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MIND THE TRANSFORMER 
 
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 NEW PSYCHOLOGY COMPLETE 
 
 By 
 A. A. LINDSAY, M. D. 
 
 Author of 
 
 "MIND THE BUILDER" 
 "SCIENTIFIC PRA YER" 
 
 "THE TYRANNY OF LOVE" 
 
 "PURE--PRECIOUS--PRICELESS" 
 
 "THE WAYSIDE AND THE GOAL' 
 
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 Copyright by A. A. LINDSAY, M. D. 
 1911 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 Principles of Healing 13 
 
 Cell Structure of the Body 19 
 
 Mind in the Cells 27 
 
 Practical Psycho-Therapeutics 35 
 
 Cases and Their Treatment 43 
 
 Morphine Habit Treated 57 
 
 Hypnosis, Where and How to Use It 61 
 
 The Suggestible States 69 
 
 Suggestion in Reforming 79 
 
 Science of Telepathy 87 
 
 Evil Thought Transference 95 
 
 Psychic Powers 103 
 
 Chemistry of Emotions 113 
 
 Chemistry and Psychology of Love 125 
 
 The Third Degree 135 
 
 The Measure of a Man 145 
 
FOREWORD 
 
 Where are we to begin and end our study of 
 mind when we purpose making one volume com- 
 plete upon the subject of psychology? I think 
 we will begin at making a key and stop when 
 we have fitted it to the lock which opens the 
 doors to the hidden treasures in every man's 
 body, mind and soul. Incidental to such a crea- 
 tion we will find our way into the intricacies of 
 mind as it exhibits its powers and attributes in 
 manifold incorporations besides man. 
 
 My student need not fear that he will be led 
 into fields of mysticism or speculation, nor even 
 idealism of the phantastic sort. Practical science 
 is the only science worth studying, and so it is 
 with idealism. It must have touch with the daily 
 practices of the progressive man to warrant our 
 attention. 
 
 Some day the race will arrive at the stage of 
 development where it needs to give thought only 
 to methods of growth, unfoldment, and expres- 
 sion. At present we have to think of ways to 
 reclaim health and form over all of the phases 
 of our being. This generation, at least, will 
 need all of my psychology, for through its prin- 
 
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 ciples, and through them only, can transforma- 
 tion and growth be attained. 
 
 A friend hung up in my office a picture of 
 two little negro boys under a ragged umbrella. 
 One was saying to the other these words : 
 "Wishin' for de rain storm when the drout comes 
 
 round, 
 Wonder'n why de sunshine keeps a dryin' out de 
 
 ground. 
 Better stop dis kickn', doesn't help a bit; 
 Kind ob weader wot you has is all youse gwine 
 ter git." 
 
 So it matters not how much we may wish it, 
 we cannot return to our place of moulding, to 
 take a better form, for the form and whatever 
 we are, is all we are going to get to start with. 
 
 To the earnest and unprejudiced seeker, our 
 lessons are simple, and the results certain. The 
 way has been more than blazed — you will find 
 this book, as a broad road, with bright lights 
 all the way. At the destination there is a beauti- 
 ful city that shines constantly in a blaze of glory. 
 Simple lessons merging into simple lessons, yet 
 disclosing most technical truths, lead ultimately 
 to a knowledge that makes life seem the privi- 
 lege that it is and proves from first to last that 
 the purpose of a man's mundane life is to build 
 an individuality. 
 
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 You will find that our practical psychology- 
 extends to everything that an individual is or 
 does; there is no phase of the subject as likely 
 to attract the attention of each one as that of 
 healing. 
 
 Because the body is uncomfortable,, is giving 
 evidence of disorders, every one seeks remedial 
 power. Mind does not so readily perceive its 
 own ailments as it does those things that go 
 wrong in the body, therefore relief to the mind, 
 as such, is not sought in remedies. 
 
 How to get well, is the problem that John 
 Wesley said began as soon as man offended his 
 Creator. "Rebelling against the sovereign of 
 all, seeds of pain and sickness were sown in the 
 body ; the sun and moon shed unwholesome in- 
 fluence from above ; the earth exhaled poisonous 
 damps from below." 
 
 Every one has the health problem to deal with, 
 and, although few of us these days think disease 
 is forced upon us by an angry Deity, all would 
 like to be in the favor of a supreme power that 
 can release us from disease. 
 
 This power has never lost its efficacy, but in 
 some way it seems faithful to all laws, and needs 
 to be recognized by man, consciously. Healing, 
 if it takes place under any circumstances, must 
 
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 be a religious, not a chemical or other physical 
 process primarily. This is proved even when 
 chemicals are used and cure follows. 
 
 The thousand methods, where no material 
 thing was used but a cure followed, show the 
 religious element in healing, but no plainer than 
 where chemistry was applied. There is no such 
 thing, and never was any such thing, as healing 
 except through a religious applied power. One 
 can apply that religious power and be cured with- 
 out drugs, but no one can insinuate into, or in 
 any way give material agents to the exclusion 
 of a supreme power that is intelligent. 
 
 "Why say healing is a religious practice ? Does 
 that mean theological, too ?" No, I do not mean 
 theological. Theological signifies a definite be- 
 lief concerning a Creative Intelligence, in the 
 universe. 
 
 "Religious healing ,, signifies that spirit, not 
 matter, must heal ; that it does heal because there 
 is no potency in matter except as mind or spirit 
 applies it. Therefore, if by a force of any sort 
 a man's choice of methods of healing is with- 
 held from him, his religious privileges are in- 
 terfered with. 
 
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 CHAPTER I. 
 Principles of Healing 
 
 Suggestion in healing literally means that the 
 intelligence of that department of mind that 
 controls the body is caused to obey a suggestion 
 that is given to it to create harmonies, removing 
 inharmonies. 
 
 Practically, psychology shows distinctly how 
 complete the controlling power is and teaches 
 the method of getting a suggestion to direct 
 this power. That is the department of sug- 
 gestive therapeutics. Our department of histol- 
 ogy and the exhibit of the evolution from the 
 primary cell, which with its successors are all 
 intelligent, with mind the designer, mind the 
 builder and mind the master, shows that man 
 is possessed of a department of mind that con- 
 trols hif body. This mind remains present and 
 supreme in its potency as long as life in the 
 body exists. We will not repeat here the proofs 
 of the character to show the existence of mind, 
 the supreme presence. 
 
 That the department is effected in its action 
 by suggestion we will sustain I am sure. Our 
 work in hypnotism has enabled us to understand 
 the principle of suggestion. 
 
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 We may take otir subject into and out of the 
 deepest hypnosis thousands of times and produce 
 no changes different from what would have oc- 
 curred if he had taken so many brief periods of 
 sleep. Having him in that passive state, give 
 him a suggestion that by the time his watch has 
 ticked ten times he will have no sense of pain 
 in his body. Then give test by a thrust of a 
 needle through his skin; anesthesia is found to 
 exist. Suggest that it is gone, and instantly 
 sensibility will return. 
 
 You can proceed indefinitely with all sorts of 
 suggestions and produce answer in full, if they 
 are possible, and providing also that they do not 
 run counter to liis auto-suggestions. 
 
 Since hypnosis is a state where the sub-con- 
 scious mind is in full possession and we obtained 
 no phenomena without suggestions being given, 
 but all sorts with them, we must see that sug- 
 gestion is the key to the action of the subcon- 
 scious. 
 
 The power is in the subconscious and sugges- 
 tion is the key to its action, yet a very large ex- 
 perience has taught us that the reason suggestion 
 is the key to the action of the subconscious, is 
 because through suggesting we create an expec- 
 tancy upon the part of the subconscious. If we 
 
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 stop short of creating that expectancy, we fail to 
 produce the answer. Many times, mental and 
 audible suggestions are given to no avail because 
 they did not create the degree of expectancy. 
 The man did not believe in his soul that the thing 
 would occur. The subconscious does not build 
 what it does not first expect. 
 
 Then through hypnosis we discover that the 
 subconscious mind is the power; that suggestion 
 is the key and expectancy the degree. Hypnosis 
 did not create the subconscious mind nor the 
 power, therefore they are present whether one is 
 hypnotized or not. The agent and power being 
 always present and suggestion being the key, 
 psychology is the science that must reveal to us 
 the conditions under which the key can be ap- 
 plied to create an expectancy. In another sub- 
 ject I am giving the suggestible states, therefore 
 refer here to the best one for treatment. 
 
 I have my patient sit or lie comfortably ; sitting 
 position, reclining in a morris chair preferable. 
 I instruct him to close his eyes and to relax as 
 completely as he can ; to let his mind wander, not 
 centering it upon anything. Very soon after this 
 rest begins, I commence audibly to suggest to 
 him that he will enjoy a perfect rest; every care 
 disappearing from his mind. 
 
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 Presently I also suggest audibly that the symp- 
 toms he has had of a distressing kind will tend 
 to disappear ; that he will be better and will con- 
 tinue to improve until well. I usually mention 
 the literal symptom that will disappear; I sug- 
 gest the literal form of the improvement that will 
 take place. In half an hour of such rest I give 
 the same suggestion three or four times at inter- 
 vals of several minutes between. In that interval 
 I give the same suggestions mentally, thinking 
 in the actual terms of words as if I had spoken 
 them. 
 
 I noted by repeated demonstration that thera- 
 peutic work brought more satisfactory and per- 
 manent results in the light passivity than when I 
 used hypnosis. I'Thoose the lighter passivity 
 then because it is better, not because hypnosis is 
 -bad. It is simply unnecessary. There is nothing 
 curative in either light or deep passivity; the 
 cure is effected by suggestion, creating an ex- 
 pectancy in the soul of the patient. The inebriate, 
 drug habituate, or one who is subject to moral 
 reform, or one who wishes development of his 
 art, psychic or other subjective power will re- 
 spond to the formula given. 
 
 Having the law and the formula, we can help 
 one another. Let no one imagine that the heal- 
 
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 ing power is in the operator, it is in the patient. 
 Any one with the good sense of how to give con- 
 structive suggestions mentally and spoken, can 
 cause the power of the subconscious mind to act 
 in the direction of healing. It may be opportune 
 to close this subject by further quotation from 
 John Wesley's medical advice. His treatment 
 for consumption was "Take no food but new 
 buttermilk, churned in a bottle, and white bread. 
 Or every morning cut up a little fresh turf of 
 earth, and lying down, breathe into the hole for 
 a quarter of an hour." Then for baldness he ad- 
 vises, "Rub the part morning and evening with 
 onions 'til red and rub afternoon with honey," 
 closing with this, "But I still advise in compli- 
 cated cases, let every one apply without delay 
 to a physician that fears God ; for from one who 
 does not, be his fame ever so great I should ex- 
 pect a curse, rather than a blessing." Thus we 
 see that even in the time of Wesley, mind, not 
 matter was first. If a man's mind were not 
 right, the drugs he gave could not cure, 
 
 My book of personal psychology, "Mind the 
 Builder," which is still in print, treats of our 
 science, with first regard for the department of 
 mind that designs, and the other department that 
 builds. 
 
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 "Mind the Transformer" has purposes which 
 are not more than alluded to in "Mind the 
 Builder. ,, The latter goes back to the design 
 which is an image, something entirely spiritual, 
 really best defined as an order of thought. The 
 demonstration shows how that thinking, which 
 is the mind functioning, causes the particles of 
 ether to assemble to afford the beginning of a 
 material fulfillment of the design. How the 
 design determines the course of the thought. 
 Mind uses the first cell as an instrument to aid 
 in the production of the second, those two, be- 
 come the material instrument to produce four 
 cells, and so on until the whole design or idea 
 has taken form. 
 
 Mind as a transformer is working with the 
 tangible form and is demonstrating its power and 
 office in making other forms by modifying the 
 first. Fundamental psychology must, like ele- 
 mentary physiology, begin with the cell. The 
 cell is the physical form we wish to consider in 
 its various phases. We shall also note how mind 
 transforms it. Even if I treat it technically, it 
 will be in a manner to so simplify it, that a child 
 can understand it and by reference to the illustra- 
 tions, become much interested and well informed 
 upon the vital things in histology. 
 
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 CHAPTER II. 
 Cell Structure of the Body 
 
 The cell is the elementary organism whose 
 essential parts are the cell body and a nucleus, 
 the latter lying in the middle of the cell. The 
 cells in form may be spherical, flattened, spindle- 
 shaped or elongated, depending upon the kind of 
 tissue they form, and the office they are to fulfill. 
 The nucleus takes the form after the type of the 
 cell of which it is a part. 
 
 When it was discovered that the body is made 
 up of cells, motion was recognized. This is of 
 many forms, of which the movement from place 
 to place is most noticeable. Usually this is ac- 
 complished by the cell projecting one portion of 
 its body, then permitting itself to be drawn after 
 that. Cell reproduction is entirely by the cell 
 division, each cell dividing into two cells by a 
 division of the nucleus. Each portion then be- 
 comes the center of a cell. 
 
 Typical Cells 
 
 Pictorially and by word, I will illustrate suffic- 
 ient kinds of cells to familiarize us with the es- 
 sential facts, that we may know the fundamental 
 things about all tissues, structures and organisms 
 made up of cells. 
 
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 The muscle cells have elongated bodies, maybe 
 spindle shaped, cylindrical, slightly flattened or 
 elliptical. The nucleus, manner of reproduction 
 and adaptation in size and form, according to 
 their purposes, are in perfect correspondence 
 with other typical cells. 
 
 Nerve cells are varied in form, and also the 
 tissues which are composed of nerve cells. There 
 is no need, for our purposes, to go into the de- 
 tails of the forms of cells that comprise brain, 
 spinal cord, or the threads that go to every part 
 of the body. Our definite aim, at present, is to 
 show the principle to which every cell is faithful, 
 and corresponds with the description given under 
 physical cells. 
 
 Cartilage, bone and marrow cells are shown 
 with the characteristics of all other cells. 
 
 To give minute description of the blood ves- 
 sels would simply mean to detail the cell struct- 
 ure of their walls. Although the blood is itself 
 made up of distinct kinds of cells, all of its course 
 is through structures made of other cells. 
 
 Human Blood Cells — The colored, are in the 
 form of a flat circular disc, slightly concave on 
 each surface. Some are also spherical. The 
 white blood cells travel everywhere outside or 
 inside of the blood vessels. Their office is that 
 
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 of scavengers. When in motion they may be al- 
 most any shape, but are spherical when at rest. 
 Upon examination the hair, nails, the teeth and 
 their enamel, all structures and tissues, special 
 organs, the secretions and many products of the 
 cells in their functioning, disclose cellular forma- 
 tion. 
 
 How Cells Multiply 
 
 The organized body is found to be made up 
 of an aggregate of physical entities that, although 
 they are microscopic, fulfill the law of reproduc- 
 tion, each one producing its kind by becoming 
 two. Now for the sake of an easy way to under- 
 stand what has been made hard to know, let us 
 think that possibly there was a time in the his- 
 tory of each human body when there was just 
 one cell of each kind of tissue present ; that as it 
 is inherent in the cell to be possessed of the mas- 
 culine and feminine element so it can reproduce 
 of itself, then if there are two score kinds of 
 cells, forty cells could be the source of the per- 
 fected adult body. When we have this picture 
 in mind, I want to explain that there never is any 
 such situation, but something more marvelous, 
 something grander than the body with its billions 
 of individual cells coming from forty parents. 
 But by your thinking of how the forty could be, 
 
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 if they exist singly, the parents of as many varie- 
 ties of cells, you can follow me back to one cell, 
 which had the potency to be the parent of all of 
 these species that enter into the structure, the 
 body. 
 
 The first egg, or cell, the primary cell comes 
 into existence through the feminine ovum being 
 fertilized by the masculine element; really a 
 blending of two cells in one, with the character- 
 istics of all cells, a body and a nucleus and an 
 impulse to multiply; which it does by becoming 
 two cells. This cell division is accomplished 
 through the function of nutrition and absorption 
 of food, until the cell reaches its full develop- 
 ment when it divides the nucleus into two, which 
 become the centers of two bodies. 
 
 By a study of the parent cell development, 
 when it has become two and then four, then eight 
 and so on, we find the order of their arrangement, 
 as they multiply, is with reference to a purpose 
 which we realize they are to fulfill by their co- 
 operation. They comprise something made up 
 of their bodies and they also work together to 
 create something. They create membranes of 
 cells, and the cells of the membranes create all 
 of the different species of cells, ultimately present 
 in the structures. 
 
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 The discovery of the cell structure of the body 
 is the greatest aid to human analysis and under- 
 standing. 
 
 That all of these cells are typical eggs, fertile 
 and alive, whose generation comes, through the 
 potency of one egg or cell, to be the parent of 
 all, is easily understood. 
 
 Our research would yield us only a fraction of 
 its value, if we stopped at the fact that the hu- 
 man body, or the animal world as for that, is 
 built upon the same law of cell structure in which 
 the individual organism descends from a fertilized 
 egg. The lowest form of life, the highest and 
 all between, is cell life. The amoeba, the man; 
 the microscopic animal, the world of bacteria or 
 the larger vegetable life, indeed everything that 
 has life is a cell or multiple of cells. 
 
 Since all life is similar in its plan of structure 
 to the extent that there is the universal cell or- 
 ganization of cells, we cannot rest until we find 
 the whole range of similarities. 
 
 Appearances, powers and offices of organized 
 cells in the complete individual are so varied that 
 we can see how the difference occurs. 
 
 Without much knowledge we would say : "why, 
 of course, the difference begins in having unlike 
 parents; offspring so dissimilar in all character- 
 
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 istics, except the fact of cell structure and being 
 alive, come from eggs with equal dissimilarity." 
 That would be an easy way to settle the matter, 
 except for the facts, which are readily at hand 
 with our mechanical facilities so perfected for 
 examination of the first eggs from which crea- 
 tions descend. 
 
 We could go the whole range of organization 
 and show that the correspondence in these prim- 
 ary eggs is perfect and alike in the physical 
 phases, possibly excepting size. Chemically they 
 are similar. In order of cell body and nucleus 
 relationship all are like the typical cell. 
 
 That the conception of this principle may be 
 perfect we present to you an illustration of the 
 different eggs from which creatures develop. The 
 egg of the sponge animal, in the top line of the 
 plate, is shown in different positions; the next 
 two lines exhibit the egg of the parasite crab, also 
 showing the positions of that cell in moving 
 about. The fourth line is the egg from which 
 the cat develops; the lower left hand corner 
 shows the ovum of a trout; the next that of a 
 chicken, and the third is a fertilized ovum or 
 egg, from which a human being evolves. 
 
