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Discoveries Which Make 
 Mental Therapeutics 
 
 AND 
 
 The Transmission of Mental 
 
 Communications an 
 
 Exact Science 
 
 Containing the Discovery of the Exact Mechanical 
 
 Proof of the Law Underlying All Mind Cures and 
 
 the Transmission of Mental Communications; 
 
 Also Showing How to Make Mental 
 
 Photographic Diagnosis of Diseases 
 
 Whether the Patient Be 
 
 Present or Absent 
 
 BY 
 
 D. W. STARRETT 
 
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 UNIVERSITY 
 
 Oakland 
 1908 
 
Copyright 
 by D. W. STARRETT 
 
 August 10, 1908 
 
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TO MY WIFE 
 
 WHOSE ELEVATING PRESENCE HAS EVER 
 
 ASSISTED ME IN FORGING AHEAD 
 
 TO DO AND DARE 
 
 THIS VOLUME 
 
 IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED 
 
 BY 
 
 The Author 
 
PREFACE 
 
 When writing the preface of "Mental Thera- 
 peutics, or How to Cure all Diseases With the 
 Mind," the author did not dream of the fullness 
 of joy with which he would be filled at sight of 
 the glorious country that would come into view 
 as he journeyed upward. 
 
 If you have climbed the beautiful mountains 
 and felt the impulse to fly like a bird to view 
 quickly that dreamland and ocean beyond, you 
 will know the exultation possessing him at the 
 sight of wonderful things he never dared to 
 dream of. 
 
 To be able to prove with so simple an instru- 
 ment as a thermometer the laws underlying these 
 mind cures, whether the patient is present, or 
 absent many miles, would seem enough pleasure 
 for one lifetime. But to have another discovery 
 of such vast importance thrust upon you that 
 your mind is in a whirl of wonderment at the 
 possibilities contained therein would seem too 
 good to be true. I refer to the discovery of the 
 mental diagnosis of diseases. 
 
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 To surmount, by hard climbing, the great ob- 
 stacle to human progress — sickness — was task 
 enough to try the stoutest heart. The greater 
 task of learning how to know, before it was too 
 late, the condition of one's body, so that by the 
 prevention of disease the cure will not be needed, 
 was hard enough to discourage all attempts at 
 its solution. It was discovered only by tenacity 
 of purpose, without skill or knowledge. 
 
 If you desire to possess it you will have to use 
 the same quality. I do not believe there are any 
 short cuts for acquiring such knowledge. 
 
 I have positive proof that all brain disorders 
 can be overcome if the parts are not entirely gone ; 
 that the desire for drink can be eradicated by the 
 destruction of the germs in the intestines ; and so 
 on, with many of the desires for sin which the 
 human mind is constantly tempted with. 
 
 The great vineyard will be in the teaching of 
 little children day after day as they journey to- 
 wards man's estate. 
 
 The whole solar system is thought to be mov- 
 ing through space in a vast sweeping curve, at 
 the rate of thirteen miles per second. We do 
 not know whence it came nor whither it is mov- 
 ing. 
 
 Man was thrust out of the Garden of Eden for 
 his disobedience. He too is traveling in a vast 
 sweeping circle which can end only at one point. 
 
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 When lost individually you are always prone to 
 circles which lead you whence you came. 
 
 Already the top of the old "Tree of Knowl- 
 edge" is coming to view. When sickness and 
 sin have been permanently overcome, at that in- 
 stant the old familiar "Garden Gates" will be 
 reached and man's long journey completed, with 
 the full knowledge that he has been lost and is 
 found. 
 
Discoveries Which Make Mental 
 Therapeutics and the Trans- 
 mission of Mental Com- 
 munications an 
 Exact Science. 
 
 I. 
 
 The practice of the discovery which I have dis- 
 closed to the public in my work entitled "Mental 
 Therapeutics, or How to Cure All Diseases With 
 the Mind" has led to other discoveries of such 
 far-reaching possibilities that I feel it my duty to 
 make them public property also. Keener minds 
 than my own may then take up the work and the 
 world will be much benefited thereby. Why 
 should not scientific men be willing to follow new 
 lines of thought even when discovered primarily 
 by an untrained mind? 
 
 From the further practice of the discovery de- 
 scribed in the above mentioned work I have 
 proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is a 
 fundamental discovery, and that sometime it must 
 be so recognized. Had some noted physician 
 
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 given it to the world clothed in professional 
 language the world would have taken it up at 
 once and even now would be reaping rich rewards 
 of health and strength. I am content, however, 
 to await my turn, knowing full well that every 
 man who earnestly does his duty will sooner or 
 later come into his own. 
 
 I desire to repeat a statement made in my for- 
 mer book, that no one person ever succeeded 
 alone in getting any great discovery before the 
 people. I wish to give honor to whom it belongs 
 for the help I have received from their labors. 
 From the work of the world's greatest bacteri- 
 ologist I have gained my knowledge of the won- 
 ders of germ life ; from the text-books of the pub- 
 lic schools, a partial understanding of anatomy 
 and a general knowledge of the blood. I must 
 mention specifically the writings of E. F. Arnold, 
 B. S., M. D., on the subject of "How the Blood 
 Defends the Body" and an excellent article by 
 William Hanna Thomson, M. D., LL. D. on "The 
 Nervous System and the Blood." Both works 
 deserve more than ordinary mention. 
 
 Next comes that wonderful woman, Mary 
 Baker G. Eddy. What I desire to praise most 
 in her is the wonderful, almost supernatural, 
 tenacity of purpose. To be sure I think she has 
 builded on an insecure foundation. Yet, but for 
 her, the world would have had to wait many 
 
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 years for the scientific knowledge it is getting 
 now. The force of her work has compelled 
 scientists to investigate, with the result that they 
 have found truth therein. But for that tenacity 
 of purpose I should never have been led to in- 
 vestigate the "why" of sickness. Perhaps she, in 
 her turn, is indebted to Mr. Quimby; but the 
 energy displayed in putting results before the 
 world was all her own. 
 
 II. 
 
 The law that I propounded in my previous 
 work was that any one of sound mind can by 
 practice get control of the corpuscle and cellular 
 life of his body and make it do his bidding at any 
 time ; also that he can control the same life in the 
 body of another, absent or present, provided only 
 that that other person does not oppose such con- 
 trol. Under that law one can direct the cor- 
 puscle and cell life to destroy or drive off the 
 enemy, the bacteria which are ever ready to dive 
 into the body because they are hungry and cold 
 and desire a place to propagate their kind. 
 
 I have proven beyond a doubt that this is a 
 mechanical problem. In mechanics, if you have a 
 certain weight to lift, you know that you must 
 provide power enough to outbalance that weight, 
 with some to spare. The same is true in this 
 method of curing bodily ills, your own or 
 
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 another's. You have to generate enough power to 
 destroy or drive out the germs that are causing 
 the trouble. I have found that in common stom- 
 ach troubles one can dispel them with so little 
 effort that it hardly seems work at all. 
 
 Nerve troubles require the expenditure of more 
 energy — magnetism, electricity, heat, or whatever 
 you like to call it — to destroy the enemy. The 
 germs of catarrh, neuralgia, rheumatism, and 
 those that destroy the optic nerve of the eye, 
 where it has become organically injured, demand 
 much more power to conquer them than many 
 other diseases. When I say that it takes the ex- 
 penditure of a certain amount of mechanical 
 power to kill the disease germs, I mean it just as 
 literally as you would say it takes ten-horse 
 power to drive an automobile, or a ten horse- 
 power motor to run a laundry. 
 
 For instance I have raised the temperature of 
 a man weighing one hundred and seventy pounds 
 seven-tenths of a degree in three minutes, when 
 distant one hundred and twenty-six miles. From 
 this it should be easy to figure the exact power 
 transmitted, making it purely a mathematical 
 problem. 
 
 If the waves go out in all directions, which 
 they do, one can readily see that the power which 
 I sent for useful work to this man's body, if mul- 
 tiplied by that which I could have transmitted 
 
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 to the number of men who might stand within a 
 half sphere of one hundred and twenty-six miles 
 radius, would make it a "boot strap proposition" 
 if each received the same amount. 
 
 So to keep the problem within the bounds of 
 mathematics, it must be like a child who liberates 
 the energy of tons of dynamite by the pressure of 
 an electric button, or that each man who is added 
 to the half sphere detracts or takes away a part 
 of the energy that would have gone to those who 
 were already within the radius of my power. 
 
 If I send out waves of electricity which signal 
 to his workmen all through the body to start 
 work at once, and it causes the cell life at the 
 pores of the skin to close "dampers" a little, then 
 it becomes a reasonable proposition. However, 
 this is for the scientist to determine. 
 
 If a ten horse-power generator is sitting on the 
 floor unconnected with power, and if you are 
 standing by it without thinking or giving expres- 
 sion to your thoughts, you and the generator are 
 very similar. Both of you are of very little use 
 to the world; yet you are both full of power or 
 magnetism. The whole secret in each case is to 
 get this magnetism out of the machine so that it 
 may give up its equivalent, which is heat. To get 
 power from the generator, you put on the belt 
 and start it to revolving, thereby producing a 
 difference of pressure, or a higher pressure, which 
 
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 causes the electricity to flow back through the re- 
 turn wire to its starting point. If there is a loss 
 in its passage, which of course there is, the supply 
 is kept up from the earth, which is the great 
 reservoir, or perhaps to some extent from the 
 air. To get power from the human machine you 
 must do the same thing. When we eat we pro- 
 vide the source of energy. The disintegration of 
 the food produces the difference in pressure — a 
 lower one — which causes the magnetism from 
 earth and air to flow in. By thinking, we cause 
 this magnetism to flow out in all directions just 
 as in wireless telegraphy. The amount of the 
 current we send out depends on the amount of 
 energy exerted in thinking. 
 
 If you ask how the mind, an immaterial thing, 
 can produce an effect on a material body, I will 
 say frankly that I do not know, but think that that 
 great problem will be solved in time. It is not 
 necessary to know for our present purpose. We 
 are sure that it does so act; for example, when 
 the mind gives an order to the leg to move for- 
 ward, the leg obeys every time, if that mind is in 
 a perfect machine — i. e., if the body has no de- 
 formity or ailments. The order is issued from 
 the cerebrum to the cerebellum, where the circuit 
 is closed, so that the electricity can flow along 
 the proper nerve to the stations of gray matter, 
 the intelligent life therein delivers it to the cell 
 
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 life in the cords for execution of the order to a 
 nicety. 
 
