"All the errors and mistakes which we have made should serve to instil into us a lively hatred of evil, and to impart a fresh impulse to good; these we can take with us to the other side, where they will bloom and bear fruit. That is the true meaning of life, at which the obstinate and impenitent cavil, in order to save themselves trouble." "Pray, _but_ work; suffer, _but_ hope; keeping both the earth and the stars in view. Do not try and settle permanently, for it is a place of pilgrimage; not a home, but a halting-place. Seek the truth, for it is to be found, but only in one place, with the One who Himself is the Way, the Truth, and the Life." ARTHUR BABILLOTTE. [Footnote 1: Strindberg's _Inferno_.] CONTENTS THE HISTORY OF THE BLUE BOOK A BLUE BOOK-- The Thirteenth Axiom The Rustic Intelligence of the "Beans" The Hoopoo, or An Unusual Occurrence Bad Digestion The Song of the Sawyers Al Mansur in the Gymnasium The Nightingale in the Vineyard The Miracle of the Corn-crakes Corollaries Phantasms which are Real Crex, Crex! The Electric Battery and the Earth Circuit Improper and Unanswerable Questions Superstition and Non-Superstition Through Faith to Knowledge The Enchanted Room Concerning Correspondences The Green Island Swedenborg's Hell Preliminary Knowledge Necessary Perverse Science Truth in Error Accumulators Eternal Punishment "Desolation" A World of Delusion The Conversion of the Cheerful Pagan, Horace Cheerful Paganism and its Doctrine of Hell Faith the Chief Thing Penitents Paying for Others The Lice-King The Art of Life The Mitigation of Destiny The Good and the Evil Modesty and the Sense of Justice Derelicts Human Fate Dark Rays Blind and Deaf The Disrobing Chamber The Character Mask Youth and Folly When I was Young and Stupid Constant Illusions The Merits of the Multiplication-Table Under the Prince of this World The Idea of Hell Self-Knowledge Somnambulism and Clairvoyance in Everyday Life Practical Measures against Enemies The Goddess of Reason Stars Seen by Daylight The Right to Remorse A Religious Theatre Through Constraint to Freedom The Praise of Folly The Inevitable The Poet's Sacrifice The Function of the Philistines World-Religion The Return of Christ Correspondences Good Words Severe and not Severe Yeast and Bread The Man of Development Sins of Thought Sins of Will The Study of Mankind Friend Zero Affable Men Cringing before the Beast _Ecclesia Triumphans_ Logic in Neurasthenia My Caricature The Inexplicable Old-time Religion The Seduced become Seducers Large-hearted Christianity Reconnection with the Aërial Wire The Art of Conversion