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THE SUBCONSCIOUS

A certain knowledge of psychology is necessary if the apprentice magician is tomake the most use of his art, but this psychological knowledge must always be "held lightly." What a short time ago was termed "The New Psychology" has developed so swiftly that it now suffers from embarasse de richesse and the beginner finds it most difficult to follow intelligently the intellectual mazes of the Freudian, Jungian and Adlerian Schools of Psychology, to mention only the primary schools. The many schools depending upon these three, but expressing themselves from differing angles, need not be mentioned here, since their general teaching isthe same.

What are the simple outlines? This question is most difficult to answer, since any simplification is bound to omit points which seem to many to be of primary importance.

What we will here attempt is not a simplification of modern psychological theories, but rather a restatement in psychological terms of the magical teaching concerning the mind of man; or rather, to be more exact, the soul of man.

The first point to be considered is the nature of the soul, and here the magicalschools declare with one voice, that man is a Spark of the Eternal Flame, a "god" in the making. This is the true man, the "Indweller of Light," as the old Gnostics termed him.

This immortal Self, for reasons which lie outside our present terms of reference, is making contact with, and manifesting in, the material worlds of physical and super-physical matter.

The instrument by means of which this contact and manifestation is maintained, is known as the "personality," and it is indeed, as the etymology of the word suggests, a persona or mask through which the true self works.

So we come to the statement ascribed to the old Greek initiates "I am a child ofearth, but my Race is from the Starry Heavens."

The personality we may term "the lower self." Now the mind of man* is the point

of contact between these two aspects of himself, and we therefore find that partof his mind is conditioned by, and linked to, his immortal Self, whilst the other part is linked to, and conditioned by, his material consciousness. Now the material consciousness is largely built up through the perceptions of the materialsenses and more particularly through the perceptions of the five physical senses. This aspect of the mind is usually referred to as "the lower" mind, and together with the emotional aspect of our natures, it makes up what the Qabalists term the Ruach or "Reasonable Soul." This Ruach is the instrument of the Higher Self, its mask or persona, and it is here that what has sometimes been called the "false ego" is centred. This false "I", which seems to the ordinary person to behimself, is in reality an illusion in so far as it is thought to be the true Ego.

* The word "man" is derived from the Sanscrit Manas which means, "the thinker."

Below the Ruach or Reasonable Soul, we come to the Nephesh or Animal Soul, and this can be equated psychologically with the subconscious. Perhaps the Jungian term "Personal Unconscious" is a more correct term.

All the aspects of man centre in and are expressed through the Guph or physicalbody, and here it must be remembered that as psycho-somatic medicine has pointedout, there is no separate physical body, it is one aspect of the living whole,and is in very truth the Temple of the Holy Ghost.


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Now the subconsciousness is related most closely to that system of nerves knownas the "sympathetic system," and it is this sympathetic or involuntary nerve system which carries on the multitudinous activities of the physical organismthe processes of digestion and elimination, the beating of the heart, the respiratory action and the complex activities of the glands. All these, which now are automatic or subconscious activities, were at one time conscious actions. Their particular form of activity has been stereotyped through aeons of evolution, and now operates without the aid or knowledge of the conscious self.

It is possible, however, to bring this automatic control back under conscious control, though it is not always wise so to do. But when this is done, then it ispossible to consciously control many of the purely involuntary mechanisms of thebody, and even, under certain circumstances, to affect the purely automatic functioning which is the basic level of the physical somatic life. We have said that such conscious control is not always advisable. This is true, for the clumsy probing of the conscious mind may easily upset the delicate mental and physical mechanisms. It is on record that Sir Francis Galton, the pioneer in Eugenics, experimented in gaining conscious control of his breathing. Having at last gained the power to shut off the automatic breathing impulse, and to remain without anyeffort of breathing, he found to his dismay that he had somehow lost the power of automatic breathing, and had to spend a very anxious day and night taking eachbreath consciously and with an effort of will, before the automatic function returned. Various yogis can be found in both East and West who can perform various

psycho-physiological tricks, such as altering the heart-beat, stopping the breathing, or reversing peristaltic action at will. The techniques used vary according to the grade and status of such people, and are best left alone by the apprentice magician. There are other ways by which he may eventually come to this physical dominion over his body, and these ways are safer than the usual techniques.

But although we want neither an uncontrolled irruption of the subconscious intothe normal consciousness, nor yet a clumsy interference by the conscious mind into the subconscious processes, it is desirable that we shall have some reliablemethod whereby we may be able to bring through into the waking consciousness theknowledge and the energies which are all around us awaiting our efforts. We have access to forces and energies beyond our normal ken, if we will but open the doors in the right way. Now here we come again to the saying of Bulwer-Lytton's R

osicrucian Adept, Mejnour, "Man's first initiation is in trance." This will be indignantly denied by many of the so-called "positive" people. In their estimation, trance is retrograde and entirely undesirable. With certain reservations we may agree with this facile generalisation, but the reservations cover quite a lotof country! In a period of over forty years of practical occult, psychic and magical work one has obtained certain data on this point.

We agree that the induction of the purely involuntary negative trance state under no protective conditions at all is both undesirable and psychologically dangerous to the normal individual, though some race-types can safely practise it.

In the purely negative trance, the doors of the subconscious are thrown open anda general jail-delivery of subconscious thoughts and energies pours out into th

e conscious self. Such an irruption can be most harmful.

But there are several degrees of trance, ranging from the passive, involuntary trance of pathological dissociation, through the negative, but willed trance of many spiritualist mediums, to the voluntary positive power of trance projection,wherein the personality, consciously and deliberately, temporarily vacates his body.

But even in the pathological trance of dissociation, there need be no danger ifit is dealt with aright, and in the cases of the other varieties of trance, the


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establishment of certain protective conditions will obviate any risk. The present writer has had the opportunity of observing very many people, of greatly varying types of mentality, working with the trance-state under varying conditions. Some of these people were definitely the worse for their experiences, but they formed a very small minority. The real trouble with the negative forms of trance is that they either open up the subconscious in a very haphazard and wholesale way, or else they allow of the uncontrolled emergence of various psychological andpsychic pathologies which were already present but held down below the subliminal threshold.

Without going into the technical points involved, it may be stated that the negative trance state usually involves complete unconsciousness of the physical plane, and as a general rule of the inner planes also. The thread of consciousness is broken at the point of departure, and again at the point of return. In the ascending degrees of trance, up to the most positive form, the thread of consciousness begins to remain without a break, and in some cases a curious dual consciousness develops. In this dual consciousness, the psychic is more or less fully aware of the physical plane surroundings, whilst at the same time he is fully conscious and active on the Inner Planes. In this particular field an ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory, and the present writer can assure his readers thattrance, per se, is not necessarily dangerous. At the same time it is true that under certain conditions the voluntary or involuntary induction of trance is undesirable, and may even be dangerous. Under these conditions it is advisable for the 'prentice magician to aim at the positive end of the psychic range.

It is also to be remembered that at a certain point in his development it will be necessary for the flyer to be deliberately plunged into the sea. "The flyer" is an old alchemical term for the conscious self, and the "sea" is their name forthe Unconscious. But until the conscious self is properly integrated or knit together, a premature immersion in the psychic sea of the Unconscious is not advisable.

Short of the deeper trance conditions, however, there are distinct advantages ina willed co-operation between the conscious and subconscious parts of our mind,and these have been used in the magical technique. The process is one of "auto-hypnosis." This term in itself will, in all probability, cause some of our "ultra-positive" critics to frown, but let us hasten to say that this particular form

of auto-hypnosis is most carefully controlled and directed, and is at all timesfully under the dominion of the conscious will.

Having reassured the fearful, let us proceed. The principle used is that known as the "conditioned reflex." A typical conditioned reflex is the watering at themouth of a dog when it sees food. Here the reflex is physical. In the case of the magician, the reflex is mental and emotional. Briefly, a visual, audible or other sensory symbol is passed into the subconscious mind, and this evokes a response in accordance with the type of symbol used. If this symbol is one of, or ismentally associated with, one or other of the archetypal images in the depths ofthe Unconscious, then the response may be very strong, and care has to be takento see that the up-welling energies evoked by the symbol are run into safe channels. If the magician is working with the Qabalistic glyph of the Tree of Life,

then he will be working with such channels already provided.

