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-Chapter 0ne-
Lightning from the Earth
The
tower bell of Old St. Mary's on California Street rang out five times on the
still, cool air. It promised to be another beautiful day for San Francisco;
there was no fog that morning and the streets were quiet.
The dance halls
at the Barbary Coast and the houses of ill fame on Pacific Street had closed
shop for the night, as a few drunken stragglers made their way home. A city,
forgetting its sins, was beginning to arise.
It
was Wednesday, April 18, 1906; at 5:08 the streetlights dimmed and went out. A
few cable cars and overhead trolleys had already left the streetcar barns to
begin a new day.
At
5:12, Police Sergeant Jesse Cook stopped lit the corner of Washington and Davis
to chat with Al Levy, a young worker in the fresh produce district that stood
two blocks back of the waterfront.
The
clocks on the tower of the Ferry Building said that it was 5:15-they were
running a little fast that morning. But it would be months before they would run
again.
For
at that instant the earthquake struck.
Leaping
out of the sea at seven thousand miles an hour, like some gigantic animal, it
first tore out the Point Arena Lighthouse, ninety miles north of San Francisco.
And then it sprang southward.
Moving
rapidly, it unsheathed its bolts of earthen lightning—and sent them into the
City by the Bay.
The
animals sensed it first, as the horses shifted and whinnied. Jesse Cook, later
to become police . commissioner, heard behind him a deep rumbling. It was
strangely distant. "Deep and terrible," he later called it. Turning,
he looked up the hill of Washington Street—and saw it coming toward him.
"The
whole street was undulating. It was as if the waves of the ocean were coming
toward me, and billowing as they came." Packing more power than all the
explosives of World War II, the quake hit the city in full force. Compression
waves flowed beneath streets, buildings, and people. Earthwaves, two and three
feet high, rolled in on the city.
In
the next moment, Cook saw both men and animals crushed beneath falling brick
walls.
Over
on Market street, the business hub of the city, a man ran into the middle of the
street: " 'Keep to the middle of the street, Mac!' I shouted to one of my
friends. . I was thrown prone on my back and the pavement pulsated like a living
thing. Around me the huge buildings, looming up more terrible because of the
queer dance they were performing, wobbled and veered. Crash followed crash and
resounded on all sides. Screeches rent the air as terrified humanity streamed
out into the open in an agony of despair."
The
shock only lasted 65 to 75 seconds—but it seemed an eternity. The dance of
death toppled towers and chimneys, crumpled rows of wood frame houses, threw
cornices and walls into the streets, sunk buildings into the ground, twisted
steel rails, bridges and pipelines.
The
deafening roar produced by the quake was intense. John B. Farish, a mining
engineer in town on business, awoke in the St. Francis Hotel. "I was awakened
by a loud rumbling noise. . [and] a concussion, similar to that caused by the
nearby explosion of a huge blast, shook the building to its foundations. .And
then began a series of the liveliest motions imaginable, . . followed by
tremendous crashes as the cornices of adjoining buildings and chimneys
tottered to the ground.',"
Within
seventeen minutes, nearly fifty fires were reported in the downtown area. Fire
engines rushed to answer the calls but found that the water mains were broken.
They stared at their hoses. The resulting conflagration burned down much of the
city.
Like
Port Royal in Jamaica, that wicked haunt of pirates and slave-dealers, which was
hit by a powerful earthquake in 1692, San Francisco had been struck down. Port
Royal slid into the sea; San Francisco burned.
Shortly
thereafter, a small lady was taken by carriage through the city whose
destruction she had agonized over. For she had predicted it. With tear-dimmed
eyes she viewed firsthand the results of warnings given earlier.
"Not
long hence these cities will suffer under the judgments of God. San Francisco
and Oakland are becoming as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Lord will visit them in
wrath." -Manuscript 114, 1902.
Again
she had warned:
"1
am bidden to declare the message that cities full of transgression, and sinful
in the extreme, will be destroyed by earthquakes, by fire, by flood. All the
world will be warned that there is a God who will display His
authority."-Manuscript 35, 1906.
Driving
amid the stifling stench of the destruction, she gazed in shock at the
terrible judgment. It was but two days before this devastating disaster that,
she saw in a night vision the quake and the carnage that now lay spread out
before her.
