Man's Earliest Communion With Spirits
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Man's earliest religious history is also the history of Spiritism, or his communion with the realms of Spiritual existence.
To effect this communion, the human organism must be adapted to the perception of Spiritual entities, or else means must be found to promote this adaption.
We have mis-spent our time in sketching out the ancient forms of religious belief, if we have failed to show that men once communed with their Tutelary Gods and ministering spirits intuitively, inspirationally, and even directly, but that in process of time, either by reason of changes in man's receptivity, or from the altered conditions which civilization imposes, that communion became interrupted, then more and more difficult; in some periods it ceased altogether, and finally became limited to a few exceptionally endowed individuals, in which category (with occasional irruptions of a more diffusive character) it has continued down to the present day.