Karyn Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 Thank you to Karen for this interesting post on post on VICTORIA WOODHULL: Suffragette & Spiritualist Victoria Claflin was born in 1838, in Homer, Ohio. Her mother, Annie, was a Spiritualist who passed her beliefs on to her two living daughters. Victoria’s abilities began early. When she was only five years old, she would commune with two of her sisters who died as babies and her childhood caretaker. Her father took advantage of her gifts and used her in his traveling carnival show as a clairvoyant and fortune-teller. At the age of 15, to escape her father’s abusiveness, Victoria eloped with Canning Woodhull, an alcoholic, philandering doctor. She almost lost her life when she gave birth to their son, and the child was plagued with mental development delays the rest of his life. After five years of marriage, Victoria divorced her husband in 1864. Continuing with her rebel attitude, Victoria embraced Spiritualism. As a medium, she accurately recalled past events and predicted the future. She could find missing objects and heal people. Theodore Tilton wrote in her biography: “This strange faculty is the most powerful of her powers. She shoots a word like a sudden sunbeam through the thickest mist of people’s doubts and accusations, and clears the sky in a moment.” Victoria was a popular medium, traveling with her sister, Tennessee, to hold seances across the country. She said her spirit guide was the Greek orator Demosthenes. He had been speaking to her since she was a child, but she didn’t know his name until she was 30. Demosthenes directed her to St. Louis, where she met her second husband, Col. James Blood Demosthenes also directed her to New York City in 1868. She and her sister moved to the city where they met Cornelius Vanderbilt. Being a recent widower, Vanderbilt appreciated their friendship and set the sisters up in business. They started the first woman-run Wall Street investment firm. Victoria would go on to found her own newspaper, to speak before Congress on women’s suffrage, and to run for U.S. President in 1872 against Ulysses S. Grant. Victoria divorced James H. Blood in 1876 and moved to England with her sister. In 1883, she married a wealthy banker from England, John Biddulph Martin. She spent the following years writing. She published Human Body: The Temple of God (1890), and a magazine with her daughter, The Humanitarian, for nine years, beginning in 1892. Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin died in 1927, in Bredon’s Norton, Worcestershire, England. Additional reading: Hix, Lisa. “Ghosts in the Machines: The Devices and Daring Mediums That Spoke for the Dead.” Collector’s Weekly. http://www.collectorsweekly.com/.../ghosts-in-the.../ “The annual convention of the American Association of Spiritualists in Boston, Massachusetts, 1872.” The Banner of Light, The Boston Investigator, The New-York Times, The Brooklyn Eagle. http://spirithistory.iapsop.com/1872_american_association... Victoria Woodhull Biography http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51861/51861-h/51861-h.htm The Woodhull Foundation https://www.woodhullfoundation.org/.../who-was-victoria.../ Read more of this post ( http://www.spiritualpathspiritualistchurch.org/victoria.../) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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