 In my discovery I claimed that all one has to 
 do is to practice giving orders to his corpuscles 
 and cell life, if he would get back the control, 
 which he never had, that would enable him to 
 direct them to fight off the enemy, either in 
 his own body or that of another, thereby stop- 
 ping pain at once and giving the cell life a chance 
 to rebuild the lost tissues. The orders will be 
 executed just as above, only, in this case, the 
 flow of electricity goes out in all directions, as in 
 wireless telegraphy. 
 
 The corpuscles do not obey well till one can 
 send out a strong current. To reach the corpus- 
 cles in one's own blood or in another's, the cur- 
 rent must flow without the medium of nerve 
 wires. The mind or soul starts the waves, just 
 as the spark starts them in wireless telegraphy. 
 These waves travel out in all directions, and as 
 far as the energy generated sends them. They 
 strike all bodies within their circle, producing 
 heat from the resistance to the flow through the 
 flesh. Heat is the first step in making a cure, 
 but it is not sufficient in itself, for the germs love 
 heat, and while it may make the corpuscles lively 
 and more combative, it is liable to do the same 
 thing for the germs. The second step in the cure 
 
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 is to order the corpuscles to go to the diseased 
 spot and work with the cellular life to destroy 
 the enemy. 
 
 III. 
 
 In this chapter I shall produce the proof of the 
 above assertions. In the preface of my first work 
 on this subject, I made the statement that I do 
 not believe in mysteries. I referred especially 
 to the mystery of the power that accomplishes all 
 these so-called mind cures. I explained the way 
 in which I had figured out the exact "how" of it, 
 as I have just done more briefly in the preceding 
 chapter. 
 
 While the explanation looked reasonable to 
 an outsider, still a very good one could be made 
 quite easily by all of the new mind cure methods. 
 At that time I had no idea how I was to prove to 
 a scientific mind that when one thinks of another, 
 absent or present, he is sending power — heat to 
 that person's body. I knew that no matter how 
 hard one exercises to make himself perspire 
 freely, the thermometer will not show any more 
 heat in the body. It seems that the cellular life 
 which controls the valves at all the pores of the 
 skin, knows when one exercises and immediately 
 opens the valves to allow just enough heat to 
 escape to maintain an even temperature. I even 
 went so far as to prove by actual experiment what 
 
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 I had read about the conditions under which one's 
 temperature can be raised or lowered. I tried 
 running up a very steep hill after having taken 
 my temperature. Of course, although I felt very 
 warm, I found no change. Then I tried it be- 
 fore and after eating, and found a rise after eat- 
 ing. Under no other test except the one which 
 I will subsequently relate, could I make any 
 change. 
 
 I estimated that the life within the stations of 
 brain matter and the cellular life under their 
 charge knew when to open the perspiration valves 
 and when not to. From this the thought came 
 to me that if I sent electric waves to the discharge 
 artery of my heart, which would produce heat 
 there, the perspiration valves would not be 
 opened; first, because there would be no order 
 for so doing from the brain; and, secondly, be- 
 cause these valve operators would not act without 
 such orders, it being an extraordinary case. 
 
 I took my temperature for two minutes, then 
 read it and held the thermometer under my tongue 
 for two minutes. I had raised the temperature 
 three-eighths of a degree. I felt much elated at 
 my success and tried it several times, finding that 
 I could put up my temperature as much as a de- 
 gree in a few minutes and at times lower it as 
 much. Then I went to a druggist, from whom I 
 had purchased the instrument, and told him that 
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 it would not register twice alike, and that I 
 thought it was a poor one, not telling him, of 
 course, what I was doing. He tried it and it 
 registered always the same. Of course he said 
 that I had not read it correctly. He was a regu- 
 larly graduated physician and knew that it would 
 not change except under the well known condi- 
 tions, and perhaps a little for nervousness. 
 
 This test proved conclusively the first step in 
 my chain of reasoning. The second step was to 
 try whether I could send heat to another's body 
 at any distance. I knew that if the thermometer 
 rose in the same manner, especially if the other 
 person did not know what I was making the 
 tests for, it would prove to any scientific mind 
 that there was a transmission of power from one 
 person to another. I tried it first with my wife. 
 I took her normal temperature for two minutes, 
 read it, and allowed her to hold the thermometer 
 under her tongue for two minutes, not telling her 
 what I was doing it for. The first time I tried it 
 I was within a few feet of her and put the tem- 
 perature up one-half a degree. I repeated the 
 experiment, this time going out of doors and 
 closing the door. The result was about the same. 
 After her temperature had settled back to the 
 normal, I made a third trial, going this time 
 about a quarter of a mile out into the forest. 
 Distance did not seem to make any difference. 
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 I went to my son, who was entirely ignorant 
 of what I had discovered, and told him to take 
 his normal temperature for two minutes, mark it 
 down, and then take it for two minutes more. If 
 he found a rise of two-fifths of a degree or more, 
 he was to come to me at once. I would be in the 
 house a block away. I centered my thoughts on 
 his heart. In about seven minutes he came to the 
 house and I asked him why he had done so. He 
 replied that he had received my message. I said 
 to him, "You have had the pleasure of partici- 
 pating in the transmission of the first thought 
 message sent wirelessly and recorded by the use 
 of a mechanical instrument." (The thing may 
 have been done before, but, if so, it has not been 
 made known to the public in general.) 
 
 I did not think it possible that I was sending 
 out a stream of electric corpuscles direct to the 
 party on whom I centered my thoughts. Com- 
 mon sense caused me to make the assertion, in my 
 first work, that the waves went out as in wireless 
 telegraphy. My third step was to prove that 
 statement. At the first test I had a friend close 
 by take one thermometer, and my wife, standing 
 about thirty feet away from the friend, at a right 
 angle to a line drawn between us, took another. 
 After taking her normal temperature I said to 
 my wife, "I will now raise my friend's temper- 
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 raise yours." The results proved my theory con- 
 clusively, for both temperatures went up about 
 three-fifths of a degree. Later on I tried it blocks 
 away with the same result. I also found that it 
 made some difference whether one had the 
 knowledge that I was going to try to raise his 
 temperature. In such cases it would rise even 
 when I did not try to make it. 
 
 For instance I set an exact moment when I 
 would try to raise or lower another's temperature 
 for five consecutive times. I tried to change his 
 normal temperature for the first three nights and 
 did so; but the last two nights I did not try, 
 though without the other person's knowing that 
 I did not. Still his temperature was raised. I ex- 
 plain it in this way: Although he tried not to 
 think of himself, yet the fact from previous trials 
 was known to the intelligent corpuscle and cellular 
 life, and they caused the heart to beat a little 
 faster or closed the pores. I found that it worked 
 in that manner only after considerable practice. 
 If one is sick and the heart is beating too slowly, 
 I can always raise his vitality by sending the elec- 
 tric heat to the organ, coupled with an order 
 for the cellular gray matter in command at that 
 station to have the cellular life in the walls of the 
 heart to work a little faster. This may sound 
 foolish, until you try it yourself and get results. 
 If the heart is beating too fast it can be slowed 
 down in the same manner. 
 
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 IV. 
 
 The fourth step was to prove whether the 
 thought waves, or rather electric waves, went out 
 to any considerable distance. 
 
 My first experiments along this line were made 
 while I was at Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey 
 County, California. After having tried it many 
 times between parties at different places in that 
 beautiful little town, I made arrangements for a 
 test between Carmel and San Francisco. The 
 distance seemed to make no difference. It must, 
 of course, be remembered that, at the time of 
 these trials, I had been, for about four years, 
 practicing the sending out of electric waves and 
 healing people at a distance. I found out very 
 soon that it was no especial gift which I pos- 
 sessed, that enabled me to get those results. I 
 tried the same experiments with a lady who was 
 sick, and who had practiced curing herself for 
 only about five months. She could raise my tem- 
 perature at a distance of one hundred and twenty- 
 six miles. It requires two talents only, and these 
 every one has if he will use them. I will return 
 to them later on. 
 
 I have now proved that wireless waves can be 
 sent out, by a person's thinking in the right way, 
 for a distance of seven hundred and fifty miles. 
 Mind cures have been made from a distance of 
 ten thousand miles, as recorded by Mr. Hudson 
 
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 in one of his works on Mental Therapeutics. It is 
 only a question of power and, in connection with 
 this, thought force. 
 
 I have gone without consuming fuel — food — 
 for three days and found that I did not send out 
 waves of sufficient power to raise my own or 
 another's temperature. Without a doubt there 
 was some flow of current. I made this experi- 
 ment to find out if it was the spirit alone which 
 caused the waves to flow — or did the material 
 body have much to do with it? It seems to prove 
 conclusively that one must take in fuel to keep 
 up his "fires" the same as in any other mechanical 
 work, if power is to be obtained. 
 
 I realized what a wonderful thing it would be, 
 if I could send out electric corpuscles in one 
 steady stream, instead of wasting so much power 
 in projecting them in all directions. It takes one 
 thousand times more power to send a message by 
 wireless telegraph than by wire. With the wire 
 line energy is spent in earning money for first 
 cost; in the wireless system, it is spent in pro- 
 viding daily power. 
 
 I hope that some keen mind will study out a 
 way to keep one's thoughts moving in one defi- 
 nite direction. When the above facts become 
 generally known, some scientist will invent a ma- 
 chine which will pick up these wireless waves and 
 use them for the personal transmission of mes- 
 
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 sages between two or more individuals. This 
 machine will be so small that it can be carried in 
 the pocket ; yet it will enable one to talk with his 
 friends at any time and at any distance. This is 
 no idle dream, for if I can raise another's tem- 
 perature at a distance of one thousand miles, even 
 though I only liberate the power in his body, that 
 rise can be made to mean a word or a whole 
 sentence. There is the foundation to work on. 
 The first proofs are so simple that I fear that the 
 men who can really make such instruments will 
 overlook their value, I do not know of any case 
 where ideas have been conveyed from one to 
 another, through the medium of the mind, in 
 such a manner that they could be repeated at will. 
 This simple experiment opens the way to an ex- 
 planation of all phenomena connected with mind- 
 reading, spiritism, occult science, and mental tele- 
 pathy. 
 
