Introduction: "Victor the grandiose" / by Martin Ebon -- Jersey Island : setting for a séance -- Léopoldine beckons -- Channeling the enemy -- When the spirits spoke Hungarian -- The shadow of the sepulcher -- Hannibal storms the tapping tables -- God's convict -- André Chénier loses his head but ends up keeping it -- William Shakespeare, channeled and translated -- Metempsychosis speaks -- Victor Hugo and the Zohar -- Martin Luther on doubt -- Other voices, other rooms -- The secret life of animals -- Roarings of ocean and comet -- The lady in white -- The lion of Androcles -- Astral voyage to the planet Mercury -- Planets of punishment and worlds of reward -- "You will awaken me in the year 2000 ..." -- The United States of Europe -- Victor Hugo, James Merrill, and William Blake : three visionaries, one vision -- Galileo explains the inexplicable -- Joshua brings down more walls -- Jesus Christ revises his thinking -- The Jersey spirits : reality and legacy.