The Phantom World : Or, the Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, Etc (Paperback)

Introduction; Preface; 1. The appearance of good angels proved by the books of the Old Testament; 2. The appearance of good angels proved by the books of the New Testament; 3. Under what form have good angels appeared?; 4. Opinions of the Jews, Christians, Mahometans, and oriental nations, concerning the apparitions of good angels; 5. Opinion of the Greeks and Romans on the apparitions of good genii; 6. The apparition of bad angels proved by the Holy Scriptures. Under what form they have appeared; 7. Of magic; 8. Objections to the reality of magic; 9. Reply to the objections; 10. Examination of the affair of Hocque, magician; 11. Magic of the Egyptians and Chaldeans; 12. Magic among the Greeks and Romans; 13. Examples which prove the reality of magic; 14. Effects of magic according to the poets; 15. Of the pagan oracles; 16. The certainty of the event predicted, not always a proof that the prediction comes from God; 17. Reasons which lead us to believe that the greater part of the ancient oracles were only impositions of the priests and priestesses, who feigned that they were inspired by God; 18. Of sorcerers and sorceresses, or witches; 19. Instances of sorcerers and witches being, as they said, transported to the Sabbath; 20. Story of Louis Gaufredi and Magdalen de la Palud, owned by themselves to be a sorcerer and sorceress; 21. Reasons which prove the possibility of sorcerers and witches being transported to the Sabbath; 22. Continuation of the same subject; 23. Obsession and possession of the Devil; 24. The truth and reality of possession and obsession by the Devil proved from Scripture; 25. Examples of real possessions caused by the Devil; 26. Continuation of the same subject; 27. Objections against the obsessions and possessions of the demon. Reply to the objections; 28. Continuation of objections against possessions, and some replies to those objections; 29. Of familiar spirits; 30. Some other examples of elves; 31. Spirits that keep watch over treasure; 32. Other instances of hidden treasures, which were guarded by good or bad spirits; 33. Spectres which appear, and predict things unknown and to come; 34. Other apparitions of spectres; 35. Examination of the apparition of a pretended spectre; 36. Of spectres which haunt houses; 37. Other instances of spectres which haunt certain houses; 38. Prodigious effects of imagination in those men or women who believe they hold intercourse with the demon; 39. Return and apparitions of souls after the death of the body, proved from Scripture; 40. Apparitions of spirits proved from history; 41. More instances of apparitions; 42. On the apparitions of spirits who imprint their hands on clothes or on wood; 43. Opinions of the Jews, Greeks, and Latins, concerning the dead who are left unburied; 44. Examination of what is required or revealed to the living by the dead who return to earth; 45. Apparitions of men still alive, to other living men, absent, and very distant from each other; 46. Arguments concerning apparitions; 47. Objections against apparitions, and replies to those objections; 48. Some other objections and replies; 49. The secrets of physics and chemistry taken for supernatural things; 50. Conclusion of the treatise on apparitions; 51. Way of explaining apparitions; 52. The difficulty of explaining the manner in which apparitions make their appearance, whatever system may be proposed on the subject.