{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4080", "width": "2964", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class.\\nBook..\\nJ\\nGojpghtfl?.\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSm", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "^Uncommon Sense\\nversus\\nCommon Sense.\\nBy RAYON.\\nCOPYRIGHTED BY M. RAYON, IN THE YEAR 1900.\\nAll Rights Reserved.\\nADDRESS\\nP. 0. BOX, 927\\nCHICAGO, ILL., U. 5. A,", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0011.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "46?5\\n0L.VO\\nCONTENTS.\\nThe Advantage of Being ^N^\\nAcquainted with Yourself\\nUncommon Sense versus \u00c2\u00a3ommcm Sg.nsc\\nPlain Facts\\nSome Naked Truths\\nHealing. Argument\\nHealing. Work\\nModern Surgery\\nThe Dual Entity\\n1 ben:\\nlibrary mf Con^t\\nOCT 1 !900\\nC\u00c2\u00ab#ynfht tntry\\nSECOND COPY.\\nOr* v*r\u00c2\u00abt\\n0\u00c2\u00ab0t* [MViStON,\\nO CT 22 1S0Q\\nContinuance of the HigherH* e lf\\nExplanation of Portraits\\nValuable Testimony\\nQuotations\\nILLUSTRATIONS.\\nElfa. Among the People\\nElfa. Passing into Magnetic Sleep. Preparing\\nfor the Separation of the Two Selves\\nElfa. The Physical Self Dormant.\\nThe Higher Self away at work\\nPage\\nI\\n3\\n5-\\n9\\n14\\n23\\n3 1\\n33\\n4i\\nA46\\n47\\n48\\nA\\nB\\nC", "height": "4126", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0012.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Zo all in Search of ^rutb-\\n(Sreettn^", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Comprehension of the Self embraces\\nmastery of all the secrets\\nworth knowing.", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Do you know what your Self may\\ncontain, besides what physical\\nscience can tell you?", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "UNCOMMON SENSE\\nversus COMMON SENSE.\\nThe dictionary says that the word common,\\nI used as an adjective, means commonplace, ordinary,\\nmean, vulgar.\\nIf the word common can be construed to desig-\\nnate anything other than inferior of poor quality\\neven when applied to sense, I fail to see by what\\ngrammatical process it can be done; how the sig-\\nnificance of the word can be twisted into an honor-\\nable distinction.\\nIf a man himself, his child, his horse or his dog\\nwere called common he would certainly not feel\\nflattered; but if credited with the possession of com-\\nmon sense he is expected to consider it a great\\ncompliment.\\nThe dictionary defines uncommon to mean not\\ncommon, not usual, remarkable, strange, rare,\\nscarce, unwonted, unusual.\\nIf thus, we are not already misled at the very\\noutset of learning, by the book that is accepted as\\nauthority for the meaning of words, Uncommon 3 2\\nSense must assuredly be better than the common\\nkind.\\nAside from a mere distinction of quality, there is\\nan Uncommon Sense that has been occulted by\\nmaterialism, by the brute selfishness of individuals,\\nby the greed of power and wealth of institutions\\nthat, ostensibly established for the purpose oP\\nenhancing the welfare of the people, oppose and do\\ntheir utmost to suppress all knowledge that threat-\\nens their sway over the public mind, or that presages\\na diminution of their income.\\n3", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Very little reflection will suffice to show that the\\n44 money so absorbed is too enormous for any esti-\\nmate, and that this vast share taken from the earn-\\nto ings of the producer is, after all is said and done,\\nnothing more nor less than a crippling tax upon the\\nignorance of those who furnish the means wherewith\\nthey are successfully kept in bondage.\\nHerbert Spencer said (and he speaks for Huxley\\nand all the rest of the modern physicists) All phy-\\nsical inquiries pursued to the end bring us down to\\nmetaphysics and face to face with an insoluble\\nproblem.\\nj That is to say your knowledge is confined to\\nmaterial things, and there is no use looking further.\\nIs that common sense? It certainly must be; no\\nother quality would adjust itself to an arrogant\\n4 philosophy that demands authoritive recognition,\\nand then confesses itself staggered by the first ques-\\ntion relating to what is best worth knowing; to what,\\n^in fact, alone is worth knowing, because this know-\\ning entails a cognition that is free from error and\\nconfusion.\\nIt is just such dead-lines as these that have held the\\ng 4 non-thinking rabble in check for ages, and they\\nhave fully paid the penalty for their submission to\\nsuch factionistswith their health and their earnings,\\njg dealing out incessant contributions to individuals and\\ninstitutions who promise to solve the problem of\\ntheir everlasting misery and ills, and who fail to fail\\ng 2 in one thing only\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and that is, in the extortion of\\nhard earnings under what is nothing short of false\\npretense.", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "PLAIN FACTS.