CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 Preface 5 
 
 History 7 
 
 Psychology of Hypnotism 27 
 
 Hypnotic Induction 41 
 
 How to awaken the Subject. 88 
 
 Post Hypnotic suggestions 92 
 
 Auto on self suggestions 95 
 
 Hypnotic induction of Catalepsy 107 
 
 Telepathy 110 
 
 Medical Hypnosis 1 16 
 
 Manifestations 120 
 
 Looking it over 126 
 
 Cleopatra's Dream 134 
 
" The Lever That Moves The World. * 
 
 HYPNOTISM 
 
 Its Psychology 
 and Application* 
 
 By C E. BELCHER, M. D. 
 
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 DEDICATORY. 
 
 Hypnotism has survived the period of 
 discredited theory, and has burst forth from 
 its Chrysalys state to expand in winged flight 
 and ever living truth. 
 
 To those who desire light and truth and 
 power, this book is dedicated by 
 
 THE AUTHOR. 
 
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Preface* 
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 In writing this work on Hypnotism, my 
 one object has been to instruct. I sincerely 
 believe that I will have been successful in 
 the accomplishment of that object. 
 
 My reasons for having quoted from the 
 writings of different noted authors, have been 
 that you might have the benefit of all known 
 of this so-called occult science. 
 
 I believe I have "Sounded the depths" 
 and have made plain herein the wonderful 
 workings and power of Hypnotism. 
 
 I have this assurance from many who 
 have made thorough and careful study of 
 psychic force and cause, who have from time 
 to time read my manuscript. In consequence 
 of this assurance and my own convictions, 
 which are founded upon results of years of 
 investigation and study, I send this out to 
 the world, believing that the mysteries to a 
 great extent have been unveiled. 
 
 Of this I am certain, that one with an 
 honest desire to learn, one who will carefully 
 study and act upon the advice within, may 
 
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 in a short period of time learn all that I and 
 many others have learned by years of per- 
 sistent application and studious investigation 
 of this at one time hidden mystery. 
 
 I have endeavored to so arrange the story, 
 the methods of manipulation, the causes and 
 reasons for, as well as the results, that the 
 reader may be and will be led up to that 
 high point of perfect confidence, where all 
 may be seen as I see it, and that magnificent 
 attainment of mastery of self be gained. This 
 mastery of self is in store for you, a birthright 
 from the all-powerful Creator. 
 
 The wondrous Christ attained this mas- 
 tery and through its gigantic force, darkness 
 has been dispelled, the beacon light shines 
 o'er a greater portion of the globe, and 
 through the force of that mastery the glorious 
 halo is even now scintillating through the 
 benighted corners of the earth. 
 
 Mastery of self is the key to power. It 
 is yours for the grasping. 
 
 THE AUTHOR. 
 
 Oct 25th, 1901. 
 
HISTORY. 
 
HISTORY. 
 
 The many wonderful and so called oc- 
 cult manifestations due to Hypnotism, have 
 been developed through the ages little by 
 little, until now, a fixed science has been 
 evolved, and Hypnotism is acknowledged as 
 a science, distinct, standing by itself, as do 
 the other sciences, and recognized as one of 
 the greatest of all sages, by thinkers and 
 scholars. 
 
 Hypnotism the magnificent, Hypnotism 
 "the lever that moves the world," the pe- 
 culiar and mighty manifestations of this 
 more than mighty force, are brought about 
 by soul power producing the Hypnotic con- 
 dition, or state in those, who to a greater or 
 less extent are controlled by it. 
 
 Since mind first dawned, it has been the 
 great all-powerful force, controlling, prompt- 
 ing, binding, moving all organic life to some 
 end. Mind and soul alone control, and, 
 coupled with a healthy physique, is the 
 great wonder worker of earth, is now, has 
 been, and will be, and through this soul, and 
 by this soul controlling, sometimes cursing, 
 often swaying, but at all times holding. 
 
 This soul power producing Hypnotic 
 state, moulds today, destiny of man, church, 
 and state, as in the ages past. 
 
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 The Priesthood of Egypt were adepts 
 in soul transference. They held for ages, as 
 in a vice, the very mind and soul of that 
 ancient and mighty people, yet the few con- 
 trolled, their lives, their very homes, their 
 grand country was calmed or swayed, led on 
 to blood or back to peace by the few, and 
 could the voiceless Sphinx of the loitering 
 Nile, but speak, it would give but further 
 proof of the perfect degree of the "Mystic 
 Art," which was developed at that remote 
 date. If history, from its dawn, could have 
 been indelibly inscribed upon the tablets of 
 time and truthfully kept, startling indeed 
 would be the tale unfolded of power, power 
 of love; power of hate, happiness and despair 
 brought out through the mystic workings of 
 this occult force. 
 
 jBack, back in the dim ages of early 
 Egypt, when the basking lotus peeped up 
 from its sunny bed upon the calm bosom of 
 that lovely, scarce rippling stream upon ' 
 those mystic shrines, and bent its ear to 
 those encantations and priestly rites which, 
 weird and soft and low, then wild with 
 dance and revelry, sinking again to the sweet, 
 calm, happy well atuned melody of lute, 
 and voice in scarce audible prayer, brought 
 
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 on the spell the Priesthood sought. Then 
 Egypt was peopled with prosperous and 
 happy husbandmen, or overrun with the 
 wild, half- crazed warrior, led to blood by 
 what? the magnetic influence of the few con- 
 trolled by "masters of the mystic spell." 
 The populace then, as now, did the bidding 
 of the few, and mind ruled. 
 
 So down the centuries, from generation, 
 to generation, by the laws of progeniture and 
 heredity, has been passed this occult force, 
 until by birthright, it is now ours, ours to 
 command. The whole world of man, as 
 susceptible to the power of the "Mystic Art," 
 as were our progenitors, and to the whole 
 world of man has been transmitted this 
 same mystic force to use for personal power, 
 and even public control. No race of people 
 was ever known without controlling minds; 
 no great book was ever written, except 
 through the confidence given by magnetic 
 spell, and inspiration through auto sugges- 
 tion. 
 
 Painted upon the star studded, rounded 
 arched dome of the Egyptian temple of 
 Dendera, the Goddess Isis, holds by the hand 
 a child, while with the other hand she 
 makes passes in front of the little fellow 
 
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 with all the fervor and impressiveness of a 
 Hypnotic Operator. 
 
 The idea of divination as brought about 
 by intently gazing into vessels of liquid or at 
 crystals, has for all time been a potent power 
 in producing magnetic phenomena. The 
 Magi of the Persians for thousands of years, 
 have thrown themselves into the Hypnotic 
 state by fixation of gaze. 
 
 Diodorus of Sicily, wrote: "The Priest- 
 hood of Ancient Egypt, asserted that Isis 
 made himself manifest to men while sleep- 
 ing, and gave them much information regard- 
 ing remedies used in the treatment of the 
 sick, and in this manner gave them such con- 
 fidence in themselves, that they cured many 
 patients despaired of by the Doctors." 
 
 The Mythology of India represents Vish- 
 na with hands extended and from the finger 
 tips are issuing flames. From then until the 
 present time many sensitive subjects, who 
 are entirely en rapport with the Operator, 
 affirm that they see these peculiar violet or 
 bluish colored sparks or halo eminating from 
 the finger* of the Operator. 
 
 Hippocrates was a firm believer in Hyp- 
 notic and somnambulistic phenomena. The 
 Mountainists were called taskodrugites, be- 
 cause of their habit of holding their fingers to 
 
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 the mouth and nose while at prayer. 
 Brugoch Pasha tells us of the most wonderful 
 Hypnotic states induced by the Gnostic 
 Schools in Egypt, during Divine Worship, in 
 the first Century. At these times the eyes 
 were closed, and many peculiar hallucinations 
 were manifest, particularly, apparitions of 
 Gods. In many convents of the Greek 
 church have these peculiar Hypnotic con- 
 ditions been noted. The most notable, per- 
 haps, the Omphalopsychics, who by gazing 
 at the Omphalos, or umbilicus, being in a 
 Hypnotic state. 
 
 That great Authority on Ethnology, 
 Bastian, has shown to us the very close 
 relationship of psychic manifestations, noted 
 among the uncivilized to Hypnotism, and 
 states "That a more exact study of 
 Hypnotic phenomena by individual travel- 
 ers would be of great service to popular 
 Psychology; the phenomena which occur 
 spontaneously among uncivilized populations 
 should be more carefully examined and 
 brought into closer relation with Hyp- 
 notism." 
 
 Nietzsche believes that the dream state 
 of the civilized occurring during sleep often 
 occurs among savages while in the waking 
 condition; he writes: — 
 
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 "We are all like savages in our dreams, the 
 perfect clearness of dream ideas, which pre- 
 supposes an unconditional faith in their 
 reality, recalls conditions of primitive 
 humanity when hallucinations were extra- 
 ordinarily present." Among the religious 
 rites of the Annamites the subject attains 
 Hypnosis by fixing his gaze upon burning 
 sticks attached behind the ear of the 
 Magician, who attracts by turning his head. 
 
 Down through the middle ages have 
 these phenomena been manifest. The Priest 
 Gastner, in 1772, demonstrated undeniably 
 the existence of this power by so called 
 stigmas and witchcraft, producing by his 
 exorcisms, total insensibility. 
 
 During the sixteenth and seventeenth 
 centuries, Father Kirchner, Burgraeve, Heli- 
 notius, Maxwell and others, considered that 
 Hypnotic power lay in the magnet, while 
 earlier, Paracelsus taught that there was a 
 double or animal Magnetism, and that the 
 Magnetic fluid of a strong and healthy 
 individual drew toward it, and to it, the 
 weaker .and deteriorated magnetic fluid of 
 the unhealthy one. 
 
 At the close of every century, there 
 seems to have been an unusual excitement 
 and irresistible attraction toward the investi- 
 
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 gation of occult sciences; does the cycle of 
 the Centuries still control as the ancients 
 truly believed and fervently taught? Can 
 the moon, whose power lifts the seas, all the 
 seas, lift us? The phenomenon of reproduc- 
 tion in all organic life is controlled and reg- 
 ulated by the moon as certainly and as 
 regularly as are held in their orbit the worlds 
 of the Infinite Universe. 
 
 I believe those ancient people grasped 
 through deep thought, or highest inspir- 
 ation, ideas and knowledge of the occult, 
 which, to some of them at least, unveiled the 
 mysteries, that they indeed were en rapport 
 with the infinite Begetter. Controlled by 
 the benign laws of the Almighty God, and 
 that soul to soul they entered His presence. 
 
 Down toward the close of the eigh- 
 teenth century while the whole world was 
 expecting and hoping for something new 
 and startling; just when the overheated 
 temperaments of the populace were in a 
 receptive and expectant state; willing that 
 anything new come, even though it be 
 magical, there arose prominently before the 
 world, a man destined to fill the already 
 waiting minds with wonder; one who had 
 been traduced and maligned; one who had 
 heretofore been to them a charlatan, and in 
 
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 their minds an impostor, but at this time the 
 whole English speaking world listened, 
 halted in their dissentions and believed. 
 That man was Autoine Mesmer. His ideas 
 and teachings led to the yast researches in 
 psychological manifestations, which have led 
 to what is known to the world to-day as 
 Hypnotism. 
 
 Mesmer was born in Germany, in 1734, 
 and at an early age turned his thoughts 
 toward the mysterious, occult and unfathom- 
 able. When but thirty-two years of age, 
 he presented to the faculty of that renowned 
 city of Vienna, his thesis for the degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine. The subject of his 
 thesis was: "The Influence of the Stars and 
 Planets as Curative Powers." 
 
 He was granted his Diploma, and short- 
 ly afterward, falling in with a noted Jesuit, 
 Father Hell, learned of the similarity of 
 their ideas, and strengthened by new faith, 
 he began a series of marvelous cures by the 
 use of a magnet. He taught that the sun, 
 moon and stars all acted upon the human 
 body by means of a mysterious fluid which 
 he called animal magnetism. He made 
 many wonderful cures in Vienna, and 
 for some unknown reason went to Paris 
 where he very soon gathered around him- 
 
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 self, converts among the learned men of the 
 Medical class, particularly, the Count D. 
 Artois, a very learned physician and a Pro- 
 fessor of the Faculty of Medicine. He be- 
 came very popular. Hundreds were anxious 
 to be magnetized, and his business became 
 so enormous that he was under the necessity 
 of employing assistants. One of his follow- 
 ers, the noted Deluge, Librarian at the 
 Jardendes de Plantes, who was called the 
 Hippocrates of Magnetism, left this account 
 of Mesmer, and his experiments: 
 
 "In the middle of a large room stood an 
 oak tub four or five feet in diameter, and 
 one foot deep. It was closed by a lid made 
 in two pieces, and encased in another tub or 
 bucket. At the bottom of the tub a number 
 of bottles were laid in convergent rows so 
 that the neck of each bottle turned toward 
 the center. Other bottles filled with mag- 
 netized water tightly corked down were 
 laid in divergent rows with their necks 
 turned outward. Several rows were then 
 piled up and then the apparatus was pro- 
 nounced to be at high pressure. The tub 
 was then filled with water to which was 
 sometimes added, powdered glass and iron 
 filings; then were also some dry tubs that 
 were prepared in the same manner, but 
 
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 without any additional water. The lid was 
 perforated to admit of the passage of mov- 
 able, bent, iron rods, which could be applied 
 to different parts of the patients' bodies. 
 A long rope was also fastened to a ring in 
 the lid, and this the patients placed loosely 
 around their limbs. No diseases offensive 
 to the sight were treated, such as sores, 
 wens or deformities. 
 
 The patients then drew near one anoth- 
 er, touching hands, arms, knees or feet. The 
 handomest, youngest and wisest magnetizers 
 held, also, an iron rod with which they 
 touched the dilatory or stubborn patients. 
 The rods and ropes had all undergone 
 a preparation, and in a very short space of 
 time patients felt the Magnetic influence. 
 The women being the most easily effected, 
 were almost at once seized with fits of yawn- 
 ing and stretching. Their eyes closed, their 
 legs ^ave way and they seemed to suffocate. 
 In vain did musical glasses and harmonicas 
 resound, the piano and voices re-echoed. 
 These supposed aids only seemed to increase 
 the patients' convulsive movements. Sar- 
 donic laughter, piteous moans and torrents 
 of tears burst forth on all sides. The 
 bodies were thrown back in spasmodic jerks; 
 the respirations sounded like death rattles; 
 
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 the most terrifying symptoms were exhib- 
 ited. Then suddenly the actors of this 
 strange scene would frantically or rapturous- 
 ly rush toward one another, rejoicing, em- 
 bracing or thrusting away their neighbors 
 with every appearance of horror. 
 
 " Another room was padded and pre- 
 sented a different spectacle. There, women 
 beat their heads against the padded walls 
 or rolled on the cushioned-covered floor in 
 fits of suffocation. In the midst of this 
 panting, grieving throng, Mesmer dressed in 
 a lilac coat, moved about extending a magic 
 wand toward the least suffering, halting in 
 front of the most violently excited, and 
 gazing steadily into their eyes while he held 
 both their hands in his, bringing the middle 
 finger in immediate contact to establish the 
 communication. 
 
 "At another moment he would, by a 
 motion of open hands and extended fingers, 
 operate with the great current, crossing and 
 uncrossing his arms with wonderful rapidity 
 to make the final passes.'' 
 
 Baily was also an eye witness of these 
 scenes and he writes of the wonderful 
 influence of the Magnetizer, and of the 
 manner in which by a glance or some pass, 
 
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 tie could waken the sleepers from their 
 somnolence. 
 
 The finest people were attracted to him 
 to witness these Demoniacal convulsions and 
 undoubtedly to experience them, which in 
 many cases lead to attacks of genuine 
 nervous prostration. 
 
 In time, the better thinking class be- 
 3ame exasperated, and public opinion was 
 aroused against Mesmer, who, made mad, as 
 it were, by his successes, was led away from 
 bis legitimate vocation, the healing of the 
 rick, and became in time a perfect Charlatan. 
 
 He purchased the Hotel Bullion in the 
 place De La Hose and there ran riot with 
 bis clientage. He magnetized a tree at the 
 3nd of the Rue de Bondy while in the 
 zenith of his power, and the sick by thou- 
 sands by their own request, were tied to it 
 in the hope of cure. He evidently overdid 
 it all, and later on when he requested the 
 Academy to investigate his experiment, they 
 lisclaimed themselves unable to agree, and 
 bhe Royal Society of Medicine in emphatic 
 terms denounced him, and in 1784, the 
 government interfered, two commissions 
 were appointed, one from the members of 
 the faculty, the other from the members of 
 the Royal Society of Medicine. The reports 
 
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 of these commissions read like discussions 
 upon some subject of which they were 
 totally ignorant. Courmelles, in his work 
 on Hypnotism, writes of the deliberations of 
 these commissions. 
 
 "They sought for the fluid not by the 
 study of the cures effected, but in the phases 
 of mesmeric sleep. These were considered 
 indispensable and easily regulated by the 
 experimentalist. When submitted to close 
 investigation, however, it was found that 
 they could only be induced when the 
 subjects knew they were being magnetized, 
 and they differed according as they con- 
 ducted in public or in private. In short, 
 the imagination was considered the sole 
 active agent." 
 
