Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ALL GROWTH IS A RKVOLT AGAINST THE CLAIMS OF THE SO-CALLED LAW OF GRAVITATION. No man has tested the powers of his own mind; no man knows its mysterious complications, or dreams of the strange seed lying dormant within it, and capable of springing up into the blossoming and fruitage of such wonders as it would be madness even to name in these pages. But in these years of study that I speak of, enough has been revealed to me of the giant power sleeping in the brain of the race to keep me from wandering off to other worlds for a solution of its exceptional actions. Many things concerning it that will seem fabulous to others, I know to be true; and indeed so great have become my conceptions of its possibilities that at this time I have pulled up all the stakes that have ever, to me, environed it, and haveestablished it in my belief as respondent in all particulars to that omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent Principle of Life that men call God. I think it will readidly be seen how—there being no nothing, and thoughts being things— that a thought may appear in objectivity from the thinker, and thereby become apparent to the thinker and to others who may be present. The same thing may be said of the voices we hear. But these explanations go for nothing so long as it remains that some seemingly invisible power can overcome the law of gravitation in the human form, and lift it from the earth with evident ease. This matter remained a mystery to me for years, until I learned that man had the power to become master of the law of gravitation, after which he could float in the air at his ease. "But," some one remonstrates, ' you had no knowledge of this power, and yet you floated; therefore it must be that some power outside of yourself lifted you." F...