Andrew Jackson Davis

Andrew Jackson Davis ( born August 11, 1826 in Blooming Grove, New York; † 13 January 1910 at Boston, Massachusetts) was American spiritualist.

Biography

Davis came up with 16 years as a shoemaker apprentice under the influence of the somnambulistic magnetist Livingston, and showed here the surprising phenomena of clairvoyance. In 1843 he heard in Poughkeepsie lectures on animal magnetism and found out that he had remarkable clairvoyance. He succeeded to diagnose diseases, an ability that earned him the reputation of a seer. The following year, he received his information spiritual messages of Galen and Swedenborg, who claimed him his life. He took a clergyman, William Fishbough, as an assistant and moved to New York. Here he dictated in 1845 his first and most significant spiritualistic Work: The principles of nature, her divine revelations and a voice to mankind. This book was written completely in trance and contains, in addition to a mystical philosophy and criticism of the infallibility of the Bible and the divinity of Jesus.

After completing this book, he no longer dedicated to the magnetism, but much studied, collected a large number of followers and wrote or dictated to about 30 works according to his prescribing under the influence of invisible spirits, and in a state of rapture.

Davis 1860-64 edited the New York-based weekly magazine Herald of Progress; In 1863 he founded a Lyceum of progress for children and his views on the establishment of Sunday schools in a Handbook down.

He earned a degree in medicine at the age and resulted in his last years, a bookstore in Boston, where he sold occult books.

Works (selection)

• The Great Harmonia. ( 1850-60, 6 vols ).
• The Approaching Crisis. (1852, 2nd edition 1869). German: The Kulturkampf and its effect on the immediate future with the basis of the " pre Approaching Crisis " by Andrew Jackson Davis.. Edit For the present time. by Georg von Langsdorf. Better, Leipzig 1881.

• German: The Harbinger of Health: containing medical provisions for the human body and mind in all possible cases of illness. Better, Leipzig 1877. Microfiche edition 2002.

• German: The philosophy of spiritual intercourse: an explanation of modern mysteries. Better, Leipzig 1884.

• His autobiography was published under the title: The Magic Staff: an Autobiography. (1857, 8th edition 1867). Reprint of the 1857 edition: New York: Brown & Co. ISBN 0-7661-2998-5.