Excerpt from The Open Door: Or the Secret of Jesus; A Key to Spiritual Emancipation
Four thousand years ago a prophet affirmed, "There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding."
This has been-the essential testimony of the seers and prophets of every age. The oracular exposition in the following pages of the divine possibilities of humanity is based upon the recognition of a psychic and spiritual side to both nature and man, which gives to the mind a sphere of activity entirely above the plane and independent of the physical senses. This recognition is based upon the fact that occult and purely psychic and spiritual experiences have come to men in all ages, including our own, independent of sense impressions and visible causes. No reference is here made to objective apparitions or other supposed manifestations of disembodied spirits to the physical senses; but specifically to the exhibition of seership, prophetic insight, spiritual inspiration and all those phases of experience which involve the exercise of the mind"s powers above the plane and independent of the five senses.
No unbiassed student of history or of our own time will dispute the fact of these experiences, regard them how he may.
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