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== [[Zirkoff, Boris]] ==

'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Cahagnet, Louis-Alphonse (1805-85)}}'''. French artisan of no formal education; occupied himself by making chairs. Remarkable man endowed with a great gift of developing lucidity in somnambulic subjects, and a close student of animal magnetism. Greatly interested in mystical thought and the latent powers of man, long before the inception of the Theosophical Movement. Never claimed to be anything more than a mere student. Considering his general background, and his poor circumstances, his literary output was {{Page aside|500}}prodigious. He was the author of the foDowing works: ''Guide du magnétiseur, ou procédés magnétiques'', etc., Paris, 1849, pp. 63.— ''Magnétisme. Arcanes de la vie future dévoilée'', etc., Paris: Germer- Baillière, 1848-54, 3 vols.; 3rd ed., 1896.—''Sanctuaire du spiritualisme'', etc., Paris, 1850, pp. 382.— ''Lumière des morts'', Paris, 1851, pp. 322.—''Du Traitement des maladies'', etc., Paris: G. Baillière, 1851, pp. 212.—''Magie magnétique'', etc., Paris: Germer-Baillière, 1854, pp. 528; 2nd ed., 1858; 3rd ed., 1895.—*''Révélations d'outretombe'', etc., Paris, 1856, pp. 383.—''Études sur l'homme'', Argenteuil, 1858, pp. 80.—''Méditations d’un penseur'', etc., Paris, 1860, 2 vols.— ''Encyclopédie magnétique spiritualiste'', etc., Paris, 1854-62, 7 vols.—''Thérapeutique du magnétisme'', etc., Paris, 1883, pp. 439.—A number of smaller tracts. In all of the works mentioned above, Cahagnet treats at great length on magnetic conditions of the human body, methods of magnetizing it, results obtained with sen· sitives and somnambules, and also on medicinal herbs and their relation to various diseases. It is obvious from these facts that Cahagnet drew most likely upon a source of inner knowledge he was able to tap.

|detail = vol. 3, pp. 499-500

|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#499

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