SEERSHIP; Guide to Soul Sight - Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

venereal, suspended menses - by nursing, cold, or perchance , pregnancy - don't attempt
clairvoyance till you are free from it. Artist prepare their paints - you must prepare your body; else
no good picture comes, no lucidity follows. Sound lungs, stomach, kidneys, liver, brain, blood,
heart, urinal vessels, womb, and pelvic apparatus are not absolute essentials, but good preparatives.
Above all, the blood must be purified, vacated or its poisons, rheums - alkalies, acids in excess – and
be toned up to concert pitch, if you would enjoy the music of the spheres, and know beyond your
outer knowing.
Food, digestion, drinks, sleep, must all be attended to. Mesmeric subjects at first become quite
passional – the devil's bridge. Look out you do not fall through it, for true clairvoyance is coincident
only with normal appetites normally sated. (6) Excess destroys it. Every passion, except the grosser,
has a normal sphere.
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(6) It is to be constantly born in mind that the Initiate is not a nihilist.He has learned that all things
that exist have some use and that generally the law is temperate use of all things, excess of none,
irrespective of how good a thing may be in itself. That which itself is good, may become destructive
when abused. Right use, not non-use is the Law.
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Clairvoyance is qualitative and quantitative, like all other mental forces. It is limited, fragmentary,
incomplete, in all, because we are all imperfect; but no other being can occupy your or my ground,
or be so great in our respective directions as we are. No one exactly is like us – we , precisely like
nobody. We are like the world – green spots and deserts - arid here, frozen there – fertile in one
spot, sterile in another; therefore we should cultivate our special loves! Clairvoyant vigor demands
attention to the law: "The eternal equation of vital vigor is Rest equals exercise." Remember this
and retain your power. Clairvoyance is an affair of the air, food, drink, love, passion, light, sleep,
health, rest, sunshine, joy, music, labor, exercise, lungs, liver, blood, quite as much as of mesmerism
and magnetic coma, for all mental operations are physically conditioned.(7)
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(7) We are all familiar with the Biblical inculcation "seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all
things shall be added unto you" In this age of the beginning of spiritual light, another precept
should become equally familiar to all: Direct your efforts toward health - a balance mental-physical
condition and all things shall become possible to you. Ill-health is un-balance, and there cannot be
true spirituality where there is not a true balance. Remember this!
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Clairvoyance is an art, like any other. The elements exist, but to be useful must be systemized. It
has hitherto been pursued, not rationally but empirically – as a blind habit, a sort of gymnastics, a
means to swindle people, and scarce ever under intelligent guidance like the logical or mathematical
or musical faculties of the Soul, albeit more valuable than either, and like them, too, subject to the
laws of growth. It is far-reaching and once attained, though the road is difficult, amply repays the
time and labor spent. It has been the study of my life and that knowledge, which enables me to
demonstrate the laws governing it and by which it may be developed, also enables me to understand