The Key To The Occult Sciences

Forging the chain, forging the chain....another small and somewhat fragile link...

From William Gregory (MD, FRSE, Professor of Chemistry at Edinburgh), this choice morsel (to mix metaphors, and break a few teeth) about the figure who cast his cliched shadow over Emma's life, Philip Henry Stanhope:

The text itself is:

Thanks to Michael, who's always digging up something interesting and relevant.

Like Gregory, Emma certainly saw mesmerism -- and her early experiences as a clairvoyante, as the key to the occult sciences she promoted as an adult.