Light from the Spirit World: The Pilgrimage of Thomas Paine and Others to the Seventh Circle in the Spirit World

by Rev. C. Hammond

Overview

From the Preface:

"Near the close of December, 1851, I began to sit for this work. I found my engagements such that I could only devote a part of each day, and this part was frequently interrupted by strangers who desired information on the subject. But the interruption did not seem to disconcert the writer. Though often breaking off in the middle of a sentence, the spirit knew exactly where to commence, even without any reading of what had been written. Notwithstanding these embarrassments, I found on the first of February, 1852, that my manuscript was nearly equal to the desired contents for a book; at which time, I entered into an arrangement with the publisher, Mr. Dewey, by which I am able to give this work a more extended circulation, and at less cost, than I otherwise could have done, which I trust will be abundantly obvious in its mechanical execution and neatness."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186431541
Publisher:	Anthony Bly
Publication date:	12/04/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

From a personal remberance of Rev. Charles Hammond by Rev. Thomas Peebles:

"Among the very earliest writing mediums in America was the Rev. Charles Hammond, of Rochester, N. Y. It gives me personal pleasure to state that I once met him at an annual Universalist State Association in Auburn, N. Y. As I remember him, he was rather slim in form, calm, fascinating and bordering upon the courtly. He was already under the ban of the older preachers; it having been whispered that he was meddling with and encouraging the “spirit-rappers.”

"Unexpectedly he had become an automatic writing medium; a phase of mediumship very like that of the distinguished W. T. Stead of London. To the conservative Universalist this was heresy, and this reminds me that when I informed the Rev. J. M. Austin who delivered the sermon upon my ordination into the full ministry, that I had heard from my friends in the spirit world through some table tippings and trances, he looked-stared me in the eyes and said: “Why, Brother Peebles, you are crazy — you are crazy as a loon. Revelations from heaven ended with John on the Isle of Patmos.” His words chilled the very depths of my being. It cost something to be a Spiritualist sixty years ago.

"The Rev. Charles Hammond was a conscientious and exemplary clergyman, and had, unexpectedly to himself, become a writing medium. Few, if any, of his pamphlets and books can now be procured.

"The following is from his work entitled 'Thomas Paine in the Spirit World' (pages 15-17): 'The doctor had pronounced my case of sickness hopeless, and the parish minister was sent for to converse and pray with me. He so did and talked of my Age of Reason, my infidelity, telling me that it was an awful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. I had never denied the existence of God and had expressed the hope of a future life. His warnings and his prayer did not produce the least effect upon my convictions, near death's door as I was.' "