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‘I pondered a moment on what I ought to do, and when I again turned toward Sir Carne, he had
disappeared. I went to look him up, thinking he was in the vestibule; but he was not there, and no one had seen
him. It was undoubtedly the etheric double of Sir Carne, which had been projected by his great desire to be
there and cast his vote for the Government.’ Sir Arthur Hayter adds his testimony to that of Sir Gilbert Parker.
He says he not only saw Sir Carne Rasch, but drew the attention of Sir Campbell-Bannerman to his presence in
the Chamber.
The exteriorization of the double can be produced by magnetic force.
These experiences have occurred, and before the proofs doubt is impossible. Consult history, and we
will find the past full of facts of this nature. The phenomena of appearance of the living in religious annals are
frequent. The past is no less rich in testimony of the spirits of the dead, and this abundance of affirmations and
their persistence across the centuries, indicates that in the midst of superstitions and errors there must be a
portion of reality. In effect, the manifestation and the communication at a distance between incarnated spirits,
leads to the possible communication of the incarnate and the discarnate. To quote Myers again, ‘We can affect
each other at a distance,’ and if our spirits incarnated in our bodies act thus, independently of the physical
organism, we have there a presumption in favor of the existence of other spirits, independent of the body, and
able to affect us in the same manner. ‘The inhabitants of space’ have furnished many proofs of this law of
universal communion in the restrained and difficult measure that they are able to establish. The Society for
Psychical Research experimented with two mediums, one in England and one in America. Professor Hyslop of
Columbia College took all necessary precautions to prevent fraud. Four Latin words, unknown to either
medium, were transmitted from spirit to spirit, across seas. This experiment was related in full in the Daily
Tribune of Chicago, 31st October 1904, and in the Proceedings of the Psychical Research Society.
When we study under their divers aspects the phenomena of telepathy, we are led to recognize in it a
process of communication of incalculable import. At first we saw therein a simple, almost mechanical
transmission of thoughts and images between two brains; but the phenomena began to assume the most varied
and impressive forms. After thoughts came the projections at a distance of phantoms of the living - those of the
dying, and often, without any interruption in the continuity of the chain of facts, the apparitions of the dead.
In the greater number of these cases, the clairvoyant who saw and described these apparitions ha no
acquaintance with the personages appearing. We have on record a series of continual manifestations of this
nature, which demonstrate the indestructibility of the soul.
Telepathy knows no bound; it mounts over all obstacles, and binds the living on earth to the living in
space - the world visible to the worlds invisible - man to God. It unites them closely, intimately. The means of
transmission that it reveals to us constitute the foundation of social relations between spirits and their usual
mode of exchanging ideas and sensations. The phenomenon called telepathy on earth is nothing but the
process of communication between all spirits in the life superior, and prayer is one of its most powerful forms,
one of its highest and purest applications. Telepathy is the manifestation of a law universal and eternal.
All beings, all bodies, exchange vibrations; the stars influence one another across shining immensities.
In the same manner, souls, which are systems of thought and centers of force, impress one another, and can
communicate at any distance. Sir William Crooks, in an address to the British Association on vibration,
declared it was the natural law that regulated all psychic communications. Telepathy seems even to extend to
animals; there are facts existing that indicate such communication between men and animals. The attraction
spreads from star to star and from soul to soul. All are drawn toward one common center, eternal and divine. A
double rapport is established. These aspirations mount toward Him in the forms of appeals and prayers, and
descend in the forms of grace and inspiration. The great poets, writers, artists - the wise and the good, have
known these impulsions, these sudden inspirations, theses rays of genius which illuminate the brain like
flashes from a superior world, and reflect its grandeur and inebriating beauty. Visions of the soul in an ecstatic
flight, they open the inaccessible world with its radiations and its glories.
All this demonstrates to us that the soul is capable of being impressed by other means than through its
physical organs; of gathering information beyond the reach of earthly things, and proceeding from a spiritual
cause. Thanks to these rays of light, the soul perceives in the universal vibration the past and the future; it
beholds the genesis of forms - forms of art and thought, of beauty and holiness, from which flow for even new
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