mysteries. It is also our Conscience, born of the perception of
Ideals.

The Ideal or Spirit thus evolved should be morally pure, else the
experimenter will find, as did the magicians of old, that all who
dealt with any but good spirits, fell into the hands of devils, just
as ALLAN KARDEC says is the case with Spiritualists. But to speak as
clearly as I can, he who succeeds in winning or creating a higher Self
within himself, and fascinating it by sympathy, will find that he has,
within moral limits, a strange power of fascinating those who are in
sympathy with him.

Whereupon many will say "of course." Like and like together strike.
Birds of a feather flock together. _Similis similibus_. But it often
happens in this life, though they meet they do _not_ pair off. Very
often indeed they meet, but to part. There must be, even where the
affinity exists, consideration and forethought to test the affinity.
It requires long practice even for keen eyes to recognize the amethyst
or topaz, or many other gems, in their natural state as sea-worn
pebbles. Now, it is not a matter of fancy, of romance, or imagination,
that there are men and women who really have, deeply hidden in
their souls, or more objectively manifested, peculiar or beautiful
characteristics, or a spirit. I would not speak here merely of
_naïveté_ or tenderness--a natural affinity for poetry, art, or
beauty, but the peculiar tone and manner of it, which is sympathetic
to ours. For two people may love music, yet be widely removed from all
agreement if one be a Wagnerian, and the other of an older school.
Suffice it to say that such similarities of mind or mood, of intellect
or emotion do exist, and when they are real, and not imaginary, or
merely the result of passional attraction, they suggest and may well