Publisher's Synopsis
The Phantom World
The History and Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions
From the French of Agustine Calmet
With A Preface and Notes By The Rev. Henry Christmas
The apparitions or appearances of good angels are frequently mentioned in the books of the Old Testament. He who was stationed at the entrance of the terrestrial Paradise was a cherub, armed with a flaming sword; those who appeared to Abraham, and who promised that he should have a son; those who appeared to Lot, and predicted to him the ruin of Sodom, and other guilty cities; he who spoke to Hagar in the desert, and commanded her to return to the dwelling of Abraham, and to remain submissive to Sarah, her mistress; those who appeared to Jacob, on his journey into Mesopotamia, ascending and descending the mysterious ladder; he who taught him how to cause his sheep to bring forth young differently marked; he who wrestled with Jacob on his return from Mesopotamia, --were angels of light, and benevolent ones; the same as he who spoke with Moses from the burning bush on Horeb, and who gave him the tables of the law on Mount Sinai.
Includes Chapters on:
- The Appearance of Good Angels
- The Apparition of Bad Angels
- Examples which prove the Reality of Magic
- On Sorcerers and Sorceresses, or Witches
- Obsession and Possession of the Devil
- Examples of Real Possessions caused by the Devil
- Some other Examples of Elves
- Narrative of a Vampire
- Excommunicated Persons
