Manuscript/Mixed Material The crystal : a record of visions and conferences with the in-dwellers of the spirit world Page view volume 11

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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     154 Ex Libris Houdini Library of Congress 1800 Class Book The Bequest of Harry Houdini 1927 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     Vol 11 23 Sep1856 1982 to 15 Feb 1857 9641 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     To be lettered at the bottom Vol 11 Eleven Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     The Crystal Vol XI 23 Sept 1856 to 15 Feb 1857 A Record of Visions and Conferences with the Indwellers of the Spirit World Croydon Fred Hockley Transcribed and reviewed by contributors…
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     Bequest of Harry Houdini April 1927 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     8982 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     1 Croydon 23rd Sept 1856 CA Mirror Invoked the CA 730 PM The CA is here as usual Mr MacKenzie recently expressed a wish to introduce me to his friend the Revd…
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     2 yet with the Crystal or that he had seen reading so plainly As he has now proved beyond a doubt the possession of the faculty of seeing I hope I have…
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     3 doctrine to excite the wonder of the ignorant thereby more firmly establish their own Soul crushing Supremacy but how even Clergymen other of undoubted piety and learning can believe it is…
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     4 they not be erring Spirits who have passed through their season of Trial in an order and in time essentially distinct from our own It may be that they have been…
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     5 particle of matter I come down like Thought can you imagine the human mind seeing in its error and alighting momentarily on Faith of Something flashing as it were through the…
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    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     6 passing through any thing but the Spheres beneath me I see in the Atmosphere the likeness of that which is taking place in the world I can pass through it without…
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     7 Infinity always present to an infinite being we must therefore unhesitatingly dissent from that gross and vulgar conception of the Father of Lies which would give to him either a temporary…
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts
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    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     8995 8 More than a material body to be divided when that division comes the whole structure falls loses its power is divided against itself and becomes each part of little strength…
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts     9 we are obliged to admit that the Soul ever confirms in a State of Consciousness that by the friendly hand of death she is liberated from the prison house and that…
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853
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    Known as: Crystal mss | Crystal m.s. | Crystal manuscripts
    • Contributor: Hockley, Frederick - Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1853

About this Item

Title

  • The crystal : a record of visions and conferences with the in-dwellers of the spirit world

Other Title

  • Known as: Crystal mss
  • Crystal m.s.
  • Crystal manuscripts

Summary

  • These volumes are Hockley's manuscript records of his crystal and mirror gazing experiments, v. 4-5, 7-15. He was unable to see anything in the glass himself and reported experiences using as his seer "Crowned Angel" (among others, Emma Louisa Leigh, ca. 1838-1858.) Some passages correspond to those recorded by F.G. Irwin in Hockley's lifetime, including the "Burton episode" (v. 4, leaves 124-5). Cf. The Rosicrucian seer: magical writings of Frederick Hockley, Aquarian Press, 1986, p. 28-29, ff. Vol. 5 has spirit writings bound in at end. Vols. 4, 5, and 7 are indexed by spirit contacts and by subjects. Vol. 13 has a few newspaper clippings mounted on the versos of leaves 32, 33, 49, and 50.

Names

  • Hockley, Frederick, 1808-1885.
  • Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)

Headings

  • -  Hockley, Frederick,--1808-1885--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
  • -  Crystal gazing--History--Sources
  • -  Magic mirrors--History--Sources
  • -  Clairvoyance--History--Sources
  • -  Occultism--History--Sources
  • -  Spirit writings

Notes

  • -  Original volume numbering retained; each v. has t.p. with dates of visions and conferences covering the period from 2 Jan. 1853 to sometime after 9 Mar. 1862 (end date not specified in v. 15). Vol. 14 has no title page, and the vol. numbering appears only on the spine. Each session is numbered; the numbering of contacts begins a new series in v. 15.
  • -  Accountant, copyist, and crystal gazer, Hockley was a significant figure in the 19th century occult revival. Worked for John Denley as a copyist of occult manuscripts, and with 2 partners practiced as an accountant. Became involved in spiritualism in the 1850s.
  • -  Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.

Medium

  • 11 v. (v. 4-5, 7-15) : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BF1335 .H63 1853

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2010414646

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