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Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
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[119] “Medico-Surgical Essays.”
[120] “The Philosophy of Hist.”
[121] On Theoph. Paracelsus.—Magic.
[122] Kemshead says in his “Inorganic Chemistry” that “the element hydrogen was first mentioned in the sixteenth century by Paracelsus, but very little was known of it in any way.” (P. 66.) And why not be fair and confess at once that Paracelsus was the re-discoverer of hydrogen as he was the re-discoverer of the hidden properties of the magnet and animal magnetism? It is easy to show that according to the strict vows of secrecy taken and faithfully observed by every Rosicrucian (and especially by the alchemist) he kept his knowledge secret. Perhaps it would not prove a very difficult task for any chemist well versed in the works of Paracelsus to demonstrate that oxygen, the discovery of which is credited to Priestley, was known to the Rosicrucian alchemists as well as hydrogen.
[123] “Letter to J. Glanvil, chaplain to the king and a fellow of the Royal Society.” Glanvil was the author of the celebrated work on Apparitions and Demonology entitled “Sadducismus Triumphatus, or a full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions,” in two parts, “proving partly by Scripture, and partly by a choice collection of modern relations, the real existence of apparitions, spirits and witches.“1700.
[124] Plato: “Timæus Soerius,” 97.
[125] See Movers’ “Explanations,” 268.
[126] Cory: “Chaldean Oracles,” 243.
[127] Philo Judæus: “On the Creation,” x.
[128] Movers: “Phoinizer,” 282.
[129] K. O. Müller, 236.
[130] Weber: “Akad. Vorles,” 213, 214, etc.
[131] Plutarch, “Isis and Osiris,” i., vi.
[132] “Spirit History of Man,” p. 88.
[133] Movers: “Phoinizer,” 268.
[134] Cory: “Fragments,” 240.
[135] “Parerga,” ii., pp. 111, 112.
[136] See Huxley: “Physical Basis of Life.”
[137] Schopenhauer: “Parerga.” Art. on “Will in Nature.”
[138] “Revue des Deux Mondes,” Jan. 15, 1855, p. 108.
[139] Comte de Mirville: “Question des Esprits.”
[140] Bulwer-Lytton: “Zanoni.”
[141] T. Wright: “Narratives of Sorcery and Magic.”
[142] See Des Mousseaux’s “Dodone,” and “Dieu et les dieux,” p. 326.
[143] “Apparitions,” translated by C. Crowe, pp. 388, 391, 399.
[144] “De Abstinentia,” etc.
[145] C. Crowe: “On Apparitions,” p. 398.
[146] Upham: “Salem Witchcraft.”
[147] Brierre de Boismont: “On Hallucinations,” p. 60.
[148] See de Mirville’s “Question des Esprits,” and the works on the “Phénomènes Spirites,” by de Gasparin.
[149] Honorary Secretary to the National Association of Spiritualists of London.
[150] Job.
[151] See Dr. F. R. Marvin’s “Lectures on Mediomania and Insanity.”
[152] Vapereau: “Biographie Contemporaine,” art. Littré; and Des Mousseaux: “Les Hauts Phénomènes de la Magie,” ch. 6.
[153] A. Comte: “Système de Politique Positive,” vol. i. p. 203, etc.
[154] Ibid.
[155] Ibid.
[156] See des Mousseaux: “Hauts Phénomènes de la Magie,” chap. 6.
[157] Littré: “Paroles de Philosophie Positive.”
[158] Littré: “Paroles de Philosophie Positive,” vii., 57.