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—CHAPTER IPrefaceThe physical manifestations of the soul. — The vast worldof the Invisible. — Solar light and visible objects. — The differenceof study between the here-below and the hereafter.How the fluidic invisible manifests itself.— The means employedto record the manifestation. — Second plane of life.The two divisions of this work.— 7—

CHAPTER IPrefaceI here present a second work, entitled :THE HUMAN SOUL, its movements, itslights and the Iconography of the fluidicInvisible,It is always the same subtile force thatI study in man, w^hether it makes a needlemove which points out the particular movementsof it,after having passed throughsubstances, w^hich conduct neither electricitynor heat, or again whether it impressesa sensitive plate by its luminous vibrations.The soul, therefore, moves and shines; one— 9—

THE HUMAN SOULmay observe its movements as well ascollect its living light.It isthis invisible fire which Hippocratescalled our Enormon, internal flame,andwhich Zoroaster, more correctly, termedliving light.Veiled from the eyes of the profane, inantiquity, it is what I wish to bring to lightin this volume, and with it, to penetratethe world of the Invisible, that of secondcauses, which re-act on the material world,a vast empire, from whence all comes,where all enters, where all is transformed.To wish to limit the work of creation tothe domain perceptible to our visual faculty,would certainly be only to aspire toknow but one very narrow stretch of thevast world of creative power, which we arepermitted to explore, even though we couldapproach the stars by an object-glass, ormagnify the infinitely small by lenses.In the material terrestrialdomain, withthe means at our disposal, solar light isabsolutely necessary to our eye, in order— 10 —

PREFACEto manifest the colour and the form of thevisible material bodies.In the immense region of the invisiblewhich I hope to open up to-day to experimentalscience, from the little I have beenable to observe, one can distinctly remarkthe difference, which exists between theobjects and means of study of the here-afterand the objects and means of study of thehere-below. Instead of being material, thatis to say tangible ;that is to say,instead of being visible,of revealing itself by meansof an extrinsic solar or artificial light, thefluidic invisible is manifested through itsown intimate luminous and intrinsic force.A degree of more or less marked spontaneousdeterminism on its part is necessaryto obtain it. One is no longer, in fact, inthe presence of purely mechanical forces.As to the means, these are methods whichI have discovered, in which the exteriorluminous ray of the here-below is replacedby the electric breeze, projecting theemanated vibration of our soul, as well asthe psychic force proceeding from our— II —

.THE HUMAN SOULthought or attracting the invisible object^vhich tends to manifest itself sympneumatically.For this end, it allo^vs itself to be magnetised,to be drawn by our living force :must, in a v^ord,oneknov^ how to induct thepsycho-odo-fluidic current v^hichrecords on its passage.the plateFurther, darkness is necessary to collectthe intimate vibration of a living being,for in daylight it is immerged in the intensityof the exterior solar light.is not always necessary.ElectricityIs it ancient magic, which comes fromthe dark sanctuary, where it was adored,and comes, in its time, to bow down beforehuman science and unveil itself in itsturn ? Perhaps ..I have, however, found a method to showthe existence of the ftuidic Invisible, as themicroscope shows the infinitely small materialparticles, and beyond a doubt, I haveexperimentally opened up the path to thesecond plane, that of integral life andspontaneous determinism in movement.— 12 —

PREFACEWhatever may be the consequences of mydiscovery, this step forward tow^ards truth,taken opportunely and vs^ith ponderationcan only enlighten humanity, make itregret the colossal error of the negation oflife in the hereafter, and assure it of itstransformation in the super-terrestrialplanes.This w^ork consists of two parts.In thefirst, the Biometer show^s the movementsof the soul acting on the needle, whichrecords them and thus gives the formulaof the vital temperament.In the second, Iconography show^s theluminous vibration of the soul, which isgraphed on a sensitive plate, and thecreation of fluidico-vital images by thespirit modulating the vital animistic force(psychicones).Each of these chapters might compose abook in itself : others will write them ; todayI am simply opening up a new routetowards truth.- 13-

—CHAPTER IIMovements of the human vital SoulThe author's triple point of view. — The registration of amovement of the soul. — How these were verified and classified.— The element of life. — The biometer and how itrecords the state of soul. — The realisation of ProfessorLodge's desideratum. — First law of the vital fluidic body.What constitutes our fluidic body. — The interpretation ofthe obtained formulae. — The behaviour of the needleof thebiometer. — The formula of the normal state. — How neurastheniais betrayed. — The oscillatory movement of thehysterical. — The double r61e of the soul.phenomenon. — Definition of vital force. — Its test— Nature of theof actionacross a vacuum. — Further experiments. — The proof thatthis force is not electricity. — What the biometrical formulaexpresses."S:— 15—

CHAPTER IIiviovements of the human vital soul^interpreted by the biometer. — Natureof the movements of the soul.In this chapter where it is a question ofthe interpretation of the different movementsof the vital soul by the biometer,the author takes up the triple point ofview of the fact, of the interpretationof the phenomenon, and of its nature. (1)I'' THE FACT is represented by aneedle hangingfrom the end of a cocoonthread not twisted, w^hich, from a distance,without contact with the hand, presents,at the approach of this latter, movements(1) Biometer, stem Greek : Bios, life : metron, measure.— 17 --

THE HUMAN SOULof attraction or of repulsion,which recordthe direction and the behaviour of anintimate movement in us, a movement ofthesoul.Repeated observation has allowed thedirection of this movement of life to beinterpreted,so well that, with due regardto its constancy, it has been able to beexpressed in exact formulae. As verification,the doctor reproduced, at will, theseformulae, by suggesting to hypnotisedpeople the stateof soul corresponding tothe formula, which he had previouslyinterpreted.When we show, presently, that themovements of the needle are dueneither to heat nor electricity, it will beproved by that, that life is not thechemical function of an organ, but theresultant of an intelligent element, andpossessor of its own movement. And bybiometrically recording the movements oflife, the state of soul and the vitalforce, it is remarked in a person of wellpoisedmind as well in a neurasthenic,— i8 —

MOVEMENTS OF THE HUMAN VITAL SOULnervous or hysteric subject, in such amanner, that the biometer, wich seemsonly to be one with the biometrifiedperson, gives a different formula foreachof them.This registration by the needle, fromhenceforth, makes the vital force enterthe domains of physics. Thus the desideratumof Professor Lodge is realised,when he said :'*Life is not energy. Itis a directing element, which has notyet found its place in the domain ofphysics. " No, cosmic life is not energy,it is neither heat, nor electricity, norlight, but it can give birth to them.Soul or fluidic vital body. — Fromthe whole of more than a thousand observations,arises a first law : — Halfof the right fluidic body attracts thecosmic lifCy whilst half of the leftbody repels. The proportion is 3 to.l.There thus remains two unities of vitalforce in us, since three enter and one isexteriorised. These two unities constituteour fluidic double, that is to say.

an etherealTHE HUMAN SOULfluidic body, an exact doublethe socius of the material body.The vital cosmic force, also called odicfluid — Od, a particular natural force,Tvhich extends over the w^hole Universe,and differs from all the known forces, —saturates the organism of living beingsand constitutes our fluidic boay, vs^hichmay be divided into four vital centresor animistic powers, namely : cerebralcentre, cardio-pulmonary centre, gastriccentre and genital centre. Our organismis therefore divided into a cerebral segment,a pulmonary segment, a gastricsegment, a genital segment, which havea radio-activity, a zone of vibrationwhich is particular to each of them.The fluidic body, or astral body is theintermediary of the material body andthe spiritual soul. One might say, withthe Pythagoreans, that the body is thechariot, the fluidic or astral body, thehorse, and the soul the driver.T THE INTERPRETATION OF THEFORMULA. — When the vital body is— 20 —

MOVEMENTS OF THE HUMAN VITAL SOULin a state or in movement it determinesin the apparatus a similar stateor movement by means of the needle.I recall to mind, that it was by multipliedobservations ; by statistics andsuggestive reproduction of states of soulexactly repeating my formulae that I cameto interpret them. The right side of thevital attractive body is in communicationvs^ith cosmic life, and expresses the physicalvitality, whilst the left side is incommunication v^ith the spirit and expressesthe psychical vitality.The behaviour of the needle of thebiometer interprets that of our intimatemovements, of which it reproduces theamplitude, the slowness, the rapidity,the oscillation, etc. This behaviour isremarkable in the states of neurasthenicdouble attraction, of expansive doublerepulsion.In a normal state, the vital soulreveals its equality and its good vitality,by the equilibrium between the rightattraction and the left repulsion. The— 21 —

THE HUMAN SOULtype of formula : Attraction^ — Repulsion^is that of the well poised body inits material and moral manifestations.The formula Attraction (Attraction indicatingthe weakness of the material vitality,that is to say, of blood, of nutrition,of the digestive tube, as well asthe weakness of the psychical vitality)betrays the cerebral spinal neurastheniawith predominance in one or the otherof itsforms.From the moral point of view, Att./att.means sadness, fear, contrition.Repulsion/Repulsion indicates the animisticexterioration in the great movementsof soul, just as joy, anger orexuberance of life.The formula 0/0 gives the equilibriumbetween the tension of vital force in usand of universal force. From the moralpoint of view, itsignifies calmness, coldness,indifference.If Attr. 5/0 is a formula of vital refection,Attr. 30/0 is a formula of realnervous affection and of hypocondriasis,— 22 —

MOVEMENTS OF THE HUMAN VITAL SOULfluidic diseases by default of ponderation.Such isthe interpretation of some formulaeand their import : but it is furthernecessary to consider the behaviour ofthe needle, which moves gently, ponderablyin ponderated natures or rapidlyby jerksvrith the hysterical. The extremelynervous attract very rapidly from40" to 50" by the right hand, the leftgiving nothing.The hysterical type shows great oscillations,attracting and repelling in thesame unity of time and on the sameside.The more the material body is lackingin force, the more the vital bodymakes attractive appeals to the cosmiclife which surrounds it and with whichit establishes an intimate and harmoniousexchange.The double role of the soul, its mediationbetween our body and our spirit,reveals a foresight and a wisdom, which— 23 —

THE HUMAN SOULformerly made the vital force to be consideredas a mother. It was also onthe curative action of good MotherNature that the expectant school ofHippocrates relied ; it was through her,that Hippocrates awaited the return tohealth.All these considerations bring intoprominence the final aim of the Geniusof life, which is in us, the Genius chargedwith the refection of the body andwith the manifestation of the spirit.There exists therefore in us a realphysical and super-material soul, fluidicdouble of the human body, the intimatemovement of which may be recordedby the displacement of a needle at adistance.3**NATURE OF THE PHENOMENON,— What is the nature of the needle ?A series of experiments has allowedme to reject the action of heat and of electricity,and to bring to light a special— 24 —

MOVEMENTS OF THE HUMAN VITAL SOULforce, vital force, which I should definethus.Vital force is intelligence in movement,concreting matter, that is to say,that it is the creator of form. It isthat ^which models the body.In a vacuum, — Every one knows thatheat is spread \vith difficulty in rarifiedspace, to witness the low temperatureof intersideral space ; vrell, I have beenable to note that the influence of vitalforce, made itself felt on the apparatus,previously placed under a bell jar, inwhich there was a relative vacuum.New Experiments. — The experimentof our vital force acting through a blockof ice 10 centimetres thick, seemed to meconclusive ; but since, I have learnt thata concentrated solution of alum wasemployed as the adia-thermic agent. Itherefore made the following experiment :the glass covering of the biometer vs^aswrapt in a sheet of alum, formed insuch a manner, that by desiccation, a— 25 —

THE HUMAN SOULthickness of 1/2 millimetre of alum wasproduced. Now in spite of this isolatingcarapace, and as if it did not exist, theneedle had the same movements ofattractionand of repulsion.One can then eliminate heat as amoving agent of the needle.— 26 —

MOVEMENTS OF THE HUMAN VITAL SOULElectricity remained. To make a conclusiveexperiment, in order to eliminateelectricity, I enveloped the apparatusvv^itha covering of mica, an adia-electricbody, and the needle did not ceased tobe influenced 'by the two hands.It w^as then, definitely fixed, that thedoctor constituted his biometer with adouble adiathermic shield of alum, steepedin collodion, which did not let theheat pass, and with a adiaelectric coveringof mica, v^hich did not let the electricitypass, the whole covered with silk.To confirm the character of the vitalforce with certainty, as a force independentof heat and electricity, the doctortook his own biometrical formula withthe double-coated apparatus and thatduring ninety days. Then, he noted howhis biometrital formula varied with hisstate of soul and bodily condition.This justified him in saying that themovement of the needle is not producedby the climateric conditions but theobserved formula was the expression of— 27 —

THE HUMAN SOULthe degree and of the nature of hispersonal vitality. As conclusion, it clearlyfollows from these experiments, that itis neither the climateric conditions, northe calorific and electric phenomena ofour material body which disturb theneedle, but our own animistic movements,those of the soul in its physicalandpsychical manifestations.These fair experiments carried on forthree months on his own vital soul, bya living observer by the side of hisapparatus, is a real page of the psychophysionomyof the soul ; it reveals hisstates corresponding to the formulaetaken. The biometrical formula by itssign and its interpretation, therefore,expresses the behaviour, the movement,the polarisation, even the direction of thehuman soul.m— 28 —

CHAPTER IIITechnical and theoretical statementof IconographyIn what Iconography differs from Photography. — Howthe sensitive plate received the impressions. — The forcewrested from the occult. — The former science of occultism.— The four factors in the production of images (icones). —The projections of the human spirit. — The attractive currentof animation. — The best formula for aresult.— 29 —

CHAPTER IIITechnical and theoretical statement ofticonography.The capital phenomenonconsists in how the sensitiveplate, which is thought notto receive any impression inthe dark, is impressed.The silver salts are converted,not only by what wecall exterior solar light andby electric fulguration, butalso by the intimate light ofthe soul.Dr, H. Baraduc.Iconography, that is to say the fixationby the image of the invisible vibrations,has nothing in common with solarphotographs,in which the light of the sunproduces the forms and the reversedoutlines of an object on a plate put beyondthe focus of the lense.— 31 -

THE HUMAN SOULIn Iconography, I have not studied thesolar light, reflected by photographedobjects, as an impressing agent of theplate; on the contrary, I have alwaysattempted to affect this same plate bywaves, by emanations, by the intimatevibrations of the invisible or visible objectsin more or less obscurity.I have especially sought to obtain thesignatures of hidden forces, vital andpsychical forces ^ refused up to thepresent.Iconography, such as I believe to havecreated and exposed, is based on the directaction of the human soul acting throughthe hand on the plate. Since 1893 myexperiments have taken place withoutany intermediary lense, reversing theimage. Solar light is refracted in inflectedfoci, whilst the animistic glimmeringof man, or the force of universal life,penetrates straight into the bodies, oremerges without deviation and tracesitself in its very form.The interpretation of the seen formsis

STATEMENT OF ICONOGRAPHYsubject to discussion, as everyinterpretation,but in any case, the plate isimpressedin circumstances unusual to ordinaryphotography, and for a quite differentuse, than for which it was destined. Itshould not be impressed, and neverthelessit is.It was destined to reproduce the exteriorlight of an object, instantaneously, indaylight, or to retrace its form, the reversedprojections and shadows.In iconography, the plate receives, veryslowly, no longer by the solar ray, but byan electro-vital current (wind, breeze) orsimply by a direct emission, no longer,the exterior light of the object, but whatis called its internal light, its intimatesoul, which it records. To produce thisimage, the condensing apparatus, thelense is not necessary. Iconography isthen not governed by lawsof refractionand inflected foci ; it is a law peculiar tothis vital force, to our soul of life, ofdirectly graphing itself without undergoingtransposition by the fact of its passage from-> 33^

THE HUMAN SOULa dense surrounding into a surroundingless dense, and such as it is in form.To obtain this internal light, this obscurefireof vitality, the whole consists in placingone's self in certain conditions. In anycase, here is a new chapter of higherphysics \vrested from the occult andopening out to man a new world, that ofunkno^vn forces, belonging to the domainof the invisible, Avhere nothing is lost,where everything is transformed; and ifthe terrestrial dust of beings,having onceexisted, is refound at the present time, onecould also discover the shadows of those,who have passed, leaving in the words ofOvid, ,, the body to the earth, the shadowto the tomb and the spirit to the heavens. "One may at this very moment payhomage to the great occultists of formertimes, who have expressed by symbolsthe forms and vibrations of these forces,which they kept carefully hidden.Since they had no photographic platesat their disposal to reveal these forces byfixing them, one is logically led to consider-34-

;;;STATEMENT GF ICONOGRAPHYthem as inspired or prophetic. Perhapsthey also possessed means of registrationsince lost, like so many other things.In the study of the production of theimages or icones, we must consider fourfactors :1. The operator^ with his vital andpsychic power2. The electric fluids and the intermediatecosmic space between him and theplate3. The sensitive plate , a receptiveorgan, the fixative body of the producedcurrent4. The invisible, which does not fallunder our senses. It is this invisiblewhich is drawn by the human will,forcing, the appeal and creating the attractedcurrent of ambient forces, belonging tovitality or to universal intelligence.The human spirit will be able likewiseto project its own fluidic psychic body, andthe plate to collect it. The whole consistsin being able to create the current ;no need of a lense of any kind.-35 -there is

In conclusion ;THE HUMAN SOULto succeed in these experiments,one must kno^v how to createthisattractive current of animation, whichconbines the hierarchy of theknown withthe unknown different forces, and forms anintermediary ladder between our visibleworld and the invisible world : in a word,to elevate and lead our spirit so as to beable to put ourselves in relationship withthe conscious forces, to act on the semiconsciousforces, or to re-act on them incase of need.Kunrath has found the formula, whichshows the best state of soul to possess inorder to obtain a result.,, Laborando, perseverando, orando. '*,, By working, by persevering, by praying.- 36-

CHAPTER IVL^i^hts of the vital soul. Seven luminousmovements unveiled by iconographyThe soul as light. — The experimental proof of its existence— Self-consciousness of the Spirit. — First Light. — Howthe od arrives on the human body. — The formation of theindividualised cosmic life. — The exteriorisation of sensibility.— The hypnogenous points. — Second Light. — Theshower of life and of light. — The fluidic lymph of our organiccellules. — Definition of the Somod. — Its subordinationto the soul. — Its relation to the cosmic forces.— The finalmanifestation of the vital cosmic force. — The rudiments ofthe first vitality. — Their composition. — The proof thatthey are extra-electric. — The form assumed by the exteriorisedsoul. — Third Light. — The meaning of the term "humansoul".— The soul intelligence germ and the spiritual soul. —Of what the particular soul is a part. — The centre of thesoul-circle. — Existence of soul germ after material-fluidicdeath. — Fourth Light. — The embryogeny of the Invisible.— The fertilization of the soul germ. — How the materialbody is formed around this union. — The moral atmosphereafter corporeal death. — The ascension of the soul germ. —Fifth Light, — The complete adept. — The utilisationof thesurrounding materials. — The evolution of the human minp-37 -

— How our fluidic forms are modulated. — The condensationof life around the spiritual soul. — The free-will of thehuman soul. — The power of the resolute spirit. — Ameans of obtaining the first two lights. — The projections ofa mental image onto a plate. — What thisluminous vibrationsis. — How to aid the exteriorisation of the image. —The three necessary conditions for the expression of thespirit. — Hand as agent of transmission.of the soul— The movementwithout contact. — Sixth Light. — The luminousemanations of the soul. — When fluidic exteriorisation isremarked. — The reciprocal attraction of the projected scoriae.— The inconscious perspiration of the Somod. — 5^venthLight — The vital quintessence. — How the spiritin prayer luminously expressed. — The ascension of thespirit. — The demonstrable existence of the soul. — Relationbetween the spirit and its manifestations. — The seven statesof the soul.-38-

