578 The Interbond of the Seen and the Unseen. [October, 
another. In the fourth state the mind becomes free from 
the organisation, except as connected by the medium as 
above : it is then capable of receiving impressions of foreign 
or proximate objects, according to the medium with which 
it becomes particularly associated. The body is at this time 
dormant and inactive in all its parts, except the negative, 01 
muscular and vital aftion, which is constantly kept up and 
controlled by the united forces of the operator and the 
operatee. This stands in analogy with the state known as 
“ Death is produced by the loss of both forces ; but the 
clairvoyant state is produced by the blending of the forces o 
the two persons, and making them physically equivalent to 
one. The mind, in the first case, loses all the medium 
which connects it with the body ; the latter is the same 
state mentally with the former, with the exception of the 
mediums referred to.” * . , . 
“All the phenomena are seen and do exist with every being. 
Their healthy state is the magnetic state ; and the various 
conditions and development of the mind during sleep, until 
death, are analogous to the various phenomena induced by 
magnetism, — only one is an ordinary manifestation, and the 
other is a further development of the same principles, and 
laws which constitute and govern animal organisation. 
“ A great question now presents itself for investigation. 
Is there such a thing existing as independent clairvoyance . _ I 
answer, There is. You ask for proof ; such you shall receive 
by the following investigations.” 
The meaning to be applied to the word independent should 
be well understood. If it is understood as self-existent, ab- 
stract, indefinite, and without any connexion, then it is 
nothing, “for in this sense there is no such thing as inde- 
pendent.” But if it is understood as, meaning ‘ free from 
direCt instigation, then it has meaning. 
Speaking of himself in the superior state (fourth mesmeric 
state), he says The medium existing between thought 
and thought, between mind and mind, between time and 
eternity, is the only aCtive pervading medium which I am 
dependent on for the conception of thought, and for the pei- 
ception of all things of a refined, ethereal, or spiritual con- 
stitution. This is whilst the activity of the body and mind 
* Should the reader be interested to trace the above matter respecting the 
mesmeric states in extenso, he will find it set forth from pages 30 to 38, ™‘ 
dries ol Nature,” the first part of “ Nature’s Divine Revelations, and it is 
surmised that the illustrations, &c., will well repay his industry. 
