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In other cases it is not the previous thought forces or impressions that are sensed by the subject as something which is new, and that is this way; when a person is operated on by a hypnotist or mesmerist, the physical vibrations make nó impressions on the physical substance and the other substances, the etherial forces are free to act. Those substances of the thought have a better opportunity to work, and it sends forth its energies in different directions. That thought. substance has the power of seeing things, just as our eyes, our physical eyes, have the power to see things. If the mind is closed we cannot see internally. That mind must be as it were, open if it is to see, just as we must open our eyes if we expect to see.
In this condition of induced clairvoyance, a person is able to see many things. In both conditions, whether it is induced. or whether it is only the force that produced it before, or when new things are seen, and even in natural clairvoyance which is the result of developinent, in both states, there is a kind of danger which is of a peculiar form. Many times what is seen is of an inverted nature. It may be only disturbed, and indistinct. How is it that people see things altogether, or partially inverted ? How is it when they are asked to read something inclosed in an envelope, instead of read
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