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OGY OF THE SOUI.— Is a matter that the average mind would hardly dare attempt to define or discuss, but Prof. Ernest Haeckel, Germany’s great biolo­gist, has not hesitated to write a good deal on the subject in his recent famous work • "The Riddle oi the Universe.” in certain of the chapters of this book

e great subject of 1 tali is.th<oughly considered and belief ihereir. dis­missed by Prof. Haeckel. In summariz­ing his arguments against the belief in immortality, he writes:

The physiological argum ent shows tha t the human soul is no t an independent, im- in . eri 1 substance but lik( the soul of a>

hij her i i err a collective titlefer the sum total oi m an’ . cerebral func­tions and these arc just as much <1 terntined

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of the other vital functions., and just as amenable to the law of substance.

"The histological argument is based on the extremely complicated microscope structure of the brain; it shows us the true ‘elementary organs of the soul’ in ganglionic cells.

"The experimental argum ent proves that 1 lie various functions of the soul are bound up with certain special parts of the brain, and can not be exercised unless these are in a normal condition, if the areas are de­stroyed. their function is extinguished; and this i- especially applicable to the ‘organs o: thought,’ the four central instruments of mental activity.

' The pathological argument is the comple­ment ,■! ihe physiological. When certain p a n s of the brain (the centers of sight, hear­ing, eic.) are destroyed by sickness, their ac- tivitv disappears; in this way nature herself makes the decisive physiological experiment.

"The ontogenetic argument puts before us the facts of Ihe development of the soul in the individual. We see how the child-soul gradu­ally unfolds its various powers; the youth pre scuts them in full bloom, the mature man shows their ripe fruit; in old age we see the gradual decay' of the psychic powers, corre­sponding to the senile degeneration of the brain.

The phylogenetic argument derives its strength from paleontology anil the compara­tive anatomy and physiology' of the brain. Co-operating with and completing each other these sciences prove to the hilt that the human brain (and consequently its function, the soul) has been evolved step by step from that of the mammal, 3nd, still further back, from that of the lotver \er tebra te .”

THE W ILL-POWER STRENGTH­ENED THROUGH SELF-RELI­ANCE.—How to increase ones will­power through self-reliance is told in a few practical sentences in a late number of Thought by Dr. J. A. Eichwaldt. He says the secret of individual power is contained in the three words: "Rely on yourself.”

Dr. Eichwaldt gives excellent advice in the above brief sentence: words full of philosophy of the right kind, He gives as his reason for offering such ad­vice, the fact that too many persons are prone to distrust, or lack confidence, in their ability-—power to do, or judgment of what is right, or as much as ought to be done. To establish self-reliance or growth. Dr. Eichwaldt advises faith —blind faith if necessary—in the possi­bilities and latent powers of the within— Self.

He does not promise, in all cases, im mediate realization of the power you are seeking; it may have to remain a mat­

ter of assumption for some time. Liut patience and persistence are sure win­ners, and gradually jou get a glimpse of the realities and powers within,— finally—if there is no lagging—you come into a full realization of your di­vinity and no longer see yourself mas­tered but—Master.

Dr. Eichwaldt concludes his articles as follows:

"Systematic concentration of thoughts, if practiced with a purpose, will product w on­derful results strengthening the individuality, developing the Will and bringing about the particular results desired. By systematic con­centration I mean that one should devote a certain number of minutes at a regular time daily tor such concentration. Once or twice merely will avail nothing. Make it a regular practice like eating your rneals. Tlte m o rn ­ing. immediately after awakening, is an ex ­cellent time. Lie on your back, relax the muscles and breathe deeply (according to principles given in previous articles). After a few minutes concentrate mentally upon the most important work or business transaction that you. desire to accomplish during the day. This will cause you to become posi live. Now sav mentally exactly what you de­sire to accomplish, and let your words he emphasized by an active, determined effort of the Will. Repeat that several tunes and then relax, assuming an expectant, receptive attitude. If you are able to control your thoughts to any extent, you will, after such periods of concentration, often receive new ideas pertaining to the subject concentrated upon. You will know exactly how to pro­ceed. and the few minutes thus expended will perhaos be more Profitable to you than weeks of hard work.”

“SCIENTIFIC JOY”—Is a subject out of which Harry Thurston Peck pro­duces much fun for readers of the Feb­ruary Cosmopolitan. Of course, the mat­ter is not given serious consideration therein; the reading would indicate that the author of the article was attempting simply to he witty. Indeed, toward the close of his discourse he declares himself most insincere in his attitude, and rather severely characterizes the psychological experiments of certain college professors as “sheer tomfoolery,” having a ten- denev to “discredit our university train­ing.” Mr. Peck here has reference to the recent investigations in the psycho­logical laboratories of some of our larger universities, where experiments have been tried upon differently constituted persons and animals, with a view to de­termining the phenomena and effects of

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the various emotions. He seemingly cannot understand the significance and value <ii such investigations, which he thinks could be displaced to the advan­tage and credit of students and profes­sors alike, by a return to the study of the "older learning.’’

Mr. Peck thus raises a question that should have the attention and careful consideration of all lovers of the truth, lie is unfair and unwise, however, in being so cynical, and when speaking through the columns of a large periodi­cal, ittdh as the Cosmopolitan, lie should he most careful not to mislead the many thousands of readers that lie could just : - easib have benefited while the grand privilege ■ ■! rich space and tree speech was his.

To repeat, if Mr. Peck believes that the weary, endless and needless study of, say Latin and Greek, is preferable and fa" more beneficial than a lesson on the construction, power and opera­tion of the mind (that least studied and understood, and most important of

i — ssi<ins and 1 lod’s crc tions > he has certainly too lightly considered the effect of his belief.

There are undoubtedly too many ex­periments of the kind that are perform­ed on hypnotic subjects, and professors of psychology are likely 10 at times miss the true aim in their extremely “scientific” experiments. But all ef­forts at showing the operation of the mind—no matter how insignificant in themselves—have a tendency that is good and that is stimulating research into the domain of the soul—that great and unexplored region of wonders and underestimated powers.

WHAT KIND Ol \ Mil NKER IS TILE FREETII f \ KER ?— Every extensive and practical investigator of psychic and occult matters; and espe­cially the Doctor of Suggestive or Men­tal Therapeutics, lias more than once had dealings and experiences with the so-called Freethinker or enthusiastic de­votee of the “New Thought," that, if written up, would make very interesting and amusing stories. In these remarl s, of course, referenci is had to the eccen­t r ic members of that bode of-thinkers ■

every system of theology or philosophy scents to have its share of queer ones. They are as a rule tile very radical ones in wiiatever belief or situation they may be found They are accustomed to git - ing hard blows in argument or criticism : it is not known, however, that they can receive as well. It would be interesting to know how the following sharp indict­ment would “strike” them. It is taken from the editorial columns of Kit Kats, a 1 Lubbardian “Periodical of Independ­ent Thought,” published in Pittsburg, and edited by Mr. Addison Steele:

"1 next met the average Freeth inker a t a meeting of Theosophists. H ere his prediea merit was truly painful, tn the m atte r of ridiculing the Bible he, at least, could ac- <iUit himself creditably. But Theosophy in- volv ed such deep reading, to say nothing of the scores of unfamiliar term s used, tha t lie was truly bewildered. In an off-hand sort of fashion I asked a few of die members for a little light on Theosophy. They stumbled a bout n t he most . ainfu manner, rh e i r minds could not grasp the fundamental p r in ­ciples of the belief. They, howev r. advanced th inkers and Theosophists . Some

hem wanted to be odd, so they joined. Some were att rac ted by the mysterious phrases employed. Sonic were Theosophists because they could wear a badge. Every- ilmig ihat was said by the leaders was a c cepted without a murmur. N o one would th ink of coldly analyzing the Statements They, too, though t themselves liberal.

“ Then 1 met the average Freethinker deep- 1' immersed in the contents of Mrs. Eddy’s book on science and health Mrs. Eddy has a few initials before and after her name, which have slipped mj mind. But it is the Christian Science Eddy to whom 1 r t er. l ln- young man admitted tha t he could rot

fully comprehend Mr<. Eddy’s masterly p ro ­duction. H e had read it th rough dozens of times, and he hoped some day for divine in­spiration to assist in the interore tation. Yet he was a devout Christian Scientist, because he had been cured of dyspepsia of seven­teen years’ standing H e was th rough with orthodox beliefs. He was done with the narrowness of creeds. H e threw himself un reservedly into the arm s if Mrs. Eddy. Yel upon cross-questioning him he confessed that lie possessed bu t the most superficial knowledge o; the subject. H e admitted his inability 10 master the profound mush which Mrs. Eddy doled out. This was a true type of the average Thinker W ho Thinks He Thinks.

“The fourth and last instance tha t I de­sire t- citi If' illustrate the species was found in a meeting of i Society for Psychi­cal Research. This society was burdened with a high-sounding H indu name. some Oriental paraphernalia and a little incense. Here tb pr md thinker a is in his element He a- in close touch with a sunerior being

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who knew more about the ways of the Cre­a to r in one evening than the orthodox churchman does in a life-time. This society had its rooms directly opposite a church, and I well remember the contemptuous glances which were cast upon those who were wending their way to divine worship. Each glance seemed to say, 'P o o r fools.’ All the wisdom was possessed by the members of the high-soundmo' limdu-tiavored o rgan­isation. The leader discoursed on almost ev­erything, showing a knowledge of nothing. Yet the foolish Thinker sat with his mouth open, drinking in the nonsense he couldn’t begin to understand. l i e felt tha t he was being initiated into the mysteries of a higher life. H e felt tha t he was transcending all creeds. He felt that his condition of mind was the height of free and unrestricted thought. I t jus t goes to prove the pitiable plight of a man who Cnowetli not that he knoweth not. The members had been a t­tracted by a yellow flag and some mystic characters. A glib talker mouthing in the abstract. A few lectures on subjects that have puzzled the best minds of the world and utterly meaningless to the members. Thus are converts made. No one was able to explain the doctr ines preached. They were just thinkers.

"Whenever I see a man carrying ‘Torn Paine’s Common Sense’ in his pocket every F o u r th of Julyr, I can tell you the books he reads. He has the entire 'Liberal Classic Series.’ H e lives on them. H e becomes so lopsided and bigoted that the term ‘Free­th inker’ becomes a misnomer.”

CONCENTRATION—Is a power that everybody possesses and exercises more or less, consciously or uncon­sciously, but few know bow to do so correctly and especially when they de­sire to fix the attention for purposes of study or health. Many methods are given by various authorities. Articles on the subject appear in the January number of Wings of Truth and in The Suggester and 1 Linker, which we are pleased to review for the benefit of read­ers.

The editor of Wings of Truth writes in that beautiful little magazine, on the subject of concentration, under which heading she tells how to transfer one’s body, or a n . appearance of your body, to some friend at a distance. She says:

"Choose a time— generally the most con­venient ,s when you are just in bed, then, as you go off to sleep. W I L L firmly that you -hall appear in bodily form before a certain person. You can, of course, make arrange- mems with die friend if such an apparition ts likely to be startling to them, but if you wish to send the appearance to any very great distance this precaution need not be observed.

" I need hardly say that the mental effort necessan to cause ths phenomena is im­

mense, and it is only possible alter long prac­tice m concentration, when you have mas­tered the simple experiments I have already given, and really can concentrate properly. Moreover, it should not be frequently in­dulged in unless you possess magnificent ani­mal health, and an iron constitution.

"Of course the question arises, T Iow is such a thing possible?’ I am much inclined to consider it in this way—of course your body is ou the bed, and you are asleep, but the mental effort you make is transmitted by means of the etheric waves-—the nature of which I have already explained—with such direct force that the person to whom you wish to appear actually 'sees the thought.'

"The more deeply you concentrate and the longer you can hold your thought upon any given subject the swifter is the motion at­tained by it, and in the case cited above vou sent a thought with tremendous velocity through the ether, and it literally collides with both the brain and nerve centers of the per­son who receives it, the force of the mental message reacting upon the optic nerve, and so becoming objective—so much so that the person who receives your mental photograph will be prepared to swear he actually saw you in the flesh.

"The dynamic power of thought is greater than that of any other substance, but the rate of vibration naturally varies with the power of the 'brain machine,’ which generates it, the more organized and controlled thought travel­ing at a rate quite 95 per cent, more swift titan that of unorganized thought. The ether is the only medium capable of transmitting thought, but the vibrations of organized thought appear to attain yet greater velocity by their impact with and journey through this great and subtle medium.”

The article on concentration referred to as being in the January Suggester and 'Thinker, is more comprehensive than the one just reviewed. As no part of it can be omitted without robbing the reader of valuable information on that subject, the article is published in full:

CONCENTRATION.

By Prof. J. C. Quinn, Pittsfield, 111.

Concentration is the ability to fix the attention entirely and keep it definitely centered upon a given object or subject, when you desire to do so. This is a somewhat rare power of the mind. Most people are troubled with mind-wander­ing, i. e., when they try to fix the thought upon a given subject or theme, they find that the mind runs off to something else.

The historv of the human race gives us numerous illustrations of the effects of concentration of mind upon some de-

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finite pursuit, i. e., music, painting, sculpture, etc. In the case of music, we need only refer to the great masters, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven, Mendel­ssohn and others. These stand out prominently, in spite of all else they may have done, simply as great composers. In the case of the next—the list of great painters is headed with the names of Raphael, Murillo, Reubens, Turner, &c.

W e have but to recall these names and others, and splendid paintings spring up and range themselves upon the walls of our mental picture galleries.

Were we to turn our thoughts into the domains of science, philosophy, re­ligion, literature and politics, we should find it the same—a number of dis­tinguished names heading each list. And we would find the same re­sult. Greatness, except in rare cases, is always the result of concentration upon a given work and manifests its power in devotion to a single overmastering pur­suit. Nevertheless it is often found that great men and women are many- sided.

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In the matter of concentration, al­ways avoid an unworthy or depraved subject. Our mental powers are cap­able of being wonderfully trained and strengthened by appropriate suggestion. Prof. Elmer Gates, of Washington, D. C., das, in an able article in “Success” of March, 1900, p. 93, shown very clear­ly how the will power can be trained. The reader should study this article carefully. Another popular writer ob­serves “Concentration is alway s easy in proportion to the amount of affection­ate interest felt in the object upon which the mental gaze is riveted. There­fore, it matters not whether the object steadily dwelt upon be a person or a theme; exactly in proportion to the re­gard you have for him, her, or it, will be the facility with which you can con­centrate your attention thereupon.”

The habit of concentration can be ac­quired and perfected in several ways. You can take a given time daily — morning to be preferred—and retire to some place where you will be free from distraction and interruption of any kind,

and be passive-—at complete rest—for 15 minutes—then for the next 15 min­utes think of some object or form, say a tree, or a flow'er, a square or a triangle —whatever it is, keep it steadily before the mental gaze, and nothing else, for these 15 minutes. Such an exercise, repeated twice a day, for a month will soon give you the habit of strong con­centration.

Take another plan: Mr. Wood, in“Ideal Suggestion,” has an excellent method. He gives a series of medita­tions with an appropriate m otto: Then seek some place where you can be at rest—passive and undisturbed. After reading the selected meditation several times, fix the mind upon the correspond­ing motto, “I am part of a great whole.” Keep this thought steadily before the mind, let nothing else intrude upon your thought. Perform this exercise daily in silence, assuming the most rest­ful position of the body, especially when you are going to sleep, and watch for results.

The object in view in concentration is, first, to obtain self-mastery, and, second, to get the mind so trained that it will study but one theme or object at a time and study it thoroughly.

Keep up these exercises daily, at least twice a day, oftener if your work will permit, of course, changing the theme or object of thought, and you will ere long find that which at first was irk­some will, very soon, become a cherish­ed and valuable habit.

One trained to concentration of mind can, in a crowd, or in a room full of people, all talking to one another, iso­late ones’ self and carry on a given train of thought oblivious to surroundings.

As soon as the habit of concentration has been acquired the student will not need the helps above described, and will be able, after regular daily practice, to picture out mentally whatever ideas convey best the state of development so earnestly desired.

In this more advanced exercise of pc- turing to yourself pure mental ideas, re­member this great law of thought— like produces like—and be careful of t ie thoughts you entertain.

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THE KEY-NOTE IN MUSICAL THERAPEUTICS.

The March number of The Arena gives its readers an article on “The Key-Note in Musical Therapeutics,” by Henry \V. Stratton.

The pleasurable and stimulating ef­fect of good music is known to every one, “but,” Mr. Stratton says, “the spe­cific application of tones and chords for therapeutic purposes presents an entire­ly new field of inquiry.”

Of the healing action of music in a general sense, he says:

"O u r attention is first attracted by its up­lifting influence. The mind weighed down by inherited ideas of disease and pain, literally sunk m the body and subject to its every mood, is gradually lifted into a freer, more independent position. Thought ascends; its vigilant examination into bodily conditions is s topped; its grip upon petty aches and ails is shaken—vibrated out of the physical into the spiritual. In this exalted state we be­come insensible to pain, which enters only into the consciousness of the physical self. All discordant elements are forgotten in the harmonies by which we are swayed. While in the altitudes of music we are practically asleep to all our ills. The physical self is abandoned—left to work out its own salva­tion. This is N atu re ’s opportunity. Re­lieved front our meddling scrutiny, unham­pered by the personal will, she sets her own recuperative forces into operation, and these, acting in unison with or ra ther const anting the Divine Will, accomplish our restoration to health. Thus music by enticing us away rom our infirmities, by elevating conscious­

ness to a higher plane, enthralling us with beauties of spiritual suggestion, opens the door for the cure.”

Health is a state of harmony while disease is a state of inharmony. Music is harmony, noise is inharmony. “Mu­sic is the health, and noise the disease, of sound. Music-health is substituted for noise-disease.” The healing quali­ty of a musical tone lies in the impres­sion produced upon the mind by the regularity of the vibration.

The question now comes up: Doesone tone possess healing virtue more than another, or are they all equally en­dowed? Musical compositions must conform to the requirements of the kev-note. Musical instruments are

constructed with reference to a particu­lar key and key-note. The larynx, which is the musical instrument of the body, is constructed with reference to a certain key and key-note. Every atom of the physical organism is re­lated and obedient to this key-note. The origin of this is hack of the larynx The music we make comes from within, being inherited from the Master Mu­sician. “The particular intuition itt our musical consciousness which impresses us with a sense of our own individual key-note is founded upon the truth that our key-note is identical in pitch with one of the tone centers in God’s uni­versal systems of keys.”

