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[708] Incorrect; the Hindustani word for monkey is rūkh-charhä. Probably chokra, a little native servant is meant.

[709] “Book of Ser Marco Polo,” vol. i., pp. 306, 307.

[710] Delrio: “Disquis. Magic,” pp. 34, 100.

[711] Col. H. Yule: “The Book of Ser Marco Polo,” vol. i., p. 308.

[712] Edward Melton: “Engelsh Edelmans, Zeldzaame en Geden Kwaardige Zee en Land Reizen, etc.,” p. 468. Amsterdam, 1702.

[713] “Memoirs of the Emperor Jahangire,” pp. 99, 102.

[714] J. Hughes Bennett: “Text Book of Physiology,” Lippincott’s American Edition, pp. 37-50.

[715] “Curiosités Inouïes.”

[716] “Thoughts on the Birth and Generation of Things.”

[717] C. Crowe: “Night-Side of Nature,” p. 111.

[718] Pliny: “Hist. Nat.,” vii., c. 52; and Plutarch: “Discourse concerning Socrates’ Dæmon,” 22.

[719] “De Res. Var.,” v. iii., i., viii., c. 43. Plutarch: “Discourse concerning Socrates’ Dæmon,” 22.

[720] Nasse: “Zeitschrift fur Psychische Aerzte,” 1820.

[721] Osborne: “Camp and Court of Rundjit Singh;” Braid: “On France.”

[722] Mrs. Catherine Crowe, in her “Night-Side of Nature,” p. 118, gives us the particulars of a similar burial of a fakir, in the presence of General Ventura, together with the Maharajah, and many of his Sirdars. The political agent at Loodhiana was “present when he was disinterred, ten months after he had been buried.” The coffin, or box, containing the fakir “being buried in a vault, the earth was thrown over it and trod down, after which a crop of barley was sown on the spot, and sentries placed to watch it. The Maharajah, however, was so skeptical that in spite of all these precautions, he had him, twice in the ten months, dug up and examined, and each time he was found to be exactly in the same state as when they had shut him up.”

[723] Todd: Appendix to “Occult Science,” vol. i.

[724] “A Cornel. Cels.,” lib. ii., cap. vi.

[725] “Hist. Nat.,” lib. vii., cap. lii.

[726] “Morning Herald,” July 21, 1836.

[727] “La Science des Esprits.”

[728] “Vit. Apollon. Tyan.,” lib. iv., ch. xvi.

[729] Salverte: “Sciences Occultes,” vol. ii.

[730] “La Science des Esprits.”

[731] It would be beneficial to humanity were our modern physicians possessed of the same inestimable faculty; for then we would have on record less horrid deaths after inhumation. Mrs. Catherine Crowe, in the “Night-Side of Nature,” records in the chapter on “Cases of Trances” five such cases, in England alone, and during the present century. Among them is Dr. Walker of Dublin and a Mr. S——, whose stepmother was accused of poisoning him, and who, upon being disinterred, was found lying on his face.

[732] A. Wilder: “Neo-platonism and Alchemy.”

[733] Iamblichus was the founder of the Neo-platonic theurgy.

[734] See the “Sketch of the Eclectic Philosophy of the Alexandrian School.”

[735] See “Medium and Daybreak,” July 7, 1876, p. 428.

[736] In Volume II., we will distinctly prove that the Old Testament mentions the worship of more than one god by the Israelites. The El-Shadi of Abraham and Jacob was not the Jehovah of Moses, or the Lord God worshipped by them for forty years in the wilderness. And the God of Hosts of Amos is not, if we are to believe his own words, the Mosaic God, the Sinaïtic deity, for this is what we read: “I hate, I despise your feast-days ... your meat-offerings, I will not accept them.... Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?... No, but ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun (Saturn), your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.... Therefore, will I cause you to go into captivity ... saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts” (Amos v. 21-27).

[737] Chapter xviii.

[738] This word “up” from the spirit of a prophet whose abode ought certainly to be in heaven and who therefore ought to have said “to bring me down,” is very suggestive in itself to a Christian, who locates paradise and hell at two opposite points.

[739] Ezekiel iii. 12-14.

[740] William Howitt: “History of the Supernatural,” vol. ii., ch. i.

[741] Lib. i., Sat. 8.

[742] Porphyry: “Of Sacrifices.”

[743] Genesis xviii. i.

[744] Daniel x. 8.

[745] 1 Samuel, x. 6.

[746] Gospel according to John vii. 20.

[747] Our informant, who was an eye-witness, is Mr. N—— ff of St. Petersburg, who was attached to the flag-ship Almaz, if we are not mistaken.