Occult Literature
The Upper and Lower Earth of Spirits
A small circle marks the natural Earth between horizontal bars of different lengths and shades. Labels divide the upper and lower regions of spirits and place heavens and hells at the extremes. The figure maps a proposed Spiritualist afterlife geography within Davis’s account of the Summer Land.
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Illustrator not identified. "The Upper and Lower Earth of Spirits" [editorial title]. In A Stellar Key to the Summer Land, Part I, Andrew Jackson Davis. 1867 illustrated Part I; supplied historical scan, 1867, William White & Company; Banner of Light Branch Office. Source scan leaf 146. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0281-0139
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Reproduced from the exact historical library edition. The surrounding source presents spiritualist or cosmological claims; the image records that publication rather than verifying those claims.
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Illustrator not identified. The Upper and Lower Earth of Spirits. A Stellar Key to the Summer Land, Part I. Scan leaf 146. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0281-0139