 When I was making my experiments between 
 Carmel-by-the-Sea and San Francisco, I found 
 that I became very much exhausted at times. This 
 fact started me on a new line of thought, and I 
 began a series of experiments, which, while not 
 conclusive, lead in the right direction. It oc- 
 curred to me that if I were sending out elec- 
 tricity all the time, it might be possible that I 
 did not get a return fast enough to keep up the 
 normal supply. Electricity and magnetism are 
 
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 omnipresent. They penetrate some materials 
 more than others. It seemed reasonable that the 
 body may not always get a proper amount back. 
 When quite exhausted from this kind of work, 
 I took hold of the water-pipe to get a return 
 flow. Immediately I felt a soothed feeling creep- 
 ing over me, just as one feels, who takes food 
 after a fast. I made arrangements for experi- 
 ments to prove this apparent fact by making a 
 series of alternate tests with the body connected 
 and disconnected with the ground. So far the 
 tests have not proved to me positively that my 
 reasoning is correct along that line. In the 
 greater number of the tests, however, after a long 
 concentration of mind, the body being discon- 
 nected with the ground, I found that my tem- 
 perature had fallen. This would seem to prove 
 the theory. 
 
 The life within us which controls the opening 
 and closing of the pores of the skin, soon learns 
 to open them and let the heat off, and vice versa. 
 This makes it rather difficult to get a long series 
 of tests which would prove the facts beyond a 
 doubt. I hope that those who have the means 
 to make such tests properly will become inter- 
 ested enough to do so. Not being of a technical 
 turn of mind, myself, such work does not appeal 
 to me, even if I were in a position to make them. 
 
 The great Napoleon, with several of his gen- 
 
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 erals, was once crossing French fields. That par- 
 ticular part of the country was unfamiliar to 
 them all. Napoleon stopped and asked a little 
 peasant girl, who was playing by the roadside, to 
 direct him to a certain cross-road. The little 
 girl, who had lived there all her life, had the 
 necessary knowledge. That knowledge changed 
 the destinies of nations. In the matter now in 
 hand, I, like the little girl, have the knowledge to 
 point out the way. 
 
 In treating a person for a very bad organic 
 disease, I have found that, if I endeavor to send 
 heat directly to the weak part, the temperature 
 will fall. I have had it drop as much as one- 
 half of a degree. I account for it in this way : — 
 The normal temperature was taken with the in- 
 strument under the tongue. By switching all the 
 heat possible to the diseased part, I have drawn 
 the blood thither in great quantities, and have, of 
 course, lowered the temperature under the tongue 
 for a few moments. When I first noticed this, I 
 thought it was a great discovery ; but later, upon 
 trying it with a well person, I found the drop so 
 small that all my hopes were crushed for the 
 time. 
 
 Since then I have discovered a positive way to 
 do that same thing. Further on I will make it 
 plain, for it has a very important bearing upon 
 the cure of many diseases. 
 
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 If it is necessary to connect electric machines 
 with the earth it is reasonable to suppose that the 
 human machines should likewise be grounded. 
 Consider the millions of hustling business men 
 w T ho work in almost air-tight offices, insulated 
 from all inflow of magnetism from the earth. Is 
 it any wonder that eight men out of every ten 
 have what is called "nerves"? 
 
 There is no way for men to get a proper sup- 
 ply of electricity from the air. From the tests I 
 have made, I am fully convinced that every office 
 should be supplied with a ground connection. 
 Foot-boards, seats, and foot-wear should have 
 continuous connection therewith; and that every 
 person should be grounded when in bed. 
 
 When water collects in the mountains it starts 
 at once trying to get back to its source, the 
 ocean. When a human being is born into the 
 world, he too starts on that long journey back to 
 his ocean, Heaven. When the clouds become 
 surcharged with electricity, that, too, gets back 
 to its ocean, the earth, in the form of the electric 
 bolt. 
 
 The earth is the reservoir whence the clouds 
 get overcharged. Otherwise it would not flow 
 back. If it were not for this, human beings 
 would have disappeared from the face of the 
 
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 earth long ago, because of their ignorance dis- 
 played in insulating the body entirely from the 
 mother earth. It is no wonder that men have 
 found it refreshing to go back to nature by 
 doing away with foot-wear and clothes. One 
 does not have to go back to Adam to overcome 
 that ignorance. 
 
 The water which collects on the mountains can 
 not get back to the ocean until it has a tremen- 
 dous pressure to force it back. The difference 
 in atmospheric pressure or potential, draws the 
 magnetism from the earth, and it must have pres- 
 sure to force it back. I have already made the 
 assertion that food provides in a like manner a 
 difference of potential in the body, which causes 
 the inflow. The mind, with practice, can make 
 more or less pressure to send out the electric 
 waves, which always flow to the point of least 
 resistance, the air. The assertion has been made 
 that one should be insulated from the earth in 
 order to prevent the loss of magnetism; but the 
 argument does not seem to hold, when paralleled 
 with natural phenomena. Electric stimulus is the 
 means through which the mind acts to move the 
 body in all its parts. The mind speaks a com- 
 mand into the gray matter of the cerebrum. It is 
 conveyed to the cerebellum, from where it is 
 sent through the nerve wires to the stations of 
 gray matter in all the principal parts of the body, 
 
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 which we may call the superintending offices. 
 Thence it is sent to the foremen of the cell life in 
 the detailed parts. 
 
 Human business affairs are conducted in a like 
 manner. No business can succeed without this 
 mode of procedure. "Now," I ask, "did the body- 
 get its business methods from the way human 
 affairs are arranged on the outside?" No! It 
 could not be so! We unconsciously copy on the 
 outside just what is done on the inside. The 
 mind knew how to conduct the business of the 
 body long before it had any outside business to 
 perform. When the time came to do business 
 outside, the mind worked along the same lines. 
 
 If you admit that such reasoning is good com- 
 mon sense, that the mind, in doing something 
 it has not before done, will adopt its old methods, 
 as in the above case, then, when I tell you that 
 I can make the same mind, corpuscles and cel- 
 lular life, attack and destroy the body's deadly 
 enemy, and that these work by an order given, 
 and perform just as fine operations in adjusting 
 the complicated machinery to produce health as 
 they do when one plays the piano or makes any 
 other of the wonderful movements the body is 
 capable of, it should not be doubted. 
 
 Consider the wonderful new method of opera- 
 ting a typewriter without looking at the keys. 
 The mind is reading the stenographic notes while 
 
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 the fingers move over the keyboard with hardly 
 ever a mistake. 
 
 The statement is often made that the heart 
 performs a wonderful feat in running a whole 
 lifetime without a stop. Yet that same feat is 
 seen in everyday life with mention never made of 
 it. A great railroad system, for example, runs 
 its trains on schedule time for years. No one 
 ever writes about that, because we all know the 
 details. We know that the same locomotive does 
 not run all those years. It may have been re- 
 built several times. So, too, with the cars and 
 rolling stock. In just this manner the heart is 
 repaired by the little workers, who are intelligent 
 and know the "how" of doing it. 
 
 To refer again to our great railroad system — 
 the same crew does not work night and day. 
 There is the night crew as well as the day crew, 
 both composed of trained workmen. To one 
 who sat on a high place, day after day, watching 
 the trains come and go, and who did not know 
 how they were run, it might seem miraculous. 
 That is just our case when we look at the work- 
 ings of our body, not knowing the details. There 
 are two crews at work in our body and perhaps 
 three, which take their shift as the workmen on 
 the railroad. Whether they are union or non- 
 union I cannot say. 
 
 One who desires to get up at a certain time in 
 
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 the morning can give an order to his night crew 
 to that effect and, invariably, if he has not been 
 slothful in his habits, they will awaken him in 
 time. I have been for months without a clock 
 or watch and never failed to get up on time. 
 Very few people have ever stopped to ask' how 
 this feat is performed. 
 
 In the light of all these arguments, which are 
 proof against being shelved, is it asking too 
 much of a plain American citizen to believe that 
 he can order his little crews of workmen around 
 to keep clean the inside of his body as well as 
 the outside? Must he run to another every time 
 he desires or needs an inside bath? 
 
 I will exclude from this question all cases of 
 broken limbs or other parts deranged from acci- 
 dents. One must use common sense in all things. 
 I will also make this apparently preposterous 
 statement — namely, that one might just as well 
 go to a physician who gives good medicine as to 
 a mind doctor or a metaphysical healer. 
 
 After a practice of about four years with this 
 particular method of curing, I have found that 
 it is impossible for me to make anyone immune 
 from sickness. The same patients are always 
 coming back with new or old troubles for me to 
 treat. I knew that this was true with physicians 
 of the regular schools, but did not suspect that 
 it could be true with this seeming miraculous 
 
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 way. I have taken pains to look into the matter 
 and find that every one of the modern mind-cure 
 doctors, whether religious or otherwise, have the 
 same patients always coming back for more 
 mind "dope." 
 
 If anyone doubts my statement, let him go to 
 the Christian Science healers and watch. Or he 
 may come to me and see who take the most treat- 
 ments. In view of these facts I have made up 
 my mind to the right mode of procedure. First, 
 teach the rising generation, beginning at about 
 the age of eight, to cure their own little ills, and 
 impress it upon their minds from that age till 
 they leave school, that they, and only they, can 
 cure themselves of bodily, as well as of mental 
 trouble, which has its cause in the brain. 
 
 Although the time will probably never come 
 when we will be immune from bodily sickness 
 without a constant watchfulness on our part, still 
 I believe that we can, by long years of practice, 
 so educate the intelligent life within us that that 
 watchfulness to keep out the enemy will go on 
 without more conscious effort on our part than 
 we expend in the effort of walking % 
 
 Outside attacks on the body from flies, fleas, 
 mosquitoes and different kinds of bacteria will 
 always be present. As I have said in my former 
 work, opposition seems necessary to our develop- 
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 power within us to keep control in our own hands 
 — just enough and no more, for then we should 
 deteriorate. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Why do patients always come back for more 
 medicine of any kind? In metaphysical healing 
 we give the patient heat from electric waves which 
 are produced by the flesh's acting as resisting 
 coil to the flow of the current. Then we order 
 the corpuscles to the disease center to destroy 
 the germs. If to-day we give one-fifth of a de- 
 gree of heat more than usual to get the corpuscles 
 to act, to-morrow we must give as much before 
 they will go to work. We cannot tell when to 
 stop sending heat to another's body, so that we 
 may send to-day too much or too little with cor- 
 responding results. 
 
