Arthur Lovell - Imagination and its Wonders - 1899

Arthur Lovell – Imagination and its Wonders
London: Nichols & Co., 23 Oxford Street, 1899
First edition.
Pages: XIII + 185 pp.

Subjects discussed include hypnotism, suggestion, clairvoyance, psychometry, divination, telepathy and action at a distance, talismans and amulets, magic, spiritualism, Theosophy, Yoga, Akasha and the cosmic ether.

The author also refers extensively to Eastern and Western philosophical and esoteric sources, including Patanjali, the Bhagavad Gita, Swedenborg, Schopenhauer, Emerson and Plato.

The work is divided into two main parts:

I. Kinematics of Imagination
Including chapters on imagination scientifically considered, sensitiveness, the action of imagination on the organism, and action at a distance.

II. Dynamics of Imagination
Including the practical development, control and right use of imagination.

Original green publisher's cloth binding with striking red lettering and pictorial decoration to the front board.

Condition:

Binding: Original decorated publisher's cloth

A scarce and attractive original edition for collectors of occultism, esotericism, spiritualism, psychic research and late-Victorian alternative thought.