\\nThere is no lack of proof that some persons pos-\\nsess faculties and powers that upset all theories of\\nso-called regular science; that such persons are\\ncapable of achievements that are inexplicable to ^J\\nthose who possess only common sense.\\nThe higher force of the mind, cultivated to a\\ntangible potency, well developed magnetism and\\nsteadfast faith, are a triune of power that can not I\\nbe overestimated.\\nHistory, both secular and religious, confirmed\\nreports of groups of investigators celebrated for\\ntheir wisdom, voluminous authenticated records of\\nindividual experiences, prove beyond the shadow of\\nany doubt, that an imponderable force, capable of\\nlimitless application, has been known and utilized\\nin all ages; that wherever this potency is brought\\nunder control through a corresponding affinitive\\nagency within the Self, it assumes the character of a,\\ncurative principle that no disease can withstand,\\nand that can be exercised in various other ways\\noften fully as important as the dislodging of physi-\\ncal ailments, but ever incomprehensible to the\\nordinary understanding.\\nIt is not difficult to make sure of the actuality of\\nthis power if the mind of the inquirer is really open\\nto conviction; but the coveted, absolute certainty is\\nfor those only who are able to arouse within them- 00\\nselves the faculties necessary to such works at least J\\nsufficiently to cognize truth despite apparent n2\\nvariance with prior fixed beliefs.\\nSerious effort in this direction leads to the devel-\\nopment of that uncommon sense through which,\\n5", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "alone, all the higher human attributes can find unre-\\nstrained expression; through which, alone, the tre-\\nmendous force of concentrated thought can be\\nrealized; through which, alone, the miraculous heal-\\ning power can be conceived; through which, alone,\\n5 all other personal powers, erroneously termed super-\\nnormal and mystical, become intelligible.\\n20 Modern science has long pretended to maintain\\nan arrogant and contemptuous attitude toward the\\nexponents of these disputed higher human forces;\\nbecause, if the superior faculties and powers, innate\\n2I -in many individuals, were admitted to be what they\\nreally are indiscriminate endowments from Nature,\\nlike the talents and the arousing and cultivation of\\n7 these higher attributes had been thus encouraged,\\nthe masses would assuredly be stimulated to a self-\\n4 g examination that must result in the acquisition of\\nuncommon sense, and that would speedily and\\nt plainly show them the absurdity and danger of, for\\ninstance, the prevalent reckless use of drug poisons\\nand other fallacious endeavors to coerce Nature with\\nartificial expedients\\nThe common-sense motive for resistance to the\\nencroachment of such knowledge must be obvious\\nto the dullest. The vaunted regular systems in\\nvogue would crumble under the light of truth\\nbrought to bear upon them by a general recognition\\nof the suppressed powers of the Self.\\nThat science did realize and anticipate an inevita-\\nble crisis is proven by the great ado made over Hyp-\\nnotism. A clamor was raised that could no longer\\nbe hushed by mere denial or a pretended air of\\namusement; the demand for an explanation of the\\npersonal powers, manifested with ever increasing\\n6", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "frequency, was too vehement and widespread to be\\nfurther ignored; hence, in its desperate straits,\\nscience seized upon Mesmerism, dissected and\\nremodelled it to suit the limited capacity of its\\ncommon sense members, and calling it Hypno-\\ntism, announced a wonderful new 7 discovery. The\\nusual proceeding.\\nThe new science was grasped at with all the\\navidity displayed by an exhausted swimmer at sight\\nof a life preserver; every medic who sat out his\\noffice hours in despondent contemplation of his\\nframed diploma, at once started to climb this slim\\nladder to fame and fortune.\\nIt is not intended to belittle Hypnotism as an art\\nper se as Kant would have it u das Ding an sich\\nbecause a great amount of good has, indisputably,\\nresulted from the very extensive exploitation of this\\nscientific hybred but when science asserts that it has\\nsolved the problems of Magnetism, Mesmerism,\\netc., through Hypnotism, it only adds another error,\\nor misrepresentation, to its interminable list of\\ndeceptions and self delusions.\\nHypnotism is all right in the place where it\\nbelongs; but in its best aspect it is a mere makeshift\\nto retard, as long as possible, the more and more-\\nimperative demand of the people for a lucid and\\nconclusive explanation of those individual powers\\nthat, however far they may be beyond the horizon\\nof the common-sense physicist, are now too well\\nattested, and too familiarly known to all independ-\\nent investigators to be again subject to scientific\\noccultation.