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86 Jesus once asked, “Who touched me?” Supposing this inquiry to be occasioned by physical contact alone,

his disciples answered, “The multitude throng thee.” Jesus knew, as others did not, that it was not matter, but mortal mind, whose touch called for aid. Repeating his inquiry, he was answered by the faith of a sick woman. His quick apprehension of this mental call illustrated his spirituality. The disciples' misconception of it uncovered their materiality. Jesus possessed more spiritual susceptibility than the disciples. Opposites come from contrary directions, and produce unlike results.

Mortals evolve 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 is noises, and apparitions brought out in dark seances either involve feats by tricksters, or they are images and sounds evolved involuntarily by mortal mind. Seeing is no less a quality of physical sense than feeling. Then why is it more difficult to see a thought than to feel one? 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 cognizable by the senses. Mortal mind sees what it believes as so 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