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AN AGNOSTIC'S PROGRESS

FROM THE KNOWN TO THE UNKNOWN

Methought in the visions of the night, or in some waking trance in which my soul was freed from the encumbering body, and from all limitations of time and space which under ordinary waking restrict its flight, I wandered through the streets of a great city, standing in the midst of a vast region. My spiritual eye could at once see the the city and the wide tract in which it lay, and could even perceive that though it appeared like our own familiar earth, with plains, mountains, and valleys, with forests growing and rivers flowing, and all varieties of life and activity within it, it was nevertheless surrounded on all sides with a strong and high wall, where no door or gate was visible. Save at the death of some human being, the wall was fast closed; but now and then one saw, or imagined one saw, as the soul passed through, infinitesimal openings, which closed again, and left the wall strong and blank as before. The

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