Manual of Psychometry; the Dawn of a New Civilization

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. PROPHETIC INTUITION. Antagonism of the world's present condition to the higher faculties of man--Foresight inseparable from intelligence--Prophecy belongs to intuition--Evils of credulity--Recognition of the prophetic power by St. Paul, by the ancients, by Machiavel, by many eminent men, by Athenagoras, the Sybils, the Druids, JamblicOs, Maupertuis, Sir Henry Halford, Areteus, Cicero, Dr. Hoffman, Dr. Sprengel, Dr. Georget, the Committee of the Royal Academy of Medicine, M. Chardel, the philosopher Schelling, Goethe, Swedenborg--Cazotte's prophecy--Hoag's prophecy of our civil war--Prophecy of the downfall of the Pope's temporal power, and reformation of the church--Modus operandi of prophecy--Law of periodicity--Future fate of the United States. Prophecy In Public Affairs.--Prophecy as to Ireland--Prophecy in Egyptian affairs--Description of Arabi Pasha and his fate--Opinion of Khedive Ismail--Investigation of El Mahdi in 1883--The progress of affairs in Egypt and the Soudan illustrates the opinion--Absurd and wicked management of the war--Vindication of El Mahdi--Second description and its verification in 1884--Third description in 1885 and prophecy of universal peace--Description by pupils in Psychometry--Comments on the descriptions--Psychometric report on El Mahdi's picture--His personal history--Description of Mohammed--Death of Alexander, D'Israeli, and Garibaldi predicted--Description of the Czar Alexander--Psychometric view of Russia and England--Foreign news in March, 1885--Psychometric opinion on the condition--The Czar and his purposes--Foreign news in April indicating war--Prophecy repeated--Repeated again--Censure of the church--France and China in April--Psychometric description and prediction--Psychometric...