ETERNAL

TRUTH

Contents

CHAPTERPAGE
FOREWORD [1]
INTRODUCTION [1]

SECTION ONE
STUDIES IN PSYCHOLOGY
I.CLASSIFICATION OF FACULTIES, CAPACITIES, AND POWERS [3]
II.EMPIRICAL AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE [9]
III.MEDIUMSHIP, SEERSHIP, AND HYPNOSIS [18]
IV.THE MEASURE OF VALUES [29]
V.SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS [50]
VI.THE CROSS IN RELIGION AND THE CRUX IN SCIENCE WITH THE GREAT WORK IN AMERICA [68]
VII.THE MODULUS OF NATURE AND THE THEOREM OF PSYCHOLOGY [93]

SECTION TWO
THE NEW AVATAR OF NATURAL SCIENCE
VIII.OUR INDEBTEDNESS TO ANCIENT INDIA [111]
IX.HERO WORSHIP AND FOLKLORE [136]
X.CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCE [146]
XI.CONCEPTIONS AND PORTENTS OF AN AVATAR [151]
XII.PORTENTS OF THE PRESENT TIME [164]
XIII.THE SEPARABLE SOUL IN FOLKLORE [171]
XIV.FROM CONFUSION TO CONSTRUCTION [191]
XV.THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY AS A KNOWLEDGE OF THE HUMAN SOUL [208]
XVI.THE NEW AVATAR [218]
NOTES [223]

FOREWORD

The reader who is willing to give the following pages a careful reading, and a courteous hearing, is entitled to know the basis of study, observation or experience from which the suggestions, inferences and conclusions proceed, in order that he may fairly estimate their value.

At the age of seventy-two, my egotism is at least softened by the discovery of the many things I do not know; and my dogmatism, so far as it ever existed, is equally relaxed by the realization that it is a bar to light and knowledge, which rest so largely on demonstration.