After many years of study of the subject, this is my attempt to rescue its teachings from charlatanry. I will prove that clairvoyance is a natural power inherent in the race; it is not forbidden or rare, but very common in the present day. There has been much fraud practiced concerning this subject, as in everything else; much swindling has been done under its name, as in the case of any other great gift of God to man. We know the following is true:
“No curtain hides from view the spheres elysian,
Save that poor hill of half-transparent dust;
While all that blinds the spiritual vision,
Is pride, and hate, and lust.”
Seership is the birthright of every soul; all will be born with it someday. Most persons are ready to develop it to a most surprising extent. There are several sources of light ─solar, planetary, and astral─ adapted to material eyes; and, independent of that, every globe in space is cushioned upon the universal ether, which is one vast billowy sea of magnetic light, constituting the media of an inner sense of sight. In this way the whole mystery is at once cleared up. The secret of Seership consists of the sensitive ability to become en rapport with this vast ocean of inner light. This may quite easily be done, as I will show you; patience is all that is required.
Seership is the art and power of knowing or cognizing facts, things, and principles, by methods very different from those usually employed by human beings. After much study and research, a system has been evolved that utilizes the central magnetic law, underlying and controlling the evolution of the phenomena. A short description will here be given of the whole subject. At the present time many are approaching the termination of the first stages of civilization, and are ready to bid farewell to many of its modes, moods, opinions, sentiments, thoughts, and procedures. Such persons are ready to enter upon a new epoch in life; ready to develop powers which are now mainly latent, but which are destined to revolutionize the globe. Man is the highest being on this earth; Mind the highest part of man; and Seership the highest part of the mind. Seership depends upon a peculiar condition of the nerves and brain. The seer possesses the exact knowledge of the proper methods; and the precise spot where; and the proper time when; to apply the specific etheric, magnetic current to any given person, in order to produce coma and lucidity. Clearly defined rules will be found which enable the aspirant to become a seer.
It will be well for you to know at the start that God will not permit this science to be used for selfish purposes. You must also understand that fear, doubt, nervous agitation, coarse habits, or evil intent will retard success, and may prevent it altogether. In the beginning, Seership, like any activity, mental, nervous, or muscular, requires a special effort, but it soon becomes automatic, involuntary, and mechanical. Keep your purpose constantly before you, and your soul and inner senses will make grooves for themselves and continue to move in them as cars move on rails. All ordinary mental action comes through brain and nerve activities, but in Seership the result must be reached by other than the usual processes and paths. The person who tries to develop Seership, but who gets discouraged after a few trials, does not merit or deserve the power. When once you commence, keep right on. Every experiment leads you a step nearer success.
Don’t forget that physical conditions influence, modify and determine mental states, whether these be normal, recondite or mysterious. Remember, the blood is a vital substance, charged and sensitized by the electro-magnetic forces of nature. It is the chief factor in enabling the brain to function, as well as the source from which the ego builds up the intellect. By purity of the blood stream, and a wise control of the body, the Superhuman stage may be attained. If your blood is foul, don’t attempt to develop Seership until you have purified it. Artists prepare their paints, you must prepare your body; otherwise the artist could not make his best pictures, nor could lucidity come to you. Sound lungs, stomach, kidneys, liver, brain, blood and heart are not absolute essentials, but are good preparatives. However, the blood must be purified, free from poisons (alkalies or acids in excess), and should be keyed up to the proper pitch.
You must give proper attention to food, digestion, drinks and sleep. Seership is coincident only with normal appetites. Excess destroys it. Seership is qualitative and quantitative; like all other mental forces, it is limited, fragmentary, incomplete, in all who are not perfect.
Seership is no vague mysticism, theorizing, speculative or dogmatic assertion. Every principle is backed by convincing evidence, and rests upon proven facts.
This subject you will find fascinating, wonderful, and affording an extraordinary interpretation of the inner meaning of occultism. This interpretation makes clear much which heretofore you have not understood, and it will also enlighten you on many of those things which you thought you had understood. You will feel its truth while you read it; its truths will command your respect, and will startle you.
