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has never been controlled, although his astral seems sometimes to have controlled other people.
But, though Mr. Turvey may be only an ordinary man, yet the beginning of seership in him may foreshadow great things for the future development, or disinterring, of similar faculties in mankind in general. What Mr. Turvey calls the beginnings others would consider to be, very nearly, if not quite, the advanced stages of seership. Mental-body travelling and prophecy have been called ‘the hall mark of an adept”; and St. Paul says of spiritual gifts, “the greatest of these is prophecy.” It would be interesting to know what Mr. Turvey would consider to be the acme of seership. He says it is “‘ God- consciousness,” “the Realization of Deity,” or « Attainment of the Self.” In the process of evolution man has lost many faculties which he formerly possessed. The human body is a veritable cemetery of muscles and organs that have perished by disuse. It is at least con- ceivable that, as man loses old faculties, he may evolve new ones. If he has lost the quick scent of the hound, and the balancing faculty of his simian ancestors, he may be capable of developing the faculty of far-seeing, or through- seeing, possibly even that of foreseeing. By
has never been controlled, although his astral seems sometimes to have controlled other people.
But, though Mr. Turvey may be only an ordinary man, yet the beginning of seership in him may foreshadow great things for the future development, or disinterring, of similar faculties in mankind in general. What Mr. Turvey calls the beginnings others would consider to be, very nearly, if not quite, the advanced stages of seership. Mental-body travelling and prophecy have been called ‘the hall mark of an adept”; and St. Paul says of spiritual gifts, “the greatest of these is prophecy.” It would be interesting to know what Mr. Turvey would consider to be the acme of seership. He says it is “‘ God- consciousness,” “the Realization of Deity,” or « Attainment of the Self.” In the process of evolution man has lost many faculties which he formerly possessed. The human body is a veritable cemetery of muscles and organs that have perished by disuse. It is at least con- ceivable that, as man loses old faculties, he may evolve new ones. If he has lost the quick scent of the hound, and the balancing faculty of his simian ancestors, he may be capable of developing the faculty of far-seeing, or through- seeing, possibly even that of foreseeing. By
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