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The most pitiful and yet the most grotesque sight that meets the eye o f today is the p resu m p tuons fool W ho does n o t stop to think that by his o wn actions conduct and very m anner o f living ,

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and believing he is persistently closin g his inne r o r spiritual sight to the real possibilities of L ife These are concealed from him because he has never developed his Inner or S oul S ight sufficient to realize or know that the most valuable asset in ” “ life is to Kn o w Thys e lf and to see with the Inner or S piritual S ight This book gives real instruction and Indi an teachin gs as they are known in S outh India H e who really and truly desires knowledge and is sincere faithful and steadfast in his e fforts to obtain it w ill learn a great deal from this work The h alf brained lazy complaining fool who is always suspicious of others robbing him will learn nothing here nor from no other book H e who is eternally crying and complaining is he who disbelieves ; and he who disbelieves that is has no belief or confidence in himself to learn some thing from a book is like the fool who complained because he could not see while at the same time he was standing in his own light S o be careful that you are not guilty of stand ing in your own light .

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the A depts the more grows your conception that life and world called S pirit not seen by the outward sight The O ccultism a n a to m y p hys i o lo gy and p s y cho lo gy which they teach make of man something immeasurably greater than the puny and impo tent being known to modern science as a com pound o f bones mu scles and nerves M odern science ( materialism ) attempts to prove that man is an ani mal ; the teachings o f the A dep ts show that he may be a G od Modern science invests him with the power to lift his own weight ; ancient science ( O ccult Philosophy ) invests him with the power to control the destiny of the world Mo d ern science allows him to live for a very limited number of years ; ancient science teaches that he always existed and will never cease to exist if he desires to live Modern science deals with the instrument that the real man uses as long and as often as he comes into relationship with the world o f phenomena and she mistakes that instrument f o r the man ; the A dep ts show you the true nature o f the essential man to whom one earthly exist ence is nothing more than one of the many inci dents o f his eternal Spiritual career This power of spiritu al perception potentially contained in every man but developed in few is almost un known to the guardians o f science in f of o

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Western countries of modern civiliz ation because learning is often separated from wisdom and the inner or S pirit S ight and the calculating intellect seeking for worms in the dark caverns o f the earth cannot see the geniu s that floats toward the light and it cannot realize his exist ence And yet this ancient science ( O ccultism ) which the modern ignore is as old as the world I t was known to the ancient prophets to the A rhats and Rishis of the E ast ; to initiated B rah min s E gyptians and G reeks and the Hindu S ages I ts fundamental doctri nes are found in the Hindu Vedas and the S acred B ooks of the E ast Upon these secret doctrines rest the fun dam ent s of the religions and sec ret orde rs of the world They formed the essence of the secrets that were revealed only to the initiated in the inner temple where the ancient mysteries wer e taught and whose disclosure to the vulgar was forbidden under the penalty of torture and death They were secrets known to the ancient sages and to the H indu A depts and Rosicrucians of the Middle Ages and upon a partial understanding of their truths rests the system o f modern F reemasonry They are not to be confounded with speculative philosophy that reasons from the known to that Which it cannot know trying by the flickering li ght o ur

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log c and orthodoxy to gro pe i ts way into the darkness , and to feel the obj ects which it cannot see These doctrines were taught by the seers o f o ld who possessed spiritual power and the inner sight to see S uch men were the great religious reformers of all ages from C onfucius and Z o ro a s ter down to Jacob B oehme and E ckartshausen and their teachings have b eenw v e rified by every o n e whose purity o f mind and whose power o f intellect have enabled him to see and to under stand the things o f the spirit ( G o d ) Some o f their doctrines refer to morals and ethics others are of a purely scientifi c character ; but both aspects o f their teachings are intimately connected together because beauty cannot be separated from truth They both form the tw o pages o f a leaf in the book o f unive rsal N ature whose understanding confers upon the reader not merely opinions but kn owledge and renders him not only learned but illuminated with wisdom and S pirit Sight A t Will A mong those who have taught the moral aspect o f the secret doctrine there are none greater than B uddha Plato and Jesus o f N azareth ; of tho s e who have taught its scientific aspect there have been none more profound than H ermes Trisme i They o b g s tu s Pythagoras and Paracelsus tain ed their knowledge n o t merely from following o

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the prescribed methods of learning or by accept “ ing the opinions of the recogni zed authori ties ” “ of their times but they studied nature by her “ own light and learned the lesson Know Thy ” self and they became lights themselves whose rays illuminate the world of mind What they taught has been to a certain extent verified and amplified by the teachings of E astern A depts ( Y o ghis ) and Hi ero yhan ts of the O ri en t ,

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There is an art known only to a few by which the purified and faithful soul of man may be instructed and illuminated so as to be raised at once from the darkness of ignorance ( material ism ) to the light of wisdom and knowledge I f the soul is perfectly purified and sanctified it becomes free in its movements it sees and recog n iz e s the D ivine light and instructs itself while it seems to be instructed by another In this state the soul requires no other admonition except its own realization which is the head and guide of the soul I t is then no more subject to terrestrial condi tions of time but lives in the eternal ; and for the human soul to desire a thing is to possess it already ,

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Man s power to realize increases in proportion as this ethereal and celestial power of light pene trates his mind and developing his in ner sight o r S pirit sight it may enable him to see and per ceive that which he interiorly thinks just as if it were obj ective and external S pirit being u ni ty and independent o f our idea s of space and all men having therefore essentially the same spirit the soul o f men existing at places widely distant from each other may thus enter into communication ( telepathy ) and converse with each other exactly in the same manner as if they had met in their physical bodies In this state man may perform a great many things in an exceedingly short period of time s o that it may seem to us as if he had required n o time at all to perform it S uch a man is able t o comprehend and understand everything by the light of the universal power ( spirit ) o r guiding intelligence with which he is spontaneously united A gain that there is a certain kind o f S piritual force occult influence or energy based o n the existence o f the spiritual and A stral world placed without not within the body and into c o m m u n ica tion with which the human soul o f man can enter by and through the law and principal of realiza tion has long been demonstrated as a fact That these invisible forces ( evil spirits who are earth ’

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bound and exist in the A stral body ) can control a man and break him do wn as easily as the fearful hurricane sweeps all before it striking him in a thousand places at the same time without his being able to perceive the invisible f o e or being able to protect himself is also proven B ut that these forces may be dominated and invoked so that they will obey the thoughts answer to the voice and understand the meaning o f traced signs is what many cannot realize and what their reason rejects ; yet this also is capable The reader o f being demonstrated and proven and student should always bear in mind that in trying to demonstrate these things for himself he is working with unseen and powerful agents which if he is not equally powerful pure and high minded loving his fellow men and seeking t o benefit mankind rather than seeking or desiring O ccult powers to further his o wn selfish interests he had much better be dead than to try any o f these things for the gratification of his personal natur e ; for in seeking to harm another curses like chickens return home to roost with a much greater force than the original impulse Thus again we should look within rather than without as the exercise of True M agic doe s n o t require any ceremonies or conjurations o r the making of circles and signs ; it only requires a ,

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strong faith gained through a knowledge o f na ’ ture s laws which can acco m p lis h a nything if i t ,

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f True Magic also consists in true faith ; be do n e but true faith rests in spiritual knowledge and without that kind of knowledge there can be n o faith ; this is o n ly o btain e d by develo ping o n e s The conjura o wn inn er a n d m o s t lo f ty n a tu r e: tion o f the evil spirits o f the A stral plane ( sorcery black magic and witchcraft ) m eans practically a “ ” full realization o f F aust and the D emon There are many strange things set forth in the foll owi ng pages almost to o strange to believe yet because o n e is ignorant o f their existence it does not follo w that they are n o t real as the sad rec ords o f S orcery and Witchcraft o f Voodooism and The B lack A rt abundantly testify Man does not know himself there fore he does n o t understand the things o f the invisible world E ach man has the essence o f the D ivine ( S piritual ) within himself ; he pos sesses o n e kind o f knowl edge as much as another and he who does n o t find that which is in him he cannot truly say he does n o t possess it only he is not as yet capable o f successfully seeking it The r ef o re in s e e king a lways bea r in m i nd with thes e laws , witho u t w hich

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fi f The writer s teachings are that our soul is the vehicle of celestial attraction transferring celes tial and spiritual virtue into S ea ls I m ag es A m u Also he has le ts R ing s P ap e rs G la s s e s etc endeavored to give the most clear and rational illustration o f the wonderful O ccult sympathy and antipathy attraction and repulsion between all things in the universe H e has likewise proved how cures are performed by virtue of sympathetic powers and medicines by sea ls rings and amulets even at unlimited distances which he has been a witness o f and are daily confirmed in the true and certain belief “ of This same being taught in The G reat B o o k of Magical Hindu Magic and E ast I ndian O ccultism The writer knows ho w to communicate with any person and to give him intimation o f pur pose a t a hundred o r a thousand miles distance ; but then a preparation is necessary and the par ties should have their appointed seasons and hours for that purpose ; likewise both should be o f the same firm constancy of mind and a disciple o r broth er in O CCUL T I SM o r A DE PT SHIP s el

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There is also given methods whereby a man may receive true and certain intimation of future things ( by dreams ) of whatsoever his mind has before meditated upon himself being properly disposed L ikewise there is recited the various methods used by the ancients fo r the invocation o f spirits fro m the AS TR AL P LAN E ; di fferent forms o f MA GI CAL E X O R C I SM incantations orations binding o f spirits conjurations ; all o f which is the kn owledge taught by the E astern AD E PT S and the most famous M AGI C IAN S such as Zoroaster H ermes Apollonius Simon o f the Temple T rithemi u s Agrippa Porta ( the N eapo l itan ) D r D ee Paracelsus Roger B acon an d a great many others ; to which the au thor has sub joined notes endeavoring to point out the di ffer ence o f the arts s o as to free the name o f M agic from any scandalous imputation seeing it is a word originally s ign ificative not o f any evil but o f every good and laudable science such as a man might profit by and become both WI S E and happy ; and the knowledge o f O CCUL T I SM is s o far from being o ff ensive to science o r man that the very root or ground of all Magic takes its ri s e from the O rient and B ritish West Indi es The H indus were the fi rst M agicians for by their high and excellent knowled ge they knew that ,

