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"It appears that about the year 1678, a certain divine, named John Webster, wrote Criticisms and Interpretations of Scripture, against the existence of witches, and other "superstitions". Finding the work "a weak and impertinent piece", Dr. More criticized it in a latter to Glanvil, the author of Sadducismus Triumphatus, and as an appendix sent a [...]

"Further, the same occult doctrine recognizes another possibility; albeit so rare and so vague that it is really useless to mention it. Even the modern Occidental occultists deny it, though it is universally accepted in Eastern countries. When, through vice, fearful crimes and animal passions, a disembodied spirit has fallen to the eighth sphere - [...]

"As in the case exemplified by Professor Le Conte (vide chap. ix.), "there is no force in nature" - and the rule applies to the spiritual as well as to the physical evolution - "which is capable of raising at once spirit or matter from No. 1 to No. 3, or from 2 to 4, [...]

"We will now present a few fragments of this mysterious doctrine of reincarnation - as distinct from metempsychosis - which we have from an authority. Reincarnation, i.e., the appearances of the same individual, or rather of his astral monad, twice on the same planet, is not a rule in nature; it is an exception, like [...]