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ORDINARY CLAIRVOYANCE. 37
man called at my door, selling books for the Christian Evidence Society. He sent in a sample. Noticing an article about Spiritualism being of the Devil—phenomena not denied—I went to the door myself and asked the man to come in, Well! we “debated,” and of course both of us won, in our own opinions, Before departing, however, my visitor said a prayer, asking God to open my eyes “to the true Light ”—by which he meant, I presume, to ask that I might lose my Devil's Gift of Clair- voyance (which, by the way, in olden days was the hall-mark of the Man of God—Seer or Prophet) and have my “understanding” “opened” or twisted into conformity with his own opinions. After he had insisted that “the ‘devils’ would now leave” /e went away.
On lying down in the afternoon, in order to rest and meditate, I suddenly saw three or four “devils” in the room—typical orthodox fiends. Men with goats’ legs, cloven hoofs, little horns just over their ears, curly hair like a negro’s “wool,” tails, and claw-like hands. In colour they were entirely brown, like ordinary brown paper. I candidly confess that I was “a bit shaken,” and I venture to think that any clairvoyant would have been. I sat up to see if I were dreaming. Was I “hallucinated” ?
man called at my door, selling books for the Christian Evidence Society. He sent in a sample. Noticing an article about Spiritualism being of the Devil—phenomena not denied—I went to the door myself and asked the man to come in, Well! we “debated,” and of course both of us won, in our own opinions, Before departing, however, my visitor said a prayer, asking God to open my eyes “to the true Light ”—by which he meant, I presume, to ask that I might lose my Devil's Gift of Clair- voyance (which, by the way, in olden days was the hall-mark of the Man of God—Seer or Prophet) and have my “understanding” “opened” or twisted into conformity with his own opinions. After he had insisted that “the ‘devils’ would now leave” /e went away.
On lying down in the afternoon, in order to rest and meditate, I suddenly saw three or four “devils” in the room—typical orthodox fiends. Men with goats’ legs, cloven hoofs, little horns just over their ears, curly hair like a negro’s “wool,” tails, and claw-like hands. In colour they were entirely brown, like ordinary brown paper. I candidly confess that I was “a bit shaken,” and I venture to think that any clairvoyant would have been. I sat up to see if I were dreaming. Was I “hallucinated” ?
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