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"Porphyry, whose works - to borrow the expression of an irritated phenomenalist - "are mouldering like every other antiquated trash in the closets of oblivion", speaks thus of these Diakka - if such be their name - rediscovered in the nineteenth century: "It is with the direct help of these bad demons, that every kind [...]

"The forgoing sketches are sufficient to show why we hold fast to the wisdom of the ages, in preference to any new theories that may have been hatched from the occurrences of our later days, respecting the laws of intermundane intercourse and the occult powers of man. While phenomena of a physical nature may have [...]

"But, as we have said before, there are real and God-like healers, who, notwithsatnding all the malice and skepticism of their bigoted opponents, have become famous in the world's history. Such are the Cure d'Ars, of Lyons, Jacob, and Newton. Such, also, were Gassner, the clergyman of Klorstele, and the well-known Valentine Greatrakes, the ignorant [...]

"If a diseased person - medium or not - attempts to heal, his force may be sufficiently robust to displace the disease, to disturb it in the present place, and cause it to shift to another where shortly it will disappear; the patient, meanwhile, thinking himself cured. But, what if the healer be morally diseased? [...]