The Phantom World

The Phantom World

Augustin Calmet

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The Phantom World Chapter 1 THE APPEARANCE OF GOOD ANGELS PROVED BY THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.

The apparitions or appearances of good angels are frequently mentioned in the books of the Old Testament.

He who was stationed at the entrance of the terrestrial Paradise[3] was a cherub, armed with a flaming sword; those who appeared to Abraham, and who promised that he should have a son;[4] those who appeared to Lot, and predicted to him the ruin of Sodom, and other guilty cities;[5] he who spoke to Hagar in the desert,[6] and commanded her to return to the dwelling of Abraham, and to remain submissive to Sarah, her mistress; those who appeared to Jacob, on his journey into Mesopotamia, ascending and descending the mysterious ladder;[7] he who taught him how to cause his sheep to bring forth young differently marked;[8] he who wrestled with Jacob on his return from Mesopotamia,[9]-were angels of light, and benevolent ones; the same as he who spoke with Moses from the burning bush on Horeb,[10] and who gave him the tables of the law on Mount Sinai. That Angel who takes generally the name of God, and acts in his name, and with his authority;[11] who served as a guide to the Hebrews in the desert, hidden during the day in a dark cloud, and shining during the night; he who spoke to Balaam, and threatened to kill his she-ass;[12] he, lastly, who contended with Satan for the body of Moses;[13]-all these angels were without doubt good angels.

We must think the same of him who presented himself armed to Joshua on the plain of Jericho,[14] and who declared himself head of the army of the Lord; it is believed, with reason, that it was the angel Michael. He who showed himself to the wife of Manoah,[15] the father of Samson, and afterwards to Manoah himself. He who announced to Gideon that he should deliver Israel from the power of the Midianites.[16] The angel Gabriel, who appeared to Daniel, at Babylon;[17] and Raphael who conducted the young Tobias to Rages, in Media.[18]

The prophecy of the Prophet Zechariah is full of visions of angels.[19] In the books of the Old Testament the throne of the Lord is described as resting on cherubim; and the God of Israel is represented as having before his throne[20] seven principal angels, always ready to execute his orders, and four cherubim singing his praises, and adoring his sovereign holiness; the whole making a sort of allusion to what they saw in the court of the ancient Persian kings,[21] where there were seven principal officers who saw his face, approached his person, and were called the eyes and ears of the king.

Footnotes:

[3] Gen. iii. 24.

[4] Gen. xviii. 1-3.

[5] Gen. xix.

[6] Gen. xxi. 17.

[7] Gen. xxviii. 12.

[8] Gen. xxxi. 10, 11.

[9] Gen. xxxii.

[10] Exod. iii. 6, 7.

[11] Exod. iii. iv.

[12] Numb. xxii. xxiii.

[13] Jude 9.

[14] Josh. v. 13.

[15] Judges xiii.

[16] Judges vi. vii.

[17] Dan. viii. 16; ix. 21.

[18] Tobit v.

[19] Zech. v. 9, 10, 11, &c.

[20] Psalm xvii. 10; lxxix. 2, &c.

[21] Tobit xii. Zech. iv. 10. Rev. i. 4.

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Chapter 1 THE APPEARANCE OF GOOD ANGELS PROVED BY THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.

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Chapter 2 THE APPEARANCE OF GOOD ANGELS PROVED BY THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.

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Chapter 3 UNDER WHAT FORM HAVE GOOD ANGELS APPEARED

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Chapter 4 OPINIONS OF THE JEWS, CHRISTIANS, MAHOMETANS, AND ORIENTAL NATIONS CONCERNING THE APPARITIONS OF GOOD ANGELS.

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Chapter 5 OPINION OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS ON THE APPARITIONS OF GOOD GENII.

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Chapter 6 THE APPARITION OF BAD ANGELS PROVED BY THE HOLY SCRIPTURES-UNDER WHAT FORM THEY HAVE APPEARED.

