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HISTORY OF MODERN SPIRITUALISM
 
 
 

ON MARCH 31st 1848 IN A PLACE CALLED HYDESVILLE IN NEW YORK STATE U.S.A. , A FAMILY CALLED THE FOX FAMILY MOVED INTO THAT HOUSE , AND DISTURBED BY RAPPING NOISES BEGAN TO INVESTIGATE .
THE TWO YOUNG DAUGHTERS (KATE AND MARGARETTA )CLAPPED THEIR HANDS AND KEPT SHOUTING TO THE NOISE " COME ON MR SPLITFOOT , DO AS I DO " . THEY WERE THEN AMAZED WHEN THEY RECIEVED THE CLAPPINGS BACK .
EVENTUALLY THEY MADE A CODE , AND SOON REALISED THAT THE ENTITY COULD HEAR AS WELL AS SEE .
MANY CIRCLES WERE THEN SET UP ALL OVER AMERICA , UNTIL A MEDIUM CALLED MRS HAYDEN WHO CAME OVER FROM AMERICA IN 1852 SET UP MANY SEANCES IN BRITAIN .
EMMA HARDINGE BRITTEN ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE SPIRITUALISTS NATIONAL UNION ( S.N.U. ) ALSO FOUNDED THE MAGAZINE THE PHSYCHIC NEWS AS ITS KNOWN TODAY .
THROUGH HER MEDIUMSHIP THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES WERE GIVEN BY ROBERT OWEN , AND THESE PRINCIPLES ARE THE BASIS OF THE S.N.U.
THERE ARE MANY MEDIUMS TOO MANY TO MENTION , BUT THEY WERE ALL PIONEERS OF SPIRITUALISM AS WE KNOW IT TODAY , BUT SPIRITUALISM SERVES AS THE TRUTH FOR ALL MANKIND ALONG WITH THE PHILOSOPHY . IT SERVES NO POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS IDEALS , ONLY TO SERVE GOD ,  SPIRIT AND MANKIND TO THE BEST OF HIS OR HER ABILITY NOT ONLY IN THE OTHER LIFE BUT THIS LIFE AND WITH THAT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE .
 
 
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