The Higher Planes Of Nature

In view of the facts and principles above set forth and considered, we

may begin to see that there is nothing "unnatural" in the hypothesis

that there may be reports conveyed to the consciousness of man by means

of higher vibrations than those of ordinary sound, or ordinary sight,

providing that man has either (1) highly developed his ordinary senses

of sight, hearing, or touch to a degree sufficiently high to register

these higher vibrations; or else has evolved and unfolded into

consciousness certain latent faculties of sense-impression which are

lying dormant in the great masses of mankind. In fact, the thoughtful

person will be forced to admit that this new knowledge of the nature of

sensations, and of its relation to vibratory motion, renders extremely

probable the truth of the great body of reports of such so-called

extra-conscious knowledge which the experience of the race has furnished

from the beginning of human history down to the present time. Such a

person will see that it is not a sign of "credulity" for a person to

accept such reports, so universally set forth; but that, rather, it is a

sign of "credulity" for a person to accept blindly the dogmatic

assertions of the materialistic sceptics to the effect that "there is no

such thing possible in the natural world, under natural world, under

natural laws--the whole thing is delusion or else deliberate fraud."

Such "know-it-all" persons are usually found to really "know much that

is not true," and to lack knowledge of much that is true, regarding

Nature, her realm and her laws.