 The corpuscles and cellular life act in the same 
 way in respect to our eating or drinking as to our 
 taking medicine. They will wait every time for 
 anything that does their work for them by either 
 destroying the germs, or by making them, them- 
 selves, stronger to do it. That is just what 
 human beings will do in everyday life, as all can 
 testify. This again serves to show how closely 
 we, in the affairs of life, follow the example 
 within us. If one forms the habit of eating 
 heavily, the little fellows will make a great fuss 
 
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 if they do not get as much at each meal there- 
 after. They will gnaw and scratch until one 
 thinks he must have the usual quantity. The 
 worst is that they keep asking for a little extra 
 every day. This is true with all kinds of stimu- 
 lants and with smoking. 
 
 Another man can never tell just how much you 
 can eat or drink, without getting more than is 
 necessary to do your work. If another could feed 
 you and give you drink when distant from you, 
 it would be about parallel with this healing 
 another perfectly. Even when giving mind cure 
 to one present, the effects are the same, unless 
 the patient is alive to how it is being done and 
 knows just when to call a halt. 
 
 You alone can with safety treat yourself. You 
 alone can tell to a nicety zvhen the pain is gone, or 
 the lost parts rebuilt. 
 
 Here I will repeat. The cure comes, in the 
 first instance, from the heat caused by the body's 
 resistance to the flow of the current, which heat, 
 the germs as well as the corpuscles and cellular 
 life love, so that it alone cannot be depended upon 
 to make the cures. It may even, by making both 
 sides more vigorous, cause the battle to rage with 
 greater discomfort to the patient. 
 
 God has placed you in charge of your body, 
 and if the battle is going on, you have it in your 
 power to decide the issues of the day, by backing 
 
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 up the little fighters in your system with com- 
 mands that will make them work harder. It is 
 ever the same in actual warfare; the commander 
 who watches the tide of battle most carefully, 
 who keeps his soldiers well supplied with food 
 and ammunition, and who at the right moment 
 rushes in his reserves most promptly, wins the 
 day. 
 
 I proved in my experiments with the thermome- 
 ter that the waves go out in all directions. To 
 satisfy myself that heat alone does not make the 
 cures (although it will do so under some condi- 
 tions) I sent the waves to another's body until 
 his temperature was raised. Still the pain was 
 not checked. Either immediately or after some 
 time I would give the command for the fighters 
 to get busy, and as soon as I did so the pain 
 ceased. 
 
 Again I experimented with two patients. In 
 one case I ordered the corpuscles to the diseased 
 spot and the pain stopped, but in the other case 
 there was no change at this order except greater 
 heat. At another time, when I gave commands to 
 the little fighters, one after the other, both 
 patients got relief. 
 
 I am firmly convinced that under this new order 
 of things fires in the house should be discontinued 
 except for cooking purposes. This may seem like 
 a wild idea until you accept the theory that to 
 
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 keep healthy one must keep his little fighters at 
 an even temperature. One catches cold from a 
 falling temperature, because the fighters desert 
 their posts to get inside, where it is warmer. 
 Now, consider what is continually happening in 
 every household. A fire is burning in one room 
 while there is none in the others. Every time a 
 door is opened between the heated room and the 
 others a draught is created. If the family had 
 the knowledge which I have given in my previous 
 work, matters would not be so bad, for then they 
 would themselves supply the lost heat. But 
 where they have no protection, it is not strange 
 that nearly everyone is diseased. 
 
 I do not advocate going to extremes and trying 
 to do entirely without fires. But no doubt that is 
 the ideal way to live. 
 
 Each of us has a furnace within himself, which 
 he can regulate to suit all conditions. If he is 
 cold he can heat the body up in a fe w^rninutes. 
 by a few deep breaths or by thinking of the heart 
 for a few minutes, or both. If you do not believe 
 this, try it and you will be convinced. This is the 
 only ideal way to get heat. Artificial external 
 heat does not do the good that we intend it should. 
 The sun's heat seems ideal. Its light travels at 
 the rate of one hundred and eighty thousand 
 miles per second, and the blow from such terrific 
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 — that is to say, heat from the blow is evenly 
 distributed. Now that is true likewise of the heat 
 generated within us. The artificial heat on the 
 contrary seems to warm the surface too much, 
 while the inner body remains relatively cold. 
 
 If you feel cold it is caused usually by one of 
 three derangements of your machinery, and these 
 you can correct. The first is a poor circulation, 
 due to faulty working of the heart; the sec- 
 ond is a clogging of the pipe lines (arteries and 
 veins), which must be cleared of obstructions; 
 the third is the failure of the regulators at each 
 pore of the skin to close the valves sufficiently. 
 This last is a mechanical feat easy to understand. 
 Each pore is a heat vent or waste-pipe and there 
 are millions of them. If they fail to open and 
 close the valves properly, the whole system gives 
 notice of the mistake at once. 
 
 In a fever too much heat is produced in the 
 body. The cellular life in the valves will not 
 open them enough, and, consequently, you are 
 burning up. When you are cold, if other condi- 
 tions are right, these valve regulators are neglect- 
 ing their work. You can control them just as 
 you can the white corpuscles. In both cases it 
 takes practice, of perhaps a week, to get a start 
 that will give you faith in the work, or even, pos- 
 sibly, of several months. I worked about three 
 months before I got any results; but I was 
 
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 without assistance. You should be able to make 
 some showing in a shorter time. 
 
 You can regulate your temperature to a nicety 
 by giving orders to the proper department. If 
 your heart is bad, send your thoughts to it for 
 some ten minutes or more, with an order to the 
 corpuscles to fight the germs that are causing the 
 trouble. If it is the pipe lines that are failing in 
 their duty, order the corpuscles to remove all ob- 
 structions, as you move your thoughts up and 
 down their length. 
 
 In the coldest country, if you have food within 
 you, you can have all the heat necessary for com- 
 fort, simply by regulating your "dampers." 
 
 Remember that the germs too, love the heat, 
 and will always be found thickest on the outside, 
 where houses are kept nice and warm, and in- 
 side the body on the arteries and veins near the 
 heart. Tests on the Pullman palace and tourist 
 coaches show more danger from disease in the 
 palace sleepers. Houses with the carpets tacked 
 down are much more dangerous than those with 
 removable rugs only. Careful housewives all use 
 the rugs. 
 
 Why is it thought necessary to cook every- 
 thing we eat ? Because fire is the only thing that 
 destroys bacteria without injuring us. It is espe- 
 cially necessary to subject meat and milk to a 
 temperature of 212 degrees before using. 
 
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 VII. 
 
 After practicing my discovery about three and 
 one-half years, getting rid of nearly all my own 
 troubles and curing those of many others, absent 
 and present, I came upon the track of another 
 great discovery — a discovery so far-reaching, so 
 far beyond anything I ever dared to dream of 
 that I almost hesitate to give it to the public. I 
 have made a solemn promise to myself that I will 
 not yield to the ever present temptation to keep 
 all discoveries secret and play the little god with 
 people, but that I will give every one to the public 
 as freely as I can. 
 
 All men are diseased, and that means that all 
 would pay tribute to me if I organized a healing 
 trust. Even the babies would have to contribute 
 their mite toward filling my coffers. 
 
 In many works on new thought we are told to 
 concentrate our minds on the pain, as that seems 
 to bring relief most quickly. Mr. Hudson, in his 
 many excellent works, advises this. Although I 
 had never read a new thought book until after I 
 had published my first work, I had soon found 
 out that same fact, as recorded in my "Mental 
 Therapeutics, or How to Cure All Diseases With 
 the Mind." It was the practice of that idea which 
 has led to these further discoveries. 
 
 Having been in mechanics all my life, I came 
 to these subjects with the fixed idea that there is 
 
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 no such thing as a mystery. In the handling of 
 machinery one must know the "whys" and 
 "wherefores" or his place will soon be filled by 
 someone who does. I learned to notice little 
 things because I found that almost invariably they 
 led to great ones. I was not born an inventor, 
 but acquired a love for that work. I discovered 
 that it was impossible for man to conceive of an 
 idea which was entirely new. Every new idea is 
 built up from a foundation partially composed of 
 old ones. That is the way the world gains knowl- 
 edge. If you do not believe this, just try once to 
 get a thought entirely independent of any other 
 thought ever expressed. 
 
 The object of this little digression is to show 
 you that what I am going to disclose is builded 
 from old thoughts. Like Columbus, we are 
 reaching out over the unknown ocean, beyond 
 all who have gone before. The beautiful coral 
 islands are built in the same manner. Cell after 
 cell reaches upward a little beyond its fellow 
 workmen till God's sunlight is reached. They 
 did not know for what they were building — 
 neither do we. 
 
 The spiritist, the telepathist, the mind-reader, 
 and the occultist have been my co-workers in try- 
 ing to reach the sunlight. Therefore I desire to 
 acknowledge my debt to them all. 
 
 In the early part of 1908 I began to take notice 
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 of little things connected with my work when 
 trying to help others. In what follows do not 
 think I had discovered a "gift" within me. Re- 
 member that for about three and one-half years 
 I had been practicing night and day the sending 
 of electric force to others. In that time I had 
 been learning a trade, or profession, as it were. 
 Each one of you may hope to do the same if you 
 have the ability to work and the requisite tenacity 
 of purpose. It need not take you so long because 
 you will have teachers who can show you short 
 cuts. 
 
 The starting point of my new discoveries came 
 one day when I was thinking of a certain person's 
 diseased lung. When one knows that a person 
 has a bad lung he will naturally see the picture 
 with some kind of a cloud, because he knows be- 
 forehand that it is there. But this day I saw the 
 diseased part with what might be called a halo, or 
 a bright ring of light around it. This was so 
 peculiar that I was immediately on the alert, like 
 a detective when he gets a clue. I never dreamed 
 of such a thing as its being supernatural or 
 spiritual. 
 
