CONTENTSElementals specifically described 311

Proclus on the beings of the air 312 Various names for elementals 313 Swedenborgian views on soul-death 317 Earth-bound human souls 319 Impure mediums and their "guides" 325 Psychometry an aid to scientific research 333

CHAPTER X.

THE INNER AND OUTER MAN.

Pere Felix arraigns the scientists 338 The "Unknowable" 340 Danger of evocations by tyros 342 Lares and Lemures 345 Secrets of Hindu temples 350 Reïncarnation 351 Witchcraft and witches 353 The sacred soma trance 357 Vulnerability of certain "shadows" 363 Experiment of Clearchus on a sleeping boy 365 The author witnesses a trial of magic in India 369 Case of the Cevennois 371

CHAPTER XI.

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL MARVELS.

Invulnerability attainable by man 379 Projecting the force of the will 380 Insensibility to snake-poison 381 Charming serpents by music 383 Teratological phenomena discussed 385 The psychological domain confessedly unexplored 407 Despairing regrets of Berzelius 411 Turning a river into blood a vegetable phenomenon. 413

CHAPTER XII.

THE "IMPASSABLE CHASM."

Confessions of ignorance by men of science 417 The Pantheon of nihilism 421 Triple composition of fire 423 Instinct and reason defined 425 Philosophy of the Hindu Jaïns 429 Deliberate misrepresentations of Lemprière 431 Man's astral soul not immortal 432 The reïncarnation of Buddha 437 Magical sun and moon pictures of Thibet 441