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| source title = Spiritual Scientist
| source title = Spiritual Scientist
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| source details = v. 5, No. 14, December 7, 1876, pp. 145, 147
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The unknown author of “Art Magic" has given to the world, through the hand of his friend. Emma Hardinge Britten, as editor, another work known as “Ghost Land or researches into the Mysteries of Occultism.” It consists of a series of Autobiographical sketches in two parts—the Neophyte and Adept.
The author commences with an allusion to his parents. It is a singular coincidence that the circumstances therein narrated should correspond so closely to the historical facts concerning the Prince Salm-Salm, a person who has visited this country, is well known in England, and a profound occultist. If he is numbered among Mrs. Britten's friends we name him as the author of “Ghost Land” and “Art Magic.”
Louis, as the biographer calls himself in these sketches, is sent to college at the age of twelve where he joins the class of Professor Felix Von Marx, who was a member of a society of mystics, but pursued the occupation of a teacher at these secret organizations had been forbidden by the government. The professor discovers that Louis is a “dreamer” and causes him to be initated in the society in that capacity. This gives him an opportunity to acquaint his readers with he philosophy of the “Berlin Brotherhood." Much of it would be familiar to Spiritualists, portions of it might be considered visionary, and a few of its principles will awaken anew the controversy regarding elementaries. For instance: —
Thus, as men was composed of earthly substances, vegetable tissues, mineral, atmospheric, and watery elements, so all these had realms of spiritual existences, perfectly in harmony with their peculiar quality and functions. Hence, they alleged there were earthly spirits; spirits of the flood, the fire, the air; spirits of various animals; spirits of plant life, in all its varieties; spirits of the atmosphere; and planetary spirits, without limit or number. The spirits of the planets amt high er worlds than earth took rank far above and of those that dwelt upon or in its interior.
Louis soon found that his new associates denied the continued existence of the soul after death, but believed that its essence progressed by entering into organic forms. He was mbued with this teaching, by their forms and ceremonies,
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spiritual_scientist_v.05_n.14_1876-12-07.pdf|page=11|Spiritual Scientist, v. 5, No. 14, December 7, 1876, pp. 153-4
spiritual_scientist_v.05_n.14_1876-12-07.pdf|page=11|Spiritual Scientist, v. 5, No. 14, December 7, 1876, pp. 153-4
spiritual_scientist_v.05_n.14_1876-12-07.pdf|page=1|Spiritual Scientist, v. 5, No. 14, December 7, 1876, pp. 145, 147
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