The Book on Mediums
Guide for Mediums and Invocators
Published on 23. June 2023
463 pages
978-1-60925-789-7 (ISBN)
Description
The classic guide for all who entertain a genuine determination to understand the spirit world-both mediums and seekers-from the founder of Spiritism.
Covering all aspects of Spiritism-from haunted places to pneumatography, somnambulic mediums and healing mediums to mediumship in animals-this all-encompassing reference gives advice to those looking to hone their talents and a way to root out charlatans and frauds for those seeking a go-between to the other side.
The Book on Mediums features:
- The special instruction of the spirits on the theory of all kinds of manifestations
- The means of communicating with the invisible world
- The development of mediumship
- The difficulties and the dangers that are to be encountered in the practice of Spiritism
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Translator's Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part First: Preliminary Ideas
- Chapter I. Are There Spirits?
- Chapter II. The Marvelous and Supernatural
- Chapter III. Method
- Chapter IV. Systems
- Part Second: Of Spirit Manifestations
- Chapter I. Action of Spirits on Matter
- Chapter II. Physical Manifestations - Turning Tables
- Chapter III. Intelligent Manifestations
- Chapter IV. Theory of Phyiscal Manifestations
- Chapter V. Spontaneous Physical Manifestations
- Chapter VI. Visual Manifestations
- Chapter VII. Bi-Corporeity and Transfiguration
- Chapter VIII. Laboratory of the Invisible World
- Chapter IX. Haunted Places
- Chapter X. Nature of Communications
- Chapter XI. Sematology and Typtology
- Chapter XII. Pneumatography, or Direct Writing - Pneumatophony
- Chapter XIII. Psychography
- Chapter XIV. Of Mediums
- Chapter XV. Writing of Psychographic Mediums
- Chapter XVI. Special Mediums
- Chapter XVII. Formation of Mediums
- Chapter XVIII. Inconveniences and Dangers of Mediumship
- Chapter XIX. Role of the Medium in Spirit Communications
- Chapter XX. Moral Influence of the Medium
- Chapter XXI. Influence of the Surroundings
- Chapter XXII. Of Mediumship in Animals
- Chapter XXIII. On Obsession
- Chapter XXIV. Identitiy of Spirits
- Chapter XXV. On Invocations
- Chapter XXVI. Questions That May be Addressed to Spirits
- Chaper XXVII. Contradictions and Mystifications
- Chapter XXVIII. Charlatanism and Jugglery
- Chapter XXIX. Reunions and Spiritist Societies
- Notes.
