{"1": {"fulltext": "Aw i\\nj) I\\nI\\nyy r\\\\,\\nvJK L\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00aca$p Cessons\\nIn Pspcbometrp,\\nClairuopance\\nAnd Inspiration.\\n3. C. f. Grumbinc.", "height": "3126", "width": "2035", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "1911", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "1911", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "1911", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "EASY LESSONS\\nFOR THE\\nUNFOLDMENT\\nAND\\nREALIZATION\\nOF\\nPSYCHOMETRY,\\nCLAIRVOYANCE,\\nand INSPIRATION,\\nBY J. C. F. GRUMBINE,\\nPresident of \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe College of Psychical Sciences and\\nUnfoldment,\u00e2\u0080\u009d Author of \u00e2\u0080\u009cClairvoyance,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cPsychome-\\ntry,\u00e2\u0080\u009d \u00e2\u0080\u009cAuras and Colors,\u00e2\u0080\u009d etc.\\npublished bp tbe Order of tfte White Rose.\\n1900.", "height": "3024", "width": "1911", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "two Copies received,\\nMbpfiry of\\nGf tbQ\\nlid\\nfE 3 mo\\nghUr f c\u00c2\u00ab Pr \u00c2\u00abi Kku\\n54871\\nEntered according: to Act of Congress, in the year 1900,\\nBy J. 0. F. Grumbinc,\\nin the Office of the Librarian of Congress ut\\nWashington, D. C.\\nRight of Translation Reserved.\\n6*v oop f.\\nJ V S5 cl o,", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "PART 1.\\nPS Y CHOMETR Y.\\nLesson I.\\nIn esoteric lore psychometry is a new name for an\\nold science. As clairvoyance is the science of seeing\\nand perceiving, psychometry is the science of feeling.\\nheeling deals with and comprehends the sensations\\nand emotions of the soul; and as nothing is lost, but\\neverything is preserved in consciousness, the feeling,\\nhowever inert, can be revived and reproduced by a\\nseries of experiences and experiments. As perfect har\u00c2\u00ac\\nmony finds an expression in an instrument however\\ncrude and can be evoked through a maze of or in asso\u00c2\u00ac\\nciation with discord, so thought through and by feel\u00c2\u00ac\\ning offers forever its own lessons and inspirations. The\\nseer realizes this and associates the past and future in\\nan omnipresence.\\nThe object of psychometry is primarily to substitute,\\nso far as it is possible and feasible, the intuition for feel\u00c2\u00ac\\ning and reason, or guided by reason to allow intuition\\nto penetrate the divine effluence or aura of life, and\\nthus to avoid the law and limitations of matter and\\nreap the benefits of Divinity. It is is to learn to trust", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "4\\nrather to such guidance as is self directing and lumin\u00c2\u00ac\\nous and from within the spirit, than to popular and\\nstandard criteria of the world, established and main\u00c2\u00ac\\ntained by alleged scientific researches and experiments.\\nIt is to open the spirit to its own sphere of divinity and\\nthe voice of voices affirmed by intuition and by con\u00c2\u00ac\\nscience. It is to be, not to seem and to be awake or\\nconscious, not asleep or hypnotized amid the phan\u00c2\u00ac\\ntasmagoria and illusions of the world. It is to rely ever\\nupon God in or of rather than out of spirit, upon di\u00c2\u00ac\\nvination rather than upon necromancy, upon the All\\nSeeing Eye, rather than upon functional adeptship or\\nthe one eye which allegory fabled as belonging to the\\nthree blind men. It is to rise to the sphere of divine\\nfreedom and sovereignty and become a,s God.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "5\\nPSYCHIC\\nExperiments for Spiritual Lucidity.\\nNo. i.\\nIn this experiment take a name written on paper or\\nany article and hold it in the left hand; if writing, with\\nwriting toward the palm.\\nCleanse the hand before attempting the experiment\\nand settle into a blissful passivity or mental repose. If\\nall the conditions are what they should be the receptive v\\nor subjective mind will open up or reveal what is im-\\npressed upon it by the delicate workings of the thought\\nalive or immanent in the writing or article. Follow\\nthe subjoined formula and jot down the impressions\\nyou receive according to the questions.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6\\nFORMULA FOR WRITING.\\n1. Is this one young or old and why do you feel that\\nshe or he is so?\\n2. Is this one sensitive and if so about what per\u00c2\u00ac\\ncentage?\\n3. Give a brief phreniscope, that is mental delinea\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion.\\n4. How about the temperament, the occupation or\\nadaptability to business?\\n5. How about social, literary, domestic, or other\\ncapabilities?\\n6. Name weaknesses and points of strength.\\n7. What features of the past life show themselves\\nand how about the future?\\n8. Look into the health and life line.\\n9. What persons, names, faces and things show\\nthemselves?\\n10. Write whatever else you receive.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "7\\nFORMULA FOR ARTICLE.\\n1. What is the history?\\n2. How about associations and environments.\\n3. Do you detect anything peculiar or unique about\\nit?\\n4. Describe some of the people who have come in\\ntouch with it.\\n5. If a mineral ore, state all that you perceive in\\nconnection with it.\\n6. State other matters of a general interest.\\n1", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8\\nPSY CHOMETR Y.\\nLesson II.\\nAs a science psychometry offers its own law of analy\u00c2\u00ac\\nsis, synthesis and demonstration. Its facts demand an\\ninterpretation consistent with their plane and sphere of\\ncausality; by this we mean, as physics has its own\\nmethod and science of revealment and that method\\nor science is designated natural causation, so psychome\u00c2\u00ac\\ntry traces in the noumema of spirit, such as telepathy,\\nsuggestion, clairvoyance, hypnotism, inspiration, the\\nspiritual causation of the universe. Psychometry ap\u00c2\u00ac\\npeals to man in his duality of consciousness and expres\u00c2\u00ac\\nsion as both a natural and spiritual entity and, there\u00c2\u00ac\\nfore, it is fascinating and absorbing because while ap\u00c2\u00ac\\nparently both occult and mystic it can offer supersen-\\ntient and sentient proofs of its law, operations and real\u00c2\u00ac\\nity. Clairvoyance is altogether an a priori system of\\nphilosophy and while its data are provable, yet it deals\\nwith the subjective and spiritual consciousness as ob\u00c2\u00ac\\njectified by visions. Its phenomena can be demon\u00c2\u00ac\\nstrated, but as a philosophy it comes under the head of\\nspiritual science.. It has to do with the spiritual side\\nof man as that side objectifies itself or is projected\\nwithin the natural. Psychometry, however, is a branch\\nof metaphysics and deals with life in the objective as\\nwell as the subjective planes of expression. True its\\nresearches are in and through the sphere of intuition,\\nyet such researches can be intelligently rationalized.