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Show A M&CIC MIRROR. A lady resident in a large city in New York State purchased some time Bince in Europe one of those magic mirrors in whose black concave surface sur-face the "conscious clairvoyant," aa Major Buckley called those whose interior in-terior vision is opened while the person per-son is awake, are able to see tho won derful phantasmagoria of the spin world. It is formed apparently out ot a great black onyx, some fifteen inches in diameter, and is polished more highly than cut glass, is framed in black, and rests upon a crimson silk pad Su a handsome morocco case. At a recent seance the powers of this bowl of fate were fully exemplified. A clairvoyant woman gazed at it, and for more than two hours described with scarce a moment's intermission landscapes, emblematic groups, scenes transpiring by land and sea, in the snowy fastnesses of the far north, and on the burning sands of the Great Sahara desert. The forms of deceased friends flitted across it, and messages were displayed on white sheets, or paper screens' held up beforetheseeress' eyes. Anon a mounted cavalier would dash into the field of vision, or tho exciting episode of a lion cnase be exhibited. Take it all in all it is one of the most curious of the phenomna of the school of magic. The potency of the magic mirror waa avouched in the earliest historic periods. The ancient Egyptian Egyp-tian soothsayers used a drop of ink in a polished metallic baBin or a dark fluid held in the palm of the hand. In modern times the most famous among the adepts in this form of di-..inntmn di-..inntmn waa Tii- TW whnw matric crystal is still preserved in the British museum, and who fell a victim to the ignorant intolerance of his times. i The true magic mirror is prepared by a high-caste priest, with solemn and peculiar ceremonies. Its potency po-tency is supposed to depend upon the nature of the ceremonies, and it may be made to represent either the dark: or the light side of nature to attract either good or evil spiritual influences. Very large Bums have sometimes been paid for a good mirror, and the one in question was thought a great bargain at the price of $250, it having come from India. Spiritual Scientist. |