There is some sort of vague and indeterminate relation between 
the Astrals and the Materials ; and it is possible, with great 
expérience, to deduce facts about material things from the astral 
aspect which they présent to the eyes of the Body of Light.1 This 
astral plane is so varied and so changeable that several clairvoyants 
looking at the same thing might give totally different accounts of 
what they saw; yet they might each make correct déductions. In 
looking at a man the first clairvoyant might say : “The lines of 
force are ail drooping”; the second : “It seems ail dirtv and 
spotty”; a third; “The Aura looks very ragged.” Yet ail might 
agréé in deducing that the man was in ill-health. In any case, ail 
such déductions are rather unreliable. One must be a highly 
skilled man before one can trust one’s vision. A great many people 
think that they are extremely good at the business, when in fact 
they hâve onlv made some occasional shrewd guesses (which 
they naturallv remember) in the course of hundreds of forgotten 
failures. 
The onlv way to test clairvoyance is to keep a careful record of 
every experiment made. For example, Frater O. M. once gave 
a clairvoyant a waistcoat to psychometrize. He made 56 State- 
ments about the owner of the waistcoat ; of these 4 were notably 
rightj 17, though correct, were of that class of statement which 
is true of almost everybody. The remainder were wrong. It was 
concluded from this that he showed no evidence of any spécial 
power. In fact, his bodily eyes — if he could discern Tailoring 
— would hâve served him better, for he thought the owner of 
the vest was a corn-chandler, instead of an earl, as he is. 
The Magician can hardi y take too much trouble to 
develop this power in himself. It is extremely useful to him 
in guarding himself against attack; in obtaining warnings, in 
judging character, and especially in watching the process of his 
Ceremonies. 
I. This is because there is a certain necessary correspondence between 
planes; as in the case of an Anglo-Indian’s liver and his temper. The 
relation appears “vague and indeterminate” only in so far as one happens 
to be ignorant of the laws which State the case. The situation is analo- 
gous to that of the chemist before the discovery of the law of “Combining 
Weights”, etc. 
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