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The Unknown Guest

by Maurice Maeterlinck

Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

January, 2000

Scanned by Dianne Bean of Phoenix, Arizona.

Scanned by Dianne Bean of Phoenix, Arizona.

THE UNKNOWN GUEST

BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK

Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

INTRODUCTION

My Essay on Death led me to make a conscientious enquiry into the present position of the great mystery, an enquiry which I have endeavoured to render as complete as possible. I had hoped that a single volume would be able to contain the result of these investigations, which, I may say at once, will teach nothing to those who have been over the same ground and which have nothing to recommend them except their sincerity, their impartiality and a certain scrupulous accuracy. But, as I proceeded, I saw the field widening under my feet, so much so that I have been obliged to divide my work into two almost equal parts. The first is now published and is a brief study of veridical apparitions and hallucinations and haunted houses, or, if you will, the phantasms of the living and the dead; of those manifestations which have been oddly and not very appropriately described as "psychometric"; of the knowledge of the future: presentiments, omens, premonitions, precognitions and the rest; and lastly of the Elberfeld horses. In the second, which will be published later, I shall treat of the miracles of Lourdes and other places, the phenomena of so called materialization, of the divining-rod and of fluidic asepsis, not unmindful withal of a diamond dust of the miraculous that hangs over the greater marvels in that strange atmosphere into which we are about to pass.

Published in English, in an enlarged form, under the title of Our Eternity --Translator's Note.

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