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INTERIOR VISION. 61
“Rosicrucian Rooms” in Boylston St., Boston, who marvelled greatly at hearing no raps or ticks, and seeing no clouds pass over the splendid mirror there owned and used, unti! perfumes were scattered and incense burned, — whereupon, thousands of patterings rained upon the silver tripod, and glory-clouds, in presence of and seen by scores, floated over the black-sea face of the peerless mirror.
The belief of the supernatural is the only escape out of the coldest infidelity; and the word magic every where is but another term for magnetic, which, being understood, at once removes all its mysteries from the region of the “Black Arts,” so-called, into the beautiful realms of ethereal science.
Not every person can see in a mirror of any sort whatever; and hundreds of those who can see in them are unable to procure a genuine instrument. To such I recommend a very cheap and beautiful substitute, in the form of a concaved Claude Lorraine mirror, easily made, — mould a lump of clay a foot square, slightly convex. Dry, and bake it hard, and smooth its surface as perfectly as possible. Then press pasteboard on it till all is smooth and even. Now make another exactly to match it, concave. Between these two place a sheet of fine plate-glass. Bake till it conforms to the required shape. Make two alike. Between these two, cemented one-fourth inch apart, pour black ink till full; seal the aperture left for that purpose, and you have a very good substitute for a magnetic mirror. Else take a glass saucer filled half full of black ink, and you will have as good a mirror as Lane saw so successfully worked in Egypt. A crystal glass of pure water has often served a good purpose to the same end; and, in fact, there are numberless forms of substitutes for the genuine mirror, some of which are very good, but of course not equal to eyen an ordinary trinue glass. The rules and laws governing these substitutes are precisely the same as those of genuine glasses.
“Tt will never do to urge that these things lie beyond us. A fruitful source of the spiritual lowness of the modern time is the resolute averting of the face from deep thoughts, which, of course, give trouble. That all the lifting of the mind, that all the sublimest speculation, that all the occupancy of the thoughts by these intensely noble and refining investigations; thatall these high ideas, and great ideas, about God’s providence, and his purposes in the world, end, when pushed to answer, just where they began — thatis, where they first opened, and in no wise attaining to definite result — this is, of course, as true as that men cannot help their speculations and their wonder. But we unconsciously pass higher, and become something better, insuch thoughts. We teach ourselves to place the world at a distance, We grow spiritualized; and the very amount of our pleasures multiplies, because it purifies. The fault of the “time is haste —is conceit — isa wilful disregard of the higher truths—is a protesting speed to be back again amidst the business of the world—a cowardly acknowledgment of incapacity to cope with the contemplation of man’s possible
“Rosicrucian Rooms” in Boylston St., Boston, who marvelled greatly at hearing no raps or ticks, and seeing no clouds pass over the splendid mirror there owned and used, unti! perfumes were scattered and incense burned, — whereupon, thousands of patterings rained upon the silver tripod, and glory-clouds, in presence of and seen by scores, floated over the black-sea face of the peerless mirror.
The belief of the supernatural is the only escape out of the coldest infidelity; and the word magic every where is but another term for magnetic, which, being understood, at once removes all its mysteries from the region of the “Black Arts,” so-called, into the beautiful realms of ethereal science.
Not every person can see in a mirror of any sort whatever; and hundreds of those who can see in them are unable to procure a genuine instrument. To such I recommend a very cheap and beautiful substitute, in the form of a concaved Claude Lorraine mirror, easily made, — mould a lump of clay a foot square, slightly convex. Dry, and bake it hard, and smooth its surface as perfectly as possible. Then press pasteboard on it till all is smooth and even. Now make another exactly to match it, concave. Between these two place a sheet of fine plate-glass. Bake till it conforms to the required shape. Make two alike. Between these two, cemented one-fourth inch apart, pour black ink till full; seal the aperture left for that purpose, and you have a very good substitute for a magnetic mirror. Else take a glass saucer filled half full of black ink, and you will have as good a mirror as Lane saw so successfully worked in Egypt. A crystal glass of pure water has often served a good purpose to the same end; and, in fact, there are numberless forms of substitutes for the genuine mirror, some of which are very good, but of course not equal to eyen an ordinary trinue glass. The rules and laws governing these substitutes are precisely the same as those of genuine glasses.
“Tt will never do to urge that these things lie beyond us. A fruitful source of the spiritual lowness of the modern time is the resolute averting of the face from deep thoughts, which, of course, give trouble. That all the lifting of the mind, that all the sublimest speculation, that all the occupancy of the thoughts by these intensely noble and refining investigations; thatall these high ideas, and great ideas, about God’s providence, and his purposes in the world, end, when pushed to answer, just where they began — thatis, where they first opened, and in no wise attaining to definite result — this is, of course, as true as that men cannot help their speculations and their wonder. But we unconsciously pass higher, and become something better, insuch thoughts. We teach ourselves to place the world at a distance, We grow spiritualized; and the very amount of our pleasures multiplies, because it purifies. The fault of the “time is haste —is conceit — isa wilful disregard of the higher truths—is a protesting speed to be back again amidst the business of the world—a cowardly acknowledgment of incapacity to cope with the contemplation of man’s possible
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