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66 to receive impressions from and give impressions to another mind. It is the common law of the spiritual world, and only requires a sensitive subject capable of a degree of abstraction from the bodily senses. Spirits are always communicating their thoughts, and reading ours as their own; and given a fit subject with attention fixed upon another with strong desire to read what is in his mind, or with thought determined to another in strong desire to impress it, and he may take or give as really, if not as readily, as if both were in the spirit.

Co-incidences, premonitions and warnings are to be similarly explained. Spirit communicates with spirit, in the common atmosphere of the spiritual world, with a whole company of sympathizing spirits living entirely in that world, to help on the communication. Impressions conveyed in this way may be perceived even as sensations, though no natural sight or sound, or other bodily sensation, is actually produced, but only the appearance of such, presented subjectively and perceived in the mental plane of the senses

It will be seen from the foregoing that the