about the same position as the poor girl, born blind, who said that she thought that the color of scarlet must be something like the sound of a trumpet.  Poor thing, she could form no conception of color, never having seen a ray of light—­she could think and speak only in the terms of touch, sound, taste and smell.  Had she also been deaf, she would have been robbed of a still greater share of her world.  Think over these things a little.

Suppose, on the contrary, that we had a new sense which would enable us to sense the waves of electricity.  In that case we would be able to “feel” what was going on at another place—­perhaps on the other side of the world, or maybe, on one of the other planets.  Or, suppose that we had an X Ray sense—­we could then see through a stone wall, inside the rooms of a house.  If our vision were improved by the addition of a telescopic adjustment, we could see what is going on in Mars, and could send and receive communications with those living there.  Or, if with a microscopic adjustment, we could see all the secrets of a drop of water—­maybe it is well that we cannot do this.  On the other hand, if we had a well-developed telepathic sense, we would be aware of the thought-waves of others to such an extent that there would be no secrets left hidden to anyone—­wouldn’t that alter life and human intercourse a great deal?  These things would really be no more wonderful than is the evolution of the senses we have.  We can do some of these things by apparatus designed by the brain of man—­and man really is but an imitator and adaptor of Nature.  Perhaps, on some other world or planet there may be beings having seven, nine or fifteen senses, instead of the poor little five known to us.  Who knows!

But it is not necessary to exercise the imagination in the direction of picturing beings on other planets endowed with more senses than have the people of earth.  While, as the occult teachings positively state, there are beings on other planets whose senses are as much higher than the earth-man’s as the latter’s are higher than those of the oyster, still we do not have to go so far to find instances of the possession of much higher and more active faculties than those employed by the ordinary man.  We have but to consider the higher psychical faculties of man, right here and now, in order to see what new worlds are open to him.  When you reach a scientific understanding of these things, you will see that there really is nothing at all supernatural about much of the great body of wonderful experiences of men in all times which the “horse sense” man sneeringly dismisses as “queer” and “contrary to sense.”  You will see that these experiences are quite as natural as are those in which the ordinary five senses are employed—­though they are super-physical.  There is the greatest difference between supernatural and super-physical, you must realize.