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Practical occultism

Also known as Practical occultism: a course of lectures through the trance mediumship of J.J. Morse

by James Johnson Morse

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Practical Occultism: A survey of the whole field of mediumship through the trance mediumship of J. J. Morse, was first published in 1888. The book consists of seven lectures: Lecture I. The trance as the doorway to the occult. Its magnetic, natural, and spiritual forms of induction; Lecture II. Mediumship: its physical, mental, and spiritual conditions; Lecture III. Mediumship (continued): its foundation, development, dangers, and advantages; Lecture IV. Magic, sorcery, and witchcraft; Lecture V. The natural, spiritual, and celestial planes of the second state; Lecture VI. The soul world; its hells, heavens, and evolutions; and, Lecture VII. Life, development, and death in spiritland.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Occultism and esotericism, Ritual magic and grimoires, Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from global-grey matched “Occult Teachings and Traditions”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the title, “Occultism” in the alternative title, “occult” in the description, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Occult Teachings and Traditions”· via Global Grey ebooks
    • “Occultism”· in title
    • “Occultism”· in alternative title
    • “occult”· in description
    • “Occultism”· in description
    • “occult”· in subject
  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the description.

    • “Magic”· in description
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the description.

    • “Witchcraft”· in description
  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Spiritualism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Spiritualism”· via Open Library
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject

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Practical occultism: a course of lectures through the trance mediumship of J.J. Morse

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1888-01-01T00:00:00ZSan Francisco, Cal., "Carrier dove" publishing house; [etc., etc.]English—Public digitized item

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: New York Public Library
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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  • Scanner: scribe9.capitolhill.archive.org
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openlibrary-work:OL7708067W
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