Eleven. Channeling Delight and Destiny: The Coming of Seth and Abraham

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Introduction: Lights and Shadows 1
4. Part I God Shed His Grace
5. Section 1 Divine and Devilish Things
6. One. The Metaphysical Cotton Mather 15
7. Two. Jonathan Edwards: Latter-Day Puritan and Metaphysician 43
8. Section 2 Supernatural and Natural
9. Three. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Supernatural Naturalist 69
10. Four. Horace Bushnell: Natural Supernaturalist 99
11. Part II The Fruited Plain
12. Section 3 Commercial and Un-Unitarian Times
13. Five. Albert Brisbane and the Metempsychosis of Sex 127
14. Six. Andrew Jackson Davis and the Matter of Sex and Spirit 157
15. Section 4 Physic and Metaphysic
16. Seven. Warren Felt Evans: From Methodism to Mind Cure 183
17. Eight. William James: From Anatomy to the Science of Spirit 215
18. Section 5 Purses, Profits, and Futures Perfect
19. Nine. Minding Money and Market: Emma Curtis Hopkins and Elizabeth Towne 243
20. Ten. Arcanes of Prosperity: The Multiverses of William Walker Atkinson 267
21. Eleven. Channeling Delight and Destiny: The Coming of Seth and Abraham 287
22. Afterword: And Crowned Thy Good? 307
23. Acknowledgments 317
24. Notes 319
25. Index 351