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The author presents a theological and exegetical argument that the manifestations attributed to witches and familiar spirits arise from human imagination — the seed of Reason — rather than disembodied entities, and contends that spirits cannot exist or walk apart from their bodies. He reads a famous biblical episode about a woman who appears to summon a deceased prophet as evidence to refute popular claims of spirits operating independently, explains how imagination produces visions and voices, contrasts the seed of Reason with the seed of Faith which yields true revelation, and offers interpretations of related scriptural passages to satisfy skeptics and persuade readers.

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Title: A True Interpretation of the Witch of Endor

Author: Lodowick Muggleton

Release date: August 7, 2022 [eBook #68704]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: self published, 1724

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A True Interpretation of the Witch of Endor

A TRUE INTERPRETATION OF THE WITCH OF ENDOR,
Spoken of in 1 Sam. XXVIII. begin. at the 11th Verse.
SHEWING,

1. How She and all other Witches do beget or produce that Familiar Spirit they deal with, and what a Familiar Spirit is, and how those Voices are procured, and Shapes appear unto them, whereby the Ignorant and Unbelieving People are deceived by them.

2. It is clearly made appear in this TREATISE, that no Spirit can be raised without its Body, neither can any Spirit assume any Body after Death; For if the Spirit doth walk, the Body must walk also.

3. An Interpretation of all those Scriptures, that doth seem as if Spirits might go out of Men's Bodies when they die, and subsist in some Place or other without Bodies.

Lastly, Several other Things needful for the Mind of Man to know; which whoever doth understand, it will be great Satisfaction.

By LODOWICKE MUGGLETON,

Penman hereof, and the last chosen Witness unto that Ever-Blessed Body of Christ Jesus Glorified, to be the only Wise, very True God alone, Everlasting Father, and Creator of both Worlds, and all that were made in them.

The Second Edition.

LONDON,

Printed by Subscription in the YEAR 1724.