 I studied night and day, feeling sure that I was 
 on the verge of a great discovery. The lung 
 looked to me just as an actor does on the stage 
 when the footlights are out and the electric ma- 
 chine throws the white light around him. The 
 
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 first time it did not last long, nor did it always 
 come when I tried to get that picture. But after 
 that first time it seemed to come and go at will 
 whenever I was thinking of an internal trouble. 
 
 I noticed too that when I got a picture of a 
 disease it looked black, but that if I switched my 
 thoughts to a person whom I did not know to be 
 without such disease that part looked normal in 
 color. This was really the entering wedge, for I 
 felt sure at once that I was seeing the diseased 
 part. I proved the truth of my surmise by trying 
 whether or not I could locate different persons' 
 troubles without previous knowledge of them. I 
 never made a mistake in diagnosis of prominent 
 troubles. 
 
 Looking at the outside of an absent person to 
 locate a trouble I could make no headway; but 
 on the inside I could see at once the black where 
 the disease was located. I studied a long time 
 over this before reaching a solution. The first 
 ray of intelligence came from noticing how simi- 
 lar my mental pictures were to X-ray ones, given 
 in works on surgery. 
 
 Another curious thing was that if I tried to 
 look at a stomach from a back view, I would not 
 see the flesh of the back or the backbone at all. 
 Of all the hard problems this has been the most 
 trying. The failure to solve it nearly made me 
 give up the whole theory, as I began to think the 
 
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 facts supernatural. You will not condemn me 
 in this, for there are many bright men in the pres- 
 ent day who would so regard them without 
 argument. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Before Christ came to dwell upon the earth, 
 the whole Jewish nation were expecting such an 
 event, but never dreamed of it except as a coming 
 in glory and pomp. That He would come as just 
 a poor little boy could not be ! That He would 
 work with His hands and make them rough and 
 calloused was preposterous ! So when He did 
 come, they, not discerning, missed the sunlight of 
 knowing their Master's presence. 
 
 You may have noticed how, even in these last 
 few months of 1908, some of our greatest writers 
 are predicting the coming of a wonderful change 
 to the world, and that it is already understood to 
 be one of great glory. I refer to the occult forces 
 which have been so much written about and so 
 little understood. All one must do, we are told, 
 is to go into retirement and place himself in a re- 
 ceptive mood and the mysterious force will come. 
 But how are we to use such advice — we who are 
 only human beings ? Perhaps if we were all highly 
 educated in mystic things we might; but even 
 then of what use is it to mankind in general if the 
 laws are not found which govern it? In looking 
 
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 over the whole past of the people of the earth 
 we can see that nothing has ever come to them 
 of lasting good except by slow human progress, 
 taught by experience. 
 
 I do not wish to be understood as comparing 
 myself and work with the wonderful men of the 
 past and their achievements. But I know that I 
 have made a great discovery, which is simple, 
 easy to comprehend, and will explain many mys- 
 teries when really scientific minds have worked 
 out the laws which govern the principle. 
 
 Without doubt the time has arrived when the 
 mysteries of so-called occult forces must fade be- 
 fore the light of scientific investigation. If I can 
 assist even in dispelling the fog of mystery once, 
 that alone will have been worth living for. 
 
 I do not wish to convey the idea that God has 
 nothing to do with mind-curing, as explained in 
 my first work, or that He will not come to you 
 in a direct manner through occult forces or spirit 
 ones. But I know that he did not come to the 
 Jews as they expected ; and that it is very doubt- 
 ful if He will ever come to you in any other way 
 than through material forms and human beings. 
 You are out of a job, for instance, or hungry, and 
 lie down by the wayside, waiting for Him to 
 bring you a loaf of bread or a job. Ah! your 
 coat will be threadbare before He does. On the 
 other hand, suppose you get up and rustle, then 
 
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 you will meet some kindly man who will do some- 
 thing for you. If you are undiscerning you will 
 pass along, your faith gone, looking no more to 
 God, because He did not come to you as you ex- 
 pected. You do not see God's will in the kindly 
 act. 
 
 When I began to diagnose it took me several 
 days to get a picture of the trouble. The cause of 
 this I will explain later. The first thoroughly 
 satisfactory test case I had was of one who was 
 down with consumption. I told him that the 
 lower parts of both lungs were affected, the right 
 one more than the left ; also that the right one 
 had a rather large black spot in the center. He, 
 not believing that I could see the trouble, went to 
 his physician, to prove whether I was right or 
 wrong. The physician told him that his left lung 
 was the bad one. To prove that I was right, I 
 asked him how he knew that he had a pair of 
 lungs. He replied that he knew by the breathing. 
 Now, if you stop to think, you will see that that 
 is no proof. I requested him to cough hard and 
 to tell me where it hurt him. He replied at once 
 that it was always in the center of his right lung. 
 I asked him if he could tell, by the feeling when 
 he coughed, if he had a left lung. The reply was 
 that he could not. If lungs are sound their owner 
 cannot tell he has them, but when they become 
 sore, he soon knows it. 
 
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 As time passed I saw that I was beginning to 
 be able to diagnose more quickly. By the first 
 of July, 1908, I was able to tell almost instantly 
 where the trouble was. I do not mean to say that 
 I could diagnose the minor troubles of one's body 
 quickly — only those of the main organs. At the 
 present time I can locate almost any trouble or 
 pain inside of ten minutes. As soon as I found 
 that I was learning to do this, I looked at the optic 
 nerves of my own eyes to see if they were all 
 right. I did not think they were, for I could not 
 yet see quite as well by electric light as I should. 
 I found part of the nerves in bad shape. It was 
 reflection on this surprising fact, that I could see 
 my own optic nerves, that solved the first great 
 mystery in this discovery. 
 
 You who read this will say at once that I saw 
 clairvoyantly. But what does that convey to one 
 who does not believe in mysteries? What does it 
 mean, in any way you look at it? It means just 
 what I did not believe in— a mystery ! If you say 
 that it is a supernatural force, the result is the 
 same. If you say that it is spirits, or God direct, 
 it is still the same — a mystery. Remember that 
 God is continually helping you through human 
 agencies, but rarely in a more direct way. 
 
 I recall an incident of the woods of western 
 Washington. Finding myself in a tight place dur- 
 ing the panic of 1890-93, I took the job of assess- 
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 ing those Washington wilds for the county of 
 Jefferson. One day I came upon an old Irishman 
 out there in the woods, in his dirt-floor shanty, 
 miles from all other human beings. The rain 
 was coming down and he was sick in bed. All 
 he had in the house to eat was potatoes and flour. 
 
 I saw that he was in a dying condition, and 
 when I arrived at the nearest settler's, about fif- 
 teen miles away, I persuaded them to go for him. 
 They took him in a canoe about fifteen miles down 
 the swift river Hohe to its mouth, then north 
 along the ocean beach to Cape Flattery, where a 
 steamer took him to Port Townsend. Upon my 
 arrival there I visited him in the Sisters' Hospital, 
 where he was being cared for. He told me then 
 that he had always felt that God would not let 
 him die out there in the woods alone, without the 
 last rites of the church. He lived only a few days 
 after that. Now, I had no idea that I was on any 
 other mission than the assessing of the district. 
 
 When a great railroad or steamship line is 
 started, we think that it is done for gold only — 
 but not so! We must not wait for our Lord's 
 spiritual coming before believing in His daily 
 help. In fact He is continually helping in ordi- 
 nary ways. 
 
 Right here in Oakland I knew a man who got 
 hard up. He had only forty cents left and spent 
 five of that for fare to San Francisco, where he 
 
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 hoped to find work. He had a family of small 
 children and was worried to know where their 
 living would come from on the morrow unless he 
 secured employment. Just as he was about going 
 aboard the ferry a man asked him for help. His 
 left hand was badly injured and he had had noth- 
 ing to eat since the day before. Our friend felt 
 of his thirty-five cents pretty hard, but decided to 
 give the man ten cents, as he seemed worthy. He 
 was in San Francisco all day without success and 
 made his way home in great dejection. Upon 
 reaching the house he learned that during the day 
 a cat had run up the street, had come through his 
 yard, and jumped over the fence in the back. A 
 lady followed, trying to catch her pet. She had 
 asked one of his little boys to find it, and, upon 
 his success, had given him a dollar and a half. 
 Who do you think it was that really gave that 
 family the money — money that tided them over 
 the pinch till the father got work ? 
 
 As soon as I was positive that I was really see- 
 ing the diseased parts, I began to study how to 
 account for the apparent phenomenon. As I said 
 before, I noticed the likeness between these and 
 X-ray pictures. This gave me a clue which led 
 to the solution. In X-ray work the patient is so 
 placed that the sensitive paper is beyond him. 
 The picture is printed in much the same way as 
 the sun casts a shadow. That is, the diseased 
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 parts or foreign substance in the body is cast upon 
 the paper in the form of a shadow. 
 
 While at first I saw only the shadow, later on I 
 began to see the flesh colors inside, with scarcely 
 ever a halo. I suppose you all know how a picture 
 is taken with a kodak. The light strikes the ob- 
 ject and is reflected back, leaving the imprint on 
 the sensitive paper. Or, to make it a little plain- 
 er: Suppose you desire a picture of a ten-foot 
 ring on the front of your house transferred to 
 a board twenty feet square, twenty feet away. 
 This board we will paint snow-white. Then we 
 will take one hundred base-balls, covered with 
 lampblack. Now, suppose we can throw them at 
 equal distances apart to divide the ten-foot circle 
 into that many subdivisions. These balls, re- 
 bounding, will strike the twenty-foot board, leav- 
 ing the imprint of the circle perfectly formed on 
 the board. Light acts in the same way as the 
 balls, in the kodak work. 
 