 Whereon DeElson remarked, "If imag- 
 ination is the best cure, why should we not 
 use the imagination as a curative means?" 
 Did he who had so vaunted the existence of 
 the fluid, mean by this to destroy its exist- 
 ence, or was it not rather a satirical wav of 
 saying, "You choose to call it imagination, 
 be it so, but after all as it cures, let us 
 make use of it." This second hypothesis 
 seems the true one. The two commissions 
 came to the conclusion that the phenomena 
 were due to imitation, imagination and con- 
 
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 tact, and that they were dangerous, and 
 consequently should be prohibited. But one 
 of the commissions could see the true force 
 of magnetic influence. This was in 1784. 
 
 In 1813, the great naturalist, Deluze, 
 wrote exhaustively upon the subject, and 
 from that time on magnetism or mesmerism, 
 or more properly speaking, Hypnotism, has 
 been thoroughly investigated and is now 
 accepted. 
 
 About 1814, Baron Du Polet, invented 
 his magic mirror. It was indeed a magic 
 mirror, for it was but a black circle drawn 
 upon the floor with charcoal* at which his 
 patients were made to gaze with fixed at- 
 tention until in a receptive state, then by 
 suggestion upon his part they were led to 
 the "Denomical Exhibition." As in the 
 case of Mesmer and his followers, it will be 
 seen that all these methods of different 
 operators were used simply for the purpose 
 of attracting attention of the subject from 
 themselves and thus bringing their soul "En 
 rapport" with that of the manipulator. 
 
 In 1841, Braid, a Physician of Man- 
 chester, England, made a series of invest- 
 igations prompted by the "Experiments 
 Magnetic," of the French Magnetizer, La- 
 Fontaine. 
 
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 At this time the honest scientific study 
 of Hypnotism really begins. Braid became 
 thoroughly acquainted with cataleptic phe- 
 nomena and with suggestions, and used 
 Hypnotism honestly and therapeutically. 
 He used it to perform painless surgical 
 operations, as did many others, yet in spite 
 of all their many wonderful works and 
 deeds, Hypnotism found no general accep- 
 tion, until about the year 1880, when a great 
 Medical school of France, that of Nancy, 
 took up the study in a scientific manner, 
 and to quote Albert Moll, "the interest then 
 became general," Prof. Burnheim, of Nancy, 
 who incited by Dumnet, had studied the 
 question with Quibeault and had accepted 
 the latest views, published a book, "DE La 
 Suggestion" in 1884, He gave in it ex- 
 amples of curative effects of Hypnotism, 
 the phenomena of which he says are of a 
 purely physical nature. Besides this in 
 Nancy, Beaunis worked at the Physiology of 
 Hypnotism, and Quiegevis at the forensic 
 side of the question. Then followed in 
 France, the contest between the schools of 
 Charcot and Nancy, in which the latter has 
 gained ground more and more, even in Paris. 
 
 People began to busy themselves with 
 Hypnotism in other countries as well as 
 
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 France, chiefly on the lines of the school of 
 Nancy. 
 
 It is true that, as has already been 
 mentioned, the study of Hypnotism had 
 been begun in various countries in connec- 
 tion with the work of Charcot. As, how- 
 ever, in consequence of the rather one-sided 
 standpoint of these investigations, the dif- 
 ferent inquiries failed to find any lasting 
 satisfaction. Even the name of Charcot 
 failed to give a general extension to the 
 study of Hypnotism. Only when the school 
 of Nancy created a surer basis for Hyp- 
 notism by a more profound psychological 
 conception could people elsewhere, begin to 
 devote themselves on a larger scale to the 
 study of it. 
 
 In France, itself, the importance of the 
 Nancy investigation was more and more 
 recognized, and even those who had at first 
 considered the experiments of Charcot to be 
 of higher value, turned in large numbers to 
 the school of Nancy. 
 
 Hypnotism found an entrance to other 
 countries, Northern Europe and Belgium, 
 where for the first time we have record of 
 the legal profession making a study of it. 
 Several lawyers like Boujean and Mailer, 
 interested themselves in the new science, 
 
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 especially in its forensic aspects. The med- 
 ical profession throughout the world accept- 
 ed it as a most valuable adjunct in the 
 treatment of diseases, until today it is rec- 
 ognized as such, and the chair of psychology 
 and hypnotic therapeutics is a firmly 
 established fixture in our medical schools. 
 Many valuable works of the subject are in 
 print; there are no longer any secrets con- 
 nected with it. The whole student world 
 may know. No doubt, or suspicions connected 
 with it. Like all great professions it had 
 to fight its way from generation to gener- 
 ation of doubters and unbelievers, to lose 
 or win; it has won; it is ours to command. 
 
 The Medical Profession have been the 
 first to take advantage of and use this power, 
 but here and there we hear of those follow- 
 ing other professions, who have investigated 
 and made study of it, and by keeping their 
 knowledge secret, have climbed to wealth 
 and power by use of it, and here let me say 
 that the great secret of success through 
 Hypnotic control, particularly outside the 
 Medical profession, is in keeping from the 
 world the fact that one ever even heard of 
 it, you are obliged to manipulate your sub- 
 jects differently than the Doctor of Medicine. 
 Your methods, as you will be taught in the 
 
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 following pages, will be different, known 
 more to yourself than to the world. You 
 will be taught to send your soul to them 
 without the verbal message, and draw their 
 soul to you without a word from them, 
 taught as one great author upon Hypnotism 
 writes, "To think into them." Aided in 
 many instances by verbal suggestions, but 
 not at all times. The eye and well timed 
 gesture, the calm but firm expressions of the 
 features all act and take up their part in 
 inducing hypnosis, but never for a moment 
 forget that it is implicit confidence in and 
 mastery of self that sends out or draws to, 
 the soul. This is the great secret of control, 
 mastery of self. 
 
 I will repeat this through this work, 
 not to tire but to impress, and when once 
 you have learned this great lesson and 
 possess this confidence, and are self impress- 
 ed and self possessed, you have "Climbed 
 the Heights;" the rest will be easily gained. 
 Mastery over self is mastery of the soul. 
 This self mastery and this implicit confi- 
 dence in self, and this self possession will 
 elevate you, will place you upon a higher 
 plane, will brighten your life, will give you 
 the long sought, longed for power, and dem- 
 
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 onstrate the mighty force of the God life, the 
 spirit, the peuma or soul; it will lead you to 
 peace. "The strain off." 
 
 The following clipping is apropos, a 
 beautiful poem lesson in Auto Suggestion: 
 
 HAPPINESS, FAITH. 
 "Talk HAPPINESS, the world is sad enough 
 Without your woes. No path is wholly 
 rough; 
 Look for the places that are smooth and 
 clear, 
 And speak of those to rest the weary 
 ear 
 Of earth so hurt by one continuous strain 
 Of human discontent, and grief, and 
 pain. 
 "Talk FAITH; the world is better off with- 
 out 
 Your uttered ignorance and morbid 
 doubt. 
 If you have faith in God, or man, or self, 
 Say so; if not, push back upon the 
 shelf 
 Of silence all your thoughts 'till faith shall 
 come; 
 No one will grieve because your lips 
 are dumb. 
 
PSYCHOLOGY 
 
 oi 
 HYPNOTISM. 
 
PSYCHOLOGY OF HYPNOTISM. 
 
 Hypnotism, what is it? It is the all - 
 pervading soul power, that grand part of the 
 infinite God within us, co-partners in body, 
 and spirit with that mighty force, which 
 threw the Universe into being and which 
 holds in space the worlds. It is our own 
 soul. The infinite wonder of the ages gave 
 it to us, to use in this grand co-partnership. 
 We may drift along, as do the masses, to 
 that inevitable moment when we must give 
 it back without a knowledge of its use. 
 
 Header, if you will but peruse the con- 
 tents of this volume, act upon the advice 
 given herein, the whole world is your gar- 
 den; till it; work it, and the beauties of the 
 world will manifest themselves to you as 
 never before. Brightness from clouds, love 
 from hate, happiness from despair, power 
 from weakness, it is ours for the time, and 
 you in time will believe, as do those, who 
 have made study of this mystic wonder, that 
 there is but little of the occult or mysterious 
 about it, that it is but the manifestation of 
 brilliant endowment or magnificent mastery 
 of the soul life, handed you for your own 
 behoof by the beneficent hands of the ever 
 living God. 
 
 You will have pass before you innum- 
 erable and incredible manifestations of 
 
wonder, then the light. I have seen this, 
 have felt, have known of it. Until now 
 that the light is thrown on, I no longer 
 doubt but that the soul does become dis- 
 associated from the physical being, and is 
 placed "en rapport" with the infinite of 
 which it is a part. 
 
 The incantations of soothsayers of the 
 ancients with their invocations and orac- 
 ular utterances, scoffed at as they have been 
 for ages, by the masses, ignorant of the cause 
 of these mysterious performances, are to the 
 student of today but symbols of the wonder- 
 ful light, which made bright those days we 
 are so prone to number among the dark 
 ages. 
 
 The light, airy and beautiful story of 
 Oriental life embodied in the history of the 
 Prince of India, "The light of Asia." Budda; 
 from birth to Nirvana, is one long, lovely 
 recital of the mystic works of those by 
 whom he was taught the miraculous doings of 
 their pupil, who, if the story be half true, 
 became master of them all; to him the 
 mysteries were unveiled, the soul a power 
 to wield that he might control the world, 
 but first himself. This, dear reader, is the 
 foundation upon which to build. Control 
 thyself. 
 
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 All through the dim history of the past, 
 uncertain as much of it may be, there are 
 many indubitable proofs of mind and soul 
 culture, which point to the fact that there 
 were many, who were past masters in the use 
 of Animal Magnetism, or more properly, 
 Soul Transference through Hypnotism. 
 
 Our Savior, from His birth to the 
 close of His eventful career, gave evidence 
 of the possession of that power over self, 
 which gave to Him the mastery, that mas- 
 tery of self, of flesh, and even His majesty, 
 the Prince Royal of Sheol, that mastery only 
 possible through absolute self control, and 
 only to be acquired through suggestion or 
 self Hypnotism, and as did he control him- 
 self, so did he mould by that same power, 
 those about him; so did he command those 
 who followed him, and through that power 
 did he mould the destiny of the world. 
 
 From the miraculous suggestion and 
 wondrous works of Christ, have come the 
 mighty light of civilization. From Judea 
 and the Cross, athwart the deep, in all re- 
 ceptive lands, has this great mastery made 
 itself manifest; mastery of mind over matter; 
 man lord of himself lord over all. 
 
 "From Africa's sunny fountains, 
 
 From India's coral strand' ' 
 
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 have been handed down to us, the mighty 
 evidences of this mystic entrancing art, but 
 the idolatry and dark superstitions of the 
 earlier past were outdone and overshadowed 
 by the wondrous works of Him, who hyp- 
 notized the sea; of Him, who gained the 
 mastery, and gave it to the world as freely 
 as He gave his blood when He openly taught, 
 that He who mastered self, mastered all. 
 
 The history of the church is but one 
 long story of Hypnotic control. 
 
 The history of medicine is but one long 
 story of Hypnotic control, or mystie man- 
 ifestation, coupled with more and more a 
 perfect understanding of the use of "herbs 
 and simples," but never losing sight of that 
 great controlling force which draws the soul 
 out that the body heals. What meant 
 Shakespeare as he prompts Othello to 
 exclaim? 
 
 "Not poppy nor mandragora, 
 Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, 
 Shall medicine thee to that sweet sleep 
 Which thou own'st yesterday. " 
 The history of politics is but one long 
 story of diplomatic well timed Hypnotic 
 control. I have seen and heard Blaine, the 
 Magnetic; have seen and heard Roscoe 
 Conkling, the majestic, hold spellbound a 
 
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 multitude in a vast magnetic seance, and in 
 Wm. Jennings Bryan, we have today, one 
 of the greatest living examples of personal 
 Magnetic, Hypnotic, controlling power the 
 world has ever known. (An honest con- 
 fession from a republican, but a tribute of 
 regard.) Political policy, political creeds, 
 political platforms could all be swept to sea, 
 could a man like that come in personal con- 
 tact with all the people. Views, ideas, 
 reasoning, all melt and vanish under the 
 spell brought about through personal con- 
 tact with such a man as he. 
 
 In Utica, N. Y., a few years ago, I 
 listened attentively to the trial of a man 
 prosecuted in the XL S. Court, the jury, the 
 audience knew it but Howe, that great 
 criminal lawyer of New York City, was his 
 Counsel. He began his plea; he wrought 
 upon one after another of that jury. He 
 carefully and insidiously, with impressive 
 voice and gesture, so manipulated and 
 moulded them, that one by one, they were 
 brought into a receptive state; then cau- 
 tiously as the reptile charms the little bird, 
 he wound around them the mystic spell of 
 his impressive power. The judge, the stern 
 judge, was moved. The gaping, listening 
 crowd were moved. The jury, yes, they 
 
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 were moved. They retired; soon they re- 
 turned, and, in the quietude of that vast 
 chamber of justice, the half paralyzed, trem- 
 ulous voice of the foreman spoke the words 
 that set free a criminal: "Not Guilty." 
 This was but one of the long list of tri- 
 umphant victories for him. His knowledge 
 and application of Mesmeric or Hypnotic 
 power over his fellows made him famous. 
 His fame rendered him wealthy. 
 
 After long study and much observation 
 and investigation of this wonderful force of 
 power, I am constrained to believe that there 
 is behind it some degree of physical strength, 
 not in the results themselves, but in the 
 fortifying of the psychological state, the 
 backing up, as it were, of strong mind by 
 wholesome nerve state, due in a great measure 
 to perfect physiological condition. Of this 
 I am certain, the operator, when in the 
 most perfect physical state, when thoroughly 
 rested, does most perfect work. I give this 
 much credit then to the physical, while 
 without doubt, the manifestations are 
 brought through psychological or true soul 
 force. 
 
 The physical has much to do in the 
 matter, if in no other than in a supplement- 
 ary way. The more perfect one's con- 
 
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 fidence in one's self and in one's methods, as 
 an Operator, the more confidence will the 
 subject place in the Operator. Every 
 motion, every utterance will display self- 
 control and self-confidence, which is nec- 
 essary to the mental equipment of a success- 
 ful Operator, and the more perfect the 
 physical, the more control of the mental; 
 then, while physical phenomena are, un- 
 doubtedly, due to immediate mental force, 
 bodily strength, or physical force is second- 
 arily a factor in bringing about these results. 
 
 That this Will o' the Wisp, this 
 vaporish something, soul or spirit, transpires, 
 passes out under the calm and perfect quiet 
 of the dream-sleep of the Hypnotic state, no 
 longer admits of a doubt. The prophets be- 
 lieved it; the sibyls of that magnificent city 
 upon her seven hills, knew of it and exer- 
 cised it. The Christ taught it, and gave 
 the most wonderful demonstrations of it. 
 Ceilsus writes of it, and Asclepiades prac- 
 ticed it. This soul does go out wrapped in 
 mystery, and clothed in magic, yet it goes 
 out, goes out to the infinity who gave it, 
 goes out to commune with the soul life of ] 
 others, who are in affinity. 
 
 Mesmer, Bimheim and others, who 
 
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 taught it, have been laughed at, and scoffed 
 at. 
 
 Shakespeare was inspired by this psysic 
 power, and an analysis of his wonderful 
 writings gives certain proof that he knew it 
 all, had felt it all, and his mighty reputation 
 is due to the very fact, that he did know. 
 No man could write as he did that did not. 
 
 For years I have endeavored to analyze 
 this power, to determine if I could, what the 
 Hypnotic force is, and what receptive part 
 of a Iseing is acted upon. 
 
 Since 1874, I have made this subject a 
 persistent study. During the winter of '74 
 and '75, I was a pupil of Prof. Reynolds in 
 his nomadic (if I may use the term) School 
 of Mesmerism. He was a master in his art, 
 and a master as an instructor, as a large 
 number of my associates of that time well 
 remember. His teaching at that time was 
 somewhat similar with that of today, and 
 brought the answer equally as well. I re- 
 member he claimed it was nerve force and 
 vitality from the operator passing up along 
 the Radial nerve of the subject, thus over- 
 coming them. I believed him. He taught 
 us that the Radial nerve was the most 
 e nsitive of all, that it was more intimately 
 associated with the mind than any other, 
 
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 hence through that nerve the strength of the 
 operator was passed into the subject. By- 
 firm pressure upon the space between the 
 knuckles of the index and second fingers by 
 the thumbs of the operator, while holding 
 the subject's hands, who, after having by a 
 steady gaze at a coin, floated into a receptive 
 state. Yes, the soul went out, out to Prof. 
 Reynolds then, just as it does today to 
 others; his practice perfect, his theory at 
 fault. 
 
 It is the soul life that is operated upon, 
 it is the soul life that brings about the 
 phenomenon of control, it is the soul, noth- 
 ing but the soul. The grandest phenomena 
 ever seen, are soul phenomena, the mightiest 
 manifestations of human power through the 
 cycle of the centuries. 
 
