The More Thou Dost Advance, The More

It Is On The Acceptance Or Rejection Of The Theory Of The Unity Of All In Nature, In Its Ultimate Essence, That Mainly Rests The Belief Or Unbelief In The Existence Around Us Of Other Conscious Beings Besides The Spirits Of The Dead.

Whatever Plane Our Consciousness May Be Acting In, Both We And The Things Belonging To That Plane Are, For The Time Being, Our Only Realities. As We Rise In The Scale Of Development We Perceive That During The Stages Through Which We Have Passed We Mistook Shadows For Realities, And The Upward Progress Of The Ego Is A Series Of Progressive Awakenings, Each Advance Bringing With It The Idea That Now, At Last, We Have Reached "reality"; But Only When We Shall Have Reached The Absolute Consciousness, And Blended Our Own With It, Shall We Be Free From The Delusions Produced By Maya [illusion].

Everything Lives And Perishes Through Magnetism; One Thing Affects Another One, Even At Great Distances, And Its "congenitals" May Be Influenced To Health And Disease By The Power Of This Sympathy, At Any Time, And Notwithstanding The Intervening Space.

The Idea Of Passing One's Whole Life In Moral Idleness, And Having One's Hardest Work And Duty Done By Another-whether God Or Man-is Most Revolting To Us, As It Is Most Degrading To Human Dignity.

I Speak "with Absolute Certainty" Only So Far As My Own Personal Belief Is Concerned. Those Who Have Not The Same Warrant For Their Belief As I Have, Would Be Very Credulous And Foolish To Accept It On Blind Faith. Nor Does The Writer Believe Any More Than Her Correspondent And His Friends In Any "authority" Let Alone "divine Revelation"!