SPIRITISM: FACTS AND FRAUDS
Book Details + Condition: Benziger Brothers (New York, Cincinnati, Chicago). First Edition, 1924. Hardcover. 525 pages with Index. Introduction by The Right Rev. Joseph Schrembs, D.D. The book is an anti-occult work that explains the dangers of spiritism in reference to the mental and spiritual vulnerabilities of man, while also debunking specific occult practices and phenomena. Author Simon A. Blackmore explains that the only true spirituality is that which originates from Christianity. Chapters include:
- Revival of Spiritism
- Spirits of Spiritism Are Spirits of Evil
- Mediums
- Automatic Writing
- The Ouija-Board and the Preternatural
- Spurious Phenomena
- Theory of Telepathy
- Identification of Spirits
- Ectoplasmic Theory
- The Church and Spiritism
- And much more.
Firm binding; light shelf wear to boards; fading to spine; university stamp to all text block edges; interior is clean and free of markings, save crossed-out name and stamp to front endpapers.