Even a superficial Seership cannot fail to convince an inquirer that there is something very practical in its teaching, which, if followed, will lead to success in life physically, mentally and spiritually; and that its teachings, if universally practiced, would make man happier. Life is seen not to be a nightmare. It is seen to be regulated by law, according to a broad, harmonious plan in which each individual acts as a little or big wheel in the vast machinery of the whole universe. Seership shows that each human being is destined, according to his karma, to follow a certain line of work and thought, and yet, if he so wills, he has the power to break the bonds that hold him down to his task.
Man has the power to raise himself out of his present condition. If he so determines he can advance, by self-devised efforts, far beyond the point which he would have reached in the present incarnation under ordinary circumstances. Seership teaches that by right thought and action man can so live that the world will be the better for his having lived. If you have not so lived, you have been a failure.
If the windows of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is ─ infinite. Man has closed himself up, until he sees everything through the narrow chinks of his cavern─ the greater beauties of the universe being shut out from his vision.
The person who has never made a study of this subject is convinced that the world he knows requires a single vision only. The world appears to him solid and material. He knows nothing of other planes, and he will, at first, look upon the teachings of this book as “all moonshine.” But let him but make a careful study of the subject, and he will be convinced, and will no longer think Seership a subject only for idle women and poets. All humanity is two-fold, and capable of correspondence with two orders of existence. The higher self is always tending towards union with reality; the lower self always tending to pull you downward.
Seership teaches you how to live, how to act and how to die.
WHY SEERSHIP IS POSSIBLE
Seership can be proven by anyone, if the right methods are used. It can be proven that behind the visible world there is another ─the world invisible, which is hidden from the senses; and that it is possible for man to penetrate into that unseen world by developing in himself the psychic powers which lie dormant in every one. You are not asked to believe a single statement in this book, until you actually realize that it is true. All that you are asked to do is to read with an open mind. If you start out with the idea that there is not a hidden world, you will be very likely to shut out a good deal of knowledge that would otherwise flow to you.
It is not necessary for you to believe that there is an unseen world behind the visible one. If you are firmly of the opinion that the world perceived by man through his senses is the only one, hold on to the view until you are convinced otherwise. We were all of this opinion at some time in our evolution. You will be convinced some time, whether it be by reading this book, or in some other way. All the higher human powers of perception are developed in time, so that man is able to penetrate into the other world with eyes other than the physical instruments. There was a time when it was not believed possible to gain the knowledge of the sense world which we have today. Many people are of the same opinion regarding super-Sensible things. They think it is impossible to obtain proof, and all that can be known is some individual's personal opinion and say-so.
The seer knows that a survey of the visible world propounds enigmas to man which can never be solved by the facts of that world itself. The visible world is closely interwoven with the invisible world, and, therefore, before we can understand the inner nature of the visible world, we must learn something of the hidden world. He who does not realize that this is true, closes his eyes to the problems which obviously spring up everywhere, and are deemed unanswerable. If he refuses to see certain problems and enigmas, he may think all facts concerning the senses can be answered.
The seer knows that there is no limit to human knowledge, and that there are no bounds prevent him from gaining more knowledge of the invisible world, and nothing to stop him from penetrating into the higher existing worlds. He disputes no one's right to ignore the invisible world, but he does dispute any one's right to declare that certain things are unknowable, unfathomable. The seer knows what he can do, and he believes it wasting an opportunity not to develop the faculties with which he has been endowed, allowing them to be wasted through non-use.
It is a well-known fact that there are many ways in which to become a seer, some shorter, and some longer than others; but it is also a well-known fact that they all finally accomplish the same result, though one cannot realize which is the right path until he has tried the different ones. Seership is a science, but unlike any other science, It must be unfolded from within.
Seership will be practiced by all in time. Every year more persons endeavor to learn of the visible presence of the something unseen; they realize that there is something hidden from their consciousness. Seership opens avenues which will answer the questions that press upon you. It means an awakening of life, an unveiling of the unseen. Those who lose hope are those who deny the unseen, who have never had the invisible revealed to them.
