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"There are more things , Horatio , in heaven and on earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy . " -HAMLET

Among the occult sciences I include the cult of Spiritism , and I do not deny that associated with it are fraud , deception and trickery , but can any one believe that scholars like de Mirville and Des Mous seaux and scientists like Lodge , Flammarion , Barret , Richet , Wallace , and James , who , after many years of experience with mediums , after patient examination of the cult , and intelligent study of the subject , aban doned materialism for Spiritism - were deceived . They have all confessed their absolute belief in the objective reality of spirit phenomena . The only ground of dispute between these eminent men and Catholic and Anglican investigators of the cult is the nature of the beings or intelligences that produce the phenomena