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much importance, merely because the ideas have made a strong impression on their minds; or perhaps they have seen one or two visions or spectral sparks or flashes. Such are what they claim to be, only in the wish. They need training. For clairvoyance is a thing of actual system, rule, and law, and whoever would have it in its completeness or complexity, must conform to the setence thereof, if they expect good results to ensue.
E. The actual Perception is of various kinds and degrees. It does not require brilliant talents for its development, for many seers are inferior morally, organically, spiritually, and intellectually; yet the higher, more brilliant, and finely constituted a person is, the higher and nobler is the clairvoyance they will develop. Some subjects never get beyond the power to hunt up stolen or lost property; others stop at the half-way house of telling fortunes; a number reach the scientific plane, while but a few attain that magnificent sweep of intellect and vision that leaps the world’s barriers, forces the gates of death, and revels in the sublime mysteries of the universes. The purer the subject, the better the faculty, is the rule. Goodness, not mere knowledge, is power. Remember this!
F. No two persons’ clairvoyance is precisely alike. Each one has a personal idiosyncrasy that invariably determines his or her specialty, and, whatever that specialty may chance to be, should be encouraged, for in that he or she will excel, and in no other. The attempt to force nature will be so much lost time and wasted effort. Isay this after an experience of twenty years. I had a specialty for the occult, and an early friend, whom IJ loved tenderly, became unhappy by reason of an accident that, for ten years, rendered him utterly wretched and miserable. He lost all taste for life because of his injury and its effects, and was often tempted to self-murder, and an estrangement sprung up between himself and wife, one of the most beautiful and accomplished ladies in America. A more deplorable wreck was never seen. The wife became morbid, and they used to visit mediums and clairvoyants in hopes ofacure. At that time, 1853, I had a mesmeric subject, and examined for two French physicians in New York,-—Drs. Touran and Bercevin. Here I first saw and prescribed for the man, who afterward became my personal friend. Himself and lady were kind to me, and kindness won my undying love. I have had so little of
much importance, merely because the ideas have made a strong impression on their minds; or perhaps they have seen one or two visions or spectral sparks or flashes. Such are what they claim to be, only in the wish. They need training. For clairvoyance is a thing of actual system, rule, and law, and whoever would have it in its completeness or complexity, must conform to the setence thereof, if they expect good results to ensue.
E. The actual Perception is of various kinds and degrees. It does not require brilliant talents for its development, for many seers are inferior morally, organically, spiritually, and intellectually; yet the higher, more brilliant, and finely constituted a person is, the higher and nobler is the clairvoyance they will develop. Some subjects never get beyond the power to hunt up stolen or lost property; others stop at the half-way house of telling fortunes; a number reach the scientific plane, while but a few attain that magnificent sweep of intellect and vision that leaps the world’s barriers, forces the gates of death, and revels in the sublime mysteries of the universes. The purer the subject, the better the faculty, is the rule. Goodness, not mere knowledge, is power. Remember this!
F. No two persons’ clairvoyance is precisely alike. Each one has a personal idiosyncrasy that invariably determines his or her specialty, and, whatever that specialty may chance to be, should be encouraged, for in that he or she will excel, and in no other. The attempt to force nature will be so much lost time and wasted effort. Isay this after an experience of twenty years. I had a specialty for the occult, and an early friend, whom IJ loved tenderly, became unhappy by reason of an accident that, for ten years, rendered him utterly wretched and miserable. He lost all taste for life because of his injury and its effects, and was often tempted to self-murder, and an estrangement sprung up between himself and wife, one of the most beautiful and accomplished ladies in America. A more deplorable wreck was never seen. The wife became morbid, and they used to visit mediums and clairvoyants in hopes ofacure. At that time, 1853, I had a mesmeric subject, and examined for two French physicians in New York,-—Drs. Touran and Bercevin. Here I first saw and prescribed for the man, who afterward became my personal friend. Himself and lady were kind to me, and kindness won my undying love. I have had so little of
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