he may recover from some
sickness, then the elemental will be a force ever hovering over him
to promote his recovery, or to ward off any influence that might
tend to hinder it, and in doing this it will display what appears
like a very considerable amount of intelligence and adaptability,
though really it is simply a force acting along the line of the
least resistance--pressing steadily in one direction all the time,
and taking advantage of any channel that it can find, just as the
water in a cistern would in a moment find the one open pipe among a
dozen closed ones, and proceed to empty itself through that."

This train of speculation, which if one is to reject he must first
confront, is demoralizing. It leads nowhere save into mental quagmires
and quicksands. It leads into materiality and not into spirituality. Of
course with all this the one question is as to whether such conceptions
are true; but judged by intuition, which is the Roentgen ray of
spirit--judged by the data reached by scholars and thinkers, by
psychologists and scientists--it has no claim to recognition. That
thought is the most intense form of energy, its potency far exceeding
that of even electricity, is certainly true, and that one can think
himself--or another person--into new and different outward phases and
circumstances is most true.

Tesla, in a paper discussing the problem of how to increase the sum of
human energy, considers the possibility of the existence of organized
beings under conditions impossible for us. "We cannot even positively
assert that some are not present in this, our world, in the very midst
of us," he says, "for their constitution and life manifestation may be
such that we are unable to perceive them."

This speculative possibility opens the gate to the scientific
recognition of the truth that "all the company of heaven" may companion
us, here and now, in the terrestrial life, invisible, intangible,
inaudible to the perceptions of sense. It may largely be through their
ministry and mediation that the unforeseen and unexpected opportunities,
privileges, gifts fall upon man,--gifts that the gods provide.

Dreams, visions, and ideals are given that they may be realized. The
vision is projected from the higher spiritual realm as the working
model, the pattern of the life here. A dream is something to be carried
out; not put aside and neglected and lost in over-lying and
ever-accu