[Real Ghost Stories by William T. Stead]@TWC D-Link bookReal Ghost Stories CHAPTER IV 5/5
But the priest is still watched by the high priest from the tabernacle itself, and only on great and solemn occasions does he make himself manifest by action.
When he does, the other three yield to his authority, and then we say the man 'speaks with his whole soul' and 'from the bottom of his heart.' But even now the Shekinah is upon the mercy-seat within the Holy of holies, and the high priest knows it." The latest word[4] of the French psychologists is thus stated by M. Foueillee:-- "Contemporary psychology deprives us of the illusion of a definitely limited, impenetrable, and absolutely autonomous I.The conception of individual consciousness must be of an idea rather than of a substance. Though separate _in_ the universe, we are not separate _from_ the universe.
Continuity and reciprocity of action exist everywhere. This is the great law and the great mystery.
There is no such thing as an isolated and veritably monad being, any more than there is such a thing as an indivisible point, except in the abstractions of geometry." [4] 1891. Whatever may be the true theory, it is evident that there is enough mystery about personality to make us very diffident about dogmatising, especially as to what is possible and what is not. Whether we have one mind or two, let us, at least, keep it (or them) open..
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