Practical Psychomancy and Crystal GazingAtkinson, William Walker
Religion
Practical Psychomancy and Crystal Gazing
Atkinson, William Walker
Clairvoyance; Crystal gazing; Magic
The Student will have noted that in many cases mentioned in these
lessons, the Psychomantic vision manifested during physical sleep. The
reason of this occurrence is that in the majority of persons the
physical nature, when awake, holds the attention of the individual to
such an extent as to prevent him from manifesting the psychic faculties
clearly. But when the physical body sinks into sleep then the field is
clear for the exercise of the Astral Senses, which not being fatigued,
are in fine condition to manifest. In fact the majority of persons do
manifest Psychomancy during sleep, but have little or no recollection
of the same when waking, beyond indistinct recollections of "dreams,"
etc. Still, many of you who read these lines will have a more or less
clear remembrance of certain "dreams" in which you seemed to visit
other places, scenes, lands, countries, etc., seeing strange faces,
land-scapes, etc., and upon awakening were somewhat annoyed at having
been brought back from your pleasant travels.
It is not our intention to enter into an extended consideration of the
general subject of Dreams, at this time and place. We write these few
lines merely for the purpose of calling your attention to the fact that
the phenomena of Psychomancy very frequently manifests itself in
dreams, for the reasons stated above. The principle in both the waking
and dream phenomena is precisely the same, the apparent difference
being that the dreamer very seldom carries back with him a clear and
connected memory of his vision, while the waking person is able to
impress his Astral vision upon a wide-awake physical brain, there to be
remembered.
You will find several instances of Dream Psychomancy recorded in the
various lessons of this work, inserted for the purpose of illustrating
the several phases of the phenomena. In such cases we have made no
distinction between the Psychomantic phenomena experienced in dreams on
the one hand, and that experienced in the waking state on the other
hand. The principle is the same in both cases, and there is no
necessity for making any such distinction between the phenomena
occurring under any of the several general classes. But as we still
have to spare a few pages of the space allotted to us in the
preparation of these lessons, we think that we should give you a few
more of the many interesting cases of record.
A well-known and interesting case is that mentioned in the Proceedings
of the Psychical Research Society, of London. It is related as follows:
On September 9th, 1848, at the siege of Mooltan, Major-General R. was
most severely and dangerously wounded; and, supposing himself to be
dying, asked one of the officers with him to take the ring off his
finger and send it to his wife, who at the time was fully 150 miles
distant at Ferozepore.
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