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07/01/2023

Mother Ann Lee was the leader of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, known as the Shakers. She was a central figure and her prophet...

06/30/2023

The Shakers were both Charismatic as shamanic; their services included much prophesying and speaking in tongues in a manner that is not understood by present day Christians and Spiritualists. They also danced and shook. Anyone, regardless of gender, class, or education, could preach or prophesy in the name of the dead. Music was especially important in Shaker worship, and revelations could take the form of new songs. Ecstatic dancing and spontaneous speaking in tongues were later standardized and developed into hymns and dances which Shakers performed regularly. However, many Richmond Family Shakers never ceased to create songs and dances to venerate Congo and Native American spirit actions. As noted by several Shaker historians, hymns that were gifted to Richmond Family Shakers usually contained ancient aboriginal words of power. Shaker music has influenced such modern artists as Aaron Copland, R.E.M., Weezer, and Joel Cohen.

06/30/2023

In the English speaking Caribbean, the Cherokee Ghost Dance and Kongo Christian-inspired Revival meetings of the Richmond Family Shakers quickly evolved into the Spiritual Baptist tradition of t the Shouters. Complaints about ‘Shouters’ appeared in Trinidadian newspapers as early as the 1890s. In 1898 the Port of Spain Gazette described ‘a congregation of “Shouters” who met every Sunday in a house in Tunapuna, near Port of Spain. Early twentieth century reports recount some of the religious practices of the group that would come to be known as followers of the Spiritual Baptist faith, including wakes and initiation rites for the dead. The ‘Shouters’ practiced a form of Christianity that had developed out of religious revivals in the nineteenth century, and drew deeply on West African religious practices. Their beliefs and forms of worship shared a great deal with the ‘Converted’ of St. Vincent and the ‘Jordanites’ of Guyana. From around 1909 there were increasingly vociferous calls in the press for suppression of the ‘Shouters’, which became louder after the government of St. Vincent passed the ‘Shakerism Prohibition Ordinance’ in 1912, making the practices of the ‘Shakers’ (the Converted) illegal.

06/30/2023

The most unusual series of records, the inspired writings, came into being at a time when the Shakers appeared to be wavering from their original religious intent and falling victim to such worldly temptations as material prosperity. Young people were challenging the accepted wisdom of bygone leaders and showed less enthusiasm for the traditional forms of worship. The result was a decade (1838-1848) characterized by visions, prophecies, messages, and communications transmitted through visionists or instruments among the Shakers. The sources of these messages were identified as deceased Shaker leaders, the ghosts of heroic Africans and Native Americans, Biblical figures, or other notable personages such as Joan of Arc and Mary Queen of Scots. These manifestations often contained warnings and instructions or word gifts and presents directed to individual Shakers. These messages, some of which are in the form of detailed drawings, had a profound religious, cultural, and social influence on the Shakers and, particularly, on their music, art, poetry and rituals, such as the dance. The impact on Shaker music, for example, is evident in a study of the many hymnals containing music and verse, much of which was "received" through inspiration, or while a devotee was possessed by an African witch doctor spirit called Nganga. Songs, which generally were expressions of beliefs, were a Shaker characteristic from the Society's inception and their evolvement through the years reflect the continual changes that occurred in Shaker philosophy and ritual. Only the Richmond Family Shakers continued Mother Ann's Work and used their insight to create the Spiritualism traditions of Europe, America, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Brazil.

06/30/2023

End Times Prophecy: Christ's Second Appearing

"The time will come when God will draw the line between the righteous and the wicked, and the wicked cannot pass over it, — Yea, the time will come when God will give that power to His people, so that they will be able to draw the line, and the wicked cannot step one step over it. Fear not their fears, neither be afraid, for God will deliver His people."

-Mother Ann Lee

06/30/2023

"I have seen Jane in the world of spirits, praising God in the dance. I have seen young Jonathan Wood among the dead; he was like claps of thunder among them, waking them up. I have been all night with the dead."