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the O ccult power which was promised was born in all men Therefore let no one be o ffended at the venerable and sacred title o f Magician o r A dept—a title which every WI S E m an m erits “ while he pursues that path which Jesus the ” Master himself trod viz humility charity “ mercy fa sting etc ; and again men should B e ” wise as serpents and harmless as doves Such instructions as these are frequently named and given in many places of the ancient Mysteries “ The Great B ook o f Magical A rt H indu Magi c and E ast Indian O ccultism referred to elsewhere in this work also forms a complete treatise on the mysteries o f O CCUL T I S M and C E R E M O NIAL M AGI C by the study o f which a man ( who can separate himself from material objects by the modification of the sensual appetite—abstinenc e from drunkenness gluttony and other bestial pas sions and who lives pure and temperate free from actions which degenerate a man to a brute ) may become a recipient o f D ivine Light and knowl edge ; by which he may foresee things to come whether to private families o r kingdoms or states empires battles victories etc ; and likewise be capable o f doing much good to his fellow crea tures such as the healing of all disorders mental and physical and assisting with the comforts o f life the unfortunate and distressed ,

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F urther the writer has spoken in that famous work largely o f prophetic dreams and visions throughout the different ch ap ters an d has given valuable kn o wledge fully set down f o r the in f o r mation of the W I SE some few most secret things being reserved by the author for his pupils only not to be taught by publication I f in these writings the A utho r seems oracular and do gmatic it is because he writes from the standpoint o f the true A dep t and S eer rather than that of the scientist or materialistic philo s o pher o r the orthodox theolo gian and depends f o r the reco gnition and acceptance o f the absolute truth more upon its clea r and positive enunci ation thro ugh the soul than upon its exposition and defense by argument ,

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There is a true and D ivine O ccult Philo s ophy as there is an O ccult o r Thaumaturgic Power This Thaumaturgi c P ower was exercised by Jesus The M aster and all followers of his school This P ower was the legitimate fruit of the regenerate o r higher spiritual life to which they called the world and in the Power and in spiration of which they lived spake and wrought ,

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The writer will hereby inform the student that whatever the desires are which have prompted yo u

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in the pursuit o f a knowledge O f O CC U L T I SM AN D T HE I NVI S IB L E F O R C E S O F NA T U R E “ S O you will reap for LI KE A L WA Y S A T ” I f you desire the knowledge TR A C TS LI KE to secure revenge it is but proper that I should warn you that thou wilt in any Of the experim en ts contained in these treatises draw o r attract to thyself a revengeful demon or an accursed infer nal furious evil spiri t serving in the principal and law O f wrath ; if for worldly riches and a ggran dizem en t then shalt thou have an e a rthiel or fiery spirit which will delude thee with the riches o f the central wo rld ; if for fame o r the blaze o f glory then you will have the evil s p irits o f p ride and they will be allotted thee who will gratify thy inordinate desire O f vain glory ; for all these o ffices are there evil spirits who have been allotted and they are ever eager to merge their evil will and spirit with yours ; they will through the same law attract thee to their o wn nature and serve all thy desires and purposes according to the extent as thy desires are and from what prin so shalt thou be answered ; cip les they proceed but if thou desirest the knowledge bu t fo r the honor and glory o f thy s oul ( G O D ) and to help thy fellow men and in great humility fill thy heart with the love O f all manki nd thou shalt then attract a good spirit which will gr ant thy desires ; ,

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and also to assist yo u to overcome enemies Therefore bear this advice : S eek for and desire that which is good ; avoid attracting ALL E vil either in thought desire word or action ; and then shalt thou reap the rewards Of the soul which desires to develop the inner o r spirit sight R e m em ber there a re tw o w ays m agica lly s e t befo re thee ; cho o s e whi ch tho u wi lt tho u s ha lt be s u re o f thy rewa r d R e m em ber beli eve in yo u rs elf an d .

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B y and through the law O f reali z ation inspira tion is awakened and established A gain by and through the exercise of the powers Of Auto sug gestion self thought the supreme realizati o n of self and the innermost desire O f life are reached and manifested withholding all doubt which opens up to us and connect s us with the inward o r latent supreme possibilities of soul ( G od ) To have appreciative knowledge O f this exalted condition Of inspiration before it is experienced and Of the separate and distinct planes O f con s cio u sn ess and the specific dormant forces they involve it will be necessary to keep before the mind the conception that we can by constant ap plication o f suitable Auto suggestion manifest ,

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This inspiration realization o r psychic con sci o u sn e s s established however breaks forever dominance o f embarrassment and hesitation caused by sense impressions of self ; hence the im portance O f the immediate awakening and en thro n em en t Of this inspiration ( realization ) and the self control Of this higher consciousness the perfection o f which is reached and effected by gaining supreme self control through the law o r doo r o f realizatio n ,

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the west coast of I ndia about one hundred and thirty miles north of B ombay lies the city O f B aroda H ere the writer has seen many m ira cd lou s occult feat s o n many different oc casions per formed in precisely the same manner and the mystery to the outsider seemed only to deepen with every repetition The S pirit and O ccult p o w ers o f the H indus have been the wonder o f India from a time antedating perhaps the building Of the first pyramid The early Jesuit F athers and other pious ortho do x hair brained mortals startled at the sight a nd at a total loss to account for it very promptly attributed it to the devil and this ingenious ex planation is still persisted in by the missionaries and those superstitious ignorant followers O f Theology O f the present who assert that it i s a sin even to witnes s these performances and who anathematize the Y o his as agents O f Satan Many are the wonders O f H indu Magic I mi ght go on relating a hundred or more O f wonder ,

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ful significance and in every respect strange which have been witness ed in that gorgeous land o f the E ast which even in this nineteenth centu ry o f merciless Western materialism is mor e Of a fairyland than A rabia ever was at the time o f H aroun al Raschid That earliest cradle O f o u r race and civili z ation Hindustan still holds the key to many O ccul t mys In the shade of its palm g roves in the te rie s depths of its jungles in the wild recesses Of its mountains and behind the walls Of its temples and lamaseries there yet lurks many a secret which will tax the ingenuity of your best Western rea s o n e r s for ages to come The E astern adepts an d Hierophants through their long practice O f thought and attention and the art Of contemplation and ancestral practice fo r centuries as well as the invoca tion o f the spirits of the A stral Plane have developed an intellectual insight subtl ety O f thought power O f metaphysical analysis and philosophical reasoning which dwarfs into in s ign ificance the best product o f o u r Western S chools ,

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being paltry and trivial in developing the more ignoble and clowni sh side o f his nature becomes a different being when by necessity o r choice he is left to his o wn meditations The silenc e Of the forests the stillness Of the desert the vast expanse o r the unbroken quiet Of some o f the ocean secluded nook awaken in him thoughts and feel ings which the bustle O f every day life Can never engender Then the man is apt to propound to himself the great O ld riddle a n d to desc end into the abysmal depths Of his o wn consciousness ,

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th en who would become an A dept and e nter in earnest upon the proce s s Of induction into the higher states and plan es of consciousness the importance o f recognizing and Observing the law and adopting the ha bits which belong to the higher life he is seeking will be apparent That law is temperance in eating and drinking and modera tion in all the functions and relations of sex avoid m g I n both those indulgences which perverte d activities and abnormal desires demand To

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story without dissimulation o r abating o n e jo t o r tittle Of the truth in the matter The same holds true o f any particular or special thing which it is desirable and legi tim ate to know concerning them When the attention is held in this receptive atti tude upon such specific matter to learn the exact truth concerning it that particular truth will be made clear and certain to the listening conscious ness I t will thus be seen that this necessary listening and receptive attitude is possible only when the soul desires the absolute truth independent Of all prejudgm ent o r any bias O f personal considera tion We do n o t lis ten to an o the r s co n ve rs a ti o n w hi le w e a r e talkin g to him neither can we receive the true story O f another s life or character on the psychic plane with our mind upon him full o f active prejudgment and the bias Of p erson al co n s iderations This attitude Of des1r1ng and seeking the truth and nothing but the truth independent of all per sonal consideratio n and bias involves also the attitude and determination to be absolutely just o n the basis O f this t ruth independent Of all personal consideration or bias O f any kind whatsoever This attitude will prevent any misuse o f the knowledge of the truth thus gained an d also keep the desire to that only which is legi timate The .

