JO EXCURSION TO THE REALMS BELOW. 



deceafed, and explained this extraordinary phaenome- 

 non very philofophically from the power of inveterate 

 habit to become a fecond nature. The difference con- 

 lilts mereiy in this, that the afiumed fantaftical body, 

 on account of its extraordinary lightnefs, cannot im- 

 pede my foul, from being able, by a limple act of the 

 will, and in an exceedingly fhort time, to make jour- 

 nies, which, encumbered by its real body, it could ei- 

 ther not perform, or only in a very long time, with 

 much danger and difficulty, and at a great expence. 

 Moreover, for this purpofe, I make no ufe of either 

 the necromantic word Quiribirini, or any other means 

 whereby I might run the rilk of an unpleafant connec- 

 tion with the workers of the famous witches' hammers ; 

 but it comes on at leaffc as naturally as in the disorgani- 

 zation of a maiden of twenty years of age ; only the 

 manipulation neceflary is infinitely more limple, and, 

 to fay the truth, infinitely more chafte ; and, as it is 

 well-known, none but perfons of weak nerves have the 

 proper fufceptibility of being tranllated, under the 

 hands of one in league with the magnetifer, into the 

 exalted Hate of magnetical fomnambulifm : fo, on the 

 contrary, it demands pretty ftrong nerves for the ope- 

 ration I am now fpeaking of, and which, for very good 

 reafons, I do not intend to decorate with any latin or 

 greek appellative. 



Thus much I deemed it needful to prerrrife, for gra- 

 tifying the curiofity of my gentle reader, as I delign 

 to entertain him hereafter with my peregrinations into 

 the world of fpirits; and poiitenefs feemed to require, 

 that I Ihould make no fee ret to him of t he way and 

 manner in which tiiefe flights of my foul are carried on. 



