Posthumous humanity : a study of phantoms / by Adolphe d' Assier ; translated and annotated by Henry S. Olcott ; to which is added an appendix, shewing the popular beliefs current in India respecting the post-mortem vicissitudes of the human entity.

  • Assier, Adolphe d', 1827-1889.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Posthumous humanity : a study of phantoms / by Adolphe d' Assier ; translated and annotated by Henry S. Olcott ; to which is added an appendix, shewing the popular beliefs current in India respecting the post-mortem vicissitudes of the human entity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. TAGE. Introduction v—xv Authorization xvi Translator's Preface xvii—xsiv Chapter I.—Facts establishing tlie existence of the posthumous personality in man—Its various m^odesof manifestation 1—30 Chapter II.—Facts establishing the existence of a second per- sonality in the living man^Its various modes of mani- festation )........ 33—69 Chapter III.—Facts establishing the existence of the person- ality in animals, and concerning a posthumous animality — Fluidic form of vegetables—Fluidic form of gross bodies.... 70-83 Chapter IV.—Character of the posthumous being—Its phy- sical constitution—Its aversion to light—Its reservoir of living force—Its ballistic 84—104 Chapter V.—The nervous fluid—Electric animals—Electric persons—Electric plants 105—127 Chapter VI.—The mesmeric ether and the personality which it engenders—The somnambule—The sleep-talker—The seer... 127—163 Chapter VII.—The mesmeric ether and the personality which it engenders (continued)—The turning-table—The talking- table—The medium 163—183 Chapter VIII.—The mesmeric ether and the personality which it engenders (continued)—Miracles of the ecstatics 183—207 Chapter IX.—The mesmeric ether and the personality which it engenders (continued)—Prodigy of magic 207—227 Chapter X.—The mesmeric ether and the personality which it engenders (continued)—The incubus—The obsessing spirit... 227—249 Chapter XI.—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 249—233 Chapter XII.—Grlance at the fauna of the shades—Their pre- occupations—How they prolong their existence—The post- humous vampire 264—281 Appendix 282 Ansayers to Questions 2S8