The Great Harmonia: The seer

The darkness of past systems. Delirium tremens. The naturalness of
clairvoyance. Man and Nature. Franklin's free investigations. Matter
and mind. The laws which unfold good and bad characters. Richard
the Third. The mother's testimony. Positive and negative laws exhibited
in medicine. Marks upon children. Illustrations. Dr. Edward's testi-
mony. Necessity of a true philosophy,.....

LECTURE IX.

CONCERNING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ACTION OF THE MIND UPON THE

BODY IN DISEASE.

Action of mind upon the body in disease. Illustrations. The law of

mental captivity. Dreaming. How parents can improve their unborn

children. Definitions. Natural psychology. Three illustrations cited

from "Pathetism." The spirit of Reform,.

LECTURE X.

ON THE PHILOSOPHY AND OUTER MANIFESTATIONS OF A UNIVERSAL

SYMPATHY.

The sympathetic state. Facts and fiction. Truth lurks in all imagina-
tions. The certainty of criticism. The removal of social deformity. The
true artist. The religion of sympathy. George Herbert's description.
The new birth. A description of the Author's first view of Nature from
the spiritual state. Man's interiors. The different organs, &c. The
localities, properties, qualities, uses, &c., of the vegetable kingdom. The
mineral kingdom. Peter's vision. The general interior appearance of
Nature. Illustrations of the law of sympathy,..

LECTURE XI.

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CONCERNING THE EXTERNAL MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SYMPATHETIC STATE.

The Odylic force described under the term, (( Magnetism." The phi-

losophy of its action. Definitions. The magnetic process. Psycho-
sympathy illustrated in scriptural history. The explanation of contradic-
tions. Ezekiel and Daniel. The power of prophecy-how caused--
illustrations. Conclusion,...

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LECTURE XII.

ON THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCES OF THE PSYCHO-SYMPATHETIC STATE.

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Correct and incorrect reasoning. The world's testimony. The woman

at Jacob's well. Clairvoyance exhibited by Jesus. Unfulfilled prophecies.

Denunciation anticipated. The origin of supernaturalism illustrated,.... 139

LECTURE XIII.

THE MENTAL CONDITION OF ANCIENT PROPHETS, SEERS, AND RELIGIOUS

CHIEFTAINS.

Emmanuel Swedenborg accepted as a type. Why people believe in

supernatural personages. The impossibility of reasoning upon a super-

natural basis. The position of Prof. George Bush examined as a type,... 153

LECTURE XIV.

ON THE MORAL OR RELIGIOUS MANIFESTATIONS OF THE TRANSITION STATE.

The same subject continued. The impossibility of using the reason on

a supernatural doctrine. The universal fallacy. The contradictions of

inspired men. The New Philosophy,..

LECTURE XV.

THE TRANSITION STATE OF MIND AS Developed AMONG RELIGIOUS

CHIEFTAINS.

The psycho-sympathetic state of the mind. The troubles of the reli-

gious world. Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Swedenborg, Moses, Joshua,

and Aaron. The certainty of psychological captivity. Explanations given

of the transition state. Swedenborg's condition briefly explained. The

seership of Swedenborg admitted. The duality of his mental state. The

child and the giant. Consistency not visible in the premises. The pro-

fessions of all chieftains-the evils thereof. The certainty of reform. The

true position of Swedenborg. The laws of our psychological being applied

to Swedenborg. The simplicity of Truth,.

LECTURE XVI.

CONTINUATION OF TRANSITIONAL MANIFESTATIONS AMONG RELIGIOUS

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CHIEFTAINS.

The general honesty of religious chieftains. Human testimony not re-
liable. The true doctrine of Incarnation.
teachers and receivers of popular theology.

The difference between the

Prof. Bush and the prophet

of the New Church-the learned effort. Special pleading-the case made

out. The parallelisms. Zoroaster's prayer-the application. Moham-

med's professions-the application. Identity of the Turkish and the

Christian views of hell, &c. Mohammed and the prophet Daniel. The

testimony of Ann Lee-the application. The declaration of all leaders.

The conflict. Krishnah's prayer and solemn profession-the application.

Joseph Smith's prayer and profession-the application. The unreason-

ableness of bigots or psychologized believers. The author's professions--

the application—no infallibility. The results of dishonesty and ignorance.

The final conclusion in the case of Swedenborg,-applying to all religious