Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Bryan Ness, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) CLAIRVOYANCE BY C. W. LEADBEATER SECOND EDITION LONDON THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY 1903 * * * * * CONTENTS CHAPTER I. PAGE WHAT CLAIRVOYANCE IS. 5 CHAPTER II. SIMPLE CLAIRVOYANCE: FULL 29 CHAPTER III. SIMPLE CLAIRVOYANCE: PARTIAL 50 CHAPTER IV. CLAIRVOYANCE IN SPACE: INTENTIONAL 58 CHAPTER V. CLAIRVOYANCE IN SPACE: SEMI-INTENTIONAL 83 CHAPTER VI. CLAIRVOYANCE IN SPACE: UNINTENTIONAL 87 CHAPTER VII. CLAIRVOYANCE IN TIME: THE PAST 96 CHAPTER VIII. CLAIRVOYANCE IN TIME: THE FUTURE 131 CHAPTER IX. METHODS OF DEVELOPMENT 163 * * * * * CLAIRVOYANCE CHAPTER I. WHAT CLAIRVOYANCE IS. Clairvoyance means literally nothing more than "clear-seeing," and it is a word which has been sorely misused, and even degraded so far as to be employed to describe the trickery of a mountebank in a variety show. Even in its more restricted sense it covers a wide range of phenomena, differing so greatly in character that it is not easy to give a definition of the word which shall be at once succinct and accurate. It has been called "spiritual vision," but no rendering could well be more misleading than that, for in the vast majority of cases there is no faculty connected with it which has the slightest claim to be honoured by so lofty a name. For the purpose of this treatise we may, perhaps, define it as the power to see what is hidden from ordinary physical sight. It will be as well to premise that it is very frequently (though by no means always) accompanied by what is called clairaudience, or the power to hear what would be inaudible to the ordinary physical ear; and we will for the nonce take our title as covering this faculty also, in order to avoid the clumsiness of perpetually using two long words where one will suffice.