in their true light, and how much less the episodes of a life which has not been blameless.

That there should be a re-enacting of past memories is what we might infer from our knowledge of the law of subjective mind, but there are not wanting certain facts of experience which go to support the a prioriargument [argument from self-evident propositions --- Ed.].

Ghosts

Many of my readers, I daresay, will smile at the mention of ghosts, but I can assure them that there is a good deal of reality in ghosts, especially to the ghosts themselves. Remember that if there are such things as ghosts, they were once people such as you and I are today; and the practical point is that the reader may be a ghost himself before very long. Therefore one of my objects in the present chapter is to show how to avoid becoming a ghost.

I used to laugh at ghosts when I was a young man and thought it all bunkum, but an experience which I went through many years ago entirely changed my ideas on the subject and indeed was the starting-point of my giving consideration to the laws of the unseen side of things. If it had not been for that ghost, you would not be reading this book. However, I will not go into details here, for the story has already been published both in French and English magazines.

[See Chapter 2 in The Law and the Word --- Ed.]

Of course, I don't believe everything I hear, nor do I think that because a thing is in print it is