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{{Style P-No indent|ing understanding as coming from Harris than as coming from Swedenborg. Only we must not flatter ourselves that modern Spiritualism affords a fully satisfactory answer. Its phenomena and communications are helpless before the metaphysical questions we inevitably encounter. Nevertheless, I would not be understood as throwing doubt upon the proofs of true disembodied intelligence which these phenomena in my judgment certainly afford. For instance, I do not think the geists, or ''larvae'' of deceased men tied Zöllner’s knots. Operations transcending the power and knowledge of man must have an intelligent source, and I am bound to admit that there is evidence on record, far better than any I have ever been privileged to obtain, of spirit identity thoroughly probed and tested. But our most frequent visitant seems to be the “geist.” It must not be forgotten that Harris is one of the greatest of living “seers,” so that Spiritualists will hardly be consistent in rejecting his testimony, whatever they may think of his opinions or teachings. He can hardly have mistaken the true living intelligence or spirit of man for the “geist” as he describes it, presumably from much experience.}}

1. Concerning the nature of geists, it is permitted to make an extract from a volume, still in manuscript, entitled “The Annunciation of the Son of Man.”