CHAPTER IVLights of the vital soul :Seven luminousmovements unveiled by iconography.If the biometer has already sho^vn us thatthe soul was movements we shall see in thischapter that the soul is equally light.Invisibleto the human eye under ordinary conditions,this light possesses photo-chemicalaction powerful enough to be objectivifiedon a sensitive plate.The human soul, luminous vibration andintelligentified movement, therefore entersthe domain of physics, by giving us its ownfiguration, the figuration of its form. Italso adds, by itself,the experimental proof-39-

THE HUMAN SOULof its existence, similarly to that alreadyfurnished by philosophy, logic and psychology.The spirit is only manifested by the soul,because the soul is the luminous form, thecovering of the spirit. Not only has thespirit the knowledge of what surroundsit by the exterior means of the senses, butit also has the notion of its essence. Thespirit knows itself, compares itself, feelsitself one and eternal, as Leibnitz expressesit : ,, We know, we feel we are eternal. "It is w^hy he rectified the aphorism : thatnothing comes to the spirit itself :,, Nihilest in intellectu, quod non prius fuerit insensu, nisi ipse intellectus. " Intelligenceperceives nothing apart from the senses,it is not the spirit itself.if40 —

THE HUMAN SOULof the Cosmos or those of our cellularvitality affect each other as if the cutaneoussurface were only a fictitious limit betweenthe universal force of life and the individualforce of life.Thus is explained the presentiment ofatmospheric perturbations by the instinctivesoul, before the consecutive phenomenon,rain, sno^w or storm is produced.The exteriorisation of sensibility, ofwhich M. de Rochas has made a classicalchapter of vital physiology, finds in thegraphy of this sensitive soul, which theskin does not limit, its logical demonstration.The single fact of making a prick felt from adistance, v^hen the skin remains insensible,shows, not only the outw^ard movementof the invisible sensitive soul, but dismissesall possibility of being interpreted bysuggestion, since the graphy of the sensitivesoul is taken at the point in space,where theprick has been received.This plate shows two bright spots: oneunder the nostril, the other under the righteye ; these are the hypnogenous points.— 42 —

SECOND LIGHTSomod, a complete animistic fluidicbody, a soul formed bij thearchitecturalreunion of the web of life, of the lines offorce, of peas, of odic showers, of lifeanimules.This human light is a fluidic, malleablelymph of life, which the spirit will modulate;it is the living substance, the sign of theforms, which reveal the spirit. Thisshower of life and of light depends on theodic or somod-human body.It lends itselfto the needs of the creative spirit and assumesthe forms desired by our spiritual soul.This fluidic bond, by its ribbons andcolumns of force between the differentfluido-material systems and organs, issimilar to that cellular net,which servesas frame, as support and as grouping to thecellules of the whole body. This fluidicweb is the vital bond between the small lifesoulsimbibed with and nourished upon odicclouds; it is a fluidic lymphs which maintainsthe existence of these milliards of life-anim-— 4=5—

THE HUMAN SOULules, souls of our organic cellules, as serum"nourishes the leucocytes born of the cellulartissue. It would seem that the skeletonof man was the very materialisationof the reticulate tissue of the fiuido-odicbody of the somod.The somod is that fluidicspectre, whichis the intermediate agent of cosmic life andlife personified in one existence ; it is theliving luminous double of the materialbody, w^hich it possesses and maintains.The somod is itself subordinate to the soul,whether this has orspiritualised phase.The somod ishas not reached thethat universal soul of lifein us, which respires that is to say,aspires, draws the cosmic forces of theuniversal Od, as it repels, expires theemanations of its Ob and accompanies theprojections of the will (Psychob) or thoseof the spirit (Psychecstasis). The somodis therefore the instrument of the spirit,but especially the vital force which assuresthe double movement of material assimilationand of disassimilation.' —44—

.ELECTRO-VITAL- PARTICLESThe more we advance, the more thevital cosmic force abandons its generalcharacter to be divided and individualised.We thus arrive at a luminous manifestation,w^hich is incorporated, is individualisedand gives us a type of the welldefinedliving unity, the electro-vital fluidicglobule, small creation of man.These electro-vital particles, animisticlibellules, have an intimate interior life, inequilibrium from the centre to the periphery,from the periphery to the centre.The study of these electro-vital particlesoffers a particular interest, if one considersthat these smallinstinctive existences arerudiments of the first vitality, the atomsof magic, the spirits of the elements, themicrobes of the constellations, in thewords of Marius Decrespe.With the magnifying glass, their periphericshell is seen occupied by a vital pea— 45 ~

THE HUMAN SOULof second light, which sometinies seemsto present a small form.Contrary to the opinion of certain opponents,who pretend that these electro-vitalparticles are purely electric, Docteur Baraducaffirms that the globular form is indeedthe form of the dynamic electro-vitalcellule of this small rudimentary soulthe first plane.ofIf the doctor could assertthat this cellule was nothing elsebut theincorporated vital force, it ^vas becausehe had the direct proof of its nature andof its formation by photography and notby electrography, that is to say in theabsence of any electricity. And these particles,no longer electro-vital but vital,photographed no longer in the dark, butinsemi-daylight, with an apparatus, withoutany electrictangibleinstrument, are the mostproof of the extra-electric naturewhich they present.They are the luminous cosmic peas pfthe force of individualised Universal Lifelike the fragments of our human vital soul(ob) being exteriorised extra cutem (beyond-46-

LIGHTS OF THE VITAL SOULthe skin) ;which on contact with an electro-statictension assume a fluido-electriccovering, incorporate themselves and constitutethe electro-vital particlescomposedof the universal od or of the human obenveloped inelectricity.— 47

THIRD LIGHTSoul germ horn of the web of cosmiclife, intelligentified in man.Once for all let it be said the expressionhuman soul must be taken in its true physicalsense, not in the religious or philosophicacceptation.Its point of departuremust be brought back to the phenomenon\vhich human science can record and ^vhicheverybody may agree to define as a luminousand invisible form of the spirit ;theintelligence soul germ is movement andlight.conditions 61 movement, of glimmer,of life, that is to say, by the light which isin every soul and in every man, more orless developed ; only one must distinguishbetween the soul intelligence germ andthe spiritual soul.The particular soul isoriginal universal soul ;^^jHere is then a object defined in its physical-48-a particle of theit is instinctive, and

LIGHTS OF THE VITAL SOULdeparting, itremains in intimate relation,by its instinctive side,with universal life,w^hich is called integral life.Every soul before its incarnation is awheel, then a circle, the hidden spirit ofwhich is the centre, the intellectual germof its future evolution, hence the name soulintelligence germ, which must be givenat its human birth.It has been calculated that in order tosupport ourselves, ^ve absorb during ourlife, what a goods train could carry.And who will estimate the amount ofvital force breathed in and out during thesame period of time TAfter material and fluidic death, thedissipated cloud of life, the soul germ alonepersists, continuing its own existence, guardianof its personality, of its conscience,capableof progressing morally or readyfor a new descent into corporeal life.it— 49—

FOURTH LIGHTSpiritual soul. — The four rayed pearl,transpierced by the divine radiation.The sphere expresses thesoul germ. The four rayedcircle with a central pointexpresses the spiritualisedsoul.Dr. H. B.The fiuido-vital forms of what might becalled the embryongeny of the invisible,in the act of procreation of souls and offuture beings, are identicalwith materialforms, with the incorporations of thevisible and anatomical embryo.The germinative vesicule is representedby the soul, which presents the samedimensions, those of a little pea similarto the luminous peas and to the electrovitalparticles. And just as the malespermato-zoon penetrates the female ovuleto be broken there and to fertilize it, byamalgamating its active substance with the— 50 —

LIGHTS OF THE VITAL SOULpassive substance of the germinative point,so the subtile ray of the spirit fertilizesthe soul germ by its entrance into theanimistic particle of the universal soul,speciallydivided in luminous peas.The particular soul,spiritualised by thesubtile ray of the Father, condenses itsfluidic body, its Somod, by drawing fromthe general Cosmos, from the universalsoul, the cloud of its hypersensitive substance.This instinctive and cohesive forcetends to coagulate into a frozen fluid,v^hich the spirit will modulate in form.This almost gelatinous form at a precisemoment progressively transforms itselfinto flesh by the attraction of alimentaryproducts during the foetal life, until birthplaces on the visible plane a human soul,already born to the fluidic life, beforebeing born to the terrestrialmoan and the pain.plane by theAt the carnal death, this soul intelligencegerm remains surrounded by a more orless condensed atmosphere and polarisedby astral light which it has made its own— 51 —

THE HUMAN SOULduring life by its fiuidic respiration andwhich, after death, constitutes its moralatmosphere.After its elevation, deprived of this vitalatmosphere, it is constituted by a simplecircle, the spirit or central intelligence ofwhich has been developed enough to occupythe Tv^hole area of the circle, and theanimistic circumference of which isreduced more and more inproportion asthe spirit ascends.— 52 —

FIFTHLIGHTPsychicone. — Spiritthe imageyinvolving the fornixthe sign.« The complete adept is a centre ofradiation, from whence comes powers,potentialities,which, from correlations tocorrelations, plunge even up to the cyclesof time to come.« Here is the key of the mystery of theproperty which the human brain has ofprojecting and making sensitive in thevisible world, the forms which its powerfulconception has engendered and hascalled forth from the elements of the invisibleworld. The adept creates nothingnew, but he utilises, works the materials,which nature has amassed around him,and which during eternities, have clothedevery possible form.« He has only to choose what he needsand to give his thought objective existence.— 53—

THE HUMAN SOULIn its invisible evolution, every humanmind passes into the state of which physicalorder is the reverse and becomes an activeentity by associating itself, by unifyingitself w^ith a particular element, with one ofthe semi-intellectual forces of the kingdomof life; this mind survives as an activeintelligence, as a creature born of the spirit,during a period of longer or shorter durationand proportional to the intensity ofcerebral action, which has generated it... »Kast hoorni Sal Sing, Jewish mission.Saint-Yves d'Alveydre.This extract, which Iowe to the kindnessof my friend, Dr. Maurice Adam, expressesscientifically and with great clearness, whatImyself would have stated in a less precisemanner. Objectivity, that is to say, thevision for the eye of liquid forms, is a fact,which Imyself have several times been ableto verify.These fluidic forms, called hallucinatoryor real, are animistic creationsv^hich our spirit modulates or which wereceive entirely modulated by a suggestion— 54—

LIGHTS OF THE VITAL SOULof the here-below or by a pneumo-fluidiccommunion with the hereafter.Life in us is a cloud of force and of light,which it isa question of knowing how tokeep condensed and grouped around theradiation of the central spiritual soul.Bipolarised, the human soul has its upperand lower part ; the right corresponds tothe bottom, the left corresponds to the top,for the form is double. It is therefore byits free-will, well aware of the white andthe black, of the subtile and the coarse, ofthe force of life and of light, the force ofdeath and of darkness, the being and thenon-being ;in such a way that conscious ofits position, it can polarise itself in onedirection or the other ; and takes as wellthe form, the appearance of it, and thusthe good or bad face, indicated by arelativity of light, may be explained.It isbefore all a question of the trainingof the will and the sensitive soul.One isastonished at the endurance of the materialbody ; one must not therefore be surprisedat the results which the resolute— 55—

THE HUMAN SOULSpirit may obtain by modulating the vitalforce of our body, the Somod, that is tosay the Ody the cosmic force, enclosed inus.To obtain the first two lights, thechemical affinity and the electro-caloricvitality must be diminished, the materialbody dematerialised, in such a way thatthe fluidic body has more room for expansion;the expiration must be done accordingto the Yogui manner, as seldom aspossible, so as to condense in one's self thelargest amount of cosmic fluid. (1)It is then that with or without electricity,one may project on a plate in the dark animage, well visualised,spirit.modulated by theThis latter must therefore mentally(1) According to Colonel Olcott, from -whom Dr. Baraduc obtainedthese details, the Yog\^is isolate themselves, lying on a specialherb, soma-conya, fall into deep meditation, give themselves up toprayer or to menthrams, divine names AUM, protective spirits,•whose cadence then surrounds them with invisible and elementarystill more seldom. Certain Yoguis are said to make an interval ofa quarter of an hour betw^een each breath.forces, which obey them. They also draw the semi-consciousforces of nature, v^^hich permit them to produce astounding phenomena,"the training consists in the Yogui respiration, that is to say,with long intervals betw^een; at first every minute, afterw^ards-56-

LIGHTS OF THE VITAL SOULconceive the image, \vith force and clearness,to which it is going to give a fluidicbody and under the gentle pressurevv^ill,of thethis image leaves by the hand and isgraphed on the plate.To help its exteriorisation, a weaktension, like the breeze or electric windmay be employed. If the electricity is toointense, the plate gathers the scatteredfragments of the image and portions of theelectro-neuric signature. One must thereforeduring the operation, scarcely see inthe dark the electric flashes Avhich comefrom the fingers.Electricity is not necessary for people,v^hose visualisation and will are powerful.These people project in utter darkness, theimages they create and often their ownforms or those or the persons of whom theythink.The plate receives and keeps the producedimage.As to the luminous vibration in itself,is vital-animistic force, the image of whichis clearly different from the adjacent— 57—it

;;THE HUMAN SOULelectric, electroneuric forces, and Avhichcan be obtained independently of them.Recapitulation ; The spirit frames animage, modulates it with human vitalforce, veils itself with a form, whichexpresses it, and is exteriorised in this form,which is graphed on the plate.Therefore three things are necessary,namely :1. A special state of soul, a particularintimate interior vibration2. The spontaneous outlet, or aided byelectricity, of this visualised form3. Its reception on a plate in order thatthe phenomenon of these images of thespirit (Psychicones), these projections ofthe state of the soul, may take place.Everybody knows that the visible corporealimage produced by photography, isformed beyond the inflected foci of thelense, hut it is reversed. On the otherhand, for the invisible fluido-psychic imageno lense or apparatus is necessary, the imagecrosses it, without being reversed, such asit was conceived in form.-58-

LIGHTS OF THE VITAL SOULThe psychicone is therefore directlyemitted, such as it has been conceived bythe thought and transmitted by the hand,considered at all times as the most perfectorgan after the brain. The hand is theagent of touch,of prehension, of contact,of signature, it is the extension of thebrain.This relationship between the brain, thehand and the plate to produce an image withouta lense, astonishes physicists, who havealways need of points of support to producea mechanical movement. And neverthelessthe biometric formulae daily provethe movements from a distance withoutcontact. The movement of the humansoul begets them without undergoing anydeviation at the rounded face of thebiometer, which it penetrates; in the sameway the light of the living soul, modulatedin a projected image, passes from thefingers without being reversed ; it is thesoul itself which acts vs^ith its glimmering.— 59—

SIXTH LIGHTOhy emanatioiiy exhalation ; psychob.Life considered up to the present inits organic manifestations has only beenviewed as a phenomenon of materialassimilationand disassimilation of chemicalsubstances.Now, we have seen by the Biometerthat the soul had a double movement ofappeal to the hereafter, of contractionover itself and of expansion of rejectionin the invisible. Further, Iconographyhas shown the phenomena of odic condensationand of penetration to feed thesoul, the Somod. We are now going tostudy the luminous phenomena of animmisticemanation, under the name of Ob,a movement of expiration of the soul,which the plate records, simple obic expiration,projection of the icones visualisedand modulated by thought.When the hand is put in front of a— 60 —

LIGHTS OF THE VITAL SOULplate, the sensitive side, the movementof the needle of the biometer is seenat the end of a certain time, and afterthe development of the plate the signatureof the obic emanation.The needle being repelled 5**, one notesphenomena of fluidic exterioration, similarto those I obtained on a plate ofMajor Darcet ; but I remarked further,that though the needle was not set inmotion, the plate nevertheles receivedan impression.The soul, by its exhalation, projectsfragments, scorise still living and luminous,the reciprocal attraction of whichis powerful enough, indistinctly to repeatthe form, the appearance of the physicalsensitive soul, wich it constituted.The strength of vital association, offormative affinity of this soul, is sogreat, that these rejected particles tendto keep and reproduce the animistic formfrom which they emanate, as well asthe state of soul itself.The fluidic expiration of the material— 6i —

THE HUMAN SOULsoul, an emission similar to urinationcompared to liquids, to^ air exhaled bythe lungs, is still a little of the livedlife of the being to whom it belonged.The perspiration of the soul unconsciouslyaccomplished, must therefore be comparedto the pulmonary expiration, andinstinctively reproducing the form ofthe being who has just cast it out.We have seen the emanation graphedrelativelyto physical man, we shall soonsee it in regard to intellectual man."*-.62 —

SEVENTH LIGHTPsychecstasis« Physical man, moral man, intellectualman is really and truly containedin the least particle of this vital quintessence,which not onl}^ is attached toall the objects touched by an individual,but also to all those v^hich have beenin his sphere of action " (Delaage).When the vs^ill is expressed in prayer,the spirit, the subtile psyche occupies thewhole of the area of the small luminousprojection, whilst the glimmering of theanimistic circumference is reduced to asimple flange. In prayer, the spiritualmovement in us predominates, and theform of the soul is attenuated in proportionas the spirit rises, at the point ofleaving its fluidic body.Man then, by his spiritual light,projectsthe pearls of his prayer towards theinfinite God. The divine spirit of man-63-

THE HUMAN SOULby his ecstasic projections, tends to risein spiritual particles towards the centreof all spirituality : his light goes to theLight, and his spirit to the Spirit. Theecstasic orison joins the earth to theHeavens.The present study attempts the demonstrationof the fluidic existence of thesoul, considered as eternal movementand light, by its photo-chemical actionon silver salts. It is demonstrable, notonly in its existence, in its substance,but still more in its relative value, revealedby the perfection of the form, theglimmering of the sign and the grandeurof themanifestation.The human spirit to manifest itselfassumes a form; this flluidic form is thesoul, the luminous movement, the natureof which is more or less materialised,more or less spiritualised, accordingvrhether it descends towards matter, orwhether it rises tovs^ards the universalSpirit. But it none the less presents,from thephysical point of view, a series-64-

LIGHTS OF THE VITAL SOULof luminous manifestations, in relationto the series of animistic vitalities or ofa more or less elevated state of soul.It is therefore possible to attempt aclassification; which amounts to sayingthat our spirit one, is veiled in a cloakof animistic light, which presents sevendifferentluminous manifestations, correspondingto seven states of soul, to sevenpersonalities in a single conscience, toseven ecfos in a single self.65-

CHAPTER VScience of L.i^ht and of LifePresent definition of light. — Calculations of the vibrations.— The scope of perception of the eye. — Its insufficiency asstandard. — The range of receptivity of the sensitive plate.— How^ the different lights may be classified. — The metaphysicallight now become objective. — The invisible revealed.— The luminosity of all movement. — The four planes oflight. — Their demonstration by the plate.— The criterionof the movement of life. — The conception of the Spirit byits flash. — First Light. — Visible. — The property of solarlight. — Roentgen rays. — For w^hat means these are employed.— The illumination of the intimate light of the fluidic body.— The link between physical and vital experiments. — Howvibratory movement is propagated. — The amplitude andvibrations of sound, heat, light,invisible light. — Refractionand reflection. — Second Light, — Invisible. — Visibledemonstration of human electricity.— The experiments oflodko. — Third Light. — Iconographable occult invisible lights.The unknown element which fills space. — Modern scienceand this element. — The deduction from the totality ofknown facts. — The primordial subtances Force. — The twomanifestationsof movement. — The role of the third factor.-67-

