The Ghost of Guir House

"That is a mere assumption on the part of materialists," answered

Ah Ben. "Not only two things, but ten million things, can occupy the

same space at the same time; for what is space, and what is time?

They are mental conditions, as are all the phenomena of nature.

Even your scientist will tell you that the infinite ether penetrates

all substances, and that cast-steel or a diamond contains as much

of this mysterious element as any other space of equal size. The

varying vibrations of this ether, or universal akasa, make the world

and all that is in it; and these vibrations are interpenetrable and

non-obstructive. Even on the material plane we see how the vibrations

of light and heat penetrate those of visible and tangible substance,

and how, in your more recent discoveries, light rays penetrate solid

metals formerly called opaque. When I say that these vibrations are

interpenetrable and non-obstructive, the statement must be taken as

approximating the truth, and not as a finality, independent of all

conditions; for by the power of the will, or as a result of mental

habit, a man may either exclude or admit to his consciousness the

thought vibrations of others. But you may set it down as a fundamental

fact that there is nothing or no condition of which the mind can

conceive that may not become an objective reality, which is the

creative faculty in all of us. This city is here to us just as really

and actually as were the trees of Guir forest a short time ago. By

opening our inward sight, and putting ourselves in accord with another

vibratory plane of existence, we are in full rapport with a condition

that makes no impression upon the members of the sleeping world not so

impressed."

"But we left the house at midnight, and here we are in the broad

light of day. Do you mean to tell me that the mind controls the sun

itself? The thing is so astounding that I feel as if I were losing my

reason."

"And did I not tell you that it was unwise to gratify curiosity in

this realm when unprepared by a long course of training? But let me

quote you a few words from one of our greatest philosophers"; and Ah

Ben quoted the following from Franz Hartman's "Magic, White and

Black": "Visible man is not all there is of man, but is surrounded by an

invisible mental atmosphere, comparable to the pulp surrounding the

seed in a fruit; but this light, or atmosphere, or pulp, is the

mind of man, an organized ocean of spiritual substance, wherein all

things exist. If man were conscious of his own greatness, he would

know that within himself exist the sun and the moon and the starry

sky and every object in space, because his true self is God; and

God is without limits."