then strange horrors will seize him or her; and in the latter case—well, stranger things happen, that is all.'"
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Thus much by way of information. Those who have read the works of Mundt, Hargrave Jennings, Laerie, Palgrave, Morier, Lane, need not he told that these Bhatts have been imitated often, but without avail; for, unless they he true, not a cloud even can he seen. There is another secret about them which can only be revealed to such as have and use them!—and not then till they shall have proved worthy of the knowing.
Now I wish right here to say, that some persons have been disappointed in such, because all mysteries of the heavens, or gold in the ground, or hidden money, etc., were not at once revealed. I never used one for any such purpose; but I sat and gazed upon it, awaiting patiently for aught that was vouchsafed in the way of visions or phantoramas. This is their negative and immeasurably lowest use. The highest is to sit gazing until the gazer shall pass into a transcendency lofty and most interior state—absolute, unequivocal supra-clairvoyant condition, and then, ah, then, as myriad glories unfold and roll before the Soul's eyes the seer is every inch a king or queen, and can laugh this life and world, and all their trials, troubles and infinite littleness to utter scorn, and, as it were, snap their fingers at life, death, and their copula—circumstance. And this is the positive use of a good Bhatteyeh.
The facts of Psycho-Vision, Mesmeric lucidity, Somnambulic sight, and Clairvoyance, so called, are too numerous, palpable, and well authenticated in this age to be questioned. The old time animal magnetism and its marvels gave way to what was called "Electrical Psychology," which in turn receded before the advance of what were called "Seeing Mediums," but few of whom, however, could see the same facts alike; and all gave way before the better method of developing the inner vision; by a royal road the goal is reached in these days, and that too without the delays, dangers, and uncertainties heretofore attending all methods of attaining that strange soul-sight wherewith not a few have astonished the world. But a higher, broader, deeper clairvoyance is now needed
