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The most common faculty is clairvoyance, that is to say, perception with closed eyes of what is
passing afar, whether in time or space – in the past or future. It is the penetration of the spirit of the clairvoyant
into etheric centers where are registered facts accomplished or elaborated, plans of things to be. Often the
clairvoyant acts unconsciously, without preparation. In such a case it is the result of a natural evolution, but it
can be produced, as spiritual vision can be. Colonel de Rochas in his Successive Lives tells what Mireille, his
trance subject, said of the effect of magnetism upon her.
‘When I am awake,’ she said, ‘my soul is chained to my body, and I am like a person who is shut in a
tower, and sees the exterior world only through five windows, each with a different colored glass. When you
magnetize me, you deliver me from my chains, and my soul, which aspires to elevate itself, mounts a stairway
of the tower, a stairway without windows, and I see only you who are guiding me, until the moment when I
arrive on the upper platform. There, my sight is extended in all directions, with a most acute sense which puts
me en rapport with objects I could not see through the windows of the tower.’
Clairaudience can be acquired: the hearing of interior voices, which makes it possible to communicate
with spirits. Another manifestation of the inner senses is the reading of registered events, photographed in a
certain manner on some antique or modern object. For instance, a fragment of armor, a corner of a
sarcophagus, a stone from a ruin, evokes in the mind of the seer a succession of pictures attached to the time
and place to which the object belonged. This is called psychometry.
Many people have, without knowing it, the ability to communicate by the inner senses with their
friends in space. Such are found among the very religious, the idealists who have keenly suffered, and by a
long series of trials have become more subtly attuned to spiritual vibrations. Often human souls in distress
have appealed to me, soliciting counsel and advice from the spirit worlds, which I could not procure for them.
To all such I recommend the following method: Lean on yourself, in the solitude of the silence. Elevate your
thoughts toward God. Call upon your spirit protector, the tutelary guide that Providence attaches to each of us
on the voyage of life. Interrogate this guide regarding the things which preoccupy you: if they are worthy of
his attention and free from all low or petty interests, then listen attentively in yourself. Listen and wait, and in
a short time you will hear in the depths of your consciousness the faint echo of a distant voice, or rather you
will feel the vibrations of a mysterious thought which will dissipate your doubts, drive away your anguish, and
console and comfort your heart. This is indeed one form of mediumship, and not the least beautiful. All souls
can obtain and participate in this communion with the living and the dead. It will one day be known and used
by all humanity.
We can indeed by this process correspond with the divine plan. In difficult circumstances of my life,
when I hesitated before the task which had been confided to me to spread abroad the consoling truths of
spiritualism, making an appeal to the Supreme Entity, I always heard sounding in me the earnest solemn voice
which dictated my duty. Clear and distinct, yet this voice seemed to come from a far distance. Its tender
accents touched me even to tears.
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Intuition is often but one form employed by the inhabitants of the invisible worlds to transmit their
instructions. Sometimes they are the revelations of the subconscious mind to the normal consciousness. In the
first case, we should regard them as inspiration. Through mediumship the spirit impresses its ideas on the mind
of the transmitter, who furnishes the language, according to the degree of his mental development. Each
medium gives the imprint of his own personality to the inspiration received from above. The more intellectual
and cultured the medium, the more faithfully are transmitted the high and pure communications. The wide
sheet of water cannot flow through a narrow canal - so an inspiring spirit cannot succeed in transmitting
through the organs of a medium conceptions for which no suitable channel is prepared. By a great mental
effort, under the excitation of an exterior force, the medium might express conceptions above her normal
knowledge, but in the language used would be found habitual phrases and favorite terms, elevated and
amplified at the same time by the spiritual standard.
We see then what difficulties and obstacles the human organism opposes to faithful transmission of
spiritual conceptions, and how long training is necessary to render the mind adaptable to the uses of a
disembodied intelligence. (Not only such use, but the same may be said of those who seek to delve within the
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