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mind and feelings O f every bias and standard of self and sense ; that is put out O f the mind every thing relating to the sense li fe and the desires of self thus putting the soul in a p e rfectly receptive attitude for the unbiased and unobstructed revela tion O f truth S econd : When this passive state is fully induced fix and hold the attention in the passive yet expectant attitude upon the specific Object about which the truth is desired Third These two steps having been fully taken stand firmly and persistently in the receptive and listen ing attitude toward the Object fo r the immediate revelation O f the truth concerning it and in the “ full expectation O f getting it and a cco r ding to ” s ha ll i t be d o n e u n to This yo u yo u r fa ith receptive state and listening expectant attitude will certainl y open the consciousness to the psychic vibrations which write unerringly their story o n the receptive mind I f in this third step we entertain doubts and questionings we are not holding the receptive and listening attitude This was the co nstant attitude “ ” and normal condition O f Jesus The Master and so without study or effort he always stood in the light Of absolute truth concerning everything with which he came into personal relations H e said : “ I ca n o f m i n e o wn s e lf do n o thin g ; a s I he a r I always in h listenin attitude for the u d e e t ( j g g ,

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inner voice o r revelation ) : a n d m y ju dgm en t is i l I t u s e e k n t m i n n l l t w ays u u b ec a s e o e o w w b a s ; j ” lis ten to the in n e r vo ice f r o m the a s tr a l p lan e TO gain the mastery O f these three steps S O as to be able to assume this attitude at will requires no more qualification attention and persevering application than does the mastery O f any of the ordinary a ccomplishments as music art o r the me chanical handicrafts O f industry ; but as in all these the N eophyte may be greatly helped by the personal sympathy and guidance Of those who h ave had experience in overcoming and have attained some degree of experimental A deptship Very few if any will succeed absolutely without this E ven Jesus needed and received the sym pathy and ministry Of John the B aptist Where two O f you are agreed etc it Shall be done for them There is one advantage in seeking the mastery Of these three steps over that of the ordinary accomplishments O f life and that is the immediate help O f divine inspiration if the seeker begin at the center Of his being ; since this brings him at once under the transforming chemistry O f the spiritual life and the awakening touch o f the quickening power that comes directly from the S upreme C enter O f the D ivine and Absolute The benefit derived from the ministry O f others is the ,

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edge o f geography and to whom even the histo ry o f their o w n country was in a great measure a sealed book Yet these men were the custodians o f O ccult power and secrets for which many an intellectual giant would readily exchange twenty years Of his life secrets which SO far have success fully baf e d the researches o f the best Western thinkers and experimenters and which not only enabled the p o s s e s o r to suspend o r defy the ordi “ ” nary laws Of nature but to trium ph over time and space with an e ase and readiness which the G reeks hardly dar ed to attribute to their O lym pian gods There are among the adepts men o f vast mental caliber philosophers in the highest sense men whose society is coveted by the foremost Hindu scholars and Western scientists and who bear the stamp Of genius in their countenance B ut they are rare exceptions like everything else that is great and noble in this sorrowful world What I desire to dwell upon is the fact that adeptship in the rea l esoteric science of India does not presuppose great learning or intellectual superiorit y on the part of the ,

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The gr e at principle which underlies the almo st endless modification of H indu O ccultism may be “ ” embodied in the term AB S TRAC T I ON namely the attainment O f as complete a state of introspective vision as possible by the withdrawal from the O f the senses O f s ight hearm g touch etc external world Perhaps it will be O f advantage to the reader if I here describe a little more fully what is meant by introspection S uppose a mathematician in order to master some intricate problem were to seek refuge within the solitude O f his four walls and end eavor to concentrate his mind completely upon the task before him N ow if his success depended upon his power to reach complete abstraction he would speedily discover that he was far from reaching the desired goal ; although he might secure solitude he would not be able to exclude sound for various noises are bound to reach and attract part O f hl S attention in spite of the most rigid application Of his will A ssuming however that all sound were ex cluded there are impressions of S ight which are an equal if not a greater Obstacle in the path of him who w ould seek to attain the introspective state ,

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H e might resort to the simple method of shut ting his eyes ho ping thereby to g et rid O f the external world and reach the introspective state F utile e ffort ! There still would remain the con scio u s n e s s of that fact that Objects O f various kinds were s u rro u n din g him which is a disturbing influence N o w granting that the perceptions Of sound , sight and even touch could for a time at least be completely extinguished there still would remain o f this o r that sorrow O f frustrated hopes O f busi ness troubles o f all the petty vexations and annoy ane cs of life Unless these also be completely annihilated , there ca n be no such thing a s abstraction in the sens e O f the esoteric philosophy O f India The va ri ous methods followed by the students Of O ccultism i n the F ar E ast from the fakir to the greatest adept have only one sole aim— namely the attainment O f a state Of complete in tro spec tion o r interior concentration of the mind When this condition is reached as all M asters “ know The mind is a scroll upon which nature ” will write I n other words the A dep t in that state identifies himself with the A stral world o r univers al consciousness and partakes in a meas ure Of the divine attribute O f omniscience as well as omnipotence ,

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all over I ndia long before the authorities at C al cutta were O fficially informed Thus for instanc e the details Of the battle Of M ain e au d were dis cussed in the bazaars O f C alcutta for days before the news was received at headquarters to the utter amazement of the vice royal government Thi s in spite O f the fact that the B ritish had the advantage O f sending dispatches by couriers down the valley of the Kabul River and through to Khyber Pass to Peshawur and telegraphing cypher messages from there to C alcutta I t is absurd to try to account f o r this on the supposi tion that the news will travel from mouth to mouth as it were and from villa ge to village There are intervening mountain ranges and great deserts villages and hamlets many miles apart and exten sive ranges where scarcely any human habitation is to be met with B esides the H indus are not given to much travel and there is little if a n y intercommunicati on by means O f letters or mes sages of any sort Why the news O f the great disaster which befell N apoleon s army at Moscow took over Six weeks to reach Paris and this at a time when postal communication was already well organized all over E urope I n India it would have been known all over the land in less than tw o hours and not merely in the sense O f a vague presentiment that something had happened but in ,

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The exercise O f T HAU M A T U R GI C P O WE R by the C hrist and his Apostles has mistakenly been regarded as a supernatural and miraculous gift bestowed for an exceptional purpose instead Of the working O f an O CCUL T law to be practically studied mastered and applied in universal eXperi ence There is no t the slightest warrant for the miracle view in the teaching Of either Jesus or his Apostles O n the contrary, this power was spe cifica lly emphasized by them as the legitimate fruit Of the r egenerate or higher spiritual life to which they called the world and in the power and inspira tion in which they lived spake and wrought ” “ Jesus the Master insisted up o n the exercis e Of this power as a necessity to the successful preaching and Spread O f his gosp el which taught the Immanence of G od , through the world ,

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inner S ight and m astery ever claimed o r sought for by the Magi and H ierophants Of the World ” “ and that Jesus the M aster clearly intimated that they are for and should be experienced by the M aster s followers I t will be further noticed that the source o f the new and higher knowledge wisdom and power here recognized and specifically emphasized as free to all is applied to the direct and enduement O f the spirit ( n o t spirits o r angels ) but the SU PR E M E and UN IV E R SA L S PI RI T from which men as well as angels derive thei r life their intel ligence and their power and to which therefore all alike the humblest as well a s the most exalted have equal access Those who can read between the lines may have Observed that far from discrediting wholesale the reported stories and wonders of E astern Magic the most advanced scientific reasoners Of the Wes t in their more recent utterances appear quite inter e s te d in the subject having come t o recognize that there may be such things as natur al forces or sub stan ces o h this planet which have as yet eluded the grasp o f the Western science forces which their chemists and their physicians can neither gauge weigh nor measure ; and that there is a possibility that among a subtle race like the HI NDUS which is immeasurably Older in civili z a ,

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tion and experience than their own some O f these forces may have been discovered even thousands of years ago and preserved among the wisest O f its representatives ( adepts ) wh o in consequence o f such knowledge can perform feats which to one Of limited understanding are perfectly miraculous A part from the material progress or outward development which the Hindus had already a t tain e d which they are apt to call preh isto ric as evinced by the splendor of their buildings and the luxuries and the refinement of their civilization in general it would seem as if this greatest and most subtle O f A ryan races had developed an inn er life even more strange and wonderful L et those who are imbued with the prevalent modern conceit that the Westerners have reached the highest pinnacle of intellectual culture or that O rthodoxy is right go to I ndia L et them go to the land O f mystery which wa s ancient when the great Alexander crossed the IN D US with his warriors ancient when AB RA HAM T HE JE W roamed the plains of C HAL DE A with his cattle ancient when the first pyramid was built ; and if after a careful s tudy O f H indu magic life religion and philosophy the inquirer is still o f the opinion that the p alm of intellectual advancement belongs to the w e s te rn w o rld o r that O rthodo xChristianity is not founded on a fabulous Jewish Myth let him ,

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and have certainly come nearer the truth than the Western materialist with his endless e m piricali sm and expe rimental torture Of matter The HI N DUS in their e fforts to raise the veil which hides the mysteries Of time and space dis covered that which is apt to cause extreme sur prise in the Western N E O P HYT E and which is destined to play a great part in the future Of this country Their triumph in this direction was the discovery and application Of that strange P S Y C HI C FO R C E known to the Western people as HYP NO T I S M The American people have just begun to real i z e that there is such a force and are o n the threshold as it were Of a dominion which is a s bo undless as it is marvelou s B ut the discoveries which are being made today were made ages ago by the early SA SCRI TI C I N DIANS and I RA N I A N S and while a knowledge Of the subject in this country is chiefly derived from or based upon the experiments of a few materialistic s cientists and investigators during very recent years the HIND US have the experience of at least centuries behind them ,

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sovereign domin1 ou and in contriving intellect and wages everlasting w ar with the Almighty and his pure spirits ; nor can the O mnipotent Maker and Master O f the Universe reduce him to subm i s sion or repress his Wi ckedness but is S imply con strained as well as he can to counteract his hor rible devices Great scholars argue for this ; great churchmen hold it ; the masses are taught that it is divine truth but somehow or other man s in and there rests at the s tin ct rebels aga i nst it bottom of almost every human heart an innate notion that it is a ll a li e imagined or invented in the days O f Jewish or monkish barbarism to frighten the ignorant ; but wholly with o ut any warranty in fact E ternal damnation orthodoxy holds to be the true end a n d punishment O f all who in their lives deny a heaven The fact however O f the Hindu s id ea of G o d and their knowledge Of celestial laws being so ,

