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emperors and the angels. In history nothing is too late and the great 

 tangled fabric of the past is ever open to reconstruction.' 



"With all this knowledge gained," said Professor Gridley, "the work 

 of these adepts should not lapse for want of initiates bold enough to 

 act." He proposed that the Astral Club add to its purposes that of 

 serious effort in the direction formerly occupied by space and time. 

 His thought was nothing less than the perfection of the human race 

 through the correction of history. This could be best accomplished 

 by collective personal influence on the lives of great men. The value 

 of such influence all teachers must admit. That it is not too late is 

 now a certain fact, and to work in unison is to do the best work. 



Mr. Dean had already devoted many esoteric and soulful hours to 

 this labor, but he had used only the method of telepathy, subtle enough 

 in its action, but not powerful enough for large results. Because it is 

 dependent on etheric vibrations and electric inductions, it is practically 

 ineffective except in settled weather. The turbulent atmosphere of the 

 Middle Ages renders settled communication difficult if one tries to go 

 back far enough for his influence to be worth while. It is also much 

 better to use personal presence than any form of esoteric induction, if 

 the former is possible. 



If you wish a thing to be well done, the great Franklin assures us, 

 you must do it yourself, and few of us moderns could speak with higher 

 authority on electrics and etherics than he. The mere extension of 

 a personal aura backward through history, Mr. Dean has privately ad- 

 mitted, fails of the highest results, and nothing short of the best can 

 be satisfactory to the initiates of Alcalde. Still less can we count on 

 projecting such an aura into the future. The forms of men and nations 

 of future centuries are now in Devachan, in the subastral or plasto- 

 nebulose state. A human aura can have little definite influence upon 

 them, especially because, not knowing what influence should be exerted, 

 the sensator would work in utter astral darkness which could yield no 

 tangible result. It is evident that this great work needs the personal 

 presence. How to produce this Dr. Hensoldt's discovery clearly 

 indicates. 



If we go around the earth from west to east, as the sun seems to go, 

 we have added one whole day for each revolution. If we go to the high 

 north, the circles grow shorter, and barring certain difficulties in trans- 

 portation, it is easier to go around. If we ascend to the very pole, 

 which by the aid of the non-friable astral body is not so very difficult to 

 adepts, we find a circle of revolution only a few feet in circumference. 

 "Let us suppose," continued Professor Gridley, "that we have ar- 

 rived at the north pole on the first day of August. A single circuit 

 around it to the eastward and we reach the second of August. A dozen 

 circuits and we have August the fourteenth. With the aid of the 



