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or noumenal side. They have discovered also that the inner, or noumenal side, is a sort of cause-world to the outer, phenomenal side, or effect world.

It seems a well-established fact, and the mental therapeutist, taking it as a working hypothesis, has used it to good effect. When it fails will be time enough to discard it for another, if another and a better there be.

But, taking it as the best we have at present, let us infer that external seeing is the result or effect of internal seeing. This inner Something sees directly anything which is incorporeal, like itself, but when it would extend its sight into the corporeal world of effects it must construct for itself a bridge of sensation by which it can touch external forms of life. The seeing is not in the bridge itself, but in the seeing faculty which uses it. This seeing faculty is consciousness itself, the eye that never sleeps, or the eye of the Spirit.

You, being Spirit, have the all-seeing eye at the centre of consciousness. There is an outer form of consciousness which does not see at all times. It is a spurious form. It is not the real thing, and it is in a measure blind; that is, its sight is darkened. The outer consciousness is very closely allied to the physical sight, and acts directly upon it. This outer consciousness, taking