CHAPTER IV.
THEORIES RESPECTING PSYCHIC PHENOMENA.
Theory of de Gasparin 100
“ of Thury 100
“ of des Mousseaux, de Mirville 100
“ of Babinet 101
“ of Houdin 101
“ of MM. Royer and Jobart de Lamballe 102
The twins—“unconscious cerebration” and “unconscious ventriloquism.” 105
Theory of Crookes 112
“ of Faraday 116
“ of Chevreuil 116
The Mendeleyeff commission of 1876 117
Soul blindness 121
CHAPTER V.
THE ETHER, OR “ASTRAL LIGHT.”
One primal force, but many correlations 126
Tyndall narrowly escapes a great discovery 127
The impossibility of miracle 128
Nature of the primordial substance 133
Interpretation of certain ancient myths 133
Experiments of the fakirs 139
Evolution in Hindu allegory 153
CHAPTER VI.
PSYCHO-PHYSICAL PHENOMENA.
The debt we owe to Paracelsus 163
Mesmerism—its parentage, reception, potentiality 165
“Psychometry” 183
Time, space, eternity 184
Transfer of energy from the visible to the invisible universe 186
The Crookes experiments and Cox theory 195