Seership! The Magnetic Mirror

CLAIRVOYANCE, OR SOMNAMBULIC VISION; ITS ART AND CULTURE, WITH RULES FOR ITS ATTAINMENT.

I trust I may be pardoned if I make another attempt to rescue the subject of somnambulic vision from the charlatanry of the day. In these days clairvoyance, which is a natural power inherent in the race, is regarded as a sort of forbidden, or rare, wonder, mixed up with mesmerism, fraud, circles, and so on, while it is also the garb under which more barefaced swindling is carried on than any other one^ift of God to civilized man. I hold it to be emphatically true, that

No curtain hides jfrom view the spheres elysian, Save these poor shells of half transparent dust; While all that blinds the spiritual vision Is pride and hate and lust.

And I believe clairvoyance to be the birthright of every human being; that all will one day possess it; that children will be born so; and that even now, coarse as we are, some of us — a great percentage of the people — can develop it to a most surprising extent. In the first place let it be distinctly understood that there are two sources of light — solar, planetary, and astral — adapted to material eyes, and that, independent of that, every globe in space is cushioned upon the ether, and that this ether is one vast billowy sea of magnetic light, and is the media of an inner sense of sight, and the whole mystery Is at once cleared up, and the claptrap of the charlatans at once exploded and exposed. And thus this wonderful jjower is resolved into the mere sensitive ability to come en rapport with this vast ocean of inner light, which may quite easily be done, as will herein be briefly shown. All that is required is simply patience.