146 OF VITAL MOTION. 



Viewing memory and personality in relation to each 

 other, the one confirms and explains the other. 

 Both argue in mind an extra- corporeal presence 

 an undefined ubiquity, (if we dare use such a term 

 and comparison,) which may be supposed to be the 

 faint shadow of the omnipresence of the Divine 

 Essence, of which mind is the offspring. In rela- 

 tion to what has preceded, we may also regard 

 imagination to be the shadow of the creative 

 energy, as the absence of decay and the supe- 

 riority over time is of the eternity of its original; 

 and endowed in this manner with the germs 

 of eternity, creative power, and ubiquity, we may 

 suppose each mental act, whether conscious or un- 

 conscious, and whether in the body or out of it, 

 to be a fiat, by which something is created out of 

 nothing, or some new arrangement impressed upon 

 that which already exists. And as the essence is 

 imperishable, so we may suppose that these fiats 

 retain their life and existence; so that memory 

 instead of being a mysterious phenomenon is the 

 necessary attribute of the living essence to which it 

 belongs. Be this as it may, however, both memory 

 and personality afford arguments that the mind is not 

 confined within the limits of the bodily part of man, 

 (which is our present purpose to know,) and these argu- 

 ments harmonize with those that have preceded. Extra- 

 corporeal existence, therefore, is a third property of 

 mind. 