 These are all beginnings, and when we know 
 them to be alike, whtf can keep from asking "then 
 
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 how can they produce such unlike results ?" Test 
 all of the laws of matter to the utmost, and there 
 is no available answer. There is no answer 
 in the chemistry of the first egg being unlike 
 nor that they have different sorts of chemistry 
 in their food supply. If there were a difference 
 in these respects, that would not account for the 
 mental and spiritual range between the trout and 
 man, or the sponge and cat. If there is no ac- 
 counting for the phenomena mentioned from a 
 physical standpoint then there must be a mind 
 phase that applies to every living cell-built thing. 
 That is the transcendent truth that answers all 
 of the unsolved questions of biology that eluded 
 our materialist scientists. This truth should be 
 inscribed in some fashion upon every page of 
 history of organic life. 
 
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 Fig. 2. 
 
Fig-. 3. 
 
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 Fig. 4. 
 
Fig". 5. 
 
DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES 
 
 Figure 1 shows in the first row, the egg (cell) from 
 which the sponge animal develops ; illustrating different 
 forms it takes in moving from place to place. 
 
 In the second and third rows the egg (cell) of the 
 parasite crab is shown, undergoing changes. In the 
 third row is shown the egg (cell) from which the cat 
 evolves. 
 
 In the fourth row, in the corner on the left there is 
 the primary cell of the trout ; next, that of the chicken, 
 and the third, that fertilized egg or cell that unfolds 
 into the human being. 
 
 Figure No. 2 illustrates the Amoeba beginning as the 
 single cell; then it forms its two neuclei, and its body 
 becomes elongated, then smaller around the middle 
 until it separates, becoming two perfect cells. This is 
 the manner of all cell multiplication, whether it is the 
 first cell of the man or the cell of any tissue of his body. 
 
 Figure No. 3 shows the Amoeba approaching its food, 
 then finally wrapping its body around it, encloses it and 
 then absorbs it. This is the typical manner in which 
 all cells treat and absorb their food. 
 
 Figure No. 4 is the coral animal beginning with the 
 first cell ; shows the multiplication and then the manner 
 of arrangement of the cells to perfect the animal. Sev- 
 eral sections are made to show the internal arrangement 
 of the cells. All of the different kingdoms of cell life 
 are possessed of the same characteristics in cell con- 
 struction, multiplication and habits. 
 
 The upper portion of Figure No. 5 illustrates the cells 
 of the enamel of the teeth; the lower portion, nine 
 cells of bone tissue. These convey correct ideas of all 
 kinds of cells in the human body. 
 
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 CHAPTER III. 
 Mind in the Cells 
 
 It is axiomatic that matter, as such, cannot 
 hold an image. An image must be something 
 spiritual, something of mind. Affirming that 
 there is the law of imagery operative in the pri- 
 mary cell, is another way of stating that the 
 ovum is a spiritual entity — a creation with mind 
 and body. 
 
 In our former lessons in these pages, we took 
 the cells of the adult body to study them physical- 
 ly, and were lead back to the parent cell, a fer- 
 tilized ovum. Now we want to study the first 
 cell psychically and, as is the parent so is that 
 which descends from it, showing the mind pres- 
 ent in every cell. 
 
 To make it possible to appreciate the mind in 
 an egg cell and hence all the cells developing out 
 of it, we may happily, apply our knowledge of 
 the intelligence of the single celled animals that 
 we have studied, with the aid of the microscope. 
 The first of these being the amoeba. Natively 
 this is a water animal life that lives and dies a 
 single cell. Reference to our illustrations shows 
 it to be after the type of the cells of structures 
 of the human body, the sponge, the coral, the 
 
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 vegetable, crab, cat, trout, chick and the primary 
 cell of the human body. The picture of the 
 amoeba aprpoaching its food and wrapping its 
 body around it, until finally it is absorbed, is 
 characteristic of cells taking their material sup- 
 ply. Furthermore the illustration of the amoeba, 
 as it proceeds to multiply by self-division, is the 
 common cleavage method of cells, whether they 
 live in individual or community life. 
 
 The amoeba recognizes food and seeks to ap- 
 ply it for his comfort and rejects that which is 
 not food. Cells, that are part of a body of mul- 
 tiple cells, do the same. Mere matter would not 
 do this — mind must be present and functioning, 
 to exercise this choice. The amoeba recognizes 
 its enemies and flees from them, choosing a hid- 
 ing place. Individual cells that are a part even 
 of the human body show the same scope of in- 
 telligence the amoeba shows, being under impulse 
 to reproduce, and does reproduce its kind. So 
 do all cells, but mere matter could not have im- 
 pulse. Impulse must be in the mind operating 
 over matter; operating for the purpose of build- 
 ing a physical instrument for its use. At present 
 it is not my purpose to show the scope of intelli- 
 gence in cells, but to aid you in the conception 
 of the fact of mind the builder, MIND THE 
 
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 TRANSFORMER being present and master in 
 the primary and succeeding cells. 
 
 I am sure you are ready now for me to say, 
 and be understood, that the ovum in its -spiritual 
 phase holds an image, a design, and is possessed 
 of an impulse and a potency to apply, under the 
 law of food and nutrition, matter so as to build 
 more cells which it, the mind, arranges in such a 
 manner as to build an organism in perfect ful- 
 fillment of the design. Original spirit and an- 
 cestry have created the design or image that is 
 over the primary cell, the mind present in the 
 organism that produced the egg would specifi- 
 cally impress the image that is present in the 
 egg. I do not know that I will, in this volume, 
 treat extensively the question of the ONE MIND 
 that has its specific and individual impressions 
 and impulses, which are conveyed to integral 
 members of the universe by the myriad tiny or 
 mammoth separate organizations that keep pro- 
 ducing their kind. 
 
 My purpose now is to give the practical lesson 
 on "Mind the Transformer" that has commenced 
 with an egg, but which must be changed in form 
 before it becomes man. Give this egg over to 
 matter to build a man, and you quickly realize 
 there could be no evolution. Place the material 
 
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 ovum in the hands only of mind outside to act 
 upon the egg and you remove all individual re- 
 sponsibility, possibility and purpose. There would 
 be no distinctness of kind. 
 
 Just Where Mind Lays Hold of Matter 
 
 The next privilege I eagerly accept is to por- 
 tray the glory, the good, the beauty and the 
 power of the NEW PSYCHOLOGY as it con- 
 ceives of the instant when mind begins to take a 
 body. What matters it now whether we say mind 
 or soul in this connection? You know I mean 
 the intelligence that is operating to get a body, 
 which it must do through controlling matter. 
 Soul is the best word, because the psychic of the 
 cell, or soul of the cell, has been a term at least, 
 of scientists. For our best purpose in showing 
 the universal principle whether it is to build a 
 grain of wheat, a coral, or a sponge animal, fowl 
 or fish, I will show where soul first begins to ap- 
 ply matter to build a human body and thereby de- 
 fine Mind the Transformer in dealing with sub- 
 stance. 
 
 The first cell is a blending of a masculine ele- 
 ment with a feminine element, but before this cell 
 is created, mind has acted upon each of these 
 elements. Mind is present in the masculine cell 
 also in the feminine egg, but neither could pro- 
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 duce a human being without uniting with the 
 other. Through the natural functioning of the 
 organism of woman an egg is created. The're 
 was a time in her history when that ovum did 
 not exist, it is a product of her mind and body, 
 and she gives that egg its mind. No one would 
 read from this that mind did not exist before nor 
 that matter which the mind uses to build itself 
 a body did not exist before this process, which 
 has for its purpose, the individualizing of a new 
 being, a man that did not exist before, as a man. 
 
 One can think of the sweet of candy and his 
 salivary glands will create certain chemical forms, 
 and so will the stomach glands. Certain others 
 did not exist in such form until his organism 
 produced them. His subconscious mind lays 
 hold upon matter in these secretory glands, to 
 produce cells with minds and bodies which have 
 impulse to digest food. Just where and how 
 and when mind took hold of matter in this in- 
 stance is perfectly clear. The man did not get 
 the candy so it is not a case of physical stimulus. 
 
 There is a time when the masculine element, 
 which is the present object of our research, does 
 not exist as such. The activities of his mind upon 
 his body organism, produces the cells with their 
 minds and bodies. Their minds are under im- 
 
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 pulse to unite with the feminine element just as 
 the digestive cells are under impulse to act upon 
 food. One is no more mysterious than the other ; 
 neither one is supernatural in any way. Mind, 
 functioning in thought (creating an image) uses 
 a physical organism to produce a cell which is 
 possessed of mind and impulse and potency, to 
 deal further with matter until its ideal has taken 
 form. 
 
 When these cells have blended to produce the 
 one primary cell, there is an image present given 
 to it by what is innate in original mind, modified 
 by species or ancestry and by immediate parents. 
 
 Man in his first residence is a single cell in that 
 material home and therein takes place the marvel- 
 ous truth that human understanding has been 
 very slow to divest of the mystical and super- 
 natural. 
 
 The image, or the building as it would be if 
 the design present in the cell were fulfilled, may 
 be modified for better or for worse by the 
 mother's imagery. Her charge is sacred, for 
 from the instant of the uniting of the two cells, 
 she holds the power to determine what design 
 shall be in the soul of the child when it is born. 
 She can, if she knows the transforming power of 
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 transforms, remove all the undesirable imagery 
 that came with the first cell and insert the de- 
 sirable that would make the best life, the instinct- 
 ive one for the child. 
 
 I see no occasion to go with you over the 
 ground of the evolution of the mind and body. 
 Your observation of the cell as it starts to mul- 
 tiply, and your knowledge that the law acts over 
 every cell to multiply in the same way, will teach 
 you the whole scheme of evolution. 
 
 Mind is always present, is the supreme trans- 
 former. Now the remaining practical lessons are 
 to know how we can will to effect the transform- 
 ing power to bring us the desirable, going right 
 on from where we find ourselves. Every depart- 
 ment of psychology for correction, modification 
 or development of mental, spiritual or physical is 
 based upon the principles as they are explained 
 in the department of physiology and psychology 
 of the cell. The principle of mind in the cell, or 
 the aggregate of cells holds a power to transform 
 all the phases of the being after the ideas of our 
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 CHAPTER IV. 
 Practical Psycho-Therapeutics 
 
 Scientific suggestion means the introduction 
 of an idea into the sub-conscious department of 
 mind, the psychic department, usually spoken of 
 as the soul. This idea may be introduced in the 
 active state of the patient by his accepting it with 
 his mind and then passing it down to the soul, 
 thus giving his objective co-operation with the 
 positions suggested. It is so seldom that the 
 patient with his mind can believe implicitly, not 
 carrying even a shadow of doubt to the soul, that 
 dependence upon suggestion given in the active 
 state, is not warranted. There is a law of sug- 
 gestion, because the laws of the soul are as fixed 
 as the laws of chemistry, magnetism, electricity, 
 or gravity. The idea that is fixed in perfect faith 
 upon the soul will compel answer, involving even 
 a changing of the organism chemically, structur- 
 ally, or functionally. It believes all the mind tells 
 it ; it builds upon wrong expectancy, as effectual- 
 ly and as surely as upon the correct one. Under 
 a wrong suggestion the soul will change the body 
 to the abnormal ; under a right suggestion it will 
 perfect all of the physical organization. 
 
 We have now briefly outlined the power that is 
 
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 in the patient that heals his own body, and we 
 will show how to get access to that power to pro- 
 duce the phenomenon of cure. 
 
 A young Englishman of 26 years presented 
 himself at my office for treatment for stammer- 
 ing. His distorted countenance when endeavor- 
 ing to speak would call forth the sympathy of 
 almost any observer. His disorder had existed 
 since the age of six or seven, and had its origin 
 in his mimicry of a man whom he saw occasional- 
 ly. He and his sister indulged in this sport- 
 making, having no evil purpose, but kept up the 
 practice voluntarily for a time, when he found 
 that if he desired to speak normally there was 
 involuntary stammering. This grew upon him 
 until it was with the greatest difficulty that he 
 could make himself understood at all. His edu- 
 cation was fair in general lines. He had fitted 
 himself for book-keeping, and, being an adept 
 accountant, could have commanded the best po- 
 sition and salary, but for his defective speech. 
 He had been through several institutions in this 
 country, that had various methods for treating 
 such a case, but he said the exercises seemed to 
 have made him more self-conscious and he had 
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 It was then he came to me and I applied the 
 science of suggestion. We continued treatments 
 three times a week for two months, modifying 
 the form of suggestion as the case advanced. I 
 ceased referring to the old conditions and gave 
 only positive suggestions of harmonious speech 
 and perfect control over the organs of speech and 
 muscles of the face. 
 
 The patient returned to England cured. He 
 had left his family and friends on account of his 
 humiliating disorder. 
 
 I will not recite a series of such cases, for this 
 is one of a type, where the organs are all present 
 and normal, but where wrong habits have been 
 formed. In other cases somewhat similar to this, 
 surgery may be resorted to but operations often 
 fall short of their purpose, in the absence of sug- 
 gestion. Suggestion and surgerey must co- 
 operate to establish right organic conditions and 
 functional control. 
 
 Of course this was purely a disorder of func- 
 tions. The feature of habit was as profound as 
 could be in any instance. However, neither habit, 
 heredity, or any other form of mental state can 
 be impressed more deeply than in the soul itself. 
 That being the case, since in the passive state, 
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 wrongly impressed, we remove the error, plant 
 and cultivate a new habit and then we are able 
 to get natural expression. 
 
 The soul is ever striving for moral and physical 
 harmony, and because of that it took much less 
 time to plant order in the soul than it did the dis- 
 order. He had to break law to obtain defective 
 speech. He had only to bring himself in har- 
 mony with law to correct his speech. 
 
 Insomnia is probably the most easily respons- 
 ive disorder of all the conditions where the ner- 
 vous system chiefly is involved. Mrs. R., a 
 patient of about thirty-five, belonged to the so- 
 ciety set in San Francisco. She could not sleep 
 except by the use of drugs, the most of which 
 she had exhausted, and from none of them did 
 she get any refreshing sleep. She was placed in 
 a chair and made comfortable, and the usual 
 processes adopted for producing the passivity, 
 and "being quite responsive, I began her sugges- 
 tive treatment at once. The words I used were 
 like these: 
 
 "Immediately upon retiring tonight you will 
 find a drowsiness overcome you quickly, followed 
 by an unconscious sleep. During the night, 
 whenever you shall awaken, it will be only for a 
 moment, and you will immediately fall back into 
 
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 a refreshing sleep. In the course of the night 
 you will get at least six hours' sleep, and in the 
 morning you will be conscious of having had a 
 most refreshing slumber. You will be glad that 
 you have had that sleep without any drugs to 
 compel it. You will not desire any medicine 
 again to produce sleep. You will not feel the 
 loss of it in giving it up entirely." 
 
 This case and all of the kind have been treated 
 usually three times a week for two weeks or a 
 month according to how long a period of time 
 the insomnia had previously existed. The idea 
 of progress in the case is planted with the be- 
 ginning of the treatment, and is always observed 
 until we can truthfully say that the disease and 
 its symptoms have all disappeared and will never 
 return. The beginning practitioner should care- 
 fully observe the lessons herein taught pertaining 
 to aspiration. The patient does not receive J:he 
 suggestion at the first treatment, that he is going 
 to be perfectly well when aroused from his pas- 
 sivity, or that immediately upon being treated at 
 any sitting that there has been such action that 
 none of the symptoms of the disorder will ever 
 appear again. He should always suggest im- 
 provement and yet observe conservation, to avoid 
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 addressing. Such an impression is made by the 
 chronic condition that it is rarely indeed if ever 
 possible, for one to absolutely remove all symp- 
 toms at a few sittings. Usually there is a neces- 
 sity to not only overcome disease, but also to 
 establish a health habit. You should hold your 
 patient under treatment until that has been ac- 
 complished. In cases of insomnia, especially with 
 people represented by this lady, you will nearly 
 always have to cure a drug habit, as well as to 
 restore the equilibrium of the nervous system, so 
 that the patient can sleep naturally. 
 
 In the instance cited above full observation was 
 given to all of these phases and her cure was 
 perfect. 
 
 Suggestion, I mean scientific suggestion, which 
 is to be given in the passive state, will go hand 
 in hand with any other method. 
 
 In the hands of the specialist demonstrations 
 have been in the main confined to those cases pro- 
 nounced incurable, having made the rounds of 
 all other forms of treatment. Such a large per- 
 centage of cures when dealing solely with that 
 class, is a marvelous fact. 
 
 There are some reasons why a physician or 
 known healer would be the most efficient sug- 
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 stance is to obtain an expectancy in the soul of 
 the patient, and a man who is already great in 
 reputation has earned the confidence of the pa- 
 tient, which will be the basis of grounding faith. 
 
 The chief essential of an operator is common 
 sense. The next is sympathy. And if common 
 sense does not include tact, we will make that the 
 third essential. He must have firmness and posi- 
 tiveness as one who believes in himself and in 
 his teachings; in other words, sincerity. He 
 should have calmness and ease, confidence of 
 manner, and a voice that contains the magnetism 
 and sympathy of love, for he should be in the 
 attitude towards his patient as a mother towards 
 her child, whom she comforts and soothes to 
 sleep. 
 
 One who might be generally considered an 
 ideal operator, might not be thought so by every 
 patient for he may have his own ideas as to the 
 qualities that he wants to see embodied in his 
 suggestor. 
 
 If love and sympathy and common sense and 
 tact are found in an individual, he can meet with 
 practically universal success. Those qualities will 
 win the way to the soul, and will be able to sup- 
 ply the needs of that soul. 
 
 We will consider some of the diseases, and the 
 
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 method of giving suggestions in the passive state. 
 I will recite a case of eczema that has been suc- 
 cessfully treated at my hands, and which is typ- 
 ical of its own class. 
 
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 CHAPTER V. 
 Cases and Their Treatment 
 
 The case was a lady of between forty-five and 
 fifty, presenting the symptoms of loss of appetite, 
 indigestion, frequent headaches, insomnia, and 
 general nervousness. She said she had had a 
 breaking out of the skin on her chest and should- 
 ers, and that the itching and burning were driv- 
 ing her crazy. 
 
 Her occupation was that of a teacher. All the 
 symptoms excepting that of the inflammatory 
 condition of the skin, had existed for some time. 
 Her nervous system had received a shock eight 
 years previously, and she had been under medical 
 treatment almost all of that time, for various dis- 
 orders. 
 
 She considered that her worst difficulty, when 
 she came to me was that of indigestion, — prac- 
 tically all of dietary had been withdrawn. She 
 had made the rounds of physicians who, one after 
 another, had withdrawn different articles of food, 
 until she believed that all the substances disagreed 
 with her, and she realized her expectations. She 
 was trying to subsist upon a little breakfast food 
 when she came to me. 
 
