"W. Scott-Elliot - Atlantis" - читать интересную книгу автора (Elliot W Scott)

majority, the interior spiritual capacities ranging beyond those which the brain
is an instrument for expressing, are as yet too imperfectly developed to enable
them to get into touch with any other records in the vast archives of Nature's
memory, except those with which they have individually been in contact at their
creation. The blindfold interior effort they are competent to make, will not as
a rule, call up any others. But in a flickering fashion we have experience in
ordinary life of efforts that are a little more effectual. "Thought
Transference" is a humble example. In that case "impressions on the mind" of one
person--Nature's memory pictures, with which he is in normal relationship, are
caught up by someone else who is just able, however unconscious of the method he
uses, to range Nature's memory under favourable conditions, a little beyond the
area with which he himself is in normal relationship. Such a person has begun,
however slightly, to exercise the faculty of astral clairvoyance. That term may
be conveniently used to denote the kind of clairvoyance I am now endeavoring to
elucidate, the kind which, in some of its more magnificent developments, has
been employed to carry out the investigations on the basis of which the present
account of Atlantis has been compiled.
There is no limit really to the resources of astral clairvoyance in
investigations concerning the past history of the earth, whether we are
concerned with the events that have befallen the human race in prehistoric
epochs, or with the growth of the planet itself through geological periods which
antedated the advent of man, or with more recent events, current narrations of
which have been distorted by careless or perverse historians. The memory of
Nature is infallibly accurate and inexhaustibly minute. A time will come as
certainly as the precession of the equinoxes, when the literary method of
historical research will be laid aside as out of date, in the case of all
original work. People among us who are capable of exercising astral clairvoyance
in full perfection--but have not yet been called away to higher functions in
connection with the promotion of human progress, of which ordinary humanity at
present knows even less than an Indian ryot knows of cabinet councils--are still
very few. Those who know what the few can do, and through what processes of
training and self-discipline they have passed in pursuit of interior ideals, of
which when attained astral clairvoyance is but an individual circumstance, are
many, but still a small minority as compared with the modern cultivated world.
But as time goes on, and within a measurable future, some of us have reason to
feel sure that the numbers of those who are competent to exercise astral
clairvoyance will increase sufficiently to extend the circle of those who are
aware of their capacities, till it comes to embrace all the intelligence and
culture of civilized mankind only a few generations hence. Meanwhile the present
volume is the first that has been put forward as the pioneer essay of the new
method of historical research. It is amusing to all who are concerned with it,
to think how inevitably it will be mistaken--for some little while as yet, by
materialistic readers, unable to accept the frank explanation here given of the
principle on which it has been prepared--for a work of imagination.
For the benefit of others who may be more intuitive it may be well to say a word
or two that may guard them from supposing that because historical research by
means of astral clairvoyance is not impeded by having to deal with periods
removed from our own by hundreds of thousands of years, it is on that account a
process which involves no trouble. Every fact stated In the present volume has
been picked up bit by bit with watchful and attentive care, in the course of an