In order to pass a symbol into the subconsciousness in such a way as to be ableto evoke any particular response, it is first necessary to "sensitise" the subconscious, or raise its level nearer to the waking consciousness. This willed emergence, or outcropping, of the subconscious is imperative; unless it is done, thesymbol does not "take," i.e. evoke an immediate response, and this is one of the primary keys of art magic. It is to be noted that the passing of the symbol into the subconscious must be an effortless act, to use an Irishism. Beyond the immediate clear-cut conscious "intention" to transmit the symbol, no further effor


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t is required. Indeed any such further effort will frustrate the purpose in hand. A very good simile is that of the electric light switch. It requires only a small momentary physical exertion to press down the switch and so produce light. No matter how long we keep our finger pressed on the switch, we shall obtain no more light, neither will it be put out if we remove our finger entirely. Indeed,our undue pressure on the switch may cause it to be put out of action, and so produce just what we were trying to prevent.

So it is with magical work. But before the symbols can be the starting points ofconditioned reflexes, it is necessary that the required conscious mental effortmust have been used with them, and this is done through the training exerciseswhich are to be found in all magical schools. The symbols must be built up by the image-building power of the mind, as described in the section of this book devoted to "Visualisation and Audition."

Then conscious meditation must be made upon the spiritual, mental and emotionalaspects of the symbol, together with the energies connected with it. Here the Tables of Correspondences used in the qabalistic method prove their value. When sufficient work has been done with the conscious mind, the student learns how to pass the symbol through to the open and sensitised subconsciousness.

The process is similar to that of learning to play the violin. The musical symbols on the score are mentally interpreted as musical sounds, and the appropriatestring of the violin is "stopped" with the finger to produce the note required.

Now the correct point to "stop" the string is acquired by the subconscious reflex, but for a long time the movement of the fingers must be consciously brought about, until the mental, emotional and physical reflexes have been properly "conditioned." Then we speak of automatic habit. It is fairly evident that any attempt to short-circuit this necessary conditioning work is doomed to failure, yet the writer has met many who did try to evade it in magical work. However, the reader may be assured that although the use of certain short-cuts may provide some spasmodic magical activity, such activity will be unregulated and out of conscious control.

Let us briefly recapitulate. Within the depths of the personal and collective Unconscious in each one of us lie the powers and energies which we essay to evokeinto appearance in our conscious self in order to effect those "changes in consc

iousness" which, by our definition of magic, are our declared aim.

In order to do this, we employ the device of the "conditioned reflex," by passing certain symbols into the sensitised subconscious in such a way as to evoke therequired forces into the waking self.

Since the personal subconsciousness is very largely a pictorial type, we use visual and other sensory symbols in preference to audible images, i.e. words. (Certain "Words of Power" are used not for their literal meaning, but for their vibration, and the conditioned images which have been built around them.)

The means whereby the subconsciousness is sensitised or brought nearer to the threshold of the waking self is the technical auto-hypnotic device known as the us

e of the "Flashing Colours." This is used in conjunction with the colour scalesand correspondences on the Tree of Life.

LESSON THIRTY-FIVE - FOODS THAT ARE MAGNETIC


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EVERYTHrNG THAT IS CALLED FOOD appears in one way or another and in one place oranother in the experiences of humanity; but it may surprise most readers to know that a majority of the things eaten are not only not food but that they furnish the soil that invites disease, and more than this they furnish repellant conditions that cause people to lose their best friends at times and to lessen theirinfluence in every walk in life. When man came on earth he had no one to tell him what to eat and what not to eat; nor had he the experience of his predecessorsin testing out the value or danger contained in the things that were found growing about him. He had to try them for himself. If ho survived, they might be safe. If he died, some one of his family might have learned why. If he lived and suffered, he might have guessed what hurt him. It took time to learn all about foods, and the time has not yet expired. In the next lesson you will see what has yet to be learned in this line of experience.

In the preceding lesson you will find the great truths that arise concerning food selection; and the damage that is done to health, influence and life by the use of improper foods; and we advise you to re-read that lesson as you have the book open close to it now. It tells you vital things of the greatest importance. In the present lesson we intend to furnish a list of the foods that are proper, and that establish magnetic health, at the same time overcoming the extremely disagreeable conditions that may make a person repellant instead of attractive.

The following list contains foods from which you may select what you prefer. It

is not necessary to use them all or even a halfor a third of them if you do notcare for them. What will appeal to one person will not bo liked by another. Thelist is large enough to admit of selection and choice. Some persons use but fewthings in their dietary; we do not expect any one personto use all we hereby mention.

THE MAGNETIC FOODS

1. Almonds as a nutritious dessert; and Almond Coffee. This is the king of nuts,and the best of all nut-foods. It is rich in several of the special elements that are difficult to find in other foods. But almonds are never beneficial unlessthey are chewed into a fine meal; or else so ground before being eaten. Avoid the meat of peach pits, which is a poison. The habit of chewing roasted and salte

d almonds after a meal is the best of all aids to digestion, the making of pureblood, and the bringing of a fine complexion into the face and clear vision to the eyes; providing other Proper Foods are eaten at the meal. No other nut can approach the almond in these qualities.

Almond Coffee is used in place of the ordinary coffee. It is made from almonds that have been roasted to a dark brown, then ground in a coffee mill such as is found in all homes, After grinding, they should be pounded in a mortar or on a board into a fine meal. They are taken in a cup of hot milk. The heating of milk pasteurizes it, and if it is allowed to get cold it loses its vitamins; for whichreason pasteurized milk is not beneficial compared with raw milk. Re-heating pasteurized milk will not restore the vitamins. But heating raw milk to any temperature and using it while hot or very warm, will not lose these qualities. Theref

ore in almond coffee, raw milk should be heated as hot as coffee usually is whenserved, and enough of the almond meal put in it as may suit the taste of the person. It should be well stirred not only when put in the milk, but re-stirred indrinking it, so that the meal may be thoroughly mixed with the milk. It is a deliciously nourishing drink with no bad qualities, and plenty of good ones.

2. Apples.These should be sweet or mild, and should be perfectly mellow before cooking. They are best baked and eaten with cream or milk, and sweetened if desired. Apples should not be eaten on an empty stomach, and are best as a dessert.


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3. Arrowroot well cooked.A side dish only,

4. Artichoke.A vegetable of light nutrition.

5. Asparagus.This is an ideal vegetable either in season or canned.

6. Barley.This is best used in the small form, called pearl barley, and is most readily suited as one of the ingredients of soups or stews.

7. Beef.This meat if desired is the most nutritious of all foods of the animal kingdom. It should be cooked slightly underdone; and is to be preferred roasted. Tough beef is not very beneficial. Steer meat is, of course, the best of all. Beef broth, beef juice, and raw scraped beef spread on hot toast and well salted, make good foods.

8. Beets.These should be young. The variety known as Detroit Red is much the best. They can be bought by the bushel in summer at almost any vegetable market, andthe smaller sizes lower in price and make better food. If so bought or raised in the home garden they should be canned for winter and eaten freely.

9. Bread that is not new. All hot white flour products are hurtful, and so is fresh bread.

10. Buckwheat is slightly nutritious in the form of a pudding. In fried cakes it

is injurious.11. Buttermilk.This is a medical food, which means that it is not only nutritiousbut has a decidedly curative value. It makes new blood quickly and helps to repair diseased organs. But it is a mistake to drink it. The best way is to sip itslowly alternating with other foods.

12. Buttered Toast.Old bread should be toasted and when hot should be buttered, and eaten before it gets cold.

13. Cake.If plain and not rich, any cake may be eaten at any meal.

14. Capon.

15. Carrots.

16. Celery.This may be eaten raw with salt, or cooked in any form. It also is used raw in salads. As a puree it makes a valuable evening first course.

17. Cherries.These should be perfectly ripe, mellow and sweet Avoid the small ones that are colored red with coal tar dyes.

18. Chestnuts cut partly open and boiled or roasted.

19. Chicken.

20. Chicken Broth.

21. Carp.

22. Clear Soup, or bouillon.

23. Cocoa, if pure; or cocoa shells.

24. Codfish, fresh. Avoid all other forms of this article. 25. Corn, green in season or canned. 26. Corn Meal.


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27. Corn Starch.

