[Real Ghost Stories by William T. Stead]@TWC D-Link bookReal Ghost Stories CHAPTER I 8/18
It is through them that Divine revelation is vouchsafed to man.
The visions of the mystic, the prophecies of the seer, the inspiration of the sibyl, all come through this Unconscious Soul.
It is through this dumb and suppressed Ego that we communicate by telepathy,--that thought is transferred without using the five senses.
This under-soul is in touch with the over-soul, which, in Emerson's noble phrase, "abolishes time and space." "This influence of the senses has," he says, "in most men, overpowered their mind to that degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is in the world the sign of insanity.
Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul." It is this Unconscious Personality which sees the _Strathmore_ foundering in mid-ocean, which hears a whisper spoken hundreds of miles off upon the battlefield, and which witnesses, as if it happened before the eyes, a tragedy occurring at the Antipodes. In proportion as the active, domineering Conscious Personality extinguishes his submissive unconscious partner, materialism flourishes, and man becomes blind to the Divinity that underlies all things.
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