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"We are far from believing that all spirits that communicate at circles are of the classes called "Elemental", and "Elementary". Many - especially among those who control the medium subjectively to speak, write, and otherwise act in various ways - are human, disembodied spirits.   Whether the majority of such spirits are good or bad, [...]

"The lives of Paracelsus, Cornelius Agrippa, and Philalethes are too well known to repeat the old, sad story. If spiritualists are anxious to keep strictly dogmatic in their notions of the "spirit-world", they must not set scientists to investigate their phenomena in the true experimental spirit. The attempt would most surely result in a partial [...]

"Men possessed of such knowledge and exercising such powers patiently toiled for something better than the vain glory of a passing fame. Seeking it not, they became immortal, as do all who labor for the good of the race, forgetful of mean self.   Illuminated with the light of eternal truth, these rich-poor alchemists fixed [...]

"Baptista Porta, in his treatise on Natural Magic, enumerates a whole catalogue of secret formulae for producing extraordinary effects by employing the occult powers of nature.   Although the "magicians" believed as firmly as our spiritualists in a world of invisible spirits, none of them claimed to produce his effects under their control or through [...]