experience, as solid a reality as that of
electro-magnetism," and he adds:--

"The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an
altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and
merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the
supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as an ideal
impulse originates in this region (and most of them do originate in
it, for we find them possessing it in a way for which we cannot
otherwise account); we belong to it in a more intimate sense than
that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the
most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong. Yet the unseen
region in question is not merely ideal, for it produces effects in
the world. When we commune with it, work is absolutely done upon
our finite personality, for we are turned into new men, and
consequences in the way of conduct follow in the natural world upon
our regenerative change. But that which produces effects in
another reality must be termed a reality itself, so I feel as if we
had no philosophic excuse for calling the unseen or mystical world
unreal."

Not unreal. On the contrary, the unseen is the realm of that which is
alone real and abiding. The positiveness of the divine life is a quality
that has too little recognition from the world of philosophy and
speculation. It is an infinite reservoir of infinite energy, from which
may be drawn at any moment, peace, courage, and power. "Man can learn to
transcend the limitations of finite thought at will. The Divine Presence
is known through experience. The turning to a higher plane is a distinct
act of consciousness. It is not a vague twilight, or semi-conscious
experience. It is not an ecstasy. It is not a trance. It is not
super-consciousness in the Vedantic sense. It is not due to
self-hypnotization. It is a perfectly calm, sane, sound, rational,
common-sense shifting of consciousness from the phenomena of sense
perception to the phenomena of seer-ship, from the thought of self to a
distinctively higher realm. For example, if the lower self be nervous,
anxious, tense, one can in a few moments compel it to be calm. This is
not done by a word simply. Nor is it done by hypnotism. It is by the
exercise of power. One feels the spirit of peace as definitely as heat
is perceived on a hot summer day. The power can be as surely used as the