he psychical
body, _temporarily inhabiting_ a physical body,--a spiritual being using
as its instrument a physical body so long as it is at work in the
physical world, or on the physical plane. One may thus conceive of his
physical body as being really as objective as is the pen of the writer;
the palette and brushes of the painter; the machine, or mechanism, or
instrument used by any one. And the moment one learns to thus hold the
physical instrument objectively, he thus brings it under the control of
thought. He is no longer so a part of it; so entangled and involved in
it that he cannot control it. The moment he holds this clear, vivid
mental realization of it as his instrument, he is in command. This may
be illustrated by an electric car and a motor-man. If the man were bound
up and entangled among the cogs and wheels he could not guide and
control the car; but in his place, free from all its mechanism, his hand
on the motor, the course and the degree of speed obeys his mental
direction applied through his control.

This realization of the true relation of the spiritual man to his body
is the initial condition of health, and this involves as a matter of
course the spiritual relations with the Divine Power, and receptivity to
the infinite energy.

It also involves an intelligent care of the physical mechanism. A
clogged pen would repress the recording of the noblest sonnet or epic; a
defective brush, or pigment, would ruin the picture of the greatest
artist; a broken wire would prevent the transmission of the most
important telegraphic or cable message. And so, however intelligently
and completely one holds the faith of supremacy of the spiritual over
the physical, he must realize the absolute necessity of fidelity to
hygienic laws. Food, in its quantity and quality; bathing, exercise,
fresh air, sleep,--these are the conditions on which the state of the
physical mechanism depends, and which involve that perfection of health
which determines exhilaration, power, achievement, and happiness.

Canon Scott Holland of St. Paul's Cathedral has ably discussed these new
problems of the finer forces in the ethereal realm; and in a discourse
entitled "Other World Activities" he drew the following analogy:--

"The text is from the Book of Daniel, a Book which takes us into a
world of visions and trances and mystical imagery. There is a world
within the world; a life beyond life. That world is not only the