a sudden summons to an unexpected
matter,--all these and a thousand other nebulous possibilities that may,
at any instant, fairly revolutionize his life, are in the air, and may
at any moment precipitate themselves.

Is not the next step in scientific progress to be into the invisible and
the unknown?

Doctor Loeb conceived the idea that the forces which rule in the realm
of living things are not different from the forces that we know in the
inanimate world. He has made some very striking and arresting
experiments with protoplasm and chemical stimuli and opened a new field
of problems in biology. If the physical universe can be so increasingly
explored, shall not the spiritual universe be also penetrated by the
spiritual powers of man?

There is no reason why clairvoyance should not be developed into a
science as rational as any form of optical research or experiment. Not
an exact science, like mathematics, for the future is a combination of
the results of the past with the will and power and purposes of the
individual in the present, and of those events that have been in train
and are already on their way. It is a sort of spiritual chemistry. But
it seems reasonably clear that all the experiences on this plane have
already transpired in the life of the spirit on the other plane of that
twofold life that we live, and they occur here because they have already
occurred there. They are precipitated into the denser world after having
taken place in the ethereal world. And so, if the vision can be
cultivated that penetrates into this ethereal world, the future can
thereby be read. It is the law and the prophets.

Now as the present largely determines the future, the things that shall
be are partly of our own creation.

"We shape ourselves the joy or fear
Of which our coming life is made,
And fill our future's atmosphere
With sunshine or with shade."

There are no conditions of being that are not plastic to the potency of
thought. As one learns to control his thought he controls the issues of
life. He becomes increasingly clear in intuition, in perceptions, and in
spiritual vision.

As the planets and the stars and the solar systems are evolved out of
nebulae through attraction and motion and perpetual combination, so the
present and the future is evolved for each individual out of his past,
and he is perpetually creating it. Nothing is absolute, but
relative,--"no truth so sublime but that it may becom