 Nations have been built up to pomp 
 and magnificence in a day by this soul 
 power, or swept into oblivion with scarcely a 
 history, by the magic wand of power of soul. 
 
 You ask what this soul may be? I will 
 tell you. It is a part of that all-powerful 
 Begetter, who hurled through space, the 
 worlds; who holds in the hollow of His hand, 
 the fathomless, limitless, infinite Universe; 
 the Pater, the Father of all, the Almighty 
 God. It is a birthright from Deity, and 
 
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 when done with it here, His everlasting love 
 will again absorb it; take it back to Himself. 
 Will personal consciousness go with it? I 
 hope so. 
 
 Our soul is the spirit of God handed to 
 us — Hig noblest work. It is the power of 
 God within us, that is manifest when mag- 
 netic influence or Hpynotic phenomena are 
 evolved; it is the force of the God life, the 
 soul, not the force of the sexual life; not the 
 life physical. Were that the case, during 
 the dream- sleep or Hypnotic state, while 
 absent from the body, death would ensue. 
 This is not the case, the manifestations of the 
 physical life go on, are not disturbed, con- 
 sequently it is not life, neither is it the 
 mind, for the mental state in all manner of 
 ways is present during the Hypnotic spell, 
 it is the soul, then, the God life, the spirit 
 life, that controls, passing from one to an- 
 other, from place to place; it is God in us, 
 and we in Him; thus then are we physical, 
 mental and spiritual, a perfect trinity, 
 henceforth forever, and have been since the 
 dawn first brightened human existence. 
 
 It is the soul, then, with which we have 
 to deal; it is the soul and its mysterious 
 triumphs and powers, which, by control of 
 the physical and mental being, bring about 
 
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 the startling results of Hypnotic manifes- 
 tations. It is not the physical or mental 
 force that enables one to outride the storms 
 and tribulations of this life; it is the in- 
 spiring confidence given by the soul, this 
 God life, and it is this confidence which one 
 must gain. 
 
 Little by little it will come until the 
 soul strength and power be manifest; then 
 will be the victory, the victory over self, 
 greatest and most fruitful of all. 
 
 I am not writing this that you learn 
 this Mystic Art; that you may control others 
 alone; I will go further and teach you self- 
 control, the richest pearl of all. 
 
 All who have carefully perused the 
 foregoing will naturally inquire why it is 
 then that Hypnotism may be, can be, and is 
 used through criminal suggestion for wicked 
 and perverse ends. 
 
 I will tell you. It is all plain. As 
 the tree is bent and blighted by improper 
 and unnatural surroundings when it might 
 have grown to perfection, so the soul is 
 blighted and dwarfed by the mind for the 
 time controlling it; as the pure, sweet, in- 
 nocent, little child through improper sur- 
 roundings and associations, too, often be- 
 comes a moral pervert, so does this soul life 
 
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 become perverted through control of a 
 vicious and wicked mind, and thus becomes 
 for the time, an instrument in wrong doing. 
 
 As the mind is, so through association 
 does this soul life become almost dormant in 
 many; in others, the dominant spirit for good 
 or evil. 
 
 It is the soul then, that carries the mes- 
 sage prompted by the controlling mind. 
 There is nothing in the wonderful manifes- 
 tations of clairvoyance, the cataleptic state or 
 the Hypno-somnambulistic phase, but the 
 workings of the lightning winged soul. 
 
 The mystic- phenomena of telepathy are 
 soul phenomena, spirit affinity, nothing 
 more, nothing less; the soul life, the all- 
 powerful spirit of the God who gave it, is 
 the force of Hypnotism, the power behind 
 it all. 
 
 Confidence and perfect faith in one's self 
 can only be begotten by impressions firmly 
 fixed through associations from time to time 
 by control of others, and by that greatest of 
 all powers given to the human being, control 
 of self. Thus has the infinite God left to ub 
 our destiny. Will we allow the world to 
 mould it, perhaps to ruin, to give back that 
 soul dwarfed, blighted or unsightly, or will 
 we by the God given powers within us, 
 
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 mould it into a true, perfect, happy one, in 
 harmony with that of the Great Giver of all. 
 Then, when it does return, may conscious- 
 ness go with it. 
 
 In this is found, I believe, a scientific 
 demonstration of immortality. This soul 
 unentangled from the physical self, floats off 
 and out, up and back to Him who gave it, 
 and if we have failed to use it, if we have 
 allowed it to lie dormant, certainly we have 
 not developed it. It was given to us to 
 make use of. 
 
HYPNOTIC 
 
 INDUCTION. 
 
HYPNOTIC INDUCTION. 
 
 In the following pages I will endeavor 
 to carry you along from one method to an- 
 other of producing this wonderful soul 
 power, which, prompted by the mind and 
 suggestion in many forms, is truly the 
 
 "LEVER THAT MOVES THE WORLD," 
 and gradually confidence and faith will dawn 
 upon you and with them will come the 
 power; as one learns to read, letter by letter 
 and word by word, so this grand science 
 will be taught you, so must you learn it by 
 first learning the induction of Hypnotism, 
 as does the stage Hypnotist manipulate his 
 subjects. 
 
 His exhibitions are to cater to the 
 pleasure loving public only, but the grand 
 faith, the implicit confidence, which leads to 
 greater works, more silent works perchance, 
 which will give you the soul control sought, 
 can only come through learning just what he 
 has learned, but not necessarily put to the 
 same use. 
 
 It is the induction of true Hypnotic 
 state in others by these methods, that places 
 the faith and confidence in one sufficient to 
 later on induce the same state unknown to 
 the subject. Many read and study upon 
 this science until thoroughly conversant with 
 
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 it, until perfect confidence does come to 
 them before making any attempt to exert 
 it; influence over others may never go 
 further than a perusal of works upon the 
 subject; confidence is induced, they believe, 
 without other or more extended investiga- 
 tion, and are better and stronger because of 
 it, but they have not learned all. You may. 
 
 I would advise that you select from 
 your acquaintances or from among strangers, 
 when the opportunity presents itself, those 
 who will allow you to place them "under 
 the spell" to practice upon them, as it were; 
 there will no harm come to them or to you 
 if your motives are honest and sincere. 
 
 The restful state induced brings calm 
 and perfect quietude, and the rule is, that 
 during Hypnotic sleep, excess of nervous 
 energy is stored up, and the whole physical 
 and mental state is in consequence built up 
 and strengthened, placed upon a normal 
 plane and into conditions favorable to the 
 true establishment of functional harmony. 
 
 Thus the soul is freed through Hyp- 
 notism and spontaneously asserts itself. It 
 has been a recognized fact for many years 
 that a human being can be thrown into an 
 artificial sleep during which he sustains such 
 a relation to the operator, who has induced 
 
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 it, that Lie is sensitive only to what the 
 operator tells him he is sensitive, and is 
 wholly subject, as far as his mental opera- 
 tions and physical actions are concerned, to 
 the volition of the Hypnotist. 
 
 A Hypnotized person sees, hears, tastes, 
 smells and feels what the operator says that 
 he sees, hears, tastes, smells and feels, and 
 nothing else. 
 
 For the time being his soul is sur- 
 rendered to the person who has Hypnotized 
 him. As a rule he gives no heed to the 
 voice or commands of others. 
 
 His condition is one of passive obedi- 
 ence, the primary or objective mind being 
 entirely in abeyance, and the soul, the sub- 
 limal self, for the time controls. This is 
 simply the state of perfect calm. All strain 
 off. 
 
 His ears have become avenues of sug- 
 gestion, and thought impressed by emphatic 
 declaration upon the sublimal self, mould 
 and irrevocably influence the mind and 
 character of the individual. Directions giv- 
 en are carried out in the minutest detail 
 and suggestions at variance with the sub- 
 jects; dominant ideas are readily accepted 
 without being given even the benefit of a 
 
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 doubt, and are fulfilled previous to and 
 after waking. 
 
 Hypnotic influence in some of its many 
 forms is a most potent instrumentality in 
 moulding mind and character, and that it is 
 superior to the conventional methods of in- 
 struction, is perhaps, an assertion startling, 
 yet true. 
 
 Quackenbos writes: — "The moralist 
 and preacher address the self that is not in 
 control. The flesh entangled, hesitating, 
 easily tempted and entrapped objective self, 
 hence their appeals are so often futile. The 
 suggestionist invokes the better, sublimal 
 self (the soul) invests it with control and 
 seldom fails to effect the desired purpose. 
 Discriminating Hypnotic suggestion is thus 
 a more powerful agent than objective relig- 
 ious exhortation for the moral reformation of 
 the young and thoughtless. 
 
 Human beings are Hypnotizable by 
 other human beings, between whom and 
 themselves exists a peculiar sympathy or 
 harmonious relationship known as Rapport. 
 
 I have reached the conclusion that 
 every person of ordinary intellectual ca- 
 pacity can Hypnotize some other person, — 
 and that the great mass of men are Hyp- 
 notizable. Various methods of inducing 
 
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 Hypnosis are practiced, all having in view 
 the fixation of the attention upon some mo- 
 notonous stimulus of the eye or ear, as seda- 
 tive music, or a bright object like the 
 nickel plated point protector of a lead pencil, 
 a transparent crystal, a sparkling diamond, a 
 stud in the shirt front or the eyes of the 
 operator." 
 
 Perfumes also have Hypnotic power. 
 The odor of May blossoms, of new mown 
 hay, of balm of Gilead firs unquestionably 
 contribute to the induction of mental placid - 
 ness and so to mental surrender. 
 
 An idiot is soul bound. He could not 
 be Hypnotized neither could he Hypnotize. 
 
 "In certain instances the fixation of at- 
 tention may be profitably supplemented by 
 light passes or by holding firmly the hand of 
 the subject. 
 
 While the whole force 
 Of one's personality (soul) 
 Is concentrated in an effort 
 To overcome any automatic 
 Resistance to Hypnotization. 
 
 In inducing Hypnosis with your subject, 
 you should carefully secure his confidence 
 by sympathetic and assuring assertions and 
 calm, quiet demeanor, taking your time. 
 
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 Let nothing come to antagonize him; let 
 every act be cool, deliberate and kind. 
 
 Place him upon a chair or upon a sofa 
 and taking one hand in your own, while with 
 your other hand you hold some object, pre- 
 ferably a bright one, within a few inches of 
 his eyes and with assuring assertions of 
 kindness, make him feel comfortable and 
 restful, and ask him to gaze fixedly upon the 
 object held by you and to forget all else. 
 
 Fix your gaze upon him and look him 
 steadily in the eye, while his gaze becomes 
 fixed upon the object held before him. 
 Kindly and assuringly command him to keep 
 his gaze steadily fixed, while you, in the 
 meantime, have with the concentrated force 
 of your whole soul drawn from him his own, 
 then bid him rest. 
 
 Say to him a You are quiet now, there is 
 no strain on you. Your eyes are heavy." 
 Draw down the object until it is in line 
 with your eyes. 
 
 Continue this steady fixed gaze, your 
 eyes now taking the place of the object, his 
 eyelids will begin to drop, to become trem- 
 ulous. 
 
 You quietly place your hands on his 
 head, quietly pass them down to his 
 
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 shoulders, then down his arms and off at \ 
 the ends of his fingers. 
 
 Make these kindly, gentle passes a few 
 times and with modulated voice, command 
 him to close his eyes, touch his eyelids 
 tenderly and say to him, "You are now 
 going into a calm, sweet sleep, sweet as the 
 sleep of your childhood. You are going, 
 going, sweeter, yes sweeter, you are going, 
 going sound, sound asleep; you are sound 
 asleep. You cannot open your eyes; you do ( 
 not wish to; but you cannot, now you wish 
 to but you cannot, you are fast, fast, 
 asleep." 
 
 You have told that subject the truth. 
 Fast asleep to all the world but you; they 
 can hear no other voice but your voice, they 
 know no other sound, their soul has left its 
 earthly tenement and in Rapport with that 
 of yours, is yours to mold. Hypnotism, the 
 lever that moves the world. 
 
 When you desire you may awaken him 
 by the upward passes and concentration of 
 your desire. If not, say to him: 
 
 "You have slept long enough, you had 
 best waken. I will count three and when I 
 say three, I will slap my hands, you will be 
 wide awake in an instant. Ready now, One, 
 
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 Two, Three. Wide awake. You have 
 rested, havn't you?" 
 
 Indeed it is a rest, a fruitful rest. 
 
 No such calm, placid tranquillity has 
 ever blessed the human mind or body since 
 that loving fruitful mother hypnotized him 
 while at her throbbing breast, with gentle 
 soothing passes and the low, sweet lullaby, 
 as comes from the "Passive obedience" of 
 soul to soul, during the hypnotic sleep. 
 But he is your subject during life, yours to 
 mould, to control. 
 
 A new destiny has been placed in your 
 hands, the responsibility is an awful one 
 should you forget. 
 
 The possibilities in your power are 
 enormously wonderful, you have brought to 
 yourself a new and submissive soul. You 
 stand in closer relationship to the Sublimer 
 Self of this being than ever did the parent, 
 the Tutor or the Priest. 
 
 No marriage vow ever bound as this 
 soul is bound to you. 
 
 Be careful, it is the great secret of 
 social, political, professional and financial 
 successes. Through this power, fame and 
 riches are won. "It is the ladder by which 
 the heights are gained." 
 

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 In the first step I will give you the 
 different methods of many of the most noted 
 hypnotic operators of the day, as written by 
 themselves. You will note as you follow 
 them that the calm receptive state is in- 
 variably induced by concentrated fixation of 
 thought, of something outside of self, that 
 for the time self is forgotten, is blotted out, 
 that there is no cognizance of physical, 
 mental, personal self, that the fetters are all 
 unloosed. u The strain off," the soul set free, 
 having in mind that all these "Masters of 
 men" have started their investigation as you 
 begin yours. 
 
 Until that confidence and mastery of 
 self has been attained, that in many in- 
 stances the many are brought under the spell 
 by the spontaneous exercise of impress- 
 iveness through personal soul power alone. 
 That they even "Think it into them," which 
 attracted by the personality of the operator 
 through gesture, oratory and well timed 
 suggestion bearing in mind at all times that | 
 any method which will in each individual ) 
 case induce forgetfulness of self through { 
 fixation of gaze or thought upon the operator 
 will bring about the desired receptivity 
 upon the part of the subject, whether it be 
 the dulcet harmonious sound of music strik- 
 
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 ing the chord in them, which sets free 
 their soul, or a balmy odor, or the bauble 
 held up to them, or the powerful impress- 
 iveness and so called magnetic force given 
 one who has made earnest study of this 
 weird science. 
 
 Weird and mystical to the masses. 
 All simplicity to you. A magnificent herit- 
 age left you for the grasping, or floating 
 down, away, away forever, should you sit 
 hesitatingly and not even note its passing; 
 grasp it. Hold fast to it, or you may be the 
 subject. 
 
 Your soul handed over to that of one, 
 who took advantage of the golden op- 
 portunity and did grasp it, and did hold on 
 and did grow. Yes, grow, grow strong, 
 while you, perchance, remain weak. 
 
 Much of this is written that you become 
 so thoroughly impressed with confidence 
 that you will grasp, and firmly. 
 
 Study when opportunity presents the 
 methods of stage Hypnotists. They are none 
 the less adepts in the "Black Art," so called, 
 than you would be, or I. Their operations 
 are open to the world, for gain. They edify 
 and amuse; they do no harm, place the spell 
 in many ways upon their subjects, and from 
 their ranks have been recruited some of the 
 
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 most successful and kindly and beneficent 
 members of that grand profession, who to- 
 day heal the sick and smooth the pathway 
 of many a soul bound neurotic, that we, 
 members of the Medical Profession, fail to 
 relieve with all our presumed or acquired 
 acumen. 
 
 They must not be classed among the i 
 fanatics, who call themselves Magnetic^ 
 healers, Divine healers, Christian Scientists 
 and the like. 
 
 There is nothing but Hypnotic mani- i- 
 festation in their grand work. Many noble -| 
 men, members of the Medical Profession have ' 
 taken up the study of medical psychology rj 
 and have calmly submitted to the taunts * 
 and jeers of their professional or unprofes- 
 sional brethren until they have soared far ?! 
 above calumny and reproach, and are rec- T 
 ognized and consulted by the most noted I 
 medical men the world possesses. Their I 
 knowledge of Hypnotism, paving the way j 
 to honor and riches. 
 
 I will give you below the methods of | 
 different masters in the art, the methods 
 used by stage Hypnotists, I quote first 
 from (Prof. J. MacDonald,} the noted Hyp- 
 notist, astrologer and writer: 
 
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 " The operator, after making his subject 
 i perfectly comfortable, either sits or stands 
 | opposite to them, and should place his han s 
 ; extended over the head and make passes 
 j slowly down to the extremities as near the 
 j face and body as possible without touching 
 | the subject; at the end of each pass the hand 
 j is closed until it is returned to the head, 
 !l when the same thing is repeated as before. 
 
