The Inner Life

a thousand miles away, she was sitting at her radio, listening to his voice and looking into his face which had never been described to her. She even described his eyeglasses as being round.

One day, when walking on an unpaved sidewalk, she exclaimed that spring had come, for the grass was coming up. Her companion assured her that the grass had not begun to appear, but she insisted, saying that she saw a million little green shoots in the ground. The companion leaned close to the ground, brushing aside some dry grass in order to examine more closely; sure enough—the ground was covered with tiny pin points of grass. They were so small that they could hardly be distinguished even on close inspection.

The writer’s spiritual sight affords her great happiness. She is never lonely, though she is much alone, and for seven years lived with only an ignorant maid, or maids, who did the cooking and cleaning, and who would have been greatly frightened if they had known of their mistress’s ability to know what was going on in her household.

This sight can be practical, everyday use. She can tell exactly when the biscuits are brown in the oven, or when more stove is needed to be added to the beans when cooking on the stove. She does this, however, only when she is cooking for herself, which she does on rare occasions. Whenever an article is lost, she is invariably the one who finds it, no matter where it is, in the house, street or yard. She often knows the presence of flowers in her yard that have not been discovered by others who have sight. The flowers seem to love her. Delicate rose vines creep to her window, and she has only to think of and wish for a certain kind of flower, and it soon after is found growing in her yard, just as if planted there.

How did she develop this spiritual sight? Having been taught from childhood that the body is the temple or dwelling in which the soul or true self lives, and that at death the soul discards the physical body and functions only in its spiritual body, it was easy to understand that it is the soul that really sees. The soul, which inhabits the body, and to a great extent directs the actions of the body, is, in its turn, governed by the Divine Self.

When blindness came, the soul’s attention was turned to spiritual sight, and by much dwelling upon the subject, gradually