This rare first edition discusses a variety of occult practices, including mesmerism and fascination, telekinesis, clairvoyance, telepathy and mediumship. Presents a history of these supernatural phenomena as well as many real life examples. A fascinating read.

Contents

Part One

I: Science and the Supernormal

II: Hypnotism

III: Personality and the Unconscious Mind

Part Two

IV: Telekinesis

V: Materializations

VI: Ideoplasticity

VII: Mediumship and Its Investigation

VIII: Four-Dimensional Physics

Part Three

IX: Cryptaesthesia

X: Telepathy

XI: Precognition

XII: Clairvoyance

Part Four

XIII: The Survival of the Personality

XIV: Transcendental Consciousness

Index of Proper Names

Subject Index

Samples from the Chapters

Precognition

"Before a public demonstration, Osty, accompanied by others, went to the empty hall at the Institute in Paris, selected a chair at random from among the one hundred and fifty seats there, and gummed a label underneath it. Then he got a sensitive, M.Pascal Forthuny, to sit in the chair, and left him there with a stenographer. M. Forthuny then proceeded to dictate what he saw clairvoyantly of the unknown person who, some time later, would occupy this seat. Having done so, he withdrew. A considerable crowd had assembled outside, and when the doors were opened, a rush for seats ensued. During the demonstration M.Forthuny appeared and read out the description which has previously dictated; and it was found to fit, with more less exactitude, the person who was now occupying the selected chair."

"It has been suggested by occultists that all objects have their appropriate "etherial effluvia," and that they carry with them magnetic influences from their previous environment, etc; also, by persons not classed as occultists, that every object has its whole past history in some obscure way impressed upon it; and various other vague ideas of "radiations" and so forth have been invoked with the purpose of explaining the part played by a material object in provoking clairvoyance."

Book Format:
Octavo, up to 9 ¾" tall. Book is bound in red cloth with black lettering to spine;

Pagination: 256pp;

Condition:
Very good condition. Boards and spine are in excellent condition; spine has a small faint white circular mark on it; dust jacket is yellowed with age and has a small circular hole in spine and a few small holes at rear; top of DJ is worn and torn sightly near spine; interior is spotless with no yellowing, foxing or markings; Binding is tight.

Price: US$75.00