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CHROMO-DYNAMICS, OR THE HIGHER GRADE LIGHTS AND FORCES.


1. Introductory Points.

1. At last we come to a triumphant series of facts in proof of the fine fluidic forces which constitute the inner soul of things, and also in corroboration of the etherio-atomic law. By their aid we may ascend toward the key-stone of the great archway of power, and deal with those more subtile laws and potencies of vegetable, animal, human, and even world-life which are revealed by the higher grades of light and color.

2. We have seen in Chapter Fifth, XXIII, that there are strong proofs of new and beautiful grades of light and color above that which impresses the outward vision. The following semi-prophetic and semi-philosophic passage from Professor Tyndall, hinting at the fact that man has powers which may yet be developed to see these higher colors, is already being verified by actual facts:—"If we allowed ourselves to accept for a moment that notion of gradual growth, amelioration and ascension implied by the term evolution, we might fairly conclude that there are stores of visual impressions awaiting man far greater than those of which he is now in possession. For example, Ritter discovered in 1801, that beyond the extreme violet of the spectrum, there is a vast efflux of rays which are totally useless as regards our present powers of vision." That many persons are able to see these colors, and that many more can be developed into this power, will be shown more fully in the next chapter, in which also rules will be laid down for attaining it. This chapter will be devoted principally to the explanation of Odic light and color, together with some of the marvelous forces connected with man and nature which are revealed thereby, while the next chapter will deal more especially with man.

II. Odic Light.

Baron Reichenbach, one of the most eminent scientists of Austria, made the discovery that a fine force issues from all known elements and substances, and appears in beautiful lights and colors which can be both seen and felt by persons whom he called sensitives. Having a spacious castle near Vienna, admirably adapted to his investigations, with an abundance of philosophical and chemical apparatus, and a private cabinet containing minerals and substances of every kind, he instituted thousands of experiments which extended over years of time and were conducted with a skill, a patience and a severe love of truth, which must make his name immortal, especially as connected with the great force of nature whose laws and phenomena he thus discovered. This subtile power he named Od, or Odic force, or Odylic force. As these fine invisible emanations constitute the basic principles of all other forces, and are forever working through all things, it is of vast moment to understand them, and it would seem almost criminal for our medical and other scientists to be so indifferent with reference to them, so long as human happiness and upbuilding are so greatly promoted by a knowledge of their laws. "Nature is eternal," says Reichenbach. "After a thousand million years will the odic light flow and shine as it does to-day, but the endeavors to overcome such a truth when it has once happily been found and disclosed, are paltry and poor." While such men as Berzelius, the great chemist of Stockholm, and Dr. Gregory of the Edinburgh University, and Dr. Elliotson, President of the Royal Chirurgical Society of London, and various other eminent thinkers and scientists, have freely admitted the greatness of the discovery of Reichenbach, too many even to this day ignore, or rather keep themselves ignorant of the whole matter. Even so well known a physician as Dr. Brown-Sequard sneers at the odic and other fine forces, and hosts follow in his track, thus riveting the shackles of prejudice more and more tightly about the people by their example. A body of rather superficial physicians of Vienna, anxious seemingly to combat Baron Reichenbach, rather than ascertain the exact truth, met together and had Miss Reichel, one of the sensitives whom Reichenbach had experimented with, attempt to describe the odic lights. They surrounded her, held each of her hands, overpowered her by their own hostile atmosphere, mocked her and jeered at her, till the poor sensitive girl, in her anger and excitement, could do little or nothing to illustrate a great principle and then condemned her and the cause. It is well on the whole, perhaps, that they took such a course, otherwise we should not have had such a scathing and crushing exposure of their folly by Reichenbach as a warning to all similar cases of folly and ignorance. Dr. William B. Carpenter, the well known physiologist, considers Baron Reichenbach's experiments unreliable because he employed so many women in testing them. To this I would answer, 1st, that his experiments would more likely have been unreliable if he had not employed ladies freely in the matter, for woman's perception of the fine forces is as much superior to man's as man's ratiocinative talent is generally superior to woman's, and it is singular that so able an observer has overlooked this fact; 2dly, the Baron did employ numerous men who could see the Odic lights, including Prof. Endlicher, member of the Vienna Academy; Baron August von Oberlaender, Dr. Ragsky, Imperial Professor of Chemistry, Vienna; M. Karl Schuh, Natural Philosopher, Berlin; Dr. Huss, Physician in ordinary to the king of Sweden, and other gentlemen of scientific attainment. In all he experimented with about 60 persons, including many who were in sound health as well as many who were sick, having a greater number of ladies than gentlemen, as it should be in this class of researches, as the former were able to see longer flames and generally describe them more definitely than the latter. Some of the ladies, including the Baroness Natorp, Baroness von Augustine, and others, were persons of culture.

2. Aided by the knowledge of atoms, chromo-chemistry and chromo-Therapeutics, I think we may easily see the inner meaning and potencies of the odic colors, and ascertain their scientific bearing in a way which Reichenbach himself was unable to do without these aids. We should remember that every color has a certain exact style of power, no matter what the grade of fineness or coarseness may be; the odic blue and violet, like the visible blue and violet, being electrical, penetrating and cool in their nature, while the red either in a drug, or in the visible sunlight, or in the finer invisible odic rays, is a warming and exciting

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principle; in short, that every color must ever work after the same law, the only difference being that a color of a finer grade has a softer and more penetrating power than the same color of a coarser grade, and has also a greater influence on the finer mental forces, though not so direct an influence on the physical system. It is proper now to inquire into the nature of Odic light, as viewed by Reichenbach's sensitives. In some cases I shall condense his points, in others quote his exact language.

III. Nature of Odic Light and Color.

1. Odic Light exhibits exactly the same laws and phenomena as the ordinary visible light. "The odic light appears in five forms, producing different sensuous impressions, namely, in the condition of 1, incandescence; 2, flame; 3, threads, streaks and nebulae; 4, smoke; 5, sparks." Prof. Endlicher and others, when the flame at the end of magnets was blown upon, saw it flicker about and grow larger just as ordinary flames do before the wind. Madame Kienesberger woke up in the night and seeing the iron window frame on fire with odic light, became alarmed, supposing it to be real fire. When she went to put it out it vanished, then reappeared when she lay down. In other words, when she was perfectly quiet and impressible, she saw the lights, but when moving around, her finer vision was interrupted. When a magnet became very weak there was "incandescence with no flame, only a little smoke," just as is the case with a smouldering fire. "Od shares with heat the peculiarity of two different conditions, one inert, slowly making its way through matter, a radiation. The od from magnets, crystals, human bodies, is felt instantaneously through a long suite of rooms." Odic light follows the same laws of refraction as common light, as it may be condensed and brought to a focus by a lens, and also the same laws of reflection, although the same substances that reflect ordinary light, are not always of the right grade to reflect odic light, as the latter is often able to pass through opaque bodies and make them transparent.

2. An Odic Atmosphere or static ether must exist and bear the same relation to odic light as the ordinary atmosphere does to the ordinary light. As the odic light is twice as fine in its vibrations as ordinary light, the odic atmosphere must also be twice as fine, and its luminelles on the average, about twice as small as the ordinary luminelles. This is a deduction from the analogies of nature, and also from the fact ascertained by mathematicians, that the vibrations, which are twice as fine and rapid as those in the thermel, occur a little above the violet just about at the place where the odic thermel in the new color-octave would be expected to commence. In this finer atmosphere odic electricity, odic magnetism, odic thermism, as well as odic light and color exist with all their activities, as we shall see hereafter. To show that the odic light is not dependent upon our atmosphere, being in reality partially smothered by it, and that it must have its own peculiar atmospheric medium, I will quote an account which Reichenbach gives of his experiments with a magnet as viewed in the dark while the air is being withdrawn by an air pump:—"M. Firka, Johann Klaiber, and Mme. Kienesberger, also saw nothing at first: but when the air was half removed, they saw the contents of the bell jar become luminous, the magnet in the odylic glow. On further exhaustion, Klaiber saw the flame appear on both poles, first dull, then brighter as the air was removed more completely, increasing in vividness at every stroke of the piston, so that at last very bright flames flowed about under the bell jar. When the air was admitted, all light suddenly disappeared to the three observers, and it returned as soon as the pump had again been worked for a time." Mile. Zinkell saw the flames beautifully brilliant, especially after the exhaustion of the air, one pole being blue, the other red, with a mixture of rainbow hues. Several others, including a blind man by the name of Bollman, saw the same variations. These facts seem to indicate that there is a finer grade of oxygen and hydrogen and carbon, or some similar elements, to feed these flames, and a finer grade of gaseous or rather of ethereal matter as their basis, for those essences which are finer than the gases may be termed ethers.

3. The Odic Light may appear in connection with all known objects, but more especially when these objects are under the action of the fine forces, such as electricity, magnetism, heat, light, etc. I will quote the summing up of results obtained by a vast number of experiments, from Dr. Wm. Gregory's translation of Reichen-bach's "Researches (Dynamics) on Magnetism, Electricity, etc., in their Relations to the Vital Force." (London Edition): "The time-honored observation that the magnet has a sensible action on the human organism is neither a lie, nor an imposture, nor a superstition, as many philosophers now-a-days erroneously suppose and declare it to be, but a well-founded fact, a physico-physiological law of nature which loudly calls on our attention. It is a tolerably easy thing and everywhere practical, to convince ourselves of the accuracy of this statement; for everywhere people may be found whose sleep is more or less disturbed by the moon, or who suffer from nervous disorders. Almost all of these perceive very distinctly the peculiar action of a magnet, when a pass is made with it from the head downwards. Even more numerous are the healthy and active persons who feel the magnet very vividly; many others feel it less distinctly; many hardly perceive it; and finally the majority do not perceive it at all. All those who perceive this effect, and who seem to amount to a fourth or a third of the people in this part of Europe, (Vienna), are here included under the general term 'Sensitives.' The perceptions of this action group themselves about the senses of touch and of sight; of touch, in the form of sensations of apparent coolness and warmth; of sight, in the form of luminous emanations, visible after remaining long in the dark, and flowing from the poles and sides of magnets. The power of exerting this action not only belongs to steel magnets as produced by art, or to the loadstone, but nature presents it in an infinite variety of cases. We have first the earth itself, the magnetism of which acts more or less strongly on sensitives. There is next the moon which acts by virtue of the same force on the earth, and of course, on sensitives. We have further all crystals, natural and artificial, which act in the line of their axes: also heat, friction, electricity, light, the solar and stellar rays, chemical action especially, organic vital activity, both that of plants and that of animals, especially that of man; finally the whole material universe. The cause of these phenomena is a peculiar force, existing in nature and embracing the universe, distinct from all known forces and here called odyl" (p. 209).

5. Length of Odic Flames. These appeared of various sizes according to the intensity of the force by which they were produced and the clearness of vision possessed by the sensitive.

"Prof. Endlicher saw, on the poles of an electro-magnet, flames 40 inches high, unsteady, exhibiting a rich play of colors and ending above in a luminous smoke which rose to the ceiling and illuminated it. M. Delhez saw the flames of the same size, but did not distinguish the colors. The flames appeared to him darker below (red), brightest in the middle (yellow), and darker again above (blue). Mile. Glaser saw, over the poles of the same electro-magnet, flames five feet high and smoke rising from them to the ceiling. The flames exhibited the most beautiful and varied play of colors, blue predominating over the northward, reddish yellow over the southward pole. Mile. Zinkel saw the flame of the northward pole 40 inches high, that of the southward pole upwards of one foot in height. Both were colored, blue predominating in the former, red in the latter" (p. 342). An odic flame which appeared 16 inches long to Miss Glaser when issuing from a nine-bar horse-shoe magnet, was lengthened to 64 inches when a current from the electrical machine was applied to it. Miss Sturman while in a dark room perceived a "flame-like light" over a large rock crystal, "half the size of a hand, blue, passing into white above, remarkably different from the magnetic light," which had more of the yellow and red in it. She also said that "isolated filaments of a reddish color ran up in the upper part of the white." Streams of light several inches long would often be seen issuing from human fingers, and also from different parts of the body, from plants, and various other substances.

5. Odic Polarization. As the solar ethers polarize the atoms of substances through which they pass, or follow the laws of substances already polarized as in many crystals, so do the odic forces either polarise bodies or sweep through atomic channels already polarized, "ft was discovered that every crystal presented two such points in which the force peculiarly resided. And these points lay diametrically opposite to each other in every crystal; they were the poles of a primary axis of the crystal. Both acted in the same way, but one much more strongly than the other, and with the distinction that from one appeared to issue a cool, from the other a softer, gently warm (seeming) current of air." (Dr. Ashburners Translation of Reichenbach, p. 56.) Reichenbach uses the word seeming in this and other cases, not being sure that when the sensitives so constantly told him that the fine influences were warm or cold, it could be anything but an apparent effect, as it would not move a thermometer. This comes from his being unaware of the fact, 1st, that there are different grades of heat and cold, the finer of which cannot be measured by coarse instruments, any more than meal can be measured in a coal seive; 2dly, the cold end of crystals and other polarized objects always emitted a blue flame, which as we have seen is constantly the effect of the cold and electrical current; 3dly, it always produced the cooling and contracting effect on the sensitive which comes from cold, while the other pole would produce the warming and exciting effect of heat and have red for its predominant color. These phenomena show the truth of many points already laid down in the previous part of this work. Reichenbach admits that the scientists of his day were unsettled as to which should be called the positive or negative end of a magnet, or a crystal, and being in doubt himself finally concluded to call the north end from which the blue rays emanate the negative, and the south or red end the positive pole, which is exactly wrong, as the more powerful external force, like the north pole, must be positive, and the weaker south pole negative. He finds the whole right side of the human body emitting the cold blue rays in predominance, and the left side the warm red rays, and so calls the former negative, the latter positive, which would seem still more improper than the terms as applied to a magnet. The power of a magnet comes especially from its electrical currents arranged in curves, and the positive principle of electricity is in the blue; if we are speaking of an object in which thermism rules, then the red constitutes the positive principle of power. It would be better to designate the different ends of a polarized substance as electrical and thermal, as these terms afford an exact meaning. The reader who has become familiar with the atomic theory will see just why a polarized substance must be warm at one end when it is cold at the other, as cold and heat move in exactly contrary directions. Reichenbach's sensitives found the small end of crystals warm and with thermal colors predominating, while the larger end was cold with blue predominant, the upper parts of plants and trees cold, the lower warm, etc. They could point out the main axis and its poles in crystals, by the crystallic force itself, and in many crystals, especially such decided ones as "sulphuret of iron, selenite, fluor spar, heavy spar, sphene granite, etc., they would also discover other axes, the poles of which were much less strongly opposed." "Very frequently the main axis was not longer, but shorter, as in selenite."

IV. Warm and Cold Substances.

1. The sensitives in deciding what elements and compounds were od-warm and od-cold, and thus arriving at their interior chemical character more minutely than the chemists themselves have generally done, have proved irresistibly the importance of understanding these odic forces. Baron Reichenbach enumerates 172 elements and compounds of every kind which were determined by Mile. Maix and Mile. Reichel. Nearly every metal and alkaline substance were declared to be warm, potassium being at their head in this respect, while the electro-negatives generally, oxygen being at the head, and nearly every acid were declared to be cold, thus being a grand argument in favor of the correctness of the principles developed in the chapter, on Chromo-Chemistry, and of the laws of chemical affinity, as explained in Chapter Third, XXXVII. Sulphuric acid, next to oxygen is pronounced the coldest substance, and water is ranged on the cold side, but very feebly so. The table is far more correct as giving the chemical power of substances, than those giving what is called their specific heat, though, perhaps, presenting slight inaccuracies.

2. "Mile. Reichel saw most metals red, almost as if red hot; some of them gave a white light, some a yellow. Copper, as we have seen, gave a green light. A delicate vaporous flame played over all, undulating backwards and forwards. More complex substances showed flame only at their points when crystallized. Otherwise they were either surrounded by luminous vapor, or were luminous in their mass as if red hot."

3. Reichenbach's sensitives constantly affirm that the sun's rays and ordinary fire are odically cold, but I think this effect, at least sometimes, comes from the thermo-electricity generated by the warm rays, as electricity is always developed by heat, especially as the temperature of sunlight was frequently measured by placing a metal plate in the sun, a few moments after which the sensitive felt cold sensations, in other words, the cold was felt after the plate had had a little time to get warmed and charged by the light. The solar rays, as we have seen, must come equally through both the electrical and thermal portions of atmospheric atoms, although the electrical rays are doubtless more active in cold weather. The moon's rays were always pronounced warm. Its grade of heat is not coarse enough to be measured by an ordinary thermometer, but it is known to be the cause of nervous excitement in many sensitive organizations.

4. "The sensitive patient felt all radiations from electrified bodies cold. The feeling of cold increased rapidly, the faster I turned the plate of the machine, perceptible, not immediately, but several seconds later than the electrical charge." This is another confirmation of the statement so often made in this work, that electricity acts on the law of cold.

5. The roots of plants are stated to be warm, and the ends of the leaves above cold. The warm currents flow downward through the plant, the cold currents upward. Most flowers were found to be cool, but warm on their stem.

V. Influence of Solar and Lunar Rays.

1. Sunlight. Reichenbach put various plates in the sunlight and connected them by a wire 13 yards long with Mile. Reichel, who held the point of the wire upward. The whole came through darkened rooms. In less than a minute after he had put the plates in the sunlight she saw a stream of light 10 or 12 inches high emerge from the wire. When his daughter stood in the sunlight in the place of the metal plate, the flame rose about 9 inches high. When he brought different metals from the sunlight into the darkened room, flames issued from them, especially from the sharp angles of the upper portions, green and blue from copper, clear white from gold and silver, dull white from tin, reddish white from zinc, etc.

2. Objects charged with Sunlight. I have already, in Chapter Sixth, XVII, shown the great power of substances charged with sunlight in healing, vitalizing or soothing the human system, including the discoveries of Dr. von Gerhardt, of Germany, which consists of sugar of milk, charged with the electrical rays by means of a prism, as a nervine and anti-spasmodic, and my own discoveries and inventions for securing the exquisite power of light, including a yellow-orange hollow lens, and a blue hollow lens, both of which when filled with water, and held in the light, answer as powerful lenses to focalize their respective rays upon the parts of the body externally, while the water within answers as a very soft, but subtile and penetrating influence to take internally, the former being a cerebral and nerve stimulant, vitalizing to the system, and laxative to the bowels, while the latter is cooling, quieting, anti-inflammatory, and soporific upon a system which is over-excitable and sleepless. This healing power of the sunlight comes not only from the ordinary visible colors, but from the odic colors which form the next color-octave above the visible range, for the blue glass transmits a large amount of odic rays, and even those which are still finer, while the yellow-orange glass transmits a portion of them also.

3. Moonlight. The sensitives always felt a warm current from objects that had been held in the moon, and saw a flame 10 inches high arise from the wire held in the moonlight with a plate at the outer end. Miss Maix felt an attractive force drawing her hand along the wire. The fact that the thermal influences of the moon, especially in the range of odic rays, overbalance the electrical rays of the same, seems remarkably confirmed by authorities quoted by Dr. Forbes Winslow, in his "Influence of Light," in which it is shown that especially in warm climates such diseases as diarrhoea, dysentery, hemorrhage, fevers, convulsions, nervous irritability, lunacy, etc., are worse in the full of the moon (or sometimes in the new moon), just as we might expect from predominance of yellow and red rays. "In India," says Dr. Winslow, "death has occasionally been known to arise from what is termed a coup de lune, or stroke of the moon; and in Egypt blindness has often been produced in persons who have imprudently fallen asleep with their faces exposed to intense lunar light." Blue glass or a blue veil would offset the exciting effects of moonlight, which in the negative condition of sleep, might at times be hurtful. Dormant conditions would be benefited by moonlight, and walking under the open moonlight, would in most cases bring much more benefit than harm.

VI. Magnetism and Odic Force.

1. Points in which they differ. Reichenbach enumerates thirty points in which Magnetism and Odyl differ. Some of these are as follows:—1st, Odyl is in most cases developed without the aid of magnetism, but magnetism never without odyl; 2dly, clouds over the sun's face arrest odyl, nothing can arrest magnetism; 3dly, all bodies may be charged with odyl, only a few bodies with magnetism; 4thly, odyl cannot attract iron filings, the magnet can; 5thly, magnetism, according to Barlow, lingers near the surface of bodies, odyl penetrates through and through them, making them translucent, sometimes transparent; 6thly, the odic flame of a magnet is sometimes extinguished by the approach of a living being, while the magnetic action remains in force; 7thly, an iron bar placed horizontally in the magnetic meridian will have its north end odically cold and its south end warm, but if placed with its north end inclined downward at an angle of 65°, which is the true magnetic dip in Vienna, and the best position for magnetic force, then its north pole will be odically warm and its south pole cold, in harmony with the ascending electricities, and contrary to the descending magnetic currents, for, as we have seen, there are currents of electricity which move directly upward as well as other currents which move northward, a fact which Reichenbach was not aware of.

2. The Magnetic Poles. The odic light is described as being especially brilliant at or near the poles of a magnet, and those who have clear vision can see a fringe-work of light over the whole surface. From the north pole a brilliant white light ascends which merges into delicate horizontal layers of red, yellow, green, and lastly blue, which last is so abundant as to constitute the predominating tint of the whole flame. From the south, or negative pole, a still more luminous light, but of much smaller dimensions, descends with white and colored rays in which the red predominates. The sensitives generally would speak of the negative (south) pole as being red, the middle of the magnet green, and the positive pole blue. The reason the south pole is more luminous is because the red and yellow predominate, while the north pole is stronger in its electrical currents and cones-quently more blue. We have seen that a keen grade of magneto-electricity rules at the north pole, while the weaker chemico-electricity issues from the south pole, but the greatest power of the magnet is in the former which, sending its blue forces in one direction, must naturally send its affinitive red in the other direction.

VII. Opaque Bodies become Transparent.

Mile. Atzmannsdorfer in the "state of somnambulism" saw "the glowing steel transparent almost like glass." "Friedrich Weidlich saw the flame in air two inches long. I then sank the magnet, lying in a glass basin, into water. The flame (for the most part) instantly disappeared, but he saw the magnet glowing and translucent, almost like the glass itself." "Metals in the odylic glow, appear to sensitives translucent, glowing through and through hollow balls." A mercantile gentleman of my acquaintance, in New York, can become so en rapport with these finer grades of light, as to be able to see through the human body as though it were made of glass. Here, then, is the philosophy of clear-seeing or clairvoyance, although many have the faculty so feebly developed that they are liable to commit mistakes.

VIII. Is Odyl an Imaginary Power?

1. Miss Nowotny's hand, while she was in an unconscious cataleptic condition, would be drawn and held to the magnet as would a piece of iron. Reichenbach once had a person go into another room from where his patient lay, and open a magnet of 90-pound sustaining power unknown to her. She immediately became uneasy and "complained that a magnet must be open somewhere, desiring that some one would look and relieve her from the pain. The armature was replaced without her knowledge, and she became quiet again."

2. M. Baumgartner, Professor of Physics, desiring to see if imagination affected Miss Nowotny in her judgment of the power of the magnet, took out a magnet in her presence, which he said was the strongest one in his collection. She however declared that it was the weakest of all the magnets, and "it seemed to her almost without influence." Baumgartner then laughed, and said "that it had been deprived of its magnetism, before leaving home, by friction in the reverse direction," so that it was little else than a mere plain piece of iron.

3. The charging of water and other objects by means of the magnet, by human hands, held or darted near the water, by sunlight, by crystals and other substances, was believed in by the great chemist Berzelius, of Stockholm, by Dr. Gregory, of the Edinburgh University, by the eminent Dr. Elliotson of London, by Dr. Lutze, a physican of vast practice in Germany, and very many others. "Nothing could be more disagreeable," says Reichenbach, "than the reappearance of apparently so absurd a thing which all physicists and chemists are horrified even to hear of. But in spite of this, I could not refuse to admit what I saw before my eyes as often as I tried it; namely, that the girl always determined and unfailingly distinguished a magnetized glass of water from an unmagnetized. The force of facts cannot be combatted by any reasoning; I was compelled to recognize what I was by no means able to comprehend, but when I again met with the same, subsequently, in Misses Sturman, Maix, Reichel, Atzmannsdorfer, and others, and saw it in a still stronger degree, I gave up all doubt and opposition." Speaking of Reichenbach's many experiments on the magnetizing of water and other substances, Dr. Ashburner, a prominent British physician, says:—"The facts stated in this, have been exhibited in my house hundreds of times. Water has been magnetized with magnets, mesmerized with the fingers, by breathing, by the exertion of the will: over and over again, the tumblers in which these specifically treated quantities of water have been contained, have been instantly detected by somnambulists in the lucid state of sleep-waking, who have been in another room when the fluid was charged." "I have darted my hands 200 times over the surface of water, and have been told that the blue haziness has overflowed the tumbler. Several persons have said the same thing. I have placed a watch before me while I held the tips of my right hand fingers in the mouth of the decanter. Several lucid individuals have separately indicated the precise hight of the blue haze in the water at the same interval of time. A few minutes were sufficient to charge a quart decanter. All concur in the fact that the fluid sinks in the water. Is it, then, imponderable?"

