Published in 1904 | 630 pages | PDF reader required
EXTRACT FROM PREFACE
This work is not an attempt to solve the ''Riddle of the Universe," to controvert theories, or dispute any plan of so-called salvation.
All things can be proved, if we can obtain the facts and comprehend the laws.
The facts must be self-evident, or demonstrable to our senses; and, the number of the senses must not be limited by our experience.
Each mode or manifestation of individual life, or spirit through matter, may be called a sense.
Some persons have five and some have twelve senses, with the possibility of a larger number, each demonstrable, each producing distinct and independent results.
As spirit is conscious of its consciousness, we, therefore, assume as a self-evident fact, that: Individual life IS; and, that: Individual life manifesting through human organism is a spirit.
Is the theory of spirit return scientific?
Does it best explain all of the facts?
Can all of the facts be referred to any other theory? …