BUCHANAN’S
JOURNAL OF MAN.
Vol. I.
AUGUST, 1887.
No. 7.
CONTENTS.
- [Creation’s Mysteries]
- [A True Poet—The Poetry of Peace and the Practice of War]
- [The Volapük Language]
- [Progress of the Marvellous]
- [Glances Round the World]
- [Miscellaneous Intelligence]—[Photography Perfected;] [The Cannon King;] [Land Monopoly;] [The Grand Canals;] [The Survival of Barbarism;] [Concord Philosophy;] [The Andover War;] [The Catholic Rebellion;] [Stupidity of Colleges;] [Cremation;] [Col. Henry S. Olcott;] [Jesse Shepard;] [Prohibition;] [Longevity;] [Increase of insanity;] [Extraordinary Fasting;] [Spiritual Papers]
- [Cranioscopy (Continued)]
- [Practical Utility of Anthropology in its Psychic Department]
Creation’s Mysteries
Dr. B. Cyriax, editor of the Spiritualistische Blätter, published at Liepsic, Ger., has given in the issue of March 31st the following communications from Dr. Hahnemann and Dr. Spurzheim, delivered through a trance medium. They are valuable essays, whatever may be their source, and the reader will not fail to observe their general coincidence with the doctrine presented by myself in the May number of the Journal of Man in the article on the “Genesis of the Brain.”
Wishing to have a psychometric test, I placed in the hands of Mrs. Buchanan a portion of the manuscript of Spurzheim, who died fifty-five years ago, to see if her conception of his thought would coincide with the report from the trance medium. Her nervous system being somewhat disturbed at the time, she was unable to go as far as I wished, but she gave the following impressions: