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1. J. H. Pratt, his wife, and Mrs. Phoebe Smith, all then of Kansas, having heard of one W. W. Aber, of Kansas, as being a medium for the phenomena of spirit materializations, succeeded in securing the services of this said medium for that capacity, commencing the seances in September, 1888, at the residence of the J. H. Pratt, where the Mr. Aber thenceforth made his home, holding seances there almost daily, to June, 1890.2. The phenomena presented at these seances were what are called "bust shadowy forms" shown at the cabinet window.3. To these seances the public were invited, and many attended; but, for want of more information as to the nature of the phenomena, but few pursued their investigations to a definite conclusion.4. A few persons, however, saw, from close and careful attention, that the medium did not, in any fraudulent manner, have anything to do with the production of the phenomena, neither as principal nor by mortal confederate.5. Some of the "bust shadowy forms" shown at the window were enabled to write, and talk in a whisper, and could both talk and write in "tongues" much beyond the knowledge of the medium and of any person in the circle.6. These forms began to talk and write, to furnish, through full-form visible materializations, matter for a book, and urged that a circle be organized for the purpose of giving the spirit world an opportunity of conditions to that end.

"Beyond the Vail" seeks to reveal to persons in the physical condition something of practical life in the immediate beyond death, by relation of experiences of spirits who are inhabitants of the spirit world; and, to reveal further the true relation of the earth life to the post-mortal condition, and thus furnish mortals a basis of such practical ethics as is most conducive to desirable conditions both on earth and in the spheres beyond. So many people query, "Can these things be true?" the reader will find, on close scrutiny, that these records show every séance to have been absolutely a test séance. And, to keep this fact of test conditions before the reader's mind, there is much repetition of phenomena, but with constant variation of detail. So that, if the reader see a "loop-hole" in one séance large enough to allow a camel to pass through, he will not have read on very far until only a gnat can pass; and a little farther on, the mountains, molehills, camels, and gnats of objection are gone, and he or she stands face to face with glad immortality.These works do not so much seek to dogmatize as to set out facts from which each reader may theorize for himself according to his or her own rational and spiritual developments, and be able to discern continuity of conscious personality beyond the tomb.

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