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INTRODUCTION _________ PRELIMINARY YOGA has been defined by Patanjali as the suspension of all the functions (Vrittis) of the mind. Any discussion of this subject, therefore, necessarily branches itself into three parts, viz., (1) Mind, (2) its Vritttis, (3) and the mode of suspending them. No treatise of yoga, we think, can be complete, which does not enter into these questions. The natu...

Introduction Now, when speculation and research concerning the life after death are arousing more interest in the public mind than at any other time in human history, it seems peculiarly fitting that I should publish my "Travels in the Spirit World. " So far, every attempt to lift the curtain that separates us from the realms of the spirits has been carried on through a "medium." But in...

MIRACLES. MIRACLES are of two kinds. Miracles are wonders. Miracles are signs. Miracles are works. Miracles were wrought in many places by Christ and his apostles. Miracles will be wrought by the apostles of a spiritual philosophy. Miracles, wonders, signs, and works, will be wrought to confound the wisdom of a caviling world, to establish the truth of communications made by spirits in th...

PREFACE In a former volume, "SPIRIT WORLD AND SPIRIT LIFE," the conditions and activities which prevail in the future life are quite clearly portrayed by selections from our records received through automatic writing. In giving to the world a second volume based on these records,—which have been received mostly through Miss Dresser's pencil,—we have in Part II emphasized a phase of that ...