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of man, by suggestion also; for what can be suggested there, can
be suggested away.

"It would, after all, almost appear, as if we were living in a
material world, in which all the invisible powers are let loose, and
in full force; just as the wireless transmission is in complete
activity. Yet, without a wireless control-set, these waves of ether
cannot be converted into sound waves of music and the like; and
at will, we can also, as easily, cut off the wireless pick-up and so
cease to hear the wireless, although the vibrations are still there.
Perhaps, after all, it is our mental deficiency that is at fault and not
those of the so-called insane, who often are in full possession of
many of their faculties; they have in many cases insight, and
because they produce phenomena which to us are grotesque, we,
in our feebleness, cry aloud. Tut this man away, for he is
mad\

"Some years ago, when I bought one of the first wireless sets,
and allowed a certified person of unsound mind to 'listen in', I
was intrigued with his remark: 'But do you mean to tell me,
Sir, that you cannot hear music in the air without a toy instrument
like that? I have heard this music at will for the past fifteen
years'. May I suggest that this remark of one alleged to be
insane should be seriously considered and not ignored as the
rambling of one who has lost his reason. How many have
said unkindly that Sir Oliver Lodge is doting in his old age
because he studies spiritualistic phenomena: although I am
not a spiritualist I must strongly defend this great man of.
science who is many years ahead of his time; he will be shown
in days that are to come to have fathomed and mastered
truths which will never die and be only really appreciated then.
Around us and about us are the Everlasting Arms, spirits good and
evil; and telepathy is merely our present-day way of trying, in our
ignorance, to explain the phenomena of wonders yet untold. I
do not have visions; but because I cannot see visions, cannot hear
imaginary voices', and because I cannot feel unseen influences as
such, it would be utter pigheadedness on my part to take the
attitude that because I was not capable of understanding such
marvellous phenomena, such therefore could not exist. Let us
ever remember that there are more things in Heaven, in Hell,
and on Earth than ever we have dreamt of: a study of the uncon-
scious mind from what I regard as the 'Kingdom of Heaven" point
of view, should clearly show the most primitive thinker, how
Heaven, or Hell, can become a great reality and an everlasting
state of mind, in the life after death.