[November, 
634 the Interbond of the 
secondly, the effect produced ; and thirdly, the thought 01 
idea, or ultimate. Thought is dependent; mind is inde- 
pendent, not existing with the body as a component part of 
its constitution, but is an ultimate of organisation ; and 
thought is an ultimate of both.” . 
An idea or thought could not be produced without a mind 
previously existing. The mind would not be individualised 
without the previous existence of the physical organisation ; 
the organisation could not be constituted without its pre- 
vious and eternal elementary existence ; and all this could 
not exist without a self-existent, unchangeable, and eternal 
principle. Thus “ the visible and external are effects and 
ultimates of invisible, yet real, producing causes. 
When under impression as to his mind Mr. Davis says 
“ When the mind becomes free from the organisation it 
passes into a new sphere of existence. Impressions of 
Truth, of Virtue, of principles which govern and control and 
actuate tangible and physical substances, all converge to 
one focus: this I call the hountain, the Sun, the Gieat 
Illuminator, the unchangeable eternal Positive Mind. 
This is the great Positive Power ; all subordinate existence 
is negative. Both positive and negative exist as a united 
unchangeable principle of all adtion. then as an illustra- 
tion let the mind conceive a wheel, sphere, or circle, and let 
it be concentrated at the centre of this, and it will be per- 
ceived that there is an expansion of circles from the centre 
to the circumference, or that one wheel cannot exist without 
another, and so with the Great Positive and Negative, which 
compose one whole Sphere of Existence. It these two 
forces produce all existence, do they not from the centie 
expand to the circumference, passing through mute and 
modified forms, until they pervade the Universe and consti- 
tute the power of all things? ” From this hocus I iecei\e 
impressions, and “become associated with the spheres of 
the persons or forms with which it is the previous desire 
to associate. I do not pass the focus of all existence, 
but to the focus of this existence.” “When I pass from 
the body ... it is the transition or metamorphosis of the 
principle of mind to its second sphere of existence.” 
“ The focus of this existence is but an indefinite expan- 
sion of the Great Focus passing from general positive to 
oeneral negative existence.” “ lothis centie, to this locus, 
“ I cro to receive information. As the mind generates 
thought by coming in contact with external exciting causes 
in the natural body, so this Mind (the general mind of the 
second sphere) creates in my mind parallel ideas I term 
