ty--not indeed absolutely
unconnected with its maker, but practically so as far as the possibility
of receiving any impression through it is concerned.

"This type of clairvoyance consists, then, in the power to retain so much
connection with and so much hold over a newly-created thought-form as will
render it possible to receive impressions by means of it. Such impressions
as were made upon the form would in this case be transmitted to the
thinker--not along an astral telegraph line, but by a sympathetic
vibration. In a perfect case of this kind of clairvoyance it is almost as
though the seer projected a part of his consciousness into the
thought-form, and used it as a kind of outpost, from which observation was
possible. He sees almost as well as he would if he himself stood in the
place of his thought-form. The figures at which he is looking will appear
to him as of life-size and close to hand, instead of tiny and at a
distance as in the case of some other forms of clairvoyance; and he will
find it possible to shift his point of view if he wishes to do so.
Clairaudience is perhaps less frequently associated with this type of
clairvoyance than with the others, but its place is to some extent taken
by a kind of mental perception of the thoughts and intentions of those who
are seen.

"Since the man's consciousness is still in the physical body, he will be
able (even when exercising this faculty) to hear and to speak, in so far
as he can do this without any distraction of his attention. The moment
that the intentness of his thought fails, the whole vision is gone, and he
will have to construct a fresh thought-form before he can resume it.
Instances in which this kind of sight is possessed with any degree of
perfection by untrained people are naturally rarer than in the other types
of clairvoyance, because the capacity for mental control required, and the
generally finer nature of the forces employed."

I may mention that this particular method is frequently employed by
advanced occultists of all countries, being preferred for various reasons.
Some of the reasons of this preference as follows: (a) The ability to
shift the vision, and to turn around almost as well as in the case of
actual astral-body projection--this gives quite an advantage to this
method over the method of ordinary clairvoyance; (b) it does away with
certain disadvantages of "going out into the astral" in the astral-body,
which only trained occultists