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Rh are leagues apart, and their associations forgotten, they float in the general atmosphere of human mind.

The Scotch call such vision Second Sight, when really it is first sight instead of second, for it presents primal

facts to mortal mind. Science enables one to read the human mind, but not as a clairvoyant. It enables one to heal through Mind, but not as a mesmerist.

The mine knows naught of the emeralds within its rocks; the sea is ignorant of the gems within its

caverns, of the corals, of its sharp reefs, of the tall ships that float on its bosom, or whose carcasses lie buried in its sands; yet these are all there. Do not suppose that any mental concept is gone because you do not think of it. The true concept is never lost. The strong impressions produced on mortal mind by friendship, or any intense feeling, are lasting, and mind-readers can perceive and reproduce these impressions.

Memory may reproduce voices long since silent. We have but to close the eyes, and forms rise before us

which are thousands of miles away, or altogether gone from physical sight and sense, — and this not in dreamy sleep. In our day-dreams we recall what the poet felt, —

The mind may even be cognizant of a present flavor and odor, when no viand touches the palate, and no scent salutes the nostrils.

How are veritable ideas to be distinguished from illusions? By learning their origin. Ideas are emanations