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204 Mystic Masonry.
and connectedly, and who is possessed of a strong
will; who knows, also, how to fix and hold the
thought on an object or a person, the projection of
the Thought-Body, as above described, becomes a
comparatively easy matter. Such an Illusion might
or might not be perceived by another ; nor, except in
the case of an Adept, could the individual causing
the Illusion be certain himself whether his experiment
had been successful or not.
While these facts have been familiar to students
of occultism for ages, they have seldom been discussed
in print for the reason that such discussion
could do no good and would only excite ridicule.
But now that modern scientific experiment trenches
so closely on the subject, the discussion may not
seem so unprofitable.
In a communication from Paris dated June 27,
1896, a description of psychic photography is given
as presented to the Paris Academic de Medicine by
Dr. Baraduc:
"Dr. Baraduc explains in part his methods of
psychic photography, which seem simple enough.
The experimenter locks himself in a dark room
where he has previously placed a sensitive plate.
After seating himself and divesting his mind of
vagrant thoughts and deliberations, and after steady-