Excerpt from Chapter V: The Reality of Superphysical Life. It seems difficult for those who are accustomed only to ordinary and somewhat materialistic lines of thought to believe in and realize fully a condition of perfect consciousness apart from the physical body. Every Christian is bound by the very foundations of his creed to believe that he possesses a soul; but if you suggest the possibility that that soul may be a sufficiently real thing to become visible under certain conditions apart from the body either during life or after death, the chances are he will  tell you that he does not believe in ghosts, and that such an idea is nothing but an exploded medieval superstition. If we are at all to comprehend the work of the band of invisible helpers, and learn to assist in it, we must shake ourselves free from contemporary thought on these subjects, and endeavor to grasp the great truth that the physical body is nothing but a vehicle or vesture of the real man.

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