Soul is heard when sense is silent. All of us are absolutely capable of more than we do. The emotions of Soul confer a freedom which explains the phenomena of improvisation, and the fervor of untutored lips.
Mortal mind convulses matter. This movement is the volition of belief, but it is neither Science nor Understanding. Science removes mystery and interprets extraordinary phenomena. It should not seem mysterious that mind, without hands, can move a table, when we already know that it is mind-power that moves both table and hand. Mortal mind produces table-tipping, through the belief that this wonder emanates from spirits and electricity; or through the common belief that matter acts upon matter, both openly and covertly.
Portraits, landscape-paintings, fac-similes of penmanship, peculiarities of expression, recollected sentences, can all be taken from pictorial thought and memory, as readily as from objects cognizant to the senses. Mortal mind sees what it believes, even as it can feel and hear its own thoughts.
Memory may reproduce voices long since silent. We answer to the call of our names, when no one has uttered a sound. We have but to close the eyes, and forms rise before us that are thousands of miles away, or altogether gone from personal sight and sense, — and this not in dreamy sleep. Wide awake, we recall
| the touch of the vanished hand, |
| And the sound of the voice that is still. |
The mind may even be cognizant of a present flavor and odor, when no viand touches the palate, and no scent salutes the nostrils.
