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tests tliat tlie fi-eezing up of the poles has been produced by a 
sudden chill ; by the same shock which denuded the earth of her 
head-dress. 
Behold then here the Fall, that accident which malice and im- 
posture have so strangely disfigured. 
The fall of man has been but the counterstroke to that of the 
Boreal ci own. Woman had nothing to do with the disaster. The 
original sin which bad jesters have considered very original, under 
pretext that the idea of making people expiate a crime that they 
had not committed, was eminently facetious ; the original sin is a 
fable. That sin which humanity has most dearly expiated is the 
sin capital. 
Let us not forget to mention that this new explanation of the 
Fall has in its favor the imposing testimony of two young somnam- 
bulists entirely trustworthy, who remount with the greatest ease to 
all the epochs of their anterior existences in their moments of aro- 
ma! lucidity, and who have attested in my presence the above sin- 
cere and veritable details. 
Every one knows what the state of somnambulism is, which does 
not prevent me from giving the explanation of it for persons who 
are ignorant. 
The terrestrial life is to the aromal life what sleep is to waking. 
Just as in sleep we lose the recollection of previous events and our 
sensibility, so in passing into this inferior life we lose the remem- 
brance of our past existences and the aromal sensibility. 
Now to magnetize an individual is to awaken him from his ter- 
restrial sleep, it is to disengage his aromal body from the obstruc- 
tions of his terraqueous body, to restore his sensibility, lucidity, 
and memory absorbed by sleep, besides the faculty of traversing 
spaces with the swiftness of light and of electricity, two aromal 
fluids. 
Nothing can be more simple than the explanation of all the 
phenomena of somnambulism with this theory. 
I was at the Deluge ; I return. Since this catastrophe the 
earth labors with ardor to repair her disasters. The frequency of 
the boreal auroras tells plainly enough the persistence of her 
struggles to reconquer her crown, attribute of her dignity, as car- • 
