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 Elementals 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. Père Félix 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