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Updated: June 16, 2025
Such things must occasionally occur, by chance, in the myriad confusions of dreams, and, to the same extent, in crystal visions. But she has made scarcely any experiments of this description. The inferences to be drawn from crystal-gazing are not unimportant. First, we note that the practice is very ancient and widely diffused, among civilised and uncivilised people.
Victor rose, nodding to indicate the shining crystal. "I have been consulting my familiar," he said with a light laugh. "You have heard of crystal-gazing? A fascinating art that languishes in undeserved neglect. The ancients were more wise, they knew there was more in Heaven and Earth.... You are incredulous?
Harrigan was deep in the intricate maze of the Amelia Ars of Bologna, which, as the initiated know, is a wonderful lace. By one of the windows sat Nora, winding interminable yards of lace-hemming from off the willing if aching digits of the Barone, who was speculating as to what his Neapolitan club friends would say could they see, by some trick of crystal-gazing, his present occupation.
Bowdoin snapped his fingers in desperation at his uncomprehending son. "Never mind them, dear!" he cried to the child. "Only look steady; don't take your eyes out of it for twenty minutes, and you're sure to see the armies fighting! The most marvelous idea, and all my own," he said, as he slammed the door behind him. "Crystal-gazing, for keeping children quiet, nothing beats it!"
On the other hand many incompetent novelists are convinced that they have 'vision, that they see and hear their characters, but they do not, as genius does, transfer the 'vision' to their readers. This is a digression from the topic of hallucinations caused by gazing into a clear depth. Forms of crystal-gazing, it is well known, are found among savages.
"What are those things, Mr. Vincent?" He nodded towards the second shelf in the bookcase. Mr. Vincent turned on the hearthrug. "Those? Oh! those are a few rather elementary instruments for my work." He lifted down a crystal ball on a small black polished wooden stand and handed it over. "You have heard of crystal-gazing? Well, that is the article." "Is that crystal?" "Oh no: common glass.
That Chilcote should appeal to him stirred him to an uneasy feeling of pride and uncertainty. Loder saw his advantage and pressed it home. "It's come about through this crystal-gazing business. I'm afraid I didn't play my part rather made an ass of myself; I wouldn't swallow the thing, and and Lady Astrupp " He paused, measuring Blessington with a glance.
"All that the cards tell me, but I'll do a little crystal-gazing if you like!" and Clive seized a glass paperweight, and, staring intently at it, pretended to throw himself into a state of abstraction. "I see an examination-room!" he declared. "I see rows of desks, and girls writing at them. There are lists of questions.
Any one who can accept the assurance of my personal belief in the good faith of all concerned will see how very useful this faculty of crystal-gazing must be to the Apache or Australian medicine-man or Polynesian priest. Freakish as the faculty is, a few real successes, well exploited and eked out by fraud, would set up a wizard's reputation.
That a faculty of being thus affected is genuine seems proved, apart from modern evidence, by the world-wide prevalence of crystal-gazing in the ethnographic region. But the discovery of this prevalence had not been made, to my knowledge, before modern instances induced me to notice the circumstances, sporadically recorded in books of travel.
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