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INTERIOR VISION. 37
waking world, and come up, all brilliant and keen, upon the other side. Such scout the notion that an oval, concave, black-white mirror, ora crystal, or even a splotch of ink in a virgin’s hand, are really such instramentalities; and yet I know that such is, incontroveritbly, the fact; and there are thousands in this country who can testify to the startling truth of what Dee and others claimed in that regard: —
What if upon the mirror’s face serene Your lot in life be written ? What, if its pearly sphoro Disclose to mortal view the far and dark unseen ? This seemeth strange, yet doth to me appear. I, far events can often clear preview, And in my thrice-sealed, dark prospective glass Foresee what future days shall bring to pass.
There, various news I learn, of love and strife, Peace, war, health, sickness, death aud life ;
Of loss and gain; of famine and of store;
Deceits of husbands, wives; of travels on the shore; Of storms at sea; the rise and fall of stocks;
The market’s state; and great commercial shocks; Of business speculations; good fortune in the air; Of when to stop, or go; *gainst danger to prepare; Of turns of fortune; changes in the state;
The fall of favorites; projects of the great.
The mystical hath been to me a more familiar face than that of friends on earth. In its solemn schcol of dim and solitary discipline, learned I the languages of other peopled worlds.
Unquestionably immortality is a truth, sublime as Creation, more solid than the granite hills; andit has been demonstrated in a thousand ways, physically, by viewless spiritual beings. There have been true mediums; there may be still; but it is equally certain that scores of heartless tricksters abound, whose business it is to counterfeit these testimonies from the dead. These wretched people thrive, for they are sustained by an unthinking class of believers in spiritualism, who care all for phenomena, nothing for principia. I call them horse-radish spiritualists; and their name is Legion.
Just so in other departments of occult science. False media and pretended clairvoyants, and what I call ‘‘ horse-radish spiritualists,” abound on all hands, — downright, unreasoning fanatics, else a class of most wretched people who, for the sake of a little pecuniary gain, will not, do not, hesitate in the grossest possible manner to counterfeit true and real, and by their trickery bring odium on true spiritualism and genuine seership. In these days a real medium or clairvoyant is the marked exception
waking world, and come up, all brilliant and keen, upon the other side. Such scout the notion that an oval, concave, black-white mirror, ora crystal, or even a splotch of ink in a virgin’s hand, are really such instramentalities; and yet I know that such is, incontroveritbly, the fact; and there are thousands in this country who can testify to the startling truth of what Dee and others claimed in that regard: —
What if upon the mirror’s face serene Your lot in life be written ? What, if its pearly sphoro Disclose to mortal view the far and dark unseen ? This seemeth strange, yet doth to me appear. I, far events can often clear preview, And in my thrice-sealed, dark prospective glass Foresee what future days shall bring to pass.
There, various news I learn, of love and strife, Peace, war, health, sickness, death aud life ;
Of loss and gain; of famine and of store;
Deceits of husbands, wives; of travels on the shore; Of storms at sea; the rise and fall of stocks;
The market’s state; and great commercial shocks; Of business speculations; good fortune in the air; Of when to stop, or go; *gainst danger to prepare; Of turns of fortune; changes in the state;
The fall of favorites; projects of the great.
The mystical hath been to me a more familiar face than that of friends on earth. In its solemn schcol of dim and solitary discipline, learned I the languages of other peopled worlds.
Unquestionably immortality is a truth, sublime as Creation, more solid than the granite hills; andit has been demonstrated in a thousand ways, physically, by viewless spiritual beings. There have been true mediums; there may be still; but it is equally certain that scores of heartless tricksters abound, whose business it is to counterfeit these testimonies from the dead. These wretched people thrive, for they are sustained by an unthinking class of believers in spiritualism, who care all for phenomena, nothing for principia. I call them horse-radish spiritualists; and their name is Legion.
Just so in other departments of occult science. False media and pretended clairvoyants, and what I call ‘‘ horse-radish spiritualists,” abound on all hands, — downright, unreasoning fanatics, else a class of most wretched people who, for the sake of a little pecuniary gain, will not, do not, hesitate in the grossest possible manner to counterfeit true and real, and by their trickery bring odium on true spiritualism and genuine seership. In these days a real medium or clairvoyant is the marked exception
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