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16. That, nevertheless, the high thought, -philosophy, inde¬
pendence, conciseness, and deep reflection evinced by many of
the answers and sentiments expressed by the odic fluid, point to
its connection with a general thought-atmosphere, as all-pervad¬
ing as electricity, and which possibly is in itself, or is in intimate
connection with, the principles of causation of the whole uni¬
verse.
Such is the bold theory of this chemical investigator. That
the emanations of the human body u may form themselves, with¬
out our knowing any thing about it, into a distinct personality,
with the faculties of perception, memory, reason, and conscience,
7—a. personality that may rap, write, draw, carry on general con¬
versation, make witty and moral observations, and not only
think, but £ think deeply and profoundly/ and take to itself a
name (as, in the author’s fanciful experience, it took the name
©f ‘ Mary Jane and, in short, in every way conduct itself like
uneducated and well-behaved member of society, — is certainly
astounding instance of the prodigious capabilities of ‘ odic
teapor.’ It is an hypothesis which, if it does not merely amuse,
% likely to startle men of science even more than the spiritual
theory itself ; and their surprise is not likely to be diminished
:$n learning that the odic vapor is convertible into intellect;
feat the odic emanations actually create life and intelligence;
&nd that there is a universal thought-atmosphere, resulting, we
Resume, from the phosphorescent and other chemical emana¬
tions from the collective brain of humanity, from which these
^porous personages get the information and ideas which at the
iune they may not in themselves possess.
“Admitting the extravagant assumption of a being evolved
lorn the chemical emanations of our physical substances; nay,
more, admitting even that these emanations are imbued with our
fecial idiosyncrasies, —with our mental and moral qualities, —
Jtill, as a derivative being, it could have only the knowledge,
ÉÉèas, and qualities of those from whom it proceeded. That
cannot come out of a man which is not in him. 'Hence, as our
Öathor very consistently says in the words we have quoted: