THE SCIENTIFIC MAN      

that truth will sometime explode.

A person in a mesmeric state
can ask a question of any person
at a distance
and get a correct answer -
and yet the person not know
that any question has been
asked or answered.

When man knows himself,
he will see that the thing
called "man"
is but a very little real identity.

You will admit
that I am at a distance
of some hundreds of miles from you
according to your belief.

Now if your senses are your mind
and then if I act upon them,
I must act outside of your own wisdom.

My wisdom,
being attached to my senses,
does not admit space
except as an error,
so that distance is an idea,
not truth,
and according to error,
I am at a distance from you.

But I am now sitting
talking with you
and although you have eyes,
you cannot see,
ears
and you cannot hear,
yet I am trying to make you understand
that I am with you
even in
your very thoughts,
and I will tell you how
you may see and understand.

Suppose your senses
were an instrument
and my wisdom
wished to communicate
to your wisdom
some truth.

I come to your senses
and use them
to communicate to your wisdom
the fact,
but as your wisdom is of this world,
you are ignorant of the author
and think that the ideas
are your own.

So watch your feelings
and see if there are not some
vibrations or strains
that pass through the senses
that will make the whole body tremble
so that you will say
that your mind can be affected -
then you will see that
mind is matter
and that it can be changed.

 I know that if you go out of sight
of my natural eyes
and have a desire
that I should come to you,
that I can go.

To me this is Wisdom,
but to you it is opinion or knowledge,
just according to your belief.

I know that I can
go to a distance
and act upon a person
and know that I am there,
and I can make an impression
on a person
so strong
that the person will be aware
of my presence.

This is Wisdom.

Matter supposes "distance between"
like our senses,
that is,
one chair must be not as another chair,
so our senses are divided into five.

Now with Wisdom,
there is no division
only as Wisdom makes it.
Senses are swallowed up in Wisdom
and there can be no space.
So everything is present.

 I know that I,
this Wisdom,
can go and impress a person
at a distance.
The world may not believe it,
but to the world it is just such a belief
as the belief in spirits -
but to me it is a fact
and this is what I shall show.

I shall show by letters
what I have said,
that mind can produce
all the phenomena
that the world has ever seen,
and I shall show in my work that
Jesus never tried to teach anything different
from what I am teaching and doing every day.

Now every person has life and intelligence,
not of the body
nor within the medium of its senses,
for the mesmeric sees and describes things
at a distance
which it would be impossible to do
through his natural senses,
and still he has all his senses
and will taste and smell and describe
what no one present knows anything of.

Now here you have an invisible being
that exists outside of his senses
describing things truthfully
which you never saw or heard of.

Now let it break through the shell that binds it
and awake - or pass into this world,
and at last it begins to act in another sphere.

Now what I am trying to teach
is to educate man up to that state
where he shall know that he exists
and can prove to the natural man
what the natural man knows nothing of
and has never acknowledged.

Suppose two blind mutes are sitting in the same room.
The natural man would reason that
their distance from each other
was just as far as their bodies were apart,
not having any idea
of a sympathy that is mingling,
because ignorance is the sight
and the eyes are the medium of his wisdom.

But the Scientific Man sees that
although these two blind mutes
are like two stumps
to the natural man,
yet there emanates from each
an atmosphere
which mingles together
and of which the natural man
knows not,
and all it wants
is a medium to communicate it
to each other.

This power
Jesus tried to convince the people of,
as I am trying to convince the people
that there is such a state as clairvoyance,
that is,
that there is something around us
which the natural man is unaware of
that has an identity
and can act upon the natural man.

When this power acts upon his senses
it acts in the form of an idea or thought.
The natural man receives it like the servant
but acts as though he was the father of the idea.

The world gives him the credit
for this superiority over his fellowmen.
But unwilling to admit this power,
the world attributes it to some "unknown cause"
as the best way to get out of their trouble.

They would rather
have it a miracle
than a science,
for otherwise
it would lower them
in the estimation of themselves
and cause their own destruction,
as all truth destroys error.

