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Title: How to Read the Crystal
or, Crystal and Seer

Author: Sepharial

Release Date: September 14, 2008 [EBook #26622]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW TO READ THE CRYSTAL ***

Produced by Ruth Hart

[Note: In the original text, the Concise Dictionary of
Astrological Terms displayed a small astrological glyph illustration
next to each term, but I have not indicated these in this online text.]

HOW TO READ THE CRYSTAL
OR, CRYSTAL AND SEER

WITH A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF ASTROLOGICAL TERMS

BY

SEPHARIAL

AUTHOR OF "BOOK OF CARDS," "THE LITTLE BOOK OF MAGIC," ETC.

LONDON FOULSHAM & CO., LTD.
10 & 11, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET, E.C.
1922

_Printed in Great Britain_

CONTENTS

Chapter I. A Postulate 5
Chapter II. Qualifications 13
Chapter III. Preliminaries 17
Chapter IV. The Vision 21
Chapter V. Difficulties 25
Chapter VI. Symbols 29
Chapter VII. Some Experiences 35
Chapter VIII. Directions for Using the Ovoids and
Spheres for Crystal or Mirror Vision 51
Chapter IX. Consise Dictionary of Astrological Terms 53

CHAPTER I.

A POSTULATE

Any attempt at a scientific explanation of the phenomenon of
"crystal seering," to use an irregular but comprehensive term,
would perhaps fall short of completeness, and certainly would
depend largely upon the exercise of what Professor Huxley was
wont to call "the scientific imagination." The reasons for this are
obvious. We know comparatively little about atomic structure in
relation to nervous organism. We are informed to a certain degree
upon atomic ratios; we know that all bodies are regarded by the
physicist as a congeries of atoms, and that these atoms are
"centres of force." Primarily, the atomic theory would refer all
heterogeneous bodies to one homogeneous substance, from which
subs