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actions and thoughts Adam Adam's admit answer apparition appear Baron Dupotet believe body brain is composed Cahagnet Celestial Telegraph cerebral organism character Christ Christian Clairvoyant Creator crimes death declared doctrines Duteil eaten eating Ecstatics Electro emanate energized entrance of evil essentially imperishable eternal evolve evil existence fact false inductions fear follows future heart heaven hope induction inevitable results inference instance Jesuits latter art Madame Madame D manifestations matter mesmeric influences mesmeric sleep Mesmerists mind namely natural faculties nature Newnham objects of Electro-Psychology organic suggestions organs to evolve patient perceive person phenomena of Clairvoyance phenomena of Mesmerism Phrenologists powers of darkness present principle proof property of evolving prove question reality replies restrain resurrection revelations Satan Scriptures shewing society sole Somnambulism Somnambulists soul soul's immortality spirit suffered supernatural suppose thick set thing thou told tree truth vital spark volition Wherefore wherein wonders words yourselves Zoist for April
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Page 13 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 6 - But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies : these are the things which defile a man : but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Page 5 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake...
Page 16 - I regard my soul — at this moment it is similar in everything to anybody, only I perceive in it a whiter brow, and I am more comely than my body." 17. " Why at times do you answer me almost before I have finished questioning you — you cannot have time to reproduce my words ?'' " That astonishes you, and you will be still more astonished when I tell you that I myself am at times a quiet spectator of the words pronounced by my mouth ; it often happens that I take no part in the discussions carried...
Page 5 - Account of a Case of successful Amputation of the Thigh during the Mesmeric State, without the knowledge of the Patient.
Page 21 - Madame D inquires whether this gentleman knows her ? " Yes ; she is related to him by marriage." — " This gentleman only knew Madame by her maiden name; he could, perhaps, tell you the degree of this relationship ?" — " I asked him whether Madame was his cousin, he replied : ' She is more than that to me ! more than that!' From this exclamation, one would say that Madame is his mother, or as much as a mother — at any rate, he seems to be as attached to her as if such were the case.
Page 17 - ... to him, with mildness, the road he ought to have taken ; recommends him to improve his conduct, and places him in a society suitable to his tastes." — " There is no hell, then, or place of punishment ?" " I beg your pardon, there are different places where suffering exists, not as it is presented...
Page 17 - And all great criminals, where are they ?" " In similar places, assembled in society ; but, as God is so good, he provides for all, prevents evil, and re-establishes good in the hearts of all.
Page 17 - There is no hell, then, or place of punishment ?" " I beg your pardon, there are different places where suffering exists, not as it is presented to us ; they are places of trial, wherein you are purified, without suffering, except that of being deprived of the sight of God. As I have told you, God is so good, he has so great love for us that he punishes us merely by a reprimand...
Page 21 - When does he hope to enjoy it ?" " When the time that he should have accomplished on earth is terminated ?" — " That is to say that he will thus wander to the age of sixty, were he to have lived to that age materially ?" " Yes." — Madame D inquires whether this gentleman knows her ? " Yes ; she is related to him by marriage.