Justifying the use of the key-note, he say s :

"Tile use of the key -note as a basis of mu­sical therapeutics is justified not only by the synchronous tendency of the ear and mind to vibrate sympathetically with all musical tones, but by a predisposition, a special favor, an innate sense of kinship resident in the Musical Consciousness.

"Tbe effect of the m ajor triad is decidedly brightening and tends to prom ote a cheer­ful frame of mind. The minor triad, on the other hand, produces a dull impression. .Minor triads, however, offer an excellent soporific where tbe nervous tension of the patient requires relaxation. A skilful blend­ing of both m ajor and minor harmonies with­in the jurisdiction of the key-note is highly beneficial to the nervous system, since tbe acceleration and retardation of thought-cur­rents and also the expansion and contraction of emotional centers become regulated there­by, conforming to the norm al flow ot music.

"In the use of music as an analeptic, tem ­perament should receive careful considera­tion. An allegro movement would not be suitable for a highly-strung, nervous o rg an i­zation; neither would an adagio meet the re- i|uirements of a lethargic temperament. Tune and rythm arc important factors in the music cure. Musical expression is a vital ele­ment of the question. Tempo, accent, c res­cendo. and diminuendo all exert a potent in ­fluence: but in all cases and under all c ir­cumstances. whether the music be melodic o r harmonic in form, the key-note should be closely adhered to and kept sounding in the ears of tbe patient. It is only by means o' this dominating center that convalescence through music is possible.”

Those who are interested in the s u b ­ject of Musical Therapeutics will find further information in the article. “Hyp­notism and Musical Psychology,” a translation from the Kerne tie l ' Hypno­tism#, made for the February Sug- gester and Thinker. In the same num­ber is found "T he Restoration of Ste-

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j•ijtii Hale,” by Rachel Detn, which is a true and most interesting account of the remarkable change brought about in this person by the therapeutic power of music.

DANGER, AS WELL AS POWER, IN REPOSE.—There is an old saying thar every rose has its thorn. I torn what Harold J. Learoyd says in The Metaphysical Magazine the doctrine of repose is no exception to the rule. In order that we may not get "stuck" he givts the following advice:

“F inding the instant idded p ver from the cultivation of repose, many have pursued it. It has become with them first a quality, then a habit As a quality it is invaluable; as a habit, dangerous. F or habit soon becomes second nature, and imperceptibly a master.

“Ke''Ose carried to an extreme leads to physical arnemia. not in the strictly medical sense, but in effect. Not onh this, but too rigid repose of body means, especially to per Si ns of an active temperament, too little

ntal r e st. ‘W alk ing <if! .......... is en< rgyas the expression goes, may have its value in this tru th Violent exercisi breaks the bodily repose and ar the saint lime die men tal activity.

‘Repost musi be under contn 1. llki all o ther qualities. It is not good to hurry to catch c .rs. but it is good to run a hundred yard ' occasionally, or rake a swift wall: Anever active mind at the cost of an ana-niie body is an ill-adjustment. In this, as in all o ther things, the extreme must be counter­balanced. and the man of greatest repose may need occasionally the fastest run."

THE W( )RLD WE L l\ V. IV To many it will seem vert absurd to raise a question as to the nature of the world in which we live. S. F. Meacltam, Al. D., raises this question in a late num­ber of Mind. It would seem natural to say the world is material. But what is matter?

"Separate all our ideas of force— everything coming to us out of the heart of action and whatever is left would lie matter itself.”

Wc admire the beauty of color in a plant and are reminded that the plant has no color It is only vibrations of ether. We do not hear a noise, what reallv takes place is the stimulation of the auditory nerves which, on reaching tin brain awakens what we call sound. The warmth of the fire is not felt. Again it is vibration w hich is interpreted by the brail as feeling It is -ecu in this way

that whatever any of* the senses seem to report are ultimately simply states of consciousness. We cannot get outside of mental states by hook or crook. Noth­ing is really known Inu mentality.

While we cannot really get beyond the mental states, we know there is something beyond. \\ hile it cannot be known what it is that gives the sensa­tion of a stone, we know there is a cause, else as Dr. Meacham say's:

Seeing that our only instrument is the mind, is it wise to speculate the specu­lator of existence—from informati in furnished by the speculator himself?”

Dr. Meacham draws the following conclusion:

"So here we are a t last in a thought-world by the material route of sheer necess ity : un­able to get out of it; unable to see. or hear, or think out of it; and, I sincerely hope, doomed to remain in it eternally*. Is it not time to -top making light of Mental Science and to spend what time wc have in a little hard th in k in g --try ing to see clearly and understand more fully just what influence * bat external world has on us and we on i t ’ This is really the im portan t question. After determining on this, let us speculate all we choose as to the what, and how, and whither of the outside and inside.

States of consciousness are the entire world to me Keeping this in mind, wc might stop a great port ion of the specula­tion as to the world in itself, and the mind in it.-elf, and turn our a ttention to tha t other and more im portant question—the growth and liaooiness of the souls of men: how the circulation or mind and mutual influence of each upon all. and all upon each, are kept up: and how by normal, healthy suggestion ("pointing to the best and no t the worst things in sight) we Would sooner o r later de-

e’op a race better morally, intellectually and physically.”

LAUGHTER.—Much is being said anil written about the beneficial effects of frequently indulging in hear' of laughter. We understand that one of the requirements of the members of the Lcngevitv Club, recently organized in New York Citv. is to laugh for a cer­tain length of time each day, no matter whether there is anything to laugh at or not

Moses Hull, in a recent lecture on amusements, also makes some remarks upon tin’s subject:

" I t is said that mail is the only animal that can laugh. I once heard a great professor ’ecture on laughter and the good that con from it. t i e went so far as to say that if one could not feel like laughing, he would he

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benefited by getting yj> a .i artificial laugh that would shake the d iaphragm ; it would be to the physical system what the burning of soot •out ot a chimney would be to the chimney; it might always be depended upon to bring beneficial results. Confirmed dyspeptics and hypochondriacs seldom laugh. Do no trust the man who never laughs; nor would I trust very far the man who never jokes. I know 'the fool is known by his much laughter,’ so the vidian is known by Ills seldom laughing, excepting a kind oi sardonic laugh, when he supposes he has his victim in his grasp. There - very much of character expressed in a laugh. F.lla Wheeler Wilcox said:‘Laugh and the world laughs with you.

Weep, and you weep alone;F o r this brave old earth must borrow mirth,

. I t has troubles of its own.”

THE ATTITUDE OF CHRIS­TIAN SCIENTISTS TOWARD THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY—is very generally misun­derstood and their views thereon con­siderably perverted at times to support the false claims and accusations of prej­udiced anti jealous enemies.

On page 15 of this magazine is given an account of Mrs. Eddy’s experience with a "troublesome tooth,” and her visit to a dentist to have it at­tended to. This occurrence opened a way for the abuse and ridicule of the good lady, none of which was in the least based on facts or justice. There is much in the book? and life acts of this famous woman, that the world could have well done without, for she has written and said many things that have neither foundation in fact nor reason. But, perhaps, were the literary, scien­tific and other efforts of the majority of her critics, subjected to the same public scrutiny and misunderstanding, it is quite possible that they would hardly fare better The consideration of this question should suggest to the minds of all a more careful observance of that Biblical injunction having reference to one’s regard for and attitude toward his neighbor.

Col. Oliver C. Sabin, who is at the head of the Reform Christian Science Church at Washington, D. C., has this to say regarding the proper attitude and use of surgery, by It is brethren and stu­dents in Christian Science healing:

"In my practice I have always advised the use of surgery when the surgeons

can manifestly be of benefit; that is to say, where the complications are not so great that the surgeons can not handle the case. I think, however, if we all understood and had a sufficient amount of reliance and understanding there need be no surgery used, but 1 do not think it is wise for us to advise that now, and my advice is to use surgery where it can be done without manifest danger. In ordinary leg breaks and arm breaks, or anything of that kind, use surgery.”

Col. O. C. Sabin in the paragraph following the above, reports the cure at a distance, of a badly fractured arm— so seriously' hurt that the surgeons strongly advised amputation. The Col­onel says that God set the bones,—he (Col. Sabin) simply acting as the me­dium of the Great Healer. His advice to the average healer, however, is to em­ploy surgery when occasion demands

DOW1E AND HIS EVIL DOERS. —From Lexington, 111., comes the fol­lowing sad report—of a mistake that should never be let happen again. If the many recent reports of death—said to be due to the neglect of alleged faith- healers, Christian Scientists and Dowie- ites—are true in the main those respon­sible should be dealt with just as are other common murders:

"Lexington. 111., Thursday Jan. 31.—Mrs. Apperman the wife of a school teacher of this city, who became a mother a week ago, died yesterday. She and her husband be­longed to Dr. Dowie’s 'Zion’ church of faith curists. She received no medical attendance, but a professor of the Dowie faith came from Chicago and was at the bedside. Neighbors volunteered their services and offered medi­cine. but all offers were refusd. The w oman’s husband was about to remove the remains to Ohio, but this was prevented and there were serious threats of violence toward Apperman and the Chicago Dowieite. The latter, how ­ever, got away last night, returning to Chi­cago. The coroner was summoned, but as no doctor’s certificate of death could be ob­tained arid witnesses could no t be gotten to gether, the inquest has been postponed.

THE VALUE OF HAPPINESS.— “The most valuable possession is the capacity to enjoy life. Bank accounts and other securities leave you virtually poor, unless you have a glad heart for all the world has to give.

“Pursue happiness, and there will be no blues to conquer; for none f us are

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so constituted that we can hold joy and pain; it must be one or the other. Glad tidings have an instantaneous effect, and like a contagious laugh make us respond, no matter how sullen we may feel. Try to always see the humorous side of things; for anything that is mirth-provoking is invaluable as a tonic, strengthening us for the difficulties we are trying to master.

'W e will hail with delight the deca­dence of tragic plays and pathetic litera­ture. Shakespeare’s comedies will be the longest lived of his works, for we are now beginning to realize the opti- mistic aftermath of an enjoyable occur­rence, and won't tolerate anything that Las a vein of pessimism running through it.

‘‘Don’t take life too seriously; indulge in all legitimate amusements. You can't afford to shut out the light of hap­piness, for you will not be able to jour- net very far without it Rot on ac­count of our tribulations need we be sad, but m spite of them should we call forth a deeper sense of joy.

“Feeling, as much as thought, causes action. Let us not only think, but live happiness.”

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SUGGESTION IN TIIE HEALING ART.

We have endeavored to show that the subjective mind has complete con trol over the functions of the body, and that while in the subjective state it is entirely under the control of the sugges­tion of the hypnotist. Then if this hy­pothesis be true, it is a logical conclu­sion that any disease, functional or or­ganic, is susceptible to successful sug­gestive treatment. I wish to be under­stood by this, that any disease that is curable by the use of drugs is also cura­ble by suggestion, and I may add, in many cases in which the knife is resort­ed to, the disease in which electricity, massage, baths and such like methods, which are so popular with many of the better classes of physicians, are es­pecially amenable to treatment by suggestion. Hypnosis has been used very successfully as an anaesthetic both general and local. In good subjects local anaesthesia is one of the easiest of the phenomena produced. Anginas and rnigrane are readily reliev’d. Rheuma­tism is very susceptible to treatment by suggestion. This should be hailed with delight, as it is one of the slowest ro yield to the treatment of drugs.

We all realize the value of suggestion in the care of our patients. Where is the doctor who has not used placeboes ? You may say this is done in cases where the disease is imaginary. We admit this to be true in many instances, but after all, our imaginary troubles ex­cel our so-called real ones. I insist an imaginary trouble is as difficult to re­lieve by the use of drugs as a real one; in fact, imaginary disease cannot be cured without the aid of suggestion. You have to disabuse the mind of the patient of the existence of any disease, or inspire his implicit confidence in your abditv to cure him before you will be able to cure him. Tn either case it is suggestion. In the latter instance you may use drugs, but they are only aux­iliary and would have no effect minus the confidence. Suggestion is the key note to the success of all, or most all, the patent nostrums that marvelous cures are attributed to daily. If it was not for this fact we would not note the marvelous financial success of the pat-

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ent medicine man. Take away what marvelous things he claims his nostrum will do, and which the patient accepts as true, and you would find but few remedies on the market.

It is claimed that there are certain cases and conditions in which hypnosis is contra-indicated and that bad results follow the use of it. There may be cer­tain phenomena arise in some cases in which hypnosis, it would seem, was contra-indicated, but usually it is due to the method of producing hypnosis, or to some suggestion made at the time, auto or otherwise. By close observa­tion, the cause can be detected in such cases and removed. But for the sake of argument, we will grant there is evi­dence against the use of hypnosis as a therapeutic agent. This is equally true of drugs, and should not militate against the use of either in suitable cases.

When the practical importance of mental influences become more gener­ally recognized, physicians will be obliged to acknowledge that psycholo­gy is as important, if not more so, in the cure of disease than physiology. When this is accomplished, a great step will be made in the etiology of disease, as well as the cure. It will be the basis of a rational treatment of all diseases, especially those of the narcotic nature the latter being very slightly benefited by the use of drugs.

It is no new idea of mental influences being a factor in the etiology of dis­eases as some of the oldest physiolo­gists I know of mention the fact and cite cases in support of it : and the method as a means of curing disease antedates, so far as I am aware, that of the use of drugs, and many of the most remarkable cures that history gives an account of are wrought in this wav.

In presenting this subject, I am fully aware of the prejudices and skepticism that exist, not only in the minds of the laity, but in that of our learned profes­sion as well. But few care to approach the subject in a private wav, much less before a learned audience like this. No one should censure others for their un­prejudiced investigations. The indif­ference of science and the opposition of so-called scientific leaders havp always been the worst obstacles to the progress of true science. This is especially true

when it conflicts with their preconceiv­ed theories or opinions. These things have always tended to foster charlatan­ism, quackery, humbuggerv and impo­sition on scientific questions. This is especially true in our profession, as we all know there has never been any ma­terial advances but what have been fought to the bitter end.

It is essential that questions of this class should be investigated by the med­ical profession for their own enlighten­ment as well as that of the masses. The non-recognition of dogma distinguishes true science from blind faith. But to say a thing is impossible because it is opposed to a supposed law of nature, is dogmatic in the superlative degree.

Suggestion is not the only key to the origin and aggravation of disease, but it also explains the action of drugs in many instances. If medicines have a different effect when prescribed by dif­ferent doctors, we must admit it is due to physical causes. It is true, in many instances, it is an unconscious sugges­tion, but nevertheless it is suggestion

Suggestion as a therapeutic agent will outlive many remedies whose praises fill the columns of medical lit­erature of to-day. It has stood the crucial test of time longer than any drug as a therapeutic agent. The his­tory of a large majority of the drugs that have been introduced during the history of medicine shows that one is discarded and others taken in its stead. No one claims even any particular branch of medicine to be a perfect sci­ence, and every one knows almost all the investigations and advances made in medical science has been from a ma­terial standpoint and to the neglect of the psychic side of tile question.

f am not here to tell you, as Shake­speare did, “To throw your physic to the dogs," or to contend that there is no such thing as matter and that dis­ease exists only in the mind, but to trv to direct vour thoughts to the psychic influence in the etiology of diseases, as well as its potentiality as a factor in the healing art. The evidence of the truth­fulness of this proposition is to be seen every day by the most casual observer To fail or refuse to see them is to shut our eyes to staring facts and “live in a fool’s paradise.”—E. T. Camp. M. D. in The Sngo'cstrr and Thinker.

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\ Metaphysics and Speculative Philosophy; ? ^ j t h r i s t i a n Science,” Faith Healing Etc. J

i NT ELL IG EN C E.—The importance ct defining' '‘intelligence” is emphasized by Leander Edmund Whipple in The Metaphysical Magazine. The definitions usually given in hooks are correct, but do not earn us far toward a practical comprehension of the meaning and uses of the word for philosophical purposes. Since a comprehension of the meaning of the word is necessary Mr. Whipple goes on to define it. The hypothesis of materialism w hich makes intelligence an attribute of matter is shown to be unten­able. The attempt to make the five senses i he seat of the operations of intel­ligence is also ruled out of court.

Having shown that all attempts to explain Intelligence from a materialistic point of view, are fruitless, there re­mains, of course, but one alternative, the idealistic standpoint. He says:

"The substance of an idea is spirit; the ac- io tv of it ' being is spiritual activity: that

which conceives its truths is spiritual being tn 1 the conception of it is the result of Spir- tual \ctivit; l nless we admit this we have1 1 facts to which we can point for evidence of our hypothesis, and no statement can be trcived In such event we can only dogma be. and hope that others will be dull and un- binhing enough to believe that what we

t< is t> without troubli g 11 nselves to r.vostigate. Of course we do riot desire such

a result to our speculations, but unless we can establish perm anent truth as our premise, this is where we shall eventually land. The ■ Material statement is livariablv empty and its expectations hopeless. The understanding”

Sense is void of Intelligence.'Investigate as you will and by whatever

vans, the hypothesis of Intelligence must be pirit hi . mptyness of rea •• ining and noth

ingness of substance soon settles the fate of (i tr philosophy.

' Intelligence is spiritual, always under all ircumstances in its nature, its character, and

in ever}' application to human life: and its offices are all for the beneficent guidance of man through the tangles and the shadows of external appearances, the wiles of sensuous Ire the allurements of sense reasonings, the j) fa l ls of the emotional nature and the soph­istries I false logic, into the open fields of the tru th and reality of being, where his soul will continually tx p an u in the gaining of new tnderstanding by every intelligent experi

once.Intelligence in the full and correct under­

standing of its nature, character and element. ’ list he more titan understanding.' because

it includes all the matures of comprehensive abiiit} through which Understanding , iper ates. It must he more than the ’power t know,’ because .ill variations of tha t power are included in Intelligence, with all the pow­ers of analysis, so necessary to the intricate examination which must precede k now edm and in which Intelligence is exhibited in ad i ii'Kv of demonstration of the power '

The following logical conclusions are reached:

1 ............., thei s he essenct oi thepower to know the ability to understand: the

lit} to act wit purpost It is tin one element of Being which renders possible the act of knowing, comprehending, under­standing. or doing an intelligent act. It is that which renders consciousness of reality a fact oi man’s life, and makes the individuality of the human being a possibility. Oi this plane of conscious lift*. Intelligence is Being itself It is the spiritual substance oi the ac­tivity oi conscious life. Intelligence and Be­ing are so nearly the same that in many way- the words are used synonymously, by philosophers.

