Excerpt from How and Why I Became a Spiritualist
Three and a half years have passed away since I commenced the investigation of that which is now called Spiritualism.
The phenomena presented for my observation were clearly supra-mundane; were evidently produced by invisible, intelligent agents; and, not fearing to express my convictions, because they were unpopular, I, after careful scrutiny, announced my belief, that the spirits of men and women Who Once Dwelt On Earth Could, And Did, Commune With Mortals. This fact appeared to me to be the most important one which had ever been given to man. If immortality is mans destiny, surely, the knowledge of that life which is eternal far transcends in value any mere earthly and, consequently, transitory acquirement.
The theological ideas presented in the following pages are not the elaborations of my own brain. I have been but little more than the amanuensis. Two friends, who have long been dwellers in the land of light and love, passed the thoughts to my mind; I clothed them with the drapery of language, and transcribed them upon the paper. Such is the extent of my participation in the production of this volume.
This explanation is offered, not from a desire to lessen any responsibility which may attach to the promulgation of those ideas, but simply, because I deem it improper to claim that which is not my own.
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