Ghost land, or, Researches into the mysteries of occultism : illustrated in a series of autobiographical sketches

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Contributor: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) - Britten, William - Britten, Emma Hardinge
Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism Pass frFife Book J

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Date: 1876

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Date: 1876

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Date: 1876

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism ANOTHER WORK ON OCCULT SPIRITISM, BY THE AUTHOR OF ART MAGIC. Ghost Land; or, RESEARCHES INTO THE MYSTERIES OF OCCULT SPIRITISM, Being a series of autobiographical papers, with extracts from the records...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism ART MAGIC: on, Mundane, Sub Mundane, and Super Mundane SPIRITISM. A TREATISE IN THREE PARTS ON Art magic, natural magic, modern spiritualism, the different orders of spirits in the universe known to...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism u* 4* It CONTENTS. PART FIRST. PAGE. Author s Preface 5-7 Editor s Introduction 9-14 CHAPTER I. On the Threshold. —Author s Views. Parentage. —First Years at College. Professor Von Marx. The...

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 4 CONTENTS. CHAPTER XII. PAGE. Diary of John Cavendish Dudley. Professor von Marx s His- tory. The Princess. The Young Chevalier. Prospero and Ariel 217-244 CHAPTER XIII. Diary Continued. Magical Seances. The...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism AUTHOR S PREFACE. Before the subjoined papers are submitted to the critical reader, the author desires most emphatically to protest against their being ranked in the same category of literature as his...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 6 AUTHOR S PREFACE. mate nature, then is this work, however crude in style or imperfect in philosophical deduction, a most important and noteworthy one. It is because it ought to be...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism AUTHOR S PREFACE. 7 confess the table-tipping and trance-inspiring spirits of America and England have not, to his blundering apprehension, covered the whole ground of the experiences which he has ventured to...

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Date: 1876

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism INTRODUCTION By the Editor. The following series of papers was first prepared for the press in 1872, when a few ladies and gentlemen interested in the cause of Spiritualism, and believing its...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 10 INTRODUCTION, veiled expressions as would effectually conceal their identity. Both gentlemen were aware that their personalities would be recognized by their own immediate circle of acquaintances should the narratives ever fall...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism INTBODUCTIOIT. 11 I encountered some opposition from both my friends in this course of procedure, the Chevalier objecting strongly to the eulogistic tone adopted by his friend in reference to himself, and...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 12 INTBODVCTIOK. obliged to present the author in his real character from beginning to end and although I have observed all the other restrictions laid upon me in respect* to the names...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism INTRODUCTION. 1 o laid out in project to me, were nearly completed and as he was unable to undertake the fatigue and master the harassing details of their publication, he offered to...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 14 INTBODTJCTION. jeet the following complimentary expressions of opinion concerning the 4 great public The masses, to whom you so enthusiastically would have me com- mend the perusal of Art Magic, ever...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism PART I. The Neophyte

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Date: 1876

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism Ghost land CHAPTEE I. ON THE THRESHOLD As the sole object of these sketches has been to pre- sent to the investigator into spiritual mysteries some experiences of a singular and exceptional...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 18 GHOST LAND. wishes I gladly prefer to my own, I find myself either obliged to identify my Spiritualistic experiences with a fictitious personage, or accept the repulsive alternative of adding to...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism GHOST LAND. 19 his country, he virtually renounced it, and being con- nected on the mother s side with one of the most pow- erful native princes of India, from whom he...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 20 GHOST LAND. I was about twelve years of age, as well as I can remember, when, returning one clay late in the afternoon from the college I attended at B., just...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism GHOST LAND. 21 real nature of which is but little known. We want the aid of a good smart lad, like you, especially one who is not a conscious dreamer. I have...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 22 GHOST LAND. so highly favored as to be inducted into their associa- tion. Whilst he spoke the professor laid his hand on my head, and continued to hold it there, at...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism GHOST LAND. 23 area of space, including the city, fields, plains, moun- tains, and scenery, together with the firmament above my head, spangled with stars, and irradiated by the soft beams of...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 24 GHOST LAND. I then observed that a similar aura or luminous se t n»l self issued from every one of them. The color and den- sity of each one varied, and...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism GHOST LAND. 25 that time, and one which subsequent experiences have quickened into stupendous depths of consciousness. It was this I saw, as I have before stated, upon my com- panions, in...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 26 GHOST LAND. man imbued with many base and repulsive traits of character. What I saw that night made me afraid of crime, afraid to cherish bad thoughts or harbor bad motives,...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism GHOST LAND. 27 turned to me, namely, the desire to behold my dearly loved mother, from whom I had been separated for the past two years. With the flash of my mother...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 28 GHOST LAND. interfere, Ilcrr Eschenmayer. I do not wish him to see his mother, and the tidings he could bring from her would not interest us. Some one replied for I...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism GHOST LAND. 29 ences, responded the first speaker, and cannot be depended on. w Let me speak with him, broke in a voice of singu- larly sweet tone and accent; and thereupon...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 30 GHOST LAND. to confirm a myth, and will only reap the bitter fruits of disappointment and mockery. The soul of man is compounded from the aromal life of elementary spirits, and,...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism GHOST LAND. 31 visited that chamber, and like mine had left their tracery behind. With the pictures thus presented, however, I understood the nature of the signals they had given, and what...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism CHAPTEE H. The original of all things is one thing. Creation is one whole. The differences a mortal sees are diverse only to the finite mind. Festus. As I recall the singular...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism GHOST LAND. 33 which he kept of every seance, a storehouse of informa- tion which he intended to transcribe and correct in my presence. In fulfilment of this promise, the professor spent...

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Date: 1876

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Ghost land occultism | Ghost land | Researches into the mysteries of occultism 34 GHOST LAND. being resolved back into their component parts in the chemical change called death. They acknowledged that the realm of spiritual being was ordinarily invisible to the material, and only...

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