A Romance of Two Worlds, Marie Corelli [best way to read an ebook .TXT] 📗

ess worse than death.Recognizing, therefore, that in this cultivated age a wall ofscepticism and cynicism is gradually being built up by intellectualthinkers of every nation against all that treats of the Supernaturaland Unseen, I am aware that my narration of the events I haverecently experienced will be read with incredulity. At a time whenthe great empire of the Christian Religion is being assailed, orpolitely ignored by governments and public speakers and teachers, Irealize to the fullest extent how daring is any attempt to prove,even by a plain history of strange occurrences happening to one'sself, the actual existence of the Supernatural around us; and theabsolute certainty of a future state of being, after the passagethrough that brief soul-torpor in which the body perishes, known tous as Death.

In the present narration, which I have purposely called a "romance,"I do not expect to be believed, as I can only relate what I myselfhave experienced. I know that men and women of to-day must