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With all this blaze O f knowledge before us clear and shining as the light O f the O rient the question arises H ow comes it to pass that the whole West is still in darkness ; and why are Europeans and Americans now more hopelessly ignorant of their past their present o r their futu re or Of the sub lime and pure nature Of the S upreme B eing than o u r forefathers are shown to have been in remote ages ; when O rthodox historians tell us that all was superstition ; when philosopher s hold that we were monk eys or savages ; and priests pretend that there was nothing but im pie tyl The answer seems to me to be this that the Church whether o f Rome or of L uther which now sways the con sciences O f men wag es a n in ces s an t wa r up o n the a n d p e rp etu a lly acq u i s i ti o n o f tru e Kn o w le dg e in terfe r es to dw a rf the in tellect a n d to des tr o y the That the Popes for the first g ro w th o f e du ca ti o n fifteen hundred years of Christendom and from thence also until this moment did and have done a ll they c o u ld t o keep the w o rld in a s ta t e o f ba r ,

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wrongly state it is the t rue development o f man s ordinary inner or S piritual S ight which has been stunted and injured by the materialism and ign o rance which rules the world today L ive a natural life as did the o ld S e ers philos o phe r s in the by gone ages when the highest and best only reigned supreme and men and women were taught to introduce the state of in tro sp e cti o n at will and you can develop all your spiritual gifts o r inner sight The first consideration is o f course the rules for sitting the necessary precautions for develop ment and the best time and conditions which are to be adopted by the would be S eer in his attempts at unfoldment You must also study all that has been said here about the interior focalization o f the m ind That you will succeed if you follow any o n e of the methods I am teaching you is certain and you will have phenomenal success if yo u will only persevere and cleanse your mind from all sordid material and unworthy thoughts In a word unless you will attempt to live the L ife you cannot attain more than the ordinary gift o f C rystal G azing but if you will go o n and seek higher and believe you will succeed yo u cannot have any limit to the extent of your spirit and A stral Sight in any PLA CE at any TI M E and under any C O NDITIO NS ’

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will be able to introduce Spirit S ight at will and read in the A stral L ight the mysteries of the past present and future both in your o w n life and in that of others ; all will be as an open book to you and the amount of this knowledge you choose to reveal to others will be entirely depe nd c u t on your own good judgment The conditions of he a lth to be sought are l st The better your health the d e m o n your vision although many people in indi fferent health do s ee yet they have not the greater powers You should live as far as possible in the fresh air take a reasonable amount o f exercise and try to hold the thought of he a lth and p u ri ty ever before you r 2n d C leanliness is essential this includes body and clothes you should bathe all ov er once a week and change your linen at least once or twice a week o r oftener if possible 3rd D iet is also a necessity and I can assure you that you will not develop satisfactorily if you eat too much meat as it causes heat and inharmony in the blood disturbs the system generating an irritating condition and causes the people who eat it to give o ff a coarse red AURA or AS TRAL F OR CE which I will explain later entirely opposed to all conditions e s s en ti a l to spirit S i ght A t any rate eat as little as possibl e but the amount of progress yo u make almost entirely depends up o n your Y

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natural to the astral plane such as are possessed “ by every dead man I have already explained in my little work on C lairvo yan ce what these powers are and any one who will take the trouble to read that will see how clearly the possession of such sense accounts for the faculty so often ex hibite d by the dead O f reading a closed book o r a sealed letter or describing the contents of a ” locked box I have had repeated evidence through many di fferent mediums o f the posses sion of this power ; sometimes the knowledge o b ta in e d by its means was given out through the medium s body in trance speaking and at other times it was expressed directly by the dead man ” either in his own voice or by slate writing These astral faculties sometimes include a cer tain amount of provision though this is possessed in very va rying degrees ; and they also frequently give the power of psychometry and of looking ” back to some extent into events of the past “ The way in which this is sometimes done is shown in the following story given to us by D r L ee in his G lim ps es o f the S up ern atu ral vo l ii p ,

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a girl ; a n s o m e young chap he was too !n o t more than fiv e and twenty and to be drownded like ” that ! Um !yes—yes— ah ! I see him more M ediu m clearly now— yes you re right I t s not a white beard—it s the white undershirt what sailors ” — wears that s what it is ! “ H ow lovely ! how wonderful ! Ain t Cho ru s it beautiful to think they can come back like this ! I have heard just about that sort of conversation a score of times ; and it is naturally not calculated to produce a very robust faith in that particular medium Yet perhaps through the very same illi terate woman there would come on another o c casion some me ssage about a matter of which she could by no possibility have known anything—a message which she could never have evolved from he r sordid consciousness by any amount of clumsy guess work ’

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other monotonously describing behind each o f them spirits with flowing robes and smiling faces ; she varied the story a little in my own case by giving me a dark looking foreign gentleman ” with something white round his head which may very pos sibly have been true enough or may have been merely a coincidence I t occurred to me to try whether she could see a thought form so as a change from all these rev er o nd white haired sp I rit s with flowing robes I set myself to project as strong a mental image as I could construct Of two chubby boys in E tons standing behind the chair o f the member of the circle who was next in o rder for examination S ure eno ugh when that person s turn came the medium ( o r the man speaking through her if there was one ) described my imagina ry boys with toler able accuracy and represented t hem as sons o f the lady behind whom they stood The latter de nied this explaining that her sons were grown m en and the medium then suggested gr a n dchil dren which was also repudiated so the mystery remained unsolved B ut from the incident I de du ce d two conclusions : F irst that either the me diu m was genuinely clairvoyant or there really was a dead person speaking through her ; and s ecl o n dly that whoever was concern ed had not yet s u fficient discernment to distinguish a thought ,

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form materialized o n the astral plane from a living ” The O ther Si de o f D ea th by C W astral body .

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unconsciously that the C lairvoyant is able to deduce the events in the lives of those around him The ability to see this A URA or read in the A stral L ight is only acquired after long practice and psychic training which means that you have to sit regularly to eat temperately to have co m p le te control over temper your feelings t ru e fai th a n d b eli ef in yo u r s e lf to g e t r esu lts ; and also it means sexual purity and continence yet without doubt the results more than repay one for the e ffo rt required to obtain them I t is best when the clairvoyant faculty or your S pi rit S ight has been developed to the necessary degree to sit l OO kin g quietly at the subject with o u t winking the eyes a t all m ake the mind blank and gaze very steadily for at least ten or fifteen minutes in silence ; at the end o f that time you will perceive by your S pirit S ight the health AURA o r A stral L ight which is a kind of bluish grey mist arising from the body ; when you see this you are getting on and other developments may be expected to follow

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with self o r tainted by any desire for his o wn gain instantly draws round itself matter o f the astral plane as well as of the mental and remains hover ing round him I f any man yiel ds frequently to thoughts of this type he makes for himself exceed in gly strong thought forms which are constantly fed and rendered more and more powerful by each recurrence of the feeling D uring physical life these are invisible to him although their in uence is constantly reacting upon him and tending to reproduce in him the thought which created them ; but after death they become visible and haunting forms from which he cannot escape because their attraction to him is of the very essence of their nature I n many cases it is in this way that men fi rst come to realize how ugly and hateful some of their thoughts may be and so they learn to exo r cise more rigid supervision over them A man may sometimes fi nd himself surrounded by thoughts which are not his own for if any one else i s directing towards him any strong feeling whether it be of love or hate o f j oy or sorrow he will certainly find the thought form which ex presses it hovering about him and will feel within himself the e ffect of its vibrations I t is in this way that the strong thoughts of love and the friendly wish which should accompany a remem brance o f the dead produce so ben eficent a result ,

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upon them We may if we will surround the “ ” friend whom we have lost with a rosy cloud of affectionate thought through which he will see everything co u leu r de r o s e so that it may be a veritable shield for him from unpleasant in u en ce s ; and its own action upon him will also tend to stir up within him sympathetic feelings A ref o f affection and to calm all disturbances erence to Plate 1x I n M an Vis i bl e a n d I n vis i ble will Show how the thought form of affection is shaped within the astral body of the thinker and in the illustrations to Mrs B esant s article upon ” “ Thought F orms in Lu cife r S eptember 1896 the thought form will be seen rushing on its way towards its object O ther thought forms are less pleasant than this ; and sometimes it is no small part of the retribu tion which overtakes the man who during earth life ha s treated others harshly to see after death the thought forms of those whom he has injured and to feel the vibrations which radiate from them O n the contrary one who has been widely loved is very much helped and uplifted by the cur rents of thought directed to him A very notice ab le example O f this was seen in the case of H er Maj esty the late ! ueen Victoria whose rapid passage into the heaven world was undoubtedly due to the millions O f loving and grateful thought ,

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Sp i ri t Sight o r vis i o n i s o bta in ed by s o co n t r o lling yo u rs e lf tha t i h n n n o u r w a t f u ca b o a d w i ll bring a bo u t o y y y the in teri o r f o ca liz a ti o n o f the m in d at wi ll .

