and can instantly be where he wants to be. In the meantime, like the girl of the first letter, he may in leaving his physical consciousness have thus vividly to pass through the darkness of the border-land, where he may see some of the “horrible” creatures of that realm; but which cannot harm or touch him, unless he gives them attention and greatly fears them.

In such cases all that is necessary is to declare positively, “I believe in and am protected by Jesus Christ,” and firmly believe it, paying them no further attention and going your way. Interest and fear alone attract them to you. Without your interest and fear they cannot get near you, because of the very law you have declared—the law that lifts you at once into a higher plane of being.

Our friend then thought she saw Jesus waiting for her and speaking to her. But she evidently had entered a consciousness where she felt a great Love, and as the mind always immediately and automatically forms a picture of what it feels and hears, it interpreted this Love vibration to be Jesus, and thus pictured it, and thought she heard the words she naturally expected to hear.

In the same way the mind, when drawn back again to the physical and seeing its body lying there, pictured it as a black casket and herself lying in it, after this “wonderful” experience of freedom in the realms of spirit. All of this made such a vivid impression upon her consciousness that being of the psychic or emotional type her deep interest and giving much thought to it so vitalized it that it all seemed a real experience to her. It always does seem to one of that type, as is confirmed by the one of the second letter, who is a man and who describes the experience in even greater detail, which will undoubtedly be recognized by many who have similarly left the body.

On the other hand, one of purely mental type would not be conscious of any such experience, but would merely withdraw, through the action of the will, into an inner and “higher” consciousness; would not be conscious of the body at all, but would go in imagination to another soul or place, and in imagination would see and feel himself there looking at that fancied person or place. But all the time he would know that he was doing this only in thought, and that he could stop or change it by stopping or changing his thought.