Intelligence, in its all-inclusive wholeness, is tlii principle of activity in all Being; and every mode oi activity, when comprehen­sively studied, traces to this one element. TIk Law which expresses this Principle on the humane plans, is Understanding, which is the ultimate of the power to know. Ml other phases of comprehensive recognition are parts of this law, or tnoucs of its express ive action. The conception of Intelligence as Principle, aids the intellectual faculties in dealing with the h igher phases of the sub­ject. ami helps to develop the perceptive p o w ­ers, until intelligence can be comureliended on its own ground. Intelligence is really the principle of life; and t ins associates it with every phase and feature of activity, in the highest possible conception.”

WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL IDEAL?—In the January number of The Higher Taw is begun a series of ar­ticles on “The Spiritual Ideal,” by Horatio \V. Dresser, editor of that beau­tiful little magazine.

Mr. Dresser says that the supreme evidence of a spiritual law and a spirit­ual world is the fact that our highest sentiments and insights are made known at a time and under conditions which we cannot control. As long as we can ex­plain our experiences on the basis of self-conscious activity, or reasonably ap­ply the theory of illusion, Mr. Dresser savs we are logically bound to declare that there is no spiritual realm with which we are in immediate relation. We are also compelled, savs he, to admit that in truth there is a higher power or

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law by or through which the Spirit seeks us—not we the Spirit.

From the subject and discussion of this article, it is plain from whence Mr. Dresser gets the title for his magazine; and those who may be able to secure this series of discourses, may count themselves fortunate.

In the paper for January Mr. Dresser aims to develop some of the implica­tions of the spiritual law and point out the way in which the seeker, or student, may consciously prepare for the most exalted experiences of human life,— the manifestations of the Spirit. The further consideration of the subject and purpose of the article is best told in the author’s Own words:

I shall leave out of account the question­able experiences, where we do not know whether we are merely contemplating our­selves, our physical activities, or the features of some excarnate spirit, and confine myself to the genuine, unmistakable evidences of the peace and power, the love and wisdom, of that Spirit of spirits whom we call the Father. I shall not attemnt to prove the genuine ness of these experiences; it is useless to en­deavor to demonstrate them to those who have not in some measure felt the touch of the Spirit. Their presence is their proof; there is no other. If you have perceived the presence, you know; if you have not, you do nor know; and thus ends all argument.

' I do not. however, mean to imply thaj: these experiences are irrational, but that one must feel their presence before one can make clear their reason. T he situation is precisely similar to our acquaintance with the physical world. We do not aruue that the physical world exists, hoping thereby to prove it to another. We call attention to the fact that we awaken into existence, and find the world here. Since it is here, we begin to account for it. W e distinguish between thoughts, which we direct at will in our minds, and sensa­tions, which come to us from without, de­spite our wills. For example, there is a vast difference between fancy and the sensations described as hot and cold. Fancy we can put out of mind as unreal, o r enlarge upon it, at will. But the sensation of heat or cold is forced upon us. In order to free ourselves from it. we are compelled to withdraw our physical organisms from the hot or cold en­vironment.

“Finding the sensations of heat and cold in our consciousness, and learning that they arise involuntarily, we argue that a reality exists outside of our voluntary consciousness as the course of these sensations. F or rea­son assures us that these sensations could not spring from nothing: experience confirms the belief that they have a cause

“Thus out of the sensations we are com­pelled to feel, we develop a conception of a

world-order springing from an ultimate, self- existent reality. By the same process we may logically reason from effect back to cause, when we stand in the presence of beauty, of peace, of love and wisdom. Surely, the logi­cal process is as sound. We have as good a reason for supposing reality to be spiritual as we have for deeming it the ultimate foun­dation of the rock.” * * *

The Spiritual ideal in brief, says Mr. Dresser, is to live close to God— "to speak with power”—to move with that strength which shall carry all obstacles before it." The following practical suggestions are offered as a means of attaining this end;

"Receptivity is obviously one essential. We know from experience that, if we try to be re­ceptive, we often fail. But by an eternal law we know that when, in the midst of doubt, the Father came, it must have been because at that moment our organism offered least resistance. And so we can at least train uui- -elves subconsciously. W e may carry with us the knowledge that at any time and anv place the Spirit is likely to be revealed, and adapt our life accordingly.

"Again, it is clear that the Spirit comes only when really needed. While it is better for its to w'ork along alone, we are left to our own resources. When we have gained the full benefit of personal experience, at the eleventh hour the way is made clear.

"To illustrate. Suppose one is called to the bedside of an invalid to bring the help of the Spirit. Sometimes one possesses little power. To cry out for help is vain. One must work along, guided by the memory of past experi­ences. A non a critical time comes; and, be­hold! at that moment one feels an unusual sense of power. At other times one must work, and call all hopeful t h o u g h t to the rescue. Now one is hardly more than a chan­nel for superior power, an instrument through which greater results are w rought than could have been attained by merely finite thought.

“Do not misunderstand me. I do not say that the great Spirit of the universe give- specific attention to this one invalid, and chooses you or me for an instrument. But by this higher law the greater need subcon­sciously creates the deeper receptivity; and rhe soul becomes open to that presence which, like the sun, spreads its quickening light upon all.

"W e may, therefore, assure ourselves that, whenever the greater necessity arises, power will be given us if it be wise. If our hands are held, we may know that for some reason, not yet clear, it wuis not wise for us to do the decisive work. Therefore, we may trustfully aw'ait the divine prompting.

“Another important phase of the spiritual ideal is its close connection with the ideals of art, of beauty. I emphasize this relation­ship because the tendency of the spiritual zealot is to neglect the art ideal. Man is not here simply to build character by tr iumph over obstacles, selfishness, and sin I t is im ­possible to state in one sentence wdiat life is

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icr. The spiritual enthusiast is apt to say it is lo r the growth of the individual soul. But what of the social ideal? Is that inferior to the ideal of individual perfection? The sct- e n tT c man says life is for knowledge. The philosopher says it is tor ultimate truth. The practical man comes forward with another definition. All are right. Life is for all of these ends, and many more. That m an’s life would be narrow, indeed, who should insist upon developing his character every moment. A round us ts the fair world of nature, where each may behold a phase of beauty never seen before; and so life is also for expres­sion. Ir is not rounded out and beautiful unless we develop within ourselves and ex ­press to others tha t which corresponds to he external harmonies of nature and human

society.”

CAUSE AND CURE OF DIS­EASE FROM A CHRISTIAN SCI­ENCE STANDPOINT—A careful consideration of the tenets and methods of healing employed by Christian Scien- t’Sis, will demonstrate the falsity of the popular belief on this subject. A suf­ficient number and variety of rather re­markable cures have been made by this cult to entitle them and their belief and teachings to a fair hearing.

fn the February Washington News Letter, O. P. McDonald writes on the

Cause and Effect” from a Christian pcience standpoint, giving an exposition of the subject that is very plain, practi­cal and interesting. We quote in part as follows:

“ We wil sav we have a patient before us v.h*i is suffering from a belief of consumption. The belief is very real to him. and to just such ar. extent as the belief is real the suffering be­comes real to the patient from a material standpoint owing to the fact that the patf-nt has allowed this false belief of sin. sickness .old death to become his master, which the Bible ;ays are the three enemies of man, and " in ch Christ came into the world in the form i f man to overcome, and did overcome, ana 'eft us the example, and the command to over­come even to the last enemy death, in his ■ame.

Now. then, instead of saying to this devil >■ form of error o r consumption, Get thee ch i ld n r Satan.’ as Christ did when the

Spirit led him up into a mountain an error in die form of a devil offer d hit • treat pos 'fs- im is if he would bow down and worship him. this patient has bowe l down and w or­shipped this devil, this c r o r these enemies of m an—sin, sickness, or consumption and death—and by -o doing he hat allowed these enemies, this error, to im bed itself into his consciousness to such an extent as to become the cause of the effect, whicit to material sen«e is sickness and suffering, and to iust

such an extent as the patient acknowledges such cause as real so much he expect to suf­fer the consequence of the effect, which be­comes real only as the cause is permitted to become real.

F or 'Cause and Effect’ is a natural law. and for every effect there must be a cause. If a wreck happens on the railroad the first question one asks is what was the cause, and if you will look further you will find a mistake on the part of the operator, or engineer, or someone, for without a cause there would have been no wreck, and to prevent a second wreck you must destroy or remove the cause and the effect will also be destroyed or r e ­moved.

“ Hence the necessity of finding the cause of these enemies of man which we are to over­come. and which our learned ministers and doctors have failed to do for the reason that their learning has no t come from the right source, and the very error they should un­mask and destroy has blinded their material eyes, and as long as they seek from a ma­terial standpoint so long will they be unsuc­cessful, for only when our spiritual eyes have been opened can vve see Truth.

“Now, then, before we go further we will look into the thoughts of our patient, l i e says he has consumption, and he knows he has it, for he feels and sees the effect on his body. Then we ask him what b rought about this effect, which he calls consumption, and he very quickly tells us it is hereditary, and his father o r mother died with the same and possibly several of his ancestors, and he in­herits it from one or bo th sides of his family, and to seal the matter the doctor has agreed with him. after hint having first told the doc­to r he had inherited consumption, and if he can claim no inheritance of his so-called con­sumption then he tells the doctor he caught a cold which settled on his lungs, and the ducior very agreeably and earnestly agrees with him in this. So the consumption is de­cided upon between him and the doctor and becomes a reality to the belief of the patient. So much for error.

“ Now, then, let us look a little deeper and see what the patient th inks of his very exist­ence and we find he believes in God, but be­lieves him to be away off and having nothing to do with the patient in this world any more than he has promised him a reward if he lives upright in this life, but lie has to die to win this reward Another 's living in constant fear that when he does die his reward will turn out to be damnation and everlasting suffer­ing in hell fire for sins comm itted in this life, so he is in misery now an d half expects greater misery in the world to come, hence hapi mess and Heaven was never meant for him

“We also find he accounts for his existence nte such m anner t 1 : ■ He th inks he

was born alive in this world, and is depend­ent o his heart and blood for life, and lit . ,h -• me force o r power which is an

ed mystery io him perhaps similar to perpetual motion, which our mechanics have failed to accomplish in a material way, this

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heart is kept moving until from some cause ;l slops, or runs down in old age, then he dies and at present is afraid to think further.

Now, then, the first th ing the Christian Scientist docs is to begin to dstroy these be !i< :s of sin, sickness and death and drive them irotn the consciousness of the pat 'ent, and to ust such an extent as the healer is success­

ful in this he or she is successful m destroy­ing the cause of this belief of disease, which, being the effect, can no longer remain when ihe cause has been destroyed.

Now, when this has been accomplished the result is that there is left a vacancy in the con­sciousness of the patient, where this er- ■ or has been driven from, and the second ef­fort on the par: of the healer is to plant and all this vacancy with thoughts of Truth, and to just such an extent as the healer has been . nrressful in establishing a cause the effect of which must be perfection, happiness and death, to both soul and body.

•‘Now. then, the patient begins to live in a new world, ' for the law of the Spirit of lile in Chiisi Jesus has begun to make him free from the law of sin and death,” and lie has found the Heaven that Christ says is "within you. lie has found the keys to the beauties of na­ture; lie has found that T ru th is the only true source and cause, and the only effect is and ca:i be nothing but perfection, he has begun to realize the meaning of God’s words, when He said, Let us make man in our own image, and in our likeness:, and give him dominion over all things, ' H e no longer doubts the words of Christ when l i e said, 'If my words abide in you, ye shall ask what you will and a shall be done,’ for he has found the words j'i God to be Life to them that find them and

health to their flesh,’ he has ceased thinking of dying and has begun to live, lie has ceased sluing and has begun to 'love God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all Ins mind, and to love his neighbor as him­self,’ and instead of all being miserv lie lias found lhat all is love, and God is all in all. he is no longer dependent on his heart and blood for life, for he has found the truth of his ex­istence. and the truth has made him free, he lias found the fountain of life, and he not only has life but he has it more abundantly, for he has been born again from the old man to the new, from materiality to spirituality, and thus see? all things from a standpoint of Truth and trusts in the omnipresence of God for life, and all things, ar.d is no longer in bondage to -in and error.

"Now. then, what has become of that con- smi'ption which seemed so real to the patient? It has been destroyed by Truth in a practical way. and anything that can be destroyed by Truth is false in both cause and effect, and therefore had no true existence, for Truth is the only source, cause and substance, for Truth is God. and 'God is the Creator of Heaven. 1'arth. and all tha t in them is;’ hence Truth alone is reality, and the only true cause and effect which brings health, happiness and life eternal.

'Now. then, let us look still deeper into this -ubject and find, if possible, ilie cause

and effect of mental treatment between healer and patient. To begin with, we find that mind is composed of two states, namely, the objective and subjective, or conscious and un­conscious. The subjective or unconscious being the inner portion of mind, is more sp r dually inclined than the objective or conscious owing to the fact that the objective comes in direct contact with material things. The ob jective controls the subjective to a greater 1 less extent owing to the fact that : lie sub­jective is dependent on the objective tor thoughts, except when supplied by a healer or some other mind through the process oi transference of thought. The subjective is ever active and by this mind vve dream; this is also the- portion of mind .vliicb controls the body to a greater or less extent, lienc - when a thought of sin or disease is placed deeply upon the objective or conscious mtn.l it is transferred to the subjective or uncon­scious, and this mind manifests the same to :. greater or less extent on ihe body, hence the importance oi thinking good thoughts so that the manifestation will be good according tc ihe law of cause and effect, for like produce? Ike.

‘‘Now. then, we find there are two chan­nels by which we can reach the subjective or unconscious state of man’s mind, namely through the objective mind and th rough the process oi transference of thought, which sci­ence and history proves to be very po--ib!e

"Now, then, when a healer takes a case he or she utilizes both of these channels in de­stroying the thoughts of sin and disease, a r supplants in their stead thoughts o T ru th Life and Health by inducing the patient to study the word of God and think thought.-, o: health, and by giving the patient mental o: Christian Science treatment, which is nothing more or less than mentally speaking these same thoughts of T ru th and Health through this process of transference of thought to the subjective o r unconscious mind of the patient and praying to God in faith for his recovery, thus destroying the evil which was the cause of the effect, 'sickness,’ and planting Go.l which becomes cause, and the effect is 'health.’ ”

MRS. EDDY HAS PAINLESS DENTISTRY “DONE.”—Perhaps no other lady of the land is the subject of as much public criticism—adverse and otherwise—than Mrs. Mary Prnker Eddy, founder of the sect Christian Science. A good deal of it is undoubtedly harsh and unmerited; in fact much of it Mrs. Eddy finds necessary to come out and den . in public.

At the recent Protestant Episcopal Church Congress, Mr. W. A. Purring- ton, whilst criticising Christian Sciencv and its founder, Mrs. Eddy remarked;

"She says there is no pain and disease, and that she can restore decaying bones to a

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heaitliy condition; yet she had her teeth ex­tracted by Dr. Fletcher, i . 77 X’orth Main Street, Concord, \ \ II.. tinder the so-called painless method, by local anesthesia, and she now wears artificial denture^ made by him.”

In The t hr t n S ice St tinel ( I )e- cemher hi Airs. Eddy 6 aims that this is an almost total misinterpretation o£ her position. She prints a statement from Dr. Fletcher saying that while Airs. Eddj did have a " rouble s< ime tot >th extracted,” it was not a carious tooth, neither was she in pain at the time. "She did request me to extract the

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tooth, allowing me to use my own pain­less method for extracting teeth, which I had recommended.’ Mrs. Eddy thus explains her metaphysical position in re­spect to surgery and other physical aids:

Those familiar with my writings know that long ago I instructed Christian Scientists not to interfere with methods of surgery, but, if they should call a surgeon, to submit to his methods without discussion Tb"se who are unfamiliar with them, or misconstrue them, should hesitate to criticize without personal knowledge. The following is extracted front the Christian Science text-book, page 400, and has been published in said book since its first issue in 1875: ‘Until the advancingage admits the efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better to leave surgery and the adjustment of broken bones and dislocations to the fingers of a surgeon, while you con

fine yourself chiefly to mental reconstruction, and the prevention of inflammation.’ 1 have always instructed students in Christian Sci­ence to be wise and discreet, conforming, where conscience is not offended, to the us- agt - ' i men. The practice of surgery is not t i t " i i . o Christian Science, whose rules and methods are based upon the example? of Jesus and Ills followers. Bishop Berkeley and I agree that all is Mind. Then, consist­ently with this premise, the conclusion is that it 1 employ a dental surgeon, and he be­lieves that the extraction of a too th is made easier by sont tpplication mean? which he '.'lnbloys, and f object to the employment of this means, I have turned the dentist ', tut . i protest ggaipst myself, he th inks I

stiff . be a • - n< th< id is intt i ' will Therefore his mental force n

aii st a painless operation whereas it should be pit: into the same scale as mine, thus pro- !. " a painless operation as a logical result.

"M atter is but the objective state of mortal n r . 1 It has only the substance and reality in our day-dreams that it has in our dreams by night. Ic is all the way7 the \d am -d re am of mind in matter, which is m ortal and God- condeintled: it is not tite spiritual fact of be- n g. W hen this scientific classification is u n ­derstood, we shall have one Mind, one God. and we shall obey the comm andment ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself.’

Tu commenting on certain criticisms of her book Mrs Eddy writes as fol­low s :

"M y first writings on Christian Science began with notes on the Scriptures. I con­sulted no other author, and read no other books but the Bible for about three years. What I wrote had a strange coincidence or relationship with the light of revelation and solar light. I could not write those notes after sunset: all thoughts in the line of Scrip­tural interpretation would leave me until the rising of the sun: then the influx of divine interpretation would pour in upon my spirit­ual ense as gloriously as the sunlight on the material senses. Ir was n o t myself, but the divine power of T ru th and Love, infinitely above me, which dictated ‘Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.’ I have been learning the h igher meaning of this book since writing it. Is it too much to say that this book is leavening the whole lump of hu ­man thought? Y ou can trace its teachings in each step of mental and spiritual progress, from pulpit and press, in religion and ethics, and find this step either written or indicated therein. It has mounted thought on the swift and mighty chariot of divine Love, which today is circling the whole world.

“ I should blush to write of ‘Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures’ as I have, were it of human origin, and I. apart from God. its author But, as I was only a scribe echoing the harmonies of heaven in divine metaphysics, I can not he super-modest in my estimate of the Christian Science text­book.”

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THE HYPNO-METRONOME. — Dr. Pau De Saint Martin—Describes in tlie Revue Jc /’Hypnotisme a Hypno- Metronome which he has used success­fully.

“As in the Luys mirror this appara­tus is based on the hypnotic action which the isochronous repetition of the same mode of excitation produces.

