Spiritual vampirism: The history of Etherial Softdown, and her friends of the "New Light"

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The existence of what may be called the nervous or Odic fluid — the sympathetic element — has been partially known to all ages. The knowledge of this powerful secret, in moving and controlling mankind, has been professionally and almost exclusively confined to the adepts of all sects, religions, and periods; though it has occasionally, in various ways, leaked out of the penetralia, principally through its forms, accompanied with little or no apprehension of their vital meaning. It is in this way that a series of scientific phenomena, the discovery of which probably originated with a remote pri...