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The Philosophy of Mystery

by Walter Cooper Dendy

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Dedication · Epigraph — The Challenge
  3. 3Nature and Motives of Ghosts
  4. 4Prophecy of Spectres
  5. 5Illusion of Spectres
  6. 6Phantasy From Mental Association
  7. 7Phantasy From Cerebral Excitement
  8. 8Phantasy From Cerebral Congestion — Opium
  9. 9Poetic Phantasy, or Frenzy
  10. 10Phantasy From Sympathy With the Brain
  11. 11Mysterious Forms and Signs
  12. 12Analysis and Classification of Spectral Illusion
  13. 13Illusions of Art
  14. 14Illustration of Mysterious Sounds
  15. 15Fairy Mythology
  16. 16Demonology
  17. 17Nature of Soul and Mind
  18. 18Nature of Sleep
  19. 19Sublimity and Imperfection of Dreaming
  20. 20Prophecy of Dreams
  21. 21Moral Causes of Dreaming
  22. 22Anachronism and Coincidence of Dreams
  23. 23Material Causes of Dreams
  24. 24Intense Impression — Memory
  25. 25Influence of Dark Blood in the Brain
  26. 26Incubus, or Night-Mare
  27. 27Somniloquence — Somnambulism
  28. 28Imitative Monomania
  29. 29Reverie
  30. 30Abstraction of Intellect
  31. 31Somnolence — Trance — Catalepsy
  32. 32Premature Interment — Resuscitation
  33. 33Transmigration — Analysis of Trance
  34. 34Mesmerism
  35. 35Sibylline Influence

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