The Phantom World
Or, the Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, Etc

Table of Contents

Introduction
Preface
1. The appearance of good angels proved by the books of the Old Testament
2. The appearance of good angels proved by the books of the New Testament
3. Under what form have good angels appeared?
4. Opinions of the Jews, Christians, Mahometans, and oriental nations, concerning the apparitions of good angels
5. Opinion of the Greeks and Romans on the apparitions of good genii
6. The apparition of bad angels proved by the Holy Scriptures. Under what form they have appeared
7. Of magic
8. Objections to the reality of magic
9. Reply to the objections
10. Examination of the affair of Hocque, magician
11. Magic of the Egyptians and Chaldeans
12. Magic among the Greeks and Romans
13. Examples which prove the reality of magic
14. Effects of magic according to the poets
15. Of the pagan oracles
16. The certainty of the event predicted, not always a proof that the prediction comes from God
17. Reasons which lead us to believe that the greater part of the ancient oracles were only impositions of the priests and priestesses, who feigned that they were inspired by God
18. Of sorcerers and sorceresses, or witches
19. Instances of sorcerers and witches being, as they said, transported to the Sabbath
20. Story of Louis Gaufredi and Magdalen de la Palud, owned by themselves to be a sorcerer and sorceress
21. Reasons which prove the possibility of sorcerers and witches being transported to the Sabbath
22. Continuation of the same subject
23. Obsession and possession of the Devil
24. The truth and reality of possession and obsession by the Devil proved from Scripture
25. Examples of real possessions caused by the Devil
26. Continuation of the same subject
27. Objections against the obsessions and possessions of the demon. Reply to the objections
28. Continuation of objections against possessions, and some replies to those objections
29. Of familiar spirits
30. Some other examples of elves
31. Spirits that keep watch over treasure
32. Other instances of hidden treasures, which were guarded by good or bad spirits
33. Spectres which appear, and predict things unknown and to come
34. Other apparitions of spectres
35. Examination of the apparition of a pretended spectre
36. Of spectres which haunt houses
37. Other instances of spectres which haunt certain houses
38. Prodigious effects of imagination in those men or women who believe they hold intercourse with the demon
39. Return and apparitions of souls after the death of the body, proved from Scripture
40. Apparitions of spirits proved from history
41. More instances of apparitions
42. On the apparitions of spirits who imprint their hands on clothes or on wood
43. Opinions of the Jews, Greeks, and Latins, concerning the dead who are left unburied
44. Examination of what is required or revealed to the living by the dead who return to earth
45. Apparitions of men still alive, to other living men, absent, and very distant from each other
46. Arguments concerning apparitions
47. Objections against apparitions, and replies to those objections
48. Some other objections and replies
49. The secrets of physics and chemistry taken for supernatural things
50. Conclusion of the treatise on apparitions
51. Way of explaining apparitions
52. The difficulty of explaining the manner in which apparitions make their appearance, whatever system may be proposed on the subject.

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