ABSTRACT
Mystical practitioners explored a new mystical concept of natural order that subsumed the visible world to the order of a more powerful extra sphere, making the real world and civic order undesirable by comparison. Their accounts describing seeing the invisible and mystical extra spheres frequently imagine women, as well as the future of society, to be outside of history and linear time. This whole construct called into question the very meaning of vision and changed the spiritualist's concepts of visible culture while creating an invisible culture for the practitioner. In contrast to Zerffi's view, many Victorian spiritualists, such as Camilla Crosland, value and participate in the extra spheres they discern with their inner eyes. Camilla claims that the inner and outer eye (the spiritual eye and the material eye) can work simultaneously and that the material eye, which sees "mundane details," is in the service of the spiritual eye.
