Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mystical Musings This little book is not published to sell (if it were it would probably be a failure), but merely as a gratuity with the hope of prolonging the memory of friendship after that friendship itself has ceased to be. Simplicity and sincerity has been its paramount point. Acknowledgment of it is not even necessary, unless it affords the recipient personal pleasure in doing so. May its truth and philosophy console and comfort you when I lie, at last, in "the dreamless sleep that lulls the dead." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.