Note VII.

The Spiritist Doctrine sheds new light on magnetism and somnambulism. The phenomenon, so singular, of clairvoyance, which by a no less singular contradiction certain persons contest in magnetic somnambulists, though they find themselves forced to admit it in natural somnambulists, is already clearly defined. But to the question of the cause is linked a number of others of the highest importance from the philosophical, psychological, moral, and even social point of view, which have not yet been completely elucidated and which, for that very reason, constitute a source of many errors and prejudices. As the examination of these questions does not belong here, the author will treat of them in a special work that will appear shortly.