and hanging it up in a gallery; for we have objectivity here as with
you. Naturally what comes into objective existence has more power than
what remains latent. The latter can only influence exceptionally
sensitive souls, and that to a comparatively small extent, whereas the
former, here as with you, has a much farther range of influence.

So this sort of gunpowder is not given to us until we are old enough to
know better than to burn our fingers with it, in trying to make
fireworks!

At the same time, as all stages of evolution overlap, it is inevitable
that some hint of these possibilities should be already in your world.
Woe be to those who misuse them!

You have taken enough for this morning. H. D.

IV

The friend I have called Mr Harry Denton, during his psychic researches,
came, as many others have done, very strongly under the influence of
"Imperator," the chief of the Stainton Moses controls.

I knew that this was the case, especially during the last three or four
years of my friend's life, and I always rather resented the fact, for
the limitations of Imperator have always appealed to me so strongly, as
to dim, perhaps unduly, his undoubted claims to appreciation.

I have read many of the private Stainton Moses' records (thanks to my
friendship with the executor, with whom these journals were left), and
in all those referring to Imperator's communications, there was to my
mind the same note of cock-sureness and mental tyranny.

There was too much of finality and self-assertion, too much of "_Thus
saith the Lord_," about Imperator's remarks for my rebellious soul. I
could never be strongly impressed by any personality, however admirable,
that so palpably exacted allegiance and unquestioning obedience. These
must be the unconscious tribute to the Genius of Holiness, as to any
other sort of genius; never an enforced levy upon us.

So at least it seems to me. Certainly I would not escape one sort of
priestcraft to set up another in its place, whether the niche be filled
by Mrs Besant or Mrs Eddy or Mr Sinnett, or any other fallible
fellow-creature. Not even Imperator can strike me as infallible; and his
own evident belief in that direction does not affect the question.

It seemed to me rather to be deplored that Mr Denton, with his wide
outlook and cosmic conceptions, should fall so strongly under any
special influence, even that of the admirable Imperator!

So I was curious to know what h