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A COURSE OF INSTRUCTION 
 
 IN THE 
 
 DEVELOPMENT OF POWER 
 
 THROUGH 
 
 CLAIRVOYANCE 
 
 PRICE $1.00. 
 
 
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 Published by 
 
 THE MAGNETIC PUBLISHING COMPANY 
 
 165 E Washington Street, CHICAGO, HJ,. 
 
Litamry of Congress 
 
 Two Copies Received 
 JAN 21 1901 
 
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 SECOND COPY 
 
 
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 January , 1901 , by 
 
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 Course in Clairvoyance* 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 There is not a mind so dull but it feels the flash of an inner 
 self, the divine spark that makes all men free and equal. This 
 equality, to be sure, is not a matter of personal worth, from mental, 
 physical or financial standpoints. But, in the words of the adept, 
 "Every soul is potentially divine." And it is this divinity that 
 is inherent in all men thai breaks forth in flashes now and then, 
 and the consciousness calls for Power, for Strength and for 
 Freedom. It is right here that we find the fine dividing point 
 between the philosopher and the fanatic. The first realizes that 
 he must develop these powers in himself or others in accord with 
 the mental ability, or the conscious ability, of the individual. He 
 works along these lines and attains a certain point beyond which 
 he cannot go. On the other hand, the fanatic dives hopelessly 
 into his seances and expects to be put in harmony with all that 
 exists. He is disappointed. He looks for something that does not 
 exist; if he would find these things as his dreams tell him they 
 are, he must die. He cannot be an angel and a denizen of this 
 sphere all at the same time. There is a dividing line and that is 
 called death. 
 
 Avoid trance states. If you hope to develop for the sake 
 of witnessing the downfall of an enemy, you might as well stop 
 right there. You cannot call upon the powers of your soul to 
 stoop to the mean acts that do not even trouble the conscience. 
 You must have a good purpose, an aim that is worthy, or the 
 reaction of your evil intents will cause your psychic downfall. 
 Like the Karma Yoga, who stops when he is so far developed 
 to demonstrate his power; he never gets any farther. Take a 
 care, or you will likewise fall ! 
 
 With these points in view, I will lead you into the mysteries 
 of this hidden power, pointing out to you the real things to be 
 considered. In fact, the art of development is all dependent upon 
 the details and not upon the few minutes' work of crystal gazing. 
 That is where clairvoyance becomes an art. 
 
 Our first lesson, then, will be to learn to select the clairvoy- 
 and to find out the systems that will be best suited for their 
 development. 
 
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LESSON I. 
 
 I have before me several persons who wish to develop as clair- 
 voyants. These I will personally question and ascertain the 
 degree they will be apt to reach. While phrenology and character 
 reading generally are all very good, they are not necessary. 
 
 Our first applicant is a lady of forty years of age. Her hair 
 is light, her eyes are blue. There are no lines of care in her 
 face. She looks to be very much at rest, at peace with the 
 world. In her eyes there is a distant look, as though she were 
 gazing into the future. I do not look to see if she is handsome ; 
 that has but little to do with it. But I do look to note whether or 
 not she is refined. She may not have been schooled in the 
 academy of the Four Hundred, but she is, I judge, one of 
 Nature's ladies. Her plane, we could say, is far above the 
 average. 
 
 I ask this lady if she has ever had any psychic experiences. 
 No, she has not. Once or twice in her life she heard voices and 
 she believes that two or three dreams have come true. I ask 
 her what she wishes to gain through development. She states that 
 it is merely to reach a higher state. She says time drags on her 
 hands often and that she has heard that there is an inner con- 
 sciousness, a spiritual plane of which she would like to learn 
 more. 
 
 Now, here is a woman who will be a first class clairvoyante. 
 She will develop in a reasonable time; say two months. That, 
 however, is a matter that cannot be told truthfully by any one. 
 
 Remember this woman, I will refer to her later. She repre- 
 sents one distinct class. 
 
 Here is a man thin and nervous. His black hair is threaded 
 with gray and his cold gray eyes look restlessly here and there. 
 He is a man who has tasted life's sorrows, a man who has 
 experienced more in his forty-five years than most men experience 
 in their three score years and ten. He steps eagerly forward and 
 asks me what the chances are for development. I ask him what 
 experiences he has had, and they are many. At one time he 
 was a good automatic writer; at another he succeeded in getting 
 a telepathic message from a friend who was on his deathbed ; at 
 still another he saw a vision which portrayed a coming disaster 
 that actually occurred. But he has continually gained and 
 lost in his psychic force. He wants to develop, to locate a lost 
 brother. He is willing to devote his life to the task. 
 
