The seeress of Prevorst being revelations concerning the inner-life of man, and the inter-diffusion of a world of spirits in the one we inhabit / Communicated by Justinus Kerner ... [Translated] From the German by Mrs. Crowe.

  • Kerner, Justinus Andreas Christian, 1786-1862.
Date:
1845
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Credit: The seeress of Prevorst being revelations concerning the inner-life of man, and the inter-diffusion of a world of spirits in the one we inhabit / Communicated by Justinus Kerner ... [Translated] From the German by Mrs. Crowe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS ON THE REVELATIONS OF MRS. H——, BY ESCHENMAYER. According to Mrs, H——, the life of the brain is the intellectual life, that in the epagastric region the sensitive life. This last is deeper and more internal than the first ; it lies in the centre of the organism of the soul, and is a central power, whilst the intel- lect is only a peripheral, or partial power. All those who place the true above the beautiful, under- standing above emotion, the inductive above the ideal, &e. &c., pervert the nature of the soul, and can never comprehend the distinction made by Mrs. H | ““ Spirits,” says Mrs. H , “are seen by the spiritual eye through the fleshly one.” The fleshly eye perceives such objects as have colour and form, and gives us intelligence of those that are in the light, or reflect it; and this it does by means of the nerve-spirit, which resides in the nerves. But there is, besides this, a spiritual ray and a spiritual eye, to which the nerve-spirit itself becomes objective. Suppose, then, beings whose forms are identical with the plastic plan of the nerve- spirit itself, as Mrs. H describes the departed souls, the spiritual eye will perceive them through the bodily one. In ordinary waking persons, the cloud of our life of appearance interposes betwixt the