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the best be content with the methods given here which yo u are receiving for only a few dollars until such time as you may be able t o receive private and personal instruction from a master Remember that the hum an A URA o r A stral Thought F orms imprint themselves and their his tory o n everything they come in contact with and by these means you can develop the power o f P s ycho m e try which is s o clo sely allied to C lair voyance that it is difficult to say which is which “ ” when a sensitive begins to work G iven a letetr o r an article belonging to any person you can in this manner learn the history by simply holding the same lightly in your hand o r against the right side o f your head never t o the forehead as some surface writers advise I f you will follow the instruction I have given yo u will make a splendid S e er and I say this to all who will have true faith and absolute belief in themselves since the gift o f the S pirit Sight is free for all who fulfil the conditions and believe D oes not Jesus the G reatest M aster and C lair A cco rdin g t o yo u r voyant that ever lived say ” To you then who believe b e li ef be i t u n to yo u and listen for the inner voice of revelation and the oncoming o f the Spirit o r A stral Sight all nature and all the hidden doings and secrets o f w an t ,

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There was a time not many years a go when it was fashionable to ridicule anyone who had had the good fortune to meet face to face an inhabit ant o f the world usually unseen and though such experiences were presumably no less common then than now those who encountered them naturally kept them to themselves if they valued their repu ” ta ti o n as sane members of a m a te ri ali s tl c society Within the last few years however a salutary change has come over public opinion in this re spect To sneer at psychic phenomena is n o w recognized as showing not intellectual vigour but ignorance and assumption When there exists a S ociety for Psychical Re search which numbers among its members well known scientists like Sir William C rookes and S ir O liver L odge and public men like Mr A rthur B alfour and when that s o ci e ty issues huge volumes of learned reports upon such phenomena and considers them worthy o f careful and prolonged investigation it is no longer safe for anyone who wishes to be in the fashion to raise the silly and antiquated parrot cry o f superstition “ Impartial enquiry into the subject o f appari tions shows us that from all countries o f the world there come well attested accounts of the occasional return of the dead S uch visitors have rarely iven much information with regard to the w orld g ,

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and wait ; this repeat five or six times keeping the eyes still closed an d grea t waves of color will pass before you in sweeping rolling lengths which will pass from one side to the other This method is followed by the Hindus S itting or lying when they want certain information about you When the A stral Auras become clear and vivid you will place the full meaning given upon them ; when cloudy then wi ll the re ading be averse The same can be done with the C rystal but the Aura will not always be so vivid and for the ability to see the A URA I much prefe r the method given here as names and faces will float in the clouds of A stral L ight ,

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These colors will appear clearly to yo u if your inner Sight is developed in the AURA or A stral C loud which envelopes mankind and all living bodies ; they will also be observed in your C rystal o r M agic Mi r ror Y o u will seldom see them alone ; they will nearly always appear with symbols letters or some indi cation o f form which will give yo u the real Key to their meaning These di fferent colors o f the Auras indicate clearly the mental and spiritual condition as well as the traits an d characteristics o f the people who consult o r whom you are diagnosing Y o u can tell at once what condition your client is in as your S pirit Sight grows and yo u learn to interpret the A stral C olors The gross material and mentally unorgani z ed people will be surrounded with darke r shades o f red of black o f brown o f blue o f green ; mean and treacherous people will have clouds of br o wn around them those who are deceitful and j ealous will have clouds o f mustardy yellow or dirty green whilst the hypocrite will be surrounded with a bro wn y blue mixture The bad tem pered irritable person will have much scarlet ; the sensual persons clouds o f red I t is thus the hypocrite and the deceitful will be made known to yo u alone N o w in this way you strike the very key not e o f ,

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nor opportunity to thrust his pious opinions upon them Where considerable pale blue A stral Aura is in evidence yo u get the man who is coldly i ntellectual often scientific generally piety and free from lust of passion These people have a refining influence on others and frequent places of a r t and cu ltu re and refined music DARK YE LLOW AURAS are always best avoided people with these a re always very jealous envious unscrupulous and deceitful B ad for business dealings and bad associates The C LEAR SH ADES O F YELLO W indicate a very high order of intellectuality and these people will be o u t o f the common run not at all frequent amongst your client s So with the VI OLE T B LUE A URA the man o r woman who carries this has intense aspiration for spiritual things will never mix up with anything degrading gross or mean Will be trustworthy truthful and genuine G ood people to associate and do business with .

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learn to distinguish between white and bla ck magic and to remember that the subject of S pirit and A stral S ight and O ccult Powers covers a ve ry wide area and can be put to all sorts of uses good bad and indi fferent A s in all else the planets must play an impor tant part in our being and when the symbols appear in the vision they carry with them a dis tinct and very important meaning ,

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F ire S alamande rs Air S ylphs Water Undines E arth Gnomes They Simply swarm in the elemen tal they rep resent and they attend each individual according to their o fi ce and strength in that in dividual S psychic other than material composition A man or woman is spiritual o r material not s o much according to their fleshy standard as the standard of their soul When these elementals a re in a peaceable frame of mind they do very li ttle harm or indeed none and often good B ut when they are disturbed o r in a malevolent frame of mind they are like swiftly moving flames o r atoms s wishing through their elemental under immense dynamic pressure These infuriated elementals when they come in contact with human beings work havoc with their victims causing disease disaster and all sorts of trouble so that when I ask my pupils n o t to sit late at night gazing at their C rystals or a B lack Mirror I am really warning them a gainst the un due i nfluences likely to attack them in the fo rm of malevolent elementals These spirits of the sub human kingdom are governed by natural law and also by human will they can be controlled by those who are their .

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to communicate with some dear ones who have passed out of the body To do this they either try crystal gazing or go to a Spiritualistic medium yet half the time the results are but the pranks and games on the part of the elementals which swarm in the atmosphere H ence the C lairvoyant or Medium must not sit for development at a time when these spirits have most power viz at late hours in the evening and in the very ea rlyhours of the morning The best time to sit f o r development is certainly from eight to nine o clock in the eve ning S it in a dark room and concentrate all your thought upon the person you want to see at first you will obtain little result beyond clouds of color and perhaps many varying forms not the one you seek all the room will seem to be full of light and people then take ful l deep breaths as directed in the last chapter and at last the desired form will appear The great thing is to avoid promiscuous in u en ce s and another thing is to sit alone if possible and certainly not with more than o ne person in the room—remember that law an d wi ll p o wer are expressions of the u n ive rs a l s p i ri t and that will la w and the perfect self balance taught by the les “ ” son C ontrol Thyself all tend to establish a p o s i tive mental attit ude which is quite able to avoid the troubles threatened by elementals When the .

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S corpio means passion lust red hot anger S a gittarius all things connected with ho rses racing animals etc C apricorn business matters but of a heavier nature than those indicated by Virgo and also of material pleasures Aquarius matters of any nature to do with elec trical engine ering the O ccult and all things deal ing with the hidden laws of the Universe one of the most difficult signs to master and full o f all sorts of contradictions Pisces indicates sea j ourneys travel water fatalities and kindred matters according to the nature of the color clouds And to each of thes e signs according to the triplicity to which they belong may be attached the warning necessary against the elemental familiar to the sign When attended by favorable colors the elementals will be friendly thus A ries L eo or S agittarius a t tended with victorious colors means that the ele m en tals are friendly and that fire will help not hinder And so with the others The subject mat ter o f this chapter must be committed to memory ,

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col d during the process The magnetising Should take about twenty minutes and your thought s should be lifted in pure aspiration the whole time You must not fail to mark the poles of the Mirror so that you can always keep them right and left and this is a most important matter as they must not be mistaken The right pole will be the end of the glass nearest the right hand When you have magnetised the Mirror you will place it in the drying box and leave it fo r seven days when the process must be again repeated as on the first o c casion in fact it is repeated three times an in te rv al of one week lapsing between each opera tion thus it takes three weeks to complete O n each occasion you must carefully wash the brushes and the saucers and place the Mirror where there will be no prying eyes to see it and n o unholy hands to touch it This Mirror is the same as those used by the ancient magicians a nd the Hindu S e ers and is a much more powerful instrument than you can buy ready made There is only your own magnetism in the work and this is a most important point moreover you Should never allow any person to touch your Mirror nor to enter the room yo u use unless you receive clients when you should cer tain ly have a di fferent chamber to that of the cere mony for the eyes of the curious are not for your .

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harm you an even temper untiring perseverance pure living freedom from anim al desires —these must be yours if you would lift the veil which hides the Past and the F uture I f you desire to develop you S pirit o r S oul S ight so you can look into the future and also unfold the past for others you must fix your Mind upon one single point at a time and believe that you will succeed G aze into your C rystal and concentrate upon the knowledge you need— avoid spe culation and make your Mind receptive At the same time you must Will with all your might to know the correct solution of that which is to be unravelled Remember that the normal C lairvoyant is a power in himself and is not of this world only but has connection with the unseen The doors of S pirit S ight can only be opened to the man who has patience and these words Will and Power B elief and F aith are the keys to their unfoldment ,

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magnetism in your person which causes you to attract o r repel those yo u come in contact with in daily life The rules to acquire this magnetism to such purpose that it can be utilized by the disciple so forming that perfect mastery which will enable you to penetrate the secrets of nature are as fol lows The fi rst L aw is persistence fixity of purpose The second L aw is attention concentrated a t tention about the person or thing enquired about The third L aw is calmness Y o u can learn noth ing by hurry Or excitement these things destroy the o w o f magnet c currents “ The fourth L aw is will the I wi ll have what ” I want power o f the S oul This is the pivot upon which the others rotate and without it nothing can be done The fif th L aw is that o f intensity The sixth is that o f polarity The positive and negative prin ciple of n ature it represents the light and darkness male and female the positive and negative side of things— I have explained this positive and negative in my other chapters so I will not repeat them The seventh L aw is attraction magnetism o r desire .