28. Crackers of the bready kind.

29. Cream.

30. Cream Cheese if made at home.

31. Dates.These are the most valuable of all the food-fruits. They can be eaten in any form; but cut up in milk they are very beneficial as a part or all of a breakfast.

32. Double-baked Bread; meaning old bread that has been sliced and again baked in an oven, and laid away for use. Broken in milk, or toasted and buttered, it iswholesome.

33. Eggs.These may be taken raw or lightly cooked, or boiled two hours, and eatenwith butter and salt. If not boiled two hours, they should be merely made hot in the water, or what is called soft-boiled. The two hours of cooking alters their character and renders them digestible and highly nutritious. Never eat them fried.

34. Figs.

35. Flour from whole wheat. Remove the coarse bran by a sieve; and use three times as much yeast if bread is to be made, as for white flour. It is best served as a boiled pudding or mush.

36. Haddock, fresh.

37. Halibut, fresh.

38. Herring, fresh.

39. Hominy.This should be long cooked. It 1b a better food than white flour whichcauses constipation.

40. Junket; a light food for weak stomachs.

41. Lamb; if young and not cooked to a hard, dry mass.

42. Lentils.

43. Lettuce.This exceedingly valuable vegetable may be eaten raw, and in this state it may be made a part of a salad Or it may be cooked, and in a puree makes asplendid first course for an evening meal.

44. Macaroni, or spaghetti, or the like.

45. Mackerel, fresh.

46. Milk.The best form is in the raw state when handled cleanly. Pasteurizing takes away much of its value. Certified raw milk is merely a notice to the public that unclean farmers and milkers have been watched some of the time. Pasteurizedmilk is notice that dirty milk, or possibly dirty milk, has been cooked to coverup the dangers coming from dirty milking. Ah milk is the basic food of all peoples of all times and ages, a public official should be appointed in each community to see that this, the most vital need of life, should be made safe and avoidan excess of cost for cleanliness that takes more money out of the people than t


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he Federal Income Taxes; all under the pretence of safety for which the vendorsmust be bribed.

It should be understood that pasteurizing does no harm if the heat can be retained, or the milk when hot sealed up in canning jars. But when it becomes cold inthe air the vitamins are lost. If you heat raw milk remember to use it before itgets cold, either at the table, or mix it in some ingredient like a pudding, which will prevent loss of vitamins.

47. Milk Toast. Or cream toast.

48. Moss, Irish, Iceland or any sea moss. It is a light food.

49. Oatmeal.This should be cooked three hours, or better still all night in a tireless cooker.

50. Olives; not when ripe.

51. Onions.These should be eaten boiled, never raw or fried.

52. Oysters; always cooked, preferably in stew, or fancy roast, or steamed, or scalloped; never raw, nor fried.

53. Parsnips.

54. Peas.These are good food in season, and also canned.

55. Pigeon, young.

56. Potatoes, white.Sweet potatoes and yams are not good food. The best way to prepare white potatoes is to bake them; next to boil them. They are good scalloped, or sliced and cooked in a pan with milk. Avoid fried potatoes. Saratoga chipshave caused many deaths from indigestion. Very new white potatoes areindigestible, as their starch cells have not been developed.

Old waxy potatoes are injurious, as are those with green on skin.

57. Raisins.Use the seeded kind in preference to the seedless; and avoid dried currants. Seeded raisins are very nutritious.

58. Rice.Get the unpolished kind which is for sale everywhere.

59. Rye.

60. Sago.

61. Salsify.

62. Sole. Or any good fresh fish.

63. Spinach in milk, cream or butter dressing.

64. Squash, or pumpkin.

65. Sweets.White or brown sugar is essential to the health, Maple sugar is not sogood, but may be used. Honey is the best of all sweets. Molasses is very usefuland very nutritious, besides containing valuable salts, which are also in brownsugar. The juice of cornstalks will not digest, but passes through the system unaltered. Bought candies are not always safe, and must be excluded from this list.


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66. Tapioca.

67. Tomatoes.These contain malic acid, citric acid, and some of them a small amount of oxalic acid. But if used sparingly, as in purees, they may not do harm toa system that is not afflicted with rheumatism, neuralgia, neuritis, or headaches.

68. Trout.

69. Turbot, or any good fresh fish.

70. Tuekey, if not too expensive.

71. Veal.This meat is a poison to some persons, due to its being too young. Froma calf six months old, it is safe; and the older the calf the better is this meat as a source of nutrition.

72. Vegetables.These may include almost everything that is raised, if not cookedby frying. Lettuce and spinach lead in value as food and for vitamins. Cabbage,turnips, parsnips, carrots, celery, beets, green peas fresh or canned, green beans fresh or canned, limas, string beans, and others are good food. But avoid radishes and cucumbers, as both set up intestinal indigestion and poisoning; and hold a large mortality list.

73. Vermicelli.

Chapter XVI - The Positive Aura

Now that you have mastered the technique of the mechanism of the direct flash,youare ready to proceed to the actual demonstration and contact with the general public. But, before taking up that phase of the subject, I think it well to ask you to consider the matter of the creation and maintenance of the positive aura.

I have purposely postponed the consideration of this phase of the subject, untilwe reached this particular point in the instruction, because, in order to properly create and maintain the positive aura, it is necessary that one understandsthe mechanism and technique of the direct flash,for he will need to manifest thesame power in the case of the positive aura. But, now that you have mastered thetechnique or mechanism of the direct flash,you are ready to receive the instruction regarding the positive aura, and we may as well proceed to consider it at this very point.

I have already given you instructions regarding the cultivation of a desirable personal atmosphere, or aura, and need not repeat here what I have already said elsewhere. But, a moments consideration will show you that there will arise certain

conditions or occasions in which you will find it very desirable to be able to influence a number of persons en masse the crowd as a whole rather than to send rect flashto each of the individuals separately.

Of course, the crowd will be influenced by your general personal atmosphere, butyou now need something more positive, and more to the point. And the positive aurais what you must acquire to satisfy this requirement.

The positive aura is simply the general personal atmosphere, but directly and positively charged by a concentrated effort of the will the same effort, in fact, as


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that made in the case of the direct flash.

Let me illustrate the positive auraby means of several stories from real life thxperiences of several students of mine. These personal experiences will give youa better idea of just what is needed than would pages of general instruction onthe subject. The little stories are not fiction, remember, but are taken from life,and are bits of human documents from the lives of real people, all of which have come under my personal observation and consideration.

Several years ago, in Paris, I had a student whose real strength of character was marred by her abnormal self-consciousness, shyness, timidity, and sensitiveness in fact; in the word sensitivenessyou have the keynote of this young womansity. She was a young artist of far more than the average talent, and her charm of manner rendered her company sought after by a large circle of friends.

This lady complained to me that she suffered from the actual rudeness, nay, andalmost positive brutality, of the crowds of persons thronging the busy streets of some of the principal thoroughfares of Paris. She complained that she was jostled here and there, and pushed rudely aside by the passing throng. Moreover, shewas treated rudely in the shops, the superficial veneer of politeness of the average Parisian shop-clerk scarcely concealing the underlying contempt and veiledsneer of these cheapsatellites of the ubiquitous shopkeepers of this charming cit.

My first thought was that the young woman had worked herself up into a state ofimaginary wrongs, the result of her highly sensitive organism and shrinking disposition in short, I thought that she was suffering from a state of morbid self-consciousness, with its frequent accompaniment of imaginary persecution, etc. So Idetermined to test out the matter, and ascertain for myself just how much truthwas in the case.

Making a slight change in my personal appearance, by means of a simple disguiseonce taught me by another of my students, a celebrated detective of Paris, I followed the young lady for several hours when she was on a shopping expedition. Much to my surprise, and, I may add, much to my indignation, I found that all thatshe had told me was correct. I could scarcely control myself at times, and morethan once felt like chastising some rude fellow with my cane, so brutal was the

conduct of certain individuals calling themselves men.

There is a certain class of Parisian men, well dressed and with a veneer of polish, but boors and cures at heart. These men seem to take a special delight in jostling young women, almost pushing them off the sidewalks, at times, and in other ways earning a good caning at the hands of real gentlemen. Well, these curs seemed attracted to this sweet young girl, just as flies are drawn tot a bit of sugar. They exceeded themselves in their display of rudeness and cowardly insolence, and all the while the girl was free from any outward appearance that would attract such curs naturally. I saw at once that there was some inner cause operating.