4. In cool weather when the air is electrical, I can make one, two, or three strokes over tissue or other paper, and throwing it into the air within a foot of the wall, it will spring to it like a thing of life and cling there for hours, sometimes even for days. A mere stroke will make it attractive of everything around it, although it will generally repel another magnetized sheet, unless this sheet is magnetized with the same strokes as they he together. Thousands of others can do the same thing, and some better than myself. I have made one magnetized newspaper lift and carry around another several times as large as itself. Now what is this power except the odic or vital force, combined with frictional electricity? It is not the ordinary ferro-magnetism, as it will not influence iron filings in the least, but must be this finer power thrown into attractive curves on the same general plan. It is sometimes called animal magnetism, which name, although it has been abused, is not very improper, and yet so well known a physician as Dr. Brown-Sequard, in a course of lectures delivered in Boston, almost questions its very existence. But too many of our medical scientists are dropping behind the age in ignoring these finer basic principles of things directly in the face of the fact, that thousands of persons can see the luminous pathways of these forces, as they emanate from human beings or other objects, and hundreds of thousands can feel their influence.

5. In the light of such facts, the folly of attributing these phenomena to imagination, prepossession of ideas, or mere subjective conditions, as do Drs. Braid, Carpenter, and so many others, is too apparent to need comment, and shows that the diseased subjective conditions are not with Reichenbach's sensitives who constantly prove their own points by stubborn facts, but with the doctors themselves who cling to their own theories in spite of all facts. In Dr. Carpenter's late lectures on "Mesmerism," etc., he uses the following language about Reichenbach, which is almost the only point that would give any trouble to one who is enlightened with regard to these fine forces, although the whole book would tend to mislead the ignorant:—"The fact which Von Reichenbach himself was honest enough to admit— that when a magnet was poised in a delicate balance, and the hand of a 'sensitive' was placed above or beneath it, the magnet was never drawn towards the hand—ought to have convinced him that the force which attracted the 'sensitive's' hand to the magnet has nothing in common with physical attractions, whose action is invariably reciprocal; but that it was the product of her own conviction that she must thus approximate it." The sophistry of the above will appear, I think, from the following points: 1st, it is not the coarser forces of the magnet, which are known as magnetism, that act upon a sensitive person, but the finer odic and other forces which this magnetism wakens into action, so that the attraction is not direct but secondary. These finer forces have their attractive curves similar to the magnetic, which are sufficiently subtile to act on the nervous system, as will be shown in the next chapter; 2dly, it is probable that there is a slight secondary attraction of the magnet, though not enough to move a gross mass of iron. In the experiments with paper which I have just detailed, the paper itself will readily be attracted to a human being and will also attract sensitive human beings. 3dly, the assertion that "it was the product of her own conviction that she must approximate it," is overwhelmingly overthrown by several facts given by Reichenbach, Ashburner, etc., in some of which the subject was asleep or in an unconscious cataleptic fit, when the hand would be immediately drawn to the magnet and held rigidly to it. Dr. Ashburner speaks of persons who would be drawn six feet to the magnet, and of a boy who, if the armature was removed six feet off, would rush to it and fall asleep on the way. But multitudes of cases could be given in which human magnetism, crystals, and other objects have drawn unconscious subjects in the same way; 4thly, the experiments which I have just quoted with reference to Miss Nowotny and others, show that these forces operate entirely independent of one's consciousness. But the fact that Doctor Carpenter could overlook a whole volume of marvelous phenomena against his theory, and hitch to some little weak point shows the power of a "prepossession of ideas" in his own case quite similar to what he is fond of charging upon others. Wallace and Crookes having driven him into a close corner, he writes an article in Nature, Oct., 1877, in which, as he looks about for sympathizers, he makes the following remark:—"I asked my personal friend Prof. Hoffmann of Berlin, whether the doctrine (of Odic force) any longer finds support among scientific men in Germany. His reply was a most emphatic negative; the doctrine, he said, being one which no man of science with whom he is acquainted would think worthy of the slightest attention." Is Prof. Hoffmann correct when he would thus indicate that German scientists are so deeply obscured in their perceptions that they utterly neglect these fine forces which are the vivifying power of all forces? I think there are many noble German thinkers who would consider this a slander upon their people.

VIII. Proof that Odic Light comprises Fluidic Forces.

1. Odic Light is manifested in flames which stream forth in various directions, and as the ordinary visible flames consist of luminous gases which are fluids, so must these odic flames consist of the finer fluids which we call ethereal forces. While none can see the inner essence of odyl, or magnetism, or electricity, or the solar ethers, yet the luminous pathway which their flow enkindles may be seen, and, judging by all analogies of the known external universe, we must consider that some marvelously swift fluidic force is passing. We have seen how the red odic fluid pours from the fingers of the left hand, and the blue odic fluid can be thrown from the right hand until a tumbler is filled to the top and made to overflow.

IX. Does Odic Light Produce the Aurora Borealis?

Baron Reichenbach performed ingenious experiments to prove that odyl was the cause of the Aurora Borealis, but he seemed to forget that odic light, however intense, cannot possibly be seen by the ordinary vision, while the Northern Lights can be seen by everyone. He has skillfully shown that the magnet working in connection with a hollow iron globe, with its north and south pole at the respective poles of the globe, sends forth its blue and iridescent lights at the north, its red, etc., at the south, much the same as does the Aurora Borealis, and thereby achieves the following grand result; namely, by showing just how magnetism on a small scale can develope such colors in connection with the odic atmosphere, he shows just how the mightier play of a world's concentrated magnetism at the poles may ignite the ordinary coarser atmosphere with its nebulous matter, and so cause a similar effect to the ordinary vision. See Chapter Fourth, IX, and X, 3. 4.

X. Terrestrial Dynamics.

1. In Chapter Fourth, X, we have seen that the law of heat awakens and propels thermo-electricity in two directions, namely, from the earth vertically, into the colder regions of the upper sky, and also from the warmer regions of the torrid and temperate zones towards the colder regions of the poles, the law of movement for electricity ever being from the warm to the cold. The sun's course, also, from east to west carries a line of luminous force, attended with some heat, westward, while in the east the tendency must be the other way. What, then, should be the colors that would naturally represent the main points of the compass, if we are to get at the real power of the earth's forces? Plainly blue for the north, with its kindred electrical colors on each side of it; red for the south, with its kindred thermal colors on each side of it; the luminous yellow for the west, and slight blue with some shadowy or gray elements for the east. This, we find, is exactly indicated by the odic lights and colors as discovered by Reichenbach's sensitives, although the Baron himself had not ascertained just why this arrangement in nature takes place. It being of vast importance that these great fundamental laws of force should be understood, it will be well to illustrate it at some length.

2. Vertical Forces. Let us commence first with electricity which moves from the earth vertically into the sky. If there is such a force of the cold principle, its manifestation must consist of the blue or violet as the leading element, while in the direction towards the centre of the earth the thermal colors, especially the red, must prevail. This we find to be the case with the odic colors, for when a bar magnet was placed vertically with the north pole upward, the blue would become more intense above and the red below; when this direction was inverted, both ends would be so contrary to the forces of nature that their colors would be almost smothered. "When the bar was placed vertically, she (Miss Zinkel) saw it, contrary to all expectation, glowing with a bluish gray light at the upper end and with a whitish red below." "When both poles stood pointed upward, the northward (blue) flame was increased, the southward diminished." "Blue predominated at the northward, red at the southward pole. But still the flames arranged themselves into a most beautiful iris on each pole." On the lower portion of Plate III, may be seen the general plan of odic colors as they appear at each pole, arranged as closely as possible after Reichenbach's description, although, of course, incomparably less exquisite than the tints of nature. The following is a description of colors emanating from an electro-magnet as seen by Mme. Kienesberger:—"Close to the (north) pole, which stood vertically, appeared a red stratum, next to that a stratum of orange, then one of yellow, then one of green, one of light blue, one of dark blue, and lastly one of violet-blue (indigo and violet), above which arose a gray vapor. At the same time, the positive (south) pole exhibited close to the iron a blood red stratum (probably thermel), then light red, and above this orange, from which a thick heavy smoke rose to the ceiling. She described the appearance as one of extraordinary delicacy and splendor. Some weeks later, I made the same experiment with Mile. Zinkel. She described the appearances in the same way as Mme. Kienesberger, being about equally sensitive, and added that each colored stratum was not uniform, but subdivided into smaller strata of different shades of color, so that the whole iris had the appearance of a great number of colored bands overlying each other. Beyond the violet she observed a narrow streak of pure red, in which the violet ended, after becoming gradually redder, and which passed above into smoke." Here we have the whole scale of odic colors described, together with the thermel and red of a still finer scale above the violet, or in other words the psychic thermel and red. Next to the magnet comes doubtless the heaviest and coarsest color which would naturally be called red by most persons, but which is probably odic thermel, with a very slight tinge of blue in it, while the more ethereal psychic thermel and red naturally come in at the top, being more refrangible than even the odic violet. On the south or warm pole most senitives saw only the red or red and yellow, but under the aid of a strong battery Mile. Zinkel

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saw also the blue, and if her vision had been still clearer she would perhaps have seen the other colors also, although the electrical colors predominate at the north pole, and the thermel at the south pole. As we have seen, a weaker grade of electricity exists at the south pole, otherwise there could be no magnetic attraction there. If a piece of card board or glass should be laid upon the sides of the poles as they lie horizontally, and sprinkled with iron filings, the magnetic forces will arrange the filings into curves resembling the dotted lines in the plate, and if a sensitive look at these in the dark, they will coruscate like countless stars on account of the currents that are passing through them. The figures at the positive (north) pole represent colors as follows:— 1, gray-colored smoke; 2, psychic red; 3, psychic thermel; 4, violet (odic scale); 5, indigo; 6,6, blue which predominates; 7, green; 8, yellow; 9, orange; 10, red; 11, thermel. N is north pole, S, south pole. It will be seen on reflection how admirable is the law by which the cold currents are made to go upward and thus prove cooling to the brains of human beings as they stand or sit, while the warm currents pass downward and thus help the feet. In the following paragraphs it will be shown how a person may lie in sleeping so as to get the advantage of still colder currents for the head and still warmer ones for the feet.

3. Horizontal Forces. The great forces of the earth caused by sunlight, heat, magnetism and electricity, and which are more nearly horizontal, may be arrived at by studying the following brilliant experiment of Baron Reichenbach, a beautiful illustration of which I have drawn up as nearly correct as possible, and had engraved in the circular figure of Plate III:—"I now tried the effect of a circular surface or disc. A disc of iron plate, 13.2 inches in diameter, was well flattened, and an iron wire folded into its circumference, so that a smooth, round, clean border, one twelfth of an inch thick, ran round it. It was suspended by a small hook in the middle, horizontally above the pole of the magnet, and could be fixed at any hight. I could now let it down on the northward pole of the magnet which stood vertically. * * I showed the disc to Mile. Pauer. The odylic glow instantly spread over it. The colors were developed as might have been expected; on the upper centre, a blue spot, on the

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lower, in contact with the magnet, a red spot, both upwards of two inches in diameter. They passed into a surrounding yellowish zone, faintly tinged with red on the under, with green on the upper surface, and this again lost itself in a gray zone. This last continued to the border, where it was surrounded by a downy fringe of light, 0.6 of an inch thick and colored gray, blue, yellow and red in east, north, west and south respectively. In north-west, south-west, south-east, she saw respectively green, orange and gray-red (red-gray); in north-east violet with a short patch of red. These colors formed a continuous wreath of tints passing into each other, and thus a kind of a circular rainbow.

"I varied the experiment as follows with Mile. Zinkel; I connected with the poles of a Smec's voltaic battery of more than two and a half square feet of surface, the two surfaces of the disc; the wires being only separated by its thickness, about one twenty-fifth of an inch. Immediately the observer saw around the upper centre of the disc connected with the silver, a spot of blue glow forming more than two inches in diameter. At the same time a similar red spot appeared on the under surface, connected with the zinc. No flame appeared. But the whole disc acquired a colored glow, not merely on its border, but over its surface, blue, yellow, red and gray, appearing respect-tively in the north, west, south and east positions, green in the north-west, etc., as before. The blue and red central spots each formed a kind of a star of innumerable points, or rather ray-like prolongations, stretching out toward the circumference, and uniformly exhibiting the color corresponding to the point of the compass toward which they were directed. On the rest of the surface the colors were arranged around the central spot in successive zones, so as to form a rainbow of parallel circles. A luminous web of fine downy fibres, enveloped the border of the disc. Besides this border, the whole surface was covered with a similar downy light or flame, rising as high as the thickness of a thin quill." (p. 424-426.) I have taken the liberty to put a slight tint of blue with the gray of the east as the sensitives frequently described the eastern portion of a soft bar of iron, or other objects as "blue gray" or "gray with traces of blue," etc. The second red coming next to the violet will be recognized by the reader as belonging to the third or psychic grade of colors.

This second red so often spoken of by the sensitives puzzled the Baron. He made a hollow globe of iron, inserted a magnet through it at its poles—found blue at the north, red at the south, and other colors exactly as already given in describing the disc, with a very brilliant red just below the violet of the north-east. "This remarkable red," he remarks, "was very brightly luminous and strongly red, much brighter than any part of the red on the south side of the ball. Red, therefore, occurred at both ends of the spectrum, on the one side from the yellow, on the other side from the blue. * * * Why this red, which in the ordinary spectrum appears only as violet in a part of the blue, stands forth independently in the odylic, is a fact, the causes of which can only be ascertained by further researches of another kind." Reichenbach did not seem to have the least idea that there could be any spectrum of colors higher than the odylic, for which reason the facts thus presented are perhaps all the more valuable, as they are not warped by any theories, or rather are given contrary to his suppositions in the matter.

4. Miscellaneous Points. The principal direction of the earth's electricities as signified by the foregoing and many other experiments is north as shown by the blue, somewhat north-east as shown by the still finer violet, somewhat west of north as signified by the blue-green, and upward as signified generally by the intensifying of the blue and violet principles when the magnet is held vertically. Mile. Pauer saw the soft iron bar give out "to the south yellowish red, vertically upward, pale yellow (at a certain distance pale bluish), to the north blue." Here it is said that pale yellow was the appearance which presented itself on the upward pole at a certain distance from the object, which may be true when the sun is high in the sky and throwing its luminous rays downward, but most experiments showed the power of the blue in that direction, though a more luminous and feeble blue than that at the north.

XI. Terrestrial Dynamics in Human Life.

1. How Applied to Human Life. Thus far we have ascertained how the great forces of the earth move—in what direction the electricities play, and whither the thermal rays tend. We

have also ascended one grade higher on the ladder of power than ordinary electricity, or magnetism, or thermism, or the visible rays of sunlight, even into the range of odic lights, colors and forces, which open up a new heaven and a new earth to man. We have seen that whatever may be the direct power of light, heat or electricity upon the human system, they call into action those finer interior potencies which almost take hold upon the very springs of life itself. In all this we have not been building upon dreams or mere theories, but upon an array of carefully established facts which to a candid and thorough mind should be irresistible.

2. Physiological Adaptation. The first question to be considered is—how shall we receive these terrestrial forces in a way best to harmonize with the natural constitution of the human system? One thing is pre-eminently plain at the start, which is that the head is the warmest, and the feet the coldest part of the body, while nearly every inharmonious condition tends to bring too much blood or nervous action to the brain, and perhaps viscera, while the extremities are left too cold and dormant. For this reason the earth's magnetisms and electricities, which belong to the cooling category of forces, should move from the feet towards the head, while the opposite thermal forces should pass towards the feet; consequently in sleeping, the head should be towards the north or north-east to receive the blue or violet forming currents, and the feet towards the south, or south-west to receive the warm currents signified by the red and orange. Another important matter to observe is to have the forces of the earth flow harmoniously with the same kind of forces in the human body. Thus it has been ascertained repeatedly that the cooling blue emanations flow from the whole right side of the head, arms and body, while the red emanations flow from the whole left side. In other words the electrical currents enter on the left side, and issue from the right side, while the warm currents must necessarily flow in the opposite direction. This was repeatedly demonstrated by the sensitives. To show that odic force was stronger than that developed by the earth's magnetism and illustrate the polarity of the body, I quote the following:—"I caused Mile. Zinkel to hold between two fingers and conformably in the meridian a four-inch needle, not strongly

magnetic. When I held the southward pole in my right finger points, the blue northward became three times as long as before. This showed the feebleness of the needle in comparison with my hand. But when I held the same pole with the fingers of my left hand, the blue flame disappeared, and the red flame took its place. When I made the experiment at the other end of the needle, with my left fingers on the negative (positive) pole, the red flame of the opposite pole became brighter and three times as long as before. But when I applied the fingers of my right hand to the same negative pole, the red flame disappeared and was replaced by a blue one." Such being the case it must be evident that when the earth's electrical currents strike the right side of a sensitive person, it must conflict with the natural currents of the system and give distress. In illustration suppose a person should lie on his back with his head to the west. The northward electrical and magnetic currents, which are strongest, would then strike him in the right side, and, conflicting with the natural electricities which move in the other direction would tend toward inharmony. Besides this the yellow forming currents which flow westward must be highly exciting to the brain, and thus the west-east position in sleeping must be doubly bad. In proof of this and the first physiological law, I will now quote some examples from Reichenbach, especially as even persons who are not sufficiently sensitive to perceive the difference must in the long run be injured by violating these simple laws of nature, while persons of active brains and susceptible nerves must at times be affected ruinously by such violation, for the finer the force, the more deeply does it work either for good or ill.

3. "M. Schmidt, Surgeon in Vienna, had experienced a chill in his right arm, while traveling on a railway, and had for some time suffered in consequence, from severe rheumatism in the limb, with most painful spasms from the shoulder to the fingers. His physician employed the magnet, which quickly subdued the spasms; but they always returned. I found him lying with his head towards the south. In consequence of my remarks on this, he was so placed as to he in the magnetic meridian, with his head towards the north. As soon as he came into this position he expressed instantly feelings of satisfaction, and declared that he felt, generally, refreshed in a singular degree. The previously existing chilliness and rigors were instantly exchanged for an agreeable uniform warm temperature; he felt the strokes of the magnet now beyond comparison more agreeably cooling and beneficial than before; and before I left him, the rigid arm and fingers had become movable, while the pain entirely disappeared."

4. Mile. Nowotny had intuitively sought out the north and south position, that is, with the head to the north and feet to the south. She insisted upon occupying this position, and "it had been necessary to remove a brick stove to allow of her wish being gratified." Baron Reichenbach had much trouble in persuading her to lie for a little while with her head to the south. "Before long she began to complain. She felt uncomfortable and restless, became flushed, and her pulse became more frequent and fuller; a rush of blood to the head increased the headache, and very soon the disagreeable sensations affected the stomach, producing nausea. We hastened to change the position of the bedstead on which she lay, but stopped when we had turned it round to the extent of a quadrant, her head being now towards the west. Of course she now lay in the plane of a magnetic parallel. This direction was to the patient absolutely intolerable, far more disagreeable than the former, that, namely, from the south to north. This was at half past 10 a. m. She was afraid, from her sensations, that she would soon faint or become insensible if kept in this position, and entreated to be quickly removed from it. She was now placed in her own origin-nal position, her head towards the north. Instantly, all the painful sensations yielded, and in a few minutes they had so completely vanished, that she was again quite cheerful." On another day the same experiments were tried with still severer results, causing "shuddering; restlessness; flushing of the face; acceleration of the pulse; a rush of blood to the head; headache; and finally pain of stomach, ringing in the ears, failure of the senses, and the approach of fainting. We were, compelled to bring her in haste into the north and south position, in order to restore her, otherwise she would have fallen from the chair. When this was done, the rapidity with which all these painful sensations disappeared was astonishing." The east and west position also affected her severely, but more mildly than the others.

5. Mile. Sturmann, of the Clinical Hospital of the University of Vienna, lay in the west-east position. When she was turned to the north-south position, everything was changed instantly. "The patient immediately gave signs of satisfaction; the previous restlessness left her; a painful smarting of the eyes, from which she had recently suffered, disappeared. Instead of the intolerable heat which had before tormented her, she felt refreshing coolness, and a general sense of relief pervaded her frame while we observed her. There followed a night of such quiet refreshing sleep as she had not for a long time enjoyed. From that time forward her bed was kept in the same position which she earnestly entreated." When she was turned to the south-north position all her bad symptoms returned, and these were removed by turning her head northward again.

6. Miles. Maix, Reichel and Atzmannsdorfer found the same kind of improvement in the direction of north and south, the west to east position being the worst. M. Schuh had the singular habit of turning his head to the foot of the bed for his morning nap which was much more refreshing than all the rest of his sleep. "When he failed to obtain this he felt wearied the whole succeeding day." His bed was found to be in the south-north position. After he had turned it so that the head came north, he felt no need of the morning nap, and forever abandoned it, as his sleep was good and strengthening.

7. Another fact of vast importance with reference to sensitive patients was ascertained in these experiments, which is that when they lay in directions contrary to the harmonious flow of forces such as the south-north or west-east position, all use of medicines or of the magnet for mitigating disease seemed to be either powerless or to have a very perverted action, giving distress rather than relief. Ignorance of this fact has worked countless blunders in the medical world, and many mistakes in the effort to acquire a knowledge of the fine forces. Is it not criminal for physicians to neglect to inquire into these momentous facts, and thereby allow nervous patients and those of active brains and over-heated systems to languish and die from want of knowledge of these resistless forces? To tell people that it is important to sleep with the head to the north is often to provoke a smile of incredulity. There is no power that knocks them down when they sleep in other directions, and so they stupidly think that one direction is as good as another. There is a force that is viewless and voiceless, and intangible, and a million times softer than the evening breeze. Does that show that it is weak? It is vastly swifter than lightning, wafts all worlds on its bosom, and holds the entire universe in immutable chains, so that even a grain of dust cannot stir without its permission. It is called gravitation. Then kindling up all things are these glories of light and color, some of which are so exquisite as to conceal themselves from common eyes, and yet they are mighty in controlling human life, and their radiance reveals the secret hidings of power. Although many persons may have that sturdy and coarser physical power which does not take direct cognizance of odic lights and forces, yet a long continued violation of their laws must demand their penalty. For this reason I have striven to make the laws underlying these forces clear to my readers and have clinched them with this extensive array of facts. I could give many more facts from acquaintances of mine, some of whom say they cannot sleep well at all except with the head to the north, or somewhere near the north. When I have been in strange places and have found myself tossing in bed for hours without being able to sleep, I have noticed that I had been lying with the head to the south or west. On changing my bed to the north or north east I would get to sleep in a short time, as the brain pressure would be gone. I can sleep quite comfortably also with the head to the east. I have taken pains in these remarks to show the philosophy of these directions, so that, aside from the facts, people may not consider it a whim. When speaking to incredulous friends and urging them to change the position of their beds, I have referred them to the fact that the cold magnetic forces of the earth as they move northward, give the magnetic needle its direction, and as the head, being charged with blood, has need of the cooling element, and as I have fortified my theories with facts, I have not had much difficulty in getting thoughtful people to admit the force of the argument.

8. Position in Sitting. When it is convenient it is better to sit with the back to the north or north-east, or at least to the east, in preference to the other directions, especially when taking a sun bath, or receiving any kind of treatment. "All these patients," says Reichenbach, "now recollected how painful it had always been to them to remain for any length of time in the church. All Roman Catholic churches are built from west to east, so that the members of the congregation find themselves when opposite the altar, in the position from west to east; cones-quently in that position, which is to sensitive persons, of all others, the most intolerable. In fact they often fainted in that position and had to be carried out. At a later period Mile. Nowotny could not even bear to walk in the street, or in the garden, in the direction from west to east, if her walk lasted but for a short time" (p. 71). There is no danger that people in general, especially in good health, will attain to any such extreme sensitiveness as this, but I quote it to illustrate a principle.

9. Nervous Diseases. Considering the great ignorance on this subject, and that there is scarcely a family but has one or more members afflicted with distressing nervous symptoms of some kind, the sweetness of womanhood and the dignity of manhood being too often turned to gall even when they are not innately hateful, would it not be well to turn for instruction and help to this beautiful radiation of light, including the finer as well as the coarser grades which seem to reach up more or less into the soul forces themselves, and attune them to greater harmony?30

10. The North East Position. I would recommend a direction for sleeping not exactly north-east, but some 30° east of north, or about one third of the way from the north to the east, as this would enable a person to receive the strong and cool northward currents over the head and upper body, and also some portion of the eastern electricities. By looking at the circular plate it will be seen that this would bring the head somewhat into the violet odic rays, which are above all soothing to the nervous system.

A scientific gentleman, possessing exact habits of observation, has informed me that he sleeps better with head rather to the north-east than to the north, and for years I have slept with great comfort at an angle of 30° or more east of north. The main streets of New York inclining a little to the north-east and south-west are a very good model in this respect for a city. Reichenbach mentions a single case with whom the north-east position for the head disagreed, but the full north-east position, or a little farther around, would bring the head into a grade of red, and this of course is wrong. The advantages in laying out a city with streets which run as above recommended, east of north and west of south in one direction, and at right angles to these in the other, are as follows:

The beds can be in the best position and still be in harmony with the form of the rooms.

The sunlight can reach all sides of a house each day with its healing and purifying influence.

Every street at the different times of the day will have a sunny side for street walkers in the cooler seasons, and a shady side for use in the hotter seasons.

The front, back and side door-yards will each receive the sun some portion of every sunny day.

XII. Miscellaneous Points.

1. The Rapidity of Vegetable Growth seems to depend much upon the intensity of its odic emanations as signified by the following, witnessed by Mile. Maix:—"The Calla was most powerful, the Aloe the least powerful, so that it appeared as if the strength of the influence kept pace with the rapidity of the plant's growth. The rapid growing Calla produced a sensation greatly more vivid than the sluggish Aloe, notwithstanding the great size of the latter; while the Pelargonium moschatum stood, in every respect, between the others" (p. 188).

2. Hunger and weakness cause feeble odic lights, and the odic light emanating from the pit of the stomach is weakened during a pain. The emanations are more positive and brilliant during the positive conditions of health and strength.

3. Sleep. The state of shadow and darkness having a more quiet and negative grade of odic force than that which is aroused into action by the sunlight, renders night a more favorable time for sleep than the day-time.

4. The odic force from a powerful magnet could sometimes be fell at a distance of several hundred feet where no air was stirring; the cooling effect of sulphur was felt 120 feet off, the warming effect of a copper plate of four square feet, 93 feet. An iron plate of 6 square feet gave warmth at a distance of 147 feet, and lead foil do., 75 feet.

5. Odic Light was seen to be more ethereal and pure when strained through glass, in harmony with what has been stated in Chromo Therapeutics.

XIII. Summation of Points in Chromo-Dynamics.

1. This chapter demonstrates from actual facts, the existence of fluidic ethereal forces, and this is corroborative of the etherio-atomic law.

2. It demonstrates that other grades of color exist besides those we usually see.

3. The existence of Odic Light was demonstrated by years of experimentation by Baron Reichenbach whose thoroughness of method has never been surpassed, if equaled, in the records of scientific research.

4. Aided by a knowledge of atoms and chroma-chemistry we may perceive the real potencies of these interior forces.

5. Odic Light manifests the same phenomena of incandescence, flame, sparks, smoke, etc., as ordinary light, and must work in connection with a fine atmosphere of its own, just as common light works in connection with the atmosphere which we breathe.

6. Odic Force emanates from all known objects and manifests itself in the form of Odic Light when these objects are kindled into action by sunlight, moonlight, electricity, heat, magnetism, friction, etc.

7. Odic Flames have been witnessed of various lengths, from the fraction of an inch to about 6 feet.

8. Odic Force follows the law of polarity, and objects like crystals, magnets, etc., generally have one end more electrical, the other more thermal.

9. Electrical or Cold Objects and forces were seen to be blue or bluish in their radiations, while most metals and the warmer objects had an extensive amount of red.

10. The Solar Rays will charge objects so that streams ofodic light will flow from them and continue to do so for some time after the objects are removed. The Lunar Rays are somewhat exciting, especially at the full moon.

11. Magnetism, besides being coarser, differs from odic light in many points. The poles of a magnet, of crystals, and the ends of the fingers are especially luminous with Odyl.

12. The proof that Odic Light is not imaginary, is the fact that so many see and describe it in the same way, and can point out unerringly water and other objects which have been charged with it.

13. Opaque bodies are sometimes made transparent by Odic Light.

14. Odyl is shown to be a material emanation.

15. The Vertical Lorces of the earth are cold and bluish upward, warm and reddish downward.

16. The horizontal forces of the earth are electrical in the following directions: 1st, in the direction of the north magnetic pole in which the thermo-electrical and magnetic forces predominate, and show a deep blue influence; 2dly, east of north in which the indigo, then the violet forces, rule; 3dly, west of north where the blue-green forces move, and lastly in the east, where a feeble electricity rules in the slight bluish gray. They are thermal in the south where the red is predominant, in the west where yellow forces rule, and in the south-west, south-east and north of west, in which the orange, red-gray and yellow-green respectively manifest themselves.

17. Physiology and many experiments show that in sleeping the head should be at the north or somewhat north-east, and the feet in the opposite direction to harmonize with the earth's cold and warm forces. Medical treatment is shown to be inefficacious or injurious with sensitive patients whose position is at discord with the earth’s forces.

18. The direction of the streets of a city should be regulated with reference to lights, shadows and terrestrial dynamics.

CHAPTER TENTH.

С H R О M О—M E N T A LI S M.

I. Mentality.

In considering the laws of visible light and color, we have been dwelling in nature's outer temple; in unfolding the mysterious workings of the odic light and color, we have entered the vestibule of the inner, and have taken the first steps into the citadel of life itself. Shall we dare to open still another door farther within than the mere realms of physical life? Nay, shall we approach the holy of holies and stand in the very presence chamber of Mind? We gaze in awe upon a great temple, a mountain, an ocean, a world. But Intellect is greater than these, for it can measure and weigh the worlds themselves, and sweep a thousand times beyond their orbits. Intellect, or Mind, is the soul manifesting through the body, and the soul being a spark of the Infinity is itself infinite.

II. Beauty of the Fine Forces.

I have been doubly impressed with the wonders of the Mind from the resplendent character of the forces which it uses, as manifested by a grade of light and color still finer than the odic, which may be termed the psychic or third grade colors. This, of course, is constituted of vibrations which are twice as fine as the odic or four times as fine as those of the ordinary light. In the year 1870 I commenced cultivating, in a dark room and with closed eyes, my interior vision, and in a few weeks or months was able to see those glories of light and color which no tongue can describe or intellect conceive of, unless they have been seen. Do you say it was imagination? But no mere imagination can come half way to the reality of these things. Imagination itself must construct the warp and woof of its fabrics out of realities. The finest mosaic work and the most exquisite works of art are but trash by the side of these interior splendors. I have witnessed what have been called marvelous decorations in museums and palaces of Europe, but none of them are fit to be spoken of in comparison with these peerless colors and exquisite forms. Imagination is generally more dim and shadowy than realities, but these colors were so much more brilliant and intense and yet soft than any colors of the outer world, that when I opened my eyes upon the sky and earth around me after seeing these, they seemed almost colorless and dim and feeble. The sky no longer seemed blue, but blue gray, and a poor blue-gray at that. I saw so many grades of violet, and thermel, and indigo of wonderful depth, and blue, and red, and yellow, and orange, more brilliant than the sun, seemingly hundreds of different tints, hues, and shades which could be easily distinguished apart, that at first I thought there must be different colors from any that are usually visible, but finally concluded that we have the basic principles of all colors in external nature, though so feeble comparatively, that we scarcely know what color is. Sometimes fountains of light would pour toward me from luminous centers merging into all the iridescent splendors on their way. Sometimes radiations would flow out from me and become lost to view in the distance. More generally flashing streams of light would move to and fro in straight lines, though sometimes fluidic emanations would sweep around in the curves of a parabola as in a fountain. What was more marvelous than almost anything else was the infinite millions of radiations, emanations and luminous currents which at times I would see streaming from and into and through all things, and filling all the surrounding space with coruscations and lightning activities. I believe that if the amazing streams of forces which sweep in all directions could be suddenly revealed to all people, many would go wild with fright for fear they should be dashed to pieces. Several times I have seen untold millions of polarized particles of vari-colored luminous matter, changing their lines of polarity scores of times a second, like an infinite kaleidoscope, and yet never falling into disorder, for when a particle left one line it would immediately form in exact order in the next line. For sometime I was much puzzled to know what these could be, but it seems quite probable that they were the luminelles which fill the whole atmosphere and constitute under the solar power the basis of light. The dust of iron filings, as seen by the coarser odic fight by Miles. Reichel and Zinkel, while animated by the magnet, caused exclamations of surprise at the extraordinary beauty. Mile. Zinkel "saw on the glass plate millions of little brilliant stars arranged in curved fines. She testified the greatest pleasure when, by gently tapping the plate, I caused the stars to move and leap about. The whole of the northward half had a predominating blue fight, beautifully variegated with all other colors; on the southward half an equally variegated and beautiful red fight prevailed" (p. 357). At the present writing, I have forgotten the exact direction of these fines, but think they were either perpendicular or slightly oblique to the earth's surface. They were seen generally at night between 9 and 11 o'clock, and may have been excited into the fine grade of luminosity by the earth's radiations.

III. This Finer Vision Exalts One's Conceptions.

1. These finer interior views of nature and her forces show us that there are universes within universes, and that the condition of things which we inhabit is not the real universe, but the mere shadowy outer shell of being, while the real cosmos is so much more intense and swift and powerful than the grosser grade of materiality around us that the latter compares with the former somewhat as a mist compares with a solid substance. And yet there are those who think that this lower universe is all that there is for man, while the sublimer realms of existence are to go to waste as a worthless thing. Even so low a grade of being as a chrysalis can awaken from its coffin and move off into the sunlight, but man standing upon the very pinnacle of nature, and the natural master of its domains, must vanish in eternal oblivion, according to these theorists, before he has fairly entered upon the possibilities of things around him.

2. After viewing these wonderfully refined fights, colors, and forms, my ideals of beauty and perfection became greatly improved, and my conception of the possibilities of man and nature grew far broader. The gorgeous transformation scenes of the New York, Paris, and London theaters, which were generally pronounced magnificent, seemed tawdry and rude compared with that soft and exquisite brilliance which so transcends the power of the outer world to equal, or of the external senses to perceive, while in many works of art or design I could observe features in which I think the artist could have improved upon his work if he had seen these higher manifestations of nature.

IV. Many Persons can see these Higher Colors.

1. Thousands of persons are able to see these finer grades of colors, and some much more easily and clearly than myself. Some can see them with the eyes wide open in broad daylight, and that while in the midst of company or surrounded by the turmoil of daily cares. A Mrs. Minnie Merton, of New York, informs me that she has always seen them from her childhood, emanating from all human beings, and is in the habit of reading the character of people especially from the emanations of the head. For some time in her childhood she supposed that everybody could see them. An eminent legal friend informed me some time since that he had seen these colors in all their splendor for many years, but at first he found it necessary not only to close his eyes, but to put a bandage over them before he could witness them. A lady in Chicago, whom I had never seen before, saw in a moment, as she met me, while I was still 15 feet from her, what my profession was or ought to be from the radiations of my person. A well-known judge informed me that he could often tell the general character of a speaker's thoughts before they were uttered, from the colors of the emanations. An eminent physician stated to me that he could see countless flashes, radiations and explosive forces all around the head, and that the ganglionic centers often emitted an explosive light, especially under excitement. I have seen a large number of persons who could see beautiful colors around persons or other objects, but could not tell what it meant. In giving an account of these, I do not include all persons who can see colors on merely shutting up the eyes, for in some cases this comes from a somewhat de ranged nervous and bilious action, and in some cases, as in shutting up the eyes and turning them towards the light, the red blood of the eyelid gives a crimson hue as in ordinary light. Sometimes, when the intensity of this red is greater than that

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which is ordinarily visible, it doubtless partakes more or less of the nature of odic light also.

2. Reichenbach ’s sensitives, as we have seen, often saw the beginning of the psychic scale of colors, and probably at times they saw the full scale. They often spoke of the beauty of the flames which they saw. Such expressions as the following are used: —"The columns of flame from each pole astonished her by their size and beauty;" "She described the appearance as one of extraordinary delicacy and splendor;" "Of uncommon beauty," etc. We have seen that in several cases they saw two grades of red as signified on pp. 393, 431, 436, etc., of Gregory's Translation. They saw shining emanations from the head and all other parts of the system, some of which must have been odic and others psychic.

V. These Colors Reveal the Higher Laws of Force.

1. The very fact that all objects radiate their own peculiar streams of light and color, while their interior potencies are revealed thereby, has given me the basic principles of the whole etherio-atomic law by means of which so many mysteries of force stand revealed. If, at first sight, the reader has deemed my positions at times as based on assertion with reference to the working of these different grades of ethers, without sufficient data of fact, it is proper that he should understand what a vast volume of facts could be given to sustain my positions, not only from my own experience, but from that of very many others. Besides this would it not be well for the reader to ask himself how I could have had the skill to hit upon those basic principles of force which so easily and naturally explain Attraction, Repulsion, Cohesion, Adhesion, Electricity in its various grades, Heat of various kinds, with the very law of movement required for its production, Light of different grades with the law of electrical and thermal colors, Chromo-Chemistry, Chromo Therapeutics, and many other points, if I had not been taught by seeing and feeling these wonderful fluidic emanations and radiations which are the law of all things? For this reason it strikes me as being exceedingly important to have these finer forces explained with some fulness not only as giving the fundamental principles of the philosophy of this work, but of all philosophy of force both in external nature and in mental action, for, as we have seen, both the physical and spiritual universe are constructed on principles of absolute unity.

2. Many of our scientists, with a singular perversity of mind, grasp with all their souls after the grosser elements of nature, writing long treatises on a bug, a worm, a mineral, or a skeleton, but when marvelous facts are revealed with regard to these more beautiful essences of being, these lightnings of power without which the whole universe would be but a formless and lifeless mass of debris, they utterly fail to receive the glad tidings with philosophical candor, commence persecuting the discoverer as though he was an enemy, and return to the corpses and bones of the dissecting-room in preference to the radiant forms of the world of life. "We build on exact science and deal with tangible realities," is their watchword, and so they go right off in a carriage with one wheel into the pathways which lead to all confusion and inexactness of knowledge. Take, for instance, the common conception of a single ether which they conjecture must exist throughout all space. They have no facts to prove it, and have not the least idea of how the thousands of grades of force, luminous, thermal, electrical, magnetic, and molar are transmitted over and through it, but have endowed it with properties, as we have seen, at discord with all known law (Chap. Eighth, V). These exact men are immensely inexact. They cannot tell the cause of even so simple a thing as muscular contraction; are quite ignorant of nervous force, nervous diseases being confessedly the "scandala medicorum"; have but a dim conception of the cause of sensation, the laws of mental action, of chemical affinity, of the, fundamental potencies of drugs, and many other important matters which after all these ages might have been understood far better if they had but condescended to inquire into the basic principles of power as they exist in the fine forces. "The brain of man itself," says Tyndall, "is an assemblage of molecules arranged according to physical laws; but if you ask me to deduce from this assemblage the least of the phenomena of sensation or thought, I lay my forehead in the dust and acknowledge human helplessness." (Amer. Lectures on Light). Ever grateful as an American for the simple and beautiful lectures on light, and the donations in favor of scientific culture which this apostle of science has favored us with, still I feel confident that if he had not pushed far from him the investigation of these psychological forces, he could at least have understood something of the processes of "sensation and thought." I believe, however, that he would be too truthful to do as did the Vienna clique of Doctors with regard to Reichenbach's investigations, or as some British and American Doctors have done since that time. Referring to the Vienna Doctors, Wilbam Gregory, M. D., F. R. S. E., remarks as follows: "It is painful to think that parallel cases have not been wanting in England. The spontaneous somnambulism, and apparent transference of the senses, in Miss M'Avoy, met with precisely similar treatment; as did the very interesting facts which occurred in the case of Dr. Elliotson's patients, the Okeys. There was the same predetermination to find the patient an impostor, the same utter absence of all cogency in the evidence adduced, and the same rash and unjustifiable, as well as unmanly accusation of imposture, brought against persons of whom no evil was known, apparently because the authorities chose to assume the facts to be impossible. The still more recent case of Miss Martineau's servant girl is another instance in point. Having seen that girl, and made observations on her, I can speak with confidence of her honesty and truthfulness." Alas! If scientists cannot rise above prejudice into the pure atmosphere of truth, whom shall we trust?

VI. This Light Renders Opaque Substances Transparent.

1. This transparency, however, appears only to those who who can get en rapport with the finer light, and such persons are sometimes called clairvoyant, or clear seeing. In Chapter Ninth, VII, we have seen that Odic light often made bodies transparent, or at least translucent to the sensitives, and we might naturally expect that the still finer psychic light would render bodies still more generally transparent.

2. Dr. Wm. A. Hammond and Dr. Geo. M. Beard, of New York, have declared positively that no person ever did or ever will see through what we call opaque substances, or read with blindfolded eyes. To make this assertion in itself of much value, we must first suppose these gentlemen to be omniscient and capable of grasping all the possibilities of man and the universe in order to know whereof they speak; and secondly, we must stultify ourselves by ignoring ten thousand facts which show that there are powers of vision in man aside from the external eye. I say ten thousand facts, but I believe I could collect in six months or a year, a million well-established facts from the records of England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, America, and other parts of the world, and thus show that if these gentlemen are honest they are quite innocent of real knowledge of the facts. Both of them are very free in denouncing as fools or tricksters those who believe anything in this matter, but I have generally found that those who know the least of this subject are generally the most positive in denouncing those who know the most. In saying this I do not call them dishonest, but they simply possess such a materialistic bias of mind that all phenomena connected with the finer forces seem absurd to them, as they insist upon having them strained through their own imperfect spectacles. According to Dr. Leeds, "facts are the arguments of God," but Dr. Beard condemns the production of facts and the use of induction in this matter, and commends the exploded system of mere deduction. According to this the more we know the worse we are off, and much "knowledge is a dangerous thing," while theories only are safe. "The only way," says Dr. Beard, "to settle this question is through deductive reasoning," and this is his deduction which is to settle the point:—"No human being ever has, or can have any faculty different in kind from that conferred on the human race in general." Does not Dr. Beard know that the human mind takes hold upon the infinite, and that most men's faculties lie dormant, being developed as yet but little above the animal nature, while the faculties which are the very latest of development are those that deal with the fine spiritual forces? In Edinburgh, statistics show that 17 per cent, of the people are color blind, and in Russia a still larger number. Suppose Drs. Hammond and Beard should be cast upon some distant island where the whole people, or nearly the whole, are so undeveloped in the perception of colors that one is about the same as another to them. They show the people a red object, and tell them it is red, and holding up a leaf tell them it is green. "It is false!" the people cry; "one color is the same as another." "But we can see some colors which you cannot see," exclaim our visitors. "You are deluded! You are tricksters!" they cry, "for one man cannot see any more colors than another!" They are then receiving the very coin which they are in the habit of dealing out to others, and which they would be the first to complain of. To these gentlemen, and the many others who adopt their methods, I would say—It behooves those who are blind to be modest and not to dictate to those of us who can see, but sit at our feet and learn. On the other hand we will sit at their feet and learn of them concerning matters in which they may have a superior perception. Such must ever be the spirit of philosophers, to whom truth is supreme, while the use of severe epithets contrary to reason, must rebound boomerang-like upon the senders. I will now quote a very few facts from superior sources with reference to this higher vision, after which I will endeavor to state just how such vision is accomplished.

3. From Boudois de la Motte, Fouquier, Gueneau de Mussy, Guersant, Itard, J.J. Leroux, Marc, Thillaye, and Husson, Committee of the French Royal Academy, in 1831:—"We have seen two somnambulists distinguish, with their eyes shut, the objects placed before them; they have told without touching them the color and value of the cards; they have read words traced with the hand, or some lines of books opened by mere chance. This phenomenon took place even when the opening of the eyelids was accurately closed by means of the fingers. We met in two somnambulists the power of foreseeing acts of the organism more or less distant, more or less complicated."

4. From Wm. B. Gregory, M.D., F.R.S.E., Prof, of Chemistry in the Edinburgh University:—(Some of the following I condense.) "Clairvoyance frequently commences by the sleeper's seeing the operator's hand. The eyelids, if opened forcibly, will show the eye turned upward and back so that the pupil cannot be seen at all in many cases, and when it can it is fixed and motionless, showing that sight must be caused by some inner vision." "The clairvoyant seems to go to a place mentally, or rather to 'float on the air,' for a while, when all at once he will exclaim, 'now I am there,' and will thus describe distant cities which he has never seen. He often reverses the points of the compass, but will describe people, streets, houses, colors, etc., correctly." "Some clairvoyants will give the time of the day at the places which they visit, getting it by means of watches and clocks, thus marking the different time signified by different longitudes." "He will often describe the wonders of his own body. When altogether ignorant of anatomy, he sees in all their beauty and marvelous perfection the muscles, vessels, bones, nerves, glands, brain, lungs and other viscera, and describes the minutest ramifications of nerves and vessels with an accuracy surpassing that of the most skillful anatomist. He will trace any vessel or nerve in its most complex distribution; the whole to him is transparent, bathed in delicate light, and full of life and motion." "Major Buckley has developed the ability to read writing hidden away in nuts or boxes in 89 persons without inducing the magnetic sleep or affecting consciousness. Most of these belonged to the upper educated classes. The longest motto thus read contained 98 words. Many subjects will read motto after motto without one mistake. In this way the mottoes contained in 4860 nut shells have been read, some of them indeed by persons in the mesmeric sleep, but most of them by persons in the conscious state, many of whom have never been put to sleep. In boxes, upward of 36000 words have been read; in one paper 371 words. Including those who have read words contained in boxes, when in the sleep, 148 persons have thus read." "A lady, one of Major Buckley's waking clairvoyants, read 103 mottoes contained in nuts in one day, without a pass being made on that occasion. In this and in many other cases, the power of reading in nuts, boxes and envelopes remained, when once induced, for about a month and then disappeared. The same lady after three months could no longer read without passes." "In this state the subject often possesses new powers of perception, the nature of which is unknown, but by means of which he can see objects or persons near or distant without the use of the external organs of vision," etc. {Letters on Animal Magnetism).

5. From Rev. E. B. Hall, Providence, to Mr. T. C. Hartshorn, Translator of Deleuze ’s Animal Magnetism, in which he speaks of a blind lady: "She described distant objects, whose position in some cases I had just changed, whose existence in other cases I did not then know or believe, so truly, so wonderfully, that I could only marvel. At other times she has done the same with regard to my own house, and houses in other towns and states. I am convinced that she sees by some other organ than the eye, or with such rays of light only as can penetrate all substances, if there are any such. I have seen a sealed letter, containing a passage enclosed in lead, which letter she held at the side of her head not more than a moment all in sight, then gave it back to the writer, and afterward wrote what she had read in it. The letter was opened in my presence and the two writings agreed in every word, there being two differences in spelling only." The contents of the letter were as follows:—"In these latter days, as informer times, the blind receive their sight." (Appendix to Deleuze.)

6. Dr. Alphonse Teste, of Paris, gives an account of some sentences which were read by Madame Hortense after they were locked up and sealed in a close box. The first was a passage from Lamartine as follows:—"Le riel est etroit; le possible est immense." The madame read "le possible est immense" but skipped the rest. M. Amedee Latour then wrote a passage, placed it in the box and placed his own seals upon it. It was returned to him with the seals untouched with the following sentence:—"L'eau est composee d'hydrogene et d'oxygene." "Well, you are the devil," cried he, "or magnetism is a truth."

7. The following fact with reference to Swedenborg is sanctioned by the great German metaphysician Kant, who remarked that it sets "the assertion of the extraordinary gift of Swedenborg out of all possibility of doubt." While in Gottenburg, on a Saturday night, he saw that a great fire was taking place in his native city Stockholm, 300 miles distant. On Sunday Morning he made a statement of it to the Governor, while on Tuesday morning the arrival of the royal courier gave full comfirmation of it. Other cases of his power could be mentioned.

8. Alexis, so well known in Europe, and who so often Astonished the savans by his feats of vision and mental perception, has his eyes covered with thick masses of cotton, and then plays various games with experts, in which he usually wins. He is able to read the cards of his opponent and thus has the advantage.

9. Miss Jay, in 1856, in the presence of the Hon. Joshua R. Giddings and Stephen Dudley, Esq., in New York, exclaimed as follows: "I behold a sea of light extending everywhere, a never fading light. It is not of the sun or moon, or stars; oh, that I had the power to describe it! I must call it a divine light. It will never grow dim. I see no limit, but only an immensity of light. The sun fades beside it. The source appears like light creating light."

10. Mrs. Mettler, of Hartford, examined clairvoyantly some 40,000 persons during the first fifteen years of her practice, among which were many amazing triumphs of this finer vision. Dr. T. Lea Smith, from Hamilton, Bermuda, gives an account of an interview with her, in which he says she accurately described his island home and pointed out a weed which grew in abundance there, and which she declared would cure the yellow fever. In a letter written at Hamilton, Oct. 29, 1856, Dr. Smith says:—"During the last three months the fever has been making sad havoc in Bermuda, and we know not where it will stop; it is very bad among the troops, but I am happy to say that out of 200 cases treated by Mrs. Mettler's prescription, only four have died!" At another time he says she read an inscription on a tombstone in the cemetery at Hamilton. She was thus able, by the aid of this more exquisite light, to look something like a thousand miles and discover the real properties of a plant which the physicians on the spot had failed to do, and which was supposed to be a worthless weed. In another case related by Dr. S. B. Brittan in "Man and his Relations," Mrs. Mettler examined a gun-shot wound of a Mr. Charles Barker in Jackson, Mich., with which he had been suffering for months, and discovered a piece of copper in the wound, which she said would prevent it from healing until it was removed. "But young Barker was sure that he had no copper in his pocket at the time of the accident; and inasmuch as the medical attendant had made no such discovery, it was presumed that the seeress was mistaken. But some time after, the foreign substance spoken of became visible, when Mr. Barker's mother with a pair of embroidery scissors, removed a penny from the wound! In such a case science is a stupid, sightless guide, and must stand out of the way. The doctors in Michigan could not see that penny when it was within their reach and their eyes wide open; but this seeress discovered it at a distance of 1000 miles with her eyes closed!" (p. 400.)

