No New Thought reader can be ignorant of the power of autosuggestion, and I would therefore ask each one to think out for himself what the tendency of autosuggestion conducted on such lines as these must be. "I speak as unto wise men, judge what I say (1 Cor. 10:15).

The Bible is by no means silent on this subject, but I may sum up its teaching in a few lines. It assumes, throughout, the possibility of intercourse between men and spirits but, with the exception of the Master's temptation, where I understand a symbolic representation of the general principle of evil --- the Power of the Negative which we have already considered --- it should be remarked that all its record is of appearances of good angels as ministering spirits to heirs of salvation.

Nor were these visitants sought after by those who received them; their appearance was always spontaneous; and the solitary instance which the Bible records of a spirit appearing whom it was sought to raise by incantation is of the appearance of Samuel to Saul, announcing that his rebellion had culminated in this act of witchcraft, and this was followed by the suicide of Saul on the next day.

If, then, our study of the Bible has led us to the conclusion that it is the statement of the Law of the inevitable sequences of cause and effect, this uniform direction of its teachings must indicate the presence of certain sequences in this connection also, which