linck says
further (in this paper entitled "The Foretelling of the Future"): "But I
do not intend, in the wake of so many others, to lose myself in the most
insoluble of enigmas. Let us say no more about it, except this
alone,--that Time is a mystery which we have arbitrarily divided into a
past and a future, in order to try to understand something of it. In
itself, it is almost certain that it is but an immense, eternal,
motionless Present, in which all that takes place and all that will take
place takes place immutably, in which To-morrow, save in the ephemeral
mind of man, is indistinguishable from Yesterday or To-day." The
question is raised by Mr. Maeterlinck as to whether the clairvoyant who
foretells to one future events gets his knowledge from the subliminal
consciousness of the person himself. He relates a series of experiences
that he had in Paris with all sorts and degrees of the professed seers,
and he says:--

"It is very astonishing that others can thus penetrate into the
last refuge of our being, and there, better than ourselves, read
thoughts and sentiments at times forgotten or rejected, but always
long-lived, or as yet unformulated. It is really disconcerting that
a stranger should see further than ourselves into our own hearts.
That sheds a singular light on the nature of our inner lives. It is
vain for us to keep watch upon ourselves, to shut ourselves up
within ourselves; our consciousness is not water-tight, it escapes,
it does not belong to us, and though it requires special
circumstances for another to install himself there and take
possession of it, nevertheless it is certain that, in normal life,
our spiritual tribunal, our _for interieur_,--as the French have
called it, with that profound intuition which we often discover in
the etymology of words,--is a kind of _forum_, or spiritual market
place, in which the majority of those who have business there come
and go at will, look about them and pick out the truths, in a very
different fashion and much more freely than we would have to this
day believed."

Mr. Maeterlinck reiterates that it is incredible that we should not know
the future. The truth is that it is even more than incredible; it is
unpardonably stupid, and the great desideratum is to so develop and
unfold the spiritual faculties that they will discern the experiences on
the spiritual side,--th