11. Dr. Wm. B. Carpenter, of England, has lately written a work disparaging the claims of clairvoyance, mesmerism, etc., to which Prof. Alfred R. Wallace has given a triumphant answer in the Quarterly Journal of Science, London, producing multitudes of overwhelming facts to show the reality of clairv yance. I quote simply the following: "I refer to the testimony of Robert Houdin, the greatest of modern conjurers, whose exploits are quoted by Dr. Carpenter when they serve his purpose (pp. 76, 111). He was an absolute master of card tricks and knew all their possibilities. He was asked by the Marquis de Mirville to visit Alexis, which he did twice. He took his own new cards, dealt them himself, but Alexis named them as they lay upon the table, and even named the trump before it was turned up. This was repeated several times and Houdin declared that neither chance nor skill could produce such wonderful results. He then took a book from his pocket and asked Alexis to read something eight pages beyond where it was opened, at a specified level. Alexis pricked the place with a pin, and read four words which were found at the place pricked nine pages on. He then told Houdin, numerous details as to his son, in some of which Houdin had tried to deceive him, but in vain; and when it was over, Houdin declared it 'stupefying,' and the next day signed a declaration that the report of what took place was correct, adding, 'the more I reflect upon them the more impossible do I find it to class them among the tricks that are the object of my art.' The two letters of Robert Houdin were published at the time (May, 1847), in 'Le Siecle' and have since appeared in many works."

12. The foregoing cases, though but a drop in the bucket of what might be presented with reference to this beautiful law of vision, are quite enough to demolish the rash remarks of Drs. Hammond and Beard. It is no wonder that Dr. Beard thought it best not to appeal to facts, in a matter loaded down with such an overwhelming array of them. My own powers enable me at times not only to see objects, but to look through them to objects beyond without the outward eye, while I have known a great number of people who can do the same. A lady in Chicago with whose family I resided for some time, could become quiet at any time and in a minute or two look into any residence of the city, or even of distant states, and tell whether the owners were at home or absent. I knew of no failures, and a gentleman who had tested her for one or two years told me he had never found her mistaken.

13. One of the eminent lady physicians of New York received a salary of $3000 per annum from a Life Insurance Company, on account of possessing this finer insight which so transcends all ordinary perception, and saved her company tens of thousands of dollars. I will simply mention one instance in proof. A gentleman of remarkably vigorous appearance had passed the examination of the physicians of the company, and was pronounced as "sound as a bullet." He wished to be insured for $10,000. Before accepting of his case, however, they handed a little strip of paper with some of his writing on it to the lady. Almost immediately, coming into rapport with the subject by means of the emanations from the paper, she declared that he would be a dead man within eight weeks, and warned them against taking him. They asked him to defer the matter eight weeks, which he agreed to. After seven weeks and two days the President of the company came with much excitement to the residence of the lady, and informed her that the gentleman had fallen dead with heart disease, on his own door step, that morning! In another case, a southern gentleman applied for an insurance policy of $10,000. This lady, on examining his autograph, saw a certain melancholy and diseased condition which she declared would lead him to commit suicide, and advised them against taking his case. They concluded to risk it however, and so lost their money, as he committed suicide the same year in Virginia.

VII. Explanation of this Higher Vision.

1. The Philosophy of Ordinary Sleep consists in the withdrawal of the ordinary vital fluids from the cerebrum or realm of mental action, to the cerebellum or center of the physical forces. These vital fluids, which are doubtless a modification of odic force, animate the external or gray portion of the brain, draw the blood there, and thus bring about the ordinary grade of mental activity. It is well understood by physiologists that a free action of pure uncongested blood though the front brain is necessary to consciousness and thought, but how the blood itself is enabled to move thus freely or what is its vitalizing principle, except that it must be properly oxydized, have sufficient phosphorus, etc., they cannot tell. The clear seer, however, can actually witness the fiery streams of this invisible light, as they kindle the blood and brain tissue, and can see that when all the chemical conditions of the blood are proper, such as having a sufficient supply of oxygen, cholesterin, etc., these animating streams of nervaura, sometimes called animal magnetism, are all the more brisk, and mental action all the more clear. Wm. B. Carpenter, M. D., F. R. S., says that "although the brain has not ordinarily more than about 1/40 of the weight of the body, it yet is estimated to receive from 1/6 to 1/5 of the whole circulating blood." (Principles of Mental Physiology.) He also says that of the four arterial trunks which convey blood into the skull, three may be tied and consciousness still remain, but if the fourth is tied unconsciousness takes place. One may become asphyxiated with depraved blood which has too much carbon in proportion to its oxygen, as chemical action of vital forces thus become too dormant, and congestion takes place. Persons of resolute will can often fire up this odic force by the finer psychic principle, and through that so animate the blood as to prevent many disasters even when the blood has become more or less impure. If a part of the animating ether is drawn off to the back brain and to the body, it carries a portion of the blood with it, and the front brain becoming thus inactive, a quiet condition takes place and a person begins to feel sleepy. If a greater quantity is drawn downward a dreamy kind of a sleep ensues, while a still greater quantity will leave too little action of the cerebral forces to be remembered at all, and so we call it perfect unconscious sleep. Dr. Durham demonstrated, in 1860, that there was far less blood in the cerebrum during sleeping than during waking hours. Where he had cut away the skull in animals, the vessels of the pia mater, which were full and red during wakefulness, became contracted and pale during sleep. The contrast was remarkable.

It must not be supposed, however, that the blood itself is the direct cause of mental action, but its free action through the brain awakens chemical affinity and constitutes a good conducting medium for the finer forces. During this quiet of the cerebrum, the rest of the system is doubly active, building up its cells and tissues to make up for the combustions and waste which take place during the waking hours. Ordinary Sleep, then, may be induced by whatever will draw this vital aura, and with it the blood, away from the front and upper brain, such as making passes downward from the head, laying the hand upon the back-head and back neck, warming the spine or feet, etc. But how is it, if ordinary sleep thus stupifies, shuts up the faculties of the mind and renders it almost a blank, that the so-called mesmeric or lucid magnetic sleep opens up such new and wonderful powers of intellection which enables the sleeper to grasp the conditions of past, present and future with double power, and gives him a vision which seemingly penetrates through all substances and reveals the very soul of things? I have not seen this point clearly answered, although the subject of psychology must ever have a misty aspect until it is answered.

2. Somniscience, or the Lucid Magnetic Sleep, sometimes called Artificial Somnambulism, consists, not only in drawing away the blood and the vital ethers which usually kindle the phrenal organs into activity, but in calling into action the more interior, refined, swift and powerful psychic ethers that are more directly the handmaid of the spirit itself In other words, when we abstract the coarser forces we can the more easily get en rappott with the finer, just as the sensitives by taking the ordinary light from a room, could the more easily see the odic light. The outer and gray matter of the brain is the more immediate seat of ordinary sensation and mental action, while the more interior forces, quickened by the chemical affinities between the inner surface of the reddish gray matter and the outer surface of the interior bluish white matter, when called somewhat outward, produce a higher grade of mental action than the slower and coarser forces which are usually predominant, while if they are called still more outward and wrought up into still greater action, until the whole brain is suffused with this diviner light which blends with the same grade of light in the external world, this higher vision takes place and a wonderful illumination of the mind is the result. I will illustrate by the process of outward vision. This is accomplished as follows:—The rays of light fall upon the retina of the eye where they stamp their image, which image is carried to the external sensorium by a grade of vital electricity that is just suited to it, and thus we get the effect of vision. Bell's Telephone, by which the human voice is transferred hundreds of miles, operates on much the same principle. The waves of sound strike an artificial diaphragm at one end of the line, and are transferred by means of electricity through a wire to another diaphragm and human ear at the other end. In human vision the first diaphragm is the retina at the back of the eye, the conducting wire is the optic nerve, the second diaphragm is the external sensorium in the outer gray matter of the brain aided by refining processes, and the ear of the listener represents the human spirit itself which takes cognizance of the whole. In certain magnetic conditions the eyes are wide open, but the ordinary light cannot make much impression as the internal corresponding vital electricity is withdrawn to other parts of the body. But the finer psychic ethers, having full play, receive the finer light that emanates from, or penetrates through all substances, and carrying it to the inner sensorium, which, according to the magnetic vision itself, seems to have its culminating point at the junction of the gray and white matter of the brain, the mind receives the exquisite images thus conveyed, and so the higher vision is perfected. By means of ordinary light we may see through all transparent bodies because the light itself can penetrate them, but by means of the psychic light, the vision may pass through nearly all bodies as easily as ordinary vision passes through glass, which accounts for what is called clairvoyance.

3. It is by no means necessary to get into this magnetic sleep in order to have this finer vision. Many can so cause the finer ethers of their brain to gain the ascendency over the coarser as to be able to see almost immediately, and that without even closing the eyes. Some learn to throw the animal forces away from the front brain by their will power, meantime assisting the action by throwing their eye-balls upward and back as in a sleeping condition. Those less developed in the matter will frequently have to look at some object in front or above them, or thinking of some place intensely in order to draw the psychic forces sufficiently outward, and this in many cases a half-hour, an hour, or more at a time.

VIII. How to Develop this Finer Vision.

1. These finer ethers are so swift, penetrating and powerful that it is a very great achievement to be able to wield them for the sake of the wonderful powers of vision which they give, as well as for the great control of both bodily and mental forces which can be gained thereby. I will give some brief hints for the culture and control of these agencies.

2. When convenient it is quite desirable to have a person who is already well charged with these fine forces and who can himself see clairvoyantly, make passes over the head downward and especially over the eyes and forehead, and thus impart his own power to the subject. Sometimes these passes can be made from the head to the feet along the face and body, and sometimes one or two inches from the body.

3. Dr. Braid, of England, who styled this magnetic sleep hypnotism, was in the habit of having his subjects look steadily at an object placed in front and somewhat above them, for some time. Such a process will answer very well for awhile, after which downward passes will be useful.

4. One of the most practical methods of developing these forces is to sit somewhat reclining in an easy position with the back to the north or a little north-east, have merely a dim light rather than otherwise, close the eyes, turn the eye-balls a little upward, if they can be held so without pain, and then steadily and gently make an effort as if to see. This can be practiced for a half hour to an hour or so each time, and while doing so the thoughts should not be allowed to wander, but the aim should be to see if lights, colors, forms, and motions make their appearance. If colors do not appear in a few days, the prospect for clairvoyance is poor unless assistance can be imparted by persons already developed. Dr. Fahnestock, of Pennsylvania, has developed what he calls statuvolence or artificial somnambulism, which he says can be acquired by all in from one to twenty sittings, while most of the persons who attain to it gain the clear vision. This will be described in X of this chapter.

IX. The Psychic Force a Great Power to bless Mankind.

1. Because it brings into action this sublimer vision which reveals the wonders of both the interior and exterior universe in a way that entirely transcends the power of the telescope in the distance of its scope, the microscope in the minuteness of its power, and throws both into shadow by its ability to reveal the realm of intellect and that finer radiance which can never be seen in the external world. When its powers have become more developed, mistakes of vision will be more rare, and discoveries of vast importance in psychological and physiological phenomena will be made.

2. Because through the Mental Forces it is able to build up and heal the physical system in a way sometimes which would seem almost too marvelous for belief. Dr. Gregory says "an immense number of magnetic cures have been recorded;" Dr. Elliotson commends it highly and enumerates cases of Epilepsy, Insanity, Hysteria, Paralysis, Chorea, Hypochondriasis, Sick Head-ache, Convulsions, Nervousness, etc., and a severe case of Cancer, as having been cured by the human magnetic (or psychic) forces. The Zouave Jacob of France who was wonderfully charged with these forces, cured multitudes by a mere touch of the hand, and many times without touching his subjects at all. This was done when they were in their normal condition, by a powerful effort of his will. Sometimes a score of policemen were required to regulate the crowds who pressed forward to be healed by him. Downward passes over the body soothe and quiet excited nerves, and upward passes arouse dormant and cold portions of the body.

3. Because it has a remarkable and unequaled power in improve-ing imperfect mental and moral conditions. I have charged and regulated the psychic forces of different parts of the brain and their negative poles in the body in a way to quell the appetite for liquor in several persons, to abate their animal passions, and to stimulate to much greater activity the mental and moral forces. The achievements accomplished under the form of Psychic influence, called statuvolence, will be described shortly (X). I will quote a passage from an eccentric writer, named P. B. Randolph, which will apply here:—"We have known a sweet Miss only six years old, to thoroughly mesmerize her great burly uncle, a man capable of knocking a bull clown with one stroke of his ponderous fist, and who was one of the roughest sea tyrants that ever trod a quarter-deck, and yet the little lady rendered him not only helpless, but clairvoyant by repeatedly manipulating his head, while he held her in his lap in his daily calls. She had witnessed a few experiments, believed she could do the same, tried it four times and accomplished it in great glee on the fifth attempt. But the greatest miracle of all was, that the captain's nature became entirely changed, and to-day a better or a gentler man does not sail out of New York harbor!" (New Mola.) In the case of this captain, the finer forces of the man, combined with a gentle pure element from his little magnetiser, were doubtless made to permeate and refine the region of his external brain. "In the highest stages of the magnetic sleep," says Dr. Gregory, "the countenance becomes irradiated and heavenly beyond the power of art to picture, and the language becomes exalted." I have several cases in view in which persons have dated the commencement of a nobler and truer life from the development of these higher elements. That some fortune tellers may really have the ability at times to use them and convert them to a low end, does not argue against the holier purposes to which they ever may and should be consecrated.

4. Because it begets a keenness of vision and mental perception, which when it becomes widely developed will so penetrate through all fraud and hypocrisy as to greatly destroy their practice. A lady of New York traced out a thief and recovered diamonds of the value of $10,000 for one party, and has found a large number of stolen watches and other articles by this superior vision.

X. STATUVOLENCE, OR SELF-PSYCHOLOGY.

1. Statuvolence is a phase of power brought about by these same psychic ethers, wielded and developed on a somewhat different plan from those which we have been considering. Dr. Wm. B. Fahnestock, of Lancaster, Penn., has devised the name

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and method of operating, and has wrought some remarkable cures and effects even on the mental system by its means. It is, moreover, one of most effective methods of developing the higher vision, and of assisting a person to gain control both of his physical and mental forces. Dr. Fahnestock does not seem to understand the philosophy of this power any more than did Dr. Braid and most others who have writen upon this and similar subjects, but is deserving of credit for his successful experiments. He and Dr. Braid, and Dr. Brown-Sequard, and very many medical men, deny that there is any magnetic fluid because these singular phenomena seem to come from belief or imagination, or the mind in some of its manifestations. This is simply on a par with denying the existence of sunlight, because the sun itself shines. How do these gentlemen suppose the mind or imagination can do these things without some instrument to do them with? The sun starts vegetation into life because it sends its light to the earth. Mind or volition wields the human system because it sends out its psychic and animal ethers.

2. The process which Dr. Fahnestock uses to bring about the state is simply a method of drawing the interior forces outward. I quote his own words:—"When persons are desirous of entering this state, I place them upon a chair where they may be at perfect ease. I then request them to close their eyes at once and remain perfectly calm, at the same time that they let the body lie perfectly still and relaxed. They are next instructed to throw their minds to some familiar place, it matters not where, so that they have been there before, and seem desirous of going again, even in thought. When they have thrown the mind to the place, or upon the desired object, I endeavor by speaking to them frequently to keep their mind upon it. This must be persevered in for some time, and when they tire of one thing, or see nothing, they must be directed to others successively until clairvoyance is induced. When this has been effected, the rest of the senses fall in at once, or by slow degrees. If the attention of the subject is divided, the difficulty of entering the state perfectly is much increased, and the powers of each sense while in this state will be in proportion as that division has been much or little." Sometimes as the especial condition approaches, the subject will feel that he is falling away or floating off, but there is no occasion for alarm. The thoughts being intensely concentrated on the place or object, he will begin to feel that he is there in person and can see what is going on, hear the words that may be spoken hundreds of miles distant and take cognizance of the very thoughts. When thoroughly in the state, the subject, at the request of the operator, can use these forces with a wonderful power, can will a certain disease to depart and it will very frequently leave, can determine to be strong, firm, self-controlled, after waking from the condition, and he will find himself in possession of a new strength; can will to have his head in the ordinary conscious condition, and have all sensation leave his hand, or foot, or any other member, and it will be so to such an extent, that he can look on and see it amputated without any pain, and can determine to have a certain condition of mind permanently, and it will be very likely to take place. By a little practice, after once getting into this condition, he can throw himself into it in a few moments and be master of himself. I know of a lady who, when she goes to have a tooth pulled, can put herself into the condition immediately and, willing all sensation from her jaw, will feel no pain when the operation is performed, which signifies that this mighty psychic force under the mind can hold the sensory nerves entirely in check. Some of these statuvolists become; remarkably clairvoyant, profess to look in upon different parts of the world, or even other worlds, and describe their people, although their astronomical ideas are not always reliable, as they see people in worlds which evidently possess no people, which shows that they are looking at the wrong world, or else have their vision but partially developed. In many cases their clairvoyance is proved to be entirely correct. I had a lady patient who would describe what was going on at her home in another state, and she said she was not quite sure whether she really saw her people and certain neighbors, or whether it was imagination, as she was but partially in this condition, but on writing home she found she was exactly correct. One day she stated that a certain acquaintance of hers was treating her too familiarly, and he held her under a kind of a psychological spell so that she had no power to resist him, and grieved over it, confessing also that she had been in the same helpless state before in the presence of another gentleman. I told her that that weak condition of the will power must be changed, and getting her into the statuvolic condition not fully, but so much so that she could see her home and friends, I then impressed upon her the baseness of an attempt to exercise an improper control over another, and the grandeur of having selfcommand, and asked her to will with all her power to be now and afterward strong and self-poised, which she did most earnestly. She found no trouble afterward in holding her annoyer and all other persons at a proper distance, and during the months after that in which I met her, I saw she had more independence and force of character than before.

3. Case of Melancholy from unrequited Love. I will quote a single case of mental control from Dr. Fahnestock's work on

"Statuvolence or Artificial Somnambulism":—"Miss - had

been desponding for many years. She was induced to try somnambulism for her relief. She entered the state perfectly the first trial, in less than ten minutes; and after she had been in it for some time, I asked her, as is usual in such cases, whether she did not think it was better for her to forget an attachment that could not be returned?

"She said 'Yes I believe it would.'

"I asked her whether she was perfectly satisfied to do so and to become lively and happy hereafter?

"She said 'Yes; and I am resolved that it shall be so.'

"With this understanding I requested her to awake. She awoke and retired with a friend. I have since been informed that she has banished the circumstance from her mind entirely, and has become lively, contented and happy every since."

4. A merchant of Boston informed me that in the quiet of the morning, when his mind was in a calm state, he would generally will to be in a certain frame of mind all day, and in this way gained such a control over himself that nothing would disturb him. He also possessed a marvelous control over others without uttering a word, holding fifty men who were under his employment in absolute harmony with his wishes. He once caused a man to leave an audience and follow him through the streets, and into his own home, by mere volition without a spoken word. This and a host of other examples which could be given explode the idea that this power is imaginary, and shows that human beings can throw out their magnetic curves to hook around and influence others, just as a magnet can attract iron, only with a finer power. In his younger mischievous days, he broke down a clergyman in the midst of his sermon by looking steadily and strongly at him, which fact is explained by clairvoyants who can see streams of fiery light issuing from the eyes. It is well known that Daniel Webster's gaze once completely confounded a young clergyman in the same way, so that an older clergyman present had to rise and finish the sermon for him. On being asked afterwards what was the difficulty, he said "he couldn't endure those great terrible eyes." But this was not to be wondered at, for the lightning from those eyes combined with that which went forth with his voice and accompanied with great ideas, had enchained many a listening senate before that day. As orators become more refined by living noble lives, and learn more about the control of these divine forces, they will have the greater skill in swaying an audience and inspiring them with great purposes.

5. Dr. Fahnestock mentions the cure of six cases of Epilepsy, besides other cures of Rheumatism, Erysipelas, Scarletina, Chorea, Amaurosis, Elysteria, Fevers, Labor-pains, ejc., and shows its remarkable use in obstetrical cases. In my own practice I have found it also a great assistance.

6. In Psychology and ordinary Mesmerism, the operator generally comes near to or even touches the subject and makes his own forces predominate in the subject's brain. In this better method of Self-Psychology, the subject develops his own powers and becomes strong of himself as the operator sits outside of the coarser magnetic sphere, part way across the room from the subject.

7. Mr. Thomas C. Hartshorn, translator of Deleuze, gives a number of accounts of persons who were placed in the ordinary magnetic sleep and then required to decide against the use of tea, coffee, snuff and various articles of food which were hurtful to them, with the proviso that if they were taken any more they should create nausea. When they awoke they knew nothing of what had been determined upon, but could not take the articles without their becoming sick, or did not wish them and so they lost all desire for them. Dr. Cleveland of Pawtucket caused several

somnambulists to become far more cheerful, hopeful, and orderly, which remained as a permanent quality afterward. In one he induced a charitable spirit towards one who was intensely hated. What a heavenly transition it would be if a few million people could be magnetized and then made to abandon selfishness, hatred, gossiping, jealousy, overreaching their neighbours, etc. An intelligent New York merchant, who is highly charged with these psychic forces, informs me that many persons addicted to intoxicating beverages have lost all desire for them after being with him a few times. While with them he would feel an aversion for these intemperate practices, and his own strong forces must have penetrated theirs sufficiently to constitute a controlling power there. A person who thus aspires after the high and good can radiate silently and unseen an influence which shall bless and beautify the natures with whom he associates, while another, who yields to low and impure desires, sends out a subtle virus which tends to contaminate those who are not firmly grounded in principle.

8. The Hundreds of Lives Lost in the burning of the Brooklyn Theater, and the multitudes more which have been destroyed in church panics and elsewhere, could in many instances have been saved if the people had ever gained any proper psychological control over themselves. Fear being appealed to starts the animal forces into a mad rush through the brain, and these not being held in check by the psychic control which should ever be masters of the castle, confuse the intellect and destroy the common sense until the people rush over and crush each other and block the way, thus leading to their death. Dr. Williams, the Psychologist, told the members of an audience in St. Louis that he would give any man $10,000 if he would remain quiet every morning for a year and use his will-power 20 minutes before rising, if at the end he did not admit that he had received vast advantages therefrom. A gentleman did so and gained such additional power of mind and body that he said he would not take $10,000 for it. This will-power should be used in throwing the animating forces to all parts of the system, and in determining to be calm, just, gentle, and yet self-possessed through the day, whatever excitement may occur around him.

XI. The Colors and Forces of the Brain.

1. The Encephalon embraces such an almost infinite diversity of colors, centers of Luminosity, of volition, emotion, sensation, consciousness, intuition, nervous action, of animal, mental and spiritual power, and the positive poles of all human forces, that if an ordinary mind could possibly look in upon it and see all its amazing machinery, he would find it more complicated and containing a greater number of distinct objects than his present conception of a world. And yet, although man in his infinite unfoldings, capacities and parts is thus a study for an eternity, still by the aid of philosophy and this wonderful grade of light, we may at least arrive at the great general principles of vital and mental action, and grasp many details of these diviner laws of power.

2. Different Forces of the Brain. Dr. J. R. Buchanan, Professor in the New York Eclectic Medical College, is perhaps the most eminent of Neurologists and Cerebral Physiologists, and one method by which he has gained his superior knowledge has been by consulting this finer vision and also by charging with the finer ethers which flow from the end of the fingers, different portions of the brains of sensitive persons, each portion of which caused its own peculiar manifestations. In 1842, he made a number of experiments in the presence of the poet William Cullen Bryant, Dr. Forry and Mr. O'Sullivan. When he touched the organ of self-esteem in a lady, it became active under the vital fluid thus communicated, she kindled into importance and began to proclaim woman's rights; when he touched what he calls the organ of Humility, she at once changed her tone and said that "she was but a weak woman after all." When he touched another lady's self-esteem she left the room from feeling herself too good to remain with such company, but was induced to return when Humility was touched. When he touched a section of the brain which he terms Infidelity, she would believe in nothing and denied all things. They asked her if she did not think that the stove was hot. She immediately declared that it was not hot at all, and would have put her hands on it to prove it, had her husband not prevented her. Thus he could seemingly play any tune he pleased on the human instrument. A sensitive young man touched the poet Bryant on his Ideality, and thereby his own ideality became so charged with new fire that he soared off into the most glowing language, and many other effects were produced. Similar experiments were tried by Dr. Elliot-son of England, and by O. S. Fowler and others in this country. Dr. H. H. Sherwood gives an account of a lady whose "sense of hunger, produced by exciting the organ of Alimentiveness, was so great as to require a considerable force to prevent her from eating the flesh from her own hands; and the sense of the ludicrous, produced by exciting the organ of Mirthfulness, was such as to make it necessary to remove the excitement immediately to prevent her from laughing herself to death." These facts show 1st, that different parts of the brain have their special mental and emotional characteristics; 2dly, that these get their activity from the vital or psychic aura which passes through them; 3dly, as much of the character and conduct of human beings come from adventitious circumstances and conditions of the brain which, in their present ignorance, they do not know how to remove, they should not be held up to scorn and considered as so severely accountable therefor, but those who are physicians should see to it that by becoming acquainted with the working of the psychic lights and forces, and the phrenic organs through which they move, they should be able to correct and control these perverted conditions by reaching their causes; 4thly, the vast diversity of effects produced on different portions of the cranium should lead physiologists to abandon at once the absurd position that "there are no special organs of the brain for special qualities of the mind." I shall presently add another proof of the diversity of the functions of the brain by showing the different colors which emanate from them, and which exactly harmonize with the nature of the organs themselves, as ascertained by phrenologists.

