Sepharial
Natural and Induced Clairvoyance
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Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE SCIENTIFIC POSITION
CHAPTER II. MATERIALS AND CONDITIONS
CHAPTER III. THE FACULTY OF SEERSHIP
CHAPTER IV. PRELIMINARIES AND PRACTICE
CHAPTER V. KINDS OF VISION
CHAPTER VI. OBSTACLES TO CLAIRVOYANCE
CHAPTER VII. SYMBOLISM
CHAPTER VIII. ALLIED PSYCHIC PHASES
CHAPTER IX. EXPERIENCE AND USE
CONCLUSION.
INTRODUCTION
Few
words will be necessary by way of preface to this book, which is
designed as an introduction to a little understood and much
misrepresented subject.I
have not here written anything which is intended to displace the
observations of other authors on this subject, nor will it be found
that anything has been said subversive of the conclusions arrived at
by experimentalists who have essayed the study of clairvoyant
phenomena in a manner that is altogether commendable, and who have
sought to place the subject on a demonstrable and scientific basis. I
refer to the proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research.In
the following pages I have endeavoured to indicate the nature of the
faculty of Second Sight or Clairvoyance, the means of its
development, the use of suitable media or agents for this purpose,
and the kind of results that may be expected to follow a regulated
effort in this direction. I have also sought to show that the
development of the psychic faculties may form an orderly step in the
process of human unfoldment and perfectibility.As
far as the nature and scope of this little work will allow, I have
sought to treat the subject on a broad and general basis rather than
pursue more particular and possibly more attractive scientific lines.
What I have here said is the result of a personal experience of some
years in this and other forms of psychic development and
experimentation. My conclusions are given for what they are worth,
and I have no wish to persuade my readers to my view of the nature
and source of these abnormal phenomena. The reader is at liberty to
form his own theory in regard to them, but such theory should be
inclusive of all the known facts. The theories depending on hypnotic
suggestion may be dismissed as inadequate. There appear to remain
only the inspirational theory of direct revelation and the theory of
the world-soul enunciated by the Occultists. I have elected in favour
of the latter for reasons which, I think, will be conspicuous to
those who read these pages.I
should be the last to allow the study of psychism to usurp the
legitimate place in life of intellectual and spiritual pursuits, and
I look with abhorrence upon the flippant use made of the psychic
faculties by a certain class of pseudo-occultists who serve up this
kind of thing with their five o'clock tea. But I regard an ordered
psychism as a most valuable accessory to intellectual and spiritual
development and as filling a natural place in the process of
unfoldment between that intellectualism that is grounded in the
senses and that higher intelligence which receives its light from
within. From this view-point the following pages are written, and
will, I trust, prove helpful.
CHAPTER I. THE SCIENTIFIC POSITION
