Familiar conversations from beyond the grave.

It is an error to imagine that we have nothing to gain in conversations with the Spirits of common men, and that only from illustrious men can profitable teachings come. Among their number, to be sure, many will be insignificant, but many also, from whom least is expected, yield revelations of great importance to the serious observer. Moreover, there is one point that interests us in the supreme degree, because it touches us most closely: it is the passage, the transition from the present life to the future life, a passage so dreaded that only Spiritism can make us face it without terror, and which we can only come to know by studying the present cases, that is to say, those who have just crossed it, whether illustrious or not.