The law of telepathy is as supreme in the spiritual universe as are the
laws of gravitation and attraction in the physical universe. The law
that holds the constellations in their courses is not more in absolute
evidence than that which governs the flashes of perception between two
persons in a finer and more subtle communication than words, spoken or
written, could possibly convey. But while there is no law more
universally and impressively in evidence, there is also no law so
totally unformulated, so entirely, it would seem, outside the domain of
conscious recognition and will. One endeavors to send a telepathic
message to his friend--and no impress is made. Again, when he has made
no effort at all, nor even thought of trying, the telepathic message is
received. The magnetic sensitiveness of the spirit to thought currents
is astounding. It has long seemed to many persons that the very air
conveyed messages--and so it does. One may "call up" another, in either
this world or in the ethereal world, at any time, simply by directing to
him a strong current of thought. The thousand little things generally
ranked as coincidence are really illustrations of this law. One thinks
intently of a friend whom, perhaps, he has not met, or heard from, for
years, and, presto, a letter, or the person himself appears. One can
settle misunderstandings, convey counsel, entreaty, instruction, or
comprehension,--all by the quality of the thought he sends forth. All
this is a part of the phenomena of spiritual life. We must not make the
mistake of imagining we become spiritual beings only by death. We are
spiritual beings now and here, and our real life is, even in the
present, in the spiritual world, and carried on by means of spiritual
forces. Everything which is intellectual and moral is of the spirit.
Such men as Edison and Tesla and Marconi are dealing with the higher
spiritual forces. When Cyrus Field laid the Atlantic cable, it was a
work of the spiritual rather than of the physical world. So are the vast
works of commerce, of transportation, of building, the discovery of new
countries, and the promulgation of the higher civilization in every
form. We must not regard spiritual life as limited to mere religious or
devotional rites and ceremonies. These have their place, and an
important one; but they are included among a thousand other things that
make up the life of the spirit. Man is primarily and permanently a
spiritual being, and only incidentally and temporarily a physical being.
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