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CHAPTER VIII
VIBRATORY STATES OF THE SOULS’ MEMORY
Life is an immense vibration which fills the universe and of which the center is God. Each soul is a
detached spark from which this divine center becomes in its turn a center of vibrations which vary and
augment with amplitude and intensity, following the degree of the elevation of life. This fact can be verified by
experiment. (Doctors Baraduc and Joire have constructed a registering apparatus which measures the radiant
force escaping from each human person, and varying according to the psychic state of the subject). Each soul
has then its particular and different vibration; its proper movement, its rhythm, is the exact representation of its
dynamic power, of its intellectual value, of its moral elevation. All the beauty, all the grandeur of the living
universe is summed up in this law of harmonic vibrations. The souls that vibrate in unison recognize each
other, and call across space with sympathy, friendship, and love. The artists, the sensitives, the delicately
harmonized beings know this law and feel its effects. The superior soul vibrates in unison with all the
harmonies.
The psychic entity penetrates with its vibrations all its etheric organism - that subtle form and image,
that exact reproduction of its radiant and harmonious personality. But incarnation comes, and these vibrations
are under veils of flesh. The interior center cannot project outward more than a feeble intermittent radiation;
nevertheless in sleep, in somnambulism, in trance, as soon as a passage is opened to the soul through the
envelope of matter which chains and oppresses, the vibratory current is established, and the center restored to
activity. The spirit finds in these interior states power and liberty. All that sleeps in it awakens; its numerous
lives reconstruct themselves, not only with treasures of thoughts and memories, but also with all the
sensations, joys, and sorrows unregistered in the fluidic organism. In trance, the soul, vibrating with memories
of the past, affirms its anterior existences and renews the mysterious chain of its transmigrations.
The smallest details of our life are registered in us and leave their ineffaceable traces; thoughts,
desires, passions, acts good or bad, all are there fixed, all are there engraved. During the normal course of life,
then memories accumulate in successive layers, and the most recent efface in appearance the most ancient. We
seem to have forgotten a million details of our departed existence; but in the experiences of hypnotism, it is
only necessary to evoke the past and to turn the subject by will to an anterior epoch of his life in his youth or
childhood to bring back those memories in crowds. The subject reviews his past with the associations of ideas
which pertained to that epoch; (ideas often wholly unlike those he actually professes); and with the tastes,
habits, and language of that time, he automatically reconstructs a series of phenomena contemporaneous to
that period. This leads us to recognize that there is a close correlation between the psychic individuality and
the organic state. Each mental state is associated with a state physiological. The evocation of one in the
memory of a hypnotized subject leads to the reaparition of the other.
This law is known in psychology under the name of ‘psycho-physical parallelism.’ A notable instance
of this law is the case of Rose, a hypnotic subject of M. Pierre Janet, Professor of Psychology in Sorbonne. He
relates in his work on this subject, that when he willed her to go back two years in her life while in trance state,
there were reproduced in her all the symptoms of pregnancy, which was her condition at that time. This
phenomenon would be incomprehensible without the explanation that the etheric double retains all the
impressions of the past. It is that which furnishes the soul the sum-total of its states of consciousness; even
after the destruction of the brain memory. Spirits demonstrate this by their communications, for they have
conserved in space the most minute details of terrestrial life.
This automatic registration seems to be effected in groups or zones within us - zones corresponding to
periods of our existence. If the will causes the awakening to memory of an event pertaining to any past period,
all the facts belonging to this same period unroll in a methodical series. M. G. Delarene compares these
vibratory states to the layers in the section of a tree, which permit us to calculate its age; this renders
comprehensible the variations of personality already mentioned. Superficial observers explain these
phenomena by the disassociation of consciousness. Studied closely they represent, on the contrary, a unique
consciousness corresponding to many phases of one existence. These aspects are repeated as soon as the sleep
is profound enough and the etheric double is released.
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