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Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft: Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy — John Shaqi

Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft: Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and TheosophyEvans, Henry Ridgely

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Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft: Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy

Name: Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft: Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy
Author: Evans, Henry Ridgely

Evans, Henry Ridgely

Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891; Spiritualism; Theosophy

Fig. 22. The Davenport's in their Cabinet                        139

  Fig. 23. Trick Tie and in Cabinet Work                           143

  Fig. 24. Charles Slade's Poster                              158-159

  Fig. 25. Pierre Keeler's Cabinet Seance                          162

  Fig. 26. Pierre Keeler's Cabinet Curtain                         163

  Fig. 27. Portrait of Eusapia Paladino                            176

  Fig. 28. Eusapia before the Scientists                           177

  Fig. 29. Spirit Photograph, by the author                        191

  Fig. 30. Spirit Photograph, by pretended medium                  195

  Fig. 31. Sigel's Original Picture of Fig. 30                     199

  Fig. 32. Portrait of Madame Blavatsky                            215

  Fig. 33. Mahatma Letter                                          221

  Fig. 34. Mahatma Envelope                                        225

  Fig. 35. Portrait of Col. H. S. Olcott                           233

  Fig. 36. Oath of Secrecy of the Charter Members of the
  Theosophical Society                                             235

  Fig. 37. Portrait of W. Q. Judge                                 241

  Fig. 38. Portrait of Mrs. Annie Besant                           273

  Fig. 39. Portrait of Mrs. Tingley                                285

  Fig. 40. Autograph of Madame Blavatsky                           293




PREFACE.


_There are two great schools of thought in the world--materialistic and
spiritualistic. With one, MATTER is all in all, the ultimate substratum;
mind is merely the result of organized matter; everything is translated
into terms of force, motion and the like. With the other, SPIRIT or mind
is the ultimate substance--God; matter is the visible expression of this
invisible and eternal Consciousness._

_Materialism is a barren, dreary, comfortless belief, and, in the opinion
of the author, is without philosophical foundation. This is an age of
scientific materialism, although of late years that materialism has been
rather on the wane among thinking men. In an age of such ultra
materialism, therefore, it is not strange that there should come a great
reaction on the part of spiritually minded people. This reaction takes the
form of an increased vitality of dogmatic religion, or else culminates in
the formation of Spiritualistic or Theosophic societies for the
prosecution of occult phenomena. Spiritualists are now numbered by the
million. Persons calling themselves mediums present certain phenomena,
physical and psychical, and call public attention to them, as an evidence
of life beyond the grave, and the possibility of spiritual communication
between this world and the next._

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Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft: Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy

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