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Boston: Berry, Colby, 1860 [1959]
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This volume, which the author claimed was written by his “invisible guides,” explores the formation of the solar system, the development of life on Earth, the origin and history of the human race, the structure of the human brain, and the source of thought itself. After his guides set Tuttle back a few times, once even telling him to burn the manuscript—the work was eventually published in 1860. This edition also includes sections of an earlier work "The Philosophy of Spirit," which Tuttle wrote in his teens and later published as a second volume of the Arcana.
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"Dedication" dated 1859. Spiritualist.
Cataloged as 2-vol. work; "Vol. II" published later as Philosophy of Spirit and the Spirit-World. Contents list "Appendix" by Datus Kelley, but Tuttle later said it was not authorized, and he removed it.
Eternal matter, evolution of life from chaos by established laws (cf. Lamarck). God as Nature. Passing allusion to Vestiges of Creation. In Tuttle's later Origin and Antiquity of Physical Man (1866) he praised Darwin and other evolutionists, and says he wrote Arcana in 1853, and that it was pyschically dictated by spirit guides, but it not published until 1859.
Cataloged as 2-vol. work; "Vol. II" published later as Philosophy of Spirit and the Spirit-World. Contents list "Appendix" by Datus Kelley, but Tuttle later said it was not authorized, and he removed it.
Eternal matter, evolution of life from chaos by established laws (cf. Lamarck). God as Nature. Passing allusion to Vestiges of Creation. In Tuttle's later Origin and Antiquity of Physical Man (1866) he praised Darwin and other evolutionists, and says he wrote Arcana in 1853, and that it was pyschically dictated by spirit guides, but it not published until 1859.