Henry Ridgely Evans

Hours with the Ghosts, Or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Henry Ridgely Evans

Publisher Marketing: PREFACE. There are two great schools of thought in the world -materialistic and spiritualistic. INTRODUCTORY ARGUMENT. If a man die, shall he live again-this is the question of the ages, the Sphinx riddle that Humanity has been trying to solve since time began. The great minds of antiquity, Socrates, Pythagoras, Plah and Aristotle were firm in their belief in the immortality of the soul. The writings of Plato are Iurninaus on the subject. The Mysteries of Isis an.d Osiris, as practiced in Egypt, and those of Efeusis, in Greece, taught the doctrine of the immortality of the individual being. The Divine Master of Arcane knowledge, Christ, proclaimed the same. In latter times, we have had such metaphysical and scientific thinkers as Leihnitz, Fichte, Schtfling, Hegel and Schleiermacher advocating individual existence beyond the grave............