Our own beloved Lincoln, standing before a mirror saw a shadowy form back of him. He turned but did not see it then. He was told that this was a warning that he would not live through a second term to which he was to be chosen by the people of his country. The prophesy came true.

Saul visited the Witch of Endor and saw the vision of his death, yet he was not a man wont to look into such things. The fall and rise of empires have been prophesied. The lives of men have been mapped out. How ? What is there that tells us these things ? They have been told; they hare come true. Down in that little subconscious, mayhap, is stored all that there is to know. We are told that the soul does not reason, that it simply knows. We struggle on to find that grand scheme of life. And all because it is written within us! But we cannot find it. We will never find it as mortals. What lies beyond I leave for the theologian to answer.

But 'tis certain that the same great power that carries light and heat is great enough to carry thought, which is greater than them all. The scientist will admit that light is transmitted through some agency across so many millions of miles of space that the mortal mind cannot grasp their immensity. Yet the power that can figure out that fact, the power that can deduce a law and ascertain the speed of that light, will not admit that itself - Mind - the paramount element of life - can catch the waves of thought from another mind! And why ? Simply because they stop right where they really are beginning. It is with mind that we know, that we appreciate, enjoy, love or hate. It is with this power, mind, that we accomplish all our works and measure the wonderful depths of the universe and imagine those that lie beyond. And yet mind turns against itself and says, "Matter is all. Material Sciences are Exact; we know that they will not vary. Matter is paramount!" Awake, sleeper, awake and tell us how you Know these things, tell us how you found them out! Answer if you will, "With our brains" and Nature, Material Nature itself, will mock your reply and scorn your utter ignorance. For he who does not know that mind exists, mind as separate from matter, does not know that there is any mission to life beyond arising in the morning, eating, working and sleeping. He must believe that life is a dull routine and he will make it so.

Therein lies all that is grand and ennobling about the study of mind. We find that it awakes within us, if properly used, a desire to attain something higher, to live out the commonplaces of the present, to forget the failures and temptations of the past and to build for the future something worthy of every extort put forth. If improperly followed we sec the dyspeptic, hollow-eyed fanatic, crawling back in her den with her serpents, pretending to weigh the value of worthy lives in her most unworthy scales, telling the world that she, in her depravity and unwanton degradation, holds in her hand the key to Life! Used for noble purposes it honors its cause; used for evil purposes it drags down the disciple of its teachings and debases reason, it dethrones judgment and lowers, depraves, kills!

Careful investigations have proved that thought, unuttered thought, is transmitted, caught up by another mind, interpreted and chronicled correctly by the receiving mind. In this line of work - as in all phychic lines - there is offered a great field for fraud. There are many public performers who believe that there is nothing produced genuine simply because they started out to produce it through false means. It is safe to say that there is no phase of psychology that can be produced in public by fair means that cannot be produced through trickery and it is this point that disgusts the public. They know that they are humbugged time and time again in their efforts to see if the phenomena are genuine. Finally they naturally decide that it is all fraud and they will listen to no words of teaching.

There is a well known actress who had never given any time to these studies when a girl and yet who was forced to believe in them because she experienced them without any effort of her own. While studying the dramatic art in New York City some years ago, she was brought face to face with the existence of telepathy - the transference of thought. The first time she experienced anything of this kind, she was in her room writing, or studying - I don't remember which. At any rate she was in a passive, yet concentrated, state of mind. This is just the condition necessary to experience phenomena of this kind. While busy with her work, she heard her mother's voice call out her name in a pained, strange manner. Her mother was in California. Three thousand miles separated them but she was not mistaken. So marked was the occurrence that she lost no time in wiring her sister at home, asking what the trouble with her mother was. In a short time she received a telegram stating that all was well and that a letter would follow. When the letter arrived a few days later it told of an accident in which her mother was injured. The accident was in the nature of a fall. At the exact time the actress heard the voice - figuring the difference in time - the accident befell her mother. The mother's thoughts when she fell were of her daughter in New York. This is an actual occurrence, yet not unlike many that happen every day. Let us look into the conditions of the case:

The daughter was passively concentrated. She was deeply attached to her mother. The mother's mind was suddenly concentrated on her daughter in New York, for whom she had great love. On the one hand is powerful concentration of the active nature: on the other we have it of a passive nature. In addition to these two conditions, we must consider the fact that there was harmony existing between these two minds. It was the greatest kind of harmony - the love of a mother for her child and messages so that the investigators will be assured that there was not the element of chance.