All are open to Spiritual Growth

"I do not promise to believe tomorrow exactly what I believe today, and I do not believe today exactly what I believed yesterday. I expect to make, as I have made, some honest progress within every succeeding twenty-four hours."   Beyond the Valley (1885) p134

 

A new Revelation needed

"In the present age, when the Creeds and Dogmas of the past have lost their influence and vitality, and man has attained a degree of development, unfolding new wants, and feelings, and higher sentiments; and when his faith in the immortality of the soul has become weakened and almost annihilated by his struggles with material nature, and his purely analytical and inductive modes of obtaining knowledge - a new Revelation suited to his enlarged views and more spiritual needs should be vouchsafed (furnished)."   The Great Harmonia - Vol 1 (1850) p10

 

What do I Believe?  (from Beyond the Valley, 1885, p133-134)

"I believe in one absolutely perfect God, - both Father and Mother."

"I believe that man, physically, was evolved from the animal kingdom."

"I believe that man, spiritually, is a part of the Infinite Spirit."

"I believe that every person is rewarded for goodness and punished for evil both in this world and in the next."

"I believe in the universal triumph of Truth, Justice, and Love."

"I believe in the immortality of every human mind; in a sensible communion between the peoples of earth and their relatives in the Summer-Land (the hereafter), and in the eternity of the true marriage."

"I believe in the principles of eternal Association, Progression, and Development."

 

Andrew Jackson Davis states he is not infallible   (The Great Harmonia, Vol 1, p9)

"the author will not consent to be considered as an Infallible teacher of science and philosophy; he addresses his revealments to the Intuition and Reason of the human soul.  Hence, whatever he communicates to mankind must live upon its own intrinsic merits - upon its own indwelling vitality - and not because he has, while in the superior condition, spoken or written it."

 

Everything has a purpose

"all human Individuals, as well as birds, flowers, minerals, worlds, and universes, have a message to deliver from on High - a mission to fulfil - and an end to accomplish.  Everything is designed to subserve an end, a purpose, in the vast and boundless laboratory of the All-wise Divine Mind."  The Great Harmonia - Vol 1 (1850) p13

 

Theory of Evolution

In the Great Harmonia - Vol 1 (1850), Davis talks about how man evolved from animals and that evolution also took place in plants and animals up to man.  He says that this is not a popular idea since many at that time thought it was blasphemous to say that God did not create man directly.  It is interesting to note that Charles Darwin did not publish his On the Origin of Species until 1859 and only briefly wrote about it in previously in England.  In 1842 and 1844, he wrote relatively short summaries of his theory, but they were not widely read outside of British scientific circles.  It was not until he was 50 years old, in 1859, that he finally published his theory of evolution in full for his fellow scientists and for the public at large.  He did so in a dense book entitled On the Origin of Species.  On page 19 of the Great Harmonia, Davis says "Probably the most repulsive feature of this philosophy, to the uninitiated inquirer, is the proposition that Man came from the animal creation. "  He does also mention this in his first book, Principles of Nature which was published in 1847.

 

The Divine Mind

"The Divine Mind is the Cause, the Universe is the Effect, and Spirit is the ultimate Design."
Principles of Nature (1847) p62

 

Unified Field Theory a hundred years before Einstein

"Heat (or caloric) has been supposed to be governed by a law different from that governing light: and electricity, being as yet undefined... to be governed by a different law from the last two mentioned.  A different law can not govern any particle or element in the Universe.  This constitutes the GRAND GENERAL LAW that governs all elements in space."    (Principles of Nature. 1847, p166,7)

 

Purpose of Confusion or disorder

"Human conceptions of order are founded upon the supposed reality of apparent confusion; and when apparent confusion and irregularities are observed, the mind instantly conceives of their opposite order.  Hence if confusion were not apparent, the word order would be without meaning."  (Principles of Nature. 1847, p176)

 

Brownian Motion ahead of its time

"If motion were given to one particle in the great mass composing the Sun of the univercoleum, this would establish motion in every atom in existence."  (Principles of Nature. 1847, p235)

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