THE PSYCHIC HAND

THE PSYCHIC HAND

All nations—however different (physically and morally) they may be form one another, whatever may be the form of their government, the spirit of their culture or the nature of their ideas upon beauty, worth, truth, and usefulness—agree unanimously in giving Pointed Fingers to pictorial or sculptured representation of angels or good genii, with which each race, according to its education, considers the heavens to be peopled.”
The entire human race sees nothing but beauty and elegance in a Pointed-fingered Hand.
“The Racial Psychic Hand, liberally endowed as they are, has only an imperfect comprehension of the things pertaining to real life: they look at them from too high a pinnacle to see them well. Spiritualists are endowed with lyricism, mysticism, prophetic ecstasies, a luminous synthetic understanding of all human knowledge; but the talent of applied sciences, including that of the government of men, is wanting among them, unless, as in India, they only have to deal with people belonging to their own type. Again, it would be a great mistake to suppose that the Psychic Hands are better protected against the errors incidental to (he imperfections of our natures, than the others; the world of ideas is not less perilous and deceitful than that of things real. For, if in their enthusiasm, Spiritualists are always ready to sacrifice themselves, they exact from others the same unlimited devotion to their ideals. With their synthetic method of thought, no isolated sentiment, no idea of detail can either touch their hearts, or alter their convictions, or (urn them from their objects; it is in their eyes that the end justifies the means; if occasion should arise they will shed blood unhesitatingly—their own blood, or other people’s—their own without regret, that of others without remorse.