posed of what are called N-rays,* which indicate the temperament of the person.† The day will come when all can see it plainly—a reason why we need another sense-and if so it will be an infallible guide to the character of the thinker. So the vibratory thought waves come back to you to work good or evil (for as ye sow, so must ye reap), not only on you but on the world as well. It is undoubtedly the existence of this surrounding thought atmosphere that accounts for the peculiarities of certain communities and nations, they being in closer rapport with each other by reason of their political relationship.

* A few scientists now admit that the human body throws off colored rays called N-rays. The papers of late are stating that an Italian has discovered the existence of another ray by utilizing which he hopes to perfect a process by which a powder magazine can be exploded one hundred miles off.

"The evidence of the N-ray is accumulating so rapidly and is at present so convincing that its existence can hardly be questioned." Occult Review, Jan., 1905. "Dr. Hooker, after over three hundred experiments, is satisfied that the rays emitted by the human body differ in color according to the character and temperament of the person." The aura is "that psychic emanation which envelopes the physical form giving out the quality of the inner thoughts and feelings. It is sensed by those into whose presence we come and is pleasant or unpleasant to them." Journal of American Medical Association.

CHAPTER X

THE expert now analyzing the perspiration or saliva can tell whether the owner has been entertaining pleasant thoughts or those of anger or jealousy. If the former, the effect upon the body is that of a tonic and consequently good; if the latter two their action on the body is distinctly poisonous.* As everything originated in thought,† therefore thought alone is real and the thought world is the real world; visible things are the reflections of thought and are therefore shadows, and this is the shadow world. We look over a great city and wonder at the work of man, but how futile his efforts for these may burn down any night; yet the architects who con

Pythagoras said: "Hate and fear breed a poison in the blood which if continued affect eyes, ears, nose and the organ of digestion."

Plato claimed that there is an invisible world of ideas from which all things spring, that material things are but copies of ideal forms and God is the supreme idea, the cause of all. Aristotle, the most learned man of antiquity, believed in God as the absolute, unmoved, eternal substance, and that the Universe was thought in the mind of God. History of Philosophy, Weber.

ceived them could reproduce them from their minds -the products of thought-the only place where the forms permanently exist. Thought being the only true reality,* the creative power, one can readily see how important it is to have one's viewpoint right, that it may not be diverted by earthly ambitions-where the spiritual has to be sacrificed

so that the thoughts that follow may be in harmony with the world's welfare. Verily "as a man thinketh so is he."

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As every cell thinks, our intelligence will be the sum of the intelligence of the cells which are included in our make-up. The microscopic cell that is to become man has in it the promise and germ of mind. Thomas A. Edison says: The intelligence of man, is, I take it, the sum of the intelligence of the atoms of which he is composed, for it is my belief that every atom is intelligent. The human body, I think, is maintained in its integrity by the intelligent persistence of its atoms, or rather by an agreement between its atoms so to persist. When the harmonious adjustment is destroyed the man dies and the atoms seek other relations. Every atom has an intelligent power of selection and is always striv

* Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, said that God was omnipotent, omnipresent and revealed himself by thought and that mind and matter were identical. Biographical History of Philosophy, pp. 446, 719, Lewes. All Christ's cures were mental ones, showing the power of suggestive thought.

ing to get into harmonious relations with other atoms."

Can any one deny the thinking powers of our blood, when each drop of blood in the vicinity of a wound has sufficient intelligence either directly or indirectly or under orders to proceed at once to heal it, to cleanse the wound and to dispose of foreign matter, if necessary, in order to accomplish its work.* With this power at our disposal who can realize our future discoveries appertaining to health. Balfour says Lord Kelvin told him " that to the man of science it appears as if we were trembling on the brink of some great discovery, which should give us a new view of the forces of nature, among which and in the midst of which we move."

Ether is a subtle universal substance, filling all space. Nothing so solid but what it permeates it. If the atoms and electrons possess mind, why is

"There is apparently behind the world of phenomena, as we know it, an entirely unknown region, the very first coast lines of which we are only just beginning to perceive." A Zewrmen Nineteenth Century Magazine, Jan., 1904.

† Stockwell says: "Ether is coming to be apprehended as an immaterial superphysical substance, filling all space, carrying in its infinite throbbing bosom the specks of aggregated dynamic force called world. It embodies the ultimate spiritual principle and represents the unity of those forces and energy from which spring, as their source, all phenomena, physical, mental and spiritual as they are known to man." It is a subtle, elastic medium, not a

it not possible that ether itself in which they exist also has and exercises mind power?*

Matter is a manifestation of power, of reason working. Clark Maxwell speaks of matter as a manufactured article, the product of a prior power. It is now held to be the result of electric movement in the ether. "We live in the invisible ocean of a cosmic ether filling all space and pervading all substance." Sir Oliver Lodge suggests that in the substance, scientists think, as gravity has not attraction for it nor does it offer any resistance to a body moving through it. Is it spirit, or a substance so subtle that we cannot cognize it? Out of it comes electricity, which acts on all objects, animate and inanimate, making magnets of them. From these electrical waves come light and heat. It is now thought by many scientists that it retains a picture of all that has ever transpired.

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* Cope says the basis of life and mind lies back of the atom and may be found in the universal ether. Henstreet says: Mind in the matter is no more unnatural than mind in the flesh and blood." Dolbear says: "Possibly the ether may be the medium through which mind and matter react. Out of the ether could emerge under proper circumstances other phenomena, such as life or mind, or whatever may be in the substratum." "It is necessary to represent the atom as a structure containing a large number of electrons in steady, orbital motion round each other, somewhat as the planets move within the solar system." Recent Developments of Physical Science by Whetham, also the New Knowledge, by Duncan. Heraclitus held that the universal ether was the Divine Reason, the Soul. Biographical History of Philosophy, pp. 66, 67, Lewes. † Christian Theism, by L. Walker.

Getting Together, p. 20, Rev. J. M. Whiton.