The impossibility of miracle 128 Nature of the primordial substance 133 Interpretation of certain ancient myths 133 Experiments of the fakirs 139 Evolution in Hindu allegory 153 CHAPTER VI. PSYCHO-PHYSICAL PHENOMENA. The debt we owe to Paracelsus 163 Mesmerism—its parentage, reception, potentiality 165 “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.