were constant. We know that it is not so. Faith means
to say that you entirely believe a thing which you
cannot prove. One man says: "My faith is
THIS." Another says: "My faith is THAT."
Neither can prove it, so they wrangle for ever, either
mentally or in the old days physically. If one is
stronger than the other, he is inclined to persecute
him just to twist him round to the true faith. Because
Philip the Second's faith was strong and clear he,
quite logically, killed a hundred thousand Lowlanders
in the hope that their fellow countrymen would be
turned to the all-important truth. Now, if it were
recognised that it is by no means virtuous to claim
what you could not prove, we should then be driven to
observe facts, to reason from them, and perhaps reach
common agreement. That is why this psychical movement
appears so valuable. Its feet are on something more
solid than texts or traditions or intuitions. It is
religion from the double point of view of both worlds
up to date, instead of the ancient traditions of one
world.

We cannot look upon this coming world as a tidy
Dutch garden of a place which is so exact that it can
easily be described. It is probable that those
messengers who come back to us are all, more or
less, in one state of development and represent the
same wave of life as it recedes from our shores.
Communications usually come from those who have not
long passed over, and tend to grow fainter, as one