Odylic

A bundle of bars or of horse-shoes, placed with like magnetic poles in contact, has its odylic poles reversed, so as to alternate with each other.

If the laboratory of the professor could be graced with the odylometer, the odylic battery, and the snail telegraph, what a blaze of odylic light would be concentrated there from the past, the present, and the future! And who could endure it but those whose bodies had long "bathed in odylic light," and whose minds had been long saturated with odylic belief? Such are some few of the notions and statements which we find in Professor Gregory's book. As we have read them, we have paused, we know not how often, and asked, Can it be that Dr. Gregory, the Professor of Chemistry in Edinburgh, really believes as he writes? May it not, after all, be a burlesque?

I believe it is the odylic vapour which has been attached to seeds found in the case of a mummy, which, after 3,000 years, makes that seed germinate.

The odylic light generally confines itself to more or less luminous spots, e.g., around the finger-tips, the eyes, the mouth, the solar plexus, etc., but does not generally appear as a complete aura surrounding the body at a distance from it, except to more clairvoyant people who are said to be able to see this light, in both light and darkness, in the form of an aura with the ordinary colours, red on the left side and blue on the right.

One of the most important modifications of the original theory of the magnetic fluid was instituted in the forties by the Baron Carl von Reichenbach who renamed it the Odylic Force and incorporated it into an esoteric lore of poles and passes in which a number of secondary polarities in the human body were postulated, […]