Excerpt from The Celestial Telegraph, or Secrets of the Life to Come
The object of this work is not a desire to create or annihilate such or such a system to favor any particular religion or creed, more or less prominent in our age; its sole object is to commune with men who, like me, seek the truth with all the strength of their soul. Pursue the track wherein I believe it to be, and you will find it. Be prudent; admit, reject naught without mature examination, and what you do not comprehend never proclaim to be impossible!
Somnambulism, ecstasy, promoted by magnetism, are the only means of attaining the ends I have proposed to myself; any other state, effected by the ordinary means of narcotics, leaves the individual too much dependent on the resources of his belief, the influence of desires, and naught but very suspicious results are obtained. If, on the contrary, divers subjects, taken from among all the conditions of civilized life, are directed by men who have no other object but that of procuring information, the results will be more complete; - and why? because the isolated ecstatic is like unto a frail skiff on a boundless ocean, having no decided course; the account that he will give of his voyage will portray the ensemble of the picture he has seen, without describing its parts; if he is conducted by a will stronger than his own toward a proposed object, we shall arrive at the truth.
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