This belief in an intelligence
independent of ourselves
has always been admitted,
but attributed to
some miraculous power
from another world.

Clairvoyance is also an excited state of the mind,
which enables the subject to see objects
with an independent power of sight,
without the use of the bodily eyes.

It also implies the capacity
to see every object
to which the mind's attention is called -
whether present or distant.

We have alluded to this state
or capacity of mind
in many of our experiments,
but have not spoken of this power
disconnected with other experiments.

We recur to the subject again
to assert our belief in such a power
founded on facts
which have come under our own observation
and which we have been enabled
to give to the public.

Thought-reading itself
is more astounding perhaps
than seeing independent of
the organ of sight.

Yet in the present state of the world,
men who have witnessed these phenomena all agree
that subjects in the mesmeric state
will read the thoughts of those
who are in communication with them.

And by some it is asserted
that this is all
which constitutes
Clairvoyance.
We however,
rely upon facts
which have not been controverted
and cannot be explained on other principles
than that the mind does possess
the independent power of sight.

These experiments are introduced
to prove true clairvoyance,
that the subject
does actually
see objects
which do not exist
in the mind of the operator
and of which the operator
could have no knowledge -
that there is something
in all these facts
seen independent
of any other power
than independent sight.

Every experiment develops something
which is found to be true
and cannot be explained
upon the principle of thought-reading.

We say then, that the mind is capable
of such excitement
or of attaining to a state
in which it may see without
bodily eyes
and also be
present
with all things
at the same instant.

In other words,
that to the mind,
independent of the body,
there is no such impediment as
time, space, distance and materiality,
but that it only requires direction -
and all its inherent faculties
are in operation,
giving its attention to the object
to which it has been directed.

The eye, ear, nose, sense of touch or the tongue
is nothing
except as they convey in our natural state
certain sensations to the mind
from which a peculiar state of emotions arise.

The faculty of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch
exists in the mind
independent of the organs
by which objects are communicated
to these faculties.

Cut off these organs or appendages,
and then mind acts direct
or receives its impressions directly from
external and internal objects.

If then,
you institute
a peculiar state of the mind
called "mesmeric"
and close up the bodily eyes,
the faculty of the mind
does not cease to act.

It is rather, in part,
freeing the soul
from its narrow confinement
in the sphere of acquiring knowledge
through the limited means of the eye
and giving it a range of sight
limited only by the laws of mind
and not the laws of matter.

It returns more like itself,
when it shall have been entirely divested
of man's materiality
and left free
 - not to roam throughout the ranges of thought -
but to be existent
with all its original faculties in full display
with all the creations of the
Great First Cause.

So in almost all the experiments
we have related in thought reading
the subject may be said
to either describe the thoughts
of those around him
or to actually see and describe
the persons and objects
themselves.

Where an explanation may be given
in thought-reading or clairvoyance,
it is difficult
and perhaps impossible to tell
from which the subject acts.

And perhaps he may be governed
 in part by one power
and in part by the other.
We think this fact will explain
much of the difficulty
which attends experiments
in true clairvoyance.

Clairvoyance is very rare
and can be easily be tested
by blindfolding the subject
and giving him a book to read.

If he can read without seeing -
that is conclusive evidence
that he has independent sight.

This state is of very short duration.
They then come into that state
where they are governed by surrounding minds.

So as the Light of God
(or Wisdom)
springs up,
man learns the truth
and applies it to the phenomena of his day
so it can be understood.

This we call "mathematics"
or God's Wisdom revealed to man.

I think that
all controversies in the world
are in matter,
and man has attached himself
to the idea of matter
and lives and dies in it
till the Light of Wisdom
opens his eyes
to the truth -
that his life
is in this
Great Light
that sees matter
as nothing but shadows.

I will try to illustrate my ideas
by a parable.

You know what the phenomenon
called "mesmerism" is.
 
Clairvoyance is perfect Light.
Matter is annihilated
except as it is admitted.

Thought-reading is another state in matter,
like darkness,
so that thought-readers
see or feel
by the light of another,
while clairvoyance
sees by its own Light.

