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became separated from the body. It remains the same as 

 it was before death : if a man has been a liar in his life, 

 he will be one after death ; and if he has been well ex- 

 perienced in a certain science or art, he will know that 

 science or art ; but a human soul that knew nothing 

 about a certain thing during its life will not be able to 

 learn much about it after death." 



" If we desire to enter into communication with the 

 spirit of a deceased person, we may make a picture repre- 

 senting that person, and write his name and the questions 

 we wish to ask him upon it, and put that picture under 

 our head after retiring to rest ; and during our sleep the 

 deceased appears to us in our dreams and answers our 

 questions. But the experiment must be made in a spirit 

 of unfaltering faith, full of confidence that it will succeed, 

 else it will fail, because it is not the picture that brings 

 the spirit, but our faith that brings us into communi- 

 cation with it ; and the picture is only made for the 

 purpose of assisting the imagination, and to make it more 

 powerful " ^ {Philosoph., v.). 



" Men have two spirits — an animal spirit and a human 

 spirit — in them.^ A man who lives in his animal spirit 

 is like an animal during life, and will be an animal after 

 death ; but a man who lives in his human spirit will 

 remain human. Animals have consciousness and reason, 

 but they have no spiritual intelligence. It is the pre- 

 sence of the latter that raises man above the animal, and 

 its absence that makes an animal of what once appeared 

 to be a man. A man in whom the animal reason alone 

 is active is a lunatic, and his character resembles that of 

 some animal. One man acts like a wolf, another like a 

 dog, another like a hog, a snake, or a fox, &c. It is 

 their animal principle that makes them act as they do, 

 and their animal principle will perish like the animals 

 themselves. But the human reason is not of an animal 



* There are three sources of faith : opinion, belief, and knowledge. 



* The human spirit has a twofold aspect, a human and a divine one. 



