The Ghost of Guir House

"Yes," said Paul, determined to follow up the original question, "but

what of a scene that occurred in this world some years ago, and whose

light vibrations would require but the fraction of a second to reach

our point of consciousness--no matter where situated on earth--and

which vibrations have long since passed beyond the reach of man, and

been lost in infinite space?"

"Nothing is ever lost, and infinite space is but a phase of infinite

mind. All that is necessary to review such a picture is to change our

point of consciousness from the brain to a point in space or mind,

where the vibratory movement is still in progress. In other words, to

overtake the scene by transposing our consciousness. Granted these

powers, which are born of the soul, and we may behold any event in

history with the clearness of its original force. Man is mind, and

mind is one; but all mind is not self-conscious. The consciousness of

mind is in spots, as it were, and here its consciousness is fixed in

a spot called brain, where with most men it remains until the will,

or some abnormal condition or the event called death, liberates it

from its prison. You believe that with your God, the scenes of

yesterday, to-day, and forever are alike visible?"

"Even admitting all that you say," answered Paul, "I can not see how

it was that I, who have no such power, could see clearly an event in

your life."

"Again the power of sympathetic vibration. The scene was reflected

from my mind to yours."

"But you just now said there was but one mind."

"Perhaps then it would be more correct to say, from my point of

consciousness to yours; or, to be still more accurate, to say that

the intensity of my thoughts struck a sympathetic chord in yours, and

vibrated through you as one consciousness. Without undue familiarity,

Mr. Henley, I have found in you a responsive temperament. There are

few men I can not influence, and with some the effort is trifling."

Paul was interested, and sat quietly reflecting upon what he had

heard. Naturally the ideas were not so clear as they would have been

had he given more thought to the conditions of spirituality, which

for so many years had been a part of Ah Ben's existence, and which

state was as familiar to him as the body in which he appeared. Time

and reflection alone, as this strange man had declared, could bring

one to comprehend and realize a condition of existence so totally

differing from that of our material plane. The inability of language

to express that of which we have no parallel, and of which we can not

conceive, is a grave obstacle to our understanding; but the man was

ever ready to exert himself to make the matter clear when he found

his listener interested.