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74 . INTERIOR VISION.
the experiments until a series of psycho-visual phantasmal faces flit across the strange, dark face of the magnetical glass. When one appears toward whom her soul yearns, a8 only a woman’s soul can yearn, and she feels toward it as love alone can feel, she holds the simulacrum there, firmly, steadily, brings into active play the law heretofore explained, and forthwith impresses — wherever, whoever, he may be — the living original of that phantom picture, by a magnetism forceful, irresistible. The next thing is to find the man; to bring the two together; and this is done by the same means; for the lucidity has often revealed localities, places, names. Seldom, however, is there a case like the above; for generally the woman already knows of the man she wants, and then her object is to inspire him, and the meeting afterward is a very easy affair.
Of course this whole thing is nothing but clairvoyance, pure and simple, entirely magnetic from first to last, only that it is Oriental, instead of Western, and is reached by methods differing from those in practice by Europeans and Americans generally — if we except afew of the Wandering Zingaras, and Southern Octoroons.
In gazing into the profundities of the magnetic world through the agency of a mirror, it sometimes happens that very strange things are seen; as a hundred letters from mirror-seers to me most unequivocally demonstrate. Occasionally an eye, emblematic of the very loftiest seership and celestial guidance, is beheld, and blessed indeed are they to whom it appears. Recently a correspondent in Ohio wrote me that he had beheld such a mysterious eye, and forthwith I wrote him for particulars, — after this book was nearly all set up in type. The subjoined reply came to hand, which I deem of so great importance to those who aspire to seership, that I have caused it to be printed herein. Says the writer :—
“T—_. C——, Ouro, Jan. 9th, 1869.
‘Now for the particulars.of that eye, or whatever it was. For some time past I have been wearing a bandage (not the improved magnetic arrangement, but the first crude substitute therefor) —this bandage was of linen, with half-a-dozen thicknesses of heavy paper over my eyes and forehead at night, —and tried to see through them, according to the directious laid down in your book, ‘Dealings with the Dead,’ and your first monograph on clairvoyance. I began this practice immediately after purchasing a magnetic or magic mirror (a second-grade trinue). AsTI sit at the present time, I soon see a pale golden light, seemingly misty, frequently cut with flashes of electric or magnetic light. In this soft, pale, golden light, there appears a spot of deep-yellow gold moving about, sometimes in a circle. After watching it for some time, it resolves itself into something like an eye, with a dark, deep-blue pupil; then into a ring of gold around the eye-centres then into a lighter ring of blue, resembling aneye. I first saw this object two or three weeks after I bought the mirror. The first object I saw at all was in the evening when sit-
the experiments until a series of psycho-visual phantasmal faces flit across the strange, dark face of the magnetical glass. When one appears toward whom her soul yearns, a8 only a woman’s soul can yearn, and she feels toward it as love alone can feel, she holds the simulacrum there, firmly, steadily, brings into active play the law heretofore explained, and forthwith impresses — wherever, whoever, he may be — the living original of that phantom picture, by a magnetism forceful, irresistible. The next thing is to find the man; to bring the two together; and this is done by the same means; for the lucidity has often revealed localities, places, names. Seldom, however, is there a case like the above; for generally the woman already knows of the man she wants, and then her object is to inspire him, and the meeting afterward is a very easy affair.
Of course this whole thing is nothing but clairvoyance, pure and simple, entirely magnetic from first to last, only that it is Oriental, instead of Western, and is reached by methods differing from those in practice by Europeans and Americans generally — if we except afew of the Wandering Zingaras, and Southern Octoroons.
In gazing into the profundities of the magnetic world through the agency of a mirror, it sometimes happens that very strange things are seen; as a hundred letters from mirror-seers to me most unequivocally demonstrate. Occasionally an eye, emblematic of the very loftiest seership and celestial guidance, is beheld, and blessed indeed are they to whom it appears. Recently a correspondent in Ohio wrote me that he had beheld such a mysterious eye, and forthwith I wrote him for particulars, — after this book was nearly all set up in type. The subjoined reply came to hand, which I deem of so great importance to those who aspire to seership, that I have caused it to be printed herein. Says the writer :—
“T—_. C——, Ouro, Jan. 9th, 1869.
‘Now for the particulars.of that eye, or whatever it was. For some time past I have been wearing a bandage (not the improved magnetic arrangement, but the first crude substitute therefor) —this bandage was of linen, with half-a-dozen thicknesses of heavy paper over my eyes and forehead at night, —and tried to see through them, according to the directious laid down in your book, ‘Dealings with the Dead,’ and your first monograph on clairvoyance. I began this practice immediately after purchasing a magnetic or magic mirror (a second-grade trinue). AsTI sit at the present time, I soon see a pale golden light, seemingly misty, frequently cut with flashes of electric or magnetic light. In this soft, pale, golden light, there appears a spot of deep-yellow gold moving about, sometimes in a circle. After watching it for some time, it resolves itself into something like an eye, with a dark, deep-blue pupil; then into a ring of gold around the eye-centres then into a lighter ring of blue, resembling aneye. I first saw this object two or three weeks after I bought the mirror. The first object I saw at all was in the evening when sit-
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