Spiritism and the Cult of the Dead in Antiquity e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In the fields of Semitic religion and of the religions of Israel, Greece, and Rome, the author has been able to work at first hand from the sources; in the cases of the religions of China, India, Egypt, and some of the Indo European races, he has been obliged to depend upon the researches of others. He has endeavoured to follow the best authorities, whose works are cited in the footnotes.