"There
passed before me a most wonderful [awesome] representation. During the vision of
the night, I stood on an eminence from which I could see houses shaken like a
reed in the wind. Buildings; great and small, were falling to the ground.
Pleasure resorts, theaters, hotels, and the homes of the wealthy were shaken and
shattered. Many lives were blotted out of existence, and the air was filled with
the shrieks of the injured and the terrified.
"The
destroying angels of God were at work. One touch, and buildings so thoroughly
constructed that men regarded them as secure against every danger quickly became
heaps of rubbish. There was no assurance of safety in anyplace. I did not feel
in any special peril but the awfulness of the scenes that passed before me I
cannot find words to describe. It seemed the forbearance of God was exhausted,
and the judgment day had come.
"Terrible
as was the presentation that passed before me; that which impressed itself most
vividly upon my mind was the instruction given in connection with it.
"The
angel that stood by my side declared that God's supreme rulership, and the
sacredness of His law must be revealed to those who persistently refused to
render obedience to the King of kings. Those who choose to remain disloyal, must
be visited in mercy with judgments, in order, that, if possible, they may be
aroused to a realization of the sinfulness of their course."-Manuscript
dated ApriL16, 1906 (Letter 137, 1906, in Testimonies, Volume 9, page 92).
Awakening
from the above vision, she turned on the light. It was 1:00 a.m., Monday, April
16. Four years earlier, in 1902, she .had first predicted the devastation of San
Francisco. Within 53 hours it was to take place. '"
490
city blocks were destroyed; 256,000 were left homeless. Mercifully, only 498
died. Property was destroyed at the rate of one million dollars every ten
minutes by the earthquake and fire following it, Which burned at times with
blast furnace heat, ranging up to 20000 F. Yet she later warned of sill more
destruction in the future upon these and other wicked cities.
"The
light given me is that the wickedness in the cities of San Francisco and Oakland
is beyond all imagination. God's wrath is upon many of the inhabitants of these
cities." Manuscript 25,1908.
"'These
things make me feel very solemn, because I know that the judgment day is right
upon us. The judgments that have already come are a warning, but not the
finishing, of the punishment that will come on wicked cities." –Letter
154, 1906.
"I
feel sure that San Francisco and Oakland will again be visited with the
judgments of God."-Letter 2,1909.
Seismology—the
study of earthquakes —was yet in its infancy. But warnings given then, are
recognized today by leading scientists as facts to be fulfilled again along the
San Andreas Fault.
When
a prophet speaks, it comes to pass.
Prophet
of the End
Chapter
2
PSYCHIC
WONDERLAND
Psychics
have "Prophetic Accuracy Quotients.”
These
are the percentages when their hunches turn out right. Jeane Dixon, Daniel
Logan, David Bubar, and the others try to score high. But most of the time they
don't.
Prophets,
have certainty; the certainty of God backing them. Every prediction given, by a
prophet will always come true unless, because men have repented of their sins
and returned to God—or because they have decided to leave Him, —the
predicted outcome must be changed. If men will sincerely repent, God will give
them another opportunity. With but this one exception, the predictions of the
prophet will always come to pass.
There
are prophets and there are psychics. We can clearly know the origin and message
of both. The one follows the blueprint given in Scripture; the other finds its
origin and messages in spiritualism.
Prophets will reprove sin and exalt the Bible; they will lead
men to Christ and warn them of coming crises.
The
psychics derive their information from the dark world. They tell us that their
powers to predict come from crystal balls and "spirits of dead men"
who visit them.
And
what of their predictions?
Every
year there seem to be more psychics than the year before. And they are
predicting all kinds of events–engagements of movie starlets, political results,
TV star contracts, the births of new "messiahs,"
next year's fashions, spiritualistic phenomena, and airplane crashes.
We
need information. But sources are important. We dare not go to the wrong ones.
Are the psychics and their fellow travelers (the astrologers, clairvoyants,
mediums and Satanists) safe? Are they reliable? There are ways we can know.
Whereas
the prophets of God received visions from heaven, warning men to repent of their
sins and return to God; the psychics obtain their information from contacts that
are far different.
They
tell us that their powers to predict come from crystal balls, light bulbs,
electronic boxes, and "spirits of dead men" who visit them. Ouija
boards and séances are other means of information. And, as we shall find,
guesswork is yet another helpful source.
