104 MIND-BLENDING, A SIMILE 



quicksilver which shall represent All-Mind (i). 

 From it detach a globule which we will call 

 a group-soul (2). From this globule again 

 separate a small portion and break it up 

 into fifty minute spheroids which shall stand 

 for individual mind-units — of a flock of 

 birds— (3). 



If two of these metallic globules (3), which 

 are of the same constituent substance and have 

 an affinity for one another, be approximated, 

 they are seen to coalesce immediately ; or all 

 of them, collectively, will merge in one globe 

 (2), and that again into the original sphere (i). 

 The fact of dividing the substance in no way 

 alters its nature. 



And so in the case of the birds : When in- 

 carnated the subconscious mind is separated 

 into units. These units, set apart from por- 

 tions of the One Mind, have the strongest 

 affinity for one another, and when in proximity 

 are drawn together, and so become telepathi- 

 cally united ; at the dissolution of the body 

 they merge in the group-soul. 



This, indeed, is the basis of my theory of 

 telepathy as a potential factor in the Animal 

 World, and when all the evidence contained 

 in these pages, bearing on it, has been con- 

 sidered, I think it will be admitted that my 

 proposition is not unreasonable.) 



