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“The great man Astané” is the reincarnation on Mars of the Hindoo fakir Kanga, who was a devoted companion and friend of Simandini
Read record →When Astané says to Hélène, during a seance: “Come to me an instant
Read record →Nevertheless, at his first apparition (September 5, 1896, see p
Read record →The messages were obtained by means of visions and typtological dictations
Read record →Kanga, the Hindoo fakir, holds in the life of Simandini exactly the same place as Cagliostro in the life of Marie Antoinette, the place of a sorcerer giving beneficial counsel, and at the same time of a platonic adorer, and both of them in their actual rôles o
Read record →Smith, it may be said that it is the same fundamental emotion which has inspired these twin rôles, the details of which have been adapted by the subliminal imagination to correspond to the diversity of the circumstances
Read record →On parallel lines, in these two dreams issuing from the same emotional source, it is the universal and constant taste of the human imagination for the marvellous, allied to the very feminine need of a respectful and slightly idolatrous protector, which on the
Read record →When we pass to the garden the same amalgam of analogies and unlikenesses to our flora are discovered
Read record →The following are some details concerning that vision, which occupied the greater part of a seance (November 28, 1897)
Read record →At this moment the vision, which has lasted an hour and a quarter, passes away
Read record →The imagination which forged these scenes, with all their decoration, is remarkably calm, thoughtful, devoted to the real and the probable
Read record →A wise little imagination of ten or twelve years old would have deemed it quite droll and original to make people up there eat on square plates with a furrow for the gravy, of making an ugly beast with a single eye carry the telescope of Astané to him, of maki
Read record →First: Verbo-auditive automatism, hallucinations of hearing, accompanying visions in the waking state
Read record →Secondly: Vocal automatism (“verbo-motor hallucinations of articulation,” in the cumbersome official terminology)
Read record →September 12, 1897.—At the end of a quite long Martian vision, Mlle
Read record →We may conclude from these successive stages that the Martian handwriting is the result of a slow autosuggestion, in which the idea of a special writing instrument, and its handling, for a long time played the dominant rôle, then was abandoned, without doubt,
Read record →November 29, 1896 (translated same seance).—Spoken by Esenale and addressed to Mme
Read record →December 4, 1896 (translated December 13)
Read record →December 15, 1896 (translated January 17, 1897).—Words spoken by Astané to Hélène in a morning vision
Read record →January 31, 1897 (translated same seance).—Hélène, in hemisomnambulism, sees Astané, who tells her to repeat his words; she replies to him: “But speak plainly
Read record →March 14, 1897 (translated same seance).—From the beginning of this seance Hélène complained of cold hands, then a great desire to weep, and of a buzzing in the ears, which kept increasing and in which she finally heard Astané address to her the Martian words
Read record →May 23, 1897 (translated same seance).—Shortly after the beginning of the seance, Hélène, still being awake, has a vision of Astané, who addresses her in these words, which she repeats slowly and in a feeble voice
Read record →Same seance as the preceding text, after which Hélène passes into full somnambulism, begins to weep, pants, holds her hand on her heart, and pronounces this sentence, mingling with it the two words Adèl and yestad, which are not Martian, but belong to the Orie
Read record →June 27, 1897 (translated same seance).—Mme
Read record →October 10, 1897 (translated same seance).—Hélène has a vision of a Martian landscape, in which Esenale floats discarnate around the plants and speaks these words, which she repeats
Read record →November 28, 1897 (translated same seance).—Fragments of conversation heard during the vision of the Martian fête described on p
Read record →February 20, 1898 (translated same seance).—Very complicated Martian vision
Read record →December 5, 1898 (translated December 18).—Working by lamp-light at seven o’clock in the morning, Hélène again had a vision of the Martian (Ramié) who had clasped her waist with one arm while showing her something with a gesture of the other (probably the tabl
Read record →March 8, 1899 (translated June 4).—Hélène heard the phrase (A) during the vision of which the description follows
Read record →It is not the result of a purely intellectual calculation, but influences of an æsthetic order, emotional factors, have combined in its creation and instinctively directed the choice of its assonances and favorite terminations
Read record →It is allowable to conclude from this that it is really the same emotional atmosphere which bathes and envelops these varied psychological products, the same personality which gives birth to these visual and phonetic automatisms
Read record →This apparent contradiction carries its explanation in itself, and gives us the key to Martian
Read record →This research of originality—which, however, she has never extended beyond the purely material part of the language, never having an idea that there might be other differences in languages—represents an effort of imagination with which she must be credited
Read record →ied myself as to the essential nature of the Martian language, I did not desire to make a profound study of it, and since the texts had made their appearance so slowly, for two years, as to threaten to continue during the remainder of my natural existence, as
Read record →My first tentative experiment, addressed to Leopold, had no appreciable influence on the course of the Martian cycle
Read record →I allowed some months to pass, then tried a discussion with Hélène while she was awake
Read record →y have nevertheless penetrated to the profound strata where the Martian visions are elaborated, and, acting there as a leaven, have been the source of new and unexpected developments
Read record →onic letter, which, however, had been better in place between the words =bindié idé=, trouve-t-on, than in the =bèrimir m hed= of text 15, to which I had attracted Hélène’s attention; possibly it is allowable to regard this little detail as a first result of m
Read record →A little later there was a continuation, or an abortive repetition, of the same vision; the table did not appear distinctly, and Ramié (text 35) contented himself with teaching Hélène things concerning a world beyond, a near neighbor to Mars, and a coarser lan
Read record →While the Martian romance is purely a work of fantasy, in which the creative imagination was able to allow itself free play through having no investigation to fear, the Hindoo cycle, and that of Marie Antoinette, having a fixed terrestrial setting, represent a
Read record →o saw Teheran; then the cemetery of the missions at Tokat (June 12th); a cavalier with a white woollen cloak and a turban bearing the name of Abderrhaman (September 2d); and, finally, an Oriental landscape, which depicted a ceremony of Buddhist aspect (October
Read record →March 3.—Seance with six persons present, all having their hands upon the table
Read record →In the first part of the vision, Hélène, who follows that woman with ecstatic gaze, describing her to us, sees her coming towards me, but at that moment the invisibility of my finger was extended to my entire person, and Hélène neither sees nor hears me
Read record →The process is the same in the employment of Fig
Read record →2 may be employed under test conditions, by so situating it as that the dial shall be on the side opposite to that where the medium sits; under these circumstances she cannot see the index or the letters, and consequently cannot control the spelling of spirits
Read record →3, Plate IV., is a representation of an association of serrated strips of iron in a wooden frame, which sliding on the lever board of Fig
Read record →terpoise for sin, a source of discord originally confined to Judea, expanded with Christianity and Islamism: verifying Christ’s allegation, that he came “as a sword, not as a messenger of peace”—Superior morality and far less questionable certainty of the comm
Read record →ADDITIONAL CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF SPIRITS.—The opinions of MM
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