Our senses are in one or the other
of these states
of light and darkness.

The separation of these states
has always been the great problem.

They who were sitting in darkness
saw this Light spring up,
but as the prince of darkness had sway,
they crucified the Light.

Now the world attaches their senses
to the thing they can feel and see,
but Jesus attached his to the Light,
so that his Light was in their error
and they saw it not.

By this time I hear you say,
"Show me this Light (or Truth)
and it will satisfy me."

I answer,
"Have I not sat by you
and told you how you suffered
and yet you cannot see me?"

The Light of the body
(or Wisdom)
is the eye,
and if your wisdom is all Light,
your Light is all Wisdom,
but if your light is darkness
(or thought-reading),
it is darkness to Wisdom.

Such is this to those who cannot understand,
but I feel as though you said,
"I understand that."

How do I show to the world my Light?
For a light under a bushel
gives no light to those outside.
So to let your light shine,
you must make some physical demonstration of it.

Clairvoyance
is a state of existence
independent of the natural senses
or the body
which has no matter,
no reason,
but is perfect knowledge.

Thought-reading
is a lower order
connected with mind
but superior to the natural man.

This state
is what would be called
"spiritualism"
and contains the
knowledge and reasoning
of this world.

Clairvoyance is a higher state
which is entirely disconnected
with the natural man
but can communicate through him,
while in a dreamy
or mesmeric state,
information
which the company
cannot know.

This principle is in every man.
The understanding of it is eternal life.
This eternal life was in Jesus
and was Christ.

It has manifested itself
in various forms
in all ages of the world
whenever Science has been discovered.

The ignorance of the world
with regard to this higher state of knowledge
looks upon the manifestation
of the thought-reading state
as the highest development of man
while this state dies
and the clairvoyant state
rises from the dead.

It is all that is left.
It can act on mind.
It has an  identity
and never knew
of its beginning
nor ending.
It is all the intelligence in man.

One state is thought-reading
or the wisdom of matter
(or spiritualism)
and the other is Clairvoyance
(or the Wisdom held in solution
in this ocean of essence.)

Now what is this something called
"mesmerism," "clairvoyance"
or "spiritualism?"

It is the mystery
(or power)
that has troubled
the wisdom of this world
to solve.

Solve this problem
and you give a knowledge to man
that the world has always admitted
but not understood.

To understand this phenomenon
is to go back to the First Cause
and see what man was.

Everyone knows that
there is a difference in clairvoyance.
Subjects differ in the direction of their minds.
I do not practice clairvoyance
 - except with the sick -
and I will show others
how to be clairvoyant
like myself.

I said that a clairvoyant
does not remember
what he says in his sleep.
To put a person into a clairvoyant state
is to change him from one state to another,
so as he loses his natural senses,
he embraces the other senses
(or clairvoyant state)
till he is completely lost
to this world of matter.

I will show how I first discovered this state.
This state is progression
not imitation,
but independent clairvoyance.

When I first began to mesmerize
and as I became interested in the experiments,
I found that the subject could see through matter.

I could not help believing this
and it showed me
that matter could be seen through
by a clairvoyant,
so it became
- not an opinion -
but a truth to me.

I also found
that all that man's senses embraced
could be seen and felt
by a person
whose bodily senses were dead,
if we judged by the body.

All this became a Wisdom,
- not a belief -
but a part of my identity.

So what is a belief to the world
concerning these things
was to me a truth.

My next aim
was to become a clairvoyant myself,
and as I became convinced
that matter was only a medium
for our wisdom
to act through,
I could see
how it could be
transformed
and the senses
(or clairvoyant state)
be attached to any idea
the natural man might think of.

The two kinds of reasoning
make up the natural man.
Both modes of reasoning
can be carried into
the clairvoyant state
for this does not embrace reason.

To make a good clairvoyant
one must,
beginning on earth,
rid himself of all beliefs
in every theory of man,
and as he sees
the absurdity of his own opinions,
he becomes lighted up
in another atmosphere
where he feels
the discord of this world.