It is composed of an ordinary met­ronome, the pendulum of which should be adapted to small mirrors, metallic re- hectors, or other objects susceptible, by their fixation, of producing fatigue of the eyes.

The apparatus being put into opera­tion we obtain three kinds of vibrations : auditory, visual, and psychic. The three inodes of the same general energy, pro­duce by a kind of inhibition and tempo­rary anaesthesia a state of indifference, of torpor and inactivity favorable to in­ducing sleep and the efforts of sugges­tion.

Another advantage of this apparatus is that it occupies the mind of the pa­tient, it fixes and absorbs his attention, and substitutes definite signs for direc­tions often vague, and which badly in­terpreted or understood, often endanger the final success by their inobservance.

So you direct your patient to notice only the noise and the motion of the apparatus, to concentrate his entire at­tention on the oscillations, to count them mentally, and even if you consider it useful, to regulate his respirations by the rythms of the vibrations. Indeed, all these movements lead to the same result: To place the mind in a state ofmono-ideaism concentration, which alone is amenable to suggestion.

HIGHER MESMERIC PHENOM­ENA.—Arthur Hallam contributes an excellent article on “The Higher Phe­nomena of Mesmerism” to the January Humanitarian. In the introduction to his discourse he naivelv remarks, that, excluding the narrow, ignorant people, who are obvious to all outside their par­ticular sphere: and notwithstanding the

vehement attacks and great opposition of medical men, hypnotism, or mesmer­ism, seems to have made considerable headway, although its progress has been comparatively slow.

Mr. Hallam regards hypnotism as only a part of the science which is called for convenience sake, “mesmerism,” and asserts that through the aid of the latter he is able to carry his investigations into a much higher region of consciousness. He avers that this claim has been proven by tne experiences of those whose ex­periments have been conducted along these lines. It is apparent, therefore, that he is a strong adherent of the school of mesmerism; but, as he is withal a most broad minded gentleman and care­ful scientist his views are exceedingly valuable His estimate of mesmerism as a therapeutic, educational and moral agent, is high, but he holds as more va, uable its capability of being utilized as a medium through which to study the “human enigma,” or composite nature of man. To thoroughly understand his nature, man must be carefully observed in sleep as well as when awake. In the past he has been studied almost exclu­sively in his normal condition—without regard to the phenomena of sleep life. Mesmerism offers a solution of this dif­ficulty, by giving us a sleep that may be investigated without disturbance. Mr. Plallam explains the nature of sleep as follows:

“Now, to use a term familiar to students of psychology, sleep is nothing more n or less than 'a displacement of the threshold of sen­sibility:’ the world of day disappears from consciousness, and the ego becomes suscepti­ble to influences which, in waking, cannot assert themselves owing to the presence of the grosser influences of the outer world. Thus in sleep the psycho physical activity of man sinks for a while below the threshold, and there arises over it influences and re­actions which, in the waking state, remain dormant below One of the most common results of this are dreams, confused in char­acter If the sleep is light, but connected and orderly in the deeper stages. Occasionally, however, deep sleep is accompanied by a more effective inner awakening, and the psychical reactions thus set up manifest themselves in somnambulism. In this condition we are con­fronted with faculties unknown to our daily consciousness, and ir: the study of these much that is valuable concerning the nature of man is revealed.

“ But it will be easily understood dial the transitory character of natural somnambulism

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healthy condit ion; yet she had her teeth ex­tracted by l)r. Fletcher if 77 North Main Street Concord, N. H.. tinder the so-called painless method, by local anesthesia, and ffie nerw wears artificial dentures made by him.”

In The Christian Senna Sentinel (De­cember (>) Airs. Eddy claims thai this is an almost total misinterpretation of Iter posit'on. She prints a statement from Dr. Fletcher saying that while Mrs. Eddj did have a "troublesome tooth extracted,” it was not a carious tooth, neither was she in pain at the time. "She did request me to extract the

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tooth, allowing' me to use my own pain­less method for extracting teeth, which I had recommended.” Mrs. Eddy thus explains her metaphysical position in re­spect to surgery and other physical aids:

Those familiar with my writings know that long ago I instructed Christian Scientists not to interfere with methods of surgery, but, if they should call a Surgeon, to submit to his methods without discussion Those who are unfamiliar with them, o r misconstrue them, should hesitate to criticize without personal knowledge. The following is extracted from the Christian Science text-book, page 400, and has been published in said book since its first issue in 187,17: 'Until the advancingage admits (he efficacy and supremacy of Mind, it is better to leave surgery and the adjustment of broken bom s and dislocations tu tin lingers of a surgeon, while you ion-

f in e yourself chiefly to mental reconstruction, and the pre\ entiuti oi inflammation.’ I have always instructed students in Christian Sci­ence to he wise and discreet, conforming, \vherc conscience is not offended, to the us­a g e s oi men. The practice of surgery is not introduced into Christian Science, whose rules and methods are based upon the examples of Jest - and His followers. Bishop Berkeley and 1 agree that all is Mind. Then, consist­ently w ith this premise, the conclusion is that if I employ a dental surgeon, and he be­lieves that the extraction of a tooth is made easier by some application or means which lie employs, and I object to the employment

m< ! ha turned tht 1 mental protest against myself, he lliinks I must suffer because his method is interfered with. Therefore his mental force weighs a ainst a painless operation whereas it should be pm into tin same stall as mine, thus p ro ­ducing a painless operation as a logical result

Alatter is but the objective state of mortal mind It has only the substance and reality in our day-dreams tha*- it has in our dreams by night. I t is all the way the A dam-dream oi mind in matter, which is mortal and God- condenined; it is no t me spiritual fact of be­ing. W hen this scientific classification is un derst >i•cl. we ^liall have one Mind, one God. and we shall obey the comm andment ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself.’ ”

hi commenting on certain criticisms of her book Alts. Eddy writes as fol­lows :

My first writings on Christian Science began with notes on lie Scriptures. I con­sulted no other author, and read no other books but the Bible for about three years. W hat 1 wrote had a strail"e coincidence or relationship with the light of revelation and solar light. I could not write those notes aft tr sunset; all thoughts in Ihe line of Scrip ­tural interpretation would leave me until the rising of the sun; then the influx of divine interpretation would pour in upon my spirit­ual sense as gloriously as the sunlight on the material senses. It was not myself, hut the divine power of T ru th and Love, infinitely above me, which dictated ‘Science and Healtli with Key to the Scriptures.’ I have been learning the h igher meaning of this book since writing it. Is it too much to say that this book is leavening the whole lump of h u ­man thought? Y ou can trace its teachings in each step of mental and spiritual progress, from pulpit and press, in religion and ethics, and find this -tep either written or indicated therein. I t has mounted though t on the swift and mighty chariot of divine Love, which today is circling the whole world.

"I should blush to write of ‘Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures’ as I have, were it of human origin, and I, apart from God its author. But as I was only a scribe echoing the harmonies of heaven in divine metaphysics. I can not he super-modest in my e-timate of the Christian Science t e x t ­b o o k ”

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| Hypnotism, Mesmerism and £ Magnetism, Dreams and Visions. <

TPIE HYPNO-METRONOME. — Dr. Pau De Saint-Martin—Describes in the Revue dc I’Hypnotisme a Ilypno- Metronome which he has used success- hilly.

"As in the Luys mirror this appara­tus is based on the hypnotic action which the isochronous repetition of the same mode of excitation produces.

It is composed of an ordinary met­ronome, the pendulum of which should be adapted to small mirrors, metallic re­flectors, or other objects susceptible, by their fixation, of producing fatigue of the eyes.

The apparatus being put into opera­tion we obtain three kinds of vibrations : auditory, visual, and psychic. The three modes of the same general energy, pro­duce by a kind of inhibition and tempo­rary anaesthesia a state of indifference, of torpor and inactivity favorable to in­ducing sleep and the efforts of sugges­tion.

Another advantage of this apparatus is that it occupies the mind of the pa­tient, it fixes and absorbs his attention, and substitutes definite signs for direc­tions often vague, and which badly in­terpreted or understood, often endanger the final success by their inobservance.

So you direct your patient to notice only the noise and the motion of the apparatus, to concentrate his entire at­tention on the oscillations, to count them mentally, and even if you consider it useful, to regulate his respirations by the rythms of the vibrations. Indeed, all these movements lead to the same result: To place the mind in a state ofmoilo-ideaism concentration, which alone is amenable to suggestion.

HIGHER MESMERIC PHENOM­ENA.—Arthur Hallam contributes an excellent article on "The Higher Phe­nomena of Mesmerism’’ to the January Humanitarian In the introduction to his discourse he naively remarks, that, excluding the narrow, ignorant people, who are obvious to all outside their par- ticular sphere ; and notwithstanding the

vehement attacks and great opposition of medical men, hypnotism, or mesmer­ism, seems to have made considerable headway, although its progress has been comparatively slow.

Mr. Hallam regards hypnotism as only a part of the science which is called for convenience sake, “mesmerism,” and asserts that through the aid of the latter he is able to carry his investigations into a much higher region of consciousness. He avers that this claim has been proven by tne experiences of those whose ex­periments have been conducted along these lines. It is apparent, therefore, that he is a strong adherent of the school of mesmerism; but, as he is withal a most bread minded gentleman and care­ful scientist his views are exceedingly valuable. His estimate of mesmerism as a therapeutic, educational and moral agent, is high, but he holds as more val­uable its capability of being utilized as a medium through which to study tilt “human enigma,” or composite nature of man. To thoroughly understand his nature, man must be carefully observed in sleep r.s well as when awake. In the past he has been studied almost exclu­sively in his normal condition—without regard to the phenomena of sleep life. Mesmerism offers a solution of this dif ficulty, by giving us a sleep that may be investigated without disturbance. Mr. Hallam explains the nature of sleep as follows:

“Now, to use a term familiar to students of psychology, sleep is no thing more nor less than 'a displacement of the threshold of sen­sibility;’ the world of day disappears from consciousness, and the ego becomes siiscepti- ble to influences which, in waking, cannot assert themselves owing to the presence of the grosse influences of the outer world. Thus in sleep the psycho-p'.iysical activity of man sinks for a while below the threshold, and there arises over it influences and re ­actions which, in the waking state, remain dormant below. One of the most common results of this are dreams, confused in char­acter if the sleep is light, but connected and orderly in the deeper stages. Occasionally, however, deep sleep is accompanied by a more effective inner awakening, and the psychical reactions thus set up manifest themselvps in somnambulism. In this condition we are con­fronted with faculties unknown to our daily consciousness, and in the study of these much that is valuable concerning the nature of man is revealed.

"But it will be easily u n d ers te rd tb.r.t “he transitory character of natural somnambulism

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is not conductive to close and systematic in­vestigation. Its spontaneous appearance is usually an incident of disease, of an intense emo.ional upheaving, or of the action of var­ious chemical substances: and as in all these cases accidental concomitants adhere, the possibility of subjecting the phenomena to careful examination is certainly very remote, \r t ihc ia l somnambulism lias therefore to be resorted to, and here comes in the value of mesmerism as the best and most convenient means of producing the required conditions. Although the mesmeric sleep essentially re­sembles that of natural somnambulism, it is usually of a much deeper character, and the inner awakening is more complete and clear; consequently, in the mesmeric sleep the psy­chical faculties of somnambulists are purer and intensified, and thus, in addition to the ability to regulate them at pleasure, it is pos­sible to obtain a much more definite dis­closure of the hidden side of life than is the case under natural circumstances.

"Viewed in this light, it will be seen that the higher phenomena of mesmerism are ca­pable of aiding considerably hose who are anxious to arrive at a correct interpretation of this most interesting problem. I t is, indeed, lo experimental psychology conducted on these lines tha t we must look for the explana­tion of all those super-physical elements in man which, hitherto left as the subject of vague religious faith, have never yet been re­garded by the world as capable of being brought within the domain of exact knowl­edge. In the past progress has been mainly associated with the exploration of physical nature, work which could be performed with­out knowing anything about the psychological side of life. But in the future this will no longer be the case, for we are already con­fronted by a mass of il l-understood phenom ­ena concerning the superphvsical realms of nature, which must sooner or later be taken inro serious consideration And the founda­tion for the study of man in his h igher as­pects has already been laid by Baron Carl Du Prel and o ther eminent authorit ies in this branch of research. In his valuable treatise Die Philosophie der Mystik,’ Du Prel, by a

careful analysis of the phenomena of mesmeric somnambulism, clairvoyance and ir.tnce, proves that man is possessed of a conscious­ness h igher and more expansive than the one with which lie is familiar in the normal state —in other words, that the whole of the con­sciousness of the human being does no t func­tion th rough the waking bra n. I t is also demonstrated by him that the threshold of psychic consciousness is constantly subject to advance o r recession, and that the further it is pushed back, the more the higher con­sciousness comes within the area of physical brain recollection. Thus it becomes clear how useless it is for materialistic scientists to try and explain transcendent phenomena according to known laws. Rather must thev endeavor to find new laws for those facts to which they are unable to apply the principles of explanation so far known to t l ien ' . for. as Mr Sinnett points out in his Rationale of

Mesmerism,’ everyone will be hopelessly en­tangled with psychical phenomena unless dealing with man and his interior conscious­ness as belonging to 'two planes of nature at once, as a ship is in two media at once, half in the water and half in the air. T o manage your ship successfully you must take co g ­nizance of the laws governing each of those media. To deal successfully with your human being you must understand his physiology no doubt, but you must equally understand his psychology, and som ething of the collateral phenomena of nature in those regions or planes thereof, to w hich the phenom ena of the psvchic man belong.’ Unfortunately, how­ever, as Schopenhauer said a framed hypo­thesis makes us lynx-eyed tor all that confirms it, and blind for all that contradicts it; where­as we ought always to follow that excellent precept given by Herschel in his In troduc­tion to Study of the N atural Sciences.’ ‘The perfect observer,’ he says, 'will keep his eyes open in all divisions of knowledge, that they may be sturck at once by every event which, according to accepted theories, ought not to happen, for these are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries.’

"And as events which do not conform to accepted theories are daily taking place under mesmerism, it follows, therefore, that we must turn to these as clues to the new discoveries yet to be made regarding the multiple nature of man. From past investigation, and the conclusions come to therefrom, it is evident that science is capable of great development along these lines; hence the desirability of placing psychology on an equality with physics and chemistry as an experimental sci­ence. This ought, in fact, to have been done long ago, and doubtless would have been but for the prejudice always shown by physical scientists against anything new that is likely to upset their theories. This opposition, how ­ever, is only natural, and it is easily explained by remembering the concessions which a full recognition of mesmerism would imply on the part of science. But it is nevertheless certain that until the general principles of experi­mental psychology are accepted, the human c" blera must remain unsolved from a purely scientific standpoint: and, therefore, thesooner prejudice in this direction is overcome, the sooner will m an’s relation to nature be rightly understood.

"Consideration of the higher mesmeric phenomena raises in the mind several ques­tions of absorbing in terest to the psychologi­cal student but probably the one most worthy of immediate a ttention is that which concerns the state of future existence. If we regard the faculties exhibited under mesmer­ism as latent in all intelligent human beings, the question follows. H as man reached the height of development? Now according to L 't Prel, there are three possible hypotheses. The phenomena of mesmerism ‘either denote a higher life form which will one day exalt the race on earth, or, all nature being con­tr ived as a rising scale, we may suppose that such forms are already to be found on other stars: lastly, our own individual future may

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be signified in the abnormal faculties. All three hypotheses are logically admissible and even compatible; for, if man be destined to emerge like a butterfly from his present cater­pillar state, tv hen the transcendental faculties, of which in his earthly existence he has but an indistinct glimmering, would be his nor­mal possession, this might easily be the verv same result to which the biological process on earth is leading.’

"Here, then, is at once a problem—but by no means the only one—which will find its solution in future investigation along the lines here suggested. And as the disposition to study this branch of science is gradually becoming stronger, we may reasonably antici­pate a number of interesting disclosures con­cerning the nature of man as the twentieth century speeds on its way. Thus will become apparent the truth of Bacon’s sentence: ‘Asthe genius of a man is not known or valued till it is excited to display; or as Proteus did not assume his different forms till it was at­tempted to bind him, so Nature, stimulated and confined by art, shows herself more mani­festly than when abandoned to herself.’ ”

SAVED BY AN APPARITION — There lived in the outskirts of St. Peters­burg, M. K., who, during unoccupied times, often visited his parents in Ir- koursk. On one of his trips he witness­ed an extraordinary occurrence which he describes as follows ;

‘‘Some verstes from a small station on this side of Irkoursk our train stopped suddenly. It was going rapidly under full head of steam and the stoppage was so sudden that everyone felt a violent shock. Evidently the engineer had put on brakes. Alarm began to spread among the passengers, myself among the others, who left the train and went towards the engine.

“The engineer stood near the loco­motive trembling and visibly moved by something frightful. He looked at us in a fierce manner, and startled eyes, saying only one word, ‘The monk! the monk!’

“Naturally questions were poured up­on him. What monk? What are you talking about? What would a monk come here for? In a few minutes the engineer was able to talk. He said he had distinctly seen a monk holding his hand laised as if commanding the train to stop. When he had put on brakes the monk disappeared.

“Tt i« clear that it was a vision, but why nad it appeared5 Has not the en­

gineer been the victim of an hallucina­tion?

“We followed the rails, and what iiid we see? Twenty paces from where die train had stopped the rails were broken.

"All of us, travelers and employes, had been saved from a frightful danger.

"What an impression this miracle produced on us. Yes, I repeat once more the word miracle.”

This is what M. K. tells, an intelligent young man who is incapable of falsify­ing.

THE REVUE DE LTIYPNO- TISME—Contains a number of inter­esting articles this month. The articles submitted to the Second International Congress of Hypnotism continue to be published in this magazine. The report this month is "Hypnotism as a Process of Psychotic Investigation,” by Dr Paul Farez. He reaches the conclusion that hypnotism is not only legitimate, but also indispensable in psychologic re­search. In the proceedings of the So- ciete d’hypnologie et de psycholog'ie. Lethargy among Animals is discussed at length, Dr. Berillon gives a short talk on Reviving of Remembrance in Hyp­notic States, and Dr. Pau de Saint-Mar­tin describes a Hypno-Metronome, which he has used with much success.

“Hypnotism and Psychology,” an in­teresting study contributed by Mr. Lio­nel Duriac to the Revue philosophique, is reviewed.

