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Preface.

This Booklet has not been written to advance any particular Cause—except the sacred Cause of Truth.

It represents an unpretentious attempt on the part of the author to place before the reader some idea of the present relation of Science to those amazing Psychic phenomena which are to-day claiming attention amongst the intellectual classes in all parts of the world.

The public has, from time to time, learnt with astonishment that this and that eminent Scientist has become convinced of the Spiritual origin of these wonderful manifestations, but very few have had the opportunity of acquiring a knowledge of the nature of the phenomena which have wrought such a transformation in these brilliant and, in many cases, previously Materialistic minds.

It is hoped that this little work may, in some degree, supply this information, and the author trusts it may not be deemed unworthy of careful perusal inasmuch as the late Mr. Gladstone, in writing on the subject with which it deals, declared that it was "by far the most important that could occupy the human mind"

The only favour asked of the reader is that he shall approach the subject, by no means in a spirit of credulity, but with an open mind and an impartial regard for the evidence submitted.

Grateful acknowledgment is made of the generosity of the Editor of the Harbinger of Light, Melbourne, for the loan of the blocks of the pictures which illustrate the Booklet, that journal being the leading exponent of the New Psychology in Australia and a high-class production warmly eulogised by Professor Larkin, Director of the Lowe Observatory, California, for its finished literary and scientific contents.

No financial benefit is desired from the publication of this treatise, and consequently it is offered to the public at what will doubtless be recognised as a merely nominal price.