Throughout History, Continued*
nomer born in 1842. He developed automatic writing
and used the spirit communicator of Galileo. He
promoted the ideas of Spiritualism and the etheric
double.
Charles Foster-was the "Skeptics Medium" or the
"Salem Seer." He was considered the most remarkl-
able medium since Swedenborg. He had "rappings"
at his desk in school. He performed "pellet readings"
and produced stigmata.
Horace Greely- was the "Abe Lincoln of Modern
Spiritualism" and the editor of the N.Y. Tribune and
a famous writer. He used the newspaper to expound
his views and was very fair to the phenomena of
Spiritualism and mediums, in his newspaper.
Daniel Douglas Home- "The Greatest Gift of
Levitation." He would not commercialize mediumship
and is known as the greatest physical medium in
Modern Spiritualism. He was born in Scotland in
1833. He demonstrated trance, materialization and
levitation. He could levitate objects and his own
body. He was very influential in leading others to
Spiritualism and demonstrated his mediumship before
Napoleon III and wrote Lights and Shadows of
Spiritualism.
Moses Hull- through his preaching as an Adventist,
he finally accepted Spiritualism as the only truth. He
gave us a college building in 1901 and became the
president. He was the president of the New York
State Association of Spiritualists and Pastor of the
First Spiritualist Church of Buffalo. He and his wife
Mattie Hull were great advocates of Spiritualism and
thier names were like household words to Spiritual-
ists. After his debate with the Methodist Jamieson,
he turned his full attention to Spiritualism.
lectured extensively in the Methodist Church and became acquainted with Joseph Buchanan
and was an avid geologist. After meeting Mr.
Buchanan, he used psychometry and geology
together. He was able to make many interesting and provable statements concerning the history
of geological specimens. His wife Elizabeth and
his sister Annie were excellent psychometrists
that worked with him. He also made casts of
materialized spirit forms working with the
medium Mary Hardy in Boston in 1875. He
wrote Common Sense Thoughts, The Soul
of Things, Nature's Secrets-Psychometric
Research and Our Planet, It's Past and Future. He was an avid Spiritualist.
Arthur Conan Doyle- Known as "The St. Paul
of Spiritualism" was a qualified physician and
wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories. He became
interested in psychic phenomena as a doctor.
He was convinced that telepathy existed and was a member of the Society of Psychical
Research. He and his wife were ardent advoc- cates of Spiritualism. He wrote the History of
Spiritualism and the Wanderings of a
Spiritualist.
Judge Edmonds-formed the New York Circle in 1851 and was an influential American Spiritualist. He was thought by many to be the
vital force behind the movement of Spiritual-
ism. He served in the NY Senate and was a
judge on the Supreme Court. He later resigned
his judgeship forced to choose between that
and Spiritualism. He formed the NY Circle
and developed mediumship. He was influenced
by Swedenborg and Bacon and traveled and lectured about Spiritualism.Spiritualistm Vol.1
(1852), Spiritualism Vol. 2 (1855) and Appeal to the Public and Spiritual Tracts were written by him. He passed in 1874.