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perfect and omniscient, then under favourable circumstances it can exercise its full consciousness, and if the organ through which consciousness is recognized, the brain through which thought works, the moral nature of a person, is perfect, then all these things may be seen. At the same time the person is fully conscious, without being put into a trance state. The power itself is nothing connected with trances ; the real point to be discussed is whether there can be any such power, any understanding of the history of a thing not known to us by experience. The scientists have proved the existence of a subtle ether without which light, heat, electricty, etc., cannot be proved. Its laws cannot be fully understood; even this ether is not defined in a satisfactory way by 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. Therefore 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 distinguish many things 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 of being, and a human being is nothing but the result of his past actions, of his past words, of
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