Try suddenly to recall some forgotten name or date, and an almost total eclipse of ordinary mental processes will occur. Then listen intently, as if to distant music from a great altitude. The ensuing sublimation and obliteration of material considerations will house-clean and prepare the mind for the reception of mental messages.

There is a law that like attracts like, so the mental trend of the individual determines the quality of these thought vibrations. Whether artistic, scientific, philosophical, or occult, they could be exalted and illumined by this process, especially when purified by the application of religious and the rejection of any low-grade ideas.

Thinking is automatic process: awake or asleep we think and think. We should always think right thoughts. Wrong thinking ruined Tyre; wrong thinking ruined Rome; wrong thinking has pretty nearly ruined us. Let us cast our notes on the right side, and great wind be the reward. That is a law of compensation.

Thinking should not be a hit-or-miss procedure, but a wisely directed and specifically controlled act of the mind. It is of paramount importance, for every achievement in life first originated as a thought of the mind. If I wish to be an artist, I must think art; if I wish to be a musician, I must think music. By the same token, if I wish to be good, I must think spiritual thoughts. And, just as there are definite principles to be applied in learning various arts, so there are exact spiritual laws to be followed that will teach us to be good.

IT CAME my way to be born a psychic, and I blundered along through several disappointing phases of mediumship, including automatic writing, with no one to help me. Every medium I saw had a different type from my own, so I was obliged to work out a technique for myself. I finally discovered one characteristic invariably present in all of them; therefore their mysterious behaviour must be in accord with some law. No matter what the phase, whether clairvoyance, clairaudience, trance or telepathy, they all ignored the active consciousness and depended entirely throughout the seances upon the reservoir of the subconsciousness.

This was easily accomplished by the trance mediums, who were asleep; but could I lull my very acute consciousness to rest and still be awake? I gave it up for years and went about half-