Boyd, T: Borderland Experiences, or Do the Dead Return? -

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Excerpt from Borderland Experiences, or Do the Dead Return?: A Study of Spirit States and Activities

We find in the creed the words, I believe in the com munion of Saints, but just what do we mean by it? Is it some beatific exercise of those who have passed on, or the brotherly interchange of people in the ?esh? Is it some hazy and indefinite meditation by which we can hold in Imaginatlon a one-sided conversation with the Saints? Or do we mean that these Saints are living, intelligent beings who have lived on the earth as we are living, passed through its various experiences; achieved something of the Christian character, and have passed into another realm of activity; that these intelligent and good beings whom we call Saints, are still interested in those in the earth life, and act as ministering spirits to them, not only seeking to give them a spiritual atmosphere in which to live, but also to project into their mental life thoughts and messages of truth so that they may grasp and use them In a practical and helpful way?

In this day when vast numbers are being hurled violently out of the ?esh, and are entering the domain of that undis covered country from whose world of activity there is a tradition that no traveler has returned, the mind of human ity turns with intense scrutiny to catch some ?eeting vision or to hear some footfall or sense some message which will tell them that the spiritual world is real, and that if a man dies, he lives again. The heart of humanity longs to know by reasonable assurance that love cannot cease nor life die nor identity be lost. Therefore as never before, the human mind is beating at the barriers that have so persistently shut us out from knowledge of the undiscovered country. Something within us gives strong presumptive assurance that there is a path which no fowl kn'oweth; the vulture's eye hath not seen it; the young lion hath not trodden upon it,nor the fierce lion passed it by, though it is readily con ceded that it is not perceived through the instrumentality of the five senses. In some vague way we realize that things in the spiritual realm are spiritually discerned and that the known material methods of ascertaining facts and classifying them, must be readjusted inasmuch as we have to depend upon other than material means for the ascertain ing of these facts.

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