The Washington herald., 1914-05-31

Thank God. he only manifests himseh
IN the chair. As long as / occupy the ,
chair am quit of him. ~
My device for dislodging him from
the chair by striking my head is failing.
! have to hit much more violently and
/ do not succeed perhaps more than once
in dozen trials. My head is quite sore
where / have so repeatedly struck il. I
must use the other hand.
My brother was right. There is an
unseen world. Do ! not see it, AMI
not cursed with the seeing of it all the
time? Call it thought, an idea, any,
thing you will, still it is there. II is un-
escapable. Thoughts are entities. We
create with every act of thinking. / have
created this phantom that sits in nv
chair and uses my ink. Because have
created him is no reason that he is any
the. less real He is an idea; he is an
entity; ergo. ideas are entities, and an
entity is reality.
Query: II a man, with the whole his
torical process behind him, can create
an entity, real thing, then is not the
hypothesis of Creator made substan-
tial? If the stuff of life can create, then
it is fair to assume that there can be a
He who created the stuff of life 1t is
merely difference of degree. I have
not yet made mountain nor a solar
system, but | have made something
that sits in my chair. This being so,
may not some day be able to make
mountain or solar system.
All his days, down to today, man has
lived in a maze He has never seen the
light am convinced that / am Begin
ming to see the light-not as my brother
saw it, by stumbling upon it accidental
ly, but deliberately and nationally. My
brother is dead. He has ceased. There
is no doubt about it, for l have made
another journey down into the cellar to
see. The ground was untouched.
broke it myself to make sure, and saw
what made me sure. Ny brother has
ceased, yet have / recreated him. This
is not my old brother, yet it is some
thing as nearly resembling him As I
could fashion it. / am unlike other
men. / am a god. / have created.
Whenever I leave the room to 60 to
bed look back, and there is my broth
er sitting in the chair. And then I can
not sleep because of thinking of him
sitting through all the long night hours
And in the morning, when open the
study door, there he is, and I know he
has sat there the night long.
/ am becoming desperate from lack Of
sleep. l wish could conhde in phy-
sician.
Blessed sleep! I have won it at last.
Let me tell you. Last night I was 50
worn that 1 found myself DOING in my
chair. rang for the servant and order
ed him to bring blankets. slept. All
night was he banished from my thoughts
as he was banished from my-chair. I
shall remain in it all day. It is a won
derful relief.
1t is uncomfortable to sleep in a chair.
But it is more uncomfortable to lie in
bed, hour after hour, and not sleep, and
to know that he is sitting there in the
cold darkness.
1t is no use. shall never be able to
sleep in bed again. have tried 1t now,
numerous times, and every such night is
horror. If l could but only persuade
him to go to bed! But no. He hits
there and sits there-I know he does
while 1 stare and stare up into the
blaclness and think and think. contin-
ually think, of him to know that he is
sitting there.
The servants think l am crazy. That
is but to be expected, and it is why I
have never called in a physician.
/ am resolved. Henceforth this hal
lucination ceases. From now on | shall
remain in the chair. l shall never leave
it. l shall remain in it night and day
, and always
l have succeeded. For two weeks l
have not seen him. Nor shall I ever
see him again. / have at last attained
the equanimity of mind necessary for
philosophic thought wrote complete
chapter today.
1t is very wearisome, sitting in chair.
The weeks pass, the months come and
90, the seasons change, the servants re-
place each other, while l remain. only
remain. 1t is a strange life lead, but
at least l am at peace.
He comes no more. There is no eter-
nifty of forms. l have proved it. For
nearly two years now | have remained