Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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error, and have not become Spirit, but cannot communi-
error, and have not become Spirit, but cannot communi-
cate, because their beliefs of death have separated them.
Again, supposing one man is dreaming and another
awake, conscious of his friend's illusion, they certainly
do not meet mentally and mingle; even thus the dead
and living are parted, either through a belief that they
died, or the understanding of Life outside of matter.
Memory may repeat the alphabet, and mind here hold
the history of the dead, but if we can read, we never in
reality go back to the alphabet, or find pleasure in it;
thus the advanced mind cannot return to matter.
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Soul's vision is independent of optics; but the belief
Soul's vision is independent of optics; but the belief
that sight depends on the eye, and thought must have
sound to reach our apprehension, shuts out the under-
standing of mind, and reverses the order of science.
Destroy the belief that we owe to organization, our
hearing, seeing, feeling, etc., and we hear without an
auditory nerve or typanum, and see without optics.
We shall all ere long prove this, and that spiritual
senses are true, and the personal, false. An organ is
but the symbol of sight, hearing, etc., the expression
only of these; and to hold it thus, would be to retain
our faculties by right of Soul's ownership and gov-
ernment; and to hear, see, etc., with mind instead
of matter; which is the only scientific statement of
sense and the Principle of immortal man. The real re-
lation between Soul and body reveals the latter without
sensation or Intelligence, and the idea of Soul; to un-
derstand this opens to view the capabilities of being,
untrammeled by personal sense, explains the so-called
miracles, and brings out the infinite possibilities of Soul,
controlling matter, discerning mind, and restoring man's
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inalienable birth-right of dominion. Silence the belief
inalienable birth-right of dominion. Silence the belief
we are in the body, and we discern the past and future
as readily as the events of to-day; but this is the science
of Life, and not mediumship. The order and natural-
ness of phenomena that we deem a mystery and marvel,
are perceived when we remember mind controls mind,
and that matter is only another name for mind; a table
or piano is moved by mind instead of muscle, and we
should prove our power in this and other directions if
we admitted it, but not admitting it, we virtually have
it not, like the horse feebly submitting to the rein,
unconscious of his power; phenomena that proceed
from belief lose their power when we lose the belief
that occasioned them; matter is manifest mind.
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Misinterpretation hinders the harmony of phenome-
Misinterpretation hinders the harmony of phenome-
non, and leaves it to ignorance and abuse. Clairvoy-
ance foresees the future and repeats the past "that is
daguerreotyped on mortal mind only, and based on no
Principle or Truth; it is mortal opinions unworthy
obtaining. A past event is memory, a faculty of mind,
and a future one is perception, another mental faculty;
all events are mind before matter. Mediumship is a
belief of individualized "spirits," also that they do
much for you, the result of which is you are capable of
doing less for yourself. Why some event, conversation,
or even simple circumstance is more readily traced by
the clairvoyant than others, is owing to the fact the men-
tal emotions they produced were more vivid, therefore
they are more distinctly defined in mind. When told by
a clairvoyant something you have long since forgotten,
'tis useless to say they never read it in my mind because
I recollected it not. It is by no means necessary the