Published in 1878 | 476 pages | PDF reader required
CONTENTS
PART 1 - Ancient Spiritualism
CHAPTER 1 - The Faiths of Ancient Peoples
Spiritualism as old as our Planet.—Lights and Shadows of Pagan Times.
CHAPTER 2 - Assyria, Chaldea, Egypt, And Persia
"Chaldea's Seers were good."—The Prophecy of Alexander’s Death.—Spiritualism in the Shadow of the Pyramids.—Sethon and Psammetieus—Prophecies regarding Cyrus.—The "Golden Star" of Persia.
CHAPTER 3 - India and China
Apollonius and the Brahmins.—The Creed of "Nirvana."—Lao-tse and Confucius.—Present Corruption of the Chinese.
CHAPTER 4 - Greece and Rome
The Famous Spiritualists of Hellas.—Communion between World and World Three Thousand Years ago.—The Delphian Oracle.—Pausanias and the Byzantine Captive.—"Great Pan is Dead."—Socrates and his Attendant Spirit.—Vespasian at Alexandria.—A Haunted House at Athens.—Valens and the Greek Theurgists.—The Days of the Cæars.
PART 2 - Spiritualism in The Jewish and Christian Eras
CHAPTER 1 - The Spiritualism of The Bible
Science versus Religion.—Similarity of Modern and Ancient Phenomena.—The Siege of Jerusalem.—''The Light of the "World."—Unseen Armies who aided in the Triumph of the Cross.
CHAPTER 2 - The Spiritual in The Early Christian Church
Signs and "Wonders in the Days of the Fathers.—Martyrdom of Polycarp.—The Return of Evagrius after Death.—Augustine's Faith.—The Philosophy of Alexandria.
CHAPTER 3 - Spiritualism in Catholic Ages
The Counterfeiting of Miracles.—St. Bernard.—The Case of Mademoiselle Perrier.—The Tomb of the Abbe Paris.—The Lives of the Saints.—Levitation.—Prophecy of the Death of Ganganelli.
CHAPTER 4 - The Shadow of Catholic Spiritualism
Crimes of the Papacy.—The Record of the Dark Ages.—Mission and Martyrdom of Joan of Arc.—The Career of Savonarola —Death of Urban Grandier.
CHAPTER 5 - The Spiritualism of The Waldenses And Camisards
The Israel of the Alps.—Ten Centuries of Persecution.—Arnaud's March.—The Deeds of Laporte and Cavallier.—The Ordeal of Fire.—End of the Cevennois War.
CHAPTER 6 - Protestant Spiritualism
Precursors of the Reformation.—Luther and Satan.—Calvin.—Wishart's Martyrdom.—Witchcraft.—Famous Accounts of Apparitions—Bunyan, Fox and Wesley.
CHAPTER 7 - The Spiritualism of Certain Great Seers
"The Reveries of Jacob Behmen."—Swedenborg's Character and Teachings.—Narratives regarding his Spiritual Gifts.—Jung-Stilling.—His Unconquerable Faith, and the Providences accorded Him—Zsehokke, Oberlin, and the Seeress of Provorst.
PART 3 - Modern Spiritualism
CHAPTER 1 - Introduction
CHAPTER 2 - Delusions
American False Prophets.—Two ex-Reverends claim to be the Witnesses foretold by St. John.—"The New Jerusalem."—A .Strange Episode in the History of Geneva.—"The New Motor Power."—A Society formed for the Attainment of earthly Immortality.
CHAPTER 3 - Delusions (continued)
The Revival of Pythagorean Dreams.—Allan Kardec's Communication after Death.—Fancied Evocation of the Spirit of a Sleeper.—Fallacies of Kardecism.—The Theosophical Society.—Its vain Quest for Sylphs and Gnomes.—Chemical Processes for the Manufacture of Spirits. —A Magician Wanted.
CHAPTER 4 - Mania
CHAPTER 5 - People from The Other World
A Pseudo-Investigator.—Gropings in the Dark.—The Spirit whose name was Yusef.—Strange Logic and stranger Theories.
CHAPTER 6 - Sceptics and Tests
Mistaken Spiritualists.'—Libels on the Spirit-World.—The White-washing of Ethiopians.
CHAPTER 7 - Absurdities
When Greek meets Greek."—The Spirit-Costume of Oliver Cromwell.—Distinguished Visitors to Italian seances.—A Servant and Prophet of God.—Convivial Spirits.—A Ghost's Tea-party.—A Dream of Mary Stuart.—The Ideas of a Homicide concerning his own Execution.—An Exceedingly Gifted Medium.—The Crystal Palaces of Jupiter.—Reincarnative Literature.—The Mission of John King.—A penniless Archangel.—A Spirit with a Taste for Diamonds.—The most wonderful Medium in the World.
CHAPTER 8 - Trickery and Its Exposure
Dark Stances.—A Letter from Serjeant Cox.—The Concealment of 'Spirit-drapery.'—Rope-tying and Handcuffs.—Narratives of Exposed Imposture.—Various Modes of Fraud.
CHAPTER 9 - Trickery and Its Exposure (continued)
The Passing of Matter through Matter.—"Spirit-brought" Flowers. The ordinary dark Seance.—Variations of " phenomenal " Trickery.—"Spirit-Photography."—Moulds of ghostly Hands and Feet.—Baron Kirkup's Experience.—The reading of Sealed Letters.
CHAPTER 10 - The Higher Aspects of Spiritualism
The Theological Heaven.—A Story regarding a Coffin.—An Incident with 'L. M.'—A London Drama.—Blackwood's Magazine and some seances in Geneva.
CHAPTER 11 - The Higher Aspects of Spiritualism (continued)
“Stella.”
Appendix.
