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Occultism: The Occult Sciences and the Occult Revival
A Strange Story
Bulwer-Lytton's occult novel, serialised in Dickens's All the Year Round, in which a materialist physician confronts the mysterious Margrave and his quest for the elixir of life. It weaves mesmerism, clairvoyance and alchemy into a debate between scientific naturalism and belief in the soul.







