this environment our organic existence depends as absolutely as on
the material environment, although less obviously. In ways which we
cannot fathom, the ether is at the foundation of our physical
being. Perceiving heat, light, electricity, we do but recognise in
certain conspicuous ways,--as in perceiving the "X rays" we
recognise in a way less conspicuous,--the pervading influence of
ethereal vibrations which in range and variety far transcend our
capacity of response._

_Within, beyond, the world of ether,--as a still profounder, still
more generalized aspect of the Cosmos,--must lie, as I believe, the
world of spiritual life. That the world of spiritual life does not
depend upon the existence of the material world I hold as now
proved by actual evidence. That it is in some way continuous with
the world of ether I can well suppose. But for our minds there must
needs be a "critical point" in any such imagined continuity; so
that the world where life and thought are carried on apart from
matter, must certainly rank again as a new, a =metetherial=
environment. In giving it this name I expressly imply only that
from our human point of view it lies after or beyond the ether, as
metaphysic lies after or beyond physics. I say only that what does
not originate in matter or ether originates =there=; but I well
believe that beyond the ether there must be not one stage only, but
countless stages in the infinity of things._

--HUMAN PERSONALITY.

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The glorious consummation toward which organic evolution is tending
is the production of the highest and most perfect psychical
life.--JOHN FISKE.

The recognition of the untold force of thought is productive of
marvellous results and opens as unlimited possibilities as the discovery
and the increasing application of the power of electricity. The force of
thought--the most intense potency in the universe--has always existed,
as has that of electricity. It only awaited recognition. Telepathy is
just as entirely the manifestation of a law as is gravitation; and
gravitation existed long before it was recognized. The entire question
of the conduct of life is included in the true development and right use
of thought. The entire problem of achievement, of success, lies in it.