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Chapter 7 OF MAGIC.

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Chapter 8 OBJECTIONS TO THE REALITY OF MAGIC.

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Chapter 9 REPLY TO THE OBJECTIONS.

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Chapter 10 EXAMINATION OF THE AFFAIR OF HOCQUE, MAGICIAN.

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Chapter 11 MAGIC OF THE EGYPTIANS AND CHALDEANS.

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Chapter 12 MAGIC AMONG THE GREEKS AND ROMANS.

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Chapter 13 EXAMPLES WHICH PROVE THE REALITY OF MAGIC.

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Chapter 14 EFFECTS OF MAGIC ACCORDING TO THE POETS.

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Chapter 15 OF THE PAGAN ORACLES.

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Chapter 16 THE CERTAINTY OF THE EVENT PREDICTED IS NOT ALWAYS A PROOF THAT THE PREDICTION COMES FROM GOD.

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Chapter 17 REASONS WHICH LEAD US TO BELIEVE THAT THE GREATER PART OF THE ANCIENT ORACLES WERE ONLY IMPOSITIONS OF THE PRIESTS AND PRIESTESSES, WHO FEIGNED THAT THEY WERE INSPIRED BY GOD.

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Chapter 18 ON SORCERERS AND SORCERESSES, OR WITCHES.

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Chapter 19 INSTANCES OF SORCERERS AND WITCHES BEING, AS THEY SAID, TRANSPORTED TO THE SABBATH.

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Chapter 20 STORY OF LOUIS GAUFREDI AND MAGDALEN DE LA PALUD, OWNED BY THEMSELVES TO BE A SORCERER AND SORCERESS.

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Chapter 21 REASONS WHICH PROVE THE POSSIBILITY OF SORCERERS AND WITCHES BEING TRANSPORTED TO THE SABBATH.

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Chapter 22 CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT.

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Chapter 23 OBSESSION AND POSSESSION OF THE DEVIL.

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Chapter 24 THE TRUTH AND REALITY OF POSSESSION AND OBSESSION BY THE DEVIL PROVED FROM SCRIPTURE.

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Chapter 25 EXAMPLES OF REAL POSSESSIONS CAUSED BY THE DEVIL.

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Chapter 26 CONTINUATION OF THE SAME SUBJECT. No.26

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Chapter 27 OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE OBSESSIONS AND POSSESSIONS OF THE DEMON-REPLY TO THE OBJECTIONS.

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Chapter 28 CONTINUATION OF OBJECTIONS AGAINST POSSESSIONS, AND SOME REPLIES TO THOSE OBJECTIONS.

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Chapter 29 OF FAMILIAR SPIRITS.

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Chapter 30 SOME OTHER EXAMPLES OF ELVES.

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Chapter 31 SPIRITS THAT KEEP WATCH OVER TREASURE.

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Chapter 32 OTHER INSTANCES OF HIDDEN TREASURES WHICH WERE GUARDED BY GOOD OR BAD SPIRITS.

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Chapter 33 SPECTRES WHICH APPEAR, AND PREDICT THINGS UNKNOWN AND TO COME.

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Chapter 34 OTHER APPARITIONS OF SPECTRES.

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Chapter 35 EXAMINATION OF THE APPARITION OF A PRETENDED SPECTRE.

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Chapter 36 OF SPECTRES WHICH HAUNT HOUSES.

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Chapter 37 OTHER INSTANCES OF SPECTRES WHICH HAUNT CERTAIN HOUSES.

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Chapter 38 PRODIGIOUS EFFECTS OF IMAGINATION IN THOSE MEN OR WOMEN WHO BELIEVE THEY HOLD INTERCOURSE WITH THE DEMON.

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Chapter 39 RETURN AND APPARITIONS OF SOULS AFTER THE DEATH OF THE BODY, PROVED FROM SCRIPTURE.

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Chapter 40 APPARITIONS OF SPIRITS PROVED FROM HISTORY.

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