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Seen and the Unseen . 
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the senses, c.g., vision. All give their united testimonies 
that they see the sun rising in the east and setting in the 
west. The unreality of this position is shown in that the 
Sun, as regards the Earth, does not move. It is the visible 
and external you are deceived by, and not the invisible, 
which is the reality.” Thought is invisible ; the only mode 
by which the world becomes convinced of its reality is its 
manifestation in the body. You see light as from fire ; if 
you had not a previous conviction that it would burn, you 
could only know that it would do so by contact. “ This 
presents evidence . . . that the internal is the cause and 
reality, the external the effeCt.” 
“ It is now clearly seen and proved that the things which 
constitute causes are invisible, and that their effects are mani- 
fested in all forms external. Hence the latter cannot be 
realities, for such a supposition would involve a self- 
inconsistency.” 
Animal Magnetism. 
‘' This science is founded on two fluids, magnetism and elec - 
tricity then follows a description of the senses, vision, 
hearing, smelling, feeling. “ Each of these senses may and 
does perform its office indirectly on the mind without any 
direct interference or connection with anything external.” 
During sleep the system is recruiting itself, but the organs 
of sense are closed to external impressions ; the mind then 
makes imaginative excursions to different places and con- 
templates different things in existence ; it supposes it sees, 
hears, walks, tastes, and sometimes suffers excruciating 
pains ; it also appears in many places where it had no pre- 
vious desire or intention to be. This cannot be Spirit, but 
is Mind connected with the body, and its impressions are 
received through the disturbed condition of the nerves of 
sensation. “ This proves that there is an internal medium 
of sensation by which the mind enjoys its capacity as if the 
external was in connection with the world.” 
“ Having established the existence of an independent 
conscious medium, I now explain its existence, its founda- 
tion being the muscular and sympathetic nerves.” Man has 
two coatings, the serous and mucous surfaces. “ The serous 
covers each organ, nerve, and fascia of the muscles, in- 
cluding the whole of their surfaces ; the mucous surfaces 
constituting the inner of every organ, nerve, and muscle. 
The serous surfaces and mucous generate and sustain a 
positive and negative fluid ; this controls the circulation. 
