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TRUE SPIRITUALISM 249
My Object
My work is done; but I am deeply conscious of its
imperfection.
I can only urge that I have sought, in all honesty,
from my own knowledge, and from all the sources
available, to present a fair picture of Modern
Spiritism, both in its creed and practice. Any
knowledge I may have of psychology has, I think,
helped me to understand the arguments of such
men as Thomas Jay Hudson, Myers, Sir William
Barrett, and others who have expounded the wonders
and mysteries of psychic power, as revealed in the
"Unconscious Mind" and elsewhere. These I
have faithfully tried to represent in their true role,
as the source, doubtless, of most, but not all, of the
wonders of Spiritism.
With regard to the residue, attributed by Spiritists
to the agency of the spirits of the departed, I have
endeavoured to show that this is, to say the least of
it, most improbable, and that a far more likely
solution is that they are due to daemons some minor
form of evil spirits.
As to Necromancy
As to necromancy, one has not hesitated, in view
of the denunciations of Scripture, plainly to express
one's disapproval; but at the same time I have
given what evidence I could, both in favour of and
against it. I have also reached the conclusion that,
on the whole, no such communication is absolutely
proved; while on the other hand, the communications
are in too many cases of such a nature that it is
eeply dishonouring to our beloved dead to believed