PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 Its Science and 
 Law of Unfold men t. 
 
 J. F. GRUMBINE. 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 ITS SCIENCE AND 
 LAW OF UNFOLDMENT 
 
 THIRD EDITION 
 
 By J. C. F. GRUMBINE 
 
 President op the College of Divine Sciences 
 
 and realization, also of "the o. w. r." and author 
 
 of numerous books on occult science 
 
 BOSTON, MASS. 
 
 Published by the Order of the White Rose 
 
 1910 
 

 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1910, 
 
 By J. C. F. Grumbine, 
 
 in the office of the Librarian of Congress 
 
 at Washington, D. C. 
 
 Right of Translation Reserved. 
 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Introduction 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Special Rules and Conditions 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Adeptship and the Spirit's Functional 
 
 Correspondencies 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 The Spirit its own Oracle and Law 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 How to See and Perceive With the Interior 
 or Spiritual Vision 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 Concentration and Centralization 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 Sittings— What They Signify 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 The Silence—The Voice— Divinity 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 ^j HE AUTHOR of this unpretentious and condensed 
 £/ brochure maintains by the mailing system "The 
 College of Divine Sciences and Realization/ ' in 
 which the divine sciences of Psychometry, Clairvoyance, 
 Inspiration, Healing and Illumination are taught to large 
 classes. He is a public lecturer on Metaphysics, Divine 
 Science and Universal Religion, annually addressing large 
 audiences in the principal cities of this country. The 
 College over which he presides was founded in 1893. It 
 has steadily grown into a permanent and powerful educa- 
 tional institution. 
 
 This is the first and largest College of its kind in ex- 
 istence. His practical experience in this new field of 
 occult sciences has been possibly larger and more fruitful 
 than any one person engaged in a similar work, and hence 
 the "Teachings," or, as they are better known, "The 
 System of Philosophy Concerning Divinity/' should be 
 seriously studied. It is of more than transient value to 
 the world. What he teaches will have weight with those 
 who have examined other systems of Yoga practice, 
 spiritual unfoldment and divine realization and found 
 them to be helpful and inspiring. To be sure no one 
 system can be perfect while all are useful, but one may be 
 
PSrCHOMETRY 5 
 
 superior to the other in that it is more technical, practical, 
 and original, appeals to a larger number of minds, and 
 fills a wider sphere of usefulness. 
 
 The author of this book is a recognized seer and is 
 the founder of a new system of Philosophy — "The System 
 of Philosophy concerning Divinity," the various branches 
 of this system in their order being: I. Sensitiveness, a 
 system of Philosophy concerning its law, nature and un- 
 foldment. 2. Clairvoyance, idem. 3. Inspiration, idem. 
 4. Healing, idem. 5. Illumination, idem. The entire 
 system will make a book of some seven hundred pages. 
 
 This treatise is sent out with a mission, and in no sense 
 should it be regarded as exhaustive, or even as an abridge- 
 ment of the main work on the subject. It is a text-book 
 and as such it will be of use to all students of occult 
 science. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ^1 HE student of Occultism, Mysticism, Spiritualism 
 £/ and Theosophy, will receive with joy any rational 
 and scientific exposition of the science of Psychom- 
 etry. What has been regarded as the mysteries are 
 gradually being restored through man's slow awakening 
 and realization of his own interior, supernormal powers. 
 The light thrown upon the hitherto veiled laws and seem- 
 ingly impenetrable secrets of the Spirit has ever been frac- 
 tional and scant. Few clear and intelligible works on the 
 subjects have been published, and these few, while intense- 
 ly interesting and instructive, have been more or less mixed 
 with Oriental phraseology, theosophical verbiage and 
 mystic or cabalistic symbology, quite beyond the under- 
 standing of the ordinary and unilluminated minds of the 
 uninitiated. The occult rubbish which is flooding the 
 western world in these later years is unspeakably harmful 
 to those who are reaching out through all possible avenues 
 for the light of truth. Why this Babel, or how it is pos- 
 sible, is explained by the confused and differentiated 
 mental states of mankind. All think but do not think 
 alike nor wisely. All are led but not led uniformly. The 
 kaleidoscope of the human spirit is the scene of a psychic 
 drama where the Infinite within this mechanism is in- 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 7 
 
 spiring and shaping the finite, and where as a result ideas 
 are continuously seeking to clothe themselves in the final 
 type or fashion of Divinity. To observe and accept the 
 results of Divinity as manifest in the objective world as 
 facts and to proceed no further, or seeking for causes to be 
 helplessly baffled or confused by the limitations of the 
 senses, is disappointing as material sciences prove; but 
 to perceive the causes immanent in the objective world as 
 the divine reality, is to enjoy illumination, the fruit of the 
 Science which we here declare and explain. 
 
 Illumination is not the product of ordinary processes 
 of thought. It is realization of thought, but is spiritual 
 and not material in its origin and nature. Each one can 
 and does receive illumination either consciously or uncon- 
 sciously, and it should be as we believe it will be in the 
 future, the source of all true guidance and imperishable 
 wisdom. 
 
 We teach the Socratic method of thinking and edu- 
 cation. We appeal or resort to experience and experiment 
 for collateral and corroborative inductions of what is 
 latent and innate in each human soul. Hence the success 
 of the student of Psychometry will altogether depend upon 
 his willingness to be divinely led and not artificially devel- 
 oped by the many popular, educative and philosophical 
 systems of incubation now in vogue. To be influenced 
 truly is not to be a prey to the thought of the world, as 
 to be a medium, one must not open the mind to vicious 
 obsessions and unholy "controls ;" it is to feel the Divine 
 
8 PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 Influence, to perceive the truth and order the life accord- 
 ingly. 
 
 The object of this treatise is to elaborate, simplify and 
 verify a Rationale of Divinity by which each one who 
 will may enjoy the light of the Spirit and profit day by day 
 by a wisdom which is celestial as well as by a knowledge 
 which is terrestrial. 
 
SPECIAL RULES AND CONDITIONS. 
 
 3T will be wise to state briefly for the benefit of the 
 student the simple rules which he should observe in 
 the unfoldment of sensitiveness and receptivity, by 
 which the sphere of Psychometry is realized. These rules 
 are fundamental and axiomatic. They are not at all to 
 be substituted for the culture which is necessary for a 
 correct reading of the soul or the casting of a psychiscope 
 (a view of the soul). They are rules which the science 
 both demands and fulfils. Follow and so far as possible 
 obey them. 
 
 First. Avoid eating animal, or flesh food. Have the 
 organism inoperative and passive, so far as food and drink 
 are concerned, on the day of sittings or days when you 
 psychometrize. 
 
 Second. Cultivate receptivity to spiritual vision by 
 sitting twice a week in silent, solitary concentration of 
 spirit. When concentrating, do not think of one spirit or 
 spiritual thing, but of the object in mind, which is the 
 subject of meditation. Be positive and definite in this. 
 This is attained by permitting the spirit to assert itself 
 in the sphere of its divinity and by withdrawing from 
 material things and interests, from the objective to the 
 subjective world. One-half hour at each seance will be 
 
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 sufficient. This will afford the benefit of the silence and 
 permit the spirit to declare itself. 
 
 Third. At all times be free of care and banish from 
 the mind all worry about material things. Unfold a calm, 
 serene, state of mind, so that impressions may be lucidly 
 and correctly received and perceived, and radiations or 
 vibrations of thought may touch and unfold you directly 
 and in a way to be truly interpreted. All thought is 
 radiation and the form of thought expresses and reveals 
 a peculiar radiation. To perceive or to become aware 
 of this, the innermost must be at one with the outermost ; 
 you must be concentrated and centralized so as to per- 
 ceive in consciousness the forms which inflow through 
 and from the spheres of causality. 
 
 Fourth, Never psychometrize when you feel sick, 
 moody, mentally disturbed, or at all uncomfortable. 
 Centralize yourself first before you seek to penetrate other 
 centers. 
 
 Fifth. Have the room where you sit in order, clean 
 and filled with sweet, fresh air. Flowers add materially 
 to a high inspiration and exalted and peaceful state of 
 consciousness. 
 
 Sixth. Music is a spiritual accessory and aids both 
 the psychometrist and the spirit to equalize and polarize 
 the attractive, repellant or mutual forces. (Consult the 
 mystic laws of music. Read Atkinson on "The Five 
 Windows of the Soul;" note the myth of Orpheus.) 
 This is only advised as an aid and not as a necessity. 
 
