rer recognition of this
"other" self,--which is far more the true self than is the lower and
lesser manifestation,--one comes to absolutely realize that his larger,
higher, more comprehensive life is being lived in this higher realm, or
condition, and that his entire being on the plane of the lower
consciousness is a series of effects of which the causes lie in this
other larger and more real life. That is, the individual has two lives
not precisely corresponding in chronological sequence. The experiences
of the day are his because, _before the day has dawned_, they have been
the experiences of the higher life lived in the larger realm. The
spiritual self has realized that train of experiences in the spiritual
realm; therefore, and as a result inevitable, these experiences
precipitate themselves into the physical life, and are manifested on the
physical plane of being. One does a given thing to-day, or meets a given
event, _because_ his spiritual or subliminal or even real self has
already done that thing or met that event on the higher plane. The real
being is all the time dwelling in the more real world. As all planes of
life are spiritual planes,--even that which we call the physical, being
but the cruder and denser quality of the spiritual,--it makes the theory
clearer to designate the realm just above our present one as the
ethereal. In this ethereal realm dwells the ethereal body. A certain
portion of its consciousness animates the physical structure and works
through the physical brain. It lies with ourselves as to how closely we
may establish the relation between the higher and the lower self. This
relation may constantly be increased in the degree of receptivity of the
lower to the higher self by living the life of the spirit. And what is
the life of the spirit? The life of joy and peace; and the life of
study, thought, and endeavor; the life of both intellectual and
spiritual culture; the life in which the physical body is subordinated
to its true place as a mechanism, an instrument for carrying out the
will of the spiritual self.

Thus, by study, thought, and prayer, may one more and more consciously
and entirely control and determine his active life, and constantly
refine and exalt it in quality. As this is done its potency increases,
for spirit alone is power.

Of telepathy Doctor Lodge says:--

"Telepathy itself, however, is in need of explanation. An idea or
thought in the mind of one person