From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



importance since more certainly than any other it reverses 

 the very foundations of physiology. 



The sequence of materialisation may be summed up 

 as under : 



From the body of the medium there exudes, or is 

 exteriorised, a substance at first amorphous or poly- 

 morphous. This substance takes on diverse forms, 

 usually representations of more or less complex organs. 



We may therefore consider in turn: 



1. The substance which is the substratum of the 



materialisations; 



2. Its organised representations. 



This substance may be exteriorised in a gaseous or 

 vaporous form, or again as a liquid or a solid. 



The vaporous form is the more frequent and the 

 best known. Near the medium there is outlined or 

 amassed a kind of visible vapour, a sort of fog, often 

 connected with the body of the medium by a thin link 

 of the same substance. In different parts of this fog 

 there then appears what resembles a condensation, 

 which M. Le Cour has ingeniously compared to the 

 supposed formation of nebulae. These areas of con- 

 densation finally take the appearance of organs, whose 

 development is very rapidly completed. 



This substance of materialisation is more amenable 

 to examination under its liquid or solid forms. Its 

 change into organs is then sometimes slower. It remains 

 longer in the amorphous state, and allows of a more 

 precise notion of the genesis of the phenomenon. 



It has been observed under this form, from several 

 mediums, especially from the famous medium Eglinton. 1 

 But it is from the medium Eva that this solid substance 

 is generated with astonishing completeness. The reader 

 should refer to the books of Mme Bisson and of Dr 

 Schrenck-Notzing for the description of the innumerable 

 forms that it takes. 



1 Delanne : Les Apparitions Mattridlisies, vol. ii. pp. 642 et seq. 



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