He then becomes sensitive
to the errors and opinions of man -
they affect him and make him nervous.
All his senses become entirely independent
of his natural will or senses -
then he is two persons.

This is my state as far as regards the sick.

When I sit by the sick
and take them by the hand,
I feel a sensation.
This affects me,
and the sensation is produced
by something coming within my senses
as a man of flesh-and-blood.

This excites the Spiritual
(or Scientific) Man,
and the senses
being freed from matter
(or opinion)
see the natural man
(or opinion)
that causes the trouble.

As I retain two identities,
I see the error
and explain it to the natural senses.

These are set at rest
and harmony is restored.

I cannot find language
to explain this
so that you will understand it.

I will take the science of mechanics
to illustrate these two principles.

The word "statics" is used
in calculating stationary powers
as weighing on scales,
hoisting from a vessel by a cable,
dropping a dead weight, etc.

All this combines action and reaction.

They constitute
and come under the head of
statics.

The natural man
and even the brutes
have a knowledge of this.

The principle of dynamics
is from a Higher Wisdom
known only to statics
as a mystery.

Here is where the foundation of Science commences.

Dynamics,
like clairvoyance,
puts man in possession
of a Higher Wisdom,
so that a man
understanding the Science
can see through the statics
(or natural man).

Thought takes form -
and the Wisdom
that makes the thought
is the Light of its body.

The Light is felt
- like the odor -
and contains the knowledge
of itself.

This is the Light the subject is in,
for the mesmerizer makes the light
by his own belief.

It commences in
total darkness,
is first blue,
then grows light,
and when it is
the color of
gaslight,
this is the light
the subject is in -
and it compares with daylight.

Whatever the subject is asked to see,
- if the mesmerizer can form the idea -
it is seen in the Light.

This is Clairvoyance.

But it is in the blue light
(or darkness)
that the subject sees
by sympathy
(or odor).

It is called thought-reading,
and is the state persons go into
when they are
"entranced by a spirit."

Then if you see a friend,
the friend is formed
but cannot be seen
very distinctly -
but is described like
an apple or pear
by the odor.

All this is governed by our belief.

If you believe in another world
and believe your friends are with you,
the belief may so affect the subject
and carry him into the clairvoyant state,
and if he believes in this state
he sees all the living
and the dead,
and they are with him
according to his belief.

When he awakes however,
it is all dark
and he is sure he has been
to another world.

All this is as plain to me as daylight
for daylight is clairvoyance
and twilight - thought-reading.
I have been in both places
with both my natural senses,
have seen the sun
land
water
vessels
heard the winds blow
and felt the warm breezes.

Thought-reading was known at that time,
for there are many instances recorded
where Jesus told them their thoughts -
but clairvoyance was rare.

All magicians, sorcerers, witches, etc.
were thought-readers.
Jesus knew that
this was the extent
of the wisdom of mind
known to the priest
and all those
who pretended
to cure
did so
on this idea.

So when Jesus saw
beyond their thoughts,
he must be something
beyond this power.

Thought-reading
is what
we call "knowledge,"
but Clairvoyance is Wisdom.

The difference is this:
the clairvoyant sees by his own light,
the thought-reader by the light of another.

Therefore Jesus is called
the Light of the World.
Light means that state of Wisdom
outside of the wisdom of man
or thought-reading.
It is Science.

Throught-reading is imagination
or reasoning.
So when we say a man
imagines
this or that,
it means nothing
except that he believes
what someone has told him.

God is the embodiment of Light
(or Clairvoyance)
and to
His Light
all is a mere nothing.

When he spoke man
into existence
His Wisdom
breathed
into the shadow
and it received life.

So the shadow's life is in God,
for in this Light it moves and has its being
and it becomes the Son of God.

As Jesus became clairvoyant,
he became the Son of God.

He said,
"Although you destroy
this temple
(or thought)
I  -
that is
this clairvoyant self
can speak into existence
another
like the one
you think
you have destroyed.

Jesus attached his senses
as a man
to this Light
(or Wisdom)
and the rest of the world
attached theirs
to the thought
(or darkness)
of the natural man.

