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CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER	1
II.	SCIENCE AND 'MIRACLES'	15
III.	ANTHROPOLOGY AND RELIGION	43
IV.	'OPENING THE GATES OF DISTANCE' This refers to historical and cultural beliefs regarding clairvoyance or seeing things far away.	72
V.	CRYSTAL VISIONS, SAVAGE AND CIVILIZED original: "SAVAGE AND CIVILISED"	90
VI.	ANTHROPOLOGY AND HALLUCINATIONS	113
VII.	DEMONIACAL POSSESSION	138
VIII.	FETISHISM The belief that inanimate objects have religious or magical powers. AND SPIRITUALISM	159
IX.	EVOLUTION OF THE IDEA OF GOD	173
X.	HIGH GODS OF "LOW" RACES original: "LOW RACES" — a Victorian-era term for indigenous cultures that the author considered "primitive" or less technologically advanced.	187
XI.	SUPREME GODS NOT NECESSARILY DEVELOPED OUT OF 'SPIRITS'	201
XII.	SAVAGE SUPREME BEINGS original: "SAVAGE" — a term commonly used in 19th-century anthropology to describe indigenous peoples.	210
XIII.	MORE SAVAGE SUPREME BEINGS	230
XIV.	AHONE. TI-RA-WÁ. NÀ-PI. PACHACAMAC. TUI LAGA. TAA-ROA These are names of supreme deities from various indigenous cultures, including Native American, Incan, and Polynesian traditions.	251
XV.	THE OLD DEGENERATION THEORY The 19th-century belief that "primitive" cultures had fallen or "degenerated" from a more advanced state of religious knowledge.	278
XVI.	THEORIES OF JEHOVAH The name for God in the Hebrew Bible.	294
XVII.	CONCLUSION	317


A.	OPPOSITIONS OF SCIENCE	337
B.	THE POLTERGEIST AND HIS EXPLAINERS	352
C.	CRYSTAL-GAZING	367
D.	CHIEFS IN AUSTRALIA	370

INDEX . . . . . . . . . 371

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