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SECOND SIGHT AND APPARITIONS 151
Clairaudience
Professor Hyslop
something vague was going to happen
dreaded.
sewing at a garment
tells us of a woman who felt
that she
Then after a month, when she was sitting
for her child, she
heard a voice
saying, "She'll never need it." Then a week before
the child died the mother thought there was a
smell of fire and got very careful that matches should
not be left about. Then, only one hour before the
fatal event, she suddenly determines to destroy all
the nursery matches.
"She takes the child up to its cot for its morning
sleep, and once more hears the voice, 'Turn the
mattress.' She says she will, as soon as the child
has had its 'nap. So she goes down the stairs and
soon after hears a cry.
"She rushes up, finds the child on fire, and it dies
in her arms.
"Just too little information to make it effective!
And yet this story is
only one out of a hundred such.
The solution is
equally difficult, whether we regard
the messages as from one's own unconscious
mind, or from departed spirits,
agencies.
What is
the Use?
or from other spirit
"Of whom is sport being made? Is the future
unavoidable ? If so, why speak of it at all ?
"Either they truly foretell an event with some
fatal omission, which makes the telling of it useless,
or they give details, and we avail ourselves of the
warning, and show they did not truly
future."
foretell the