peare, in his far-seeing wisdom, has told us that:—
" To gild refined gold ; to paint the lily ;
To throw a perfume on the violet;
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish ;
Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess ! "
Resuming
our main present contention as to the indisputable influences exercised
subtly on the subjective mind by its material surroundings, a cognate
notion about the mental energies pervading space, and attaching
themselves to objects upon which they are particularly centred, is now
advanced ; and this offers to explain telepathy, ghosts, and other such
occult mysteries. Dr. Bernard Hollander teaches that such
brain-energies, emanating from sensitive subjects, and pervading the
atmosphere about them, underlie such (hitherto) supposed
proster-natural) phenomena. Thus, assuming a person to be the victim of
a murderous attack, his mind-energy during this fatal attack will be
strained to its utmost, and projected with such force as to cling about
the room, or place, in which the dastardly deed was done. If then some
other equally sensitive person, with his mind not pre-occupied intently
by other thoughts, should pass through that room, or place, his, or
her, brain might receive such a stimulus as to produce some more or
less defined image of the murdered man, apparently real, though
ghostly. On the same theory, by holding an object (whether belonging to
the dead, or to the living,) whereon intense thought has been by force
of circumstances bestowed beforehand by its previous owner; or if
occupying a chamber inhabited previously by some predecessor, while
having his mind fixed attentively thereupon, a sensitive person may
have visions of, and be able to describe, the said
