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PSYCHISM AND THE FOURTH DIMENSION 241 floor just as we, by virtue of our three-dimensional power, can transport an object, the point of a pencil, for example, into the center of a two-dimensional room, represented by a square drawn on a sheet of paper, without passing the pencil-point through any of the boundaries of the square, as a two-dimensional being would be compelled to do.
Zollner did not confine himself to theorising. In support of his proposition he quoted the universal tradition of ghosts and phantoms appearing suddenly in the center of a room without entering by door, window, or chimneya habit indicated in their name, apparitions. . Furthermore, in a series of experiments with the celebrated medium Slade, who was sent to Europe by the advice of our esteemed founders, Madame H. P. Blavatsky and Col. Olcott, Zollner repeatedly had objects transported from and to the centre of the room without passing through the walls; amongst other things, a table of considerable size was thus treated. Other phenomena, usually ascribed to the passage of matter through matter, such as knots being tied on endless strings, or on continuous bands cut from a single sheet of parchment, formed by drawing two concentric circles, and then passing the strip of parchment between them; or the interlinking of two wooden rings, each turned in a single piece from a block of wood; or the passage of one such ring through the leg of a table, though both extremities of the leg were larger than the ring; and a series of similar occurrences, Zollner successfully explained on the hypothesis of the
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