DEATH AND ITS MYSTERY [IN 3 VOLUMES]: BEFORE DEATH - PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE SOUL; AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH - MANIFESTATIONS AND APPARITIONS OF THE DYING, DOUBLES, PHENOMENA OF OCCULTISM; AFTER DEATH - MANIFESTATIONS AND APPARITIONS OF THE DEAD, THE SOUL AFTER DEATH
Book Details + Condition: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd. (London). First Editions, 1921 - 1923. Extremely scarce, complete three-volume hardcover set with maroon boards; blind stamp to front and gilt titling (etc) to spine. Illustrated. Each book is a standalone publication. Pagination: 322pp; 371pp; 391pp. The set explores the migration of the soul before, during and after death. Prolific author, astronomer and psychical researcher Camille Flammarion postulates the existence of the soul and its ability to manifest its presence through apparitions and other psychic phenomena. Chapters include:
Vol I: Proofs of the Existence of the Soul
- The Greatest of Problems: Can it Actually Be Solved?
- Materialism: An Erroneous, Incomplete, and Insufficient Doctrine
- What is Man? Does the Soul Exist?
- Supra-Normal Faculties of the Soul, Unknown or Little Understood
- Telepathy and Psychic Transmissions at a Distance
- Vision Without Eyes: The Spirit's Vision, Exclusive of Telepathic Transmission
- The Sight of Future Events; The Present Future; The Already Seen
- Knowledge of the Future
Vol II: At the Moment of Death
- Phantasms of the Living
- Thought as a Generator of Images Projected to a Distance
- Apparitions of the Dying Some Time Before Death
- Manifestations of the Dying Some Time Before Death (Other Than Apparitions)
- The Visioning of Death Scenes
- Mental Impressions of Death or Accidents at a Distance (Without Physical Phenomena)
- Deaths Announced by Noises, Blows Struck, By an Unexplained Uproar, By Physical Phenomena
- Between Life and Death: Intermediate Occurrences in Which the Influence of the Living May Still Exist
- Manifestations of The Dying at the Moment of Death
Vol. III: After Death
- The Dead Who Have Returned According to Previous Agreements
- The Dead Who Have Returned to Attend to Personal Affairs
- Manifestations and Apparitions From a Few Minutes to An Hour After Death
- Manifestations From One to Twenty-Four Hours After Death
- Manifestations and Apparitions From One Day to One Week After Death
- Manifestations and Apparitions From One Month to One Year After Death
- Manifestations and Apparitions During the Second, Third and Fourth Years After Death
- Manifestations From Four to Thirty Years After Death
- Manifestations of the Dead in Spiritistic Experiments
- Conclusions From the Three Volumes of This Work
An extremely scarce complete set, in very good condition. For all volumes: firm binding; light shelf wear to boards, with lightly chafed spine ends; toning to endpapers; interior is clean and free of markings, save faded inked name to ffep. Light foxing to upper text block of Vol II. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