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 Interior harmony is the state of blessedness and the best 
 means, all other things being equal, to successful psycho- 
 metrical practice and results. 
 
 Seventh. A short walk before and a rest one-half hour 
 after the walk will be helpful and afford a good condition 
 for psychometrization. 
 
 Eighth. Avoid promiscuous influences and repulsive 
 magnetisms before concentration and seances for psycho- 
 metrical experiments. 
 
 Ninth. Learn to perceive and listen with the interior 
 self. Always follow your best impressions. Never act 
 impulsively. Submit everything to Divinity, and when 
 you feel able and ready, judge of or decide upon impres- 
 sions correctly. 
 
 Tenth. Write and speak of just what you perceive 
 and receive and do not doubt your impressions until the 
 error is exposed by the one for whom the psychiscope is 
 given. Learn to rely upon your own guidance and 
 Divinity; then you will unfold and greater success will, 
 day by day, be attained. 
 
 Eleventh. Walk in the light of truth and love. Un- 
 fold the love life and light. Be spiritually, not carnally 
 minded and aspire for spiritual things, and as you aspire, 
 so you will receive the rich and eternal treasures of the 
 spirit. 
 
 Twelfth. Be uniform in diet, sleep, and sittings for 
 concentration as well as in exercise, recreations and di- 
 versions. 
 
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 Thirteenth. Always invoke the Highest self or God, 
 the Supreme Spirit, and the spiritual nature will grad- 
 ually receive the effulgent, effluent and all-pervasive light 
 which never was on land or sea. 
 
 Fourteenth. Sit facing the east in a semi-darkened 
 room and but for thirty minutes ; the morning hour from 
 ten to eleven is preferred ; other times, however, are useful. 
 Be punctual and uniform in the times and places of sit- 
 tings. A sitting in total darkness once a week may aid in 
 the outward recognition of clairvoyant development, 
 which development, is a corollary of the perception of all 
 interior states of the soul. 
 
LESSON I. 
 
 Adeptship and the spirit's Functional Corres- 
 pondencies. 
 
 It is not generally understood that mediumship, so 
 called, and not the spiritual, supernormal powers, refer to 
 organic functions, quite different in their office, nature 
 and planes of manifestation and expression. Neither 
 mediumship nor the spiritual powers are included in so- 
 called standard works of psychology, chiefly because the 
 old (not new) psychology deals with noumena and not 
 with Divinity individually applied or implied. 
 
 Whatever has been the history and development of 
 psychology, the human mind has not transcended the 
 metaphysical proposition or truths revealed by Plato and 
 Aristotle, and while Plato's philosophy includes that of 
 Aristotle, both defined the soul as their master Socrates 
 defined it before them. Psychology is empirical. Views 
 of pronounced and accepted psychologists differ. One 
 may hold to the spiritual and another to the material 
 character of life. The theological conception of the 
 evolutionary character of the universe may transform 
 Divinity into either an Intelligence or Law operating ex 
 machina or a causality governed by Spirit. We hold on 
 the other hand that in God (Spirit) we live, move and 
 
14 PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 have our being, and that the superior and inferior expres- 
 sions of life, are not only integrally related but permeated 
 with and immanent in Divinity. All life is divine. The 
 objective and subjective planes and spheres of life are but 
 relative conditions and states of the spirit's consciousness 
 by which it realizes itself. 
 
 Spirit functions through organism. It expresses and 
 idealizes itself through consciousness. Mind is the oracle 
 of spirit through which spirit expresses its thought and 
 life, while consciousness is its light by which it becomes 
 aware of or perceives itself. The objective plane of the 
 spirit could not exist or manifest were it not for spirit, as 
 neither could the subjective spheres roll into definite, 
 rational order of expression without spirit, but the spirit 
 could be without either the objective or subjective phases 
 of its manifest and expressed life. The spirit as Divinity 
 is central to all as well as supreme over any and all of 
 its conditions and states. While in no sense do we affirm 
 that any other order than the one which is ever "becom- 
 ing" to quote Plato in his dialogue, Timaeus, could be 
 possible, we certainly do not mean that spirit must always 
 perpetuate that order which is relative to its being to 
 realize eternality and Divinity. 
 
 We place mediumship f just where function, structure, 
 organism begin and cease as such, and it is a word which 
 in spiritual science covers the ability of the spirit to use 
 
 tMediumship here refers to the organic spirit correspondents. 
 Mediumship is abnormal in a psychological sense, and produces abnor- 
 mal phenomena. 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 15 
 
 a body or function materially after it has passed through 
 the change called death. As such it occupies a definite 
 sphere in the order of life's operations, laws, principles 
 and destiny. It expresses in one word that which the 
 functions of the organic being interpret, without tres- 
 passing upon the dignity of causality. Its law and action 
 are uniform with nature. Its phenomena can be explained 
 and investigated as any physical or natural manifestation 
 of life. Its office is none the less real as that which estab- 
 lishes the polarity of terrestrial and celestial affinities. 
 Dynamically and chemically it is uniform in all of its 
 operations. But it has to do with the objective world 
 from a dual sphere of subjective and spiritual causality. 
 It works from within outwardly between two intelligent 
 batteries. Its field is within the subjective outwardly upon 
 the objective. As such it relates or associates one sphere 
 to and with two corresponding hemispheres and shows 
 in an order of phenomena, both unique and natural, what 
 is real because ideal, material because spiritual, natural 
 because divine. The order of life is the revelator of what 
 is here elucidated, but where the vision is sensuous or 
 limited and the spirit beclouded, mediumship is a necessary 
 help suggestively and analogically to a clear perception of 
 the immanency of Spirit. 
 
 All forms of life possess to a greater or less degree, this 
 capacity of mediumship and where it is inoperative it is 
 still potential. It is dual in its expression, however, and 
 hence is not confined to either the objective or subjective 
 field of its manifestations. Therefore we have physical 
 
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 and mental phases of mediumship and forms of manifesta- 
 tions. Both are natural and both have to do with func- 
 tional, organic life. 
 
 Whatever is possible and potential within the sphere of 
 existence is possible and potential through mediumship; 
 the increase of capacity for expression depending upon 
 the exercise of forces beyond human instrumentality as 
 for instance levitation, instantaneous chemicalization as 
 in full formed materialization and etherialization and 
 kindred spirit phenomena. All these phases under the 
 operation of mediumship are dependent and automatic, 
 and make the person who possesses any of them a 
 medium* 
 
 Quite different is it with all those who possess super- 
 normal, spiritual or divine powers, f and quite differently 
 must the spiritual powers be defined. They are the natural 
 possessions of all and are neither functional nor organic. 
 They belong to spirit; therefore they can be expressed 
 with or without the body as the case might be. This 
 is true with what is called the sixth sense and which we 
 designate the one sense of all senses, the spiritual per- 
 ception, which, for it is really no sense at all, interprets 
 and defines all senses and their office and sensations. 
 
 The hearing, tasting, smelling, even feeling, are sub- 
 ordinate to seeing, because seeing leads to perceiving; and 
 the relation between this so-called sense of sight or see- 
 
 fAdeptship is the individual's highest self expressing its divinity- 
 through and over matter and mind. 
 
 *Such phenomena are now denned as abnormal. 
 
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 ing and intuition is so delicate that one passes from the 
 outer to the inner court of spirit without realizing it. 
 
 We would disparage the very popular fad of multiply- 
 ing the number of senses and would encourage the efforts 
 of the seer and mystic as well as all students of the spirit 
 to generalize or synthesize them under the head of con- 
 sciousness. 
 
