CLAIRAUDIENCE.
As clairvoyance means spirit-seeing,
so clairaudience means spirithearing.
There are various manifestations all
of which cannot rightly be referred to the same source. As visions may
be so vividly impressed on the mind,
with such force as to cause the recipient to believe them realities, so
ideas or words may be so
forcibly presented that they will seem to be heard. This is not
clairvoyance or clairaudience, but a keenly excited state of
sensitiveness.
The spirit has spiritual senses,
which received through physical organs its knowledge of the external
world. During earth life the spiritual is covered up by the physical and
so blended as to seem inextricable. At
death the separation is complete and
the spirit is freed from the limitations of the physical form and sees
and hears by means of its spirit organization.
But there are those in whom at times
the spiritual senses are more or less free from the control of the
physical and when this occurs they see and hear spiritual things.
There are many instances of
clairaudience given in the Bible. That of Paul is often quoted: "And he
fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, 'Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me?' And the men which
journeyed with him stood speechless,
hearing a voice, but seeing no man."
This is not, however, an example of
clairaudience, but of a materialized spirit voice. As Paul was the only
one entranced, he alone should have heard the voice.
