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Published in 1921 | 168 pages | PDF reader required

INTRODUCTION

The notes taken at the time of the sittings from which this narrative has been drawn have been preserved, and are in my possession; and these notes will be at the disposal of any one who may care to see them in corroboration.

The failures have been recorded as well as those considered successful, so that the reader may come to a true understanding of the case and count on an impartial rendering.

Nothing has been kept back, save when the message in the Book-Test has had three or even more points of contact, and some among these have been considered by the recipient as being of too private a nature to be published. When this is so, the reader is notified of the suppression.

In Appendix I to this volume Mrs. Leonardos account is given of her first introduction to Feda.

One point requires emphasis.

Our conviction that we have spoken with our Son does not rest upon the evidence of these Book-Tests alone. They are but so many blades in a green pasture, a few clear drops in the waters of comfort that have been, and remain, an inexhaustible stream; but they have one paramount claim above the forms of spirit-communication more commonly known. Like the system of Cross-Correspondence, they have been devised to provide proof of a discarnate agency. Many who long to communicate with those who have gone on, dread the action of telepathy operating between their own mind and the mind of the medium. These Book-Tests destroy the possibility of such telepathy, and they require of the long arm of Coincidence a very long arm indeed. In the best instances messages have been traced and proved apposite, in books described and found in houses unknown to the medium (as in Book-Tests L and IL, and Book-Tests X. and XL), and unknown both to medium and recipient (as in Book-Tests XIIL and XIV.). When this is so, it may be conceded that they provide a strong argument in favour of the continuity of personality beyond the grave.

Pamela Glenconner.
Wilsford Manor,
Salisbury,
July, 1920.