Many people, when first taking up the study of Seership, expect to make one big jump and learn at once all about the supersensible world. They think they should be able to buy, with material money, all that can be known of the invisible nature of man. But money will not buy the higher knowledge. You must become acquainted with all the details of the supersensible world. At first, a series of communications is made about the invisible nature of man. You must learn what happens when death opens the portals; the evolution of man, the earth, the entire solar system. Not before you know all this can you realize what is within you. Before man's soul can be lifted into the sphere of the divine, he must have patience, an open mind, and be ready to assimilate the food given. It is then his soul is athirst; his soul then becomes united with the divine; this brings soul knowledge, and the peace which passeth all understanding. There is one thing every man and woman should learn, and that is, not to have fear. Fear is a dangerous disease, and likely to spread. The interior vision will help you, and no undesirable conditions will develop.
Seership makes you positive. It develops seeing, but you need no outside help to accomplish it. It will not make you negative, or unduly subject to outside influences. Of course, everyone is more or less subject to outside influences─ it is only natural to be receptive. If you were not, you would be getting into all kinds of danger. You are constantly receiving warnings, and you would not be able to learn, see, or feel anything if you were not receptive. The well balanced person is positive half the time, and negative the other half. The mind must receive before it can give out. It must acquire before it can serve. Do not try to stop the receptive attitude of mind. Work in harmony with nature's forces, and do not antagonize anything. Be the chooser, however, of what you want to receive. You are given the power of intelligence to choose those things to which you wish to respond. Your development will depend a great deal upon how you are able to choose the unseen vibrations. No one is immune to vibrations, whether he is conscious of them or not. The difference between the one who is developed, and the one who is not, is that the former is conscious of what he sees and therefore knows what is transpiring. while the other does not know. Just so long as knowledge means power, more knowledge will mean more power. The trained seer learns to see what he chooses, when he chooses, and thereby has an advantage over the non-developed person.
When you acquire new faculties you learn to know more of life. There is nothing to be afraid of in developing the higher senses, excepting your fears. Set these aside, and proceed. Do you know how great inventors, and great men in all walks of life, have become successful? By seeing ahead. This is the great secret.
A question which is quite frequently asked is, “Will Seership make me nervous and over sensitive to most people?” I say, it will not. It cures nervousness, develops your poise, and gives you self-control, because you then possess powers which the average person does not possess. It develops mastery; it gives you power over others, rather than allowing others to have a power over you. It teaches you to read and to know others. I have been a seer all my life, and I have never experienced any ill effects from it. There is not a doubt but that Seership will be a great boon to mankind, as it will lead to the greatest understanding (illumination) that is possible for man to have. That is one reason why I consider it a great duty for me to give this information and instruction to the world.
There are a few “dont’s” I want you to remember:
Do not depend on what someone may tell you.
Teach yourself!
Develop by yourself!
These two things you must learn:
To seek new forces or vibrations.
To choose the kind with which you wish to come en rapport.
In order to develop Seership successfully, it is quite necessary that you start out with a definite plan. It is well to set aside a certain time, or part of each day, for practice. The place selected must be one where you will not be disturbed. As everything in the room is suggestive of certain things, it is a good idea, whenever possible, to have the room furnished only with the things connected with Seership, for instance, books which show you how to reveal the mysteries of nature. You must cultivate acquaintances who are in harmony with your way of thinking. While studying the lessons do not attempt to study any others. You must develop the masterful power of Choice and Singleness.
Take up each step of development with a definitely chosen principle of constructiveness. Do not be selfish as your knowledge increases, but give out a few truths here and there. Help others to grow, if you wish to grow yourself. Resolve to use your power and the higher faculties you develop for constructive and good purposes only. This is very important ─important to your advancement.
No matter how good, or how evil you have been in the past, be determined that you are going to start into this new life with the very best there is in you, and make use of that best to bring out other knowledge.
First learn that you do not see with your eyes, but with your mind. In fact, to be exact, you see with your attention. Going further, you see just what you look for, or choose. For instance, the hunter going through the woods sees game, the lumberman lumber, the artist sees beauties. Each one sees what he is looking for. Each has trained himself to see certain things. The state of mind gives sight as much as the open eyes. The seer is one who senses or cognizes a fact without using his five senses.
AN IMPORTANT SECRET: You can see with your eyes closed' You can see just what you desire to see, with your eyes closed. I cannot expect you to believe this without proving my statement, but if you will follow my instructions you will find it is so. It has been shown that people can see colors with their eyes closed, and the more they try to see, the more they will see.
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