 After making several passes, point the 
 \ fingers close to the eyes of the subject. 
 This sometimes has more effect than the 
 | passes. This process should be continued 
 I for several minutes at the first trial. The 
 I effect will depend upon the susceptibility of 
 ! the subject* 
 
 Should no signs of sleep be procured, 
 the operator should persevere with passes 
 until the eyes close, and should the quiver- 
 ing of the eyelids be observed, you can be 
 quite sure your efforts will be successful. 
 Very susceptible persons will in the course 
 of five to ten minutes, sometimes fallback 
 insensible. You may not be positive about 
 the insensibility being real Hypnotic coma. 
 You test for this as follows: — 
 
 Raise the subject's hand and if it falls 
 back immediately as a dead weight, it is a 
 good sign. Raise one of the eyelids and if 
 
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 you find the eye ball turned upwards and is 
 wandering in its orbit, there is little doubt 
 of your having produced true Hypnotic 
 coma. 
 
 Sometimes the eye ball is in a natural 
 position, but the pupil is widely dilated and 
 does not contract when a lighted candle is j 
 brought near it; sometimes breathing or. 
 placing the hands on the forehead will deep- 
 en the sleep, but operators are warned not to 
 produce too much brain hypnosis. 
 
 ANOTHER STAGE METHOD. 
 
 "Volunteers are called for and seated in 
 a semi-circle around the Hypnotist, when he 
 orders them to place the right hand, palm ; 
 down, upon the right knee cap, the left i 
 hand, palm down, upon the left knee cap; 
 commands them to asssume as easy a posi- ; 
 tion as possible, allowing each muscle of the ! 
 body to relax; slightly incline the head back- 
 ward; command them to close their eyes 
 and look at an imaginary spot exactly in the 
 center of the forehead, with both eyes closed 
 continuously. Command them to hold their 
 eyes absolutely in this position and not let 
 the eyeballs fall to their normal position. 
 Tell them it will be but a few seconds until : 
 they are fast asleep, and the desire for sleep 
 will take possession of their whole body. 
 
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 Absolute quiet and ease of position must be 
 maintained. After allowing them to sit in 
 this position one or two minutes, test them 
 to secure sensitive ones for experimenting 
 upon. 
 
 Place your left hand on their right, 
 palm down, and with your right make a few 
 passes from the center of their forehead 
 down over the eyes, telling them to remain 
 perfectly passive. After making these pass- 
 es for a minute or more, place your right 
 fingers lightly upon the top of the head with 
 the fingers slightly parted; press with the 
 thumb about one inch above the subject's 
 eyes exactly between them, allowing the 
 left hand in the meantime to rest upon the 
 right of the subject. 
 
 Tell your subject that his eyes are now 
 stuck fast and that it will be impossible for 
 him to open them. 
 
 If he should succeed in opening them, 
 try him once more; if he is still refractory 
 leave him and go to next subject and go 
 through the same process with each of them. 
 
 Should his eyes stick and he be unable 
 to open them, snap your fingers near his ear, 
 and say "Now you can open them." Com- 
 mand him to close them again and say 
 "Sleep, sleep," two or three times, now leave 
 
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 him and do the same with each of your 
 subjects. No matter how hard a subject is 
 to influence, if you persist and he does not 
 resist, you will succeed at last. 
 
 It may take ten or twenty minutes with 
 new subjects, but after you get them once 
 you wilL usually have no trouble. The 
 first thing to do is to hold the eyes shut 
 and you need not try any other experiment 
 until you succeed in this. You should go 
 about it in a confidential manner, always 
 giving commands in a firm and low tone of 
 voice. 
 
 Subjects have been put into a hypnotic 
 sleep, and the operator could not awaken 
 them. The subject is either under the 
 operator's control or not. If he is under the 
 operator's control, any command to awaken 
 him will do it if given by the operator; on 
 the other hand, the following will answer: — 
 Ask the subject what you must do to awaken 
 him; if he should say, Let me sleep one, two, 
 three hours. "All right, at exactly the time 
 specified you will awaken," you will say." 
 
 The instructions are to follow out the 
 instructions of the subject as he gives it to 
 you. It is generally considered, however, 
 by Hypnotists that a subject will awaken of 
 his own accord. Let it be particularly re- 
 
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 membered that FAITH and concentration 
 of thought upon your part are positively 
 needful to accomplish your ends. 
 
 It is implicit confidence in, and mastery 
 of self, that sends out or draws to the soul. 
 This is the great secret of control, Mastery 
 of Self. 
 
 The following is one of the methods of 
 Prof. J. A. Harridan, the noted author on 
 Hypnotism and a gentleman, who has made 
 a most earnest study of it on and off the 
 stage, and is recognized as a most powerful 
 operator and a wonderfully successful 
 healer: " Having secured your subject, place 
 him in a chair in a comfortable position with 
 his back to the light. Before you commence 
 to operate, however, it will be well to ob- 
 serve certain conditions. First, do not let 
 the other persons in the room laugh or con- 
 verse while you are operating. 
 
 Disturbing noises at the first ex- 
 periment will have a tendency to prevent 
 hypnosis. They distract the attention and 
 thus interfere with the mental state nec- 
 essary for hypnosis. Later, when the sub- 
 ject has learned to concentrate his thoughts, 
 noises are less disturbing. The most abso- 
 lute avoidance of any mistrust by those 
 present is necessary as the least word or 
 
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 gesture, may thwart the attempt to Hypno- 
 tize. 
 
 It will be best, if possible, to see those 
 who are to be present, beforehand, or tell 
 them before the subject arrives, that every 
 word or action must be made with a view of 
 impressing the subject with the idea that 
 there is not the slightest doubt of your be- 
 ing able to hypnotize him. 
 
 Have perfect confidence in yourself, or, 
 if you haven't absolute confidence, assume as 
 much as you can. Don't allow yourself to 
 become excited, as there is nothing, what- 
 ever to get excited about. 
 
 Don't be afraid that there will be any 
 trouble in awakening your subject, as that 
 is the easiest part of it, and there is absolute- 
 ly no danger of being unable to bring your j 
 subject out of this hypnotic condition. 
 
 You are now fully warned and guided 
 up to the point when you may enter upon 
 the task of hypnotizing your subject. 
 
 You should prepare his mind before- 
 hand by telling him that you have a bright 
 object for him to look at and that if he will 
 gaze on it steadily a gentle drowsiness will 
 soon steal over him, becoming heavier and 
 heavier every moment until at last he can 
 
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 not help but close his eyes and go right to 
 sleep. 
 
 You should also tell him that this sleep i 
 will be entirely natural and in no way, 
 whatever, either dangerous or unpleasant. J 
 If he were to think different from this or 
 expect to feel strangely, it would only 
 agitate his mind and hinder the condition of 
 passiveness, that is necessary to your pur- 
 pose. If he is a friend who knows of it, you 
 had better assure him that your experiment 
 will be only of the briefest duration, and 
 that you will not ask him to do anything 
 ridiculous, or hurtful to his dignity. 
 
 When you have thus made your subject 
 feel easy in his mind, you should seat him 
 in a comfortable manner and fix his hand 
 with the bright object held in it about four 
 inches in front of his eyes. The article may 
 be a coin, a pocket knife, a metallic pencil 
 case, a cork covered with tin foil, or, even 
 something that has no glitter, whatever. 
 
 Instruct your subject that he is to keep f 
 looking right at it and not on any account J 
 to turn his attention to other matters, (even 
 if his dearest friend were to enter the room. 
 You may speak to him thus: "Now, I want 
 you to keep on looking at it, right at it, and 
 soon your eyelids will get heavy, and then 
 
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 heavier and heavier, then you will close 
 your eyes in sleep. Keep looking at it. 
 Keep looking, and pay no attention to any- 
 thing but what I tell you. Do just as I ask 
 you and nothing more." 
 
 At this point proceed gently and do not 
 hurry your subject. It will seem more 
 natural if you give him time to get sleepy. 
 
 He has only to listen; when his eyelids 
 are really getting heavy, you can say: "Your 
 eyes are closing, closing. Your eyes are al- 
 most closed now," and „ draw out the words 
 in a low tone as though you were very 
 sleepy yourself. Then follow it up like 
 this. "Your eyes must surely close. You 
 cannot keep your eyes open: they are clos- 
 ing fast: You are almost off; they will close 
 now entirely and you will sleep. Close 
 them." Then after a moment's pause, say: 
 "Sleep;" speaking in a low but commanding 
 voice. 
 
 The eyes of your subject may quiver 
 for a short time, but he will soon settle back 
 in his chair ; perhaps with a sigh and exhibit 
 every sign of sound repose. Let him rest 
 thus for a minute or two, but if he is a new 
 subject, keep on cautiously making sugges- 
 tion like these: "You cannot awaken now. 
 
61 — 
 
 Nothing will wake you and nothing will 
 hurt you. 
 
 "You may open your eyes but you will 
 stay fast asleep. I am now about to raise 
 your arm but you won't wake up. Nothing 
 will wake you." Stroke down the raised 
 arm and then say: — "Now you can't take it 
 down. You are still fast asleep and you 
 will do just what I tell you and nothing 
 else, but you will not wake up. You can- 
 not wake up until I give you the word to 
 do so." 
 
 Your control will now be evident from 
 the arm continuing in the position to which 
 you raised it, and if you tell the subject that 
 no one else but yourself can take it down or 
 bend it, a trial will show that such is really 
 the case. 
 
 This is a good way to establish full con- 
 trol, or you can raise both arms in like 
 position and cause the limbs to be rigidly 
 outstretched. When you are disposed to 
 release them, you may stroke the limbs gent- 
 ly, but firmly in the opposite direction, saying: 
 "I wish you to take them down now. See, 
 you can do it easily. You can do all I tell 
 you but nothing else. You will do so all 
 the time. You can only awaken on my tel- 
 ling you that I wish it." 
 
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 Speak to your subject just as though 
 he were awake and in full possession of his 
 senses. 
 
 Although fast asleep to every one else, 
 he is keenly awake to you. He went to 
 sleep with his mind absorbed with the idea 
 that you alone could control him, and that is 
 the reason that no one else can make any 
 impression upon him. As you have been 
 touching him and talking to him almost con- 
 stantly, he has had no opportunity to fall 
 asleep to you. 
 
 This connection between the subject and 
 operator is called "Rapport," which in Hyp- 
 notism means, the state of sleep, in which 
 the attention of the subject is fixed exclusive- 
 ly upon the Hypnotist so that the latter is 
 constantly present in memory." 
 i-*—^ It is possible, however, to put your 
 subject "en Rapport with any other person 
 by simply suggesting that he is to obey the 
 I requests and commands of that person until 
 further notice. As I stated in a previous 
 place, you can control your subject entirely 
 by suggestions, which may be either a com- 
 mand or request — either spoken or im- 
 plied. It is important to note that while 
 suggestions may be made verbally to the 
 subject and usually are so made, it is by no 
 
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 means essential that words should be used. 
 All that is requisite is, that the subject 
 should clearly understand what it is that is 
 desired of him. The organs of sense and 
 i perception are all channels for the con- 
 veyance of any suggestion made to the 
 ] subject. As 1 have said before, Hyp- 
 jnotism is a condition brought about by 
 I suggestion, and the subject is controlled by 
 j| speaking to him or making some motion or 
 || sign, the meaning of which, he will under- 
 stand. In very many ways a look or a 
 movement of the Hypnotist is able to con- 
 vey a suggestion to his subject which will 
 be quite as potent as if made by means of 
 speech. 
 
 After your subject has been under the 
 influence a few minutes, it will be well to 
 awaken him. Directions have already been 
 given and more will follow for awakening 
 the subject. 
 
 Here are experiments by Albert Moll, 
 which will further interest and instruct you 
 and which will serve as I wish them to do, 
 to give you further confidence in self and in 
 the many different methods of inducing 
 Hypnosis; you will continue to note that all 
 methods have in view the fixation of 
 thought through some medium until the 
 
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 quiet, the rest, the receptive state is on. 
 Self is forgotten; the physical and mental 
 strain all off; the soul set free at the will of 
 the operator. 
 
 First experiment: — 
 
 ""I begin the experiments with this 
 young man of twenty. I request him to 
 seat himself on a chair and give him a but- 
 ton to hold, telling him to look at it fixedly. 
 After a few minutes his eyelids begin to 
 fall, he tries in vain to open his eyes, which 
 are fast closed. His hand, which, until now 
 has grasped the button, drops upon his 
 knees. I assure him that it is impossible 
 for him to open his eyes. (He makes vain 
 efforts to open them.) 1 now say to him, 
 'Your hands are stuck fast to your knees, 
 you cannot possibly raise them.' (He raises 
 his hands, however.) I continue to converse 
 with him. I find that he is imperfectly con- 
 scious and I can discover no essential change 
 in him, whatever. I raise one of his arms; 
 directly, I let go, he drops it as he pleases, 
 upon which I blow upon his eyes, which 
 open at once and he is in the same state as 
 before the experiment. The young man 
 remembers all that I have said to him. 
 The only striking thing is, therefore, that he 
 could not open his tyes and that he feels a 
 
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 certain degree of fatigue.' ' This young man 
 was but partially placed under the hypnotic 
 spell. Mr. Moll simply went thus far with 
 him to demonstrate that but local manifes- 
 tations come in answer to what we might 
 call local hypnotic suggestions. He made no 
 special effort to control any other part of 
 the subject than the eyelids. This accounts 
 for the slight sense of fatigue. Had he 
 hypnotized him completely, all strain, all 
 antagonism would have been off. Perfect 
 submission would have followed, and with 
 it, perfect physical and mental rest. The 
 soul cannot be freed without it. 
 
 Second experiment: — 
 
 "This is a woman of fifty-three. When 
 she has seated herself upon a chair I place 
 myself before her; I raise my hands and 
 move them downward, with the palms 
 toward her, from the top of the head to 
 about the pit of the stomach. I hold my 
 hands so that they may not touch her, but 
 close to her. As soon as my hands come 
 to the lowest part of the stroke, I carry 
 them in a wide sweep with outspread arms 
 up over the subject's. 1 then repeat ex- 
 actly the same movements, that is, passes 
 from above, downward close to the body 
 and continue this for about ten minutes. 
 
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 At the end of this time the subject is sit- 
 ting with closed eyes breathing deeply and 
 peacefully. When I ask her to raise her 
 arms, she raises them only slightly. When I 
 ask her how she feels, she explains that she 
 is tired. I now forbid her to open her eyes 
 (she makes useless attempts to open them.) ] 
 Now, I lift up her right arm; it remains in \ 
 the air even after I have let go, I command ., 
 her to drop her arm, (she drops it.) I lift it 
 up again, and again it remains in the air; \ 
 upon which I request her to drop her arm, 
 declaring at the same time that she cannot 
 do it. She now makes vain effort to drop \ 
 her arm, but it remains in the air. The> 
 same thing happens with the other arm, 
 when I forbid her, she is unable to drop it; 
 she cannot pronounce her own name, direct- 
 ly I have assured her that she is dumb. (She 
 only makes movements with her mouth 3 
 without producing any sound.) I tell her 
 that now she can speak. (She speaks at 
 once.) I say to her, "You hear music."' 
 The woman shakes her head to show that 
 she hears no music. I wake her with passes 
 from below, upwards, over the surface of the 
 body, turning the back of the hand toward^ 
 her. (She now opens her eyes and can con- 
 trol all her movements.) We see here then; 
 
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 that not only are the eyes closed during 
 hypnosis, but that all sorts of different 
 movements become impossible to the subject 
 when I forbid them. 
 
 Third experiment:— 
 
 This is with a boy of sixteen, whom I 
 
 have hypnotized several times. I request 
 
 him to look me straight in the eyes. After 
 
 j he has done this sometime, I take him by the 
 
 hand and draw him along with me. Then I 
 
 let go, but our eyes remain fixed on each 
 
 other; then I lift up my right arm (the boy 
 
 I does the same.) I raise my left arm (he does 
 
 the same.) I make him understand by a 
 
 gesture that he must kneel down (he does 
 
 so.) He tries to rise but does not succeed so 
 
 long as I look at him and fix him to the 
 
 floor by a movement of the hand. Finally I 
 
 cease to look at him; the charm is broken. 
 
 We see here then, a young man, whose mov- 
 
 ! ements take the character of imitation and 
 
 i whose eyes at the same time are wide open 
 
 : and fixed upon mine. 
 
 Fourth experiment: — 
 
 Mr. X, forty one years old, seats himself 
 
 | on a chair. I tell him he must try to sleep. 
 
 I "Think of nothing but that you are to go 
 
 to sleep." After some seconds I continue, 
 
 | "Now your eyelids are beginning to close, 
 
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 your eyes are growing more and more 
 fatigued; your arms go to^ sleep; your legs 
 grow tired; a feeling of heaviness and desire 
 for sleep take possession of your whole body; 
 your thoughts grow more and more confused. 
 Now you can no longer resist; now your 
 eyelids are closed." After the eyelids are 
 closed I ask him if he can open them. (He 
 tries to do so but they are too heavy.) I [ 
 raise his left arm high in the air. (It re- 
 mains in the air and cannot be brought down 
 in spite of all his efforts.) I ask him if he 
 is asleep. "Yes, fast asleep. Yes." "Do - 
 you, hear the canary singing?" "Yes." 
 "Now you hear the concert." "Certainly. I 
 "Certainly." Upon this I take a black 
 cloth and put it into his hand. "You can 
 feel this dog quite plainly?" "Quite plain- 
 ly." "Now you can open your eyes and you 
 will see the dog clearly, then you will go to 
 sleep again and will not awake until I tell 
 you." (He opens his eyes, looks at the 
 imaginary dog and strokes it.) I take the 
 cloth out of his hand and lay it on the floor. 
 (He stands up and reaches out for it,) 
 
 Although he is in my room, when I tell 
 him he is in the Zoological Garden, he 
 believes it and sees trees and so on. In this 
 case he is thrown into the hypnotic state by 
 
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 my arousing in his mind an image of the 
 sleep. 
 
