The gift of the spirit : a selection from the essays of Prentice Mulford.

  • Mulford, Prentice, 1834-1891.
Date:
[1903]
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Credit: The gift of the spirit : a selection from the essays of Prentice Mulford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eye put out at the end of a thought. Send your thought to London and, if clairvoyant, you send that eye with it. A clairaudient ear is an ear sent with a thought. Clairvoyance and clairaudience are not special gifts for particular people. They belong to all, and are in the germ in all. Your spiritual senses have been so crippled from birth, through lack of exercise, that they are not in “working condition.” When you leave your body at night, you are as a person in a dazed or bewildered state. You see without seeing. You hear without hearing. You are as one stunned by a sudden shock or blow. True, the spiritual eye may see, but it leaves no distinct memory of what it sees. You may in such state have a remembrance of a crowd of faces about you—but that is all. In a condition somewhat re- sembling this does your spirit roam about on slipping away from its body. You are as an infant just let out of doors. You go where a vague whim or fancy carries you. You have left the physical senses of sight, hearing, and touch, in the body. You have now only a set of totally uneducated senses to guide you. You have been taught all your life to deny the very existence of these senses. To teach a child unbelief, say, in its hearing or eyesight, from its earliest con- sciousness, will result in injury to its sight. The child educates itself gradually to use the senses of its body correctly. An infant has no idea of distance. It reaches out for things far from it, imagining that they are near enough to be touched. It will walk over a precipice, if left to itself. It learns by painful experience not to touch hot coals or hot iron. It