\\nMany are, of course, still duped by this latest sub-\\nterfuge, but those w r ho are awakened from the\\n7", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "scientific stupefication into which they had been\\nsuggested by the common-sense exposition\\noffered in Hypnotism, are rapidly realizing the fact\\nthat Hypnotism, after all is said that can be said in\\nits favor, is but a futile attempt to produce the won-\\nderful results achieved through Magnetism without\\nMagnetism.\\nOne excellent effect must be credited to the Hyp-\\nnotic craze, and that is, that an enormous number of\\ny intelligent people were thereby led to serious inves-\\ntigation, and to the discovery that the barriers\\nerected by the physicists are only further proof of\\ntheir incapacity to solve the all important problem\\nof bettering the condition of the masses who are\\nforced to submit to their dictates, even to the extent\\nof being inoculated with animal corruption and\\ndenied the choice of physicians who could cure them\\nwhen all the resources of the presumptuous regu-\\nlar have proved of no avail.", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "B", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0027.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0028.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "SOME NAKED TRUTHS.\\nThe present is called an age of startling discover-\\nies, but the majority of observers note progress in\\nmaterial achievements only. The leaders in this\\ncategory of advancement are those who invent, con-\\nstruct and direct the operations of the most effect-\\nive instruments of warfare machinery that slaughters\\nat wholesale, at long range. The admiration of the\\nnon-thinking rabble for this order of progressionists\\nis unbounded, and their material rewards are too\\nrich to bear comparison with any tribute to works\\nfor the welfare of humanity.\\nThe principal direction in which the lauded arts\\nand sciences are at a standstill is in that of the well-\\nbeing of man individualized.\\nThere is no difficulty in obtaining a consensus of\\nexpert judgment on the all-important subject of\\nwhat is the best kind of a hole to make in a man to\\nplace him hors du combat, but there, is an ever in-\\ncreasing diversity of scientific conclusions in regard\\nto what is good for the human biped.\\nIf the most homeopathic rate of comparative\\nprogress had been made in the art of curing ail-\\nments by the so-called regular schools of medi-\\ncine that are so lavishly encouraged, so bounteously\\nsupported and so assiduously protected, as that\\nachieved in the crippling and killing of men the\\npick of nations, the men selected for their physical\\nperfection, the best specimens to improve the races\\nwe would be a good deal nearer the long and anx-\\niously awaited millennium.\\nAnent the shackling of the King of Sin, which is\\nthe main feature of the promised universal release\\n9", "height": "3707", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0029.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "from trouble, as stated in Revelation XX that\\nu Satan will be bound one thousand years there is\\none striking similarity between that prophecy and\\nthe predictions of modern sages who have an-\\nnounced the destruction of the earth and that is,\\nthat it is a long time coming. The difference in\\nexcellence of these prognostications must be\\naccorded to the ancients, but only because they\\nwere not foolish enough to set a fixed date for the\\noccurrence.\\nWith the devil still rampant and at large, and the\\nearth yet unshattered, we can not avoid the contem-\\nplation of cruel realities that persist in obtruding\\nthemselves, and will do so, unless an improbable\\nmiracle eliminates selfishness from the composition\\nof humanity as long as we continue to be whirled\\naround in our customary orbit, and without a more\\ndefinite assurance that the chains for the Regent of\\nHades are being forged, and that they will suffice to\\nhold him when he is caught.\\nDespite all the wanton sacrifice of life under the\\nbanner of the cross, and the ceaseless absorption of\\nincalculable wealth, religious beliefs are further\\nfrom unity than ever before. At no previous time\\n,have dissensions been so bitter and so general.\\nDoubt of the efficacy of ecclesiastical mediation is\\nsteadily increasing, and well it might! The ever\\n6 7\\nmultiplying exposures of sinfulness and criminal\\nacts of the most heinous character, committed by\\nclergymen, the aggressive effrontery with which they\\n^strive to secure personal advantages, have opened\\n9 the eyes of the people to the fact that, at least a\\ngoodly part of the so-called servants and ministers\\nof God are composed of the same inferior, tempta-\\n10", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0030.