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C harity opposed to L uxury by Venus that is to say love o f mankind to love of self S trength and Anger by Mars Prudence and Industry in opposition to Idleness by Mercury Temperance Opposed to Gluttony by S aturn Justice opposed to E nvy by Jupiter The seven attributes to the seven planets more often known as the seven magical works—works o f light and wealth under the S un O f m ystery and the occult under the Moon O f skill and science and of speech under Mercury O f wrath chastisement and of war under Mars O f love music and art under Venus O f death and malediction under S aturn O f ambition and policy under Jupiter These must be considered when invoking the S pirits for unless the work suits the planet o r genii of the hour the invocation will not be much use The metals are G old S ilver I ron C opper F ix ed Mercury B rass and L ead The precious stones D iamonds C rystals E mer alds A gates S apphires C arbuncles and O nyx Pentagrams or talismans are dedicated to some S pecial planet and as such must have the mark o f the planet upon them A circle for the S un a scythe for S aturn a ,

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they may not have so much power as the O rientals for the former are brought up in an atmosphere and the latter are o f mystery and occultism mostly prosaic and material B ut the true C lair voyant is very seldom S axon there is generally a stra in of eithe r Ce ltic or L atin blood to account for the S eer s power albeit it is said that a pure virgin or a spotless boy can always see clearly when they are tested but of this I have my doubts for this is a power that must be cultivated and developed B ut o n e thing is very sure and that is that the magnetic C lairvoyance can be more easily and as surely utilized as the m ore expensive and co stly processes in use amongst O rientalists To ascend to more ethereal and spiritual uses for clear vision we come to the all important question of the esoteric meanings of color and numbers and here be it understood that I am not in any way referring to the meanings etc already given but to a very much higher sense which is possible to the adepts comprehension and far above that of the neophyte There is ever thus an inner and outer meaning the one for the ignorant and the other f o r those who know The consideration of the inner sense o f color as supplied to the D ivine man and o f numbers as ,

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applied to the same will answer to the fo llowing scale of colors etc etc We will begin at the fountain head D ivinity that which is and which governs all D ivinity o r the D ivine B eing — Number 1 C olor White F irst The H indu S ign— A ja The S pirit the E ntity the I ndividuality G od the F ather the C reator — 2 Number C olor D eep Violet S econd H indu Sign—B eth The Positive o r S ens e C onsciousness The male and female expression Will Person ality The active generative principle The di vision o f the S oul into male and female forms M ind Sensory O rganisms The Mystic I nterpretation o f man and woman N umber 3 C olor—Pale Yellow ( The dividing line between the gro ss and the etherea l ) Third H indu S ign— Gimel The Universal L ife G eneration etc P o s tive o r E lectrical M an Will Intelligence Power A ction N egative o r M agnetic ,

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In this chapter it is necessary to bear in mind that a great many people see clairvoyantly not in actual vision but by means of symbols and that these symbols again are often Shrouded in color which adds a new meaning to them I am giving these meanings also T r e es When bright and green s i gn i fy growth development— when dark and dreary lo o kin g they often signify deception A Ship in ful l sail means a water journey when it is sailing away but when it is sailing to the subject it me ans coming news if the ship I S eu v e lo p e d in grey the news is sad o r worrying but if bright colors enshroud it the news is good I f black clouds or a skull and cross bones appear o n the sails then is the person you are gazing fo r about to cross the border A woman naked standing under a bright light signifies maternity but an empty cradle would signify that hopes in this line are doomed to be disappointed The rising sun indicates marriage for a woman ,

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and fo r a man success but if it is clouded it means mon ey troubles and if eclipsed it means often bankruptcy o r ruin The symbol of pigs means always human beings who will work mischief if they are white then it means they are white people if black then it means that they are colored people The moon when full signifies success but when half a moon appears with clouds it indi cates that all plans will be very unsettled and much wor ry will b efall the p e rson S itting A long white road full of pebbles and ston es m eans trials an d difficulties overcome A long dark passage or entrance with a bright light at the end means that the person will have sudden knowledge and en lightm en t into hidden and secret things A key also means knowledge and a serpent with light blue clouds or color rm gs means sensation and sometimes lust with yellow clouds o r colo r rings love of hidden sciences with light red it means reproduction o f species with bright green it means cautiousness sometimes secrecy and without any color rings it means wisdom A crown means victory and a crown and swo rd means the same thing H o w ever a bird sitting o n the crown means power o f gr o wth and o b ,

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with large and prominent cloud s of light blue it means a valuable document possibly a bank note o r mo n ey order but with brown coloring still on the left side it means an overdraft with black deep disappointment A sleeping child means motherhood but if there is much yellow round it it means discovery ap pearing in the centre of the crystal with violet shades it means pregnan cy The symbol of a pen means authorship but with a pen much grey and black means trouble through the S igning of a name To see a bird means aspiration—if the bird is flying hasty news The symbol of a railway train means the same thing A large bird to the left of the crystal with black and red clouds means vampirism A large human eye means protection intuition the gift of prophecy and an anchor means rest A viper means treachery and a spider means entanglement A triangle means psychic power A bat flying means great treachery H ands without arms means a warning from across the border A pea cock flitting through glass also means a warning often o f coming danger H orses are always good but the gallows will ,

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mean dn race not necessarily death upon the sam e Much money means riches but when it is fol lowed by a cloud of black which sweeps down over the money and covers it then you can predict a loss of money instead of gain The numbers also have an occult signi ficance and do not always indeed very seldom mean dates 1 means with a pure white light Unity G od the Universe with any other color it means the beginning of a new enterprise changes 2 with pure light means force with pale colors it means intuitive knowledge o f unseen things 3 means a birth creation 4 with light colors means a new and successful enterprise but with dark red it means the same with loss 5 means aspiration 7 is the mystic number and also 6 H uman love means victory it is always good 8 is the m o the r principle it means also trouble which hanging in the balance will be decided after long waiting 9 means warfare 10 is the symbol of a perfect sphere it signifi es magnetic force magic power When dates come into the crystal o r the mental vision do not pay much attention unless you get the whole date say M ay 22n d then if a similar date appears at the left hand side it is this year if o n the right it is distant maybe a year o r two bu t ,

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can feel it thinking is not any use you must be sure if you make your mind blank and don t argue with yourself the results will flash into your mind and as convictions they will be true In the question of inspirational writing it is very much the s ame thing do not mix inspiration with spirit control they are quite di fferent things make your mind blank as in the ca se of above practice and then take a pencil in your hand and sit down quietly and wait write anything that comes to you— do not mind what drivel it is but just persevere and in the course of a few days possibly or weeks at any rate you will find that you are no longer writing d rivel but things which will surprise yourself and which you may have been unaware of knowing even dimly I n the development of Clair-audience you will find the same methods apply Sit down alone and in silence still your mind and thoughts and listen with all your attention and you will in time hear that which mortal ears hear not as a rule F or Telepathy however I have small patience with the usual card reading methods of to day The first essential is a partner who is in sympathy o u can turn for ex p e ri with you an d to whom y ments You can either arrange with him to sit at certain times in a receptive state of mi nd o r you need make no app ointment with him but make ,

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him catch your thought without previous notice sit down and make a strong mental picture of your friend hold it in your mind clearly now picture him coming towards you watch him men tally covering the j ourney between his house and your o wn now call him aloud by name two or three “ ” times say John S mith or whatever his name “ ” is I want you come to me Y o u will find that in a very short time he will come to you Then yo u can proceed to send him more dis tin ctive messages make him bring you some ar ti ele you want some book o r paper after a time he will do this easily too then yo u can try sending him short sentences and arrange with him that he will take them down it is astonishing in how short a time you can communicate and that over any dis tance with those who are away from you I do not know o f any authenticated instance of this being done where there was a lack o f sympathy be tween th e experimenters I ha ve made some wonderful experiments along these lines myself and had most interesting r e I do s u lts n o t with any one person but many best wi th my tru e Che la s ( D isciples ) possibly be cause the sympathy between us is always pe rfect

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see these VI SI O n S clairvoyantly you can make them of use to you but as a rul e those which will be of most use to yo u are those in your own particular sphere for instance if you are b Orn under a fire sign then you can use the elementals o f that realm and so on When you see the ele mental you have then but to tell them the work you want carried out and it will be p erformed You can send them forth upon your errand, cer tain that it will be done The good commands relate to adeptship the evil to sorcery and B lack Magic pure and simple The spirit thus invoked by either black or white magic although only visi ble to the clairvoyant eye is distinctly felt by those who are no t in any way clairvoyan t an d very often to their di s comfort and fear B lack Magic sho uld be left alone but it is necessary for the would b e adept to know all about it not for use at all but for avoidance When you command an elemental you can send them as I have said upon any errand yo u desire but you can only make them do i t in their own S phere In the more difficult matter of making othe r peo ple not gifted clairvoyantly to see the vision clear to you I do not at all advise my pupils to try this frequently since it is very trying to their nerves When yo u have the image clearly upon yo u place yo u

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spirit is trying to reveal it to them o r tell them if you are impressed to do so there is a secret surrounding them o r some o n e they are interested in and this secret will soon be discovered I f the light raises toward the ceiling and falls quickly to the o o r we then advise you to follow the light with the mind s eye as it will lead you to the place of location matters not if it is money , o r something else of importance The s pirit I n dian always makes hi s fi rst appearance by showing yo u a red light

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YE LLO W LIGHT S hould you be sitting with a person and a yellow light appears at their feet tell them to be careful of a near future illness ( F ever ) I f it appears over their head tell them there is some one in their family who is su ffering and there are grave hopes for their recovery -

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saken ; Tree F oil revengeful ; Yellow L ily deceit and falsehood ; H eliotrope faithful honest frank ness determination a n d generosity I f strict attention is paid to this lesson it will enable the D isciple to read the full and true dis position o f persons by the vision of flowers In this lesson I have given you the true spirit omen of flowers ,

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I f tw o ears of corn appear , it denotes pov e rty at present but success will soon follow and the person will gain greater wealth and happiness A gain I will say to you , pay strict attention to all visions that appear before yo u an d all dreams and all impressions that are given to you even though you may think this very simple ; but allow me to state that spirits do Show these things and give secret information and warnings in dreams and visions which you will do well to study and try and understand You might think to yourself “ o r ask Why do the S pirits not show or tell us just what all these things mean w ithout showing ” so many strange visions ? Well , it is their ways , and we must abide by their laws I f yo u remem “ ” ber reading when Jesus the M aster appeared to His disciples H e spoke to them in parables “ We might say Why did Jesus speak parabol ” ically to H is followers ? B ut we know such was the case with Jesus and such is the case with spirits You have no right to question these things and it is utterly impossible to be misled if yo u will study and attempt to properly inte rpret and understand thos e signs that are given from spirit life