3. I will quote some cases from real life as illustrative of the importance of these great fundamental principles. A lady of New York became more and more melancholy in spite of religious consolation or kind friends, and, baffling the power of her physicians, she was fast becoming insane. Going to a lady physician who possessed this psychic vision, it was discovered that the region of cautiousness was over-active, while that of hope had too little radiation of the psychic ethers, showing that it was too dormant. She at once drew off by passes the superabundant forces of cautiousness, and charged with her fingers the organ of hope, and paid some attention also to the portions of the body which correspond to the same. I saw the patient after a week's treatment. She had become exceedingly cheerful, and was attending to her daily duties, seemingly a well woman. I have myself worked on the same plan in a number of cases and with admirable results. I have taken persons whose strong animal passions were leading them into excesses, and worked great and radical changes in their disposition and feelings. Such are generally heated and sometimes diseased in the lower back brain at and below the region which phrenologists generally designate as amativeness, and those who can see the color emanations from the head, discover a muddy red light issuing from the same portion in such cases. My process has been to draw the hot forces of the back brain by passes of the hand over the part and down the arms to the hand, also to draw the heat of the negative pole of the same organ which Dr. Buchanan has located in the lower spine, between the lumbar and sacral plexuses, down the hips towards the feet, and to equalize the system generally. The passion for alcoholic stimulus I have frequently quelled as follows; 1st by drawing the heat away from the portion directly in front of each ear; and 2d, by scattering in different directions the heat of the epigastrium, and sometimes cooling it off by fingers wet in cold water, especially as an inflamed gastric membrane is a great cause of the burning thirst for liquors. The fact that I am strongly charged with the vital magnetic power was no doubt a help in the matter, as I was able to infuse through the patient a healthier flow of the life currents, but nearly every one could do something in mitigating such evils by knowing how. A person of stupid perceptions can become quickened by animating the region over the eyebrows, by passes with the hand, each day; his reasoning powers can become quickened by holding the hands over the forehead; his moral powers by charging the whole upper head. At the same time the whole system should be exercised and kept in as healthy a condition as possible, as the bodily organs react upon the brain. One thing should be remembered, which is, that a person of fine reasoning powers and high-toned moral nature is especially desirable as an operator to stimulate the nobler intellectual and moral forces in another. For want of space here I must leave this subject only partially explained, meantime reserving it for a much fuller explanation in a future work on Human Development, which I hope to prepare. Reformers and religionists have been trying for centuries to bless and save the human race, but the wrecks of humanity which cover the world, and the vice and corruption which fill society on every hand, proclaim that our methods have been false, that we are simply dealing with the surface of things and neglecting those interior basic principles upon which the structure of human life must be built if its foundations are to be eternal. The people in general are not only grossly ignorant of the proper prenatal conditions requisite for producing a magnificent manhood and womanhood, but more than this, having started a race full of imperfections, they are quite ignorant of the methods of making them over into something higher. The Medical world, the Pulpit and the Academy of learning are grossly culpable if they fail to impress these momentous laws upon the people, and a future bar of public opinion will hold them severely responsible. They may do something in laboriously bailing out a vessel which is full of leaks, but they would act much more like philosophers if they would deal with causes and stop the leaks themselves.

4. The inspired Plato well understood the basis of mental action which many physicians of the present day seem to be unacquainted with. "It is not art," said he, "which makes thee excel, but a divine power which moves thee, such as is in the stone which Euripides named the magnet, and some call the He-raclian stone which attracts the iron rings."

5. Dr. J. R. Buchanan has arrived at an excellent perception of these finer life-ethers, and admits the gradation of forces as follows:—"The action of the brain and nerves upon the muscular system is affected by an agency strikingly similar to the galvanic. This agency or fluid which is evolved by the basilar portion of the brain, the spinal cord and the ganglionic system, is one of the lower species of nervous fluids. The nervous fluid or emanation, which may be most appropriately termed Ner-Vaura, is essentially different in the different organs. While the nervaura, or influence of the basilar portion of the brain, directly and powerfully stimulates the muscular system, that of the anterior region is incapable of producing muscular contraction, and tends to soothe or arrest. The nervaura of the basilar part of the middle lobe, in front of the ear, excites the digestive organs, that of the superior organs adjacent to firmness, diminishes the gastric activity. Thus, every portion of the brain originates a distinct nervaura, producing different and peculiar physiological effects, and producing also peculiar psychology-cal effects upon others. The influence of the basilar and occipital organs is chiefly expended upon the constitution of the individual; that of the anterior and superior organs is more diffusive. * * * In the vast interval between our spiritual nature and the solid forms of inorganic matter, we have traced a regular gradation from solids to liquids, from liquids to gases, from gases to imponderable substances and agencies, from the imponderables to the various species of nervaura, coming from the basis of the brain to the higher forms of mental emanation, proceeding from the anterior superior portion of the brain. * * * Matter in a fluid form manifests more extraordinary, active powers (than solids), and presents phenomena which are the subjects of chemical science. It is only in consequence of the existence of fluids that vegetable and animal life are possible. * * * In Caloric, Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, etc., we find the moving powers of the physical world. Partly in these, but chiefly in still subtler agencies—in the vital forces and nervauras—we find the moving powers of the physiological world. The subtlest of these agencies again conduct us into the Psychological world. In other words all physical phenomena, all life and all thought— in a word, all Power comes from immaterial sources." (Authro-pology, 1854, p. 194.) These are noble thoughts, but the expression "all power comes from immaterial sources," would be better I think, thus—"All power in its positive or primary principles comes from spirittial sources," for as we have seen, spirit and matter are correlative, and neither can ever work without some grade of the other. The word immaterial is now being dropped by thoughtful writers, and I presume Dr. Buchanan himself does not use it at present.

6. The Color Radiations of the Brain. "Human beings are luminous almost all over the surface of their bodies," says Reich-enbach, "but especially on the hands, the palms of the hands, the points of the fingers, the eyes, different parts of the head, the pit of the stomach, the toes, etc. Flame-like streams of light of relatively greater intensity flow from the points of all the fingers, in a straight direction from where they are stretched out." Reichenbach's sensitives were not sufficiently developed to see the higher color radiations of the brain with much distinctness, although they saw some of them. The following description of the Psychic colors was written out by Mrs. Minnie Merton for the author's "Flealth Guide," from which work I extract it:

"In the base of the brain (the animal loves), the colors are a dark red, and in persons of a very low nature, almost black, while in the upper brain the colors assume a yellowish tint, and are far more brilliant. In a high nature, the colors over the moral and spiritual powers are almost dazzling, with the yellow tint nearly merged into white, and far more exquisite than sunlight. In the higher front brain, in the region of the reasoning intellect, blue is the predominant color, and is lighter as it approaches the top brain, and a darker blue as it comes down to the percep-tives (over the brow), and a little touch of the violet in its outer edges. Benevolence emits a soft light green of indescribable beauty. Over firmness the color is scarlet, and over self-esteem, purple. As you move down the sides of the head, from the moral powers towards the lower loves, it becomes orange, then red, then dark (at the bottom). Very low natures sometimes emit such a dark cloud from the base of the brain, that it seems as though I could scarcely see them. When a person laughs or sends forth happy thoughts, it causes a dancing play of bright colors; but when in violent passion, a snapping and sparkling red is emitted," (p. 55). An eminent clairvoyant informs me that this description is mainly in harmony with the colors as he has seen them, and it also coincides nearly with my perception of the same. In saying firmness was of a scarlet color, I think it is an oversight, as I heard her in private conversation admit that there was a blue on the upper head behind the yellow which would bring it about over firmness, in accord with my own perception. Firmness seems to form the upper end of a mass of polarized lines of force which run down through the whole spine, and thus, when active, causes the whole being to become braced up into a rigid and powerful condition, hence the effect which

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PSYCHIC LIGHTS AND COLORS.

On the lower face of the above the artist has placed the green and yellow too low. The yellow should come over the mouth, then a slight orange merging into a red at the chin, which continues all the way to the occipifl, at which last point it assumes a more muddy cast.

we call firmness. But these firm conditions, or polarizations, come from electricity, and electricity is the blue principle, so that both theory and observation agree in the matter. I have drawn the colors and had them engraved in Plate IV., according to Mrs. Merton's description, modified and completed by my own observations, assisted somewhat by others. The combination, as in nature, is so soft and indescribably exquisite, and the variety of tint is so vast that it is impossible to give anything more than the general plan of colors, and that with materials many times as coarse as the radiations themselves. The eyes, perceptives, and reasoning powers radiate blue emanations, the animal energies, including Amativeness or sexual love (A), a dingy red, what Dr Buchanan calls the higher or more celestial grade of Love, LL, is a most beautiful grade of red; Benevolence (B) is an exquisite green; Religion (R), is yellow; Firmness (F), is blue; Self Esteem (SE), is purple, etc. Dr. Buchanan places Hope just above LL, and Patience and Integrity in front of Firmness. The blue of the Reasoning powers is a grade higher than that of firmness, the red of the front lower face is finer and more brilliant than that of the back head, and the red of LL is possibly a grade higher than the psychic, as is the yellow of Religion or Veneration, as it is sometimes called. These would then belong to the fourth grade of colors, and the same celestial grade may, in the greatest exaltation of mind, be used in the reasoning powers also. The nose has a green emanation, the lips yellow, below the lips orange, the chin scarlet, the temporal region below LL violet, merging into the finer red above and the coarser red below. This violet section includes Ideality, Sublimity, etc., according to Dr. Buchanan, but is slightly lower than these organs, as placed by the Gallian Phrenology. I have laid off the head in general divisions mainly after the plan of Dr. Buchanan. The anterior upper brain connects with the Thorax, or rather has its negative poles in the Thorax; the Higher Energies connect with the Brachial Plexus of nerves (BP); the occiput generally connects with the Dorsal nerves, the lower occiput with the Lumbar and Sacral plexuses at the lower spine, the lower cheeks with the abdomen, etc. The part of the head in front of the dotted lines rules the Visceral system, that back of them rules the muscular system. It will

be seen that the opposite parts of the head seem to be polarized or arranged quite generally with affinitive colors, the red of amativeness balancing the blue of the Reasoning organs, etc. The front brain has a higher grade of colors than the back, and the upper front brain still higher, as the most exquisite ethers, being the lightest, must naturally gravitate to the highest point. Dr. Buchanan ascertained by experiment that the highest part of all organs is nobler than the lower, the upper part of Self-Esteem, for instance, causing a person to have pride of moral character, and the lower part pride of power; the upper part of Ambition (approbation), tending to moral achievements, the lower part to military achievements, etc. The colors as witnessed by a clairvoyant harmonize beautifully with this idea, growing more pure and brilliant as they approach the upper brain, and being far more magnificent in a high and noble nature than in a low and selfish one. This shows that refinement of mental or spiritual qualities manifests itself by refinement of physical emanations. The region of Religious aspiration (R), pointing heavenward, is the sunrealm of the human soul, and the most luminous of all, being in a person of noble and spiritual nature of an exquisite golden yellow, approaching a pure and dazzling white. The front brain being the realm of Reason and Perception, manifests itself naturally in the cool and calm color, blue, while the love principle, typified all over the world by warmth, finds its natural manifest-tation in the red. Such faculties as those of Ideality, Spirituality, and Sublimity, combining as they do both thought and emotion, radiate the violet, or the union of blue and red, while such faculties as Patience, Firmness, Integrity, and Temperance, have more to do with coolness than heat, and have a predominance of the blue. According to Buchanan's arrangement they are all situated in a group. The letter V is a vitalizing center, and N a center of nutrient nerves, as designated by Buchanan. The nerves of both centers may be roused to greater action by holding the hands on the place, or by rubbing with the ends of the fingers.

7. There is a great resemblance between the colors of the human head as to their direction, and the colors which flow from a bar magnet when turned over vertically, as seen by Reichen-bach's sensitives, thus showing the harmony between man and the outward universe.

I give this after Reichenbach, and it will be seen that the face corresponds most nearly with the north, the occiput with

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Fig. 1&5. Odic Colors from the North Pole of a Magnet made to revolve vertically in the Magnetic Meridian.

the south, the top of the head with the zenith, and the lower head and face with the downward direction. A little below the north is the violet which is not imitated in the face except at the sides, while the blue of the upper occiput is omitted in the magnet, but the head of course is more complicated than the simple forces of nature and is modified more or less by the body of which it is the capital. In the foregoing figure the brilliant yellow above melts into the green, then into blue, then into dark blue, which is exactly imitated in the head and face, commencing with the yellow of the top head, and ending with deep blue at the eyes which correspond with the north. Below and above at the south and the north, and at several intermediate points the resemblance is almost exact. Thus we have the finer and the coarser forces, spiritual emanations and physical emanations, and the laws of nature and man all working together on the same wonderful system.

8. There are two great leading styles of radiation from the human system, one of which consists of straight lines that emanate in all directions and are not sufficiently deflected by counter currents to form into curves, while the other consists of systems of lines which have been deflected and formed into magnetic curves that pass round and round in and out of the brain in endless circuits. Fig. 186 gives a few from among the millions of straight line radiations, while fig. 187 presents a few of the magnetic curves which also circulate in almost infinite numbers in a vast variety of directions, only a few of which I give in the engraving. There is a system of efflux curves or

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positive radiations from the right side of the head and face which sweep around and become influx curves on the left side, and there are circuits behind, which enter on the right side of the cerebellum and emerge on the left, just contrary to the directions of the frontal forces; and there are systems of straight
 
Fir. iS6. The Angel of Innocence.

line forces which enter at the left and emerge at the right more strongly than they do in the opposite directions, and other systems which glide conversely through the whole body from head to feet, and feet to head, and far beyond into space, and still other systems which are influx behind and influx from the forehead and face, and in fact too many other divisions to mention here, although I have named some of the more important. When I speak of the forehead and right side as strong in positive and efflux forces, I mean in electrical forces, although the thermal radiations are just in the opposite directions as signified by the colors and other phenomena. 1 make these statements from the observations of Henry Hall Sherwood, M. D., of Baron

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Fig. 187. The Psycho-Magnetic Curves,

Reichenbach and other persons, as well as from my own experience, and the reader will find confirmation of several of them in what is still to follow. Not only are there curves encirling both hemispheres of the brain, but systems of curves in each hemisphere. Persons of psychological power can sometimes throw these curves of force around others at a great distance and influence them. An eminent German singer informed me that he had often made persons turn around while forty yards away,

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and a New York gentleman of my acquaintance often amuses himself and a friend, who is with him, by willing and causing ladies at some distance ahead of them, to turn around so that they may view their countenances, and says he can generally tell what ones he can influence thus, and what ones he cannot affect. I could give various examples of ladies who have the same psychological power, especially those who possess health and vital force. A man is a magnet, only of a higher grade than magnets of steel, having power to attract and repel sensitive human beings just as the steel instrument can attract its like, only with a compass a thousand times as far-reaching.

9. Perversions of Psychic Forces.—All things, however excellent, can be perverted, and the grandest things can sometimes be perverted the worst if people will remain in ignorance of their real nature. A flock of sheep will wear certain pathways and then travel in them even if it takes twice as many steps to reach a certain point as it would to move in another direction; and so human beings have carved out in their own mental and psychological conditions, ruts of all kinds, such as the medical, religious, social, and political, and are ready to fight almost to the death those who dare to chisel out any other style of ruts than their own, and especially those who, emancipated from such slavery to old opinions, dare to stand upon the mountain top in God's free sunlight and welcome all truth, however contrary to preconceived opinions. There are always some men and women that can be psychologized to believe anything under heaven, however monstrous, if only persons of some ability or magnetic power shall earnestly inculcate it. A gentleman once made some children cry out of sympathy for "a poor broomstick that had been left out in the cold and snow all night alone," while millions of grown-up children are easily made to believe that certain persons are prophets or vicegerents of God who have a right to tyrannize over them. A community of the ignorant class of Europeans, settled in Illinois, have a leader who professes to be God himself, and is revered and obeyed as such by the people, who dare not even marry or do any other important thing without his permission. What hundreds of millions of Brahmans, Buddhists, Mohammedans, as well as one thousand different Christian sects, are absolutely sure that they alone are right, while perhaps their neighbors, who may be better in life and practice than themselves, are doomed to destruction because they do not walk in the same rut of belief. As people become broad in their culture, and their intellect gains control of their impulses, and they attain the grandeur of a free manhood and womanhood, they will learn to weigh all things in the scale of reason and not be governed so slavishly by the psychological bias which has been fastened upon them in the helpless and plastic period of childhood.

But how many cases of bargain and sale take place in which one party is unconsciously misled by a kind of psychological spell thrown over him by the other party. How many marriage contracts are made under the subtle charm, as it were, of the aura which the parties throw around each other, unconsciously perhaps, or which the more positive party may throw around the more negative, possibly with wrong intentions. What multitudes of seductions are thus brought about. For this reason all should become skilled in these fine and mighty agencies, should know their laws and be able to hurl back indignantly all base influences that shall be attempted, or if they are physically too weak at once to do this, they must grow strong by means of light and air and exercise and the help of vital magnetism.

XII. The Right and Left Brain, etc.

1. It is the usual law for the blue and violet streams of the electrical psychic forces to sweep into the left side of the head and out at the right, both in curves and straight lines as we have just seen. There is a coarse animal magnetic sphere of radiation in the case of all persons, extending usually some three or more feet around the body, but these finer soul forces often extend many miles, and can be thrown by a powerful volition hundreds of miles, as can be thoroughly proved by facts. Mental telegraphing between sensitive persons has taken place at a great distance apart. M. Dupotet magnetized persons at the Hotel Dieu, Paris, through a partition, by simply using his will, and that in the presence of very eminent physicians who admitted the fact, while in various cases which have taken place in this country and elsewhere, magnetizers have put their subjects to sleep while many miles distant and while walking around engaged in their daily duties, entirely unconscious of what was to be attempted. How much imagination is there in such cases? Mr. J. Mendenhall, of Cerro Gordo, Indiana, stood a number of rods behind a wood-chopper, unseen by him, and using his will powerfully, gradually made his strokes grow less and less frequent until at last the uplifted axe was stopped in mid air and the man stood like a block of marble transfixed by these mighty streams of force. The stronger magnetic flow from Mr. Mendenhall entered the brain of the chopper, became master of his nerve channels, and through them paralyzed his muscles.

2. The left brain is the portion especially strong in the interior forces, especially potent in discovering the properties, relations and proprieties of things, and thus, being the receptive brain, must naturally be more skilled in its intuitional character, while the right brain is the realm of positive efflux power, of executive skill and of vitalizing character. This we might naturally expect to be the case from knowing the law of the influx and efflux forces. Dr. Brown-Sequard has shown that memory and intellect and the perception of how to control the tongue and larynx and muscles of the chest to produce articulate voice, and the remembrance of how to use the hand in writing words, come more from the left than the right brain, while the right brain "serves chiefly to emotional manifestations, hysterical manifestations included, and to the needs of the nutrition of the body in its various parts," and "has more to do with organic life." If disease attacks the right side of the brain, paralysis is much more apt to take place than when it attacks the left side, which accounts for the fact that paralysis occurs on the left side of the body more than on the right side, as the right brain rules the left side of the body, and the left brain the right side of the body. The left brain causes right-handedness, and the fact that it rules the more masculine, or positive side of the body, shows that of itself it is more feminine, being the chemical affinity of that side. When Dr. Brown-Sequard talks about our having one side of the body developed up to the same strength and skill as the other, he seems to be unaware of the fact that positive and negative conditions must forever rule in nature, and can never be wholly obliterated.

XIII. Radiations and Laws of Power.

1. A beautiful lesson can be drawn from these radiations from the different parts of the head, a hint of which was given in Dr. Buchanan's Anthropology. Each part of the head radiates more or less in all directions, but the plate gives simply the predominant direction. Notice the lines of polarity extending from the perceptives. Their direction is somewhat downward toward the earth and their leading purpose is to take cognizance of the outer world to mirror forth the material conditions around. Their color is blue, indigo and violet as they move earthward, but the very lines of polarized atoms which carry these colors to the earth, have an especial affinity for the red, orange and yellow which emanate from the earth towards the perceptives, and which, being of the luminous order, are especially fitted to reveal the character of the objects from which they proceed. A little higher are the radiations from the domain of Reason which point upward, downward and forward as if to weigh and balance all things above and below. The moral and spiritual faculties radiate principally upward, and drawing their inspirations from the celestial, tend to lift man above the grossness of earth. The radiant yellow emanates principally from the median line and comes from the higher portion of both the right and left brain. Firmness with its co-operative elements of Energy, Integrity, Patience and Hardihood, sends upward a shaft of blue electricity, a portion of which comes doubtless from the spine, thus holding the body and mind up to a rigid polarity of forces which, when strong, will bend neither to the right nor the left. Self-Esteem sends its purple light partly upward and partly behind, and tends to draw the head backward, just as Benevolence and Reason, as balancing principles, tend to draw the head forward, and lead to the esteem of others. Firmness, Self Esteem, etc., are the executive forces of volition and can never lead to selfishness or wrong, if balanced by the coronal and frontal developments. Below and behind are the more violent passional developments with their red phases pointing mainly downward. These are in the lowest and darkest parts of the brain, but although placed thus in the most inferior part of the scale of being, they have their divine elements of use which, when regulated by their opposite polarities on the other side of the head, become harmonious and good. The trouble is that mankind in its average present grade of development, constitutes this animal portion the captain of the ship, while nature has placed Reason at the helm and the Spiritual Forces at the highest lookout above the whole.

2. The great law of perfection in human development is to have a harmonious balance of all the faculties. The back head has great propelling power and must be active in order to vitalize the body and give physical force, but if not cooled, refined and guided by the front and upper brain, the forces become too gross, over-indulgence and warmth burn out and exhaust the system, and the end is fearful suffering, insanity and death. This sort of preponderance fills the whole brain with a cloudy red, and colors all thoughts and sentiments until truth and purity finally become impossible. On the other hand, however beautiful Reason and the Inspiration of the upper brain may be, their excessive development to the neglect of the lower brain will draw the forces too much away from the body, and by exhausting the physical system lead to disease, insanity or death. The disease and insanity caused by the over use of the higher brain, is however of a milder kind than that caused by beastliness. We do not want a blue brain, or red brain, or yellow brain, but one which like the union of sky, water and landscape, gives us the beautiful diversity of nature. Holiness, or wholeness includes the full development of the Perceptive, Reasoning, Esthetic, Spiritual, Social and Animal man, the deficiency of any part of which leads to unholiness. Tried by this standard we see that asceticism, exclusiveness of religious devotion, intellectual culture or excessive animal desires are each and all but different grades of unholiness and onesidedness.

3. The greater the radiation of the Vital Ethers to any one place, the more the blood is drawn there as a general rule, and hence the greater the increase of the tissues, and consequently of the size. Thus if the muscles are used, the vital magnetism and blood cause them to increase in size; if the psychic ethers are drawn to the forehead by the hand or by study and thought, the Reasoning powers increase in power and the forehead becomes more prominent; if the Perceptive powers are animated by vital ethers from the fingers or by constant observation they will enlarge the prominence of the ridge above the eyes. I knew a young man who increased the circumference of his head, measured around the eye-brows, a half an inch by one year of travel and observation. The treatment of the Moral, Spiritual and Esthetic Faculties on the same principles, will give the forehead and upper head, a higher, broader and nobler appearance. Other portions of the brain may be increased in the same way by mechanical appliance of the hand, the fingers being highly magnetic, and by psychological use of the faculties. We should remember, however, that some persons may have much intensity and power in certain phrenal organs without necessarily building those organs up into a large size, from deficiency of their nutritive system.

4. The emanations from the brain are not always seen as straight lines of radiation, or in just the appearance given in the plate. If the brain observed is absorbed actively in thought, the blue element for the time being will swallow up the other colors; if love, or the emotional elements are most active, a red cast will predominate. A lady informed me that as she observed a public orator, a great variety of brilliant and flashing coruscations of every kind of color made their appearance. Sometimes under the excitement of powerful thought and feeling, a thousand flashes of light are seen around the head, caused probably by the explosion of brain cells brought about by the chemical action of the psychic ethers. If these cells thus destroyed by mental action during the waking hours are not replaced by sufficient food and sleep, the system begins to decline.

5. The Ganglia or knotted portions of certain nerves are seen clairvoyantly to emit explosive flashes of light, especially when the forces of a nerve are excited into action, as by pricking or pinching the flesh. Suppose the flesh to be pricked by a needle. The animal electricities being aroused flow in streams of light towards the brain in the pathway of the sensory nerves. When a ganglion is reached an explosive action takes place, caused by the chemical affinity of the bluish white nerve fibres with the reddish gray matter in the ganglion. What is the necessity of this ganglion? One advantage of its existence seems to be that it continues the action which has already been commenced by the needle with all the more distinctness to the brain. The merest touch of the foot with a hair starts a stream of vital flow which may not be sufficiently strong to go all the way unassisted to the brain in a way to produce sensation, but coming to a ganglion, the chemical action intensifies the stream and the effect is the more easily accomplished. This is nature's method of economizing her forces,

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Uliqbam: or Gasoliojc,—e. &, c. ’Ncrvci.' й,4. Cell*.Fig. 18S.

for were it not for the ganglia, the apparatus for, producing an equal degree of sensation would have to be more complicated. The interior ganglia of the sympathetic nerves must also produce a very vitalizing effect on the surrounding viscera. Fig. 188 will show how the nerve fibres pass through the nerve cells of a ganglion, thus bringing the bluish gray and reddish gray matter into connection so that chemical affinity may produce its explosive action and send the currents of ner-vaura onward to other centers.

