A PRELIMINARY TESTIMONY.

1. A TESTIMONY TO OPEN-MINDED AND REVERENT TREATMENT OF THE FUTURE LIFE AND ITS PSYCHIC STUDY.
The bane of inquiry: the closed door and the closed mind—Neither revelation nor science can set arbitrary bounds to our spiritual vision—Caution about asserting that it is better we should not know aught of what lies beyond—Let the winds blow and the floods come—Some knowledge vs. all faith—A notable confession of orthodox uncertainty and materialism—The man on the plank—God has put man on the search and the truth comes to us as we search.

2. A TESTIMONY TO CREATIVE ADAPTATIONS.
"Ne plus ultra"—Limiting the creative resources—The adjustability of the creative wisdom as seen in deep-sea life—He who has given us an earthly housing and a bodily tabernacle, shall He not be able to give us a spiritual housing and a spiritual tabernacle?—Transformation story of the water grub—The magic power of life, the immanent life—Certainly life has no difficulty
about a body.

3. A TESTIMONY TO A SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION.
The two bases of existence, the material and the spiritual—Paul, the resurrectionist and student of the unseen—A man of striking psychic experiences—Our concern is with these two orders of life and their vital connection—Life has to begin somewhere— The ascent from crude materiality to the refinement of spirit—The deeper insight into the world of matter—Things are not what they seem—The romance of radioactivity, and its revelation of the inmost depths of matter—How the material and the spiritual worlds run into one another— But the energy of the material points to a higher energy of the spiritual.

4. MARVELS OF THE ETHER.
How the ether speaks for itself—Continuity of the ether—Incompressibility or density of the ether—A hint at the psychic significance of the ether—The ether bridges all chasms, and permeates all substance, and binds all things into a spiritual universe— Elasticity of the ether, and its marvelous and varied vibrations—Invisible rays or dark light—The diversified manifestations and functioning of the ether waves—The universe is larger than it seems—Spiritual telegraphy.

5. SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE ETHER, ITS ENERGY AND BASIC NATURE.
Lord Kelvin's kinetic theory of rotational motion—The secret of the elastic energy and strength of the ether in its rotational circulation—The secret of all substance in the rotational ether—Plenty of material for any number of spirit worlds—What a magical substance!—Final conclusions as to the energy and vitality of spirit—Spirit more expressive than matter—Augmented powers of seeing and moving—"And they sung as it were a new song"—Low ideas of the future state held by the ancient world.

6. OTHER TESTIMONIES TO THE NATURAL ORDER OF SPIRIT.
Transcendence and immanence of certain great religious ideas—The drawing near of God, heaven, and spirit body—The unifying process in human thought—Historic approach to the spirit world—The Hebrew firmament—The heavens of Dante and Milton—A surrounding spirit world—The law of the counterpart.

7. OBJECTIVITY OF THE SPIRIT WORLD.
Shall we insist on demonstration in all this?—Spirit testimony and the spirit spheres—Difficult to conceive of spirit adaptations—It would seem to be altogether fitting that the spirit world should be related to our mother earth.

8. HISTORIC APPROACH TO THE SPIRIT BODY.
Alien look of spirit body—Resurrection ideas of Paul and his time—The underworld—The Hebrews developed a rising-up from the underworld—Paul's house from heaven—A word on miracle—Modern programs of the resurrection—"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter"—Why not look for the spiritual body in the natural order?—The soul inseparable from a spirit envelope—With what kind of a body did the risen Christ come?

9. IS THERE A WORD FURTHER ON THE ORIGIN AND DERIVATION OF SPIRIT?
Some observations of the aura and fluidic body—The suggestiveness of all this— What takes place at death?—Allegory of the spirit body and soul—Emanations. Nature's hints and spirit testimony as to the upbuilding of the spirit world.

10. A TESTIMONY TO SPIRIT COMMUNION AND COMMUNICATION.
The naturalness and compulsion of spirit communion—Various testimonies on spirit communion—Spirit communication and telepathy—Extended telepathy and its assumptions—Telepathic vs. spiritistic credulity—Why not go on and explain away all things as forms of social telepathic suggestion?

11. TELEPATHY AS A SUBTERFUGE FROM THE SPIRITISTIC THEORY.
What shall we think of a subconscious intelligence capable of such fiendish deception?—Is the subconscious activity of our nature an independent ego with no limitations?—A few testimonies on the telepathic assumption—The fatal lack of personal psychic experiment.