— The constitution of creative light. — How the data ofattraction and expansion of movement are furnished. — Thecoagulating and dissolving poles.— The demonstration ofthe two opposed forces. — Substance-Force. — Vital forcebefore esoterism. — The Web of theUniverse. — The interpretationof the hidden light. — The creator of all things. —The theory of the Cabalists. — The manifestation of the universalfluid. — Its various names. — How this current offluid may be influenced.— The secret of the human omnipotence.— The double polarity of this force. — The expressionsemployed by the alchemists.forms. — The astral— The genesis of matter andlight of Eliphas-Levi. — The universalmagnetizing agent. — The true meaning of the term " illuminatti". — The polarisation of light to produce a livingbeing. — Light, the instrument of the spirit.— The perpetualmovement of the forces. — The two snakes at thecradle of Hercules. — How to become master of theseforces. — What movement and life is. — The exteriorform of the spirit. — The invisible chain of souls. — Thefluidic spectres and their mysteries. — The acquaintance ofthe ancients with them. — The abortions of vital light. —Theelementary demons. — The first problem of the createdspirit. — What becomes of the non-emancipated spirits.— The struggle of terrestrial and celestial life elements.— The final goal of man. — The single necessity of adetermined will. — Fourth Light. — Vital cosmic force,invisible, instinctive vital force, od. — The fourth planes ofvisible and invisible phenomena. — The exterior formof the spirit. — How universal vital force presents itselfon a plate. — The dust of lived life. — The immortalityand evolution of the spirit. — Cosmic vital forceintelligentified and morphogenised. —Law of animisticform. — Law of adaptation of the human soul tothe universal soul. — Law of Polarisation. — Schemas— 68 —

of invisible life. — Enchiridon of Pope Leo III. — Theemblem of movement of the universal soul. — The directionof the breath of life. — Formula of vital movement. — Assimilationand disassimilation. — The direction of force in usfor evolutive and involutive movement. — Formulae of thesetwo movements. — The deductions therefrom. — The medicationfor the soul. — Fifth Light. — Life word, vitaverhum,psychod. — The living luminous veil. — The revelation ofthe hidden light. — The glimmering of the cosmic lights. —The two poles of moral life. — The emanation of thought. —When the word is replaced by love. — What the seventhsense is. — The revelation of this new sense. — The religiousredemption of the soul. — Manifestation of one Being. — Theproperty of the soul-germ. — To whom the word of lifemanifests itself. — The shadow of God. — Sixth Light. —Universal Spirit. — The signature of prayer. — True creation.— The encompassing providence. — The human pessimism.— The power of prayer. — Seventh Light. — Divine radiation.Psychic, projection Divine attraction.Providential transformism.— Interpretation of the iconographs. — The twopoles of the Infinite. — Indivisibility of spirit and matter. —The chain of universal life. — The effect of desire. — Aspirationof souls. — The expression of the sign Vau. — A criterionfor positive science. — The threeplanes for the humanspirit. — The passage of thought. — Of what Iconographyhas given the signature. — The sudden appearence of theIdea. — The rehabilitation of ancient wisdom. — The capitalconsequences of this work on the human soul. — Secondand third planes of the hierarchy. — The mystery of the OneBeing.— 69 —

;CHAPTER VScience of Li^ht and offt^ifeThe life was in the word, andthe life was the light of men.The light was in the world,and the world was made by itbut the world knew it not.St. John.Light and movement before Science.What is light.Such as it is understood in the presentdefinition of physics, light is the perceptionby the eye of a special vibratory movement.The vibration has been calculated in itsamplitude varying from a 60 to an 80 thousandthof a millimetre, of a contractive and-71 -

THE HUMAN SOULexpansive movement, occuring 500 to 800trillions times a second.Below and above these formidablefigures, the eye no longer perceives light, butbrightness none the less exists.However magnificent this receptive organin man may be, it cannot be considered,nevertheless,as the standard of mensurationof light.Can a definite standard be found?Webelieve so as physical experiments provethat the sensitive plate records, for itphenomenaproduces luminous vibratorywhich escape the eye. The plates alsoreceive the light of movement in an explosionof powder, light vs^hich we might calllight of sound, that only vibrates, at themaximum, 75.000 times a second, in anamplitude of 5 metres to 5 millimetres.The plate records, before all, the vibrations,called photo-chemical, of 800 to 1600trillions times a second.Until a luminous standard other than theeye is found, it is perhaps well, in thepresent day researches, to consider the plate— 72 —

.SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEas offering a wider scale in the domain ofthe luminous.Now what does the plate do ?It records not only solar light,but alsothe lights, to which we must refer, andwhich we shall classify under visible light,invisible light, iconographable lights.Besides the visible physical light, if itmay be thus expressed, there is a light,considered up to the present as metaphysical,but which ceases to be so, since fromsubjective it may become objective andiconographableThe plate noAV records what the spiritalone conceived and affirmed.Hence it must be concluded that it is nolonger permissible to believe only vs^hatone sees,seen and yet exist :since things exist, which are notlastly, on the other hand,one cannot deny that what is, althoughinvisible, is not luminous, since the plate, asensitive standard, reveals it.The existence of the visibleinvisible isand of thetherefore linked with luminousphenomena, visible or invisible for the eye.-73 -

THE HUMAN SOULIn short, light is..., shadow is not.Shadow does not exist in itself; shadowis only a comparison between the less brightand the more bright.How can one henceforward object, sinceit is no longer a question of external ocularlight, but of a intimate vibratory movement,invisible, occult, which is, however, light,and acts as such: vital light, intelligentlights moral light.The plate has proved degrees of luminosityunknown to the eye, and has shoT\^n usexperimentally that light exists on the fourplanes of the creation.Since visual light is vibratory movementperceived by the retina and since all movementis light, one understands ^vhy bythe flash of a vibration, one may judge themovement of this vibration. Now, as lifeis before all a rupture of immobility, itsmovement will have its light, and its lightwill be the criterion of its movement.Just as one can conceive the presidinginvisible intelligence of a movement, so onewill conceive the veiled spirit of light in its— 74—

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEflash and in its form. The intensity of theinvisible light as well as the purity of itsdesign will permit the deducement of thesum of intelligence, which this light veils orof morality, of which it consists.Does not one say of a veryintelligentperson, he is very enlightened, withoutconsidering whether the sun enlightens himor not? There is therefore an invisiblelight. Moreover, in nature everything islight in different degrees of vibrations, someof which are compatible and others incompatibleto our visual faculty.But how recognisethem, if a classification is not attemptedby taking the eye and the plate asstandards ; one for the invisible luminousmovements, and the otherluminous movements ?for the invisible— 75—

:FIRSTLIGHTVisibleThe predominant type of visible light isthe solar light, then finally come the differentartificial lights. The light of the sunbrightens, warms, burns the bodies, isdecomposed by the prism and possessesthermo-chemical action compatible withthe evolution of the material v^orld, aidingits compositions and its decompositions.It has also an invisible brightness.Electricity is another visual light,awhichacts electro-chemically on material bodiesit is electric fulguration.SinceTHE HUMAN SOUL was put inthe hand of the printers, the experiments ofRoentgen on invisible light have been published.The Roentgen rays , called cathodic rays,penetrate the bodies, whose density is vreak.A sheet of tin, for example, is not penetrated,^vhile a large volume is completelycrossed. The advantages surgery has drawn— 76 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEfrom this discovery of the invisible X raysare wellknow^n, and also how by this meansthe exact place occupied in the human bodyby any foreign body, projectile, etc., may bedetermined.The interesting fact of procuring photographsof the hand showing its skeletonand its form, struck the scientific ^vorld withastonishment, it is the faculty which thisinvisible light had of lighting up the cavityof thebody by illumining or by exciting,so to speak, the intimate and interior lightof the fluidic body, which Dr. Baraduchad iconographed two years before. Thevital soul appears so luminous that,alone,the most opaque bodies which possess lessluminous life, such as the bones, decideupon the spectral shadow of the totality ofthe organs :neither veins nor nerves appear,all is immerged in the intensity of thephoto-chemical light of the animistic body.This statement, made before Science wasacquainted w^ith the luminous body, is veryremarkable; we signalize it, in passing, asa link between the purely physical known- 77-

THE HUMAN SOULexperiments and those of a more elevatedorder, which this book has undertaken tomake public.Note extracted from the Book ofBarleton vibratory movement,« Vibratory movement passes outwardsin waves, being spread at rate of 64 to73,000 a second, and with an amplitude of5 metres to 5 millimetres.5 m. to 5 mm. \200 to 500 trillionamplitude 60 thousandth of a millimetremaximum.SoundObscureheat500 to 800 trillion \amplitude 60 to 80 thousandth of a [ Lightmillimetre.;OAA J. ^eAA^ 11 • \Photo-chemical800 to 1600 trillions [ ^ ^ /> i ^ v ,) eiiect of photography« The vibrations grow fainter as theypass further away from the centre ; therays thus constituted arebends, or ellipses.straight without« If they meet a body denser than their~78-

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEcentre of origin, they are reflected orrefracted on coming in contact with it. »If we have quoted this extract of thedescription of movement, it is that allmovement having its special light, a luminousclassification will one day be made ofthe modes of the vibrations of movementbelonging to the first plane if the physicalworld.79

SECOND LIGHTInvisible, sometimes visible, electricfluid visible in the dark.We here give, as means of distinction, thesignature of the vital and electric fluids, notonly in its modes furnished by a staticmachine or the coil of Ruhmkorff, but alsoin its fusion with the vital human fluid, underthe signature of fine obic strokes or underthat of the electro-vital odic particles ;andlastly, when a third psychic factor intervenesand produces a kind of luminous star whereattraction and expansion are held in equilibriumby the interior psychic force.Electro -human lightof lodko,visible in the dark.I undertake, said Dr. Baraduc, to givethis experiment here, because my friendlodko completely succeeded when with mefor the first time. It establishes, in my— 80 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEOpinion, a link between artificial electricityand vital force ; it is further, the visibledemonstration oihuman electricity: electrohumanlight.In a dark room about a dozen peoplev^ere present during the fine experiments ofthe Russian savant. The preparations arethose vv^hich are made for the light ofRoentgen.lodko places in my left hand his condenserand in my right a large tube of Crookes,having the shape of a pear, and in whichthe air is well exhausted. The positivepole is formed by a rod having a platinumreflector on it. I feel nothing in my righthand which is holding^the tube.As soon as a person approaches, the pearis lighted up, although there is no communicationwith the pole which remained free,nor with the other since my left handwithholds it. Whenever the foreign fingertouches the pear, flames of light escapefrom the hand, penetrate the glass, and dieaw^ay on contact with mine.The flames*aremilky with a yellow— 8i —

;THE HUMAN SOULgolden centre. They do not present thegreen shades of the ordinary cathodic raysthey are pearly and appear more brillantas the person seems stronger, more full oflife.On the withdrawal of the person's handthe tube is extinguished and only againbecomes opalescent at the approach of athird person, ^vhen it is lighted up oncontact with his finger.Conclusion :In a dark and over-electrifiedmilieu, the two wires of a coil being lost, itis sufficient for a person charged with adifferent electric potential to place his handnear a tube held by a third person, for theelectro-human fluorescence to take place.This experiment of lodko \vasdone forthe first time, in Paris, March 2nd. 1896.— 82

THIRD LIGHTIconographahle occult invisible lightsOf the substance ForceThe very learned physicist Hirn, in hisbook, entitled ,, The Constitution of theCelestial Space " expresses himself thus :« Must we, as is the general tendency ofminds to-day, consider this some thing, thisindispensableagent of relationship (intersideral),as ponderable matter in a state ofdiffuse gas, so rare that one could attributeevery relationship, whatever they may be,from stars to stars, to this material surrounding;fillsor must we consider what necessarilyspace as one or several elements absolutelydifferent in nature from matter,properly so called?« The most scrupulous analysis of thedifferent facts, disclosed by science to-day,shows that it is not diffuse matter which-83-f

THE HUMAN SOULfills Space and which establishes the relationsbetween the celestialbodies. Whetherwe understand or whether we do not understand,does not alter the case ; the solemnaffirmation of modern science remainsstanding.« The final conclusion to which the comparedstudy of the totality of the bestacquired facts brings us, is in short this : »The elements of the physical world commencedto exist at a given moment and itis from that moment that the graduatedformation of the worlds dates.The actual non-materiality of intersideralspace, the recognition of Force,substanceprimordial to the formed and materialisedworlds, that is the reply of human science,of transcendant physics,by the mouth ofHirn ; 19 centuries after the Gospel of St.John, recognising the human Word of life,more than 70 centuries after the ,, fiat lux ''ot Moses, much longer still after the knowledgeof the akasa by India. Beyondthe notions furnished by calculation andthermo-dynamy, from the point of view of-84-

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEpure physics, movement, Tsrhich proceedsthe creation of all which exists, must betaken in thesetwo primordial manifestations,expansion and attraction, thosewhich for the soul we have noted on thefirst pages of this book. The plate recordsthese movements and gives a graphy foreach of them.A true meduim between these two forcesistherefore necessary, and this medium isan intermediary third factor ;it is the ponderatingspirit between the two, and causingthrough vibrationa reasoned progressionof contractions and expansions.The point of departure of the creativeseriatim would be in the respective proportionof the three factors, attraction, expansion,spirit.Their union constitutes this triune primordialsubstance, creative light, web ofthe world, where the spirit occupies a ponderativeposition between attraction andexpansion.The data are furnished not only byattractive or repulsive action exercised- 85 -

THE HUMAN SOULover a needle by the soul of a person, butalso by an experimental physical fact, bythe method of reduction and of volatilisationof the silver salts. The reduction is producedby cohesive attraction, it is the coagulatingpole, w^hilst the volatilisation of thesesame silver salts is produced by the subtilisingexpansive force,the dissolving pole.The form, the icone, the image, thereforereaches us the same vs^hether it be producedby the coagulative attractive force or vrhetherby the dissolvent force of the substance.The fact is observed on the plate itself. Ifthis fact be simple or complex, that is tosay, if the plate be all or in part positive ornegative, in the first case it will express theinvisible things of the hereafter, while inthe second it reveals the things of the herebelow.Thus follows from the precise fact ofchemical reduction or volatilisation of thesilver salts, the demonstration of the twoopposed forces, the one expansive, the otherattractive, forces determined by a differentdirection.— 86 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFESubstance-Force, vital force beforeesoterism.Veil of life, the web (Blavatsky Theosophy).The Father-Mother spreads out a cobweb,the upper end of which isattached to thespirit, and the lower end to the dark extremity,matter. And this web is the Universewhich isunrolled between two substancescontained in one.Let us see how^ esoterism, occultism,science of the hidden light have interpretedthis light, and if the facts correspond totheir data.The science of occult light is well establishedin a masterly page of a distinguishedoccultist, Stanislas de Guai'ta. Here it isw^ord for word :« Light according to the Cabalists, is thatunique substance, mediator of eternal movement,which has begot all things and tovrhich all returns, indue time, as well asthe receptacle of life and of fluidic death,where, amongst the remains of yesterday,- 87 -

THE HUMAN SOULarises the embryo of to-morrow correspondingto the Word (divine light), to thought(intellectual light). It is at the same timein the phenomenal vs^orld the sperm ofmatter and the matrix of forms, it is thehermaphrodite agent of the eternal tobecome. It constitutes that imponderableuniversal fluid, the four manifestations ofwhich are called heat, brightness, electricity,magnetism.« It is the Akasa of the Hindus, the Aorof the Hebrews, the fluid of which Zoroasterspeaks, the Telesm of Mercury, the Azothof the alchemists, the astral light of PascalisMartinez and of Eliphas Levi, the spectrallight of Passavant, the psychic force ofthe illustrious chemist Crookes, the vitalforce of Dr. Baraduc.« Here is the central point of the greatmagic synthesis. Invisible or made perceptibleto the eye by heat, light forms thisdouble fluidic current, of which the modeof cirpulation mathematically determinable,may be influenced by him who hascalculated it.— 88 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFE« Such is the supreme agent of the worksof magnetism and of theurgy, thismultiformbeing personified by the serpents ofthe Bible. To know the law of the fluidictides and of the universal currents, is asEliphas L^vi has said, to possess the secretof human omnipotence, it is to have discoveredthe practical formula of the incommunicablearcanum.« This light is androgynous, the adeptssay, its double movement is effected unceasingly,determined by its double polarity.AOD isprojection ;the positive current or current ofAOB is the negative current orcurrent of absorption.« At a given point in its evolution strictlyinvariable, the astral light is condensed,and from fluidic becomes corporeal ; it iscoagulated compound matter.« Other are the expressions of the alchemists,they call the Aod their sulphur ordry, hot, ignated, fervour. — Aob, theiruniversal, dissolvent mercury, or radicalhumidity; their coagulated compound istheir salt in red earth.-89-

THE HUMAN SOUL« It is known that whatever may be thevariation of terminology, the doctrineremains identical and all being born oflight, one may say that the scienceof thisprimordial agent unveils the absolute genesisand ofmatter forms. »Astral light of Eliphas Levi,« All these marvels are wrought by themeans of a single agent, which the Hebrewscalled Ody which we call astral light likethe School of Martinez Pascalis, whichM. de Mirville calls the devil, which theancient alchemists named Azoth. It is thevital element w^hich is manifested by thephenomena of heat, of light,and of magnetism; whichof electricity,magnetizes allterrestrial globes and all living beings.Inthis same agent, is manifested the proofs ofthe Cabalistic doctrine of equilibrium andof movement by the double polarity, one— 90 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEof which draws, while the other repiels, oneof which produces heat, the other cold,one of which finally gives a blue andgreenish light, the other a yellow andredish light.« This agent by its different modes ofmagnetizing, draws us one towards theother or removes us one from the other,submits one to the will of the other bymaking him enter into his circle of attraction;re-establishes or disturbs the equilibriuminthe animal economy by its transmutationsand its alternate waves ;receivesand transmits the impression of the imaginaryforce, which is in man the image andthe likeness of the creative word : it alsoproduces the presentiments and determinesthe dreams. The science of miracles istherefore the consequence of this marvellousforce and the art of performing miraclesis quite simply theart of magnetising andillumining beings according to the invariablelaws of magnetism or of astral light.Weprefer the word light to that of magnetism,because itis more traditional in occultism— 91 —

THE HUMAN SOULand because it expresses the nature of thesecret more completely and perfectly.It istruly the fluid and potable gold of themasters in alchemy ; the word aurum (gold)comes from the Hebrew Aoizr which meanslight. What do you desire, was demandedof the new members of every initiation ? —To see the light, they had to reply.« The name of illuminati which is generallygiven to the adepts was then in thegreater number of cases ill chosen, when itwas given a mysterious sense, as if it meantmen, whose intelligence was enlightened bymiraculous daylight. Illuminati simplymeans knowers and possessors of the light,whether by the science of the great magicagent or by the rational ontological notionof the absolute.« This universal agent is the vital forcesubordinated to intelligence. Abandonedto itself, it rapidly devours, like Moloch,all it gives birth to and turns into a vastwaste the superabundance^ of life. It isthen the infernal serpent of the ancient— 92 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEmyths, the Typhon of the Egyptians, andthe Moloch of Phoenica ;but if wisdom, themother of the Eloim puts her foot on itshead, she exhausts all the tlames which itvomits and sheds on the earth, abundantly,a quickening light.« Light is the efficient agent of the formsof life, because it is both movement andheat. When it succeeds in becoming fixedand polarised around a centre, it producesa living being, then it attracts all the necessaryplastic substance to perfect and preserveit.This plastic substance, formed of earthand water, has with reason been calledclay in the Bible .« But light is not spirit, as the Indianhierophants and allthe schools of Goetiabelieve ;light is only the instrument of thespirit.Itisnotthe body of the photoplastes,of which the theurgists of the AlexandrianSchool spoke ;it is the first physical manifestationof the divine breath.« God created it for eternity, and man, inthe image of God, modifies and seems tomultiply it.-93 -

