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November 29, 1896 (translated same seance).—Spoken by Esenale and addressed to Mme

Date of account: English edition published 1900
Source: From India to the planet Mars: A study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia
Reference: From India to the planet Mars: A study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia · selected passage 181
Rights: public_domain
Language: English translation from French
Translation: English translation of Théodore Flournoy
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Vocal. November 29, 1896 (translated same seance).—Spoken by Esenale and addressed to Mme. Mirbel, in a scene of incarnation analogous to the preceding. At the moment of translation, Esenale repeated, very distinctly, the last words, as follows: “=né ci=, _est près_ [“is near”], =ten ti vi=, _de toi_ (“thee”).” This was evidently an error, since it appears from numerous later texts that _est près de toi_ corresponds to =né ten ti vi=; it follows that it would be natural to translate the word =ci= by _là_, _ici_, or _tout_, if these words had not been differently rendered in other texts. (A confusion of the adverb _là_ with the article _la_, translated by =ci= in text 2, might also be suspected.)

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