The Inner Life

world, there would be no reason why a thing or condition clearly seen and felt in mind could not be brought into manifestation in the physical as quickly in the outer as in the inner world.

In a certain book*, evidently written by one who speaks with the authority of personal experience, this is illustrated by the following incident:

“Toward the end of two hours (for we could not walk faster than two and a half miles an hour over this rugged ground, with our baggage), we came to the river, which lay some three hundred feet below our eyes. On the other side, quite fifty feet away, could be seen the Knight Commander, in glowing scarlet robes, on horseback, with his one arm, looking toward us.

“He soon gave us instructions how we should cross this gulf, by practicing the levitation and transportation phenomena; in which perfect manipulation we had become adept, before this.

“Within the course of a few hours we had made our bodily state fit to allow of this great miraculous transportation phenomenon being performed by pure mental effort; and then in a moment of time we were both landed safely on the other side; but our boys and luggage still remained on yonder side. We were then requested to command the boys to return to the cave dwelling, five miles distant, and to await our return, some weeks hence.”

*The Invisible Influence, by Alexander Cannon, M.D., M.A., F.R.G.S. See Book Review Section.