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "ble and selfish material that constitutes the person-\\nality of the vilest sinner to be found beyond the pale\\nof the church.\\nWhile certainly fully aware of all this, as they\\nmust be, if there is any, however common, sense\\namong them, churchmen still profess to wonder 4\\nwhy their congregations are dwindling away!\\nOnly those who are unwilling to be disillusioned\\nfail to remark the difference between the laboriously\\nprepared, cold intellectual efforts heard in the\\ncostly, up-to-date churches of a mongrel aristocracy\\nthat flaunts its ostentatious pomp in the faces of the\\nsorely stricken poor under the very shadow of the\\ncross of Christ, and the fervent outbursts of true\\ninspiration that do penetrate even the flinty crust of\\nmaterialism; burning words from a surcharged soul\\nthat partakes of all the misery of its kind; men who\\nare conscious of the true spirit within, who not only\\npreach Christ, but who do his chosen work among\\nthe sick and desperate and sinful.\\nDespite the fact that millions of defenseless\\ncreatures, horses, dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs\\nall inoffensive, trustful and capable of great affec-\\ntion have been slowly tortured to death; the help-\\nless poor, in and outside the hospitals, abandoned\\nchildren in the asylums, the demented in the living\\nhells in which they are incarcerated, and from which\\ntheir remonstrances and cries of agony can not reach 1 5\\nthe public ear, have been subjected to scientific ex-\\nperimentations that rival the most blood-curdling\\natrocities of that ineffacable nightmare of reality\\nthe Inquisition, despite all these legally sanctioned\\nhorrors there are more and worse physical and men-\\ntal disorders to-day than the world ever knew in its\\n11", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0031.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "profoundest ignorance. More abominable still,\\n44 there is a long list of diseases that have their origin\\nl- in this art of medication itself! The adminis-\\ntration of mercurial compounds alone, according to\\nthe ablest exponents of the science being\\nresponsible for more permanent disablements and\\nunnatural deaths than all the wars and epidemics\\ncombined. And this is but one of a hundred and\\nmore virulent poisons in common daily use among\\nthe so-called regular physicians, death-dealing sub-\\nstances that any fledgling doctor, authorized by his\\ndiploma, may give to, or order for patients. If\\nthe drug kills, the error is buried with the cadaver;\\nthe diploma shields the scientific murderer from all\\nunpleasant consequences. The certificate of death\\nhe is authorized to issue as attendant physician\\nobliterates all traces of the fatal consequences of\\nignorance, error and reckless experimentation.\\nThe energies and capabilities of the common-\\n2 g sense order of medical men seem to have been ex-\\nhausted in the endeavor to secure laws that give\\nthem the exclusive right to practice; (practice is a\\nwell chosen word, as it is about all the majority do),\\nand as they have been successful in many States,\\nthrough ignorant and corrupt politicians, in securing\\nprotective legislative enactments that exclude all\\nthose who could cure the many hopeless sufferers\\nupon whom this arrogant, jealous and greedy\\nscience has pronounced the paralyzing verdict\\nincurable, there is every reason, from the common\\nsense point of view, why they should conclude that\\nthere is no further occasion for them to make any\\neffort to improve themselves professionally,\\n12", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0032.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Having secured the monopoly of the doctoring\\nbusiness, and besides, exemption from legal punish-\\nment for whatever fatal mistakes they make in\\ndosing and cutting, why should they, always from\\nthe common sense standpoint, of course, bother\\nabout more effective methods for curing people?\\nThe true aspect of all these common-sense busi-\\nness philanthropies is fairly outlined in the follow-\\nin\\nIs it reasonable to expect that an enterprising\\nundertaker, or as they now progressively style\\nthemselves, funeral director/ who has a hundred\\nor more horses eating their heads off, thousands of\\ndollars invested in fancy hearses and carriages, and\\nan extensive stock of caskets for the rich, and coffins\\nfor the poor, and piles of mortuary frills besides,\\nshould wear out the knees of his trousers praying\\nfor a diminution of the death rate?