: The Philosophy of Mystery by Dendy Walter Cooper - Dreams; Occultism Early works to 1900; Apparitions; Parapsychology Early works to 1900

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PAGE THE CHALLENGE. Scenery on the Wye--A Ghost Seer--Tintern 1-5 Abbey--Faith and Scepticism in the reality of Phantoms

NATURE AND MOTIVES OF GHOSTS. Notions of the Ancients regarding the nature of 6-17 Ghosts--Confidence of the Ancients in their appearance--Modern Incidents in illustration of real appearance--Qualities of Ghosts--Motives of Apparitions--Ancient and modern Stories

PROPHECY OF SPECTRES. Ancient spectral Prophecy--Modern Stories in 18-33 illustration of prophetic Spectres--Philosophy and Poesy of Shakspere--Holy influence of Spectral Visitations--Stories of apparently special influence of the Deity

ILLUSION OF SPECTRES. Reasons for early faith in Phantoms--Modern errors 34-51 regarding classic Superstitions--Shallowness and Fallacy of modern Incidents--Explanation of Ghost Stories by Coincidence--Incidents in proof of Coincidence--Proneness of intellectual Minds to credulity and exaggeration--Innocent invention of an incident at Bowood

PHANTASY FROM MENTAL ASSOCIATION. Influence of interesting localities--Definition of 52-66 a Phantom--An intense idea--Demonomania--Stings of Conscience--Curious effect of peculiar study or intense thought--Darkness and Obscurity--Romance of reality--A mysterious incident

POETIC PHANTASY, OR FRENZY. Inspiration of Poesy and 89-100 Painting--Shakspere--Fuseli--Blake--Philosophy and Madness--Illusion of Tasso--Truth of Poesy--Splendid illusions at the onset of Mania--Melancholy constitution and decay of Poetic Minds--Letter of a Cheromaniac--Sensibility--Unhappy consequences of cherishing Romance--Fragment of John Keats

PHANTASY FROM SYMPATHY WITH THE BRAIN. Philosophy of Moral Causes--Effect of thought and 101-112 of the function of the Stomach in producing physical changes in the Brain--Stories in proof of this influence--Illusions from Derangements of Vision--Curious cases of ocular Spectra from peculiar conditions of the Eye

MYSTERIOUS FORMS AND SIGNS. Stories of Supernatural Appearances 113-122

ANALYSIS AND CLASSIFICATION OF SPECTRAL ILLUSION. Credulity--Arrangement of Causes of Spectral 123-140 Illusion--Illustration of Atmospheric Illusions--Natural Phenomena--Fata Morgana--Schattenman of the Brocken--Romance of unlettered minds

ILLUSIONS OF ART. Monkish Impostures--Optical Toys--Spontaneous 141-146 Combustion

ILLUSTRATION OF MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS. Elemental Causes--Impositions at 147-154 Woodstock--Tedworth--Cock Lane--Subterranean Sounds--Currents of Air--Memnon--Phonic Instruments--Vocal curiosity in young Richmond

FAIRY MYTHOLOGY. Origin of Fa?ry--Legends of the Mythology of 155-165 various Climes--Cauld Lad of Hilton

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