It may seem hardly necessary for me to explain this effort to dispel the darkness that enshrouds so many minds concerning human existence after its departure from the earth sphere. But a residence in the spirit world for several years has taught me that no one should consider his work ended who can contribute in any degree toward the welfare of the race.

Material Science has its victories and recognition at the hands of a partially enlightened world, but that world fails to perceive the outcome of its discoveries, though the efforts of the mind to grasp the unknown result in bringing its powers nearer the causative principle of all being. Many times, during my life on earth, I caught faint gleams of the light that radiates from the realms of spirit; but, mistaking the methods of demonstration, I entered this world ignorant of most of the forces that govern its inhabitants. My life, devoted to Material Science, is the basis of a life which is now devoted to Spiritual Science. In entering the field again as a student of both branches, I would not be misunderstood by my old friends and pupils. The life in spirit is but a continuation of the ruling passion of life in the earthly form. I find that the so-called spiritual communications, which perplex the wise of earth, are but the action of powers which bind the two worlds as by telegraphic wires, and that intimate relations existing between the two conditions of life are natural and enduring. The force transmitted through this channel is liable to interruption, and diversion into wrong directions; but it cannot be annihilated as long as life exists. This power, wrongly interpreted, is the basis of all forms of religious superstition, and sometimes, when exerted by wicked and ignorant spirits, fills the earth with misery. In the hands of wise and beneficent spirits, its exercise is followed by the enlightenment of its recipients, and should imbue them with great mental and spiritual power. The interest felt by the scientists and philosophers in this life for those dwelling on earth, is beyond expression. With patience we strive to perfect our knowledge of these forces, so that we can reach you without interruption, and transmit to you a knowledge of some of the principles which pertain to the material as well as to the spiritual state. To this end, I have been at work for several years training a brain in the earthly realm to respond to my will and reflect my ideas, if not the exact style of language. …