And so your explanation is, that my thought of Irene has turned her thought to me, and thus we became really present ?" "Yes." "And that I saw her just now by an inner, and not by an outer, sight ?" "Yes." "But why was the appearance an outward manifestation, so to speak ?" "Sight is in the mind, even natural sight.

The eye does not go out to a tree, but the image of the tree comes to the eye, and thence is presented, in a wonderful and mysterious way, to the mind, which takes note of its form.

The appearance is, that the soul looks out at the tree; but the fact is, the image of the tree comes to the brain, and is there seen.

Now the brain may be impressed, and respond by natural vision, from an internal as well as from an external communication.

We see this in cases of visual aberrations, the instances of which given in books, and clearly authenticated, are innumerable.