"There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial, but the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another." - I Corinthians xv, 40.

Thus St. Paul defines the body and the soul or spirit. With the physical body science has held its sway and has worked its wonders. It has learned to substitute new limbs for old, has traced the convolutions of the human brain, and has analyzed the constituents of the blood. But here science must pause bewildered, for although the recent psychological theory of the subjective mind has explained something of the unforgiving, unforgetting self that lies beneath the normal trained consciousness, and while thoughtful persons are growing timid of their own unknown potentialities - for daemons and angels emerge indiscriminately from this primitive self - the term subconsciousness does not cover the entire psychic region. The "celestial body" mentioned by St. Paul covers far more than the conscious and the subconsciousness taken together, while participating of something of both. The subconsciousness accounts for otherwise forgotten memories, for the revival of experiences physical, psychic or mental, but for unprecedented knowledge, for the instincts above humanity itself, the subconscious can give no explanation. Over and above the analyzed and classified faculties a higher sense awaits an opportunity to manifest.

The wisdom of untutored mystics, the knowledge of ignorant peasants, the childhood dreams that so often "come true" and even the unerring instinct of dumb animals, defy alike the classifications of physical science and the definitions of accepted psychology. This mysterious, undefined faculty, partaking as it does of super-terrestrial knowledge,has been classified by Bishop Brent and by the occultists as the "Sixth Sense." Though essentially different from the five senses it partakes of them all. It is the foundation of the human conscience, the basis of instinct, clairaudience, clairvoyance and other supernormal qualities; it is the mysticism of the mystic, the essential of the higher dreaming.

Scientifically the sixth sense does not exist, but human experience from which all scientific knowledge must necessarily be derived, there being no other source of information, established the sixth sense as a fact. Its most usual exemplification is in the faculty known as instinct, although under certain circumstances instinct is attributable to the subconsciousness. The homing instinct in birds and animals, the parental instinct common alike to birds, beasts and to mankind, and finally the universal instinct of self-preservation; all transcend in certain phases the bounds of the subconscious and merge into the sixth sense.

The nesting bird that flies to a distant tree and with cries and fluttering wings attempts to distract attention from her brood, cannot in the case of her first brood have learned the ruse from past experience, but a sixth sense, motivated by maternal affection, supplants experience and reason. In humanity this same instinctive protection for the loved ones frequently results in clairvoyance, or second sight.

During the Franco-Prussian War, the mother of a young French officer was suddenly overwhelmed by an impression that her son was in mortal peril. After vain endeavors to reason away her fear, she finally knelt in prayer, and calling her son's name aloud petitioned for his safety.

Later she learned that no battle had occurred on that night, and somewhat ashamed of what seemed a foolish fear, she thrust the impression aside. The war ended and her son returned and she had almost forgotten the incident until one day he told her of lying asleep upon a certain night without either tent or cover, when suddenly he had seemed to hear her calling his name. Starting up he looked around, but everything was as usual, and once more he slept. Twice again he heard his mother's voice and at the third call some mysterious instinct prompted him to move from where he lay. As he left the spot from which he had been thus strangely disturbed, a shell whizzed past, fell and burst in the grass that had made his bed.

The horrifying Titanic disaster furnishes an instance of the sixth or higher sense in the case of Mrs. Archibald Gracie, widow of the gallant gentleman and soldier, whose life afterwards paid the forfeit of his unselfish and superhuman efforts for others on that terrific occasion. Secure in the thought that her husband, though at sea, was returning home on the most splendid and safest vessel afloat, Mrs. Gracie retired on the night of the catastrophe without any uneasiness for her soldier whose brilliant life had already braved greater dangers than fall to the average mortal. Suddenly, over her sleep crept a chill horror; an undefinable fear waked her, a conviction of something amiss with Captain Gracie. Sleep thereafter being impossible she passed the remainder of the night in prayer for her husband's safety. In his description of the wreck, Captain Gracie refers tenderly and beautifully to his faith in the efficacy of his wife's prayers.

Both these incidents demonstrate the influence of the sixth sense upon the dream consciousness; the student will recognize the dream as the awakening factor preceding the articulate thought. The story of the young soldier especially precludes the possibility of thought transference or mental telepathy.

There is, however, a bare margin between instances arising from the sixth sense and those attributable to mental telepathy, or the communion of two minds separated by physical space.

Where a harmonious understanding exists between two or more persons, and when the facts in question are known to at least one of them beforehand, then the sixth sense may be challenged in favor of mental telepathy, a scientifically recognized factor. But where the communication is unknown save to the recipient at the time of its reception, there can be no possibility of telepathy, or the domination of one mind over another. The sixth sense offers the simplest explanation of these conditions. The sixth sense provides the warp and woof of dreams and accounts for the vision that frequently accompanies sleep when the physical eyes are closed upon the world. Perhaps its most important and least recognized function, however, is its dominion over the conscience. The subconsciousness may play pranks with morality - in fact, modern psychologists represent it as astoundingly and humili-atingly wicked - but the character of the sixth sense is impeccable, a sort of instinct for right that for the time being dominates and transcends the ego. It can not be traced to the outer nature and is above and beyond the training and inhibitions of ethics, of human intelligence and of psychology. It holds the soldier to his post in time of danger and leads the martyr to the stake with a smile for his enemies and a vision of glory to come. It points to the sacrifice of love, honor and recognition for the sake of a just but lost or hopeless cause; it stirs pity in savage or untutored souls who have never heard the precepts of the Nazarene. It is part alike of the natural and the supernatural, including them both.