 Psychometry deals specifically with sensitiveness, but as 
 sensitiveness pervades mind and body, the spirit appre- 
 hends through it, a vision of object and subject. Seeing is 
 the act of perception. All life has this sensitiveness. It is 
 because of it that Psychometry is demonstrable science. If 
 possessed of five senses, mankind could utilize them esoteri- 
 cally or spiritually as it employs them materially; if it 
 could feel after spirit, as Paul said certain of the Athenian 
 poets were feeling after God, instead of seeking in signs 
 and phenomena the evidence of being and destiny, Psycho- 
 metry would be the most popular science in the world. If 
 one could but realize that the spiritual part of man is the 
 real, although the ideal and divine part, that which is per- 
 manent and eternal and the source of all that is mani- 
 fest on the objective side of life, a new order of society 
 and civilization would dawn upon the world. The spirit 
 is central to all of its modes of expression and sources of 
 inspirations or impressions. It is and because it is, it orders 
 and can order all that is potential but impotent within 
 itself. This seems a paradox and is to those who are 
 credulous enough to accept time-honored and venerated 
 systems of education at the cost of intuitive wisdom and 
 
18 PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 divine guidance. But recognizing the spiritual within 
 and as greater than and enfolding and governing the 
 material man, one can perceive how life can be in-wrought 
 as well as out-wrought by attention to the spiritual im- 
 pressions instead of the material sensations which are their 
 forerunners and messengers. For such impressions are 
 never false or misleading, while sensations often miscarry, 
 and lose their tone of vibration before they reach their des- 
 tined end. Impressions like thoughts are spiritualized and 
 hence proceed at once to the spirit, while sounds, visions, 
 odors, all sensations must be synthesized and analyzed by 
 the mind before the accurate impression is received. Even 
 then such an impression objectively conveyed (where 
 the spirit depends absolutely upon the evidences of the 
 senses), may be an error or give a false suggestion. The 
 spirit should school itself to live in its divine part and al- 
 low the perception to gather up whatever is essential to 
 its life and destiny; that is, it should rely upon the soul 
 of things rather than upon the things themselves. We 
 should do our work, not by proxy or substitution, which 
 are forms of obsession, but by using our powers to be what 
 Divinity intended us to be. 
 
 If mediumship has to do functionally with the objec- 
 tive man, in the sphere of the subjective, and the spiritual 
 powers with the divine man, the one refers to a dependent 
 and the other to an independent phase of the human 
 spirit. The one is organic and the other spiritual. The 
 one may be said to be an organic function while the other 
 is functionless. The one makes it possible for the spirit to 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 19 
 
 cast a shadow, and hence to see through a glass darkly, 
 the other makes it possible for the spirit to see face to 
 face. Mediumship is an organic function which has a 
 psychical or supernormal correspondency and is truly re- 
 lated to the spiritual man; but it must not be confused 
 with the spiritual powers or possessions. Mediumship 
 is inductive and not deductive in its sphere of service, 
 law and operation, while the spiritual powers are alto- 
 gether deductive, that is, they are of the spirit, not because 
 organism or mortality make them so but because of the 
 spirit's eternality and Divinity. Therefore psychometry, 
 clairvoyance, inspiration and psychopathy are not the ef- 
 fects of mediumship only. * 
 
 Nor are the so-called spiritual senses, which are a mis- 
 nomer, the result, product or function of mediumship. 
 Clairvoyance, as clear seeing, clairaudience, as clear hear- 
 ing, clairsentience, as clear feeling, are the spirit's sublim- 
 inal modes of manifesting consciousness, and are termed 
 senses because they co-operate and correspond with the ex- 
 ternal processes of the psychic and organic functions. When, 
 however, it is realized that it is not the organ of sense or 
 the sense that produce or receive the sensations or reports 
 of them, but the ego, the limitation and office of the senses 
 will be understood. Each sense has its sphere of use and 
 its end, but that usefulness and end subserve the soul. 
 Neither the sense of sight or clairvoyance are absolute, 
 neither seeing things objectively or subjectively, through 
 
 *Whatever mediumship makes possible by a dependent use of spirit 
 organism and power, that spirit incarnate can do of itself. 
 
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 the natural or spiritual man, are independent processes. 
 The outer functions could not act without the inner, and 
 the inner and outer, collectively and synthetically, could 
 not act without one ultimate end ever in view, — without 
 the ego. And as the body is impotent and inoperative 
 when the life principle is indrawn to spirit, so these 
 senses cease in their activities at death. The material life 
 did not create them, but evoked them. They appear from 
 within the spirit as active functions when the use and 
 need are made manifest. 
 
 Organs and functions imply absolute being as well as a 
 phase of it, as personal, concrete existence or embodiment. 
 Latent in the spirit, these possessions await the wand of 
 time. The magic of their operation is the fiat of their uses. 
 They cease to be, disappear and are atrophied when the 
 spirit has served its end through them. But these in- 
 herent powers, such as clairsentience, are more interior 
 and belong to more subtile, etherial, and subliminal planes 
 and spheres of correspondencies. They are related to the 
 spiritual rather than to the sense realm; and have to do 
 with etheric waves and essences, as well as with the coarser 
 forces and elements. Hence what they can do through the 
 will of the ego, independent of mediumship or its condi- 
 tions as the trance or any induced state of telepathy or 
 suggestion, is wonderfully demonstrated by the achieve- 
 ments of the psychometrist and seer.* 
 
 *Vide Joseph R. Buchanan's "Manual of Psychometry" and Prof. 
 Denton's "Soul of Thing's." Three Vols. Read John IV. 
 
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 These powers of the Divine man require no material 
 world for their being or exercise. Through them one can 
 converse with the denizens of the spiritual world and 
 pierce the veil of sense and matter, become an adept and 
 participate in the arcana of spirit. Nay, more than this, by 
 them the adept can become aware of the eternality of 
 spirit, realize the universal Nirvana and trace in the fash- 
 ion of Divinity all states of the soul. He can solve the 
 secrets of history and civilization, magic and religion, 
 science and illumination and perceive the "I am that I 
 am" in the "I am what I am." He can perceive the cycles 
 of his being and view the phantasmagoria of nature 
 through which he ascends to sublime deific heights. It 
 will be given him to know, as well as understand, the 
 significance of Ezekiel's wheel and how the spirit, cen- 
 tralized in Divinity and polarized in love, governs his 
 microcosm as God rules the macrocosm and how Aries and 
 Libra are the poles, as it were, of a sphere in which the 
 finite and Infinite are one. 
 
LESSON II. 
 The Spirit its Own Oracle and Law. 
 
 It is not generally conceded by psychologists of the old 
 school that metaphysics should be accorded any marked 
 supremacy over physics, but, so far as Divinity is concerned 
 the universe is pervaded by spirit. Spirit and not mind 
 is the oracle of Divinity, and therefore the source of its 
 own inspirations. And what we mean by this is that the 
 spirit has within itself the law of its life. 
 
 While no effort is here made to misprize or undervalue 
 the knowledge which is acquired through the senses and to 
 make it serve the soul in the recognition of its Divinity, 
 yet precedence is given to celestial rather than terrestrial 
 sources of knowledge, and for the reason that the per- 
 ception of the Soul is always unveiled by illumination. 
 God is omnipresent spirit. No mechanism or formal caus- 
 ality can be substituted for the Divine Presence eternally 
 immanent. The Divine Presence can never be other than 
 omnipresent. It is not revealed by vicarious representa- 
 tion or substitution. It is ever the One and Eternal. It 
 is as has been written, the "I am that I am" which the 
 finite soul can appreciate if it realizes the esoteric signifi- 
 cance of the affirmation of Jesus which is a refutation of 
 materialistic psychologies — "Before Abaraham was, / am/' 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 23 
 
 The spirit is ever eternal, whatever may be or have been 
 its normal incarnations or reincarnations. And from this 
 Divinity, potential and immanent in each form of life, 
 whether perceived or affirmed or not, issues the intelli- 
 gence which gives knowledge through consciousness of 
 thought realized through its own mysterious processes. 
 The spirit can never be objectified or externalized. Phe- 
 nomena can never be or become spirit. 
 
 Manifestation of Spirit is objectification, externaliza- 
 tion. 
 
 The Spirit is never decentralized through its incarna- 
 tions or manifestations. It is not in the least disturbed 
 in its radiant sphere of Divinity. Manifestation is but 
 its reflection, not itself; it is but an apparatus which like 
 the web of the spider is fashioned from within the being to 
 reach an object or end. But the object and end are in and 
 of the reflection — all is of the essence and from Divinity. 
 Matter is not an entity but a form of the Spirit's presence, 
 in all of its elementary and combined representations. And 
 while there is a law for and of form, and a knowledge ac- 
 quired through the senses, that law and knowledge are 
 what they are because of the spirit. In the spirit, as Plato 
 taught, are the spheres of ideas, innate, immaculate, and 
 perfect. Forms but express and unveil them. They do 
 not create and procreate them. Thus numerals, letters, 
 symbols, are vehicles of ideas — not ideas themselves. 
 While it may be true that one thinks in and through 
 language, there is no authority for affirming or credu- 
 lously maintaining that ideas cannot be perceived in the 
 
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 sphere of pure form or ideality. There is a correspon- 
 dency between all forms and the spirit which manifests 
 them, as between ideas and letters, but that correspon- 
 dency is susceptible to an almost infinite, subliminal and 
 spiritual adaptation and purification or in a word, repre- 
 sentation. Thus mind through consciousness, as the body 
 through individuality, is being alchemized and ultimated 
 by spirit. 
 
