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240 moment called death, which forms a link between their opposite beliefs. In the vestibule through which we pass from one dream to another dream, or when we wake from earth's sleep to the grand verities of Life, the departing hear the glad welcome of those gone before. The dying may whisper this vision, name the face that smiles on them, and the hand beckoning them; as one at Niagara, with eyes open only to that wonder, forgets all else, and breathes aloud his rapture.

The recognition of Life, Spirit, and Infinity comes not suddenly, here or hereafter. Existence continues to be a belief of personal sense, until the Science of Being is reached. Error brings its own self-destruction on that plane, as well as on this, for mind makes the conditions of the body. Death will repeatedly occur until Life is understood. Then “the second death” hath no power.

There is but one spiritual existence, even the Life of which personal sense can take no cognizance. Spirits are but personal forms of belief. If in reality one communed with Spirit, a shock could not be felt; nor could there be sensation in the body, or any return to the body.

The Principle of man speaks through immortal sense, and if a body — alias mortal sense — were permeated by Principle, that body would disappear to the senses. As light destroys darkness, and in its place all is light, so Soul is the only truthful communicator. Mortal belief and Immortal Truth are the tares and wheat, which are not united by progress, but separated.

Credulity, misguided faith, jugglery, fraud, are the foundations of mediumship. That all things are possible to Truth, is a scientific statement. That nothing is possible to error, ought to be equally apparent.