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SECOND SIGHT
A STUDY OF NATURAL AND INDUCED CLAIRVOYANCE
BY
SEPHARIAL
AUTHOR OF "A MANUAL OF ASTROLOGY," "PROGNOSTIC ASTRONOMY," "AMANUAL OF OCCULTISM," "KABALISTIC ASTROLOGY," "THE KABALA OF NUMBERS," ETC.,ETC.
LONDON
WILLIAM RIDER & SON, LIMITED
1912
Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
Brunswick Street, Stamford Street, S.E.,
and Bungay, Suffolk.
| Introduction | 7 | |
| Chapter I. | The Scientific Position | 10 |
| Chapter II. | Materials and Conditions | 21 |
| Chapter III. | The Faculty of Seership | 29 |
| Chapter IV. | Preliminaries and Practice | 39 |
| Chapter V. | Kinds of Vision | 51 |
| Chapter VI. | Obstacles to Clairvoyance | 59 |
| Chapter VII. | Symbolism | 67 |
| Chapter VIII. | Allied Psychic Phases | 76 |
| Chapter IX. | Experience and Use | 84 |
| Conclusion | 93 |
INTRODUCTION
Few words will be necessary by way of preface to this book,which is designed as an introduction to a little understood and muchmisrepresented subject.
I have not here written anything which is intended to displacethe observations of other authors on this subject, nor will it be found thatanything has been said subversive of the conclusions arrived at byexperimentalists who have essayed the study of clairvoyant phenomena in a mannerthat is altogether commendable, and who have sought to place the subject on ademonstrable and scientific basis. I refer to the proceedings of the Society forPsychical Research.
In the following pages I have endeavoured to indicate the natureof the faculty of Second Sight or Clairvoyance, the means of its development,the use of suitable media or agents for this purpose, and the kind of resultsthat may be expected to follow a regulated effort in this direction. I have alsosought to show that the development of the psychic faculties may form an orderlystep in the process of human unfoldment and perfectibility.
As far as the nature and scope of this little work will allow, Ihave sought to treat the subject on a broad and general basis rather th