\\nFrom every phase of existence, from that of the\\nchild still in the womb until the grass grows over\\nthe mortal remains, it will be found, with the exercise\\nof any kind of sense, that some one possessing\\ncommon sense is calculating upon a profit from\\nevery personal inclination, requirement, intended\\nact, or chance happening; and a little more reflec-\\ntion and one must be dull indeed not to discover\\nthat will show that the heaviest tax imposed on\\nthis earth is levied upon that particular branch of\\nignorance which involves the incalculable cost and\\nmisery due to a lack of understanding of the Self.\\n13", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0033.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "HEALING.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ARGUMENT.\\nThe highest aim anyone can fix upon is to aid the\\nphysical, mental and spiritual betterment of less\\nfavored fellow-men.\\nHistories, that are of any value from the point of\\n10 impartiality, as well as veracity in other respects,\\nand well attested individual evidences without limit,\\n.prove conclusively that there is a healing, or\\nrestorative principle in Nature, that needs only to be\\nknown and intelligently exploited to effect bene-\\n^ficial changes in the human organism that defy\\nenumeration and description; effects that are en-\\ntirely beyond the power of art to achieve.\\nThe innumerable well confirmed good results from\\ntreatment of diseases, by a variety of methods and\\nprocesses other than medication, had in recent years\\nif any doubt were entertainable of the older testi-\\nmonies makes it impossible longer to deny these\\nnatural curative agencies.\\nS Mental, magnetic and faith cures have been per-\\nformed in all times; water-cure and massage are\\nnatural modes of helping to restore health that an-\\nigtedate organized science by a good many centuries.\\nThe movement cures are nothing more than ela-\\nboration and classification of the most primitive\\n2I methods for stimulating vitality by increasing the\\ncirculation of the blood, causing deeper breathing\\nand profuse perspiration. Hot air treatments have\\ng been in vogue with the aborigines as far back as\\ntribal customs can be traced.\\nAll these modes of eradicating sickness are fully\\nproven as efficacious; they have undergone no\\nchanges, in so far as the fundamental principles\\n14", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0034.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "are concerned, and none have been discarded. In\\nall these features the natural healing methods differ\\nradically most radically from the medical sy-\\nstems.\\nThose who deny these things must make choice\\nof assignment to one or the other of the following\\ngroups: the first, the man-wolf who will deny any- 54\\nthing that presents a possibility of depriving him of\\na material advantage however much it might benefit\\nfellow-men the second, the incorrigible ignoramus\\nwho resists truth because there is no other means\\nwhereby he can make himself conspicuous; this is a\\nsceptic. The third class are the much to be pitied\\nhordes who have never been privileged to have\\nthoughts of their own, hence can not be blamed for 73\\ntheir ignorance.\\nThe preponderance of human ailments are in-\\ndisputably due to estrangement from -Nature. The\\nbest proof of that is had in the rapid convalescence\\nof individuals who, as a last resort, leave the crowded\\ncities and live out of doors. It is true that even in\\nthis return to Nature for help, there may be a risk.\\nSome die at the seashore where many others revive;\\nsome die on the mountains and in the forests, where\\nrestoration to full health and vigor is common.\\nThe usual professional verdict of those who or-\\ndered the change of whatever it was is, that those\\nwho died were too far gone to be benefitted.\\nMore often than not that is an error. It is less\\nseldom an error when the removal advised is the\\nwell understood doctors ruse to get rid of a patient\\nwhose deplorable condition is hurting his profes-57\\nsional reputation. Very frequently the final collapse\\nis brought about only by the victim of science being\\n15", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0035.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "sent to a place just opposite in effect to the one to\\nwhich he should have gone.\\nMitigating reasons may be found for failures\\nthat are free from suspicion of selfishness; but if\\nthe adviser, with or without diploma, is afflicted with\\nfixed ideas as to the infallibility of some one partic-\\nular method, and he rejects clear proof of the\\nvirtue of other processes; then, without distinction,\\nall such who venture tb meddle with the disordered\\norganisms of other persons are bound to do more\\nkilling than curing, and become as culpable as those\\nwho induce fatal results by the reckless exhibition of\\npowerful drugs or the criminal practice of intention-\\nally prolonging human suffering for gain.