th. But if
sufficiently developed to take command, so to speak, while here, of the
will and the consciousness and all the mechanism of the physical body,
it then brings to bear upon practical, daily life all this infinite and
irresistible energy of the higher planes with which it is in receptive
relation. Then, whether in the body or out of the body matters little in
the responsive communion with those who have passed through death.
"Could the spiritual vision of the present man be unfolded but for a
moment, to realize the mighty forces of nature that will one day be at
his command, he would become dizzy at the contemplation of such wondrous
possibilities," says a recent writer. "The electro-magnetic energy that
holds worlds in their orbits, and neutralizes the power of gravitation,
is but one of those powers that awaits the growing genius of man to
utilize. The magnetic force is the attractive or centripetal power; the
electric force is the repellent or centrifugal power. A machine will be
invented, in the near future, that will combine these into a single
electro-magnetic force, and with this force the power of gravitation
will be neutralized. Then the world's traffic will be as readily carried
in the air as now it is upon the ground. The forces of the Universe
await only the dissipation of ignorance, selfishness, and greed to bless
and harmonize the world."

The outlook for the twentieth century in its grandeur; in the unfolding
and expanding powers of man, and the new and deeper insights into the
hidden forces of nature, can hardly be exaggerated. We stand on the
threshold of a new heaven and a new earth. The drama of life is to be
uplifted to a higher plane, to the realm of beauty and blessedness and
radiance and joy.

THE ETHEREAL REALM.

It is henceforth open to science to transcend all we now think we
know of matter and to gain new glimpses of a profounder scheme of
cosmic law.

--SIR WILLIAM CROOKES.

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_We exist also in a world of ether;--that is to say, we are
constructed to respond to a system of laws,--ultimately continuous,
no doubt, with the laws of matter, but affording a new, a
generalized, a profounder conception of the Cosmos. So widely
different, indeed, is this new aspect of things from the old, that
it is common to speak of the ether as a newly-known environment. On