The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-08-13


scriptures+-showing their divine authenticity
could go back to the commencement Of ere
alton, when the morning stars sang
together" and light, forth-fashing, came
melting the hoar-frost from the dungeon walls
of psimeval darkness" and could trace the
course of tine--the history Of the world, tc
the present, through the myriads of years
that have glided away and are now lost in
oblivion. Mr. Cook told me, last winter, at
Moriah N, Y. that Sleeping Lucy" would
tell wherein any portion of the scriptures had
been mistranslated, If memory serves me
right, it is but few years, since Elihu Bur-
rit, who is a man of facts, and in fact a man,
turning from his common course, might have
been seen exploring the moon, with clair
voyant subject. Soon after we find him, at
tempting to gain knowledge ofthe language
of its inhabitants, by deciphering some char
acters, which the clairvoyant copied from
books, in a school-house, which he entered,
traversing through the lunar regions.
Clairvoyance signifies clear-sightedncss.-
Tho term is used to designate that state or
condition of the nervous system, when the
mind has perceptions of external objects,
without the intervention of the external SEN
ses, or in other words, that state when the
mind perceves and performs, without the use
of the external organs of vision, thai which,
ordinarily, can be done in no other way
That such a state does occur cannot be doubt
ed by those who have received what evidence
there is, in relation to it. Persons sometimes
fall into this state, naturally, as we say; that
is, this condition of the nervous system oc-
ours spontaneously, the result of a cause or
cau,es unknown, Such persons are called
natural somnambulists. Wonderful fcats
have been performed by them. A letter
was shown me, in Troy N. Y. last summer,
written at that plic :, by young lady to her
friends in Providence R. l. 1t was said to
have been written by her after she had retir-
ed for the night in an apartment in which
there were no materials for producing an ar
tifcial light. The letter was found i'll her
room in the morning, with her signature at
fixed 1t was written in a fair and legble
hand. She had remembrance of writing it.
She was known to be a somnambulist. The
circumstances were such, that I have conf
dcnce IN the truthfulness of the statements
made Many like cases, well authenticated,
are recorded Here the question arises, can
a similar state or condition be induced by
one person, upon the nervous system of an
other? l shall assume that it can; and |
know of no better way for each and evrey
one to satisfy themselves in regard to it, than
to obtain the requisite knowledge, and resort
to the proof by experiment Let all test the |
matter by their own senses.
Without doing more, in this place, than
merely to notice what is called dependent
or that state in which the mind
of the clairvoyant receives impressions and
through the mind of the one with
whom he is in communication, that is, the |
one to whom his attention has been directed, |
n few things must now be said upon what is
called independent clairvoyance.
Is there faculty or sense, by which the |
human mind sees, or has accurate percep- !
tons of things, without the use of the exter-
nal senses? Are any phenomena ever pre-
sentcd that indicate the existence of such
faculty? What are the facts? Is there a
sufficient number of the right kind of those
stubborn" things, to warrant the conclusion
hat such faculty does exist?
Without resorting to any of the phenomc-
ma of the induced sleep for evidence, the
acts that have been Observed occurring in
common somnambulism, are enough to an
swer the above questions in the affirmative,
satisfactorily to every mind Invested of pref
ldice. When persons arise in the solemn
fitness of the night, write letters &C., and
10 this in the absence of light, what is it more
,r less than manifestation of the same pow
n of mind that is said to be possessed by
hose upon whom an artificial sleep has been
induced? 1t cannot be said that they re-
GIVE their impressions or perceptions of
Kings, through the mind of any other per-
on therefore, what perceptions they have,
md what things they do, must be independ-
nj, as far as others arc concerned.
have never been so fortunate as to be-
lold person in spontaneous somnambulism,
nd for this reason have no knowledge in re-
alton to it, except such as have obtained
rom the observations of others. As regards
induced somnambulism or somnipathy, Ihave
cen more fortunate. Have often witnessed 1
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