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ment of unstable cells which is the triumph of the art of the 

 chemist. 



It is therefore not necessary for this experiment that one 

 should gaze at an individual stamp. To think of a stamp will 

 serve as well. Recognizing this fact, Mr. Cameron Lee, another 

 English experimenter, attempted to secure the image of a thought. 

 Placing his own eye in the focus of a lens in absolute darkness, he 

 thought intensely of the face of a certain cat. After a long ex- 

 posure, necessary on account of the comparative grossness of the 

 photographic materials, a picture was formed. The negative shows 

 a rounded outline evidently that of the enlarged pupil of the eye, 

 and in its center was formed a faint image, which could be mis- 

 taken for nothing other than a cat. An account of this experi- 

 ment was given in the daily press, but its true bearing was first 

 seen at Alcalde. 



At the meeting of the Astral Camera Club held in Alcalde on 

 April 1st of this current year, its president, Mr. Asa Marvin, read 

 a paper on these discoveries, calling attention to their astral sig- 

 nificance. The supremacy of mind over matter, already indicated 

 in a hundred ways, was thus splendidly illustrated. As a thou- 

 sand miles of ether may be made to vibrate at the command of 

 the will of the psychical adept, so may the grosser forms of mat- 

 ter be shaken or removed when this subtle and resistless force 

 acts upon it. 



The famous legend of Odin and the Golden Mead, as Mr. Mar- 

 vin went on to show, is not a myth, but was probably an actual 

 occurrence. It may be a reality again when Odin's descendants 

 rival their ancestor in that wisdom for which the famous hero so 

 freely gave his right eye. It is not unlikely that the actual Niffel- 

 heim, or mist-home, where he exchanged his right eye for wisdom, 

 is to be sought in the Himalayas rather than in Scandinavia. 

 Odin, it will be remembered, after he had gained this wisdom, 

 wished a draught of the golden mead which the giant Suttung 

 kept locked up in his strong house of stone near his castle of 

 Spukheim. Odin had arranged with the giant Bauge, whose hay 

 he had harvested, that he should help him to secure this life-giv- 

 ing drink. And thus, the saga tells us, when they had found the 

 stone castle in which the mead was hidden, Odin and Bauge sat 

 down all day before the stone wall and gazed steadily upon it. 

 By this means, so the story goes, they bored a small hole through 

 the stone large enough for Odin in the astral form of an angle- 

 worm to pass through, and by this means the mead was gained 

 and the strength of the giants passed over to mortals. 



The essence of this story lies in its illustration of the power of 

 mind over matter when its forces are concentrated. By psychic 

 intensity the cohesion of molecules of gross matter may be over- 



