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Rh It should be remembered that on the inner psychic plane the soul activities of everything produce vibrations upon the psychic or ethereal atmosphere, which is so subtile and elastic that these vibrations extend indefinitely. When the mind is emptied and still, or passive, and opens itself to the psychic plane, and the attention is centered upon any given object or person, the soul vibrations of that particular object become focused upon the psychic organism, and awaken in the consciousness of the listener the very truth of that which made the vibrations. If the soul be in a perfectly receptive attitude, it can take on the condition and thus enter into such sympathetic unity with the dominant states of the person or thing upon which the attention is fixed that it will sense and know them as perfectly as if they were its own, so the real character and condition of persons and things become as tangible and real to the soul of the psychometrist as if they were his own.

If, then, any one would enter into the secret life, real character and true condition of persons and things, so as to know the absolute truth concerning them, he must get mentally still, hold his attention steadily upon them, and keep in perfectly receptive and unbiased attitude toward them. When this attitude of mind and will is perfectly held, the vibrations on the psychic ether from the spontaneous activities of the object upon which the attraction is centered, will be gathered up in the personal life, and made to reproduce to and in the personal consciousness, the original condition that produced them, and thus be made to tell their own story without dissimulation or abating one jot or tittle of the truth in the matter. The same holds true of any particular or special thing which it is desirable and legitimate to know concerning them. When the attention is held in this receptive attitude upon some specific matter to learn the exact truth concerning it, that particular truth will be made clear and certain to the listening consciousness.

It will thus be seen that this necessary listening and receptive attitude is possible only when the soul desires the absolute truth independent of all pre-judgment, or any bias of personal consideration. We do not listen to another's conversation while we are talking to him, neither can we receive the true story of another's life or character on the psychic plane with our mind upon him, full of active prejudgment, and the bias of personal considerations.

This attitude of desiring and seeking the truth and nothing but the truth, independent of all personal considerations and bias, involves also the attitude and determination to be absolutely just on the basis of this truth, independent of all personal consideration or bias of any kind