;THE HUMAN SOUL« Astral light, named Od by the Hebrewswhen it is active. Oh when it is passive, andA our when it is in equilibrium;« The two serpents of Mercury, one blueand the other red, which are entwinedround a sceptre of silver with a gold knob« These forces are the perpetual movementof the clock of centuries ;when one ofthe serpents contract, the other relaxes.« The forces break those who do notknow how to direct them. They are thetwo snakes of the cradle of Hercules.« The child takes one in each hand, thered in the right hand, and the blue in theleft.« Then they die and their strength passesinto the arms of Hercules.« To make one's self master of these twoserpents, they must be united around thecaduceus of Mercury or separated with thestrength of Hercules.« In the soul of the world there is a currentof love and a current of anger (ouroboros,girdle of Isis).— 94 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFE« Movement and life consist in the extremetension of the forces.« Matter is the exterior form of thespirit.« Intelligence re-acts on it, and it re-actsHarmony results from theon intelligence.analogy of these two forces.« By taken possession of mind whichproduces different forms, one becomesmaster of the forms and makes them subservientto one's actions. Astral light issaturated with souls, which it frees in theincessant generation of beings.imperfectSouls havewills, which may be dominatedand employed by more powerful wills; theythen form large invisible chains and maycause and determine great elementary perturbations.»The fluidic spectres and their mysteries.« The ancients gave them differentnames, they were larvae, lemures, empuses.They loved the vapour of spilt blood andfled from the edge of the sword.— 95—

"THE HUMAN SOULTheurgy evoked them and the Cabalakne^v them under the name of elementaryspirits. They were not spirits, however, forthey were mortal.They were fluidic coagulations whichcould be destroyed by being divided.Persons possessed by spectres were generallyexalted by a too rigorous celibacy orby debauchery.The fluidic phantoms are abortions ofvital light ; they are plastic mediators withoutbody and without spirit, born of theexcesses of the spiritof the body.and of the profligacyThese wandering mediators may bedrawn by certain ill people who are fatallysympathetic to them and who lend them attheir expense, a more or less durable artificialexistence. They then serve as supplementaryinstruments to the instinctivewill of these ill people, never once to curethem, but always to lead them astray anddelude them.96

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEThe elementary demons,« The created spirits called to emancipation,through trial and tribulation areplaced from their birth bet^veen these fourforces, two positive and two negative, andare enabled to affirm or to deny the good,to choose life or death.To find the finite point, that is to say themoral centre of the cross, is the first problemwhich is given them to be solved ; thefirst conquest must be that of their ownliberty. As long as they are not free, theycannot become otherwise than incarnate inanimal forms. These non-emancipated spirits,slaves of the four elements, are thosewhich the Cabal ists call elementary demons,and they people the elements.Sylphs, undines, gnomes and salamandersreally exist, some wandering and seekingto become incarnate ; others incarnatewander over the earth, they are the viciousand imperfect men. »These citations show the knowledge that— 97-

THE HUMAN SOULoccult science had of those forces unknown toor disregarded by offiqial science. Terrestrialmagnetism, this Nahas Dragon of the thresholdof mystery, is the desire of the beingcalled earth, whose material body only wewish to know, but ^whose soul is revealedto us by the magnetic meridian and bythe meridian of force and strength causingthe peoples and the races to evolve every500 years.The terrestrial life element isin strugglewith the celestial life element, as attractionis with repulsion.The opposition of material life, the elementof this world, with the spiritual life,the element of the other, has always existed.Scepticism has not failed to recogniseit, and man, by his double nature, acquaintedwith both, is obliged to returntowards his terrestrial Mother or to ascendtowards his celestial Father.One must have a firm and determinedwill ; all the rest is only illusion. Peace beto the men of good-will, who place theirfoot on the head of their own fluidic-98-

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEserpent, knowing hpw to vanquish lowinstincts, the vain forms of desire andallurement, in order that the will of thespirit may soar upwards and preserveall the strength for its flight.— 99—

FOURTH LIGHTVital cosmic force, invisible, instinctivevital force, Od,Doublemovement of^^^ spirit of death (Life aspires,(I>issolvent agent jDeath expires.1universalj ^he spirit of life (Death aspires,transformism f Coagulating agent JLife expires.The human souljLife aspires.(Life expires.Dr. H. B.By means of experiments, theand visibleinvisibleluminous phenomena may bereceived on a sensitive plate, in the fourplanes : material, animistic or vital, intellectualand moral, and the volatilising orreductive effects noted, w^hich the silversalts undergo by reason of expansion or ofattraction. , .This goes to prove that all lies in thevalue, in the virtue of the spirit veiled by— 100 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEthe form, itself represented by expansive orattractive^ dissolvent or reductive phenomenaon the sensitive plate.Intermediate to these two semi-consciousand instinctive forces, the voluntary andconscious spirit composes the form v^hichrepresents it. Its light is its life and itsform depends on the force of its will, aswell as on the loftiness of its morality.The universal vital force presents itselfin the form of black and white openworktexturCy according as the reduction of thesilver salts has or has not taken place.Life has its shadow, death, which is adeformed existence, a dynamic dust inentreaty for revitalisation. The iconographyof the dead and formless fluid, madeat the same time as that of the universalvital fluid, shows the signature of the scoriaeof the fluidic world; it recalls somewhatto mind the human Ob and containsseveral soul germs. It is the dust of livedlife, it is the inferos,the'abyss, the dread.After all. Life and Death are relativeterms, the incomplete expressions of a— 101 —

THE HUMAN SOULstate: existencer permanence in transformation,evolution. In metaphorical style,material life would be animistic death toa much more marked degree.spirit remains and evolves in theAlone, themidst ofthe transformations of its soul and of itsbody, transformations slowly and intimatelyundergone, for what we call Life, orabruptly and totally effected, for what wecall Death. The error arises through whatwe ascribe to our senses and not to ouressence; and the eye mistakes us for thetwo-faced phenon^enon, the Life-Death,also forthe light-darkness. We believe indeath as well as in the shades, where thereonly is life, light and progressive transformation.Cosmic vital force progressively intelligentifiedand morphogenised (taking aform) in conformity to the statethe aspirant.of soul ofHere are three laws resulting from personalobservations, and from those madeby others, which have been constantly repeated.— 102 —

;SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFELaw of animistic form. — 1.Form is theanimo-fluidic expression of the spirit whichit veils. Such as the sigiij the form., theobject is, so is the subject, of which it isthe signature, the spirit which it covers.Law of adaptation of the human soul tothe universal soul. — 2. The state of thehuman soul induces, evokes, aspires asimilar universal state of soul. The universalweb is by the purity of its form inharmonious relation with that of the humansoul, which inhales it, appeals to itit cannot be otherwise if the adaptationisto take place. The inhalation and exhalationof the human soul are in relationwith its stateisof purity and constitute whatcalled the fluidic and moral atmosphereof a person.Law of Polarisation. — 3. The vital forceis polarised in an ellipsiodal lineof force,alternately making a white speck and ablack speck on the negative (Plates no 33& 34).— 103 —

THE HUMAN SOULSchemas of invisiblelifeThis schema, drawn from the Enchiridonof pope Leo III to Charlemagne, is reallythe emblem of the movement of the universalsoul, of the spirit of life, surrounding our^oul germ represented by a centralcircle,in the middle of the cross uniting the fourbreezes of the universal spirit.The angels have only two heads, oneabove and one below, and two feet. Theyform, how^ever, four angels, walking andflying, the foot on the wing.1. From bottom to top S. N. 3. FromOrient to Occident :Or. Occ.2. From top to bottom N. S. 4. FromOccident to Orient :Occ. Or.In short, the breath of life for the evolutivehead, comes from the South to theNorth, from the East to the West ;for theinvolutive head, from the North to theSouth, or from the West to the East.Movement takes place from top to bottomas well as from bottom to top. It is the— 104 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEwheel, the vital ripple, the entry of thespirit into matter, also its exterioration.So true it is, that what is above, iswhat is below, for the manifestation ofprodigies of a single thing, which, byadaptation, will give birth to all by the willof one alone.I have referred to this schema, becauseit is the proof that vital movement wasknown to the 8th. century. Biometry hasmade me re-discover it by its formulae.This double movement of right tofrom bottom to top,— 105 —left andconstitutes perpetual

THE HUMAN SOULmotion, the rippling of essential lifetoreadyconcrete the matter of the body or toliberate the intelligence germ projected inthe moving veil of the material body, whichimprisoned it.It is the double movement of lifewhichpermits the entry of new assimilated substancesand the outlet of used cells; in otherterms, assimilation and disassimilation.We knoT^ that force is transversally carriedfrom the right of man to the left ofman ; from the under-umbilical to the overumbilicalman, in the liberating evolutivemovement of the universal spirit in us. Itis carried from left to right of the overumbilicalpart to the under-umbilical partin the involution, the spirit being incorporated.The formula att. 5/rep. 10 will indicate amovement of universal soul in us, evolutivethat is to say, from right to leftand frombottom to top, from the under-umbilical tothe over-umbilical, and a movement of oursoul, of the corporeality towards spirituality,the angel ascends in us towards the— io6 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFESpirit; whilst the formula rep. 10/att. 5 Tvillindicate an inverse movement from left toright, from top to bottom, it is the angelw^hich descends in us towards the animal.The practical side of these biometricalformulae, is to be able to specify the stateof soul, the vital temperature with its therapeuticdeducements, applicable to thelife-element, the soul and the body beingsubject to movement and to variations.In equilibrium can replace equilibrium,disease health.There is therefore a medication of theelectro-fiuido-psychic soul as well as a materialaero-hydro-chemical medication forthe body.— 107 —

FIFTH LIGHTLifeWord, vita verbum, psychod.The life was in the wordand the life ivas the lightof men.St. John,In the beginning, before the manifestationof all things, the Word was, and in thisWord was this tissue veil of love, of intelligenceand of light which covered itsglory.The luminous veil was living, because thelife was in the Word and thelight of men.life was theThis light has remained invisible to theirbodily eye, incapable of perceiving it, whichmade it all the more unheeded, although itwas proclaimed by the initiated and belongedto the pure and to the strong.But all coming at its appointed time, itcould not for ever remain beyond experimentalphenomenonism ; now that the evo-— 108 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFElution of the human spirit permits it, itshour has come. The web of life is nowbeing lifted ;it can no longer be rejected asa dream, it is a fact.The life of the Word, this universal lovenet of light, whence all comes and whereall returns, is manifested and becomesaccessible, thanks to an organ so sensitiveas the photographic plate.In attempting a classificationof cosmiclights, that is to say extra-human bj callingit Lux and Vita, I believe that I amasserting a truth and proving a fact.The glimmering is so subtile, that itescapes our fifth sense.Very different fromthe solar light, the so vivid expansion ofwhich blinds all when shining, burns allwhen heating, and presides over the organochemicalvitality, this gentle brightness is afreshness which comforts, vivifies and illumines,it is made of love and of intelligence; it is a similar state of soul developedin us, which makes itself manifested outwardlyon the plate,communicated sensitively.— 109 —

:;THE HUMAN SOUL\Moral life has two poles, the individualthe collective^ the plastic immutability, thefunctional instinct, the individual egoism,the hate of non-self; it is the preservativelife of the incorporated individual.The fluido-pneumic life is the other poleit is the gaseous expansion, the flashingsvriftness of electricity, the soul-form, theUniversal soul of the Universal, the charityand the final issue.Life, said Lacuria, is unity, infinity ;everyform, that expresses and encloses unity orinfinity must be a living form. It is necessaryto addAll life manifested by the involutive formof the spirit, w^hether invisible or iconographable,or visible limited in a materialbody, is alvrays the emanation, the more orless obscured radiation of the universalcreative imagination, of this ultimate andsupreme Though t which projects and aspiresin turns, legions of evolving beings ondifferent grades, having the body, thesoul-form, the spirit hierarchically dispensedand severally and jointedly constitut-— no —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEed, whatever be their state of self-consciousnessand that of the surroundings,witness of their evolutive existence. Theseven stages are for them to travel progressively,by efforts. At the sixth sense, theWord is replaced in us by love, we are onew^ith it, as it is one with the Father.At theseventh sense, the Holy Spirit disclosedthe Father of goodness to us by the sense ofthe Divine then acquired.Life commences to allow itself be experimentallypenetrated; v^e are able to seethe form of this veil of light, of intelligenceand of love, of which antiquity spoke :theveil of Isis, the kind Goddess ; the web ofPersephone ;the net of life where each jointis a fluidic being ; cloak of Tanith ; coveringof light of the saints, the cloak of glory ofthe elect (Isaiah).Life in its element higher than the visiblephenomenon, commences to reveal its trace,disclose its universal tissue, its perpetualmovement, its lines of force, its nodes ofspecialised life in personal existences, insoul-germs, which are one day corporeal-— Ill —

THE HUMAN SOULIj individualised, at carnal birth with thesoul. One will have the whole scale of theindividualised soul, detached from thegreat universal soul, and passing by theseven animistic stages, for its return to thecentre, which is called religious redemption.Iconography has given us graphics of theattractive instinctive soul of life, of theintelligence of the Word, that of the universalspirit, manifestation of the OneBeing,as it has given us the seven lights of thesoul, from general life to individual spiritualisation.This germ-soul, particle detached fromthe universal soul, is a harmonic centre, theintimate vibration of which is personaland is in an equilibrium of attraction andexpansion; leaving, it remains withoutinfluence on the exterior agents capable ofchanging its condition. Like the materialseed, this fluidic seed contains the individualand the race by its property, beforeentering in the phenomenon of terrestriallife, in the material plane. This soul-germevolved to the spiritual soul of man pre-— 112 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEsents a four rayed pearl, causing him tocommunicate with the four breezes of thespiritof life, the four cardinal points, thefour elements, the four planes :material,pneumic, intellectual, moral.On the human plane, between the corporealand the divine, is the Word of life.ThisWord of life is universal love ; it disclosesits light to him, who magnetises it with theloadstone, since it is at the same time, love,intelligence and life.Four plates have been obtained, when thesoul experienced not a egotistical or sensualfeeling, but a reciprocal sweet tenderness,a common fusion of souls in harmonythrough their vibrations ;then the chain oflife appears and gives its signature.The will may project its psychic sparkling;but the gentle emanation of the heartis necessary to attract this universal substance,which is soul, life, light and intelligenceat the same time.God, said Rabbi-Schimeon, when he wishedto create, cast a veil over his glory, and thefolds of this veil, he projected his shadow.- 113 -

;SIXTH LIGHTUniversal SpiritThe emanation of the universalspirit so subtile andso expansive by its nature,is still favoured and acceleratedby the tension of thewilLLo-Looz. Celestial influences anduniversal magnetism.ICONOGRAPHY XLVIRed obscurity.State of soul magnetising;desire-demand, prayer to the psychicuniversal spirit of the world.The prayer has elliptically inflected avery beautiful net of fine psychic lamellassubtilecosmic pneuma, universal web oflight, of a remarkable purity.Traits of light on the left of the negativeare also seen in the form of down.I have now had the ample satisfaction ofseeing that the phenomenon has shown— 114 —

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEitself identical with itself, the light, the life,the spirit, everywhere, everywhere souls :the universe bathing in this light of lifewhich exists at every point,the spirit providentiallysurrounding us on all sides.The plate records the soul and signs therevelation of the Spirit,to whomever haslearnt to consult it face to face in the nightof the laboratory, with the pure ardour ofhis spirit.Light, life, cosmic happiness, here iscreation. Why . .is free man made unhappyby wishing to flee from the phenomenon ?Life considered as universal transformation,everywhere more and more light;everywhere the providential spirit awaitingthe interrogation, the invocation of thehuman spirit. And still in this cosmos oflife,of intelligence and of love, man onlysees darkness, perdition, death, materialdecay and nothingness, the bottomless pitof destruction.Now, that it is proved that prayer is nota vain word ; that celestial desire is apowerful dynamic for the spirit;- 115 -that the

THE HUMAN SOULkey of mystery is in the hands of him whowishes and deserves to possess it,it is to behoped that human reason will there findthe affirmative solution of what it wouldconsider as pure fiction and which, freedfrom the darkness of doubt, from the pangsof despair, it ^vill pass from the herebelowto that light which the Church invokes forthe dead : Lux perpetua luceat eis T Mayeternal light shine on them T— u6-

SEVENTH LIGHTDivine radiation. Psychic projection.Divine attraction. Providentialtransform ismIf it was given me to realise signs andforms such as the following iconographies,1 have only had to interpret themwith more or less investigation and personalthought. But, other thinkers, withoutbeing aided by allthese experimental instruments,have been so deeply inspired —up to the third plane, intelligent Spirit —that I cannot do better than add their scientificintuition to the objective and experimentalrealisation of the phenomenon obtainedby me and seen by them.Let us listen to what Barlet says : « It isthe periodic continual descent from thesubtile into the dense, from the Eon intothe Ether, from the quintessence into thesubstance, from the divine fire attracted by— 117 —

THE HUMAN SOULthe desire of astringency, from the Spiritcalled by matter, from the Being evoked bythe void.« The formidable hierarchy of the creaturesextends between these tw^o poles of theInfinite, the cosmic lifeacross their evolutions,like the accomplishment of this ineffablemystery which is the manifestationof the inexpressible absolute.« Religion tells us : it is by life that Godappeals to the plenitude of the Being, thecreatures which He has drawn from thevoid.« This current leaves no room for abstraction;this latter is only, like the dualisticto the division of space and of time.antithesis, in the human spirit, condemnedNowherein the universe is the spirit separatedfrom matter, the being from the non-being.It is their very union that is the nearestcause of the Universe, its reason of being ;there are only beings in the creation ;allpower is attached to a reality and viceversa.Only the proportions of being and ofvoid vary in the creatures,— ii8 —form them into

:SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEan indefinite series, which is the web ofuniversal life, the nomads which travelthrough it, forming the chain ; every beingis a synthesis of inferior nomads, dominatedby a superior which assures their unionit constitutes a concentration of the multiplicityinto a unity ; its end is to identifyeach of the inferior nomads with the superiorand thus to raise step by step up tosupreme unity the nomad-creature drawnfrom the void.It is by the effect of desire, that the inferiornomads are synthetised, syndicated ;when they have succeeded, the spirit ofunity (the Holy Spirit) who has reassembledthem down below, calls from on highthe nomad immediately superior tothem,which unifies them into a new being. » (1).Is not this the law of transformism in thefluidicinvisible under the influence of theprovidential spirit which is here describedwith enlightenment? Experimental Iconographyhas given us the real sign of this(1) Barlet : La Creation.— 119 —

THE HUMAN SOULvery transformism, under the influence ofthe Spirit,the preservative and perpetuativeprovidence of the manifestation, respondingto human invocation, when it appealsto the Spirit of light itself.Divine attraction, aspiration of souls,providential transformismThe Van is the sign, the manifestation ofthe Spirit increate, by which all is transformedinto the invisible ; it expresses thetranssubstantiation, the transmutation ofform and of matter, by the descent of thequickening Spirit, of the Holy Spirit.The sign expresses the thing ; the moreperfect the sign is, the more perfect isthe thing.The aphorism, ex nihilo nihiL from nothingcomes nothing y is a criterion for positivescience ; it wished only to be judged froma tangible, sensitive and especially visualrange of experiment ; now, the sight of theeye hardly passes the first plane of matter.For the human spirit, which, from visiblethings, penetrates into the invisible things— 120 —

