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was suddenly attacked by violent spasms, whose symptoms no science of pathology or physiology could
explain. She lost for months all use of her eyes, but instead saw by her ears: with bandaged eyes she read
printed lines placed against her ear! When a magnifying glass was placed between her ears and the sun, she
complained that they were trying to burn her eyes and blind her! So strange were the conditions surrounding
this case, that the idea came to me that perhaps spiritualism would aid me to approach the facts.' Gerard Harry,
the biographer of marvelous Helen Keller, said that the intensity of her perceptions conferred upon her ability
of reading thoughts. The case of Helen Keller proves that behind her atrophied organs of sight and hearing
there exists a consciousness long familiarized with ideas of interior worlds. It is a demonstration of anterior
lives of the soul with all its perfect senses, and surviving all corporeal disintegration.
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To develop and refine the perception in a general manner, we must first awaken the inner senses - the
spiritual. Mediumship demonstrates to us that there are human beings more fully endowed with inner vision
and hearing than are certain disembodied entities whose evolution has been limited. The purer and more
disinterested are our thoughts and acts, the more our spiritual life predominates over the physical, the greater
will be our inner development.
The veil which hides the etheric world grows thinner and more transparent, and behind it the soul
perceives a marvelous ensemble of harmonies and beauties. At the same time, it becomes more capable of
receiving and transmitting the revelations and the inspirations from superior beings, for development of the
interior senses coincides generally with increased powers of the mind, and to a more generous attraction of
etheric radiations.
Every plane of the universe, every circle of life, corresponds to a number of vibrations which become
more subtle and rapid, in the measure that they approach the perfect life. The beings endowed with but feeble
powers of radiation cannot perceive the forms of life superior to them. But each soul is capable of obtaining,
by will and educations of the inner senses, a power of vibration which will permit him to act upon higher
planes of consciousness. We find proofs of the intensity of mental emanations in certain cases of people dying,
or in great danger, who telepathically, at a great distance, impress the fact on several minds at one time. In the
Annals of Psychic Science, for October 1906, such a case is recorded. In truth, each one of us could, if we
would, communicate at any hour with worlds invisible.
We are spirits, and we command matter and disengage ourselves from its bonds, and live in the freer
sphere of super consciousness. For that one thing is necessary, viz. to come into the spiritual life with a perfect
concentration of all our inner forces. Then will we find ourselves face to face with an order of things which
neither instinct nor experience nor reason can seize. The soul in its expansion can break down the walls of
flesh which imprison it, and communicate by its new senses with superior and divine worlds. That is what the
saints and the great mystics of all time and all religions have done.
William James says: 'The most important result of research into trance conditions is the breaking down
of barriers between the individual and the absolute. By this we establish our identity with the Infinite. It is the
eternal and triumphant experience of mysticism that one finds in all climates and all religions. All proclaim
with the same accents and imposing unanimity the oneness of man with God. These mystic states of trance
reveal depths of truth unsounded by reason. They prove that the physical senses are but one mode of
consciousness. These mystic states are like windows opening on a wide extended world!'
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Spiritualism in a certain measure demonstrates the justice of these words. Mediumship, under varied
forms, is the result of a psychic force which permits the soul senses to enter in for a moment, and substitute
themselves in place of the physical senses, and to perceive what is imperceptible to others. The spirit desiring
to communicate recognizes at sight the organism which in the medium will serve its purposes as an
intermediary, and acts accordingly. Sometimes it is the word, or again penmanship by mechanic action of the
hand, or the brain when it is a question of mediumistic intuition. In temporary incorporations it is entire and
full possession and adaptation of the spiritual senses of the possessor to the physical senses of the subject.
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