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of the imaging faculty. Never idle, always 

 moulding something, through its wise direction 

 we can consciously enter the higher planes. 



One of the earliest signs of progress in over- 

 coming in refining and purifying the vibrations 

 and in the unfoldment of the higher Principles, 

 is the development of the sense of touch to a mar- 

 velously delicate rapport with the mind. It thus 

 imparts to all abstract concepts whatsoever, of 

 things as of persons, so intense reality that you 

 discriminate textures and substances as if in actual 

 contact with them; and can feel the presence of an 

 absent friend the really vital, throbbing life; 

 the cordial handclasp or loving touch upon the 

 hair as vividly as if you stood face to face. 

 The sense of smell also, always mysteriously linked 

 with memory and subtly uniting us with the in- 

 visible, increases in sensitiveness to the stimulant of 

 suggestion, promptly responding by presenting to 

 consciousness the spiritual aroma of any favorite 

 flower. The emotional effect of the sense of smell 

 and the marvelous reactionary power of memory 

 to stimulate it may be accounted for by its 

 anatomical seat in close association with the pineal 

 gland. 



Not surprsing is it, therefore, that the first of 

 the psychic senses to develop is the enjoyment of 

 the spiritual aromas of Nature, sweet flower- 

 odors and aromatic pines and balsams which pen- 