;;;SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEand experimentally demonstrates theirreality, there is no confusion between thethree planes : 1 . the mind of intelligence2. the invisible but objectivible form ; 3. thetangible phenomenon. The creation of theobject is rightly the passage of thought bythe modulative force of the form, of theimage, and finally realised in matter.It is the passage from the conception tothe form, and form the form to the materialobjectivity. The psychicone is the proofof it for the human creation.Let us enlarge upon the relationship :fromnothing comes nothing, but for God, onemust add : if it is not from Him.Iconography has given me the signature :1. Of the cosmic vital force, universalinstinct2. The spirit of life of the Word, Intelligenceand love3 The descents of intellectual potentials ;4. The sign of the Spirit Creator, of theParaclete.The course has been run its w^hole length,I have taken more than two years to follow— 121 —

THE HUMAN SOULthe path, alone in this world, perseverando,laborando et orando. In order not to betaken by surprise by any phenomenon,often stopped, when dizziness seized me,resuming my task after a pause. I have beenable to fulfil it, not without having beenaided by the sudden appearance of the Idea,which permitted me to arrive safely at theinterpretation reflected by the form, by theobtained signature.Thus has been able to be brought to lightthe existence, scientifically demonstrated,of the invisible fiuidic life of the world ofthe soul (2nd. plane) and of the spirit(3rd. plane) and departing, proved the invisible,but real communion of the heavenand of the earth. At the same time, thescience of the ancient wisdom, from Manethoto Moses, from Pythagoras to theincarnate Word, has been rehabilitated byits revealed mystery.The consequences which result from thiswork for the human reason are capital,because there is nothing secret, which may— 122 —I

SCIENCE OF LIGHT AND LIFEnot be known and exposed as evidence ;weare at a turning-point in the history of thew^orld.The demonstration of the force of cosmiclife and of the intellectual life, this tissue oflight and of intelligence, constitutes the2nd. and 3rd. planes of the hierarchy in themanifestation.What is then the incessant transmutationof life and of death, the Mein ? What is theCeph, the virility, the human reason ? Whatis t\\eAlephy this terrestrial life, full of delusions,of appearances, of fluidic forms andof material modifications ? What are, whenone thinks of it, all these forces in comparisonto the lod, the absolute Being, immutable,that is to say co-eternal w^ith himself,the Being and the non-being, the non-manifestedand the manifested. Qui est Deus ?What is, in fact, the ultimate manifestationof creation, individualised, divided indefinitelyby incorporated in matter, in relationwith the primordial, with the Essence, theabsolute Being, God ?- 125-

—Communion ofCHAPTER VIthe human Soul withcosmic extra«human forces correspondingto its oiA^n materia!, fluidic, pneumicdivine pSanes.Man, the mathematically defined point in space. — Theintersection of the four lines of forces. — Communion of thesoul with the Universal Soul.— The projected divine Ray.The Universal Spirit Butthi. — The Manas of the Hindus. —The relationship of the physical body with the manifestationsof life.— The psycho-spiritual and animo-material planes ofthe soul. — The Unity and Trinity of God. — The restlessnessof man. — Hylic Soul. — The descent of the physicalsoul from the spiritualised regions. — The material excessivevital soul. — The instinctivo-sensitive soul. — The animoorganicsub- temperaments. — The createdneed. — The dependencyof the nervous, gouty, etc. on their atmosphericconditions. — The life of the terrestrial being. — PneumofluidicSoul. — The relation of the neurasthenic to the cosmicforce. — Those in intimate communion withthe fluidic finvisible.— The carnal soul. — The pneumic soul sense ofthe invisible. — The influence of the animo-fluidic emanation.— The possession of fluidic souls. — Danger of thesefluido-pneumic experiments. — The mephitic gases. — Thephenomenon of obsession. — The force called mercurial.Its iconograph. — The appeal to the magnetizing current. —The exterioration of the mercurial force. — Its icone and theexorcised larvae. — Fluido-spiritic Communion or study of— 125 —

fluidic spectral forms of the souls of the Disincarnate. — Theremaining vitality after death. — The soul-spectre of thedeparted. — Positive plate of the hereafter. — Double psycho-physical form. — The formative physical material soul.— Spontaneous Iconography, — Auto-production of intentionalforms. — The attraction at the North pole. — The threefactorsnoted. — Act of determinism. — Iconography by thefluido-animistic magnetising current. — The double experimentof the electro-vital particles. — Artificial forehead ofthe hereafter. — Its manifestations. — The existenceof thesoul after death as movement. — Mathematical proof of thepersistence of|animistic life beyond the grave. — PsychicSoul, — Communion with the spirit of life of intelligence. —Union w^ith the divine. — The words of St. John. — Aphorismof Maxv/ell. — The material proof of favourably receivedprayer. — The descent of the Spirit. — The halo of sacredness.— Universal love. — The divine on earth. — Thelife of the purified mystic spirit. — Divine Communion. —Reaction of soul and body. — The manifestation of God. —Sign of the intelligence uncreate. — Bond of all things. —The revelation of the invisible creation. — Synthesis of UnuversalCommunion. — The example of Socrates. — His dailymaterial requirements. — His self-mastery of soul. — His lastwords to Plato. — The function of our psychic soul. — Thelaw of reproduction. — Fluidic contact. — The differentnames given to its various states. — The aspiration of thespirit. — Persistance of individuality after death. — Thetoedium vitoe which comes to occultists. — The hour chosenfor deliverance. — The return of the soul to its universalcentre. — The real death of the soul. — Our duty here-below.— The communion of man with God. — Man's dependency oncreated nature. — The Spirit of Light. — The sub-multiplesof divinity. — The great illusion of perversity. — Divinehierarchy. — Web of Life and of Love.— 126 -

CHAPTER VICommunion of the human Soul withcosmic extra-human forces correspondingto its own material^ fluldo-pneumic,divine planes.Barlet.Synthesis of divine spirit, of vital andpsychic soul, of terrestrial body, man maybe considered as a point,defined in time and space by the— 127 —mathematicallyThere therefore may becommunion more or lessgross w^ith the invisible, butthere ^vill never be initiation,esoterism, conscious expansionofthe human intelligencein the world of first causes,w^ithout a previous knowledgealready transcendant,and especially w^ithout apow^erful w^ill at the serviceof an almost perfect morality.intersec-

tionTHE HUMAN SOULof four lines of forces, coining fromthe planes, materiaL fluido-vitaL pneumopsychicand of divine radiation. Thusindividualised, he is far from being isolatedin creation, and finds himself bound to thecollectivity of what exists by visible andtangible bonds, as v^ell as by invisible butreal bonds, of this fluidic world, admittedand desired in turns which iconography hasjust scientifically and experimentally revealed.The communion of the soul, of the ego,with the universal soul of the non-ego,sointimate, that in an experiment on thesensitive soul, one does not recognise onthe plates animistic forms spontaneouslyproduced, a linear trait stopping theluminous vibrations short ;isall these luminousshadows are produced by a relation oflight between them, which makes themcease to be themselves.The human spirit is in direct communicationby its higher understanding (7 th.sense) with the Hindu atma, the projecteddivine Ray, the primordial— 128 —manifestation

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULof the intelligence Absolute Increate, calledGod or Parabrahm.The spiritual soul (conscience and will)by its intelligence is in relation with thepsychic forceof the world, the UniversalSpirit Butthi and the fiuidic intelligencebeings, to whatever category they maybelong.The human Manas of the Hindu classification,the star with four branches of graphicscorrespond to the psychaour.The physical material soul, vital, odic,of the classification of the lights of the soulis in relation with the cosmic vital force,the instinctive soul of the world, both lightcreative Life and destructive fire.The material body is in relation with themost tangible and known manifestationsof life, that is to say, with the electrocaloricand chemical phenomena, theelectrolysis of endosmose and of exosmose;with concretion, chemical dissolution of thematerials of the body ; assimilation anddisassimilation.The ponderation, the harmony in the— 129 —

THE HUMAN SOULintelligent tonalisation of the secondaryforces which penetrate us, bring about theindividualisation of the fluidic body, thedevelopment of the soul and of its body.The formed human soul posseses, like theuniversal soul, two planes, psycho-spiritualand animo-material, corresponding to thetwo poles of the creation, of which good andevil, white and black, light and shade, arethe most usual expressions, and havesanctioned the error of Manichean dualism.Man is three, body, soul, spirit. Godmanifested is three, non -manifested is One,In short, man of the fifth sense of thefifth race, of the fifth stage, a little godunconscious of his deity,hardly consciousof his free-will, of his Will-power, exists andpersists by the law of successive andprogressive lives, by the chain of repercussedexistences, being begot morally andsucceeding each other equitably. At ourepoch, ignorant of his origin, misjudinghis ends, he twists and turns in vain betweenthe allurement of animal instinctivity,thedesire and the attraction of the divine ray- 130 -

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULwhich commences to illumine consciences,eighteen centuries after Golgotha. Fromthat time on the oscillationscontinue veryrestless ; the soul rushes with more impatiencethan justness of appreciation,towards the idea which would deliver itfrom the tentacles of the animal of thevoid and of despair.— ^3^

HYLIC SOULCommunion of the human physical soulwith the physical plane, creatednature terrestrialIf the key note of our existence is thephysical soul, the material force of ourfluidic form, the totality of our life in itsacts, as well as our temperament in its organicfunctions, will descend from thespiritualisedregions with which we shouldhave or have been able to sympathise. Thesoul will be hyper-sensitive, that issenuous.to sayHe who denies the soul, will only understand,however without interpreting it, thefunctional life of the organ and of itssystem,the good working of the digestion andof the cerebral hemisphere : he will onlyadmit as intellectualthe senses,what has passed byand especially he who gives itthe notion or the preferred sensation.- 132-His

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULsoul will be material and the strength ofhis vitality excessive.The somodic soul really united to theterrestrial body, incapable of elevatingprayer, of spiritual ecstacy, will makeman life happy in his flesh, full of healthand satisfied in his unconsciousness as wellas in his ignorance of himself, superbanimal full of himself.It is the lower manas of theosophy, theinstinctivo-sensitive soul of the materialists,as well as the impressionist artists :For thesavant, the cerebral sensation of knowing,is equivalent to that of feeling for theartist.Still lower, following the predominantsystems come the animo-organic sub-temperaments.The sanguine, the nervous, thebilious, the lymphatic present this predominanceof the vital soul of a system whichwill impose on the whole of this beingimperfectly evolved a deponderated physiology:it demands an alimentation, a particularsupport, material, liquid, gaseousor fluidic, to live its mode of life.— 133—

THE HUMAN SOULMeat will make the meat of man muscle,alcohol and the essential oils, the morphines,also the hashish will be the need, thedesire of these instinctive vitalities, thefolly of created needs.The nervous will only live by and fortheir nerves.They are in communion withthe electricity of the world, and are dependenton a storm, likeon account of theirblood, the arthritic and the gouty are underthe dependency of the hygrometricconditions,the atmospheric variations, of thecold, the heat, the dryness, the dampness,secondary manifestations of the spirit oflife.Such is the material, climateric life of theterrestrial being, friend of Horace, andpossessor of the chanted vineyard, as wellas that of the unfortunate who lives anddies in its latitude. All have the samemother, this hyle full of transformationsand of mortifications for those who puttheir faith in it, without being able to elevatethemselves to the notions of the pneumofluidiclife,remained a negation for them.— 134—

PNEUIVIO - FLUIDIC SOUL.Communion with the fluidic world of theinvisible 2nd planeEvery electro-cosmic modification disturbsthe impaired soul of a neurasthenic ;it will depress his capital life already soreduced.His soul being in intimate relationwith the cosmic force,as is proved by hisbiometric formula, characterized by adouble attraction (att./att.), it will be annihilatedat the least intimate contact on theouter surface.This same shock will transform into wanderingvapours, into invading auras, thesoul so easily oscillatory and proteiform ofthe hysterical, who more than all othersare in communion with the fluidic invisible.Thus are explained their fits of temjper,their nervous crises, their multiple personalitiesand their affections without lesions,of dynamo-vital order.— i3'> —

THE HUMAN SOULAs carnal as a soul may be, i^-seems preferableto a nature suffering from intenseaffection. One is in free communion ^vithinstinctive nature, which has the right oflife and of manifestation on a higher plane,it is true, but it is loyal and conscious withitself, whilst the nervously affected haveno exact classification. He is an arrestedforce, not in equilibrium, an unclassedbeing, whose animistic mold will have to bebroken, the shell emptied, the parasitofluidicpossession eliminated, the ps^xhaourliberated by death to remake himself a life,a new soul more harmonised.The pneumic soul has already a commencementof the sense of the invisible ; itfeels itself touched, there where thehylicsoul experiences nothing and laughs at theso-called communion too subtile for its grossnature.If its tendencies are psychic, it Tvill refineits sense which well directed, will giveplace to more interesting results.If it contents itself with the phenomenato be studied and recorded, it will be a— 136 —

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULmedium, a python, will know what telepathyis ;but when the thrill of the invisibleseizes it, when it feels the breath of the hereafter,it will then commune with all thefluidic emanations, which will make themore material sensations of the earth neglected;it will give itself up to the illusion,to the hallucination of the hyper-sensitiveanimistic form, then one day the pneumicafter having been possessed by it, will finallypossess it. There is no need of doorsfor the Huidic parasitism to take possessionof the movement of a soul,and for a badinfluence to dominate an existence.From the moment when a little warmmagnetism, an obic wave, an imposition ofhands awakens one from a syncope, vs^hena counsel warms the soul, when a suggestiongives force and life to the organism, oneunderstands without difficulty, the movementand the action at a distance of thehuman emanation, of the fluid, as well asthat of the breath of the invisible upon thevisible. Now that the experiment demonstratesthe movement and the light of the— 137—

THE HUMAN SOULfluidic world, it is easy to interpret the actionof this animo-fluidic world upon the soulof a living person, who willfeel its breathand will be able to keep it, make a sympneumaAvith it, like one mixes two gases,two liquids, two solutions which finallyremain blended and amalgamated.Fluidic communion leads to ftuido-animisticparasitism, to obsession and finally topossession.Thus two personalities, two souls area single body, each constituting a fluidichalf.Soon, one will take the other and thepossession v^ill be complete, having succeededthe obsession.One sees all the precautions to take incertain fluido-pneumic experiments, consideringthat the soul has a movement of respirationdemonstrated by biometry andiconography.And just as the lung, instead of inhalingoxygen, which is the gas of normal respiration,may breath carbon dioxide,inthe soul,instead of being supported by the universalpsychod, the force of life and the universal- 138 -

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULSpirit, may be invaded by these mephiticgases, that is to say real fluidic poisons,which disturb the movements of the soul,obscure its light, pervert its intelligence, killits moral individuality.The obsession ends by the elimination ofthe foreign animistic movement of the badfluids or by the hand placed on the person,who has given himself up to the obsession.One might think that I am speaking ofthings invented for pleasure.Now, this isnot the case. If M. Bois and M. Huysmanswere able to record this phenomenon,which they describe under the name ofSatanism, I have been able to study it experimentallyand Ispeak only of experiments,which I have undertaken.It is to be remembered that the soul isform, movement and light : that one mayjudge the soul by its form, its luminousvibration and its signature.Mme Bl... is a possessed person, veryfluent under the inspiration of a force calledmercurial.She demands adoration for her god, who— 139—

THE HUMAN SOULvisits her, breathes upon her, completelypossesses her.This lady of a certain age was thus effectedafter an experiment of the turning table.Several doctors have diagnosed her state asthat of a mad person suffering from themonomania of v^riting ; but for me, she isan inspired larva, that is to say a fluidicpossessed after the experiment quoted.From the psychological point of view,she communes in many Tvays with a forceof which I have had the iconography vs^hichis the most unexpected of phenomena.The larvae of Mme Bl... were attracted ona plate producing an icone bipolarised ona positive plate which I had to have transformedinto a negative plate, to have theseries of negatives which I here present(Plate L.).I leave to each the impressionof this form. Viewed in one direction, Ithere see a shell called demoniac, similar tothe larvae exteriorised by the practices ofexorcism. (1)1) See the drawings of exorcism, putting to flight not a largedevil, but a small larva.— I4t> —

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULBut Isimply wish to drawn this conclusionfrom it :1. That an appeal to certain forces insympneuma with a person, is capable ofgiving the magnetizing current, the form ofthis force, the signature of the fluidic parasitismand the form of the possessed person.This icone comes entirely from one sideof the face of Mme Bl..., and from the other,invisible besetting force, larva, devil, imp,dissolvent entity on the physical and moralplane.2. That wishing to project the cherishedfeatures of her idol she was able by herwill alone, to exteriorate only a little of herohic force in the vague form of an old mercurywith winged scales.3. The resemblance of the positive iconewith the larvae of the exorcised is very striking.This question is known to the theologiansto whom I presented the case, bishopor priest. It was curious to make the experimentaldemonstration of it, not omitt-— 141 —

THE HUMAN SOULing to warn that these experiments causesometimes rather serious inconveniences :that is the danger of certain occult practices.142 —

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULFluidO'Spiritic communion or study offluidic spectral forms of the soulsof the disincarnateCertain agreed experiments during thelifetime of a person, to be realised after hisdeath, having permitted me to think thatthe movements of the soul of a dead personvv^ere a sensitive reality, but invisible, I havebeen convinced after other experimentsthat the movement and the glimmer of thedead were able to affect a plate.I desiredto knov^ if in the hair of a dead person, therestill remained some of his vitality.With the hair of Dr. B. . . I only obtainedsome electro-vital particles more considerablethan usual. But with that of Mme A.who had already been dead for severalmonths, we were able to obtain a formresembling her.It is not the soul of Mme A. which hasbeen reproduced, it is only the shadow,that is to say the formative physical soul- 143—

THE HUMAN SOULof the body, the soul-spectre, the astralform, the double ; but neither her physicalsoul nor her spirit has come into account.The conclusion which follows is, thatthere remains something of the plasticvitality of a person in his hair ; it is theshadow which remains around the tomb.The following plates are no longer similar;they are positive. I do not deducj^ anylaws from them, but the future will decidethe relationship which exists between thepositive plate and the invisible cause whichacts in a direction opposed to the reductionof the silver salts,of these salts.The second point isthe double psychophysicalform :that of the subtilisationthe good form and the badform is seen. The distinction is very wellmarked in the following plate obtained withme by Major Darget. Here the animisticform is not extracted from anything; itcame in the odo-electro-psychic magnetizingcurrent which the major had created.It came brutally followed by a whole pleiad— 144 —

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULof instinctive souls :a monkey, a human head.a fox, a lion, a snake,It is curious to note that the souls of theseanimals only offer a face, the formativephysical material soul advancing as movementin the same direction as the vs^ickedhead, the black face. Yes, very curious toremark for the animal series only one side,the brutal face, instinctivo-formative force.SPONTANEOUS ICONOGRAPHYAuto-production of intentional forms.Shadows, Soul-germsThe North pole is attractive, cohesive,formative. On the other hand, the Southpole does not attract, does not present anyspontaneous phenomena, any intentionalforms on the plates. Never have I had anyvital force iconographed at the South Pole,and it has been produced at the NorthPole. The forms appear at the North Poleand not at the South pole.— 145—

;;THE HUMAN SOULI note : 1. The direction of collectivecontractive movement2. The nature of the agent in movement,show^n by iconography, that is to say soulgerms or black points, as opposed to thelife-animules or w^hite points3. Lastly the intention which presidesover the grouping excludes all chances ; itis an intelligent act which presided overthis movement ofsoul-germs or life-animulestaking the shape of a face.These three factors are unassailable, thephenomenon is what it is ; it is for us firstof us to remark itand then to interpret it,if possible. Here, it is a question of spontaneousphenomena, of intentional formswhich are produced by themselves, nolonger by an appeal of the human soul w^ithor without electricity, but by the simplemineral magnetic attraction of the Northpole, in the dark, inthe silence of successivedays and nights.These so simple experiments render themechanism of intention in the grouping of— 146 —

