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piece of paper. At the same time the forces which kept apart all these different particles, or molecules of the paper, are changed, and bring closer the different particles. The paper is but a changed state of all the different factors which were effectual in bringing all those factors into the form of paper. The cause is not destroyed.
We will apply the same illustration to the point mentioned heretofore, in knocking down the man. The cause is not destroyed. If we know the present condition, or the link between cause and effect, and the forces working, we can then see the cause. So by seeing the result, also the different intermediate conditions, we can tell what the cause was. We can acquire this in an intellectual way, and it is only a mental process.
In clairvoyance they see all the things at one time, but time and distance are annihilated, and in this way they see the past. Not only that but all causes leave their impressions, in the astral life, in the etherial matter which pervades the whole universe. A psychic person can see those impressions, can sense them as vibrations, and interpret them, and know the particular history of any subject or thing. In the same way we can know the future because it is the result of the present causes. If we see those causes, and the direction of those vibrations, we can tell what the result will be.
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