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "9\\nReason, in other words, can ratify what intuition re\u00c2\u00ac\\nveals. This is true not only of its phenomena but its\\nlaw.\\nNot so with clairvoyance. It is purely esoteric and\\nwhile its facts may belong to the exoteric plane, while\\nthey may be a compound of experience and inner\\npromptings or prescience, yet its method of arriving at\\nresults is not inductive but deductive, from Spirit to\\nmind, rather than the reverse. This should be per\u00c2\u00ac\\nceived by all students of Psychometry. More than this,\\nwhile psychometry is concerned chiefly with the exter\u00c2\u00ac\\nnal life and explains how mind is free to act independ\u00c2\u00ac\\nently of material environments and organism, it does\\nso, not through the law or function of mediumship, but\\nthrough the independent consciousness of the spirit. It T\\nis, therefore, a science as truly as physics, chemistry or\\npsychology. Illumination and power to penetrate na\u00c2\u00ac\\nture belong to man. It is by means of this power\\nwhich we designate prescience or intuition that man\\nrealizes his spiritual nature and eternality While in the\\npractical business of life he is instinctively led. The\\nmore fully this power is unfolded and expressed the\\nmore susceptible is one to divine wisdom and leading.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10\\nEXPERIMENT II.\\nIn this experiment, take any letter that you receive\\nand after removing the envelope, hold it as directed in\\nprevious experiment (without reading it or observing\\nthe character of the writing) and note on paper the re\u00c2\u00ac\\nsults. Try this often until you succeed or acquire a\\nfacility for sensitizing influences. Use this formula in\\nnoting your impressions.\\n1. General impression.\\n2. Sex, stature, age, appearance.\\n3. Object of letter.\\n4. Recollections or reminiscences.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "11\\nPS Y CHOMETR Y*\\nLESSON III.\\nIn the natural evolution of man, as the spirit rises\\nabove and out of the soil of earthliness into which it\\nis born, the transcendent character of its di\u00c2\u00ac\\nvinity becomes more and more a revelation. The lily\\nin its blossoming must needs pass through a multiform\\nseries of expressions and transformations before it\\nreaches the material apotheosis; so is it with mankind.\\nEach step in the awakening is a fulfillment of the law\\nof consciousness and in that fulfillment lies the method\\nof thiis a priori system of teachings. Nature fixes for\u00c2\u00ac\\never her own law of expression. If there is change or\\ndifferentiation, it is not because the law is set at naught\\nor that its absoluteness is violated, but rather because\\neach phase of existence outworks the universal and un\u00c2\u00ac\\nchanging system. Nature is truth as it is science; no\\ncaprice is conceivable or possible.\\nHence such a science of the spirit and cosmos as un\u00c2\u00ac\\ncovers mystery and shows the occult operations and\\nleadings of nature, while exact in methods as mathe\u00c2\u00ac\\nmatics, although incapable at present of scientific\\ndemonstration, must appeal to every awakening con\u00c2\u00ac\\nsciousness. Such a science is psychometry.\\nIt lays hold of data which are psychical, rather than\\nmaterial, spiritual rather than phenomenal, and data too", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12\\nwhich while of spirit, are seemingly illusive and fleeting\\nwhen viewed from this stage of existence. Like a fairy\\nthe visions of the spirit, (compositions of thought in\u00c2\u00ac\\nduced by inspiration and experience), are airv-like and\\nethereal, dreamlike and unreal in character, yet tangible\\nand tentative to the illuminated consciousness. They do\\nnot rap on tables; they do not materialize on islates;\\nthey do not come into the order of the phenomenal life\\nat all save as visions, evoked by a vitascopic sugges\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion or environment. They are recollected, as memory\\nrecalls past events; but they cannot be handled as\\nthings. They are in ishort, real but not material, per\u00c2\u00ac\\nceived, but not palpable, felt but not a matter of objec\u00c2\u00ac\\ntivity. They belong to the curriculum of the soul\u00e2\u0080\u0099 di-\\nvinest life, are mind stuff, but lodge in an ocean whose\\nshores touch infinitude and infinity.\\nThe point to realize in all this is that, when you do\\nnot succeed in your experiments or deductions, when\\nvisions are not tentative and clear, when the impres\u00c2\u00ac\\nsions that flit before or into the mind are illusive, know\\nthat the psychic vitascope needs adjustment or that the\\nconditions are not normal or natural. Results can\\nnever be forced, they will come of themselves or not at\\nall. Forced results are hybrids in the sphere of psy-\\nchometry. Were the data with which the psychometrist\\ndeals altogether palpable and susceptible to physical\\nmethods, then the science would at once be recognized\\nand taught in the universities of the world. But if its\\nadmittance into these schools muist depend upon such\\ndemonstration these occult sciences will never find a\\ntutor or an elucidator in the universities. This will of\\ncourse be a calamity.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "13\\nThe aim of the student of as well as the adept in these\\nsciences should be to appeal to, as well as prepare the\\nway for the higher consciousness and humbly confess\u00c2\u00ac\\ning all errors that creep into or result from his experi\u00c2\u00ac\\nments, dignity his office by a loyal and honorable\\nconsecration. Let him at once become an hierophant\\nand a larger measure of success will await him. The\\nend is not yet. The agnostic and materialist will ques\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion or scoff at his victories\u00e2\u0080\u0094but he can afford to work\\nand wait. Knowing that truth iis his inspiration he will\\nreach the open sea of her light and wisdom by following\\nthe springs that well up in the soul and flow merrily\\nthrough the world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s mental tanglewood. The vision\\nof apocalyptic enchantment of which he dreams and\\nwhich he sees approaching, is not far away; let him love\\nit so well that he will dare martyrdom for the ecstacy\\nof its possession. Let the world babble. It can only\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009ccrucify him.\u00e2\u0080\u009d The light is unquenchable, the truth\\nindestructible and the spirit must cycle on to Nirvana\\nTake the vow of the Sphinx, look to the stars, obey the\\nwhisperings of angels and follow the light of the spirit\\neastward.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14\\nEXPERIMENT III.\\nWhat is your experience of the ephemeral and illu-\\nisive character of the data which comes to you in visions\\nand impressions as you experiment with the soul in\\npsychometry?", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "15\\nPSYCHOMETRY.