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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued| Concerning "Geists"|10-421}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued| Concerning "Geists"|10-421}} | ||
... | {{Style P-No indent|human society. If you will leave him alone, and not bother him, or trouble him with your troubles, or vex him with your anxieties, or twist him into an awkward form, through the operation of your psychic will upon his shimmering shivering, moonlight structure, he is glad to be with you, to sun himself, through your eyes, with the light of natural day; but if you fret him, he is gone; and he has means of redressing himself against any injury or slight inflicted upon him at the hands of mortals.}} | ||
10. “The geist never infests. Why should he infest? He has nothing to infest with; but he may be infested, that is troubled. The will of the magician or magnetist pierces into his shadow-sphere like a lance; and when that will draws itself back into the world, it draws the geist up after it. There are conditions here, however, that must not now be spoken of. Then the geist is forced trembling into the magician’s presence. There are means by which he can be compelled to unroll the pictureings of events that are inscribed into layers of his frame. This is unlawful, but possible, and frequently practised at the present day. The geist will lie, as any mesmerised subject can be made to lie. Men who practice biology upon the poor, helpless, creatures, know not how terrible a sin they are committing against order, nor what terrible consequences must inevitably follow them in the rebound of that violated order to its place. | |||
11. “The geists eat and drink, but only as geists—not as spirits. ‘We have dined,’ they say, ‘sumptuously.’ A vapour-breath makes them a table, and another covers it with shadowy images of food. They retain, with the shadow of the habits of the master, the shadow of his friendships. Geist Cromwell consorts with Geist Hampden. Old comrades in the battle-field, or the chase; in literature or art; in nature or occult studies, draw together even in their shadows. The geist of the suicide is always impelled to show ‘how he did it.’ Murder will out. If dead men tell no tales, their geist will tell them, if they find opportunity. The poet’s imagination touched the chord of truth, when he said: | |||
{{Style P-Poem|poem= ‘The Earth hath bubbles as the water hath, | |||
And these are of them.’}} | |||
12. “They are sometimes seen travelling in the dim light, in long lines, like flying ocean birds. These are the geists of travellers. They are seen in thousands of attitudes; so the geist grows neither old nor young. For him there is neither good nor evil; reminiscence takes the place of reality. | |||
13. “Nevertheless, organisation is the one potent fact throughout the universe. Wherever there is organised structure in the human form, that will not lose itself in the undistinguishable nothingness; it is structurally great, being big with possibilities. My armour is not I; but if I am naked Achilles, that suit of armour that I once wore, will be my distinguishing mark. Your spear is nothing, standing disused against the wall. But what shall it be when Achilles finds hand to grasp it? The geist, or shadow-man holds latent the infinite possibilities of matter, as the spirit, who once filled the geist, holds latent the infinite possibilities of spirit. The power that disunited them can alone reunite them; but if united, lo! the Resurrection of the Dead.” | |||
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