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 doubt, I repeat, for we see daily in Borderland the proof in many thousands who are simultaneously graduating before our eyes into that higher power and higher life. In these cases the well-known red marks first come out upon the forehead. From that first stage it is only a question of time in successive generations. That time, science, and medicine can more or less expedite or protract; and sometimes it is the fancy to do the last rather than the first, for, as I have said, Upper Solar life is no attractive spectacle to the Lower Solar minds. Of course, once lifted clean out of the lower into that higher realm of thought, the attractions of the latter will be duly realized.

This additional sense gives the faculty of knowing either ourselves or each other so completely, that, if all affecting circumstances can be known or given or calculated, our conduct—that is to say, all our thought and action—could be predicted under any or all of those circumstances for all time coming. The upper life cases are in this respect much simpler and easier dealt with than ours of the lower life, as we are ever apt to be irregular and "tricky," and to conceal or confuse thought and intention by nonconformable outward expression. There is no double dealing of this kind in the grave straightforward Upper Solar life. But our complex case is not beyond the range of the sixth sense; it requires only an additional calculus line. An Upper Solar can usually be resolved upon one line, as both himself and his physical surroundings are so regular and so ascertainable. But the Lower Solars, and ordinary humanity in general, require two and often the es-