 When it is affirmed that the spirit is its own oracle, it is 
 meant that it is sufficient in itself. All Divinity, love, 
 wisdom, power, law are ever present and within it. It 
 needs no government, no shrine or temple, no school, no 
 oracle outside of itself. The external is the Babel of the 
 world. The spirit needs but to live consciously in the 
 Divine Presence to realize all that we have claimed for 
 it. It should perceive that as all growth is by the law 
 of Divinity which is within it, so all unfoldment and 
 exaltation of humanity is in and through the silence. Any 
 external effort or means to the throne is expedient but 
 not sufficient. It is allowable but not spiritual. It covers 
 space and exhausts time but is superficial and hollow in its 
 obtainments. The commerce of the world, the standards 
 of education, the criteria of success, the ideals of civili- 
 zation, are more or less shaped by the worship of the 
 Golden Calf. "Great is Diana of the Ephesians" is still 
 the popular salutation of the blind leaders of the blind. 
 Hence the inanity and lethargy of state, society and 
 church. Everywhere there is the demand for and appeal 
 to external authorities; and to such instrumentalities, 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 25 
 
 vested in the powers and functions of state, society and 
 church, are the masses of the people looking for all sorts 
 of reform and every correction of and panacea for public 
 and private injustice. 
 
 When, therefore, it is affirmed that spirit alone is its 
 own oracle, that through it the logos is manifest God 
 speaks and inspires, and conscience dictates the voice 
 or will of the Divine, this Spiritualism proves. The time 
 has come when humanity should declare itself and lift 
 from the mire its lily of Divinity. This it will do when 
 once it awakens from the darkness of the senses and sees 
 the harlot of the world that has stolen its crown and 
 usurped its throne.. 
 
 The spirit, not a pope, is the source of all infallibility. 
 Each one has access to truth. No one is denied the voice of 
 God. Revelations like illuminations are for all people and 
 races. Spirit is no respector of persons, neither is its 
 law. The Divine Presence inspires all, however lowly or 
 exalted. 
 
 Hence it can be said without fear of denial that the 
 universality and catholicity of Divinity fashions each one 
 a god. Each as a spark of this incandescent Divine flame 
 or spirit is immanent with the Celestial spirit of illumin- 
 ation. To realize this is to understand the possibilities of 
 the spirit and to perceive the veils within spheres which 
 conceal the splendor of the angels and God. 
 
 Psychometry as the science of the soul of things, as 
 dealing with the Perception, or intuition, discloses these 
 veiled and revealed states and makes it possible for man- 
 
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 kind to enjoy the spirit as well as its forms, to live in its 
 presence as well as its manifestations, to perceive its eter- 
 nality as well as its mortality and immortality, to realize 
 wisdom as well as knowledge, truth as well as science, love 
 as w r ell as understanding and the inner, mystic sphere 
 where the light of spirit shines in calm and perfect har- 
 mony, as well as the rim and outer circumference of the 
 world where all seems jargon, chaos and disintegration. 
 
LESSON III. 
 
 How to See and Perceive with the Interior or 
 Spiritual Vision. 
 
 The spiritual or clairvoyant vision comes under the 
 immediate head of Clairsentience, inasmuch as it is a phase 
 of the Soul's perception which is as the all-seeing eye. If 
 it is maintained that clairsentience, in contradistinction, 
 however, to perception or perceptions of the normal man, 
 terms which are common and explicable in all standard 
 books of psychology, is dual in its nature, that is, it con- 
 tains the power of seeing and the ability or capacity to 
 realize all that is seen, we assign the clairvoyant or 
 spiritual vision a place within the sphere of clairsenti- 
 ence. It is well to note here that intuition as well as 
 conscience, which is the oracle and source of illumination, 
 should not be confounded with the perception. The in- 
 tuition * should be defined as the Soul's capacity for di- 
 vine wisdom, the intuitions the fruition of the intuition, 
 and as such they stand for wisdom. It may be clearer 
 to most students who are not familiar with the interior 
 workings of the soul to designate intuitions the gathered 
 and preserved wisdom of the Soul's past lives — it com- 
 
 *ln the System of Philosophy concerning Divinity it is taught that 
 intuition is the oracle of divine inspiration, the source of the "be- 
 cause" or the being which is casuality. 
 
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 prehends many states and experiences. This definition is 
 favored by some Theosophists. It is in reality the voice 
 of God speaking from within the Soul — it is truth realized 
 — it is not the truth nor all of the truth ; it is truth and 
 as such is a guide to the soul in all successive unfoldments. 
 It is reason glorified into law. The ideation of the reason 
 in any conscious state is tributary to it and affirms as well 
 as confirms its rulings. The larger and integral con- 
 sciousness includes all states and conditions of the soul. 
 The soul is not less than but all of itself. It contains 
 every mode, phase, expression, form of itself; but it is not 
 them. 
 
 Memory, also, is not to be limited by any narrow and 
 pedantic definition of its office. A system of psychology 7 
 or of metaphysics that assures one that all that any one 
 knows or may know of memory is its present phenomena is 
 unscientific and is unworthy the name. There is a 
 capacity to memory and a sphere of use, which is quite in- 
 comprehensible to those who dwell in and consider only 
 the present organic phase and action of it. Memory really 
 covers the exterior and interior depth of being, extends in- 
 to the illimitable spheres of Divinity, comprehends the 
 past, present and future states of the soul, and holds or re- 
 tains the ideal and actual experiences and impressions of 
 the soul. Thus intuition is the Being which is the cause 
 or the "because," which is the same as saying "I am that 
 I am," which means I know that I am because I am con- 
 scious that I am ; knowledge revealing the cause or con- 
 sciousness revealing being. The cause is the reason for 
 
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 and of being. Hence any one can say truthfully through 
 the intuition, "I know because." 
 
 Illumination is different but absolute, deals with similar 
 but not opposite spheres of being. If the intuitions * are 
 wisdom acquired in previous states and are sufficient for 
 guidance, so far as concurrent and recurrent events are 
 concerned, qualifying the soul to appreciate its history, 
 utilize its experiences, avoid its errors and mistakes and to 
 perceive and overcome its karma, in short, have a lucid 
 and definite idea of its path and destiny, so that there can 
 be no retrogressions and devolutions ; if it is a base upon 
 which the soul can build its celestial idea, and shape of it- 
 self or within itself the Nirvana of love, wisdom and 
 peace, then, in the extended sense, profoundly far-reach- 
 ing, illumination is as the vision or sphere of the un- 
 realized ideal or Divine. It fulfills the book of intuition, 
 not by destroying its authority, but adding immeasurably 
 to it and obtaining for or revealing to the spirit the neces- 
 sity for both intuition and itself. 
 
 Illumination is the father of all wisdom, and while 
 there could be and is no intuition without illumination, for 
 it is the warp and woof of all expressions of it, the next 
 step to the logos, the difference between them is apparent 
 to even the neophyte in spiritual science or theosophy. 
 
 The perception is the entity centralized in conscious- 
 ness or in spirit in the dual capacity or role of human and 
 divine; and it is by means of the perception that both il- 
 
 *Intuition is the key to all experiences, precedes and succeeds them 
 as cause and reason. 
 
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 lumination and intuition can be and are made to serve the 
 office of the psychometrist. The perception has access to 
 its own radiant sphere of Divinity by which it divines 
 without the aid of sense or sense environments or any 
 functional agency, the palimpsest of the soul, its past his- 
 tory, present career and future destiny, and by which it 
 is able to lucidly unveil or penetrate the soul of things; 
 nature and human nature, the arcana of the universe, be- 
 coming an open book, as nothing can be hidden from it. 
 
 But mark, it is not here stated that all who proclaim 
 themselves psychometrists are adepts; nor is it declared 
 that there are not veils which cannot be pierced by mortal 
 man, however proficient he may be in his clairvoyance and 
 sensitiveness. The ability is limited by its capacity, and it 
 is the capacity which defines these veils of which we speak. 
 Yet so far are the facts which we have affirmed true that 
 we have no hesitancy in saying that even the capacity for 
 lucidity is susceptible to a magnitude of expansion that 
 the seemingly most preposterous claims for it may be 
 realized. This will become more and more a conviction 
 as the preception is tested and the conditions formed for 
 the most ambitious experiments. The range of the soul's 
 vision is limited only by omniscience and surely it will be 
 but a logical sequence which all can expect to realize and 
 enjoy, if we affirm in the spirit of prophecy that this per- 
 ception will supersede the authority and use, the claims 
 and needs of Bibles. Literature and history will reveal 
 their facts, under the magic of this power, and the races 
 will reap the fruit of a new earth and a new heaven. . 
 