Moreover, I noticed that the young woman was also pushed aside rudely by hurryin

g businesspersons, who never glanced in her direction, but who thrust her asideas if she were an inanimate thing instead of a person. Again I found an inner cause. In the same way I found that she was treated exactly in the way she had complained of in the shops, by the clerks and shop-men, although she was a liberalcustomer, easily suited, and giving but little trouble. Here again, the inner trouble was apparent. I went home and carefully diagnosed the case, and laid downa course or treatment.

I sent for the young woman and told her that her trouble was a case of ingrown sensitiveness, and overgrown modestyin short, that she had surrounded herself with an


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aura of self-depreciation and morbid sensitiveness. This aura practically invited persons to pick onher, to crowd her to the wall, to push her in the gutter, andto generally slight, snub and covertly insult her in the shops.

CHAPTER SIX

The Feminine Daf

We have thus far learned something of the nature of the daf who has a helpless habit of seeing things the wrong way.

The mind seems warped and fixed in its deformity, just as a man may be bent withage and be fixed in that abnormal position or shape.

The distinction between the daf and the person who deliberstely make useof the reverse side of a fact for a definite purpose may be seen at a glance. The man orwoman who lies as a matter of habit is a daf-the mind is mis-shapen. The one wh

o lies to get gain or secure an advantage, and who does this wrong only at intervals is using the mind "one deep," and is therefore guilty of animal cunning.

The full-breed daf is not so often found as the cross-breed which is made of thedaf and of animal cunning. Most people who are one of these are both. Yet thisis not always true.

Some persons are honest because, as we have said, they are too stupid to be otherwise; they would give a true answer to a kidsapper who came to steal their children, and who asked if the little ones were in the house or not; rather than lie, the dafs would tell the truth.

Truth is a relative term. It is the picture of a condition that has existed, or

does exist. It is a photograph of things as they look on their face and with their face value assumed.

When that face value is a wrong one, when the reverse side of the fact is the true side and the true value of the fact, the photograph is wrong. As it cannot show the other side of the thing it pictures, it cannot do justice. What is then called the truth is an abnormal representation of the bad side of the thing. It is a crime at time to tell the truth.

As an example of this law, let us look at following case which is but one of many thousands that bear upon the principle involved. A man had a child whom he loved more than his own life, but, as he thought, less than his own soul. A band ofkidnappers were seeking the child because it was the probable heir to a large f

ortune, their plan being to kill the intervening heir, who was an old man, so that the child would inherit the property. Then they proposed to hold the child for a ransom. These men came masked to the house late in the evening. Advance wordof the approach of the band had reached the ears of the father of the child, and he sent it and his wife to hide in the house of a neighbor a mile away. The man had the reputation of being honest, so much that his word was as good as his bond, and all that. It seems that these men knew of this trait of character and sought to take advantage of it. They knew that torturing him would only cause himto close all speech and say nothing. They searched the house, and left no placeunvisited, but the child could not be found. "Is it in here ?" they demanded. "


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No," he said.

"Is it at the home of Mr. -" naming a farmer not far away.

"No." Here he had made the mistake that led him into the trouble, for they now proposed to ask him if the child had gone to the house of each and every farmer in the township. This showed that the men were familiar with the locality. He sawthe blunder that he made by answering at all, and he knew that, when they askedif the child was at the place where he had sent it, his silence then would meanan affirmative reply. It so happened that they did mention that place, and theman promptly said "No," which was a lie as far as the phraseology was concerned.A moment later, when they mentioned the name of a farmer who lived far off in the opposite direction he became silent. They saw the point. He was a man whose word was as good as his bond, and he could not tell a lie; they knew they had thetruth in the form of his silence; and, with the cunning born of the kind of brain that animals give to humanity, they put spurs to their horses and went off miles away from where the child was; one of the men being stationed a few rods away to watch the farmer to see that he did not go by some other route to the samehouse and give the alarm.

The father, feeling sure that he would be watched, but yet knowing the necessityof quick action, crawled out of the house along the hedge and trough the grassuntil he had got some distance away; when he hurried to the nearest neighbor inthat direction, told him what had happened; got his horse ready, and soon had fi

fty families armed and on the trail. By some very good amateur detective work, which, by the way, is often the best, the posse captured all the band and they arc at this day in the penitentiary.Yet, for that lie, that father suffered torments in his soul. He prayed for forgiveness,and does not know to this day, and will not know unless he gets this law in his. head, that the statement he made to the criminals was the truth; and had he told them where his child was he would have told a lie and have committed a crime that would have placed him on a level with the kidnappers themselves. Word are of: very little importance when they lead to wrongs. The telling where the child was would have placed its life in jeopardy, and possibly have driven the mother insane, and had the father told the whereabouts to the band of robbers, he would have been a daf of the first order. Hewas in reality a daf to allow his conscience to prick him for the reverse statement he made.

The child was at a certain house. The criminals asked if it was there. The father said "No." He could even have said "The child is not there I will swear that it is not." And he could have made that oath as sacred as he chose; it would be no more sacred than the spirit, in which it was uttered. Any deception, and device, and sacrilege that he chose to make to save the life of the child and the mind of the mother was justifiable. It was playing "two deep"for an honest end.

Nature gives this power of thinking "two deep" to animals through instinct. Thebird that flies in a direction opposite to that of her nest , and who thereby saves the little ones from the gun of the hunter, is not only obeying the instincts of mother love, but is doing more, she knows no better; she asks no questionsas to why such an impulse was put into her breast; but she obeys the dictates of

the Divine law to fight for the offspring. Between that beginning which is lostin the vale of the long past, and that ending which no mind can trace in the windings of the future, there is a chain that serves to connect the two mysteries,and that chain is mother love, for it holds the offspring in safety and thus maintains an unbroken line of descent. There is no lie so base, and no crime so low that the parent is not justified in using it to save the child. Even the father has some of the love for his child reflected back from the mother through theheart of the little one, and he will fight with any weapon that serves the purpose to protect the treasure that God has lent him.


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While this is an extreme case, it helps us to see that the truth is not in the words used but in their effect.

Put this law away in your mind and keep it ready to use: The truth is not in words but in their effect.

Moralists will argue that it is a bad book that teaches the value of the lie. Wedo not teach our students to lie; we teach them to tell the truth. The father told the truth when he said that his child was not where it was, for the truth was not in the words but in their effect. What was their effect ? To save the lifeof the dear one; to cause this band of criminals to be captured, and thus to save other fathers and mothers from their operations. That was the effect. If theeffect was the best under all circumstances, then the words that produced that effect were the truth.

Suppose now that this father had been a full fledged daf, and had told the gangwhere this child actually was. What then ? Come with us to the home of that father, left desolate because of the absence of the tender child. Think what treatment the child was receiving, of its anguish, of its cries for its mother, of itslack of good food and of comfort, of its mysterious hiding place and of the doubts of the father as to what was happening to it, and of the determination of thegang to kill it if they could not get the ransom they demanded. Then get down to the floor by the side of the couch on which that mother lies moaning, and takeone look up into her face. One look will be enough. The heart torn from its roo

ts by the severest blow that can ever come to a mother is pictured in the horribly rent features as she prays and hopes and moans in her agony of soul.

What was the cause of this scene? The lie told by the father when he said that his child was where it was, for the truth is not in words but in their effect. Thank God! he did not tell that lie, and the criminals are safe behind the bars.

A prayer is measured by the spirit in which it is uttered, not by the words it employs.

We teach the effect of w6rds. When we teach the law that truth should be the goal of all that is uttered, we are not advocating falsehood ; and any moralist whosays we are is a daf. That is all.

Strangedoctrines, you say. Do not be a daf. Above everything, nomatter what, else you are, do not be a daf.

Another strange doctrine is at hand, and that is the law of the feminine daf. Wewish that we might be excused from what we are about to say, but we are following the dictates of a higher command, and our purpose is to correct some of the wrongs of today,and so we will say a few words on the feminine daf.

A female, physiologically speaking, is a woman; by this we mean in the human family. In the brute creation, and in all parts of the animal kingdom, the female is the bearer of the offspring.

