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experiences of modern Spiritism), might not a
further Quest be to seek the best means to become
a true discerner of spirits, so as to be able to distinguish,
first,
between my own voice and another's,
and, secondly, between the voices of good and evil
spirits ?'
I said a good deal more on the facts that these
objective voices generally seem to speak from within
less frequently they are from without.*
Our Father in Heaven
If, as Scripture tells us, the bodies of Christians
are indeed temples of the Holy Spirit,
dwelling-place is in the unconscious mind (F. W. H.
it is clear His
Myers' subliminal mind), and this for a most obvious
and necessary reason. If God dwelt inside
us in the conscious mind, we could not fail
ever to
pay adoring worship, and to pray to the God within ;
whereas our prayer is to be addressed to "Our
Father which art in Heaven," and we are practically
unconscious of the amazing fact, dogmatically
stated in the Bible, that all Christians, in virtue of
the New Birth, have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in
them. To me, and perhaps to many others, this
is a wonderful proof, not only of the fact of the
unconscious mind, but of the Divine wisdom in
selecting a part of the mind outside our own consciousness
for His dwelling-place. But these are
all great subjects for study which I earnestly
commend to every earnest student of spirit mysteries,
for, I doubt not, the powers of the uncon-
* See "Another World, or the Fourth Dimension." D. Allen
& Son, 40, Museum Street, W.C.
Second edition.