Der sichtbare und der unsichtbare Mensch. Darstellung verschiedener Menschentypen, wie der geschulte Hellseher sie wahrnimmt

We can imagine that a child, who does not yet know the course of nature, will conclude from the mere fact that it has already grown to a certain extent, and sees other children and half-grown youths around it at various stages of growth, that it will also grow up to be a man.

The students of theosophical teachings regard the study of the current state of man, the immediate methods for his development, and the effect of his thoughts, feelings, and actions on these as the exercise of well-known laws. However, to grasp them in the details of their operation, careful observations and exact research of given cases are required. It is in fact only a question of clairvoyance, and we publish this book, firstly, with the hope that it may help serious students who do not yet possess this faculty to understand how the soul and its sheaths the various subtle bodies surrounding the soul actually appear to the seer. Secondly, we publish it so that the numerous persons who are now beginning to exercise this inner vision more or less perfectly

can reach a faster understanding of what is seen.

I know very well that the world in general is not at all convinced of the existence of clairvoyance. Yet I also know that all those who have really studied this question have found irrefutable proof of it. Thus, we can set aside the very definite assertions that are usually so violently expressed by those who have not studied the question. I may well venture to say that if any intelligent person takes the trouble to read the well-founded accounts that I have cited in my small book on Clairvoyance original title: "Clairvoyance", and then reads the books themselves from which I have chosen these reports, they will immediately see that there is a mass of incontrovertible evidence for the existence of this faculty. To those who can see for themselves and practice higher clairvoyance daily in the most varied ways, the denial of this fact by ignorant persons seems downright ridiculous. For the clairvoyant, it is not worth the effort to argue about it. If a blind person came to us claiming that there is no ordinary, physical sight at all, and that we were mistaken in believing we possessed such a faculty, then