The invisible influences. Mesmerism: in the Old World -- Mesmerism: in the United States -- Hypnotism -- Faith healing -- Telepathy -- Premonitions -- Predestination or free will? Astrology -- Numerology -- Cheirognomy and cheiromancy -- Cartomancy -- Clairvoyance -- Psychometry -- Clairaudience -- Oracles -- Necromancy -- Haruspicy -- Other methods of divination -- Beliefs in early ages. Prehistoric man -- The Sumerians -- Egypt -- Taoism -- India -- Central America -- Zoroastrianism -- Confucianism -- Buddhism -- Beliefs in the past 2,500 years. Greece -- Palestine -- Gnosticism -- The Druids -- Rome -- The coming of Christ -- Mithraism and Manichaeism -- Mohammedanism -- The Cabala -- The Dark Ages -- The Incas -- The Rosicrucians -- The Freemasons -- The theosophists -- Of witches and warlocks. The Little People -- The coming of the Devil -- The Middle Ages -- The alchemists -- Sorcerors -- The tools of the trade -- The sabbaths -- The later Middle Ages -- The great persecution -- The Salem witch trials -- The frauds -- Australasia and the Pacific -- Of apparitions -- Modern occultists -- Voodoo -- Magic and the fate of nations -- The black art today -- Conclusions and the "way."