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Astral Vision
passed away, it could not be seen as though it had not already taken place. In this way he has seen the cause. As soon as the cause is set in motion, so soon as it is potential so far as the result is concerned, it does not cease to be a cause As soon as the cause is set in motion it is not annihilated. A cause can never be destroyed.
We will take for example this piece of paper. The cause of this paper was not paper. Formerly all these little particles which go to make this paper were in many different conditions. Some of them were in one condition, and other particles were in other conditions. Different causes were brought to bear upon them and all these varied little particles-became a piece of paper, such as we can see with our physical eyes- The combination of the original molecules, appear to us in a symmetrical form, as a 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 ethereal 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
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