I have been for the last twenty years
investigating clairvoyance and mesmerism,
and it has opened my eyes to facts
that have not come to the world as yet.

Now these experiments convinced me
that man has the power
of creating ideas
and making them so dense
that they could be seen by a subject
that was mesmerized.

So I used to create objects
and make him describe them.

At last I could take persons
to all appearance in the waking state
and make them see anything I chose.

I found that I could stop persons while walking.

This led me to the fact
that I could act on living matter
without contact.

I could hold people down
so that they could not rise
and could keep them from rising.

This showed me
that man
has an unconscious power
that is not admitted
which governs his acts.

This is not recognized
by his natural senses
and this is the mystery
that hangs over the world.

I must say a word or two about this mystery.

Words are used to convey some idea
of something that can be seen,
but if a word is spoken
that should wound another's feelings,
there is no language
to explain the peculiar sensation.

Now my experiments and investigations
have educated me up to this state
that I feel this peculiar sensation
that is made on persons
and I feel and know how they feel
and convince them of the fact.

Now this is the state
that embraces all the phenomena
of spiritualism, disease, religion
and everything that affects the mind.

So every person's belief affects them.

Now there are persons
who are sensitive to this state
and are acted upon
by the influences
of different beliefs.
 
As there is a certain class of persons
who believe that spirits come back,
as it is called,
to them they do come back,
just as the man I spoke of.

Some persons believe
it is the works of the devil,
and it is to them
the works of Satan;
and as good spirits and bad
are believed in,
so the experiments
go to prove their belief.

Now I know
that all of what I have said is true,
but it is all the natural working of man's belief.

§

I will try to explain the true Christ
from the false Christ
and show that "Christ"
was never intended
to be applied to Jesus
as a man,
but to a truth
superior to the natural man,
and this truth is what prophets foretold.

It has been called by various names,
but is the same truth.
There is a natural body
of flesh and blood -
this was Jesus.

His mind
like all others
was subject to a law of truth
that could be developed
through the natural man.

This power
Jesus tried to convince the people of,
as I am trying to convince the people
that there is such a state
as clairvoyance,
that is,
that there is something around us
which the natural man
is unaware of
that has an identity
and can act upon
the natural man.

When this power
acts upon his senses
it acts in the form
of an idea or thought.

The natural man receives it
like the servant
but acts as though
he was the father
of the idea.

The world gives him the credit
for this superiority
over his fellowmen.

But unwilling to admit this power,
the world attributes it
to some unknown cause
as the best way
to get out of their trouble.

They would rather have it
a miracle
than a science,
for otherwise
it would lower them
in the estimation
of themselves
and cause their own destruction,
as all truth destroys error.

This belief
in an intelligence
 independent of ourselves
has always been admitted
but attributed to
some miraculous power
from another world.

This excited state of the mind,
called by some the
"magnetic,"
"mesmeric"
and
"congestive"
is no doubt produced
by a powerful impression
of the operator
upon the mind of the subject,
concentrating
or drawing
the whole attention
to one influence.

No set rules can be given
by which this influence
can be exercised
because the same efforts
will produce different results
upon different minds;
yet no doubt
every mind
has its portal of access
and could we know where that is,
or
the way and manner of approaching it,
we could produce impressions
so powerful
upon every mind
as to subdue the action
of the bodily senses
and communicate directly with it.

The doctrine, therefore,
of powerful "magnetizers"
(as they call themselves)
that only a more powerful capacity
or higher order of intellectual vigor
can subdue a weaker mind
and produce the excited
or mesmeric state
is idle as the wind.

These higher orders of intellects
with strong sensibilities
are more capable
of being brought to the contemplation
of one individual subject
and receiving the most powerful impressions,
if you can discover
the accessible road
to their sensibilities.

If you can produce an impression
upon such a mind
as will overcome
all his prejudices towards you
or your science
and acquire his undivided confidence,
you will then excite the mind
into this spiritual state of action
and he will readily
read your own thoughts.

