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DIVINATION & AUGURY IN A MODERN LIGHT 199 of the microcosm within us, according to his theory, correspond to the movements of the macrocosm around us. Matter and mind are one in connection, differing only in degree or state, as heat may differ from light, or ice from vapour. Every molecule of our body is a miniature solar system, and'if one solar system is vibrating, the other system will pick up the vibrations by sympathy, as do musical instruments: or as two wheels of a watch cogged on to one another synchronize in their movements. If I know the movements of the fly-wheel, I can prophesy the movements of the hands.
In conclusion, we may remark that in dividing modern researchers into the above groups, it must not be forgotten that individuals may belong to more than one of the parties. Thus, a man may be a Spiritualist in his belief of excarnated human intercourse, but still hold wide views about the potentiality of his own incarnated spirit and of his subliminal consciousness, and about the influence of other external intelligence besides the dead of the past. Indeed the way that the discoveries of one grcup are acting and reacting on the others is most noticeable at the present moment, and individuals are rapidly shifting their ground. The differences between the parties hang as we have seen on the following undecided questions :
1. What are the limits of personality ? Where does my personality end and another's begin? Are the re-objective as well as subjective infuences at work on us in the unseen world ?
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