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 The question of method is an important one; to know- 
 how to perceive and see with the interior or spiritual 
 vision is a philosophy, deep and divine. True, no one 
 can understand the process by studying its effects. He 
 may learn its law of manifestation or its power of evolu- 
 tion, its modes and its forms of action by psychology but 
 its nature will still be a mystery. He must himself be- 
 come its master would he perceive its philosophy. Its ex- 
 periments will startle and interest as well as instruct him. 
 Narratives of psychometrical experiments are useful in 
 drawing attention to the science itself, but a study of an 
 endless series of experiments will not give one a knowledge 
 of how by sensitiveness the perception realizes them or the 
 adept reveals them. Let it be remembered that when we 
 use the wwd perception in so broad a sense we wish the 
 student to bear constantly in mind that the entity "I," the 
 spirit, through or by means of perception achieves the 
 result. 
 
 There are four supersensuous conditions which are ab- 
 solutely essential: prayer, meditation, concentration and 
 spirituality. In the next lesson we shall consider at length 
 the value of the third condition. We shall explain the 
 second and fourth of these most important conditions. To 
 meditate is not to think over a thought as the words are 
 commonly used, but to let it soak into the deeper self, the 
 subliminal and spiritual being, where it can be compared 
 with its ideal correspondent. Emanuel Swedenborg, fol- 
 lowing Plato, taught the law of divine correspondencies. 
 Not only did he fully substantiate but he elaborated Pla- 
 
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 to's affirmations. The Platonic teaching of the innateness 
 of ideas, that each thing has a something in the spirit or 
 spiritual world to which it is akin, that the thing is but the 
 form of the idea which preexists * in the human and divine 
 mind, that a perfect harmony and correspondency essenti- 
 ally exists between spirit and its manifestations, and that 
 all thought is relative as phenomenally viewed, but ab- 
 solute and imperishable as divinely realized, shows to 
 what extent the real sort of meditation will lead and how 
 the neophyte can find himself by its use and enjoyment 
 entering the ideal and spiritual world and being, where 
 causality opens to him the secret workings, psychical be- 
 havior and divine order of the universe. For here he 
 needs but to be reminded that the subtile and perfect cor- 
 respondence, which admittedly exists between the organ- 
 ism and the spirit is uniform in the organism and in 
 spirit between its spheres and planes and therefore to fade 
 from sense into perception, from mind into the conscious- 
 ness of being, from thought as objectively fashioned and 
 cognized to thought as ideally and divinely realized, is 
 the subject and end of meditation. 
 
 Concerning spirituality it need but to be said that few 
 will deny its efficacy in the search after the oracle of the 
 soul or the light which lighteth every one that cometh 
 into the world. If chastity brings to the spirit its sanctity 
 and vision; if innocence is a mirror of a celestial state 
 
 ♦Hermetic philosophy teaches that the heavenly exists in the earthly 
 in an earthly form as the earthly exists in the heavenly in a heavenly 
 form. 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 33 
 
 enwrapped in the trance of existence ; if self-denial, bodily 
 ablutions and pain are spiritual processes which lead to 
 the state of resignation and blessedness, then an active, 
 positive love of the good is in truth the path to paradise. 
 Spirituality is more than moral rectitude and more than 
 intellectual culture. It is of the spirit, inasmuch as it is 
 a divine and not a material state. It is the apotheosis. 
 It is the life of all ethical affirmations. It is not merely 
 assent to a moral code nor a life consistent with any ethi- 
 cal or philosophical teachings. It is the fruition of divine 
 wisdom and immanency, a life of sacred compliance with 
 the souYs prerogatives, a realization of the vision celestial. 
 It is the transforming and translating power of life, and 
 through it the interior spheres of being are opened and 
 revealed. For such is the mystery of its process and divine 
 workings that no sooner is it expressed than it unveils 
 what is hidden within the Holy of Holies, and brings to 
 the consciousness a sweet and rare effluence of light which 
 reveals hitherto unknown and unperceived powers of 
 being. Unlike mediumship which is organic and func- 
 tional, it discloses what is supremely potential and divine 
 in all. Mediumship governs the order and quantity of 
 spirit manifestations — it governs their intrinsic quality and 
 the reliability and genuineness of their source. Spirit- 
 uality ever qualifies the lucidity of the mind and all mystic 
 faculties, as it plays an important part in establishing har- 
 mony of action and inter-operation among all the organs 
 of the human frame. It reaches to the sphere of the per- 
 ception, and, by the pure atmosphere which it brings, 
 
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 enables the pure in heart to discern spiritual things as 
 well as to penetrate the things of time and sense. And 
 therefore it, as a means to the one end which is here set 
 forth, to say nothing of its value and use in the conduct 
 of mankind, can not be too strenuously enforced or too 
 openly acknowledged. By the higher uses of meditation 
 and spirituality, the perception will become awakened 
 and in its awakening reveal the supernormal, unveil occult 
 powers and demonstrate superior worth and divine mission 
 of spirit in a world and to a people who are slow to use 
 and enjoy the pearls which are cast at its feet. 
 
LESSON IV. 
 
 CONCENTRATION AND CENTRALIZATION. 
 
 Concentration and centralization have important 
 bearings upon all efforts to reach interior subjective states 
 and spiritual realizations of spirit. They refer as much 
 to condition as to process and are interrelated and inter- 
 dependent. In fact one involves the other. He who 
 knows how to truly concentrate understands how to 
 centralize. One may be accurate in his judgments, me- 
 thodical in his reasoning, logical in his thinking, and yet 
 may not apply either concentration or centralization to 
 their highest uses ; for the uses of them, to which we refer 
 or as applied to the consciousness of spirit, are metaphys- 
 ical and spiritual. 
 
 Much, if not everything in such applications, depends 
 upon the ability of the neophyte to understand himself. 
 The reason why so few persons are capable of concen- 
 tration and centralization, of realizing their centre in 
 mind and spirit, of shutting out from the deeper reali- 
 zation of spirit whatever is of the sense realm, is that they 
 do not have a clear and rational idea of the order of the 
 soul's life and being, nor will they overcome and uproot 
 desire, the cause of mental unrest and moral chaos. They 
 fail also to perceive that law applies to consciousness and 
 being as well as to its forms and manifestations, and that 
 
36 PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 order is the spirit's law of expression and unfoldment. 
 They do not perceive that this law is the government of 
 the spirit's being, and that to know one's self is to appre- 
 ciate the revealments which the law gives to each one. 
 
 Concentration and centralization imply law, as applied 
 to one's life and character. Indeed, in a psychological 
 sense they signify by derivation centres or a centre about, 
 from and to which all thought plays in exact relation 
 of centre and circumference, and that to concentrate is 
 to fix all thought upon a definite centre first, and then 
 upon the or one centre where the thought of the work in 
 view converges. In other words, it is to synthesize all 
 thought in one subject, and direct the mind through the 
 will upon that subject, so as to shut out or exclude from 
 this mental exercise any foreign or distracting thought or 
 object, and thus by holding the mind to the subject await 
 the results which inevitably follow. Concentration is a 
 mental attitude and may be spiritually applied. For the 
 higher we soar the more beneficial is concentration. The 
 trance * which is often a harmless form of obsession, where 
 the will of another by hypnosis or suggestion controls or 
 governs the outward ego and for the time sets it at naught, 
 is an illustration of concentration. 
 
 A mesmerist performs his phenomena of somnambulism, 
 catalepsy and ecstacy by concentrating or fixing his will 
 upon a sensitive subject and reducing him to the state 
 herein described, where his will and not the will of the 
 
 *There are many kinds or forms of the trance; the unconscious, 
 conscious, semi or clairvoyant, the ecstatic and luminous and the 
 smadhi of the sannyasin. 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 37 
 
 subject is the agent and active principle in all that occurs 
 through his suggestion. The conscious trance is always 
 clairvoyant and lucid, but it is none the less effective and 
 useful. There are endless degrees or spheres of the trance 
 and the neophyte is encouraged to perceive the uses of 
 these multiform and progressive spheres in order to appre- 
 ciate not only the law of their expression but the variety 
 in unity and the unity in variety, and above all to real- 
 ize that the more lucid the trance the higher and more 
 subliminal is the state of consciousness. Hence illumination 
 which is realized only when the ego is absorbed in the 
 Absolute Being and where, though there is no form of 
 catalepsy or unconscious consciousness, as the phrase goes, 
 present, yet the highest and purest form and idealization 
 of the trance are experienced, can be cited as a perfect 
 realization of perfect concentration. The seer or adept, 
 by suggestion through receptivity and concentration, 
 exalts himself, realizes the deeper spiritual and divine 
 being and comes into possession of his God-given power. 
 
