My Library

The fact that we are so readily able to influence the elemental kingdoms at once shows us that we have a responsibility towards them for the manner in which we use that influence. Indeed, when we consider the conditions under which they exist, it is obvious that the effect produced upon them by the thoughts and desires of all intelligent creatures inhabiting the same world with them must have been calculated upon in the scheme of our system as a factor in their evolution.
In spite of the consistent teaching of all the great religions, the mass of mankind is still utterly regardless of its responsibility on the thought-plane ; if a man can flatter himself that his words and deeds have beetfharmless to others, he believes that he has done all that can be required of him, quite oblivious of file fact that he may • for years have been exercising a narrowing and debasing influence on the minds' of those about him, and filling surrounding space with the unlovely creations oh a sordid mind. A still more serious aspect @f this question will come before us when we discuss the artificial elemental ; but in regard to the essence it will be sufficient to state that we undoubtedly have the power to accelerate or delay its