THE QUEEN VICTORIA’S COM­FORTING BELIEF.—It is reported that Queen Victoria was a believer in the theory that our departed loved ones are given the privilege of watching over those of us who are still upon this earth and are exposed to the temptations and sorrows of this life. The Quiver states;

“ It has been the great consolation of her bereaved years that she felt that the Prince was watching over the events of her life. D u r­ing her retirement at Osborne, immediately after the Prince Consort’s death, the Queen found 'her only comfort in the belief that her husband’s spirit was close beside her—for he had promised it would be so.” This was tofd to Dean Stanley by the Queen’s half-sister, the Princess Hohenlohe. The belief that the spirits of the dead are hovering about tho-e whom thev loved on earth may be the rca-on for H er Majesty’s dislike to second marriage especially the remarriage of widows.”

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Telepathy, Psychorrietry | and Clairvoyance. |

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TELEPATHY — I T S CONDI­TION'S AND MEANING.—Tele­pathy, to the casual investigator, stands for two simple modes of mental action —the reception and projection of thought—but to the experienced men­ial medium telepathy has a far deeper meaning, being a synonym for harmonic power, a condition of complete sympa­thy with the great magnetic forces of nature. This is a state of development in which mental healing, prophetic vis­ion, clairaudience and clairvoyance are present actualities not dim possibilities.

To the expert telepathist the motives, the secret intentions of those within the radii of thought touch are clearly re­vealed—the spiritual discernment rec­ognizing no barrier, no material being so opaque that the light of pure vision will not penetrate it.

Effect naturally follows cause, there­fore the higher states of sensitiveness are simply the result of pure causes. This order of cause and effect cannot be reversed, yet some investigators at­tempt to secure effect (great mental sen­sitiveness) before due consideration of cause (purity of mind and body).

Naturalness—a strict observance of the laws of nature-—is conducive to spir­ituality. Spirituality — aspiration for the higher and better—renders sensi­tiveness possible. Sensitiveness is the solid foundation upon which medium- ship is built. Natural foods—vegetables, grains, fruits, water and milk—tend to refine the material magnetism by purify­ing as well as nourishing the physical body, therefore, all who would be physi­cally as well as spiritually pure will find that a vegetable diet will do wonders to­ward increasing the pleasure of living.

W hen the spirit gains absolute mas­tery of its physical encasement and is able to control its passions at any and all times, the first true step is taken in the evolutionary march to soul power. When this important beginning is thor­oughly accomplished then onlv pure, true, aspiring thoughts should be enter­tained in order to become sensitive to

the finer etheric vibrations, which for­merly did not reach the soul beneficial­ly, owing to the opaqueness of the mag­netic aura.

The finer ether, in time, becomes vis­ible to the inner, or spiritual, vision, and if the investigator be eagerly interested in the development of soul power he soon learns to use etheric vibration tele- pathically—learns that well-definedthought, when vibrated upon either by soul, or will, force instantly impresses the sensitive, receptive mind to whom it is directed though hundreds of miles of space intervened.

I asked the spirits (with loving care And with mind not creed-bound),

T o guide tr,e to the sphere where True soul power could be found.

T he spirits said: "N a tu re givetb you Purity and s treng th—what more is ours?

Even the tiny drops of dew Manifest mediumistic powers.

W e descend and, as of old,W e walk with souls apart,

Keeping the promise, as foretold,With all the pure in heart .”

CLAIRVOYANCE A SCIENCE.— In the recent hearing given the eminent Rev. Moses Hull, pastor of the First Spiritualistic Church of Buffalo, by the New York Senate Committee on Codes in opposition to the Wagner bill pro­hibiting clairvoyance, palmists and for­tune tellers from practicing their arts, Air. Hull made the statement to a re­porter of the Buffalo Review that clair­voyance belongs among the sciences and not among the miracles.

After giving ,-ome illustrations re­garding the theory of sight and sound, he says:

"N ow as some people do not hear all sounds made, ntaj not others hear tha t which we do not normally hear, and see sights we don’t see? Twenty years ago the X -ray was not known. Perhaps we do not understand it yet o r probably we would no t call it that now because X is an unknow n quantity. I t is no brighter than the rays we daily see, yet by the X -ray I have read my Bible th r o u g 1 an inch plant- M en have photographed bn! lets in o ther men’s bodies. This simpA p ro te s that the X -ray is made up of v ibra­tions to which the board is no t opaque, as glass A no t opaque to the ordinary rays of light, ’

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N O T A B L E C A SES O F C L A IR V O Y ­A NCE.

“ Clairvoyance then demonstrates that peo­ple can see at grea t distances—also that they can sometimes see events and the causes that produced them, and thus Emanuel Sweden­borg. one of the greatest scholars and most profound men of the 18th century, acknowl­edged by all, saw the city of Stockholm burning, described every particular of the fire and he was several hundred miles away from the fire. This fact is vouched for by’ Wil­liam Ilewitt , the Hon. Robert Dale Owen and others. Capt. Yount of Napa Village, Cal., saw people perishing in snowdrifts over 50 miles away, and heard them pray and call for help. H e raised an army of 50 men and went to their aid in Carson Valley Pass, and saved them. Jacob, when he was dying, fore­told the history of his twelve sons. One who is called a man of God came to Eli, in the second chapter of the book of Samuel, and the death of his two sous and himself was foretold, all of which came true.

“This is what we call clairvoyant power.N O C A SE F O R L E G IS L A T IO N .

“Now all we claim is tha t persons possess­ing this supernormal power shall have the privilege of exercising it; that there are frauds pretending to practice clairvoy’ance there is no doubt, but that is no reason for us to legislate against clairvoyants than the fact of existence of counterfeit money should cause us to legislate against money. People who deceive in tha t way should he punished under a general law tile same as roguery. We are Spiritualists and regard this law as a law directed against us and a system of per­secution. W e say, as Paul did, there is a natural man and there is a spiritual man. As the natural man has the sense of sight, hear­ing and touch, so the spiritual man has all these senses. The sense corresponding to our sense of sight is called clairvoyance, the French word signifying clear seeing. The sense of spiritual hearing we call clairaudi- ence. The sense of spiritual touch we call psycho'metry. These senses, we believe, can be developed by individuals, and are some­times, while they still live in the mortal body. This law if enacted will not prevent them from using these senses, but may pre­vent them from telling what they see, and the progress of the world may be set hack.”

boards. As he pln'S away at his whist he con­centrates his mind on the chess boards and as the player at No. 1 makes his move and calls it, Pillsbury calls his move which the player makes for him. So on down the line of all the boards, each player calls his move and Pillsbury sees the board in his mind and is ready for his move. If this were only done with one o r two hoards it would not be so strange, but such powers of memory work are not seen every day. The champion is but 28 years old and has been at this work since he was sixteen.”

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“THE BEARING OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH UPON TH E BIBLE MIRACLES"—Is the comprehensive title of an article in The Living Church (October G, 1900), by the Rev. Edward Macomb Duff, which is full of interest, and possesses valuable data for psychic researchers. So seldom is it that Bib­lical matters are treated of by one so well prepared to do so as Rev. Duff, that it is indeed refreshing to follow his argu­ment :

“Here, then, is the phenomenon of veridi­cal prevision in both ancient and m odem times t affronting us as a hard fact. It is a psychic phenomenon inasmuch as human mentality forms the medium through ' hich it is manifested. As a psychic phenomenon it must necessarily h a te a psychic basis. W h a t is that basis’ The theory of a "Sub­jective Mind’ o r "Subliminal Consciousness’ governed by the "Law of Suggestion" will not do for veridical prevision, nicely as it works for "Inspirational Speaking’ under supposed Spir it-guides;’ for \eridical prevision is ob­

viously more than deductive reasoning from premises supplied by auto-suggestion. So for that matter is telepathy. The la: ter is not a deduction from premises supplied by auto­suggestion; it is the acquisition by mind of something—to,wit, a message from ano her finite mind—that has succeeded in entering the lecipient’s mind from without. H ere the most that suggestion can do (and does) s to supply the command, "Be thou telepathically sensitive.’ The mind’s execution of such a comm and transcends the limits o : suggestion. Obviously Dr H udson and those who think with him have imposed upon Suggestion a burden greater than it can bear, as far as psychic facts show.

""The basis of telepathy, clairvoyance, and those higher feats of mind whereby it ac­quires knowledge front without (and from above) has been indicated by Sir William Crookes, E ngland’s foremost scientist. He suggests that such supernormal acquisition of know ledge are due to the abil ty of some minds in the psychic o r subjective state to become sensitive to certain subtle and inter­pretable ether-vibrations to which the mind is insensible during the normal state; e. when it functions through the brain-sensor- ittm. To build up on this suggestion, take the case of telepathy. The ‘transmitter’ by his mental concentration sets in motion a series of ether-waves. These, vibrations may impinge upon many sens.,Hums as well as

upon that of the recipient. But the latter’s attention alone is aroused because the mes­sage conveyed by the vibrations concerns him only. Like the receiving operator at a tele­graph station, he is oblivious to what goes over the line except when his particular sta­tion is "called.’ Then he listens. . . . E x ­perimental telepathy demonstrates that the mind, to be receptive, m ust be, in whole or in part, ‘switched off,’ so to speak, from the brain sensorium. Hypnosis , in fact, furnishes ihe requisite condition. H ere the brain is in­hibited and quiescent. I t s neuron-tracts have become temporarily disordained. Conse­quently the mind no longer functions through them. Yet it m ust be functioning th rough some sensorium, otherwise its activity would be unexplainable. I t is evidently function­ing th rough a sensorium more refined and delicate than tha t of brain o r of anything that is physiological.

If now the case he one of clairvoyance, as distinct from telepathy, the vibrations im­pinging upon the transcerebral sensorium have a cosmic and no t a finite mental origin. Here the transmitter is the Infinite Mind. Conceivably, the entire cosmos is filled with interpretable vibrations which the Infinite .Mind sets and keeps in motion. These vi­brations carry God’s messages of past, p res­ent and future, involving all the concerns of His universe from the highest to the most trivial. A true prophet is one who by holi­ness of life and lofty aspirations is enabled in the psychic state to become sensitive to those messages from the Infinite One which concern the h igher destinies of man. The ordinary clairvoyant, by reason of his absorp- lion in commercial aims and interests, is, in the psychic state, sensitive only to those mes­sages which hear upon temporal concerns Thus suggestion does determine somethinw viz., the kind of message to which clairvoyant mentality may become sensitive. Suggestion in its turn is determined by the psychic’s moral habits. But suggestion does not ex­tend to the execution of the commands which it gives; at least not in the case of genuine telepathy and clairvoyance.

“ Now the test of genuine clairvoyance, whether of a high o r a low order, is its sub­sequent objective verification. As far as a prophet of the Lord is concerned, the test is this: ‘And if thou say in thine heart, H owshall we know that which the Lord hath not spoken? IV’hen a prophet speaketh in Ihe name of the Lord, if the th ing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the th ing which the I ord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shall not be afraid of him’ (Deut. xviii. 21, 22). . . The * oint which I have tried to establish is this: That there is a psychological basis, both in fact and in theory, for the reception hy man of divine revelation. T ha t tile Bible does con­tain divine revelation ought. I think, to he obvious to every one who has made a special study, without materialistic preconceptions, of messianic prophecy and its fulfilment.”

TI1E PSYCHIC DIGEST AND

DOWSING.

Among other tilings the London So­ciety of Psychical Research has been investigating dowsing, or the art of find­ing water or minerals hidden below the earth's surface by means of a forked stick or rod, or even by the hands alone.

The Phrenological Magazine for March gives the conclusions reached by W. F. Barrett, Professor of Experimental Physics in the Royal College of Science, Ireland, who has been making the in­vestigation. As to whether dowsing is a fact or not, The Phrenological Maga­zine says:

"O f course, the main point to decide was, 'is it a fact tha t dowsers can find water in the way described more frequently than they would by chance o r luck.’ Professor Bar­re t t has proved conclusively tha t dowsing is a fact and that a good dowser has some un­known way of knowing where water exists that is not known to others and that he is as successful as the best geologists would be and often in difficult places he succeeds where they have failed.”

But what is the mental or psychic process which enables them to find water? In regard to this it says:

"They do not pretend to explain it, all they know is, the rod moves in their hands, they do not consciously move it. They generally have a sort of malaise after dowsing as if some energy had been consumed, but it has been consumed without effort of their own wills. Sometimes there is pain or nausea in the stomach, often none of these symptoms occur. Profesor B arre t t discusses the origin of the stimulus in all its bearings, including Chance, and comes to the conclusion that the dowser has subconscious suggestions and that these act as a stimulus to the movement of the rod. It is about equivalent to saying he has sub-conscious faculties, o r sub-con­scious personality which sees clearly as in clairvoyance. Professor B arre t t ’s concluding words are: ‘This sub-conscious perceptive power, commonly called clairvoyance, may provisionally be taken as the explanation of those successes of the dowser which are in­explicable on any grounds at present known to science.”

SOUL AND SPIR IT —“It is prob­able that every person who has occa­sion to use these words has a vague concept as to their meaning.” says The Banner of Light. Many, however, con­sider them interchangeable, whereas they differ widely in their root mean­ings, and can never be logically consid­ered one and the same thing. The Greek words pneuma and psuche mean breath

and intelligence, in their final analyses, hence spirit, the literal translation of the word pneuma, and soul, the literal rendering of the other term, must mean the same. Spirit is the breath, while the soul is the intelligent part of man. Spirit may be said to be the sublimated atoms thrown off from the physical forms in which men dwell, hence spirit is the supersensuous realm that exists beyond mortal vision, and is discernible to the seer and clairvoyant whose spirit­ual sight has been quickened to per­ceive its realities. Soul is the invisible energy, the intelligent ego, capable of thinking, willing, loving and achieving. It is always invisible, and has never been discerned by mortal eye, nor by the eye of the clairvoyant or seer. Elec­tricity is known only by its effects. It is always invisible, yet is potent to ac­complish results when applied in dif­ferent directions. The soul of man is the electric and dynamic energy that forces him to action; spirit is the body controlled and energized by the soul after the change called death, while the physical form is its servant so long as life remains within it. The spirit body is a facsimile of the physical body, hence is easily recognized by those who perceive it clairvoyantly, or by those who were related to the one who dwelt in it by soul ties, when they receive ac­curate descriptions of it. Therefore, man is three-fold in his expression, namely, body, spirit, soul. The body is cognized through the physical senses, the spirit through the spiritual senses, and the soul through the sense of soul force.

We could add much of a speculative character with regard to the nature o: the soul, its habitat and destiny, but we feel that the foregoing sentences are sufficient to give our readers a partial understanding of the meaning of the terms under discussion, hence venture to leave the subject in their hands.”

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OCCULT REVIEW OF REV IEWS. 2a

\ Spiritism and Theosophy. }HUMANITY'S TRUE FEELING

REGARDING A FUTURE LIFE.— There is a discussion now on in the Louden Spectator as to the relative at­tractiveness of hell and of annihilation —tirst started by the recent publication of "The Life and Letters of T. H. Hux­ley.' It is said that Huxley preferred "hell (in moderation)” to utter extinc­tion. Lines, supposedly written by his wife, shows that Huxley was really without any fixed belief. Mr. F C. L. Schiller, of the University of Oxford, formerly of Cornell, an eminent psy­chologist, calls attention to the fact that Huxley’s alleged attitude demonstrates how much we still have to learn con­cerning man’s real feeling toward the prospect of a future life. In the Specta­tor, November 24, he writes

"Psychologically, of course, such a sent! ment appears at first sight a complete para­dox. Yet 1 have no doubt that in H uxley’s case it was entirely genuine, and that an ap­preciable number of persons actually e n te r ­tain it. O n the o ther hand. I should think, judging by what one hears, that a very con­siderable number of persons do not want tn go on living, and ever have a s trong emo­tional horror of the prospect of a future life. They would, consequently, welcome any as­surance that exempted them from this doom. This variety of sentiment appears to be very common am ong the old and weary and unen- ergetic. I t exists quite apart from religious beliefs and scientific convictions, and often in ­deed runs counter to them. Similarly, a large proportion of sincere Christians regard the prospect of ‘heaven’ without the slightest en­thusiasm. and even with secret aversion. I suspect that what the generality of men w. uld really like would he a (somewhat im­proved! continuation of their earthly ex is t­ence. It would be very interesting, therefore, to determine in what proportions these v a r ­ious sentiments actually occur in cul.ivated persons of the day, and such an inquiry could not fail to throw much light on the emotional foundations of belief and on the strange in- efficaciousness all the world over of the tradi­tional doctrines concerning ‘the things beyond death.’ F o r whatever these doctrines arc. the actual conduct of men is pretty much the same e\erywhere, and pays but little heed to any eschatology. Can the reason he that all the religions have failed to reach a complete understanding of human feeling on the sub­ject. and so to get a real grip on human m o ­tives? The point seems deserving of exact in vestigation. When, recently, a statist cal in- . uirv into m en’s actual sentiments with re ­

gard to a future life was suggested as an ap ­propriate matter for the Society of Psychical Research to undertake, the late Professor Sidgwick held, I believe, tha t such inquiry would be useless, on the ground tha t every rational being must prefer heaven to annihila­tion, and annihilation to hell. Huxley 's avow­al is sufficient to dispose of this contention and shows that either men are not rational, o r that the subtleties and profundities of human psychology can not be adequately explored by the narrow categories of an abstract logic

PROGRESS OF SPIRITUALISM IN NEW ZEALAND.—Mr. William McLean, of Wellington, N. Z., in writ­ing t o the Spiritual Review, gives some information as to the progress of Spirit­ualism in that country:

"W e have decided to build a hall worthy of the Cause and the Empire City of New Zealand. W e are building in a nice locality with beautiful surroundings and very central. The hall will be up-to-date in every respect Electric light, library, supper room, ladies' and gentlemen’s re t ir ing rooms, with every modern convenience, also an excellent kitchen! The g round is Freehold, the dimen­sions of the hall are 50 by 28 feet, it will have a circular ceiling, sky blue and decorated with small stars W e are tak ing heavy responsi­bility on our shoulders, bu t the six of us united in the m atte r are determined to carry it through. I have been president 18 years , and we always pull one way, so we th ink we shall pul! the hall r igh t!”

A FAMOUS M E D I U M I N FR ANCE.—All Paris is talking of the wonderful exploits of Mme. Lay Fon- ville, whose gifts of clairvoyance, proph­ecy and magnetic healing are described by the Journal of Magnetism. Her guide is said to be a spirit by the name of "Julia,” and the cures brought about

‘through her instrumentality, while the medium lived at Toulouse, before re­moving to Paris, are both numerous and well authenticated.

CAN A DEPARTED SPIRIT USE A MATERIAL BODY AS AN IN­STRUMENT OF EXPRESSION?— Those who hold to the belief that the remarkable powers of the musical prod- igv. Pepito Rodriguez Ariola (whose portrait and sketch were given in the November number of T hf. Psychic D riest), were of spirit origin, will find confirmation of their theory in the case of I’.mrna von Ellsner. The storv, given as follows, is taken from a late number of The Progressive Thinker-.

THE PSYCHIC DIGEST AND” 4

Don von Ellsner, a musician of Bloom­ington, Ills., had three daughters. The eldest, Marie, hail a remarkable voice which her father made ever}- sacrifice for in order that it might be cultivated. Un­der the name of "Mile. Litta” she scored a great success on the concert stage.

The second daughter, Jessie, was also talented, but not to the extent of her elder sister. The youngest daughter, Emma, apparently had no talent what­ever, and as she much admired her tal­ented sister, and also loved music, it was a great grief to her that she alone was not accommplished.

“Mile. Litta” planned a trip abroad. Just before starting, she uttered what proved to be a prophecy. Emma was grieving over her lack of voice, when the elder one declared, “Some day you will have a voice like mine.” Shortly afterwards the prirna donna died.

“After the death of her sister there was a change in the life of E m m a von Ellsner One day as she went about her household duties she started to hum an air. Then she tried to sing. H er ovice rose sweet and strong from a th roa t out of which everybody had said no music could come, and the voice was the same as that with which Mile. Litta had won fame and money. In register it was identical. The girl reached the same notes tha t had been possible to her oldest sister, and she failed on those that her sister had been unable to sing.

Members of the family u'ere astonished. They- sought an explanation from teachers of music and from musicians. No one could give a reason for the sudden gift bestowed upon the girl. The voice had not been trained into a semblance of Mile. Lit ta’s, because it had not been trained at all.

Persons close to the family began to re­member the love and sympathy that had uni­ted the two sisters. They recalled the great influence that the eldest of the three girls had always exercised over the youngest. They' reminded one another that Mile. L it ta had sung beautifully from her earlist childhood, anti that her sister had had a singing voice only since the prima donna’s death. Then they were more mystified than ever. H is to r­ies of music g a te them no satisfaction. No similar case was on record, nor did the mem­bers of the oldest musician among them hold one.”

The girl, after demonstrating her ability and power, was given some train­ing, anti has now, declare those who heard the elder sister, come into pos­session of the voice that made “Mile. Litta” famous. Those who are acquaint­ed with the family and the phenomena ask, "Is it possible that “Mile. Litta” has

bequeathed her gift of song? Idas her soul taken possession of her sister? Can a departed spirit use a material body as an instrument of expression?"

TRANCE.—Dean Clarke has written an excellent article on Trance for March ilth The Light of Truth. The trance condition is neither a normal nor an ab­normal condition. It is to all appear­ances a state of mind and body resem­bling natural sleep. Speaking of the physiology and psychology of trance, he says:

"Before we can understand how spirits entrance mediums, we must try to learn just what the trance condition is. Profound trance, as previously stated, is a condition of body and mind very like coma, or natural sleep. W hen awake, and in health, all our nerves are charged with vital force, and through it, as we have seen, we have full possession of our bodies. W hen asleep, all of our sensory nerves (those by which we feel) and all our voluntary m otor nerves, have become "demagnetized.” or depleted of vital force. I t seems to have been with­drawn from the outward-going nerves, and transferred to the solar plexus, o r vital nerves, for the latter act s trongest in sleep The mind or spirit seems to have retreated either to the solar plexus, or the inner brain, or to have vacated the outward physical body, and centered its forces in the spirit body within. If this be the true theory (and it seems most plausible), then we may define trance as the insulation of the mind from the sensory' nerves, by the withdrawal of the nerve aura. Remove the nerve aura from the optic nerves and sight is suspended; cut off the current of vibrating aura from the auditory nerves, and hearing is gone: "switch” it off from the olfactory nerves and odors are "null and void;” withdraw it from the gestatory nerve, and taste has departed. When all these snecial senses are thus tem­porarily paralyzed, the mind has lost con­sciousness of its environments, and is insu­lated. or entranced.”

Speaking of spirit control:“Mental insulation or entrancement may

not only he voluntarily produced by ‘going to sleep,’ but may be, as we have shown, forcibly produced by the mesmerizer, either mortal, or a spirit (for the law and method is the same).

"The mesmerizer, by will-power, projects his nerve aura upon the brain and nerves of his yielding subject, and by a s tronger cu r­rent of nerve force takes ‘forcible’ possession of the sensory and m oto r nerves, and thus with his foreign force, cuts off the normal connection of the mind and sensory organs of his subject, who is then in a trance. The mesmerizer then controls that portion of the subject’s brain, which he has charged with his own nerve aura, telegraphically, ju s t as he controls his own bodily organs. Thus it

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is tha t spirits put n tg a t iw . ' or weaker per­sons. or those who yield to them, into a con­dition that they can take possession’ of them, and use them us mediums, in any- way for which they are organically best adapted. Jt is very seldom that even a deeply entranced medium, exactly personates the controlling spirit. Every instrument has its own pecu­liar tones, no m atte r who plays it. This is an important fact to hear in mind while con ­sulting spirits; fe»r the medium’s mental and physical condition often modify the thought uttered by them, to a considerable extent. Usually the m ore ‘positive’ the mentality of the medium, the more bias does he give to the communication.”

Most commonly the trance of medi­ums under spirit control is thought to be hut a partial insulation of mind from brain and nerves, 'but in some cases mediums say that while their bodies were controlled, they w ere standing out­side of them, listening to what the con­trolling spirit was saying. The follow­ing are instances:

"O ne of ou r ablest trance speakers, Mrs. Fannie Davis Smith, of Vermont, informed a- that, when a girl, she was entranced forty- five days in succession, and during it all she vas conscious of being out of her body, floating in the air over it, being tithered to it by only a small electro magnetic line. She knew all tha t was going on about her body, which she looked down upon, and used all her will power to cause a b ro ther to protect it and pre ten t its burial. She finallly re en­tered it and afterwards was not so fully in sulated in her entrancements.

‘‘A most wonderful and deeply interesting case for the study of students of occult sci­ence, is known as ‘The W atseka Wonder. ' I t is some years since we read the veracious account of it, but as near as ,ve can recollect them, the facts, in brief are these, leaving out the names; A young lady who had been out of health for some time, was finally en­tranced by a spirit of about her own age who took full possession, completely insulat­ing her spirit from her mortal form, making her for several months as independent a spirit as if she had ‘died’ in the natural way. The ‘obsessing’ spirit held possession till she had entirely healed the body—in the mean­time giving many positive tests of her own separate identity,—and when her mission of healing was ended, she called back from spirit land the rightful ow ner of the body she had occupied, and they exchanged places. Each spirit had retained possession of its own spiritual body and thus preserved its own personality while alternately occupying the mortal body belonging to hut one of them.”

Mr. Clarke says that for the common use of spirits it is not necessary for them to have such complete control of the medium’s body. For automatic control irr speaking, writing and all physical

manifestations, the insulation need be onl\ partial, just enough to give the spirit control of the organ or organs he wishes to use.

THE EAST AND THE WEST.— Swami Vivekananda, comparing the East and the West in the Brahmavadin, gives the following characteristic an tithesis:

"The H indus always look inside and the W esterns always outside. This inside and our side vision of the two nations is found in their respective manners and customs. The H indu keeps diamond covered with torn rags; the W estern preserve earth in golden casket. The H indu bathes for fear of religion; the W est­ern bathes to keep his body clean, the H indu does not care however dirty his cloth may be the W estern is anxious to wear clean clothes, no matter how much dir t may remain on his bod> The H indu keeps neat and clean the rooms, doors, floor and everything inside his house, while heaps of dir t and refuse are just outside his entrance door; tile Western lines his dirty floor with shining and beautiful car pets. O u r drains run open over our streets —we do not mind the bad smell: the drains in the W est are under the ground—the seat? of the germs of typhoid fever. The Hindus are cleaning inside—the Westerns are clean­ing outside. W hat is wanted is clean body with clean clothes clean rooms with clean street-. Cleanliness of body and mind is the first step to religion, of which to live a clean life is the most im portant of all. W e are most uncleanly and are paying dearly for it— cholera, malaria and plague have made their permanent home in India. W hose fault is it? O urs—we are most uncleanly.”

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W hen the full r iver of feeling overflows—Longfellow.

Circumstances! I make circumstan­ces.—Napoleon.

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WHAT OCCULTISM IS.—So few have anything like a correct idea of what is meant by the term and science of oc­cultism, that it is deemed wise to give a digest of what the Occult and Biological Journal has to say on the subject. The majority of readers no doubt think that there is something they can learn, from ancient books or masters, which, in some mysterious and wondrous way, will en­dow them with occult or magical pow­ers.

The Occult and Biological Journal says that this belief is as erroneous as it would be to think that a man of great physical strength could tell another how to become as strong as he, and the tell­ing would impart the strength. It goes on to say tha t:

"Everything that belongs to the occult or magical is a m atter of grow th and slow de­velopment. Occultism is, first, a correct un­derstanding of the laws of nature; second, an understanding of one’s own nature; third, an application of methods by which certain powers and faculties, which are normal, may be strengthened and increased and brought wholly under subjection to the mind and will. In reality, all tha t there is of magic power comes from a well developed will, and a mind so cultivated that it can think and feel what­ever it w’ishes to think and feel, and so focal­ized that it can th ink o r feel one thing as long as it desires; in other words, it is the faculty of concentration of the mind and will. Here, again, is another point of error in the con­ception of the ordinary student of the occult. I t is an error, however, tha t no one who has become m aster of these laws from the truly divine standpoint, would rectify openly.

“All the mystery of occultism resides in the character of this will power. A mong the students of the occult there are undoubtedly a great number who obtain certain powers which will enable them to influence and af­fect others, regardless of the space between them and those whom they wish to influ ence. The beginning of the practical use of magic in America was Mrs. Eddy’s Christian Science treatments. She, as well as many who followed her directly or indirectly, came reasonably to the conclusion that, if they could heal the diseases of an individual at a distance and chance his mental action, they could also produce diseased conditions in others. They likewise concluded that if they could change the mind and remove diseased conditions, they could also influence people to patronize them and to send them money; in short, tha t they could use these powers to claim wealth. This is the beginning of what

wras anciently known as "black magic,” sim­ply because it was the occult powers set in motion for the gratification of the selfish de­sires of the individual, or for the gratification of vengeance upon some one who hail anger­ed him. There is at the prevent time almost as much of this at work am ong so-called mental healers of the different schools as there is of what was anciently termed “ white magic,” which means simply, in con trad is­tinction to the black, that the power is used for the benefit of others, and in a genera sense, in an unselfish manner.” * * *

The Occult Journal refers to the recent revival of the study of Occultism in America and declares that there are in­strumentalities through which anyone who has the desire to study, may obtain more real knowledge of occult matters right here in this country, than in India, or anywhere else in the world. Then is made a statement or claim, which we fear the Occult or any other journal would find very difficult to prove. In spite of the demonstrated fact, that all persons are prone to be good; that by psychological influence those who have wandered off into evil may be perma­nently reclaimed; that no one can be compelled to do an act contrary to his or her will, etc., the Occult Journal has this to say:

"The evil of psychological influence, which as we have stated, is the basis of magic, is that it is coercive of the will of an individual and takes control of the mind, desires, and even disposition of its object. I t does not matter whether the purpose in the tnind of the opera tor is good or evil, if it takes con­trol of the will and disposition of another it must of necessity he foreign to the real nature of tha t individual for no two people are alike; therefore the motive power not be­ing in harmony with his own nature, it can­not express it in a normal manner, so that, sooner or later, his real disposition will gain sufficient directive power over the influence projected into him to become a guiding force. Now, the animal propensities are the s tro n g ­est factor in human nature, and are only brought into subjection by the suggestions of the real, normal, higher, self-acting, through the mind! consequently, in the ab ­sence of this factor, the person will invariably begin to act from his lower sensual self. Therefore, while a bad man may be ap p ar­ently reformed by psychological influence, it will be only apparently so; for in a very short time all the inherent evils of his nature will become dominant, and the apparent reform a­tion will be merely a means by wh ch the in­dividual is enabled to do more real mischief in society than he would have done if the n o r ­mal action of his life had not been interfered v'ith. Again, if a person is put under the in ­fluence of another mind, whatever of evil

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there is in the mind taking control, will take form in the mind of the one controlled, so tha t it is very much like vaccination—the -mpurities in the blood of the individual from whom the vaccine m atte r is taken, are inocu­lated into the system of the one vaccinated. The same th ing is true of all such sugges­tions. whether by Chris tian Scientists, mental healers, so-called, o r by the system of sug gestion o r psychology as a therapeutic agent

"The study of magic in the general sense as it exists am ong the people of the present day is, in nine cases out of ten, pursued for the sake of the powers to be obtained thereby, tha t the student may exercise those power- over others, causing them to do tha t which he would have them do, and that he may make the forces of nature serve him. There is a g rea t deal said-—sub rosa. however— about men having attained such control over na tu re ’s forces as to have the elementals tc lo their bidding. Now, tile qlementals arc

known to be the lowest forces of nature, or na ture spirits. They are the embodiment o. al! the lust, evil passions, and evil tendencies of the race of mankind. In o rder tha t these elementals may serve an individual, they must, at least in the lower phases of magic, be served by the individual in exchange for their help. Tor instance, w t are told that a certain leading occulist became an g ry with a person and swore tha t she would kill him th ro u g h space. This was one of the p r inc i­pal teachers of the Oriental magic of the Occident. If the elementals, vicious and wicked as they are supposed to be, were obedient to the will of this individual, they would give all their powers to the execution of her will to kill the one with whom she was angry. If it were the disposition of the person to use the occult powers, claimed to be possessed, by continuous localization upon the object of her anger and by a certain kinu of suggestion, it might cause him a great deal of annoyance, and if he were weak-minded and believed that magic power could kill him. it would probably do so.

"H ere is a side of this occultism which all others, should be understood; i amely. tha t no elemental or magic-working -,ug- gester can injure ano ther person in the slight­est particular, directly or by the laws of thought transference—impressions upon the mind of one tha t evil is being directed against him th rough the powers of magic if he realizes the fact tha t no power can touch him, and simply ignores the suggestions; for magic power can have no effect, if it be siin ply ignored. O n the o ther hand, if the per son keeps th ink ing about it and believes the magic workers can control hint and accom plish their designs, he will br ing about the evil results by his own volition and thought in o ther words, there is no power outside one’s own self tha t ever was o r ever will be known to the magic-working people, that can injure another. The only injury that can be w rought is upon the vveak-rninded one who is made to believe tha t he is ' ‘be­ing injured in a certain direction, when his will becomes dorm an t and he surrenders to the influence passively F or instance. 1 knew

a colored man in Springfield, Mass., years ago. who th rough mental suggestion, black magic, was made to believe tha t his eyes were shut perfecttly t ight a r d that he could not see. T ha t impression never left his mind for a moment, and, consequently, he went about the streets to tally blind, with his eyes closed, and he remained in tha t condi­tion for years; in fact, I do not know but tha t he has been under tha t belief up to the present time. The fact remains, however that no one can he affected by another , un ­less by his own volition. All phenomena produced by psychological influence come di­rectly under this head; and no one can be psychologized unless he surrenders his will to another. Therefore the essential th ing on the part of the individual is to streng then the will power, to cultivate self-confidence and self-reliance, and parents should teach this to their children; for thereby the coming wave of black magic, now beginning to sweep over the civilized world, can be made powerless.

In the latter part of the article which we are reviewing, the author practically admits his inconsistency and the inabili­ty of one person to injure another by suggestion in an)- of its forms, no mat­ter liovv strong willed the suggester or hypnotist. This fact is so well estab­lished, and the part psychological influ­ence plays in the acceptance of a criminal suggestion so negative, that it is aston­ishing to hear at this late da)- from any source, the least connection of crime with suggestion simple or hypnotic.

The writer of "What Is Occultism?” admits that a subject cannot be influ­enced to do an evil thing. Therefore, the subject is wholly responsible in ac­cepting the suggestion and performing a criminal act. There is no way of get­ting around the fact that the strongest suggestion wins every time; nor is it less true that auto- or self-suggestion is far stronger than the most powerful that may be yielded by any hypnotist or sug­gester, let them be ever so strong willed and powerful.

Viter writing sentences one day, the scholars exchanged work for correction A small boy marked an error, and then at the foot of the paper made the fol­lowing explanatory note: “He didn’tbegin Masseychewsits with a caterpilla.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self- control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.—Tennyson.

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THE MISSION OF OCCULTISM.—Occultism teaches men to look with­in and unfold, thus growing in grace and knowledge until they are at one- ment with the father.

This is the true aim of religion to bring about the union of the seen with the unseen, and the Mission of Occult­ism has been to present the true phil­osophy through a knowledge of which this can be brought about; to that end w invite all who have risen to that level where they have become a “law unto themselves” to unite in forming a grand association of Occultists, the uetter to perpetuate the principle of truth and de­velop the ego—to the end that all may have a knowledge of their possibilities ami rise to the highest union with the Divine.

Self knowledge is the. key to all knowledge—the open sesame to the ac­quiring and possessing of those ele­ments, the exercise of which constitutes perfect health, far-reaching wisdom, un­bounded love, whole-souled charity, leading,the man. the woman, the child on toward perfection and the millenium. —J. J. Axtell, in The Sunflower.

NUMBERS THAT PEOPLE PRE­FER.—Monsieur Delauney of the French Academy of Sciences has just announced the result of a curious in­vestigation concerning the “preferred numbers” of the inhabitants of different countries, states The Youth's Companion. The basis of the investigation is a study of the various denominations of money, postage-stamps and other measures. It appears that nearly all races show a marked preference for the numbers “two,” "three” and “five” and their multiples. But the Mohammedans avoid the number “three.” “Neither in Turkey or in Persia,” says Monsieur Delauney, “does one find a trace of this number, and it is scarcely found in Egypt.” Among the French and other Latin peoples “two” and “five” are more popular than “three,” while the English prefer “two” and “three” and the Germans “three” and “five.” The Chinese resemble the Latin race in their choice, while the people of Tndia have a strong liking for “two.” The num­ber “seven” is most used in Russia and

other Slavic countries. The higher numbers are not much used except in Spanish countries, as “11” in Salvador, “1?” in Mexico, “19” in Spain and “31” in the Philippines. The people oi lia- waii are said to be quite fond of “ 13.’

"A W H O L E S O M E M E D I C I N E IS C H E E R .”

A whok some medicine is Cheer,And Hope a tonic strong;

He conquers all who conquers Fear,And shall his days prolong.

A happy heart , a cheerful lip,Contagious health bestow;

As honev bees their sweetness sip F rom fragrant flowers tha t blow.

W ho lives in Love’s enchanted hall,Where Fear nor Sorrow stalk,

The melodies of Peace o’er all Shall hear, though men may mock.

A thousand years are as a day To him who trusts the Tru th ;

Who shuns the pa th ’s of E r r o r ’s way.Attains perennial youth.

Sing on. sing on, forever sing,And hope, despite thy lot;

F ro m heaven thy fervent heart shall wring The fate thy prayer hath sought.

Let cheerful thoughts prevail am ong The sons of men alway,

And sighs shall change to Love’s sweet song, And night to golden day. u . f .

SUPERSTITIONS D E F I E D.— Some of the older people might profit­ably follow the example of the thirteen young adies of Newark, N. J., who re­cently organized a Thirteen Club, whose object is to defy every form of popular superstition.

The members will make it their duty to walk under ladders, pass between coaches of a funeral, carry cats across rivers, spill salt at the table and look at the moon over the left shoulder. So­cial functions will be held on Fridays, and business meetings on the 13th of each month. The dues are 13 cents monthly.

Some mens vas alvays like the key­hole on der back of a clock. Dhey vas behint time.

“Sympathy is more than silver or than gold.”

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A RELIABLE FORECAST—Of the general market and notable events of the country is published monthly in The Prognostic Star Gazer of Boston. Its predictions of the tendency oi the stock markets are sometimes figured down to minutes, and are said to be ac­curate at that.

Under the head of ‘‘General Obser­vations,” which includes monthly an abbreviated forecast of w hat is expected for the month following the date of is­sue, many interesting prognostications are to be noted, some of which are veri­fied each successive month. \ striking number of suicides, defalcations, scan­dals, etc . are predicted for January, but not a word regarding an incident of great moment and imminent at the time —the approaching death of Queen Vic­toria. Surely the stars should have had something to do with that event which so heavily concerned and depressed the whole world.

Another department is one giving “The Most Fortunate Days” of the month, arranged under the signs of the zodiac. An interesting article on the moon also appears.

FOR STUDENTS OF ASTROL­OGY.—Mr. E. II. Bailey has begun a series of articles on “The Principles of Directing” in the January Modern yis- trologv. In them he makes a critical in­vestigation of the methods in use among Astrologers, with a view of ascertaining whether the said principles are strictly in accordance with nature, and mathe­matically correct. Suggestions are also offered for a more correct mode of com- putation

Air. Bailey disclaims any attention of making a tilt against any of the ortho- d x or time-honored rules and methods o: Astrological Science. He has simply something new and he thinks of value on directing—differing from the old to some extent. He pars greatest atten­tion to three points of importance . (1)The divisions of the heavens called bouses, dealing with the calculation of the cusps of the succeedent and cadent

houses, viz., 11th, 12th, 2d, 3d and their opposites; (2) on the term “Oblique Ascension,” and (3) on the term “Orb."

A SUCCESSFUL PREDICTION. —In the August number of Intelligence for the year 1898, Julius Erickson gave a forecast of the late Presidential elec­tion. in which he predicted the re-elec­tion of McKinley, a harmonious admin­istration, and the successful termination of many vexatious questions. He also prophesied that when election dav would roll around in 1900, the people would not care to change parties; that the Democrats were foredoomed to defeat precisely as they were when Grover Cleveland became President the last time.

As all are aware the greater part of what was predicted, has occurred, and there is little doubt but that all will end well with the present Executive and ad­ministration, which speaks well for Mr Erickson’s skill as a prognosticator.

URANUS AND ITS FOUR MOONS.—Astronomers are turning their telescopes in the direction of the planet Uranus, which has become in­teresting of late by reason of the fact that it has assumed such a position in the sky that its four moons, revolving about it like so many little golden shut­tles, are at present in a plane at right angles with the line of vision from the Earth.

Uranus is one of the great planets of the outer group in the solar system. Uranus is a very interesting sort of a world in more than one respect. It is about sixty times as big as the Earth, and one of its years is equal to eighty- four of ours. From the viewpoint of its inhabitants (supposing any such to ex­ist) the sun rises in the west and sets in the cast, while all of the four moons June the same peculiarity. To ihern the sun looks only one four-hundredth as large as it does to us. inasmuch as they are 1.800,000.000 miles away from that lu­minary, and daylight is proportionately dim. though bright enough to see tjy comfortable, inasmuch as at midday it is equal to the illumination of fifteen hundred moons like ours.

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Uranus has a diameter of 35,000 miles, and its distance from the Earth is 1,700,- 000 miles.—From The Saturday Evening P a s t . _________

CAUSALITY, THE CENTRAL FACULTY OF THOUGHT OR SOUL POWER.—The soul _ life,thought life, or God life, is the mighty creative power which evolves what we are in our soul character, or soul facul­ties. As the soul needs the body in this world, there is a corresponding growth, unfoldment, and development of the mental and physical organization, through which the mind or soul ex­presses itself. The mental faculties rep-' resent the elements of the soul. Caus­ality is the central faculty of thought power, because the thought life, soul life, or God life, expresses its greatest or chiefest thought power through the faculty of Causality, which is intimately associated in mental work with the fac­ility of Comparison. The development of all the mental faculties is caused by Causality, because all the mental facul­ties are different phases of thought ex­pressed by Causality. To cause the mental faculties to grow, unfold and develop, the right kind of thinking must be done; the right kind of work per­formed, and the right kind of mental at­tention given to the mental work which each faculty does, which requires a per­fect knowledge of the nature, or func­tion of each faculty.

When the mental faculties are well developed they are in perfect touch, sympathy, and harmony with Causality, which does the thinking, reasoning, and planning for all the faculties. When a mental faculty is inefficient, or defective, the connection between the undevelop­ed faculty and Causality is so weak, that when this uncultivated faculty at­tempts to do its mental work, the work is done improperly and blunderingly, because owing to its undeveloped con­dition it has not sufficient mental power to be in unison or touch with Causality, and thus remind Causality to do the necessary thinking, planning, or reason­ing. The result is this uncultivated faculty either doe; its work badly, or not at all.

Phrenology, explains the nature of the mental faculties, points out how to

cultivate each faculty definitely, and promotes perfect harmony between .11 the faculties. Undeveloped faculties in­dicate neglect or carelessness on our part, or ignorance and neglect on the part of our parents. The way to remedy the defect, as before stated, is to give the right kind of mental attention to the weak or defective faculties, as all faculties of the mind may be improved and strengthened. Thus our whole character may be deepened, broadened, enriched, and made more attractive, helpful and powerful.—H. W. Richard­son, in Human Faculty.

PHRENOLOGY AND PHYSIOG­NOMY COMPARED.—There are probably few people who, having given neither of these subjects much study, would be able to clearly tell the differ­ence between them. Human Nature says:

I’hrer.ologv is a deeper and m ore reliable science than Physiognom y. Physiognom y is only a record telling us how a person has lived. I t is a surface science and does no t re­veal the possibilities of men. Phrenology re­veals all the latent as well as the active pow ers of the mind.

"The Physiognom y of the earth does not reveal the secrets of the bowels of the earth . F or millions of years gold and o ther precious metals have lain beneath the rocks in C alifor­nia, but neither stone nor fern, o r tree or flower told the story to man, th a t untold treasure lay beneath the sod until M arshall found a nugget at Sutter.

"So it is with Physiognom y. By searching the face, signs of character may be traced. B ut the real and (unknow n som etim es) ch a r­acter of the m an—his talents, his streng th and weakness is only revealed by Phrenology.

"T he Form and Size of the H ead, T ex tu re or Q uality of organization, T em peram ent and o ther conditions tell the whole story. If you would read character go to headquarters."

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AN ALLEGED MESSAGE FROM MARS.—If interviews published in the daily papers are to be belived, Nikola 'esla has claimed that while he was ex­

perimenting with long-distance space signalling, his instruments persistently recorded a signal that could not have originated on the earth and must have come from some point outside, lie be­lieves that it may have been an attempt on the part of intelligent beings in Mars to communicate with us. In an inter­view in the N. V. Herald, Mr. Tesla is made to speak as follows:

"In my inves tiga tions d isturbing atm os­pheric influences were alim wholly ex­cluded It would have 1-. im p"- .hie tor other experim enters to note the effects which I have disc -vered, for with tin H ertzian de­vices only a very narrow region can be ex ­plored. w hereas I was a >le i observe the electrical condition of a large portion r.f tile globe, a stretch of land 2.200 miles in «vidih and breadth. T hat these actions are due to causes heretofore unknow n I am convinced.

“ I feel th a t I have not been led away by my im agination, but that my sight wa- true as ever before, and I am confident that future investigation w ill confirm my statem ent.

"N or have I the slightest doubt, judging from my experim ents and m easurem ents that with a properly constructed electrical oscil­lator an am ount of energy can be transm itted to a planet, as Venus or M ars, even at their greatest distance, sufficient to b ring into ac­tion a sensitive instrum ent, such as I have been using in my own observations.

"F urtherm ore, it is an e rro r to believe that a great expenditure of power is necessary for interplanetary com m unication. W hat is need­ed is an effect specially greal—an enorm ous rate of energy delivery bu t lasting each tim e only a fraction of a second so th a t the total power used up is small. Now, with my oscil­lator I i an make this rale equal to five mil­lion horse-pow er and m ore, if necessary, and my calculations show that a -mail fraction of this rate is am ply sufficient for conveying a message to Mars.

"H eretofore light was the only known agent for com m unication w ith a planet. I t s easy to show that by its m eans such a result is virtually im possible, ov Ing to the rapid diminution of energy with (lie distance and the impossibility of concentraiing in an instru­m ent ihe energy i.illing upon a '.aw, irea. By the method and m achinery I have d are enabled to convey an immeasurably gr er amount of energy 10 the planer. ,nd the observer there, instead of n il./in g in his in - strum ent < nly an infinitesimal am ount of the entire energy conveyed can .vail himscif of, a large portion of the ;anu

"A practical solution has thus been found for transm itting and receiving messages, and we can only hope that there are beings as far advanced, and possibly' fu rther than we are ourselves, f see no harm in holding fast t-> this possibility. T his though t can no t bu: m ake us better and give u= a fresh interest in life.”

THE LITERARY DIGEST, from which we took the above quotation, has also, with its usual impartiality and thoroughness, collected the adverse criticisms which have been made in al­leged interviews with men of science, who evidently have no faith in this so- called discovery. The selection which they made from The Sun, of an inter­view held with Sir Norman Lockyer, they state, ‘fairly well represents the general attitude of the scientific world,” so we only reproduce it, leaving the reader who may wish to read the further comments, to send for the number con­taining it, which was published January 20th, and may be had front The Funk and Wagnalls Co., New York, by send­ing 10 cents.

" I attach no im portance w hatever to them (electrical disturbances reported by T esla). The eardt is always in a state of vibration. W hen these vibrations are on a large scale they are called earthquakes. W hen they are infinitesimal, they are no t noticed, except by the most delicate m agnetic instrum ents. If Mr. Tesla received a message from M ars, the electric iransm itory influence m ust have been general, no t local.

"W hy should electric energy transm itted from Mars have m ade its presence m anifest so ld ) in Colorado? A ll the m agnetic obser­vations in the world would have been aware of it sim ultaneously. Paris. Peking, Berlin and Moscow would have recorded it as sooi as Colorado Any solar m agnetic d istu rb­ance affects the whole earth , and the same law governs planetary disturbances. Thus the whole of ou r planet would be conscious of a message from M ars at the same mom ent.

"R egard ing the im m ense accum ulation of electrical energy which Mr. Tesla says is ne­cessary for the delivery of his interplanetary signals, it is quite possible for him to con­centrate the enorm ous electrical pow er he speaks of. H e can also launch it into space, but w hether it would reach M ars is m ore than I should like to assert.”

KORESHANITY—Is the name of a ''system of religion and belief, which has attracted much attention for several years past. Its founder and prime mover is Koresh” (Dr. Cyrus R. Teed), who de­

clares that this new religion “must sup­plant Christianity, as Christianity sup­planted Judaism.”

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The following summary of the system is taken from The Flaming Sword (Chi­cago, December 28), the official organ of the society, and published under the auspices of Koresh and Victoria Gratia, the latter called the “Preeminent of the Koreshan Unity. The writer says of the Ivoreshan creed:

" I t is the antithesis of all modern theories, of all schools of thought. I t is the climax of all m ental p rogress, the ultim ate and ab­solute tru th of being and existence; it is the revelation of all m ystery, the uncovering of the occult: the true explanation of all phe­nom ena, the scientific in terpre tation of na­ture and the Bible.

“ Cosmogony.-—The universe is a cell, a hollow globe the physical body of which is the earth ; the sun is at the center. We live on the inside of the cell; and the sun, moon, planets, and stars are all w ithin the globe. The universe is eternal, a g rea t battery , and perpetually renews itself through inherent functions, by virtue of which it involves and evolves itself.

"Alchem y.—The science of alchemy is the philosopher’s stone, the key to the m ystery of lift-. C hem istry is false; alchemy is true! M atter and energy are interconvertible and in terdependent: they are correlates; m atter is destructib le: the result of its transm utation is energy. Alchemy is the key to the analy­sis of the universe.

"Theology.—God is personal and biune, with a trin ity of specific attributes. God in H is perfection and pow er is the God-man o r the inan-God, the Seed of universal per­petuity. Jesus, the Christ, was God A l­m ighty: the TIoly Spirit was the product of H is tran sm u ta tion o r the burn ing of H is body.

“M essianic Law.—The com ing of the M es­siah is as inevitable as the reproduction of the seed. The divine Seed was sown nine­teen hundred years ago ; the first fruit is an­o ther M essianic personality. The M essiah is now in the world, declaring the scientific Gospel.

"R eincarnation is the Central Law of Life.-—The law of the resurrection ; reincarnation and resurrection are identical. R esurrec­tion is reached th rough a succession of re ­em bodiments. O ne generation passes into ano ther: the millions of hum anity march down the stream of time together

“The Spiritual W orld .—H eaven and hell are in hum anity, and constitu te the spiritual w orld ' the spiritual domain is mental, and is in the natu ra l hum anity—not in the sky.

“H um an D estiny— O rigin and destiny are one and the same The origin of man is God, and God is m an’s destinv. God is the h ighest product of the universe, the apex of hum anity. A bsorption into N irvana is entrance into eternal life—in the in terio r spheres of hum anity, not in the sky o r atm os­phere ”

LETTERS OLDER TIIAX SOLO­MON.—The Smithsonian Institute has received information of the discovery at lell-el-Amaria, in Upper Egypt, of a number of tablets relating to the his­tory of Jerusalem and dating back GOO vears earlier than any records hitherto known. When it is understood that these tablets of stones are letters pass­ed between the King of Jerusalem and the Pliaroah of Egypt 4()'u years before the birth of David, who was the father of Solomon, some notion will be formed of their extreme interest. These let­ters were written, so Dr. Cyrus Adler told a writer for the Star, about the year 1500 B. C., and cast a great light upon the relations of Egypt at their an­cient epoch. This, of course, was long before Jerusalem was captured by the Je w s .

At that time Palestine was a federa­tion of independent cities, each of which, like Jerusalem, was governed by a “prefect,” this word meaning literally ’king of a city.” Nevertheless, these towns paid a tribute to the Pharaoh, and it was in relation to this tribute that several of the letters found were addressed to the ruler of Egypt by the king of Jerusalem, Abdi-Taba. In them he tries to explain, with due respect, that he occupies a more independent po­sition than the other prefects, and ought to be treated accordingly. For exam­ple, in one missive he say-:

“Behold, this city of Jerusalem, neith­er my father nor my mother has given unto me, but the call of a mighty king.”

This refers to the ancient custom in Palestine, by which rulers of a supposed divine call, and without any reference to hereditary law. Having been sum­moned to his throne by the Deity, Ab­di-Taba argued that he should be treat­ed more leniently with regard to tribute. In another of his letters he says:

“Behold, neither my father nor my mother has appointed me in this place, but the call of the mighty King has made me enter into the house of my fathers.”

That the “mighty king” spoken o was the Deity is proven by the fact that to him as authority is referred an oracle inscribed upon another tablet, which savs that: “As long as a ship sails up-

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on the sea. so long will Mesopotamia and Babylonia conmier.”

The chief aim of tl.e three other let­ters written by Abdi-Taba is to ask thePf....noli for militate aid against forconquerors invading Palestine. These war-like strangers lit calls people of Ilabiri—in other words, they were He­brews. It seems hardly probable that the Hebrews as a nation should have invaded Palestine at so early' a date, and so it is likely that these were some ad­vanced tribe? of Israel which settled down west of the Jordan and made in­cursions from time to time In one of the letters on this subject Abi-Taha -ay s :

The Habiri people are conquering the cities of the king”—i. e., tbt cities tributary to the Pharaoh—“therefore the king may turn hi? face to hi, sub- ects and send troops. If the troops ar­

rive this vear the countries of the king, my Lord, may he saved, but if no troops arrive, the countries of the king, my Lord, will exist no lunger.”

The tremendous “find" at Iell-el- Ymaria includes ‘300 tablets, largelv of

Babylonian cuneforrn script, which is thus discovered for the first time to have been in use at so early a period in Egypt and Palestine. Many of the other tablets are dispatches of about the rante date from Pharaoh. Some of the inscriptions are in an unknown lan­guage. which no one has so far been able to translate. It is funny to think Solomon himself would have looked up­on these tablet.-, as remote antiquities.-—The Sunflower.

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AN ANSWER TO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CRITICS.

