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London: ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192 Piccadilly, W. Crown 8vo. Cloth, with Coloured Diagram, price Half-a-Crown. Postage 2d. SPIRITUALISM AND ANIMAL MAGNETISM. A TREATISE ON DREAMS, SECOND SIGHT, SOMNAMBULISM, MAGNETIC SLEEP, SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS, HALLUCINATIONS, AND SPECTRAL VISIONS, BY Professor G. G. ZERFFI, Ph. Dr. LECTURER ON THE HISTORY OF ART AT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND Art, SOUTH KENSINGTON; THE BIRKBECK LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION, &c. &c. : In considering the subject the following points present themselves :1. That all phenomena, whether in the spiritual or material world, must be the mere effect of some causes. 2. That we have an organ in us which can act on the perceptive faculties of the brain from within. 3. That this is the organ of dreams. That dreams may be classed as follows:-a, dreams without meaning; b, half dreams; c, theorematic dreams; d, allegorical dreams; e, somnambulic dreams; f, clairvoyant dreams; g, visionary dreams. 4. That the organ of dreams has its seat in the ganglionic system of nerves. 5. That this organ may be acted upon from without. 6. That amongst the many forces which may act upon this organ, the most effective is animal magnetism. 7. That our cerebral faculties may be lowered, and the faculty of our ganglia heightened. 8. That there can be no such phenomena as spiritual manifestations from an objective point of view, but that they are all subjective. 9. That spectral visions are the products of the disturbed balance between positive and negative magnetism. 10. That persons, in whom the negative magnetism is predominant, see, hear, smell, feel, taste, and even think, whatever an individual charged with positive magnetism wills. (See explanation of Frontispiece, p. 145.) 11. That in striving to make ourselves thoroughly acquainted with animal magnetism and its working, not only from a physiological, but also psychological point of view, we should bring our own, as well as the mental faculties of others, under a proper control, and be freed from all morbid belief in supernatural agencies. 12. That there is not a single accredited ghost story, spectral vision, or spiritual manifestation, that could not be explained from a natural point of view. 13. That from an ethical point of view the belief in spiritualistic manifestations is most dangerous. The immutable principles of the laws of nature are thus based from the beginning on a flagrant falsehood. Visionaries and fanatics are generally hypocrites, untruthful, deceivers, and addicted to all those little tricks, pious frauds, and metaphysical tergiversations, which have their origin in a morbid condition of mind, which prevents the recognition of a moral law in our very organisation. 14. 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