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

THE HUMAN SOULover a needle by the soul of a person, butalso by an experimental physical fact, bythe method of reduction and of volatilisationof the silver salts. The reduction is producedby cohesive attraction, it is the coagulatingpole, w^hilst the volatilisation of thesesame silver salts is produced by the subtilisingexpansive force,the dissolving pole.The form, the icone, the image, thereforereaches us the same vs^hether it be producedby the coagulative attractive force or vrhetherby the dissolvent force of the substance.The fact is observed on the plate itself. Ifthis fact be simple or complex, that is tosay, if the plate be all or in part positive ornegative, in the first case it will express theinvisible things of the hereafter, while inthe second it reveals the things of the herebelow.Thus follows from the precise fact ofchemical reduction or volatilisation of thesilver salts, the demonstration of the twoopposed forces, the one expansive, the otherattractive, forces determined by a differentdirection.— 86 —