Theory of Pneumatology: In Reply to the Question, What Ought to Be Believed or Disbelieved Concerning Presentiments, Visions, and Apparitions

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Excerpt from Theory of Pneumatology: In Reply to the Question, What Ought to Be Believed or Disbelieved Concerning Presentiments, Visions, and Apparitions, According to Nature, Reason, and Scripture It is scarcely possible for one who assumes lo treat, at the present day, of the spiritual world - its phenomena and laws - to regard it as an utter terra incognita, or as a mere theme of theory. The time has been when this was the case, when guess-work took the place of scientific induction, and a man was deemed to have met the demands of the subject by the exercise of a shrewd or fertile imagination. As in the case of the natural world, speculation preceded science, and ingenious men could sit in their closets and theorize upon the formation of the mundane system, without any appeal to the facts of geology - so a similar process of spiritual cosmogony has been in vogue in ages past. Regarding the unseen as a field of boundless conjecture, its realms have been peopled by the creations of Fancy, and as Fancy has appealed, so Fancy has responded. The voice and verdict of Reason have not been pronounced, nor has any decided practical influence been exerted by the most voluminous masses of speculation on the general subject. But a change has come o'er the spirit of the times, and as the science of Geology has supplanted the dreams of Cosmogony, so the onward course of things 1 ms brought us to a point where the ideal in psychology and spirit-lore is bound to give place to the rational and the real. Unexpected developments in this region have wrought a wide-spread conviction, not only that there is a world of spirits, but that it exists in a far closer proximity to the sphere of the natural than has been previously imagined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.