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULcosmic animistic particles obvious. It isthe expression of an act of will-powerwhich directs them, groups them ; this actof determinism is a point ^vorthy of consideration,for it shows that in the dark, inthe invisible for the eye, there exist lightand luminous entities ; these entities obeya force of grouping, having the intention ofproducing a phenomenon, of manifestingan intentional form ; it is a psychicone ofof the hereafter.NEGATIVE LVIII.ICONOGRAPHYBY THE FLUIDO-ANIMISTICMAGNETIZING CURRENTThe following icone came positive on theplate. I obtained it without desiring it,but it is, so to speak, an answer to aproblem, which I was attempting to solve,from the point of view of the electro-vitalparticles : did they present themselvesbeyond the imagination ? To define them— 147 —

THE HUMAN SOULbetter, I made a double experiment, onedrawn from my son's forehead, a boy of15, and the other from an artificial foreheaprcomposed of a large electrode covered withchamois skin and filled with vaseline,against which rested the glass face of plateno 2.Plate no. 1placed on my son's foreheadgives negative electro-particles. Whilstplate no. 2, drawn over the interrogativeartificial forehead of the hereafter, givesa positive plate which reveals itself soslowly that I was tempted for a moment tothink that nothing would be produced,when I perceived two well marked particles,and looking closer I saw a nebula of attractivenegative electricity, a whole obic seriesforming a pointed angle turned towards theelectric signature, in the area of which twoelectro-vital particles are united.Above, in a nimbus of psychodic force, aslender head appears with a halo.On the plate, there are other attempts ofmanifestations, but less clear.In short, the moment a form appears,^ 148 -it

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULis the manifestation of a thought ;the soulof a spirit; by spirit, any intellectual entitywhatsoever is meant.This iconography was obtained May 16th.1894 at 9.30 p. m. in very hot weather; Iwas swimming at the time, with the aim ofknowing if I would draw particles from theinvisible or from a non-human body.The static machine worked well, but Iwas in a state of too great a humidity toproduce a spark by placing my hand nearthe neighbouring objects.A firsttime, the hand nearing the plategave a little glimmer, corresponding to thecentre of the pad support of the plate,itself placed on a table isolated by glasslegs ; the hand more to the right I had alittle vivid flash similar to an apparition.I have only attempted in these researches,experimentally to demonstrate the existenceof the soul after death or beyond terrestriallife, considered as movement, animisticgleam and manifested intelligence, owingto this method of appeal which creates a— 149 —

THE HUMAN SOULfluido-sympathetic magnetizing current betweenthe appelant and the called.I consider these movements, these lights,as the mathematical proof ofthe persistenceof animistic life after corporeal death, theexistence of fluido-animistic beings, a worldof souls in different degrees of evolution,with which in experimental data, it isin communion scientific-possible to enterally.PSYCHIC SOULCommunion with the spirit of lifeof intelligenceWhen the predominance of the spiritualsoul exists, we find what might also becalled the possession, but on the upperopposite side, good, white, divine; a newmanner of soul by the ecstasic practices,which create the mystic soul, when prayerstrengthens the bond of our spirit to theSpirit, of our word to the Word, when God— r50 —

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULSpeaks to us in a moment of ecstacy, afterthat hour of meditation, of musing, ofentry into one's self demanded by thegreat mystic Jacob Boehm ; to feel thedivine understanding, lay hold of it, whollyinvade it, after the quarter of an hour'sprayer, vs^hich would save the vrorld,according to St. Theresa.To die continually to the vanity of thebody, by guarding against sadness, thatstumbling block opposed to pride ; to avoidmelancholy, as a weakness of the fire of thesoul, to kill the man of desire so as toestablish the new man; to abandon one'sself to the union with the divine, such is themarriage of the lamb.According to the definition of St. John :God is Love, and he who dwells in love,dwells in God and God in him.Maxwell says in paragraph 7 of hisaphorisms: ,, If thou wilt work wonders,remove as much as thou canst the corporealityfrom things, or add mind to the bodyor excite the slumbering spirit. "— 151 —

THE HUMAN SOULDe Bodisco, in his ,, Traits de Lumiere ".,, The sensation of a breeze or of shiveringsduring prayer is the material proof thatprayer is favourably received. The breathof the spirit felt on the forehead, producesin man an increase of his vital force. ''One might add that the descent of thespirit, besides the freshness on the forehead,is expressed in the closedeyes by an signobjectivible for the intimate vision; theseare tongues of fire of white gold, light inthe form of a flash, descending perpendicularlyon the head w^ithout any mechanicalcontact. It is in miniature the halo of thesaints, the illuminism of prayer, the thunderclapof St. Paul, according to the intensityof the psycho-divine communion. Thisphenomenon is not imagination, it reallyexists, it can be iconographed.(See the graphy no. 61 vs^hich vv^as takenduring the act of pious prayer.)The psychic soul born of the divinewomb, animated, then incorporated, communeswith the universal spirit. The soul,inhales by its fluido-pneumic respiration,— 152 —

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULthe universal or holy spirit and projects itin its turn; it thus creates the halo ofsacredness.We are here at the sacred pole of lifewhere all becomes effaced before a singleword :harmonyand love. It is the voiceof Amo, the spell of universal love, it is thecry of Saint Augustine : ,, Ama et fac quodvis I Love and do what thou wilt J "Even on earth, the divine may then begiven us ;it is what Jean Reynaud wrote tohis mother after having found it inhimself. ,, No more aimlessness in life, nomore spleen, an immense joy floods mysoul T. . . Yesterday the idea of God appearedto me in brightness, without a cloud. Theidea of the present, personal God. Theworld is filled for me with an adorablefriend !"(!)•So true is it that the life of the purifiedmystic spirit is a respiration of divine light,a development of the divine self.1. Thou carriest in thyself a sublime friend, -whom thou knowestnot, for God dwells in the heart of every man, but few arethey w^ho can find him (Baghavadgita).— 153—

THE HUMAN SOULDivine communion,, The sign expresses the thing, and thething is the virtue of the sign.To say a word, is to evoke a thought, tomake it present.Speech acts on the souls, reacts on thebodies.When the soul evokes a thought, thesign of the thought is traced in light.To invoke, to adjure a name, is to communewith the virtue of that name.To name God, is to manifest God.The more perfect the sign, the moreintense is the communication. " (El. Levy),This sign is the Van, 3rd sign of the wordJeve, sign of the intelligence uncreate,of light of this intelligence.What does this sign signify ?Fabre d' Olivet :sign,, This character offersthe image of the most profound and inconceivablemystery. The image of the knotwhich re-unites, or of the point, whichseparates the void from the being.— 154—It is the

;COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULuniversal controvertible sign, the sign w^hichmakes one nature pass to another, communicatingon one side vrith the sign of light,rising, and on the other side, in its degeneracy,w^ith the sign of the tenebrae or of thematerial which is still only its abased selfit is the bond of all things. "In short, one sees by the preceding iconographicalexperiments, that man, body,soul and spirit, according to the definitionof Moses, of Plato, and of St. Paul, communesvs^ith the great invisible All, vrhere,in Barlet's expression, reign colossal forces,because they are cosmic, vs^ith vrhich ourthree fundamental elements enter in relationshipin proportion as the announced Spiritcommences to unveil itself, in proportion asour spirit arrives at the phase vs^herethe human and divine may be betterunderstood and united, w^here the spiritreveals to man the sign of the mystery ofthe invisible creation, by the evolutivetransformation and departing,communicateswith him, as man by prayer ascendstowards his Creator.— 155—

SYNTHESIS OF UNIVERSAL.COfVilVlUNIONTo remain outsideall systematic philosophyand all religion, let us take as idealtype, the soul of the pure and ofthe just man,which the ancient and recent philosophersare not able to deny on account of his religiousspirit, let us take the soul of Socrates.For this man, three needs, three charms,three desires :the necessity of absorbing,of assimilating and of projecting threematerial, vital and psychic substances.Like everybody, his material body consumedabout five hundred grammes of alimentarysubstances,each meal ;bread, meat or vegetablesfifteen hundred grammes of wateror of liquid; he breathed the desirednumber of cubic metres of air in the gardenswhere he instructed the youthful ; the sungave him the two thousand calorieswithwhich he bathed his body, and the physicaltransformations, of the act of assimilation— 156 —

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULand of disassimilation, took place in him asin us.But what a selfmastery of soul and of thebody in which it dwelt T It dominated it upto the point of rendering it insensible to theeffects of heat and of cold ;he could bearthe brightness of the sun without beingblinded ; and his spirit fell into ecstasiescommuning with the hereafter, with anotherspirit, which he called his familiar geniusand from whom he received inspiration.And his body, the instincts of whichhe had learnt tomaster, was the faithfulservant of that conscience, which in respectto laws, even in(juitous in his eyes, hadwished to sacrifice his carnal covering as anexample to his disciples, and to die nearerGod than men : ,, Plato, I see thee no more,I would like still to hear thee; I am nearerGod than men. " (Words of Socrates,dying).If vre only consider, as it is our chief aim,the fluidic communion of our soul with thesoul of the world, we shall see that the vitalor psychic soul, our ego, exercises its re-— 157—

THE HUMAN SOULspiratory, aspirative and expirative power,its communion in a word with the forces ofnature, the non-ego, and that in numerousconditions, which it is sufficient to enumerateto attest the multiplicity of the fluidicinvisiblebut real changes.This human world is governed by the lawof reproduction, having as consequence theunion of the two sexes, whose carnal love^as well as spiritual sympathy attests thefluidic fusion of these two souls, momentarilymingled into one, to procure and projectin the cycle of the generations of materiallife, a third term, the child.The states of the fluidic contact, withwhich science is occupied under differentnames : magnetic exterioration, fluidic andsympathetic relationship, hypnotic suggestion,are only momentary fusions of ouranimism, of our fluidic psychism with thesoul and the spirit of the subject, whatevermay be the discussions in which the authorsof these methods have entered, for thecounter-proof of each of these methods hasnever been made by the apostles of any of- 158 -

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULthem, each wishing toremain exclusivelyon the ground, which he had sown.But at the present time, from the daythese so-called false and hallucinatorycommunications, have given proof of theirreal existence, when their essence has beenmanifested by a relation of unlimited lightabruptly arrested : from the moment whenbiometry has shown the movement of thesoul from a distance ;when iconographyhas unveiled the light of this soul, communingwith theforce of life and the spirit ofthe universe, does it not seem to prove thatthe body alone is a material individuality,limited at the skin, v^^hile the soul by itsvital force is in direct relationship with thespirit life, the Zoether and while the rayof the spirit herebelow in aspiration of thehereafter, only seeks to return to its universalcentre.Without the belief in the persistancethe individuality after death, life in iiswould be only a movement nearer whatvre callmaterial life.ofdeath than what we call everydayIt is at least what great think-— 159—

THE HUMAN SOULers have expressed before departing. Wefind the same idea in all those to whommaterial life was bitter, who throughsuicide have unjustly preferred the hereafterto the present. To the occultists, therecomes a phase also where the soul havingcommuned too often w^ith the invisible,tends to become detached from the visible; heexperiences this tcedum vitce through thesepsychic feasts and prefers to die in orderto re-live in the hereafter.With them, theincomplete notion of duty and of the finalityof the soul, delivers them over to theattraction of the hereafter, likeothers succumbto the concupiscence of this side.For those w^ho have awaited the hourchosen for deliverance, they fight the battleof life, live in men, whose healthyspirit isin a healthy body and see in the transformationof their material covering only a newphase of the evolution which they continueto make perfect.The dying Mercury expresses the sameidea as Socrates saying :« Until this day, I have lived exiled from— i6o —

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULmy true country/ 1 am returning there ;donot mourn for me, I regain the celestialdwelling where eachof you will enter inturn. There is God, this life is only a death ».The soul, this seat of force, this centre ofpersonal vibrations, then persists after.How many of those now dead said that thewasintensity of their extra-corporeal life,in proportion to their tenfold faculties,the rapidity of thetomovement and of thesharpnessof their intelligence, by repeatingthat real death for the soul was the timewhen itbody and subjectfound itself imprisoned in a frailto age. « / have quittedthe unhappy life, I am in the happy life,await the blissful " life.If we are herebelow, there is a motive forit, and leaving, a duty to fulfil. This dutycannot be betterjustunderstood than by theinterpretation which Eliphas Levi bequeathedto the human soul : ,, To be withlight, move-the divine Providence, who isment, creation. "IChristian charity, the pure love of thephilosophers, modern altruism, all that is— i6i —

THE HUMAN SOULcontained in the recognition of our divineessence and what we may make of it in theworld, from the point of view of the goodand the true.Man, this little unconscious God, setshimself before God to deny him, constantlyby his different manifestations.By his body, man lives entirely by hiscreated universe, hy the divine body ofnature. Bread is truly the body; wine,the blood of the life Word for men :materialbread and wine created by the lightlife.ofAfter having consumed the divine body ofnature, man starts in quest of the spiritwhich induces him to assimilate himself toit. The spirit of light already illuminessome spirits and is announced by this formidablespiritualistic movement, which thesoul urges and of which it has an imperiousneed.Atheists, blasphemers, sceptics, madmen,believers and saints, we are not able not tobe God, who only is.Sub-multiples of the divinity, we belong— 162 —

COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULeither to its body the created universe ;either to its soul, the invisible world of life;or either to its spirit of light , of love andof truth.To suppose for a moment a singleexistenceoutside one of the three divine manifestations,is to suppose two beings to reign,the greatillusion of perversity, the Manicheandualism.Outside of God there exists nothing.Every being has then his place in the divinehierarchy. The effort of the sub-multipleis the return towards the centre fromwhence the law of material consummationon the material plane ; that of fluidic communionon the animistic plane of cosmiclife ; that of love or reciprocal solidarityon the spiritual plane ;from whence finallythe law of moral, mental and physical purity,to reach the supreme fusion, to be onew^ith God.To persist always it is evidently necessaryto renounce terrestrial illusion, perpetualtransformation of form and matter, to be inconstant communion with the Word of life,- 163 ~

THE HUMAN SOULpermanent and manifested reality of theabsolute ; it is necessary to be unified withthis web of love and of light according tothe Fathers, to take the raiment of glorywhich Isaiah described in his propheticecstasy and the photograph of which revealsto us the actual signature.— 164 —

—CHAPTER VIIGeneral ConclusionsThe real existence of the soul. — Its different modes ofmanifestation. — Intelligence in movement. — The secondand third planes. — The bridge between the material andthe invisible. — Matter and Force. — The phenomenon ofthe vital fluidic force. — The successive stages of Nature. —The characterisation of the creature. — How the materialbody is formed. — The link binding the creature to theCreator. — The intelligence soul germ. — Antiquity and thepersonal soul. — The photo -chemical power of the soul. —The forces of cohesion and subtilisation. — Law of signature.— Law of fluid sympneuma. — The mediator between thebody and spirit. — The immutable will. — The eternal consciousnessof the spirit-ray.— The evolution towards God.Tests of synthesy of evolutive phenomenonism of the soul beforeScience, Ecstasy, Prophecy. — The growth of consciousness.— The reality of the notion of life and of intelligence. — Therevelation of the inspired idea. — The ecstasy of prayer. —The scientific training of the memory. — State of purity.— Telepathic apparitions of the dead. — The new conceptionof post-corporeal life. — The divine origin of the humanspirit. — Man, the sub-multiplication of the Unity. — Theevolution and finality of the soul. — The physical— 165 —creation.

THE HUMAN SOUL— The veiling of the Spirit. — Man's act of determinism. —The emanation of God the spirit — Its function in the universe.— The reascension of humanity. — What existence isfor the soul. — The ultimate line of division between thesouls. — Re-establishment of integral existence. — The endof the cycle. — The manifestation of the Word. — TheAbsolute Being.— i66 —

CHAPTER VIIGeneral ConclusionsI am the life and the lightof the world...When I ascend to my Father,I shall send the Spiritof Truth, who proceeds fromthe Father ; when the spirithas come, y e ^tvill be taughtall truths.Jesus.At the end of this experimental study onthe soul and the fluidic invisible world, wehope that our readers will be of the firmconviction that there existsin us a soul,not hypothetical or created with a purposeby religions but indeed very real.— 167 —

THE HUMAN SOULThis soul of life is manifested by its ownintimate movements, which pass beyondthe cutaneous limit of our tangible body,record themselves or graph their luminousvibrations, in such a way that it is nolonger possible to confound it with the differentmodes of energy, from which itisdistinguished by the polarisation of itsmovement, by the very signature of itsgraphy.After having explored the domain ofmatter in its scope, that of mechanics inthe laws of the transformation of energy,the hour has come for the human mind, toconsider spontaneous movement, that is tosay of intelligence in movement and luminousvibration : it is the second plane of theinvisible now reached ; it is the beginning ofthe experimental stage of the Spirit, of thethird plane. The invisible intelligence,intermediary of the forces,of COHESIONand of SUBTILISATION, semi-consciousand instinctive forces, weighs and balancesthem in a learned and wise antagonism,which produces harmony in the Universe.— i68 —

GENERAL CONCLUSIONSPhysiology has studied the organic functions,the visible result of life in the organ,psychology has to study the soul of theorgan, of Tvhich we know the functions andthe structure, that is to say, the lifein us.This study applied to the human soul,show^s us it as form, the last covering, thesheath ofour soul, which knows and knowsitself.The soul acts by its own conscious psychicmovement. This movement, we can record,as well as receive the graphic signature,the glimmering of the soul.For those who do not believe in its existence,we have built between tangible matterand the spirit,inaccessible in itself, butaccessible by its manifestation, by the luminousform, which it assumes, we havebuilt, we say, a bridge of experimentsacrossthe abyss of the mystery, a bridgejoining the firm ground of the material tothe invisible, the finite to the infinite. Theywill see that all things touch one another,beget oneanother join one another in uni-— 169 —

THE HUMAN SOULversal nature, of which theplanes are dependentupon each other, to that point, thatfor the savant free from all doctrinarism,it is impossible to take up a position inonly one of the poles of the absolute,matter and force.For our part, we have beenable to feelthe vital fluidic force in certain experimentsand find the point of contact by the touch.Many experimentalists, especially sinceEusapia Paladino, have experienced thesame phenomenon.Nature makes no leaps, but moves insuccessive stages without break.The fiveboxes of the Yoguis, who understand theseven statesof man, make clear the jointingsof the divine ray projected in the universalityof the phenomenon.The creature, in a general way, is characterisedby the descent of the creative rayin the w^eb of universal life. Thus is thesoul intelligence constituted, hierarchised,according to its virtue (PL 48).The breath of life, by its instinctive polar-— 170 —

GENERAL CONCLUSIONSity, called inferior; and conscious, calledsuperior, supports the existence of thisfluidic germ, which constitutes the personalsoul of the creature. It is this sensitivesouL which will be objectivified and willform its material body.From the grain of corn to man, the lawis the same ; every evolutive animistichierarchy lies in the value of the psychicray which links the Creator to the creature,just as every body depends on the vitaland electro-neuric exchanges with thevital fluid, as well as solid materialsfurnished by theterrestrialour planet.constitution ofThere then exists in invisible psychology,but however experimentally manifestable,the like of what we see on the corporealplane ; we find in the rudiment of materiallife, in the cellule, a central point, a protoplasm,and an shell.organic germ corresponding toThe central point orthe intelligencesoul germ, constituting the animisticindividualisation, which will subsequentlybe the person (PL 6).— 171 —

THE HUMAN SOULThe shell-form is finally similar to thematerial body (1)Antiquity affirmed this notion of the personalsoul, paganism was imbued with it,hence polytheism. Cicero repeated; ,, Everybeing is moved by an intimate force, whichis his own. »Porphyrins added: ,,The soul is the elementof life." After their day, we havebeen able to show that the soul moves andshines, that it is movement and light.We have been able to measure and graphwhat Hippocrates called the enormon of thehuman body, and to detect, by the behaviourof a needle, the vivacity, the slowness or theamplitude of its movements ;the transformations,the tensions of this force which Barthezsaid was found in living beings and nolonger in the dead ; the intimate movement,lastly, of our vital soul in our material body.Further, we have been able to show thatthe soul by its glimmer might affect a sens-1. The form or luminous shado^v is plainly unveiled by the experimentsof Roentgen,who made the vital soul bright withoutbeing aware that there existed in us an internal light, the Somod.— 172 —