 And therefore the person who can by the exercise of 
 his own will, rather than by the exercise of the will of 
 another, which is dangerous in the extreme and often 
 renders him impotent and helpless, induce such an exalted 
 state, so as to be able to say and know as Jesus put it, 
 "I am in the Father and the Father in me," has succeeded 
 immeasurably above the one who has by negativeness, 
 which is the antithesis or absence of concentration, made 
 himself a subject of a stronger and imperious will and 
 
38 PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 become only a medium, a cataleptic or somnambule and 
 not the master or adept.* 
 
 We do not wish to imply that the office and work of 
 a medium or somnambule are not useful, but to affirm that 
 while the one is useful the other is superior and help- 
 ful beyond comparison. To be is the question of quest- 
 ions and how to be and to realize being is the important 
 issue of life. Not to shun or escape but to realize and 
 enjoy consciousness of spiritual unfoldment are the ideal 
 and end of these Teachings; and while it is true that he 
 who loses his life will find it, it is true in the sphere and 
 possession of Being and not in the sphere of obsession and 
 unconsciousness or non-Being. 
 
 Therefore to center the mind upon consciousness is to 
 become more lucid of and responsive to Divinity in us, 
 for it is to realize that being is the sphere of one's divinity. 
 It is to be aware not only of the use of organ, sense, 
 faculty, mind, consciousness, spirit, but of all that they 
 express and by releasing one's self from their thralldom ; 
 to enjoy the capacity and fullness of Divinity. 
 
 Students have felt and so expressed themselves in our 
 classes that these superior states and realizations of spirit 
 could not possibly be normally attained or obtained; and 
 where we have taught that the trance as objectively ap- 
 plied and not as subjectively implied, does not lead the 
 consciousness of any one to Divinity, but rather submerges 
 
 *The master or adept co-operates with the spirit world. The trance 
 is employed only when the conscious sphere of supernormal com- 
 munion and communication cannot be had. This is necessary in such 
 cases. 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 39 
 
 it into auto suggestive states or subjective mind experi- 
 ences, the supernormal follows as a matter of course. 
 Supernormal communion and communication can be had. 
 It is necessary in such cases. 
 
 The order of one's life is divinely ordained — none can 
 change it. One can reveal it or have it revealed years 
 before the actual events occur and become history, but 
 that is not necessarily realization through one's own con- 
 sciousness, because realization has to do with conscious 
 and supernormal being and not with a knowledge re- 
 ceived through catalepsy or mediumship. So that we can 
 say further in explanation of this view of the subject that 
 clairvoyant states w r hich are the higher forms or modes 
 of the trance are extremely useful because they do not 
 transgress the prerogatives of being, nor usurp the sover- 
 eignty of each one's will and Divinity, but permit by 
 lucidity each one to realize and enjoy the possessions of 
 Being. Thus, to concentrate truly is to centre the thought 
 of seeing and perceiving within the Divinity and exclude 
 from the exercise all other thought. This can best be 
 done, not by aggressive, painful and laborious effort but 
 by no effort at all, save definiteness and fixity of concen- 
 tration. 
 
 Negativeness is emptiness and inanity and leads to 
 chaos, but definite and fixed purpose is receptivity. 
 Negativeness means the opposite of positiveness and 
 should not be confused with nor substituted for it. 
 
 Positiveness is affirmative and individualistic and is 
 active, conscious effort, while in no sense is it destructive 
 of receptivity and passivity. 
 
40 PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 Passivity is explained by the phrase "he also serves who 
 only stands and waits," while receptivity means willing- 
 ness to be led, taught or informed. 
 
 In concentration the most effective results are attained 
 when passivity and receptivity are made to act harmoni- 
 ously with the positive, definite and fixed purpose or 
 aspiration of the soul. 
 
 Centralization is a deeper and diviner process and be- 
 longs to the interior, mystical modes of the soul. Con- 
 centration is its corollary but it depends upon centraliza- 
 tion for its focus. So spiritual is centralization that it 
 is akin to both prayer and aspiration and can be best ex- 
 plained by the word consecration. It is to become spirit- 
 centred in contradistinction to any other centres which 
 are incident to the soul's expression and unfoldment. 
 Centralization is divine contemplation , interior illumina- 
 tion and meditation, egress from the world of effects into 
 the world of cause, participation in and realization of the 
 Divine Presence. This can be attained best by cultivat- 
 ing spirituality, devotion, ideality, beauty, love of spirit- 
 ual things. Centralization should always precede and 
 inspire concentration, but it can follow it as well as pre- 
 cede it, if the student concentrates when he centralizes 
 and centralizes when he concentrates. Concentration 
 without centralization will lead to results but they will 
 not be of that lucid and superior character as follow the 
 exercise of centralization. 
 
 If to aspire is to receive the inspiration, then the motive 
 in concentration is fulfilled by the motive in centrali- 
 
PSYCHOMETRY * 41 
 
 zation. If in matters which are material a seer has 
 easier access than the medium, then the neophyte who 
 cultivates the sphere of divine light and lucidity by prov- 
 ing an aspiration for worthiness of them, can pene- 
 trate deeper the material or spiritual world — because 
 nothing is hidden from the spirit once divinely awakened. 
 It scans the manifest and unmanifest world, its forms 
 and essences, while the universe becomes an open book. 
 This gave to Jesus and Swedenborg, to Plato and Hegel 
 their superior illumination and qualified them to become 
 evangels of universal religion. They were heirophants, and 
 by centralization made concentration the mystic door to 
 the arcana of being. They lifted exterior and interior 
 veils of matter and penetrated the spirit as successfully 
 as they read psychiscopes of mankind. All states and con- 
 ditions of man were pierced by them and while history 
 does not give a record of their sacred doctrine by which 
 they triumphed over matter and form, the key to it all 
 must be sought in concentration and centralization as here 
 set forth. 
 
 It is not denied that those who unfold seership, lucidity 
 of vision and adeptship are seers; nor do we affirm that 
 seers are not born. We have no hesitancy in saying that 
 all who realize this mystic power are seers and possess the 
 clairvoyant and psychometrical capacity. But each one 
 possesses it to a greater or less degree of expression, im- 
 manency and unfoldment and while it is very pronounced 
 and defined in some, dormant in others, and operative in a 
 feeble way in all although not always perceived or intel- 
 
42 PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 ligible; it can be further unfolded through concentra- 
 tion and centralization. 
 
 In applying what we have here implied to very simple 
 experiments, such as sensing the quality of objects as salt, 
 mustard, sulphur by sensitiveness, one should be free 
 to open the soul to the interior sphere of Divinity by 
 centralization, that perfect freedom from all care and 
 material things or environments which effect the lucidity 
 of the Soul's perception may be had. Then, by concen- 
 trating upon the subject to the exclusion of every other 
 object, the best results will follow. 
 
 Of course we are here dealing specifically with con- 
 centration and centralization as applied to experiments 
 in psychometry. In other and more interior as well as 
 complex experiments where many qualities of substances 
 intermingle as when auras or magnetisms affinitize or 
 cross each other, attention must be paid to composite im- 
 pressions, and the mass should be analyzed and separated 
 into its integral parts, each after its kind. Concentration 
 should be here applied as to hold the mind to the general 
 and particular results, so that no element of the experi- 
 ment may be lost. This is attained by patient and long 
 practice and not by careless and irrational methods. 
 Concentration has to do with results of experiments only 
 so far as they are a part of the exercise. It cannot effect 
 or destroy the result except where it is dissipated or 
 vagrant. In such experiments where persons are con- 
 cerned and histories are revealed, the psychometrist should 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 43 
 
 become soul-centred and read the life from the subjective 
 as well as objective side and unroll the palimpsest as well 
 as the mental book or record. In all such experiments 
 the success will largely depend upon the absoluteness of 
 the three conditions treated in this and preceding lessons. 
 
LESSON V. 
 