\\nLESSON IV.\\n1 lie question of questions in this mystic science\\nwhich baffles both the novitiate and the initiated is the\\none which interrogates the causes as well as reason for\\nthe facts or data of psychometry; why, in short, the\\nscience is a matter of demonstration at all, appealing to\\nthe reason through both the sense or objective realm\\nand the realm of perception and intuition.\\nIt is necessary to explain the organic struc\u00c2\u00ac\\nture and nervo-psychic functions of the human\\nspirit before any clear and perfect under\u00c2\u00ac\\nstanding of the sphere and office of psychom\u00c2\u00ac\\netry may be had. The material, etheric essences and\\nforces with which the spirit continually deals or with\\nwhich it works and co-ordinates its multiform relations\\nand modes of manifestation or expression are very little\\nunderstood by the physicist and psychologist. Few in\u00c2\u00ac\\ndeed of the reputed scientists of the world accept the\\nSpiritual part of nature or life; all are more or less ag\u00c2\u00ac\\nnostic of and silent concerning the occult or involved\\ndivinity of nature; and, it is only here and there among\\nthe very aggressively progressive experimentalists like\\nProfessor Hare in his age and Professor Crookes in\\nthese latter years, who venture to set at naught the dic\u00c2\u00ac\\ntum of historical science and the critical standards of the", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16\\nschools, and boldly announce a spiritual, if not a divine\\nimmanency in matter. However, the very recent and\\nmarvelous discoveries of psychical researchers and ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nperimentalists have made the most conservative scien\u00c2\u00ac\\ntists tremble, lest, the alleged historical scientific sys\u00c2\u00ac\\ntems which have established the rationale of modern\\nscientific thought and philosophy, be proven altogether\\nuntenable and futile. We maintain that consistent with\\nthe researches of Dr. Babbitt** the etheric forces and\\nsubstances inter-reach and inter-play upon the in\u00c2\u00ac\\nterstices of matter. Indeed spirit permeates every point\\nof matter with a radiant and perfect immanency, and\\nthus makes possible the facts of which we speak. Into\\nthe microcosm (material world) as into the macrocosm\\n(spiritual world) the divine Spirit vibrates unceasingly.\\nThe atom rolls and revolves in its sphere of luminous\\nforce which lights suns and controls worlds \\\\Vhile sus\u00c2\u00ac\\ntaining the physical life of the universe. As a circle in\\nwhich every point of the circumference is at one with\\nand related to the center to which it owes its origin and\\nform; so spirit suffuses matter. Thus matter is akin\\nsympathetically with the finer forces which influx and\\npermeate matter and which impress their law, nature\\nand phenomena upon it. In this connection it will be\\nwell to notice, how, in perfect order the so called physi\u00c2\u00ac\\ncal organism and all that belongs to it, is related to its\\nprototype or correspondent in the psychic order of be\u00c2\u00ac\\ning. The unity and synthesis are perfect. The grosser\\nor cruder material forces and substances when in the as\u00c2\u00ac\\ncendent dominate the finer or so mar their effects and\\n**The Philosophy of Light and Color.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "17\\nphenomena as to make a correct psychisope well nigh\\nimpossible. As well expect a reflection of a lily in a\\npond when the water is fetid or ruffled by external\\nand internal conditions of unrest and activity.\\nThe office of the psychometrist is to secure such\\nresults as are natural, not unnatural or supernatural\\nand to make possible a psychiscope which is a true de\u00c2\u00ac\\nlineation, so far as can be had, all other conditions be\u00c2\u00ac\\ning equal. And the one who can do such work is do\u00c2\u00ac\\ning the best work.\\nIn a sense one thought contains the law or essence\\nof all thought and thus one may have a key to Divinity;\\nbut as a phenomenon it is limited, and it limits con\u00c2\u00ac\\nsciousness and to that extent, the sphere of Divinity.\\nHence even the adept will have difficulty, unaided by\\ndivinity, to correlate and elaborate all the multiplied\\nramifications of the spirit. Indeed he is an adept be\u00c2\u00ac\\ncause he never ignores divinity.\\nLet all things, therefore, be done in order but see to\\nit that order is first perceived in the impressions that\\nreach you tangibly and immediately. Higher percep\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion, keener analysis, more penetrative discernment and\\nthe most delicate pencillings of occult happenings will\\nflow before you in visions as real and palpable as the\\nthings which you physically see, touch or sense. Learn\\nto solve one mystery before dissolving all mysteries in\\na final or exhaustive psychiscope. Apply the law of\\nspirit to the least and lowest in the order of phenomena", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18\\nand the greatest and highest will follow sequentially.\\nTake the science which will uncover and reveal the na\u00c2\u00ac\\nture of one impression and the door of the Temple will\\nopen to your power and reveal to you God who fills all\\nthings with spirit.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "19\\nEXPERIMENT IV.\\nProceed to apply this teaching and thus perceive its\\ntruth.\\ni", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20\\nPART II.\\nCLAIRVOYANCE.\\nLESSON V.\\nAs psychometry is generic, clairvoyance is*special.\\nAs one relates to consciousness and all that belongs to\\nit, the other is subordinate and functional. To see in\\na material sense in the use of the organ of sight is the\\nphysical application of a function which is spiritual as\\nwell as material in its nature and isphere of action.