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| 67f478f | drew primarily on the ideas of their contemporary Andrew Jackson Davis, who in turn derived them from the eighteenth-century philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg--or from conversations, as Davis claimed, with Swedenborg's spirit. Davis had already produced an astonishing body of lectures and books developing what he came to call a "harmonial philosophy" in which like attracted like. So great were the similarities and affinities between beings of .. | Barbara Weisberg |