Levi McKeen Arnold

Who was Levi McKeen Arnold?

Levi McKeen Arnold was a successful businessman and banker in New York who claimed to have received revelations from Jesus Christ beginning in the Spring of 1851, first published in 1852 in a book entitled History of the Origin of All Things.

The text of History of the Origin seemingly endorses modern spiritualism of the type popularized beginning in 1848 upon publication of the claims of the Fox sisters, but cautions against indiscriminate access to other realms.

A sketchy biography at the Wayback Machine of Mr. Arnold is included in an archived version of the website The History Of All Things.com. Arnold's work is endorsed in a similar work published in 1908 by Archie Johnson Inger. Likewise, Arnold's text commends the work of Rev. Charles C. Hammond, who published a collection of spiritualist articles 'Light from the Spirit World' in Rochester, New York in 1852.