POSTHUMOUS HUMANITY:

A Study of Phantoms.

By Adolphe D’Assier, Member of the Bordeaux Academy of Sciences. Translated and annotated by Henry S. Olcott, President of the Theosophical Society. To which is added an Appendix showing the popular beliefs current in India respecting the post-mortem vicissitudes of the human entity.

Contents:—Facts establishing the existence of the posthumous personality in man—Its various modes of manifestation—Facts establishing the existence of a second personality in the living man—Its various modes of manifestation—Facts establishing the existence of the personality in animals, and concerning a posthumous animality—Fluidic form of vegetables—Fluidic form of gross bodies—Character of the posthumous being—Its physical constitution—Its aversion to light—Its reservoir of living force—Its ballistic—The nervous fluid—Electric animals—Electric persons—Electric plants—The mesmeric ether and the personality which it engenders—The somnambule—The sleep-talker—The seer—The turning-table—The talking-table—The medium—Miracles of the ecstatics—Prodigy of magic—The incubus—The obsessing spirit—Causes of the rarity of the living phantom—Causes of the rarity of the trans-sepulchral phantom—Resemblance of the spiritistic phenomena to the phenomena of the posthumous order—Lycanthropy—Glance at the fauna of the shades—Their pre-occupations—How they prolong their existence—The posthumous vampire.

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