The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-08-12
TO ACQUIRE A SIXTH SENSE.
Anybody May Become n Medium " no
PIeases

william 1. oledu, duInOf, journalist,
theosophist and general student of all
that is odd, now announces that he has
received by means of automatic writ
ing, from very well-known spirit. the
information that every living person has
what is called the sixth sense. In other
words, we are all mediums, contrary to
the general supposition, 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 I'M
der the guidance of this feminine con
troll. the real author of the statements
being known as Julia" Her mes
sages 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 so
much importance upon them. 1t is
for this reason he holds that the com
munication 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 | have to tell you is that all
those who really wish to have the sixth
sdnse, or whatever you may choose to
term it, so 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. 1t is a potentiality of the
universal human race. Nor is ii only
human. Many animals have the open
eye. They see when their owners are
blind. But you can see if You choose
1t rests with ourselves.
There is no short cut to the sixth
sense. There may be something like
it in mesmerism and hypnotism, but
that is not at all what | mean. What
is possible is for every child or man to
become what YOU call normally clair
voyant-that is. for anyone to possess
himself of the power of seeing and hear
ing, as plainly as he sees and hears
material things, the invisible forms
and voices that surround him.
THE power is one that ought to be
under control. There will be only
harm done if you do not shut at viii
the clairvoyant eye. Imagine the mis-
chief that would happen if when life
and death hung on the absolute con-
centration Of all faculties ON the sub
iect Immediately before you. if at the
supreme moment you We're to see the
whole phant&smagoria Of borderland
pass between YOU and the point of ex-
elusive interest. If YOU cannot control
your sixth sense you had better not
acquire it. 1t is much better to do with
cut il than to be controlled by it.
You should have the sense at com
mand when you need it. as you have
your microscope or your telescope
But. better have neither if you are to be
compulsorily doomed at other will
than yours to interrupt the work of
life by a spectacle of the infinitely lit
tie or the infinitely remote Man
should always be master of his Senses
especially Of the sixth sense, as it is
called"
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