 This manner of hypnotizing is used by 
 the school of Nancy investigators. The 
 subject is completely without a will of his 
 own. It is not only possible in this case to 
 prevent the most various movements by a 
 new prohibition, but I can also control his 
 sense perception. On my assurance he 
 hears a canary or hears music; he takes a 
 black cloth for a dog and believes himself to 
 be at the Zoo when he is in my room; but 
 the following phenomenon is still more strik- 
 ing: He hears all that I say to him, and 
 allows himself to be influenced by me in 
 every way, yet two other men who are pres- 
 ent appear not to be observed by the hyp- 
 notic at all. One of these persons lifts up 
 the arm of the subject; the arm falls loosely 
 down and when he desires the arm to remain 
 in the air the subject takes no notice. He 
 obeys my orders only, and is en rapport 
 with me only. In order to wake him I now 
 call to him: "Wake up." He wakes up at 
 once but only remembers going to sleep. Of 
 what has happened during the sleep he 
 knows nothing about." 
 
 The reader will begin to realize that 
 there is even in the absence of living sub- 
 
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 jects fact, truth and wonder; that all are to 
 some extent moulded by it; that age or sex 
 have little to do with it, and that there are 
 almost as many methods as there are 
 operators or subjects, and that the many 1 
 different degrees of the hypnotic state, from j 
 slightest to the deepest stage are all degrees i 
 which enable the operator to greater or less - 
 extent to control or hold his subject. 
 
 These impressions are fraught with i 
 great importance to you. For this reason I ': 
 quote from others, that with this knowledge I 
 and these further proofs before you, you be- 
 come possessed with such confidence in, and 
 mastery of self, that will send out, or draw 
 to the soul, this confidence in self wins it, it ■ 
 is this confidence in self that gives you con- 
 trol and the mastery, and if you possess this 
 confidence perfectly your method will be- 
 come much simplified, and your power ex- i 
 erted over those who never for a moment i 
 realize in you their master. 
 
 Through suggestion fervently and em- 
 phatically given, men are moulded and 
 fashioned to work your ends. When thor- 
 oughly impressed it is then self suggestion, — 
 auto-suggestion, whichj prompts them to do 
 your will because they think it their own. 
 Auto-suggestion accounts for many successes 
 
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 in life that we (unless cognizant of its 
 power) fail to give due credit. 
 
 Auto-suggestion explains the mighty 
 triumphs of Moody and Talmage and of 
 Beecher. It explains the wonder working 
 power of the personality and eloquence of 
 Blaine, Calhoun, Conkling and Bryan, 
 under the spell of whose magical, mag- 
 netic presence, multitudes have been, 
 and are so swayed, until without resolution, 
 or even consciousness on their part, they 
 have conformed through the operator of 
 their soul-life, to the ideas and policies held 
 up to them. 
 
 Auto-suggestion is the cause of many a 
 strange and never to be understood verdict 
 of a jury, who all, or all but one or two, have 
 been prompted by the impressing presence 
 or fervent appeals of a master, in magic, if 
 not in oratory. These men who have suc- 
 ceeded in gaining the topmost heights of 
 power and of fame, have succeeded because 
 of their power to influence, to cause others 
 through impressiveness of personality, of 
 speech and of gesture, to think as they did 
 or in other words, "they thought it into 
 them." While in open mouthed wonder 
 they sat or stood listening to the powerful 
 oratorical utterance of their master; the em- 
 
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 phatic or well-timed gestures, tlie fervent 
 speech or the magnetic eye, were all passes, 
 and other most potent causes leading to 
 fixation of gaze and of thought, setting free 
 the soul even at a distance; the strain was 
 off, it was "soul sent into them;" while in the 
 receptive state, they respond to the sugges- 
 tions of the master, his aims are ac- 
 complished, the world ignorant of the cause, 
 wonders indeed. 
 
 The great difference between the 
 masters, is, that the masses do not know 
 what the master does. Thus the many tak- 
 en unawares become subservient to the few 
 through this power of prompting, Auto-sug- 
 gestion. 
 
 This little story told me by an eminent 
 jurist, who gave it to me as an illustration of 
 the power of suggestion is very appropriate 
 just here. And let me say that the gentle- 
 man himself has gained wealth and dis- 
 tinction through the power he possessed and 
 acquired (as you are now acquiring it) of con- 
 trolling first himself and then others. 
 
 "The case was one which brought to the 
 court a large number of witnesses, and a still 
 larger number of friends of the principals of 
 both sides. It was contested by attorneys 
 from the county seat for clients, who both 
 
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 lived at the county seat; all parties concern- 
 ed were known to each other. The old 
 court-house was filled, the witnesses were 
 heard; the judge made his charge to the 
 jury. The court adjourned, the wife of one 
 attorney in the case, said to him while at 
 dinner: — 
 
 "I dropped into the court room and 
 from what I heard of the case and from the 
 charge of the judge to the jury, I am afraid 
 my dear, you will lose your case." "Perhaps 
 I will but come over and hear the case out. 
 It is a most interesting one and I know will 
 please you, but to tell you the truth, I expect 
 to win that case." 
 
 "What!" she said, "in the presence of all 
 that evidence, and the charge of that judge 
 to the jury ?" "Come and hear it out now 
 that you are interested," said he. 
 
 She did go. Her husband made his 
 plea, he kept making it, she became so tired; 
 still he plead. It seemed to her that the 
 patience of judge, jury and populace were 
 exhausted as was she. In time he rested his 
 case. That jury went out and returned in a 
 very few minutes with a verdict in favor of 
 her husband's client. 
 
 The first question she asked him upon 
 his return home was, "Why in the world did 
 
74 — 
 
 you plead so long and earnestly when you 
 were so certain you would win that case?" 
 "I will tell you, my dear. I had all but one 
 man on that jury when I told you I expect- 
 ed to win the case, I plead all that time 
 to get him and I got him, didn't I ?" He 
 talked it; he suggested it; he "thought it into 
 him." This was an instance, as some call it, 
 of lesser Hypnotism or personal magnetism, 
 but he attracted the attention of the juror 
 until he became in a receptive state. He 
 led him little by little, by gesture and well 
 timed oratorical utterances with his eyes 
 firmly fixed upon him until their souls met 
 "en rapport;" his plea ended just then. 
 
 I have since met and made the acquain- 
 tance of this attorney. He is a student of 
 this "mystic art," an adept in Hypnotism, 
 gaining wealth and fame. The world does 
 not know why. He keeps that little secret to 
 himself. "Go thou and do likewise." 
 
 Now I am story telling, listen to an- 
 other. Not very many years since there 
 was a shut down of an Industrial Concern 
 due to a large labor organization calling a 
 strike. The men all stopped their work and 
 went to their homes. The owners placed 
 new men — non-union men, at work. Soon 
 the sounds of dissatisfaction were heard. 
 
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 Meetings were called. Some of the strikers 
 threatened trouble. Deputies were sent for 
 as usual under such circumstances, and the 
 man who was to command these deputies re- 
 paired to the scene of action, arriving there 
 some hours before the train, which was to 
 bring them. In the meantime the strikers 
 decided to march to the works, and by some 
 means stop the work there. A large body 
 of them headed by a brass band and their 
 leaders, started on their march to the 
 works, which were off the public road a 
 distance of a few hundred feet. This lone 
 officer who was to command these deputies, 
 who had not yet arrived, went alone to the 
 intersection of the road leading from the 
 works to the public highway, and there 
 awaited the coming of the stern, half angered 
 men, who had at the meeting decided to 
 march to the works and stop the work 
 there. The strikers marched down the road, 
 colors flying, the band playing, every man 
 bent upon accomplishing the object of that 
 march. They came opposite the road lead- 
 ing into the property of the owner of the 
 works, wheeled their column off the public 
 highway when the stern command "Halt!" 
 rang out upon the morning air and was re- 
 echoed from the hills behind. They stopped. 
 
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 They looked and there stood one man 
 barring the passage of hundreds. These 
 men at the moment were determined as he, 
 but in calm, but impressive words addressed 
 to the leaders particularly, he forbade their 
 going further in that direction and advised 
 them to return or keep the public road as he 
 would not allow them to pass him. There 
 was but a short parley. At command of the 
 leaders, the band "struck up;" they turned 
 back into the highway and marched away, 
 leaving this man the lone occupant on the 
 road, standing there, his duty done, but how ? 
 Some call this personal magnetism; a good 
 name for it, but it was hypnotic power of 
 soul to soul. 
 
 I talked with some of these men after- 
 wards. They admired him, yet for the time 
 hated. If you will bring to mind similar 
 instances having come under your personal 
 observation and you can, perhaps you will 
 after reading this better understand. 
 
 I have really given you a sufficient 
 number of methods, but my desire is to lead 
 you on and up to that perfect and absolute 
 confidence, not only in self but in soul 
 power, that you may be enabled through 
 this knowledge and through this confidence, 
 to call out all the strength of soul you have 
 
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 read of or seen in others, and become the 
 adept in hypnotic control they have proven 
 themselves to be. 
 
 I will give you here another of Prof. 
 Harridan's methods: "Place your subject in 
 an easy natural attitude, one that will be 
 conductive of sleep. Give him to under- 
 stand by your easy confident manner 
 that you are master of the situation, that 
 you understand your business, and that 
 you are confident of success. Do not give 
 your subject any cause to doubt but that 
 the experiment will be successful in every 
 way. Never say, "I will see what I can do. " 
 Grive him the impression that you know what 
 you can do, and there is no chance of failure. 
 If you should fail, let your subject feel that 
 it is his fault and not yours. If this is 
 done the fact that you failed at first would 
 not prevent the second attempt being suc- 
 cessful. Now to business. "Walk up to 
 your subject, look him over critically, rub 
 your hands together a little, put his hands 
 and arms in an easy position, stroke his 
 forehead, slightly brush his hair back a 
 little, look directly at his right eye and say, 
 "I am now going to put you into a condition 
 of quiet sleep, and that you may the more 
 readily yield, please relax every muscle and 
 
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 assume a passive, indifferent condition of 
 mind and body. Let yourself go perfectly 
 easy and relaxed all over. Imagine that 
 you are lying down for a quiet sleep just as 
 you do when you retire at night. Look 
 directly in my eye every moment while I 
 look at yours. Let nothing divert your at- 
 tention. Look constantly at my right eye 
 and listen attentively to what I say. Then 
 say: — "You are getting sleepy, relax every 
 muscle and make yourself just as easy and 
 lax and limp as possible. You feel easy and 
 comfortable. A drowsy feeling comes over 
 you. Your eyes are getting tired. You 
 feel so sleepy, sleepy. Your eyes are begin- 
 ning to wink; the lids are getting heavy, 
 heavy, heavy. You are sleepy, sleepy, 
 sleepy. You are feeling calm; you are at 
 rest. Sleep is coming; you are drowsy; your 
 eyelids are heavy. You can hardly keep 
 your eyes open; you are sleepy, sleepy. 
 Your eyelids are heavy, closing, closing; 
 your eyes are closing, closing. You cannot 
 keep them open; closing, closing, closing, 
 closed. Sleepy, sleepy, asleep, sound asleep. 
 Soundly asleep from head to foot. Repeat 
 this formula of words over and over, and 
 vary it to meet the conditions as they de- 
 velop. When you see the subject's eyes are 
 
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 getting tired, watery and heavy, make down- 
 ward passes with your hands over his face 
 without touching it, as the eyes close, touch 
 very gently the face with light passes. Press 
 your fingers on the closed eyes and the sub- 
 ject is sound asleep. If you have a hard 
 subject and his eyes do not close, ask him 
 to fix his gaze at the ends of your two 
 fingers held in a forked position a little 
 above his eyes. Let him gaze at them for 
 some time, you meanwhile saying: — "Your 
 eyelids are heavy, heavy, heavy. You can- 
 not keep your eyes open etc." then lower 
 your fingers and say: — "Your eyelids are 
 drowsy; you are so sleepy that you can no 
 longer keep them open. You close your 
 eyes; your eyes are closed tight, and you can- 
 not open them. You close your eyes, you 
 can hear only my voice; your eyes are closed 
 tight and you cannot open them. You 
 sleep, sleep deeper, you have no desire to 
 move, you feel so easy that you cannot stir a 
 muscle; you cannot open your eyes." 
 
 In some cases the eyes may not close, 
 although the subject looks and feels sleepy. 
 In such cases as you repeat the formula, pass 
 the hands over the face and gently close the 
 eyes. Press upon them slightly and he is 
 sound asleep. 
 
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 Some subjects are very susceptible; with 
 others it may require a few sittings; on the 
 other hand there are some vain individuals, 
 who are afterwards ashamed to have been 
 hypnotized and who maintain that they have 
 been simulating, although in reality they 
 have been well hypnotized. 
 
 If the subject has only reached a light 
 degree of sleep, say that, "You have been 
 influenced and will sleep better next time." 
 Many persons say: — "Nobody can hyp- 
 notize me." This is but the foolish prattle 
 of a child in the presence of an unknown 
 force. Only experience can demonstrate 
 whether a particular person can be easily 
 hypnotized or not. 
 
 If he can be, it implies no weakness of 
 nerve or brain or mental or physical infer- 
 iority of any sort. If he cannot be it does 
 not prove strength of intellect or even of 
 will, or the possession of any superior qual- 
 ities of mind or body. Really, I can scarcely 
 conceive of an individual in average health 
 physically and mentally who could not be 
 hypnotized if willing to be, for in the every 
 day experience in life no person lives who 
 does not to some extent, fall under the 
 influence of others to greater or less extent, 
 
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 of course, taken unaware, as it were, but 
 influenced. 
 
 The very fact that they are not looking 
 for it or expecting it, placed them to a 
 certain degree "en rapport" with the one 
 who exerted that influence." 
 
 This is "often innate power." Edu- 
 cated and acquired; where is its limit? In 
 reality it can have no limit. There is no 
 limit to the universe. In all immensity, 
 there is no spot the soul cannot enter. In 
 all the infinite, boundless habitations of 
 worlds, there is no place to which the soul 
 could nob fly, "if sent." Illimitable star- 
 studded and planet-bedecked space, offers 
 no obstacle to the flight of the lightning 
 winged soul or can furnish a nook so obscure 
 that it cannot find it, for it is a part of 
 the Mighty God himself, the breath of 
 Infinity, and when set free from this tempo- 
 rary temple of flesh through the calm 
 induced by the hypnotic restful sleep, it can 
 know no bounds; there is no limit to its 
 flight; no limit to the message it may carry; 
 no limit to the message, it may return, sub- 
 ject only to the control of that soul essence 
 with which it may for the time be "en 
 rapport." 
 
The possibilities are beyond conception 
 through this power; the breathing, pulsating 
 being may be thrown into a trance of death, 
 or every fiber of this being be attuned to 
 placid rapture and thrill of joy. It may be 
 made to hope, to curse, to live one long 
 rapturous ecstasy, or doomed to living death, 
 despair or hate; use it to work your ends, 
 but bear in mind, "responsibility." 
 
 In the hypnotic state all affairs of life 
 are forgotten; on the other hand, after 
 awakening, the events of the hypnotic con- 
 dition are forgotton. Further, in every sub- 
 sequent period of hypnosis the events of the 
 former similar periods are remembered. 
 
 So, a person who is habitually hyp- 
 notized has two continual memories, one for 
 the events of his normal life, only when he 
 is normal, and one for the events of his 
 hypnotic period only when he is hypnotized. 
 You may suggest to your subject when once 
 under your control any command you may 
 wish, and he will obey any suggestion no 
 matter how trivial or how great. 
 
 You suggest that he is cold, he is cold. 
 If you suggest to him, "You are red in the 
 face, you are hot, the perspiration is show- 
 ing itself upon your forehead;" your over- 
 powering mastery will bring it all about. 
 
— 83 — 
 
 I You can turn that plastic being to think 
 himself a child or a goat, a statesman or a 
 fool. 
 
 He will think as you think, act as you 
 
 | command, perform feats of bodily strength 
 
 and even skill not possible in the normal 
 
 state. You can bend him as a reed or bring 
 
 him to a state of catalepsy so rigid as to 
 
 ! break before bending. 
 
 You can send that soul to a neighbor or 
 
 far beyond the sea, to the jungles of Africa, 
 
 or the teeming cities of the Orient. You 
 
 may render them acute of sight, or blind as 
 
 I Milton. They will dance or sing, pray or 
 
 | steal for you. You may show him the back 
 
 | of a card from a bran new deck, shuffle it in 
 
 the pack as thoroughly as you wish, he will 
 
 pick it out. 
 
