The Aletheia: Spirit of Truth. A Series of Letters in Which the Principles of the United Society Known as Shakers are Set Forth and Illustrated
Farmington, Maine: Press of the Knowlton & McLeary Co., 1907. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2330734
Second edition. No jacket. Boards soiled, top page ridge lightly foxed.
146 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white illustrations. CONTENTS: Introduction; Poem: Sabbathday Lake; Our Home at Sabbathday Lake; The Duality of God; The Christ Spirit; Question Answered by Question; Mother Ann Lee; W.D. Howells; Lafayette; Mother Ann's Voyage to America; Constellations; Aristotle; Eternal Punishment; The Good Prevailing; The Three Cardinal Principles; Confession; Celibacy; Community of Interests; The Atonement; The God of Moses; The God of Jesus; New Centre Dwelling; School; Nathan Merrill and the Founders of the Society; Elder Otis Sawyer; Origin of the Shakers; Mother Ann's Persecutions in England; Royal's River; Nobel Pioneers of the Town; First Shaker Meeting in New Gloucester; Elder Elisha Pote; Death of Elder Otis Sawyer; Vision of Mother Ann; Poem: In the Woods of Pine; Protestation I; Protestation II; Fathers and Mothers, an Hundred Fold Greeting; The Christ of the Ages; Creeds; Baptism; The Eucharist; Equality of the Sexes; The Bible; The Arts and Sciences; Thy Will Be Done; Angels of the New Dispensation; Letter to the Editor to the Manifesto; Tribute to Elder Giles B. Avery; Letter to Count Leo Tolstoi; Jesus; Buddha; The Sermon on the Mount; "The Shakers and Their Homes," by Charles Edson Robinson; Address to the School at Sabbathday Lake; Invocation; New Year's Greeting; Winter; Visit to the Society at Alfred; To the Cedars of Lebanon; Dedication at Poland Springs of the Maine State Building; Also the Celebration of the Centennial of the Ricker Family as Hotel Proprietors in the Town of Portland, Maine; The Shaker Settlements of Canterbury and Enfield, New Hampshire; Poem: The Day of Judgment; The Story of Granville Merrill, Which is an Account of One of the Miracles of the Age; The Mission and the Testimony of the Shakers of the Twentieth Century to the World; Poem: Christ, the Spirit - Jesus, the Man.
Price: $40.00