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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 267
will power and has no "off" days. The power to see is
his at any and all times. Thus, in his hands, clairvoyance
is an accurate means of investigation, but it should be
understood that as it is necessary to investigate in this
world before we know, so it is also in that world. Many
people are foolishly skeptical concerning the existence of
superphysical worlds and that when a man "sees" in
senses, but people who think
the invisible worlds he at once
knows everything about them are equally foolish. A blind
man who has acquired the faculty of sight by an opera-
tion affords an illustration of the fact that we must learn
to see here in the Physical World, for at first he very often
shuts his eyes, declaring that it is easier to walk by feeling
than by sight, because he has not yet learned to gauge dis-
tances. The infant which reaches for the moon or for
something on the other side of the room also demonstrates
this fact. As above, so below ; before a man has been
trained, the mere fact of clairvoyance is not of much use
to him, and the idea that because he sees, he necessarily
knoivs everything, is gratuitous. We who have seen here
all our lives do not know all about everything in this world ;
neither do the people who "see" know all about the other
world. Besides, the forms here are stable and do not
easily change, while the matter of sight and knowledge
is complicated in the Inner Worlds by the plasticity of the
forms there, for they often change in the twinkling of an
eye in response to the thoughts
of entities who function
there.
To evolve voluntary clairvoyance is an arduous task, and
this faculty, therefore, is possessed by few, while negative
clairvoyance, unfortunately, has been developed by many
who had no high ideals to prevent prostitution of their
faculty for gold.