Fiction

Written in fictional short stories, the author take a comtemplative, satirical look at milleneum paranoia by sects and religions forecasting doom and gloom.

This facsimile reprint of this Rosicrucian novel is set in a large 14 point font for easier reading. ---- Table of Contents; Chapter I; A Visit to the Invisible Planes Chapter II; A Sergeant's Experience after "Passing Out" Chapter III; A Soul Flight Chapter IV; Back to Earth-A Pretty Nurse Chapter V; The Elder Brother in the Flesh Chapter VI; A Doughboy's Ideas on Religion Chapter VII; Helping a Slain Soldier to Comfort his Mother Chapter VIII; A Study of Auras Chapter IX; An Experience with Nature Spirits Chapter X; A Crisis in Love Chapter XI; Light Again

Of the simple, stiffly given account of weird and extraordinary matters, I will say little. It lies before you. The inner story must be uncovered, personally, by each reader, according to ability and desire. And even should any fail to see, as now I see, the shadowed picture and conception of that to which one may well give the accepted titles of Heaven and Hell; yet can I promise certain thrills, merely taking the story as a story.

It was somewhere, I think, towards the autumn of the year 1889 that the thought occurred to me that I might perhaps try to write a little in the modern way. For, hitherto, I had been, as it were, wearing costume in literature.

The world's most famous detective in large easy to read print!

It was my privilege, many years ago, to make the acquaintance of the obscure literary hermit, whose talk I have tried to reproduce in the pages that follow.

The stag of Texas, reclining in midnight lair, is startled from his slumbers by the hoofstroke of a horse. He does not forsake his covert, nor yet rise to his feet. His domain is shared by the wild steeds of the savannah, given to nocturnal straying. He only uprears his head; and, with antlers o'ertopping the tall grass, listens for a repetition of the sound.