THE THREEFOLD MANIFESTATION 46 70
THE SEVENFOLD MANIFESTATION 47 70
INTELLECTUAL ASPIRATION 43 72
HELPFUL THOUGHTS 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 74

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MUSIC OF MENDELSSOHN M 78
MUSIC OF GOUNOD G 80
MUSIC OF WAGNER W 82

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THOUGHT-FORMS


As knowledge increases, the attitude of science towards the things of
the invisible world is undergoing considerable modification. Its
attention is no longer directed solely to the earth with all its variety
of objects, or to the physical worlds around it; but it finds itself
compelled to glance further afield, and to construct hypotheses as to
the nature of the matter and force which lie in the regions beyond the
ken of its instruments. Ether is now comfortably settled in the
scientific kingdom, becoming almost more than a hypothesis. Mesmerism,
under its new name of hypnotism, is no longer an outcast. Reichenbach's
experiments are still looked at askance, but are not wholly condemned.
Röntgen's rays have rearranged some of the older ideas of matter, while