 Sorry, very sorry, but here is a man who will never be a good 
 clairvoyant. I extend to him the meager hope that he may be 
 able to get a message, but the chances are against him. There 
 is a possibility and he grasps it. Remember him, too, for he is 
 the representative of another type. 
 
 Next is an old lady; she is fully seventy and she hopes to 
 develop in order to converse with her spirit friends. She has 
 had a life filled with psychic experiences, she says, and if she 
 
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can develop she will gladly pay whatever I ask. Poor old lady ; 
 she has passed through the storms of a long life and in the light 
 of the setting sun she hopes to get a glimpse of that which is to 
 come. She will see it, but not clairvoyantly. Still, I instruct her, 
 knowing that she will delude herself into seeing that which does 
 not exist. In a case like this, it is not a crime. She will see; 
 but death will follow soon and even though she has deluded 
 herself, it has acted as a blessing to her closing days. She, too, 
 represents a class. 
 
 The next one that comes is a school girl. She is healthy 
 and well built, but in her eyes I see that light that tells of an 
 inner longing; she wants something better than she sees in her 
 every-day life. She is an idealist, a day dreamer. She will develop. 
 Her class is the one that comes nearly under the same head as the 
 one represented by the first applicant. 
 
 Following her is a young man of perhaps twenty-five years 
 of age. He is quick in his movements and absorbs everything 
 in the room with his rapidly shifting eyes. He has been a 
 student of the occult for nearly two years, he informs me, and he 
 has read every one from Hudson to pamphlets. Yes, he has 
 mixed with all classes and has seen more than most people do 
 when they have studied forty years. But he has not found 
 what he wants. He asks me if I will give him a guarantee. 
 Poor soul ! He never will find what he is looking for. He has 
 read, that is true, but the little knowledge that he gets out of it 
 is too small to be considered. Every other word is "Objective" 
 or "Subjective !" He knows that these words exist, but the mean- 
 ing never dawns on him. He will never develop and I have 
 to ask him to step aside to give my next applicant audience. 
 
 She is a very fat woman and she puffs terribly as she steps 
 up to present her case. She is sure that she has seen angels, and 
 faces are always near her. She has succeeded in many psychic 
 experiments. In fine, she was born with a vision in her eyes. 
 Yes, fat lady, you will develop, but although you see more 
 things than the Witch of Endor, not one will be true. However, 
 there is a heap of comfort in it, and I tell her to develop. 
 
 Now comes the hardest proposition of all. He might be a 
 minister or a college professor, or an elite looking business man. 
 He is clothed in Broadway style and is exact in everything he 
 does. He is willing to pay for even the little time he takes up, 
 but he wants to be told the absolute truth. In cautiously conducted 
 experiments in telepathy he has succeeded very well, and he feels 
 as though he would be a good clairvoyant if the right instructions 
 were given him. But he insists he has been a student of the exact 
 sciences and knows but little of the occult. Alas, here is a man to 
 whom I cannot give an honest answer. If I tell him that he will 
 not develop, he will thank me, ask my charges and go to the 
 next teacher he hears of. He is an investigator, and there is 
 
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no one who meets such utter disappointment as an investigator, 
 a phenomena hunter. Ask one and find out for yourself. 
 
 Here is a man who might make a good clairvoyant ; he might 
 not. We will discuss his case in the next lesson. 
 
 LESSON II. 
 
 We will now return to the first applicant, the lady who I said 
 would be a good clairvoyante. Here are the reasons : 
 
 She is a spiritual woman, but looks on the occult as a means 
 to a desired end. She does not shudder at the mention of the 
 name and believes it to be the means to something better, 
 nothing more. She feels that there is a divinity in every life 
 and her experience in the world has never taught her otherwise. 
 She would never think of looking on the commercial side, but 
 even if that were necessary she would succeed clairvoyantly, for 
 her mind is pure, evil has never entered it and never will. She 
 shrinks from a mention of anything that is not up to the standard 
 and her life has been such to develop her in that line. 
 
