Item #66825 A Course of Advanced Lessons in Clairvoyance and Occult Powers. Occult, Swami Panchadasi, William Walker ATKINSON, OR Claude Alexander Conlin.
A Course of Advanced Lessons in Clairvoyance and Occult Powers.

A Course of Advanced Lessons in Clairvoyance and Occult Powers.

Chicago, IL: Advanced Thought Publishing Co., 1916. Early printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 320pp. + xxpp adverts. Original gilt decorated red cloth w/ gilt title, etc, to spine, and gilt illustration and titling to upper board, illustrated title page. This has the copyright date 1916 (only) and no evidence of other printings which suggests it is a first edition, but we suspect it is an unstated early reprint (possibly even a pirated copy). We have long believed it to be written by William Walker Atkinson under the pseudonym Swami Panchadasi, though there has recently been serious suggestion that Panchadasi was actually a pseudonym of the esotericist and stage-magician, Claude Alexander Conlin (1880-1954). Contents are: The Astral Senses; Telepathy vs. Clairvoyance; Telepathy Explained; Scientific Telepathy; Mind-Reading and Beyond; Clairvoyant Psychometry; Clairvoyant Crystal-Gazing; Clairvoyant Reverie; Simple Clairvoyance; Clairvoyance of Distant Scenes; Clairvoyance of the Past; Clairvoyance of the Future; Second-Sight; Astral-Body Travel; Strange Astral Phenomena; Psychic Influence its Laws and Principles; Personal Psychic Influence over Others; Psychic Influence at a Distance; Laws of Psychic Attraction; Psychic and Magnetic Healing. A book that has been read with shelf wear and general aging. Cloth darkened and a bit rubbed, all edges and extremities lightly chafed, bruising to spine ends and corners, pages browned, owner's details on front blank, short closed tears at lower edge of front blank and title page. Tears to fore-edge margins of pp 103-114 (running into text, but without actual loss). Erasure of heavy childish scrawls at top of "Introduction" page, various other lesser flaws. Overall a serviceable Good-only copy (no dust jacket). Item #66825

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