SOURCE: "The Pneuma and the Breath," in A Prophet and a Pilgrim: Being the Incredible History of Thomas Lake Harris and Laurence Oliphant, Columbia University Press, 1942, pp. 388-403.

Herbert W. Schneider is a professor emeritus who writes extensively with George Lawton on philosophy and religion. In the following excerpt, they describe Oliphant's theories of spirituality as presented in Sympneumata and Scientific Religion.

The Oliphant version of counterpartal theory was contained in two books: Sympneumata; or, Evolutionary Forces Now Active in Man; and Scientific Religion; or, Higher Possibilites of Life and Practice through the Operaton of Natural Forces. The first of these volumes was given out anonymously, being merely "edited by Laurence Oliphant." In a letter [from Haifa, dated May 12, 1884] to the publisher he described the manner in which the authors wished the book to be presented to the world.

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