:GENERAL CONCLUSIONSitive plate; and, a capital phenomenon,the creative spirit, manifests its intentionalityby the form which it assumes, by which itssigns itself.Its invisible light possesses a remarkablephoto-chemical power, which onemay compare to the photo-chemical effectsalready suspected, but the excessive vibrationsof which (300 to 800 trillion vibrationsa second) is incompatible with ocular vision.The forces of cohesion and of subtilisationof the 2nd.invisible plane, experimentallydemonstrated by psychographic tests, theirresult on silver salts, are indeed a flagrantproof of the truth of the axiom containedin the first chapter :It is intelligence wh ichdirects movement, and movement whichby its vibratory mode, concretes matter.To this law must be added the followingtwoThe spirit is manifested by the luminousform of the souh which veils it ; thesoul is the objectivible form of the tangiblebody; the more perfect the form is, themore so will be the spirit, which it contains'this isthe law of signature.— 173—

;THE HUMAN SOULThe third is that of fluidic communionfor the pneumics and the psychics.The soul inducts the soul, communesfluidically with the invisible, the spiritwith the spirit ; this is the law of fluidsympneuma, similar to the sympathy betweenpersons.Let us then remember that between ourmaterial and electro-caloric body, and ourspirit of divine essence, there exists thevital Soul,whose exteriorised movements,whose communions with cosmic life,thesoul of the world, are seized in the passageby a revealing needle and interpreted in abiometric formula.manifested by its own glimmer.This vital soul is againLet us also remember that our soul incommunion with the force of universalLife, is nourished and supported by thisforcewhich we have been able to graphjust as our spirit, a ray emanated from theUncreate Intelligence, is supported by andcommunes with the universal Spirit equallygraphed. Let us w^ell understand that inus, a feeble cellule germinated from the— ^74—

GENERAL CONCLUSIONSmaterial world by our perishable body,the Avill, self-conscious of our spirit, aloneremains the immutable, persistent being,that is to say divine.In reality, whilst thebody and soul in this visible world, and inthe other invisible one, participate in thetransformation ofthe phenomenism of existence; whilst by birth to terrestrial life, weenter the material tangible and personifiedcontingent ; so by corporeal death we reenterthe fluidic invisible and collective life,and by the second animistic death, thedecay, the spiritualsoul ends by losing itsbecomes per-cohesive fluidic form, and alone the spiritray,conscious of its essence,manent in eternity, definite and unified withthe substance of the Creative Spirit, in thewomb of the Absolute.It is characteristic of man to have the intimateconsciousness of his ego. With St. Pauland Leibnitz, let us therefore have the absoluteconviction that living or dead, in time or inspace, divine sub-multiples, we are always inGod, the Absolute Being, and in constant evolutiontowards /f/M, UNITY. ONE and ALL.— 175—

TEST OF SYNTHESIS OF EVOLUTIVEPHENOIVSENONISIVI OF THE SOUL.BEFORE SCIENCE, ECSTASIS,PROPHECY.We have so much the more consciousnessto participate in universal phenomenonismas progressively, scientifically, experimentshave unrolled before our eyes the scroll ofmystery.This phenomenon we may attain, as itcan be manifested to us on its three planes,Matter, Life, Intelligence, since matter istangible for us ;since we have been permittedto realise the objectivity of the forcesof life and of intelligence of the invisibleplane by their special graphy and lastlysince, spontaneously, the spirit has manifestedits intentionality by the sign and inits form. We may then and must henceforthtake into account the notion of life andof intelligence, consider them as realitiesand means of possibility of arriving at theknowledge of special questions, experiment-— 177—

.:;THE HUMAN SOULally accessible which although not visible,exist none the less.Loyalty of conscience must therefore beconsidered1 The revelation of the inspired idea,this intimate and mystic language of theWord to our word, since the form of it isobjectivible and since illuminism is able tobe graphed (PL. 61).2. The Ecstasis of prayer, which dra^vsthe soul out of its usual state, to carry it tothe higher plane of Intelligence and ofTruth, since the sign of this ecstatic state isgraphed in prayer3. The scientific training of our memoryto retain facts and the deductions resultingfrom their study, although the reasoningmay not always penetrate the three planesof created matter, creative life, and ofdirective intelligence. For, just as it isnecessary to learn to know, so it will benecessary to know how to call inspiration,urge grace, to provoke the illuminism ofprayer in order to understand.The saints who have attempted the solu-— 178 —

GENERAL CONCLUSIONStion of the problem to acquire light, to realiselove, to attain wisdom, have united theseconditions in a state ofpurity.At the endof this experimental study of the soul, afterhaving shovi^n how far science may demonstrateit, its movement and its light, let usendeavour to make clear in a fevs^ ^svordswhat real inspiration reveals to us of itsorigin, and what the pure ecstasies foretellsus of its ends.In this w^orld of terrestrial instinct and ofhuman reason, it is experimentally provedthat the soul exists, moves, conceives itself;that it is the luminous form of thecreativespirit ; that this form moves and shines.Thus understood, it is permissible to followits perennity after death, in the fluidic invisible: movements and lights in the forms,telepathic apparitions between the livingand the dead, etc. (Spiritualisticexperimentsof Crookes, d'Akaskoft Bodisco, andgraphics of Baraduc during lifeafter what we call death).From the datas experimentallyas well asobtainedand stated in this work, the mind may logic-— 179 — '

:THE HUMAN SOULally consider the post-corporeal lifesoul in the invisible,of theas a conscious movementmore or less luminous and conceivelife, called celestial, as the peaceable, lovingand lasting unionof spirits, very luminousin the very beginning of light, of loveand of truth.It is this mystic collectivismof souls vrhich Jesus taught to his disciples,, Love one another, as I have loved thee,so that all be one, as thou, my Father, whoart in me, and I in thee, so that we also areone. " It is the return of sub-multiples, offractions to unity.As to the origin and to the finality of theanimistic phenomenon, which savant could,experimentally recorded, flatter himself insaying what it is or will be, if he is not inspiredby theWord which has spoken to hisword ? Isaiah, the great prophet, inspiredand transported, puts in the mouth of Jehovahthis significative phrase : ,, I havedrawn the spirits from my breast and createdthe souls. " It is the system of projectionand of sub-multiplication of the divineradiation of a part (lod), and of traction,— i8o —

GENERAL CONCLUSIONSon the other hand, of the souls of thechaos, of the void, by the Holy Spirit (Van)The divine origin of the human spirit isconfirmed by Christ himself vv^hosees thetemple in man. ,, Ye are of gods : Ego dixivohis :Dii estis.Sacred and theurgic antiquity showsman, a microcosm (small universe) bornof the macrocosm (great universe) fetteredon earth by matter asPrometheus on hisrock, but descendant of the stars or of theEmpyrean of the great All. He is, in aword, an infinite sub-multiplication of theunity, of the Being, emanated from his centre,to return there free, conscious,willingand personal. Religious teaching tells usthat we are the image of the Creator ;divine,according to the Fathers of the Church;and departing, all children of men, childrenof God.Let us see how the apostle of Patmos, inhis esctatic visions, expresses himself on theevolution of the soul and of its finality.St. John first of allbrings the Word intoprominence. It is the manifestation of the— i8i —

"THE HUMAN SOULuncreate and creative Intelligence. ,, Bythis Word, all that has been made, has beenmade by Him and nothing without Him.His first act is to create light, this light ofthe soul and of life,when no stars shinethis light will illumine every man at birth.Later, Jesus is said to have said of himself: / am the life and the light of theworld. "After light, the physical creationis produced ; the great currents of force ofsubtile positive expansion and of cohesivenegative attraction give birth to and polarisethe whole universal dynamics ; creatednature is realised in the material concretions,after the transformations of Zoetherin modes of energy. The subtile has creptinto the coarse ; the intimate fire of thingshas been veiled in proportion as the externalfire appeared ;the spirit becomes occult inproportion as force is developed, as thesuns rise on the worlds, warming space andthe races, which spring from the veryground, from the clay of this red earthwhich constituted the body of the first man.The creation tends finally to return to its— 182 —

;GENERAL CONCLUSIONScentre with the terrestrial man-animal,creature crowned by the infusion of thehuman soul, which makes of it, henceforth,the being willing and free in its decisionman chooses between terrestrial instinct andcelestial intelligence, the Word of life andof love. He determines, spontaneouslywith regard to the two poles of phenomenonism,theBeing and the non-being, untilJesus reminds him of the return to thebeginning to the Father, whilst the promisedSpirit comes to teach him his divine essence,to console him, to illumine him and to givehim new life.In short, creation is said to be a formidableemanation of God the spirit, destroyingthe equilibrium of what was itsintimatesubstance, but without fragmentation of its.monopantheistic essence of being.This emanation producing the createduniverse by the ponderationof the Spiritand the double law of life and of death,assures the double movement of evolutionand involution of the spirit,bubbling of life, the incessant- 183 -the perpetualtransformat-

THE HUMAN SOULion of matter, so that the form may bedefined, the soul may be spiritualised, and,by the succession of the sub-multiples, tendto unity.The radiation of wisdom whichdances and delights in the midst of thechildren of men under the name of Providence,supports its w^ork until the renewal iscomplete ; until the healthy effort of humanityhas been exhausted ; until theanimal beginning has become hominal,is deified; until the son of man hasbecome the son of God, brother of Christ,by the acquisition of the seventh sense.Then reascended to its centre of origin, toits origin of substance, humanity is lifeitself, knowledge and love ; it has then nolonger need of the field of action, of thebase, nor of the place for its trial, where ithas learnt to know, to love, to become.The laws of polarisation of the forces ofthe universe, then tend to disappear, to bere-integrated, to be unified in proportion asthe intelligence withdraws. A single sunof harmony and of moral equilibrium reappearsin proportion as the stars pass away— 184 —

GENERAL CONCLUSIONSinto the area of the dissipated universe.Existence for the soul is therefore, accordingto the knowledge of its point of materialdeparture, the self-consciousness of itsreturn to the source of life.The nescio vos — I know you not —would be the line of ultimate division,between the souls desiring the Word,reappearing at the end of the ages, andthose persisting in the mirage of forms,which will have to disappear in their turn,like all divisible, variable, perishable matter,which subtile fire will consume. Then onlyfor the spiritualised soul, deprived of form,will be re-established the integral existencein God ;voluntary fusion of the individualityconscious of itself and of its essence,with and in the One who is the All. Thehuman terrestrial soul, becoming the celestialdivine soul, the reconquered city,hereis the goal for it.But then the term has also come for ouruniverse. Worlds, earths and skies havedisappeared ;the cycle is at an end, there isno more time, said the apostle St. John,- 185 -

THE HUMAN SOULthe abyss has been re-formed and closedon the creation volatilised and the creaturesubtilised in God...After the creation of light and theformationof the World ;after the hominal descenton earth to show the way of return tothe beginning of emanation, the Word, atthe end of the ages becomes permanent, asit pre-existed at the commencement, themanifestation of theconsubstantial to ,,spirits from his breast,been able to see,ABSOLUTE BEING,Him who has drawn theAvhom no eye haswhom no understandinghas been able to conceive '* w^ho has said ofhimself :/ am what I am, and whom herebelowwe call our Father.— i86 —

Lights of the Human SoulI. Photograph of Od.II.III.Individualisation of the Cosmic Force.Life-animules in movement.IV.Particles of Vital Force.V. Spectre of sensitive soul.VI.IX.Somod, fluidic frame of nutritive soul.Figuration of fluidic shower.X. Iconograph of a hand.XI.Electro-vital particles, globularised by tension.XII. Electro-vital particles drawn from artificial forehead.XIII. Soul germ and shadow.XIV. Attraction of a form by magnet. All Souls Day.XV. Signature of spiritualised soul.XVI. Signature of odic somod body.XVII. Condensation of vital fluid.XVIII. Psychicone exploded by tension.XIX. Projection of state of soul.XX. Experimental demonstration of the lights of thepsychicones.XXI. Images projected in the dark.XXII. Iconograph of state of soul.XXIII. Projection of special state of soul.XXIV. Psychicone without aid of hand.XXlVa. Telepathic Psychicone.XXV. Emanation of the Somod.XXVa. Emanation of the OB.XXVI. Voluntary Psychob.XXVII. Signature of prayer.XXVIII. Fluidic spectre of the body.— 187 —

THE HUMAN SOULXXIX.XXX.XXXI.XXXII.XXXIII.XXXIV.XXXV.XXXVI.XXXVII.XXXVIII.XXXIX.Concomitant invisible movement.Electro-static light.Clusters and emanations of human fluid.Psycho-electric fluid. Electrography.Black points of subtilising force.White points of volatalising force.Web of vitality.Graphy of the Cosmic Od.Vital force, instinctively produced.Equilibrium and fusion of two fluidic forms.Electric iconograph of invisible life.XL. Iconograph of the hereafte r.XLI. Signature of mental sadness,XLII. Direction of vital movement.XLIII. Od and psychod, vital force.XLIV. Movement of cosmic vital force.XLV. Light life of the Word.XLVI. Tissue of Light and of intelligence.XLVII. Appeal to the Universal Spirit.XLVIIa. Manifestation of the spirit of Light.XLVIII. Iconograph of the form of the spirit of light and ofintelligence.L. Iconograph of tiie god called Mercedes.LI.Plate of the invisible.LII. Icone of the hereafter.LIII.LiV.LV.LVI.LVII.LVIII.LIX.LX.LXI.Spontaneous iconograph.Icone of a form, hands clasped in prayer.Differentiation of phenomenon at the two poles.Groupings of cosmic Od.Form of a dead person.The vital particles.Iconograph of bulb of light and of intelligence.Light life of the Word.The descent of the Spirit.— i(

Explanation I. — Photograph of the Od attracted by thestate of soul of a child lamenting over a recently killedpheasant.

Explanation II — Od, the cosmic soul of life, individualisingitself to repair the deficient sensitive soul. — Photographof the shadow of the sensitive soul, individualising itself torevive our animal vitality.(Without electricitv. with photographic apparatus.)

Explanation III — Life-animules, fragments ofOd in mo\'ement.This iconography was spontaneously produced whilstwishing to inverse a plate for the most part positive, onwhich was an image representing a heart. The sign of loveand of charity is drawing the electro-vital particles.(With neither electricity nor apparatus.)

Explanation IV. — I. These particles of vital force must beconsidered as the Cosmic Od, already individualised on usand in us. It is the refection by the soul of life, of our sensiti\-evitality.2. The following- iconography of the luminous particleswas qbtamed by Dr. Adam with his right hand, withoutelectricity, without apparatus by the simple desire thatsomething may be produced.

Explanation V. — Luminous particles,tive soul of L.(Without electricity, photog. Nadar).spectre of the sensi

Explanation VI. — Somod, skeleton, fluidic frame of thenutritive soul, composed of lines and columns of subtileforce as well as thousands of cellular vital souls retained ina thread of odic shower, (i)(i) Negatives VII

Explanation IX. — Figuration of the fluidic shower, extractedfrom the human body (from the forehead) in the darkwith red light, the hand placed in front of the sensitive sideof the plate, put on the forehead of the person, from whomthe somodic fluid was taken away.In the centre is seen the point of contact of the plate withthe skin of the projection of the forehead, with correspondsto the attractive hand of the fluid of the frontal projections :all around is a zone of somodic fluid formed by showers andluminous peas.

Explanation X. — Iconography of a hand obtained bybringing the hand near the sensitive side of a plate fastenedto the pole of a Wimhurst machine. One can remark theformation of electro-vital particles coming from an odiccloud showing the thumb and the fingers as well as smalllife-animules, white points.Explanation XI. — Electro-vital particles incorporatedanimistic specks, globularised by electro-static tension.

Explanation XII. — Electro-vital particles drawn from auartificial forehead (pad of chamois leather) impressed by thehand. In the neighbourhood of a psychodic centre, one ofthe 'particles is breaking loose.

Explanation XIII. — Soul germ and shadow.This negative represents the iconography of a dead soul(Chapter V) surrounded by itsfluidic atmosphere reproducingits body.Explanation XIV. — All Souls' Day 1895 a plate was put atthe north pole of a magnet and left a day and a night in thehope that some phenomenon might be produced.Glass side against the pole.Very remarkable phenomenon, a very clear form wasproduced, that of Mme G.... recently dead. Without anylight, even red, without electricity, without apparatus, ittook place by itself by points and traits of black subtile forceon the negative, locked in a room.

Explanation XV. [— The signature of the spiritual soul hasbeen produced on a plate, by the glass side, with the northpole of a magnet, with this formula :,, prayer to the superior,command to the inferior to obtain the graphy, the sign of myspiritual soul "'.The following morning at 7 o'clock I develop and find,corresponding to the centre of the magnet surrounded by anatmosphere of odic cloud, a very clear circumference ofanimo-tluidic force circumscribing a point, a very regularring, formed by the subtilised gelatinous substance. Fromthis pearl like form appeared 4 luminous rays going to each ofthe cardinal points.This sign was produced by my overheated will. Thustheprayer acted directly on the plate by a spark of my spirit,which has given the sign of the spiritual soul, the four rayedpearl.The spiritual soul elevated by prayer is not a ring, like thesoul intelligence germ, it is a circle' in, communication withthe four winds of the spirit.

ExpJauaiioii XVI. — This icone was obtained by MmeDargetin lier cellar, witli red light, by the projection of her hand :it is the signature of the odic somod body, projected in conicalform, consequently modulated, with the intention of .reproducingthe features of a person, but without success.

Explanation XVII. — This iconography, produced followingthe method of psychic projection, shows a condensation ofvital fluid surrounded by subtilised black zones, that is tosay, the silver salts of which have disappeared whilst theyare reduced in the oval tending to produce a form.

Explanation XVlll. — Psvchicone exploded by the electrictension.Explanation XIX. — This negative isequally electro-positive: it is an attempt made by Dr. Baraduc to project hisstate of soul by his hand, his icone at a moment of his life.The doctor has thus obtained his portrait.

Explanation XX. — Experimental demonstration of thelights of the psychicone.Luminous peas extracted from my forehead at the momentwhen 1 earnestly desire an electric signature. One sees thefusion of the positive electricity with the sensitive soul, theluminous peas, to furnish a beautiful flash of psycho-electricfluid', like palm leaves, whilst the iccone, my psychicone, isinvoluntarily formed between the burst of the psycho-electricforce and a large white pea corresponding to the left cheek.

Explanation XXI. — 1st. Psvchicone. image of Paya (sonof the doctor) projected by Mme B. in the dark with thehand in front of the plate. In the middle of an odic cloud,the face of P. appears, impressed, coming from the fingers.They are the features of the child, such as he was two yearsago : the creative spirit of Mme B. saw P. as he was at fiveand not as he was at seven years of age.A 2 "'^- Psvchicone is equally a projection due to Mme B.who sought to project my image under the same conditions.A whitish form is seen, surrounded bv Od vaguely impressed(without apparatus, with electricity, the fingers stretchedtowards the plate).

Explauation XXII. — This iconography was obtained byDr. Baraduc after a visit to the Church of Sacre-Coeur. Hewas under the impression of the teaching of Christ preaching,the forgiveness of injuries.