 SITTINGS, WHAT THEY SIGNIFY. 
 
 The word "sitting" or "sittings," unless associated 
 with the word silence or meditation have an ambiguous 
 and often misleading meaning. Indeed, the average "sit- 
 ting" of the neophyte is one so opposed to the object for 
 which it was originally created that it becomes not only 
 useless but in many instances positively harmful, if not a 
 farce. 
 
 To sit, has usually been rather a negative occupation, 
 in which nothingness and emptiness of mind, rather than 
 preoccupation of mind or a definite and conscious aim have 
 been conceived and entertained. Consequently the stu- 
 dent is warned against any such negativeness or attitude 
 of spirit in the effort to attain any supernormal and spir- 
 itual unfoldm^nt or realization. 
 
 To sit, as the word literally signifies, is to become im- 
 movable, to enter into a condition of rest or respose; in 
 other and plain words, it is to settle down, so as to be 
 able to enjoy tranquility, equipoise, harmony, which are 
 the very opposites of unrest, worry and action. Indeed, the 
 words sitting, satisfaction, Saturn, Saturday, all have 
 their origin in a kindred word which though given a 
 various definition implies a like meaning. For instance, 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 45 
 
 while Saturn and Saturday come from the past participle 
 of seroj to sow, and sitting springs from the word sino, 
 to place something, the meanings of the two words are 
 strikingly identical. That which is sown is placed and when 
 placed in a certain position or location it remains there 
 for a definite time and end. But as the seed is placed 
 where it w x ill grow, so a sitting is a means of growth. To 
 sow spiritually is really to know how to sit; or in plain 
 words, so to place one's self as to be able to unfold as the 
 Latin words sero and satum imply. Therefore, when it 
 is understood that a sitting is a preliminary step to an end, 
 a means for growth and realization, such words as inanity, 
 negativeness, relaxation, emptiness of mind, should never 
 be associated with or made to express the object of sitting. 
 To sit is not to annihilate individuality, consciousness, 
 concentration and centralization; not to depolarize being 
 in any organic sense, but to prepare the foundation and 
 condition for the growth and expression of that which is 
 inner, essential and divine, which, in no other way, except 
 by sitting as this word is here used, can be realized. A 
 sitting therefore has to do with the silence inasmuch as 
 it is a physical attitude only as it manifests a spiritual 
 state producing a physical correspondency or conformity. 
 It has to do with the spirit and its divine contents or pos- 
 sessions. It subjectifies the mind by inducing passivity 
 and receptivity and conforming the body to the end which 
 it has in view. It is not a mere physical exercise or form 
 but a spiritual service. It is not a mere fashion, in which 
 the spirit of the individual is superficially interested, but 
 
46 PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 it is a spiritual (not simply mental) state, preparatory to 
 the deeper and diviner work which follows it and which 
 depends upon it. 
 
 In mediumship where a sensitive is seeking to express 
 any phase of materialization or inspiration sittings are 
 more automatical and mechanical. The action of incar- 
 nate spirit is, in a way, suspended or set at naught, while 
 that of another is made operative; the body or organism 
 of the sensitive becoming the mechanism through which 
 the chemists on the excarnate side of life are seeking to 
 relate themselves to physical or submental and sub-spirit- 
 ual environments. In such an experiment it is expected 
 that the sensitive not only depolarize the thought or con- 
 centration of the thought of conscious control or self- 
 possession, but become negative, rather than receptive, that 
 the operators on the excarnate plane may adjust the forces 
 and attune the instrument and so do their work. 
 
 This is far from being the case in sittings for the 
 realization of the independent powers of the spirit. While 
 help is and will be afforded by ministering spirits, the 
 object of the sitting is for personal, individual and in- 
 dependent realization of Divinity, and not to inspire sub- 
 jective control from extraneous sources. In other words, 
 it is to form psychical conditions which will allow growth, 
 not by any plan of incubation or external means ; but when 
 the seed is put in the earth and nourished by light, heat 
 and water, it grows. In and of itself, the seed unfolds all 
 that is possible and potential within it, because the seed 
 is a divine entity, capable of material and spiritual ex- 
 
PSYOHOMETRY 47 
 
 pression. Thus, the object of sittings is to prepare the 
 soil, make it moist with spirit that the involuted and en- 
 folded germ of Divinity may uncover its blossom and arise 
 into whatever expression is inevitable. But to attain the 
 object of sittings the conditions elswhere set forth (Lesson 
 IV) must be applied. 
 
 We have no desire to belittle the cooperative aids 
 afforded the student by exalted spirit Teachers. They 
 will assist and be loyal to the collective interests of the 
 faithful, so dear to us all. We do not and should not 
 wish to afford them less than the best opportunity for the 
 realization of the ideal and the divine. No spirit Teacher 
 wishes to obsess or usurp the prerogatives or throne of 
 another's being, but rather to aid all in reaching sover- 
 eignty. And when it is said that each one can unfold the 
 divine powers within him, it is in no sense true that one 
 becomes thereby selfish, autocratic and Pharisaic. Indeed, 
 it should follow that each, because one in all and through 
 all, should become so unfolded that all forms of substitu- 
 tion such as obsession cease to be necessary and where the 
 oneness of the two hemispheres of the world is realized in 
 the sphere of Divinity which comprehends all modes of 
 being in all worlds, which is the realization of the apo- 
 theosis — Nirvana — God. 
 
 Time and space are important only in so far as they 
 subserve the needs of the individual. They are useless 
 considerations to any one who can enter into the silence 
 any time and make conditions anywhere. To those who 
 must adapt themselves to time and place because of 
 
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 material duties and interests, the law is none the less exact 
 and absolute. Even when sittings must condition or lead 
 to silence, it should not be forgotten that subjective states 
 are always preferable to objective forms of spiritual com- 
 munion. 
 
 To sit that one may realize silence is a difficult task, 
 because it shows that the individual expects material con- 
 ditions of rest or quiet to yield what can only be attained 
 by mental states or receptivity. 
 
 No amount of absence of noise or presence of quiet, 
 can create the silence. The silence, like Spirit and all of 
 its celestial and terrestrial states, is uncreate. It must be 
 realized not by material conformity or uniformity, or any 
 suggestions which may grow out of them, but altogether 
 by recognition and affirmation of them. The silence must 
 first be recognized and then affirmed, and though one 
 may live in a condition of nature "like unto death," that 
 would not afford one the key to, but rather would be 
 an imperfect symbol of the Silence. 
 
 The Silence is not the spiritual correspondent of death 
 but of life, action, thought, expression — it is the sphere in 
 which the spirit realizes its subliminal and celestial 
 powers, states, intuitions and illuminations. Therefore, 
 while the neophyte is the chooser of both times and places, 
 these are not to be magnified as the essentials. 
 
 It can be said, however, upon astro-psychical grounds, 
 that while any time and place is the time and place for 
 receptivity, yet it is true that as Solomon expressed it, 
 there are times and seasons for all things under the sun. 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 49 
 
 This fact does not in the least set at naught the law of 
 the Silence, nor disprove what we have already taught 
 concerning it. It adds to its dignity by showing that even 
 nature subserves it and impresses most solemnly upon 
 man the idea which it reveals. A mind that cannot con- 
 centrate under the most crucial tests can scarcely be ex- 
 pected to do so where there is no necessity for effort, 
 because concentration, as the opposite of distraction, disper- 
 sion and insanity presupposes adeptship; and adeptship is 
 the ability which one has perfected for concentration and 
 centralization. Yet, such times and places as remove 
 from the mind the thought of chaos and suggest cosmos 
 are not indeed to be misprized nor their value underesti- 
 mated. Yet even such conditions will prove unavailing, 
 if the neophyte refuses to recognize and affirm the Silence, 
 as a state rather than a condition and something subjec- 
 tively realized and not objectively demonstrated or cre- 
 ated. To sit, therefore, with the growing day is what is 
 implied in the Solomon, or the man of the Sun, and to so 
 sit that one may realize the significance of light, mate- 
 rially applied and spiritually implied. 
 
 We should suggest, as in the first principles which 
 are given in the special rules and conditions to be ob- 
 served, that the quality of aspiration and receptivity should 
 have the precedence over length or quantity of times for 
 sittings. 
 
 But, if after entering the Silence, at such an hour and 
 place when and where the spirit is prepared to enjoy its 
 divine privileges and prerogatives, the time were to be 
 
50 PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 considered, we should advise the morning hour between 
 ten and eleven. The reason will be perceived in the 
 sittings. By living in the Silence, the Universal Spirit 
 Presence, reveals to the attentive spirit the divine power 
 whereby the beatitudes of the Christ become realities in 
 the soul of humanity, and whereby the book of life 
 is unrolled as a scroll. 
 
