Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...upon him. It will at once be apparent that in these truly named "earthbound" souls is to be found the source of most of so called "spiritual phenomena." Especially will the suicide and the depraved victim of accident haunt mediumistic circles, for such circles provide them with willing victims for the vicarious gratification of their sensous desires; while such victims, in submitting to their obsession, fancy they are yielding to " angel guides" from some celestial sphere. And even after the soul has passed into Devachan and has abandoned the Kama Rupa, which now remains an astral corpse, to slowly dissipate upon the astral plane, such an astral shell may still be revivified by the magnetic force, unconsciously bestowed through the medium or the sitters, into a false imitation of the former personality. It has been pointed out that through its long association with the body, the Kama Rupa has formed numerous habits, both psychic and of a low mental order; and these, when it is thus temporarily revivified, it tends to repeat automatically, without the slightest aid from that higher mind which originated consciously these habits which the Kama Rupa repeats automatically and unconsciously. Such a shell may also be made a kind of psychic mirror, which, equally automatically, reflects the thought-images of those present, and thus gives back to the sitters facts which they already well know, but which seem strange and miraculous when coming from the lips of an apparently dead person. These reflected mental images are the source of many of the boasted " tests" of spiritualistic circles. And the automatic repeating of its own habits of thought, tricks of speech, and so on, by a shell thus temporarily...