 Take her class; you will find them in all walks of life, but 
 among the relatively poor more than anywhere else. They have 
 never indulged in unwholesome food. They have been taught 
 to regard the body as a divine institution and a fit dwelling place 
 for the soul. She has likely been a church woman ; this lady who 
 represents her class. But that is immaterial. She has been 
 spiritual and has always taken a delight in helping those who 
 applied to her for mercy. She has never turned a tramp away 
 hungry and has never allowed herself to see a dog suffer, or a 
 cat left in the cold; she always stretched forth a helping hand. 
 Sometimes these good souls come in contact with the world 
 and witness its sorrow, but their stand remains unchanged; they 
 are just the same spiritually and they will develop. 
 
 We are thus taught that a clean, whole-souled man or woman 
 is better fitted for these things than their less fortunate sisters 
 and brothers. 
 
 How about this nervous man ? Why, that man never is passive 
 long enough to accomplish anything. He is unstrung all the 
 time. Even in his sleep he is uneasy. He will see ; oh yes, he will 
 get visions and some of them will be true, but the chances are 
 that when he is just about developed, that little subconscious that 
 has been bringing itself forth will draw back into the silence 
 and his visions have fled. 
 
 Now, as we look at this old lady, with her kind but worried 
 face, we see the gentle touch of Merciful Providence. She is 
 passing into her second childhood, although the indications are 
 not marked to any extent. She will see what she wishes. Her 
 race is nearly run; some day she will die in her chair with a 
 happy smile on her face. She will see her vision and pass on 
 to a realization of the original. Her condition is partly sub- 
 conscious and there is no reason she should not see anything. 
 So, if you are looking for a little information for any one like 
 
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this, help them; they will reap a little pleasure thereby, and 
 possibly will pass into another life with no harsh thoughts of a 
 life of care that has faded into the dim past of a mundane 
 existence. 
 
 I have known a few like our next — the girl with the medita- 
 tive face. I have known a few and met more through corre- 
 spondence. They are good clairvoyants, and if they are allowed 
 to follow the occult within a certain limit it is helpful to them. 
 But they must also look on the material side or they will injure 
 themselves by wasting the conscious powers. 
 
 In the young of this class there must be plenty of good 
 outdoor exercise, or the mind and body will suffer and insanity 
 and death will surely result. 
 
 So we find that there is something besides development to 
 consider in these studies. I do not intend to frighten you. But 
 you must always use judgment if you wish to have good results. 
 There are some people who could never hurt themselves, because 
 they are too practical to utilize the subconscious. There are 
 others who would be reduced in weight and who would become 
 sickly at the outset if they were not developed in accord with 
 Nature. Therefore, where you see one of this class who wishes to 
 develop, instruct him that he must not spend much time each day 
 at this kind of work. Fifteen minutes out of twenty-four hours 
 will be sufficient. Be careful not to overdo it. 
 
 Here we have arrived at the wise young man. Poor fellow, 
 he means well enough, but he is like the berry picker who is always 
 looking for a new bush and wears himself out hunting it, return- 
 ing with no berries, while his slower brother gets his pail filled 
 and returns unfatigued. He is the fellow that never knows when 
 he has found the right thing. He has reached a stage at which he 
 feels that he knows all there is to know along these lines. Poor 
 boy, tell him that you are busy and have him call again. Be 
 sure to know when that time will be and when he calls, be out! 
 It is a bad thing to tell students to do anything cruel, but I trust 
 that you all catch the application. In a word : whether you intend 
 to learn and then teach, or just learn, there is nothing that will 
 waste your time as much as a man of this class. 
 
 This fat woman represents a class that need not necessarily 
 be fat. Nor do I say that fat people cannot develop. That is not 
 the point. I merely want to bring this out : There are a great 
 many people, and among them you will find all sorts ; they are not 
 confined to any particular class ; they are always "seem* things," 
 as Eugene Field said. Well, they are always seeing, but they 
 never see anything v/orth the while ! That is just where they can 
 develop and reap no benefits therefrom ! 
 
 The representative of the last class is indeed a hard one. He 
 might make a good clairvoyant, but the chances are very much 
 against him. He is looking for "signs," and he will never get 
 them as long as he keeps on searching. He will have to quit 
 
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looking in that matter-of-fact manner or he will always be look- 
 ing and never finding. You cannot find the inner forces without 
 employing something that will bring forth those powers. The 
 sooner you all realize that, the better it will be for you. 
 
