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are crystallized, for which reason Newton says that water
is a liquid salt. C. Linnaeus."
It will perhaps be necessary to explain what Linnseus means by Palingensis, and as it bears directly on the matter
in question I will quote "Paracelsus," as re-capitulated by
Dr. Franz Hartmann in his splendid work upon the writ- ings of that famous Swiss philosopher of 400 years ago, and
published 1891 by the American Publishers Corporation,
New York, page 346:
"Palingenesis. If a thing loses its material substance,
the invisible form still remains in the light of nature (the
astral light); if we can re-clothe that form with visible matter, we may make that form visible again. All matter
is composed of three elements — sulphur, mercuiy and salt. By alchemical means we may create a magnetic attraction
in the astral form, so that it may attract from the ele- ments (the A’kasa) those principles which it possessed be- fore its mortification, and incorporate them and become
visible again. ( "De Resuscitationibus." Paracelsus.)
Note by Dr. Franz Hartmann: "Plato, Seneca, Erastus, Avicenna, Averroes, Albertus Magnus, Caspalin, Car- danus, Cornelius Agrippa, Eckartshausen, and many
others wrote about the palingenesis of plants and animals.
Ivircher resurrected a rose from its ashes in the presence of Queen Christina of Sweden, 1687. The astral body of an
individual form remains with the remnant of the latter until these remnants have been fully decomposed, and by
certain methods, known to the alchemist, it may be re- clothed with matter and become visible again."
Will that not hold good also with the human body? we may reasonably ask and explain and justify spiritism,
if that, indeed, were needed, and furthermore advance the
principle and practice of cremation, that the remimnt body
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