The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-01
My Mission.

My sole desire has long been to write the
history of the life have lived life in two
worlds, lived and suffered for the benefit OF
the human race. Having so lived and suffered
1t, conscious of its value to mankind, knowing
that its purpose was to substitute the spiritual
for the animal man, and thus bring the human
race to its Divine Inheritance, seeing dis
tinctly the open way, / have been and am pow
erless to cause others to see.it, or to compre-
bend my seeing it. The real causes
of this underlie the life and can
not be explained here. On the surface there
we're against me, or against those who use me
for that end, all the ignorance, prejudices and
worldly interests, all the religion, learning,
men, and lastly spiritualsm, by which, more
than the rest, worldly spirits hold the world
to-day in their grip, being no longer merely
enuenched behind the impenetrable and in
surmountable walls of prejudice and ignor-
ance, but making an aggressive war, satisfy
ing men that sin is without penalty and
righteousness without reward. This they do
by means of the external senses for there are
no other means, and nothing can be known by
means of the external senses, even in the
external world. Nothing can be known of
the spiritual world through spirit circles, by
intromission into the spiritual country, or by
any single one of all the exercises called
mediumship, because they. all alike, depend
upon evidence brought to US by the external
senses.
l do not propose to argue but to affirm
this great and vital truth. and to challenge its
refutation by any intelligence on earth by
any and all sectS of religionists, by spiritual
lists, by scientists, by Termed men, by great
men, by pulpits, lyceums, academies, schools.
1t will be asked, What have to rely upon
but the external senses? answer: IT IS
SOLELY THE EVENTS OF MY LIFE, THE DAILY
INCIDENTS AS THEY HAVE OCCURRED, by which
the instruction is to come, and by which
method alone any kHO70leage can come of the
spirit world. Let all men for Humanity's
sake weigh these words while l yet live
The spiritual heavens, at last, thousands
of centuries after the birth of intelligence
were opened by such means because men
were inaccessible by any other. But it was
alone to furnish man with proof of his immor-
tality, and was resorted to because his spirit
ual faculties were unused, and he
was incapable of being reached by any
other proof. Beyond 1t, everything is appar-
ent only, and if accepted as proof las it isl
will prove anything and all things which
worldly spirits seek to have believed. Its APP
plication, besides, to any other use is a viola
ton of law of which, exemplary minds in this
world will not be guilty, and no minds in the
spiritual world can be so. These afirmations
alone, if comprehended, should enable any
unbiased mind to perceive the causes of the
evil condition of the world.
The history which has so failed to be written
was designed TO illustrate the spiritual laws, to
show how and where worldly spirits live, their
habits and customs, and their relations with
the natural world. The distinctive differences
between worldly and heavenly spirits in char
acter and situation, why there are, no relations
between them, the modus operandi of the
former in seeking to preserve their influence
in the natural world, and of the latter in seek
ing to destroy it. WHAT THAT INFLUENCE is.
| will explain in my next paper why this
book has not been and can not be written UNI
less can, in some way, cause myself to be
recognized, in my lifetime which is al its close,
as having this mission. T, II, H.