\\nClairvoyance is both perceiving and seeing, and while\\nthe one is limited by the intuition which is akin to the\\nAll Seeing Eye, the other is circumvented by the\\norgan of sight. Both are functional and as such have\\ntheir respective offices to discharge. The spirit through\\nthe ego, controls and operates both. It is very possi\u00c2\u00ac\\nble, nay it is true that one may use his or her clairvoy\u00c2\u00ac\\nance in this two fold sense and yet give to the process\\na materialistic significance and interpretation; or, one\\nmay become aware of such an interior seeing and per\u00c2\u00ac\\nceiving and yet for years not to have\\nrecognized it as suich, nor to have been\\naware of iit. The fact is that just as immor\u00c2\u00ac\\ntality is an inherent, indestructible and eternal quality\\nof spirit and not the effect of either time, environment,\\nexpression of the arbitrary fiat of nature,so clairvoyance", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "21\\nis the inalienable endowment, like instinct or any men\u00c2\u00ac\\ntal faculty, of spirit. We should say of \u00e2\u0080\u009cSpirit\u00e2\u0080\u009d that\\nthe definite article \u00e2\u0080\u009cthe\u00e2\u0080\u009d might in no sense be perverted\\nas thus employed. The ego or spirit resides altogether\\nin the spiritual universe or in a universe which is spirit\u00c2\u00ac\\nual, although functioning in the material, and not as is\\npopularly supposed or inferred,through mistaken analo\u00c2\u00ac\\ngies and correspondences, in the material and then in\\nthe spiritual universe. The universe is spiritual alto\u00c2\u00ac\\ngether and not dual or altogether material as is alleged;\\nthat phase of it which belongs to the sense realm or to\\nwhich the sense world relates itself, being the reflex of\\nthe universe, but not in reality it. So that the celestial\\nvision should be primal and surely as potential and\\nnatural as the terrestrial. The reason why so few per\u00c2\u00ac\\nceive this is due to the fact that it has not commonly so\\nbeen recognized nor taught, except perhaps, dimly or\\nvaguely by occultists and then by implication or clothed\\nin mystic symbolisms. The spiritual gifts were not es\u00c2\u00ac\\nteemed nor sought after nor even unfolded, because\\nthey were adjudged to be deific and supernatural and\\nnot human possessions and were isaid to be possible\\nonly among the seers or those who were especiallv en\u00c2\u00ac\\ndowed or blest with supernatural gifts. Hence they\\nwere allowed to lie dormant or were exercised by those\\nwho being called or calling themselves magicians, ne\u00c2\u00ac\\ncromancers, sibyls, seers, sorcerers, or those who pass\\nas mediums or sensitives and are possessed with famil\u00c2\u00ac\\niar spirits, gave expression to clairvoyance without un\u00c2\u00ac\\nderstanding it either as a function or a possession. To\\nrecognize and declare the function is of course funda\u00c2\u00ac\\nmental to any rational use and unfoldment. Each one", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22\\nhas a potential clairvoyance which can and should be or\u00c2\u00ac\\nderly and rationally unfolded. First, that the spirit\\nmay have intelligent access to causality as well as na\u00c2\u00ac\\nture, the soul of the universe as well as the laws, ele\u00c2\u00ac\\nments, phenomena and the dynamic and chemical forces\\nwhich further elaborate them; and, secondly, that spirit\\nmay perceive and enjoy spirit and not through any\\nmedia or vicarious representation such as organism or\\nfunctional processes imply. If psychometry and tele\u00c2\u00ac\\npathy will ever become popular, as we are certain that\\nthey will at no distant time, if metaphysics will at last\\nand forever receive precedence over physics, if the\\nspirit and its divinity will be enthroned in the world\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\\nthought and life, if education will work its marvels\\nfrom within and not as is current and popular in the\\nschools and universities by a system of cramming and\\nmental absorption, if the innateness or immanency of\\ninspiration or thought as Socrates and Jesus taught and\\nrealized it, will be perceived by all, then these progres\u00c2\u00ac\\nsive and real spheres of developement must come by a\\npermanent establishment of the issues of life upon the\\nonly and absolute basis of spiritual life, being, unfold-\\nment\u00e2\u0080\u0094Which is divinity. Therefore, to realize these di\u00c2\u00ac\\nvine powers look within, see and perceive psychically\\nand enjoy the luminous Parnassus to which the spirit\\never invites.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "FIFTH EXPERIMENT.\\nDistinguish between intuition and clairvoyance as\\nthus set forth and note how one sees clairvoyance.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24\\nCLAIRVOYANCE.\\nLESSON VI.\\nThe ispecialization of clairvoyance in the medial or\u00c2\u00ac\\nganism or psychic apparatus is for practical purposes.\\nThere is in fact no such function but what seems to be\\nsuch is the phenomenon of its operation and law. The\\neye is an organ but the vision, sense and percention are\\nthe means by which it functions. The vision is not at\\nall to be confused with the so-called sense of sight or\\nthe organ of the eye through which the sense operates.\\nTo (See admits of a psychic process quite inexplicable to\\nthe physicist but fully illustrative by the sensory and its\\nmechanism. The organ of the eye is impotent to\\ngather up, collect and synthesize the rays or images of\\nrays cast upon the eye. It in no way is responsible for\\nseeing or the subjective process which accompanies and\\nis co-ordinated with it. Clairvoyance like the con\u00c2\u00ac\\nsciousness is a mode of the ego by which it displays\\nboth intelligence and divinity and by which it assists\\nthe ego to become aware of itself. It may be compared\\nbut only crudely and analogically with the nervous sys\u00c2\u00ac\\ntem which is sensitive to all that plays upon and\\nthrough it, yet is in itself not the ego, but a delicate\\nfunction which the ego uses. Thus clairvoyance refers\\nto that which while seemingly functional is yet akin to\\ndivinity, we mean that which is essentially and eternally", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "25\\nintelligent and of Spirit. It works through a two-fold\\nexpression of light, it itself being the conductor of all\\nmaterial and spiritual expression of light. Clairvoyance\\ndoes not belong wholly nor is it realized only in the\\nsphere of what Emanuel Swedenborg terms the celes\u00c2\u00ac\\ntial man, although it originates in spirit, but it radiates\\nall being and all forms of being and is the light of the\\nworld. By it one receives a lucid and spiritual defini\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion of karma or the thoughts and acts of life, because\\nit is by clairvoyance, which may be termed clear or\\npsychic seeing, or seeing without functions, that spirit\\npenetrates essence and all forms and expressions of it.\\nHow to utilize this power of spirit is a mystery only to\\nthose who have not yet awakened to the law of Divin\u00c2\u00ac\\nity or who have not cultivated the higher self for ideal\\nor divine purposes and ends. It resides in all essence\\nand can be evoked at will. All other things being pre\u00c2\u00ac\\npared and harmonious, it becomes to the adept or hiero\u00c2\u00ac\\nphant the key to nature\u00e2\u0080\u0099s finer forces and the \u00e2\u0080\u009cpearl of\\ngreat price.\u00e2\u0080\u009d It gives one, if he choose to be guided\\nby it, prescience, prevision and second isight. Because\\nit is so clear in its penetration, so definite in its con\u00c2\u00ac\\ncepts, so lucid in all that it manifests and reveals, it iiS\\nsuperlatively useful. To unfold it fully is to reverse\\nthe natural order and permit it to have a larger sphere\\nof expression. One should reispect its light and allow\\nit to shine into the material life and world. One should\\nform conditions first for its recognition and perception,\\nthen for its culture and by rationally trusting and obey\u00c2\u00ac\\ning it, one will realize its power and utility.