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On The Edge Of The Etheric Survival After Death Scientifically Explained Arthur Findlay 1 2 CONTENTS Chapter 1 - Page 4................Introduction Chapter 2 - Page 15..............The Universe Of Ether Chapter 3 - Page 22...............Mind And Matter Chapter 4 - Page 25...............The Medium Chapter 5 - Page 31..............The Seance Chapter 6 - Page 36..............The Voices Chapter 7 - Page 43..............First Evidence Chapter 8 - Page 49..............The Evidence - Three ‘A1’ Cases Chapter 9 - Page 53..............More Evidence - Three ‘A2’ Cases Chapter 10 - Page 57..............Still More Evidence Chapter 11 - Page 62..............Nights Of Instruction Chapter 12 - Page 69..............Nights Of Instruction (continued) Chapter 13 - Page 77..............Nights Of Instruction (concluded) Chapter 14 - Page 80..............Add To Your Faith Knowledge Chapter 15 - Page 86.............Facts We Ought To Know Chapter 16 - Page 90..............Conclusion Appendix - Page 93......188 Facts Given At Two Consecutive Sittings To Arthur Findlay 3 CHAPTER 1 Introduction If any man can convince me that I do not think aright gladly will I change for I search after truth , by which man never yet was harmed. MARCUS AURELIUS. I have thought much and pondered long over the strange experiences I have had during the last twelve years, experiences so strange, so foreign to all our accepted order of the phenomena of nature, that I can readily understand the difficulty many must have in accepting my records as true and accurate accounts of what really took place. I can expect only those who have had similar experiences themselves, to accept what I am about to tell with out question or without doubt. I know that if thirteen years ago I myself had been asked to believe these strange accounts I should have found it impossible to do so, but then my mental development was not sufficiently advanced to enable me to comprehend the subject. I then did not understand that these psychical manifestations, which it has been my privilege to experience, are like the other manifestations of nature, ruled by law and governed by order, and it is only when our knowledge advances sufficiently that this new science is found to harmonize with all that is already known. As I say, I have had strange and wonderful experiences, because I have been brought into contact with a new world, a world which even the greatest thinkers on the subject are only now beginning to comprehend. My position has been a peculiarly privileged one, as twelve years ago I had the good fortune to meet Mr. John C. Sloan, one of the most gifted mediums in this country, and in his presence, when the conditions were suitable, voices quite extraneous to the medium spoke to me, claiming to be those of friends who, in my ignorance, I had looked upon as dead. These voices are not produced by the medium, and they occur, not only when others are present, but also when he and I are alone together. They are not produced by any means of trickery, and I have come, after years of thought, to believe that those we call dead live on as men and women in a duplicate etheric body, and are able to manifest their presence again in this material world of ours, by borrowing from the medium a certain excretion, which emanates from his body. This enables them, for the time being, to materialise their vocal organs and thus vibrate our atmosphere. We must first of all clearly understand that the etheric world is part of this world. That it is all about us. That it is material, though of a substance too fine for our senses normally to appreciate; that here and now we are etheric beings clothed in a physical body, and that death only means a separation of this etheric body from the physical covering. The etheric body is the real and enduring body, an exact duplicate of its physical co