sight has been opened through the power of hypnotism, and you must
not judge things as in your normal state.

When you reached our little station of Guir, you were expecting to
find me there, and expectation is the proper frame of mind in which
to produce a strong impression; and therefore, although you did not
know what I was like, Ah Ben and I together easily made you see me
as I was, together with the cart and horse; and although you
actually got into the stage which was waiting, you thought you were
in the cart with me. The incident of the broken spring was merely
suggested as a fitting means to bring you back physically from the
coach to the cart, where for the first time, in the moonlight, you
saw me in semi-material form, visible as a shadow to some men, but
wholly so to you. Had I appeared thus at the station, I should have
alarmed all who saw me, and so I came to you only. The two worlds
are so closely intermingled that men often live in one while their
bodies are in another, and to those who are susceptible, the
immaterial can be made more real than the other. I know these
things, because, while at home in neither, I have been in both.

And now, dear comrade, think sometimes of her who loves you, and to
whom you have been the only joy; and she will be with you always,
although you may not know it, except in your dreams.

One more word. Think happily of the dead, for they are happy, and
in a way you can not understand. If you love them truly, rejoice
that they have gone, for what you call their death is but their
birth, with powers transcending those of their former state, as
light transcends the darkness. Disturb them not with idle
yearnings, lest your thought unsettle the serenity of their lives.