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 At other times, having placed proper sentinels to guard the body and telegraph to itself on the least appearance of danger, the royal soul, feeling its high-born nature demanding a supply not to be found within itself always, leaves for a while the scene of its sojourn, and leaps upward to the starry vault, to hold converse with the stars and their holy tenants: Then we have visions!

Again, it takes journeys over the earth's surface, visits old, familiar, or new and unknown places, persons and things: Then we are clairvoyant.

These are moods and phases of the soul's existence and activities, but they are not the highest; for, at Still other times, it arrays itself in its most regal garb, and, marshaled by an army itself has called into being, solemnly marches forth to attend !—and here a holy awe steals over me, as this trait and power of the soul is revealed. At such times we prophecy and become familiar with events, persons, principles, and things yet unborn in time and space;—we have receded behind the wall of consciousness, and bathed for a time in the sea of mystery, every billow and wavelet of which constitutes a destiny. For that all things that are yet to be, at this moment exist as monads and uncarnated thoughts in the Mind of Minds, there cannot be a shadow of doubt; nether can there