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This odyle is particularly potent in certain bodies and one of these is the beryl or quartz.
Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896
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The odyle, as Reichenbach so conclusively proved by his experiments, rapidly responds to surrounding magnetic conditions and to the vibrations of surrounding bodies, and to none more rapidly than the etheric vibrations caused by combustion or light of any kind.
Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896
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It is believed that all bodies convey, or are the vehicles of certain universal property called od or odyle
Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896
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The explanation appears to be that the nervo-vital emanations from the body of the seer act upon the static odyle in the agent, which in turn reacts upon the brain centres by means of the optic nerves.
Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896
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The odyle, as has been already stated, rapidly responds to surrounding magnetic conditions, and to the vibrations of surrounding Bodies, and to none more powerfully than the etheric perturbation caused by combustion -- indeed, to light of any kind.
How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896
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If it were preposterous nonsense to say that electricity, or magnetism, or odyle, contrived and made a little bracelet box, how much more absurd to ascribe the making of the cavity of the eye to any such cause.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857
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Fill it as full of electricity, magnetism and odyle as you please; do these afford any _reason_ for its very extraordinary conduct?
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Robert Patterson 1857
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In these days of table-turnings, mesmerisms, spirit - rappings, odyle fluids, and millenarian pamphlets selling
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
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Thus, even in the material world itself, we distinguish sulphur from soda, gold from granite, and magnesia from electricity or _odyle_.
Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws James Buchanan 1837
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I think it must be in the atmosphere, -- ozone or odyle, what is it? "
Floyd Grandon's Honor Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873
epeolatrist commented on the word odyle
(n) a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.
January 14, 2009