1897 Spiritualism illustrated in a series of autobiographical sketches. Contents: Interesting Spiritual Mysteries & Experiences; Marvel of Magnetic Influence & Somnambulism; Magic; Flying Souls; How to Trace a Murderer; Occultism; Magicians & Spi.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Published in 1876, this work purports to recount the spiritual experiences of the mysterious aristocratic occultist 'Chevalier Louis de B.'.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... CIIAPTEE XIX DAWNING LIGHT. How the hours lagged! and how wearily I won my way through the duties of the day which must elapse ere I should again meet with the Byga, --that man who seemed so singularly able to medicine my restless spirit to peace. In his presence and listening to his wonderfully soothing voice, I had experienced a calm and tranquillity to which I had been for years a stranger. There was nothing remarkable in the words he uttered, still less could I regard the prospect of a visit to his "home," as he was pleased to call the hole in the mountain where he claimed to dwell, as an inviting one; yet I felt a strange longing to be there, and when I speculated upon the appearance of that " dark line dividing the bushes," which he had pointed out to me, I seemed to see white hands reaching from the mountain side and beckoning me up its savage and almost unattainable heights. I had intended to take some sleep before commencing my pilgrimage, but I was detained on business all day at Aurungabad, the capital city of the province, and could only partake of a late dinner with some brother officers, ere it was time to set off on my long ride in order to reach Ellora by midnight. I succeeded in gaining the ravine by a little after eleven, and having there stabled my horse, proceeded on foot to the temples, which I reached a few minutes before the appointed hour. The moon was obscured by the driving clouds which predicated the approach of a storm. The table-land of the amphitheatre, around which towered the red granite rocks that formed "the great religious city," was destitute of all signs of life or movement as I approached it. Solitude the most profound, desolation the most complete, cast a spell upon the entire panorama. By an...