12. LET US NOW COME TO THE SPIRITISTIC INTERPRETATION.
It is an explanation that explains—Spirit return and communication inevitable—Consider for a moment the high purpose and character of the communication—Spirit teachings in their higher aspects—Consider the manner of communication or the trance situation—Hypnotism and secondary personality ruled out—Philosophy of the trance situation by Sir Oliver Lodge.

13. A TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE SCEPTICAL INTELLECT AND SPIRIT COMMUNICATION.
The subjective side of proof—Scientific scepticism, and how it misses the truth—Intellectual short-sightedness—The element of respectability in our intellectual miss of the truth—The heart has its rights and must be heard—Dogmatic bias and the spirit world—The old controversy between authority and reason—The dogmatic ascription of all psychic phenomena to Satan and demons—The old transcendence of the future life and its bar to spirit teaching—But is the loss of the old transcendence to be deplored?

14. THE SCEPTICAL INTELLECT.
This little world all there is—The fatal lack of imagination—Conflict of the new with the old—The new has to force and win its way—Progress held to be of Satan—The danger of reversion to former mental habitudes.

AN EXPERIMENTAL TESTIMONY

1. A PSYCHIC BRIDGING OF THE CHASM, MAY 22, 1911.
The incurably suspicious—A word on the situation—"He is so eager to communicate"—First attempt at reflecting symbols and pictures through the mediumistic lens—A never-to-be-forgotten train experience—A critical psychic estimate.

2. REPORT OF SECOND SITTING, OCTOBER 7, 1911.
"Eager to tell of the wonderful life"—God's way of speaking to the aching heart—"The home over there" and the sweet home influence—A straight talk—The natural and progressive view of the future life vs. medieval transcendentalism—Spirit objectivities.

3. REPORT OF PSYCHIC INTERVIEW, APRIL 17, 1912.
"The great joy of the knowledge of this life "—Mental imaging or spirit impressions—" O think of the friends over there who before us the journey have trod"—"Come and let us reason together."

4. INTERVIEW THE WEEK FOLLOWING, APRIL 23, 1912.
"Walter opens the door wide"—"He walked with you"—"Two little feet"—A letter from the world of spirit—Familiar portraits—A strain of music.

5. REPORT OF SITTING, OCTOBER 8, 1912.
"The old sense of separation gone"—"Waking from a troubled sleep"—"O think of the home over there"—Spirit welcome—Churches over there and cheerful humor also.

6. OCTOBER 24, 1912, INTERVIEW.
A book reference interwoven—Spirit employments, their variety and freedom—Mediumistic writing a natural process—A spirit procession and greetings.

7. BRIEF REPORT OF SPIRIT MESSAGE, APRIL 24, 1913.
Spirit visitants—"It seems so good to be talking in a language that we all understand"—"The place whereon thou standest is holy ground"—"Everything I studied and every step I took, of importance in my life over here"—Psychic discussions in spirit—Familiar family talk and fellowship.

8. MENTAL PICTURING, APRIL 25, 1913.
Thought-communion and its difficulties in the trance situation—Spirit guidance through the old parsonage—Putting up a wire fence by telepathic imagery—The old charge of triviality—Growth of the spirit body—A letter dictated from the spirit.

9. MYERS' INTERVIEW, APRIL 27, 1913.
Mr. Myers' pronounced belief in spirit communication—Friendly introduction—A spirit questionnaire. Thirty questions and answers.

10. FAMILY SPIRIT INTERVIEW, APRL 30, 1913.
"It means more to me than you can ever understand"—Cooperative plans—The vision of lambs—The glasses' case righted—"The awakening was beautiful"—The eye and ear trouble—How the truth worked out on the other side—"Nobody ever loses their own."

11. PSYCHIC INTERVIEW, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1913.
A strange reappearance and its lesson—Spirit report of complicated family relationship—Grandfather Daniel—"He is just away!"

12. FINAL TALK OVER THE BORDER, MAY 2, 1913.
Parting exchanges—A little dramatic interplay—Have you ever seen Christ?—Amherst life—The postman and his leather bag—Good-bye words—"Home of your own at last"—"You are looking at the stars"—"Why don't you go on with the book?"—Closing the case.