The Archive · 1926

Nicholas of Basle said to Dr

'Tauler, "If the highest teacher of all' truth comes to a man, he must be empty and quit of all else and hear his voice only. He teaches more in one hour than all the Doctors from Adam will ever do" The Buddhist who practises abstraction is also seeking to be "empty and quit of all else." Who can tell what, mysterious thought waves drifted though space to the void mind of Buddha as he sat in trance under the Bo tree or what divine effluence thrilled the pro-[t, phets of Israel as they mused on the glories of the coming Messiah. Or even what thoughts, bigger than our own, might come to us, common people, if our minds were empty enough to receive them. But one thing is sure. The sub-conscious mind of the indolent man will never fag and jerry for him. Memory will bring forgotten incidents to our} remembrance but will not tell us something we never learned and the sub-conscious mind of the average men will only, we fear, reveal average thoughs. was quite as real as the deceased brother or the living friend of the sitter who sought infor-motion regarding his circumstances, From these results Mr.

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