isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

“The same principle involved in the unconscious extrusion of a phantom limb by the cataleptic medium, applies to the projection of his entire “double” or astral body. This may be withdrawn by the will of the medium’s own inner self, without his retaining in his physical brain any recollection of such an intent - that [...]

isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

“The greatest philosophers of antiquity found it neither unreasonable nor strange that “souls should come to souls, and impart to them conceptions of future things, occasionally by letters, or by a mere touch, or by a glance reveal to them past events or announce future ones”, as Ammonius tells us. Moreover, Lamprias and others held [...]

isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

“Let us recapitulate very briefly: 1st. There is no miracle. Everything that happens is the result of law, eternal, immutable, ever active. Apparent miracle is but the operation of forces antagonistic to what Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., a man of great learning but little knowledge, calls “the well-ascertained laws of nature.” Like many of [...]