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The Philosophy of Spiritual Intercourse: Being an Explanation of Modern Mysteries

being an explanation of modern mysteries

Also known as The philosophy of spiritual intercourse

by Andrew Jackson Davis & Andrew Jackson. Author Davis

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, Polish
  • Content type: Primary source
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The Philosophy of Spiritual Intercourse presents a spiritualist perspective on communication between the living and the dead, drawing on trance revelations, mystical experiences, and esoteric philosophy. Davis proposes that the soul survives death and continues its moral and intellectual evolution in higher realms. He integrates Hermetic principles, Swedenborgian ideas, and early psychical research into a coherent framework of afterlife study. This rare volume bridges spiritualism, mysticism, and early metaphysical inquiry, appealing to both scholars and seekers of hidden wisdom.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences, Alchemy and Hermeticism, Ancient religions, animism, and ritual, Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Occultism and esotericism, Parapsychology and psychical research, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Retained metadata contains “esoteric” in the description and “esoteric” in the subject metadata.

    • “esoteric”· in description
    • “esoteric”· in subject
  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Retained metadata contains “hermetic” in the description.

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

    Controlled discovery queries from europeana, internet-archive, and openlibrary-historical matched “Mediums”, “Mediumship”, “Spirit writings”, and 1 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the description, “Mediums” in the subject metadata, “Mediumship” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Spiritualism”· via Europeana
    • “Mediumship”· via Internet Archive
    • “Spiritualism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Mediums”· via Open Library
    • “Spirit writings”· via Open Library
    • “Spiritualism”· via Open Library
  • Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences

    Retained metadata contains “afterlife” in the description and “afterlife” in the subject metadata.

    • “afterlife”· in description
    • “afterlife”· in subject
  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Retained metadata contains “Psychical research” in the description.

    • “Psychical research”· in description
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Metaphysics”. Retained metadata contains “Mysticism” in the description, “Metaphysics” in the subject metadata, and “mystical experience” in the subject metadata.

    • “Metaphysics”· via Internet Archive
    • “Mysticism”· in description
    • “Metaphysics”· in subject
    • “mystical experience”· in subject
  • Ancient religions, animism, and ritual

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Gods”.

    • “Gods”· via Open Library

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Editions

7 editions cataloged here.

The philosophy of spiritual intercourse

Europeana-aggregated digitized book record

1851—English, Polish—Digital library record

HathiTrust catalog record

1851———Public view

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1851-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York, Fowlers & WellsEnglish—Public digitized item

Subjects

26 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing country: Poland
  • Contributing institution: Boston Public Library
  • Contributing institution: Cornell University Library
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Contributing institution: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Public Library
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
  • 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.
  • Europeana data provider or aggregator: Digital Libraries Federation; Warsaw University Library
  • Europeana dataset: 850_Biblioteka_Uniwersytecka_w_Warszawie_pt2
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Open Library reports 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 4 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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openlibrary-work:OL13095081W
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