CHAPTER III. 



Source of Spiritual Knowledge. 



THE CRITICALLY thinking public 

 to-day might be said to have long 

 ago relinquished the hope of obtaining a 

 sure and decisive answer to the ques- 

 tion, whether there is an existence be- 

 yond the grave. Some people confine 

 themselves to a faith founded on a 

 smaller or greater probability for either 

 conception. We want palpable evi- 

 dence. To many it even appears neces- 

 sary to have a look behind the veil of 

 visible matter in order to satisfy them- 

 selves as to whether anything exists 

 within the void. "Nobody has returned 

 to tell us how it is," we are often re- 

 minded, and this expression clearly 

 means that complete certainty requires 

 the testimony of eye-witnesses. 



Such a procedure would be at least 



