The Psychic Riddle

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 19, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 25.

The Psychic Riddle

"The Psychic Riddle." By I. K. Funk, D.D., LL.D., author of "The Widow's Mite and Other Psychic Phenomena," "The Next Step in Evolution," etc. Cloth, 244 pages; price, $1.00, net. Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London.

This little book of Dr. Funk's presents what has thus far developed in his own investigations and under his own observation in psychic phenomena. Are there intelligences outside of the human five senses which communicate with man? Can we identify these intelligences as those who once lived in the flesh? In other words, Are they the spirits of the dead? The affirmative of the first of these the author firmly believes. He is not satisfied that these intelligences can be identified as those who have lived in the flesh. He does not think it has yet been scientifically demonstrated. Some spirits communicate with some of humanity, but what spirits he does not know; hence, he does not call himself a Spiritualist. He thinks the matter ought to be investigated, and appeals to his readers to form an association for this purpose. Yet it can be readily seen that Dr. Funk finds it easier to believe in spirit communications than not to believe, notwithstanding the vast amount of fraud connected with mediumship. He professes to believe the Bible; but did he believe it and would he take its express teachings, he could easily learn that there were spirits, good and evil, but not spirits of the dead; "for the dead know not anything." Those intelligences which come in the guise of the dead are spirits of evil. "The Psychic Riddle" is doubtless the best last work written on the side of deceived investigators—deceived not as to facts, but as to the nature of man as revealed in the word of God.