We are not now referring altogether to the female as a woman, but to the feminine mind as that which is characterized by qualities that pertain for the most part to the sex of the woman, but that can be found at times in the opposite sex. Somemen have feminine minds; a fact that is well known and is generally admitted.Some men have no whiskers. Some women have masculine minds, as certain husbandshave foundout to their delight or sorrow, as the ease may be. Some women have whiskers.

Some feminine minds are dafs, just as some masculine minds are dafs. Some womencan tell a falsehood just as well as most men.


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Women as a rule are not given to lying unless they are born with animal cunning,or else are dafs. In the latter case the femininedaf is the woman, and occasionally the man with the feminine mind, who sees things that are not so and see them mostof the time. This has no reference to the study of the drinkinghabit; thethings seen are born in the mind and become honestfacts, at least to the mind that gives them birth.

Woman is a birth-giving personage and hence the mind that givesbirth to things that are not so is called a feminine daf.

We are thankful that this class of people is not numerous, not more than one woman in every ten being addicted to the habit, and then only under stress of the influence that impelled the birth.

The usual father of this kind of offspring is the desire for revenge. This peculiar bent or warp of mind hunts for the surest thing that will bring revenge forsome injury, generally fancied. There are certain matters that are more potent than others in this searching for retaliation, and these matters come before themind, and at length the particular one that seems the best suited to the purposeis selected and dwelt upon. The brain invites it in, and there it makes the same kind of a mental picture that the fact itself would have made had there been an actual occurrence instead of a fancied one.

Thus, if a woman wishes to claim that another woman told her a certain thing, when in fact the woman had not spoken to her at all, the former will think that she may tell her that thing, then she will think that she probably will tell her,then that she has told her; and this matter is thought of with an intensity thatsoon makes it real.

When a fact actually comes before the mind, all it can do is to leave a mental picture of itself there; and that is all that an imagined one can do. The fancy is just as real after a while to the mind as the fact itself. Many persons do notknow whether they dreamed a certain thing or really lived it. Many others do not know whether they heard a certain thing or only thought it into existence. Ineither case the picture on the mind and memory is just the same.

Some lawyers who have a greater desire to win their cases than to see justice done, take advantage of this law of the mind and talk to their witnesses in private for the purpose of getting their minds muddled and then modified. If the witnesses for the plaintiff are thus coached, they may be made to change their testimony in the most vital parts and never know that they have done so. ''What did the defendant say to the plaintiff in the chief conversation on this matter?" is the form of question which may be put to the witness in the lawyer's office someweeks prior to the trial. The witness remembers quite well; but does not remember enough. There must be an additional fact sustained in order to win the case. The plaintiff himself is willing to stretch his own testimony enough to include that; or, if he is not willing, his attorney will talk so much to him of the additional matter that it grows in time into his head and cannot be separated from whatwas actually said. The witness by hearing the lawyer and the plaintiff mentio

n this additional fact soon comes to incorporate it into his memory of the conversation, and any witness on earthwill do this if he does not suspect that he isbeing coached, It is not a question of honesty, but one of mental picture. It isa well known law that if you think much of a fact the fact becomesreal to you.If you think that it might have occurred, and keepon thinking of it in that way,after a while you cannot tell whether it did occur or not.

Three men of undoubted veracity and conservatism in their methods of talking were present at a conversation in which the defendant in a coming trial had made certain admissions; but the actual admissions were not strong enough. These three


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men each wrote out what they had heard and each handed in their copy to the attorney for the plaintiff. The accounts did not agree.

Eachinsisted on being correct, but each had full faith in the integrity of the others. They said that it was another illustration of the fact that honest men donot see and hear things alike. When witnesses in a case are all agreed to the precise facts you may rest. assured that they have been coached or are not telling the facts. They are not honest witnesses. You, who may some day sit on juries,should remember this.

These three men did not know what to do, and so they let the statements remain as they had given them, despite the fact that they were conflicting. The attorneyfor the plaintiff then had an interview with them all together, and he told them what the defendant actually had said; but he insisted that they stick to theirversions. "I think the jury will have more faith in what you say if you do notget it all alike as if it had been printed and handed to you to memorize. So keep your own versions of the conversation. " By this method he disarmed their suspicions and then, as if he had dropped the subject, took up the vital issues in the case and went over them, but in such a way as to bring in what he wished incorporated in the statements made by the three honest men. He reviewed the same facts with his client in the hearing of these three men. The client had incorporated a particular matterthat was very important, and that had not been mentioned at all by the defendant. It was this special matter that the attorney had drilledbefore into the mind of the plaintiff, and which the latter now believed to be

true, as be had heard it so much from the lawyer that he could no longer separate what, had been said from what the attorney had added.

Hearing this new matter added, and not suspecting that it had been created in the brain of the attorney, the three honest witnesses got the same idea also in their heads. At another interview the attorney, seeing that they were grasping thenew matter, tore up their written statements in their presence, saying that thereal facts were now coming back to their memories; and before the trial occurred these men, who wished to tell nothing but the truth and whose word was everywhere respected, were ready to swear to many matters that they never heard, including the additional matter that was of the most vital importance. They did so swear, and the defendant knew that they lied; but the men themselves had no intention of falsifying, and thought they were telling the truth.

To accomplish so much with men of such standing is a serious matter. It shows how the rights of honest clients may be stolen by the mental magnetism of a lawyerwho uses the power for bad ends; for it is true that you may accomplish good and bad with any gift. The same voice may sing the exquisite songs of love at homeand in church, or may use its sweetness to lure men into saloons or brothels.

Mental magnetism is able to take the brain of another man or woman and use it. One person may actually occupy the mind of another.

There is in every locality one or more lawyers who are able to do just what we have described; that is, take honest men, conceal from them by the utmost artifice the purpose in hand, then have them go over a certain matter and hear addition

s made to it with such skill as not to challenge denial; and, after a lapse of time when other things have interested them, these honest men will not be able toseparate what is the fact from what has been added to it. We have seen this done time and time again. The ease with which it can be done is amazing; and here we are in this world dependant on what our neighbors say of us in and out of court, and human memory is most fallible. Propertynay, even life itself, has been sworn away by men and women who had no intention of doing wrong.

You can do this very thing; that is, you can take any person, honest or otherwise, and shift what that person actually knows to what is no known, and the mind o


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f the person will soon be unable to separate what was the original fact from what has been added.

This is not hypnotism.

It is not suggestion, and has not the slightest resemblance to it.

This is not personal magnetism. We have known persons to accomplishthis change of mind with no magnetism whatever.

We know what has been done, and have many reasons for knowing the facts. For twoyears we were most confidentially allied with the leading trial lawyer in a great city, and by some he was claimed to have been the most successful jury lawyerin America since the days of Choate and Webster. We knew him not only personally but very intimately. We have gone over the preparation of eases with him, andin his presence have noted the mannerin which he sifted the testimony of his ownwitnesses in his office especially when the case was a great one. He had a great hobby for wanting witnesses on his side who stood well in the community ; andhe would get them in, even if for but a trifling matter or for irrelevant testimony, knowing that the court would deprive them of the right of testifying. The moral effect of having such men on his side of the case was of benefit to him.

This great lawyer, whose fame was international and even worldwide, took no cases except those that were of the highest importance. He met all his witnesses man

y times; not half a dozen times but ten to thirty times; and he had them come when he did not see them, as he sent his associate to go over the testimony with them. Yet he was present many times himself. He cautioned the witnesses to tell the truth, saying that if they told untruthsthey would be caught in court by theacute men who would oppose him. One evening he reviewed the previous statementsof the chief witness, a man of the highest standing in the city and one who wasregarded as honesty itself. In this review he added many things that the witnesshad not stated, but one was of very vital importance, and the lawyer got it inthe mind of the witness in a number of ways, until the witness was totally unable to separate that statement, from the original. He asked to see his first statement and the lawyer at once handed him a copy of a stenographic report, the report having been doctored by the lawyer or some one in the meantime. We were not then out of the teens and did not. realize what was going on until a long time af

terward; but we well recall hundreds of instances in which this great lawyer somuddled his witnesses in these reviews that they were glad to have their brainsclarified by the lawyer's original notes, which were made to suit what he wantedthem to state. Even the original notes were not required, for any constant repetition of the real facts in connection with added matter will soon cause the honest and the acute mind to absorb it and to think it the truth.

This is one use of mental magnetism, and a bad use it is.

Amazed at the ease and skill with which the lawyer had made testimony to order,we went forth into the world resolved to ascertain if others could do the same thing. We did not tell the facts as coming from the office of the lawyer to whomwe have referred, but we said to a friendly attorney who was honorable and who w

ould not stoop to any use of a power, even if it would win cases for him: "We have evidence that cases are won in court by using honest witnesses for dishonestpurposes. Will you help make a test of this?" Then we recited the process. It seemed novel to him. He said, "I will select two men who are my witnesses in a case that will come to trial in six months. I have their statements in writing signed by them. I will make a typewritten copy in which I will add a fact that I want there, but that cannot honorably get there, for it would be a lie as far as these men are concerned. I believe it is a fact, however, but that they do not know of it and cannot therefore testify to it." Later on this lawyer met these twomen very often by appointment, and he went over their statements again and again


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, always getting a little of the fact in, and they would correct him. He then said that the fact belonged in but that he believed that they were not the witnesses who knew of it, although it was possible that they might have known of it, etc., etc. The men at first became muddled, then they were half inclined to repeatthe additional fact because they had heard it so much of late, and at last theyadded it without being helped. This honest lawyer wrote to us: "By George! thisis awful! To think that the human mind is so easily misled! What are we comingto? I am sick of the law if it can be used as a tool of oppression." But it is not in the law that this is most used. It is employed in business and in social matters and in the various professions, and in crime as well as in the better walks of life.

What we say is that the mind knows a thing by reason of mental picture! that have been stamped upon it by the fact or by the review of the fact. If A. tells youthat he saw B. and that B. had on certain clothes, you can ask A. to remember what B. had on, so as to tell the fact to another; then you can review these details, adding other articles and substituting, until you can get B. reclother in A.'s mind and not a vestige of the original apparel will be left. We have seen this experiment made many times, not only in regard to dress, but in all sorts ofdescriptions. Pictures shift their detail under the skill of an artist. Sometimes this power may be used to advantage and for good ends, as when certain truthsare inserted in the minds of those who hate to hear good advice.

The greater uses of this power are likely to prove weapons of mighty strength fo

r evil or for good; but it is in the lesser and meaner uses that we find the dafs to which we refer in the present The feminine mind is peculiarly inclined toward the creation of fancied facts.

We do not charge it with actual present dishonesty; and we refer not to the whole feminine mind, but to that small proportion ofabout one in ten which we have mentioned. Its creative fancies have wrought sad havoc in countless lives.

Now a daf mind is one wherein there seems to be an element of stupidity for which the individual is largely responsible at the time.

It seems to be something that has come and grown gradually and thus made itselfa fixture, at least for a while. There is no release from criminal responsibilit

y, for there was a beginning when the mind could have averted the stupidity, except in cases where nature has warped the brain beyond cure.

If a person is really a daf liar through a warped mind, the public are always protected by the ease with which that condition may be discovered by those who have ordinary knowledge of human The honest man who is made; to testify to mattersof which he has no knowledge is temporarily irresponsible, for he does not knowhow to separate the genuine from the false in his mental pictures, and each havethe same depth in the brain; but there was a time when he might have done so hadhe not been taken off his guard; and, if the law can prove that he does testifyfalsely, he may be prosecuted for perjury.

This condition of seeing a false mental picture and believing it to be real, is

called the feminine daf, because that kind of mind gives birth to it most readily.

According to the experience of trial judges who have observed this phase of human nature, there are about ten women to every man who see these mental pictures and who are honest in their belief that they are genuine. The man is either the rare individual of unsullied integrity, or else the common warped mind that is easily laid bare under ordinarily skillful cross-examination.

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he comes from every grade of the social scale; as often from the ranks of the rich and influential as from others. When she has thought long and often enough ona certain state of facts she is sure of them. Nothing could shake her belief inthem. These facts pass daily in review before her, and at night she falls asleep thinking of them, until the pictures are as real as if they stood out in canvas on the walls.

We take the following from the experiences of judges of jury courts. They are men of the highest intellectual standing who have sought for many years to get atthe reason for the prevalence of this evil, which is the willingness of women, mostly respectable, to go into court and swear away the property and liberty of others.

1. A woman made claim to be the wife of a certain millionaire who had since died, and whose estate she wished to share. This woman had a diary in which she hadentered for years the incidents of her married life with the deceased, showing that he was absent from his own home two or three days in each week at one periodof his life. Her claim was afterward disproved in such a way as to leave no doubt as to its falsity. The surprising thing was the record she had kept of the conversations, the details of his visits, and many small matters that are always omitted by one who is merely an adventuress and perjurer. The fullness and minuteness of these details would have convinced any jury had it been a case where there was any doubt. Such a mind is a danger in any community. The power of the imagination to make living pictures in the brain is almost unlimited, and innocent

men and women have to suffer. In this case the widow and daughters of the dead man were thrown into despair by the thought that the husband and father could have been untrue to them and have led a double life.

2. Another woman, who had been discharged from the employ of a merchant for neglect of her work, made a criminal charge against him for assault; and she told the story in details that were consistence and minute, and wove them into known facts that he could not deny. This charge she did not make until some days afterwards.She fell into crying spells and her mother wormed the secret out of her thatshe had been compelled to run from the man and get out of his way, because he sought to take advantage of her in the privacy of his office where she was employed. Nothing would have saved the man but the fact that in the adjoining room, which was usually separated by closed glass windows that were shaded by curtains,

there was a meeting of the trustees of a church of which the girl was a member,but not the merchant. This room had been loaned to them for the morning, as it was close by their homes, and the church was being repaired. In this room sat thepastor and three of the trustees. They had greeted each other and were waitingfor the arrival of others, which explained their silence. Papers and reports were being scanned. The girl was totally unconscious of their presence, as her backwas to them. The merchant came down on the car and entered the office. As he did so he told the girl that he had spent the evening before looking over her accounts and was sorry to inform her that she did not suit him and must find a placeelsewhere.She then begged to be allowed to remain and to try again, but the merchant was obdurate. The girl then said she did not wish to be discharged and would remain the week out and not ask anythingfor her services. To this the merchant said that he wouldnot agree, and he requested her to leave so that he might lo

ck the door and be alone. He had others who would apply for the position. The girl spent more time in asking for further trial,and then went away in a defiant mood. By her own testimony in court, she did not return again; and she made claimthat the assault occurred then and there. She said that he locked the door; hedid say he wished to do so, but not until after she had gonedid he wish the doorlocked. She told of his approaches and promisesof fine clothing, money and diamonds; of his desire to makeher the happiest, girl in the world; of his proposalto look after her long as she lived; to all of which she replied with the

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that she might never came back again. Yet he kept the door locked, and put his arms around her, and tried to throw her upon the lounge, and was almost overpowering her when a noise from outside made him desist. She then ran out of the office. In proof of her claim she showed a bruise on the arms that was still discolored. She also showed torn underclothing to indicate the desperate character of the assault. It was a case of a woman's word sustained by circumstantial evidenceof the most effective kind. The day was Monday, the first of the week days. Thehour was nine o'clock, which was the time the merchant arrived. The girl left that day. The records of the meeting of the trustees showed the date to be the same as that she described. On cross-examination she was asked if the defendant, the merchant, had discharged her or had threatened to do so, and she replied no, that he wanted her to stay and even begged hard for her to stay.

When the pastor of the girl's own church, and the trustees also, who were men ofsuch standing in the community that no one, not even the yellow press, pretended to doubt their words went upon the stand and told their story, the girl brokedown and confessed that the facts had come to her in a dream and she could not account for them.

Her father and her brother were waiting to hear the whole case before they subjected the merchant to public chastisement and disfigurement for life. What wouldhave been his chances had he gone into court with his own unsupported word against that of a demure and pretty girl? What chance would any man have? Yet it is t

rue that for every one who has a daf mind that sees things that are not so, there are ten others differently endowed. What would that man have thought of the opportunities for virtue to have its own reward in his world when the false mentalpicture of an honest-minded girl could send him to the pentitentiary for a longterm of years, take from him his wife and children, and perhaps subject him tothe physical chastisement that the brother and father of the girl were ready towreak upon him ? Why was it that this particular merchant had some reliable witnesses in the next room, when most men have nothing but their own word to help them? And to this danger is that of the mother or sister of the girl, feeling overwrought by the story of wrong, adding to her testimony, as was done in a case not long

ago, and claiming that the man had made a confession to all

three of them and had offered to pay money if they would not

pursue him in the courts. In that case it took a combination of

fortuitous circumstances to get at the truth, and his does not

occur once in a thousand times.

