If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?

There is no [...] higher than the truth.

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"!

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks