prevalent psychologic forces, and cannot, therefore, understand the other's impressibility to invisible powers. And thus, between these two widely-different and mutually-antagonistic natures, there exists a state of perpetual warfare in feelings, tastes, pursuits, experiences, and destinations.

Now "witchcraft" is the term which superstition gives to effects which a positive will can develop upon the nervous system of highly susceptible, exceedingly imaginative, and credulous persons. A negative-minded man or woman, be it remembered, is an open invitation" to every person inclined to be meddlesome and mischievous. A touch of magnetic mystery, a few manipulations, and a series of unusual actions; simply these few acts are sufficient to strike imaginative minds with paralysis! A misdirected imagination is a terrible force, embosoming destruction.* Apparently strong-minded men have believed themselves "bewitched." Consequently they ate and drank and conducted themselves as if actually "possessed" by some other will and intelligence; while yet there was not a particle of influence exerted beyond the sphere of their own psychologized imaginations. Minds thus consti

* Read the chapter in the Fountain on the "Imagination as an Educational Force."

tuted are easy subjects for the malign magic of positively-exerted magnetism.

Occult science is no science at all. It is only an art practised by some Diakka.* It is the wilful exercise of one person's tyrannous influence invading another individual's private rights; the effects upon the recipient are a temporary derangement of judgment, insanity of feeling, erraticity, and horrible, haunting embodiments by the imagination.

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The very atmosphere we breath is saturated and loaded with the live electrified atoms of magnetism! It is incessantly pouring out of myriads of reservoirs located in countless places-some in the Summerland, others in different parts of the earth we inhabit-by which very delicately organized nervous systems are more or less constantly affected and disturbed. becomes the mysterious material bond of union between mind and mind-the telegraphic etherium by which the intellectual or sympathetic vibrations of one mind may be imparted to and impressed upon hundreds of minds in a corresponding state-and is, therefore, the occult principle, already shown, whereby insanity and epidemical crime may be either caused or cured.

* Name for mental magicians and the Bohemians of the Summerland. They perform "tricks" in dark circles.

EMPLOYMENT OF SELF-HEALING POWERS.

Knowledge of this truth is equivalent to the development and application of your self-healing power. A person thoroughly impressed with this law-of respirable, omniprevalent human magnetism-can forthwith fortify his mind, and positively charge his feelings, against its malign and disorganizing energy. A selfreliant individuality, based upon reverent self-respect, is positive, and cannot be perturbed by the magic arts of any other person. The most impressible mind is capable of cultivating a positive will-power which no magnetic freebooter can overwhelm. Such a positivelycharged and self-possessed mind is a monument of resistance to contagions and epidemics. It can successfully repel influences, both mental and physical; and yet not become hardened, losing nothing of sweet sympathy or intellectual fellowship.

Mediums, above every other important class, need practical knowledge of this great natural self-charging power. They need to resist and neutralize the "diseased magnetism" which loads the common atmosphere. In short, no mind must permit itself to be overrun and controlled by another's will. Passivity or negativeness to the will and wishes of superior intelligence is permitted by the Divine Code only when the highest ends

are believed to be only thus attainable. Angel fingers may not awaken harmony among the jarring strings of human life. Nothing less than a positive desire to promote unselfish goodness can justify even a temporary surrender of your private will to the will of another. Intercourse with other minds, so beautiful and essential to happiness, is eternally attended with great dangers. And yet there is in such intercourse the possibilities of ineffable joy and benefits. But why danger? Because sorrows hover, like birds of prey, about the wings of joy; because penalties dwell in the very heart of our highest benefits, even as insanities stealthily march in that shaded broad road which is pressed by the feet of health and happiness.

There is no power more positive to evil than absolute self-integrity, or than innate love and practice of unselfish goodness.

LAWS OF SEX IN THE HUMAN PROTOPLASM.

We now leave the intellectual sphere of this subject, and proceed to consider diseases arising from disordered Affections.

An infinite realm of materiality and an infinite realm of spirituality constitute the dual harmony of the universe. The Eternal Father and the Eternal Mother govern with an unchangeable government in both these infinite realms, which are, therefore, One-in correct phrase, “A UNIVERSE”!

Come now to individual man and woman. They are sexually different throughout, materially and spiritually. But being compounded of identical substances and principles, they complement each other, and find companionship and refreshment in one another's different manifestations of the same essentially one interior life. They bring to each other, by virtue of this difference, a different combination of the sovereign qualities of spirit, viz., different affections, different intelligence, and a different form of volition. These dissimilar manifestations of identical qualities come together from opposite sides of the universe; consequently, one