Shiloh (Sabbatians)
Shiloh (Hebrew שלה ) was the eighth Messiah of the English Sabbatians expected on December 24, 1814 .
background
The English Revelation Christian and occultist Joanna Southcott announced in 1794 that she would give birth to the true Messiah Shiloh . In 1801 she came to the public with the claim that she was the sun woman of John Revelation 12.1 LUT . In 1814 she announced her pregnancy and her due date on December 24th of that year to her supporters, which had grown to several thousand. Her son, The Shiloh , is the eighth and final Messiah. He was chosen to "rule the nations with a rod of iron" ( Rev 12,5 LUT ).
To what extent the 65-year-old Joanna Southcott faked the pregnancy or was convinced of it remains unclear. Preparing for the birth, her followers gave Southcott a cradle and an intricately bound Bible in September. Joanna Southcott, who foresaw her death, gave doctor Richard Reece permission to undergo an autopsy in September.
After the due date had passed, Joanna Southcott died at 4:00 am on December 27, 1814. Her followers delayed the autopsy by four days because they wanted to infer from the first prophecy about the birth of Shiloh in 1794 that the birth would be preceded by a trance of several days . The autopsy carried out on January 1 revealed no evidence of pregnancy or the cause of death. The successor to Southcott as leader of the sect took George Turner.
The Southcottian community reinterpreted the events and developed three explanatory models: After the first explanation, a physical birth took place, but Shiloh was taken up by God the Father to return at a later point in time. In another interpretation, pregnancy and birth were understood to be two-stage, the birth would take place at a later point in time. Or pregnancy was a rite and Shiloh could be found in one of its successors.
After Shiloh's rebirth, postulated fifty years later, in 1864 and 1874, the Sabbatian religious community, which had more than 100,000 members at its height, was transformed under Turner's successor, Jon Wroe. He founded the Christian Israelites community , whose ideas influenced by the prophecies of Joanna Southcott continued to have an effect in the New and Latter House of Israel .
Shiloh's rebirths
Mabel Barltrop of Bedford , the founder of the Panacea Society in 1919, took the name Octavia and claimed to be the rebirth of Shiloh. According to the Panacea Society website, there were three other people posing as the rebirth of Shiloh at the beginning of the 20th century. The Panacea Society was dissolved with the death of the last member in 2012 and became a foundation. A museum in Bedford is maintained with the foundation's assets.
Shiloh in the cartoon
Joanna Southcott's prophecy of the birth of Shiloh became the subject of numerous caricatures and pamphlets in 1814 that worked out every detail. Princeton University's graphics collection and library alone has more than 100 works on the subject. Outstanding examples are Charles Williams sheets: “Joanna Conceiveing” from July and “Delivering a Prophetess” from November 1814.
Web links
literature
- John Fairburn: Southcott and Shiloh, Fairburn's edition of The Prophetess, containing an impartial ... record of facts concerning Joanna Southcott's ... Mission; particularly the opinion of the doctors. Embellished with engravings, self-published, London, 1814, 74 pp.
- Alice Seymour: The Coming of Shiloh . (Joanna Southcott and the Birth of Shiloh.), JH Keys, 1925, 8 pages
Notes and individual references
- ^ Edward Pugh: The life of Joanna Southcott, Vol. 3, 1814, p. 114
- ^ Message from Dr. Richard Reece in Messenger Weekly January 1, 1815
- ↑ See Michael Lieb, Emma Mason, Jonathan Roberts (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 644ff.
- ↑ See Bonhams Auction 16204 on November 4, 2008: Lot 424 (SOUTHCOTT (JOANNA) and THE CHRISTIAN ISRAELITES), archive material
- ↑ See website of the Panacea Society Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See website of the Panacea Society Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
