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Periodical: Monde Invisible

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Monde Invisible, Le.
Etudes sur le spiritisme, le spiritualisme et le magnetisme. Les mysteres d'outre-tombe, les infiniment petits et les infininiment grands. Les Merveilles de la nature. Revue des groupes spirites / Revue des Groupes Spirites.
Vouloir c'est pouvoir
1867--1884? Monthly
Paris, France.
Language: French.
Publisher: Docks de la Librairie.
Editor: Maurice Lachatre. 1/1, 1867. 3 fr.

The bibliographical note in Bibliotheque National says that this journal ended in 1868, but it is mentioned in Revue Spirite, January 1885, and may have lasted until then or been revived. It was the work of otherwise unknown Groupes Spirites in Paris and consisted in a selection of articles from other English and French spiritualist journals and from newspapers. It included a fair selection of the phenomenal spiritualism that was far more common in English-speaking countries, poetry, communications from local mediums, such as Mme Lambert, articles on hashish and opium use, the wonders of Zouave Jacob, the Davenport Brothers, Baron Du Poten, Baron de Guldenstubbe, historical apparitions of spirits, "An Evening of Spiritualism with President Lincoln" in 1863 (from the Boston Gazette), etc.

Other Sources:BNF
Issues:Monde Invisible 1866
Claude-Generated Themes:   Le Monde Invisible was a French periodical devoted to the 'invisible world' of spirits and mediumship, read through the closely allied lens of animal magnetism. Spirit communication and séance phenomena dominate its pages—esprits, séances, and the Kardecist term périsprit all appear—but its second great theme is the magnetic and somnambulic: lucid clairvoyance, the magnetizer, magnetic sleep, and the 'fluidified' human said to unlock the faculties of the Esprits. Its excerpts dwell on the destiny of the soul beyond the tomb and on physical mediumistic phenomena reported to a skeptical public that could hear and touch, if not always see. The result is a Continental spiritualism woven together with mesmeric physiology and the consolations of survival after death, rather than a strictly doctrinal or occultist review.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Spiritism (Kardecist) | Spiritualism