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many of my readers. My
already done so,
.
apology must be that I don't want to recur to this
subject.
I wish to present a truthful picture of the dangers,
which are not accidental and occasional occurrences
due to ignorance in controlling the phenomena;
but which, on the contrary, are an essential factor
of them; so that the greater the advance in the
study, and the greater the experience, the greater
the danger of "possession."
I wish to show that the terrible warnings of
Scripture against all forms of necromancy, against
all attempts of communication with another world,
so far from being, as is so generally believed, the
foolish prejudice of the infancy and ignorance of
humanity, to be now dismissed with contempt by
the matured wisdom and great knowledge of our
time, are, to our dismay, justified on every side by
actual scientific experiment.
Most now confess the phenomena real; also the
experiments to prove the existence of spirits in
another world, as well as the existence of the "other
world" itself. True, it was not apparently necessary
for any of our race to have recourse to this evidence,
as our proud boast for ages has been in a Book
which foretold all this, that we declared we believed
was inspired, and we circulated it to all our more
benighted brothers in millions (see reports of the
British and Foreign Bible Society), and this Book
was, as I have said, full of "the other world" and
contained much information concerning the spirits
inhabiting it.
I fear one could not urge
that the studies of