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THE NEW REVELATION BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

To all the brave men and women, humble or learned, who have the
moral courage during seventy years to face ridicule or worldly
disadvantage in order to testify to an all-important truth
March, 1918

PREFACE
Many more philosophic minds than mine have thought over the
religious side of this subject and many more scientific brains have
turned their attention to its phenomenal aspect. So far as I know,
however, there has been no former attempt to show the exact relation of
the one to the other. I feel that if I should succeed in making this a little
more clear I shall have helped in what I regard as far the most
important question with which the human race is concerned.
A celebrated Psychic, Mrs. Piper, uttered, in the year 1899 words which
were recorded by Dr. Hodgson at the time. She was speaking in trance
upon the future of spiritual religion, and she said: "In the next century
this will be astonishingly perceptible to the minds of men. I will also
make a statement which you will surely see verified. Before the clear
revelation of spirit communication there will be a terrible war in
different parts of the world. The entire world must be purified and
cleansed before mortal can see, through his spiritual vision, his friends
on this side and it will take just this line of action to bring about a state
of perfection. Friend, kindly think of this." We have had "the terrible
war in different parts of the world." The second half remains to be
fulfilled.
A. C. D. 1918.

CONTENTS


CHAPTER
I THE SEARCH
II THE REVELATION
III THE COMING LIFE
IV PROBLEMS AND LIMITATIONS

SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTS
I THE NEXT PHASE OF LIFE
II AUTOMATIC WRITING
III THE CHERITON DUGOUT

THE NEW REVELATION


CHAPTER I.
THE SEARCH
The subject of psychical research is one upon which I have thought
more and about which I have been slower to form my opinion, than
upon any other subject whatever. Every now and then as one jogs along
through life some small incident happens which very forcibly brings
home the fact that time passes and that first youth and then middle age
are slipping away. Such a one occurred the other day. There is a
column in that excellent little paper, Light, which is devoted to what
was recorded on the corresponding date a generation--that is thirty
years--ago. As I read over this column recently I had quite a start as I
saw my own name, and read the reprint of a letter which I had written
in 1887, detailing some interesting spiritual experience which had
occurred in a seance. Thus it is manifest that my interest in the subject
is of some standing, and also, since it is only within the last year or two
that I have finally declared myself to be satisfied with the evidence, that
I have not been hasty in forming my opinion. If I set down some of my
experiences and difficulties my readers will not, I hope, think it
egotistical upon my part, but will realise that it is the most graphic way
in which to sketch out the points which are likely to occur to any other
inquirer. When I have passed over this ground, it will be possible to get
on to something more general and impersonal in its nature.
When I had finished my medical education in 1882, I found myself,
like many young medical men, a convinced materialist as regards our
personal