Practical Psychomancy and Crystal GazingAtkinson, William Walker
Religion
Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing
Atkinson, William Walker
Clairvoyance; Crystal gazing; Magic
In this class of phenomena the consciousness of the person does not
remain within the physical organism, but is actually projected along
with the Astral Body to the point being psychically viewed or examined.
This form of Psychomancy is, of course, a higher degree of
manifestation than the class previously described. Here physical
consciousness is temporarily suspended (perhaps for but a moment or so)
and the Astral Body containing the consciousness of the individual is
projected to some point, perhaps far distant, with the rapidity of
thought, where it examines objects there situated, receiving sensations
through and by means of the Astral Senses. This phenomena may arise
while the person is in a trance, or sleep, etc., or else in a moment of
concentrated abstraction, when one is "day-dreaming"; in a "brown
study"; or "wrapped in thought," as the familiar terms run. When he
returns to his physical body he "comes to himself," and what he has
seen or heard seems to him like a "day-dream" or fantasy--unless he be
a trained seer, in which case the two planes of consciousness will be
closely related, and almost continuous.
Besides the more familiar phases of this class of phenomena, there are
wonderful possibilities open for the developed Psychomancer along these
lines. As a leading writer on this subject has said concerning it: "He
has also the immense advantage of being able to take part, as it were,
in the scenes which come before his eyes. If, in addition, he can learn
how to materialize himself, he will be able to take part in physical
events or conversations at a distance, and to show himself to an absent
friend at will."
The trained experimenter along these lines has also the advantage of
being able to search about on the Astral Plane for what he desires to
find or locate. He is able to direct his Astral Body to definite
places, either by means similar to finding one's way on the physical
plane, or else by following up the psychic clue afforded by a piece of
clothing, a lock of hair, a piece of stone, or some other object
connected with the person or place desired, by means of a higher form
of Psychometry. Of course, the person whose powers are not so highly
developed is not able to have such control over his Astral Body, or to
manifest such a degree of trained power. He is like a child learning to
walk, or read--he is awkward, and must learn to direct his movements.
There are many degrees of power, from the occasional, spontaneous
manifestations, to those of the highly trained Occultists who travel in
the Astral even more easily than in the physical, and with the same
degree of certainty and control.
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