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"The ghost of materiality"
I was passing my favorite spot in the park, but this time it was well past dusk. The lamplights were on, and a misty rain was falling. In the artificial light everything had an eerie, mysterious, shadowy look. Grotesque figures loomed in the distance. Even the trees in the rainy darkness looked so different that I hardly recognized my special place.
Next day dawned clear and lovely. There were no ghostly figures and weird shapes, only statues of historical personages and some trees. The light of day had banished the ghosts of darkness, and the park was as it had always been—open, picturesque, and beautiful.
Imagination relates ghosts to illusion, phantom shadows, mystery, demons. We are all familiar with such optical illusions as sea and sky meeting, and railroad tracks coming together in the distance. But these only seem true to the unenlightened. Illusion, then, is that which seems to be true but isn't
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January 15, 1979 issue
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Rights—human and divine
ERWIN D. and PATIENCE M. CANHAM
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Wake up to reality!
DONNA NALLEY RYBURN
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The sting of fear—unreal
BENJAMIN N. COVINGTON
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Redwoods and cheetahs
NANCY H. REINERT
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Dealing with guilt
ARDEN EVANS COOK
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Aspiration
Irene J. Sneddon
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"The ghost of materiality"
DOROTHEA T. LEAMY
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What to do with the resistant trouble
Geoffrey J. Barratt
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Who told you?
Naomi Price
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The big green jalopy
Amantha Thayer Holcomb
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There was a time when I greatly feared for my life because of...
Leslie E. Vasquez
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How obscure the following passage was to me, before I knew...
Ramón C. Benítez
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I have had Christian Science in my life since I was a small...
Althea A. Whiteside
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When I was in my early teens, my father received an instantaneous...
Betty Ellen McClelland with contributions from Russell B. McClelland