CONTENTS."Psychometry" 183

Time, space, eternity 184 Transfer of energy from the visible to the invisible universe 186 The Crookes experiments and Cox theory. 195

CHAPTER VII.

THE ELEMENTS, ELEMENTALS, AND ELEMENTARIES.

Attraction and repulsion universal in all the kingdoms of nature 206 Psychical phenomena depend on physical surroundings 211 Observations in Siam 214 Music in nervous disorders 215 The "world-soul" and its potentialities 216 Healing by touch, and healers 217 "Diakka" and Porphyry's bad demons 219 The quenchless lamp 224 Modern ignorance of vital force 237 Antiquity of the theory of force-correlation 241 Universality of belief in magic 247

CHAPTER VIII.

SOME MYSTERIES OF NATURE.

Do the planets affect human destiny ? 253 Very curious passage from Hermes 254 The restlessness of matter 257 Prophecy of Nostradamus fulfilled 260 Sympathies between planets and plants 264 Hindu knowledge of the properties of colors 265 "Coincidences" the panacea of modern science 268 The moon and the tides 273 Epidemic mental and moral disorders 274 The gods of the Pantheons only natural forces 280 Proofs of the magical powers of Pythagoras 283 The viewless races of ethereal space 284 The "four truths" of Buddhism 291

CHAPTER IX.

CYCLIC PHENOMENA.

Meaning of the expression "coats of skin" 293 Natural selection and its results 295 The Egyptian "circle of necessity" 296 Pre-Adamite races 299 Descent of spirit into matter 302 The triune nature of man 309 The lowest creatures in the scale of being 310