 This, then, has been a lesson of classes, and their representa- 
 tives. We will next pass on to individual marks and consider 
 those. In this manner we will become conversant with the many 
 little things that are so essential, and which we can place under 
 the one head— Clairvoyant Knowledge! 
 
 LESSON III. 
 
 Clairvoyance is commonly referred to as "Clear Sight," or 
 the ability to see that which is happening or is gong to happen. 
 The latter is the most common use of it, as telepathy enters into the 
 present too much to consider it as clairvoyance. 
 
 There are a variety of theories regarding clairvoyance, and in 
 fact there is not a sect or a creed in the fields of occultism that 
 does not point to clairvoyance as representing their beliefs. The 
 spiritualists believe it is the work of spirits ; the hard-shelled 
 investigators look upon it as a form of telepathy; others say 
 that it is the projection of the astral body. Still, when we come 
 down to the facts, it makes no material difference what the 
 cause may be. Never mind the cause. The effects are what we 
 wish to produce. 
 
 The percentage of people who can develop in some form of 
 clairvoyance is very large. There are perhaps 90 per cent of 
 those interested enough to attempt development to see clearly 
 in some degree or other. Do not misinterpret this as meaning 
 that 90 per cent of people in general can accomplish this. I 
 refer to those sufficiently interested to attempt it. 
 
 As a general thing, those with light hair, blue eyes, and fair 
 complexions develop readily and are the most proficient. On the 
 other hand, while the dark haired person develops, the process is 
 slow generally, and with a great preference to graded steps. This 
 preference is, by the way, a sort of subconscious thing and really 
 has nothing to do with their conscious intents. 
 
 Some children show signs of being good clairvoyants, but it is 
 an unusual thing, despite the fact that they are somnambulists to 
 a certain extent. 
 
 The years between the ages of eighteen and thirty are about 
 the best for pursuits of this kind. But there are a great many 
 exceptions, and there are cases where aged people have developed 
 wonderfully. 
 
 Those who possess the ability to bring out these powers gen- 
 erally feel that ability. They cannot account for the feeling, 
 further than that it is an assurance that they will succeed. This 
 is the greatest requisite, in fact, to success. If it does not exist 
 there is no need of trying. If there is not enough of that inner 
 feeling to tell you that there is a possibility, there never will be. 
 
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Psychology is different from any other branch of study. You 
 know that in the exact sciences you can learn if you have the brain 
 power to see you through. You know that you can bring about 
 certain results. If people did not know this we would have few 
 colleges. But that is not a matter of experiment, while psychology 
 is. It is dealing with something that we can neither weigh, 
 measure nor see. Casting aside all figures of speech, we cannot 
 handle it in this manner. We have to adopt other means. It is 
 like dealing with imaginary quantities. We might figure them 
 out well enough on paper, but when we come to look for the 
 articles themselves they are not there. They are airy, unsettled. 
 They are properties of the mentality and cannot be reached 
 except in an intelligent manner. We must attack them through 
 the avenues of the physical, and when that is done there is some 
 hope for success. 
 
 So we will go into the arrangement of details and take up 
 the various classes as I have introduced them to you. In this 
 manner you will learn the principles of development. 
 
 No matter what your abilities, certain things must be arranged 
 if you hope to attain success. These might be variously classed 
 as environments, or as requisites. Call them what you will, ar- 
 range matters as I tell you to and you will be in a far better way 
 to succeed than you otherwise could be. 
 
 The first point is silence. No matter what time of day or night 
 you choose to practice you must be alone, in quiet surroundings 
 and with your mind at ease. Never try to practice with your 
 tranquillity gone. It is better to practice only once a week and 
 have everything up to the standard, than to practice every day and 
 not feel just like it. You must feel equal to the occasion; other- 
 wise it is labor, and severe labor at that. 
 
 Have a room in which you take your exercises. Do not look for 
 a room supplied with all the comforts of a modern home. If it is 
 warm and not too well filled with furniture it is just what you 
 want. When you retire to this room, you know that you are 
 leaving all that troubles you. You have locked it outside your 
 door and if it is necessary to take it up again, do so when you are 
 through with your work and not before. 
 