 She was so nervous that when she sat down 
 
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 and relaxed her body as best she could; when 
 I requested her to close her eyes, it was impos- 
 sible for her to keep them closed. Placing my 
 fingers over her eyes, as I did not wish her to 
 tire them by gaze, and holding them closed, I 
 began the suggestions; "You will become so 
 calm, and all is so peaceful and quiet here that 
 you will get very comfortable, and perfect com- 
 posure will come to you instantly. This treat- 
 ment is soothing and you will receive an electrical 
 balance. You feel better already, calm mentally 
 — indifferent to your surroundings and feelings. 
 You feel you can receive the suggestions with 
 your whole being ; you will realize all the changes 
 I shall predict for you ; you will get many more 
 hours of sleep tonight, and the moments you are 
 awake you will be free from worry, anxiety or 
 fear, and will have only most delightful thoughts 
 during that time. Immediately after this treat- 
 ment you will feel hungry ; your appetite for food 
 will return at once, and when you eat you will 
 have no thought that your food will disagree 
 with you. I shall not detail your items of diet — 
 I want you to eat a general mixed dietary and 
 have no fear or thought about food after you 
 eat and you will find every meal will be taken 
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 three good meals daily and regularly. Your 
 stomach will perform its offices in secreting the 
 right fluids to treat the food — its muscular and 
 nervous activities will be normal. The liver will 
 perform its appointments naturally, and the in- 
 testinal functions be efficiently carried on. The 
 assimilation of your food will be perfect; every 
 cell shall take from your food the elements 
 needed. The irritation of the skin, showing a 
 lack of elimination, will disappear. Improvement 
 in every direction shall continue from this mo- 
 ment until you are perfectly well in all respects. 
 Soon you will be sleeping all night long, like a 
 little child; your eating will be ample and regu- 
 lar, and you will be anxious to eat at every meal 
 time. Your nervous system will have during this 
 time found its equilibrium, and this quietness and 
 calmness and control will have become a habit. 
 With all of this improvement in the nerves, in the 
 assimilation of food and elimination of waste sub- 
 stances made perfect, the itching and painful and 
 inflamed condition of the skin will quickly disap- 
 pear and will never annoy you again. You will 
 be better, and continue to improve until quite 
 well. At our next treatment you will become 
 more deeply passive, and you will gladly close 
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 sit down in this chair. Continue bright and cheer- 
 ful and hopeful, free from all worry from this 
 moment. All right now." 
 
 The last words "all right" are better than to 
 say "wake up," because to the latter the response 
 always is, "I was not asleep." This passivity 
 that is possible to all, even to an extremely nerv- 
 ous patient as that described, is ample for thera- 
 peutic purposes, save in the exceptions mentioned 
 elsewhere. 
 
 One can hardly imagine the improvement that 
 took place in this patient between the first and 
 the second treatment. "I have slept like a child 
 and eaten with delight; I do not have to use all 
 my energies in scratching either, for the break- 
 ing out is disappearing fast." 
 
 The second treatment was much like the first, 
 being along the same lines to make permanent 
 the improvement. During the treatment course, 
 which was for a month, and given three times a 
 week, suggestions were made with reference to 
 the disappearance of disease symptoms and to 
 the removing of all memories of those disorders, 
 and the establishment of the idea of perfect health 
 in their stead. 
 
 The cure of this patient was perfect along all 
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 course the improved nutrition and elimination 
 made most marked impressions upon her appear- 
 ance and mental state. In some degree her gen- 
 eral character and habits were changed but worry- 
 was a large feature in her nature, and she had a 
 very great burden upon her. It will be observed 
 by every practitioner that when a patient has 
 been quickly and profoundly affected, a time or 
 two by suggestion removing the penalties at- 
 tached to breaking laws, the tendency is to tempt 
 nature too far. Under medical treatment, even 
 though they might get well, they dread the dis- 
 agreeable medicine and the experiences of ill- 
 ness, which has a very wholesome effect upon 
 the care of themselves ; but the comfort and care 
 and pleasure under treatment by the suggestion 
 method tends to make one indifferent to health 
 observation. 
 
 The principle upon which this lady was treated 
 is the universal one under the psychic practice. 
 The student will observe that treatment was not 
 limited to the cause that brought the patient to 
 the office, but that while the irritation of the skin, 
 due to its inflammatory condition was the pri- 
 mary cause of the patient applying, yet it received 
 less attention when we began treatment than 
 other conditions did. 
 
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 This fact should cause the pupil to study this 
 case very carefully to note particularly that there 
 is nearly always something wrong with the 
 nutrition or elimination, and usually both; that 
 the nervous system is always involved in some 
 way or other in every disorder; that circulation 
 is often defective ; that the habits of the patient's 
 life should be looked after, and a careful observ- 
 ance of hygienic practices and exercises should 
 be considered. The patient who has had wrong 
 expectations must be made to understand how 
 disastrous they are, as, for instance, in the above 
 case the lady never swallowed a mouthful of food 
 without expecting that it would in some way give 
 her distress afterwards. 
 
 The habit of discussing at the table those items 
 of food that disagree with one or another is a 
 most deplorable thing to do. Granting that some- 
 thing does disagree with one, he has no right to 
 burden others with his eccentricity and upset 
 their dietetics. 
 
 The patient described above has studied the 
 principles involved in her treatment, and has 
 successfully applied them in training her chil- 
 dren from an educational standpoint, and is 
 bringing them up in fulfillment of her ideal, 
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 est hope for the science of the soul is grounded 
 In the rising generation. 
 
 The intelligent way to give treatment, and 
 that which I find is based upon principle, and 
 always successful, is to remove, if. possible, the 
 primary cause, by giving specific suggestions 
 concerning all the changes that can possibly be 
 related to the case. 
 
 Passivity and relaxation and the indifference 
 of the mind result in the depletion of the brain 
 of its excess of blood, which is conducive to the 
 right mental and physical state for receiving the 
 introduction of the idea into the soul, and which 
 cause the soul to act promptly and effectually 
 in producing the conditions suggested. 
 
 It is peculiar that the question is always asked 
 when one has been treated by a method that has 
 not been in the medical books for the last hun- 
 dred years, as to whether or not the cure is per- 
 manent. 
 
 I have said that this case was cured. That 
 seems to me final, and the question of perma- 
 nency can hardly attach itself in a case that is 
 cured, but if the patient should bring about the 
 same conditions that were present and caused 
 the disease in years gone by, he would get the 
 same effect again from a like cause. It comes 
 
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 to me as a new case, for, in the absence of a 
 new cause, no disease would appear. 
 
 Case. No. 12. A complex case was that of a 
 young woman, twenty-two years of age, who 
 had been a seamstress in a tailor shop for a num- 
 ber of years, and was advised to come to me for 
 treatment. 
 
 Her chronic trouble was Saint Vitus Dance. 
 This was of six years' standing, and always more 
 or less present, although the greater part of the 
 time she had kept at her work. 
 
 When I was called in, her spasms were mani- 
 fest in the whole body, including the face. She 
 could not control her speech, or be understood. 
 She was suffering from inflammatory rheuma- 
 tism and hysteria. There was uterine conges- 
 tion, although counsel and myself could not 
 determine how much the congestion had to do 
 with the nervous symptoms. 
 
 We could locate no spinal trouble, and in her 
 condition at the beginning of the treatment, 
 relief of several symptoms was of the greatest 
 import, and a complete diagnosis was never 
 made. 
 
 She heard the physician who was with me in 
 counsel say that she was hysterical, and that 
 he did not know how much she was really suffer- 
 
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 ing. She slapped him in the face when he at- 
 tempted to make an examination, and refused 
 to have him present in her treatment. 
 
 I was more fortunate in pleasing her, for I 
 believe that hysterical disorder is as much of a 
 disease as anything else that we have to deal 
 with. 
 
 I was soon convinced that she was not simu- 
 lating, because simulation is an act under the 
 control of the voluntary mind, by the act of the 
 will, imitates symptoms of disease. That which 
 we call hysteria would be under the involuntary 
 mind, and the symptoms are not controllable by 
 the will of the patient. For that reason, the 
 merciless way in which such cases are often 
 treated justifies the contempt that the patient 
 often feels for such physicians in their ignorance. 
 
 Inflammatory rheumatism affected all the 
 limbs, and at the joints there was great pain upon 
 pressure or movement. Her temperature was 
 from 101 to 103. 
 
 I did not feel justified in making the ordinary 
 repairs to get her through the acute disease, but 
 began to assure her at once that if she would 
 listen to what I would tell her that when she 
 got up from the rheumatism she would have no 
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 more quietly and calmly, and would have no 
 jerking of the hands or feet, or the drawing of 
 the muscles of the face. 
 
 Of course, she knew nothing about my meth- 
 ods or the principles upon which I promised 
 such a cure, but she seemed to believe in me, 
 and she said that she had been taking medicine 
 for six years, trying to get rid of her nervous- 
 ness, and that she thought that in some way she 
 should be cured. 
 
 Owing to the acute conditions and the neces- 
 sity for profound and quick effect upon the sys- 
 tem that might assist in the eliminating of the 
 causes of the uric acid, which we found present, 
 she was given purging medicine. 
 
 By the second day she was made easy, having 
 had a good night's rest and much sleep. There 
 was no pain except when certain portions of 
 the limbs were moved. Her temperature was 
 lower, and all the symptoms showed that they 
 had been impressed by the first treatment. 
 
 She became rapidly better of the rheumatic 
 symptoms, and within a week was all over the 
 acute difficulty. In the meantime I had been 
 giving suggestions that the inflammatory uterine 
 trouble would be corrected and that at her next 
 period there would be such a perfect adjust- 
 
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 ment of natural conditions that she would have 
 no suffering; that the processes should be nor- 
 mal in every respect, and that there should be 
 absolutely no congestion after that time. 
 
 I repeatedly suggested that the nervous system 
 was being quieted, and that the muscular dis- 
 orders would cease; that the habit of constantly 
 keeping the limbs in motion would be overcome, 
 and that she would have perfect control over 
 every movement. 
 
 She was treated daily during the period in 
 which the rheumatism was still in evidence. 
 After that three times a week. The entire course 
 was only a month, and at the end of that time 
 there was not one symptom remaining of rehu- 
 matism, local congestion, nor of chorea, and she 
 had gained a great deal in flesh and appearance. 
 
 Her after history was, that she returned to her 
 former occupation, and that there was no return 
 of the nervous symptoms. She was treated by 
 audible suggestions in the lightly passive state, 
 but she went into the natural sleep during the 
 treatment. That often occurs and is a good 
 omen. 
 
 This book is not written for the purpose of 
 a case record, and the idea in reciting these cases 
 is not to convince anyone that these special dis- 
 
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 eases are more remarkably responsive to sug- 
 gestive treatment than others, but because I de- 
 sire to give illustrations of the literal wording 
 of suggestions in the treatment of the case. 
 
 The student will catch the idea of aiming at 
 the removal of the cause when it is known to 
 him. In any event, he should suggest the im- 
 provement of the case to begin at once, and to 
 continue until cured. He should suggest the dis- 
 appearance of every unfavorable symptom, giv- 
 ing each one a specific suggestion. 
 
 It is not necessary for the operator or the 
 patient either to absolutely know the correct 
 diagnosis. It is a good idea to fall into the 
 sensible habit of treating diseases by conditions 
 rather than by names. 
 
 There is a portion of this book to be devoted 
 to showing how it is that the soul which we 
 are addressing in giving therapeutic suggestions 
 knows the correct diagnosis, for it is inherent in 
 the soul to know the condition of every cell in 
 which it resides, for it is present in every cell 
 of every tissue of the body. The mind of either 
 physician or patient might be mistaken, but the 
 soul actually knows and gives a correct diagnosis 
 many more times than it indicates. Were it 
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 might place upon the soul a suggestion that cer- 
 tain disorders exist that in the beginning were 
 not present. 
 
 Every physician has already found out how 
 helpful it is to allow a patient to tell him of his 
 own case in his own words. If he does not 
 permit the patient to do this, but if from the 
 beginning of the examination asks the questions 
 that suggest symptoms, he will never arrive at a 
 correct diagnosis. 
 
 So far as the above patient is concerned, it 
 would make little difference except as to the 
 pleasure of the pathologist, to know for certain 
 that the chorea was due to the rheumatic dia- 
 thesis. My personal belief is that the uterine 
 trouble was the primary cause of the nervous 
 manifestations. The disorders of the female are 
 particularly responsive to suggestion. The ma- 
 jority, both functional and organic, are caused 
 by expectancy. 
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 Morphine Habit Treated 
 
 Within this same year I had occasion to treat 
 a young man for the morphine habit. He was 
 at this time twenty years of age, and at sixteen 
 he was addicted to alcoholism and had taken the 
 Keeley cure. He came out of that treatment 
 with no taste for liquor, but with a desire to 
 continue the hypodermic injections. He found 
 it pleasing to have morphine in those injections, 
 and he kept increasing the amount until when 
 he was placed under my care he was using forty 
 grains in twenty-four hours. 
 
 This youth was suffering peculiarly when I 
 first called, and he nonplussed me very much 
 for the time being, but after getting him to rest 
 for twelve hours, he was able upon awakening 
 to tell me he had been using cocaine for two 
 weeks, and so had taken a large injection of that 
 drug along with his portion of morphine. His 
 physician had been giving him all the chloral he 
 dared, so I was unable to understand the situa- 
 tion, due to the three drugs all in over-doses. 
 
 The wonderful power of the sub-conscious 
 mind to create a tolerance in the physical, for 
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 score of people, is well worth attention for a 
 moment in passing. It is on the order of other 
 auto-suggestions, and is therefore a building pro- 
 cess. The idea is first introduced by taking the 
 minimum dose, and repetition is the method of 
 re-impressing that idea, and presently it has 
 grown to be an overwhelming suggestion as in 
 this habit. 
 
 The young man said he wanted to get rid of 
 the habit of using these drugs, and if he had 
 been addicted to the morphine habit only, I would 
 have felt much encouraged by his expressed 
 desire to quit, but it is very different when co- 
 caine has been added to the habit of morphine- 
 ism. The demoralizing effect of the cocaine 
 habit is greater than in any other drug addiction. 
 His promise would be worth nothing; he might 
 seem to be attending to treatment and obeying 
 instructions, and declare he was well, and yet be 
 practicing the same as before the treatment com- 
 menced. Remember this ; never trust the word 
 of a cocaine fiend. 
 
 I placed him under treatment, and developed 
 him immediately into excellent passivity. The 
 suggestions given were as follows, and are typ- 
 ical of the best form to use in these cases : 
 
 "You will cease to have the intense desire for 
 
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 the drugs, morphine or cocaine; the drugs shall 
 become repulsive to you from this moment, and 
 should you try to use the hypodermic needle the 
 pain in introducing it will be awful. The thought 
 of this pain will prevent you from using the 
 needle, and the disgust for the drugs will keep 
 you from forcing your body to receive them in 
 any form. 
 
 "Every form of elimination shall be stimu- 
 lated, thus removing promptly and entirely the 
 poison now in the body; and with this abstrac- 
 tion you will find a delightful, satisfied and peace- 
 ful state coming over you. You will not suffer 
 any nervousness, mental depression or physical 
 shock in ceasing to supply the body with these 
 horrible drugs." In those days I treated drug 
 habits by removal of the drug altogether and 
 at once, but later I have found it better to per- 
 mit a small dose at long intervals, instead of 
 absolute withdrawal from the first. 
 
 I repeated the above suggestions, as usual, a 
 number of times during the sitting of a half 
 hour, always making a stronger suggestion of 
 improvement. I kept him under the watch of his 
 family for two weeks. 
 
 Through the sympathy of the father, who 
 thought it impossible to make such an impres- 
 
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 sion, from the first, as to have him free from 
 suffering from the denial, he gave his son small 
 doses of morphine by hypodermic injection, al- 
 though the boy did not declare any desire to 
 have it. 
 
 The father had also taken the Keeley cure 
 twice and got this idea of reducing, not ab- 
 staining. Since that time where the patient has 
 been using enormous quantities, I permitted two 
 grains to be given in small portions during the 
 twenty-four hours. This would be lessened from 
 day to day and stopped altogether in a week. 
 In three weeks this case was cured of all his 
 drug habit. 
 
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 CHAPTER VII. 
 Hypnosis, Where and How to Use 
 
 I have stated many times that the hypnotic 
 state as a rule is unnecessary in our practice of 
 suggestive therapeutics, yet, as there are some 
 exceptions to the statement, I think it well to 
 note these exceptions and this will make it in- 
 cumbent upon us to have a thorough acquaint- 
 ance with how to produce this state and apply 
 it in practice. 
 
 Concerning the methods of producing the state 
 of hypnosis, every operator has some special 
 methods that he prefers above all others. There 
 is no objection to any of those in ordinary use 
 today. Braid's method was to have the patient 
 seated comfortably, then to look upwards at 
 some bright object as a crystal, or a piece of 
 silver, or a diamond, and have his eyes fixed at 
 an angle of about forty-five degrees, and looking 
 intently and not removing his gaze for an in- 
 stant. This would be continued until the pa- 
 tient's eyelids dropped involuntarily, even though 
 the tears streamed down his cheeks before that 
 occurred. Braid found that the majority of 
 patients remained in the hypnotic state for a 
 time, or until he told them to come out of it, 
 
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 and that those who did not pass under the 
 peculiar influence at one sitting would do so 
 at future efforts. He also impressed his patients 
 through the suggestive power of example, al- 
 though he did not intentionally do so; but when 
 he allowed one patient to see another go into 
 the sleep it was copied by the second. 
 
 It will be noted that almost any number of 
 patients could be treated at one time by Braid's 
 method of allowing them to sit and gaze and 
 go into the hypnotic state and come out of it at 
 a word from him, the symptoms in the mean- 
 time having disappeared, at least partially. If 
 I had any occasion to produce the state in any 
 large number of persons at a time, I should even 
 in these days use Dr. Braid's method. As will 
 be seen further on, there is never occasion upon 
 which it is necessary to produce the effect on a 
 large number. 
 
 The method that I have used chiefly in my 
 practice has been to hold some object at a dis- 
 tance of two or three feet in front of the pa- 
 tient's eyes, also at about the angle spoken of 
 previously. But I do not continue that gaze until 
 the patient's eyes are compelled to close, but 
 only long enough to tire the lids so that they 
 will remain closed without difficulty; then I 
 
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 request the patient to close his eyes. I have 
 found no evidence that there is any purpose in 
 the gaze other than to fatigue the eyes, so that 
 the patient is glad to have them closed. After 
 the eyes are closed, I place a finger in the corner 
 of each eye, pressing upward upon the nerves 
 which have such relationships to nerve centers, 
 as to assist in the quieting of the patient's mental 
 action. 
 
