Spirit rapping unveiled! : An exposé of the origin, history, theology and philosophy of certain alleged communications from the spirit world, by means of "spirit rapping," "medium writing," "physical demonstrations," etc. With illustrations. (1853)
Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868 · New York : : Published by Mason Brothers... · leaf 23
ven spheres, so that we must imagine the remaining fivespheres and thirty-five circles extending outward still beyondthose represented in the diagram. 2. But it so happens that this sphere theory is by no meansoriginal with the spirits, It is substantially the old Ptole-maic theory of the structure… … He taught that the earth was a plane instead of a globe, andinhabited only on the upper side, that it was surrovmdedby eight chrystalline spheres, in which the sun, moon, and starswere set, viz., the Moon in the first; Mercury in the second;Venus in the third ; the Sun in the fourth ; Mars in the…
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