It is that all such apparitional appearances, coincident with a death or not, are equally due to a telepathic force exerted by an agency independent of the percipient.
In Finistere, as purely Breton as the Morbihan, I found the Legend of the Dead just as widespread, and the belief in spirits and the apparitional return of the dead quite as profound; but nothing worth recording concerning fairies.
And bent on banishing was mind, be sure, All except beauty from its mustered tribe Of objects apparitional which lure Painter to show and poet to describe-- That imagery of the antique song Truer than truth's self.
It suggests also that the condensation is by no means of water-vapor only, but of other substances drawn from the interior vitality of the persons concerned, and necessary for the building up of the apparitional form.
Z] Mr. Lafcadio Hearn says: "The Buddhist denial of the reality of the apparitional world is not a denial of the reality of phenomena as phenomena, nor a denial of the forces producing phenomena objectively and subjectively.
This is the second person of the Buddhist triad, the apparitional body of Gotama.
So with the apparitional world: the delusion passes, and unity remains.
Some were seated upon lotos-flowers, the lotos-flowers of the Apparitional Birth.
Real and ideal alike are transitory,--mere apparitional undulations in the flux of the perpetual Becoming.
Also an apparitional boy has recently shown himself to a teacher and her pupils in Newburyport, to the no small disturbance of that place.
Several of the accusing girls alleged that Burroughs was one, and a leading and authoritative one, in the band of apparitional beings from whom their torments came.
There is an apparitional quality in my presences, at this point or that, in the dim past; but I hope that, for the credit of their order, ghosts are not commonly taken with such trivial things as I was.
The long darks, the growings of nebulous lights, and the fluttering apparitional selves that dawned through the growing light!
Form is apparitionaland passes, as passed the physical forms of the Lady Om and Chong Mong-ju.
It continued to exist, and, in its next incarnation, became the residing spirit of that apparitional body known as Darrell Standing's which soon is to be taken out and hanged and sent into the nothingness whither all apparitions go.
The conscious life of all men is apparitional and illusive.
Thus the way was opened for other apparitional Buddhas, and different sects take different ones as the objects of faith and worship.