Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) [Illustration: C. G. Helleberg] A BOOK WRITTEN BY THE SPIRITS OF THE SO-CALLED DEAD, WITH THEIR OWN MATERIALIZED HANDS, BY THE PROCESS OF INDEPENDENT SLATE-WRITING, THROUGH MRS. LIZZIE S. GREEN AND OTHERS, AS MEDIUMS. COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY C. G. HELLEBERG, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO. Life is real! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not written of the soul. --LONGFELLOW. CINCINNATI: 1883. COPYRIGHTED, 1882, BY C. G. HELLEBERG. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. Introduction and Biographical Sketches of C. G. Helleberg, Madam Fredrika Ehrenborg, and Mrs. Lizzie T. Green 1 CHAPTER II. First Investigations with Mrs. Laura Mosser and Mrs. Cooper 6 CHAPTER III. Remarkable Materialization Seance--Letters from Mrs. Ehrenborg describing Inhabitants of other Planets 14 CHAPTER IV. Madam Ehrenborg and others Materialize 23 CHAPTER V. Investigations by Mrs. Jennie McKee--First Letter from Emanuel Swedenborg and Communications from Polheim and others--Received five beautiful Flowers from Madam Ehrenborg 26 CHAPTER VI. Mrs. McKee passes away and her Spirit arranges her own Funeral 33 CHAPTER VII. Investigations with Mrs. Green--Remarkable dark Trumpet Seance, at which I received a most beautiful Flower from my Son Emil and Miss Mary Muth 36 CHAPTER VIII. Sure Identity of my Father-in-Law--Madam Ehrenborg writes to me in Swedish 40 CHAPTER IX. Information of a Spiritual Marriage--The Wedding and the Wedding Tour to the Planet Mars 45 CHAPTER X. Description of the Journey to Mars, and wonderful Information furnished by Madam Ehrenborg 54 CHAPTER XI. Communications from Emanuel Swedenborg 108 CHAPTER XII. Communications from George Washington 141 CHAPTER XIII. Communications from my Son Emil about Ex-President Garfield-- Greetings from Madam Ehrenborg--Letter from Rev. Goddard and Swedenborg's Answer 157 CHAPTER XIV. Communications from President Garfield, Madam Ehrenborg, Governor J. D. Williams, President Abraham Lincoln, Judge Edmonds 163 CHAPTER XV.