decarnate

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It is, of course, unnecessary to state in detail the fact that communication with decarnate entities has been known and practiced by the human race from the earliest days of recorded history, and probably long before that time, and is far from being a modern discovery.

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  • In a special sense, a "medium" is "a person serving as the channel of communication between decarnate entities and human being still in the flesh," in "spiritualistic phenomena." —  Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
  • It is, of course, unnecessary to state in detail the fact that communication with decarnate entities has been known and practiced by the human race from the earliest days of recorded history, and probably long before that time, and is far from being a modern discovery. —  Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
  • All that is required of the person accepting the general fact of "higher plane communication" may be stated as follows: (1) Acceptance of the fact that the human soul persists after the death of the body, and independent of and removed from the dead body; (2) acceptance of the fact that the decarnate souls of human beings may, and do, establish communication with human beings still dwelling upon the earth-plane of existence. —  Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
  • We may state here that the term "decarnate" means "away from the physical body," or "out of the flesh;" the term being the opposite of —  Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
  • We may also state here that the teachings of most philosophies of the life after death hold that the decarnate human soul is not entirely devoid of —  Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers
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  1. Late Latin decarnatus, past participle of decarnare, deprive of flesh, < L. de, from, + caro (carn-), flesh.
 

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