The book Essays in Occultism, Spiritism, And Demonology was written by author Harris, William Richard, 1847-1923 Here you can read free online of Essays in Occultism, Spiritism, And Demonology book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Essays in Occultism, Spiritism, And Demonology a good or bad book?
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No one may deny, for it is self-evident, that where the living body is, there also must be the soul. If with the Platonists we could believe in a triple soul, that is the rational, the appeti- tive, and the passionate soul, or with the Gre- cians in a pneuma or spirit and a psyche or soul, both dwelling in the same body, an appari- tion of the living would be a problem presenting no insuperable difficulties. When the soul leaves the home given to it by God, decomposition begins. But, in the cas...e of the Captain's father, mentioned in a previous lis 116 FSSAYS IN OCCULTISM chapter, did the soul bring its body with it? No, certainly not, for when the English officer on board the homeward bound ship saw the ap- parition of the living man, the Captain's father, the sick man, was in his bed hundreds of miles away, and at no time was he left alone. "How then," you ask, "account for the 'double' on board the ship?" Well, before we enter upon this problem, let us make reasonably sure that these apparitions occur ; in fact, let us be convincingly sure, and then we can penetrate with a contented mind into the arcana — the secrets — of the very heart of these wonderful facts, Eobert Bruce, originally descended from some branch of the Scottish family of that name, was born, in humble circumstances, about the close of the last century, at Torbay, in the south of England, and there bred up to a seafaring life.
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