THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE MAN.

Therefore, we do not at all demand blind faith in miracles from those who hear about this for the first time. Instead, we simply invite them to research this system. The higher grades of matter can logically be inferred from those known to us. Each plane forms a world for itself in a certain sense. Yet, it is also only a link in the one great, all-encompassing world. This connection can only be seen by a highly developed soul.

An example that is impossible in itself will perhaps help our understanding of Hellsehen clairvoyance and show us its possibility. Let us assume that our eye were constructed quite differently. Both solid and liquid substances are represented in it. Suppose it were possible for each of these types of matter to receive its impressions separately. Suppose they only received impressions from the matter of the outside world from which they consist. Let us further assume that some people had one type of seeing, while others possessed the second type. How strangely one-sided the worldviews of these people would be! If we imagine them standing on the seashore, those who can only see solid matter would perceive nothing of the sea. Instead, they would see the seabed with all its

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unevenness. They would see fish and other water animals as if they were floating over this valley. The clouds in the sky would then be invisible to them because they consist of water vapor. For them, the sun would seem to shine continuously during the day. They could not account for why the effect of heat was often reduced on a cloudy day. A glass with water would be completely empty to them.

Let us now consider the difference through the eye of the man who can only see liquids. This man sees the sea quite well, but not the shores and the rocky reefs. He can also see the clouds clearly, but almost nothing of the landscape over which they hover. In a glass of water, he perceives only the contents and not the vessel. He would not understand why the water takes on and maintains a shape given to it by the invisible glass. Let us imagine these people standing next to each other. Each of them would describe what he saw with the firm conviction that there was no other way of seeing but his own. Anyone who claims to see something more or something different would be regarded as a fraud or a dreamer.

We naturally smile at the disbelief of these observers we have devised ourselves.