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In dealing with the question of Telepathic co m m u nica ti o n I am not only giving you the best I know and p ra cti ca l development but I am also giving yo u knowledge concerning my greatest hobby—a hobby I have n o t taught others before and in which I have conducted some very remark able experiments ,

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thei r material tendencies will also be able to transmit and receive and can develop very fine powers S o far as mutual understanding is concerned the people who will work best together are as follows Those born in April with people born in June and February Those born in May with people born in July and March Those born in June with people born in April and A ugust Those born in July with people born in May and S eptember Those born in August with people born in June and O ctober Those born in S eptember with people born in N ovember and July Those born in O ctober with those born in August and D ecember Those born in N ovember with people born in S eptember and January Those born in D ecember with people born in O ctober and F ebruary Those born in January with people born in N ovember and March Those bo rn in F ebruary Wi th people born in April and May o

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Those born in M arch with people born in January and May Also it will frequently be found that successful experiments may be made between people born in M arch A ugust and D ecember those born in January D ecember and May those born in F eb those born in July ru a ry June and O ctober N ovemb er and March These rules are arbitrary ; so much depends upon the instruments used and those who wish t o develop the faculty S hould choose their part n ers according to the scale—this is however only f o r continuous experiment for by following my i nstructions you can accurately read the tho u ghts o f an y p e r s o n u p o n w ho m yo u cho o s e t o co n cen tra t e yo u r a tten ti o n O f this however more in a later chapter The L aw which enables a man s tho u ght the most delicate and subtle factor in operation upon o u r present plane ( next to spirit ) to be transmit ted from one mi nd and to be received and compre hended by another Thought forms take the nature of pictures as a rule you think of a ro se for instance not as a word but as an image o f the flower You send your thought in a method I will explain , not as the word ro se but as the mental picture This pic ture impresses itself with more or less force on .

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the mind of the receiver H e may be conscious o f the picture for these thought ( pictures ) flashes come swifter than lightning but he at once grasps “ ” the meaning and thinks o f the rose The mes sage has been accurately transmitted H ow ? The student asks naturally enough I f my friend is in Chicago and I am in Madras I nd ia what makes the journey of a single thought over that vast distance possible ? The same medium whi ch enables Light and S ound to travel the E ther People who are not given to thinking do not trouble themselves with any conjecture as to what exists beyond the atmosphere which circles the earth In Simple words the E ther is a substance which fills a ll s p a ce—I n fin ity S cience has proved to us that every conceivable object from thought the physical body of man the air we breathe the water we drink down to the grains of sand upon the seashore are composed of billions and billions o f tiny atoms — The E ther is not composed of atoms it is a smooth substance filling all space ; it does not cause any friction to bodies o r particles moving through it and it is not subject to the laws of “ gravitation It has been described as a jelly like substance and to put the matter in plain but unscientific terms it has the property of carrying .

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those trivial experiments the purer your b o dy and mind the better your results A clean body i e a bath either once or twice a day so far as exter n a l s go ; spotless linen clean inside ; no S pirits or alc o hol little or no meat better not any— and give no room to impure thoughts learn to control anger envy and all uncharitableness All these things cloud your mental or spiritual atmo sphere and prevent the sending o r receiving of telepathic messages S o far as ordinary Mind reading is concerned two people are needed to carry out the exp e ri ments The Mind Reader must belong to one of the less positive groups The man or woman born in August April or D ecember will have too strong an individuality to become receptive ( without a lengthy training ) to other people s thoughts and those born in June July ( up to the 2 1s t ) N ovem ber F ebruary and March will be the best readers Theyneed a second person as operator one born in August April D ecember January May or S ep tember to help them carry out the proceedings The Mind Reader is then blindfolded and taken o u t of hearing— better still out of the room ; the people remaining decide upon a test— many o f the tests are well known but may be used by begin ners Place a pin in any position in any part o f the house or even out of the house ; let every p er ,

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wishes to test the M ind Reader know whe re the pin is ; the operator mentioned above must also know The M ind Reader o r Te lepathist is then brought in and the positive person who acts as operator stands behind the Telepathist and curves the fingers round so that both hands are poised over the temples but not touching the head of the Telepathist E very person present thinks of the pin and its hiding place and the operator co n cen trates his whole thought and will upon the Telep a thist s brain trying to impress the picture there and willing steadily all the time that he shall go straight after the pin— not a word must be S poken by anybody A fter a few seconds the Telepathi st will sway from side to side as if uncertain where to go then will suddenly make a start and g o s traight o fi towards the pin— the O perato r will n o t touch the Telepathist but simply guard against falls A fter a week o r two of practice a sensitive per son wi ll be able to find any obj ect a t any distance in this way A lthough this experiment is trivial and not new it is excellent training for those who desire to open up these channels o f silent communication sharpens their senses and teaches their mind concentration son

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In telepathic experiments with cards you can pass over the simple tests common with ordinary Mind Readers F or instance the audience may select a single card impress it on their mind and thence to the mind of the Telepathist A much more difficult feat is one which I have conducted with great success The Telepathist is taken out of the room the operator remainin g as before To begin with the entire pack of cards may be shuffled thoroughly and then the feat of removing the C ourt C ards of every suit be decided upon The Telepathist is brought blindfolded as before led to a table give n the cards The operator curves his hands round the brow as b e fore without touching and all present fix their thought upon the C ourt C ards I have seldom had a failure in this experiment but all must give entire thought and attention o r the Telepathist may fail To read a name number of a bank note etc fastened securely in an envelope the same process is gone through but in this more delicate and difiicu lt feat the O perator may place his fingers lightly on the Telepathist s temples to assist the flow of thought O ne of my best mediums has with as many as S ixteen or more pocket handkerchiefs taken from a roomful of people the handkerchiefs being tied .

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In the previous chapter I S howed you a S imple method of demonstration in the most common and conventional forms of Tho ught T ra n s fer en ce methods and experim ents which are to me unin te r e s tin g but which go a long way to convince sceptics F or all experiments passing those cited in the last chapter certain conditions must be fulfilled Remember first of all that the mental receiver the brain is a very sensitive instrument S cience boasts of the delicacy of instruments which can measure light waves sound waves color waves which can investigate the nature size and atmos m i of planets billions of les distant S cience h e re p has yet to invent the instrument which can record tho u ght but N ature herself has provided the in strument in the brain of another E xcept in unusual circumstances this brain receiver will only record thought with accuracy when the nerv ous system of the person is tran q ui l and so recep ,

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tive when it is not engaged actively in any mental work of an opposite nature and when the sur roundings are not of a character to distract the mind Therefore repose and quiet are essential O f course there are instances startling instances too o f a telepathic communication having been received in the midst of turmoil but I am dealing with the question of experiment o f pre arranged sittings not of sudden warnings etc I t is best to commence at close quarters Two kindred souls the one positive the other negative may sit in the same room later on in the same house but di fferent rooms finally in different rooms in di fferent parts of the s ame town and gradually increasing the distance as time goes and easy communication is possible To make these experiments a real success the mode o f life and diet must be of the most simple nature A s little excitement as po ssible absolute clean li ness and a clean room L et the person who acts as receiver sit down in a comfortable chair and free his mind from thought This is n o t easy but if the student will for a few days before starting experiments sit down quietly fo r an hour daily and let his mind run down i e let it run down until he has thought up all his thoughts then gradually it will be less difficult to think o f nothing ,

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your receiver catch your thought as regards actiOn from any part of the house S it down quietly as before and close your eyes Choose simple nouns to begin with— your receiver must make his mind — blank as before Think intently of a book not a — i t word but the picture of ask your receiver to give the impression he receives H e may hesitate “ a moment then he says I t is something oblong ” — it is it is a book G o o n thinking clearly of o n e obj ect at a time making the picture as sharp and vivid as possible You will need to do this at close quarters to commence with if you like you may even hold the receiver s hand though I do not recommend this O ne thing I must urge carry your hobby into everything you do try its effect upon everything and everybody whatever you think of even in the sma ll duties of life ; get into the habit of making these mental pictures of all you do and of all you see or have seen C oming to the questions of long distances and co m m u n ica tions slightly di fferent methods are called for I t is best fo r beginners to arrange a sitting at a few streets distance The operator will then as befo re close his eyes and call forth a vivid mental picture o f the receiver Then still holding the pictu re before him he must call aloud the name “ — of the receiver John S mith John S mith do ” hear me am going to write you a letter I u o y .

