Communication with The Spirit World: Personal Experiences of a Catholic priest.
New York: John Felsberg, 1932. English translation from the second German edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. vi + 432pp. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine & front board. Johannes Greber (1874-1944) was a controversial Catholic priest turned Spiritualist who claimed to have been informed, via psychic communication, of errors in the Bible, and went on to retranslate the New Testament with the help of God's 'spirits.' The story of his experiences and communications with these spirits was recounted by him in 'Communication with the Spirit World.' His work caused some dissension within the Jehovah's Witness community, as whilst he was originally dismissed by them as a Spiritualist, the Watchtower Society nonetheless sometimes cited his translation of the New Testament in support of their similar renderings of John 1:1 and Matthew 27:52 & 53 (a practice they apparently stopped in the 1980s). First US Edition, translated from the Second German Edition. From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, with his ex-libris seal blind-stamped on the front free endpaper. Page-edges lightly browned, spine slightly faded, faint tide-marks to front endpapers, otherwise a clean better than VG copy (no dust jacket). Item #53062
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