LESSON VI. 
 
 THE SILENCE — THE VOICE — DIVINITY. 
 
 In the preceding lesson we dwelt upon the contrast 
 between sittings and the Silence which, comparatively 
 speaking, truly defined the phrase, "sitting in the silence" 
 as a spiritual state and not a material condition of inertia 
 or unconsciousness. It will be necessary to dwell upon 
 the word silence in a more extended metaphysical and 
 meta-mental way, in order to have the student perceive 
 the relation which exists between the Silence and the 
 variety of modes of sub-consciousness, such as the trance 
 and the clairvoyant form of illumination and perception 
 which oftentimes either precedes or follows both concen- 
 tration and centralization through the Silence. The 
 Silence is not a law to or of itself. It is a dependent 
 state and is subject to and governed by the will. True, 
 the Silence like health, harmony, joy, wisdom, love, one- 
 ness, are essential states of being; they cannot be created 
 nor produced. They are of being and are to be realized. 
 Nevertheless, while this is so, it must be remembered that 
 all states are conscious only through and not independent 
 of the will. 
 
 The will defines these states, that is, makes them per- 
 sonal or an individual, conscious, divine possession. The 
 will puts these absolute states into service. All states 
 
52 PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 He enfolded within being but the word will like the word 
 expression signifies realization. Realization is not possible 
 without will. "I am that I am" or "I will to be that I 
 am," are in a sense equivalent phrases; but it is through 
 the latter that one perceives or realizes the former. 
 
 "I am that I am" is a statement of absolute being 
 and it is unquestionably true that the Divinity realizes 
 its eternality per se, but while this is true of Absolute 
 Being or Divinity, where there are no intervening or in- 
 termediate veils existing between the. Spirit and its states, 
 or separating one sphere or mode of consciousness from 
 another, as may be illustrated by the sub, hyper and super 
 states of consciousness, yet the order of the Soul's apothe- 
 osis must not be lost sight of. One cannot realize the 
 logos either as applied through the vehicle of the natural 
 man or as implied in the spheres of the spiritual or celes- 
 tial man, save by will. Absolute consciousness is absolute 
 choice and volition to realize it, spirit already possessing it. 
 Hence where the silence is conceded to be a primal, un- 
 changing, eternal state of being, it is also true that it 
 must be realized by the law of its being; and here is 
 where both the will and the logos unite, the logos being 
 the will of the Infinite Divine, immanent in the finite 
 divine, while the will as here set forth is the executive 
 capacity and power for its realization and enforcement. 
 The Silence thus becomes a conscious state by which con- 
 sciousness itself becomes awakened, and by its awakening 
 the spheres and powers which lie potentially within it 
 become openly perceived. 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 53 
 
 It will be apparent that the word sphere is a mystical 
 word, susceptible of an esoteric definition. Like the 
 sphere it is without beginning and end, paradoxical as the 
 statement is, having a circumference, limited only by 
 manifestation and a centre illimitable in expression. 
 Within the latter appear all the circles or wheels spoken 
 of by Ezekiel in his prophecies and not only the square 
 but the circle as used in mystic Masonry is within the 
 sphere of its Divinity. One is its content and two\ is its 
 dual phase of expression, yet the odd and even numbers 
 are of one in one, as Pythagoras taught in his secret 
 doctrine. 
 
 Each particular or individual sphere within the uni- 
 versal sphere has its trance or veil, its objective and sub- 
 jective phases of expression and this is the reason why the 
 Silence is the sphere of the Soul's realizations. 
 
 There can be no concentration nor centralization with- 
 out making trances, which literally means transits, or 
 passing from one sphere to another, which is indeed so 
 even in thought or states of spiritual being. 
 
 Hence, to enter into the Silence is to close the door 
 to that which is opposed to it or, to use metaphysical 
 language, that which is its material correspondent or 
 counterpart. It is to be, not appear to be; it is to 
 realize being, not to mingle in its phenomenal aspects; it 
 is to know and enjoy reality and not to communicate with 
 
 t In ideography one (1) separates the sphere into two hemispheres 
 by the form of the cross -f- or the two diameters crossing each other 
 at their centres. 
 
54 PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 forms only; it is to exalt the soul to its inner court of 
 being and there abide and not to act through vehicles 
 and reside in the temporal and corruptible. It is in short 
 to be God-like, or better still to be God in the realization 
 of the Divine Immanency and Illumination and not to 
 live as a shell fish, in the under currents of the enfolding 
 and unfolding universe. 
 
 Thus the trance, not as annihilating but expressing 
 consciousness, not as obsessing but as aiding in the pos- 
 session of being, not as limiting but revealing the spirit, 
 is helpful in all work of spiritual unfoldment. 
 
 It will here be noticed that we speak of the trance, not 
 as producing death or a state of unconscious consciousness, 
 a state which is the absence of a normal consciousness 
 while the soul lives in a hypersphere of subjective being 
 separated from its body or is operated upon sub-con- 
 sciously by an extraneous being; for the trance which 
 destroys even so much as a normal consciousness through 
 an excarnate spirit control is never to be sought, nor is it 
 ever to be preferred to spheres of conscious illumination 
 which is our definition of the results of the trance as we 
 employ the word. It is its spiritual and mystical signifi- 
 cation. A mystic and a seer is one who knows how to 
 close the lips, ears and eyes, as the words themselves 
 mean by derivation. And to close the lips, ears and eyes, 
 not as in death but with a conscious awakening to deeper, 
 higher, diviner states, is the realization of this ecstatic, 
 illuminated state in one's consciousness. 
 
PSYCHOMETRY 55 
 
 It is through and in the Silence where the Voice is 
 heard, the vox Dei. This is the mystical meaning of 
 the "voice in the wilderness ,, and its pleading, pathetic 
 command, "prepare ye the way of the Master." For 
 it is in the openness of the soul where the Christ is per- 
 ceived and realized and where the voice is heard. There- 
 fore, the Silence is not to be confounded with any limited 
 sphere or plane of sense perception or understanding, 
 but it is to be likened to an infinite, eternal sphere of 
 possibility and opportunity, which the word openness 
 alone describes. It is as a wilderness, a virgin domain 
 that is untouched and unopened but one covered, over- 
 shadowed and permeated by the Adorable One whose 
 voice is heard from within, and it is here where the way 
 is prepared for the Divine Recognition, Baptism, Regen- 
 eration and Illumination, and where all flocks become 
 united under the guidance of the one Master or Shepherd. 
 
 Need it be said that it is here also where Divinity 
 becomes a realization; for as Paul expressed it, carnal 
 things are carnally discerned and experienced, but spirit- 
 ual or divine things are spiritually or divinely perceived. 
 It is here where the eyes and ears are opened and one 
 becomes mystically as the woman "clothed with the Sun." 
 It is here where the keys to the Scriptures are received 
 and one reads the sacred writings understanding^, be- 
 cause it is here where the baptism becomes one of fire and 
 one is able to speak with tongues of fire and interpret 
 life's book aright. The inner man is born, the super- 
 consciousness is awakened, the spiritual perception is 
 
56 PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 quickened, the oracle of the soul, the intuition, and the 
 oracle of Divinity, the conscience henceforth reveal the 
 deep things of God. Wisdom touches the understanding 
 with its celestial flame of truth, and love opens the book 
 of life to the unwritten and unrevealed law of good. 
 
 And here in this inner realm of spirit the divine science 
 of psychometry restores the palimpsest of the Soul, its 
 past life and record, opens the present and reveals the 
 future, giving to man the key to divination, prophecy and 
 seership, but above all, teaching him how to realize and 
 enjoy life in its fulness and completeness. 
 
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 other aids, because such, are but means to this one end. 
 The Soul's powers are sufficient for attaining and realiz- 
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PSYCHOMETRY 
 
 By J. C. F. GRUMBINE 
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 i. Introduction. 
 
 2. Special Rules and Conditions to be observed. 
 
 3. Mediumship and the Spiritual Gifts. 
 
 4. The Soul, Its Own Oracle and Law. 
 
 5. How to See and Perceive with the Interior or 
 Spiritual Vision. 
 
 6. Concentration and Centralization. 
 
 7. Sittings. What They Signify. 
 
 8. The Silence. The Voice. Divinity. 
 
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