EXTRACT FROM PREFACE

This work is not an attempt to solve the ''Riddle of the Universe," to controvert theories, or dispute any plan of so-called salvation.

All things can be proved, if we can obtain the facts and comprehend the laws.

The facts must be self-evident, or demonstrable to our senses; and, the number of the senses must not be limited by our experience.

Each mode or manifestation of individual life, or spirit through matter, may be called a sense.

Some persons have five and some have twelve senses, with the possibility of a larger number, each demonstrable, each producing distinct and independent results.

As spirit is conscious of its consciousness, we, therefore, assume as a self-evident fact, that:
Individual life IS; and, that: Individual life manifesting through human organism is a spirit.

Is the theory of spirit return scientific?

Does it best explain all of the facts?

Can all of the facts be referred to any other theory? …