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hearing of sounds, is the least important part of seership. Special powers of comprehension and interpretation are far more valuable, and it must be admitted that the majority of natural clairvoyants, lacking this faculty, are in no way illumined by the things they see. In seeking to understand the rationale of the psychic faculties, we must remember that they are merely extensions of the range of the normal means of cognition. If we place a group of people before a spectrum—-which is the series of seven bands of colour into which white light may be divided by being passed through a prism, an artificial “straight” rainbow, as it were—and ask them to mark with a pencil the points where the red and violet rays end, we shall find that the limits of their vision at either end vary considerably. A clairvoyant is one who possesses a considerably wider range of vibratory response than is normal at the present stage of human evolution. There are organs in the brain by means of which this extended vision is made possible. They are the pituitary body and the pineal gland. The latter is considered by medical science to be the atrophied remains of an organ which was active in the very early days of human evolution. That view is accepted by occult science, which adds that both these organs have also a function to fulfil in the future, when they will be employed as means of super-physical cognition, and that their development may be hastened by the application of special methods. When psychically developed and active they give the power first to respond to additional physical wave-lengths, and later to super-physical vibrations. The analogy of wireless may help to a clearer comprehension or the subject, for clairvoyance is simply a question of tuning-in to wave-lengths to which the sense organs and brain cannot normally respond. The pituitary body and the pineal gland are essential parts of the receiving mechanism, and they must be ‘charged” with a special type of energy35 appropriate to the function which they perform. The seer is then able to “tune in” and see and hear on super-physical wave-lengths, and thus to transcend physical limitations. There are two essentials to success in hastening the unfoldment of the psychic faculties. One is an expansion of consciousness, and the other is a refinement of the vehicles so that they will accurately pick up and transform “signals” from super-physical to physical wave-lengths. The processes by which these two essential conditions are produced are fully explained by the science of Yoga.