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  A BOOK
  WRITTEN BY THE
  SPIRITS OF THE SO-CALLED DEAD,

  WITH THEIR OWN MATERIALIZED HANDS, BY THE
  PROCESS OF INDEPENDENT SLATE-WRITING,

  THROUGH
  MRS. LIZZIE S. GREEN AND OTHERS,
  AS MEDIUMS.


  COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY
  C. G. HELLEBERG,
  OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.


    Life is real! life is earnest!
    And the grave is not its goal.
    Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
    Was not written of the soul.
                  --LONGFELLOW.


  CINCINNATI:
  1883.




  COPYRIGHTED, 1882,
  BY C. G. HELLEBERG.




CONTENTS.


                                                                    PAGE
  CHAPTER I.

  Introduction and Biographical Sketches of C. G. Helleberg,
  Madam Fredrika Ehrenborg, and Mrs. Lizzie T. Green                   1


  CHAPTER II.

  First Investigations with Mrs. Laura Mosser and Mrs. Cooper          6


  CHAPTER III.

  Remarkable Materialization Seance--Letters from Mrs. Ehrenborg
  describing Inhabitants of other Planets                             14


  CHAPTER IV.

  Madam Ehrenborg and others Materialize                              23


  CHAPTER V.

  Investigations by Mrs. Jennie McKee--First Letter from Emanuel
  Swedenborg and Communications from Polheim and others--Received
  five beautiful Flowers from Madam Ehrenborg                         26


  CHAPTER VI.

  Mrs. McKee passes away and her Spirit arranges her own Funeral      33


  CHAPTER VII.

  Investigations with Mrs. Green--Remarkable dark Trumpet Seance,
  at which I received a most beautiful Flower from my Son Emil
  and Miss Mary Muth                                                  36


  CHAPTER VIII.

  Sure Identity of my Father-in-Law--Madam Ehrenborg writes to me
  in Swedish                                                          40


  CHAPTER IX.

  Information of a Spiritual Marriage--The Wedding and the Wedding
  Tour to the Planet Mars                                             45


  CHAPTER X.

  Description of the Journey to Mars, and wonderful Information
  furnished by Madam Ehrenborg                                        54


  CHAPTER XI.

  Communications from Emanuel Swedenborg                             108


  CHAPTER XII.

  Communications from George Washington                              141


  CHAPTER XIII.

  Communications from my Son Emil about Ex-President Garfield--
  Greetings from Madam Ehrenborg--Letter from Rev. Goddard and
  Swedenborg's Answer                                                157


  CHAPTER XIV.

  Communications from President Garfield, Madam Ehrenborg,
  Governor J. D. Williams, President Abraham Lincoln, Judge
  Edmonds                                                            163


  CHAPTER XV.

  New Years' Greetings from many of my dear Spirit Friends and
  near Relations                                                     170


  CHAPTER XVI.

  A Prayer from Madam Ehrenborg                                      173


  CHAPTER XVII.

  Greeting from Horace Greeley, J. G. Bennett, and Henry J.
  Raymond to F. B. Plimpton, Associate Editor of the Cincinnati
  Daily Commercial                                                   176


  CHAPTER XVIII.

  Communications from Horace Greeley, Governor O. P. Morton,
  A. P. Willard                                                      180


  CHAPTER XIX.

  Communications from the Drunkard, a Miser, William Gailard,
  William Lloyd Garrison, Wilberforce, Tecumseh, a Suicide           187


  CHAPTER XX.

  Communications from Thomas Paine, Margaret Fuller, and Thanks
  of Spirits                                                         199


  CHAPTER XXI--APPENDIX.

  Mrs. Green's Medial History                                        204


  CHAPTER XXII.

  A Visit to Split Rock, Kentucky--Christmas Greetings from
  Ida to her Parents--Annie Winterburn to her Brother, John
  Winterburn, and his Testimony, and her Farewell to the Medium,
  Mrs. Green                                                         222


  CHAPTER XXIII.

  A Spirit peels a Banana, eats some of it, and divides the rest
  in four equal parts--Reports of Cincinnati Enquirer about
  Spirit Seances at Mrs. Green's                                     231


  CHAPTER XXIV.

  Extracts from each of two Funeral Discourses by Bishop Simpson
  and Rev. W. H. Thomas, D. D., with Conclusions of C. G.
  Helleberg                                                          239




ERRATA.


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