artly
perceived, in the passive state of sleep, twenty-four hours before they
occurred? It often seems true that the spirit, in the unconscious
condition of sleep, has a certain clairvoyance, and looks out beholding
and reporting to the consciousness the immediate future; but if the
events it reports were not already formed, how could they be seen? The
question involves many psychic complexities.

There can be little question that the atmosphere is electric, magnetic,
and conducts thought from mind to mind, as the wire does the electric
current. The higher spirituality to which the race has advanced enables
one to perceive and experience this truth more or less, some to a great
degree, some only in a minor; but some sort of perception is universal,
and is seen as phenomena, or as indications of the working of spiritual
laws, according to the individual who recognizes it. One of these
striking phases may be seen in the experience that results from absence
and separation. Let two persons who are mutually sympathetic and
responsive to each other meet, and they at once strike the chord of
ardent social enjoyment in their companionship, and the note of prelude
to an enthusiastic friendship. Let a sudden separation come in the
external world, and the mutual spiritual experience is strangely full
of color, of vital sympathy, of vivid perceptions. Evidently, the
spirits of each meet and mingle, independent of the fact that a thousand
miles of distance lie between the individuals. What is distance to the
spiritual being? It is not an element which bears any significance to
that part of the nature which has transcended time and place. In such an
experience as this, and one that occurred recently between two persons,
one writes to the other:--

"I talk to you incessantly. I find currents from my life continually
running out like telegraph wires to yours."

And a letter written by the other person, crossing this one on the way,
had borne a message something to the effect:--

"I go about companioned by you. Far more actually present you are to me
than those by whom I am surrounded. Everything I read and think keeps
referring itself to you for response."

Between these two persons telepathy was working perfectly. Absence and
separation made no blank, but rather a season filled with the most
intense and direct sense of psychical communion. They were
meeting--spirit to spirit--more closely, more clearly, indeed, than
would have b