registering its existence on the sensitive
plate of spiritual impression. Science has long since established the
truth of the different rates of vibration that characterize different
things. The reason that the psychic (or spiritual) body of those who
have passed from the physical to the ethereal world is unseen is simply
that the ethereal body is in a state of vibration too high for the eye
to follow. Stephen Phillips expresses a deep scientific truth when he
says:--

"I tell you we are fooled by the eye, the ear;
These organs muffle as from that real world
That lies about us."

Yet in every human being there lies latent the inner sight and the inner
hearing, which can be increasingly developed by psycho-physical
culture; by such habits of life as make the physical body more flexible,
more subtle, and which thus raise to a far higher rate its degree of
vibration, and enable the organs of sight and hearing to be far less
"muffled" than they are in those who live more in the mere life of the
senses. This unseen world that lies about us may be explored; the unseen
friends who encompass us may be recognized by those who will so live as
to develop the psychic senses, and so as to allow the psychic body to
take greater control of its physical instrument; this unseen world is
simply the natural continuation of the physical universe in the scale of
evolution. Science is every day penetrating its space, and the horizon
line of mystery constantly recedes. What is wireless telegraphy but one
of those marvels which a decade ago we should have considered as quite
beyond the horizon line of our experimental knowledge, and as belonging
to the unrevealed mysteries of the spiritual universe? The ordinary
trolley car of to-day--moving without visible means--would have been
regarded as a miracle a century ago. There is no hard and fast line
between the physical and the ethereal worlds. They melt into one
another and are determined only by degrees. Any element may exist as a
solid, a liquid, a gas, or in the etheric condition, and one state is no
less real than another. The trend of progress is leading humanity
constantly into the realm of finer forces; of more subtle forms of
expression. The trend of progress is constantly discarding the more
ponderous and clumsy for the subtle, the swift, and the more ethereal
form of mechanism. Instead of the stage coach, with two, four, or six
horses, we have the automobile; instead of the sai