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{{Style P-No indent|borders of the states—conditions or worlds—touch; we become aware of that fact by the phenomena which we call spiritual. We term them “spiritual” because intelligent beings make use of the opportunity of communicating with us in understandable language; they, the spiritual beings, are not the cause, they only use the opportunity; they step in for a moment, and lift the veil that shrouds our future. The condition, the state favoring such intercommunication is present, in obedience to independent and immutable laws of nature. And what does the fact of the presence of a ''double ''teach us? Why this, that we actually pre-exist in another state, even before death has come and severed earth’s existence from our soul being. Some eight years ago I ventured to hazard a theory, which I called the theory of ''Intro-coexistence'' and ''predevelopment''. The many opportunities I since have had to verify this theory have, if anything, tended to confirm my conviction of its applicability to the state of facts now before me.}} | |||
To conclude—for I am growing wearisome—I contend that Spiritual gifts, medial powers, are not the property of a family, or a rice. they belong on the contrary to the whole human family, varying in intensity and diversity, according to the characteristics of each race, and to the circumstances affecting the race; but nevertheless common to all mankind. And in the diastole of the great heart of nature we are periodically brought nearer to the other world which borders on earth’s existence. And when the systole sets in, concentration supervenes—the human race bears with it, as acquired knowledge, the consciousness of the presence of another next nearest world. The knowledge so acquired has been used in all ages past as the groundwork of new religious beliefs. In all time past this has been the case. And I may venture to say, that no movement of the present age is fraught with greater significance than this very Spiritualism, which, sneered and scoffed at in its early stages, is now imperatively commanding attention. | |||
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