 While my mental pictures looked much like 
 X-ray work, I soon found that the manner of 
 getting them was more like kodak work. In 
 kodak work you get only a view of exposed parts, 
 while in my pictures I get any view desired. So, 
 you see, it is really different from them both and, 
 if it is to be widely used, it must be explained. 
 It was this remarkable fact that almost conquered 
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 I have explained previously how, by practice, I 
 found that I was sending out stronger and 
 stronger currents of electric waves; or, in other 
 words, that I was daily becoming a stronger 
 dynamo, sending out waves further and further. 
 In just this way it was that they finally succeeded 
 in getting a wireless message across from New- 
 foundland to England. 
 
 The resistance of the body to the flow of the 
 wireless waves develops heat and light — not the 
 ordinary light, but one of those finer rays, such 
 as the X-ray, Finsen ray or Roentgen ray, which 
 rebounds from the object like the lamp-blacked 
 balls. You all know that the diaphragm of your 
 telephone is a piece of steel about two inches in 
 diameter by one thirty-second of an inch in thick- 
 ness. 
 
 Now, I wish to ask you, how can that solid 
 piece of steel vibrate ? Does it move as a whole ? 
 No, it does not. It is composed of molecules 
 which are in constant motion. When you whis- 
 per into it the molecules arrange themselves to 
 suit the pressure of the sound waves, which pro- 
 duce the electric waves which pass over the line. 
 
 A new phonograph has been invented, though 
 not yet perfected, which is in general like the 
 diaphragm of your telephone. The impressions 
 from sound waves are in it and it can be sent any- 
 where by mail or letter. With an attached appar- 
 
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 atus the recipient can take the message from this 
 piece of steel. 
 
 The brain is similar to this steel ; it is composed 
 of molecules, which are impressed with electric 
 force. Exactly how this is done, I do not pre- 
 tend to know. I leave that to scientific minds for 
 definite explanation. Whether the picture is really 
 printed in colors or only in black and white, I do 
 not know. We see colored pictures by the flow of 
 light through the optic nerve and I should there- 
 fore judge that the impressions are actually 
 colored in the brain. However, it does not matter 
 in so far as our work in hand is concerned. The 
 mind is in some way enabled to know the colors 
 through the impressions given by light force to 
 the molecules of the brain matter. 
 
 IX. 
 
 The picture of an internal organ is transferred 
 through distance, according to the power exerted, 
 to the sensitive molecules of the brain. You see 
 the organ because the picture of it is really in 
 your brain, even if you yourself are miles away 
 from the person whose troubles you are diagnos- 
 ing. At first I saw the organs very indistinctly, 
 because I had not learned to generate power 
 enough. By practice the mental vision became 
 more and more vivid. 
 
 A number of times I have been put to the test 
 
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 of seeing external injuries when the party was 
 many miles away. 
 
 Until quite recently I could not do this. Now 
 I have proved beyond a doubt that I can see ex- 
 ternal inflammation as well as internal. It simply 
 requires more force, or a stronger current, to get 
 the light from an outside resistance. The weaker 
 current, in passing through more flesh, produces 
 the same light as a stronger one passing through 
 less flesh. 
 
 But you will ask how I can see one part of the 
 human anatomy when other parts are in front of 
 it. Must it not require supernatural powers to do 
 that? Not at all. You can get a correct picture 
 of something you never saw printed in your brain 
 either by the ordinary way of seeing or by the way 
 I have described. In the ordinary way the picture 
 is printed whether the mind sees it or not; or it 
 can be printed by description, through its like- 
 ness to another object. In this new way of getting 
 the picture, it is not printed unless the mind sends 
 out the electric force. 
 
 Now remember that anything you know about 
 and all that you know about it is made known to 
 the mind by impressions in the brain which we 
 call pictures. If I desire to look at the stomach 
 from a back view, the fine light prints all the 
 parts of the body in front of it, so that not only 
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 brain, but also all the objects between it and my- 
 self. 
 
 Let us suppose that you go into a picture gal- 
 lery for a certain picture. You know what you 
 want, and notwithstanding the fact that there are 
 thousands of pictures there, you are able, by look- 
 ing at the index, to go to the right one at once. 
 You may stand there all day viewing it. If it 
 were a statue you could get any desired view by 
 changing your position. The other pictures do 
 not prevent you from seeing this one alone if you 
 so will. 
 
 Now, do you not see the point? Everything 
 you ever saw is in your brain gallery. The mind 
 is really you, who go into it for a picture or im- 
 pression. The mind knows just where to look for 
 it and either turns the picture around for dif- 
 ferent views or shifts its own viewpoint. These 
 mental rays of light are so strong that every nerve 
 and tissue in the stomach is transferred by wave 
 impressions to the brain gallery. You can section 
 the stomach at will to see if there is trouble in any 
 part of it, even though you are miles from the 
 patient. Therefore you have any view of any 
 part of the anatomy of man at hand for considera- 
 tion. 
 
 This is the most wonderful of all the discoveries 
 I have yet made known to you. 
 
 It is so far-reaching that I hesitate to call your 
 
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 attention to all that it means, until I have proved 
 each seeming fact beyond a doubt. 
 
 Within the last month I have noticed at times, 
 when diagnosing, that the features of the patient 
 will bob into sight for an instant, looking per- 
 fectly natural. You will all remember having 
 had the same experience at times when thinking 
 of an absent friend. I notice the same thing also 
 in regard to the hands and feet. I actually see 
 them as if they were present. This vividness is 
 growing daily. It is because almost all my time 
 is spent in the attempt to cure some one, with full 
 brain knowledge of what I am after. In this way 
 I am gradually becoming stronger. I have felt, 
 to all intents and purposes, as if I stood beside 
 a sick aunt who was over seven hundred miles 
 away. I looked at her at first and could hardly 
 believe that I was not in reality at her side. 
 
 What is the use of spending time to discover 
 how the spirit, or both body and spirit, could pos- 
 sibly get so far from home and back again in a 
 few seconds? There is a perfect explanation at 
 hand. No doubt you already perceive it ; but, lest 
 some may not, I will make it plain. 
 
 Remember that I said I felt as if my body were 
 there as well as my spirit. In reality my mind 
 zvas simply zvalking around in its oum brain 
 picture gallery looking at the views of my aunt 
 as they come dozm by "zvireless! 3 
 
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 Since the beginning of time we have been try- 
 ing to attribute this kind of work to spirits. Is it 
 not about time to use our reason? Such pheno- 
 mena can be simply explained, as I have just re- 
 corded. We see the distant moon by reflected 
 light on its surface. If I prove to you that I can 
 send out wireless waves by thinking, which I can 
 prove, then you must acknowledge that if they 
 strike something which causes resistance to the 
 flow, that resistance must cause heat, and light 
 if they have sufficient force. The light must be 
 reflected back and all that one needs, in order to 
 make use of the rebound, is an instrument which 
 will record the wave impressions. We have the 
 instrument or machine which takes those impres- 
 sions, which prints the pictures perfectly and 
 hangs them up in our brain gallery for our in- 
 spection now or fifty years hence. 
 
 As I have said before in this work, I am not a 
 scientist, but feel capable of erecting a few land- 
 marks which may cause one to stop, at first out 
 of curiosity perhaps, and examine; then to sit 
 down with interest to study a little more; and 
 soon to probe the subject with irresistible force. 
 
 Whoever admits the above chain of reasoning 
 to be sound will be compelled to probe. He will 
 have to admit the soundness of the argument be- 
 cause the thermometer tests cannot be thrown 
 aside. 
 
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 Parallel lines of reasoning will hold good in 
 that argument as well as in spectroscopic work. 
 If the fusion of a piece of steel always gives the 
 same colors of light, if they are always arranged 
 in the same relative position, and a ray of light 
 from a distant sun when reflected into the same 
 machine gives exactly the same picture of color, 
 form, and arrangement. If this is considered 
 proof positive that that distant sun contains steel 
 or iron, then the scientist cannot with reason re- 
 ject my explanation of this other phenomenon. 
 
 If he admits that, so far, the arguments are in 
 general correct, then I will proceed to offer him 
 other fields for his inspection. The fact that we 
 have a mental picture gallery is just as positive 
 as that there is red-hot iron in the sun. If I can 
 give a correct description of another man's in- 
 ternal anatomy as well of his external (as ex- 
 plained above, and which I am willing to prove at 
 any time and place), then if I tell you that I can 
 see the pictures hanging in my own salon or 
 brain impression department (a fact which no 
 reasonable person will deny), you should believe 
 me when I say that one can see the pictures in 
 another's mental gallery. Positively this is true ! 
 If you stop and consider you will recognize the 
 truth of this by your own experience. 
 
 Have you not many times caused a person to 
 turn abruptly about and look at you as if you had 
 
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 asked him a question? Have you not repeatedly 
 found yourself simultaneously thinking and ex- 
 pressing the same thoughts as another? Have 
 you not known persons drawn together by the in- 
 tensity of their love for each other, when there 
 seemed to be no possible hope of such a result? 
 In this latter case, what was the cause? In 
 modern cant it was mental telepathy, but in real 
 intelligible terms it was the transference of brain 
 pictures. You have in your picture gallery views 
 of your old home, your old companions, your 
 father and mother. 
 
 If I can look into that supposedly private apart- 
 ment and see its hangings, why should you think 
 it a mystery if I can tell you your past? If you 
 write me a description of those things, the picture 
 is printed by the exchange of a piece of paper. If 
 you tell me the same things, my brain gets those 
 pictures to use as long as life lasts, if it needs 
 them. The exchange of pictures in this way is 
 just as mysterious as in the other way, which I 
 have explained. 
 
 When you tell a person orally, the sound waves 
 make the impressions. When you write to him 
 it is his own thinking about the forms on the 
 paper that does the work. When distant you have 
 the picture transferred through the flesh and 
 skull to the brain or sensitive plate by electric 
 force. Brain pictures have been photographed 
 by a scientist in France successfully. 
 
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 At this minute I have no doubt of soon being 
 able, after forming a picture in my own brain, 
 to cause, by this same electric force, the impres- 
 sions of it to be made in the brain of another 
 person within the circle of my power to send out 
 those waves. I might transfer the picture to 
 another without his knowing it unless he was in 
 some way notified to take a look in his gallery 
 and view it. Just as I can heal another at a dis- 
 tance or raise his temperature without his knowl- 
 edge, so I might send him the picture. 
 
 Because of this transference of thought pic- 
 tures one should always be very careful of the 
 kind of thoughts that he sends out. There is al- 
 ways some brain sensitive plate which will re- 
 ceive them and perhaps follow their suggestions. 
 
