1. We believe in Infinite Intelligence.
2. We believe that the phenomena of nature, both physical and spiritual, are the expression of Infinite Intelligence.
3. We affirm that a correct understanding of such expression and living in accordance therewith, constitute true religion.
4. We affirm that the existence and personal identity of the individual continue after the change called death.
5. We affirm that communication with the so-called dead is a fact, scientifically proven by the phenomena of Spiritualism.
6. We believe that the highest morality is contained in the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
7. We affirm the moral responsibility of individuals, and that we make our own happiness or unhappiness as we obey or disobey Nature's physical and spiritual laws.
8. We affirm that the doorway to reformation is never closed against any soul here or hereafter.
9. We affirm that the precepts of Prophecy and Healing are Divine attributes proven through Mediumship.
1. Spiritualism is the Science, Philosophy and Religion of continuous life, based upon the demonstrated fact of communication, by means of mediumship, with those who live in the Spirit World.
2.A Spiritualist is one who believes, as the basis of his or her religion, in the communication between these and the spirit world by means of mediumship and who endeavors to mould his or her character and conduct in accordance with the highest teachings derived from such communication.
3. A Medium is on whose organism is sensitive to vibrations from the spirit world and through whose instrumentality, intelligence in that world are able to convey messages and produce the phenomena of Spiritualism.
4. A Spiritualist Healer is one who, either through one's own inherent powers or through Mediumship, is able to impart vital, curative force to pathologic conditions.
5. The Phenomena of Spiritualism consists of Prophecy, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Gift of Tongues, Laying on of Hands, and Independent Writings and Paintings, Voice, Materialization, Photography, Psychometry and any other manifestation proving the continuity of life as demonstrated through the physical and Spiritual senses and faculties of humanity.
Ethel Post-Parrish (seated, died 1960) during a seance in which her spirit guide, an Indian girl called Silver Belle, materializes, at the Spiritualist summer camp, Camp Silver Belle (founded in 1932), at Mountain Springs Hotel in Ephrata, Pennsylvania.
Scottish Spiritualist and medium Helen Duncan during a seance in 1928 with her doll Peggy
from The Cheese-Cloth Worshippers, chapter 11 of Leaves from a Psychist's Case-Book by Harry Price, 1933.
Helen Duncan was one of the last people convicted for Witchcraft in Britain, and her trial in 1944 led to the repeal, in 1951, of the British Witchcraft Act and its replacement with the Fraudulent Mediums Act. This in turn led the way for Gerald Gardner, inspired by Margaret Murray's theories, to begin publishing his books advocating Wicca and Witchcraft in the 1950s.
The magician William S. Marriott, with some spiritualist prop dolls he bought from the rare 1901 catalog Gambols with the Ghosts.