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INTERIOR VISION. 45
impel them, though none know if their mission be of God or of evil, as at the commencement of Christianity, Simon, the magician, seemed to many, a being divine and powerful as Christ. I tell you all prodigies are of God, for Satan can achieve none without permission being granted him, and that among those called invisibles, some act by direct light from the Holy Spirit, while to others the light comes through a cloud, and they do good, fatally thinking that they do evil.”
‘A few rare persons have the power of commanding their ideas ina state of contemplative idleness, which is granted less frequently to the happy in this world than to those who earn their living by toil, persecution, and danger. All must recognize this mystery as providential, without which the serenity of many unfortunate creatures would appear impossible to those who have not known misfortune.”
. . . ‘*She then went to a rich toilette — a table of white marble sustaining a mirror, in a golden frame, of excellent taste. Her attention was attracted by an inscription on the upper ornament of the mirror. It was: ‘Tf your soul be as pure as yon crystal, you will see yourself in it always — young and beautiful. But if vice has withered your heart, be fearful of reading in me the stern reflection of moral deformity.”
. . “Ifthe thought of evil be in your heart, you are unworthy of contemplating the divine spectacle of nature; if your heart be the home of virtue, look up and bless God, who opens to you the door of a terrestrial paradise.”
The loftiest spiritualism the world ever saw — that of ancient Jewry — recognized the truth of such mirrors, for they— the “ Urim and Thummin”-polished breast-plates —were used for purposes of a celestial divination, and are still so used to-day. Even many of the modern spiritualists recognize the same truths, for their papers frequently contain articles on crystal-seeing, and the magical uses of various jewels and precious stones; while one of their noblest “ Psalms of life” contains this beautiful verse : —
“ But most the watching angels guide the thought,
If in the mortal’s heart be wrong or error,
Soon by the pure and viewless influence taught, He sees his wrongas in a Magic Mirror ! —
He sees the end where leads the tortuous path, — Its darkness and its dangers; and, awaking,
He finds within his soul a holier faith, And turns, with willing heart, his sin forsaking.”
The chief Rosicrucian of all England says, in his recent work on « Fire,” «¢When the mind is surrendered up, as a clear glass (or in, and to it), — shows of the magical world roll in.’ Again: “The gauge is according to the amount of absorption out of this world —flights which the intelligence takes into the worlds not aboutus. . . We are as the telescope
impel them, though none know if their mission be of God or of evil, as at the commencement of Christianity, Simon, the magician, seemed to many, a being divine and powerful as Christ. I tell you all prodigies are of God, for Satan can achieve none without permission being granted him, and that among those called invisibles, some act by direct light from the Holy Spirit, while to others the light comes through a cloud, and they do good, fatally thinking that they do evil.”
‘A few rare persons have the power of commanding their ideas ina state of contemplative idleness, which is granted less frequently to the happy in this world than to those who earn their living by toil, persecution, and danger. All must recognize this mystery as providential, without which the serenity of many unfortunate creatures would appear impossible to those who have not known misfortune.”
. . . ‘*She then went to a rich toilette — a table of white marble sustaining a mirror, in a golden frame, of excellent taste. Her attention was attracted by an inscription on the upper ornament of the mirror. It was: ‘Tf your soul be as pure as yon crystal, you will see yourself in it always — young and beautiful. But if vice has withered your heart, be fearful of reading in me the stern reflection of moral deformity.”
. . “Ifthe thought of evil be in your heart, you are unworthy of contemplating the divine spectacle of nature; if your heart be the home of virtue, look up and bless God, who opens to you the door of a terrestrial paradise.”
The loftiest spiritualism the world ever saw — that of ancient Jewry — recognized the truth of such mirrors, for they— the “ Urim and Thummin”-polished breast-plates —were used for purposes of a celestial divination, and are still so used to-day. Even many of the modern spiritualists recognize the same truths, for their papers frequently contain articles on crystal-seeing, and the magical uses of various jewels and precious stones; while one of their noblest “ Psalms of life” contains this beautiful verse : —
“ But most the watching angels guide the thought,
If in the mortal’s heart be wrong or error,
Soon by the pure and viewless influence taught, He sees his wrongas in a Magic Mirror ! —
He sees the end where leads the tortuous path, — Its darkness and its dangers; and, awaking,
He finds within his soul a holier faith, And turns, with willing heart, his sin forsaking.”
The chief Rosicrucian of all England says, in his recent work on « Fire,” «¢When the mind is surrendered up, as a clear glass (or in, and to it), — shows of the magical world roll in.’ Again: “The gauge is according to the amount of absorption out of this world —flights which the intelligence takes into the worlds not aboutus. . . We are as the telescope
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