TELEPATHY A POTENTIAL FACULTY 69 

 As I said at the commencement of this 

 treatise, telepathy is only just traceable in 

 man ; the power has dechned proportionately 

 as his self-conscious mind assumed control. 

 It is therefore no longer essential. But in the 

 Animal World telepathy is a potential faculty 

 which inter-connects subconscious mind ; the 

 creatures are thus en rapport ; silent inter- 

 course is established which, in my belief, 

 accounts for the combined movements and 

 achievements where two or more work to- 

 gether in perfect sympathy without language 

 or direction. If this is so, it is possible to 

 understand how a pair of birds, between them, 

 construct a nest. 



Telepathy is the capacity for responding to 

 spiritual vibration under sympathetic action. 

 Sympathy is the one great power throughout 

 nature. 



Sympathy is Love — ^love which engenders 

 all things. . . . 



The swan (Cygnus olor) is the heaviest 

 British bird that flies. The wings of a swan 

 are extremely powerful, and when cleaving 

 the air n^ake a whistling sound which can be 

 heard for a long distance. 



The weight of a full-grown swan is about 

 30 lb., and the stretch of wings over 6 ft. The 



