ABSTRACT
The spiritual powers that dominate man’s life are stronger than the physical ones. The unseen realm, visible to the elect soul, is real—more real, because mightier, more enduring, than this tangible world perceptible by the senses. The region of the shades meets us in many of its pages. There is Sheol, the underworld, the twilight of the ghosts; there is the spectre of Samuel the Prophet called back to earth by the witch of Endor; and the like. From the very beginning of the human story man has been conscious of a region transcending this lower world. In the earliest times of which we have records we find him holding communion with the dead; the task of pleasing and conciliating them was part of his everyday life. The great intuitions of the human mind, in virtue of their continuous and powerful sway over the life of man, in virtue of their very existence, have an indefeasible claim to respect.
