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Title: Clairvoyance

Author: Charles Webster Leadbeater

Release Date: July 13, 2009 [EBook #29399]

Language: English

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CLAIRVOYANCE

BY

C. W. LEADBEATER

SECOND EDITION

LONDON

THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY

1903

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. PAGE
WHAT CLAIRVOYANCE IS. 5

CHAPTER II.
SIMPLE CLAIRVOYANCE: FULL 29

CHAPTER III.
SIMPLE CLAIRVOYANCE: PARTIAL 50

CHAPTER IV.
CLAIRVOYANCE IN SPACE: INTENTIONAL 58

CHAPTER V.
CLAIRVOYANCE IN SPACE: SEMI-INTENTIONAL 83

CHAPTER VI.
CLAIRVOYANCE IN SPACE: UNINTENTIONAL 87

CHAPTER VII.
CLAIRVOYANCE IN TIME: THE PAST 96

CHAPTER VIII.
CLAIRVOYANCE IN TIME: THE FUTURE 131

CHAPTER IX.
METHODS OF DEVELOPMENT 163

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CLAIRVOYANCE

CHAPTER I.

WHAT CLAIRVOYANCE IS.

Clairvoyance means literally nothing more than "clear-seeing," and it
is a word which has been sorely misused, and even degraded so far as
to be employed to describe the trickery of a mountebank in a variety
show. Even in its more restricted sense it covers a wide range of
phenomena, differing so greatly in character that it is not easy to
give a definition of the word which shall be at once succinct and
accurate. It has been called "spiritual vision," but no rendering
could well be more misleading than that, for in the vast majority of
cases there is no faculty connected