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Johanne Elisabeth Agerskov (1873–1946), daughter of the Danish inventor Rasmus Malling-Hansen, was a Danish intermediary. Together with her husband, Michael Agerskov, she was responsible for the ethic-religious, philosophic and scientific book, ''Toward the Light'' (in Danish, ''Vandrer mod Lyset''!), first published by Michael Agerskov in Copenhagen in 1920. ==Early life== In her young days Johanne Agerskov worked as a teacher, and she married Michael Agerskov in 1899. Their only daughter, Inger Agerskov, was born in 1900, and Johanne Agerskov became a housewife. During the first decade of the last century, Michael Agerskov became interested in spiritistic phenomenons, and he also persuaded his wife to participate in séances, even though she was sceptical in the beginning. Very soon some extraordinary happenings occurred, and the spirits of the transcendental world called upon Johanne Agerskov and gave her the message that she was a mediator, and that she before her birth had promised to be instrumental in bringing some of the eternal truths to mankind. Once convinced that she had a special mission, Johanne Agerskov and her husband formed a circle with two more couples and for many years held weekly séances, in which messages from the spirits of the light were given to Johanne Agerskov through intuitive thought-inspiration. She had the unique ability to close off her own thoughts, so that all she could ''hear'' in her mind was the thoughts of the spirit with whom she was in contact. This was very demanding, and in this period she gave up all the pleasures of social life, in order to be focused and prepared for the séances. The members of the circle were called on to form questions to the spirits, and soon after they were given the answers through messages to Johanne Agerskov, which then were written down by the participants. This work resulted in the publishing of the great book, ''Toward the light'', which was said to be ''a message to mankind from the transcendental world'', and it was sent out to all the bishops and to 60 ministers of the Danish church. The hope was that they would participate in a reformation of the Danish church, based upon the new knowledge given in ''Toward the Light''. Johanne and Michael Agerskov made great efforts through answering letters and by opening their home to anybody who wanted to see them about ''Toward the Light'' but there were still not much public interest in the book, and the expected reformation did not take place. Johanne Agerskov was also deeply engaged in the work of her father, inventor, minister and principal of the Royal Institute for Deaf Mutes in Copenhagen, Rasmus Malling-Hansen. In 1924 a Danish professor set forward false accusations that Malling-Hansen was not the inventor of the Hansen Writing Ball, and Johanne Agerskov engaged herself in a thorough investigation of the facts together with her sister, Engelke Wiberg. They wrote several articles on the subject, and Johanne Agerskov also wrote a book, called ''Hvem var Skrivekuglens Opfinder?'' (in English: Who was the Inventor of the Writing Ball?), published in Copenhagen in 1925. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johanne Agerskov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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