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“According to Swedenborg, all human experience was only a reflection of a larger spiritual one. The human soul was what gave meaning and expression to the concrete world.”

Soul Humanity Spiritualism Swedenborg

Book:The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

Source: The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

“Spiritualism, born out of the same discontent with social restrictions and punitive theologies as the suffrage movement, ended up even sharing the same table. The subsequent meeting, at the Seneca Falls Universalist Wesleyan Church on July 19-20 would ignite the woman's suffrage movement, setting the stage for a seventy-two year battle that resulted in the 1920 passage of the Twenty-First Amendment.”

Spiritualism Women S Suffrage Seneca Falls Origins Of Feminism Punitive Theologies Social Restrictions Twenty First Amendment

Book:The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

Source: The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

“...within a few weeks, the young minister Reverend George York , had expelled the family, accusing them of blasphemy and devil worship. their neighbors suspected the some of them feared the Foxes were in league with the devil, and must have encouraged their daughters to join them by engaging in some kid of 'witchcraft.”

Ghosts Witchcraft Blasphemy Spiritualism Devil Worship Suspicions

Book:The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

Source: The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

“Maggie and Katy found themselves trapped. 'Soon it went so far and so many persons had heard the 'rappings' that we could not confess the wrong without exciting very great anger on the part of the those we had deceived So we went right on," Maggie would explain forty years later.”

Mysterious Spiritualism Hoaxes Katy Fox Maggie Fox Quotes Rappings

Book:The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

Source: The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

“For the next quarters of a century, spiritualism, with its benevolent view of the soul and advocacy of social reform, was a serious concern for many suffragists.”

Feminism Social Reform Spiritualism Rochester Suffragists Upstate New York

Book:The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

Source: The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

“American spiritualism -- a movement that at its peak claimed more than a million followers -- was born out of the basic human longing for contact with a loved one lost to death. but to literalists, spiritualism's true spark came in 1848 from something no more or less powerful than a bored teenage girl.”

Grief And Loss After Death Spiritualism Teenage Girl 1848

Book:The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

Source: The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox