suddenly getting up, shook it again several times, moved its eyes about, and then began to run. It was caught again, and the chalk rubbed off its beak, as also from the bench; after which they endeavoured to make it remain still, as before, but in vain; moreover, the slightest pricking caused it to cry with pain. These experiments were variously repeated, and always with the same success. We may here remark that the act of making a hen lie still by drawing lines with chalk on its head along and across its back, is very old, and is mentioned in various books on legerdemain, with the explanation that by that process the hen thinks itself tied down; nevertheless Dr. Michéa's experiments are highly interesting, he being the first who has connected this well-known trick with the phenomenon of hypnotism, and shown that under such circumstances the hen is insensible, a fact which had quite escaped the notice of the vulgar."-Galignani.

There are eleven pairs of nerves, each having different duties. You may destroy the auditory nerves, but the other ten are at work. You may destroy or paralyse the nerves of sensation, but the motion and respiration nerves, go on as usual. You may paralyse Motion, but Sensation will be in full operation; and if under excitation, those nerves will be exquisitely sensitive, and ready to feel the entry of foreign influences, or auras animate or inanimate. The play of soul power from one man to another, however mysterious and wonderful at first thought, because of the general want of knowledge of its existence; gets understood by understanding the visible and invisible mechanism of the human body; and prepares the mind for a more enlarged view of the wisdom of the Deity, as developed in animal creation; and also prepares us for more fully understanding the phenomena of Clairvoyance.

SECTION VII.

CLAIRVOYANCE-SOMNAMBULISM.

CLAIRVOYANCE is the faculty of seeing through opaque substances; and so seeing, the Clairvoyant can state the condition and position of internal bodies; as man in his normal state can see external objects, and depict them to his fellow man.

External objects, in the absence of light, are invisible to our eyes; even the palm of the hand, the furniture in the room, the features of our friend sitting near, are all invisible; because the eye can only see under certain conditions, it requires the presence of the chemical substance called light, to rest on the objects and upon the eye, before we can see their form and colour. In proportion to their transparency, so is the clearness of our seeing through and beyond the intervening substance-take, for instance, glass, it is transparent; but there are different qualities of glass, and consequently different powers of transparency-there is the common almost opaque glass, the common window glass, which often is so badly made as to show objects out of proportion, there is crown glass, and other superior kinds of glass-these several kinds are of various thickness, and in proportion to their thinness and pellucidity, so is their transparency; just so is it with human beings, some are so rough skinned, that all is as leather, whilst others are so fine in texture, that we can see the lace-work of veins running along the features-we can see the throbbing pulse at the throat. The body is so fragile, that we are apt to say we can almost see through it. To show that it only requires light to see through the body, let any one take a candle, and place his closed fingers before it, and he will see the red hue of the blood, and see the bones, and their shape or form. If a higher power of light be applied, proportionately will the internal mechanism of the hand be seen. Evidently seeing resolves itself into two parts; 1st, the sensitiveness or acuteness of the eyes: and 2nd, the power of

the light properly placed, and used for seeing. The power of seeing, is in man, varied; there are the short-sighted and the long-sighted, with their gradations of power. Let us illustrate his power of seeing, as it has an important bearing by analogy on this section-Clairvoyance, or Clear-Seeing.

Take one drop of dirty water from a ditch, look at it earnestly, it is small, and dark, but it is water; it appears so common, so useless, as to cause the observer to pass judgment from the evidence of the eye, that there is no living thing there, neither can there be, because the eye cannot see any; and our ideas and calculations of weight, size, and construction, lead us to the confident decision, that no living, blood-holding and instinctive beings, could move, and act, in so small a space. Let us take the microscope, and magnify the drop of water twenty thousand times, and by means of the oxy-hydrogen light, throw the shadow of that drop of water on a white disk large enough to receive the image; and what is the result? we are amazed, and almost horrified, by the hundreds of so-called horrid-looking animals; miniature types of the antediluvian animals modelled at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham;-they move easily, we not only see them, but, through them, we see the internal frame-work of their bodies, and perceive them also as perfect in form, in outline, as the bulkiest or most agile of the animals we are accustomed to see in our ordinary life. We see their internals as perfectly as clairvoyants are said to see the internals of the human beings they direct their attention to. Let us continue our examination, and the exhibitor now adds to the half dried up drop of water, another drop, from another ditch; watch the result. After the first surprise of the animals in the two drops, up comes the physical instincts of each of the crowd of amphibious, horrible-looking beings splashing about-see! look! there is one got hold of another kind of brute, and shakes it as a cat does a mouse; the blood, yes the veritable red blood, streams from the victim in torrents-we see it flowing, sinking, and tinging the water, -we see the victim struggling in death-we turn away in