Boston, Mass., Feb. 12, 1901. Editor The P sychic D igest , Colunt

bus, Ohio:D ear S i r : In your issue of Novem­

ber you published an editorial which appeared in the ATezv York Medical Jour nal, containing an erroneous statement concerning a child which was said to have been allowed to burn to death bv its parents who “made no effort to ex- tinguish th« fire, relying simply upon their own peculiar theories for aid. The Christian Science denomination is made up of people of common-sense and superior intelligence, and I scarcely believe that any one really believes that t h e y ' would be guilty of -uch utter fool­ishness. I am quite familiar with the ea-e, having sent a trusty messenger to investigate it at the time, and have now a letter in my possession from the par­ent, of tin- child which i- a complete refutation of this report. The child in question was not in a family of Chris­tian Scientists, and no Christian Scien­tists even know about it. The father and tw i uncles of the child did all they could to rescue It. Failing to properly locate the child from its screams, they were unable to reach it before it was too badly burned to he saved: although the flames were put out as quickly as possi­ble, and two physicians were called

Now, as to the question of treating children in Christian Science,—that which is good for the adult is good for he child. Christian Science parents

generally have had experience first with nedical treatment and lastly with Chris­tian -Science; and are firm in their con­victions that Christian Science is the best knot l ;dy for their children.>-ven when afflicted with contagious dis­eases. Tt is not just to assume that the adherents of tins faith are careless in respect to the spreading of infection to others. No class of people are more careful to observe the laws of quaran­tine In my own experience I have

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never known an instance where conta­gion has spread from a family of Chris- tinn Scientists. Indeed it is seldom that infectious disease enters the home of a Christian Scientist, since his under­standing of the omnipotence and omni­presence of God is generally a suffici­ent preventive. Thousands of children die every year from contagious diseases under the care of the most skilled phy­sicians. In view of this, what is there t o justify the claim that Christian Sci­entists should be forced to place their little ones tinder such treatment? We can readily understand that to those who are not conversant with the effects of this Science, a dependence upon it might seem a risk rather than a help; nevertheless, the Christian Scientist is lirm in his conviction that he would be incurring a great risk to place his chil­dren under medical treatment. With all the noise that has been made in the press on this subject it has not been shown in any instance that there has been a spreading of disease through the carelessness of Christian Scientists; neither has it been shown that these people lose as great a per cent, of the children under their care as are lost under other systems.

A l fr e d F aki.o w .

A CORRECTION—Was sent to The Literary Digest, regarding an article which they took from T h e P sychic D igest of October, which came origi­nally from The Washington News iMter. It seems only fair to the other side to reproduce this statement of an orthodox Christian Scientist, which is as follows:

“In reference to the article on ‘The Reform­ed C hristian Science Church,’ reproduced in ou r colum ns D ecem ber 15, Mr. W illard S. M attox, of the C hristian Science Publication Com m ittee for the State of New York, writes us a le tte r declaring tha t the new organiza­tion referred to ‘is not a schism of the Church of Christ, Scientist, because it was never a part of the Christian Science Church, and few, if any. of those com posing the new sect ever were Christian Scientists.’ The statem ent that the Christian Science churches do no t give free lectures is also contradicted: 'O nly lastSunday, D ecem ber 16, at Carnegie Hall, this (New Y ork) city, Judge Joseph R. Clarkson, of Om aha, spoke bofer 3,500 people who did not pay a penny to gain admission.’ Mr M attox denies the righ t of the new organi­zation to the name it has chosen: ‘Any one w ho departs from the strict teachings and

practice^ of Christian Science forfeits all right to call himself a Christian Scientist, ft Christian Science be true, there can he n~ R r formed Christian Science, and if it De .> . t true then why the preservation and perpetu ation of the name or any part of a system declared :o be false?’ ”

L IF E .A cradle, a laugh,A lover’s chaff,

A nd blossoms and chimes and friends; A death-bed scene,And mound of green,

W here a weeping woman bends.

A smile, a fear,A sprinkle, a tear,

The blossoms, the chimes, the friends; A nd n ight makes way,F o r the endless day,

Of the life tha t never ends.—E xchange

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“My mind to me a kingdom is,Such perfect joy therein I find

As far exceeds all earthly bliss T hat God o r nature hath designed."

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/ ANOTHER CONSOLIDATION / OF MAGAZINES.—The March num-

/ her of Mind informs us that Universal Truth, edited h f Cassius M. Loomis and Fannie M. Hiirle/i and published at Chicago, has been consolidated with their publication.

The ec litc/s of Mmd state that they believe nj^re goodStan be done by one larg n igasine ivhicl tlh repres the New Thought A1 overrent, than by the numerous small ones which neces­sarily )i ive a light < ircula i< .n. Wit .lus in view they state that “negotiations are now pending with publishers of other journals whereby it is hoped a

, -.till further concentration of effort shall be effected.”

/ 1 HE ELEVATOR- Is the title of a ̂ stirring new magazine, which is “de­

voted to uplifting humanity.” Its pur­pose and teachings are indeed elevat­ing; and notwithstanding the fact that the world of "New Thought is about overrun with a surplus of literature—- very much of which is useless and likely to harm rather than help on the good cans i- -there is a plac< foi Flu ' lei nr r, and we extend her a most hearty wel­come in the struggle to make life more

Qikc what it should be

THE NATURAL HEALER—Is one of the most wideawke aiid staunch supporters of till natural forces and methods of healing. It- attitude to­ward. anil treatment of the drug doctors and system of therapeutics is, to say the least, exceedingly severe. But, as it holds fast to the truth in its criticisms, charges of neglect and malpractice, it is :<'im; • i i . . m 1 pra

THE AlEDlCAf rOONOi LAST — Is a bright, neat and breezy little maga­zine that has but recently come to our notice. Tt is a vigorous supporter of Natural 1 lealing and Healers; and \ re its suggestions relative to medical lib­erty and protective measures for .he benefit of iht progressive class of phy- . .dans of all school- and beliefs—mate-

do

rial or psychic—made into laws and put in practice by the government, justice would be meted out as it should be. The Iconoclast is edited by a physician, who knows well rbe injustice and fraud being practiced by many selfish drug- doctors, and he is equally well prepared to offer the remedy for the wrong.

Every practitioner and advocate of natural methods of healing—without re­gard for beliefs, schools or systems, should at once join forces with “The Natural Healer’s Protective League,” which should have their united support.

i THE FLAMING SWORD—Of[March 15th, appears in an attractive

design, which was developed by the edi­tor himself. A unique feature is that it also has a title-page for the back cover, of original design. The editor explains the significance of the various signs and symbols, and also speaks of the progress of this paper which lias now been in existence for nearly twelve

pears.

ANNIVERSARY. —March 31st will mark the fifty-third anniversary of the advent of Modern Spiritualism. The dav will he observed throughout the na­tion, with appropriate ceremonies on the part of all our local societies. Elab urate programs are already being pre­pared, and it is safe to «a\ that this an­niversary celebration will be the most general, as well a> the most interesting, of all that have been liel I in h< »nor o thi- great event.

\ CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—It has been discovered that an old lads at Eastbourne, whose death occurred eight hours previous to that of the Queen, was born on the same day as her late Majesty. The ladv was a wid ow named Mrs. Elizabeth Ransom.

THE QUEEN’S PICTURE FELL. —The following story is related by a correspon lent in the Bromyard Record:

:lit night c>f tin Oueen death the caretaker of Saltmarshe Castle, which is let to Major Hayworth, heard a noise. He proceeded to where the sound came from, and on going into the room found that a picture of the Queen

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had fallen from its hangings on the wall to the floor. The time was said to have been about 6 :30.

A LAW LATELY ADOPTED IN UTAH.—“That hereafter it shall De un­lawful for any board of health, board of education or any other public board, acting in this State under police regula­tions or otherwise, to compel by resolu­tion, order or proceedings of any kind, vaccination of any child, or person of any age; or making vaccination a con­dition precedent, to the attendance at any public or private school in the State of Utah, either a pupil or teacher.”

WEARING OUT THE BRAIN — A French scientist has determined that the military' and naval professions most quickly wear out the brain. Out of 100,U00 naval and military men, 199 are confirmed lunatics. Next come the lib­eral professions, artists heading the list, followed closely by lawyers, and more j distantly by doctors, clergy, literary! men and civil servants. The number ) of those who go mad is 117 to each I 100,000. Domestic servants and day la­borers run the professional men very close, sending 155 of each 100,000 to the asylum. These are followed at a long distance by mechanics, only 66 of whom go mad in each 100,000. And the group which is most favorable to sanity’ is, contrary to general belief, that of commercial men, which sends only 42 out of every 100,000 to the asylum.— The A dept.

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The Light of Truth, dated January 26th, went to press January 21st. In it appeared this notice:

"It is said that the spirit of the Scot­tish Oueen Mary, who was beheaded at Queen Elizabeth’s order, and who has made itself heard just before the death of every monarch of England since the time of Elizabeth, has again manifested in the Tower of London, where she was imprisoned.”

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Now comes the fifth edition, much larger and improved in every wTay. It has 137 pages, w h i l s t the first had but GO

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Owners of former editions will not make a mistake in purchasing this last. The additional chapters on “Treat­ment Against Poverty” and “Absent Treatment’’ tells in the clearest and

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IN D E X TO P E R IO D IC A L S O F T H E M O N T H .

P SY C H O L O G Y . Psychology in Theory, by F red L. M aser, 82.

Baby Psychology, 32.Are W e Dual? tiff.W herein Lies the T ru th , by F. C. W alker,

M. 1)., tit).

M E N TA L S C IE N C E A N D H E A L IN G S U G G E S T IO N A N D S U G G E S T IV E

T H E R A P E U T IC S .The E volution of M ental Science, by Eliza

Calvert Hall, Rib.W hy D on’t I Get Well? by S. E. Meacham

M. D.. 83.Suggestograplua, by G eorge Bieser, M.

D.. S3.A Typical Case, by Jam es Dickson, M. D.

S3.The Skin Man. by E. II. P ra tt. M. D., S3. H arm onic V ibration as a T herapeutic

A gent, by W. X avier Sudduth, M. D., 83. E lbert H ubbard ’s Lecture, by the E ditor,

83.C haracter Building by M ental C ontrol, by

W illiam W alker, A tkinson, 83.H anks Cured by Suggestion, by G. H

B radt M. D„ 82.Im portance of Suggestion, by W illiam J.

Hill, M. D., 62.The R estoration of Stephen H ale, by

Rachel Dent, 62.The Sym pathetic G anglionic N ervous Sys­

tem and Its R elation to the Body arid Dis ease, by Thom as B assett Keyes, M. D., 62.

Fear—Its O rig in and H ow I t Effects Us. by A. Lovell Bain, 62.

M ediation, by Rev. H enry F rank , 82. Thoughts F rom a K indergartner, by \V

M. P„ 82.W hat Is Suggestion, by A nna E. P ark , M.

D . 82.Factors Conducive to H ealth and Longevi­

ty bv A llied T urner, 82.Self-Poise, by Clias W . Close, 82.A ttitude of the M edical Profession T o­

wards P racticians of Suggestive T herapeu­tics: Will New Y ork Exclude H ealers W ho Are Not M. D .’s?; E xplanation of “ P’akir- istn"; D eath of Prof. W. H . M eyers; A tti­tude of C hristian Scientists T ow ard the P ra c ­tice of Medicine and Surgery, by the E d ito r, 82.

H ow to Acquire Personal M agnetism , by the Editor, 82.

How Shall I Cure Myself, by P. Braun. Ph. D., 52.

A L ittle Talk to L ittle People, by the E d i­tor. 52.

B reathing Technique, by the E ditress. .‘.I Individualisms, by W illiam E. Townc, 51. Affirmations, 33.

OCCULT REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 39

' Consci.m mess W ithout T hough t,” 53.The Can oi Success, by M argare t Ii.

Peeke, 53.The R eign of L o \e ; W ords of Gold, by the

E d ito r, 53Tin P s t.en t D uring Conscious Suggestion,

by A. L. N ew ton, 69D em onstrations of P ractical Psychology,

69M E T A P H Y S IC S

A D ream of My Soul s R eincarnation, by G. H . S. Soule. 16b

The W ise M an and the Sea U rchins, by E ra Best, 4Gb

The W orld of T hough., with E ditorial Com m ent, Rib.

Value oi the U nbalanced M an, by Carina Campbell Eaglesfitld: W agner’s Conception jf the M ission of A rt, by B. O. Flow er: Vmerica and The Affirm ative Intellect, by

Charles Ferguson; Life G lim pses, by A. A. H aim s; Evolutio by Georgi 1 ulla way Mara the M agician, by Isabella Ingalese; M etaphysics and Prayer, by Rev. Helen Van- A nderson, 47.

Io Thine O wn Sell,” by Juim B iuw n- Strode. 21.

M ediation, by Rosabel Reed, 21.T ransm utation , by the E d itress; A New

Thought Parable, by A G M arshall; -4, 1 Crosses, by M arg a te M essenger; T houghts and T hings by' the E d itress; Conscience, by i^eo V irgo, 15a.

The Life > Jesus C hrist, by E d ito r; C ur­ing v s . H ealing, by Jane V. . Y arnall: P e r­ietal R elationships—T hough t and Mind, by

Prof. W. II. W atson ; U nchain the T ru th — Yes, by Mrs. A lma Gillen; H ealing—M ental Science W hat Is It? 1)8.

Flashes, by E d ito r; T he Age of A rt. The S pirit of V en tu re . Decline ot the Church, by H ugh O Pentecost: R etu rn ing to N ature, by E dito r, l i t

A ttraction and Repulsion, by E ugene Del M ar; How to Fliinl R ight by Lida Cal-

:r t; O in . - W i ;.and is this \ \ isdoni < )btai Pile by M an? 20, M arch 6th

T he Discovery of Self, by C harles W illing Bea e: A W ord for the L ittle O nes E d ito r­ials. etc., 20, M arch 13th.

H Y P N O T IS M O R M E S M E R IS M .W onders of H ypnotism , by A. C. H al-

, hide, M. D.. 82H ypnotism and ‘M usical Psychology'

1 transla tion 1. 82.The H ypno-M etronom e (tran sla tion ), 82.H igher M esmeric Phenom ena, 82.H um an M agnetism , by Pro. V. G. Lund-

quist. 32P S Y C H IS M AND P S Y C H IC P H E ­

N O M E N A .O ne E xplanation of S p ir i' Phenom ena, by

Prof. Lym an E. Stowe, 21.Can Ali Psychic Phenom ena be E xplained

on the T heory of O ne U niversal Mind? by H a rrie t B B radbury , 69.

All Psychic Phenom ena A ccounted for on tin Theory' of O neness of Mind as Opposed to D uality, by E ditor. 69

Telepathy Scientifically E xplained, by M.E. B. F rank , 82.

Telepathic E xperience, 64.Charles W. L eadbeater, p o rtra it, and

sketch, by H a rrie t L. H enderson. M. D., 82.Fakirisin (tran sla tio n ), 82.

S P IR IT IS M A N D T H E O S O P H YPhilosophy and Phenom ena of M edium -

sh.p, by D ean C larke; W hat the Bible Knows A bout Levitation by Spirit Pow er, by M oses H ull; T ru th and D ogm a, by S tan ton K irk- ham D avis. Self A bnegation, by E d ito r, 43, M arch 2.

Biblical T rance M edium ship, by Moses H u ll; Equipoise, the Purpose of Law. by J R Tallm adge; The O ne T hing Essential The Ego, by the E d ito r, 43, M arch 9th.

B yron, as M an and Spirit, by J. P Cooke F ak irs and Philosophy, by R. H . M cDowell A M edium on M edium ship, by M rs. M. E W illiams, 43, M arch 16th.

'-'he R esurrection of the Soul, by Jennie H agen B row n; M usiugs, by Paul F. de Gour- uav; The M edical Q uestion ; A braham L in ­coln; M ass Conventions, by the E d ito r; A d dress to benute C om m ittee on the W agnet Bill; A Revival in Spiritualism . 6, M arch 2d.

The A dvancem ent of Spiritualism , by Alex. W’ilder. M D.: Spiritualism and Spiritualists, by the E d ito r; Review of the Field: The Ari of Giving; T he W hipping P o st; A S to ry T hough t: The Medical Q ti.m ion, by the E d i­to r, 6, M arch 9th.

M rs. M ary A. L iverm ore; The W ay, by A ugusta A dam s; T he R eal M an: M edium - ship; Medical Freedom , by the E d ito r 6, M arch 16th

A11 Evening w ith "The S p irits ,” by \. 11 P. M atthew. 82.

A Challenge to Spiritualists , by D r. J. S. F iery , 82.

R eincarnation Exam ined, by A. Lovell Bam, 82.

Thi Passing to S p irit Life of D r. H a r r in g ­ton: Psychic A id in E th e r; R evelations ot the Bible. 74, M arch 2d.

P rogressive T h ough t: Lirffit and Life; Grave Fallacies: P a rtin g of the W ays, An Im pressive Vision, by M oses H ull; The P il­grim in W ar-P a in t, by J. M Peebles, M D 74. M arch 9th

T hough t C reation, by A lcinous; Soul C om ­munion. by H. N. M aguire; Religious C hanges of the C ountry, by Rev. J. E. Rob erts, 74 M arch 16th.

The D ifferent Schools on the M eaning and Purpose of the R asa L ila; A lexander Pope the P o tt , as a P rophetic Seer; Svarjyasid- dhih: The A rts and In d u strie s of Ind ia .Max M uller at O xford . 12, D ecem ber.

Spiritualism , by Prof. H enry Kiddle, 85.Testim ony of a G host A dm itted in C ourt

85.E xperiences in A utom atic W riting , by

C arrie M Hawleyr, 47.Some T hough ts on R eincarnation , by

Clias. W. Beale, 20.Spiritual Seances: Secularists and S p iritu ­

alists, s'4.Spirit Voices, by A. W . M oore, 69.Is Spiritualism T rue, by Rev. J. P. Bland.

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4 0 i'liK PSYCHIC DIGEST AND

O C C U L T ISM .The Occult M eaning of Some W ords, by

F ranz H artm ann, M. D., 40b.The M ission of O ccultism , by J. E. Axtell,

84.

A S T R O L O G Y . P A L M IS T R Y , P H R E ­N O L O G Y .

A strology, by Prof. E. W hipple, 85.Rays ol T ru th , The H oroscope of K ing

E dw ard Y l l ; F ate and Fortune for the M onth of M arch; M undane A strology; N um bers, 48.

The Secret of the Sphinx; The A stral Body; C reatures of C ircum stance; Is As- rology Fatalism ? by W. II. Bach; H o ro ­

scope for M arch, 2.The K ey-N ote of E dison’s Genius; Self-

Developm ent A T rip A round the H um an W orld; The Evolution of a M ental Mood; A m ativeness; How to Grow a H um an Soul,32.

Is Phrenology a Psychology, or is I t a Science2; Physiognom y; The Science of M ating; W hat is Courage?, 33

The P lanet M ars, bv E d ito r; Vegetables, Quintals and P lants Ruled by the Planets,

Psychic Index and Key to the Occult Literature of the World, a

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O b se rv in g th e d e sire of th e people fo r in fo rm a tio n a lo n g o ccu lt lin e s , m an y u n s c ru p u lo u s p e rs o n s h a v e used sen s a tio n a l a d v e r tis in g to a t t r a c t th e u n w a ry , b u t it h as rem a in ed fo r T h e C h icag o S choo l of P sy c h o lo g y to p lace th e f irs t a c c u ra te au d up-to-date in s tru c tio n on th e S c ien ce of H y p n o tism b e fo re th e g e n e ra l p u b lic .

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