Revelations of the invisible world / by a somnambulist; being the life of the seeress of Prevorst.
- Justinus Kerner
- Date:
- 1847
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Revelations of the invisible world / by a somnambulist; being the life of the seeress of Prevorst. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![people, and that she must go and save them. As thereupon she began to weep, the voice bade her go to Vaucouleurs, where she would find a captain, who, without impediment, would conduct her to the king. “ Since then,” said she, “ I have done nothing but in conformity with these directing revelations and apparitions; and now, during my whole trial, I speak only as they prompt me.” At the siege of Orleans she foretold the capture of the city, and that her own blood would be shed ; and in reality, on the following day, she was wounded by an arrow, which penetrated six inches into her shoulder. A similar natural somnambule was St. Theresa, who was born in the beginning of the ] 6th century, and had visions like those of the Maid of Orleans.* If we read the history of the saints, we shall find innumerable facts bearing testimony to the power of the inner life. These legends have been, and still are, looked upon as a collection of folly and fanati- cism, which is the consequence of the tyrannical pre- dominance of the brain over the heart, which, sla- vishly imprisoned in the dark dungeon of the breast, no longer listens to the child-like voices of antiquity, when faith removed mountains, and the thorny path was lighted by the light of love. It is extremely possible that many of the lives of the saints, and their wonders, are exaggerated, and many may not be au- thentic. However, that which pious and god-sancti- * See Life of St. Theresa, by J. B. A. Boreclier. Paris. 1810.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22028213_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