 You may suggest pain, local or general, 
 or if pain really exists, you may by sug* 
 gestions render him totally insensible of it. 
 
 You may through suggestion, while the 
 subject is in the hypnotic state, cause the 
 student of philosophy or theology to go 
 through the antics of the clown. At your 
 command and suggestion he will, no matter 
 how modest he may be in the normal state, 
 embrace with all the fervor of a lover, a 
 dummy of straw for a blushing damsel. 
 
— 84 — 
 
 You may transform him to the red-faced 
 perspiring stoker in the fire room or a man 
 of war, to the Admiral upon the bridge. 
 You may turn him into a pastry cook or to 
 the fine lady of the house. There is no f 
 limit to the transformation your suggestive ! 
 experiments may bring about. The power |* 
 of soul over soul is so mighty. 
 
 There are individuals who are at times 
 under such strain of emotion or with a dis- 
 position not to be hypnotized that it is almost jj 
 impossible to bring them under the power of | 
 an operator. They are refractory, purposely^ 
 defiant, or under high emotional strain. 
 Under such circumstances, resistance, spon- 
 taneous or intentional, can be overcome by 
 the administration of Morphia, Canabis In-^ 
 dica, Chloroform or Chloral Hydrate, which y 
 should never be administered except by a| 
 physician, and preferably one who knows the 
 peculiarities of the subject, as there would be; % 
 danger in the use of either in other hands, jj 
 
 Either of these drugs properly adminis- 
 tered will in a short time bring about a 
 diffused sensation of calm and restfulness. 
 In this manner a person may be brought 
 under the hypnotic spell, even against his 
 will, and respond to appropriate suggestions. 
 
 
 
— 85 — 
 
 During natural sleep, care being taken 
 not to awaken the subject, suggestions may 
 be and often are given, which, through post- 
 hypnotic suggestions, when in the waking 
 state, are responded to with the same degree 
 1 of fervor as though given while under an 
 ! induced hypnotic sleep. 
 
 Through suggestions fervently given the 
 little sleeping child, calmly and impressively 
 given night after night, the little soul may be 
 brought en rapport with mother, nurse or 
 friend, and its whole being changed. The 
 psychological processes rendered more per- 
 fect. Vicious habits may in this way be 
 broken up and the cobwebs of habits brushed 
 away, the soul of the sleeper responding to 
 that of the operator through post hypnotic 
 suggestions. This method applies, as well as 
 to those of more mature years. The possi- 
 bilities of this method are wonderful; all that 
 is required upon the part of the operator is 
 that confidence in and mastery of self, which 
 comes slowly but surely to the fervent student 
 of this mystic science. 
 
 When one has gained this confidence 
 and this mastery, the soul is wafted with its 
 message to that of another en rapport, even 
 in the waking state. Mastery of self and 
 concentration bring the receptive state in the 
 
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 wished-for subject, and thus comes the so- 
 called magnetic power. It is but hypnotic 
 influence, it is "The lever that moves the 
 world," soul transference, soul power. 
 
 Bear in mind thoroughly the first method 
 
 i mentioned # I call your attention once more 
 to this that you will never forget it, as one of 
 the most certain methods of fixation of gaze 
 and thought known. I have never seen it 
 mentioned by any other writer upon the sub- 
 ject of induction. I have never known of it 
 being taught, but its simplicity is so marked 
 
 | and the change so rapid from the fixation of 
 gaze upon the object (whatever it may be) 
 to that of the eye of the operator that control 
 often comes with the first concentrated gaze 
 from the eye of the operator. It cannot fail 
 to recommend itself. Hold the object for a 
 time a distance from the eyes of the subject, 
 giving your suggestions as to sleep, etc., as 
 written. Slowly draw the object down to a 
 direct line between your eyes and the eyes of 
 your subject. Cautiously continue your sug- 
 gestions; concentrate your whole soul and 
 gaze upon those wavering eyes of the subject 
 and carefully drop from their line of vision 
 the bauble upon which their gaze has been 
 fixed. If their eyes fail to follow, and con- 
 tinually fixed upon your eyes (as in nearly 
 
— 87 — 
 
 all cases they will) your power is already in 
 control. Their soul is already yours to com 
 mand. This method transfers their gaze 
 from the bauble to "the windows of your 
 soul" without a suspicion on their part. The 
 receptive state has come upon them; let loose 
 your soul power; you are the master. , 
 
HOW TO AWAKEN 
 THE SUBJECT. 
 
 
HOW TO AWAKEN THE SUBJECT. 
 
 The practical operator need never fear 
 of losing that power once gained sufficient to 
 produce a hypnotic sleep in the subject. The 
 soul-force will apply to the awaking as 
 surely as in the production of hypnosis. 
 But it may fall to your lot to meet with a 
 case hypnotized by another and in whom the 
 awaking is retarded. 
 
 Suggestions, mental, verbal, and by ges- 
 ture, here come into play. First, request 
 that you be left alone with the subject; this 
 will remove every adverse influence, and it is 
 wonderful the influence the presence of others 
 often excites; the mental doubt of one un- 
 known controlling mind as to your ability to 
 awaken the subject may exert its subtile 
 influence against that of your own. 
 
 Seat yourself beside the subject and, 
 taking one hand in one of your own, gently 
 make passes over the subject's face and head 
 from below upwards, fervently sending for 
 many minutes the soul message to them that 
 they have been sleeping sufficiently long and 
 that he is now about to awaken. Then 
 quietly with suggestions say to him: "You 
 will soon awaken; every muscle and nerve of 
 your whole body is calm and sweetly resting. 
 You will awake shortly refreshed and in- 
 
— 90 — 
 
 vigorated; your whole body already begins 
 to thrill with that restlessness of the awak- 
 ing; you are growing restless, your eyes are 
 no longer heavy, when I count three you will 
 desire to awaken. You are moving, sleep is 
 leaving you. Now I am going to count 
 three and when I do you will be wide awake. 
 One, two, three, all right, wide awake," 
 lighting then at the moment you have pro- 
 nounced the words, "Three, all right." If 
 you now have any doubt as to the subject 
 being thoroughly and completely awake, say 
 to him: "I wish you to go to sleep for just 
 three minutes when I will waken you per- 
 fectly and completely; you will then feel per- 
 fectly natural, be your own self again, wide 
 awake to all the world, refreshed, feeling fine 
 and perfectly natural." This you can do in 
 a moment with that subject, for your soul is 
 already en rapport with his own. Suggest 
 to him, "You will sleep just three minutes, I 
 will hold your hand the whole three minutes, 
 I will not take my hand from yours; when I 
 say to you the three minutes have passed, 
 your eyes are open, you are wide awake, you 
 will awaken more refreshed than ever." 
 
 These double suggestions and manipula- 
 tions will awaken him completely, and by 
 waking him as your own subject in your own 
 
— 91 — 
 
 manner you will have eliminated from his 
 being the last vestige of power of the pre- 
 vious operator and, by substituting your own, 
 have perfect control. 
 
 It is best at all times to be doubly sure 
 as to the awaking. Too much care cannot 
 be taken. That you may know for a cer- 
 tainty that the 'trance state is completely 
 broken, particularly after the deeper stages 
 of Hypnotism. 
 
POST HYPNOTIC 
 SUGGESTIONS. 
 
POST HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS. 
 
 You can suggest to your subject that 
 next Tuesday night he will attend church, 
 and he will go, only to find the doors locked. 
 You may suggest that at 3 : 30 the following 
 Saturday he will sleep in his chair, or any 
 other place you may mention, for the period 
 of one hour, and he will fall asleep at the 
 time and place, and quietly and peacefully 
 rest for the length of time indicated by you, 
 while he is under the spell. 
 
 This is called Post Hypnotic Suggestion. 
 
 He will perform any possible act you 
 may suggest while under your influence, or 
 at any subsequent time you may command 
 him to do so, and he will have no recollection 
 of the fact that you ordered him to do this, 
 and could give no reason for so doing. 
 
 After reading carefully the incidents 
 connected with the foul murder of President 
 McKinley, and knowing what I know, and 
 having seen the many and wonderful mani- 
 festations brought about through Post Hypno- 
 tic power, I am satisfied that Leon F. Czol- 
 gosz, the assassin, was a tool in the hands of 
 some group of Anarchists, who had among 
 their number some vile man or woman who, 
 through Post Hypnotic Suggestion, led him 
 to his awful deed. His acts at the time and 
 
— 94 — 
 
 during the trial, what little he said in answer 
 to the many questions put to him, and the 
 manner of his speech, all point to the fact 
 that he was "under the spell." I will never 
 believe differently. 
 
 He has been led to believe it was his 
 duty. He did the deed and met his fate like 
 a stoic, not knowing when or how the awful 
 promptings came. I am writing this Septem- 
 ber 27th, 1901. If I should change my mind 
 regarding this, you will not read the above. 
 
AUTO 
 SUGGESTION. 
 
AUTO SUGGESTION. 
 
 Hypnotism may be greatly assisted by 
 Auto or Self-suggestion; that the subjective 
 mind or soul of an individual is amenable to 
 suggestion by his own objective mind is a 
 Psychological fact. Suggestion by an objec- 
 tive consciousness or mind to its own sub- 
 limal self or goul, is called Auto or Self- 
 suggestion. 
 
 Many physicians are to-day, by impress- 
 ing the minds of their patients with the fact 
 that Auto or Self-suggestion, they may rid 
 themselves of diseased conditions or vicious 
 habits, working wonders which to the un- 
 tutored world of a few years since would 
 have been looked upon as miracles. The 
 state of reverie immediately preceding a 
 natural sleep is found to be most appropriate 
 for treatment of one's self by this kind of 
 suggestibility, and it is well for the individual 
 who desires to influence his sublimal self to 
 at times, just as he is about to yield to slum- 
 bers, to say to himself : 
 
 "Now I will no longer be a slave to this 
 vice or dominant vice which is a curse to me, 
 and I know it to be," to lapse into sleep with 
 such a thought paramount in the mind is 
 equivalent to the suggestion of a hypnotist. 
 A slave to the tobacco or whisky habit 
 
— 97 — 
 
 actuated by a sincere desire to become rid of 
 it, should be advised to conceive himself free 
 from the habit as he is falling asleep and to 
 think determinedly that u Whisky is a great 
 curse to me, it is not necessary either for my 
 welfare, physical or mental, it can do me no 
 good ; it rather injures me than does good; it 
 hardens the nerve and mind fibre, and renders 
 me du]l and careless. I have no need for it. 
 It only stimulates for the time being and 
 then when the effect is off, I am worse, far 
 worse, than though I had not taken it at all. 
 I do not need it, and will have no appetite 
 for it in the future. I am done with it." 
 
 Every time that slumber begins to mani- 
 fest itself, use self suggestion on these lines. 
 
 What appeals to the whisky, drug or 
 tobacco habit appeals to any other, no matter 
 what it may be. It is well to advise Auto 
 suggestion in these cases, even before sugges- 
 tion under the hypnotic state it will render 
 the subject more susceptible to the receptive 
 state, and under such circumstances Auto 
 suggestion renders doubly effective treatment 
 by Post Hypnotic Suggestion. 
 
 Quackenbas, in his wonderful work upon 
 Hypnotism, mental and mortal culture, states 
 that "an objective consciousness can suggest 
 so forcibly to its own subjective consciousness 
 
as to be itself swayed reflexly by that sub- 
 jective consciousness which it has itself im- 
 pressed and in the one line of its impression 
 is a most marvelous fact of mind." 
 
 "Auto suggestion is the great psychologi- 
 cal miracle and few realize the part it plays 
 in the drama of life. It accounts for much 
 self-deception and self- elation, it regulates to 
 a certain extent the number of births among 
 intelligent people, and explains the increase 
 of sterilty among American women. It ren- 
 ders immune from disease and perpetuates 
 diseased state; it has even changed non-con- 
 tagious into contagious maladies; it is lord 
 of the realm of habit; it is the medium of 
 utterance for hereditary tendencies; it lays 
 bare the secret of influence, the influence of 
 what is seen and heard, of things unsaid, of 
 things undone; it explains the accomplish- 
 ment of seemingly impossible facts; it is the 
 channel through which genius finds expres- 
 sion; the means employed to tempt. The 
 objective self to impress its own sublimal 
 self for the purpose of inclining to meritorious, 
 foolish or reprehensible action on the part of 
 the objectiveself, are everywhere con- 
 spicuous." 
 
 The devices of tradesmen to entrap the 
 dupe's personality have become notorious. 
 
— 99 — 
 
 The objective self is first impressed 
 through the sense organs; it then begins, 
 often unwittingly, its work of suggestion, its 
 work of suggestion to its sublimal follow the 
 desirability, or propriety or necessity of 
 purchasing what is ill-adapted, perhaps un- 
 necessary, generally useless, often injurious. 
 The controlling desire is next transmitted in 
 a return current, as an imperative automatic 
 demand to the self that acts through bodies 
 organs, and the purpose of your solicitor, 
 window decorator, displays of tempting 
 wares, or bargain counter is accomplished. 
 
 The science of advertising is based on 
 the foregoing principle, and there is no better 
 illustration of this fact than is to be found in 
 its relation to the patent medicine business. 
 
 Every practitioner of medicine is aware 
 that the drugs he administers are rendered 
 more effective by a belief in their efficacy. 
 Confidence in a doctor engenders life serving 
 ! Auto Suggestion ; whereas, doubt or absence 
 ; of all faith in a physician and his treatment 
 is apt to be accompanied with negative re- 
 sults. " The talisman is faith. " 
 
 For this reason a knowledge of the re me 
 dies prescribed is often concealed from the 
 patient, in order to baffle any resistance to 
 the physiological action of familiar medicines. 
 
— 100 — 
 
 A moral may in like manner be 
 drawn from the credulity of the modern 
 public, who are ready to believe any tale of 
 miraculous cure reported and illustrated in 
 the daily press. The greater the improba- 
 bility, the more readily do the gulls seize 
 and swallow it. 
 
 Faith cures, mind cures, gold and other 
 drink habit cures, Christian science cures, 
 cancer paster and plasters, and a thousand 
 embrocations, elixir, salves and syrups, each 
 number its disappointed victims by the thous- 
 ands, and experience seems to be a very poor 
 teacher, so far as these fad chasing sufferers 
 are concerned. 
 
 The philosophy of such credulity is as 
 follows; The subjects want to be cured, 
 and by exaggerated suggestions they deceive 
 their own sublimal self into monstrous beliefs 
 regarding the possibilities of cure, and use. 
 tonic after tonic as the most clumsily offered 
 cures. Similarly through Auto Suggestion, 
 some patients becomes persuaded that they 
 are not suffering from organic disease, pass on 
 through several stages of its progress without 
 invoking the aid of a physician, and find 
 themselves face to face with death before 
 they are undeceived. It is indeed a happy 
 state, a much to be desired condition where 
 
— 101 — 
 
 one may become master of self, truly master 
 of his own mind and of his own soul." 
 
 The property or power is innate in all 
 mankind and is easily brought out and brought 
 to bear through Auto Suggestion. You may 
 become possessed of this power of self-mastery 
 and be able to render any part of your body 
 insensible to pain or to induce sleep and re- 
 main in that state any length of time you 
 may desire. 
 
 It requires confidence and determination, 
 but these are gained by mastery over others 
 little by little, and mastery over self, grow- 
 ing stronger as confidence comes. To dem- 
 onstrate this, go into a quiet comfortable 
 room, darkened somewhat, lie down quietly 
 and calmly, and in a few minutes concentrate 
 your mind and gaze upon some small object, 
 i preferably in a direct line of your vision, 
 ! without turning your eye, let every muscle, 
 | if possible, become relaxed. Forget all out- 
 | ward things. Breaths slowly and deeply, 
 ! excluding all thoughts of the world, self or 
 I or others, other than that you are going to 
 \ sleep with every breath you draw calmly. 
 | Hold to that idea, and that with every breath 
 j you are going deeper, deeper, sounder asleep ; 
 j that you are becoming totally unconscious of 
 ! all else but restful sleep, not that you wish 
 
— 102 
 
 
 to sleep, but that you will sleep; that you 
 are going, going, sound asleep. Keep your 
 eyes upon the object and think of only going 
 to sleep, nothing else. Do not be in too 
 great haste, but you are going to sleep, mind 
 concentrated upon that restful sleep that is 
 coming, coming for an hour, two hours or 
 or any time within reason. 
 
 Always set a time for awaking. You 
 will wake at that time refreshed, invigorated 
 and strengthened. There are well authenti- 
 cated cases in India, of Hindoos who have 
 through induced hypnotic condition remained 
 in a state of blissful unconsciousness for 
 weeks; of those who were placed away in 
 their graves, until grass grew over them and 
 was harvested, and upon being disinterred, 
 returned to life. 
 