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26\\nEXPERIMENT VI.\\nNote the Teachings of Jesus as recorded by John,\\nChapter I, where he speaks of this light. Try to real\u00c2\u00ac\\nize this light. Consult book on \u00e2\u0080\u009cClairvoyance,\u00e2\u0080\u009d by au\u00c2\u00ac\\nthor for \u00e2\u0080\u009cRules to Observe.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "CLAIRVOYANCE.\\nLESSON VII.\\nThe seer alone knows how to use clairvoyance, be\u00c2\u00ac\\ncause the seer divinely led, impresses the celestial vision\\nonly upon humanity and never subordinates it to paltry\\nand personal ends. He does not debase it by forcing\\nor extemporizing prenatally or prematurely the issues\\nof spirit.\\nThere is reason in the distrust the public has of the\\nwork of professional clairvoyantes. It may be asked\\nwhat distinguishes such from those who exercise the\\npower of natural or psychic clairvoyance. We shall try\\nto make this distinction clear.\\nClairvoyance is one and the same, however it is ex\u00c2\u00ac\\npressed. All expressions of clairvoyance are of the order\\nwhich we teach ;the only difference between the various\\nforms of it is in the use to which it is and can be put.\\nOne may use genius for unholy and unlawful purposes,\\nyet genius is ever one and the same; and as the light\\nof day is the means which enables the righteous and un\u00c2\u00ac\\nrighteous to live their life, both using the light to de\u00c2\u00ac\\nfine their path and career, so the light of the spirit can\\nbe subserved for an end good in itself or perverted and\\nmade to multiply the vices. The morale or motive in", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28\\nthe law of nature and her functions is unchangingly the\\nsame and eternally good. But when applied to conduct\\nis translated into an ethical term or quality which gives\\nrise to such antithetical words as evil and good; error\\nand truth. One may be ignorant of the divinity of\\nSpirit and consciously or unconsciously use this super\u00c2\u00ac\\nior and clairvoyant sight.\\nThe power to see as well as to perceive inheres in\\nSpirit and cannot be atrophied or destroyed, although\\nit can be organically or functionally silenced and\\nabused. The practices of clairvoyance by the magician,\\nsorcerer, necromancer, fortune-teller, clairvoyante,\\npalmist, has bewildered the ignorant, while at the same\\ntime, it has added nothing of real service or scientific\\nvalue to growth of occult science or to the eternal good\\nof the world. A human being may allow such phe\u00c2\u00ac\\nnomena as the signs and wonders, generically termed\\nsupernatural, to play through their nervous and mental\\norganism, just as one may organically function or physi\u00c2\u00ac\\ncally vegetate, without adding one tiny thread of truth\\nto the spindles or shuttles in the loom of knowledge;\\nbut those only are beneficient experimentalists and dis\u00c2\u00ac\\ncoverers of truth who intelligently and wisely set to\\nwork to enrich and bless the world by their researches\\nand experiments. It has been the bane of occultism\\nand magic, indeed, it has brought ethnic relig\u00c2\u00ac\\nions, to say naught of universal religion into more or\\nless disrepute, because a few of its advocates, as prac\u00c2\u00ac\\ntitioners of black art or magic, made preposterous, and\\nunprovable claims for their performances and works.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "29\\nNot that a Jesus or a Zoroaster were frauds, or\\nclaimed for their works more than they could prove,\\nbut those who like Cagliostro, the arch imposter, and\\nthose who looked on and witnessed their performances\\nof legerdemain, those who in after years ignorantly un\u00c2\u00ac\\nderstood and as ignorantly interpreted their work and\\nhistory, such workers and witnesses with uncultivated\\nspiritual vision have by their ignorant and ^superstitious\\ninterpretations, placed a false meaning upon bibles and\\nall occult phenomena and by so doing set the world\\nback a few thousand years and plunged the spiritual\\nmovement into almost hopeless disaster.\\nThe effort is here made to impress upon the student\\nthe value of luminous discrimination, and to emphasize\\nthe necessity of placing clairvoyance and the clairvoy-\\nante, not where either will continue to be ridiculed into\\noblivion, or where either one will be contemptuously\\nslighted and ignored, but Where the real office, value\\nand end may be exalted and their services command\\nthe recognition and applause of the world. Let its\\nphilosophy be clearly defined that man may make no\\nmistakes when investigating its phenomena or seeking\\nfor true guidance. The work of the educator in this\\nsphere alone is one of martyrdom, but however ignom\u00c2\u00ac\\ninious or futile such a consecrated life and work may be\\nin the estimation of the world its efforts will not be in\\nvain. To rescue universal religion and spiritual science\\nfrom disgrace and a dishonorable name, to put both\\nwhere the mercenaries of the world may not bargain\\nover its price, to restore to humanity a civilization\\nwhich was pre-eminently spiritual and mystical and", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30\\nfostered by the wise men of Egypt, Asia, India and\\nGreece and to place around Jesus, Krishna, Socrates,\\nBuddha, Zoroaster and their co-laborers in the colleges\\nof Divinity that halo wlhich is the effluence and radia\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion of their spirituality and thus make science and re\u00c2\u00ac\\nligion truly interpret history and civilization, is an hon\u00c2\u00ac\\norable career and its triumph the unspeakably brilliant\\nand immortal achievement of the seer and his com\u00c2\u00ac\\npany of humble disciples. So was it said of old and so\\nis it repeated, \u00e2\u0080\u009cLet your light so shine before men that\\nthey seeing your good works will glorify your Father\\nin heaven.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "81\\nSEVENTH EXPERIMENT.\\nShow how one should discriminate between the mo\u00c2\u00ac\\ntive and work of the seer and those of the artificer and\\nsorcerer.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32\\nPART III.\\nINSPIRATION.\\nLESSON VIII.\\nIn these brief lessons we declare no new Teaching\\nconcerning the law of the Soul s unfoldment and spirit\u00c2\u00ac\\nual realization, nor have we suggested any strange or\\nnovel methods for experimentation. The students will\\nde well if in a reminiscent way the fundamental prin\u00c2\u00ac\\nciples of this System Of Philosophy Concerning Divin\u00c2\u00ac\\nity are kept in mind and ever reasserted and elaborated.