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252 He possessed more spiritual susceptibility than the disciples. Opposites come from contrary directions, and produce unlike results.

Mind evolves images of thought. These may appear to the ignorant to be apparitions; but they are mysterious

only because it is unusual to see thoughts, though we can always feel their influence. Haunted houses, ghostly voices, unusual noises, and apparitions brought out in dark seances, either involve feats by tricksters, or they are images and sounds evolved involuntarily by mortal mind here. Seeing is no less a quality of physical sense than feeling is. Then why is it more difficult to see a thought than to feel it? Education alone determines the difference. In reality there is none.

Portraits, landscape-paintings, fac-similes of penmanship, peculiarities of expression, recollected sentences, can

all be taken from pictorial thought and memory, as readily as from objects cognizant to the senses. Mortal mind sees what it believes, as certainly as it believes what it sees. It feels, hears, and sees its own thoughts. Pictures are mentally formed before the artist can convey them to canvas. So is it with all material conceptions. Mind-readers perceive these pictures of thought. They copy or reproduce them, even when lost to the memory of the mind in which they are discoverable.

It is needless for the thought or person holding the transferred picture to be individually and consciously

present. Though individuals have passed away, their mental environment remains, to be discerned, described, and transmitted. Though bodies