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muscles or movements may be influenced, and the explanation and reasonableness of the practice is easily seen. Here may be also an explanation of the practice called Horary Astrology, of deciding on a course of action by casting a figure of the heavens for the precise movement when the thought first presented itself, or the event that started the proposal occurred. If we have an established code, understood by certain denizens of the spirit-world, that a certain position of a planet means encouragement and another means warning, we can easily be advised by unseen friends who have only to wait for a certain moment of time and then to prompt the thought in our brain to cast a figure. They could also, of course, just as easily prompt a feeling directly of success or danger within our brain, and they do so, perhaps, only we are apt to think such promptings to be the prompting of ourselves. It is difficult to sayaccording to the spiritualist's theory-what are our own thoughts and what are impressions from others, each man's brain being apparently a musical instrument, on which sometimes the owner plays, and sometimes his co-spirits, if I may use the term.
F. W. THURSTON, M.A.
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