\\nMany will no doubt read these lessons and yet not per\u00c2\u00ac\\nceive and realize their value or significance. Swayed\\nby the \u00e2\u0080\u009cipse dixit\u00e2\u0080\u009d of Mother Grundy, or the thought\\nand influence of humanity, they forget or neglect the\\npower of Divinity and hence are continually misled and\\nalways in doubt as to the reality and issuance of Spirit,\\nto say nothing of the calm grandeur and the perfect\\nguidance of one who is conscious of celestial Imman\u00c2\u00ac\\nency and Divine Providence. If nature is a palimpsest\\ncontaining as the snowy white tablets of the soul a rec\u00c2\u00ac\\nord of the Divine rulings and workings, quite impossi\u00c2\u00ac\\nble of realization by the mortal and unilluminated con\u00c2\u00ac\\nsciousness, surely the aim of the student should be to\\ninterpret its writings and if possible, its secret and di-", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "33\\nvine causality. Having succeeded in mastering the\\nSystem of Philosophy concerning Psychometry and\\nClairvoyance, that of Inspiration follows. As climbing\\na mountain range to stand upon the summit of its high\u00c2\u00ac\\nest peak suggests collateral and fundamental steps\\nWhich lead to the end in view, so in the perfection of\\nspiritual unfoldment, it is as if one swept through\\nspheres of mental and spiritual auras until at last the\\nsublime light of the spirit shone in eternal and perfect\\nglory. The ambient, pervasive, enfolding light on the\\nheights is a smybol of inspiration.\\nNow the very first condition of success in mastering\\nthis special philosophy is the perception of the a priori\\norigin, nature and expression of thought. All thought\\nis divine; it is natural only because spiritual; it is human\\nonly because deific. It, in no sense, is causal but se\u00c2\u00ac\\nquential to spirit; Spirit is ever causal to it. It has its\\nown light and resultant aura, radiance, magnetic and\\nelectrical sphere and spectum of manifestation and dif\u00c2\u00ac\\nferentiation. It infills and permeates matter by a rare,\\nindefinable, ineffable spiritual immanence. Its phenom\u00c2\u00ac\\nena. however variable and multiform have one source\\nand are governed by one law. The realization of this is\\nperceived in the synthesis of the various sub-laws and\\nprinciples of nature and viewing them in the sphere of\\nan illuminated consciousness. To acquire this illumin\u00c2\u00ac\\nation one must become receptive of celestial or divine\\nrays of thought or light and not limit the mind by ma\u00c2\u00ac\\nterial iscience, philosophy and religion. To perceive^\\nthe light of the spirit is simply to become consciously\\naware of its presence. It requires no miracle of regen-", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34\\neration or spiritual transformation. This inspiration of\\nwhich we speak ever is and is in all souls and there\\nshines eternally. It is not sporadic, exotic, capri\u00c2\u00ac\\ncious, now here or there like a will-o\u00e2\u0080\u0099-the-wisp; it is\\nabiding and unchanging and awaits recognition and\\nrealization. The measure of its hallowed light depends\\nupon the degree of spirituality one has unfolded, and\\nnot upon the ability to cast spirit noumena and phe\u00c2\u00ac\\nnomena. The idea is abroad and it is a mistaken one\\nthat mediumship or the dynamic expression of adept-\\nship intensifies and objectifies this light or makes it\\npossible. This might be so were the ligfit of inspira\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion material in quality, inductive in nature, and did it\\noperate functionally; but, inasmuch as it is spiritual\\nit truly can never be on land or sea. It must be per\u00c2\u00ac\\nceived, if perceived at all, from within spirit. It cannot\\nbe materialized, externalized or objectified. Hence do\\nnot seek for it as you do for the physical or electrical\\nrays of the sun; seek for it spiritually travelling as the\\nmystics travelled eastward from the west or follow the\\nmagic star of the East in pursuit of the holy grail;\\nwhich means reverse the natural order and seek for it\\nwithin spirit by following its tides which ebb and flow\\nby the law of breathing and inbreathing within con\u00c2\u00ac\\nsciousness, touching faintly the shores of psychic vision\\nand the mind. Know well the significance of\\nJohn\u00e2\u0080\u0099s gospel and interpret his symbology esoterically.\\nRead mystically the parable and lesson of the Foolish\\nVirgins, the Transfiguration and the Treasure hid in\\nthe Field. And above all do not seek to critically rat\u00c2\u00ac\\nionalize all intuitions and inspirations, but learn to\\ndiscriminate between human and divine thought and", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "35\\nleading, seeing to it that conditions are prepared where\u00c2\u00ac\\nby the intuition may perceive and spiritual conscious\u00c2\u00ac\\nness receive divine direction. Keep the mind moist\\nwith (Spirit. Then all doubtful problems will be solved.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36\\nEIGHTH EXPERIMENT.\\nHow does thought bring light and how is the light\\nof inspiration realized? Perceive that there is no con\u00c2\u00ac\\nsciousness without this spiritual radiation or divine\\nillumination. All a priori thought finds its definition\\nand interpretation in this light.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "37\\nINSPIRATION*\\nLESSON IX.\\nThe student of inspiration should be able to distin\u00c2\u00ac\\nguish between the different forms of inspiration which\\nhave been common to every people of every age. The\\nprocess or law through and by wihich inspiration is per\u00c2\u00ac\\nceived and realized must not be confused with its three\u00c2\u00ac\\nfold forms, viz:\u00e2\u0080\u0094illumination, divine inspiration or in\u00c2\u00ac\\ntuitive wisdom, direct and indirect inspiration through\\nsuggestion and receptivity and tuition or experience.\\nThe first form is really not a form at all, but is the\\nvery essence of thought and may be termed the thought\\nof the Divine mind and as such is invariably infallible.\\nIt is the principle of all culture and civilization and\\nshapes the spiritual apotheosis. It is realized through\\nspirit absolute as divine inspiration is perceived through\\nthe oracle or the vehicle known in metaphysics as in\u00c2\u00ac\\ntuition, and as the same is often confounded with the\\nthing, one should be precise in not identifying the in\u00c2\u00ac\\ntuition with illumination. Intuition must, in the final\\nanalysis be conceded to be the oracle through which di\u00c2\u00ac\\nvine inspiration flows and as the intuition is not a func\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion or a mental faculty, but must here be accorded a\\nspiritual sphere or residence as is admitted by psycholo\u00c2\u00ac\\ngists such as Sir William Hamilton, Plato Liebnitz and", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38\\nSpinoza, it is the unfailing- source or reservoir of indi\u00c2\u00ac\\nvidual, divine guidance. Illumination alone affords per\u00c2\u00ac\\nfect understanding.