THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES
in order to lead astray the understanding, are as real as
photographic images. One could not see what does not
exist. The phantoms of dreams, and even the dreams of
the waking, are then real images which exist in the light.
There exist, besides these, contagious hallucinations.
But we here affirm something more than ordinary hallucina-
tions.
If the images attracted by diseased brains are in some
sense real, can they not throw them without themselves, as
real as they receive them?
These images projected by the complete nervous organism
of the medium, can they not affect the complete organism of
those who, voluntarily or not, are in nervous sympathy with
the medium?
The things accomplished by Mr. Home prove that all this
is possible.
Now, let us reply to those who think that they see in
these phenomena manifestations of the other world and facts
of necromancy.
We shall borrow our answer from the sacred book of the
qabalists, and in this our doctrine is that of the rabbis who
compiled the Zohar.
AXIOM
The spirit clothes itself to descend, and strips itself to
rise.
In fact :
Why are created spirits clothed with bodies?
It is that they must be limited in order to have a possible
existence. Stripped of all body, and become consequently
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