PREFACE
In "The New Revelation" the first dawn of the coming change has
been described. In "The Vital Message" the sun has risen higher, and one
sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen
may be. As I look into the future of the human race I am reminded of how
once, from amid the bleak chaos of rock and snow at the head of an Alpine
pass, I looked down upon the far stretching view of Lombardy,
shimmering in the sunshine and extending in one splendid panorama of
blue lakes and green rolling hills until it melted into the golden haze which
draped the far horizon. Such a promised land is at our very feet which,
when we attain it, will make our present civilisation seem barren and
uncouth. Already our vanguard is well over the pass. Nothing can now
prevent us from reaching that wonderful land which stretches so clearly
before those eyes which are opened to see it. That stimulating writer, V. C.
Desertis, has remarked that the Second Coming, which has always been
timed to follow Armageddon, may be fulfilled not by a descent of the
spiritual to us, but by the ascent of our material plane to the spiritual, and
the blending of the two phases of existence. It is, at least, a fascinating
speculation. But without so complete an overthrow of the partition walls
as this would imply we know enough already to assure ourselves of such a
close approximation as will surely deeply modify all our views of science,
of religion and of life. What form these changes may take and what the
evidence is upon which they will be founded are briefly set forth in this
volume.