 Of course, the patient is comfortably seated, 
 and if in a rocking chair, there is some support 
 placed under the rocker, so that there will be 
 no strain upon the muscles of his limbs; perfect 
 relaxation must be provided for and must occur 
 before the patient can possibly be placed in the 
 hypnotic state. 
 . Out of the many hundred cases in which I 
 have actually produced the hypnotic state, I have 
 never seen one instance where there was any 
 nervous excitement, or anything aside from per- 
 fect calmness and peace. Even by the Braid 
 method, there is not often any nervous mani- 
 festation, but always in' using the soothing 
 method of the touch and reassuring words, there 
 is nothing occurs but the beautiful and desirable- 
 It is necessary to explain to the beginner that 
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 foundly, yet in the absence of suggestion, no 
 effect is produced upon any of the senses; he 
 must learn that there is absolutely no change in 
 the senses affected by the hypnotic state itself; 
 that forget fulness (amnesia) does not character- 
 ize the state even though it i$ deep. The loss 
 of pain, or the inhibition of hearing only occurs 
 by specific suggestion. 
 
 His final state, if he reaches hypnosis, is that 
 in which he is susceptible to suggestion and will 
 respond to any suggestion given him that is not 
 contrary to his auto-suggestion. Following the 
 method indicated above, repeatedly, for from one 
 to five sittings is requisite for an average person 
 to be prepared for a surgical operation in 
 dentistry, other surgery, or diseases that call for 
 the hypnotic state. The hypnotic state is chiefly 
 valuable in laboratory demonstrations, where we 
 want to show the phenomena of sub-conscious 
 powers ; for surgery or treatment of epilepsy. In 
 the treatment of epilepsy, it has been found suc- 
 cessful to produce the hypnotic state, and so 
 train the patient that he would remain in the 
 hypnotic state for several days at a time. When 
 the time is at hand when he would ordinarily 
 have his epileptic attack, if he is placed in the 
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 state, and kept in that condition over that period, 
 we not only have the advantage of breaking up 
 the periodicity of the paroxysms, but also have 
 the most favorable time in which to repeatedly 
 impress the suggestions that none of the epileptic 
 symptoms will occur. 
 
 In giving the treatment by suggestion in such 
 a case, the operator should aim to counteract by 
 specific mention all the symptoms that have usual- 
 ly been present in that particular individual, and 
 also to suggest emphatically that the conditions 
 causing the paroxysms are being overcome. 
 
 It is inherent in the soul to know what the 
 cause of the disease is, but thus far it has not 
 been possible for the pathologist to discover the 
 cause of the attacks unless from the history of 
 the case there is a traumatic cause. Since the 
 percentage of epileptics is small, to one who is in 
 the general practice, we can see that the hypnotic 
 state is very rarely necessary. 
 
 In addition to the above, the importance of 
 hypnotism in the laboratory work must be fully 
 appreciated. Whatever advancement has been 
 made in placing psychology on a practical basis 
 is due to the study of that science through hyp- 
 notic demonstrations. Hypnosis bears the same 
 relationship to psychology that dissecting the 
 
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 physical body does to the science of anatomy. In 
 the absence of physical dissections, we would 
 know very little about the body, either in struc- 
 ture or function. Without the dissection of the 
 mind, we would be just as ignorant as to the 
 marvelous revelations that have come through 
 our intimate association with the forms of mental 
 action, made possible through hypnotized per- 
 sons. 
 
 In view of the fact that it is not necessary to 
 use this hypnosis in any general way in the 
 practice, and we find with every decade it is be- 
 coming less a factor in psycho-therapeutics, I 
 do not think it worth while to entertain a lengthy 
 denial of the false charges that have been made 
 against that form of mental phenomenon. It is 
 a fact, however, that hypnotism and crime never 
 did and never will enter into successful partner- 
 ship. No person could be either the victim or 
 the agent of crime through hypnosis, unless in 
 reality a criminal already at heart. 
 
 It is remarkable that it has not been generally 
 known by operators that there could not be an 
 unconscious state in hypnosis. The modern 
 psychologist knows that the objective mind is 
 not put into abeyance or out of existence, but 
 has been brought into oneness with the super- 
 
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 conscious mind or soul, which is more acutely- 
 conscious than the objective mind alone could 
 be; the soul becomes possessed of all that the 
 objective minds knows or controls, as well as 
 inherently being possessed of the involuntary 
 powers. This latter statement explains the seem- 
 ing superhuman physical strength in one while 
 in the sub-conscious state. 
 
 I have said above that the sub-conscious mind 
 has a more acute consciousness than the objective 
 mind. This is proven by the discernment of 
 sounds that cannot be heard in the active state. 
 Indeed, all of the senses are intensified or ex- 
 alted. Then, with increased physical power and 
 heightened consciousness, telepathic rapport en- 
 ables the subject to anticipate every movement 
 of the operator. Thus one having access to all 
 the knowledge of the objective, plus that of the 
 soul, with its own inherent perceptions, if a 
 crime were contemplated at all by the operator, 
 one would be in a better state for defense than 
 in the normal. 
 
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 CHAPTER VIII. 
 The Suggestible States 
 
 The idiot is the only individual who cannot 
 be hynotized. Others sometimes are in a con- 
 dition that makes it impossible to produce hyp- 
 nosis in them while in that state. For example, 
 the intoxicated man must first get sober. There 
 are some forms of insanity that make it very 
 difficult and uncertain as to success, though many 
 of the insane can be placed in hypnosis. All 
 sound-minded, willing people respond; but no 
 one who opposes can be hypnotized while op- 
 posing. 
 
 But why take up the discussion of hypnotism 
 under the above title? Because it is generally 
 supposed that one is not only the most sug- 
 gestible in that state, but fallaciously thought to 
 be altogether suggestible then. 
 
 In opening the subject as to the conditions 
 which make one most responsive to suggestion, 
 we naturally go to our laboratory practices and 
 results, from which we learn the principles. 
 When one lies or sits so as to relax, and closes 
 his eyes, he at once becomes in some degree 
 passive. With deeper relaxation and more ab- 
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 mately becomes natural, unconscious sleep. 
 Hypnosis is a passivity just short of unconscious 
 sleep. One may be held by suggestions from 
 another just on the verge of sleep, a state in 
 which he can still hear the words suggested. 
 The Idiot is not hypnotizable, for he has no such 
 intermediate state between conscious and uncon- 
 scious. He falls asleep — right into the depths 
 thereof at once. 
 
 Let no one twist my meaning into a declara- 
 tion that a "natural fool" is not suggestible, for 
 he is, in the active state as well as in sleep, by 
 telepathy. The feeble minded, even to the fool, 
 can become useful through acquired intelligence, 
 if one persistently gives him such mental sug- 
 gestions as would involve development. 
 
 However, starting with hypnosis as a suggesti- 
 ble state, and one used for scientific revelation 
 in the laboratory, we then look for correspond- 
 ing states although not properly called hypnotic. 
 If sleep is just beyond hypnosis, as shown in our 
 definition, then in going to sleep one passes 
 through the corresponding or hypnotic state of 
 passivity whenever he goes to sleep. If the 
 hypnotic sleep is a suggestible one, then anyone 
 is suggestible when going to sleep. Any phe- 
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 possible in the stage immediately preceding nat- 
 ural sleep, the conditions being similar. In this 
 state suggestions can be successfully given to 
 children relating to physical change ; to the modi- 
 fication or corrections of habits; details for par- 
 ticular branches of study; for development of 
 the artistic powers (extensively set forth in 
 "Soul Culture"). All of these suggestions will 
 be in force, sleeping or waking, from the mo- 
 ment they are given. Reiterated time after time, 
 they will make it possible for the aspiring indi- 
 vidual to attain in excellence in every phase of his 
 being. 
 
 Analysis of these marvelous occurrences dis- 
 closes this: The imagery that is placed upon a 
 passive mind is so forcibly placed that it gains 
 control of the mind. 'In the instructions just 
 given I have indicated a method to be deliberately 
 followed where results of a certain kind are 
 desired. But if the suggestions (imagery) placed 
 upon one, when he is going to sleep, and when 
 asleep are as potent as laws or commands which 
 he will afterwards unconsciously or subconscious- 
 ly obey, what must we conclude as to the effect 
 of the imagery so often unintentionally placed 
 before the mind of the child as he is going to 
 sleep ? 
 
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 The child, born or unborn, the infant, or the 
 older child ; in fact, all are suggestible through 
 telepathy from those with whom they are in rap- 
 port. 
 
 When practicing medicine my advice used 
 to be sought concerning a baby that would 
 scream out in its sleep, have uncontrollable 
 fits of crying and sometimes go into convul- 
 sions. In those days I looked for physical 
 causes, which never were found, for they were 
 not there. The mother would fear that a pin 
 had gotten unclasped and was pricking it. Since 
 those days I have found the solution of the ques- 
 tion in the anxiety or terrified state of the moth- 
 er's mind that existed before and during the 
 baby's sleep. It may sometimes be occasioned 
 by a warm discussion between the parents, even 
 with the child out of hearing, the imagery of the 
 disputing parents, their pain, sorrow or anger 
 becoming the law of the child's immediate feel- 
 ing, and ultimate disposition. 
 
 Daily practice of formal hypnosis with sug- 
 gestions by a professional operator would not 
 be as effectual as suggestions given by a parent 
 when the child is going to sleep and continued 
 after it is asleep. An adult is just as suggestible 
 in these states as is a child. 
 
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 Parents would have a justifiable horror of 
 placing a child where he would be subject to 
 hypnosis and adverse suggestions either as to 
 its health or its character; yet these very same 
 parents often present imagery just as destructive, 
 under circumstances more sure to impress the 
 child, thinking that there is no danger, especially 
 if the child does not hear them talking. 
 
 There is another situation where one is thor- 
 oughly suggestible (and it is really impossible to 
 say that of these three states one is more sug- 
 gestible than the other), and that is when one is 
 in an emotional state. It matters not as to the 
 character of the emotion or what caused it, 
 suggestions can be placed directly into the sub- 
 conscious mind, which will be involuntarily car- 
 ried out after the emotion has subsided. The 
 psychology of this is that, in the emotional state, 
 the subconscious is made accessible, is en- 
 throned, the objective temporarily being in abey- 
 ance. 
 
 The revivalist uses his deathbed stories to 
 arouse his hearers' emotions, and then gives them 
 a suggestion to accept his religious formula, al- 
 though there is no relationship between the sub- 
 ject that caused the emotion and the thing he 
 is told to believe and to do. Masses of men 
 
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 get excited in a political meeting, and the speaker 
 gives them a suggestion to support his party, 
 and they do so in spite of their subsequent ra- 
 tional objections. Just the name of a cause be- 
 comes sufficient to arouse their strongest support 
 or awaken their bitterest aversion. 
 
 But neither religion nor political emotions or 
 suggestions are of great importance here except 
 as illustrations of the fact that, being brought 
 into any sort of emotion, from any cause what- 
 soever, prepares one for suggestions of any sort 
 as perfectly as does the deepest hypnosis. 
 
 At one time I had as a patient a young mother, 
 who listened to a description given by a neigh- 
 boring woman of a mother who, when her child 
 was seven months old, had a fit of insanity, in 
 which she injured her baby. My patient got 
 much excited, and, while in the emotional state, 
 aroused the auto-suggestion, "What if I should 
 ever get like that?" The idea continued to re- 
 turn, taking deeper hold upon her from day to 
 day until she became afraid to be left alone lest 
 she should do that same terrible thing to her 
 child. I put her into a passive state and sug- 
 gested away the perilous strain she was under. 
 Another patient of mine was reading an inter- 
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 her emotional over the subject of spirits. She 
 intensely thought upon what it would mean to 
 her to be controlled by such a spirit as she read 
 about. The idea took deep hold upon her, and 
 she finally gave up to it, losing her mental bal- 
 ance altogether. In presenting these illustra- 
 tions of how we may fix ruinous tendencies upon 
 ourselves by the things we suggest to ourselves 
 when in emotional states, I have made it un- 
 necessary to undertake much further to show 
 how things, it matters not how untrue or re- 
 pulsive, when suggested to us in strong words 
 during a passive or an emotional state, may be 
 fulfilled by us involuntarily afterwards. Many a 
 well-disposed child has been aroused by repri- 
 mand into strong emotion and then accused of 
 badness, which it apparently was afterwards un- 
 able to avoid. Under such conditions, a sugges- 
 tion goes directly to that part of us which gives 
 ready response without asking permission from 
 the will. 
 
 Recognizing the peculiar suggestibility of 
 humanity when in emotional states, we can real- 
 ize how lasting injury can be done a child who 
 has worried and cried over his books by telling 
 him he is stupid and altogether too dull to learn. 
 The teacher may say this to awaken the pupil's 
 
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 energies only to find that it paralyzes him. The 
 suggestion follows him and makes it impossible 
 for him to get hold of his studies. 
 
 Anything like a curse, a condemnation, or a 
 severe criticism of another when he is in an 
 emotional state, may be literally and seemingly 
 irresistibly fulfilled in him. 
 
 A sufferer from a simple ailment goes to a 
 physician for aid. Being in an emotional state, 
 he is liable to magnify the gravity of his com- 
 plaint and develop under such adverse sugges- 
 tions a really serious disease. Some physicians 
 will not give a diagnosis until the patient's emo- 
 tions have been allayed. 
 
 Our illustrations, it will be noted, have been 
 those proceeding from adverse suggestion, but 
 the reader must not infer that, in emotional 
 states, can one be influenced in no other than an 
 adverse way. Any suggestible state prepares one 
 for being favorably affected by good as well as 
 bad suggestions. Even when in anger one can 
 effectively receive kindly suggestions from an- 
 other ; or if he himself will resolutely and vividly 
 summon beautiful imagery, the suggestion thus 
 given will exercise a control for harmony over 
 his ensuing states and actions. 
 
 There is just one other phase of suggestibility 
 
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 that I care to allude to now, and that is that an 
 individual is susceptible to the suggestions he 
 gives to his own soul by the imagery that he 
 allows to predominate in his own mind. The 
 catalogue of a man's conclusions, formed by his 
 own mind, fixes the standards of his spon- 
 taneous actions. Our automatism testifies to 
 what our conclusions have been. What we have 
 gone over in mind many times and forgotten is 
 what we involuntarily express. The soul is the 
 department of character, and our thoughts, when 
 we are through holding them consciously, must 
 find lodgment in the soul; therefore by our 
 imagery, we are constantly making character. 
 I would that all the world could be brought to 
 hold constructive imagery, for then the soul could 
 be wholly under the impulse to build and we 
 would have occasion to expect only the desirable. 
 
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 CHAPTER IX. 
 Suggestion in Reforming 
 
 Thus far I have indicated the great value of 
 practical psychology when pertaining to the phy- 
 sical body. I now want to consider the subject 
 of the relation of psychology, especially with the 
 department of suggestion to character modify- 
 ing. 
 
 The value of suggestion as a science in moral 
 reform is beginning to be appreciated, and I 
 hope to have every parent, teacher and other 
 good citizen educated to the possibilities of the 
 subjective mind and how to use it in the chang- 
 ing and building of character. 
 
 I recall an excellent illustration of this in my 
 personal experience during my early days of 
 practice when I was using the hypnotic state as 
 a means to the best result in all kinds of sug- 
 gestive treatments. A young man of 18 years 
 came to answer to an advertisement of mine, 
 which called for subjects that I could use in my 
 class work in demonstration. He was so thor- 
 oughly degenerate in appearance that I was on 
 the point of dismissing him without investigating 
 as to his adaptability to my needs, when it oc- 
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 cover whether the germ of good ever does com- 
 pletely die out. Every character of evil habits, 
 mentionable or otherwise, and dissipations and 
 excesses in every form, were easily discerned. 
 I first developed him in such a way as to give 
 every physical demonstration, such as anesthesia 
 and catalepsy, also the various phenomena in 
 hallucinations. I gave him suggestions which 
 he accepted, which prevented him from remem- 
 bering, when in the active state, what was said 
 or done during his hypnotic state. After he had 
 been thoroughly developed as a subject I began 
 suggesting to him that he would begin to think 
 about changing his habits. Even though he was 
 in a deep passivity and I began talking upon his 
 changing his desires, his countenance would in- 
 dicate his amusement at such an idea. I saw no 
 promise of immediate response to any sugges- 
 tions, but one day he mentioned to me about 
 a certain companion whose intentions were of 
 such a nature that the boy and I agreed that 
 he would certainly get into serious trouble and 
 receive punishment. I advised my subject to 
 caution the young man, and if possible prevent 
 him from the evil thing. My boy was interested 
 and engaged himself in behalf of his companion 
 and informed me that he thought that we could 
 
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 keep him out of his trouble. I followed the line 
 indicated here, telling him we would go into 
 further partnerships to help his friends, and pos- 
 sibly we might get them out of many wrong 
 ways. My experience with this youth, who was 
 so thorough a reprobate and beyond having any 
 interest in himself, except to gamble and ca- 
 rouse, yet who would take an interest in helping 
 his associates into better ways, proves that every 
 individual is a savior. After succeeding in inter- 
 esting him in the other individual, I suggested 
 to him that if he and I were to help others that 
 surely we ourselves should be what we advised 
 and required them to be. He responded to my 
 suggestion, and of himself asked that I would 
 help him get rid of his tendencies and overcome 
 the habits so far as it was possible. He was an 
 incessant gambler with cards. He seldom had 
 any money except small winnings, and he scarce- 
 ly purchased for himself even necessary cloth- 
 ing. To assist him in freeing himself from his 
 associations, I gave him a hypnotic suggestion 
 that he could not shuffle the cards; that his 
 fingers would involuntarily stick to the card. 
 He reported to me that he did not know what 
 was the matter with him, that he could not pick 
 up or let go of the cards, and that his com- 
 
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 panions had put him out, because they thought 
 he was only making fun of them. I gave him 
 suggestions that he would have no desires for 
 the place, that it would be a physical impossi- 
 bility for him to lift a glass containing alcoholic 
 liquors of any kind to his lips; also that the 
 odors, as well as the taste of any such stuff, 
 would make him desperately sick at the stomach. 
 All of this proved out in his experience. These 
 physical aids were very helpful, and made it 
 much easier to correct his habits than it would 
 have been had we left the body demanding that 
 which had been the occasion of habit. By chang- 
 ing his desires from fondness to disgust, or 
 physical inability to perform or enjoy, we made 
 the treatment much more sure. These sugges- 
 tions and others that he needed, I gave him 
 within a period of about six months. At the 
 end of that time he had greatly improved in his 
 appearance, and very little resembled his former 
 self in his aspirations. Where he simply would 
 not work under any circumstances, he had now 
 become a good citizen and gone to work in the 
 iron works. The reform of this young man 
 would scarcely have taken place, even though I 
 had put him in the hypnotic state, had I not first 
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 then changing his own practices in order to be 
 consistent with what he was advising others. 
 The first suggestions I gave him did not even 
 awaken aspirations, but only aroused contempt. 
 I should like to give instances here leading to 
 the discovery of how we are inherently disposed 
 to help one another. I presume I would best 
 make plain some features that belong to such 
 cases. There is no objection to the hypnotic 
 state under any circumstances, but as so few 
 understand it correctly, it is well that any stu- 
 dent of this sub jest should be fully assured that 
 the hypnotic state is not essential, but that a 
 passive state is ample for the purposes. Sug- 
 gestions repeatedly given go just as deep, when 
 the individual is passive and hears the sugges- 
 tions, as when in the deep stages of hypnosis. 
 The superficial individual might say that this 
 boy was reformed against his will. In fact, a 
 man claiming the title of M. D. published an 
 article saying that I did a most reprehensible 
 thing in changing this boy from a vagabond who 
 had no hesitancy at any crime or practice, into 
 a well-appearing, neatly kept, industrious, good 
 citizen; he said that in doing this I had de- 
 throned his will. The soul or the real self had 
 always willed that he should be what he after- 
 
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 ward became. It is true his objective, or sense 
 department preferred or willed to the contrary. 
 Of course, with the exception of reform in- 
 stitutions, not many of us would have oppor- 
 tunity to treat such extreme moral conditions, 
 but the lesson is here for every one, which is, 
 to realize that just as exactly as there is the 
 healing power in the patient with reference to 
 his own body, and that power operates under 
 suggestion, just so does that power abide in the 
 individual -with reference to his own habits or 
 character. Then after we recognize the power 
 and where it is, and under what law it acts, we 
 are prepared to remove from or add to the 
 habits or traits, whether they are for small 
 changes or great reforms. Again, I want my 
 reader to avail himself of the principles that 
 have been revealed to me in my laboratory work, 
 for although the hypnotic state was used in this 
 particular illustration, the inestimable value of 
 our lesson is in learning the principle. We see 
 how the force of habit had become the prevail- 
 ing suggestion that overwhelmed this boy's life. 
 He not only willed to do wrong, but after his 
 inclinations were changed he did wrong many 
 times involuntarily. To assist in overcoming 
 the things that he yielded to, that he did not 
 
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 want to do, I gave him the suggestion that made 
 it a physical impossibility to perform certain 
 acts. This supported him while he was gaining 
 spiritual strength. 
 
