3/55 SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.

SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS A BRIEF RECORD OF MY OWN EXPERIENCES By Sir WM. EARNSHAW COOPER, CIE.
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I have added nothing to, nor substracted anything from, these experiences, but record them word for word, as far as I can remember, just as they occurred. For these reasons, as also for those I am about to give, I deem it advisable to make known these manifestations. Here are a few other considerations which urge me to this course:

1. I find that a vast number of people, while desirous of knowing something of psychic phenomena, are deterred from undertaking personal investigation partly because of the ridicule which they surmise attaches to those who seek for the Truth; partly because of some degree of charlatanism which attends certain seances; and partly because of the lack of literature on the subject of a nature that, while fundamentally simple, might yet be highly instructive.
2. Because I regard the study of psychic force as essential to man’s existence and a necessary equipment for the battle of life. I go further and affirm that psychic force should not be regarded as a corollary of physical energy, but that matter, relegated to its legitimate domain, should be recognised as a result of psychic power. This view of the case has been adopted by many of our greatest living scientists.
3. If physical energy be the result of some greater force, it follows that that productive energy, what#ever​ it may be, should be regarded by man as something with which he would do well to link up his life’s forces, provided it lay within his power to do so; and further provided that, in utilising this potential energy, he would not be acting detrimentally to his own interests in this life or, as far as we may be permitted to ascertain, in the life after this. For this reason alone it is necessary that man should be attracted towards, rather than repelled from, the investigation of spiritual science.