Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-18
Mr.. SCHIRM DEFINES TERMS
REPORT MADE TO SPIRITUAL
lists ASSOCIATION.
Tells What Clairvoyance Means.
Report From Chairman Of Com
I mittee on Revision Of Laws.

Former Representative Charles B.
Schirm of Baltimore, chairman of the
committee on definitions Of the National
Spiritualists' Association, made HIS re-
port at the session of that organization
in Masonic Temple today. Mr.. Schirm
discussed clairvoyance and gave sugges-
tons in the way of definitions to offset
prosecutions in courts of justice. Clair
voyance,' said Mr.. Schirm, literally
means clear seeing; but in spiritualism it
has a technical meaning and may be
either objective or subjective. Objective
clairvoyance is that psychic power OF
function of seeing, effectively, by and
through the spiritual sensorium of sight,
which pervades the physical mechanism
of vision, spiritual beings and things. A
few persons are born with this power, In
some it is developed. and in others it has
but a casual quickening. Its extent is
governed by the rate of vibration under
which it operates. Thus one clairvoyant
may see spiritual things which to another
may be invisible, because of the degree
of difference in the intensity of the power.
Subjective clairvoyance Is that psy-
chic condition of person which enables
spirit intelligences to impress a photo
graph upon the brain OF that person at
Will-productng pictures and images which
are seen as visions by that person with
out the aid of the physical eye. These
pictures and images may be of things
spiritual or material, past or present, re-
mote or near, hidden or uncovered or
they may have their existence simply in
the conception of imagination of the spirit
communicating Them
Urges Greater Interest.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Schirm's re-
marks the report was taken up and
adopted at once.
Mrs. M. Z. Cadwallader Of Philadel-
vision of bylaws and constitution. VINO is
regarded as one OF the able parliament
tal1ans of the convention, made her re-
port, which, after indorsing the work OF
the Morris Pratt Institute of Whitewater.
Wis. which is the only educational in
stitution chartered by the National SpTr-
itualiStS Association, declared that the
association of the various states in in
stances should show a more wide-awake
interest in spreading the cause of Spir-
itualism.
1t was also recommended that in the
future leach delegate be required to wear
a badge and that no badge or insignia OF
| office be issued to any delegate or proxy
whose society has not fulfilled the re.
quirements Of the constitution and by
laws of the national association.
At the close of the reading of the report
the convention adjourned until o'clock
when the report was again taken up. II
| was announced that shortly after the open
ing of the session the next meeting place
as we'll as the officers for the ensuing year
will be chosen. In the report of the
committee to decide the next meeting
place, it is stated. Buffalo Is recommec ded
Other cities which have invited the asso.
citation are Detroit, Niagara Falls, In
dianapolis Columbus and Asbury Park.
At the closing meeting tonight. which
will open at 8 o'clock, Rev. G. Tabor
Thompson Of Philadelphia will deliver the
lecture, while Mrs. ]. p. Whitwell and E