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I have seen father, mother, and dead soldier son, all taken together with the dead son looking far the happier…

Date of account: Published 1919
Source: The Vital Message
Reference: The Vital Message · selected passage 9
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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I have seen father, mother, and dead soldier son, all taken together with the dead son looking far the happier and not the least substantial of the three

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I have seen father, mother, and dead soldier son, all taken together with the dead son looking far the happier and not the least substantial of the three. It is in these varied forms of proof that the impregnable strength of the evidence lies, for how absurd do explanations of telepathy, unconscious cerebration or cosmic memory become when faced by such phenomena as spirit photography, materialisation, or the direct voice. Only one hypothesis can cover every branch of these manifestations, and that is the system of extraneous life and action which has always, for seventy years, held the field for any reasonable mind which had impartially considered the facts.

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