Then the family's eldest son David who lived in Rochester can to see and devised an alphabet code whereby he would recite the letters of the alphabet and when he reached the correct letter Mr. A communication was established with a question from the girls and an answer from the discarnate entity a simple one rap for yes, two raps for no. Surprising to them it answered back with loud rapping sounds. Splitfoot', which is a nickname for the devil. So, just to have fun, the two young girls started talking to the unknown entity and gave it a name 'Mr. Neither the Foxes' nor their neighbors were able to determine the origin of the sounds, and, not only could the knocks be heard, but those who were present could feel the cottage disturbed. Strange knocking sounds began to be heard in 1848. His validation came a year later in Hydesville, New York with the phenomena later known as the 'Hydesville Rappings'. In 1847, Davis predicted that it would not be long before the afterlife would be proven. Regardless of what occurred, the effect on him was profound, and afterwards, he traveled extensively, lecturing and authoring thirty books that became the philosophical foundation of early American Spiritualism. Davis may have had a vision or been teleported or perhaps he walked the distance while in trance – no one can say for certain. Davis claimed, during this time, to have met the spirits of Galen, the Greek physician and Swedenborg, the Seer. On the evening of March 6th, he experienced a trance-like state, and when he gained full consciousness the next morning, he was some forty miles from where he had entered the trance. Young Davis showed signs of clairvoyance and heard voices, and in 1844, had an experience that changed his life. Davis grew up in the small town of Poughkeepsie, along the Hudson River in New York State. The Baptist of Spiritualism, Andrew Jackson Davis was a prolific spiritualist author and proclaimer of the coming revelation of Spiritualism. Included are: Robert Frost, Johnny Appleseed, William Blake, Jorge Luis Borges, Daniel Burnham, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Flaxman, George Inness, Henry James Sr., Carl Jung, Immanuel Kant, Honoré de Balzac, Helen Keller, Czesław Miłosz, August Strindberg, D. His most well known work, Heaven and Hell was published in 1758 and, since then, many persons including a variety of important cultural figures, both writers and artists were influenced by Swedenborg's writings. He spoke of founding a 'New Church', that would be based on the works he was writing of his experiences while out of his body. This inspired him to devote the latter quarter-century of his life to writing eighteen published theological works, and several more which were unpublished. Swedenborg did indeed travel to the spirit world, still attached to his silver cord, to learn the higher spiritual truths. He was one of the outstanding and respected scientists of his time, and a member of Sweden's House of Nobles. Swedenborg was such a man, having an eclectic mind and learned in mathematics, geology, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, anatomy and astronomy. Swedenborg had been selected because a mortal was needed, who would be respected among the thinkers of the day to be the herald of Jesus's spiritual revelation. In 1744, he was brought to the spirit world by Jesus to learn his truths, and upon his return wrote, The Heavenly Doctrine to reform Christianity. Swedenborg was one of Europe's greatest minds, and considered today to be one of the three greatest minds in all of history.
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