Ghost Land; Or, Researches Into the Mysteries of Occultism. Illustrated in a Series of Autobiographical Sketches (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER H. " The original of all things is one thing. Creation is one whole. The differences a mortal sees are diverse only to the finite mind."?Festus. As I recall the singular experiences which marked my early boyhood, it seems but yesterday that I, now a man in the meridian of life, was the lad of twelve summers, led to my home by the hand of Professor von Marx, on the memorable night when I first realized the marvel of magnetic influence and somnambulic lucidity, in the experiment detaUed in the last chapter. As such experiments were constantly repeated, and spread over a period of full six years, I do not propose to recapitulate them seriatim, but will endeavor to occupy my readers' time more profitably by presenting them with a summary of the revealments which those six years of occult practices disclosed to me. On the night of what I may call my initiation into the society associated with Professor von Marx, that gentleman informed me, on our way to our lodgings, that the unconscious condition into which I had fallen after my spiritual visit to Hamburgh was occasioned by the lack of force necessary to sustain my system to the close of the seance. He added that as I grew stronger and more accustomed to the magnetic control, I should be privileged to retain a recollection of what had transpired; and where this power failed, as it might do, my memory should be refreshed by a perusal of the memorandawhich he kept of every stance, a storehouse of information which he intended to transcribe and correct in my presence. In fulfilment of this promise, the professor spent some hours of every week with me; and as I was permitted to propound any questions which arose in my mind, and he seemed to take a singular pleasure in explaining the philosophy connected with the fac...