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When the angels appeared to John Ballou Newbrough early one morning in 1881, he was nothing if not well prepared. A dentist and Spiritualist, he had spent the last ten years purifying himself for supernatural contact by abstaining from meat, bathing twice a day, and rising before dawn. The visit
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was expected.
The angels wanted him to buy a typewriter, a newfangled device—Newbrough described typing as writing “by keys, like a piano” in a letter to the Boston Spiritualist journal The Banner of Light—that would allow him to transcribe their account of the world’s true spiritual history.1 He obeyed, and for the next fifty weeks the angels visited him in his New York City apartment every morning before sunrise, taking control of his hands in sessions that lasted exactly fifteen minutes. By the end, Newbrough had produced a nine-hundred page manuscript called Oahspe: a history of world religions that exposed their lies and elucidated their fundamental interconnections. Show Less
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LibraryThing member Sage_DeForest
hands down the best book I have read. absurd truth most can't properly interpret and integrate as evidenced by the followers of oahspe who fall into the trap of fundamentalism instead of taking the esoteric spiritual path reading it. following traditional logic it's the most ridiculous text I have
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ever read but spiritually it's the most profound piece of work I have ever come across. very weird very cool. the history around it is just as weird and cool. truly the bible of the weird wild west. Show Less