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We hope the information coming through its columns will be more reliable than the communications from some of…

Date of account: Published 1857
Source: The Spirit Land
Reference: The Spirit Land · selected passage 81
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

Record summary

We hope the information coming through its columns will be more reliable than the communications from some of the "rapping spirits." No dependence whatever can be placed upon them

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We hope the information coming through its columns will be more reliable than the communications from some of the "rapping spirits." No dependence whatever can be placed upon them. They are so blundering, awkward, and uncertain, and even trickish and deceitful, that they spoil all our notions of the dignify and purity--the _spirituality_, in fact--of the spiritual world. The advocates of the manifestations attribute the fault to _ignorant spirits_, who do not know whether the matter they attempt to speak of be true or not. Swedenborg says, "There are some spirits so ignorant that they do not know but they are the ones called for, when another is meant.

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