 As to the time, it can be in the morning, afternoon or night. 
 The time does not really make a great deal of difference, although 
 anywhere between eight and eleven in the morning might be 
 quoted as the best suited to this kind of work. However, there are 
 a great many people looking for development who can not spare 
 this time and they are obliged to take their time in the evening. 
 
 This brings us down to the matter of light. No matter what 
 you may be, what class you may come under, there can be no 
 exception to this rule. The light must be subdued, but not 
 necessarily dim. For instance, if you practice during the day, 
 you can draw the curtains or shades to the windows. If you 
 have a north light in the day time, it would be a great deal better. 
 
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If you take your practices in the evening, have the light 
 shaded with a blue shade. Blue is a good color to use for this 
 purpose and it aids greatly in bringing about the psychic, or 
 subconscious, condition. 
 
 A piece of blue tissue paper will answer this purpose very 
 well. It does not make a great deal of difference what kind of 
 light you use. You can readily arrange a shade of this paper with 
 a little wire. It must be so placed that it will shed an even 
 light on you and your surroundings. 
 
 The articles that are to assist you will be a table, or a stand, 
 and a chair. Have nothing on the stand, and nothing in the 
 room directly back of it. See that the top is not shiny, as it 
 will reflect the light if it is and that is to be avoided. If you have 
 to place a spread of any kind on this table, have a dark one. A 
 black, or gray, shade would be the best to have. Spread it evenly 
 over the top of the table so that when you place your crystal 
 on it, you will have no other object to claim your attention. 
 
 There are crystals that cost a great many dollars. The 
 genuine is a precious stone, but you can get one for two or three 
 cents that will do the work for you just as well. This is nothing 
 more nor less than a plain glass, such as is generally used for 
 drinking purposes. But be sure that there are no flowers, no ribs, 
 nor ornaments of any kind on it. It must be plain, without a base, 
 and the glass must be clear. 
 
 This crystal, when in use, is to be filled with clear water. 
 When you are ready for your exercise place it on the table, in 
 the middle and elevated so that, when you are seated before it, 
 the glass is just even with your eyes. This may make it necessary 
 to place the crystal on a book or two, but if you do that be sure to 
 cover them the same as you did the table. That crystal is to be 
 the one object that you see; all else is to be secondary. 
 
 When this crystal is not in use, keep it polished and away 
 from the hands of others. It may sound strange and be dis- 
 credited by many, but there is an influence that is exerted by the 
 mind and the body on all objects, that a trained, or developed, 
 psychic can tell the moment an object of this nature is touched. 
 It is therefore paramount that you observe these rules, for even 
 though you may not develop, there is a possibility that you will 
 and that chance is just great enough to give you the feeling that 
 a little care might do a great deal of good. Therefore, in con- 
 sideration of this fact, observe this rule closely. 
 
 When you have arranged these things, see that the position is 
 such that the light does not reflect to any extent in the crystal. 
 It may be necessary to move the table several times before the 
 best position is found. Or moving your own chair may do the 
 work all right. At any rate, there will likely be a little reflected 
 light in the water, but if it is not too bright it will not interfere. 
 
 The room must have fresh air in it just prior to your sitting. 
 Do not bring about any abnormal physical conditions in order 
 
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to see anything. You must gain what is learned through true 
 experience and not try to delude yourself into seeing that which 
 does not exist. 
 
 LESSON IV. 
 
 Before taking up the matter of gazing into the crystal, we 
 will study the kinds of exercises necessary for the different 
 classes we considered in the beginning: 
 
 There is distinctly, we have learned, the spiritual class, who 
 are apt to give more attention to* these things than they should 
 give; there is the material class who are willing to believe if 
 anything is demonstrated, and there is the class who find that 
 they see things the moment they are seated and who. really 
 never would develop if they were not rather cautious. Then, 
 again, there is the seeker after occult knowledge who is nervous 
 and would likely develop if he could get settled; or, we can 
 find the one who will accept only what he gets through his con- 
 scious knowledge ; through reason. 
 
 Let us take the first of these, the spiritual class: 
 
 No matter what your age, if you have kept away from other 
 people for the sake of meditation, you must be careful, very 
 careful, in developing along clairvoyant lines. The first thing is 
 fresh air. Be a deep breather. Get all the fresh air you can 
 and mingle with company. It is essential if you ever hope to 
 gain anything. 
 
