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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|Clairvoyance—A Refutation of Materialism.|14-140}} | {{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|Clairvoyance—A Refutation of Materialism.|14-140}} | ||
... | {{Style P-No indent|which you have not only forgotten, but the existence of which you deny, until subsequently they are recalled to your remembrance.}} | ||
As an instance of brain-reading, I may mention that on the 25th November I experimented with Mr. Hopcroft, 47, Tavistock-crescent, Westbourne-park, and having entranced him, I presented him with twelve playing-cards enclosed in twelve envelopes, and asked if he could name the cards. This he entirely failed to do, but he at once said, “Those cards were not put into these envelopes by yourself—they were placed there by a lady; a tall, rather stout lady about fifty years of age. She has been in ''Devonshire'', and you were not in the room when she placed them in the envelopes—you went out of the room in order that you might say you had no hand in it.” All this was exactly true, and there was no one in the room but myself and the psychic. It was not thought-reading, for my thoughts were all in the direction that the sensitive should ''name'' the cards. I then presented him with an iron ring which I always take with me when I attend séances. And he at once said: “You take this ring to séances. You often visit a medium quite near your house. She is not a professional: she takes no money; she is married to a gentleman, and their people are ''fighting'' people; one is Cap—Cap—Captain J—J—James.” He did not mention the lady’s father, but he was also a ''fighting'' person, namely, General S. I do not think this was thought-reading, for my thought and wish were that he should give me some ideas as to my experiences with the iron ring. | |||
{{Style P-Align center|'''Clairvoyance in Disease.'''}} | |||
This is a most interesting faculty in itself; but it has this further to recommend it, that its object is not mere curiosity, but the benevolent relief of human suffering. | |||
Eighteen months ago I had the good fortune to make the acquaintance of Mrs. D. I told her I had a very dear friend who for years had intense agony for hours every night in his back and chest, and that latterly he had been obliged to sit up all night in a chair, and that his legs had begun to swell. Mrs. D. expressed great sympathy for my friend, and most kindly begged I would let her see him, as she thought she would be able to suggest something for his relief. This gentleman had regularly for three years been under many of the leading physicians of London. Some said that there must be some obscure heart affection. Others said it was neuralgia; one said it was gout; and the last consulted said it was malignant caries of the spine. My friend met Mrs. D. in my house, and she merely looked at him, and asked a few questions of an unimportant kind. I then perceived that she wished to speak to me, and so I asked my friend to go into the next room, and when we were alone she said— | |||
“I have seen what the disease is; I saw it as distinctly as if the body were transparent. There is a tumour behind the heart, about the size of a walnut; it is of a dirty colour; and it jumps and looks as if it would burst. Nothing can do him any good but entire rest.” | |||
I at once saw what she meant, and sat down to write to my friend’s medical attendant as follows:— | |||
“I believe I have discovered the nature of Mr. ——’s disease. He has an aneurism on the descending aorta, about the size of a walnut. It is this which causes the slight displacement which has been observed in the heart, and the pressure of the tumour against the intercostal nerves is the cause of the agony in the back, and the peripheral pains in front of the chest. You are going to-morrow to see Sir —— in consultation; shew him this diagnosis, and let me know what he says.” | |||
Next day the patient had this consultation, and at once Mrs. D.’s diagnosis was confirmed, and afterwards all the doctors who had, during the last three years, missed the true diagnosis now confirmed it. They also all agreed with Mrs. D. that the only thing to be done was to take entire rest. This treatment during the last eighteen months has been more or less followed up, and with the result that the pains have been reduced to a minimum. It is true that the diagnosis cannot be absolutely confirmed during life, but as the profession unanimously pronounce the disease to be aneurism the diagnosis may be accepted as correct. This diagnosis has probably saved this gentleman’s life, as before Mrs. D. saw him he was allowed to shoot over Scotch moors, and to ride, drive, and play billiards. | |||
{{Style P-Align center|'''Psychometry.'''}} | |||