\\nThe fanatics who ceaselessly rail against medica-\\ntion are of exactly the same calibre as the stupid or\\nmercenary medics who stuff their patients with\\ndrugs, like the damnable wretches in Strassburg\\nstuff geese.\\nThere are physicians who will receive golden\\ncrowns, and play on jeweled harps, and rest on the\\ndriest and fleeciest of clouds, if unselfish devotion\\nto suffering humanity is rewarded, as it is said and a\\nfew natural healers will sit with them, and discuss\\nthe mistakes both made in commendable efforts to\\nrelieve mortals from pain.\\nWhoever attempts to pass critical judgment on\\nthe merits and demerits of natural healing methods\\nshould keep the following points distinctly in view:\\nSo-called medical science has no excuses to offer for\\nits endless errors, on the ground of lack of encour-\\nagement and material support. Everything has\\nbeen granted it, even the unpardonable outrage of\\nvivisection, experimentation on the defenseless\\n16", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0036.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "poor and the ruthless desecration of the dead.\\nWhat have the exponents of natural healing meth-\\nods had?\\nNever a favor from a government; never an im-\\nportant sum of money, from any source, wherewith\\nto establish an institution where the facts known to\\nthem could be demonstrated; where the truths\\nassured could be freed from error, as must be from\\nall knowledge that has not been systematically set\\nin order. All they have had is persecution\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a\\nrelentless persecution and who is responsible for\\nthis? Those to whom the care of the public health\\nis intrusted; who should welcome with open arms\\nany and every fragment of knowledge that may in-\\ncrease their competence to fulfill this sacred trust.\\nThe plain truth is that the common-sense contin-\\ngent that predominates so largely among regular\\npractitioners, takes a very common-sense view of\\nthe situation, i. e., they see that the general recog-\\nnition of the truths relating to natural healing would\\nmean the sweeping away of so large a part of the\\ndrugging systems that not a vestige of reason would\\nremain upon which to rest a semblance of right to\\nthe business monopoly now enjoyed by this gigantic\\nimposture. The least intelligence must see the\\none and only possible motive for the ever alert and\\nviolent opposition to such encroachments. There\\ncan be but one such motive and that is, a selfish-\\nness without parallel, because it entails a total disre-\\ngard for the welfare of humanity.\\nWhen the fact is fairly considered that medical\\nscience has had an uninterrupted and unlimited\\nmoral support, as well as the most unstinted mate-\\nrial help, and that, moreover, even the constitutional\\n17", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0037.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "rights of citizens have been curtailed for its benefit,\\nthat all claims (not evidence) of alleged import-\\nant discoveries have been, and are, given the widest\\npossible gratuitous publicity and fulsome praise,\\nbefore it is proven that these are deserved what\\nthen should be said of the healers, and their unde-\\nniably superior showing, under exactly opposite\\nconditions?\\nMy insistence on the necessity of clearing the\\nmind of all bias in order to reach the truth would\\nlose weight if the line were drawn abruptly at this\\npoint. Another view is necessary to maintain my\\nasseveration of impartiality.\\nIf we could be forced to believe the assertions of\\nadvertising wonder-workers, who stop but little short\\nof professing to perform miracles as easily as a baker\\nmakes loaves of bread, we must conclude that the\\nworld is full of Mahatmas, Adepts, Magicians,\\nNecromancers, Sorcerers and witches; that there\\nare even more of those special agents and living-\\ninstruments of the occult world now at large than\\nwere presumed to exist in the most prolific period\\nof earlier so-called dark ages.\\nWe are asked to believe that these persons can\\naccomplish all sorts of wonderful things through\\nacquaintance with some one of a score of unorthodox\\nisms that contain a fragment of a basic, but at the\\nsame time elusive truth that, however undeniably\\nthis truth has ever been in evidence, is unattainable\\nexcept to him who, first of all, understands himself.\\nIt may be of service to some readers here to state\\nthat any person who advertises himself as a Mystic,\\nMahatma, Adept, or as a member of a brotherhood,\\nsuch as the Society of the Rose and Cross (Rosi-\\n18", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0038.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "crucian), etc., may be set down as a barefaced fraud.\\nThose best entitled to such distinctions are the very\\nlast who would make use of them for selfish ends.