Post-Mortem Confessions; Being Letters Written Through a Mortal's Hand by Spirits Who, When in Mortal, Were Officers of Harvard College: With - Taschenbuch

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SUPPLEMENT. Introductory. ? The contents of the preceding pages have previously gone before the public piecemeal in the Banner of Light. Now, as they are to go forth in other form, various questions or points pertinent to Modern Spiritualism solicit exposition. Many such arise which must be left unnoticed in this small work, yet a few will be briefly considered here. Because of rare peculiarities pertaining to the methods and process by which the richest contents of the preceding pages were obtained; because, also, of the high characters and positions of men when in mortal, who, after release from the body, have each for himself (using therefor a mortal's hand) written response to a letter addressed to each of them by a mortal; because of these striking peculiarities, this small work may, from curiosity if no other motive, be looked into by many well-educated ?even highly educated ? persons, who possess little knowledge of or sympathy with operations of spirits in the present century; by some, also, and perhaps not a few, who, having a little knowledge concerning their workings, think they know enough to justify Spiritualism's denunciation and discardal. No surprise is felt that many, being entirely ignorant of its recondite yet firmly inherent and vastpowers, also little of the breadth of its cope in action, of its destined results and of its supervisors, incline to keep aloof from it so long as to them it shall seem repulsive, narrow, low. Many who thus regard the general subject may themselves be deserved recipients of high esteem for their culture, for philanthropy, and the beneficence of their lives. Some such are not averse to perusal of brief statements upon any subject in which large numbers of men and women, both respectable and otherwise, are deeply interested, ...