 One remarkable instance is that of a 
 famous holy man who, to demonstrate his 
 ability to some distinguished men and con- 
 vince the ruler of the province that he pos- 
 sessed this power over his psychic organism, 
 apparently died and was placed in a rifealed 
 coffin, which was put into a vault, the en* 
 tra nee to which was also sealed and closely 
 guarded by soldiers. At the end of six 
 weeks, the time set by himself, the coffin was 
 taken out of the sepulcher in the presence of 
 
— 103 — 
 
 i the Rajah and several other credible wit- 
 f nesses (English as well as native), and when 
 the coffin was opened the body had every 
 appearance of death, but after being slowly 
 revived by his faithful servant, the ghastly 
 \ looking and corpse-like being raised up in 
 the coffin and addressed these words to the 
 skeptical Rajah: "Do you believe me now?" 
 This phenomenon of self-hypnotism was wit- 
 nessed by Dr. McGuggor, and full details of 
 it given in his "History of the Sikes." 
 
 The effect of self-suggestion is a most 
 wonderful phenomenon and there can be no 
 question that sickness and even death are 
 caused by it. The following instance related 
 by Dr. Hacktuck: 
 
 A Frenchman had been condemned to 
 death for committing some crime, and, his 
 friends wishing to avoid the disgrace of a 
 public execution, consented to be made the 
 subject of an experiment. It was stated to 
 the condemned man that it was decided that 
 he was to be bled to death. The executioner, 
 after having bound him, bandaged his eyes, 
 and after his arm had been slightly pricked a 
 small stream of warm water was made to 
 trickle down it and drop into a basin, the 
 assistants all the while keeping up a con- 
 tinuous comment on the supposed weakening 
 
— 104 — 
 
 condition. "See how pale lie looks. He ie 
 getting faint; his heart is beating slower and 
 slower; his pulse has almost stopped," and 
 numerous other remarks of this sort. In a 
 few minutes the miserable man died with 
 decided symptoms of heart syncope from loss 
 of blood without having lost a single drop, a 
 victim of suggestion. 
 
 Bear in mind that in the use of Auto 
 suggestion you gain the mastery over self in 
 exactly the same manner that you would 
 give suggestions to others. Make the sug- 
 gestion forcible and positive; if you are alone 
 speak in a low tone of voice to yourself and 
 convey the suggestion to yourself, as you 
 would were you hypnotizing another. Let 
 quiet and restful state be present. You will 
 work wonders with yourself in a very few 
 trials, and in time will gain a perfect mastery. 
 
 It is mastery over self that gives one 
 that confidence in self by which they mani- 
 fest by their presence alone, or by their 
 writings even, or their thoughts, influence 
 over others, while in the waking state it is 
 very often called personal magnetism, and 
 will become one great tributary of your suc- 
 cess in life. It is hypnotism, not magnetism. 
 A power to impress, through being in pos- 
 session of that confidence and mastery of self 
 
— 105 — 
 
 that has come to you through the hypnotic 
 control, you have at different times exercised 
 over others or through thoughts and confid- 
 ing investigation, and thought upon the 
 subject. 
 
 It is the wonderful power of soul trans- 
 ference possessed by one who has gained this 
 mastery. To them is given the power of 
 attracting others to themselves and to their 
 interests. They control minds. They influ- 
 ence the opinions of others. They create 
 friendship which lasts for all time. 
 
 They win their way to the hearts of 
 individuals or to the hearts of the populace. 
 They win love, affection, wealth, and power. 
 They mould the will of others because they 
 have the power to mould their own. It is 
 the mighty force of mental suggestion which 
 has led the world to call Lincoln, Blaine, 
 Gladstone, Bryan, magnetic men. Their 
 powers lay in the simple but mighty means 
 they possessed, through mental suggestion, 
 of impressing others coupled with impressing 
 presence and well timed-utterances. 
 
 There was or is nothing of magnetism 
 in this influence and power over others. 
 There was or is nothing but this confidence 
 induced by self mastery, which, through 
 forms of lesser hypnotism, have impressed 
 
— 106 — 
 
 and through this soul-power of the one, 
 brought into touch, and moulded the souls of 
 many. 
 
 It is Anto suggestion, then, which has 
 led to the mastery of self with subsequent 
 power over others. It is through Anto sug- 
 gestion that many a verdict has been ren- 
 dered that puzzled at the time the judge, and 
 at no very great distant date, the jury, who 
 at the time were nothing more or less than 
 automatons who responded to the suggestive 
 appeals of a master at the bar. 
 
 Kecall to mind, if you will, the many 
 wonderful manifestations you have seen and 
 have known of suggestive means in the 
 church itself, used to induce a state of mind 
 among the people favorable to the reception 
 of its creed. Note, if you will, the oft re- 
 peated sense impressions made manifest at 
 the hour of mass, by the magnificent frescoes, 
 the arched roof, the grand altars, the silent 
 marble turned to Saint. The subdued light 
 which, passing through the tinted panes, falls 
 so gently, so calmly upon those gathered there. 
 The soft, subdued music drawing out the 
 soul as music can, by bringing through its 
 inductive charm tones and almost holy calm, 
 senses captivated, receptive state induced. 
 Suggestion sways and moves. 
 
HYPNOTIC INDUC- 
 
 TION of CATALEPSY 
 
HYPNOTIC INDUCTION OF 
 CATALEPSY. 
 
 Stand behind your subject as he stands 
 upon his feet, gently close his eyes with your 
 fingers, make a few light strokes over his 
 eyes, and say to him: Your eyes are shut 
 now, do not open them." Place the fingers of 
 the right hand upon the back of his neck, 
 pressing the spine gently, the fingers of the 
 left hand on the back above his hips, also 
 pressing the spine, then in a firm, positive voice 
 say: "Rigid, rigid, every part of your body 
 is getting rigid, rigid, rigid, stiff, stiff, then 
 stroke the arms and limbs downward, all the 
 time keeping your mind well intensely con- 
 centrated upon the subject. Hold the thought 
 firmly in your mind that he is, and will get 
 rigid. "Now my will is drawing you back 
 gently, you are falling gently backward. I 
 will catch you, you will not fall; my influence 
 is drawing you back, and you will fall rigid 
 and stiff in my arms. Do not fear I will 
 catch you, but you are stiff from head to 
 foot." 
 
 Your subject will, if susceptible to your 
 influence, fall back stiff into your arms, you 
 hold him and repeat the suggestion: "You 
 are stiff and rigid ; you can pay no heed to any- 
 thing, but my voice; you are stiff as a board, 
 you heed nothing but what I say to you." 
 
— 109 — 
 
 Thus in an emphatic tone of voice, you 
 can continue these suggestions as necessary: 
 your subject is in a state of catalepsy. You 
 may suggest s^leep, and at the same time per- 
 fect freedom from strain. You may place 
 his head upon one chair and his feet upon 
 another, and suggest, that while he is rigid 
 and stiff "there is no strain, no effort, but 
 sleep, quiet sleep." 
 
 You may now awaken him by saying: 
 "I am now about to awaken you. You will 
 feel your muscle relax, and you will drop 
 gently to the floor, and when you do, you 
 will be wide awake, feeling all right, no sore- 
 ness, all right." His eyes will open, as you 
 suggest, jnst as he touches the floor, and you 
 should explain to him that he has been in a 
 state of catalepsy, and that at some future 
 time you will place him again in the same 
 state, when he will sustain a heavy weight 
 without difficulty; and that his sleep will 
 become deeper and more profound each time 
 you place him in that state. 
 
 Do not keep the subject in a cataleptic 
 state too long. Should he not awaken by 
 the above suggestions, slap your hands loudly 
 at the side of his head, and say in a firm 
 voice: "Wake up! Wake up! All right!" 
 
TELEPATHY. 
 
TELEPATHY. 
 
 Telepathy, or "soul telegraphy" is the 
 transmission of a message from one being to 
 another, through the psychic power of the 
 lightning- winged soul, the sublimal self. It 
 is a power inherent in every human being, 
 who is in possession of his faculties, whose 
 soul is not bound, and enables him to trans- 
 mit his thoughts to another through the 
 medium of the original wireless telegraph, 
 which is as boundless in its extent as the 
 universe, and the soul set free with more than 
 lightning speed, carries the message to its 
 destination and returns with its vaporish 
 answer. 
 
 It will transmit the emotions, the wishes, 
 the thoughts, the longings to another and 
 return laden with tht impressions made upon 
 it, and with intelligence without. Telepathy 
 knows no bounds when the conditions are 
 favorable to its mystics manifestations, and 
 is most successfully accomplished during a 
 total suspension of the action of the physical; 
 the soul is thus set free. 
 
 It matters little then whether the princi- 
 pals of this mysterious phenomenon are near 
 to each other, as are the corners of the globe, 
 so long as the psychic affinity exists between 
 
— 112 — 
 
 them, the message is sent, the answer comes, 
 there is no space, the soul does not leap at a 
 bound. 
 
 It is an undisputed fact that by an effort 
 of the will and deliberate concentration of 
 mind, one person can, through his soul flight, 
 transfer or prompt his thought to another. 
 That transference is telepathy. 
 
 It is through tbis power, that second 
 sight, reading the past and present, and I 
 believe the future at times, of other minds is 
 manifested. 
 
 In every day life these strange phe- 
 nomena are seen and felt. How often it 
 happens we meet one of whom we form an 
 opinion, a feeling of distrust or dislike, this 
 inherent power is in nearly all of us. Are 
 you ever wrong in the estimate of that indi- 
 vidual? Very seldom, if ever, and yet at the 
 time you are unaware of the detail and the 
 reason from which the opinion is formed; 
 there is no affinity there. 
 
 You may by mental suggestion mould 
 them with your power, you are forewarned. 
 We often define the meaning of a face with- 
 out knowing why; we recognize conditions of 
 happiness or sorrow instantaneously without 
 realizing the details of our impressions. You 
 
— 113 
 
 often read the wish and thought of another, 
 and cannot tell why or how. How many 
 times in conversation with another, have you 
 read their very thought and remarked: 
 u Why, you took the words out of my mouth." 
 In this instance there is affinity; with soul 
 going and coming to soul, telepathy; in these 
 instances the milder power of hypnosis. 
 
 Thus acts the soul with its capabilities 
 of spaceless action, upon another soul with 
 which it is in affinity. In the higher power 
 of telepathy where affinity exists, where the 
 psychic forces are en rapport, the possibil- 
 ities are most wonderful; when the mind is 
 deeply concentrated upon some distant per- 
 son. The sudden coming into consciousness 
 of an absent friend, who appears very soon 
 after, is proof of the action of the psychic force 
 at a distance where, by deep emotion and 
 concentration, the mind becomes so unstrung 
 that ordinary means of perception through 
 the physical senses is lost for the time being; 
 the independent action of the soul comes on; 
 it may, it does, take its flight; it is temporary 
 anto hypnosis. There may be but a moment 
 of suspension of faculty, but during this 
 moment the spell is on and brought about 
 through the intensity of concentration upon 
 the soul of that other one, and the capabil- 
 
— 114 — 
 
 ities of communicating these thoughts, these -j. 
 impressions and influences through the soul ) 
 set free, became possible. Thus you will see 
 nothing of the physical in these manifesta- 
 tions; the physical cannot act at a distance; ? 
 it is but the action of the mystic soul. 
 
 It requires, then, no stretch of the imag- 
 ination to believe that where the normal 
 senses are suspended, if but for a moment, 
 the soul may take and receive and transmit 
 communications, independent of the physical 
 being. 
 
 The soul cannot perish; it will live, the 
 spiritual essence, forever and forever. The 
 soul is sent out into space by that power 
 brought about through perfect confidence in 
 and mastery of self. Without this mastery 
 and confidence one can accomplish nothing; 
 with it, all can be accomplished. No special 
 effort is necessary further than confidence 
 and concentration. Gently sit down and call 
 up the individuals with whom you wish to 
 communicate; concentrate your mind upon 
 them until their pictures stand before you. 
 
 Vividly picture them until plainly you 
 can see them. Your soul will in some meas- 
 ure meet their soul, not in perfect rapport 
 perhaps the first time, but gradually the 
 affinity will become stronger and stronger 
 
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 and more perfect each time, until en rapport 
 with one another the communications come. 
 Perfect transmission may be brought 
 about, no matter what the distance, if a time 
 is agreed upon between the two. It is a 
 mighty power this; it is yours, my reader, as 
 it is the possession of thousands, who already 
 use it. 
 
J 
 
 MEDICAL HYPNOSIS 
 
MEDICAL HYPNOSIS. 
 
 Moulded as we are to a great extent by 
 ante-natal suggestion, is it to be wondered at 
 that we are so susceptible to the power of 
 suggestion when developed? 
 
 Psychological research has demonstrated 
 for a certainty that so-called maternal impres- 
 sions are but maternal suggestions, and that 
 the only method of eliminating those charac- 
 teristics or predispositions, which have 
 through heredity been instilled into every 
 fibre of one's physical and mental being, is 
 through suggestion in some form or other 
 possible of elimination in the developed indi- 
 viduals. 
 
 Peculiar traits and types are bred in the 
 exalted human, as well as in the lower order 
 of animal life, and the great mistake has been 
 and is made that the human parent has neg- 
 lected in painstaking care, the breeding of 
 their own progeny, while making a very 
 scientific study of and taking the utmost care 
 in the breeding of their own domestic stock. 
 Thus it is that heriditary as well as acquired 
 traits or peculiarities come under the magic 
 power of suggestion. The cigarette or to- 
 bacco habit, the drink habit, the morphia 
 habit, kleptomania, or any unnatural, vicious 
 or injurious habit, stammering, nervous 
 asthma, ovarian pain, sleeplessness, St. Vitus 
 
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 dance, hysteria, all eye affections due to 
 nervousness, the pains of childbirth, even, are 
 cured by suggestion of soul to soul, while in 
 the receptive state. 
 
 This power, potent in all of us, subtile 
 and invisible as it is, is "the lever that moves 
 the world/ 5 It is the unseen soul and we 
 all have felt its influence. 
 
 Those of you who have never made a 
 study of this mystic science have known and 
 felt in your associations with others that they 
 or you possessed this power. You have 
 noticed that there are some over whom you 
 have exerted a greater influence than others, 
 and that there were people who seemed to 
 exert a greater influence over you than did 
 others. 
 
 This is the key to success, the use of this 
 power. 
 
 See to it, that through mastery of self and 
 confidence in self that they and not you are 
 the one to receive this soul power. 
 
 You may by exercise of this power 
 through hypnotic influence raise the heredi- 
 tary neurotic up and out of their distress. 
 You may through the soul mastery of sug- 
 gestion unloose their bonds. You may bring 
 them out of the darkness and misery of the 
 conditions brought about through their de- 
 
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 praving birthright up into the light that only 
 an unburdened soul can enjoy, and the re- 
 sults of this power manifest upon conditions 
 born in the subject, are as wonderful as are 
 the results of suggestion upon those condi- 
 tions acquired after development. 
 
 The methods employed in hypnotic 
 healing are all based upon the controlling 
 force of one soul over the other. Nearly all 
 use passes, gently and soothingly down over 
 the parts affected. 
 
 Each one has methods peculiar to him- 
 self or herself. The idea is to soothe by the 
 hypnotic power of suggestion through the 
 eye, the gesture, facial expression, speech or 
 the mystic will, you soothe, unburden, take 
 off the strain. 
 
MANIFESTATIONS. 
 
 
MANIFESTATIONS. 
 
 I attended a gathering of people calling 
 themselves Christians but a few weeks 
 since, who were gathered for a few days' 
 outing in the name of their Savior. The 
 surroundings were all that they or their 
 God could desire. A grand poem of nature 
 surrounded them. The towering forest trees 
 whose symmetrical branching limbs hung 
 heavy with a velvety verdure, stood just 
 thick enough upon a gently sloping plateau, 
 backed by a heavily wooded hill. A spring, 
 from which poured a crystal stream of water 
 as pure as a snowflake and as cold, burst its 
 earthly bounds almost in the center of this 
 sylvan grove, and its waters rippled laugh- 
 ingly down to the placid river, which, like a 
 broad ribbon of glistening silver, it welcomed 
 to its bosom. 
 
 In the midst of all this grandeur of 
 nature's beauty stood a tabernacle, and sur- 
 rounding it upon three sides were the tem- 
 porary houses of the holy campers. The 
 grounds were crowded with people, all kinds 
 and sizes. 
 
 The tabernacle as I approached it, being 
 attracted thereto by strange, weird and pecu- 
 liar sounds, was also crowded. Upon a plat- 
 form at one end of the covered space were 
 standing a motley, and from what I saw of 
 
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 them, a suggestive, twenty or thirty, black 
 and white, men and women, and Egyptian 
 sun never looked down upon the antics of 
 the howling dervish, or the mysterious incan- 
 tations of its far-famed fakirs or soothsaying 
 priesthood, and gazed upon a more peculiar 
 scene. With elevated arms and clapping 
 hands, at times some dancing, some whirling, 
 some bowing forward, some backward, some 
 moaning, some shouting, some laughing, 
 some crying. They, as a whole, made a 
 most impressive picture. In their midst was 
 their master, for the time being at least, a 
 man who ruled them, who moulded them 
 and many in that large assemblage, as the 
 sculptor moulds his clay. Out in one of the 
 aisles stood a young woman with arms ex- 
 tended and hands in spasmodic action, her 
 eyes raised toward the roof; her head bent 
 backward at times, until she appeared to be 
 ready to fall; her lips moving; her whole face 
 wreathed in smiles of enravishment. She 
 had occupied that spot for hours. She was 
 under a spell. She was enravished, was in a 
 state of ecstasy; she was under the power of 
 a master in Hypnotism. Her soul was en 
 rapport with that of another. Was that 
 other the Christ? I saw her during that 
 afternoon, when the power was on them all, 
 
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 fall prostrate on the straw-covered floor of 
 that "temple of what?" — fall among others 
 who were already down, and who shouted 
 their Hosannas when another sanctified one 
 fell among them, exhausted or overcome. 
 They gave up their gold and their silver and 
 their nickles and their copper. They gave 
 up their gold watches and their silver watches 
 and their Waterburys. They gave up their 
 jewelry. To whom? To a man, who, by 
 seductive and persuasive suggestion while 
 they were under his hypnotic power, while 
 their souls were his to mould, used them for 
 his purpose that afternoon. It may have 
 been for the benefit of the church of Christ, 
 and for the furtherance of that mighty gospel 
 which has done so much to civilize the world. 
 This was just one afternoon and only a part 
 of it; I have seen many such under the same 
 banner. 
 
