Spirits in Exile: voices from the seances

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On the island of Jersey, 1852-1855, two years into his nineteen-year political exile, Victor Hugo, family, and friends held seances on an almost-nightly basis. Through the means of a three-footed pedestal table tapping out letters of the alphabet, they conversed with over one-hundred spirits of the dead including such luminaries as Jesus, Galileo, Luther, Socrates, Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Mozart, and even such abstract entities as Idea, Death, and Drama. Recorded here are the words of these spirits at their most serious and philosophic, conveying thoughts that Hugo absorbed and quite often confirmed and endorsed, as if he, himself, held these same views. The overarching theme of these dialogues was metempsychosis, a form of reincarnation, a belief in which Hugo had been obsessed for many years and which found itself amongst past verses of his poetry, and which would be included, to a greater extent, in such future works as Les Contemplations, La Légende des Siècles, and Dieu. All the excerpts are in response to questions posed primarily by Victor Hugo, himself, but variously by Mme. Hugo, Charles Hugo, Auguste Vacquerie, and a host of other fellow-exiles who frequented the sessions. These words being often of an obscure nature, in time Hugo resigned himself to remaining unenlightened as to the full meaning of their thoughts, and, almost on the eve of his forced-departure from Jersey on to the island of Guernsey, brought an end to this inquiry into the spirit world.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B099BWRSRL
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 16, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 130 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8709741997
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.31 x 6 inches
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