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Repeat the sentence two or three times making the voice clear and distinct O f course yo u can use any S imple sentences but let there be only one idea N aturally as you grow pro ficient you can leave the A B C and learn to transmit and receive whole sentences a s easily as possible B ut you must become perfect by degrees B efore you can play the piano you must learn your notes The idea of calling the name and sentence aloud is to help co n cen tra te the will and to increase the power of the vibrations by this additional concentration The methods gi ven in this lesson may be the r o ya l r o a d if there is such a thing as a royal road to any matter of psychic import ; at any rate by practicing them carefully you will gain a practical insight into the wonderful power of Thought and reali z e that the o ld theories are dead and that Thought is very far from being confined to each individual brain pan like the chained bulldog but that it can tr avel the world round and over a distance o f thousands of miles find the object o f its search ,

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We have been concerned in the transmission o f simple words and impressions so far but now it comes to the question o f transmitting Whole sen teno es which is more difficult but worked o n exactly the same principles F irst analyze your sentence let it be as direct as possible I n your own mind ; let it have some definite point S it quietly as before close your eyes and as a preliminary call up the face and figure o f your comrade ; have it very clearly before yo u and then when fixed speak loud to the image you have called up N ot only speak the words but have a clear and concentrated conception of their mean ing Take a simple sentence at first with a definite object I t is just as well to o to take a sentence that will not be anticipated by the receiver Try this experiment if you like for instance I am holding a red or white flower in my hand S ay this aloud and having arranged with your be sure that he is wait co worker as to time etc ing for your message to come through N o w d rop ,

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When I say this I mean it is not easy to impress simulated feelings upon the receiver ; when the feelings are real it is easy enough All the same try to transmit feelings o f joy love fear and anger ; it will help you to concentrate your Will and increase its power In this instance you are n o t trying to send a sentence to your receiver being unprepared may be a little startled S o during the experiments it is as well to warn him not to be astonished at any feeling or impression that may come to him These experiments come under the heading o f pre — arranged messages that is to say both of the experimenters sitting at a pre arranged time and devoting their thoughts to the transference of Thought Words sentences figures etc may be sent in this way from any distance as experiments o r tests but of course the time when perfect com m u n ica ti o n is ful ly established is much more inter esting than mere tests or experi ment s A thing I have done successfully with any number o f people is to make them come to me by telepathic com mand if I have wanted them for anything This without pre arrangement at all C over your eyes call forth the image o f the “ say aloud John S mith ( or whatever his name person you wish for then looking into his eyes ,

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may be I want you — come to me ; do you hear ? S ay it over three o r four times and picture your friend leaving his house o r office boarding bus or train walking o r riding to your house F ollow him out every step o f the journey and in the shortest possible time he will turn up impelled by what force he may n o t know yet be unable to resist it A certain amount o f sympathy between the operato r and the person thus conjured up is n ece s sary but not by any means the same sympathetic relationship which is needed fo r the experiments previously cited The di fficulty o f calling up the m en tal im age is o n e that practice will render perfect Some people can do this naturally others find it difficul t To help you take a look at a face any face close your eyes and still try to see it ; remember how the eyes no se and mouth are fo rmed the contour o f the face coloring Take another peep at the person , close your eyes and go over it again I n the same way with scenery houses animals h n u will astonished o w soo you gain control o b e y over this mental vision and by closing your eyes at any time you can see accurately any thing or person yo u want to Y o u will notice that in the '

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above experiment it is unnecessary to know what your receiver is doing or where he is You want him you send your message ; it fli e s straight to its destination and drawn by the force of your thought he comes to you You will find with a little practice that quite 50 per cent of the peopl e you know will obey the mental command and a possible 7 5 per cent will feel it whether they obey or not A s a more striking experiment you may com “ ” mand the receiver to bring you some specified obj ect say a daily paper a certain book some flowers C all his name call up his mental image ; tell him ” I want you to bring me the Tim es or any othe r paper you fix on Repetitions of this experiment will soon prove its remarkable truth You will fin d as a rule however that the people who will bring any specified object ordered will be more in sympathy with you than those who come but do not answer to the command to bring something I have had the most striking instances of the truth of these experiments O f course they a re carried o u t b etter where the people are in the same town F or naturally with a train j ourney between people think twice before obeying the thought message they receive bidding them take the j ourney unless it came in the form of a dis .

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These finer and purer vibrations of the human form take o n the exact representation of the physi cal body ; to all appearance it is the physical body but greatly e theralize d When an ordinary person goes to sleep this astral form floats lightly above his body never leaving it for long n o r for any great distance and in the undeveloped person this form takes but little shape When the Mind and S pirit are devel oped the senses conquered thought and body pure this astral form takes o n a definite shape can leave the body entirely for hours travel in the astral o r physical world as he pleases to any land o r any distance This cannot be done successfully until man has mastered the an i mal side o f hi s nature I t is possible to send this astral form to visit people or places at Will I t is very fatig uing and an experiment not to be attempted by the unde ve lo p ed person To commence with try experiments in your natural Sleep — suggest strongly to yourself as you fall o ff to sleep that yo u will remember when you wake When yo u can obey this suggestion and when ,

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can rem em ber then and not till then have you arrived at a condition suitable f o r projecting ” “ the ast ral Choose a very qu1et place where you cannot be disturbed S it o r lie down close your eye lids and roll the balls up as if you were trym g to look between the eyebrows ; in a very few minutes your eyes will grow tired and Sleep steal upon you D o not trouble to think of the sleep R em e m ber the who le eff o rt o f yo u r will i s to be — r t r l dir ected up o n yo u a s a s elf you desire this S elf to visit a certain place or person—as you fall “ ” astral to o ff to sleep all yo u r fo r ce di r e cts the its destination I can assure yo u that it will do so Your friend will look up and see you standing beside him looking perfectly natural “ ” The astral self will in advanced stages speak touch him remain with him for some time even All this sounds like a fairy story to the uniti ated but it I s often done The only drawback is the fact that the person who projects the astral in this fashion suffers from terrible fatigu e and the student who is content to work and travel during S leep does not feel such fatigue The sensation of leaving the body is curious ; one rises slowly in the atmosphere feeling strangely light an d free and the sight of the heavy Sleeping body lying uncon scious beneath o ne is yo u

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ing a patient telepathically it is best to proceed as follows : S it dow n and call up the m ental image S ee him lying down and mentally o f your patient take your seat beside him N o w commence treat “ ment by saying aloud if it helps you Y o u are quite w e ll you are in p e rfe ct he a lth; life an d he a lth p e rm e a te yo u r bo dy You are getting stron ger you grow tired and weary you are going to sleep sou nd sleep ; you will awake feeling per ” f e ctly well and quite refreshed D o not picture the person as sick and in pain but in perfect health able to m ove with ease bright cheery full of vitality You must absolutely force yourself to ignore his real condition for he will not take up your thought at all if there is any hesitation or doubt in your mi nd when you send it The patient is susceptible to every feeling and thought you allow you rself to manifest so be careful to avoid anything which may harm him We all kn ow that health is often restored by sudden joy caused by sudden trouble ; a great many o f the diseases man is liable to are o f mental origin nervous troubles and are curable by simi lar treatment The positive thought of health telepathed to the patient takes root and his mind w i rasps it fi rmly th the vital mental stimulan t ; g .

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In concluding these chapters in Telep athy I am goin g to give you an appa ratus which I have found singularly helpful in some cases where extreme “ sensitiveness was not the strong point of the re ” ceive r and only blurred and imperfect messages could be got through Any worker in metals could make the apparatus and the cost is only a few Shillings A very thin band of copper about half an inch in width should be made to fit round the head A t the two S ides of the band let two copper wires be fixed in such a position that they can join the band on either Side of the temples ; the band itself should reach just above the eyebrows and fit tightly The wires may each be o f two o r even three yards long or more Many people find the contact of pure copper very disagre e able even producing a taste in the mouth ; to neutralize this a roll of silver wire should be procured and wound not too tightly o r closely round the copper wire but not round the band this must always be of plain copper unless .

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the trained receiver who taking the Copper ends in his hand will after a moment o r so be able to read accurately the message sent by the operator The explanation is s imple enough the man who is untrained recei ves the messages as clearly as the trained sensitive ; that is to say they are clearly impressed upon his sub conscious mi nd but he does not comprehend them at all A telegraph ist can read the Morse m essage with eas e the man in the street only hears the tiresome tick— ticking o f the instrument S o the messages impressed upon the brain of the non sensitive is as clear as daylight to the sensitive Remember that it is not o u r eyes that see no r physical ears that hear ; it is the delicate mechan ism o f the brain behind them which illuminated by the living sp irit r eceive s the impressions o f sight and sound and through which the receiving inst rument of the m in d transmits its messages to the organs The dead have eyes and ears yet they neither see nor hear ; the organs are there but the living spirit of the bra i n the s o u l of the man has gone The consideration of telepathy under hyp nosis is o n e which many students will be glad to investigate There is not any difficulty about it but expe “ ri cuce will co nvince m any sceptics Put the re ,

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into a fairly deep condition of hypnosis “ by any of the methods I have explained in Prac ” tical Hypnotism then let your sceptic approach the receiver and start his experiment O f course it is necessary that the person under hypno sis should be trained sensitive ; some people can never do much in telepathy because they are of the earth earthy and incapable o f receiving any other vibration at all The sceptic may then either give t he receiver an article such as his watch a letter or glove to hold o r he may seal a paper containing words o r numbers in an envelope the contents known only to him self and not to the operato r The operato r after placing the sceptic in touch with receiver “ for a moment says This gentleman has written a letter or numbe r and has enclosed it in this ” envelope Without hesitation the receiver will declare aloud the contents o f the envelope o r from holding the watch o r glove give a ve ry accurat e description of his surroundings mental conditions troubles etc etc The subject may still under hypnosis be blindfolded tightly and any obj ect taken up haphazard be placed between his brows when he will be able to state the nature o f the object Playing cards any small ornament may be used O f course onlookers must all think hard o f the article during the experiment ,

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These chapters I n Thought Transfe rence are very valuable in everyday life When as an opera tor for Instance you have learnt how to impress “ ” the mental vision upon your receiver you will find it very easy to impress yo u r wi ll upon ordi n ary people who have no idea at all of wha t i s going on G et first of all people in a receptive condition and do not antagonize them ; talk about something they feel a deep interest in but of which they can hold forth in a friendly and quiet spirit ; then let them talk and begin to form the mental image o f the thing you wish them to do ; stop listening to what they are saying but look them quietly in the face not staring and fix the image on their brain A fter a time yo u can start the conversation in the direction you Wl sll still keep ing the mind fixed on the same subj ect : Y o u will have very few failures This method of tele pathic magnetism in business is invaluable but it is not only the operator but the receiver who has the pull in his particul ar realm Very few people do their most brilliant work with Thought Transference when undergoing tests yet they can acquire the habit o f reading the mind o f a ll tho s e they co m e i n co n tact with There are few people who come to me whom I cannot read as a book without any cfi o rt o n my part This is simply accomplished by practic e .

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