Indeed I have been led to the conclusion
that the highest powers of genius
have been the results of excited minds,
upon the principles I have laid down,
and that they are but the inspiration
of this spiritual action.

What is it that contributes so much
to distinguish Homer and Demosthenes,
Virgil and Cicero,
Milton, Tasso,
Shakespeare
and the whole host of great men
who lived in ancient and modern times!

It must have been this excited state
during which poetry and eloquence
and the highest achievements of mind
were left,
as lights of their genius,
to live through all coming time.

Eloquence,
which holds the multitude
in breathless silence
or sways them hither and thither,
produces the controlling impression
upon each mind
which in its turn
impresses and influences
the other
exciting a low degree
of the mesmeric state.

It is, in fact,
a principle
by which we are all
more or less governed
in all our pursuits.

The high degree of excitement
called "clairvoyant"
gives the mind freedom of action,
placing it in close contact with every thing.

There is nothing remote or distant,
past or future;
everything is present and discoverable.
It only requires direction,
and the subject is before it.

It is enabled to
discover and describe
countries and cities,
mountains and plains,
rivers and oceans,
inhabitants and animals
on distant parts of the globe.

The mind will pass
into the depths of the earth
or rather looks through all matter,
all space and all time,
giving its character,
its condition
and its result.

Call its attention
to any subject
however remote
and it is present to the mind.

These ideas I have thrown out
in relation to mind
in its highest state of excitement
 are not the result
of a vivid imagination
or the productions of a speculating mind,
but the effect of experiments,
repeated at different times
and on various occasions.

They are facts
which stand out beyond
all contradiction
-all cavil!

And we are not
to pass them
as a freak of nature
or as the result of contradictory laws.

It must be
the highest state of action
to which the mind has arrived,
giving testimony
of the great powers
with which it is created,
yet controlled
by its natural laws.

We must not, therefore,
account for this wonderful development
upon the supposition
of exceptions to general rules,
but upon the continuation
of great
and undeviating
principles.

Anxiety
and constant thought
upon subjects
connected with our interests
will sometimes lull us
into a mesmeric
or dreaming state
in which we can behold
many scenes,
sometimes real
and sometimes fictitious.

The mind is excited
into the clairvoyant state
and is then enabled to perceive objects
without the bodily senses.

The principle of sight
is in the mind,
and in our natural state
that principle develops itself
through the eye.

In the excited state
it is developed
independent of the eye,
acting directly upon the object.

On a certain occasion
I magnetized my subject
and directed him to go to such a well
and measure accurately
the depth of the water.

He did so
and told
to one fourth of an inch
the depth of the water.

This was Independent Sight,
because I did not know anything
in relation to the well.

Now if I had known
how deep the water was
and thought it,
and the subject
had described my thoughts
and given the true depth,
this would be Thought Reading.

If, however,
I had taken him to the well
and he
upon seeing the water
or upon being reminded of it,
should associate with it
the depth of another well
he had actually measured
in his waking state
and instead of giving
the true depth,
given that of the well he measured
before he was mesmerized,
this would be an answer
on the principle
of association.

This is another action of the mind
under different circumstances.

We have, therefore,
given examples,
proving to a demonstration
that there are such states of mind as
Clairvoyant, Thought-Reading
and that arising from association.

That the mind sometimes acts
in one of these capacities
and sometimes in another
and is also governed
at other times
by the principle of association.

Now the difficulty in a clairvoyant subject is this.

The mesmerized mind
is liable to be under
the partial control
of all these conditions
at the same time
and would describe an object,
partly from actual independent sight,
partly from thought-reading
and partly from association;
and the result always is
a total failure in all.

We are not able,
in this early stage of our science,
to give definite rules
by which we can tell how far
the subject may be led astray
from independent sight
by these two other principles.

Indeed
we have no barometer
by which to ascertain
how much weight
our own thoughts,
or the associations
of the subject
may have
over the mesmerized mind.

In the progress of future advancement,
this mystery may be solved;
and subjects,
under proper regulations,
may discover to the operator
the true action of his mind,
whether it be Seeing,
Thought-reading,
or Association.