 A practical lesson for the parent when he or 
 she sees from this case that the power in the 
 child is the soul, and is controlled by suggestion. 
 The soul compels expression that it has been 
 made to really expect. If that expectancy, or 
 habit, in the soul is something that should be 
 corrected, we find that suggestions or ideas in- 
 troduced to the soul changing or determining 
 expectancy, will work the change regardless of 
 the method used in introducing the new idea. 
 
 The parent has every opportunity to give these 
 suggestions in the most forceful way. Let the 
 child or other person go to sleep, while you give 
 suggestions in form of conversation, or prophe- 
 cies, that the habit or symptom will disappear. 
 Though this may seem to be so simple as to 
 appear foolish, yet it is being demonstrated in 
 thousands of instances that the result comes as 
 predicted. Again, we are proving a principle, 
 for if the soul is the power and is controllable 
 by suggestion and the child or other person be- 
 comes an expression of whatever is the ruling 
 suggestion in his soul, then if the suggestion 
 
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 is impressed upon him, whether he is passive 
 or active, or under emotion, it makes no differ- 
 ence as to the result. It is true that in the 
 active state one is not so susceptible to sugges- 
 tion, yet if the active mind is made to absolutely 
 believe, which it has a tendency to do under the 
 constant impress of a picture, then the sugges- 
 tion constantly repeated in his hearing may get 
 to his soul, after which it comes out in ex- 
 pression voluntarily. Learning all that is em- 
 braced in these principles, the wrong suggestions 
 will cease to be given to children or to others, 
 and the avoidance of unseemly word pictures 
 will be rigidly observed. Almost every home 
 needs revision under these revelations, for the 
 family conversation, contentions and predictions, 
 as interchanged between members of the house- 
 hold, would be regarded as actual realizations 
 that sooner or later would be complete. 
 
 We give and take suggestions in our daily 
 lives. So we must come to this conclusion based 
 upon scientific demonstration, that the highest 
 possibilities of the individual can only be at- 
 tained when we say to ourselves or others, only 
 the words that represent what we would, under 
 our highest ideal, want to become realized. 
 
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 CHAPTER X. 
 Science of Telepathy 
 
 The conveyance of messages by wireless 
 telegraphy is based upon the phenomena of ether ; 
 that substance, so fine in its particle that it per- 
 meates all matter, has demonstrated to us that 
 there is no such thing as a solid, and also that 
 there is no true vacuum since either is every- 
 where. 
 
 Ether meets with no obstruction in the dia- 
 mond, nor in the enamel of the teeth, which is 
 harder, but would pass through the pores. Only 
 by thinking of some other subtle substances can 
 we form much appreciation of this ultra-material 
 substance, imperceptible to the senses. We can 
 remove almost all of the atmospheres from with- 
 in an enclosure, but not the ether; nothing can 
 exclude that. Scientists say that luminiferous 
 either must penetrate between the atoms and 
 exist in the pores of every transparent substance, 
 else light could not travel through it. 
 
 From the point of view that either is seven 
 hundred thousand times more rare than our air, 
 the resistance would be six hundred million 
 times less than that of water, which reduces 
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 effect upon the motion of planets in many thou- 
 sands of years is concerned. 
 
 The earth is pointed out as an example of a 
 frictionless, moving body. It is to be hoped 
 that the inventor will continue his study until it is 
 revealed to him how to produce machinery, that 
 will work without friction. But the earth phe- 
 nomenon of no friction is due to the properties 
 of this sensitive ether, for sensitive it must be 
 and therefore subject to change in its vibratory 
 rate, by the slightest cause. 
 
 Wireless telegraphy is supportive of the wave 
 theory of light, sound, etc., which of course pre- 
 supposes that there is something to wave. If it 
 is eight minutes after the waves set out from 
 the sun before they strike the eye, then there 
 must be in space some medium that conveys 
 them. 
 
 A wave being defined as a disturbance, periodic 
 both in space and time, anything is a wave that 
 is doubly periodic, whether in air as sound 
 waves or in ether as light waves. In ether as 
 waves of various lengths and speed carry the 
 wireless code, just as waves do on the surface of 
 the water. 
 
 The properties essential to the transmission of 
 wave motion are elasticity and inertia and any- 
 
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 thing that can act through these properties can 
 be the source of waves. Accordingly we say, 
 that anything that can cause a displacement of 
 ether will start waves. The mechanism of the 
 wireless is an electric power and discharge, sup- 
 portive of a vibrator, which displaces ether, cre- 
 ating waves of a length and speed that are as 
 symbols constituting an agreed code. Having 
 a transmitter that will vibrate in such a manner 
 then the transmission and receipt of such a mes- 
 sage is only dependent upon a sensitive receiver 
 that is in attunement with the transmitter. Men 
 have constructed and exercised transmitters and 
 receivers, successfully imparting information to 
 each other, when they were hundreds and even 
 thousands of miles apart. Such phenomena hav- 
 ing been demonstrated it would be foolish to ar- 
 gue as to the possibility of transmitting messages 
 without any sensible medium existing between 
 the points of sending and receiving. 
 
 Telepathy is a better known phenomenon, be- 
 cause more generally demonstrated than that of 
 which I have just written, and therefore I trust 
 no one will think I have become argumentative 
 and am trying to prove the existence of such 
 communication, between people. While any sub- 
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 my laboratory. Conjectures and mere opinions 
 I do not publish. Conclusions, facts and formu- 
 las pertaining to the subject now under discus- 
 sion, will have all of our attention. 
 
 Only after understanding something of the 
 medium and the law of thought transmission can 
 there be the largest benefits enjoyed. Telepathy 
 is another psychic phenomenon, whose best bless- 
 ing attends upon faith following knowledge. 
 
 Telepathy, or the transference of thought be- 
 tween individuals through other than objective 
 means, is obtained through waves of the ether in 
 the same as with wireless telegraphy. It is due 
 to displacement of ether in the sense, that the 
 mechanism of the telegraph results in a displace- 
 ment of ether, in such a manner as to create sym- 
 bols that can be pereceived and interpreted. 
 
 We have to dismiss the idea of "separation with 
 nothing between to connect us," for, though not 
 as tangible as a wire, it is as material and as 
 actual. If we are within the reach of each other's 
 voice we communicate audibly. Through atmos- 
 pheric waves, of which we are not conscious, we 
 become objectively conscious of the result. Ethe- 
 ric waves that carry our soul's impulses are just 
 as scientific, but, not being always conscious of 
 
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 the result, we do not make as good use of the 
 law of telepathy as we could or should. 
 
 The mechanism of man with a dual mind can 
 impress the ether waves. To get conception of 
 this idea you may recall the impression that cen- 
 tered attention may make upon much coarser par- 
 ticles than those of ether. The temperature of 
 any part of the body may be changed by fixation 
 of attention upon that part. This involves the 
 rearrangement of cells. Under mental excite- 
 ment the heart may beat so violently ttfet it will 
 cause a building to tremble. Depressed emo- 
 tional states, as of anger, fear, worry or jealousy, 
 reverse the chemistry of the tissues, secretions 
 and general products of the body. The cellular, 
 molecular, atomic and etherial changes essential 
 to these, are a million times greater than would 
 be necessary, in order to impress the sensitive 
 ether within and without the body either to send 
 out the soul's impulse to another, or to throw it 
 out to be received by any one who is in rapport 
 (attunement) with it. 
 
 I think it is possible to explain to another all 
 of the physics of thought transmission, but 
 whether the reader comprehends it perfectly or 
 not he will find much help in grasping the idea 
 that people are immersed in the same great sea 
 
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 of ether which brings them into communication 
 which could not be made more intimate by a wire 
 within reach of the hands of all. There is in 
 man all that is essential to impress the elastic and 
 inert properties of ether. Every man is a trans- 
 mitter and receiver and the character and degree 
 of thought received by one from another is de- 
 pendent only upon rapport ; and, the basis of rap- 
 port is sympathy. When sympathy is established 
 between persons they become susceptible to im- 
 pression by the same vibratory rate. Fear of an- 
 other, or fear that he can injure you by his 
 thought power, creates a susceptibility of the same 
 sort. Enmity between people breaks up their 
 rapport ; therefore no one really has cause to fear 
 the evil power of another's thought. Harmony 
 or agreement, being the basis of rapport, the 
 more thorough the sympathy and the larger the 
 scope of the harmony, the better the rapport. 
 
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 Then, since the laws of telepathy are under- 
 stood and capable of scientific application, absent 
 treatment can be successfully conducted. To this 
 end there are certain concepts, which, when had 
 by operator and patient, very greatly aid results. 
 As the idea of separation with nothing to connect 
 
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 is found incorrect, so is the idea of distance cre- 
 ating absence in a measure, erroneous. If an 
 individual with whom I wish to communicate is 
 within the sound of my voice, I use the objective 
 means of conveying my ideas, by mentally com- 
 manding my soul to exercise my vocal organs in 
 such a manner as to impress the atmosphere. The 
 scientist says that the ether, probably, with waves 
 of a length and speed to affect his auditory organ- 
 ism with sounds, forms an assemblage of sounds 
 which may constitute words. When he is beyond 
 the impress of these coarse waves then I resort 
 to that which will make finer waves in the sensi- 
 tive stratum of ether. I do this by resorting to 
 the subjective entirely, instead of the partly ob- 
 jective method as in spoken communication. 
 
 Among the score of questions you will be asked 
 how is this, What is the reason, then, that people 
 as a rule are not conscious of more telepathic 
 communication than they are? The reason is 
 this: Telepathy is subjective. Subconscious 
 communication, is, communication between the 
 souls of individuals ; therefore, there may be not 
 the slightest perception of the transmitted 
 thought, since it may never rise to the threshold 
 of consciousness. It is not essential that it should 
 rise to consciousness in the instance of treatment, 
 
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 for the operator transmits the impulses to the 
 subconsciousness of the patient, which is the de- 
 partment that does the healing. 
 
 The real process is this ; the definite suggestion 
 to be transmitted is formulated in the conscious 
 mind of the operator, and then, instead of trying 
 with that department of the mind to send the 
 message to the patient, he aims to impress his 
 subconscious mind with the whole matter, and 
 in the hands of his subconsciousness, he leaves it. 
 
 It must be apparent from this that a patient 
 should choose an operator with care, if he is to be 
 treated telepathically, for it means to establish 
 rapport, to receive suggestions and to act upon 
 them, which suggestions he may never be con- 
 scious of and yet be unconsciously influenced by 
 them. Just how many moral and physical dis- 
 eases have their source in the anxious, doubting 
 and fearing attitudes of our friends will be a sub- 
 ject for the future ; but, just as the physician who 
 is believed in, can, by an untrue diagnosis cause 
 more disease than previously existed, so may the 
 ignorant operator who has been received into the 
 relationship of physician, treat telepathically, form 
 the wrong imagery and disturb cell functioning 
 and thus create fresh disease. 
 
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 CHAPTER XL 
 Evil Thought Transference 
 
 It seems that every good that has ever ex- 
 isted has been contorted with evil brought from 
 it in some way. The department of psychology 
 comprehending thought transference is no ex- 
 ception to this rule. Ignorance, as usual, is at 
 the base of the wrong. 
 
 Immediately upon the announcement and the 
 demonstration that thought was transmitted from 
 one and received by another, and that often heal- 
 ing was, without doubt, a result of such inter- 
 change, it was promulgated that of course there 
 was nothing to limit the power, and that if a 
 thought could be a beneficial agent in the hands 
 of a physician who desired to cure a patient, 
 that it would be just as great a power, and could 
 be exercised just as effectually, by one with evil 
 intent. 
 
 If the student had been acute he would have 
 understood, from previous chapters, that which 
 would have confirmed him in the assurance that 
 a man cannot bring disaster through telepathy 
 into the life of his enemy for the very reason 
 that enmity shuts off rapport. A second most 
 potent reason is that the soul of man is exer- 
 
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 cising its functions for sustaining an equilibrium, 
 moral and physical, and is not so open to de- 
 structive agencies as to those that are uplifting. 
 We have shown throughout the book that rap- 
 port itself is based upon love and sympathy. I 
 have spoken so frequently of the necessity for 
 the receiver to be in attunement with the trans- 
 mitter. A man is in no danger through thought 
 transference, however powerful a concentrator 
 his opponent may be, but he is in great danger 
 through his friends, who are in rapport with 
 him and send him the depressing and the un- 
 favorable thought, and because of their perfect 
 rapport, plant the wrong expectancy in him. 
 
 Again I am called upon to repeat the state- 
 ment that we suffer most at the hands of our 
 nearest and dearest, through their ignorance of 
 the laws governing the psychic forces. The 
 statement that I made in a lecture some time ago, 
 that the nation probably was responsible for the 
 death of Senator Hanna, which statement was 
 published in the newspapers throughout the coun- 
 try, was based upon the thousands upon thou- 
 sands of his friends believing the unfavorable 
 bulletins, and through their sympathetic rapport 
 caused the great preponderance of mental power 
 to be on the negative side. 
 
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 When a man's soul is exercising to its fullest 
 limit, in its effort to keep the body tenantable, 
 and receives a single discouraging suggestion 
 from one powerful and sympathetic suggestor, 
 who says there is no hope, and believes with all 
 his soul that the patient will not recover, an 
 obstacle has been put in his way that so increases 
 physical and mental depression that the resisting 
 power is not adequate. If it be true that one or 
 two persons near and dear, and therefore in 
 close rapport with the patient, can add that which 
 overburdens the vital force, what must be the 
 effect upon the power within a man's body when, 
 helpless and hopeless expectancy is poured into 
 his soul by the thousands, as in the instance of a 
 public personage? Had there been no reports 
 of the senator's illness, or could they have been 
 of a tenor to create an expectancy of recovery, 
 then there would have been good reasoning and 
 science to justify the belief that he need not have 
 died. If the senator had had one-half of the 
 nation at enmity with him, and had they con- 
 centrated with all their powers, day and night, 
 they could not have affected him in the least 
 through their power, because the conditions of 
 rapport were not complied with. 
 
 However, we must see and take into proper 
 
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 consideration what the possibilities are through 
 the ignorance of the patient. The proposition 
 in exactness is this: That if a man or patient 
 believes that his enemies have the power over 
 him, and are exercising it, then he comes to a 
 fulfillment and realization of the condition that 
 corresponds to what he believes they are en- 
 deavoring to and are able to do. 
 
 There have been thousands upon thousands 
 of deaths even, to say nothing of disease and dis- 
 aster, resulting from that auto-suggestion. Per- 
 sons have experienced disease, disaster and death 
 when they believed that a curse had been put 
 upon them, and that an enemy, or a number of 
 persons were exercising influences over them. 
 
 There is one way by which the twentieth cen- 
 tury can pass back to reflect the sixteenth, and 
 the way to fall back to that standard is to let it 
 become a general belief that a person can be 
 evilly influenced by his enemies. It is not a sur- 
 prise that it is a man's own belief, and the ex- 
 pectancy of his own soul, that either blesses or 
 curses him, for that is the law of the soul that 
 that which it believes, it will bring into ex- 
 pression. 
 
 In the centuries, including the fifteenth and 
 part of the seventeenth, there were thousands 
 
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 of persons burned at the stake as witches. These 
 witches, it was claimed, were in league with 
 the devil. They were said to hold intimate re- 
 lationship as his agents, and would have their 
 midnight revels with him. Infants were snatched 
 from their mother's arms and literally torn to 
 pieces because they were supposed to be the 
 agents of the evil one who was causing disease 
 and death in the vicinity. Don't stop, but read 
 on past the statement that I am about to make, 
 that hundreds of people were made ill and even 
 died because of these so-called witches. 
 
 It does not take much intelligence to see that 
 it was not the actual power of the witches that 
 caused the disturbance, but it was believing that 
 the witches had that power over them and fear- 
 ing them on that account. 
 
