The Shekinah. (Volume 3) - Samuel Byron Brittan

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1853. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... "The Shekinah." Samuel Byron Brittan ANDEEW JACKSON DAVIS, THE GREAT AMERICAN SEER. BY A MYSTIC. Gone is the fair youth of Samos, the divine Pythagoras, with his golden locks and golden precious sayings, ages on ages ago, with the thousands of great philosophers among his immediate followers. And the gentle Nazarene, Jesus, with his touching tenderness and sympathy for the sick, the suffering, and the outcast, and a love for all that bore the name of man, that has made the word Christianity one with Humanity, has passed away, now for centuries from human eyes, but never from human hearts, or human memories. And Swedenborg, the sublime Swedish Seer, and Luther, the great German preacher and Reformer, and George Fox, that earnest prophet of the Lord, the founder of the Society of " Friends," all men of wonderful spiritual gifts, and divine inspiration, have left the earth, yet " God never leaves himself without a witness in the world, through which to reveal, in progressive teachings, a continually clearer and higher wisdom, and by a law of nature, as simple as that by which the fair, fragrant blossom unfolds itself from the rough stalk and humbler leaves, still as ever, as the ages glide by, does the divine plant of humanity flower forth in its seasons into glorious sages, seers, and prophets, the acme and quintessence of the race, the types of what all men shall be in the future, and so now again the tree puts forth afresh, and though Confucius, and Zoroaster, and Pythagoras, and Socrates, and Plato, with Jesus and Swedenborg, have gone, there has risen up among us, through the grace of God, the American Seer, the truthful, wise, and gentle Davis, who, like Pythagoras, and Jesus of old, is gradually d..."