Introduction

Introduction

Gentola emana̤:—Nearly two of Earth's years have elapsed since I have had the privilege and pleasure of personally saluting you, which now I do with fullest assurance of a regard which magnifies itself, as I recall the experiences of those never to be forgotten days of yore and your loving endeavor in the interests of my people. You have been made to understand why, during this period, you have felt disinclined to commune with your spirit friends, who, nevertheless, have constantly been about you, guarding and guiding you along the devious ways of mortal existence. We rejoice with you that, at last, you are thought to be strong enough to resume association with the Evon Thiag.

During the past year, one of the lessons that you, to a degree, have been perfecting, is the all important one of self-control, which is very nearly allied to the mental quality termed concentration; and until mortals have made these two traits a part of their selfhood, they are at the mercy of every adverse circumstance and emotion: consequently, they are as driftwood tossed hither and thither on the pulsing tide of human existence, whose waves ever are bearing them onward towards a shoreless eternity. Other lessons, unconsciously, you have been incorporating into the very warp and woof of your being; and now we find you prepared to take upon yourself the accomplishment of such duties as are a part of your life work.

In fulfillment of my promise to some time relate to you a Romance of Ento, which, alas! is founded upon actual occurrences, I shall be obliged to recall scenes and events of days long past, happily never to return,—days so filled with anguish that men and women, the actual characters of the story, who long have dwelt in Ento’s spirit spheres, even yet shrink from recalling memories which would becloud the joys of their present existence. While reading the story, my brother Inidora and I were so impressed by its pathetic and tragic features, that we are yet able to recall it almost in its entirety. By the Entoans it has ever been regarded as a little classic in which are portrayed, not only phases of human nature, but religious and social events of a bygone time: events tinged with the sacredness ever attached to sorrowful personal experiences.

Before beginning the recital of the story as related by Decimon Hûydas, I desire to touch upon some points which may render more intelligible some statements and expressions, which otherwise might confuse the minds of those not at all versed in Spirit philosophy.

In planetary language, which all advanced spirits understand, Evon Thiag (For Love's Sake) is the watchword of all engaged in endeavor to uplift humanity on both the physical and spirit planes of being; and such spirits ever strive to unfold such mentalities as are sensitive to their approach: for only through sensitives can the truth of the continuity of existence be demonstrated.

In every human being are the infolded qualities constituting the sensitive, or mediumistic, condition; but, as no two personalities are alike, so no two sensitives are alike: hence spirits are obliged to accommodate their efforts to the individual peculiarities of sensitives; and often their efforts prove ineffective, or are wholly misunderstood, thus creating confusion and skepticism in many minds.

At the period when Man on any planet becomes a living Soul—that is, a soul dominated by Immortal Spirit—consciously or unconsciously he enters into relation with the spirit side of life, ever recognizing only what the plane of his development can assimilate. On Ento, as on other planets inhabited by spiritualized humans, this process of unfoldment of spirit perceptivity, or sensitiveness, has ever been recognized as something apart from the objective experiences of all observing its phenomena; and endless have been the conjectures concerning its origin. When experienced by persons of exalted piety, its source has ever been regarded as Deific; but when experienced by irreligious and immoral persons its source has been considered only evil. But to you, as to many others, has come the knowledge that in the universe there is but one Principle, which is wholly good, and that the expression of seeming evil is but the expression of an unevolved condition. Admitting the correctness of this statement inclines one to be charitable towards those who, through ignorance or weakness of purpose, fail to fulfill the Law of Love.

I shall conclude this rather inconclusive introduction to a Romance of Ento by saying that I, an Ento spirit, am aided in expressing myself by an Earth-born, Carl De L'Ester, who is counselor and guide of a band of the Evon Thiag; and I am so presumptuous as to hope that my recital of the little story may, in the minds of the thoughtful, awaken an interest in peoples so clearly resembling themselves and in a planet which, like their own fair Earth, was, in the fullness of time, thrown from the glowing heart of the great central magnet, the sun of our solar system, into space and held there by the Omnipotent, Intelligent Force pervading, not only all worlds, but every atom of a boundless universe.

GENESSANO ALLIS IMMO.

Once a mortal man of Ento; which is known to Earth-borns as the Planet Mars.