Description: The Great Harmonia: Philosophical Revelation- Vol. 1, A J Davis, 1923, Austin pub.. - 15th edition- "a Philosophical Revelation of the natural, celestial and spiritual universe...." - 5.5 x 7.8 inches approx.; 456 pages including Index; hdbk Wikipedia: Andrew Jackson Davis ( 1826 – 1910) was an American Spiritualist, born in Blooming Grove, New York. Davis had little education. In 1843 he heard lectures in Poughkeepsie on animal magnetism, the precursor of hypnotism, and came to perceive himself as having remarkable clairvoyant powers. In the following year he received, he said, spiritual messages telling him of his life work. He described himself as "the Poughkeepsie Seer". For the next three years (1844–1847) he practiced magnetic healing, a form of therapy regarded as pseudoscience, and in 1847 he published The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind, which in 1845 he had dictated while in a trance to his scribe, William Fishbough. He lectured with little success and returned to writing books, publishing about 30 in all, including The Great Harmonia (1850–1861), an encyclopaedia in six volumes; The Philosophy of Special Providences (1850), which with its evident rehash of old arguments against special providences and miracles would seem to show that Davis's inspiration was literary; The Penetralia; Being Harmonial Answers to Important Questions (1856), which allegedly predicted the development of the automobile, road systems, typewriter, and other modern technology years if not decades before they were developed, and claimed the speed of light was 200,000 miles per second 94 years before it was scientifically calculated by Louis Essen showing the true speed was 186,000 miles per second. ....... Condition: Good condition for this vintage text. Cover shows faded lettering on spine... little other wear. No owner name inside. Hinges/binding are tight/strong. Mild age-tanning to paper, which remains supple/strong. Tanned rectangle on p 264-265 where a news clipping was held. Otherwise, interior is clean...no tears, creases, marks or other stains.
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