If
you ask for details of the predicted tragedies, they will tell you that it is
all but a cluster of unrelated accidents and events, and that these incidents
have no connection or reason for occurrence. Oddly enough, the events themselves
seem generally to be focused on celebrities: movie stars, singers, politicians,
and so forth. But more often than not, the occurrence predicted will be a
marriage or some such affair.
But
not so with the ancient prophets sent to men with messages from Heaven. They
received their directions directly from God through visions and dreams. And they
warned men everywhere to flee from sin and return to the Lord while there was
still time. And they predicted judgments upon the land. They clearly declared
that these judgments would come because of disobedience to the Laws of God.
And–unlike the psychics of our day, –their predictions could be counted on
to come true unless men repented of those sins.
The
psychics are very much different than the prophets: different in source, purpose
and message. Many people fear the contacts, which supply the information to
the psychics. Such have good reason to fear, for the Bible has warned against
such manifestations.
"And
when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and
unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their
God? for the living to the dead?”
"To
the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is
because there is no light in them." Isaiah 8:19-20.
At
the beginning of 1978, Ralph Blodgett decided it was time to settle this
matter of "psychics”. So he did what other people have thought of doing
but have never done. He went from one magazine vending counter to another,
buying up the first-of the-year sensational and gossip tabloids; Then he took
his loot home and carefully compiled a list of 250 definite predictions for
the year 1978.
As
the year passed, he kept close tab on the news stories as they broke in the
newspapers, as well as the major news, science, gossip and sports magazines–and
kept watching for fulfillments of those 250 predictions.
Then
he sat down at the end of the year and put it all together. Out of 250 specific
prognostications by the thirty leading psychics of the world, less than 3
percent (i.e. 6 out. of 250) could be listed as reasonably fulfilled. 97 percent
missed the mark entirely. (The six correct ones had been stated in such
general terms that it was not difficult. for them to find someone someplace that
could fulfill them.)
"What
kind of predictions are we talking about? Here are a few for 1978 that flopped:
U.S. space shuttle disaster sets program back 10 years; another major power
failure to hit New York City in early 1978; a fire ravages the White House;
the price of gas to reach $1.50 a gallon in U.S.; Quebec to split from rest of
Canada; Carter to impose mandatory nationwide four-day workweek in January; Cuba
to apply to become fifty- first state; nationwide postal strike to halt all
Christmas mail; Carter to reintroduce the draft in September; discovery of a
cancer cure; Red China and the Soviet Union to go to war; CIA and FBI merge into
a super spy agency; and remains of Atlantis discovered in Mediterranean off
Turkey."-Ralph Blodgett, "Supermarket Psychics Spin the Roulette
Wheel Again," in "These Times," March 1979, page 8.
Not
only predictions of major news events, but also many that were little better
than ridiculous: Five different psychics predicted that "Charlie's
Angels" TV show would be cancelled; Burt Reynolds would marry Sally Field;
Lindsay Wagner would become a TV superstar rage, replacing Farrah Fawcett-Majors;
"Big-foot" would be captured. (None of which came true.) Such are not
the messages of God to this world at such a perilous time in history as we are
in today.
Where
does all this come from? It is well known that there are only two supernatural
powers in our world. Rene Noorbergen, in his excellent book, "Prophet of
Destiny,” draws back the curtain and reveals what is behind all this:.
"James
Bjornstad, author of the paperback, 'Twentieth Century Prophecy,' a small yet
powerful book dealing with the prophetic phenomena as displayed by Edgar Cayce
and Jeane Dixon, has made a number of interesting comparisons between the
abilities of these two great psychics and the Biblical requirements for a true
prophet. His conclusion, based strictly on Biblical references, is for them
truly devastating.
"Comparing
all those who profess to have the extrasensory psychic gift (astrologers,
mediums, clairvoyants, clairaudients, palmists, crystal gazers, telepathists
etc.) and submitting their abilities to the same basic set of Biblical
standards, one arrives at the mind-shattering conclusion that all psychic mediums–and
this includes such greats as Edgar Cayce, Jeane Dixon, Daniel Logan, Gerard
Croiset, Peter Hurkos, Arthur Forti, etc.–without exception not only violate
many basic Biblical principles, but also more often than not act in stark contradiction
to the Biblical norms for a true prophet.
