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The human soul : its movements, its lights, and the iconography of ...

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THE HUMAN SOULvis<strong>its</strong> her, brea<strong>the</strong>s upon her, completelypossesses her.This lady <strong>of</strong> a certain age was thus effectedafter an experiment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> turning table.Several doctors have diagnosed her state asthat <strong>of</strong> a mad person suffering from <strong>the</strong>monomania <strong>of</strong> v^riting ; but for me, she isan inspired larva, that is to say a fluidicpossessed after <strong>the</strong> experiment quoted.From <strong>the</strong> psychological point <strong>of</strong> view,she communes in many Tvays with a force<strong>of</strong> which I have had <strong>the</strong> <strong>iconography</strong> vs^hichis <strong>the</strong> most unexpected <strong>of</strong> phenomena.<strong>The</strong> larvae <strong>of</strong> Mme Bl... were attracted ona plate producing an icone bipolarised ona positive plate which I had to have transformedinto a negative plate, to have <strong>the</strong>series <strong>of</strong> negatives which I here present(Plate L.).I leave to each <strong>the</strong> impression<strong>of</strong> this form. Viewed in one direction, I<strong>the</strong>re see a shell called demoniac, similar to<strong>the</strong> larvae exteriorised by <strong>the</strong> practices <strong>of</strong>exorcism. (1)1) See <strong>the</strong> drawings <strong>of</strong> exorcism, putting to flight not a largedevil, but a small larva.— I4t> —

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