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Ast, present, and future events of their lives--whether they are married or single, the number of their…

Date of account: Published 1857
Source: The Spirit Land
Reference: The Spirit Land · selected passage 89
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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ast, present, and future events of their lives--whether they are married or single, the number of their children living and dead, age, health, business, letters expected, the whereabout of long-absent friends, &c. It is supposed that such information must indeed emanate from the spirit world. Yet precisely such things are and always have been told, more or less, by astrologers and fortune tellers, without any pretensions to being in league with spirits of the other worlds. We have said that fortune tellers do not always tell correctly; but, as poor an opinion as we have of them, we will venture to assert that they are full as correct, if not more so, in the information they give, as the members of the Fox family, or any of their contemporaries, of the alleged _spiritual_ manifestations.

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