But it is never too late to be wise; and I cannot but advise all considering men, whose lives are attended with such extraordinary incidents as mine, or even though not so extraordinary, not to slight such secret intimations of Providence, let them come from what invisible intelligence they will. That I shall not discuss, and perhaps cannot account for; but certainly they are a proof of the converse of spirits, and a secret communication between those embodied and those unembodied, and such a proof as can never be withstood; of which I shall have occasion to give some remarkable instances in the remainder of my solitary residence in this dismal place.
Mas nunca es tarde para aprender y no puedo sino aconsejar a todos los hombres prudentes, que hayan vivido experiencias tan extraordinarias como la mía, incluso menos extraordinarias, que no subestimen las insinuaciones secretas de la Providencia y hagan caso a esa inteligencia invisible, que no debo ni puedo tratar de explicar, pero que, sin duda, constituye una prueba irrefutable de la existencia del espíritu y de la comunicación secreta entre los espíritus encarnados y los inmateriales. Durante el resto de mi solitaria residencia en este sombrío lugar, tuve ocasión de presenciar asombrosas pruebas de esto.