\\nConcerning both the direct and indirect forms of in\u00c2\u00ac\\nspiration by suggestion and receptivity we should add\\nnothing to what has already been said in the Teachings.\\nThe form commonly shown and experienced by sensi\u00c2\u00ac\\ntives and media is that produced under hypnotic or\\ntrance and suggestive or telepathic influence, when the\\nnormal mind is made susceptible to another\u00e2\u0080\u0099s will. In\u00c2\u00ac\\nspiration whether from excarnate or incarnate spirit\\nintelligences is never infallible, but it may be of truth;\\nbut what must here be insisted upon is that as such it\\ncontains the human and fallible element, it is truth re\u00c2\u00ac\\nflected and refracted from the spheres of inner corre\u00c2\u00ac\\nspondences and is under the law of reason. Intuition,\\nhowever, is the law of reason and is its inspiration.\\nBy tuition we mean normal thought or experience\\nwhidh is induced in the evolution of the material and\\nsensuous consciousness.\\nBy accurate perception and knowledge of these\\nforms one will be able to place precedence upon human\\nin contradistinction to divine guidance, while the au\u00c2\u00ac\\nthority and value of the highest form both for material\\nand spiritual ends will remain unquestioned.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "39\\nNINTH EXPERIMENT.\\nGive personal evidences of these forms of inspiration?", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40\\nINSPIRATION.\\nLESSON X.\\nWhen the neophyte is unfolded sufficiently to define\\nas well as realize the different kinds of inspiration, much\\nyet remains before he can perfect the highest form of\\nillumination or realization known to the planet. When\\nonce he perceives the futility lof striving for a vicarious\\ninspiration, an inspiration by proxy or through media\\nand hypnosis or obsessing influences, he will have re\u00c2\u00ac\\nmoved a colossal stumbling block from his pathway. So\\nfew understand the object or office of what is popularly\\ntermed mediumship, and hence abuse it or expect im\u00c2\u00ac\\npossible results from it. No controlling or obsessing\\ninfluence can give anyone an inspiration beyond the\\nnormal expression or capacity of that one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s intelli\u00c2\u00ac\\ngence.\\nWhat is thus received through such a channel, in\\nplain words, can be perceived intuitively. For any one\\nwhose physical or mental functions are thus used has in\\nhimself, could he become aware of it, the ability to per\u00c2\u00ac\\nceive as well as realize the purest and truest forms of\\ntruth, which could be manifested or expressed through\\nhim. It has been an error of Spiritualists to insist that\\nmediuimship is both a function or condition and a state", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "41\\nof illumination; whereas, mediumship is the function or\\ncondition only. It is ignorance to maintain that the\\nmental and spiritual capacity and expression of a me\u00c2\u00ac\\ndium does not fix and shape the sphere of receptivity\\nof inspiring influences and illumination, for by the law\\nof affinity and correspondency contrasts and similars\\nblend in a unity of harmonious expression. Every even\\nnumjber has its odd and every positive force its negative\\naspect. One note as one color is distinguished from\\nanother by tone vibration. So each thought has its\\ndual expression in one sphere or many united and uni\u00c2\u00ac\\nform spheres.\\nIdeality and its realization must here be explained.\\nBoth Idealty and intuition are of equal capacity in all;\\nbut under the normal or psychological law of mind and\\nits expression may be but imperfectly and faintly mani\u00c2\u00ac\\nfested. A master may express through a medium in\u00c2\u00ac\\nspirations quite beyond and inexplicable by the me\u00c2\u00ac\\ndium\u00e2\u0080\u0099s own state or unfoldment, causing such an one\\nto appear to be a prodigy or a freak. It, in no sense,\\nlogically follows that where such expression is possible\\nthe capacity of the medium should or must be defined\\nby the normal ability of the master; yet, it is here con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntended that what is here explained as the result of in\u00c2\u00ac\\nspiration through mediumship can be attained nor\u00c2\u00ac\\nmally were the person who is capable of such super\u00c2\u00ac\\nnormal phenomena of thought resolute upon attaining\\nit. It is a mistaken notion, current among those who\\nare uniformed or unfolded or who have not had wide or\\npersonal psychic experiences or who have given the\\nhighest self but casual and shallow meditation, to infer", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42\\nthat all such who are of the order of the Illuminati or\\nwho are mediums, are supernatural beings and, hence\\nspecially and divinely led. Ontology uncovers the error\\nand \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe System of Philosophy, Concerning Divin\u00c2\u00ac\\nity\u00e2\u0080\u009d* reveals the facts.\\nInspiration is possible where vocal or material ex\u00c2\u00ac\\npression is crude or impossible. One can be illumina\u00c2\u00ac\\nted though blind, dumb or deaf. The senses may be\\ndulled, inoperative or atrophied and yet the spirit free\\nto receive and perceive the sphere of inspiration and il\u00c2\u00ac\\nlumination. And the student is cautioned against a\\ncultus or practise of development which sets at naught\\nthe spiritual life and consciousness. To become an in\u00c2\u00ac\\nspirational speaker as the phrase goes or one who can\\nspeak with tongues or one who need take no thought\\nas to what he will say, is to be qualified with those psy\u00c2\u00ac\\nchic and spiritual elements fundamental to its present\\nrealization and expression, but such as\\nare denied this high office in their present\\nembodiments should not cease aspiring for the best.\\nAll are called, but few are chosen is literally true of\\nthose who, possessing potentially the divinest powers\\nare not used as hierophants or evangels. They are used\\nand are useful but are not qualified to become public or\\nfield workers.\\n*By J. C. F. Grumbine (five volume s). These books\\ncan be read only when a student of \u00e2\u0080\u009cThe College of\\nPsychical Sciences And Unfoldment.\u00e2\u0080\u009d", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "43\\nAnother error which hinders the realization of the in\u00c2\u00ac\\nspirational harmonies of spirit is the aggresstive and\\nselfish seeking after spiritual illumination. To reach a\\nspiritual height one must furnish a physically mental\\nand spiritual condition.