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A Brief History of Spiritualism

Spiritualism

After the First World War spiritualist meetings were held in various halls in Harrow and in 1936 the Harrow Spiritualist Church, accommodating 180 people, was opened in Vaughan Road. (fn. 23). Home circles in the Wembley area developed in 1929 into the Wembley Spiritualists' Society. Rooms were hired until the Wembley Spiritualists' National Church was constructed in 1957 in St. John's Road. (fn. 24). In 1940 a Spiritualist church, meeting in a private house in Rayners Lane, was registered in Pinner (fn. 25) and a Christian Spiritualist church, St. Michael's, was registered in Northolt Road, Roxeth, and, later in that year, in Kenton Road, Kenton. (fn. 26) 

Another Christian Spiritualist church, founded in 1948, met initially in Cecil Park, Pinner, and, from 1949, in Bridge Street From: 'Harrow, including Pinner : Protestant nonconformity', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4: Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood with Southall, Hillingdon with Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow with Pinner (1971), pp. 261-264. 
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22475 Date accessed: 23 July 2010.

A Brief History of Spiritualism as a Faith

Dates and Events that have influenced Spiritualism.

500 BC - Greek Philosophers

Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato, influenced by Greek poet Pindar, establish the idea that the Soul is divine and would return after physical death.

1619 AD - French Philosopher

Rene Descartes, a French philosopher, believed that the body was an Organic Machine and would eventually stop and that the Soul was independent of the body, therefore could live on after the organic machine had stopped working. "I think, therefore I am".

1688 AD - Swedish Philosopher

Emanuel Swedenborg was born. He believed that Spirits wrote books through him. He met with the Queen of Sweden, who also believed in his revelations after meeting with him. This also made others in the country believe.

1848 AD - The Fox Family of America

The Fox Family owned a farm in New York, where they claimed bumps and taps were coming from the other side as a form of communication. The 3 daughters of the family developed a code so that they could communicate with the spirits. The sparked many other people who claimed to be able to communicate with spirits.

1853 AD - First Spiritualist Church in UK

David Richmond founded the first Spiritualist Church in the UK.

1870 AD - Message Spreads from America

At this time the subject had been widely written about and communication with Spirits had become fashionable in the high society of England, Europe and of course America.

1882 AD - The Society for Psychical Research Founded

The Society for Psychical Research was founded, a group who set out to prove Scientifically, the claims one way or the other.

1898 AD - The Roman Catholic Churches Condemnation

In 1898 the Roman Catholic Church issued a Condemnation of the Spiritualist movement and all theories and ideas relating to it. Unfortunately for the Catholic Church, this helped the Spiritualist movement, by having Holy recognition that it existed, because you can not condemn something which is not real. Therefore proving it was no longer as important.

1951 AD - Passing of the Fraudulent Mediums Act

Allowed people to practice their religion, without risk of the Witch Craft Acts.

2008 AD - Repeal of the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951

Now covered by the Unfair Commercial Practices Directives under The Department of Trade and Industry and the Office of Fair Trading. 

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