 Perhaps you do not see all the wonderful pos- 
 sibilities that rest in these arguments if they are 
 true. You will say that it is a dangerous power. 
 If one man can see all that another has in his 
 mind life will be intolerable ; God could not wish 
 such a state. Now, if a person's body can be 
 seen, externally or internally, whether absent or 
 present, then by parallel reasoning why should 
 not the brain's contents? If God made me so 
 that by the discovery of this seeing quality I can 
 do good to others, then he must have made me so 
 that I can do evil also if I so desire. 
 
 We are free agents while on this earth, to do 
 
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 as we dare, or as we are allowed by our fellow 
 men. I can see good in this as in all other things. 
 If you have friends who are liable to call upon 
 you at any moment you will keep your house clean 
 at all times. Morally and physically, also, one 
 should keep clean, ready for the Great Inspection 
 at any time. If one's friends can view one's body 
 and mind at any time, why, one must keep things 
 in good order in both body and mind, or be little 
 respected. I have often thought that God made 
 a great mistake in allowing us such a way to hide 
 our intentions and inside filth. 
 
 The world will certainly be better for having 
 its individual mind actions more publicly ex- 
 posed, as well as for having its material insides 
 more closely inspected. Nearly all internal dis- 
 eases are started and perhaps too far gone for 
 effective help before the patient knows of their 
 existence. The same is true of the mind. If a 
 mother could only see the pictures her child is 
 forming in its brain, what a change there would 
 be in the next generation! 
 
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 Trying to see my own optic nerve made me 
 wonder how it was, if I were seeing with my 
 eyes, I could possibly look backward. Of course 
 this idea is not new to the world. Many people 
 know that the eyes are only a medium for get- 
 
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 ting the light into the brain. Upon reflection I 
 saw that the eyes were not a necessary mechan- 
 ical instrument for seeing. Here again I invite 
 the scientist to probe. If I can see another's 
 troubles at a distance without the use of eyes, 
 the reflected rays passing through my skull and 
 flesh to the sensitive plate in the brain, I ask 
 why a man who is hopelessly blind so far as his 
 material eyes are concerned can not do the same 
 thing. 
 
 Do you think that our Lord and Saviour has 
 left us to our miseries without a remedy? No! 
 a thousand times, no ! When I first began to see 
 things without my eyes I did not dream what it 
 meant. I have now been at it for about seven 
 months, during which time the strength of my 
 eyeless sight has been gradually becoming greater. 
 The wonder of it is that I did not realize what 
 it meant until about ten days ago, when I began 
 to see faces perfectly when the persons were 
 absent. I said to myself, "Can it be possible that 
 blind men can see at last?" Other people have 
 seen things probably in the same manner, but 
 because their minds were not open to receive the 
 light they did not make the discovery. The 
 wonder of it is overwhelming. To think that 
 such a simple thing should have been overlooked 
 for so many ages! If I can see the outside of 
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 to see the outside of a building without my ma- 
 terial eyes, or a road or a sidewalk. From par- 
 allel reasoning this is positive proof. 
 
 As before stated, I can prove beyond a shadow 
 of doubt that I can see the internal organs of a 
 person, and this makes the foundation for the 
 parallel. You will note that I am not trying 
 to prove that I can see the outside of objects as 
 yet. I am not yet strong enough to do so 
 positively. 
 
 If you read my works and follow the discov- 
 eries made therein you cannot get away from 
 the "deadly parallels." I will give an instance 
 of outside seeing which I have just experienced. 
 My son went to Nevada with his team to play 
 foot-ball. About eleven o'clock in the forenoon 
 of the day of the game I "saw" a bruise on his 
 right cheek-bone and the right side of his face. 
 It was too early for an accident in the game, 
 which was scheduled for the afternoon. Still 
 I was forced to conclude that they had played 
 in the forenoon and that my boy had been hurt. 
 On his return he told me that he had had a severe 
 swelling come under the right eye, reaching to 
 the cheek-bone. It started while he was on the 
 train and had kept him awake nearly all night. 
 I did not see it exactly as it was. Part of the 
 picture was from imagination, as I could ac- 
 count for it only by thinking that he had fallen 
 on his face and scraped it. 
 
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 A man came to me who had already lost one 
 leg below the knee through a disease which closed 
 up the arteries and caused the foot to decay. The 
 physicians had told him that the other leg must 
 be taken off at once. The toes were black from 
 the absence of circulation. 
 
 He understood my method and worked on him- 
 self to get the corpuscles moving again through 
 the arteries. That very night when I, too, be- 
 gan to work on the case, I saw the circulation 
 renewed and the black blood disappear, the toes 
 returning to normal color. I told my wife that 
 the black was gone. 
 
 Two days later when he came to see me, the 
 first thing I asked him was how the black part 
 looked. He replied that he had not inspected it 
 because heretofore whenever he did it had been 
 worse, and that had sickened him. I told him 
 that I thought the black was gone. He admitted 
 that the leg felt much better. When the foot 
 was bared, sure enough, it was perfectly white 
 — much to the man's astonishment. 
 
 It is not necessary now to mention more in- 
 stances of the same nature. I have been right 
 so often that I know what is coming. 
 
 What is this "sub-conscious mind" mystery we 
 are hearing so much about? What is this climb- 
 ing of ideas from the sub-conscious mind to the 
 conscious one? If you have not already guessed, 
 I will tell you in a few words. 
 
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 An order given and obeyed necessitates intel- 
 ligence on both sides. This intelligence may be 
 equal on both sides ; but as a rule it is not so. In 
 the body there are the night and day Crews to 
 keep the work going. Now when you talk to the 
 sub-conscious mind of a sleeping person you are 
 simply talking to the night foreman and his 
 workmen — that is, to the gray matter scattered 
 throughout the body, which contains the formen 
 in the sub-picture galleries, and the corpuscles 
 and cellular life to execute the mind's will. 
 
 Belief in spirits about us, who direct our af- 
 fairs or tell us how to secure our own betterment, 
 is an absurdity. Can anyone show that those 
 who consult with spirits have ever been any 
 better off than those who have not had such 
 guidance ? 
 
 Suppose you were asked to stand before all 
 the nations of the world, each represented by one 
 man who was an incarnation of all the good and 
 bad qualities of his own country, a$ displayed in 
 its past actions. You are to pick out the one 
 whose works in the past have done the most 
 good to the world in general. I will answer for 
 you that you will be obliged to name one of 
 those who represent Christian countries. 
 
 Apply the same test to those who believe in 
 spirits, occult things, dreams, and all supersti- 
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 benefactor to his race. You will, on the con- 
 trary, pick out some cold, unimpassioned scien- 
 tific investigator, whom God has placed among 
 us to keep us in the useful way. When the 
 electric age began it was this scientist who found 
 exact rules for the daily use of the new force. 
 We still do not know what it is; but neither 
 do we know what water is, or air. We may 
 think we know all about water. Yet we might 
 name its parts and subdivide them till the end 
 of time without being any the wiser as to what 
 it is. This knowledge all helps us, however, to 
 make greater use of water. 
 
 We will not know what anything is until we 
 have arrived at the Great Beyond. It is so with 
 this thought-force, electricity started into motion 
 by Mind. It is not necessary to know what it 
 is in order to make commercial use of it. We 
 must have the scientific investigation to teach us 
 all that is in it, so that it may be turned to use- 
 ful, intelligent work. That is what I cannot do; 
 and, realizing that I cannot, I am calling for 
 help. 
 
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 Since time began there have been people who 
 have seen pictures of distant things or persons. 
 Yet not one of them has been able to leave a 
 useful rule that would enable another to "see" 
 
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 also. There are to-day people who are making 
 fortunes by the diagnosis of diseases. When 
 you ask them how it is done the best they can 
 say is that it is a gift. God loved them so much, 
 forsooth, that he has given it to them as a special 
 mark of approval ! They do not know otherwise, 
 else I am sure they would see more in it for them 
 by making such knowledge public property. The 
 same holds good in mind-curing. 
 
 I do not wish to injure anyone's business. Yet 
 I know that if investigation proves what I think 
 it will, a thousand people will gain where one 
 loses. If I can stop the common practice of 
 metaphysical and medical "doctor chasing" (ex- 
 cept of course in necessary cases), I shall have 
 accomplished a good so far-reaching that it will 
 cover any minor loss to individuals. 
 
 I desire to affirm again, that it may not be 
 forgotten, that a physician who uses good medi- 
 cine is just as safe as a metaphysical doctor. If 
 one is very sick indeed he cannot treat himself 
 and must of necessity go to some one else for 
 relief. Such healing is legitimate. But the work 
 of the present metaphysical doctors and of irre- 
 sponsible medical ones is worse for the human 
 race than a wholesale giving of alcoholic liquors 
 to the growing generation. 
 
 Think of the people who believe that God can 
 and does cure their ills just as Christ cured 
 
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 them! They sit in their offices and treat those 
 who come to them at the rate of one dollar for a 
 few minutes' thinking, the poor patient believing 
 God does it. The only proper and safe way is 
 to discriminate and force the "chronics" to rely 
 on their own powers, after instructing them how 
 to heal themselves. 
 
 We are trying to sail our little ships over life's 
 ocean without compass or rudder. Each one of 
 us is running about in time of tempest to find 
 someone who will tell us how to repair dam- 
 ages. All the ages we have had a remedy within 
 our grasp but did not know it. It is a positive 
 law that one who is educated to its use can keep 
 perfectly well. The whole secret is to begin in 
 time. If you wait until the trouble has had a 
 start it is hard to control it. Suppose you al- 
 lowed a child's evil tendencies to continue un- 
 checked for years. Could you then expect to 
 correct them easily, or even at all? 
 
 The seeing quality is absolutely essential for 
 the great work of healing. Since opposition is 
 necessary to keep us up to our work, inside as 
 well as outside, it is plain that we ought to have 
 the power to know when the battle is going 
 against us. In the battle of life we can always 
 tell how our affairs are going, and, by extra 
 exertion, often win because of that knowledge. 
 In this inner battle, when we see that the germs 
 
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 are gathering too strongly in certain places we 
 can rout them by a little extra work. 
 
