THE GERMAN ILLUMINATI The adept Steinert—An account of Eckartshausen—Schroepfer and Lavater—The spirit Gablidone—His prophecies—Stabs and Napoleon—Carl Sand and Kotzebue—The Mopses and their mysteries—The magical drama of Faust 435 CHAPTER VII EMPIRE AND RESTORATION Predictions relative to Napoleon—Mademoiselle Lenormand—Etteilla and cartomancy—Madame Bouche and the Czar Alexander—Madame de Krudener—Further concerning the Saviours of Louis XVII—Visions of Martin de Gallardon 443 BOOK VII _MAGIC IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY_ CHAPTER I MAGNETIC MYSTICS AND MATERIALISTS Infectious follies of Fourier—The dogma of hell—An evocation in the Church of Notre Dame—Lesser prophets and divinities—Ganneau, Auguste Comte and Wronski—Sale of the Absolute 453 CHAPTER II HALLUCINATIONS Yet again concerning the Saviours of Louis XVII—Singular hallucination of Eugène Vintras—His prophecies and pretended miracles—The sect of Vintras—Its condemnation by Gregory XVI—Pontificate of Vintras—His dreams and visions 461 CHAPTER III MESMERISTS AND SOMNAMBULISTS The Church and the abuse of somnambulism—Baron Du Potet—His secret work on Magic—Table-turning—A table burnt for heresy—Experiences of Victor Hennequin—A magical melodrama 471 CHAPTER IV THE FANTASTIC SIDE OF MAGICAL LITERATURE Alphonse Esquiros invents a romanesque Magic—Henri Delaage continues the work—His gifts of enchantment—His orthodoxy—Le Comte D’Ourches—Baron de Guldenstubbé—His miraculous writings—Their explanation—Exhumation of a fakir—History of a vampire—The cartomancist Edmond 477 CHAPTER V SOME PRIVATE RECOLLECTIONS OF THE WRITER The author is presented by the magician Alphonse Esquiros to the divinity Ganneau—Eccentric doctrines of the _Mapah_—Another Louis XVII—A fatal result of this visit—Secret cause of the Revolution of 1848—The wife of Ganneau 495 CHAPTER VI THE OCCULT SCIENCES A synthesis in summary—Recapitulation of principles—The search after the absolute 500 CHAPTER VII SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION