Here also, as with them, a great outburst of phenomena in the earlier days; H.P.B.living in a cloud of phenomena and those who came in touch with her bathed in phenomena of all kinds.

You can see the result of that early training in our late President, Colonel Olcott, to whom phenomena in connection with the Theosophical Society were the most natural things in the world.

He had no hesitation in talking of them, was always bubbling over with his experiences of them in the past.

You must remember, when he was over here, how much he thought about them, the pleasure he took in recalling his earlier experiences, and of showing the material articles produced phenomenally in those earlier days; and you cannot take up _Old Diary Leaves_ without finding yourself face to face with every-day happenings of phenomena.

Life then seemed to be made up of the abnormal, in the sense in which that word is used.