 There are many people who pass for having 
 some intelligence, and yet who are accepting a 
 teaching as diabolical and untrue as the old be- 
 lief in witches, and that is believing and teaching 
 that a man's enemies can will him into mis- 
 fortune. Let the belief become general that the 
 telepathic power is such as to equip one for 
 bringing misfortune into another's life, and upon 
 every hand he will find that whenever one is sick, 
 is disappointed commercially, or meets with an 
 
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 accident, he will be ready to accuse some one 
 whom he thinks is displeased with him, of being 
 the cause of his unfortunate experience. 
 
 A man might plow through any icy slush of 
 melting snow, with wet feet all day, and at night 
 go home and have a chill, followed by high tem- 
 perature, subsequently developing a typical case 
 of pneumonia, and yet ascribe it all to an evil 
 thought of some enemy. This is just how un- 
 reasonable people have become. 
 
 It is a law of the soul that whatsoever a man 
 sows, that shall he also reap, that is, the law 
 of cause and effect. The real science of it is this : 
 the suggestion that you give another, spoken or 
 in thought, is received by your own soul, and 
 unconsciously or involuntarily, so far as your 
 mind is concerned, your soul brings your mind 
 and body into those conditions and experiences 
 that you suggest to another. A literal demon- 
 stration of this principle was given me through 
 a pupil of mine, who, in practicing treatment, 
 had occasion to treat a man for the habit of 
 alcoholism. He was aiming to follow the for- 
 mula that I had given him, in which he said to 
 the man in the passive state : 
 
 "Liquor, in any form, is nasty, filthy, nauseat- 
 ing stuff, and will be very repulsive to you, mak- 
 
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 ing you sick at your stomach even at sight of it 
 and the odor of it will be intolerable to you. 
 You will not want liquor, and you will not suffer 
 any from giving it up." The operator was not 
 an excessive drinker, but used it temperately, and 
 he assures me that upon an effort to take his 
 usual toddy, he became so sick at his stomach 
 that he had to give it up and could not drink it. 
 
 The soul acts upon the principle that what 
 you suggest to another must be the proper thing 
 for yourself, or you would not give it to one 
 of whom you are a part, and of course the prin- 
 ciples of psychology, as here set forth, teach the 
 common brotherhood of man. 
 
 We will close this chapter with the final state- 
 ment that there is no possibility of one with an 
 evil intent bringing any disaster into the life of 
 the object of his evil desire, excepting through 
 the auto-suggestion of the person to whom he 
 has directed his aim, in the form of the belief 
 that his enemy has that power over him. 
 
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 CHAPTER XII. 
 Psychic Powers 
 
 The development of psychics, whatever their 
 purpose, is practically the same. An exception 
 might be in that we need to emphasize the sug- 
 gestion in those who have commercial purposes, 
 to fit them for establishing rapport instantly with 
 those who desire their services, and give the sug- 
 gestion that they will be able to do this ; that the 
 instant they meet a person they will receive an 
 impress of that one, and the impress immediately 
 communicates itself to the consciousness. 
 
 During the development it would be well if 
 the operator would, in cases I am now describ- 
 ing, call in a number of other persons in order 
 to see that they are able to do this, for the ex- 
 ercise during the development being only with 
 the operator, would not give the psychic suffi- 
 cient variety of personalities to practice the rap- 
 port upon. 
 
 The natural adaptation, owing to peculiarities 
 of the psychic's tendencies, may fit her for one 
 line of reading better than another. I have found 
 some, who were especially adept in diagnosing 
 disease, others in character reading, others who 
 were excellent at following the course of one's 
 
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 life in the past, and again others who would sel- 
 dom go into the past at all, but would describe 
 the experiences, that were in the future. 
 
 They foretell of journeys and business trans- 
 actions, involving descriptions of persons, their 
 peculiarities, the result of contact with them, 
 many times giving peculiarities, of personal ex- 
 terior, not simply as to the type, but mannerisms 
 and peculiarities of dress, and yet the one who 
 was receiving this information through the 
 psychic had no objective knowledge of any of 
 the persons. They had not conceived of the idea 
 of the journey or the transaction in any way, so 
 it could not be accounted for on the basis of the 
 object of the reading having received the im- 
 pression concerning those things through telepa- 
 thic messages from such people, that he might 
 meet some months hence. 
 
 It is inherent in the soul to know its experi- 
 ences in advance, at least many months. These 
 things have come to me personally, too often to 
 be coincidences. 
 
 A careful observation of the data, with no pur- 
 pose to prove the proposition, but to know the 
 truth of it, has characterized my daily effort. My 
 experience is worth more to me than it is to any- 
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 intend, at present, to push the argument or pre- 
 sent the data in the detail that the subject might 
 warrant. I will give you the plan by which you 
 can as well demonstrate it for yourself, as to 
 accept my experiences a settling the question. 
 
 As stated before, I have had some psychics 
 whose strong point was to go into the future. 
 Literally and briefly, the proposition is, that the 
 soul knows its future. I mean by future that 
 which shall occur to the individual while in the 
 present environment. I have no occasion to take 
 up the question as to his knowledge or his con- 
 dition in the next. 
 
 Now I am not pretending to state that he 
 knows, from the instant of his birth, his whole 
 life, or that he will know at ten the history he 
 will make up to sixty. I have not demonstrated 
 how long a time, so that I can fix it definitely, 
 but in personal experience, things have been fore- 
 told which I had no possibility of accounting for 
 on the basis of accident or coincidence, some 
 years ahead. 
 
 Many minds would be satisfied that the prin- 
 ciples were perfect, if the sub-conscious foretold 
 one day or thirty days in advance. 
 
 Now, in taking up the question of psychic phe- 
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 that I approve of all the methods of fortune- 
 telling, or that I am endorsing any man or wom- 
 an, or either his or her method. I simply want 
 to consider the phenomena that are so common 
 and create consternation in many instances. 
 
 One person will take a crystal, and, gazing 
 upon it for a while, speak truths concerning the 
 experiences in the past life of someone with 
 whom she is in rapport, and usually who is pres- 
 ent, and in her revelations will go into the future 
 and will make certain statements. There will be 
 a certain percentage, possibly a small percentage 
 only, that will be true. 
 
 Another may take the coffee or tea grounds 
 and give the same sort of data, with the same 
 percentage of truth. 
 
 Another will gaze into the fire. They have 
 been doing this ever since the experience of 
 Moses and the burning bush, and probably long 
 before, but the data is of the same class and 
 character as that obtained by the other means 
 mentioned. 
 
 The Indian will take his hands full of animal 
 tusks, birds' claws and beaks or pebbles, throw 
 them upon the ground, and he will give you much 
 of your past, your present, and often will fore- 
 tell your future quite accurately. 
 
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 The Egyptian may use shells, bark, or the 
 talisman, or he may depend upon astrology and 
 its relationship to your date of birth. At any 
 rate he very often will give you an excellent char- 
 acter reading and a history of important events 
 and changes in your life, and the most prom- 
 inent and impressive points of your future. 
 
 Another will take the ordinary playing cards^ 
 with each card representing a word 5 or term, the 
 combining of many together making complete 
 sentences. The one who is receiving the reading 
 mixes the cards, and the reader with his or her 
 acquaintance with the alphabetical meaning of the 
 cards, will give the same information that any 
 and all of these others have given. 
 
 The palmist, with the best education as such, 
 while giving peculiar facts, possibly as to the 
 tendencies to disease, and finding, as he thinks, 
 in the palm, the tendencies that should be, or 
 would be, followed or overcome, yet with his 
 phraseology and the allowance made for some 
 peculiarities, he invariably goes into the past, 
 present and future to about the same degree that 
 the others do by their different methods. 
 
 The spirit medium will give practically the 
 same, if she is a good psychic. 
 
 I shall now refer to, "the psychic who, with no 
 
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 other pretensions, and without devices of any- 
 kind, or even a belief in any other things than 
 her own mind and soul, will give the same, sub- 
 stantially, that the others do, but with more ac- 
 curacy and with a larger percentage of success. 
 In her foretellings, nine-tenths, at least, may be 
 correct. 
 
 With about a dozen different methods, all to- 
 tally unlike, yet all obtaining about the same sort 
 of phenomena, one is convinced that there is a 
 common source of the knowledge somewhere. It 
 certainly is not in the fire, in the coffee grounds, 
 in the pebbles and claws, or the stars, neither in 
 the lines of the hand, nor in the cards, but we 
 know that all of these are the means of obtaining 
 knowledge from the sub-conscious mind. 
 
 In all of these instances, there has been a per- 
 son whom we call a medium giving the informa- 
 tion. If there is no psychic power in the person 
 who attempts to give information, through any 
 of the above means, there is no data obtained, 
 either as to the past, present or future, which is 
 correct, except by one method and that is the 
 cards. 
 
 If a reader, or one who claims to be able to 
 read, has a meaning ascribed to each card, and 
 to a combination of cards, there will be data of 
 
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 the same character obtained, but not as perfect 
 or as extensive as the psychic will give. 
 
 I have had under my observation several psy- 
 chics who had this alphabetical knowledge of 
 cards. I recall one who was not a psychic, for 
 illustration, who would read that a man of cer- 
 tain description was going to pay money for 
 medicine and doctor's services, according to the 
 literal meaning of the cards. In the same in- 
 stance, a person who was also psychical, in look- 
 ing at that card, would give the disease, the 
 amount of money that he would pay, and in 
 various details, describe the person. 
 
 To illustrate the meaning of this latter, a lady 
 who was being developed as a psychic, in look- 
 ing at the cards which I had mixed and cut as 
 she directed, read out of them that "a light man 
 with a peculiar shade of light hair, with red face, 
 above the average in height, robust, will come 
 wearing a light overcoat. He will have a pe- 
 culiar malady that has nonplussed him and all 
 of his physicians, will be twenty-eight years of 
 age, will come a short journey, crossing water, 
 and will, after consultation, desire treatment, but 
 is not financially situated at present to take it." 
 
 It was six days after this date that the young 
 man came, fulfilling every detail exactly, even 
 
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 to the peculiarity of his disorder, which had 
 caused confusion wherever he had been. 
 
 Where did she get the information? Under 
 the old teachings, she would have gone to East 
 St. Louis, seen the man and would have found 
 all of these facts. 
 
 The man informed me that he had learned of 
 me two weeks before he was able to come, al- 
 though determined from the first that he would 
 do so as soon as he could. He had seen my pic- 
 ture, and had heard read some extracts from my 
 lectures, which caused him to decide on his visit. 
 
 I had been the object of his thought. I see 
 no reason to support that this lady had peculiar 
 powers of receiving information from the soul 
 of one, who had no reason to come in touch with 
 her, whereas it is a straight and simple process, 
 if soul reading be true at all, for me to have re- 
 ceived the communication, being the object of 
 his desire, and she, being in full rapport with 
 me, was able to obtain the full information. Be- 
 sides, meeting him was to be an experience of 
 mine, so I had the knowledge sub-consciously. 
 
 Now a single individual can take the cards and 
 fix upon any alphabetical meaning he pleases, and 
 mixing the cards and cutting them according to 
 any form he may wish to adopt, will obtain for 
 
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 himself the same data that is given by another 
 person who might be able to give only the lit- 
 eral, alphabetical meaning of the cards. All this 
 brings it down to this fact: that the cards come 
 in as a medium by which the person may become 
 conscious of what the sub-conscious holds. In 
 mixing the cards and cutting them, the person 
 involuntarily mixes and cuts in such a way as to 
 give the true story. 
 
 I know all that one would say from the stand- 
 point of his reason when he first hears a propo- 
 sition and cannot see how there can be any merit 
 therein, but those lifeless cards become as a writ- 
 ten epistle containing history and prophecy. I 
 have watched the phenomena carefully for years, 
 and have kept in writing, accurate data concern- 
 ing the card experiments. I find that a very 
 large percentage of the statements made to me 
 correct through the cards as a medium. 
 
 To my mind, with the knowledge that I have 
 that all the forces and the functions of the body 
 are controlled by the soul, and that the soul knows 
 all, it is easy to regard the cards as simply the 
 medium of communication between the sub-con- 
 scious, which knows all, and the conscious mind 
 which brings the knowledge to us. Now this is 
 a matter of such simple demonstration, and yet 
 
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 leads to such marvelous results to the man or 
 woman who is getting truth concerning the laws 
 of the soul, that I would advise one to satisfy 
 himself, concerning the experiment, if he wants 
 to regard it as such, before he goes off in his su- 
 perior way and says there can be nothing in it. 
 You do not have to use playing cards, but take 
 ordinary visiting cards and make up your own 
 alphabet, if you prefer, writing on any card any 
 meaning that you choose. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIII. 
 Chemistry of Emotions 
 
 In many portions of this book, reference is 
 made to the soul being the power that presides 
 over the bodily functions and desires. We want 
 now to give particular attention to its power over 
 the substances of the body, and its forces. 
 
 Our attention, as chemists, has been more at- 
 tracted by the pathological changes in the secre- 
 tions of the body through our emotional states. 
 Therefore, there is not as much general data to 
 be secured demonstrating the wholesome effect 
 of the good emotions. On the other hand we 
 have such experiences as anger, fear, jealousy, 
 and all dark passions which change the alkaline 
 secretions to acid and the acid to alkaline. These 
 tests have been made particularly with the per- 
 spiration and the digestive secretions. Then 
 there is that common experience, in which the 
 above emotions produce such changes in the 
 mother's milk as to poison the child at her breast. 
 
 Anyone giving a second thought to a process 
 which by stirring up the emotional nature can 
 produce a poisonous condition in milk, will agree 
 that there must have been a change in the cells 
 comprising the milk. Then there must be a power 
 
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 in the mind that presides over the cells in the 
 body. 
 
 Now if a few minutes' spasm of passion can 
 produce such profound changes in the chemistry 
 of the body, what must be expected if there is 
 constant morbidness, the soul always being in 
 gloom and expecting the unfavorable. 
 
 These sudden and temporary emotional states 
 make the changes indicated immediately. The 
 chemical distribution and its natural offices be- 
 ing thwarted, blood, and therefore nutrition, 
 hence every tissue of the body, undergoes depre- 
 ciation, from the standard of perfect health, be- 
 fore reaction can come. 
 
 It is inherent in the vital force to counteract 
 the disorder and establish peace and harmony 
 in the system, but how often, before such an 
 equilibrium is restored, is one given to hearing 
 or seeing something, or through some of the 
 other faculties, which causes the objective mind 
 to pass on to the soul some conclusion of irrita- 
 tion or unwholesome emotion. Thus one such 
 wave after another, in the irritable, or jealous 
 or fearing person follows in such close relation- 
 ship as to make it impossible to ever establish 
 the right conditions in the body. 
 
 Then it becomes true that chemical changes 
 
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 are followed by tissue changes, in which the ele- 
 ments of the cells become incomplete. Wrong 
 compounds are present in the various tissues, and 
 a depleted system, nervous exhaustion, inanition, 
 mal-nutrition, anemia, a generally lowered stand- 
 ard throughout the whole organism, as well as a 
 proportionate decrease of power of resistance, 
 are the results. All of these conditions are con- 
 ducive to the appearance of disease, which will 
 most profoundly affect that portion of the sys- 
 tem, that is in the lower degree of resistance. 
 
 Tuberculosis is typical of all the wasting dis- 
 eases, any one of which may have had its origin 
 in the lack of self-control, a giving away to an- 
 ger, fear or jealousy, or any other evil passion. 
 These fatal issues had their beginning in a change 
 of the chemistry of the secretions of the body 
 because of an unwholesome emotion, and that 
 which might have been very fleeting as a cause, 
 is eternal in its effect. 
 
 Getting a faint glimpse of some such idea as 
 this, caused the old metaphysicians to classify 
 the various diseases that followed upon, or found 
 their correspondence to mental states, stating, for 
 instance, that impatience or covetousness would 
 produce bad breath; doubt, fear and obstinacy, 
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 Bright's disease ; suppressed passion, cancer ; and 
 that diabetes was produced by foolishness, ear- 
 ache by disobedience, eczema by censure ; nausea 
 by thought of separation; pneumonia by disap- 
 pointment in love or in business and rheumatism 
 by fretting, anger or stubbornness. 
 
 The founders of these interpretations were 
 grapsing after truth, and they did find a thread 
 running through it all, and while these various 
 mental states do not produce with regularity any 
 certain diseases, the falling of the whole organ- 
 ism into wrong chemistry, following upon evil 
 mentality, will make impression upon that por- 
 tion of the system, which is in the lowest stage 
 of resistance. 
 
 Thus far we have been dealing with outbursts 
 of wrong mental exercise, constituting, as stated, 
 temporary cause and endless effects, but there is 
 even a more disastrous mentality that we must 
 consider. I refer to morbidness, a constant de- 
 pressed mental state, and another, where one 
 takes hold of an all-consuming thought, which 
 fairly becomes a mania. Now, a man does be- 
 come, from his head to his feet, an expression 
 of that state in which his soul lives. His coun- 
 tenance betokens his innermost thought, and he 
 could not conceal it if he would. His only hope 
 
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 is to paint out that picture, and put a true one 
 in its place. Then there will be regeneration in 
 his body, following upon the regeneration of his 
 soul, and he will become a living witness of the 
 true and noble thoughts in him. 
 
 Let not even the casual reader depreciate this 
 profound truth, that the thought held in the soul 
 is lived, and being lived, it will change the con- 
 tour and composition of that physical organism 
 in which he lives. 
 
 If we can believe anything in history, we must 
 believe that which is recorded of the Stigmatics, 
 for it is as authentic as any matter that has been 
 given us from that period. The nuns desired 
 to enter into all the feelings that they believed 
 Jesus had experienced. They wanted, what they 
 would consider miraculous evidence, that they 
 had entered into the fullest experiences of these 
 feelings, and they decided that the character of 
 that miracle should be that upon each hand and 
 foot, and upon the side of the body, there should 
 come scars, corresponding to the broken flesh in 
 their Savior's body. They entered into the full- 
 est belief that that realization would come. They 
 meditated upon it day and night, and entered 
 into the religious emotions, living under that men- 
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 souls that which they wanted to ultimately be 
 expressed in their bodies, by looking upon the 
 picture of Christ on the cross, thus fulfilling 
 every condition of pouring into the soul by sug- 
 gestion, when the objective faculties were in 
 abeyance. They were under religious ecstacy, in 
 which they scarcely stopped for a petition, or a 
 prayer, that the changes would come, but their 
 faith was so perfect that it amounted to a com- 
 mand that those scars appear. They did not go 
 into the silence with a spasm of emotion and af- 
 firm that the scars were already there, but they 
 did take the thought earnestly and profoundly 
 into their souls. They not only held the thought, 
 but they lived the life, they lived the thought. 
 It was not a fit of concentration, but it was en- 
 tire consecration, in which there were no lapses 
 of devotion to the suggestion. 
 
