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general & special, and by well at-
-tested revelations, miracles, and
other acts and events of like qual-
-ity and rank.

Instead, however, of attempting
now to establish the reality of the
Supernatural by the a posteriori [through experience] meth-
-od thus suggested we prefer to
find this reality by show-
-ing, if we may, that the human
reason demands, and finds true, the
existence of an eternal & personal
Spirit, who antedates all other
beings, all other existences, and all
material phenomena, and is
of necessity above nature in
any and in all the planes of nature.

[Emblem printed, upside-down, in center of page.]
Bacon & Company
Excelsior Press
San Francisco