 The great secret in this curing is actually to 
 see the very center of the enemy's works and to 
 send your little fighters thither. Your intelli- 
 gence keeps ahead of the work in hand; and 
 that is the only way in which lasting good can 
 be accomplished in this world. 
 
 I can look at a diseased stomach, actually see 
 it all black with germs, and, in ten minutes, view 
 it turn light when the white corpuscles take pos- 
 session. Soon as they do the patient at once 
 feels improvement. I have now acquired the 
 power to see the nerves and their diseased parts. 
 As soon as the germs are destroyed or driven out 
 pain ceases. If this had happened only a few 
 times it might be doubted; but it never fails. 
 You, too, can do the same thing if you desire. 
 You need only two qualities to succeed. Perse- 
 verance and work will make success for you. 
 But you may perhaps say, "I tried it and it did 
 not work." Let us see how long you tried it. 
 "A few minutes, about five at a time, two or 
 three times each day." Your perseverance is 
 truly remarkable! You will go to a doctor and 
 he will give you a prescription. You take this 
 to a druggist, who charges you at least fifty 
 cents. The doctor's bill added to it makes at 
 least two dollars and a half. You spent an hour 
 
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 going to the doctor and a half hour going to the 
 druggist. The two dollars and a half represent 
 ten hours' worth of work. This added to the 
 other time makes a grand total of eleven and a 
 half hours you spent in trying to get relief. 
 
 If you will spend eleven and a half hours 
 really thinking of your pains, even if you have 
 never tried it before, I will guarantee an abso- 
 lute cure. Before you give up the trial so easily 
 just stop and count up the hard work repre- 
 sented by the cash with which you purchase 
 medicine. You have become used to working for 
 the medicine and do not think of it as time 
 spent in curing yourself. As a race we are just 
 as truly lost to our real surroundings as though 
 we were in the wilds of Africa without knowl- 
 edge of the points of the compass. 
 
 Since I have developed this seeing faculty I 
 have been watching the old drunks. Every one 
 of them has a collection of germs in his intes- 
 tines caused by the continual tipping of the 
 glass. This trouble can be cured. 
 
 I have likewise taken notice of boys who are 
 inclined to be bad, and find that they, too, have 
 a colony of bacteria which no doubt are the 
 source of their desire to do wrong. If you have 
 a pin sticking continually into your back, can 
 you be good? Suppose your three nervous sys- 
 tems are loaded with germs, all eating, breeding 
 and keeping warm there. Can you keep calm? 
 
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 This nervous trouble, which only about one 
 woman out of a thousand escapes, is the primary 
 cause of many divorces. Half of the business 
 men also have the terrible disease. You say it 
 cannot be possible, but I assure you that it is 
 true. They do not realize that their whole wire 
 system is being gnawed at by these little rats. 
 They are martyrs, every one of them. What 
 does a few minutes of burning at the stake 
 amount to when compared with whole years of 
 constant pain caused by these little rodents? 
 What we need is an army of Dr. Blues to show 
 us a way to clean up. 
 
 I find that a person who has "nerves" will, 
 if the germs are routed, at once become a cheer- 
 ful and agreeable companion. Now suppose the 
 case of two persons, man and woman, who from 
 the long struggle with the problem of getting a 
 living have grown into the habit of snarling at 
 each other over every question which comes up. 
 The cause lies in the destruction of their nervous 
 systems. They will at once smile and love each 
 other as of old if those little devils are driven 
 out. 
 
 Judge no man, for you may be surprised to 
 see him in the next world crowned a martyr, 
 whom in this world you thought a demon. Study 
 yourself and see if perhaps you are not a martyr 
 while your acquaintances think you a bad case. 
 
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 The glorious way in which human beings bear 
 up under such conditions is grand! I have felt 
 sorry for sheep and cattle being driven to the 
 slaughter; but that pity was surpassed by the 
 deeper one when I thought of the prolonged suf- 
 ferings of man in his struggle of life. 
 
 No doubt the goal is worth the struggle, else 
 God would not permit it. The troubles of a 
 child, at the time of them, are just as distress- 
 ing and real to him as are those of any "grown 
 up." Yet we laugh at our boyhood troubles. So 
 shall we make merry over the worst of our trou- 
 bles here when we shall arrive at the fulfillment 
 of life. 
 
 You should not grow old! You should not 
 allow your shoulders to droop and your chest to 
 cave in when you pass the fifty-year line. You 
 should have hope that you can and will live for 
 hundreds of years. Just start in after reading 
 this to keep your workers within you up to the 
 mark. Never dream that you are going down the 
 hill. If you begin to idle on life's road, so 
 will they. 
 
 There was once in Asia a father of a very 
 large family who became so involved that he 
 could no longer support them all. One day he 
 called them to him and so informed them. They 
 were good children, as the world goes, and each 
 one at once promised to do something for him- 
 
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 self. Three of them decided to go south to new 
 countries, while four went north into barbarian 
 wilds. The rest stayed near home to help their 
 father. After years of hardships, it happened 
 that they simultaneously decided to take a trip 
 to view their old home once more. None of 
 them knew that the others would be there. 
 
 It was a great surprise to the old folks in 
 many ways. The boys who had gone to the 
 southern tropical country came back indolent, 
 ignorant and dirty ; worst of all, the terrible heat 
 had turned their skins black. Those who had 
 gone to the northern snow countries, on the other 
 hand, were energetic, alert, and refined; most 
 surprising of all, they had become almost white. 
 All the boys, when they had left home, had been 
 of a yellowish color. You can imagine how 
 the poor old father felt upon seeing such changes 
 in his family. The sons from the north did not 
 care to associate with those from the south, who 
 were ignorant and ill-kept, while they themselves 
 were refined and fastidious. The father said to 
 himself, "One as bad as the other." 
 
 What was the cause of his grief ? What really 
 sent this poor father to an early grave? It was 
 blindness, or ignorance if you like, on the chil- 
 dren's part, in not knowing the conditions under 
 which each had lived in his adopted country. 
 Those who went south became indolent because 
 
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 they did not take notice of the excessive heat, 
 which caused their corpuscles and cell life to 
 take it easy. They had nothing to oppose them 
 inside or out; hence they deteriorated. The 
 fierce sun heat discolored their bodies. Those 
 who went north found too much opposition; the 
 terrible struggle to make a living against cold 
 and barbarians made them too active and aggres- 
 sive. They became cold-blooded and proud. 
 The father saw it all and grieved for those whom 
 he loved. 
 
 If you slacken your pace the least your little 
 defenders will imitate you. My little boy, only 
 twelve years old, can cure all his ills, and see 
 them, too. He has been working at it now about 
 two years; but it is only within the last few 
 weeks that he has begun to see them. I myself 
 have had that knowledge for only about seven 
 months. If a twelve-year-old boy can learn it 
 in so short a time, any grown person should be 
 ashamed to give it up as too hard. 
 
 The concentration of thought requisite to be 
 successful is acquired by practice. This alone 
 would be sufficient reason for teaching all school 
 children how to cure their own troubles. If chil- 
 dren in all the schools were taught this method 
 the different diseases which go the rounds of the 
 schools would disappear. Children are so sus- 
 ceptible that it would be very easy to make them 
 absolutely healthy men and women. 
 
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 SUMMARY OF INSTRUCTIONS. 
 
 In concluding this second work I am going 
 to tell you exactly how to set about learning 
 this seeing quality. 
 
 You must have perseverance and plenty of 
 practice, in order to make much of a success. 
 I desire to have every one possible learn all I 
 have writtten in both works. I have them copy- 
 righted, but will never, so long as I have con- 
 trol, try to stop anyone from making public use 
 of the knowledge contained therein, provided he 
 does not try to make money from those who 
 should do their own work. 
 
 There will be enough to do in diagnosing peo- 
 ple's troubles and in curing those who cannot 
 help themselves. The medical doctors are the 
 ones who should take up this work; for, with 
 their knowledge of anatomy, they can succeed 
 very quickly in making cures which now would 
 be considered miracles. 
 
 The first thing to do is to sit down and realize 
 that what I have disclosed is common sense and 
 ought to work, even if it does seem far-fetched. 
 The next thing is to try to get imaginary pic- 
 tures of the trouble. To do this you should look 
 at cuts of the human anatomy. The more you 
 know about it the more you can hope for success. 
 The next step is to try to see the exact center 
 
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 of the disease, which generally looks black. Hold 
 the picture of it just as steady as possible and 
 as long as you can without making your head 
 ache. If you desire to see the backbone, try to 
 imagine you are looking at a skeleton; then you 
 will see only that part. If you desire to see the 
 nervous system of the back, do the same thing 
 by trying to see it with the flesh on and the 
 nerves branching out. When you know that a 
 certain part is diseased and you imagine you can 
 see it looking black, at once switch your thoughts 
 from that to one in a person whom you do not 
 know to be healthy, and note the difference. 
 
 If you are going to build a house, some one 
 must conceive a picture of it before a mark is 
 made. To make a cure of an organic trouble 
 one must see the organ perfect with the order to 
 the intelligent life to build to those lines. No 
 organic trouble can be positively cured without 
 this knowledge of anatomy. 
 
 Keep trying this day after day. Each time 
 that you try you are gaining force; some day 
 when you are trying it, you will see the halo 
 around the diseased part. Then you will know 
 that the foundation is laid. To do a thing which 
 no one has ever done before, you must have the 
 idea that you are reaching out into the unknown. 
 Then, like the coral builders, your mind will keep 
 putting out new thoughts, each a little beyond 
 the other, until sunlight is reached. 
 
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Mental Therapeutics 
 
 With steady practice your imaginary pictures 
 will surely become real. This is true in anything 
 you undertake, if you use good judgment and 
 persevere. The pictures will first come to you 
 as black and white, something like the X-ray 
 photographs you see in the papers. As you gain 
 strength of current, they will gradually change 
 to the actual color. The halo rarely ever comes 
 to me now. I explain it as caused by a certain 
 strength of current which I have grown beyond. 
 
 I do not know it all, therefore can only give 
 my experience as it happened. In conclusion I 
 will say to those who make the attempt, "Try, 
 try; always keep trying and you will surely be 
 rewarded/' 
 
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