 They held the picture in their souls of what 
 would be the condition when full realization of 
 those scars was attained, and those changes in 
 the various substances of the body, in all the 
 tissues involved in the materialization of that 
 picture, were undoubtedly confirmed. Man be- 
 comes that, which he believes in his soul he will 
 become. In all the histories of all the psycholo- 
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 ard of health can find a better formula than that 
 given in the history of the Stigmatics. By their 
 formula he may attain to his standard of per- 
 fection, physically, mentally and spiritually. 
 
 The perfection of faith is essential, and the 
 objective mind plants doubt instead of faith, be- 
 cause it knows things through the senses, and 
 wants that sort of test for everything. It will 
 not let the soul prompt through intuition, and 
 so we go on casting shadows over our souls and 
 defeating the expressions that this supreme power 
 over the body desires to make. For that reason 
 auto-suggestion as a healing power is not very 
 certain, as a rule, for the same reason that it 
 becomes necessary for passivity to be entered 
 into, and a second person to give the suggestions 
 that create the subjective expectancy which per- 
 fects the body, the mind and the soul. 
 
 Now if a temporary unwholesome emotion, an 
 example of which we have given in the early 
 part of this chapter, produces an effect during its 
 flash, and becomes such a factor in one's life, 
 then it must be true that every spurt of good 
 that flashes as freely through one's soul, must 
 have a beneficient sequel. Nothing is absolutely 
 lost, and so every little appeal that touches the 
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 piration, may be the means by which the spark 
 of good is kept from dying. 
 
 Again, just as giving way to an irritation to- 
 day, will make it easier to yield tomorrow, and 
 so on until constant, chronic irritability is a habit, 
 so will yielding to some tenderness once make 
 one more susceptible, and as he becomes more 
 susceptible, there are more occasions that appeal 
 to him and life becomes practically filled with 
 opportunities for doing good and performing 
 generous acts. 
 
 This resolves itself to this : It is not to spend 
 life fighting the evil in ourselves or the world 
 about us, but to see that all the ground is occu- 
 pied by a thrifty, healthy growth that carries 
 love's fragrance and fills the whole atmosphere 
 of life with sweetness and peacefulness. It is not 
 killing the weeds, but the cultivation of propitious 
 plants. 
 
 This whole subject properly connects itself with 
 our first proposition that unhappy emotions pro- 
 duce chemical changes, that result in disease; 
 and that wholesome emotions, glad emotions, love 
 emotions, stimulate the right chemistry, making 
 for nutrition, establishing nervous equilibrium, 
 soothing the circulation, being a tonic to every 
 portion of the body, because every cell is sat- 
 
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 urated through and through with love. 
 
 No one who was in a state of health was ever 
 made sick by yielding to the nobler feelings, and 
 no one who was sick was ever made worse 
 through the excitement of generous impulses. 
 
 Love in all its reaching out is the true thera- 
 peutic agent. It heals the giver and the re- 
 ceiver. Evil, whatever the form of its expres- 
 sion, is infectious and spreads evil. Love is al- 
 ways a happy contagion. A few persons being 
 thoroughly inoculated with it will create an epi- 
 demic. 
 
 Possibly this is not clearly practical yet for 
 everyone, all do not know just how, when 
 tempted by anger, fear, or jealousy, or the de- 
 praved passions, to resist and to master the sit- 
 uation. 
 
 Now, I have stated over and over again that 
 the soul is the supreme power over all the ten- 
 dencies of every phase of man's life. That be- 
 ing true, you will need only to know how to get 
 action upon that supreme intelligence, and cause 
 it to express its mastership. In the first place 
 if you have studied the physical demonstrations, 
 as shown in the hypnotic study, where the vari- 
 ous phenomena, as catalepsy, inhibition of pain, 
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 there is that power in the soul, granting that you 
 have laid the foundation for faith in the power, 
 that will control the tendencies and the desires. 
 You have been impressed that yielding to these 
 is disastrous, and you have thought that through 
 will power you would overcome. 
 
 This is equivalent to trusting to your objective 
 mind, which is the seat of the will, with which 
 you are most acquainted, and it is depending 
 upon that will, that has brought disaster to every 
 man who ever had any occasion to master him- 
 self along any certain line. Instead of exercising 
 the mind to overcome that deep impression, an 
 emotion that you know is wrong, yield up that 
 will and say to your soul, "You have the pow- 
 er. Your office has been heretofore usurped by 
 mind, which has not the function at all, of pre- 
 siding over my emotional states, but now, with 
 my will, I trust to you to hold in check, to throt- 
 tle, and presently to blot out, this evil temper, 
 or this insane jealousy, and you shall be the mas- 
 ter in my life." 
 
 It is the same old story of becoming as a little 
 child and letting that spiritual power, that is 
 within the body and is supplied with that office, 
 but which is the passive power, manifest itself. 
 When I say that it is a passive power, I mean 
 
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 that, so far as mind is concerned, it must cease 
 its violent effort and give way to the soul, which 
 is ever ready, to perform its function. 
 
 I cannot make this any more plain or prac- 
 tical, except that if necessary, and there are cer- 
 tainly no objections to doing so, you enter into 
 that relaxation of body and passivity of mind 
 and receive suggestions from a second party 
 that you will not be mastered and enslaved by 
 the human tendencies, but, that those things that 
 have aroused you, in an unwholesome way, you 
 will behold with calmness and control. 
 
 Again I say it is not the domination of the 
 will of the suggestor over that of the one re- 
 ceiving the suggestions, but in reality, it is bring- 
 ing one in touch with and under the right laws 
 that enable that supreme will — that of the soul — 
 to prevail, causing a co-operation of both the ob- 
 jective and subjective wills. This gives one a 
 moral strength, which, in proportion to the sol- 
 itary will of the objective is, as the physical vol- 
 untary power to the power that is manifested in 
 what we usually call the involuntary of the phys- 
 ical. 
 
 It is of common observation to have seen 
 how that when the involuntary systems are 
 utilized, seeming superhuman feats are enacted. 
 
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 As in catalepsy, in which the body of the sub- 
 ject is suspended with the body, having no sup- 
 port save at the head and heels, which rest upon 
 supports, and six hundred pounds additional to 
 the subject's weight is placed upon his body. I 
 do not commend this weight experiment at all, 
 and I would not make it, but I have seen it dem- 
 onstrated. 
 
 Again, in cases of insanity, where the objective 
 functions were all in abeyance and the involun- 
 tary ones presiding, seven men hardly equal in 
 physical power, the one individual. 
 
 It is needless to multiply these illustrations, for 
 wherever you see an application of the involun- 
 tary (so-called) forces, they seem superhuman, 
 as compared with the ordinary. This is just as 
 true in mental or spiritual departments as in the 
 physical, and while there is an office for the ob- 
 jective mind and all its faculties, the great factor, 
 although so sadly neglected, is the soul, that 
 power which, when brought into practical control, 
 makes all moral tendencies easily directed. 
 
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 CHAPTER XIV. 
 Chemistry and Psychology of Love 
 
 Chemistry is the science that deals with the 
 composition of matter. Psychology is the science 
 of the soul, and our object being the chemistry 
 and psychology of love, we will study the rela- 
 tionship of the composition of the body and the 
 soul acting upon it through love. 
 
 Magnetism will be the first department of our 
 subject that I want to consider scientifically. 
 When a piece of iron or steel is placed in a mag- 
 netic field of a dynamo, a peculiar polarization 
 takes place, by which one extremity of the metal 
 will attract positive and the other negative, be- 
 cause those ends become negative and positive. 
 Each molecule of the metal seems to become so 
 polarized, and the positives all pointing in the 
 same direction, constitute the peculiarity of the 
 magnet. All matter has electricity in some state 
 or stage within it, and for that reason everybody 
 attracts every other body, the positive in one at- 
 tracting the negative in the other. These are the 
 usual expressions, but what really takes place is 
 this, under the law of the universe that every- 
 thing that is possessed of something that is good 
 is making an effort to impart its beneficent quali- 
 
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 ties to every recpetive and responsive member of 
 the universe. Upon this principle, when a piece 
 of iron is brought into proximity with a magnet, 
 which, owing to its properties, is at a certain 
 vibratory rate, it fulfills its law of imparting its 
 wave lengths and speed to the unmagnetized iron. 
 Under this process the latter also becomes a 
 magnet. 
 
 When two individuals, such as a young gentle- 
 man and a young lady, come into proximity to 
 each other, they may find a very pleasurable 
 thrilling sensation pass over them. 
 
 Each one takes the self-suggestion down into 
 his own soul that that is love's thrill, and the 
 next step is to suggest each to the other that 
 love is the correct interpretation of their feel- 
 ings. Further association and limited separation 
 intensifies all of those feelings that were more 
 or less intense, when they first looked into each 
 other's eyes or clasped hands. The cultivation of 
 the idea and the excitement of the body pro- 
 ceeds more or less rapidly, somewhat according 
 to the temperament, caution, or experience of one 
 or both of the individuals. 
 
 The fate of the unsophisticated is to become 
 entirely enveloped in the wildest flames of which 
 the body is capable. When this stage is reached, 
 
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 they are so overwhelmed by their feelings that 
 they cannot consider the subject of mental or 
 spiritual adaptation, agreement of nationality, or 
 planes of their families. They have decided that 
 they are in love, and that settles every question 
 for them. 
 
 What has actually taken place is that in their 
 first discovery of pleasure in each other's pres- 
 ence or contact, they electrically affected each 
 other. The positive in one attracted the nega- 
 tive in the other, under the laws of the magnet, 
 each seeking to impart the qualities to the other 
 that he or she had electrically, and producing a 
 very pleasurable sensation, purely magnetic and 
 chemical, under the laws of physical magnetism 
 and chemical affinity. The danger of the situ- 
 ation was in their mistaken interpretation as to 
 the source of their glad feeling. After once 
 suggesting each to himself and to each other 
 that that is love, soul, which is suggestible and 
 controls all the chemistry and other forces of the 
 body, would, in answer to the suggestion, pro- 
 ceed to make the bodies more intense, creating 
 every molecule and cell in one body with such 
 a chemical and electrical state that would compel 
 answer through the corresponding molecule and 
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 comparison for the state of these two bodies, each 
 demanding the other. Of course, this scientific 
 revelation will take the romance out of the great 
 majority of mating experiences, but in its ulti- 
 mate result will make love more beautiful than 
 it has ever appeared before, and love will be 
 sought for, hoped for, aspired to, and more fre- 
 quently found and its immortality recognized. 
 
 As an actual fact, the cat and some other ani- 
 mals enjoy the contact and stroke, because of 
 their magnetic discharge, when the hand ap- 
 proaches. The law by which many bodies under- 
 go electrical interchanges imparting pleasure 
 holds in all of those instances where there is 
 given to one a supply of the element which it 
 needs or draws from it an excess. The danger 
 is not in the magnetic exchange that might take 
 place between two persons, or among a number, 
 but in the interpretation of the sensation to be 
 the characteristic of love; it is the first sugges- 
 tion I spoke of, not the contact. 
 
 If a woman and man realized they were at- 
 tracted to each other by the most common force, 
 which is present in all matter, they would hardly 
 come to the conclusion that that was love in 
 any true sense, capable of uniting the masculine 
 and feminine spirits. It would occur to them 
 
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 that a union of soul would scarcely begin in the 
 chemistry of the body. Their logic would hardly 
 lead them to determine that electrical discharges 
 would develop into the harmonies of unifying 
 love. Some practical reminders follow when 
 they have misinterpreted the attraction, that be- 
 gins in the physical and continues in the physical 
 until every cell is in agony of unrest dependent 
 upon the imparting from the other's body that 
 which would give poise or balance to the physical 
 forces. The suggestible souls under the halluci- 
 nation of love cause the mind such bewilderment 
 that finally the contract is entered into, in which 
 they promise to fulfill that union which was, 
 as they think, intended from the beginning of 
 creation, and will last throughout all eternity. 
 They are fully satisfied that the proof is adequate 
 in the pleasure they have felt in their association. 
 The suggestions now begin, which are the 
 reverse of those taken and exchanged in the 
 early days of attraction. No longer is there the 
 thrill of embrace or the kiss,, then the one or the 
 other makes the first declaration that love never 
 existed. The opposite one accepts that sugges- 
 tion, his body responds to it, and they proceed 
 to build their chemistry and their magnetism ac- 
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 their mental and spiritual unfitness for each other, 
 and, being perfectly ignorant of the basis of their 
 first attraction, they must wonder why it has 
 changed into repulsion. 
 
 I would have no confidence in what was said 
 to be love, that began in intense physical excite- 
 ment. If beginning in the senses and carrying 
 the delusion of love to the soul is not the right 
 order, then what should be the natural force 
 and origin of love? In studying the attributes 
 of the soul we find among its native qualities, 
 love. The recognition upon the part of two 
 such persons is not dependent upon sense percep- 
 tion in any way. They would love and know 
 that they loved, even if all the objective senses 
 were in abeyance or lost. Like other physical 
 perceptions, its description is practically impossi- 
 ble. When I speak of psychic colors, the term 
 has no meaning unless one has experienced 
 psychic colors. It is therefore not probable that 
 anyone can convey to another the exact methods 
 of discernment, as to what love will be like when 
 they find it. However, since it is to spring out of 
 the soul, one needs not to be educated objectively 
 concerning it, or be looking for its signs. One 
 thing is certain, the symptoms of wild physical 
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 that one should either look for or take as proof 
 they have found the right one. Since love has 
 its origin in the soul and union first takes place 
 there involuntarily, and as soul is controller and 
 even creator of the body, certainly all the body 
 in its chemistry, as well as all other forces, pass 
 under the influence of the soul's love, and entire 
 union is the normal result. That is the union 
 which physical laws or spiritual laws can never 
 divorce. This love solves every problem, an- 
 swers every possible question as to how to be 
 happy though married; how to manage all the 
 affairs of daily life, companionably, not competi- 
 tively. I have named this last state as the state 
 of love. I will leave you to name what I de- 
 scribed before, which is at best only a travesty, 
 but is so usual that I will indicate how to make 
 the best of it. 
 
 There are charlatans in almost every city that 
 are getting rich through advertising to separate 
 the united and unite the separated. The demand 
 for their services is said to be increasing. Very 
 often where the charlatan fails, the individual 
 takes the matter into his own hands to make the 
 change. All of these things, as well as the di- 
 vorce courts, prove that the basis of union was 
 under chemical, magnetic and other physical 
 
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 forces. If union has taken place, even under 
 mistake, or even where the parents would seem 
 to have made a good sale of the daughter in 
 securing for her a rich husband, still she was a 
 party to the mistake, and there must be an ad- 
 justment of these situations. Marriages that 
 took place under the physical laws satisfied the 
 individuals at first; they remained satisfied until 
 physical repulsion under satisfied chemistry and 
 magnetism took place, and then they began to 
 suggest to each other that love was dying. Every 
 word of this book proves that the soul is abso- 
 lute over all that the individual is, and is con- 
 trollable by suggestion through the will of the 
 individual. Under this law, then, if all such 
 people knew that they could maintain the attrac- 
 tion between them, instead of exchanging the 
 suggestion of getting further apart, they would 
 by all the powers of their wills drive into their 
 souls the suggestion of co-operation and of union, 
 and under the creative law of the soul, each 
 would actually, by changes made, convert the 
 other into his ideal. This, of course, would re- 
 quire their mutual co-operation. Neither the one 
 or the other could compel the union to be at- 
 tained. Any husband and wife that know these 
 laws will have no excuse for separation. I have 
 
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 stated here without limitation, that the soul of 
 the individual is superior to all that individual is, 
 and the reason I have often referred to its crea- 
 tive power is to impress upon you that regenera- 
 tion of the body, and even of the character, can 
 be accomplished through its power and law. 
 
 A harmonious and happy union can be realized 
 by applying the principle of the New Psychology, 
 even though the husband and wife, united under 
 mistaken ideas, under wrong planetary condi- 
 tion, and temperaments inharmonious to each 
 other, and even though they inherit tendencies 
 that tend to separate them. All of these con- 
 ditions can be met, I say, and a happy union 
 made by following these teachings. 
 
 The value of the love a man gives to woman, 
 "a gift treasured more highly than life in the 
 body/' has been given into the keeping of woman 
 by man. She, recognizing the sacredness of the 
 gift, places it immediately into the sanctuary of 
 her soul, where a shrine has been prepared and 
 held in readiness for it. 
 
 "What is so unearthly, so beautiful, as the 
 first birth of a woman's love? The air of heaven 
 is not purer in its wanderings, its sunshine not 
 more holy in its warmth." 
 
 To love one soul for its beauty, grace and 
 
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 truth is to open the way to appreciate all beauti- 
 ful, true and gracious souls, and to recognize 
 spiritual beauty, wherever it is seen. 
 
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 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 The Third Degree 
 
 "The Third Degree" is the title of a book 
 written by Charles Klein, based upon certain 
 psychological principles. The book and its 
 dramatization makes a true principle very im- 
 pressive, and I would be glad if it were known 
 universally. 
 
 Preparatory to understanding this principle, I 
 need to remind you of certain laws of sugges- 
 tion. Hpynosis is a typical state in which to 
 impress suggestions. Just how controllable an 
 individual is, under hypnotic suggestion, is given 
 in many places in my writings, therefore I will 
 not repeat it here. In this lesson we do not 
 have occasion to deal with hypnosis, except to 
 refer to it as the well-known state in which one 
 is controlled by the suggestions given him, if he 
 accept them. 
 
 When one is in an emotional state, he is found 
 to be just as susceptible to suggestion as he is 
 in the hypnotic; he is susceptible to suggestions 
 that do not in any way pertain to the thing that 
 causes the emotion. 
 
 In "The Third Degree" story, Howard Jeffries 
 is the important character. He, the son of a 
 
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 great capitalist, lost his class through marrying 
 a poor, respectable girl whose parents were not 
 known to society. When Jeffries got into his 
 worst financial cramp, which came quickly with 
 his dissipation, he went to a former school com- 
 panion for the purpose of collecting two hun- 
 dred and fifty dollars he had loaned him, and 
 also to borrow a large sum. His friend gave 
 him so much liquor that he became intoxicated 
 and went to sleep on the couch in his friend's 
 room. When another visitor arrived Jeffries 
 thought he heard voices, but was not sure. At 
 any rate he slept on for several hours and did 
 not know why he had awakened with such a 
 start. Finally coming to himself he began to 
 move about, when he stumbled upon the body 
 of a man. Placing his hand on the man's face 
 he was horrified to find it covered with blood. 
 He finally recognized his friend and realized 
 that he was dead. He decided he should get out 
 of the room quickly, but he had hardly gotten to 
 the door when his friend's attendant returned. 
 The latter, discovering his employer's dead body, 
 would not let Jeffries escape, but called the police 
 at once. 
 
