germany 145 Malle. le Normand, the Parisian Sibyl 297 What can we make of these things ? 356 Position and rospects of Spiritualism in England 375 Anti-Spiritual Writers in England 407 Spiritual Idiosyncracies in the Goethe Family 416 Scepticism an Incurable Disease 471 Stones from the Quarry of Truth New Invention Wanted 547 KENT, Maid of 111 Thoughts suggested by History of 211 LECKY's Spirit of Rationalism Levitation in Spain L Mr., of New York ... Page ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Page 111, 211 Glasgow Medium, 64, 183, 263 156 3, 432 Experiences ... 170 226, 278 Phenomena at of Dr. Paulus ... 281 297 362 367 431 476 Lancashire 516 of Cevennes 522 Mother 553 568 189 OGILVY, Mr., and the Laird of Cool 329 338 454 16 210 288 A Christmas Invocation... 544 314 31 500 563 Spiritualism in-The 323 125 193, 241, 289 241, 289 41, 49, 143 559 216, 526 tians who believe the of Spiritualism 138 146 326 412 545 27 557 510 332 546 .. ... ... ... ... 176 ... ... THE Spiritual Magazine . JANUARY, 1866. TO OUR READERS. It is now six years since the first number of The Spiritual Magazine was issued. Its motive and aim were alike out of the track of ordinary journalism. Its conductors have not been professed litterateurs, and it was started with little promise of support, literary or otherwise. It was a commercial speculation only in the sense that its promoters had to calculate the probable loss on its publication which at the end of the year they would be called upon to make up. And as to reputation, they knew well enough that the only repute it was likely to bring them was that of being knaves, fools, and madmen. It may be asked, what then urged them to so unpromising an undertaking ? and how has it succeeded? To this they answer, that they knew themselves to have a strong grip of a class of facts which involved as they felt the most momentous issues, and for want of a right knowledge and just appreciation of which, the most pernicious errors were extensively held, and were spreading fast among all classes of society. To record and establish these facts, to discuss their bearings, and to trace their consequences, seemed to them well worth any labour and any sacrifice that they might be called upon, and that , it was in their power, to make. They were anxious to extend to others that knowledge which in their own experience, and in that of many others had proved so precious. And we have fared perhaps better than we have deserved, certainly better than we expected. Our printer's bills have been punctually paid; and we have no dread of the Rhadamanthus of Basinghall-street. Our circulation though not large, has been steady and progressive. That our medicine has done some good to our brethren of the press is shown by the many little angry blotches of articles--eruptions on the skin as it were, into which our refractory patients have broken out, indicating a wholesome effort of beneficent Mother Nature to send out to the surface the corruptions which had been gathering in the centres of their life. Especially would we point as an evidence of the interest which N. S.-1. |