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faculties are capable of receiving or being affected by, as 

 well as with every other kind of impression, not necessarily 

 physical, by which they are affected. Thus, when we 

 indulge the imagination or memory, or when we dream, 

 the physical faculties, engaged for the time in any of these 

 occupations, are impressed or affected by the metaphysical 

 influences of imagination, of memory, or of dreaming, 

 and the amount of Consciousness exerted for the time is in 

 contact with these physical faculties, and, through them, 

 perceives the metaphysical influences by which they are 

 affected ; and hence it follows that, 



6. The metaphysical faculty of Consciousness is capable 

 of actual contact with all the physical faculties of our 

 nature, and with all the other realities, or influences of 

 other realities, whether physical or metaphysical, by which 

 these physical faculties may be impressed or affected. 



7. It follows from the preceding that one metaphysical 

 fact or influence, such as imagination, memory, or dream- 

 ing, may come into contact with another metaphysical 

 fact, our Consciousness, by using a physical and material 

 faculty as its intermediate channel or vehicle of operation 

 in doing so. Thus the physical faculty standing between 

 may be in contact with, and acted upon by, the meta- 

 physical on both sides, and hence we reach the hitherto 

 unapproached conclusion 



8. That other metaphysical powers and influences besides 

 consciousness of touch may come into actual contact with 

 Matter and with material faculties, and positively act 

 upon and impress, and cause action in, the Matter of 

 these faculties just as really as a physical body may 

 penetrate and stir water. 



But may we not go a step further, and, strictly within the 

 limits of logical deduction, place ourselves on the boundary 

 of a greater and a still higher truth, and prove from the 

 following premises, viz. : It is not the eye that sees, but the 



