Practical Psychomancy and Crystal GazingAtkinson, William Walker
Religion
Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing
Atkinson, William Walker
Clairvoyance; Crystal gazing; Magic
Another interesting account is given in the reports of the Society for
Psychical Research, of England. It relates that an English lady, Mrs.
Broughton, awoke one night in 1844, and aroused her husband, telling
him that she had had a strange vision of a scene in France. She stated
that she had seen a broken-down carriage, evidently wrecked in an
accident, and a crowd gathered around the figure of a man, whose body
was then raised and carried into a nearby house. She said that the body
was then placed in a bed, when she recognized his features as those of
the Duke of Orleans. Then friends gathered around the bed, and later
came the king and queen of France, all weeping. She saw the doctor, who
stood over the Duke, feeling his pulse, with his watch in his other
hand, but she could only see the doctor's back. Then the scene had
faded from her vision. When daylight finally came, she recorded the
vision in her journal. It was before the days of the telegraph, and it
was more than two days before the newspapers announced the death of the
Duke of Orleans. The lady visited Paris afterwards, and recognized the
place of the accident. It then appeared that the attending physician
whose face she could not see in her vision, was an old friend of hers,
who then told her that as he watched the bed his mind had involuntarily
dwelt upon her and her family.
The well-known case of Swedenborg gives us another illustration of this
class of Psychomancy. It is related that in the latter part of
September, 1759, at four o'clock one Saturday afternoon, Swedenborg
arrived home from England, and disembarked at Gothenburg. Mr. W. Castel
met him and invited him to dinner, at which meal there were fifteen
persons gathered around the table. At six o'clock that evening
Swedenborg went out a few minutes, returning to the table excited and
pale. When questioned, he said that there was a fire at Stockholm, 200
miles distant, which was steadily spreading. He grew very restless, and
frequently left the room. He said that the house of one of his friends,
whose name he mentioned, was already in ashes, and that his own was in
danger. At eight o'clock after he had been out again, he returned
crying out cheerfully, "Thank heaven! the fire is out, the third door
from my house."
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