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Rh with all material conceptions. Mind-readers perceive these pictures of thought. They copy or reproduce them, even when they are lost to the memory of the mind in which they are discoverable.

It is needless for the thought or for the 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 are leagues apart and their associations forgotten, their associations 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 of the bodies which 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 by any intense feeling are lasting, and mind-readers can perceive and reproduce these impressions.

Memory may reproduce voices long ago 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