E-text prepared by Ruth Hart Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 26633-h.htm or 26633-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/6/3/26633/26633-h/26633-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/6/3/26633/26633-h.zip) SECOND SIGHT A Study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by SEPHARIAL Author of "A Manual of Astrology," "Prognostic Astronomy," "A Manual of Occultism," "Kabalistic Astrology," "The Kabala of Numbers," Etc., Etc. London William Rider & Son, Limited 1912 Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, Brunswick Street, Stamford Street, S.E., and Bungay, Suffolk. CONTENTS Introduction 7 Chapter I. The Scientific Position 10 Chapter II. Materials and Conditions 21 Chapter III. The Faculty of Seership 29 Chapter IV. Preliminaries and Practice 39 Chapter V. Kinds of Vision 51 Chapter VI. Obstacles to Clairvoyance 59 Chapter VII. Symbolism 67 Chapter VIII. Allied Psychic Phases 76 Chapter IX. Experience and Use 84 Conclusion 93 INTRODUCTION Few words will be necessary by way of preface to this book, which is designed as an introduction to a little understood and much misrepresented subject. I have not here written anything which is intended to displace the observations of other authors on this subject, nor will it be found that anything has been said subversive of the conclusions arrived at by experimentalists who have essayed the study of clairvoyant phenomena in a manner that is altogether commendable, and who have sought to place the subject on a demonstrable and scientific basis. I refer to the proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. In the following pages I have endeavoured to indicate the nature of the faculty of Second Sight or Clairvoyance, the means of its development, the use of suitable media or agents for this purpose, and the kind of results that may be expected to follow a regulated effort in this direction. I have also sought to show that the development of the psychic faculties may form an orderly step in the process of human unfoldment and perfectibility.