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MODERN SPIRITISM
the tips of the fingers can be lengthened, by will
power, from five inches to over a foot (as I have seen
by actual experiment). From my experience I judge
that the rays of the aura (in common possibly with
those of the astral body) [ghosts] are a little more
rapid than the ultra-violet. It must be remembered
that the rays of the aura are not the only ones that
are not visible to the material sight. Heat rays of less
rapidity than 250 billions per second are all invisible.
The hot iron gives them off all the time, but only
when it becomes red are the rays rapid enough to
be seen as colour. The "X" rays are also quite
invisible ordinarily, though they can destroy the
skin.
What is it.
There is also evidence that in all ages some men
and women have'been able to see many of these in-
for the aura is drawn on the walls
visible rays;
of ruins in India, Egypt, Peru, and Yucatan. In
the South Kensington Museum are figures with the
aura shown, of the year 324 B.C.
For want of a better name, one calls the aura an
emanation of "nerve force," natural electricity,
magnetism, psychic energy and the like. All of
these are terms either inaccurate or hopelessly
without meaning, and expressions rather of our
ignorance than of our knowledge.*
* " Still acuter vision is said to see thought forms" with equal
clearness, and Leadbeater's interesting book depicts these in
colours in great variety. Evidence is slowly accumulating to
definite
show that thoughts as they leave us may be seen as
entities, with shape and colour. As, however, this interesting
study is quite outside our subject, it will not be touched on.