-Mother Ann Lee

06/28/2023

The Shaker Ministry was confused by a sudden upswing in spiritual activity, not least of all because it was not them receiving these messages, but a young novitiate. During this occult period, public meetings were temporarily closed to avoid any misunderstanding and misinterpretation by the outside world. This Era of Manifestations, also called Mother Ann’s Work, was and is a controversial time in Shaker history because it is associated with shamanic spirit possessions like what we find in Haiti and Africa. Many of the decrees that came out of the revival were later abandoned, including several spiritual texts. However, an incredible amount of art (“spirit drawings”). Praise songs were also created during this period that contained Native American and African words of power. When three largest Shaker communities abandoned Mother Ann's Work, the Richmond Family Shakers kept it alive by creating European and American Spiritualism as well as the Spiritual Baptist traditions of the English speaking Caribbean.

06/27/2023

Mother Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers religious movement, made a bold prediction that the sexual perversions of the Antichrist System would ultimately be the downfall of society. In her Ancestral Spiritualism teachings, she emphasized the importance of celibacy and chastity as a means to achieve spiritual purity and transcend the wicked agenda of the Antichrist System. While her ideas may seem extreme or outdated to some, there are those who believe that her prophecy holds relevance in today's world. This page explores the theories and arguments surrounding Mother Ann Lee's prediction and its potential implications for the present day in which all the things she preached against have been normalized in the name of Progress.

06/27/2023

From 1837 to the mid-1840s, Shaker communities received a flood of ghostly visits from multidimensinal entities. They referred to the paranormal activity as Mother Ann’s Work.

Their dead founder, Mother Ann Lee, was the first to stop by as the Resurrected Christ of the New Age. Then came Old Testament prophets, Celtic Druids, Blackamoors, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Pocahontas, George Washington, Joan of Arc, and Mary Queen of Scots. Angels visited to dictate long messages, while other spirits brought shamanic songs and dances. Tecumseh’s ghost told the Shakers he’d converted all his chiefs to Shakerism. Even more fascinating where the many possessions by the spirits of Native Americans and Portuguese Angolans. It is possible that these possessions came from the ghosts of all the non-whites in New York and New England that embraced Mother Ann Lee as the Second Coming of Christ's Appearing.

The otherworldly visitors sometimes arrived quietly and appeared to lone individuals. But sometimes they came during worship services and inspired frenzied dancing, shaking, twitching, whirling, jerking and singing. And sometimes they inspired a Shaker to chant in a strange pidgin similar to the rituals languages in Obeah sects and the Afro-Cuban faith called Regla de Congo and Palo Monte.

The Shakers called it the Era of Manifestation, a time of spiritual revival when Shakers received Mother Ann’s Work. Eventually, they decided the spiritual visits were a little embarrassing, and closed their doors to flesh-and-blood visitors.

06/27/2023

The Testimonies is sometimes called “the secret book of the elders” because it was not intended for general publication and distribution to the outside world. It was held closely by the Shaker leadership and read aloud from time to time to the general membership and in places where Spiritualism was being practiced by elders born with the gift. So concerned was Mother Lucy Wright that the book not fall into the hands of the outside world that, although it was available in the spring of 1816, she did not allow it to be sent to the Shaker communities in Ohio and Kentucky until mid-1818, until there could be “safe conveyance lest it should get to the world.” But the main reason the Testimonies was kept a secret is that it could be used by Spiritualists to turn on the Light of Christ's Second Appearing in every cell in the human body to produce a Shining One and Super Being. Those who get baptized and take initiation will learn the alchemical technique that is used today to rise to the top of the food chain as a master Spiritualist anointed by the First Power.

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06/27/2023

In the beginning of the eighteenth century, Spiritualism broke out on the continent of Europe, and was followed by most remarkable religious revivals; out of which arose the French Prophets. These were wrought upon in a very extraordinary manner; not only in their minds, but also in their physical systems. They had powerful visions and trances, and were subject to violent agitations of body. Men and women, and even little children, were so exercised, as that spectators were struck with great wonder and astonishment. Their admonitions and prophetic warnings were heard and received with reverence and awe.