The Human Soul: Its Movements, Its Lights, and the Iconography of the Fluidic Invisible

by Hippolyte-Andre-Ponthion Baraduc

In the 1896 book The Human Soul: Its Movements, Its Lights, and the Iconography of the Fluidic Invisible, Dr. Hippolyte Baraduc gives a scientific basis for the human soul, photographed for the first time. He reasoned that photography, and later X-rays, were more sensitive than the human eye and able to see the "subtle force," which he called "Odic," of the human soul.

264 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1896

About the author

1850-1902

Reviews

[gaspar]

Unrateable work by an elusive author. A book fallen into oblivion probably because of idiomatic barriers, the niche theme and the extensive jargon which composes it, which not even an internet search helps understanding, and does not serve at all the purpose of validating these photographic and scientific explorations. Maybe the most interesting and clear paths of the writing are not the ones describing the motives and procedures of the research, or the name dropping of religious and occultist figures, but the ones where the author is at his most passionate and genuine about his beliefs, where one can see beyond the content and see a man who had the honest, and scientifically naive, intention to be part of the occult canon and prove we are not merely matter, but part of the Divine, as the Divine is part of ours, as we dwell in currents of love and light and we have the decision to return our spirit and soul to the absolute.

[Greg · Rating 5 out of 5]

This brings to mind, what would our Hippolyte Baraduc think of iPhone cameras as a tool to capture the human soul? Perhaps the lens always captures the soul and the great tragedy is that none of us notice it.