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science. Its real properties are not given or explained by them, and they have not been able to tell us how it acts in relation to these phenomena. We think that this ether is like a picture gallery, on which are pictures of every thought, word and act, so that it requires only a more sensitive and higher power than most people possess to perceive these things. There fore a person who is more sensitive than ordinary people, who can hear many things below or above the ordinary plane of hearing and sight will distingush many thimgs in the person or object which is subjected to them which cannot be perceived by us. Everything therefore is the result of all the past states of the thing or being, and a human being is nothing but the result of his past actions, of his past words, of his past thoughts. In the Hindu mythology this ether is described in Sanskrit as the recorder of the actions and doings of the universe. It is of a varied nature. It is mentioned in the Hindu mythological works in such a way that those who do not understand the context may understand them literally, and therefore think that there is a person somewhere in the Universe baving eyes and hands, who records all that is done, but the idea in both the Christian and Hindu systems is the same. Both of them, when the true meaning is forgotten, lead to dogmatic assertion, but the truth is the same in both of them. This ether contains the picture, the prototype, of everything, the representation of everything as it were,
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