 Those grand old trees with their tower- 
 ing tops, 
 And the deep wooded hills behind, 
 With the purling stream from the syl- 
 van spring, 
 And the river, as it 'round them winds, 
 Have sheltered and watered for many a 
 
 year, 
 Those campers who come and go; 
 
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 And are waiting in grandeur for an- 
 other year, 
 To shelter and water the mystic show. 
 
 No, this is not overdrawn. a The lever 
 that moves the world," the world of com- 
 merce, the world of politics, the world of 
 religion, the world of love, the world of hate, 
 has, does, and will move them. 
 
 The "Assassin Sultan" of Turkey, Abdul 
 Hamid, made a study of Hypnotism from 
 his boyhood, becoming a confirmed adept in 
 magic, and through its power gained that 
 luxurious throne and the imperial harem. 
 Vile and unworthy as he is, his knowledge 
 of the "Black Art" (it's black indeed if so 
 used) led him to power. The Prince of 
 Talial, a minister of the Sultan, and governor 
 of Crete, had a son who mingled with the 
 extraordinary political world surrounding the 
 palace of Abdul, and from knowledge gained 
 through these sources, and from his own 
 father, he makes the above statement in his 
 book, "The Private Life of the Sultan." 
 
 Your subject will, when under hypnotic 
 power, believe and hear and see and do just 
 as you suggest. Your suggestions will turn 
 him to a child or a philosopher. He may be 
 
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 made to believe that he is a horse, a pig, a 
 lion, or anything else within the realms of 
 animal life. 
 
 Suggestion brings many hallucinations 
 of sight. The subject may be made to see 
 some one who is not in sight or present; or, 
 those present may, through suggestion, be 
 made to vanish as far as the consciousness of 
 the subject is concerned; or, you may suggest 
 that A, who is present, is not A but B, he 
 will so recognize him. 
 
 The sense of smell may be so changed 
 by suggestion that the most fragrant perfume 
 becomes offensive, or that they smell strong 
 ammonia for the delicate aroma of sweet 
 violets or the perfume of new mown hay. 
 
 Sight, hearing, all the senses, ideas, 
 hopes, aspirations, acts and deeds, are all at 
 the will of the master. 
 
 "The lever that moves the world." 
 
LOOKING IT OVER. 
 
LOOKING IT OVER 
 
 In reading other works on Hypnotism 
 you will note that the soul power is called 
 personal magnetism, or magnetic influence, or 
 mental magnetism. If you will keep in 
 view the fact that whenever or wherever you 
 read or hear these words, that their true 
 scientific, psychological meaning is soul 
 powee, not magnetism. It will be of great 
 help to you in reading any of the many valu- 
 able works on Hypnosis. 
 
 It is through the powerful influence of 
 mind that the soul is sent upon its mission; 
 and it is secondarily the receptive mind that 
 is acted upon by the soul of the subject. 
 
 This is the true theory of Hypnosis. 
 Not many years since, this power was known 
 as Mesmerism; later as Braidism, and as 
 Magnetism. As I have stated, Prof. Reynolds, 
 my first instructor, taught that this power 
 was nerve power. It was, as you have 
 learned, soul power. It might as well be 
 named for Prof. Reynolds as for Mesmer or 
 Braid, or the Magnet. The receptive state 
 was brought upon the subject by fixation of 
 thought or gaze, by these methods almost as 
 surely as under the methods of to-day, but 
 suggestion then in some form brought about 
 the manifestations as they do to-day, and did 
 
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 in the ages past; and it is through the won- 
 derful workings of mental suggestion, or soul 
 transference, that the word "magnetism," has 
 been, and still is so freely used. 
 
 When we realize and thoroughly under- 
 stand that the sexual or physical body is 
 subservient to the mind, and that the mind 
 is subservient to the soul, as I trust by this 
 time we do, we have the key that unlocks 
 the dark, hidden mysteries of the occult past, 
 and turns on the brilliant searchlight through 
 that great dynamo of psychological research 
 and investigations of the present age. 
 
 We, all of us, have very many reasons 
 for believing and knowing that there are so 
 great a number of peculiar types of people 
 that it may almost be truly said, "there are 
 no two alike." It would then be very rea- 
 sonable to suppose that no one peculiar 
 method could or would be successful in so 
 many vastly different types and characteris- 
 tics as are presented by the genus Homo. 
 
 As you go on with your study and in- 
 vestigations — and particularly the working — 
 of this subject, methods will come to you 
 "thick and fast;" methods adapted to the 
 individual subject; methods adapted to the 
 many, and methods which will be as success- 
 ful as any you may have seen in print. 
 
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 It is a deep and fascinating subject; one 
 in which you will never lose interest; one 
 which will broaden your mind, brighten 
 every intellectual faculty, strengthen your 
 physical being and set free the untrammeled 
 soul. 
 
 "The proper study of mankind is man." 
 Not the dual man only, not the sexual or 
 physical or mental man, but th# complete 
 man ; that trinity exalted by the Omnipotent 
 Creator- 
 It indeed is a proper matter for study 
 and for thought. The more one can see and 
 feel, the more one can know; the more thor- 
 ough the investigation, the more settled and 
 fixed the resulting conclusion. 
 
 So in the study of this science: the 
 farther you may penetrate behind the mystic 
 veil, the brighter the light; the higher your 
 flight, the broader your conception; the 
 deeper you delve, the more fixed your con- 
 clusion. 
 
 Study not one man, but the many; use 
 not one method, but any which may in your 
 mind be adapted to the exigencies in each 
 particular case. 
 
 When the receptive state has been in- 
 duced, no matter how, the opportune moment 
 is present; suggestion is the hand that strikes 
 
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 the strings all in harmony with your soul; 
 suggestion is at your command, the power is 
 turned on. 
 
 Your thoughts, made known through 
 any channel of suggestion, have attuned a 
 responsive chord in the soul of that being, 
 and they obey. 
 
 It is attraction of fixed attention in some 
 form that induces the receptive state, whether 
 it be the fixation of gaze or mind upon some 
 object held for that purpose. A revolving 
 mirror, the low, sweet melody of entrancing 
 music, the modulated voice, the gesture, the 
 winning sparkle of fascinating eyes, or the 
 attractive hypnotic presence of one who has 
 first mastered self, the monotonous roll of the 
 breakers upon the shore, the purling of the 
 brook, the rustling, plunging cataract, or the 
 locomotive, that ponderous mass of almost 
 living still, all have played their part in 
 inducing the momentary receptive state, and 
 at times to danger. 
 
 The presence of certain people, or the 
 absence of others, induces calm at times, 
 to many. To one in accord with nature and 
 her wondrous works, "the silence of the 
 mighty woods" breaths over him the mystic 
 spell. In others, strange and inexplicable as 
 it may seem, the mind is calmed, and strain 
 
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 subdued, by the detonations and reverbera- 
 tions of the rolling, earth-rocking thunder 
 peal, which in many others bring on strain 
 or fear. I am one of those to whom the 
 vivid lightning bolt, the tremulous, crashing 
 thunder's cracking roar bring calm. 
 
 To me they combine the mighty grandeur 
 of the great inspiring pyrotechnics of the all- 
 powerful Creator, and the cannonade of 
 heaven. I love them. There is impressive 
 beauty in the storm to me, as well as in the 
 calm, the mystic hypnosis of the begetter. 
 Thus the receptive state in many ways is 
 induced. 
 
 When induced, no matter how, is the 
 time for suggestion to one's self, or the sub- 
 ject. Whether it be in the quiet of the 
 home, the office, the stage, the pulpit, before 
 the court, the schoolroom, or the street, no 
 matter where. If the receptive state is on, 
 suggestion opens wide the doors to power. 
 
 It would seem unnecessary to repeat. I 
 would not, but that it is my desire to thor- 
 oughly implant in your minds all facts neces- 
 sary, and that if, even through repetition, this 
 knowledge and confidence be gained by you, 
 my wishes have been accomplished, and you 
 led up to the mastery. 
 
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 You cannot fail to notice the important 
 part suggestions play, in not only inducing 
 the receptive condition, but in all later man- 
 ifestations of the hypnotic state, no matter in 
 what degree, from the lightest fascination to 
 the deepest hypnotic sleep. 
 
 In Auto, or self suggestion, the same 
 method holds good. One quietly and gently 
 suggests himself into a receptive state, then 
 through forceful and soulful suggestions 
 brings about the conditions of mind and body 
 most desired. 
 
 Thus comes the mastery of self; thus 
 comes the confidence that so sets free your 
 own power that it does not fail you when 
 you wish to use it over others. 
 
 This confidence in and mastery of self 
 strengthens and broadens one, and elevates 
 him to that strength and height of power 
 when his own soul is subservient to his de- 
 sires, and, sent out by suggestion, lightning- 
 like in speed and force, fulfills its mission. 
 
 In post-hypnotic fulfillment of sugges- 
 tion made the subject under the spell of an 
 operator, the incentive to carry out the sug- 
 gestion comes so vividly that, without will of 
 his own, but following the suggested will of 
 the operator, he fulfills the requirement of 
 
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 the suggestion, if it be within the bounds 
 of possibility so to do. 
 
 Thus, through all stages of hypnotic 
 state, the soul power meets the response the 
 operator desires, and brings about through 
 suggestion accepted and acted upon by the 
 subservient sublimal self, all the many phe- 
 nomena made manifest through this potent 
 force. 
 
 The wonders of the clairvoyant state 
 are but the workings of the soul, sent out by 
 suggestion to perceive, and then return with 
 its unerring message. Distance adds no 
 obstacle. As in telepathy, the only requisite 
 is the power sent affinity bound soul, through 
 whose wonder-working manifestations all 
 hypnotic results are obtained. 
 
 Is there, in hypnotic manifestation, a 
 philosophical explanation of that belief of 
 the ancient races of the earth, in transmigra- 
 tion of soul? 
 
 In that magnificent revel of mind of 
 Wm. H. Story, with which I bring to a close 
 this work, Cleopatra, the much loved, and 
 loving Egyptian Queen, gives expression to 
 the ideas prevalent among those people. I 
 append it hereto because of its beauty and 
 descriptive strength. 
 
CLEOPATRA'S 
 DREAM. 
 
CLEOPATRA'S DREAM— A REVEL 
 OF THE IMAGINATION. 
 
 (It is something that will bear reading 
 over and over again as a pure psychological 
 study. The words are those of a lunatic, the 
 logic that of love, the story that of a phi- 
 losopher.) 
 
 Here, Charmian, take my bracelets; 
 
 They bar with a purple stain 
 My arms. Turn over my pillows — 
 
 They are hot where I have lain. 
 Open the lattice wider, 
 
 A gauze on my bosom throw, 
 And let me inhale the odors 
 
 That over the garden flow. 
 
 I dreamed I was with my Antony, 
 
 And in his arms I lay; 
 Ah, me! The vision has vanished — 
 
 Its music has died away. 
 The flame and the perfume hath perished — 
 
 As this spiced aromatic pastille 
 That wound the blue smoke of its odor 
 Is now but an ashy hill. 
 
 Scatter upon me rose leaves — 
 
 They cool me after my sleep; 
 And with sandal odors fan me 
 
 Till in my veins they creep; 
 
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 Reach down the flute, and play me 
 
 A melancholy tune, 
 To rhyme with a tune that has vanished, 
 
 And the slumbering afternoon. 
 
 There, drowsing in golden sunlight, 
 
 Loiters the low, smooth Nile, 
 Through slender papyra, that cover 
 
 The sleeping crocodile; 
 The lotus lolls on the water, 
 
 And opens its heart of gold, 
 And over its broad leaf pavement 
 
 Never a ripple is rolled. 
 The twilight breeze is too lazy 
 
 Those feathery palms to wave, 
 And yon little cloud is as motionless 
 
 As a stone above the grave. 
 
 Ah, me! This lifeless nature 
 
 Oppresses my heart and brain. 
 Oh, for a storm and thunder 
 
 For lightning, and wild, fierce rain! 
 Fling down that lute — I hate it! 
 
 Take rather his buckler and sword, 
 And crash them and clash them together 
 
 Till this sleeping world is stirred. 
 
 Hark to my Indian beauty! 
 
 My cockatoo, creamy and white, 
 
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 With roses under his feathers 
 
 That flash across the light. 
 Look, listen, as backward and forward 
 S |To his hoop of gold he clings; 
 How he trembles, with crest uplifted, 
 
 And he shrieks as he madly swings. 
 O cockatoo, shriek for Antony! 
 
 Cry, "Come my love, come home!" 
 Shriek, "Antony! Antony! Antony! Antony!' 7 
 
 Till he hears you even in Rome. 
 
 There, leave me, and take from my chamber 
 
 That wretched little gazelle, 
 With its bright black eyes so meaningless, 
 
 And its silly tinkling bell. 
 Take him — my nerves he vexes — 
 
 The thing without blood or brain, 
 Or by the body of Isis, 
 
 I will snap his thin neck in twain! 
 
 Leave me to gaze at the landscape, 
 
 Mistily stretching away. 
 When the afternoon's opaline tremors 
 
 O'er the mountains quivering play — 
 Till the fiercer splendor of sunset 
 
 Pours from the west its fire, 
 And, melted as in a crucible, 
 
 Their earthly forms expire — 
 And the bald, blear skull of the desert 
 
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 With glowing mountains is crowned, 
 That, burning like molten jewels, 
 Circle its temple round. 
 
 I will lie and dream of the past time, 
 
 Aeons of thought away; 
 And through the jungles of memory 
 
 Loosen my fancy to play, 
 When, a smooth and velvety tiger, 
 
 Ribbed with yellow and black, 
 Supple and cushion-footed, 
 
 I wandered where never the track 
 Of a human creature had rustled 
 
 The silence of mighty woods, 
 And, fierce in a tyrannous freedom, 
 
 I knew but the law of my moods* 
 The elephant, trumpeting, started 
 
 When he heard my footsteps near, 
 And the spotted giraffe fled wildly 
 
 In a cloud of yellow fear. 
 I sucked in the moontide splendor 
 
 Quivering along the glade, 
 Or yawning, panting, and dreaming, 
 
 Basked in the tamarind shade, 
 Till I heard my mate roaring, 
 
 As the shadows of night come on 
 To brood in the tree's thick branches, 
 
 And the shadow of my sleep was gone. 
 Then I roused and roared in answer, 
 
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 And unsheathed from my cushioned feet 
 My curving claws and stretched me, 
 And wandered my mate to greet. 
 
 We toyed in the amber moonlight 
 
 Upon the warm, flat sand, 
 How powerful he was, and grand! 
 
 His yellow eyes flashed fiercely 
 As he crouched and gazed at me, 
 
 And his quivering tail, like a serpent, 
 Twitched, curving nervously. 
 
 Then, like a storm he seized me, 
 With a wild, triumphant cry, 
 
 And we met, as two clouds in heaven, 
 When the thunder before them fly. 
 
 We grappled and struggled together, 
 For his love, like his rage, was rude; 
 
 And his teeth in the swelling folds of my 
 neck 
 
 At times, in our play, drew blood. 
 
 Often another suitor — 
 
 For I was flexile and fair — 
 Fought for me in the moonlight 
 
 While I lay crouching there, 
 Till his blood was drained by the desert, 
 
 And, baffled with triumph and power, 
 He licked and lay beside me 
 
 To breathe him a vast half hour. 
 
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 Then down in the fountain we loitered, 
 
 Where the antelopes came to drink; 
 Like a bolt we sprung upon them, 
 
 Ere they had time to shrink: 
 We drank their blood and crushed them, 
 
 And tore them limb from limb, 
 And the hungriest lion doubted 
 
 Ere we disputed with him. 
 
 That was a life to live for! 
 
 Not this weak human life, 
 With its frivolous, bloodless passions, 
 
 Its poor and petty strife! 
 Come to my arms, my hero? 
 
 The shadows of twilight grow, 
 And the tiger's ancient fierceness 
 
 In my veins begins to flow, 
 Come not cringeing to sue me! 
 
 Take me with triumph and power, 
 As a warrior that storms a fortress — 
 
 I will not shrink or cower. 
 Come, as you came in the desert 
 
 Ere we were women and men, 
 When the tiger spell was on us, 
 
 And love as you loved me then 
 
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