"The
occult covers such a vast field of activities, and expecting to find one
single Bibletext applicable to all psychic phenomena would be asking too much.
Yet there are ten very fundamental tests that beg for attention.
"At
a time when 10,000 professional astrologers control the daily activities of 40
million people in the United States through 1,200 daily astrology columns and
2,350 horoscope computers; when roughly140,000 fortune-tellers, mediums,
clairvoyants and psychic seers have created a 42-million-dollar-a-year business;
and when three major universities offer credit courses in witchcraft, magic,
astrology and sorcery, a fool-proof method to separate the psychics from the
prophets has become essential!
"The
tests for a true prophet, all found in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible,
pointedly indicate that those prognosticators not measuring up to these
stringent qualifications cannot lay claim to the rare distinction of being
true prophets of God.
"They
can be summarized as follows:
"1.
A true prophet does not lie. His predictions will be fulfilled (Jeremiah 28:9).
"2. A true prophet prophesies in the name of the Lord,
not in his own name (2 Peter 1 :21).
"3.
A true prophet does not give his own private interpretation of prophecy (2
Peter 1:20).
"4.
A true prophet points out the sins and transgressions of the people of God
(Isaiah 58:1)..
"5.
A true prophet is to warn the people of God's coming judgment (Isaiah 24:20-21;
Revelation 14:6-7).
"These first five tests alone are already sufficient to
damage the reputation of most of the so-called prophets, but crowned with the
second group of five, they are truly devastating.
"6.
A true prophet edifies the church, counsels and advises it in religious
matters (1 Corinthians 14:34).
"7.
A true prophet's words will be in absolute harmony with the words of the
prophets that have preceded him (Isaiah 8:20).
"8.
He recognizes the incarnation of Jesus Christ (1 John 4:1-3).
"9. He can be recognized by the results of his work
(Matthew 7:16-20).
"Finally
[10] he must be able to meet the requirements listed in Deuteronomy 18 :9-12: A
true prophet acts in accordance with the will and approval of God.
“
.. Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There
shall not be found among you anyone, . . that useth divination [fortune-teller],
or an observer of times [astrologer], or an enchanter [magician], or a witch, or
a consulter with familiar spirits [medium possessed with a spirit or a 'guide']
, or a wizard [clairvoyant or psychic] , or a necromancer [medium who consults
the dead]. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord.'
[Deuteronomy 18:9-12]
"Based
on these texts, it becomes obvious that not everyone who prophesies is a prophet
of God .. To be even more precise, the actions of a true prophet are not in
contradiction to basic Biblical doctrines, but rather support and strengthen
precepts already outlined." -Rene Noorbergen, "Prophet of
Destiny," pages 20-23.
Noorbergen's
book is an excellent one. If you have opportunity, purchase a copy and read it
for yourself. .
There
is more than mere fakery in the psychics: There is a superhuman power at work.
This power has been known all through ancient times, and although condemned in
the Bible, it has existed in heathenism down to our own time.
"Shall
we . . come down to the plain simple truth that the phenomenal aspects of Modern
Spiritualism reproduce all the essential principles of the Magic, Witchcraft and
Sorcery of the past? The same powers are involved. . the same intelligences are
operating."-J.J. Morse, a leading Spiritualist, 'in his book,
"Practical Occultism."
And
yet present-day Psychics recognize that their ability is the same power that
controlled psychics in earlier ages. Sometimes they will say that their
predictions of the marriages of movie stars comes from God. Jeane Dixon is in
this category. Others, such as David Bubar, another well-known psychic, believes
that his "power" to foretell the future comes from abilities within
himself. Yet another leading psychic, Daniel Logan, declares that the power
comes from communication with spirit beings through séances. Logan says the
psychics are occult and receive their knowledge through a contact with unseen
shadows. "
But
it was not until the year 1848 that it began its powerful surge into the western
world. And that entrance came about in a very strange way. Taking time to learn
its modern origins will greatly help us to understand it.