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sickening disquietude-we are glad when the exhibition is We have been clear-seers, or clairvoyants, for a few minutes, and then have returned to our original state, or rather, the chemical elements elaborated by the operator, have been removed; and the drop of water is, as when we first examined it, dark and dingy.

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Man, animals, vegetables, earth, water, are atomic, are porous: -as a rule, all are globular, and therefore between the atoms we have a triangular space; which, if filled with other materials, increase their weight, but not their bulk; it is therefore plain, that the greater the amount of surface presented to the action of light, the more easily will the internal substance of the atom be perceived; as illustrated by the simple experiment of the closed fingers placed before the candle; and the less dense the substance, the more easily will light penetrate, and consequently the more easily allow man's eye to see it. If, therefore, it be possible to charge the brain with any chemical, which will, in passing through the eye, produce the needed intensity of light, the substance will become in proportion transparent, and the internal formation be easily seen. have, under the section Body, shown that the human eye is of various degrees of sensitiveness, as illustrated by 'Schon' with his naked eye; seeing the satellites of Jupiter: doubtless many a shepherd's boy on the mountain side has also seen them, but, unacquainted with astronomy, has thought no more about them than of the thousand other stars above him. Layard states, that whilst he was examining some ruins-" Sheikh Suttom, from the highest mound, had been scanning the plain with his eagle eye. At length it rested upon a distant moving object. Although with a telescope I could scarcely distinguish that to which he pointed, the Sheikh saw it was a rider on a dromedary. Suttom soon satisfied himself as to the character of the solitary wanderer, and declared him to be a messenger from his own tribe."-Nineveh and Babylon. In eastern countries, the mountains fifty miles off appear close at hand, in proportion to the rarification of the air, so is the power of

vision increased. Coriander seed, frankincense, and other substances; clarify the eyes, and also the perceptive internals of the brain. Ordinary smoke-dried city eyes are too opaque for much work of a far-seeing kind; but still, this natural extra power of vision is admitted by science, can be easily proved by the general use of spectacles; and therefore we pass

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Glass has been referred to as an illustration of degrees of transparency in inanimate substances; and that, in proportion to its thinness, so is its transparency increased. This law carries itself throughout nature, and therefore includes man. Human skulls are of various thickness; this can be easily seen at the anatomical collections in medical muThis fact has worked itself into a stupid man being called "thick-headed;" and it will be found that, in proportion to the thinness of the skull, so will be the acuteness of the perceptive powers-and of course, in proportion to the thinness of the skull, so will be its transparency. Look at a skull, it is highly porous,-it is through the skull that moisture or sweat exudes from the interior of the head; the very hair is porous-it is a tube, as is shown by the microscope. Hairs are highly charged with heat, and electricity, and are semitransparent.

Phrenological developments prove that there is an organ or power in the brain called "Vision;" and, by facts, it is proved that human beings having that organ very full, frequently see lights, forms, and living moving persons, not seen by those without that organ; and their friends and acquaintances put it down to an excited imagination, and frequently, if possessed of property; they are thoughtfully placed in a lunatic asylum, and the property is used by those friends as a recompense for the trouble they have taken, and also because they are next of kin.

The eye does not see, it is only the medium for the external image to shine through, on the darkened chamber of its mechanism, as with a glass; and the ray holding, or bearing the image, concentrates itself to the size of the point of a

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