Excerpt from Practical Occultism: A Course of Lectures Through the Trance Mediumship The educational and reformatory movement called Modern spiritualism has, in its inherent manysidedness, developed variant phases of expression and action. Com ing in contact with individualities of almost every conceiv able character, it has been variously interpreted and' directed; and candor compels the assertion, that not at all times has the interpretation and direction given it been of the wisest and best. In some instances its facts and truths  fraught with such momentous consequence to humanity for good or ill, according to the manner of their use by those to whom they come  have been perverted to unwise or harmful ends and uses,  sometimes in ignorance, and at other times through conscious misapplication thereof for selfish or evil purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.