Then add to this danger the misfortune of living within the

geographicallimits where the mob does the trying and the punishingalways on theevidence of one side of the case only; what

would have been the chance of escape accorded to that merchant

after the girl had told her story under oath? There would have

been no other side. The pastor and the three trustees would not

have been givenan opportunity of telling the facts. The sworn

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to the highest pitch and the rope and revolver would have done the work.

We are not defending the ravisher of women; he has no place

in the universe; the nether regions ought to vomit him out. We

are not defending the slow and tedious methods of the courts,

which are responsible for the mob fever in our land. Any man

who has ravished a woman ought to be executed, but only after

his guilt is proved beyond all doubt and apart from the testimony

of the woman , especially when malice, or the desire for revenge

may influence her to the making of false mental pictures in her own mind.

Any man who has made an attempt to do this deed against the sex that is entitledto the highest protection in life, ought to be subjectedto such treatment as will make the next attempt an im-possible dream. His nature should be changed to that of the eunuch. 'I'll is is the only rational and God-commanded treatment forall criminals of every stripe, and for all warped moral natures. We are satisfi

ed that the courts are a cumbersome mass of machinery that are conducted on a basis exactly opposite that of goodbusiness sense and clear-headed judgment; theirmethods would put, an end to any business enterprise that adopted them. Insteadof dealing out justice they allow it to miscarry in nine cases out of ten. These claims may be made good by any committee of the highest intelligence, not composed of the judiciary and attorneys. The court are necessary, and the system oftrial by jury is necessary; but the need ninety per cent of change in order to be-

come courts of justice. "When they are such, when the truth can be ascertained and seen in the white light of absolute clearness, instead of being buried beneath the debris of trickery, technicalities and perjury, then there will be no mobs.

Let the geographical districts now devoted to the mob sentiment in this countrychange their mode of operations from that of murder to that of reforming the judicial hulk of this nation, and lives will be safer and justice more common.

Mob rule is anarchy, and when it is tolerated by the public, even under the stress of complete justification, as in Delaware last year, it is a blow against theliberties of the people, and its fruit will be bitter and long-enduring.

The wrongs that now exist are classified in the next realm. Let the people everywhere lay aside party and meet on the common lines of the rights that the nationstands so much in need of at this time; let meetings be held each week until anorganization is formed in every locality, with the determination to rectify the

blunders of the day. When this is done, and not until then, the people will carry the burdens of affliction that make the land a hotbed of error.

In summing up this chapter we find dafs prevalent, and their influence is oftenan exciting cause to public and private wrong. The time to correct this mental condition is when it is coming on, for it is not often changeable after it is fixed.

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man or woman is willing to pass judgment off hand on any matter that is totallyout of his or her special line of thought, as when the remark is made that suchand such an idea is all bosh, or is tommy rot, or that such a person is a crank, etc. All people who give vent to venomous remarks are dafs. Malice, revenge, curiosity, envy, gossip, disbelief, fanaticism, cant, prejudice, hotheadedness, hatred of class, the use of mean consonants such as disgusting, contemptible, nasty, dirty, jackass, and the use of slang and oaths, are all evidences that the daf condition is coming or on, or that it has already made itself a reality in the mind of a man or woman. Like most everything else, it may be checked ere it isfirmly established; but a peculiarity of the incurable daf is the thorough disbelief in the condition and the self-satisfied mood that makes warning empty anduseless.

CHAPTER SEVEN

The Curable Daf

We are not dealing with the moral side of the mind. It is a

question that may not be settled satisfactorily one way or the other, whether animal cunning is a useful quality; but we are sure that the daf mind is stupid, useless and dangerous. Our advice is.

Never be a daf. This condition is always a sign of weakness. It is weakness toco

nstantly give out from the mind details that are not the some as the mind has received from its outward sense.

It is weaknes to permit the inward processes of the mind to create pictures thatare false in their description of facts.

It is weakness for an honest man to allow another person to

add facts to those he already possesses, and thereupon to testify

in court or relate elsewhere a set of facts as his own knowledge,

when part of them have been injected into his brain for fraudulent purposes. Yet

this is being done every day. There is no per-

son who is not susceptible to it, when not on guard.

Hence, to this extent the honest daf is curable.

The time to be on guard is when an attempt is being made to

forma mixture of oilier details with the facts you already know.

The setting of the mind in any direction is a daf condition.

This is seen the eases referred to where a person is honest, not

from principle, but from stupidity. It is a kind of honesty that

does not always reflect the truth, for a word is what it produces.

This kind of daf is not curable, and we have no desire to suggest a cure. It furnishes Chinese cashiers for Japanese banks,

Swiss soldiers for the Vatican, and Swedish watchmen for English mansions. Thiskind of mind is not so bad. It never rises


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in the scale of civilization. It must be led, for it cannot assume leadership ofothers. Not all Chinese, Swiss or Swedes are dafs; far from it; they are more inclined to this quality than most others peoples.

About ten Chinamen in a hundred are dafs in stupid honesty. This does not altertheir tendencies to crime, cruelty and licentiousness; but the daf does not falsify in words at all times. About one negro in a hundred is a daf in honesty. Asthe negro mind is naturally given to animal cunning, this honest tendency must exist through a warped condition of the brain.

The English, Scotch and Welsh minds are inclined to set themselves in fixed moods. Mental fixedness is a daf condition. It is often called stubbornness. But fixedness of the mind, whether temporary or not, is a daf condition. It blinds thejudgment. A person of good judgment looks at both sides and all sides of a question, so as to see its full effect. A daf sees but one side and does not believethere is any other, except where there is a shallow entry into the second stratum.

This may seem like a contradiction. Let us see if we can make it clear. Animal cunning uses the reverse side of a fact, knowing what the fact is. Therefore it has the two sides before it at the same time.

The daf sees but one side, and cannot realize that there is another side. If he

reproduces the exact fact, as do the Swedes, Swiss and Chinese who are honest, it does so because it is incapable of carrying two sides in the mind at the sametime. If, however, the mind is warped so that the false seems true, but one sideis seen, and this also constitutes the daf.

Then, if the honest man or woman gets a false picture in the mind in the beliefthat it is the true one, it sees but one side at a time. Here also is a daf.

A person who lies habitually from a warped brain sees only the false side and never thinks of the true.

The woman who cherishes a desire to revenge herself on another person, allows her fancy to build pictures of facts in her mind until they seem real. Then she ac

cepts them as real. She is a daf. The mind sees the false side only.

The obstinate man who never compromises, sees but one side. He is a daf.

The old man or woman whose brain cells are stiffened by the calcareous depositsof age , is physically estopped from seeing two sides of a fact; the Bide seen is either the right or the wrong one. That kind of mind is incurable, for senility destroys the flexibility of the mind.

The religious devotee who sees but one meaning to the Biblical command and who runs counter to science or common sense in the way of living, is a daf. The intelligent person sees time, place, special application and a possible error of interpretation in the passages that do not harmonize with what seems sensible at the

present day. The daf takes the command as it appears to him, and thereby showshis lack of mental qualification for dealing with the matter. The idea that theBible as a production of English must be understandable to the humblest minds was long ago exploded. It is a study even to persons of the highest intelligence,and its jewels should not be handled carelessly. Rightly understoodit accords with science and sense in every passage.

Manydafs are curable, but only at the beginning of the warpedcondition. Those that are born so are beyond help. The manwho is a constitutional and perennial liar is perhaps beyond help.


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The daf malady is never so hideous as when it crops out in the form of mob rule.Blind passion warps the judgment and preventsit from seeing two sides of the matter under consideration. Human life and personal rights should not be sacrificed upon the altar of impulsive hatred.

Letthese faults be cured by taking the restraining steps in the begining of their appearance. Do not be a daf.

CHAPTER 10: PRESUPPOSITIONS

NLP studies and provides some presuppositions which can become a very valuable tool since they can be applied in all areas of life. Presuppositions, generally speaking, are beliefs which we have and which guide us through our actions. We all have some personal presuppositions which model the view we have of the world as well as the way we act and react in it.

