What is spirit vision?

This is that true, deep, spirit intuition into the realities of things of which you—no doubt—have had glimpses in your earthly life. 

That piercing eye of the soul, which lays bare the roots—the deep foundations of things.

Peter had this, for a moment, when he saw  Christ, and exclaimed Thou art the Son of God; saw that is not the outward Jesus of Nazareth, nor the outwardly manifested character of a leader of men, but the real, true, perfect, human soul. 

Spirit vision always looks to the roots of things; below the righteous action, it looks for truth; below the generous, for justice—and below all, for love, which is life in its highest manifestation.

The physical sees the sun and stars and perceives that the sun gives heat and life, day and night, and so on.

The psychic sees the laws, which govern these suns and knows that they are good.

The spirit vision sees the life, which produces the laws and causes them all to be perfect.

Again—the physical sees the rich man pulling down his barns and building larger ones, and perceives that it is that he may have room where to bestow his goods.

The psychic sees why he does this; that he may say to his soul—

Eat, drink and be satisfied.

The pneuma perceives that the spring of these actions is injustice—

The man, not being perfectly just, or rather, justice not being perfectly manifested in him, fears to trust himself to nature—fears that he will suffer real loss in the stress of life, or in the pangs of death, and hopes that he may—by his own lower powers—get to himself more than others—a shelter from the forces he fears instead of trusts. 

He knows not that he is endowed with a birthright, as son of God, of which nothing can possibly deprive him.

When we were speaking of the psychic vision, we said that it was strictly limited to such objects, to such perceptions, as would be helpful to the man, or present to him some quality of the soul with which he was in harmony, and which he could, therefore, see. 

Also, we said that the limitations of time and space still fettering him to some extent, he could only see things apart from his surroundings by having them impressed on him by a power outside himself. 

With the spirit vision, these limitations do not exist—or not to the same degree. 

The vision, like a circle, holds all things within itself, and its gaze pierces equally to the distant or the near, to the past or the present. 

You remember the past, and memory and imagination can reproduce it in a more or less broken manner, but the spirit sees the past, as you do the present, as really, and as truly. 

When we say all things are within its range, we must remind you that we use the word all in a limited way. 

By all, we mean the whole of the psychic life of the ego. 

The future is still a sealed book, though greater powers of intuition enable it to read even that more clearly than before. 

Still, in the sense of knowing future events, as we know the past, we use the word sealed.

Elisha must have had the psychic vision when he saw Gehazi on his deceitful errand; but Christ had the spirit vision when, from his intimate knowledge of the character of Judas, he said—

This is he who shall betray me.

The physical sees the besieged city with the prophet within its walls; the psychic sees the chariots and horses of the Lord encircling it in the hour of danger, to leave it when that special need is past—

The spirit sees the love and pity, the just and abiding care that is forever around—not only that city, but the army of the besiegers, and the whole world.

The spirit-eyes, then, see the spirit-forms, and the world in which they dwell, but it sees far more than this—

It sees reality under appearance, and truth beneath any veil.

Nor is there any confusion, arising from this vast field of vision, for the harmony of the spheres is so great that the eye takes in all, or a part, as easily as your eye takes in an extended landscape or a minute object.