Exphiiiatioii XXIII. — Dr. Maurice Adam, who wished totry and repeat some experiments after my directions, producedthese two psvchicones in a special state of soul, that ofworry, which had modified his ordinary life. These wereproduced, bv the hand. abo\'e the plate. The first representsa spectral veiled headshaped forni : the second, a jeering'face. These images have also been obtained bv the singleprojection of thought.y

Hasdeu•Explanation XXIV. — Psychicone produced by Mr. Hasdeuof Bucharest. This image shows the possibilityof tne creativespirit acting on a plate without the help of the hand.On the upper part a burst •?3f odic projection is seen, inthe centre a large spot, the profile of which is turned towardsthe left represents the features of Mr.^Hasdeus brother. TheIicone is due to the spirit of Mr. who has modulatedthe image of his brother in his brain and then projected itover the lamp. Here is a psychicone without the interventionof the hand, by the single tension, of the creative spirit.Explanation XXIV j. — Tclipathic' Psychicone.Psychicone or image of the -spirit, obtained by telepathybetween Messrs. Istrati & Hasdeu, of Bucharest.Dr. Istrati oroine: to Campina it was ao-reed he should at afixed date, apppear at Bucharest on a plate of the Roumaniansavant, at a distance of about lOO miles.August 4th. 1893 Mr.' Hasdeu evoked the spirit of hisfriend on going to bed, one apparatus at the foot, another atthe head of his bed.On the other hand. Dr. Istrati slept at Campina with the firmdetermination of appearing in one apparatus of Mr. Hasdeu's.In reality, on the plate A three attempts are seen, one ofwhich has been extremely successful. Dr. Istrati returned^to Bucharest and remained quite astonished in front of hisphysionomic profile. His fluidic image is very characteristic,in the sense that it is a more exact expression of him than hisphotographic profile.The reduced portrait and the telepathic psychicone are verymuch alike.

ExplaiiatioiiXXV ct XXVa. — The two icones of this lightare the emanations of the human soul Somod. It is thefluidic expiration. I am able to contirm this fact all the moreas these plates were obtained while investigating the form ofexpansion repelling the biometric needle.The second is the signature of force emanated from the soul,the Ob, repelling 1=^ degrees. The first which represents theobic force of my head, has repelled the needle 2", as if a partof the exhalation had been employed for the formation of thisiconeXXVand XXVa.These two negatives were obtained in the dark with redlight, the plate put in front of the biometric apparatus withneither electricity nor photographic apparatus, the handstretched towards the sensitive plate.

Explanation XXVI. — Voluntary Psychob.Major Darget placing his fingers together, projected his willon a sensitive plate, saving. ...In the interest of science. Iwant this plate to receive an impression.Numerous pearls are seen on it, produced by the extoriorationof the will.(Without apparatus and electricity, in red light, in MajorDarget's cellar.)

Explanation XXVI A .— Voluntary Psychob.Photog. of Nadar in red light, his form appears veryclearly in electric light on ground glass. — Large sizedpearls of voluntary psychob, sparkling pearled of the willwith well-marked circle of peripheric Od,

Explanation XXVII, — Iconography produced in April1894 in the dark, both hands stretched towards the platewithout photograph apparatus.Aniniistic state very thoughtful. The doctor wished toknow if praver is a force having a special signature. Heobtained a small tlange of thin pearls with a single ray :the pearl is the act of exterioration of the spirit which hasleftits covering to.reascend to its psvchical source.

Explanation XXVWl.1. Photograph of Dr. Baraduc in daylight.2. Psvchiconc. image of his head, immerged in an odicmass, 'inthe middleof which his desired icone clearly appears:\. Physical soul, spiritual ego. Spiritualised soul, a thinstar pearl with four branches : at the centre, the area of thedivine ray, a fine circle of odic covering around, four rayscommunicating with the four breezes of the spirit.

4- Spontaneous Icojie representing the fluidic spectre of thebody reproducing the form of his head. This icone wasmade in red Hght with the right hand, placed in front of thesensiti\'e plate which is set before the biometric apparatus soas to study at the same time the expansive force of Ob,repelling the needle 2". and giving its own signature, whilstcrossing the sensitive layer, the glass, the apparatus to repelthe needle.

Explanation XXIX. — These three photograph-iconographsshow the relation existing between the expression of the face,a visible reflection of the soul on the features, and the signatureof the animistic forces of concomitant invisible movement(no electricitv. in morning light, with apparatus).In the jivsi, the child is sadly stroking a recently killedfowl.The third represents the child in happy possession of thisfowl.The second expression is that of contemplation, of meditation.It will be remarked that the form of the vital fluid_^\^arieswith the different states of soul of the child.Explanation XXX. — Electro-static light.1. Luminous spectre of the north pole magnet, obtainedby the red electric photographic lamp, surrounded by finepearls of psychecstasis.2. The electro-positive fluid is presented in the expansiveform of ruffled hair. It is obtained by placing the hand or anobject on a plate, put in an electro-negative bath, and thenwithdrawing it very quickly. The aigrette is crushed on tothe plate and gives this longhaired appearance.

Explanation XXXI. — A. Clusters and emanations of thehuman tluid demonstrated bv electrographv (of lodko).B. Thin electro-obic, flames going towards the whitecentres of odic light, corresponding to the fingers of theeIectro-negati\'e hand. A thin pad of chamois leather whichhas received the impression of the hand its emanations, isand the same handplaced against the glass side of the plate,in front of the sensitive part. The current or electro-negativewind going from the plate to the hand, draws the electro-obicflames which, through the glass, aifect the sensitive pelliclesfrom behind.Explanation XXXII. — Graphic difference of the electric,vital psychic fluids.—: Fusion of positive electricitv with theluminous peas extracted from mv forehead, at the momentwhen I intensely desire an electric signature. The fusion ofpositive electricitv with the sensitive soul is seen : the luminouspeas furnish a beautiful fldiWiQ (yi psvcho-clcctric fluid inthe shape of palm leafs.Electro-negative method.Red light.Here there is fusion of positive fluid, of odic peas, of thesensitive soul with the voluntary psvchic tension : the signatureof the forces and the icone of the author of the motion ofthese forces, appear at the same time.Pure electrograpt?v of the Jmnd by lodko's method.The hand jji an over-electrified person, placed on a plategives a very remarkable impression of the electrified cutaneoussurface. One can here easily note the difference betweenelectrographv and iconography, where the vital waves areproduced by themselves and are graphed bv themselveswithout electricity (Negative XXVI.)

71Eryiaiiatiou XXXIII. — Black points. Nocturnal photographyof black points, small^ entities of subtilising force(soul germ) without apparatus, night, plate near the head.It is useful to establish a relationship between this plateand the other similar ones obtained under the same conditionsand the mass of subtilising force of plate 3^, equallyobtained at night-time during sleep.

Explauatiou XXXIV. — White points. —Photograph takenby me in July 189s, in the country. The gamekeeper Crepetis giving to 300 young partridges some ant eggs, which heis taking from a sack. The small birds are covered over bythe entire black part of the negative, v^hilst a quantity ofsmall life animules are freeing themselves from the eggs orfrom the ants. Is it the emanation of the gamekeeper, or thatof the partridges r I took two photos whilst the gamekeeperwas throwing'handfulsof dust and of eggs. Both are identical.I took two other photos when he was giving them cookedchicken eggs mixed with bread crumbs. In these there isnothing special, the photograph is sharp. It may be concludedfrom this, that the signature of the life-animules and theblack volative odic shower come from he ants giving upttheir vitality.

Explanation XXXV. — Plate obtained with a photographicapparatus, placed at the head of the bed in which the AbbeX passed the night.One remarks :1. Columns of forces sharper at the bottom of the negative;2. Shaded light-peas between the parallel lines of tVjrcesit is the vital web being indi\-idualised.3. An invasion at the centre of the negative bv a blackwater-spout. The- white part is restorative vital force: theblack part is subtile force penetrating in the form of a waterspoutthe cloud of living light being specialised into peas.This negative, which was given me'by jM. de R., demonstratesthe possibility of reproducing' the web of \'itality,independently of my own experiment'ing, which it confirms.

-passExplanation XXXVI. — Graphy of the cosmic Od.The experimentwas undertaken to show the possibility of thepassage of the cosmic Od. of the vital force of the world,across the glass.From the obtained biometrical formulae, in spite of thedouble coating of alum and mica and the covering of silk,it was foreseen that the fluido-animistic respiration wouldthrough the glass, just as it crosses organic substances,etc.The fineness of the texture is not marked. I think there isa close relatonship between the state of the human soulandthe form the aspired cosmic vital force takes. Mv state ofsoul was in material involution,This experiment is of great importance, for it shows thevital attraction through the glass, revealing at the same time,the relation between the biometric formulae and the form ofthe vital force attracted by the state of soul, which correspondsto this formula. . >

.-UExplanation XXXVII. — Vital Force, cosmic od, obtainedby the pole of a magnet directed northwards, on a photographicplate with neither apparatus nor electricity. Glassside placed against the rectangular extremity of the magnet.Length of experiment, 12 night hours, without red light.The experiment is yery important, as it zuas done hv itself,instinctively, apart from man.

•Explanation XXXVIII. — Photograph taken at 1 1 a. m., indull light, an exposure of 15 minutes, at a distance of 5 feet,with .apparatus, without electricity. I desired (jnce more toobtain the vital waves of the group of two very sympatheticand very nervous children. I took them in the middle oftheir play and stopped them suddenly. A veil is producedwhich hides them and covers the plate.They underwent a sort of thrill,of appeal modifying theirperipheric atmosphere, intensely enough to affect the plate at5 feet, a distance at which these phenomena were producedinvisible to the human eve.One also observes a hiniinoiis texture, like a netivovk withstitches and knots. The fluid is condensed, specialised,individualised into rounded peas. ThejV)rm seems to representthe equilibrium and the fusion

Explanation XXXIX. — Electric iconography with desire ofhaving a manifestation revealing invisible life by a magnetofluidiccurrent between the operator and the invisible world,taken in red light, in the evening after 9 o'clock, the righthand stretched out, without photographic instrument.The analysis of the signature justify me to consider —:1. At the centre a star of electricity, with a small centralform. It is the expansion of a living central nucleus, whichhas freed itself from rings of ambient central force and ismoving,2. On the opposite plane is a small cellule soul of life.Around this individual soul-germ is the desire condensed byattraction of the cosmic tluidic masses.3. The radiant oval form is a mixture of Od, of electricityand of intelligence harmoniously illumined, and in equilibrium.The evolution of a world which escapes our senses, is aliving realitv of the invisible fluidic life, coming from lightintelligent in movement.This example proves that astringency as well as expansionis luminous movement : more intelligentified. they take amore perfect form, a harmonised vibratory equilibrium, constitutinga vibrant being, an entity in communion with entities,white forms more powerful than it.

Explanation XL. — This iconography was obtained in 1894,in experiments on the hereafter, without apparatus, with redlight.State of soul : restlessdesire to have phenomena of thehereafter.One observes :The electric signature of positive fluid. Above, a wave orveil of light, permitting numerous forms to be seen.Below, masses of Od in dappled clouds, in luminous peas,taking angular aspects, appearances, vague forms.

ExpJaiiaiioii XLI. — This iconography obtained withoutlight, electricity or photographic apparatus, is due to theright hand of Dr. M. Adam.In the researches which he kindiv undertook for me relatingto these so troubling questions, he was taken by a greatmovement of mental sadness at the moment when this vortexwas produced.

Explanation XLII. — The form represents a higher breezewith three white bulbs coming out of an enormous nose,belonging to four faces, corresponding to the four cardinalpoints.The breeze has two branch curves, in the form of a halfeight : the 8 is the emblem of eternity in the ancient signs,coming out of a single point,as well as that of harmony ;it is the expression of vital movement turning from east towest as we have seen in the enchiridon : it is verified everyday by the spontaneous position of the needle of the biometer— a remarkable phenomenon of the formula : to believein the mystery of Life in the Spirit, visible by universal gravitation.

Explavatiou XLIII. — Od and psvchod, vital force. Od,vital force photographed in daylight, thus giving its torm,its graphic icone.., , -n j ,The child P. is sadly stroking a recently killed pheasant :he is surrounded by a real tissue of vital tluid which hisstate of soul bewailing the death of the bird, attracts. 1 heaspiration of his soul eiraws the cosmic soul, which is shownin the form of a real network tissue with knots, coveringthe child from head to foot with a thick Huidic cloak.This photograph is not at all electric. It was obtained insolar light, penumbra, without the sleep ot the child, bysimple attraction, appeal to the desire ot seeing this semiconsciousforce manifest itself.

Explanation XLIV. — Movement of cosmic vital force modulatedin a psychodic aerolith by the human will with anelevated intention. It is not the human Somod which projectsan image made with its own tluidic body', as in theproduction of a psychicone by thought ; it is a thoughtwhich acts on the Universal Psychod, and models it in aform of light and of Intelligence,

Explanation XLV. — This iconography of the light lifeef the Word was obtained July 18q5. in the dark with redlight, by the electro-negative method, called by appeal byN. P. & myself, our three hands joined in front of the platewithout photographic instrument.Sympneiiinic collective state of soul : demand, desire to havea sign of our animistic trinity, united bv a single feeling ofaffection.On the negative, three vortexes of fine vitalo-psychic forceof universal psychod being amalgamated owing to the intermediatevortex makino: a node.

Negative XLVI. — Large anses of Psychod :tissue of lightand of intelligence, incurved bv the appeal to the spirit ofintelligence.(With electricity, without apparatus, with two handsjoined).

Explanation XLVII, — Appeal hv the doctor to the psychicforce, Universal Spirit, June 1895.State of soul meditative, fingers very near the plate ;somepoints of contact. The hand very soon feels that w^ell knownbreeze, the cool and calm wind of force, the pmeuma of thespirit.The icone presents cuneiforni lamellas of light, centres oficonic f(jrces.

Explanation XLVIII. — Plates after prayer asking forforce and manifestation from the Spirit of light.The left side of Mme A. is surrounded by a white cloudintersected by numerous flashes of lightning. The upper partcorresponding to the head, receives a flash of luminousdarts in the form of birds feathers, of palm leaves.This is a new and remarkable appeal to the Spirit of invisiblelight, by the human soul; magnetising itself in thefervour of prayer. When man wishes he may riddle a plateby his psychobic projections : when he is elevated by ecstaticpraver. he hurls his starred projections towards the skyjust as when he attracts favour, he receives a shower of spiritualrain and of light.

Explanation XLIX. — This iconography was obtainedafter a prayer to the spirit of intelligence and of light toreveal itself by a form.A shower of lights and of intelligences.Luminous olives with trails and bent stem.Projected rays.These falls of lights,intelligences, understandings, accordingto the degree of their virtue will constitute the spiritsof varied hierarchy and the beings which will reach carnalincorporation.

Explanation L. — Iconography obtained by Mme..-Bl. representingan animistic form, which she considers as herGod Mercedes, falsification of J,This form possesses her,inspires her,prompts her constantly to revelations.B, represents a larva form with a pointed hairy snout, andwith a bust making a pedestal.C. represents an ovoid form, pointed chin, vital serpenton the face. It is the face of Mme. 81.

Explanation \A. — Iconography of the invisible, electronegativemethod. The glass face plate is greased with badgerfat, and placed en a small mahogony table previously magnetised,with appeal to a deceased- person, the plate ispositive.An energetic tluidic current was produced, which attractedan unknown soul form, with its two planes, and a singleplaneTor the animal souls.Apparition of animal souls and of an irritated humansoul. As a collection of movements, this isa very nice experiment.(Plate positive, without apparatus, with electricity withthe hand).

Explanation LII. — The plate is covered with badger greaseon the underneath face : It is placed on a table with glass^egs.Appeal to the in\-isible : .. that something mav come".Positive plate of the hereafter.The icone represents on the right side, the image, theshadow of M. D. concierge, dead from an open abscess inthe peritoneum. I was able to have a sketched portrait ofM. D. and verify dc vi'sii, that mv memorv had ser\ed mewell. This form is the shadow, the spectre of M. D. magnetisedby me.

ExpTayiation LIII. — This spoiitaiiiOus iconography is thefirst, in order of date, that I obtained. I detached it from therest of the negative. It reminds me of the whole form andthe details of Mme. G.. a friend of my family.(Without electricity, without apparatus, without the hand,with magnet).ExplanatwH LIV. — This icone represents a form, thehands clasped as in prayer : it is purely white and does notrepresent the material side, the black face. It came spontaneouslyin the corner of a plate on which I had projected animage, the portrait of Mme. A.Spontaneous electro-negatiye form, which represents nother own form, but the drawins: I made of her on her deathbed.(Negative and positive plate, without apparatus, withelectricity, with the hand.)

Explanation LV.— In February 1896, two plates, the glassface of which was smeared by the hand with badger fat,placed at the north pole of a large magnet, sensitive faceupwards. They remain there 36 consecutive hours, in thedark without red light. The magnet has 12 blades.State of soul : 1 desire to have the differentiation of thephenomena at the two poles.Observations : numerous subtile black points on the plateof the north pole, intentionally grouping themselves to formthe large form, of which one sees the eves, the nose and theopen mouth.are

Explanation LVI. — Same conditions at the north pole,plate greased bv the hand, 48 hours during the night and day.State of soul : I desire something to be produced.A very well defined form, the eyes on the upper part, surroundedbv a nimbus of swiftness.The phenomenon is spontaneous : to produce these groupingsof cosmic Od. a spontaneous determinism is necessary.

Explanation LVII. — Same conditions, Ash Wednesday,1896.Clear form of a young person dead for some months.These spontaneous experiments show that with a certainfavourable arrangement, the spirit of a living as well as ,adead person may use the cosmic od, entities inferior to liim,soul germs, black points, to modulate a form, to give animage, a psychicone of the hereafter, like one projects one'sown psychicone here-below.Explanation LVIII. — Reply to a question asked of the invisible,relative to the vital particles.(With static electricity, without apparatus, with righthand).

Explanation LIX. — This iconography obtained in October1894, by electric method in the dark. This pear-shaped bulbof liofht and of intellio-ence is a laroe luminous olive. It isthe exact resemblance of the tongues of tire described as themanifestation of the Holy Spirit, as well as the bulbsof certain spirit manifestations.of fire

Explanation LX. — This iconography of the light life ofthe Word was obtained in the dark, with red light, bv theelectro-negative method, called appeal, by N. P. and myself,our three hands joined in front of the plate without photographicinstruments.Demand, desire of having a sign of our animistic trinity,re-united by a single feeling of pure affection.On developing, three whirlwinds of fine vitalo-psychicforce, of universal psychod being amalgamated, owing to theintermediary whirlwind causing a node. The whole forms acomplete trinity, our unity united and re-made : such is thephenemenon comprehensible bv a few human spirits, otherstoo absorbed in the first material plane.

Exphvuitioii LXI. — Photography with neither Hght nor electricity,of N. and P. at 5 feet from the lense in red dimness.After the preparations, electric light which wasfmally turnedoff.Pose 10 minutes.5/rt/t' 0/' 50?// : praver,spirit.meditation, appeal to the universalResult : on the left side of the group, descent of fme tonguesin the form of feathers. It is a projection of horizontaltongues or from top to bottom.The importance of this plate is capital, it is the experimentalproof of the reply of the psychecstasis. ascendingtowards the Spirit :it is the universal shower, the illuminationof the proven prayer, the descent of the Spirit.

CONTENTSCHAPTER I. — Preface 7PagesCHAPTER II. — Movements of the humanvital Soul 15CHAPTER III. — Technical and theoreticalstatement of Iconography 29CHAPTER IV. — Lights of the vital soul.Seven luminous movements unveiled byIconography 37CHAPTER v.— Science of Light and of Life 67CHAPTER VI. — Communion of the humanSoul with cosmic extra-human forcescorresponding ta its ow^n material, fluidic,pneumic, divine planes 125CHAPTER VII. — General Conclusions... 165Lights of the Human Soul 187

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