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The New Revelation By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) |
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BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Dedication To all the brave men and women, humble or learned, who have the moral
courage during seventy years to face ridicule or worldly disadvantage
in order to testify to an all important truth. March, 1918
PREFACE Many more philosophic minds than mine have thought over the religious
side of this subject and many more scientific brains have turned their
attention to its phenomenal aspect. So far as I know, however, there
has been no former attempt to show the exact relation of the one to the
other. I feel that if I should succeed in making this a little more
clear I shall have helped in what I regard as far the most important
question with which the human race is concerned. A celebrated Psychic, Mrs. Piper, uttered, in the year 1899 words which
were recorded by Dr. Hodgson at the time. She was speaking in trance
upon the future of spiritual religion, and she said: "In the next
century this will be astonishingly perceptible to the minds of men. I
will also make a statement which you will surely see verified. Before
the clear revelation of spirit communication there will be a terrible
war in different parts of the world. The entire world must be purified
and cleansed before mortal can see, through his spiritual vision, his
friends on this side and it will take just this line of action to bring
about a state of perfection. Friend, kindly think of this." We have
had "the terrible war in different parts of the world." The second
half remains to be fulfilled. A. C. D.
1918.
CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE SEARCH
II THE REVELATION
III THE COMING LIFE
IV PROBLEMS AND LIMITATIONS SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTS I THE NEXT PHASE OF LIFE
II AUTOMATIC WRITING
III THE CHERITON DUGOUT
THE NEW REVELATION
CHAPTER I. THE SEARCH
The subject of psychical research is one upon which I have thought more
and about which I have been slower to form my opinion, than upon any
other subject whatever. Every now and then as one jogs along through
life some small incident happens which very forcibly brings home the
fact that time passes and that first youth and then middle age are
slipping away. Such a one occurred the other day. There is a column
in that excellent little paper, Light, which is devoted to what was
recorded on the corresponding date a generation that is thirty
years ago. As I read over this column recently I had quite a start as
I saw my own name, and read the reprint of a letter which I had written
in 1887, detailing some interesting spiritual experience which had
occurred in a seance. Thus it is manifest that my interest in the
subject is of some standing, and also, since it is only within the last
year or two that I have finally declared myself to be satisfied with
the evidence, that I have not been hasty in forming my opinion. If I
set down some of my experiences and difficulties my readers will not, I
hope, think it egotistical upon my part, but will realise that it is
the most graphic way in which to sketch out the points which are likely
to occur to any other inquirer. When I have passed over this ground,
it will be possible to get on to something more general and impersonal
in its nature. When I had finished my medical education in 1882, I found myself, like
many young medical men, a convinced materialist as regards our personal
destiny. I had never ceased to be an earnest theist, because it seemed
to me that Napoleon's question to the atheistic professors on the
starry night as he voyaged to Egypt: "Who was it, gentlemen, who made
these stars?" has never been answered. To say that the Universe was
made by immutable laws only put the question one degree further back as
to who made the laws. I did not, of course, believe in an
anthropomorphic God, but I believed then, as I believe now, in an
intelligent Force behind all the operations of Nature a force so
infinitely complex and great that my finite brain could get no further
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