This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. UNIVERSALITY OF SOUL PRESENCE. Disembodied Beings Never Sleep -- They Witness Crime and Often Give Mortals Warning of Impending Danger The habitat of Incarnated Man--its continents and seas, its cities, its highways and byways--abounds with Disembodied Souls by whom all happenings in their chance vicinage are noted. Earthly evil doers are known. The cerebral crime-spawn of such while incubating is pervious to eyes that never sleep. There is no incertitude in their observations. The blow and the hand that delivers it are seen, and the intent even foreseen. The perpetrator, as he sheathes his knife and steals stealthily away to cover, fancies no one beheld his infamous act and feels therefore that he is secure. Far from it. They of the Palingenesis are alert and will enter the psychic sanctuary of the mystified sleuths of the law and by mode transpicuous to no mortal, awaken right suspicion, and the guilty, tracked to his hiding, shall pay penalty for his misdoing. O wretch with evil in thy heart, beware! Among the Immortals feud is not, machinations are not, nor are there manifestations of dark passions as in the finite world save in exceptional instances. Disembodied Souls rarely bring their rancor and dislikes this side of the Great Divide. A desire to redress wrongs endured in the terrene life is considered impious because usurping a prerogative of God. Says the August Judge, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay!" Even comminations are regarded as unbecoming and lowering to the exalted dignity of the Higher Life. And let the acclaim be trumpeted for the behoof of heedless Mortals, and foolish because heedless, that premonition of approaching disaster to them, nay, of Death itself, perchance, evolves from the Immortals and...