When mesmerism has attained this height,
in the march of its discoveries,
a new and brighter era
in the history of the world
will have dawned upon humanity -
the ignorance of the past
will be entombed
in the light of the future,
and truth,
disrobed of superstition
will govern paramount
the universe
of immortal thought.

Our remarks have thus far been confined
to what we are pleased to call the
development of the metaphysical mysteries
of our subject
(Mesmerism).

We have sought to select that system
which appears to be most consistent
with the facts we have offered -
that system
only by which we can explain
satisfactorily
the wonderful phenomena of mind.

We have thought our course
thus far justifiable
upon the ground
that a complete knowledge
of the development of Mesmerism
is necessary
to a good understanding
of the practical part
of our science.

We protest against
a mere knowledge of results
without cause.

We should know rather
the cause
and we may then
produce or prevent
results.

Our course
has been to introduce
such explanation
as appears consistent
with all the experiments given
and as far as we had the power,
to enlighten the understanding
rather than to mystify
what has already been
too mysterious.

How far we have succeeded,
an intelligent community
will act as our tribunal
and we shall rest satisfied
with their candid decision.

A clairvoyant never reasons nor alters his opinion...

Suppose I call the great God of all "Clairvoyant."
All matter to him is nothing.

Every phenomenon in the natural world
has its origin in the spiritual world.
The world gives credit where it is not due,
mistaking noise for substance.

No man should have credit
over his fellow men
unless he shows some superiority
over the errors of his age,
and to show that he is superior
is to reduce to a science
some phenomenon
which has never been explained -
music, for an example.

Before music was reduced to a science,
it was a phenomenon.

People could whistle and sing,
but no one supposed
that the one who made the most noise
was entitled to any credit above the rest.

Credit was due to him
who first reduced it to a science.

Take diseases.
The world is full of sickness
arising from various causes;
the phenomena exist in the natural world,
while the causes originate in an invisible world.

Doctoring is confined to the natural world
and admits the causes of the disease
to be all in the natural world.

Doctor Quimby,
with his clairvoyant faculty,
gets knowledge in regard to the phenomena
which does not come through the natural senses,
and by explaining to his patients
changes the direction of the mind,
and the explanation is the science
(or cure).

To illustrate.
Suppose a patient calls on Dr. Quimby
for examination.

No questions are asked on either side.
They sit down together.

He has no knowledge of the patient's feelings
through his natural senses
till after having placed his mind upon them.

Then he becomes perfectly passive
and the patient's mind
being troubled
puts him into a clairvoyant state,
together with his natural state,
thus being in two states at once
when he takes feelings,
accompanied by their state of mind
and thoughts.

A history of their trouble thus learned,
together with the name of the disease,
he relates to the patient.

That wisdom from above
is not in this world
but can see through it
and is not seen
by the wisdom of this world
at all.

Now as I was out of his wisdom
or this world
and in the essence that flows from
the higher wisdom,
I was in a clairvoyant state,
with my senses attached
to an identity in this essence.

This essence is light
and is capable of penetrating this matter
or mind,
so that to it
matter is annihilated.

If a person's senses are in this light
he sees all ideas as matter in the dark
to those who are in them.

One state is thought-reading
or the wisdom of matter
or spiritualism
and the other is clairvoyance
or the wisdom
held in solution
in this ocean of essence.

So that when he formed man
out of the dust of this earth
and breathed into him
this breath of life,
he then became
a living progressive wisdom
 or man.

This life is the  light
or clairvoyant state
that sees no matter
independent of itself
or mind
and all  matter
is subject to this essence.

Everyone knows that
a clairvoyant state
is different from the natural state.

Let me illustrate what all will admit.

Persons in a clairvoyant state can talk,
using the same organs as when awake.
They also have every faculty
which they have in their waking state,
independent of the natural body,
and space and time
may or may not
be annihilated.

They act entirely independently
of anyone
and when awakened
may not remember anything
that has been going on.

Here you see a being
acting independently
of the natural body
or the identity of flesh and blood,
with all the organs and senses
of the natural man.

