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Libra Esoterica

The mystical quadruple interrogatory

how? what?? whence??? whither???? : concerning the existence of man and all things, and all being and all life, so far answered by the contents of this book as to suggest for an appropriate title, to-wit : Rending the vail

by William W. Aber, Harry Houdini Collection DLC & Jabez Hunt Nixon

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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"It is believed that Rending the vail is the only book in the world as a scientific treatise of phenomenal spiritualism, claiming its principal matter to be uttered by excarnate human spirits while in condition of visible reincarnate form." Includes index

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Spirit writings”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the description and “Spirit writings” in the subject metadata.

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how? what?? whence??? whither???? : concerning the existence of man and all things, and all being and all life, so far answered by the contents of this book as to suggest for an appropriate title, to-wit : Rending the vail

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1899Hudson-Kimberley Publishing Co.; Kansas City, Mo. : Hudson-Kimberley Publishing Co.English—Public

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  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Digitization sponsor: The Library of Congress
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
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openlibrary-work:OL16709455W
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