6. Reichenbach and others repeatedly describe the streams of light which radiate from the ends of fingers, or of a magnet, or of a crystal, or from the angles of a substance. The human

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Fig. 19Г л Disc. angular or projecting portions, on the same law that electricity is known to gather at points rather than at the larger expanses of surface. This fact will be shown in figs. 189, 190, 191, which I take from Guil-lemin's Forces of Nature. The sphere shows a diffused electricity over its whole surface, the ellipsoid shows the increase of electrical tension near its narrower portions, while a flat disc shows a still stronger tension at its edges. A bar or tube would perhaps show a more intense electrical action at its ends than

system has not only its centres of luminous action where masses of nerves are found,

the disc. These facts will furnish a hint of how it is that nature, in building up the human system, has sent the nerve ethers out to the ends of the fingers, tip of tongue, etc., with such an intensity as to carry a large amount of their affinitive nerve matter with them in the shape of tactile corpuscles, by means of which sensation becomes so acute. As streams of water, rushing to any particular point tend to carry the soil and other light substances suitable to its style of power along with it, until it builds up its little points and promontories, so will streams of nervaura, assisted by the galvanic action of the blood, sweep nerve cells and tissue more and more outward until a projection called a tongue or other organ is formed. Thus is the fluidic theory ever coming to our aid in the solving of mysteries, and making difficult things more simple.

XIV. Intuition, and the Relation of the Sexes.

1. Now at last we may understand the mystery of Intuition, that wonderful method of reasoning by means of which the mind is said to mount at once to the top of the ladder, and come to definite conclusions without going up the intermediate steps. In the usual methods we reason by the aid of comparatively slow and coarse ethers; in the case of Intuition, we come into more direct use of these amazingly fine and swift ethers, by means of which our thoughts can move on the wings of lightning. No links in the chain of reasoning are omitted, but the mind dashes through them so rapidly that it is impossible at times to remember them all. This is woman's favorite method, and the fact that she gets into rapport with the fine forces more easily than man is the reason. In mathematical demonstrations and slow laborious reasoning, man is the superior. In the impressions of truth which flash upon the mind in a moment, woman is the superior. Coleridge once had a lady of fine intuitions in his family, and having got into a difficult maze of thought left the study and asked her for her first impressions on the subject. She immediately answered him, and commenced telling her reasons for her opinion, when Coleridge, interrupting her, said: "Never mind the reason, Madam, I will find out that when I get into my study." I have myself submitted to certain intuitive ladies difficult questions which they had never considered, their first impressions of which would be correct, but in some cases I found I could confuse their minds and lead them to doubt by presenting arguments on the opposite side.

2. While the Education given to Women is even yet much inferior to that which men receive, thus leaving her mental faculties less perfectly developed than would be desirable, yet by means of her intuitional nature she possesses various advantages over her masculine competitor. Applying this remark to only one subject it is safe to say that if medical science had sooner received the co-operation of women with their quick practical insight into conditions and their sympathy with suffering, we should not have had so diseased a world as we have to-day, and a more common sense system of methods would have been adopted.

3. The Sensitives of Reichenbach always perceived much longer and larger odic flames around men than women. Miss Reichel saw flames from the tips of all men's fingers darting up and down like other flames, but women's fingers emitted little or no light, and her own, especially, no light. This signifies that woman's forces, being more negative than mans, are more of the influx order, while the latter is stronger in his efflux radiations. All forces from surrounding conditions are received into the system of women more than into that of men, which accounts for their sensitive and sympathetic natures. The fact that the sexes are thus constituted on the plan of positive and negative forces shows why it is that when they dwell in each other's atmosphere they often find themselves refreshed, strengthened and harmonized, as each intensifies and balances the action of the other. It can be proved that boys and girls, educated in the same schoolroom, grow stronger, wiser and better than when educated apart.

4. In woman's lower occiput and chin the love forces manifest themselves in the red tint as in man, but with somewhat less of the dark element.

5. Another mystery is made clear by these Psychic forces. It has often been a matter of wonder that women in spite of their physical weaknesses live, on the average, longer than men, as shown by statistics. In speaking of statuvolence, we saw the remarkable power over both disease and mental conditions which persons could wield in proportion as they went into the condition.

Woman in her weakness may bend like the willow, but being able to call the swift forces to her aid more easily, can weather a storm which would sometimes destroy a man. In the sickroom, or in a severe siege of suffering she is ever the mightier of the two; and suicides are far oftener masculine than feminine, which looks much as though the latter had the greater moral courage.

6. It has puzzled Dr. Brown-Sequard somewhat that Americans are longer lived, as he admits, than the people of European nations, especially as they do not seem so sturdy as their brothers over the water. This cannot come wholly from the universality of education among our people, for Prussia, perhaps, can even surpass us in that respect. If we remember the nervous activity of our people, which makes the movements of other people seem rather slow to us, we may easily understand that these finer ethers must have a considerable prominence among us, and hence the power of recuperation. Our business men and our politicians in their fierce rush for pelf and power, should remember that when these active forces are too constantly used without sufficient rest, they are liable to bum the system entirely out and make wrecks of themselves physically as well as morally.

7. The Wonderful Rapidity of Mental Action possessed by certain persons is easily accounted for by the fact that these interior forces, when brought into predominance, must necessarily make all perceptions remarkably swift and clear. Zerah Colburn when a boy, could in a moment multiply in his head a number requiring six figures to express it by another equally large, and young Safford, of Massachusetts, now Professor in a Chicago College, when only nine years old would multiply still larger amounts together, while whirling around on his heel in an intensity of excitement. At the same age or a little later, he would calculate eclipses mentally, and that by methods one-third shorter than those in ordinary use. Mr. Hutchins, of New York, known as the "Lightning Calculator," in the process of addition, can sweep immense columns of figures on a blackboard from top to bottom, almost as swiftly as the shooting of a meteor, and give a correct answer before any ordinary eye can even see the figures to read them. But this amazing velocity of mental action cannot be practiced with safety too long at a time, and great precocity in children must be guided with care, and a powerful physical system built up to prevent the blaze of thought from burning up both brain and body. Safford, when a mere boy, was handed over to the care of Harvard Professors, and was thus guided with sufficient wisdom to prevent his premature death.

8. The power of using these fine forces in the process of clairvoyance, etc., is supposed by many superficial students of this subject to betoken weakness and disease. Never was a greater mistake. While it is true that some delicate and diseased persons, from having almost none of the coarser forces to interfere with the finer, are able to see clairvoyantly, yet many clairvoyants entirely lose their power when they become sick, and I have known many persons to rise from a condition of ill health into great power as they cultivated and received these influences. A lady in New York who treats patients by powerful manipulation and giving out of the life power all day and nearly every evening until midnight, for weeks or even months in succession, is more or less clairvoyant all the time, feels the fine fluids animating her whole system, and is a superb specimen of physical power. Some of the most powerful men in the country would be like wilted leaves if they should attempt such an exhausting practice for three days. My own case is an example in point. Before cultivating these subtler agences, I was often sick, sometimes dangerously so. Since I have learned how to receive and use them, I have possessed a very strong physique and have never been sick a day. My weight is 180 pounds. One of the best clairvoyants in the country is a Mr. Wilson of Illinois. He is almost a giant in size and power, weighs 265 pounds, and is never sick. I could quote a multitude of similar cases, some of whom possess a marvelous stock of vitality and force. Is it reasonable to suppose that the most powerful forces, like these fine agencies, compared with which the common coarser life currents are slow and sluggish, will have a tendency to weaken? Never, if managed with any care, for the mind, if persevering, can easily learn how to hold them under rigid control, bidding them when, where, and how far to go and making them mighty for good. The truth is that nearly all have untold treasures of power locked up in the inner being, in fact are millionaires, but their priceless treasures will remain useless to them, until some one informs them of their own possessions, and hands them a key with which to unlock them. For this reason I have written this volume, striving to reveal to dear struggling humanity, whose interests I would ever subserve, the blessed qualities of that light which illumines external nature, and the still holier light of man's inner temple where dwells immortal spirit itself.

XV. Positive and Negative Poles.

1. As has already been stated the positive poles of the human battery are generally in the head, and the negative poles in the body. Up to this time I have not been able to get a very clear view of the colors of the body, but in the lungs orange and red are well developed, and to some extent the yellow; in the stomach I think the ruling color is yellow, with a sufficient amount of blue to give it a yellow green cast. The sexual organs are surrounded by a reddish brown, being of a somewhat darker cast than the region of amativeness on the head. The position of the negative poles on the body corresponds very generally with the position of the positive poles on the head, the front and upper head matching the front and upper body, etc. It will be seen that the color of the lungs constitutes a chemical affinity with that of the forehead and bridge of the nose, which connect so directly with the breathing apparatus. Amativeness, with its red elements, corresponds with the bluish portion of the lower spine, which is its negative point of manifestation, etc.

2. Since writing the foregoing I have received through the inner vision of Mrs. Dr. Somerby, of Syracuse, a full confirmation of the points there stated, together with still other points. Mrs. Somerby remarks that she first began to observe these psychic manifestations of color in connection with human beings, at a time when two gentlemen who sat part way across the room from each other were engaged in a warm argument. The one was somewhat dark and rubicund in complexion, and strongly of the arterial or vital temperament; the other was pale, slender, and more intellectual. The former would send out coruscations of light which was tinged with red, thus reasoning, as it were, from the blood and from his emotional na-tore; the other more cool and surcharged with thought, would radiate blue emanations towards his opponent. She was greatly amused at seeing these emanations darting back and forth and sometimes clashing.

I have taken down the following from her description of the colors of the human body:—The central portion or pole of the brain was described as being very brilliant like a sun, or a calcium light; the stomach was pronounced a deep yellow; the lungs, yellow and orange; the heart, a dark red; the bowels, yellow, with the lower part greenish mixed with some red; the back lower brain, a dark red which merges gradually into bluish white as we move down the spine; the spine, a bluish white as the ruling color, with also a reddish or reddish brown cast at the lower part, while in fact the whole nervous system showed streams of bluish white light coursing through all its channel, just as the arteries exhibited currents of red light, and the veins a grade of color less luminous than the arteries. Pointing to the pit of the stomach beneath which the solar plexus and semilunar ganglion lie, she says she saw all the colors radiating in brilliant rainbow style, and remarked that by placing a magnetic hand there it would have a healing effect on all below it, but not so much above. She saw a considerable variety of color in the region of the hypogastric plexus also. She saw different poles at the heart, liver, the bottom of the feet, etc. The feet send out quite a variety of colors with the warm colors in predominance, just as the head, being the opposite pole, on the plan of a bar magnet, has a variety of colors with blue predominating, especially at the back and front upper portions.

XVI. The Interior Machinery of Life.

1. Henry Hall Sherwood, M. D., of New York, a man of scientific culture and original force of thought, published works in 1841 and 1848 on the Motive Power of the Human System, which being too much in advance of his time to be appreciated, are now out of print. I have in my possession a fragment of his leading work which is considered so remarkable that a physician has offered ten dollars for it. By the aid of clairvoyants he was able to penetrate more deeply into the philosophy of life than most others, and made numerous experiments in magnetism and electricity which confirmed the revelations of this clairvoyance. I will give in fig. 192 a general view of the interior radiations of the brain as seen by his experts. It represents a section as cut from the upper part of the forehead at the organ of Causality, a b, through the brain longitudinally, sloping to the lower occiput through the cerebellum, thus bisecting the organ of amativeness, c d.

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sFig. 192, Interior Radiations of the Brain.

Five great leading poles were discovered, one very splendid and powerful at the center of the brain in the third ventricle, one each side of the forehead, a b, constituting the two sides of Causality, the central reasoning function, and one in each portion of the cerebellum. c d, constituting Amativeness, or the function of procreation and certain motor impulses. Minor poles were also discovered in each of the other organs of the brain, between which and the great central pole were constant radiations. The outer convolutions of the brain in which the organs are situated, are reddish gray, the inner mass of the brain is bluish while, and has a vast number of fibres or striae which radiate outward in all directions, as conducting lines doubtless for the interior ethers, and the third ventricle at the center is also bluish white, which according to the laws of chemical affinity must cause an admirable harmony and activity between this center and the reddish gray matter of all the organs in the outer brain. The anatomy of the brain shows that there are special striae radiating from the front brain corresponding to the organ of causality, and others corresponding to the organ of amativeness. The two stars between the organs of amativeness in the cerebellum, were seen by the clairvoyants to have much to do in regulating the motions of the body in harmony with the discov-

cries of physiologists, though not I he only ones that operate thus.

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d ь оFig, u)3- A magnetized Steel Disc sprinkled with fron Filings.
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Oeo.Plirt--Fig. 194.Combe. The nolo gist, representing the Location of Causality on the Forehead.

2. This system of the brain in which five leading centers were discovered both in its physical structure, and in its luminous radiations, was shown to be in harmony with the forces of inorganic nature by Dr. Sherwood, as follows:—"This was seen to be an extraordinary number and arrangement of the poles, as we have been accustomed to the number and arrangement of two poles only —of a Positive and negative pole. We must therefore see whether the magnetic forces would of themselves, without artificial aid, produce five poles in this order of arrangement, and for this purpose we may use a circular plate of steel which would correspond with a middle horizontal section of the brain. A circular saw plate eight inches in diameter, and the tenth of an inch thick, with a hole in the center of one inch in

diameter, was accordingly subjected to actual experiment in the following manner:

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• Brain laid open. A A, Anterior]tion ; CC,(Ganglia of the Cerebellum ; EE,Corpus Col-losum ; A, Third Ventricle; i, t, Great Superior Ganglia ; 2,2, Great Inferior Ganglia \ 3, Interior of Fourth Ventricle; 4, Medulla Oblongata.

"The middle of the plate or disc was carefully let down in a perpendicular direction on the middle of the positive pole of the galvanic battery, and after having remained there a moment, was raised from its position in a perpendicular direction, turned over, and the opposite side of the plate placed upon, and then removed from the negative pole of the battery in the same manner. The plate was then covered with white paper, and fine iron filings were strewed over it, and they were immediately arranged by the forces in the plate in the manner seen in fig. 193.

"This experiment was repeated eleven times on plates of from four to fifteen inches in diameter, and always with the same result. It may therefore be inferred to be constant. It presents one large and strong pole in the center of the plate, and four smaller and weaker poles in the circumference, like those in the brain.

"On applying the dipping needle to these poles, that in the center and those in the circumference at cc were found to be positive, and those at dd negative poles. When, however, the order of magnetizing on the different poles of the battery was reversed, the character of the pole in the center was changed from a positive to a negative pole, and the positions of the positive poles in the circumference were also changed; the positive occupying the positions of the negative, and the negative those of the positive poles."

This last arrangement would be an exact representation of the poles of the brain as seen by the arrows in fig. 192, although the

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great central pole must combine the character of both the positive and negative conditions, as it receives forces from all quarters internally, and radiates them to all quarters externally. Fig. 195 shows two radiating centers BB, with striations in all directions, situated in the anterior portion of the brain; also the two centers of physical life CC situated in the cerebellum, together with the location of the third ventricle A, etc.

3. The Poles of the Body. Dr. Sherwood had a lady, who had been blind from her infancy, examine the whole system while in the somniscient state, as he calls it. He says her "extraordinary revelations excite the greatest astonishment among anatomists and physiologists," and she could not have read Dr. Sherwood's mind for she had her own positive vision of the interior parts of the body more clearly even than could be impressed upon her by those present, and sometimes differed from them and taught them. She could see the five leading poles of the brain, could see lines of light running along the nerves, could see bright spots or poles in all the ganglia and in all the organs of the body. What was curious was the fact that she would send fresh illumination into an organ by placing her own fingers over it and by getting Dr. Sherwood to place his fingers over certain parts of the spine which had nerve connections leading to it. Thus when she was asked to examine the left lung and heart, she placed Dr. Sherwood's hand "on the left side of the space between the last cervical and first dorsal vertebra," and then her own hands over the front of the chest. To examine the liver she would kindle the interior light so that she could see it the better by placing the Doctor's hand "on the right side of the space between the seventh and eighth dorsal vertebrae." Another lady examined the poles of the body clairvoyantly "with precisely the same result. She confirmed in the most minute manner the number and situation of the poles in the brain, lungs, heart, stomach, pancreas, plexuses, mesentery, liver, spleen, kidneys, uterus, ovaries, tongue and orifices, and the connection between the left kidney and spleen, and also the connection between the uterus and breast, etc. Mr. Sunderland then commenced an examination of the joints of the limbs and spine, each of which she said had too poles, the one for extending, the other for flexing the body and limbs, when he commenced demonstrating the fact, by exciting the different positive and negative poles of the elbow joint, situated at the points of the insertions of the muscles, one near the upper and the other near the inner side of the condyle of the humerus, when she would extend and flex her arm alternately by exciting in the slightest manner the different poles."

"He then held the point of a pen-knife near the organ of Causality, on the right side, when she began to move her head from it. He then held it near the same organ on the left side, when she began to move her head toward it, and on inquiring the cause of her doing so, she answered. 'It pulls, oh! take it away.' He then held the point of the knife near the organ of amativeness on the right side when she again observed 'it pulls.' He then held it near the same organ on the left side, when she soon began to move her head from it, and on inquiring why she did so, she observed, 'it pushes.'"

This confirms the statement which I have already made that the forces sweep into the principal brain from the left side, which thus by their suction drew her head forward in a way to make it pull, while they pass outward at the right side in a way to make it push. In the back part of the small brain, called the cerebellum, the forces move in just the other way. The doctor has well represented these currents by the direction of the arrows in fig. 192. I will now quote Dr. Sherwood's synopsis of the number of the poles in the different organs as signified by these young ladies, and also as signified by two boys and one young lady examined by Mr. L. N. Fowler, the Phrenologist, while they were in the somniscient state.

"Number of Large Poles in the Organs.—Brain, 5; eyes, 2; ears, 2; lungs, 2; heart, 5 (like the brain); stomach, 2; liver, 2; spleen, 2; pancreas, 2; kidneys, 2; bladder, 2; uterus, 2; ovaries, 2; vagina, 2; breasts, or mammae, 2; solar plexus, 2; mesentery, 2.

"The Orifices have each one large pole, namely:—Tongue, 1; larynx, 1; pharnyx, 1; cardiac orifice of the stomach, 1; pyloric orifice do., 1; ileo-coecal valve, 1; anus, 1; and 1 in each convolution of the intestines.

"The Ganglions of Vegetative Life, or those connected with

the great sympathetic nerve, including those of the solar plexus, have each one small pole.

"The Ganglions of Phrenic Life, or those of the brain and cerebellum, including the olivary bodies, and ganglions of the spinal nerves, have each one small pole.

"Secreting System.—The lymphatic glands of this system, including those of the mesentery, have each one small pole. These poles are alternately negative and positive, and not only secrete a fluid in these glands, but change its negative and positive character alternately, and at the same time attract the fluid secreted along the lymphatic vessels to the heart.

"Excreting System.—There are no poles discovered in the mucous glands of the mucous membranes or in the skin, in the somniscient state, but numerous nerves are seen to terminate in these membranes and in the skin.

"The Convolutions of the Brain, or phrenological organs, have each one small pole."

4. The Direction of Human Polarization. Faraday says man is diamagnetic, i.e. if his body should be suspended from a pivot between the poles of a great horse-shoe magnet, it would not arrange itself in the magnetic meridian, with the head at one pole and the feet at the other, but at right angles to this direction, or in the magnetic equator. This would show that the strongest forces are transverse and agrees with Reichenbach and with my own experience, the front and right side being positive, while the back and left side are negative. Sherwood thinks the lines of polarity in man are between the head and feet. That there are such lines is doubtless true, but the transverse lines seem the strongest and are very distinctly indicated by the opposite poles of color. We have seen that the lower occiput reverses the order of currents which prevail in the front head, the influx or negative currents being at the right, and the efflux currents at the left. This may occur from the fact that the right and left hemispheres of the brain decussate at the region of the pyramids (corpora pyramidalid) and carry some of their influences to the cerebellum. The legs have been compared to a horse-shoe magnet, the positive pole of which is at the right foot; the arms to another magnet, with the positive pole at the right hand, while the fingers of each hand and the toes of each foot constitute a series of magnets. Thus the human body is diamagnetic as a whole, but magnetic in its parts. The fact that the heart is located somewhat towards the left part of the body, may have had an influence in bringing the red thermal light on the left and the electrical colors most strongly to the right. On account of the polarization of these different magnets of the body many sensitive persons find that they cannot cross their own hands or legs without interfering with the regular play of forces and causing uneasy feelings. Reichenbach states that M. Schuh, a physicist of Vienna, will have a headache if he puts right and left hands together a few minutes, while some are so feeble and sensitive as to go into spasms when hands and feet are crossed.

5. Muscular Action. Physiologists are much puzzled by the fact that nerves of motion, or those that act upon the muscles, and nerves of sensation which carry the vital ethers towards the brain, are composed of exactly the same material. The etherio-atomic law makes this clear, and shows that the same material can conduct both the thermal and electrical forces, and also the same kind of forces both ways, and as the nerves are but the wires which connect the different poles of a battery, the prince-pal effects which are communicated through them depend not on the conductors but on the elements and forces at each end. Thus if the reasoning forces of the front brain in which motor nerves are in predominance should decide to close the fingers, they can instantly, by causing an explosive action at the poles, send an electrical force through the motor nerves which connect with the flexor muscles and it will cause these muscles to contract and bend the fingers. Why will it contract the muscles? Because it is electricity, not the coarser grade, but vital electricity, for every grade of electricity is contracting in its nature. To intensify this electrical action all muscles are provided with a mucous membrane and a serous membrane, the former having a predominance of alkali, the latter of acids, and both acting as the opposite plates of a galvanic battery, the blood being the connecting fluid. At the same time the brain sends down a thermal force to the extensor muscles on the opposite side of the fingers which, of course, causes them to expand, as all thermal action is expansive. This point will be explained more in detail in a future work on Human Development.

XVII. Processes of Mental Action.

1. Thought and Feeling. We have already seen that thoughts, emotions, etc., cause a great rapidity of action among the ethers of the brain, thought sending its blue radiations, love its red, etc. This by no means signifies that we can see thought, but simply the action of some of the coarser ethers which its processes awaken, and demonstrates also that no mental action is possible without motion, or in other words without some active instrument through which it works. Dr. Sherwood's somnis-cients saw streams of light going to and from the great central pole of the brain while thinking, and also lines connecting with each other. The outward world radiates its light, including colors, forms, sizes and motions upon the mind through the eye, its voices, tones and sounds through the ear, and many of its subtler forces directly into the brain itself. These may be supposed to pass on to the central pole and by that be reflected to all quarters of the brain, so that each faculty can take cognizance of them and pass its appropriate verdict. Suppose for instance a choice stone has been discovered. Its image is carried first to the retina, then modified and carried to the central pole, then reflected to the various organs or gray convolutions of the outer brain for them to pass their decision upon it, such as that of Form which takes cognizance of its shape, and Color which discriminates with reference to its tints and hues, and Acquisitiveness, which considers its value as a possession, and Ideality which considers its beauty, and Comparison which measures its qualities with other similar substances, and Causality which traces out its origin, laws of formation, etc., and Benevolence which asks what good can be done with it? and so on, the fine ethers echoing and re-echoing from center to circumference, and from circumference to center of the brain, and making their impressions on the inner tablets of the mind just as really as impressions can be made in plaster of Paris. That this play of mental forces has a reactive effect on the whole system is too well known to need illustration here, as physiology shows how the fibres of the nerves pass through the medulla oblongata and elsewhere to the heart, lungs, stomach and all the other viscera, producing sometimes an animating and sometimes a depressing effect, according to the nature of the force communicated. Persons of violent impulses will frequently have the lower and back brain in such a hot and perhaps diseased condition as to radiate their ethers powerfully over the front and upper brain, and thus becloud and overpower the voice of both reason and conscience in case of any excitement. Such are not to be cured by severe means, but by remedying the physical and psychological causes of the difficulty. We need fewer prisons and more institutions that shall combine the character of a workhouse, hospital and school in one, for sick minds should be treated as tenderly as sick bodies, if we are ever to save the world, or in other words, sick minds always include sick bodies, or imperfect bodily conditions, for we cannot have a thought or an aspiration, or even an inspiration while in this life, without using a physical brain and physical aura as the negative instruments.

2. Psychometry, literally soul-measuring, is a term adopted by Dr. J. R. Buchanan over a third of a century ago. It recognizes the fact that all things radiate their own character upon all surrounding objects so that sensitive human beings can often describe them minutely. Thus Prof. Denton gives an account of two ladies who, on holding a piece of matter from the ruins of Pompei, saw belching fire and smoke and seemed to be almost frightened at the excitement and turmoil which was indicated thereby, and this when the object was covered with a paper and they were entirely unconsious of where it came from. Dr. Buchanan has shown in many cases in his lectures before medical classes, how drugs merely held in the hand, will produce the same symptoms on most persons that they would if taken internally, only in a milder form, and has found in very many places, persons sufficiently sensitive to read the character of another from an object which they have handled, especially from a letter which they have written. Bayard Taylor, the celebrated American Traveller, who has had a vast experience in observing mankind, writes as follows to the Cincinnati Commercial, of Mr. Brown, the Mind-reader: "Mr. Brown, is giving what he calls 'mind readings' at Chickering Hall. ft is nothing but a marked instance of natural clairvoyance—a power which, in greater or less degree, is known to at least one-tenth of the civilized human race. But the materialistic philosophers are bent

upon giving a purely materialistic explanation of the phenomena; and it is curious to what incredible lengths they go, in order to avoid admitting the existence of a 'spiritual sense.1 The last explanation is that Mr. Brown is a 'muscle reader'—that is, that he detects from the muscles of the face the particular thought, name or object in the mind of the person which he professes mentally to read. This is very much like inventing a miracle to account for a natural occurrence. I see nothing extraordinary, or even unusual, in all that Mr. Brown does. In him the sense is more finely developed, but tens of thousands have it in common with him. I know an artist, who, with bandaged

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Fig- 196, Vertical Section of the lfniin.

eyes, and a letter in a blank envelope placed between his two hands, will presently describe the character of the writer. In one instance, one of his own letters was thus given to him, and the result was such an astonishing, unconscious revelation of himself, his weaknesses and faults of character, that the experimenter hastily removed the letter, feeling that he had committed a wrong." I see by our New York papers that Mr. Brown, while at Chickering Hall, on Fifth Avenue, has lately shown his ability to find any object, secreted as carefully as possible, without leading by the hand the person who has hidden it, and has thus taken the last plank of the carpers from under their feet.

