Geneva, June 20, 1900

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
Translator’s Preface[vii]
I.Introduction[1]
II.Childhood and Youth of Mlle. Smith[15]
III.Mlle. Smith Since Her Initiation into Spiritism[35]
I.The Mediumistic Beginnings of Mlle. Smith[36]
II.Mlle. Smith in her Normal State[41]
III.Spontaneous Automatic Phenomena[48]
1. Permanence of Exterior Suggestions[49]
2. Irruptions of Subliminal Reveries[51]
3. Teleological Automatisms[58]
IV.The Seances[60]
IV.The Personality of Leopold[76]
I.Psychogenesis of Leopold[80]
II.Personification of Balsamo by Leopold[96]
III.Leopold and the True Joseph Balsamo[107]
IV.Leopold and Mlle. Smith[116]
V.The Martian Cycle[139]
I.Origin and Birth of the Martian Cycle[140]
II.Later Development of the Martian Cycle[152]
III.The Personages of the Martian Romance[172]
Esenale[173]
Astané[177]
Pouzé, Ramié—Various Personages[188]
IV.Concerning the Author of the Martian Romance[190]
VI.The Martian Cycle (continued)—The MartianLanguage[195]
I.Verbal Martian Automatisms[198]
II.The Martian Texts[210]
III.Remarks on the Martian Language[241]
1. Martian Phonetics and Handwriting[246]
2. Grammatical Forms[249]
3. Construction and Syntax[251]
4. Vocabulary[252]
5. Style[255]
IV.Mlle. Smith and the Inventor of Martian[257]
VII.The Martian Cycle (concluded)—The Ultra-Martian[261]
VIII.The Hindoo Cycle[275]
I.Apparition and Development of the HindooCycle[279]
II.Sivrouka and M. de Marlès[297]
III.The Arab Elements of the Oriental Cycle[309]
IV.The Hindoo Language of Mlle. Smith[314]
V.The Sources of the Hindoo Dream[337]
IX.The Royal Cycle[342]
X.Supernormal Appearances[364]
I.The Study of the Supernormal[365]
II.Physical Phenomena[375]
1. Apports[375]
2. Movements of Objects Without Contact[377]
III.Telepathy[387]
IV.Lucidity[396]
1. Medical Consultations[398]
2. Objects Recovered[401]
3. Retrocognitions[406]
V.Incarnations and Spirit Messages[413]
1. Case of Mlle. Vignier[425]
2. Case of Jean the Quarryman[430]
3. Case of the Syndic Chaumontet andof the Curé Burnier[431]
XI.Conclusion[441]

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

The translation into English of From India to the Planet Mars has been undertaken in response to the demand created by the widespread and increasing interest which is manifesting itself both in Great Britain and the United States in the phenomena exhibited by its heroine—an interest which marks a new era in the progress of human knowledge.

Twenty—even ten—years ago the phenomena which Prof. Flournoy here describes in detail, and of which he offers a keen, skilful, psychological analysis, would have met with the sneers of popular science and the contempt of obscurantist orthodoxy; the book would have found few readers.