 Take your regular exercise every day. Walk; do anything 
 that will bring you in contact with the ordinary; you will get 
 the other in its own good time. Never take over fifteen minutes 
 a day to your development. And do not practice passive con- 
 centration, which I will give hereafter to those classes in need 
 of it. 
 
 Those spiritually inclined must spend much time with other 
 people if they want to make a success of clairvoyance. They must 
 not be left alone with their own thoughts too much, for they 
 will soon sacrifice everything for the occult and the result is 
 melancholia and finally death. 
 
 Now we come to the materially inclined ; those wo are apt to 
 be altogether matter-of-fact. Before you look into that glass 
 for the purpose of development, you must go through an exercise 
 that will take from five to ten minutes. Go to your room and 
 remove any part of your clothing that will interfere with a re- 
 laxed condition of your muscles. Be seated in front of your crys- 
 tal, after all the things have been arranged as taught in the pre- 
 ceding lesson. 
 
 Then close your eyes. As you do so roll them back in your 
 head. Now start by slowly counting, going as high as a hundred. 
 Then take a few long, deep breaths and settle back in your chair 
 in a dreamy state. 
 
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From time to time slowly lift your hands a short distance 
 and then let them drop back to> their places of rest. After you 
 have done this a few times, keep very quiet for a minute or 
 two before you open your eyes. In fact, it would be a great deal 
 better if you were to give up a certain time each day to relaxation 
 and passivity without attempting anything with the crystal, for a 
 week or two. You must be in a passive state or you will never 
 see anything or get results of any kind. 
 
 The material man or woman is too apt to discredit that which 
 he really sees and pay no attention to the real manifestations, 
 while, on the other hand, the spiritual man or woman would 
 often see and imagine it a great deal more than it really was. 
 This, in fact, is a fine point in the art, for art it really is. To 
 be able to distinguish is the main feature in any form of psychic 
 development, whether it is clairvoyance or anything else. I will 
 take up that phase of the subject in the next lesson, however, so 
 that you all may find an aid toward distinguishing between the 
 real and the imaginary. 
 
 Now we come to the class who see things which are not there. 
 They are neither spiritual nor material beings. They are like the 
 fat lady to whom I referred in the first lesson; they believe too 
 easily. Drawing the line between the "spiritual" and the 
 "material," as I have termed them, I wish to call the attention 
 of the reader to a few facts: A spiritual being is one (as the 
 psychic sense is intended) who is of the subconscious sort, blended 
 with enough of the conscious attributes to be a very conscientious 
 being. Some tend toward the abnormal and are continually sad, 
 while others are of a happy disposition, yet always feel as though 
 Eternity were but a step beyond them, and that the mysteries 
 of the universe were nearly theirs. The material, on the other 
 hand, may be interested in psychology, but they are not the ones 
 to get the finer results. It is impossible for them to get such 
 results; hence, they are radical in their deductions and claim 
 all for the material side and nothing for the spiritual. The 
 man who' is best fitted for investigation is he who realizes the 
 existence of these finer forces and is fair enough to discriminate 
 between them. It is he who can draw the line between the 
 real and the unreal. The spiritual man goes all to the one ex- 
 treme ; the material goes to the other, while the real investigator 
 and critic is he who maintains the happy mean ; he who is earnest 
 while investigating and not all absorbed in it at other times. 
 
 But I am forgetting; the fat lady and the class she represents 
 now claim our attention. Here we find a class of people who are 
 apt to see that which never existed. 
 
 Now if you, reader, are of that class, don't feel offended, but 
 strive to profit by what I have said and am about to say : When 
 you enter the room, have it very light for a few minutes. Stand 
 erect before the strongest light and take a few long, deep breaths. 
 Then, facing about, pick out some point on the wall and watch 
 
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it intently, slowly walking toward it. When you have reached 
 the other end of the room, turn around and, keeping your eyes 
 fastened on another point, walk back again. Again repeat your 
 breathing and go through the same exercise. While this is not 
 intended as a lesson in concentration, it is intended as a lesson in 
 producing harmony, if that word is acceptable. 
 
