es, business negotiations and speculations
occurring in the consultants' lives have been foretold by means of
the crystal. Deaths have been foreseen, and even changes in the
religious views of the consultant or his associates.

In one case the writer saw a vision of a public square in which was
the effigy of a lamb mounted upon a pedestal. The lamb was made
of solid silver and was mounted on marble. A Catholic priest came
along and pointed at the lamb. Immediately a flash of lightning
came from the sky and struck the effigy, melting off one of its
ears.

This was stated to signify that the community to which the consultant
belonged would immediately lose a member by conversion to
the Roman Church. By the next mail the consultant learned
that such was the case--an important member of the community
having gone over to the Roman Catholics exactly as predicted.

In another case a man was seen dressed in black and wearing the
habit of a judge. He held some papers in his hands which he was
endeavouring to conceal. He appeared unsuccessful in his efforts.
A snake was seen at his feet. It rose up against him. A change took
place in the field of the vision and the same man was seen lying on
his death-bed. From this it was predicted that the man designated
by the vision would be guilty of misrepresentation, and would be
cut off by death three years from that time. The prediction was in
every respect verified.

Not unfrequently the visionary state is induced by excessive
emotion, during which the prophetic faculty is considerably
heightened. Some temperaments of a peculiarly sensitive order
will fall into the clairvoyant condition while engaged in thought.
The thread of thought is broken, and there appears a vision wholly
unconnected with the subject but a moment ago in the mind. It
would appear that the soul of the sensitive, while probing the
depths of its inner consciousness, suddenly comes into contact
with the thin partition which may be said to divide the outer world
of thought and doubt from the inner world of intuition and direct
perception, and, breaking through, emerges into the light beyond.
The same may be said of cases which manifest the faculty of clear
visions while in the hypnotic state, whether spontaneous or
induced. The trance condition frequently manifests this faculty in
conjunction with others, such as clairvoyance or clear-hearing and
the sense of psychic touch.

The following instance, which was rep