3. Vertical Section of the Brain. While fig. 192 gives a

general plan of the lateral radiations of the brain, fig. 196 gives a vertical section of the brain through the reddish gray convolutions, the bluish white interior portion, the great inferior ganglion in the cavity of the third ventricle o, the cerebellum n, with its arbor vitae, the cerebellar ganglion 1, and the medulla oblongata a, constituting the upper end of the spinal column. The convolutions of the brain here given, representing the functions of intellect, sentiment, etc., are as follows, according to the usual plan, which differs somewhat from Dr. Buchanan's nomenclature:—n, Amativeness, or sexual love; 2, Philoprogenitiveness, or love of offspring; 3, Inhabitiveness, or love of home; 4, Concentra-tiveness, or power to concentrate one's thoughts and forces; 5, Approbativeness, or love of approbation; 6, Self-Esteem, or dignity of self; 7, Firmness; 8, Reverence, or Religious and Spiritual Aspiration; 9, Benevolence; 10, Human Nature; 11, Comparison, or faculty of seeing analogies, etc.; 12, Eventuality, or power of observing actions and events; 13, Individuality, or faculty for observing individuals and existences; 14, Language, or power of remembering words. This, when large, pushes the eye outward and gives it a full appearance. Causality is on each side of 11, or Comparison. Thus we see that these striations extend in every direction and connect with the external brain on a beautiful law of unity and diversity. But there are many other series of striations and modifying portions of the brain which cannot be shown in the cut.

4. Gray and White Brain Substance. Dr. John Hughes Bennett, F. R. S. E., speaking of the white matter of the brain, says:—"On carefully examining a thin section of this structure, prepared after the manner of Lockhart Clarke, and steeped in carmine, the white substance in the adult may be seen to be composed wholly of nerve tubes. These become more and more minute as they reach the gray matter of the convolutions, and are gradually lost in it. * * * The gray matter evolves that force or quality which is essential to mind, and the conditions necessary for this are evidently connected with the molecular and cell structure. The white matter, on the other hand, conducts the influences originating in, and going to, the gray matter." (Clinical Lectures, p. 139.)

In the foregoing excellent remarks the learned doctor has evidently omitted a very important factor connected with the intellectual processes, as the gray nerve cells alone cannot "evolve the force necessary to mind," or to sensation. He might have received a very valuable hint from the following, which I quote from Dr. Sherwood's work:—"On a third examination in the same somniscient state, Mr. Sunderland inquired what she felt with, or what the sense of feeling was in; whether in her skin, flesh or bones; when she answered, 'No, it is not in either of them.' What then do you feel with? 'I don't know.' I then took hold of her hand, and when pinching one of her fingers inquired, where does the sensation of pinching go to? 'It goes along up my hand and arm to my head.' How do you know it goes there? 'Because I can see a motion along the nerves from the pole where you are pinching my thumb to the brain. How can you see a motion along the nerves? 'Because it is lighter where it is moving along.' What part of the brain does the sensation go to? 'To the middle of the brain, I believe.' Well, the magnetic forces move along the nerves as you have before described? 'Yes, they do.' Are not the sensations, then, in those forces? 'Yes, to be sure they are.'" Even this idea is not quite exact, as sensation does not come from the magnetic forces alone, nor from the brain cells, but from both combined.

5. Special Organs for Special Mental Qualities. The following is from a lecture of Prof. Agassiz, and is in harmony with the opinions of many physiologists of the day:—"The attempt to localize the mental faculties of men and animals, to connect them with the superior organization of special parts has failed." It is supposed by Dr. Brown-Sequard that there are no special organs for special mental characteristics, any more than the bottom of the foot can be called the tickling organ. On this principle a man might have a magnificent dome of thought in his front brain with expansive brows and forehead like a Lord Bacon or Daniel Webster, and it would have no more significance than the low sloping forehead of an idiot, which would be contrary to all human observation. To say that the mind, whose more immediate realm is the brain, has no special organ for reasoning with, or for perceiving, or loving, or calculating with, is on a par with saying that we can walk without legs, or see without eyes, or hear without ears. Such is the logic, such the exactness of our men of exact science. Phrenology, of course, is too vast a science to have all its details perfected, and like all other departments of human knowledge, must exhibit many imperfections and seeming inconsistencies until the forces of life are more widely understood, but its fundamental principles must be eternally true, and its leading details must also be correct; 1st, because our principal phrenologists have examined multitudes of cases and given their characters minutely while blindfolded; 2dly, the color radiations already described show the variety of powers and qualities in different parts of the brain, and these colors just harmonize with the leading qualities of the brain as discovered by phrenologists; 3dly, all organs of a sensitive brain can be charged with the hand or otherwise, and the subject, without knowing anything of the organ so charged, will manifest its especial quality in the most unmistakable manner. We have already seen how a lady was brought to an insanity of hunger by touching Alimentiveness, and thrown into convulsions of laughter by charging Mirthfulness, and how Dr. Buchanan, in the presence of Bryant, the poet, and others, could produce any mental phenomena he chose by charging different portions of the brain. Dr. Ashburner would arouse uncontrollable passional impulses, even in ladies, while in somniscence by touching Amativeness with the pointed (warm) end of a crystal, while he could immediately change the feelings by presenting the blunt or electrical end to them. I once placed my hand over the religious and spiritual portion of a young man whom I had in a magnetic state, and he uttered a rapturous expression ending with a prolonged "oh!" He saw visions of sublimity and unutterable splendor, but soon his spirit seemed to be so abstracted from the body that he was sinking into a death-like stupor, which I immediately ended by removing my hand, and making upward and outward passes. The late Dr. Elliotson, some years ago, read before the Phrenological Society of London, an account of a young lady, wholly ignorant of phrenology, who, when Mesmerized, pointed out the different parts of the brain in which she felt anger (destructiveness), kept a secret (secretiveness), felt hunger (alimentiveness), etc. I will quote some of the account:— "Upon my exciting her organ of tune, she said, 'That makes me feel so very cheerful—it makes me feel like hearing some singing.' I requested her to sing. She persisted in asserting her inability until I energetically excited self-esteem, when she said, 'I'll try,' and she forthwith hummed an air. When her organ of Color was excited (in nearly the middle of each eye-brow), she exclaimed with animation, 'Oh, oh! I see green, yellow, purple, etc., such beautiful colors.' If when she was unable to distinguish an object, I excited individuality, she instantly perceived it distinctly. The organ called wit, or mirthfulness, being excited, she fell into a continuous fit of laughter, exclaiming as well as she could, 'I shall die of laughing.' Upon exciting her organ of destructiveness, her whole aspect and tone gradually underwent the most marked change; the 'milk of human kindness' gradually turned to gall and venom; she pouted, frowned, threatened, stormed, clenched her fist, and finally became exasperated. Thinking I had gone far enough I breathed upon the organ 31 to reduce its activity, and she very soon became calm, losing every symptom of anger." The experimenter in this case was a Mr. Gardiner. Under the light of such facts, and of many others, of a physiological and psychological nature, which cannot be mentioned here, the arguments in favor of this science seem irresistible, and of vast importance, as it opens up the true science of man, and shows how to develop human life on a grander scale. It is a wonderful key to the insanities and idiosyncracies of mankind, as it is plain to be seen that when some phrenal organ or bodily organ corresponding with it, becomes over-excited or diseased, there must at once be that overaction of the mental forces developed by it which constitutes a grade of insanity: if the organs of the front brain be demagnetized by passing the currents away from them it develops a temporary idiocy—if other parts of the brain are treated thus, the conception becomes strangely perverted. Dr. Sherwood and Rev. La Roy Sunderland witnessed the case of a mesmerized lady in New York, who, when tune was charged and reverse passes made over language, could give the music, but no words, and forgot even her own name; but when language was charged and tune demagnetized, she remembered the words but not the tune; when eventuality was demagnetized she forgot all events, even her own age.

VIII. The Organ of this Higher Vision.

1. That odic and psychic colors and objects may be seen by some other faculty than the outward eye must by this time be sufficiently established for most reasonable persons, and this must be accomplished by means of a different grade of light from that which illumines the external universe. If the following idea is sufficiently remembered it will save a great deal of trouble and many mistakes:—No grade of vision can ever be accomplished without an eye to see with, or without light adapted to this eye. We have seen in Chapter First, III, that the unity of law is everywhere so complete that we are safe in judging of the unknown by the known, and hence our rule. But nearly all persons treating of this superior vision have been misled in this matter, and the fact that so many scientific minds have wandered off wide from all fundamental law, led me to try to ascertain, in the beginning of this work, what are the great basic principles that rule immutably in nature. Writers will constantly affirm that the well known Seeress of Prevorst could see with the pit of her stomach, and Dr. Gregory, of Edinburgh, says that "Clairvoyants sometimes see with the epigastrium, top of head, occiput, fingers and even toes." That these great luminous centers where the nerves are so abundant, act as windows for admitting this finer light and conducting it to the inner vision at the brain, is no doubt true, but it would be a most useless thing and a vast waste of material to have eyes with their almost countless parts all over the body where more necessary organs are required. Suppose I view the moon through a telescope 20 feet long; the act of vision does not occur at the end which receives the light, but 20 feet away from it where my eyes are.

2. But what is the location of these interior eyes? And if a man possesses a finer interior eye he must naturally possess interior ears and all other parts of the body. Is not this the logical sequence of this admission? Have we not seen that there is a grander universe within the universe, and has not St. Paul spoken of "a natural body" and "a spiritual body?" And have not many persons been conscious of a second self which at times could look down upon their outward body?

Varley, the eminent English Electrician, once did this, and the doctrine of "the double" so well known in Germany under the name of "Doppelgangers" argues in this direction. In my own experience I have met several who at times have been able to look upon their own bodies which were lying near them, and occasionally have found difficulty in re-entering them. These would be connected by shining life-cords with their own bodies, and sometimes would see the indescribable radiance of the inner world. Dr. Cleaveland, of Providence, in the translation of Deleuze, speaks of a carpenter who fell from the staging of a building to the ground. "As I struck the ground," said he, "I suddenly bounded up, seeming to have a new body, and to be standing among the spectators, looking at my old one. I saw them trying to bring it to. I made several fruitless efforts to re-enter my body, and finally succeeded." (p. 367.) Is not this a most cheering thought, giving tokens of the immortal life and of a more beautiful existence to those who have become innately beautiful? Our outward flesh easily becomes corrupt or worm-eaten, and at death is disintegrated. But this inner body is finer than light itself or any known ethers, and having no elements of decay in it must continue to live. The materialist says that thought and mentality are absolutely impossible without a physical brain to think with. Well, I am not denying their proposition. Here is not only a brain but a whole body which are material in their nature, although of a very refined materiality, but still back of these must be the animating spirit itself. So that we have this finer eye about at the same point as the outer eye, only perhaps a little farther within, and the same with the other organs. This will account for the fact that so many persons who have had a leg or arm amputated will still continue to feel pains at times in the toes or fingers whose coarser counterpart is absent.

3. H. Helmholtz, Professor of Physics in the University of Berlin, and one of the eminent names of Europe, is an illustration of how weak in philosophy a man may sometimes be who is very skillful in science. He uses the following language in a lecture delivered at Frankfort and Heidelberg:—"We know that no kind of action upon any part of the body except the eye, and the nerve which belongs to it, can ever produce the sensation of light. The stories of somnambulists, which are the only arguments that can be adduced against this belief, we may be allowed to disbelieve." Certainly! The learned Professor may be allowed to disbelieve in the existence of the Rhine, or any other immutable fact of nature, if he choose; but as long as this river will continue to exist and roll on towards the sea, it would be unwise to do so. Should he attempt to walk across its channel under the impression that no water exists there, he might fall into great danger, just as he does when he ignores these subtile forces of life which have such a bearing on all science. He then proceeds as follows, which shows that he has already got into a very dangerous pathway of thought: "But on the other hand, it is not light alone which can produce the sensation of light upon the eye, but also any other power which can excite the optic nerve. If the weakest electrical currents are passed through the eye they produce flashes of light. A blow, or even a slight pressure made upon the side of the eye-ball with the finger makes an impression of light in a dark room, and under favorable circumstances this may become intense. * * * Under these circumstances, at least, there is not the smallest spark of actual light." If Professor Helmholtz had properly studied the work of Reichenbach, written in his own language, he would have seen that there are hundreds of cases given in which sentitives could see the odic light under the stimulus of electricity, friction, &c., with its flames, sparks, and smoke as an actual entity, as real as the light of the sun. The fact that many persons can be stimulated to see these lights and colors by having their eyes electrized or pressed, should not lead him to banish all perception of light from the earth in its objective phases, as we shall soon see that he does, but should make him understand that there is more light than he at first thought there was, for similar effects must have similar causes. He then goes on to say that the "most complete difference offered by our several sensations, that, namely, between those of sight, of hearing, of taste, of smell, and of touch, does not, as we now see, at all depend on the nature of the external object, but solely upon the central connections of the nerves which are affected * * * These elementary sensations of color, can only be called forth by artificial preparation of the organ, so that, in fact, they only exist as subjective phenomena." The Italics are mine. If all these sensations "do not at all depend on the nature of the external object," then a rose or a piece of carrion are alike to the sense of smell, pepper and sugar to the sense of taste, or the red and blue colors to the sense of vision. If the Professor had studied these fine laws of force, he might have ascertained the very laws of chemical affinity between the red light, for instance, and the nerve fibres which receive it in the process of sensation, and the entirely different chemical process between the blue light and the nerve fibres which receive it, and so with the other colors, which process will be treated of in the next chapter. He would see very clearly, too, that action and reaction being equal, the object acting upon the nerves of the retina, has exactly the same importance with reference to these nerves that the nerves have with reference to the object; or, in other words, the nerves of sensation depend as much upon the nature of the object as the object does upon the nerves of sensation. His theory makes the sensation everything, the object nothing, and tends directly into that system of idealism which pretty much annihilates the outward universe and sets up human consciousness as the all-embracing thing. But we ascertain at once how he has been misled when he affirms that his opinions "are clearly expressed in the writings of Locke and Herbart, and they are completely in accordance with Kant's philosophy." It is high time that these mere speculative systems of philosophy were laid on the shelf, and a system founded on nature substituted in their place, so that science shall no longer be kept in the back-ground. For other opinions on these matters, see Chapter Second. I will simply add that had I followed such principles I could never have discovered any laws of atomic action, of the chemical affinity of colors, or their therapeutical or other potencies, or a multitude of other things, for if I had believed that force or the perception of force "does not depend at all upon the nature of external objects," but rather upon something merely in the mind, I should have looked upon only one side of matters, and this is the best way to learn neither side correctly. Many of our scientific men, however, including Helmholtz himself, are superior in practice to their theories, and so in spite of all deficiencies the world owes many great achievements to their discoveries.

4. I must be pardoned for telling a little story at the expense of these idealistic scientists:—

Alphonso, a young man who was fond of philosophy, became quite enamored of a certain silver-tongued reasoner by the name of Sophistes.

"My boy," said the would-be sage as they met for conversation, "there is nothing but the immortal mind, nothing but the conscious ego in the whole universe that has any real or absolute existence. Look at yonder sky. It appears to be a dome of blue sapphire, but go up into it, by means of a balloon, and the blue can never be found; it is all delusion. In your childhood you were sure the rainbow rested on a distant hill, but when you chased it the whole thing turned out to be deception.32 You say that yonder rep cushion is green. That is entirely owing to what kind of light touches it, for look, as I throw the light through a prism, and see how one part becomes red, another yellow, another violet, etc. Where, now, is your green?t My friend, the color is 'all in your eye.' If color is anything at all why cannot we photograph it?"$

"But," interrupted Alphonso, "are not metals, woods, liquids, etc., actual substances?"

"Put a powerful heat upon gold, silver, and platinum even, and they can be vaporized and passed away from your vision forever."

"And still their parts must continue in some form."

"Do you not see that if these hard elements can be thus dissipated and made invisible, it is quite easy to suppose that if a heat sufficiently great were brought to bear upon them they might be entirely annihilated? Reasoning from analogy with these other so-called objects which I have just spoken of, it must be so, and in reality they are shadowy nothings. As colors, then, and solids and liquids have thus no fundamental basis of substance, the same is true of sounds, and odors, and heat, and cold, and everything in the realms of being. Intellect and sensation and consciousness are the only entities and potencies which a philosopher can recognize. Does not Locke say that 'what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion?' Does not Count Rumford also prove that there is no such thing as caloric, heat being a mere motion? Let us be keen enough, then, to rise above these phantasies and delusions around us, and dwell on the eternal rock of being within."

These and many other points were inculcated upon the young student, and he, becoming spell-bound by the teachings of Soph-istes, was impressed with the grandeur of being a philosopher and the folly of heeding the material conditions around him to such an extent that he concluded not to take any more food or drink. "Such things," he said, "would do for ordinary stupid mortals who know no better, but so long as he knew them to be mere shadowy nothings, what folly to pay attention to them." His motto was, "Be strong in immortal thoughts and control all surrounding conditions by the might of volition." Reasoning thus, he became weaker and paler every day, and when his distressed friends entreated him to eat he proved to them their shortsightedness and said that when he had brought his mind into harmony with surrounding motions and conditions he should be all right. He, however, continued to waste away, when a friend, by the appropriate name of Llewellyn, which interpreted means lightning, determined to break the spell that was destroying him. He made an arrangement to accompany Alphonso to see his mentor Sophistes, whom the young man had pronounced one of the greatest of philosophers, quite able, as he felt sure, to wind up Llewellyn in five minutes. "We shall see who will get the best of the argument," said the strong man who, by name and nature, was charged with a good stock of the principle, of lightning.

Having reached the room of the wonderful teacher, Llewellyn remarked to him that his young friend here had spoken of his remarkable wisdom, and that he was anxious to hear his explanation of that which we usually suppose to be matter. Sophistes felt flattered, and went on in his most eloquent style to demolish the whole external universe, leaving not a vestige of it behind. Alphonso was pleased to see the wrapt attention with which Llewellyn seemed to swallow every word, and chuckled at the thought that he was already conquered. As Sophistes was about finishing up his glowing exposition, a terrific explosion took place, seemingly under his chair, which made him spring out upon the floor in great alarm, with staring eyes and a flushed face, declaring that somebody was trying to blow him up with a bomb-shell. Alphonso, too, being in a weak state, was very much frightened and rushed for the door. Llewellyn spoke up and said: "Friends be calm! I beg of you be calm! I defy any bomb-shells to hurt me! Have you not just proved irresistibly that sound is a nonentity, and heat a nonentity, or at most a mere motion, and that the thing which just exploded is really no thing at all? Why, then, this alarm? You surely believe your own theories?"

"Of course I do," said Sophistes, "but that was motion, a terrible motion, my dear Sir! Can't you understand me?"

"Certainly," replied the man of lightning, "and have been charmed by your beautiful language, but you see I am not in the least afraid of any motion so long as there is nothing to move. You have shown me very eloquently that what people call solids, liquids and gases are really mere moonshine, mere diluted nihilities, so of course the infernal arrangement that somebody placed under your chair could not hurt anybody, for there was nothing of it."

Sophistes tried to stutter out an argument and seemed quite excited, when Llewellyn exclaimed: Please be seated, my dear sir, and I will show you by a practical illustration what a boundless faith I have in your philosophy. Have you a piece of gold coin, Sir?"

Sophistes handed over a half eagle.

"Have you also a handkerchief with you?"

Sophistes passed a neat white handkerchief to him.

Holding them up, Llewellyn exclaimed: "Very pretty indeed! I once thought they were real substances, but now I find out otherwise. What dreamers we all are, living in a vain delusion! I don't wonder you look with pity upon the great vulgar crowd who are ever clinging to the shadowy nothings around them as if they were something genuine. I used to think that heat was a severe reality, but now I find it is a mere matter of sensation, a subjective matter, being nothing but motion in the object. Now if I should throw this handkerchief into that fire, it would not give you any sensation of heat, and therefore there would be only some motion going on in the handkerchief, which, of course, would not amount to anything. To prove it, I will try it and see," at which the lightning man had the handkerchief in the fire in a twinkling. Its owner sprang forward with a groan and clasped the burning article, but not before some ugly holes had been made in it. His face was as red as fire as he exclaimed:

"Sir! are you crazy?"

"Well," said Llewellyn with a puzzled look, "either I must be crazy, or you must be, for there is a powerful objective something somewhere, else how could those holes have come? I think I had better not make any more experiments, as I have had bad luck, and so I believe I will go home." Saying this he started off and beckoned to Alphonso to follow him.

"But stay!" said Sophistes, "I will take that five dollar gold piece if you please."

"Excuse me," said the man of lightning, "you have proved conclusively that gold and other solids are mere diluted moonshine, or in other words simply nothing at all. Since you know this to be the fact, and since my last experiment has shown me that there may be a reality in these objects, I will just take this piece along with me and see how it turns out."

"Saying this he started out into the street followed by Sophistes, who cried "Police! Police." A policeman immediately made his appearance. The reader, I presume, will perceive that Llewellyn had prearranged all matters, including the explosive, as well as the policeman who had been informed of the programme.

"Explain this conduct, sir," said the policeman to Llewellyn, with some show of sternness.

"Certainly. This is the explanation:—This gentleman is a philosopher," emphasizing the word philosopher—"and he has proved to me very powerfully that gold and other substances have no real existence as distinctive objects—that they are shadowy elements which may be dissipated, and consequently are mere nonentities. Now I am not quite sure of this fact, and so I wish to take it home and experiment a little upon it. As he is sure that there is nothing in it, he certainly should not feel that he is losing anything.

"If you don't consider that the gold is any special object," said the policeman to Sophistes, "why do you object to his taking it?"

Sophistes quibbled some and showed much excitement, and vowed that he would not be robbed by wrong applications of his principle.

By this time Alphonso, who had been silent so long, became so indignant that he could hold in no longer. Rushing up to the sophist, he exclaimed:—"Sir, your fine words turn out to be nonsense when put into practice. The truth is you and I are both fools, you a dishonest one from not acting up to your own theories, and I an honest one who have already starved myself nearly to death as a proof of my sincerity. I shall hurry off and get something to eat, for I feel now as though a good beef steak would weigh down a hundred of your arguments."

He was hurrying off, when Llewellyn caught him and bade him wait a moment, as it was necessary for him to attend him and prevent his over-eating. Turning to Sophistes, Llewellyn exclaimed:—

"Sir, my purpose has been accomplished. I shall trifle no more with this subject; I came here to show this young man that a few simple facts would scatter your theories to the winds. So far as my methods have seemed rude, I beg your pardon, and my excuse is that when men wall themselves about with very absurd channels of reasoning, they can only be liberated from it by some rather hot and explosive styles of facts. I have not had the most distant idea of wronging you, and now offer you the gold, which is one of nature's eternal entities, and a dollar more to pay for the handkerchief destroyed. Let me beg you not to further mislead people's minds by attempting to destroy the whole outward universe, especially so long as you cannot prove that the most minute particle of matter has ever been or ever can be destroyed."

These words were hardly finished before the indignant sophistical philosopher had withdrawn into the house and slammed the door.

5. Does my reader say that the foregoing is an extreme view of things, and that such a philosophy has not been held by any one? Is it not the logical sequence of even the reasoning of Helmholtz, and especially of Kant and others whom he follows? To show that the mystic schools of Germany go even beyond what I have represented, I will quote a little from Dr. J. R. Buchanan:—"Kant, in opposition to the cosmologists, denied our ability to know anything of the world, or of being exterior to ourselves, because of the limitation of our faculties. He affirms that space and time are mere conditions of our own perceptive faculties, and that if we would understand external objects we must conceive them independent of space and time; and, as we cannot do this, we cannot know anything truly, but can recognize certain delusive appearances. * * * Fichte, equally absurd with Kant, decided, by a course of inconsequential reasoning not worth repeating in its jejune tediousness, that man exists, but nothing else. The supposed reality beyond man (the universe and Deity), is merely derivative from man; in other words, is merely an affection of our consciousness. Of course, then, each human being must consider himself the universe, and all other human beings being an effect of his consciousness, as he is but an effection of their consciousness—which seems logically to annihilate the substantial existence of man, leaving only ideas. It was with reference to such a philosophy that a Boston transcen-dentalist was said to have pronounced it very unphilosophical to say, 'It snows,' or 'It rains.' It would be more philosophical to say, 'I snow,' or 'I rain.' * * * The next step in miso-logical absurdity is to deny, with Kant, the existence of time and space, affirming that they appertain only to our minds. The next beyond Kant is to deny all perception, with Fichte and Schelling, and affirm that nothing exists but our own consciousness or thought. The very ultima thule of absurdity is reached with Hegel in ignoring our positive consciousness of self and observation, to affirm a limitless consciousness—unlocated, undefined, and commingled with being and unconsciousness, in a tertium quid which defies description or even conception." (Brittan's Quarterly, July, 1873.)