 The young man had committed suicide, firing 
 the bullet into his head. The discharge had 
 
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 startled Jeffries, but he had not been conscious 
 of what it was. 
 
 Captain Clinton and his men arriving, they 
 promptly took charge of Jeffries, accusing him 
 of murder. The coroner was assured by the 
 police that Jeffries was guilty and passed over 
 the matter quickly, leaving the accused with the 
 officers. A confession being essential to an 
 easy conviction, the captain made up his mind 
 to get it. 
 
 After six hours of torture, almost past endur- 
 ance, the youth still denied the crime. Positive 
 declaration by Captain Clinton was reiterated a 
 hundred times, telling Jeffries how he had come 
 to borrow and collect money; that he had been 
 refused and a quarrel had ensued; that he and 
 the college mate had had trouble over a love 
 affair at college; literally picturing to him how 
 he had used the pistol which he, the captain, had 
 in his hand at the time, and had shot him and, 
 getting blood on his hands, was running away. 
 He assured him that electrocution was certain. 
 After terrible hours of intense strain and emo- 
 tion, Jeffries finally believed what was suggested 
 to him and he repeated the words of confession 
 after the police captain. He signed this, and 
 
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 they marked it, the free will confession of How- 
 ard Jeffries. 
 
 The process of obtaining this is what is known 
 as the third degree, supposed to be practiced in 
 connection with courts and criminals, but the 
 principle of the third degree is practiced so uni- 
 versally that the affairs of courts are of little 
 importance, comparatively. 
 
 I want to discriminate between the results of 
 this form of practice that obtains confession, 
 through convincing the accused of his guilt, and 
 that same torture that causes the individual to 
 make the confession in order to end the imme- 
 diate suffering, not believing himself guilty. 
 Then this defines the principle of the third de- 
 gree from the psychological standpoint. Let us 
 reduce it to simple words: the third degree 
 principle is applied in any instance where one 
 who is in a suggestible state is made to believe 
 himself to be that which he is not. 
 
 The emotion of anger, fear, jealousy, grief, or 
 other emotion creates a suggestible state. What 
 one is caused^ to believe at that time compels the 
 subsequent actions consistent with the belief. 
 The parent who has a child in a state of grief 
 or anger, or other emotion, and tells him that he 
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 wrong, soon will have the child thinking that 
 he is bad. For this he is told he is absolutely 
 vicious, perhaps having no good in him. He 
 deteriorates progressively, because under the 
 principle of the third degree, he is made to think 
 that he is willfully worse than he is. 
 
 I have known people who really have had the 
 highest purpose, but through their motives be- 
 ing impugned, have come to doubt their own 
 goodness, and ultimately to have even become 
 thoroughly disgusted with themselves and self- 
 condemning as well. This is the operation in the 
 daily life of the third degree. I have known the 
 wife to work herself into such terrible emotional 
 states in which she would reiterate charges and 
 accusations until her husband would think him- 
 self the culprit she declares him to be. When 
 they would kiss and make up, the one thing not 
 repaired was the damage worked by the third 
 degree process, that made him believe that he 
 was worse than he really was. 
 
 I know one wife that has for more than fif- 
 teen years had sessions with her husband on an 
 average of at least one night a week, when he, 
 without any cause whatsoever, abuses her most 
 terrifically by word accusations. The wicked 
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 foundation. This, from time to him, he ac- 
 knowledges, yet any moment he is liable to start 
 his third degree court. He has told her hun- 
 dreds of times when he had her weeping under 
 hopeless agony, that she was to blame from the 
 first and all the time for their unhappiness. 
 Way into the morning, not six, but ten hours at 
 a time has he worked his formula of wicked 
 suggestions until she not only confesses and con- 
 demns herself, but believes what the miserable 
 captain of her prison says. She is a woman nat- 
 urally of strong mind and beautiful character, 
 yet has been subjected to these scenes (worked 
 always to the climax of confession or complete 
 exhaustion on her part) until she looks uneasy 
 and afraid. Sometimes she seems to feel that oth- 
 ers know, and therefore condemn her. Divorce 
 should have followed the first session of this 
 man's court. Such men do not aspire to ever 
 change. 
 
 Men and women are sending each other into 
 insanity through the power of suggestion, under 
 the principle of the third degree. They make 
 each think that he is worse than he is, and in 
 that idea there is the design which he will incline 
 to fulfill. 
 
 There is known to be a wholesale working of 
 
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 the third degree principle in political and other 
 meetings, where people, because they are in an 
 emotional state, obey suggestions. In revival 
 meetings of the ancient sort the exhorter would 
 get his audience all excited over deathbed stories, 
 followed by the depicted gnashing of teeth and 
 eternal fire, unquenchable. At the height of 
 this excitement the people were told they were 
 vile worms of the dust; helpless but wicked sin- 
 ners ; that they must flee from the wrath to come 
 by the mourners' bench route, confessing their 
 absolute sinfulness, black through and through. 
 They did not sign their confession, like Howard 
 Jeffries did, but they testified before many wit- 
 nesses ; they acted under the third degree prin- 
 ciple of suggestion. Look over your life, my 
 friend, and see if you are either the victim of 
 this principle, or one who uses it on another — 
 clear your life of it, do not paint any one worse 
 than he is, or even as bad. Judge not at all; 
 and be sure that you never listen, while in the 
 emotional state, to any depreciating words con- 
 cerning yourself. 
 
 Have we not found in this subject a most 
 terrific force? Yes, so great a force that you 
 can take the most innocent creature, innocent 
 not only of the particular thing, but beautiful 
 
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 and pure, and by reiteration of a suggestion, 
 when the individual is under fear or other emo- 
 tion, convince him or her of guilt even of a 
 heinous crime. 
 
 However, true to my consecration, I sought for 
 an optimistic view of the terrific principle, that 
 to the unseeing looks to be only evil. There is 
 no evil force in the universe ; every force, funda- 
 mentally and in its normality, is good. 
 
 Look at the principle of the third degree, and 
 let us see if it is possessed of any good. What is 
 the principle? It is to take an individual when 
 he is in a state of suggestibility, place a picture 
 in his mind so forcefully, a picture of himself as 
 something which he really is not, and through 
 suggestion make him believe that it is he. It 
 has been shown only as an evil principle; I de- 
 clare it is an all good power but has been evilly 
 applied; and is a misdirected power, just as we 
 may misdirect all of our deific powers and make 
 them appear to be evil and destructive. 
 
 Picture to a man, woman or child, when he is 
 in a suggestible state, a better individual than he 
 has been objectively; make him believe that in his 
 soul he is really better than he objectively is, 
 then he will, under reiterated suggestion, fulfill 
 that picture. When he fulfills it, what does he 
 
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 prove — that you falsified and deceived him ? No, 
 he proves by his fulfillment that in reality and 
 potentially he was all you suggested. After you 
 had suggested it, he believed himself that thing 
 demonstrated it. O when will we make this an 
 abiding knowledge: that before every form and 
 fact there must proceed an image, an idea? 
 When we do, we will drive into our souls, under 
 the third degree law, a picture, a concept of our 
 better self, to which we will at once make ascent. 
 Use this intense force to bring out the truth in 
 everyone and in yourself. 
 
 Holding the ideal faithfully in the conscious 
 mind is the normal use of the third degree prin- 
 ciple that ultimately causes the real to meet the 
 appointments of the ideal. Presenting to others 
 forcefully and confidently a picture of the ideal 
 for them to fulfill, causes them to grow to that 
 realization. 
 
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 CHAPTER XVI. 
 The Measure of a Man 
 
 There is an ideal which is to the individual 
 an image of what he could be and that he knows 
 he should be. He occasionally has conscious 
 views of this, and it includes his ideal body in its 
 development, form and health; his ideal intel- 
 lectual power and ideal character. He knows 
 that in his program of life in its activities, his 
 service should be such that, incidental to that 
 program, he would realize his ideals. 
 
 With realization of the ideal as the destination, 
 should we not deal with this journey just as we 
 would with other contemplated, though shorter, 
 journeys? 
 
 Since the ideal exists, there is presumptive evi- 
 dence that it could be realized ; yet everyone con- 
 fesses he has not arrived at completness. It does 
 not require a Marcus Aurelius to declare that if 
 man does not reach his proper destination it is 
 because of his principles, not because of insur- 
 mountable obstacles ; any observer must see that. 
 
 But in taking account of the hindrances along 
 this journey we do not have to note a great 
 catalogue of mistaken principles, for there is one 
 that is primary and all others grow out of that : 
 
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 That which makes an individual's real less 
 this his ideal is his principle of substitution of the 
 artificial for the natural. 
 
 Innately that Builder of the man, his own Soul, 
 exacts truth, and when the man with his volition 
 attempts to force untrue standards upon this 
 executive supreme building power, the resulting 
 confusion stultifies the Soul because the very law 
 of its expression is harmony and truth. Let us 
 examine the psychology of one's falling short of 
 the measure of a man because of the substitution 
 of the artificial for the natural. 
 
 We will take the physical side of the principle 
 first. We can begin with the infant, for even 
 there we commence to take away the natural 
 powers by giving a sufficiency of predigested, 
 prepared imitations of natural food, and some- 
 times, after much rebellion upon the part of 
 nature, it tolerates the falsity and ceases to make 
 any natural effort to treat the substances intro- 
 duced into the child's stomach or to resist. Such 
 a child we soon classify as one with "weak di- 
 gestive organs," always to be pampered and sub- 
 ject to frequent upsets. Unnatural food and an 
 unnatural preparation of it causing bad nutri- 
 tion, the result is, the child having a poor quality 
 of blood which calls for the introduction of min- 
 
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 eral or other elements by substitution. The nerv- 
 our system showing the lack of tone, and sleep 
 not being normal, drugs are resorted to for 
 stimulation, and again for sedation, so the whole 
 physical being is upon an artificial basis with 
 nature relieved of all of its functions. 
 
 No one would deny the lack of the ideal body, 
 neither could one doubt that the cause is in sub- 
 stituting the unreal instead of permitting nature 
 to produce the real things needed. I will say 
 here that what we have called nature, and some- 
 times the vital force, is really an intelligence — 
 the supreme but suggestible subconsciousness of 
 Soul. It quickly accepts the suggestion of re- 
 pression and says to the will of the conscious 
 mind: "Substitute an artificial and I will cease 
 altogether to produce the natural/' 
 
 Instead of the infant, let us consider an adult, 
 still from the physical side, and also begin with 
 digestion. Through wrong practices of some 
 sort, food is not digested, and the physician says 
 there is not enough pepsin, so he gives him 
 pepsin made in the pig's stomach. The subcon- 
 scious mind at once interprets that the volition 
 has chosen an exterior source for the pepsin and 
 quits secreting. Again upon test it is declared 
 that all of the gastric secretions are deficient or 
 
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 abnormal, so the whole product taken from a 
 dog's stomach is given to the man, and then all 
 the glands of the stomach cease to secrete. 
 
 Surely this much of the individual any one will 
 grant is short of the ideal, and the cause lies 
 in the substitution that repressed the soul in its 
 exercise of that part of the body. Practically 
 every function of the body has been dealt with 
 upon the same principle. Glasses are put on the 
 eyes to take the place of perfect eyes. Hair col- 
 oring is substituted for nature's colors, and the 
 wig to take the place of hair, the woman con- 
 gratulating herself that when she reaches a cer- 
 tain age she can paint a little heavier and use 
 peroxide as a substitute for nature's tints and 
 colors. She pads, or she pinches, or wears sup- 
 ports, and yet every time and in every way she 
 substitutes, nature seems to become more im- 
 potent, and finally gives up. 
 
 Practically all the vices or bad habits of people 
 come from the source of which we are speaking. 
 An effort to substitute a false stimulant for a 
 natural one is in using tobacco or liquor. In 
 some of these instances, as well as in drug habits, 
 the cause was in some previous form of substitu- 
 tion that had set up a wrong craving, on the 
 principle that one false stimulant calls for an- 
 
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 other with an ever-increasing insatiable appetite 
 and deplorable degeneracy. These things are 
 like falsehoods, which, when one is told, there 
 is need of a score of others to explain that one, 
 where silence or truth would have proved saving. 
 
 However, the human disaster where there is 
 the practice of substitution does not end with a 
 diseased, deformed and deficient body. The fact 
 is, it is not a power of the body, a chemical or- 
 ganization, to elect or select or perceive any- 
 thing. This substitution has been an act of the 
 will or mind upon the body, therefore, mind 
 may fix its mental or intellectual standards to be 
 expressed through the mind as well as upon 
 the body. Observation discloses that pretending, 
 false standards as to intellectual power or mental 
 perception obtain where there are these substi- 
 tutions in the body. It becomes impossible to 
 discern the truth, and yet, like the intoxicated 
 man who thinks every one else is drunk while he 
 is perfectly upright, the substitutionist feels his 
 fidelity in his falsity. 
 
 But the far-reaching effect of substitution of 
 the false for the true, though it first begins its 
 action in the body, does not end with physical 
 and mental effects, but includes the spiritual 
 being. Nothing could be more impossible than 
 
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 for one to play all of these false parts upon the 
 body and have false standards intellectually and 
 yet have truth, or ideal character. 
 
 Look at this situation and see if you do not 
 recognize much of mankind. Here is one who 
 substitutes artificial foods for the real — predi- 
 gested instead of digesting them for himself; 
 substituting all gastric secretions — not creating 
 them, hence false to him; substituting iron (from 
 nail rust) in his blood instead of producing it 
 through his own organism from natural food; 
 substituting medicine or stimulants for health; 
 substituting memorized contents of books for 
 thought-out conclusions, and even pretending as 
 to the extent of his book knowledge. You say 
 that is enough, that you recognize your neighbor. 
 It is not enough until you see that with such 
 imagery and such physical degeneracy that one 
 would, as sure as effect follows cause, put all 
 blame for everything that occurs in his life upon 
 some one or something else outside of himself — 
 to be consistent he must do that, for he is com- 
 pelled to put the false in place of the real. 
 
 One thing more I must call your attention to 
 is that, if in every other phase, substitution is 
 his principle, so must it be of his religion. He 
 would accept sacrifice of the innocent for his 
 
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 guilt, he would have a scapegoat, he would get 
 into heaven through vicarious atonement and 
 never through natural attainment of his ideal 
 through growth. 
 
 I have gone over this course, whose destina- 
 tion is a man far short of his glory ; an inglorious 
 failure as compared with his promise, his proph- 
 ecy or his possibility. Forgive him we must, 
 condemn him we cannot. Nine hundred and 
 ninety-nine times out of a thousand he is not 
 wanted — his arrival is an accident which had its 
 source in the parents trying, though failing, to 
 substitute a false and momentary pleasure for 
 an everlasting one. With heredity that gave 
 him false impulse, and his first training being 
 to employ everything to defeat and repress na- 
 ture, he is justified in being the result he is until 
 knowledge is revealed to him. 
 
 Let us, then, go over the ground again and 
 see if we cannot become very optimistic upon 
 this subject. An infant should not be given 
 anything in a form to repress or relieve nature 
 from proper activity. Food adapted to the child 
 and given to it by parent or nurse with the as- 
 surance that nature will be stimulated to treat 
 the food successfully, will get the desired result. 
 The expectancy of parent or nurse is the law 
 
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 over an infant; it is perfectly led or overwhelmed 
 by their mental attitudes. 
 
 An adult should never receive pepsin or other 
 gastric secretion in substitution for his own. He 
 should receive a well-mixed dietary with sug- 
 gestions that he will create in his own stomach 
 all the chemicals essential to his digestion. 
 
 If you ask for a reasonable basis of the above, 
 as well as for my assurance that clinical practice 
 demonstrates it to be all-sufficient, then I will 
 tell you that medical pepsin is obtained by letting 
 the pigs get hungry, and then making them think 
 that they are going to be fed. They are killed, 
 and their stomachs, when immediately opened, 
 yield a great supply of pepsin secreted because 
 of expectancy. All the gastric juices are to be 
 obtained from the dog that has been looking at 
 the meat which he does not get. All of my 
 patients with indigestion have shown to possess 
 minds equal to the animals mentioned, and 
 through this observation I have been led to have 
 hope for the race. 
 
 There are many people who should put on 
 glasses, not to take the place of good natural 
 sight or strength, but to wear for a while to train 
 the eyes out of a necessity for the glasses. With 
 the idea of aiding nature out of a condition it 
 
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 would be very rarely necessary to put them on 
 to wear the rest of the life, as is a common 
 custom. Suspensories might occasionally have 
 a temporary use upon the principle of training 
 back to strength. Medicines may serve some 
 place, sometimes, to aid nature, but not to take 
 the place of something nature should do. 
 
 The woman who fixes her standard at paint, 
 peroxide, padding and penciling, practices a 
 substitution that entirely represses nature, where- 
 as a mental attitude that is commanding and 
 expectant will enable nature to supply nutrition 
 and normal color to her cheeks and hair, and a 
 happy mental state will take away the deepest 
 wrinkles care ever created. 
 
 Now for the psychology of the whole subject. 
 It is as though every man had millions of eyes 
 watching him and every eye belonged to an 
 individual who attended to a part of the man's 
 affairs, and the sum total of these watchful indi- 
 viduals executed everything of every nature in 
 the life of the man; that they watched and dis- 
 cerned what the man voluntarily did toward his 
 fellow man and what he thought of himself — 
 that is, they saw all of the imagery of his mind, 
 and what they saw was his predominating 
 thought, which theo r interpreted as his princi- 
 
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 pies, that became the law of action in their 
 execution. Now these intelligent individuals 
 with their all-seeing eyes are the servants or 
 agents of expression of the man, the cells that 
 physically comprise his body yet serve in doing 
 all of the functions of the body. 
 
 Let the man choose an artificial substitution 
 for a natural one and his cells serve him con- 
 sistently, withdrawing a real function; let the 
 man will to be noble, generous and loyal and 
 the cells will be full of life and energy and 
 serve faithfully, with a result of ultimate good 
 health and mental efficiency. 
 
 In other words, our arrival at that destina- 
 tion spoken of in the opening paragraph is de- 
 pendent upon our standards, whether they are 
 expression or repression, destructive or construc- 
 tive; these standards are our Auto-Suggestions, 
 they are our principles. I am quite certain with 
 the view before us that our substitution of the 
 artificial for the natural is a principle that has 
 hindered the attainment of the full measure of 
 a man, we will radically cut off from the untrue 
 and embrace and hold fast to that which is the 
 real. 
 
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