\\nIgnorance and selfishness are material for Babel, but\\nwisdom and lore are the condition for illumination. No\\none can know too much of wisdom and truth or be too\\npure or spiritual in thought and life. The divine life means\\nthat one can attain added inspiration and larger capacity of\\ntruth and a more perfect sphere of divinty. To meditate\\nto attain added inspiration and larger capacity of truth\\nand a more perfect sphere of divinity. To meditate\\nupon the divine, applying the same to spiritual uses and\\nends is making the path which leads heavenward and\\nopening gateways into celestial fountains of never end\u00c2\u00ac\\ning inspirations. And we, therefore, commend to the\\nstudent all such teachers and teaching as will help him\\nto lose himself that he may find God.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44\\nGeneral Rationale of Psychical Development.\\nLESSON XI.\\nThere are fundamental and axiomatic propositions in\\nspiritual science wdiich like geometrical theorems can be\\ndemonstrated, and yet to a materialist they wouid be\\nregarded as a priori, and in their very nature mere af\u00c2\u00ac\\nfirmations; and, yet they are the postulates of the Re-\\ntionale of Psychical development and all Yoga prac\u00c2\u00ac\\ntices.\\nThe first is, Spirit is and is divine. The second is,\\nSpirit is absolue and absolute in the sphere of its divin\u00c2\u00ac\\nity. The third is Spirit is susceptible to manifestation\\nand expression; and (the fourth is, Spirit is the oracle\\nand source of illumination, direction, realization, adept-\\nship.\\nThese are theorems which any metaphysical system\\nof philosophy can substantiate in its own field of empiri\u00c2\u00ac\\ncism. Too much emphasis cannot be placed upon them\\ncollectively and individually as they hold the arcana of\\nall mysticism. All seers and adepts, whatever may be\\nthe character of their work or whatever may have been\\nor may be their leading, illustrate these axioms as set\\nforth in their life and works.\\nRecognizing the phenomena and functional phases\\nof adeptship as part of the divine order of being, it is\\nP", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "45\\nquite clear that their office, sphere and law should be\\nperceived before any philosophy of psychic unfoldment\\ncan be originated or defined. And it is necessary as a\\ncorollary of such a philosophy, to observe that spiritual\\nunfoldment or the realization of divinity as here set\\nforth is not to be confused with necromantic practises.\\nLet the student seek to explore the spiritual sphere of\\ncausality, and trace, in the outward pencillings of spirit\\nin the phenomena, the law and intelligence which work\\nwithin at the very center of being. By so doing results\\nof the highest order will be attained. By personal ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nperiments or by applying these theorems to the spiritual\\nlife a new sphere of realization will be enjoyed. And\\nby living what is here set forth as the soul\u00e2\u0080\u0099s preroga\u00c2\u00ac\\ntives failures in psychic unfoldment are impossible.\\nHaving successfully mastered the rudiments and con\u00c2\u00ac\\nditions of this System of Divinity he is ready to unfold\\nor apply adeptship. The divine sovereignty must be\\ndeclared and maintained at all times. Each one must\\nrealize it and he cannot do this any more than the blind\\ncan declare the existence of the light unless the Spirit\\nand its immanency have become in him a conscious and\\nabiding Presence. The realization of the Presence will\\nat times be foreshown in dim and wavering outlines of\\nreality or flickerings of power, like the reflected light of\\nmoonlight or starlight in a brook, but the faintest def\u00c2\u00ac\\ninition suggests receptivity, hallowed medita\u00c2\u00ac\\ntion and consecrated aspiration. In all psychical devel\u00c2\u00ac\\nopment planes of elevation will obscure rather than re\u00c2\u00ac\\nveal the supernal and surpassing light; the steps to the\\nlight are less, not more in number, are closer to the", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46\\nend, not farther removed from it. Let each one re\u00c2\u00ac\\nmember that figuratively speaking experiences try the\\npatience and the trust of the most faithful but only to\\nmake such as are thus tested and proven worthy the\\neverlasting victors. The .spirit is not unjust nor ca-\\npracious. No crown is given except in exchange for a\\ncrucifixion. Sacrifice of one order of thought to ob\u00c2\u00ac\\ntain another and .higher, always entails the loss of the\\none and a consequent suffering, if the loss is premature,\\nbefore the higher order is extended or born or appre-\\nsiated. The question is never why should I not receive\\npsychical benefits but rather why am I not worthy of\\nreceiving them. No Spiritual elevation or success is\\ngranted indiscriminately or nominally.\\nDo not deceive yourself by thinking that by any sort\\nof magic or talismanic power the omnipotence can be\\npossessed. Violence may take an earthly throne or a\\ncrown, but it cannot rend the veil between the seen and\\nthe unseen world. Nor is it possible to ensphere by\\nany other than the most gracious and holy behavior,\\nthe angels. Angels have their attractions but not de\u00c2\u00ac\\nflections. An angel can never be drawn to earth by a\\ntalisman, even a wish is unavailing. The Teachings\\nshould be unmistakable on this point and adeptship\\nshould not lead to the apostacy of necromancy and sor\u00c2\u00ac\\ncery.\\nUnfoldment of spirit means as applied\u00e2\u0080\u0094Divinity as\\nwell as a realizing and evidencing power of it. Adept-\\nship is supreme power through Divinity. Such adept-", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "47\\nship begins when Divinity makes itself felt and it is con\u00c2\u00ac\\ntinually unfolding. Its action is normal and uninter\u00c2\u00ac\\nrupted, if the spirit is ever open and sensitive to its or\u00c2\u00ac\\nacle and leading. To imply it is to apply it. Sit calm\u00c2\u00ac\\nly but understandingly upon the tripod and receive the\\nmessage of the Divine.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "3. 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They are accurate, can be relied upon, and should\\nbecome standard.\\nThese books are sent postpaid to the Continent, Australia, England,\\nCanada and United States, and can be had only through the above pub\u00c2\u00ac\\nlishing house.\\nAddress, enclosing money payable by Postoffice Order at Syracuse,\\nN. Y., Registered Letter or Express Orders J. C. GRUMBINE, 1718\\nWest Oenesee Street, Syracuse, N. Y.\\nAll these works free to members of the Order of the White Rose.", "height": "3067", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "easylessonsforun00grum_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "TTbe College of psychical Sciences\\nanb TUnfolbment.\\nfibe System of |pbllosopb\\\\ concerning\\nDivinity.\\nthe Series\u00e2\u0080\u0094/llbail Course,\\nFirst.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 PSYCHOMETRY. Sixteen lessons. Ten special test ex\u00c2\u00ac\\nperiments. Advanced teachings. Three months\u00e2\u0080\u0099 course. Price for\\nseries, $12.75.\\nSecond. \u00e2\u0080\u0094CLAIRVOYANCE. Twelve lessons. 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