Therefore, what is the Spiritualist Religion?
The Spiritualist religion emerged from a philosophical and spiritual movement which commenced — in a more objective form — in the middle of the Nineteenth Century; specifically, March 31, 1848. This movement is called the Modern Spiritualist Movement. Initially, it began in pockets of light and mediumistic activity throughout the planet. It proclaimed, in no uncertain terms, the answers to the three questions posed above. And it did so through the demonstration of Spirit communication — or mediumship — both of the physical and of the mental kind. Was this Movement widely accepted? No, because it threatened the deeply ingrained Victorian sense of Materialism. Yet, if you consider what was emerging through such writers as Thoreau and Whitman, along with such religious movements as Unitarianism and Universalism, the advent of Modern Spiritualism really should not have been such a cultural or theological shock. But, it was! Why might that have been? The blame must fall, in part, upon S