\\nWhen these various isms are critically exam-\\nj ined by investigators who are competent, hone-st and\\n(really free from mental bias, it is invariably proven\\nthat, however astounding some attested results may\\nbe, isolated achievements are claimed as proof of\\nability to produce the whole kaleidoscope of phe-\\nnomena and miracles; also that the named method\\nby which the feat, of whatever nature it may have\\nbeen, was accomplished, is some resurrected single\\nidea, refurbished and elaborated into an inflexible\\nsystem or doctrine, calculated to impress the unin-\\nformed with an unparalleled magnitude of power.\\nIt is not difficult to find all the evidence that can\\nbe desired, of the fact that every craze or fad that is\\nat all well started, will very quickly have a large fol-\\nlowing; that it is very much easier to win renown as 4^\\na miracle-worker than as a good tailor or shoemaker\\nA sound reason for this otherwise inexplicable\\ncredulity is found in the unhappy condition of\\nhumanity as a whole, and the consequently natural\\neagerness with which means are sought to banish, or\\nat least ameliorate physical suffering, mental misery\\nand spiritual non-ease.\\nHowever vehemently this readiness to believe in\\nalleged chimeras may be condemned, and ostenta-\\ntiously derided by a certain class of alleged scient-\\nists whose chief claim to distinction rests upon being\\nregular, and however vociferously it may be\\ninveighed against by orthodox theologians, it is\\noverwhelming proof of the failure of the endless\\npromises of the former to eradicate diseases of the\\n19", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0039.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "flesh, and of the equally palpable inability of the\\nlatter to set the human mind at rest on spiritual\\nrequirements. But above all there is a testimony in\\nthese widespread beliefs that, even without the\\nsuperabundant mass of proof of extraordinary\\nforces of the human mind, of psychic powers with-\\nout definable limit, and spiritual endowments\\nbeyond the grasp of any intellect, certainly much\\n7^ more than outweighs the arrogant denials of the\\ngreedy, jealous and ignorant horde of pretenders\\nwho, by nothing more than the flaunting of an\\nempty title, expect to compel the submissive acqui-\\nesence of the multitude; and that testimony is, the\\never present consciousness of, and unquenchable\\nfaith in an uncommon sense, in a superlative human\\npower, that can be traced throughout all ages and\\namong all races as far back as research can be ex-\\ntended.\\nThe foregoing will suffice to show how the views\\nof both sides are distorted. Nothing need be said to\\nguide the judgment of the reader to a sensible con-\\nclusion; the true facts have been stated, I think, as\\nclearly as concisely.\\nOne matter that is pregnant with importance is\\njgthat the best men of the regular schools are giving\\nmore and more attention to what they term the vis\\nmedicatrix naturce, which, freely translated, means\\ncurative force in Nature. Many of the most justly\\ncelebrated physicians admit that they place more\\ndependence on the arousing and stimulating of this\\ninnate potency by simple, natural means, than upon\\nany of the devices of their art.\\nThis being true, which it indisputably is what\\ncan we infer from that but the full recognition, on\\n20", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0040.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "the part of the foremost men in medical science, of\\nthe fundamental idea of all forms of natural healing?\\nThere are many ways of starting a fire, each\\neffective in its way; but however expert we may be\\nin igniting any substance, the phenomenon, per se,\\nremains unknown.\\nThe two points are analogous; the vital principle,\\nlike the latent fire, may be compelled by various\\nprocesses, but sometimes the last one tried will pro-\\nduce the desired effect while those from which im-\\nmediate results were confidently expected failed\\nutterly.\\nMuch, of course, must remain unsaid in this little\\nvolume for want of space, but I hope that despite\\nits brevity it wall help many to realize that true\\nprogress is only possible where the mind is open to\\nall truth, even though such truth, at the first glance,\\nmay seem totally at variance with all prior con-\\nceptions.\\nIt must be borne in mind that all knowledge re-\\nceived from external sources is subject to modifi-\\ncation by subsequent impressions of similar charac-\\nter; that what may seem proper to call a definite\\nconclusion at one time may, after all, prove of no\\nmore worth than the most ephemeral opinion.\\nOnly that primitive and now, in civilized man, al-\\nmost occulted faculty called instinct in animals\\nand intuition in human beings when in a normal\\nstate of activity, insures absolute certainty, definite\\nknowing (clearly distinguished from mere believing).