since his cowardly action
cuts him off from the happiness and peace which usually follow death.

[Illustration: FIG. 32. THE GAMBLERS]

The upper form represents a state of mind which is perhaps even more
harmful in its effects, for this is the gloating of the successful
gambler over his ill-gotten gain. Here the outline is perfectly
definite, and the man's resolution to persist in his evil course is
unmistakable. The broad band of orange in the centre shows very clearly
that although when the man loses he may curse the inconstancy of fate,
when he wins he attributes his success entirely to his own transcendent
genius. Probably he has invented some system to which he pins his faith,
and of which he is inordinately proud. But it will be noticed that on
each side of the orange comes a hard line of selfishness, and we see how
this in turn melts into avarice and becomes a mere animal greed of
possession, which is also so clearly expressed by the claw-like
extremities of the thought-form.

_At a Street Accident._--Fig. 33 is instructive as showing the various
forms which the same feelings may take in different individuals. These
two evidences of emotion were seen simultaneously among the spectators
of a street accident--a case in which someone was knocked down and
slightly injured by a passing vehicle. The persons who generated these
two thought-forms were both animated by affectionate interest in the
victim and deep compassion for his suffering, and so their thought-forms
exhibited exactly the same colours, although the outlines are absolutely
unlike. The one over whom floats that vague sphere of cloud is thinking
"Poor fellow, how sad!" while he who gives birth to that sharply-defined
disc is already rushing forward to see in what way he can be of
assistance. The one is a dreamer, though of acute sensibilities; the
other is a man of action.

[Illustration: FIG. 33. AT A STREET ACCIDENT]

_At a Funeral._--In Fig. 34 we have an exceedingly striking example of
the advantage of knowledge, of the fundamental change produced in the
man's attitude of mind by a clear understanding of the great laws of
nature under which we live. Utterly different as they are in every
respect of colour and form and meaning, these two thought-forms were
seen simultaneously, and they represent two points of view with regard
to the same occurrence. They were observed at a funeral, and they
exhibit the feelings evoked in the minds of two of the "m