Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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lieving she cannot be eloquent without book-learning,
lieving she cannot be eloquent without book-learning,
her body responds to this thought, and the tongue
grows mute that before was eloquent, loosened on the
scientific basis that mind is not confined to the devel-
opment of educational processes, but possesses primarily
all beauty and poetry, together with the power to ex-
press them; harmony is caught and not understood by
the medium; caught through a belief, and dependent
on it; but Soul gives utterance to itself when sense is
silent, hence the improvement; she was always capable
of this, and a "spirit," or person, had nothing to do
with it.
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The beliefs of personal sense, of Soul in body, etc.,
The beliefs of personal sense, of Soul in body, etc.,
limit mind; Soul sets man free, which explains the phe-
nomena of impromptu poets and uneducated orators;
witnessing this in moments falsely called mediumship,
'tis construed supernaturally, which circumscribes the
phenomenon by an 'ism. Matter is moved because of
mind, through the volition of belief, or the understand-
ing; all harmonious phenomena are produced by the
latter, and the inharmonious by the former. Science
removes phenomena from mysticism into the hands of
interpretation; in which it is no greater mystery that
mind moves a table without a hand than that it prima-
rily moves the hand, and secondarily the table, in obe-
dience to the belief that the only method of doing this
is by seizing hold of it with the hand. Mind causes
all action in the case, through a belief that "spirits" did
it, or that electricity caused it, or the more common
belief of voluntary muscular power; in other words,
matter moving matter. Likenesses of individuals, land-
scape views, fac-similes of penmanship, certain forms of
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expression that belonged to the departed, and even
expression that belonged to the departed, and even
sentences of their saying, may be taken as directly from
minds as from objects cognizant to personal sense;
mind sees what mind embraces, the same as personal
sense feels what personal sense touches. Nor is it
necessary that the mind embracing the picture, or par-
agraph, be individually present with the clairvoyant.
Any mental link touching mind, though bodies are
leagues apart, is sufficient -to reproduce these to the
clairvoyant; if the individuals have passed away, their
aroma of thought is left, which is mentally scented and
described. Mind has senses sharper than the body;
this we know from experience, yet we never believed
ourself a medium, and always openly avowed this.
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Matter is moved solely by mind in accordance with
Matter is moved solely by mind in accordance with
science or belief. But mediumship removes phenom-
ena from rationalism into mysticism, and gives Intelli-
gence to matter, instead of mind. Pictures are formed
mentally before the artist gives them to canvas; thus
clairvoyants perceiving pictures of thought can copy or
reproduce them, even though lost to the recognition of
the mind whence they are taken. The strong impres-
sions friendship, or any intense feeling leaves on mind
is ineffacable, except to personal sense, hence another
mind can perceive and reproduce the emotion. Clair-
voyance is mind-reading alone, whereas science in con
tradistinction to clairvoyance reveals Truth through
the understanding, by which we gain the Principle and
explanation of phenomena; these are distinctly oppo-
site stand-points whence to obtain information; and
the right interpretation of cause and effect, belongs
alone to science. Clairvoyance reaches only the fancied