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When reading with deep interest a book called "The Perfect Way," so great was the impression made upon me that I felt my spirit rising to a mighty endeavor. I was lifted out of my surroundings and into an entirely new thought atmosphere. The things of earth looked coarse and clumsy, and I seemed to see world within world of ever-increasing fineness and beauty. As I read on and on I lost all consciousness of self except in one particular, and that was a boring, grinding pain in the palm of each hand and through the arch of the instep in each foot. This was so marked and so continuous during the reading of the book, which I finished at one sitting, that I mentioned it to my sister. We both thought it strange but could not account for it. Some time afterward in reading a book by Dr. Franz Hartmann, I found the statement that in extremely sensitive persons it often happens that with the birth of the spiritual life there are attendant signs. It is on record that nuns when in deep realization of the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross have had a facsimile of the crown of thorns appear in blood red marks upon the forehead and have felt the anguish of the nails piercing the hands and feet. If I am not mistaken Dr. Hartmann spoke of these signs as indicating the birth of the Christ Child in Consciousness.

Psychologists would easily account for this