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DAVIS, ANDREW JACKSON (1826—1910)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 866 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVIS, See also:ANDREW See also:JACKSON (1826—1910) , See also:American spiritualist, was See also:born at Blooming See also:Grove, See also:Orange See also:county, New See also:York, on the 11th of See also:August 1826. He had little See also:education, though probably much more than he and his See also:friends pretended. In 1843 he heard lectures in See also:Poughkeepsie on " See also:animal See also:magnetism," as the phenomena of See also:hypnotism was then termed, and found that he had remarkable clairvoyant See also:powers; and in the following See also:year he had, he said, spiritual messages telling him of his See also:life See also:work. For the next three years (1844—1847) he practised magnetic healing with much success; and in 1847 he published The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a See also:Voice to 12 Mankind, which in 1845 he had dictated while in a See also:trance to his " See also:scribe," See also:William Fishbough. He lectured with little success and returned to See also:writing (or " dictating ") books, See also:publishing about See also:thirty in all, including The See also:Great See also:Harmonia (1850-1861), an " See also:encyclopaedia " in six volumes; The See also:Philosophy of See also:Special Providences (185o), which with its evident rehash of old arguments against special providences and miracles would seem to show that Davis's See also:inspiration was See also:literary; The Magic See also:Staff: an Autobiography (1857), which was supplemented by Arabula: or the Divine See also:Guest, Containing a New Collection of New Gospels (1867), the gospels being those " according to " St See also:Confucius, St See also:John (G.See also:Whittier), St See also:Gabriel (Derzhavin), St Octavius (See also:Frothingham), St Gerrit (See also:Smith), St Emma (See also:Hardinge), St See also:Ralph (W. See also:Emerson), St See also:Selden (J. Finney), St See also:Theodore (See also:Parker), &c.; and A Stellar See also:Key to the Summer See also:Land (1868) and Views of Our Heavenly See also:Home (1878), each with illustrative diagrams. Davis was much influenced by See also:Swedenborg and by the See also:Shakers, who reprinted his See also:panegyric of See also:Ann See also:Lee in an See also:official See also:Sketch of Shakers and Shakerism (1884).

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