122 STONEY—UNIVERSE OF REAL EXISTENCES. [April 3, 
all the minds that consist of egoistic auta, z.e., minds which are 
supplied with information through organs of sense—an inestimable 
benefit, by creating for our advantage those supposed existences 
which are called natural objects. They arise in the way described 
in the next paragraph: and according as we make progress in 
tracing out the way in which they arise, it will become obvious 
why they do us such inestimable service. 
Perceptions—/.z., sensations which appear to me to be planted 
out in space—are the tekmeria or messages which I receive from 
sense-compelling auta. Auta of this kind form a part of my group 
of thoughts whenever and so long as any sense-compelling auto 
is acting on my mind and my synergos, through my senses. But 
the perceptions which it creates within me at any one time are but 
a small part of all the tekmeria that it can send tome. Which 
of all the possible tekmeria shall exist at any one instant de- 
pends on the particular line of communication which is at that 
time open between the sense-compelling auto and me; and when- 
ever I make those changes which are popularly described as 
‘looking at the object from a different side,’’ ‘‘ touching it in 
a different place,’’ and so on, what I do is simply to change the 
channel of communication without altering the sense-compelling 
auto. But I thereby alter the perceptions, the tekmeria which reach 
me from it. Now the sensible 07ect—which persons untrained in 
the study of their own mind are apt to mistake for the cause of 
their sensations—is simply the result of the mind and its synergos 
effecting a synthesis of all these tekmeria. They cannot actually 
exist, except in succession ; but my mind, aided by its synergos, has 
the power of conceiving them as though they existed— 
1. Simultaneously, 
2. Persistently, and 
3. Without being any part of itself. 
In this power of conception consists tts power of effecting this most 
useful synthests. 
[t is of importance to bear in mind that while I am what is called 
‘‘looking at the object,’’ one of the tekmeria, my visual perception 
at that time is acfwa/—that is, it is in true autic existence; the 
rest of the perceptions which are compacted along with it to make 
up the syntheton are fofentia/—that is, they are not at present in 
existence, but they can be brought into existence. When I ‘turn 
