Contents: spiritism in primitive religion; spiritism in China; spiritism among the Indo-Europeans; Cult of the Dead among the Indo-Europeans; spiritism in Egypt; spiritism among the early Semites; spiritism in Babylonia and Assyria; earliest Hebrew conception of the dead; Babylonian influence on Hebrew conceptions of the dead; worship of the dead by Israel; early opposition to the worship of the dead by Israel; prophetic and legal denial of the vitality of spirits; new theories of immortality in post-Exilic Judaism; teaching of Jesus in regard to immortality.