Dr. Buchanan, in 1849, found that out of a class of 130 students at the Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, forty-three signed a declaration that if they took into their hands certain medical substances, concealed from them in paper, they suffered sensations and effects analogous to those experienced on swallowing those medicines—for instance, if they took ipecacuanha, concealed in paper, into their hands, they suffered from nausea and sickness. Reasoning and experimenting in the same direction, Professor Denton, geologist, Boston, wrote a book called “The Soul of Things,” which has passed through several editions. I believe that wearing apparel, rings, or hair belonging to an individual, can often act as a clue to the clairvoyant, and this is what Denton calls Psychometry. I have two instances of this to offer you. | |||
For fifteen years I have worn a ring which my uncle wore for the last forty years of his life. On one occasion, I placed this ring in Mr. Macgeary’s hand, when instantly he was seized with spasms at the heart, and gasped for breath. My uncle had suffered from those symptoms, having died of advanced heart disease; but this Mr. Macgeary could not have known. | |||
On another occasion, I placed this ring, which contains my grandfather’s hair, in the hand of Madame Blavatsky, and asked her to describe my grandfather. She said he was a tall and slender man, with a red face; he took a good deal of port wine, and he had ''blue'' eyes. This was quite correct, but it was not mind-reading, as my thoughts were on my grandfather’s character. | |||
Professor Denton gives another instance. “A doctor was on the ice, and witnessed the death of a negro, who was accidentally dashed out of a swing against a block of ice and killed. The doctor went home, and began in the presence of some people to describe the accident, as he at the same time compounded and rolled in his fingers some pills. These pills were sent to an old lady, who had no knowledge of the accident to the negro, but she took the pills, and that night had a vivid dream of the catastrophe, in all its details, as if she saw it.” | |||
{{Style P-Align center|'''Travelling Clairvoyance.'''}} | |||
Mr. Rouse, being in business, does not want his address published, but he permits me to give it in confidence. On the 18th November he gave me the following narrative:—When Mr. Gladstone disestablished the Irish Church, the title-deeds of a good many properties had to be examined; and among others the title-deeds of Sir Benson Maxwell, of Donegal, were demanded, but could not be found, and the advice of the lawyers was that the property should be placed in Chancery pending an arrangement. Matters were in this position, when a friend suggested that a clairvoyant might be consulted as to the lost deeds, but this suggestion was scouted by the family However, the late Mrs. General Robertson, of 49, Victoria-street, taking a great interest in the case, on her own responsibility, consulted Mr. Rouse. She sat with him at the table, and almost immediately Mr. Rouse was convulsively moved to take a pencil and a sheet of paper, and to write in large letters, “''Go to Exeter and make inquiries.''” This message being sent to the family in Ireland, was by them regarded as absurd; but when Mrs. Robertson went back to Mr. Rouse, and sat at the table for further instructions, the same message, with increased energy, was given, “Go to Exeter and make inquiries.” At this stage of the case a friend in Ireland one day said to Sir Benson Maxwell, “Your father was very intimate with the Rev. Mr. B. when he was settled here; why not talk the matter over with him?” Then it transpired that Mr. B. was now at Exeter, and Mr. Rouse’s enigmatical instructions were called to mind. One of the family accordingly proceeded to Exeter, and had an interview with Mr. B., who examined the contents of a large box in his attics, and found the lost deeds. Mr. Rouse had no knowledge whatever either of the deeds or of Mr. B., and I may add that the family were very grateful for his services, and sent him a large present in acknowledgment. | |||
In the ''Spectator'', November 11th, there is a review by the editor of the “Life of Professor De Morgan,” by Mrs. De Morgan, in which the following case of clairvoyance is given. The Professor was dining in a house which Mrs. De Morgan had never seen. At this time she was engaged in mesmerising a girl for the cure of epilepsy, and the girl became entranced, and said, “I see the Professor; he is in the drawing-room, talking to the ladies and gentlemen;” and she also described the room and furniture, and said, “I see a tray with wine, and water, and biscuits.” Mrs. De Morgan thought this must be a mistake, and urged that it must be coffee which she saw; but the girl would not give in, but insisted that it was wine, water, and biscuits. Shortly afterwards the Professor returned home, and confirmed the girl’s story in every particular as to the room and furniture, and the wine, water, and biscuits.<ref name="editor-14-141">Only the first two pages of this article are pasted in the scrapbook. The original continues on pp. 590–591 of ''Light'', December 30, 1882, No. 104; see the complete issue attached on [[HPB-SB-14-140#Sources|page 14-140]].</ref> | |||
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