CHAPTER IX

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CYCLIC PHENOMENA.

Meaning of the expression “coats of skin” 293

Natural selection and its results 295

The Egyptian “circle of necessity” 296

Pre-Adamite races 299

Descent of spirit into matter 302

The triune nature of man 309

The lowest creatures in the scale of being 310

Elementals specifically described 311

Proclus on the beings of the air 312

Various names for elementals 313

Swedenborgian views on soul-death 317

Earth-bound human souls 319

Impure mediums and their “guides” 325

Psychometry an aid to scientific research 333

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