XIX. The Medical World.

1. The lack of knowledge of these Fine Forces is constantly apparent in the medical profession. When they wish to get up an action in certain parts of the system, they know of no better way than to produce new diseases in those parts, by blistering, burning with hot irons, leeching, lancing, drugging, using setons, etc. If they would keep up with the progress of the day they would ascertain that counter irritation and counter diseases are generally unphilosophical, as passes and friction from a warm magnetic hand can draw the blood powerfully to any desired part of the body, or call it away from any part, and that in a way to cause no local harm but to animate the whole system. They should learn also that by means of sunlight, aided by lenses, as well as by electricity and water, they may in many cases produce the same result, and that without any severe after effects. More than this they would see that the barbarous practice of transfusing blood from a living human being or animal into the veins of a patient, is far less scientific than the transfusion of psycho-magnetism and vital magnetism through the whole nervous system, and thence through the whole vascular system, by means of which a pure and fine flow of blood can be developed on natural principles, and the life forces made strong from the very foundation. If you tell them about this higher science of life, these diviner essences of power, they cannot see them or clasp them in the hand as they can drugs or lancets, and so very many of them will pronounce such methods ''quackery'' or "fanaticism." They however seem to be so afraid of the rising power of these "quacks," and are so anxious to protect the interests of the people, which expression being interpreted means the medical people, that they will sometimes raise heaven and earth to have laws enacted against allowing them to practice until they have passed through the same false systems of collegiate medical training as themselves. These quacks cure thousands of cases that baffle the power of drugs and surgery, and I could fill large volumes with their achievements which would be considered almost too remarkable to be credited. I am no advocate of ignorance and would glory in a true system of medical education founded on nature's higher methods, but an ignorant healer who deals with the fine forces will in most cases do more good and less harm, than a so-called learned physician who practices only with the coarser elements. I will quote a very few of the admissions of eminent physicians themselves, as the best proof that the cruder elements of nature are not suited to build up so refined a being as man, and also to show that those who build so much upon such forces, are quite conscious of their failure in arriving at the true elements of power, or in attaining to a scientific basis of cure:—

"Our remedies are unreliable." Valentine Mott, M.D.

"Of all sciences, medicine is the most uncertain." Dr. Willard Parker.

"I have no faith whatever in our medicines." Dr. Bailey.

"Medicine is so far from being a science that it is only conjecture." Dr. Evans.

"Mercury has made more cripples than all wars combined." Dr. McClintock.

"So gross is our ignorance of the physiological character of disease that it would be better to do nothing." Dr. Magendie.

"Digitalis has hurried thousands to the grave." Dr. Hosack.

"Blisters nearly always produce death when applied to children." Prof. C. R. Gilman, M.D.

"Drugs do not cure disease; disease is always cured by the vis medicatrix naturae." Prof. J. M. Smith, M.D.

"Opium diminishes the nerve force." Dr. Davis.

"The older physicians grow, the more skeptical they become to the virtues of medicine." Dr. Stevens.

"The action of remedies is a subject entirely beyond our comprehension." Prof. John B. Beck, M.D.

"I fearlessly assert, that in most cases the patient would be safer without a physician than with one." Prof. Ramage, M.D., F.R.S.

"Let us no longer wonder at the lamentable want of success which attends our practice, when there is scarcely a sound physiological principle among us." Dr. Magendie.

"The science of medicine is a barbarous jargon, and the effects of our medicines on the human system are in the highest degree uncertain, except that they have already destroyed more lives than war, famine and pestilence combined." Dr. John Mason Good.

The uncertainty and failure signified by the above expressions of high toned and honest physicians must ever continue until men shall learn the dual relations of matter and force, the law of atoms and ethers, and through them the principles of chemical action as applied not only to the coarser elements of external nature, but to the finer physiological and psychological phenomena of man. I do not protest against medical science, but against the lack of science, and against that arbitrary spirit among the lower ranks of our medical men which would make laws to fine and imprison all who practice on a plan different from their own, although their own is admittedly very imperfect, while the men whom they would enchain might prove to be the Galileos and Harveys of a new and grander medical dispensation which shall yet give joy and power to the world. The intelligent people of Massachusetts have triumphantly defeated the attempt to enact these despotic laws which would crush out the freedom of the people to choose their own medical advisers. On the same principle they should make laws to determine what clergymen, what teachers, what merchants should be employed, what churches should be considered safe to attend and what style of schools should be allowed, and having thus put the people in swaddling clothes as being incapable of self-government, should appoint guardians over every family to tell them what they may graciously be allowed to eat, drink, or wear. The laws of Illinois and California on this subject, are a disgrace to those States, and even those of Ohio, New York, and some other States, though of a milder type, show that their people have not been sufficiently acute in their perceptions, or manly in their love of liberty, to prevent their legislators and designing physicians from getting the advantage of them. In making these remarks I am not condemning all physicians by any means, for very many of them are grand men who rise above their schools, seeking for truth in all directions, and following nature's diviner teachings. Such ones have no hand in persecuting others.

2. The Drinking of the Blood of Animals, newly butchered, is a disgusting practice which also arises from ignorance of these finer forces. In New York, and perhaps other cities, many refined ladies and gentlemen are in the habit of going daily to places where cattle are butchered, and imbibing glasses of freshly drawn blood. This in some cases is found to be beneficial, but why, they cannot tell. The truth is that when the blood is first drawn, before the subtle magnetic life fluids escape, there is an animating principle in it which may strengthen and vitalize to some extent. This vital element is what keeps the blood fluidic and active, and when it escapes the blood stiffens into clot. The folly of these blood-thirsty persons consists in the fact of their not knowing that they could get a far more refined and potent life power from the touch of many human beings, some of whom can rival the galvanic battery in immediate effect and far outdo it in the fineness and durability of their power. This power of psychoelectricity was well tested by Prof. S. B. Brittan, in Saratoga, before an audience of several hundred persons some years since. A Mr. Cook who, from his knowledge of electrical science, had been employed by the government, denied that there was any such thing as vital electricity, and stated that he could knock a man down with his electrical apparatus; and when Prof. Brittan "would do the same with his mental electric battery he would believe that electricity had something to do with the phenomena in question." Two worthy young men, strangers to Dr. Brittan, were chosen by the audience and sent upon the platform. After manipulating them a little he directed them to stand firmly, 12 or 15 feet distant from him. He then made a powerful effort of the will and forward thrust of his hands towards them which struck them to the floor as though they had been shot. Mr. Cook immediately left the audience without saying a word, which was a confession of defeat. Some account of this may be found in Brittan's "Man and his Relations," p. 40.

3. While disease, according to the old schoolmen, has generally been treated as originating and developing in material conditions, according to Hahnemann and the modern idealists, it has its origin wholly in spiritual conditions. While the latter have done great good by refining the conceptions of the people, my readers by this time have seen an overwhelming array of facts to show how matter and spirit must work forever in correlation, while the attempt to build on matter alone, or spirit alone, is like driving a carriage with one wheel.

XX. Miscellaneous Points.

1. The Universal Unity of Things is apparent from the whole tenor of this work, all things in their basic principles resembling all other things, so that we may judge the whole by a part, the unknown by the known, and the invisible by the visible. We have seen that one great difference in the methods by which this unity manifests itself is, that there is an infinite stairway of degrees reaching from the coarse to the fine, progressing from solids to semi-solids, to liquids, to gases, to ethers, and, finally, to that inconceivable fineness, and subtlety of principle which we term spirit. Thus we have the spiritual and material ever blending, ubiquitous, eternal and necessarily correlated in all things as the positive and negative principles of force, or as the basis of all action and reaction. We have seen how the material and spiritual are simply the two ends of the same immeasurable scale of being and both subject to the same laws of chemical action. Does my reader say that the spirit can think and perceive, while the material or bodily portion of man cannot? This is a great error which should be laid on the shelf as soon as possible, as I have already shown perhaps a score of times, that all possible action must have its dual relations, spirit not being able to act without connection with some grade of matter as a reactive element, nor matter without being potentialized by spirit. Seeing, then, that there is such an absolute unity and interblending and correlation throughout the universe, it is evident that Herbert Spencer is mistaken in declaring that there is a realm of the "unknowable," and many philosophers of the day are mistaken in asserting that we can gain no possible conception of infinity. While we can gain no proper conception of the vastness of the infinite whole, yet, building on the foregoing principle, we may gain a clear conception of the constitution of the infinite, for if we take the smallest atom and mount from that up to a drop of water, which is a huge globe in comparison, and then expand our view until we take in a world, a solar system, a cluster of solar systems, or in fact the whole known universe, we find not a particle of difference in their great fundamental principles, such as unity, diversity, gradation, contrast, etc. So far, then, we may be said to grasp infinity itself, and qualitatively considered there is no absolutely unknowable realm, however short we may come in the quantitative grasp of things.

2. The Magnetic Needle. Having this conception of the fraternity of all things, the philosophy of much that is now obscure becomes comparatively simple. Suppose we ask why it is that the magnetic needle points to the north magnetic pole? We know that a vane is swept around in a certain direction by currents of air, and a stick of wood, by currents of water, and that all known displays of force are caused by a current-like or wavelike flow of some fluid, and so we may be sure that certain currents or ethereal winds of force drive the needle around in their own direction. In Chapter Fourth we have seen just how and why certain magneto ethers are drawn northward on the law of thermo-electricity, and thus made to turn the needle northward, and how certain magnetic curves or whirlwinds of force, sweeping into the earth, deflect the needle downward in what is called the magnetic dip.

3. Mental Action. How does mind control matter? Let us again come right to nature's simple method of operating. We have seen that no mental action can take place until the convolutions of the brain have been awakened into life by the sweep of fine ethers as well as blood through them just as in a landscape a tempest brings all surrounding objects into action. But volition and mental action of various kinds can send the ethers and with them the blood to various parts of the body; can make the maiden's cheek blush; can send these life currents to the heart and cause paleness under an impulse of fear; can send electric currents to contract muscles, and thermal currents to expand them, and bring about a hundred other kinds of effect. Many persons, including the author, have learned to will the vital electricities to the hands or other parts of the body with a power that causes them to thrill and burn. A magnetic physician once informed me that he had treated a tumor on one of his limbs for months without any special effect, until finally he concluded to fasten his will upon it while treating it, when to his surprise it immediately commenced going down and soon became entirely well. How does spirit accomplish such a movement among physical conditions? Exactly on the same principle that the body can do the same. If a human hand can dash water into eddies or currents in any direction it pleases, so can the human spirit dash those spiritual and psychic ethers with more than lightning speed in whatever direction it pleases, and through them waken the animal ethers and nerves and blood and muscles and the marvelous forces of the brain itself. If a physical hand is moved, this motion requires the play of certain chemical and galvanic action. Does not the spirit also have its marvelously fine play of chemical forces? Have we not seen from the color radiations of the brain and body, that all mental as well as physiological action involves exquisite grades of chemical affinity and chemical repulsion? Seeing, then, that these fine forces, guided by this simple generalization, can thus open up the pathway of divine wisdom and reveal so many secret hiding places of power, why shall men stupidly shut their eyes and ears to them, and groveling among the grosser conditions of matter, declare that nothing can be known of the basic principles of molecular, or chemical, or physiological, or psychological action?

4. Memory. How can the mind bring up and retain images of past or distant events in the way which constitutes memory? Just as a photographic plate can receive and retain images of objects which are thrown upon it. The photographic image is formed by sunlight aided by proper chemicals. These mental images are formed by the higher grades of light, aided as we have seen by the interior chemical forces of the brain. Psy-chometrists and clairvoyants can, at times, so come into rapport with this finer light as to see these mental images and read the events of a lifetime to the astonishment of the persons thus read. Thoughts, imaginations and passions also stamp actual images on this wonderful tablet of the soul, which thus constitutes a book of life that at some future time may cause great mortification to the owner, unless the gross and selfish imaginations may be sufficiently covered up or erased by those of a nobler kind.

5. Self-Psychology. Dr. Fahnestock, following the lead of Dr. Braid, Dr. Carpenter, and many other physicians who, from their mental constitution and bias, are unfitted to perceive or explain correctly the working of these fine psychological forces, contends that there is no such thing as any magnetic or fluidic emanation which may pass from one person to another, but that all mesmeric, somnambulic or similar phenomena are caused by imagination, or suggestion, or volition, or some other action of the mind. This is on a par with saying that Goliath was not smitten by a stone from David's sling, but by David himself. In other words it declares that the mind does something, but quite ignores the instrument through which it works. In my little work addressed to Dr. Brown-Sequard,33 I supposed that I had given an array of facts which would entirely destroy any such hypothesis, as they showed the power of these forces to work at a distance upon adults and sometimes upon infants who were entirely unconscious of their exertion, but it makes no difference how often you kill these theories, they will come to life again the next day in some other form. The method by which the doctor beclouds his own and other people's vision at present is, by asserting that a person may put himself into the mesmeric or statuvolic condition, and therefore this is conclusive proof that he never receives any emanations from another person. By similar reasoning we may say that a man can dash water upon himself, therefore no one else can dash water upon him. I have already shown that the mesmeric or lucid sleep consists not only in having the vital ethers and blood of the brain drawn away into the body by means of passes from some other person's hand, or sent away by one's own volition, but in drawing outward the finer and more powerful psychic ethers by means of looking at some object, or thinking of some object, outside of one's own brain. A person who is finely magnetic can assist in charging another's brain and putting it in rapport with these fine forces, a man like Major Buckley, whom Dr. Gregory describes, being able to charge people so powerfully that multitudes became clairvoyant, while other persons would impede clairvoyance. Many persons, however, can learn to control their own forces without the aid of others at the time.

6. The Stupidity of Investigators of these fine forces may be seen in the case of a number of positive skeptical persons as they get around a sensitive subject, and perhaps taking him by the hand will laugh and jest and show their incredulity as they require him to see through solid matter. Sometimes they will practice deception upon him, for a sensitive is generally in so negative a condition that he can easily be psychologized to believe and admit almost anything that a positive mind may desire, and so when they sometimes succeed in making him admit a falsehood, they chuckle over the matter and declare that imagination or suggestion is all there is of it. Instead of exulting thus in their own supposed shrewdness, they should mourn over their supreme folly, and ignorance of law, and the wrong they do to a divine cause. The author, in most cases, cannot see clearly with this inner vision if a single person is in the room, and while charged with these lightning ethers sufficiently to see the glorious colors and lights of the interior world, the tension of his system will be so great and his sensibility so keen that a sound like the dropping of a pin will sometimes make him start and will completely dissipate all colors and forms. I have seen a lady while in this sensitive condition, thrown into spasms by the falling of a small article of furniture, and very few sensitives in the world can exhibit their powers before a noisy audience with any success. Investigators should have a supreme love of truth and should be able to remain entirely passive at such times.

XXI. Summation of Points in Chromo-Mentalism.

1. Intellect is the culmination of power, and may be affected indirectly by ordinary light, still more by odic light, and most of all by the psychic light which is the direct messenger and servant of the spirit in its relations to the outward world.

2. The psychic lights and colors are inexpressibly beautiful and manifest the infinite activities of nature unseen by ordinary eyes.

3. This higher vision exalts the conception and shows that there is a grander universe within the visible which is the real cosmos.

4. Thousands of persons are able to see these psychic colors.

5. They reveal the primary laws offeree. When scientists dwell only among the coarser grades of matter, they deal with the outer shell of things, and fail to fold the richer kernel within.

6. This light renders opaque substances transparent from its power to penetrate them, and hence those who can get in rapport with it become what is called clairvoyant. The Committee of the French Royal Academy recognized this fact, and Major Buckley developed 148 persons so that they could read sentences shut up in boxes or nuts.

7. Ordinary sleep is caused by drawing the vital ethers, and with them the blood away from the front brain into the cerebellum and body, thus leaving the mental powers so inactive as to be unconscious, while som-niscience, or the lucid magnetic sleep not only calls these coarser vital ethers away, but brings into action the finer interior forces which being more swift and penetrating cause greater keenness of mental power, and, when sufficiently developed, clairvoyance itself.

8. This lucid condition is often induced by fastening the mind on some near or distant object to draw the finer ethers outward, and is sometimes assisted by downward passes to draw the coarser ethers away from the brain.

9. These psychic forces can bless mankind by opening up a sublimer vision of the possibilities of the universe and of human life, by controlling physical, mental, and moral diseases in a very remarkable way, and by circumventing fraud.

10. Self-Psychology, or Statuvolence, is a condition which is brought about by getting in rapport with these psychic forces, when by the power of the will the subject can cause all sensation to cease in a part or the whole of his body, or cure disease, or permanently correct many of his mental and moral deficiencies.

11. Every part of the intellectual, moral, or passional nature can be aroused into greater action, or subdued into a feebler action by charging different portions of the brain and body with these psychic forces with the hand, or otherwise, or by drawing them off. When the subject is in a somnambulic or otherwise sensitive condition, each part of the brain so touched will arouse a special and intense kind of thoughts and feelings entirely different from every other part, thus showing that the brain has its special organs, or regions of special mental characteristics. The psychic colors which vary in different parts of the brain in harmony with these organs, also confirm the same idea.

12. The fine forces of the brain radiate colors on much the same principle as the odic forces in nature.

13. The left hemisphere of the brain receives the blue and electrical forces and radiates the warm red forces more strongly than the right, while the right brain radiates the blue forces and receives the red more strongly than the left. The left brain is stronger in the domain of intellect; the right, in that of organic life.

14. The highest faculties radiate their forces most strongly upward; the lowest, most strongly downward. The Intellectual faculties radiate their forces both upward and downward in front, the Propelling faculties, both upward and downward behind, and the color radiations are beautiful and pure about every person in proportion as his mental and moral character becomes refined and ennobled.

15. Intuition is large in proportion as the psychic forces gain activity in a person, and small in persons whose brains use mainly the ordinary slower ethers. Geniuses, and prodigies of swiftness in mental action, abound in these finer ethers. Woman is more intuitive than man on the average, and being more subject to influx ethers is more sympathetic. Systems strong in the psychic element are especially elastic and recuperative in their vitality.

16. The poles of bodily organs, so far as examined, radiate colors which form a chemical affinity with those of the brain, hence the attraction between them.

17. The brain has been seen to have five great leading poles, or centers of luminous radiation, the greater of which is in the center, besides which it has minor poles in all the organs, which connect with the central pole. Besides these all of the ganglia and organs of the body have each one or more poles. All sensations and perceptions cause luminous streams of force to pass to the great central pole of the brain from which they are reflected to the external gray matter that constitutes the organs of thought and feeling.

18. The reddish gray matter of the brain and nerves, and the bluish white matter of the same, constitute those elements of chemical affinity without which the psychic ethers could not act, and hence all sensation must cease.

19. The motor nerves are strong in the intellectual, and the sensory nerves in the passional and emotional portions of the brain.

20. A human being must have special organs for special operations of the mind as truly as for walking, seeing, hearing, etc.

21. No vision can ever take place without an eye, or without a grade of light adapted to that eye, as Nature never works without instruments, and never violates in one department of being the general law which she follows in another. This finer vision then shows that we have a finer eye than the outward, to which this more exquisite light is adapted, and having eyes of this superior interior character we must have a whole body to match them, a fact that is abundantly proved by the revelations of this diviner light itself, which has often portrayed the human double.

After giving all these facts and deductions, will not the reader indulge me in one little speculation? As we have this finer body within the coarser, and composed of materials which are never known to decay like gross matter, and which, as we have seen, must be vitalized by a spirit incomparably finer still, is it not reasonable to suppose that when it lays aside the outer garment at death, it must rise by its own gravity, in case it has been sufficiently refined by a true and pure life, into higher realms of space, some distance above the earth, where all things exist in a much more ethereal and exquisite condition? In Chapter Fourth, VII, we have seen that in the ever refining and radiating processes of nature, the more ethereal portions of all matter are being thrown off into space, that exquisite light and fine elements of oxygen, carbon, sodium, lime, silex, hydrogen, nitrogen and other elements of our earthly soil send their emanations upward into the atmosphere, and becoming still more ethereal must rise even higher than what we usually call our atmosphere, for all things must rise in proportion as they become light and airy. Now is it not reasonable to suppose, nay, must it not be almost a certainty, that the immense play of chemical forces through these upper realms, must have segregated and aggregated vast masses of these exquisite particles of earthly matter, until islands, continents, and perhaps almost a continuous belt-work of this divine Kingdom of the Father have been thus constituted? Reichen-bach's sensitives ascertained how much more brilliant were the odic lights and colors when the atmosphere was removed, and we may imagine how superbly fascinating must be the psychic grade of light where no gross elements intervene. Does it strike you that this celestial zone would interfere with the brightness of the sun's hght on our earth? So far as it would affect it at all, it must increase this brilliance, for we have seen that we cannot get any effect of hght except when the luminous ethers pass through chemically formed particles of matter which we call luminelles, and which float in our atmosphere. Thus we have our radiant celestia crystallized and developed on natural principles. But we have no heavenly realm yet until we can get landscapes, and flowers, and trees, and lakes. Can we get these on natural principles? Why not? We have simply a more exquisite soil, made up of the emanations of the earthly soil itself. If flowers and trees will grow from our coarser and more inert earthly soil, how much more rapidly should they grow from this very soil in its fine and more active conditions when transferred to these more powerful realms, and if the water of the earth is beautiful, how much more beautiful must its finer counterpart be in the higher lakes. Think you it would be too cold there for vegetation and human life? But the coarser grades of heat and cold which rule here, have no effect on the finer conditions. The fine thermal and electrical rays that radiate from everything would be just suited to the conditions there. The hght of the sun, moon, and stars would not be visible in its present form. Only their subtler rays would be seen and felt. Thus at last, may we not have some concept-tion of Heaven, how it has been formed, and what its materials, glorious conditions, and locations are? Locations, I say, because there must be portions far higher and finer than those I have been describing suited to conditions of advancement, for man must ever pass onward and upward towards the Infinite Perfection as eternity glides along. Is not this the realm that John of Patmos saw with his inner vision, a portion of whose sublime simplicity of language I will quote: "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. And I John saw the holy city, now Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven. Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal, and the city was pure gold like unto clear glass, and the foundations of the wall of the

city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. And he showed me a pure river of the water of life, clear as crystal. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign for ever and ever." We have seen that around a low, or selfish or impure character, there are dark and heavy emanations, and until cleansed from such conditions, the spirit must be too gross to gravitate into the higher realms of being. I have ventured to speak of this celestial realm after which so many human hearts have aspired, and which so few have any conception of. And can this be called a mere speculation? Have I not built upon the known facts, analogies and laws of things? Did not the Brahminical sacred writer far back in the misty ages of the past get a glimpse of this land of beauty, when he exclaimed rapturously: "Where there is eternal light in the world, where the sun is placed in that immortal, imperishable world, place me, О Soma! Where life is free, in the third heaven of heavens, where the worlds are radiant, there make me immortal!" {Rig Vedas, 1580 B.C.)

Let us pause a moment and see how light is used in various ages to typify the Supreme Being, and the most exalted of all conceivable qualities and objects.

In the portion of the Hindoo sacred writings called the Bhagvat Geeta, written according to Sir Wm. Jones 3000 years B.C., occurs the following sublime passage:—"The glory and amazing splendor of this mighty being, may be likened to the sun rising at once into the heavens, with a thousand times more than usual brightness. * * * Thou art the Supreme Being, incorruptible, worthy to be known! Thou art prime supporter of the universal orb! * * I see thee without beginning, without middle, without end; of valor infinite; of arms innumerable; the sun and moon thy eyes; thy mouth a naming fire, and the whole world shining with thy reflected glory!" (Charles Wilkens Translation.)

"That All-pervading Spirit, which gives light to the visible sun, even the same in kind am I, though infinitely distant in degree." {Rig Vedas.)

"Zoroaster, whose period of life is variously estimated at from 560 to 1300 years B.C. calls God (Ormuzd) the "Self Luminous," "The King of Light," and says: "The soul is a bright fire, and by the power of the Father, remains immortal and is mistress of life."

"He is Life, Counsel and Light." (Orpheus, B.C.1200.)

"There is One Universal Soul, diffused through all things, eternal, invisible, unchangeable; in essence like truth, in substance resembling light." (Pythagoras, B.C. 586.)

"God is Truth, and Light is his shadow." (Plato, b. 429 B.C.)

"They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars, forever and ever." (Daniel, B.C. 534)

"The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory." (Isaiah, 698B.C.)

The following is from a celebrated poem on "Milton in his Blindness," written by Miss Elizabeth Lloyd, of Philadelphia. Its author seems to have come into rapport with this diviner illumination of the inner life just as every true poet does:

Oh! I seem to stand

Trembling where foot of mortal ne'er hath been, Wrapped in the radiance from thy sinless land, Which eye hath never seen.

Visions come and go;

Shapes of resplendent beauty round me throng; From angel lips I seem to hear the flow Of soft and holy song.

It is nothing, now

When heaven is opening on my sightless eyes, When airs from Paradise refresh my brow,

The earth in darkness lies.

In a purer clime,

My being fills with rapture—waves of thought Roll in upon my spirit—strains sublime Break over me unsought.

Give me now my lyre!

I feel the stirrings of a gift divine;

Within my bosom glows unearthly fire Lit by no skill of mine."

CHAPTER ELEVENTH.


С H R О M О—P HILOSOPHY. | Chromatic harmony of gradation and contrast | VISION.