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Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
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[314] Ibid., p. 89.
[315] Behold! great scientists of the nineteenth century, corroborating the wisdom of the Scandinavian fable, cited in the preceding chapter. Several thousand years ago, the idea of a bridge between the visible and the invisible universes was allegorized by ignorant “heathen,” in the “Edda-Song of Völuspa,” “The Vision of Vala, the Seeress.” For what is this bridge of Bifrost, the radiant rainbow, which leads the gods to their rendezvous, near the Urdar-fountain, but the same idea as that which is offered to the thoughtful student by the authors of the “Unseen Universe?”
[316] “L’Ami des Sciences,” March 2, 1856, p. 67.
[317] Cooke: “New Chemistry,” p. 113.
[318] Ibid., pp. 110-111.
[319] Ibid., p. 106.
[320] “De Secretis Adeptorum.” Werdenfelt; Philalethes; Van Helmont; Paracelsus.
[321] Youmans: “Chemistry,” p. 169; and W. B. Kemshead, F. R. A. S.: “Inorganic Chemistry.”
[322] “Origin of Metalliferous Deposits.”
[323] John Bumpus: “Alchemy and the Alkahest,” 85, J. S. F., edition of 1820.
[324] See Boyle’s works.
[325] Deleuze: “De l’Opinion de Van Helmont sur la Cause, la Nature et les Effets du Magnetisme.” Anim. Vol. i., p. 45, and vol. ii., p. 198.
[326] A. R. Wallace: “An Answer to the Arguments of Hume, Lecky, etc., against Miracles.”
[327]Crookes: “Researches, etc.,” p. 96.
[328] Lucian: “Pharsalia,” Book v.
[329] “De Divinatio,” Book i., chap. 3.
[330] “De Occulta Philosoph.,” p. 355.
[331] Plato: “Timæus,” vol. ii., p. 563.
[332] Crookes: “Researches, etc.,” p. 101.
[333] Ibid., p. 101.
[334] Crookes: “Researches, etc.,” p. 83.
[335] In 1854, M. Foucault, an eminent physician and a member of the French Institute, one of the opponents of de Gasparin, rejecting the mere possibility of any such manifestations, wrote the following memorable words: “That day, when I should succeed in moving a straw under the action of my will only, I would feel terrified!” The word is ominous. About the same year, Babinet, the astronomer, repeated in his article in the “Revue des Deux Mondes,” the following sentence to exhaustion: “The levitation of a body without contact is as impossible as the perpetual motion, because on the day it would be done, the world would crumble down.” Luckily, we see no sign as yet of such a cataclysm; yet bodies are levitated.
[336] “Researches, etc.,” p. 91.
[337] Ibid., pp. 86-97.
[338] Ibid., p. 94.
[339] Ibid., p. 95.
[340] Ibid., p. 94.
[341] “Antidote,” lib. i., cap. 4.
[342] “Letter to Glanvil, the author of ‘Sadducismus Triumphatus,’ May 25, 1678.”
[343] “History of Magic,” vol. ii., p. 272.
[344] “Apologie pour tous les grands personnages faussement accusés de magie.”
[345] Berlin, 1817.
[346] “Nova Medicina Spirituum,” 1675.
[347] “History of Magic.”
[348] It would be a useless and too long labor to enter here upon the defence of Kepler’s theory of relation between the five regular solids of geometry and the magnitudes of the orbits of five principal planets, rather derided by Prof. Draper in his “Conflict.” Many are the theories of the ancients that have been avenged by modern discovery. For the rest, we must bide our time.
[349] “Magia Naturalis,” Lugduni, 1569.
[350] Athanasis Kircher: “Magnes sive de arte magnetici, opus tripartitum.” Coloniæ, 1654.
[351] Lib. iii., p. 643.
[352] “Notes from a New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam,” by de la Loubère, French Ambassador to Siam in the years 1687-8. Edition of 1692.
[353] Baptist Van Helmont: “Opera Omnia,” 1682, p. 720, and others.