How to thought-read : $b A manual of instruction in the strange and mystic in daily life, psychic phenomena, including hypnotic, mesmeric, and psychic states, mind and muscle reading, thought transference, psychometry, clairvoyance, and phenomenal spiritualismCoates, James
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How to thought-read : $b A manual of instruction in the strange and mystic in daily life, psychic phenomena, including hypnotic, mesmeric, and psychic states, mind and muscle reading, thought transference, psychometry, clairvoyance, and phenomenal spiritualism
Coates, James
Clairvoyance; Spiritualism; Telepathy
guides, and the Christian (Spiritualist) is comforted by “messengers
sent forth to minister to them that are heirs of salvation.” I don’t
know that “thought-forms” administering counsel to a spirit having no
_personality_ is an improvement on the old ideas.
It is impossible to do justice to this Wisdom-Religion with its
orders, grades, and bewildering phraseology. It is a fancy religion
for the intellectual, without a personal God or a personal soul. Its
circles are masonic lodges for the rich. In no sense is it a religion
to meet the wants of man as man, like that founded on the life and
death of Jesus Christ. I do not pretend to explain Theosophy, for the
task is beyond me. It is a religion intended for those who realise they
are divine sparks of the Rootless Root, and not for the common people,
who are incapable of understanding a system of morals thus veiled in
allegory, and illustrated by signs and symbols. Amid the perplexities
of many words, we learn that Theosophy teaches what St. Paul indicates
as the divine order of morals by the words: “Whatsoever a man soweth,
that shall he also reap.” To work out one’s own salvation is as old as
the race. We may all be Theosophists without knowing it, as we don’t
know who we are, what we were, or who we are going to be, such is
_Karma_. Spiritualism and Theosophy are only referred to here seeing
how largely the phenomena on which they are based, is explained by “How
to Thought-Read.”
FOOTNOTES:
[A] In this way evil habits, such as erotic mania, opium eating,
dipsomania, etc., may be cured. When the strength of the vice and
the deterioration of the brain and body are such as to undermine the
will of the patient, hypnotism, properly employed, may be used and
recognised as a powerful and legitimate curative agent.
[B] “Phrenological Annual,” 1892. Extract from article by Dr. Samuel
Eadon, M.D., M.A., LL.D. and Ph.D., etc., Aberdeen and Edinburgh
Universities.
[C] “Spirits Before our Eyes,” page 215. By W. H. Harrison, 1879.
[D] Dr. Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has been Dean and Professor in several
American universities. As far back as 1830 he was Professor of
Medicine in Transylvania University. In the year 1841 he made several
important discoveries in cerebral psychology, which he communicated
to the American and to the Edinburgh Phrenological Journals. These
discoveries are elaborated in his unique system of Anthropology, and
are published in his works--“Therapeutic Sarcognomy,” “Psychometry,”
“The Dawn of a New Civilisation,” “System of Anthropology,” and “The
New Education--which can be obtained through my publishers, or direct
from myself.”
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