Franklin's Ghost Invented the Telegraph...

[John Bailey]

http://www.spirithistory.com/invent.html

"Quaker Abolitionists Isaac and Amy Post from Rochester were early 
enthusiasts of the spirit manifestations associated with the Fox sisters.  
Isaac became a medium and received a series of messages from exalted spirits 
of the blessed deceased, among whom were George Fox and George Washington. 
The spirit of Benjamin Franklin revealed to Post that he had continued his 
experiments with electricity after his death and that new inventions would 
be brought to the Earth in the form of scientific ideas and specific 
technical plans.

All new inventions, Franklin said, already existed in the spirit realm. The 
benevolent spirits conveyed those innovations into people’s minds, whether 
or not the human “inventors” knew their ultimate source. Franklin, according 
to his spirit, was the real inventor of the telegraph—his electrical 
experiments in the afterlife had born fruit and he had implanted the idea 
for the telegraph in the mind of Samuel F. B. Morse. The earthly, physical 
telegraph, therefore, was simply a material correspondence of the heavenly 
telegraph..."

Wonderfully interesting site on the history of spiritualism in the US. Ben 
Franklin seems to figure quite prominently, for some reason. Thought some of 
youse might be interested.


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