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Clairvoyance

by Charles Webster Leadbeater & Charles Leadbeater

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  • 20th century
  • Language: English
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Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934), ordained an Anglican priest in 1879, developed interests in spiritualism and occultism (then highly fashionable), and by the mid-1880s was a leading figure in the recently-founded Theosophical Society. He travelled to India, North America and eventually Australia on the Society's business, his influence only temporarily dented by a furore in 1906–8 involving allegations of child abuse. Leadbeater believed he was clairvoyant, and his many writings include this book, first published in 1899 and reissued here in a fifth edition marking the Theosophical Society's Diamond Jubilee in 1935. Leadbeater primarily addresses readers convinced of the existence of clairvoyance and familiar with theosophical terms. He argues that the 'power to see what is hidden from ordinary physical sight' is an extension of normal perception, and describes a wide range of phenomena including intentional and unintentional clairvoyance, premonitions, telepathy, and 'seeing' the past and the future.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Parapsychology and psychical research, Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling, Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition, and Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and New Thought.

  • Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and New Thought

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary, project-gutenberg, and wellcome matched “Theosophy” and “theosophy”. Retained metadata contains “theosophical” in the description and “Theosophy” in the subject metadata.

    • “Theosophy”· via Open Library
    • “theosophy”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Theosophy”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “theosophical”· in description
    • “Theosophy”· in subject
  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the description and “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Spiritualism”· in description
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject
  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Retained metadata contains “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata.

    • “Parapsychology”· in subject
  • Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref, openalex, openlibrary, and project-gutenberg matched “clairvoyance” and “Clairvoyance”. Retained metadata contains “Clairvoyance” in the title, “Clairvoyance” in the description, “Telepathy” in the description, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “clairvoyance”· via Crossref
    • “clairvoyance”· via OpenAlex
    • “Clairvoyance”· via Open Library
    • “clairvoyance”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Clairvoyance”· in title
    • “Clairvoyance”· in description

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6 editions cataloged here.

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2011-01-04Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press eBooksEnglish
  • 9780511974700
  • 9781108072724
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2010Read BooksEnglish
  • 9781445542607
  • 1445542609
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1918Theosophical Publishing HouseEnglish—Public

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  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 6 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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