Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-13
THE SIXTH SENSE.
PIE POWER OF WHAT WE CALL CLAIR
voYANcE POSSIBLE FOR ALL.

I. Stead That Anybody Who Pieasss
Can Do the Occult-A Few Of tho Sim
pier Instructions Easily Understood.
William 7. Stead, author, journalist.
theosophist and general student of all
that is odd, now announces that he has
received by the means Of automatic
writing from a very we'll known spirit
the information that every living per-
son has what is called the sixth sense.
In other words, we are all mediums,
contrary to the general superstition.
even among the advanced disciples Of
spiritualism.
The message or communication is
given to the world through Editor
Stead, who for the time being is under
the guidance of this feminine control,
the real author Of the statements being
known as Julia. Her messages have
been coming at intervals for five years
and among the students of the occult
are regarded as absolutely true. That is
why Mr.. Stead lays 80 much Importance
upon them. It is for this reason he
holds that the communication between
the inhabitants of the world and those
who have passed away can be much
more free if only people will have it
that way. In the message Julia says:
what I have to tell you is that all
those who really wish to have the sixth
sense, or whatever you may choose to
term it, 30 developed that they can at
will become sensibly or to their senses
cognizant Of the reality of the existence
of the beings who encompass them
about can acquire the gift or faculty if
they will but adapt themselves to the
laws Of the region into which they wish
to penetrate. It is potentiality of the
universal human race. Nor is it only
human. Many animals have the open
eye. They see when their owners are
blind. But you can see if you choose
It rests with yourselves.
There is no short cut to the sixth
sense. There may be something like il
In mesmerism and hypnotism, but that
is not at all what mean. What is pos.
sible is for every child Of man to be.
come what you call normally clairvoy.
ant-that is, for any one to possess
himself of the power Of seeing and
hearing, as plainly as he sees and hears
material things. the invisible forms
and voices that surround him.
1.-The power is one that ought to- be
under control. There will be only harm
done if You do not shut at will the clair.
voyant eye. Imagine the mischief that
would happen if when life and death
hung on the absolute concentration Of
all faculties on the subject Immediately
before you, if at the supreme moment
you were to see the whole phantasma
goria of borderland pass between you
and the point Of exclusive interest. Il
you cannot control your sixth sense, you
had better not acquire it. It is muct
better to do without it than to be con
trolled by it.
"You should have the sense at com
mand when you need it. as you have
your microscope or your telescope, bu
better have neither if you are to bt
compulsorily doomed at other will thar
yours to interrupt the work of life by ,
spectacle Of the infinitely little or thu
Infinitely remote. Man should alwayl
be master Of his senses, especially O
the sixth sense, as it is called"
| In her further statements to MIR. Steai
Julia goes on to say that the investigator
must always be simple and not to b.
constantly thinking of himself II
other words, self consciousness must b.
avoided, or it will play havoc with tn
chances OF success. All ones menta
faculties are needed. Everything mus
be examined and tested without preju
dice and without Partially. Nothing
can be achieved without time and pa
thence.
The first thing to be done to see tn
invisible ones. Julia says, is to be yer,
still and to wait. When quite still AMI
passive, close your eyes and think O
the one whom you wish to see. If it i
q friend still alive in the body, it viii
help you if at the same time, although
that Is not essential, he or she be ais
passive and alone. When you have tw'
spirits in accord. both seeking the sam
thing, the difficulties are less, but yol
must be agreed in heart and soul. I
yoq could keep the concentrated quie
attention for longer period than fiv
minutes without becoming tired, thel
you had better do so. At no time, how
ever. force yourself. for strain mean
failure.
If in this way, Julia declares. on
succeeds in acquiring success, it is &C
quired forever. There will be no NOR
parting between the one who has game,
his object and the spirit world. Th
greatest danger is that the sixth sens
may control the individual instead O
being in itself controlled. New Yorl
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