Published in 1886 | 144 pages | PDF reader required
INTRODUCTION
The following remarkable story of a personal experience is written by a lady who is herself firmly persuaded of its reality. I feel bound to testify that the writer is regarded by many intelligent and cultivated men and women, who are her personal friends, as sincere, truthful, and conscientious. I will add that she has had no connection with so-called “Spiritualism,” and is unacquainted with any of the professional mediums. Her report, therefore, is an independent one, and deserves attention from those engaged in investigating this occult Borderland, where beings of the other world are reported as coming into relations with the inhabitants of our own. According to the view of this writer, those who thus present themselves may often be in a low state, having missed their way upward and needing advice and encouragement from those still in the body. The moral tone and influence of this little book cannot but be useful even to those who are not prepared either to accept or reject its conclusions.
James Freeman Clarke
January 1, 1886.
