The San Francisco call., 1896-10-11

, disclosed. Little as is yet known of
them it is already clear that these powers
are not fugitive, but act according to law.
That thought is readily transferred from
| mind to mind without extraneous aid few
W ill longer deny. Cases of thought trans
! ference are too frequent to be dismissed as
| ina ginary, or to admit the supposition
| that they are 'mere condolences" The
only adequate explanation is that thought
does travel through the invisible ether
which surrounds us. If we consider that
thought is mental act, and like all other
acts involves the use of a certain degree
of force, or energy, it will be easy to un-
derstand that it sets up definite vibra-
tion in etheric substance. This vibration
reaches another brain which receives it as
an impression of the thought sent forth.
1t is, in fact, kind of mental telegraphy.
In the days when it was supposed that a
telegraphlc message could only travel
over continuous wire, it was the fashion
to scout such an explanation as savoring
too much of the supernatural" Now
that messages are actually sent from wire
to wire across intervening spaces this OBJ
lection has been swept away, for although
wires cannot yet be dispensed with, it is
enough for the justification of our theory
to show that vibration is communicated to
the ether.
Here, then. we have natural explana.
rion of those mysterious condolences in
thought which have been used as illustra-
tions. Your friend, by thinking iDtently
of you in connection with mis- experience.
brought it and himself before your mental
sight. 1t was not supernatural. 1t was
not even strange when you know why il
occurred, but was quite as much matter
of course as is the delivery of telegram
That was once impossible, too, but as the
world rolls on it brings now and then new
things and new forces into activity. The
present is pre-eminently period of such
unfoldment. as is shown by it's remark
able discoveries and its even more remark
able inventions. Is it not, then, more in
keeping with the spirit of our age to seek
an explanation of mysteries than to brush
them aside as mere results of chance,
Similarly we may believe that convic.
ton which arose wholly from within, and
which was subsequently verified, must
have been the result of thought transfer
ence. 1t was received in sleep because in
that state the brain is far more rece ptive
to impressions than when busted with
though our minds catch frequent impress
sions during the day. those which coma
to US in sleep are usually more vivid and
| lasting.
Accepting this view of thought trans
mission we are able to understand how a
criminal idea may be spread. Not only
does the criminal set up his own vibration
in etheric space, but every mind which
| n lio n q errc.
gestion of the deed. Many minds make
the thought intense. Can we, then, who
| have learned something of the power of
suggestion, marvel that ready actors take
up the thought, repeating that evil deed?
| Investigators are only on the threshold
of unseen realms in this age, and hardly
peer across the borders. What they have
learned, however, has already discredited
| the idea that nature is limited to the
sphere OF our sense perceptions. What
lies beyond Belongs to nature, too, and is
evidently subject to natural law. Roent-
gems discovery of the K ray discloses,
moreover, the fact that our conceptions Of
even visible nature were not correct, and
| tnat the invisible bears much closer rela-
tion to it than was supposed. We may
| therefore assume that IN future scientific
study will include investigation into these
| realms OF mystery in which we are en-
folded. Then perhaps we may discover
the causes of other condolences. and learn
why the cycles recur. We may find that
law governs earthquakes as fully as
eclipses, and that not even a disaster
comes by chance, but, like comet in the
orderly consultations of the heavens,
bears its relation to orderly events.
MERcIE M. THIRDS.