By ADOLPHE D’ASSIER, Member of the Bordeaux Academy of Sciences.
Translated and annotated by HENRY S. OLCOTT, President of the
Theosophical Society. To which is added an Appendix showing the popular
beliefs current in India respecting the post-mortem vicissitudes of the
human entity.
Contents:--Facts establishing the existence of the posthumous
personality in man--Its various modes of manifestation--Facts
establishing the existence of a second personality in the living
man--Its various modes of manifestation--Facts establishing
the existence of the personality in animals, and concerning a
posthumous animality--Fluidic form of vegetables--Fluidic form
of gross bodies--Character of the posthumous being--Its physical
constitution--Its aversion to light--Its reservoir of living
force--Its ballistic--The nervous fluid--Electric animals--Electric
persons--Electric plants--The mesmeric ether and the personality
which it engenders--The somnambule--The sleep-talker--The seer--The
turning-table--The talking-table--The medium--Miracles of the
ecstatics--Prodigy of magic--The incubus--The obsessing spirit--Causes
of the rarity of the living phantom--Causes of the rarity of the
trans-sepulchral phantom--Resemblance of the spiritistic phenomena
to the phenomena of the posthumous order--Lycanthropy--Glance at the
fauna of the shades--Their pre-occupations--How they prolong their
existence--The posthumous vampire.
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