Clairvoyance And Telepathy

A very interesting discussion in regard to telepathy took place at thfl last meeting of the society of Psychical Sciences, in Paris. Mgr. Merie was the principal cpeaker, the subject chosen by him being clairvoyance. He said in pait: "Presentiments are phenomena of sensibility. They affect the nerves and the imagination; they are irregular and troublesome; they are a forebodiug which arouses attention and excites to thought. "Clairvoyance is an art of visión. It belongs to a higher faculty; it implies more clearness and precisión in the knowledge of distant events and of the deductions which may be conjectured from present events. "Telepathy embraces at one and the same time the phenomena of presentiments and clairvoyance; it gives us a view of phenomena distant in space and time." Mgr. Merie then quoted in support of his views a little known and very curious paragraph from one of St. Thomas' works on the subject. According to St. Thomas the soul 13 placed between time and eternity, between the pure spirits and the human being. Furthermore, under the influence of certain physical causes, the soul has the faculty of departing from the body and from tuis temporal life and on such occasions it wings its way td the land of pure spirits and eternity Finally, St. Thomas claims that by this movement the soul enters into intellectual relations with the superior spirits and thus acquires a certain knowledge of the future.