NLP handles and provides a list of presuppositions, which intend to help us understanding the world and everything that surrounds us and improve that way our life quality. We can distinguish some main NLP presuppositions which can be descri

bed as the most important and helpful ones. We will describe them in the next paragraphs.

One first main NLP presupposition says that the meaning of a communication is theresponse you receive. What you say or communicate in any way to another person will depend on how that person understands it and how he reacts to it to give that communication its actual meaning. Depending on the persons personal map and theway he sees the world, the situation and yourself, what you intend to communicate to him can be differently understood.

There is no failure, there is only feedback. Anything you do and the outcome you receive from it is positive. Even if you dont receive the response or outcome youwished, that still is good since you can learn from it. Any outcome you receive

from your actions should be taken as feedback.

One of the most important and known NLP presuppositions is the map is not the territory. The way things are represented is not the same than things themselves. Weall have our own map of the world which varies from the map of the others. Thatmap, which is the way we see and represent things to ourselves, does not equalthe world and the actual things; it just represents them to us in our personal way. We all have different maps and representations and not one of us holds the complete true and accuracy about what our map represents.

Another important NLP presupposition says Everybody has the resources they mightever need. Whatever people may need to do anything depends on them; they alreadyhave what it takes to do it. Any change or achievement you may want to accomplis

h can be done if you go for it in the right way.

There is a positive intention behind every behavior. Every action we make always has some positive intention in it. We never act without some good and positive reason moving us to do so, even if it looks positive only to ourselves. It will always be a good motive, at least good according to our personal map, which makesus do the things we do.

If what you are doing is not working, do it differently. That NLP presupposition refers to the fact that many times, when we failure at something, we go for it ag


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ain but in the same way than before. If we keep going the same way, we will keepreceiving the same outcome. Therefore, when you fail at something, you should try again but in a different way. You should not give up, but find the right wayto reach your goals.

Another NLP presupposition says that if someone can do something, anyone can learn it. Our brain works as a computer software and can be programmed by us. If someone is successful on what he does, that means he programmed himself in the rightway, and everyone else can do the same. We can learn how someone programmed himself in order to achieve his goals and do it on ourselves.

The most flexible person is the one who controls the outcome of an interaction. This means that the more flexible and adaptable to the different circumstances andpeople surrounding you in different environments, the more control you will have on the different situations. If you are conversing with someone, the more flexible you are, the more positive responses and the more control on that situationyou will have.

You cannot fail to communicate. This NLP presupposition refers to the fact that weare always communicating, either we want it or not. We cannot avoid communicating, if we dont speak we are still communicating. Our silences mean something as well as our words do. Our bodies communicate as well as we do through our words.Even if we stayed still and without saying a word, that would be read by the others as a signal of something.

CHAPTER 8: HYPNOSIS STATES AND STEPS

When we are hypnotized, we do it by passing through different states and accomplishing some steps. There are different states of hypnosis, each one with its owncharacteristics and depth. We can reach each one of the different states depending on which level of hypnosis we wish to reach.

While you go accomplishing the different steps which lead you into the hypnosis,you go entering different hypnotic states and depths of trance. And once all the hypnosis steps are accomplished and you are completely hypnotized, the depth of your trance can still fluctuate and slightly change from one depth to another.

The main hypnosis states can be identified as four: The hypnoidal or waking state, the lethargic state or light trance, the cataleptic trance or medium state and the deep or somnambulistic state. Each one of them has characteristics of itsown as well as a different depth from the one which precedes it and from the next one.

The first hypnotic state is the one called and known whether as waking or as hypnoidal state. This state is the one which happens at the initial stage of the hy

pnosis induction. It is a state in which the patient starts feeling relaxed andloose. We go into this state everyday when we are about to fall asleep or when we just wake up. We are fully conscious during this stage, but we feel very relaxed and start loosing focus on what surrounds us. This stage is already considered a hypnotic state, and some suggestions can be successfully employed in it.

The lethargic or light state is the one that follows the hypnoidal one and is characterized by being a light trance state in which the patient would feel lazy and sluggish. During this stage, the hypnotist could notice on his patient eyelids some flickering as well as movements of the eyeballs under them. This can be u


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sed as means of recognizing when the patient enters this lethargic state, sinceit shows him to be in a deeper level of hypnotic trance than the hypnoidal one.

The next state is the cataleptic trance, also known as medium state. This statefollows the lethargic one and it is where the patient looses focus on what happens around him and starts feeling disconnected from the environment in which he is. From this stage on, the patient memories of what has happened after he comesback into the natural awake state will be somehow diffuse and misty. During thisstate, the patient easily responds to the hypnotists voice and suggestions, andalthough the hypnotized person always has some level of control of himself, on this stage the hypnotist will have a strong influence on him. This is the ideal hypnotic state for employing suggestions and applying therapies.

During the medium or cataleptic trance is the state in which, per example, stagehypnotists can make the subject with whom they are working to make his body completely rigid as to be able to put them horizontally sustained by two chairs backs without falling or loosing the stone-like aspect.

The last hypnotic stage which a patient can reach is the deep or somnambulisticstate. When it comes to hypnotherapy, it is not good that the patient comes intothis state, since he will not want to keep following suggestions or paying attention to the hypnotist. People under this state are feeling extremely relaxed and good and do not want to be distracted or kept away from it by the hypnotists voice. Therefore, hypnotists should avoid that their patients enter this state, an

d in case they do, they should awake them from it.There are also some main steps which are the most commonly followed in order toinduce people into hypnosis. The first step would be a conversational and rapport creation one which is done through talking and conversation until a pacing isfollowed by the therapist and the patient. Then, the hypnotic trance state starts being induced by the hypnotist and once its effects can be noticed, it will betaken into a deeper trance. After this is achieved, the hypnotist first appliesan ego-strengthening therapy to his patient, and then the proper therapy is carried. At this point, the suggestions are done as part of the therapy when they are needed. And at last, the patient is awaken from the trance and taken back into his natural conscious state.

LESSON SIXTEEN - ORIENTAL SECRETS

CERTAIN HIGH CASTE societies in the Ear East conceived the idea that by persistent practice, the power of the eye as the source of magnetism could be developedto a degree that made it a weapon greatly to be feared. We are not seeking thatend, as we do not think we live in anage when fear should rule mankind. But there are other reasons why the excessive and unusual power of the human eye shouldbe developed, and these have been fully statedin the two preceding lessons. Behind these reasons there exists still another which has been touched upon in a past lesson and which will be further stated as we proceed; that of the collective

generating of the latent magnetism of the body, which can be effected by a number of processes.

The eye has been described by scientists as a small-sized volcano; in most caseslatent, quiet, sleeping in its embers, but the center of the most intensely heated zone, in all Nature, ready to glow when aroused.

What is known as the Oriental Practice is not by any means a newmethod. It has had uses in other departments, notably in developing a wonderful memory, and in stimulating thought, creating fertility of ideas, building inventive powers and a


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voidingmental breakdown. None of these purposes will be insisted upon in these lessons, although they will follow naturally. The trouble with the minds of unsuccessful people is that they are not alert in a way that wins results. Most of them are sluggish except in pursuit of the needs of the Four Appetites which generally rule mankind. This kind of mental alertness results in placing them under the sway of craftier minds. The field of human activities in other directions isalmost unlimited, and in them the powers of mental alertness and keenness are absent.

This explains why most lives are failures.

In the Oriental Practice as it was employed in the Far East, the results hardlywarranted the time devoted to it had these people had other lines of usefulnessin the world. They were not educated except in religious theories. They were notengaged in anything really worth while in life. Of course this gave them time for their practice; and led them into methods of concentration that, if their claims were to be believed, gave them knowledge of some of the mysteries of other powers of a superhuman nature. If such claims were in fact true, there was nothing gained by what they acquired.

We are in this world primarily to live the life that is thrust upon us.

No normal human being is a hermit; hence our duty lies far and wide among mankind. The more people we meet the better it is for us. Interests are interwoven eve

rywhere. Duties involve home and the social relations, as well as business, professional and productive activities; and the practice indulged in by other peoples who are not so interbound in their duties, does not help us except in the verylimited use we make of it.

But any natural and highly beneficial practice that will stimulate the brain into its best uses, and start a new line of habits tending to establish great mental keenness and alertness, will at the same time develop collectively the latentpower of magne

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