Letters from a Living Dead Man 1914 Elsa Barker ~ First Edition ~Spiritualism ~Occult ~ Metaphysics ~Life after death ~David Patterson Hatch

Title: Letters from a Living Dead Man

Author: Written down by Elsa Barker with an Introduction

Description: Scarce First American Edition, 1914. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. Water drop blemish on front cover; spine toned. Gift inscription on flyleaf dated Feb 1915, else interior is clean and unmarked. 291 pages.

Includes a ten-page introduction by the author describing her experiences receiving these communications from the Living Dead Man, who in this volume describes the metaphysical environment of the astral plane in which he works and resides.

This is the first of the three Living Dead Man books by Elsa Barker (1869-1954), which she composed through a process of automatic writing in London and Paris 1912-1913, channeling her recently deceased friend and spiritual advisor, David Patterson Hatch. Prior to the First World War, Barker had studied with Carl Jung in Europe and, in London, as a member of Samuel L. MacGregor Mather's Golden Dawn-associated occult order Alpha et Omega, acted as liaison between its American and British branches. She was also a notable editor, poet and short story writer. Her papers hare held at Brown University.

The man she channeled, David Patterson Hatch (1846-1912), claimed to be in touch with a secret lodge of ''Christian Hermetics'' and had written several books, including ''Some Philosophy of the Hermetics'' and ''Scientific Occultism.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Mitchell Kennerley
Place: New York
Year: 1914

Keywords: spiritualism, automatic writing, occultism, metaphysics, spirit writing, Paul Karishka, David Patterson Hatch, Alpha et Omega, life after death,