 Here again we find the nervous man, the one who is afraid of 
 sitting still for a minute or two for fear that he will ossify. He 
 is the man who must be trained to be quiet or he will never 
 learn anything occult. It is impossible to be worked up in a nervous 
 state and accomplish anything along these lines. So practice lots 
 of deep breathing, and choose a time when you are most at rest. 
 That is rather indefinite, I admit, but it is the best advise. These 
 men and women suddenly tone down now and then and those 
 are the times they should practice. If they go to sleep while 
 gazing into their crystal, so much the better ! It is a good sign, 
 and they will soon get over their nervousness. 
 
 The man who awaits clairvoyant results through reason alone is 
 in a hard way. He will have a hard time developing it, and if he 
 really intends to get results he must give himself up to his work 
 in a listless, easy sort of way during his exercises and then, 
 when it is all over with, let him reason it out. That is a fair 
 proposition all around. I would never ask any man to accept that 
 which his reason told him did not exist. Get down to the real 
 work and you can depend upon your reasoning powers afterward. 
 
 LESSON V. 
 
 This is the lesson in crystal gazing. Or, to amend that state- 
 ment, it is a lesson in distinguishing between the real and the 
 false. The gazing in itself, as I have suggested, is the smallest 
 part of the whole study. It is merely the means through which 
 you accomplish that for which you have been practicing and 
 studying. 
 
 By this time you will have picked out your class and brought 
 about the condition necessary. Having done that, you will seat 
 yourself before the crystal — providing you did not take your 
 exercise in your chair — and open your eyes. It is always best to 
 close your eyes just a moment before you look into your crystal. 
 By so doing you do away with distinct memory of some image 
 that has just been thrown upon your retina. 
 
 When you gaze into your crystal, look in through the glass 
 and not into the top. You are to focus your eyes at a point in the 
 center, or, in other words, in the DEPTHS of the water. 
 
 Ten minutes is a long time to gaze, although there are some 
 seers who look into this crystal for fifteen or twenty minutes 
 without experiencing any fatigue. Above all things — whether 
 you are material, spiritual or anything else — avoid drawing your 
 muscles tense when you look into that water. You must be 
 
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relaxed and look into the crystal in a listless, yet interested, sort 
 of manner. Blink your eyes as often as you care to. You are 
 apt to see things get rather cloudy after you have looked for 
 a while, and it is often better to look away and start in again; 
 too steady gazing hurts the eyes. 
 
 Do not look over twenty minutes, and I would advise the 
 average to gaze only about ten minutes. The object is to see 
 things in this glass. It takes time and patience and many sittings. 
 It is even probable that you may follow it up for months without 
 receiving anything. If you are after this development through 
 love of it and not out of idle curiosity, this will not discourage 
 you. But if it is with the belief that some one or something is 
 going to bestow a certain power on you, ask yourself why you 
 should thus be favored ! You must pay the price for power, and 
 that price is conscientious practice. If it is not worth that, don't 
 look for a remnant sale in the occult, for you will never find it. 
 
 The first impressions that come are usually in the form of 
 lights, clouds or shadows. They appear to float through the 
 water, and are generally not very pronounced at first. 
 
 The crystal is used, you will understand, as a means for photo- 
 graphing your subconscious pictures upon something material. 
 In reality there is no picture in that crystal. But through your 
 practice you learn to get your subconscious impressions in that 
 manner. Not only is that accomplished, but they are thus brought 
 to the attention and knowledge of your conscious without being 
 tainted and spoiled by the processes of reasoning, which, by the 
 way, has nothing to do with this side of the mentality. 
 
 There is a sort of translucent effect about a crystal that appeals 
 to the occult side of nature. It is like music in minor strains, like 
 paintings of grander things. 
 
 The first stage is the transferring of the subconscious messages 
 to the conscious through the aid of the crystal as a conductor of 
 subconscious conditions. You, therefore, get but the wanderings 
 of your own mind, in all its phases, in your first pictures. I will 
 admit that there are a few isolated cases in which the student 
 developed at the start and was a full fledged psychic. This 
 is rare. 
 
 The next steps are along these lines, with a glimpse of telepathy 
 here and there. They bring in a picture or perhaps a face. It 
 is hazy and easily disappears. Sometimes you forget the world, 
 your surroundings, all. You see a panorama in your crystal, 
 scenes are enacted before you. The crystal disappears. Finally 
 something attracts your attention and you are aroused. If you 
 are not very spiritual you will believe that you have slept. But 
 such was not the case. You have been in a subconscious state 
 and have been developing even though you did not know it. 
 
