But, you may say, this is very interesting, but it is not clairvoyance.  Certainly, good student, but still clairvoyance plays an important part even in this elementary form of prevision and future-seeing.  You must remember that by clairvoyant vision the real thoughts and feelings of a person may be perceived.  But, unless the attention of the clairvoyant is specially directed to this, the conscious mind does not note it, and the matter reaches the subconscious faculties without interference or conscious knowledge on the part of the clairvoyant.  This being so, it will be seen that the subconscious mind of the clairvoyant is able to reason deductively, in such cases, far beyond the power of even the subconscious mind of the ordinary person—­it has fuller data and more complete material to work upon, of course.

It has become a proverb of the race that “coming events cast their shadows before”; and many persons frequently have little flashes of future-time seeing without realizing that they are really exercising elementary clairvoyant powers.  The combination of even a simple form of clairvoyance and an active subconscious mind will often produce very wonderful results—­although not of course the more complex phenomena of full clairvoyance and prevision.  Some persons have claimed that even this form of prevision implies something like fate or predestination, but this is not fully true, for we must remember the fact that in some cases it is possible to so act in accordance with a clairvoyant warning of this kind that the impending calamity may be escaped.  But, on the other hand, we must also remember that every event is the result of certain preceding events, without which it could not have happened, and which existing it must happen unless some new element intervenes.  There is such a thing as cause and effect, we must remember—­and if we can reason clearly from one to the other with sufficient clearness, then we may actually prophesy certain things in advance, always making allowance for the intervention of the unexpected.

An authority says on this phase of the question:  “There is no doubt whatever that, just as what is happening now is the result of causes set in motion in the past, so what will happen in the future will be the result of causes already in operation.  Even on this plane of life we can calculate that if certain actions are performed, certain results will follow; but our reckoning is constantly liable to be disturbed by the interference of factors which we have not been able to take into account.  But if we raise our consciousness to the higher planes we can see much further into the results of our actions.  We can trace, for example, the effect of a casual word, not only upon the person to whom it was addressed, but through him on many others as it is passed on in widening circles, until it seems to have affected the whole country; and one glimpse of such a vision is more efficient than any number of moral precepts