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May 23, 1897 (translated same seance).—Shortly after the beginning of the seance, Hélène, still being awake,…

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 188
Rights: public_domain
Language: English translation from French
Translation: English translation of Théodore Flournoy
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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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

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Auditive. 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. I give the text as it was heard and uniformly noted by several sitters, both at the moment of its utterance and at its subsequent translation. Many corrections, however, would be necessary, in order to make it correspond with the later written texts: =ké nipuné ani=, _et ne crains pas_ (“and I am not afraid,” or, “and I do not fear”) should be changed to =kié nipuné ani=, _ne crains pas_ (see text 17); =sé= or =cé= only stands here for _et_, which everywhere else is given as =ni=; =viche= is used in error for =iche= (unless the =v= was added for the sake of euphony, of which there is no other example) and =tis= for =tiche=.

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