Now where is this identity
when the natural man is acting,
for both cannot be acting at the same time?

Everyone will perceive
that if a man could retain his reason
and natural senses
and at the same time
be conscious of the other state,
he would be a man
beside himself,
thus making two living intelligences
in one identity,
acting through one medium.

Thus the clairvoyant man
could correct the errors
of the man of flesh and blood
and keep him in subjection
to his wisdom.

What is a clairvoyant person?

It is a being
conscious of his own existence
as a living, thinking, seeing,
intelligent creature.

All this is not seen by the natural man.

Then what is the natural man?

He is the shadow of the clairvoyant;
neither is conscious
of the existence of both
at the same time.

Why do you speak of two
when one is only a shadow?

The clairvoyant is like a man
who is just where he thinks he is.

The natural man is governed by a belief.

Reason does not enter
into the combination
of the clairvoyant
for if he reasons,
he is not clairvoyant.

Where is my consciousness?

I am conscious of my senses
in both states
at the same time.

I see the substance and shadow
at the same time
and change the former.

I have been for the last twenty years
investigating clairvoyance and mesmerism,
and it has opened my eyes to facts
that have not come to the world as yet.

Those who would be cured
in the way J. R. recommends
by applying a test
can detect whether the medium
is clairvoyant or not.

Blindfold the subject
and see if he can tell
what you have in your pocket or wallet.

If they do that,
they may see the state of your internal organs,
but they cannot tell that it is done
by reading the strong impression on your mind.

Every person is
more or less
clairvoyant
and is in two states of mind
at the same time,
and when anyone writes
he is not aware
that he is dictated by a Wisdom
that he
through his natural senses
does not know.

On this principle
rogues bring their evil deeds to light.

Their crimes excite the mind
and expose their evils to view,
for by their efforts
to conceal their crimes,
they betray them to others
by looks,
acts
or words,
though unknown to themselves.

This is as it should be
and the better it is understood
the more it will bring about the desired effect. . . .

Watch the course of the Rebellion.
Almost every act of either side
develops something
beside that which was anticipated
and still
it was just what they might have expected
would follow the act.

Yet no one saw it -
still it was all right.

The intelligence which is governing the world
is as much in the dark to the actors
as the plans of Generals
are to the rank and file.

So the wisdom of our rulers
is as much in the dark
in regard to their own movements
as the soldiers are
of their own movements.

Both are mediums
of a Higher Wisdom
as much as a mesmeric subject
is the medium of the operator.

Anyone
who has any intelligent idea
of mesmerizing
is aware that the subject thinks
he acts on his own responsibility
- and so he does in a measure -
though he is also acted upon
and controlled by others.

The Real Man is not seen at all
but is always acting upon matter
and never will consent to change his course
any more than the laws of Science,
for Science is the Real Man,
and although the natural man
would like to have Science
decide in his favor,
he ought to know
that it cannot
act differently
from itself.

And if we act wrong,
Science will expose us
by making us expose ourselves.

Let man understand this
and he will be more likely
to act from a higher motive
than he does now.

In all crimes which man commits,
the act embraces the intelligence
that is the reaction
which will follow
sooner or later,
for every act of man's
must come to Light.

So the person who commits a crime
leaves the evidence against him
just as plainly as the thief
who steals in open daylight.

Convince man
that every act or belief
that he embraces
has an effect on his body
and just as he measures out to another
it will be measured back to him
- and there is no escape -
he will be cautious what he says.

Suppose you are sitting in the dark -
call that this world.
Now as the Light springs up
where is the darkness?

All will say the darkness is gone.

The Light is the resurrection of this body
(or darkness).
What becomes of it when the Light rises?
So it is with man.
 
Man is an idea of matter
(or darkness)
and as his mind
(or matter)
becomes lit
(or clairvoyant)
the darkness
(or the idea of matter)
is gone,
and he is in Light
that the wisdom of this world 
of matter
(or darkness)
has not.

So Light came into darkness,
and the darkness comprehendeth it not.