an." I shall not proceed further along this line--I have given
you a very strong hint here; you must work it out for yourself, if you
feel so disposed. But there are certain consequences arising from this
ultimate universal fact, which I must mention before passing on.

The high occult teachings hold that there is a plane of the higher astral
world which may be said to carry a reflection of the Universal Mind--just
as a lake contains a reflection of the distant mountain. Well, then, the
clairvoyant vision at times is able to penetrate to the realm of that
astral reflecting medium, and see somewhat dimly what is pictured there.
As the future may be discerned in this reflected picture, by the
clairvoyant mind, we see how future-seeing, prevision, and second-sight
may be explained scientifically.

A writer has said: "On this plane, in some manner which down here is
totally inexplicable, the past, the present, and the future, are all there
existing simultaneously. One can only accept this fact, for its cause lies
in the faculty of that exalted plane, and the way in which this higher
faculty works is naturally quite incomprehensible to the physical brain.
Yet now and then one may meet with a hint that seems to bring us a trifle
nearer to a dim possibility of comprehension. When the pupil's
consciousness is fully developed upon this higher plane, therefore,
perfect prevision is possible to him, though he may not--nay, he certainly
will not--be able to bring the whole result of his sight through fully and
in order into his physical consciousness. Still, a great deal of clear
foresight is obviously within his power whenever he likes to exercise it;
and even when he is not exercising it, frequent flashes of foreknowledge
come through into his ordinary life, so that he often has an instantaneous
intuition as to how things will turn out."

The same writer says: "Short of perfect prevision we find that all degrees
of this type of clairvoyance exist, from the occasional vague premonitions
which cannot in any true sense be called sight at all, up to frequent and
fairly complete second-sight. The faculty to which this latter somewhat
misleading name has been given is an extremely interesting one, and would
well repay more careful and systematic study than has hitherto been given
to it. It is best known to us as a not infrequent possession of the
Scottish Highlanders, though it is by no means confined to them.
Occasional instances of