"By
common acceptance March 31, 1848, is the date, that has officially been
celebrated as the day when the raps at Hydesville, N.Y., in the home of the Fox
family, heralded to the world the stupendous message: There is no death; there
are no dead. March 31 is the day when Spiritualists celebrate the dawn of a new
era which has changed the thought of the world. . March 31, 1848, ushered in a
new era for the human race, an era which had its beginning with the tiny raps at
Hydesville and will culminate only in the distant cycles of the future. . We are
spirit here and now, a part of God."-M.E. Cadwallader, co-founder of the
National Spiritualist Association, in "There is No Death-There are No
Dead." in Centennial Book( p. 68-69 (1948).
The
first great lie was spoken by Satan, the father of lies, to Eve in the Garden
of Eden: "Ye shall not surely die. For God doth know that in the day ye eat
thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods knowing good
and evil." (Genesis 3:4.5) Beware of those two lies: You shall be God; you
shall not die. These are two basic beliefs and operating principles of all
spiritualists, clairvoyants and psychics. Beware of them.
In
the spring of 1848 in a little cabin in Hydesville, New York, strange "rappings"
were heard, but always where Margaretta (fifteen, also called "Margaret")
and Katie (twelve, also called "Kate") happened to be. And it
generally occurred only in a darkened room. On the evening of March 3l, the two
girls reported loud "rappings" in their room. Katie would laughingly
cry out, "Mr. Splitfoot [Satan], do as I do," and then clap her hands
several times. The "rappings" would reply the same number of times.
When their frightened mother came, in, she asked the ages of each of her six
children (including one who had earlier died), and the rappings counted off
their ages correctly. In a matter of days the house became thronged with curious
people who were convinced that "the departed dead " were communicating
with the girls. People were willing to believe that they could communicate with
"dead spirits,"—and through this belief they opened a door for
devils to enter,–for within several weeks rappings were heard by hopeful
communicants all over New England. By the early 1850s more than a million people
in the United States and England had accepted the strange sounds as proof that
the spirits of the dead are floating around, waiting to speak with them.
When
the Fox sisters, Margaretta and Katie, were sent away to live with relatives,
the rappings followed them when they were in darkened rooms. They thoroughly
enjoyed the publicity of it all and in 1849 the first of many public
demonstrations in darkened rooms was arranged in Rochester, New York. From
then on the phenomena was known as the "Rochester rappings.".
Still
later, Katie and Margaretta held spiritualist seances, and something would
appear which said it was "'departed friends:" Spiritualist
organizations and "churches" were formed as a result of their efforts.
And with them, a strong interest in astrology and so-called "psychic
predictions." The Fox sisters are today considered to be the founders of
modem Spiritualism—an occult communicating with demons.
Something
deeply bothered Margaretta, and in 1858 she stopped her work as a Spiritualist
medium and joined the Roman Catholic Church. As the years passed, both sisters
gradually became confirmed alcoholics, and kept sinking deeper in loss of
self-control, immorality, poverty, and alcoholism. "Pressed by, the
spirits," Margaretta again became a spirit medium in 1867, again with full
"powers" to bring spirits out of the air to appear as "departed
loved ones from the presence of God." And this, in spite of her gross
immorality in both standards and practice. Of this time in her life, the English
Spiritualist, James Bums" editor of "The Medium?, wrote after her
tragic death:
"We
have [here] a woman giving spiritual manifestations to others, while within
herself she is spiritually lost and misdirected. All moral sense, and control of
mind and desire were gone. . But when the medium makes a trade of it and puffs
the thing up as a commodity for sale, then farewell to all that might elevate or
instruct in the subject."-James Burns, "The Medium and Daybreak,"
April 28, 1893, p. 258.
Her
husband, Dr. Elisha Kane, an Arctic explorer, saw more clearly the causes
behind her moral collapse: It was the deception of the "rappings" that
she had kept hidden in her heart all those years, for only to a few intimates
did she disclose their origin.
"
'Oh, Maggie, are you never tired of this weary, weary sameness of continual
deceit? Are you doomed thus to spend your days, doomed never to rise to better
things?' "
"
'Do avoid "spirits," I cannot bear to think of you as engaged in a
course of wickedness and deception. Maggie, you have no friend but me whose
interest in you is disconnected from this cursed rapping. Pardon my saying so;
but is it not deceit even to listen [silently] when others are deceived?"
Letter from Dr. Elisha Kane to his wife Margaretta, quoted in C.E. Bechhofer
Roberts, The Truth About Spiritualism, pp. 47,48.
