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and no hole will be left in the latter " ^ {Philosoph. Sag., 

 i. 4). 



Thought-Transfer 



" By the magic power of the will a person on this 

 side of the ocean may make a person on the other side 

 hear what is said on this side, and a person in the East 

 thus converse with another person in the West. The 

 physical man may hear and understand the voice of 

 another man at a distance of a hundred steps, and the 

 ethereal body of a man know what another man thinks 

 at a distance of a hundred miles and more. What can 

 be accomplished by ordinary means in a month (such as 

 the sending of messages) can be done by this art in one 

 day. If you have a tube a mile long, and you speak 

 through it at one end, a person at the other end will 

 hear what you say. If the elementary body can do this, 

 how much easier will it be for the ethereal body, which 

 is much more powerful (in relation to other ethereal 

 bodies) than the former ! " ^ (Philosoph. Sag., i. cap. 60). 



Spirits of the Departed 



" If a person dies, it is only his body that dies ; the 

 human soul does not die,^ neither can it be buried, but 

 it remains alive, and knows whatever it knew before it 



* Such manifestations of occult power may be witnessed frequently in 

 spiritualistic seances. The reason why they seem incomprehensible to us 

 is because we habitually look upon form as something real instead of seeing 

 in it an illusion, and because our accepted opinions in regard to the con- 

 stitution of matter are fundamentally wrong. 



"^ The earthly atmosphere may be, so to say, perforated by a tube 

 or wire, carrying an electric current, and the ether (A'kasa) be " per- 

 forated" likewise by a current of spiritual force. An electric current 

 passes unimpeded through the earth ; a thought current passes unimpeded 

 through the A'kasa. 



' The human soul is threefold : the animal, intellectual, and spiritual 

 80ul. The imperfect elements of the soul die ; that which is perfect remains 

 alive. Life is threefold : the organic life, the life of the soul, and that of 

 the spirit 



