All these phenomena lead up to the consideration of immortality, which is a natural state, the birthright of every human being.
The body and spirit are originated and sustained together, and death is their final separation.
The problem of an immortal future, beginning in time, is solved by the resolution of forces at first acting in straight lines, through spirals reaching circles which, returning within themselves, become individualized and self-sustaining.
Spiritual beings must originate and be sustained by laws as fixed and unchanging as those which govern the physical world.
Sensitiveness gives great pleasures and may give pain; the author’s experience as a sensitive, related, shows this.
And, finally, a communication from a spirit whose life had been noble and unselfish, given while the recipient was in a sensitive and receptive state, detailing an account of the phenomena called death, but which is really birth into the spirit realm, the meeting of friends, and the knowledge of a quarter of a century of its joys, together with “the poet’s story,” it being an account given by one whose earth-life had been selfish, and whose selfish thoughts had formed themselves into phantom companions, following him into the realm of the future world, and making his life there one of despair, and how he escaped these legitimate children of his brain by heroic acts of unselfishness, complete the story. These last are no fictions of the imagination, written to amuse the reader; but the author is firmly convinced, yes, knows they are the words of actual living beings who have once lived on earth like ourselves.
H. T.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE. | |
| [Dedication] | 3 |
| [Analysis] | 5 |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| [Matter, Life, Spirit] | 9 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| [What the Senses Teach of the World and the Doctrine ofEvolution] | 20 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| [Scientific Methods of the Study of Man, and its Results] | 31 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| [What is the Sensitive State] | 37 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| [Sensitive State: Its Division into Mesmeric, Somnambulicand Clairvoyant] | 44 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| [Sensitiveness Proved by Psychometry] | 64 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| [Sensitiveness During Sleep] | 75 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| [Dreams] | 86 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| [Sensitiveness Induced by Disease] | 93 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| [Thought Transference] | 99 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| [Intimations of an Intelligent Force] | 117 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| [Effects of Physical Influences on the Sensitive] | 147 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| [Unconscious Sensitiveness] | 151 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| [Prayer in the Light of Sensitiveness and Thought Waves] | 165 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| [Christian Science, Mind Cure, Faith Cure—theirPhysical Relations] | 178 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| [What the Immortal State Must Be] | 188 |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| [Personal Experience—Intelligence from the Sphere ofLight] | 217 |