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The author starts off quite well and the first 6 chapters are generally quite lucid. From the 7th chapter onwards, A. P. Sinnett increasingly tries to reconcile the phenomena and theory of mesmerism (animal magnetism) to the doctrines of Madame H. P. Blavatsky's theosophism, to which he largely adhered. For a succinct critical analysis of theosophism and of the related subject of spiritism, see René Guénon's books (English translations of the French originals) "Theosophy: History of a Pseudo-Religion" and "The Spiritist Fallacy".
The specific issue eluding A. P. Sinnett and causing him to "unravel" in respect of animal magnetism, at worst in the chapter on "clairvoyance", is the failure to clearly differentiate the spiritual (symbolised by the element of air) from the psychic (symbolised by the element of water). This leads him to amalgamate both in the "astral plane" and to confuse things further by reference to a "higher ego" etc.
The author does not fail to repeat perhaps the most erroneous "new age" theosophist dogma, literal belief in what is termed "physical reincarnation". Authentic traditions do not refer to "incarnation" but rather to "sheaths" or "envelopes", and they clearly distinguish "transmigration" (voyages of beings amongst an indefinity of universes, of which our own from quarks to mega-galaxies is but one) from "metempsychosis" (re-use of psychic elements cast off during transmigration, analogous to re-use of matter in bodies).
Although at best a fine intellect, the author simply forgot that the spiritual concerns universals, not particulars. The latter are transcended by the realisation of "anima mundi" (universal soul, param-atma), the "mirror" reflecting "spiritus mundi" (universal spirit, Param-Brahma).
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