 When you reach the telepathic stage you often get impressions 
 that you afterward find are true. It is even possible that you get 
 
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clairvoyant messages. These messages usually come in the form 
 of symbols or you actually see them enacted. The pictures appear 
 to be of different sizes with different people. Some are small 
 and in the crystal while others assume almost natural dimensions, 
 and you believe that you are actually in a different place. Per- 
 haps you are; at least some writers tell us so. 
 
 LESSON VI. 
 
 But there is a sign that cannot be mistaken. It will come 
 sooner or later. It is this : When you have reached that stage 
 in your development the crystal will get very dark and yet will 
 not be obscured from your view. It will be dark but not because 
 your eyes are tired. This generally happens upon looking into 
 it at the beginning of your exercise for that day. 
 
 If it clears afterward it will have a crystal appearance that 
 it never possessed before. In it will come the pictures and you are 
 left to interpret them. 
 
 Regarding interpretations, I wish to say that there develops 
 a feeling that cannot be mistaken. You know and yet you cannot 
 say why you know. You see a picture in the crystal and no sooner 
 has it appeared than you are aware of its meaning. So you keep 
 right on developing even after you are clairvoyant. You will 
 always develop and it is at this stage that new wonders are opened 
 to you. 
 
 There are certain things that you cannot apply, however, that 
 will not interfere with your own interpretation. It is better to learn 
 them when you start in. It is merely a case of auto-suggestion. 
 You are drilling a certain code into your mind every day and you 
 will learn to picture your messages in accordance with your rules. 
 
 All light color is a good indication. That is, when you look 
 into the crystal and see a light green or blue, or a purple, it is a 
 good indication. If you are looking for yourself, it indicates 
 that there are favorable things in store for you. White, of course, 
 is the best indication. But green is a photograph, as it were, of 
 hope. Where there is lots of green there is sure to be hope. 
 
 A dark red is an unfavorable color, and yellow is an indica- 
 tion of a jealous, unfair feeling. 
 
 Other dark colors are unfavorable, and black is most undesir- 
 able. 
 
 Pictures mean different things. But to avoid any mistake I 
 will give you no rules in interpreting them. You are so different, 
 readers, that you will differ in pictures where you would not differ 
 in colors. 
 
 Strive to get the right meanings out of them yourself. It will 
 surprise you the way you develop in this respect if you depend 
 upon your own powers and do not consult books. 
 
 A dog, for instance, would be a symbol of friendship. An 
 anchor would either indicate that something was steadfast, or be 
 a warning to be steadfast. A lion would indicate strength, etc. 
 
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But the main point is to conduct these questions on a sys- 
 tematic basis. 
 
 Ask all your questions mentally; that is, if you ask questions. 
 We will suppose that you have now developed so that you can get 
 good answers — answers, in fact, upon which you can depend. 
 
 You enter your room, arrange your crystal — never mind the 
 light now ; have it bright and clear — and, after holding it in your 
 hands for about a minute, you place it on the table and look into 
 it. This would be an invitation, as it were, to your subconscious 
 mind, to get the general outlook of things for yourself. As the 
 panorama comes and goes you see various things. Clairvoyance 
 is not partial. If there is anything bad in store, you are going to 
 see it. 
 
 When you are to get nothing definite, clouds, shadows, etc., 
 appear and float in a confused way before you. Sometimes these 
 lights are very pretty and again they are badly mixed. When 
 this occurs it is time to ask questions. But be sure and ask them 
 mentally. Do not ask them aloud. If you are to get any answers 
 at all, they will be forthcoming and you will get them in a very 
 short time. 
 
 When you have had a great many good results yourself, you 
 can look for others. This is the only time you are to allow them 
 to hold the crystal. It is often called magnetising it. You hold 
 it a moment and then hand it to the other. He holds it with one 
 hand on the bottom and the other on the top for a minute or so. 
 When he hands it back to you, you will get impressions for him. 
 Only one must hold it at a time, or confusion will result. 
 
 By following up these lines you bring about a condition 
 wherein you can get messages from your subconscious at any and 
 all times. You will not get them as marked as you do in your 
 crystal gazing, because things do not favor you as they do then. 
 But you will get them either through clairaudience (hearing the 
 message spoken) or by the very thoughts taking a certain drift. 
 You learn to distinguish between the real and the false through 
 practice. 
 
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