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"We have translated and quoted the above fragments for their great originality and truthfulness. We know the writer; fame proclaims him a great kabalist, and a few friends know him as a truthful and honest man. The letter shows, moreover, that the writer has well and carefully studied the chameleon-like nature of the intelligences presiding [...]

""We live in this life, in an ambient, intellectual centre, which entertains between human beings and things, a necessary and perpetual solidarity; every brain is a ganglion, a station of a universal neurological telegraphy in constant rapport with the central and other stations by the vibrations of thought. The spiritual sun shines for souls as [...]

""We must not accuse Herodotus of telling us fibs when he records the most extraordinary circumstances, for we must hold them to be as true and correct as the rest of historical facts which are to be found in all the Pagan writers of antiquity.... The phenomenon is as old as the world....The priests of [...]

""It appears that to manifest itself the cerebral electricity requires the help of the ordinary statical electricity; when the latter is lacking in the atmosphere - when the air is very damp, for instance - you can get little or nothing of either tables or mediums.... There is no need for the ideas to be [...]

"In Dr. Morin's Journal de Magnetisme, published a few years since in Paris, at a time when the "table-turning" was raging in France, a curious letter was published. "Believe me, sir", wrote the anonymous correspondent, "that there are no spirits, no ghosts, no angels, no demons enclosed in a table; but, all of these can [...]

"Magi and the theurgic philosophers objected most severely to the "evocation of souls." "Bring her (the soul) not forth, lest in departing she retain something", says Psellus. "It becomes you not to behold them before your body is initiated, since, by always alluring, they seduce the souls of the uninitiated", says the same philosopher, in [...]