Encyclopedia Of Occult Scienses Vol. V Secondary Divinations

By Poinsot, Maffeo

It follows from this phenomenon (tested hundreds of times) that every thing may carry around it an invisibly written history. The same thing applies to the human being. Every one of us carries around him a radiance invisible to the human eye, but perceptible to the trained mind. Inscribed in this radiance in the shape of pictures are the most important results of our thoughts and our actions. In accordance with Tradition this radiance is termed the aura, and there is an aura for every principle. Thus there will be an aura of the physical body, of very small extent, an aura of the astral body, an aura of the mind. It is this last which was recognised by religious tradition surrounding the heads of saints and divinities with halos. It is thanks to this radiance of the three principles of the human being that we can explain many seemingly strange phenomena, such as sudden sympathies or antipathies, intuitions, and so-called unconscious previsions, etc.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aegitas
• Release date: Oct 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781772464566

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SECONDARY DIVINATIONS

Preface

There is yet another most interesting kind of divination: Clairvoyance, whether it is produced by psychometry, the magic mirror and its derivatives, or by the simple contact of the hand [M. de Fleuriere, lengthily studied and tested by Dr. Osly, works in this manner.].

We know what psychometry is—this extraordinary power possessed by some persons to perceive the fluid impregnations of astral things, persons and images which remain in the aura of things and of persons. We cannot argue about it. It is a strange but real phenomenon proved by many experiments made in this connection. Papus explains it thus :—

It follows from this phenomenon (tested hundreds of times) that every thing may carry around it an invisibly written history. The same thing applies to the human being. Every one of us carries around him a radiance invisible to the human eye, but perceptible to the trained mind. Inscribed in this radiance in the shape of pictures are the most important results of our thoughts and our actions. In accordance with Tradition this radiance is termed the aura, and there is an aura for every principle. Thus there will be an aura of the physical body, of very small extent, an aura of the astral body, an aura of the mind. It is this last which was recognised by religious tradition surrounding the heads of saints and divinities with halos. It is thanks to this radiance of the three principles of the human being that we can explain many seemingly strange phenomena, such as sudden sympathies or antipathies, intuitions, and so-called unconscious previsions, etc.

Clairvoyance is also produced, as we have said, by means of a special magnetised condenser of the astral plane termed the Magic Mirror, of which our author speaks in connection with the Arsenal of Magic, just, as he speaks of the visions seen in coffee grounds in the chapter dealing with divinations of the second degree. And I quite understand the reserve which he shews here ; but perhaps he ought to have dealt separately at least with the psychometry which has been tested by experiments.

Our author, it is felt, gives but a limited belief to these divinations of the second degree. Yet he describes conscientiously, not the hundreds of ancient methods which are nearly forgotten, but those of the Kabbala (such as onomancy, taromancy) and also the oracles, the prophecies which prove that the secret influences of this radiance govern many of our states of mind.

And here also we skirt the mysteries of presentiment, of telepathy which evidently belong more to those studies which relate to the metaphysical sciences. And why should we not have these subtle forebodings ? Have animals not often a sure instinct which warns them of danger ? Why should man be deprived of a similar faculty when he nears strife, death, events of the first importance ? How strongly we sometimes apprehend the Future ! How many soldiers during the war had in advance the certainty of their imminent death ! IIow many people have the intuition to go or not to go here or there, to do or not to do such or such a thing ! Strange power of vague prevision ! Kind of obscure voyance. Let him explain who likes. The Occultist, who does not believe in chance but in the mysterious forces of Nature, finds his thread of Ariadne in the extreme sensitiveness of the outer mind from which, it might be said, fluid antennae spring, draw out and grasp the future.

Let us sum up :—

Even though he may not be able to explain it until the mighty and subtle forces of Nature, the constitution of the Universe and of the human being are better known, yet through the accumulated experience of the centuries it is possible for man to know by the aid of Astrology the initial inclinations of his life, and by the aid of Physiognomony, Chiromancy and Graphology, his temperament, his character, the possibilities of his destiny. Another group of sciences, more vague, entirely intuitive, but likewise based on the experience of centuries enables him at any period of his life to control its direction. Whence it follows that it is better to discuss these matters than to smile at them. The value of this book lies in the fact