Finally,
in 1888, Margaretta Fox Kane could no longer withstand the accusings of her
conscience. Millions looked to her, in sincerity, as one of the cofounders of
a great new psychic movement that was supposed to lead humanity to a great new
age of better living,-yet which was only demon worship. She called in newspaper
reporters and told them that the satanic guidance called "Modem Spiritualism"
and "psychic research "—had really sprung out of her and Katie's
childhood deceptions. She said that she had tried to drown it all in drink, but
to, no avail. She said that to those who, over the years, had been urging her to
conduct séances with departed spirits, she replied, "You are driving me to
hell!" Within a few days, her sister Katie Fox Jencken returned from a
trip to Europe and told reporters that she would join her sister in the
exposure.
"I
regard Spiritualism as one of the greatest curses that the world has ever
known."-Katie Fox Jencken, "New York Herald," October 9,1888.
Then,
on October 21, before a large assembly gathered in the New York Academy of Music
for this purpose, after a Dr. 'Richmond had, by sleight of hand, successfully
imitated the slate writing and thought reading of the séance room, Margaretta
arose and, in her sister's presence, read a statement repudiating their
"powers" as a fake.
"That
I have been chiefly instrumental in perpetrating the fraud of Spiritualism upon
a too-confiding public, most of you doubtless know. The greatest sorrow in my
life has been that this is true, and though it has come late in my day, I am now
prepared to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help
me God! . . I am here tonight as one of the founders of Spiritualism to denounce
it as an absolute falsehood from beginning to end, as the flimsiest of superstitions,
the most wicked blasphemy known to the world' "- Margaretta Fox Kane,
quoted in A.B. Davenport, The Deathblow to Spiritualism, p. 76. (Also see
"New York World," for October 21, 1888; and "New York
Herald" and "New York Daily Tribune," for October 22, 1888.)
That
evening, Margaretta revealed that it all began because she had a big toe that
was unusually double-jointed. At will, she could bend it and make surprisingly
loud clicks, or "rappings." She and her sister Katie had decided to
play a joke on their mother and pretend they were talking to the devil or a
spirit. But they had no idea that what they had started would turn into such a
gargantuan monster that denied basic principles of morality and Christianity-and
brought people under satanic control.
"By
throwing life, and enthusiasm into her big toe Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane produced
loud spirit-rapping in the Academy of Music last night which dealt a
death-blow to Spiritualism, that huge and world-wide fraud which she and her
sister Katie founded in 1848. Both sisters were present and both denounced
Spiritualism as a monstrous imposition and a cheat.
"The
great building was crowded and the wildest excitement prevailed at times.
Hundreds of spiritualists had come to see the originators of their faith destroy
it at one stroke. They were greatly agitated at times and hissed fiercely. Take
it all in all, it was a most remarkable and dramatic spectacle."-New York
Herald, October 22, 1888.
Under
great pressure from spiritualists, both sisters later signed statements
repudiating their earlier repudiation. With this agreement to return to
deception, both gradually sunk into deeper gloom, and eventually died as
alcoholics. Katie in June 1892, and Margaretta in March 1893.
Here
is Margaretta's final outcome, as recorded by one of New York City's largest
daily newspapers: "The tenement house of No. 456 West 57th Street, New
York, is deserted now, except one room, from cellar to roof. The room is
occupied by a woman nearly 60 years of age, an object of charity, a mental and
physical wreck, whose appetite is only for intoxicating liquors. The face,
though marked by age and dissipation, shows unmistakably that the woman was once
beautiful. This wreck of womankind has been a guest in palaces and courts. The
powers of mind, now almost imbecile, were the wonder and study of scientific men
in America, Europe, and Australia. Her name was eulogized, sung, and ridiculed
in a dozen languages. The lips that utter little else now than profanity once
promulgated the doctrine of a new religion which still numbers its tens of
thousands of enthusiastic believers."-Washington Daily Star, March 7, 1893.
It
is generally recognized that both modem Spiritualism and the astrologers and
psychics that ply their trade in private audiences and through the major
newspapers of the world today-trace their modem reappearance to the strange
"rappings" in the children's bedroom of John Fox's home in
Hydesville, New York, on the night of March 31,1848.
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