The Spirit Land

Ignorance of correct reasoning.--Conclusions from particular facts.--Water boiled by heat.--Signs.--Breaking a mirror.--Gene ral conclusions from a few facts.--A victim to super...

Ignorance of it the cause of many superstitions.--Lights seen in marshy grounds, &c.--Supposed to be supernatural.--Causes of these lights, and phenomena connected with them.--S...

Fruitful source of superstitions.--Opinions of ancient divines. --Dreams related in the Scriptures.--Their object.--Principles of mental philosophy applied to modern dreams.--Ex...

Ignorance of it has given rise to many superstitions.--Experiments of Mesmer and Deslon in Paris.--Singular developments.--Trials at Dr. Franklin's house.--Children uninfluenced...

This ignorance a cause of many superstitions.--Case of a person who slept in a bed room supposed to be haunted.--Skeleton seen by moonlight.--Apparition seen by Dr. Gregory.--Ca...

God the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.--The natural world governed by regular laws.--Sign of the howling of a dog under the window.-- Lucky and unlucky days.--Sir Matthew Hale's...

A witch as regarded by our fathers.--Compact or agreement with the devil.--Carried through the air on brooms and spits.--Anointing their bodies with a magical ointment.--How to...

Moll Pitcher, the queen of the race.--Her place of abode.--Company that visited her.--Member of a church sent to consult her.--Casting out evil spirits in Syria.--Account of Lad...

Description of fairies, habits, localities, &c.--Subterranean spirits in Wales, called _Knockers_.--The _Brownies_ in Scotland.--A farmer in Ireland who was tormented by fairies...

Books published upon these things.--Their injurious tendency.--A sample of their contents.--Practice of boxers.--Whistling in a storm at sea.--Setting hens on an _odd_ number of...

History of the prophet Matthias.--His career in Albany and New York. --His deceptions upon conspicuous individuals.--His arrest for alleged crimes.--Account of John of Leyden.--...

Account of the golden plates found by Joseph Smith.--Their translation and publication in a volume.--Peculiar style of the writings.--Attempt at imitation.--Mormon preachers spe...

Prophecies of Mr. Miller.--His computation of time.--Management to suit his own particular views.--Keeping the world standing thirty years on a simple _if_.--Various blunders an...

Spirits, ghosts, and spectres seen in all ages.--Account of the magic crystals, or divining glasses.--Seeing spirits in Egypt.-- Lady Blessington's crystal in England.--Spirit o...

Great waste of time.--Ceremonies among the ancients.--Practices in Catholic countries.--Injurious practices in Protestant lands.--Dreams, visions, signs, tricks, omens, &c.--Gre...

How shall it be effected?--The proper use of our _reasoning faculties_.--The exercise of our understandings.--Persevering self-discipline.--Conduct towards believers in ghosts,...

Ignorance of correct reasoning has undoubtedly given rise to many superstitions. Inductive reasoning teaches us to infer general conclusions from particular facts which have com...

Ignorance of inductive philosophy has given rise to many superstitions. By the means of inductive philosophy, we are enabled to trace effects to their true causes. For example:...

Ignorance of the causes of our dreams has given rise to many superstitions. Ancient divines have told us that some of our dreams proceed from ourselves, others from the Deity, a...

Ignorance of the influence of the imagination upon the nervous system has given rise to many superstitions. We will give a few statements of facts to establish and illustrate th...

Ignorance of mental philosophy has given rise to many superstitions. Many persons have believed in the real, visible appearance of ghosts, spirits, or apparitions. Yet these thi...

Ignorance of true religion has given rise to many prevailing superstitions. The Savior has taught us that the Father of spirits regulates the minutest events of this world, and...

A witch was regarded by our fathers as a person who had made an actual, deliberate, and formal contract with Satan, by which contract it was agreed that the party should become...

Although the belief in witchcraft has nearly passed away, the civilized world is yet full of necromancers and fortune tellers. The mystic science of "palmistry" is still practis...

Fairies, says a certain author, are a sort of intermediate beings, between men and women, having bodies, yet with the power of rendering them _invisible_, and of passing through...

Many books have been published, having a tendency to deceive the credulous, who suffer themselves to be guided by any thing but reason and experience. Hence the encouragement be...

There are some who profess to believe in modern miracles. But such belief necessarily partakes of superstition. The Savior gave no intimation that miracles should continue after...

Many have professed a belief in the divine inspiration of some one of the many false prophets or Christs that have appeared in different ages of the church. In the year 1830, th...

A certain Joseph Smith, Jr., pretended, a few years ago, to have been directed by the Spirit of God to dig, in a hill, in the township of Manchester, Ontario county, New York, f...

A man by the name of William Miller published a book in the year 1836, in which he undertook to show that this earth would be destroyed in the year 1843. His calculation, as to...

In no age, says a popular writer, has the world been destitute of those who professed, by some instrumentality or other, to hold intercourse with departed spirits. Neither has a...

1. They have caused a great waste of time. Look at the practice of heathen nations. Their religious ceremonies are altogether superstitious. All the time devoted to false gods m...

Seeing the evils of popular superstitions, what course shall we adopt for their banishment? Or, in other words, how shall we best lend a helping hand to hasten the downfall of i...