William Stainton Moses

William Stainton Moses

The Reverend William Stainton Moses (born Donnington, near Lincoln, England, in 1839, died 1892), was an English clergyman and Spiritualist.

Educated at Bedford School, University College School, London and Exeter College, Oxford, he was ordained as a priest of the Church of England by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in 1870.

He attended his first séance with Miss Lottie Fowler in 1872. Charles Williams and D. D. Home were the next mediums he visited. Five months after his introduction to spiritualism, he had his first experience of levitation. The automatic scripts of Moses began to appear in his books "Spirit Teachings" and "Spirit Identity". The scripts date from 1872 to 1883 and fill twenty-four notebooks. All but one have been preserved by the London Spiritualist Alliance.

In 1881-1882 he helped to found the Society for Psychical Research, with Edmund Rogers and Sir William Barrett. Its early members included F. W. H. Myers, Henry Sidgwick, and Edmund Gurney.

In 1884, he was a founding member, together with Rogers, of the London Spiritualist Alliance, afterwards the College of Psychic Studies.

Publications

Under the pen name "M.A. Oxon", William Stainton Moses published the following books on spiritualism:

*"Spirit Identity" (1879)
*"Psychography" (1882)
*"Spirit Teachings" (1883)
*"Higher Aspects of Spiritualism" (1880)

He also edited the periodical "Light" and wrote on spiritualism for "Human Nature".

References

*"The Controls of Stainton Moses" by A. W. Trethewy
* "Life and Experiences of Edmund Dawson Rogers, Spiritualist and Journalist" (autobiography, 1911, new edition by Kessinger Publishing, London, 2004) ISBN 10 1419173030


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