Author : Augustin Calmet
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230333342
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (333 download)
Book Synopsis The Phantom World; Or, the Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, and C Volume 2 by : Augustin Calmet
Download or read book The Phantom World; Or, the Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, and C Volume 2 written by Augustin Calmet and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER LXIII. DISSERTATION BY AN ANONYMOUS WRITER. Answer to a Letter on the subject of the Apparition of St. Maur. " You have been before me, Sir, respecting the spirit of St. Maur, which causes so much conversation at Paris; for I had resolved to send you a short detail of that event, in order that you might impart to me your reflections on a matter so delicate and so interesting to all Paris. But since you have read an account of it, I cannot understand why you have hesitated a moment to decide what you ought to think of it. What you do me the honour to tell me, that you have suspended your judgment of the case until I have informed you of mine, does me too much honour for me to be persuaded of it; and I think there is more probability in believing that it is a trick you are playing me, to see how I shall extricate myself from such slippery ground. Nevertheless, I cannot resist the entreaties, or rather the orders, with which your letter is filled; and I prefer to expose myself to the pleasantry of the free thinkers, or the reproaches of the credulous, than the anger of those with which I am threatened by yourself. " You ask if I believe that spirits come back, and if the circumstance which occurred at St. Maur can be attributed to one of those incorporeal substances ? " To answer your two questions in the same order that you propose them to me, I must first tell you, that the ancient heathens acknowledge various kinds of spirits, which they called lares, larvae, lemures, genii, manes. " For ourselves, without pausing at the folly of our cabalistic philosophers, who fancy spirits in every element, calling those sylphs which they pretend to inhabit the air; gnomes, those which they feign to be under the earth; ondines, those which...