\\nThis is direct cognition knowing without reasoning.\\nThis faculty is capable of a cultivation and de-\\nvelopment to so high a degree that ail ordinary\\nmeans of attaining knowledge shrink into i n ^ignific-\\n21", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0041.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "ance beside it.\\nAs soon as we return to Nature, truly penitent for\\nour desertion, the evidence of this truth presents\\nj itself on every hand. To go no further we have it\\nin the works of the bee, the birds and the beaver;\\nwe find it everywhere where the vain and egotistical\\nbiped called man has not yet taken it upon himself\\nto substitute his arts for thq natural gifts of the Al-\\nmighty Architect of the Universe.\\nFrom whatever point we start in search of an un-\\nmistakable truth not an apparent verification se-\\nlected because it is in accordance with some re-\\nj* spected authoritive view a basic truth we will find,\\n^however round about the path pursued, that we are\\ncompelled to return to^the Self for final and satis-\\nfying proof.\\nIf I have been clear then it will be seen that ab-\\nsolute proof of truth is to be found within the\\nSelf only, and those who are able to grasp this very\\nsimple fact are not long in discovering a higher Self\\nthat explains all else that is best worth knowing.\\nIf we make the acquaintance of this dual Self we\\nlearn how to live; we recognize our actual require-\\nments, like animals in their original state; we live to\\na natural end without fear of death because this ac-\\nquaintance dispels all lingering doubts about the\\nfuture beyond the grave with which that Self has\\nno concern whatever.", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0042.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "HEALING.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 WORK.\\nI think it has been very plainly proven that there 10\\nis a basic healing factor in Nature, and that all that\\nis needed is to know how to arouse and use it. 3\\nIf proof is desired it is easily obtainable of\\nsplendid results from each and every one of the\\ndrugless methods of curing.\\nThe sceptics professional and amateur attribute\\nall such cures to the imagination. Well and good. If\\nthe imagination is capable of being worked upon to\\nthe extent of making a sound, healthy and useful\\nbeing out of a bed-ridden cripple who has spent all\\nhe had with Science only to be assured that he will\\nbe a helpless wreck all the rest of his mortal days,\\nthen. I think Science should be severely taken to\\ntask for not investigating so tremendous an aid in\\nthe restoration of health.\\nThe human mind is no greater mystery to the un-\\nlearned than it is to the most erudite. Tons of books\\nhave been written by men with a quarter alphabet\\nappended to their names as evidence of technical wis- 4 2\\ndom, purporting to explain mental action and power\\nwithout venturing beyond the bizzare barriers erected\\nby the physicists. The great bulk of these books are 3\\nof exactly the same degree of practical value to hu-\\nmanity as the observations of the astronomers who\\nsit in costly observatories to tell of distances to and\\nbetween celestial bodies said to be millions, and\\neven billions of miles remote from the earth.\\nThis latter order of Scientists emphatically deny\\na specific influence of the planets and stars upon\\nhuman kind on this globe, because they, themselves,\\nare too dull and material to sense anything, and\\n23", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0043.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "in view of that fact it is certainly impossible to sec\\nany utility in such work other than the gratification\\nof a professional vanity and the more substantial\\none of being comfortably housed at somebody else s\\nexpense and drawing a salary.\\nIf the powerful instruments that are said to be\\ncapable of determining the composition of a star\\nhundreds of millions of miles away could be turned\\nupon the interior of man, and give the physicists a\\nbetter idea of organic function, they would be of\\nsome use; as it is they are of no human service\\nwhatever. All that is of real use to know, in this\\nregard, from any practical point of view, was dis-\\ncovered ages ago by men who did not possess even\\na common spy glass.\\nAfter asserting with the utmost vehemence, for\\nuntold years, that no sight could penetrate opaque\\nsubstances, science received a great shock by the\\ndiscovery of Professor Roentgen s invention (the X\\n5 y ray). As this, to the physicist and materialist, how-\\never astounding discovery, is nothing more than\\nproof that under certain favorable conditions the\\nvisual organs are capable of penetrating solid bodies,\\nis it not very presumptuous to insist that there is no\\nsight that can accomplish this without artificial\\naid?\\nWe have ample and unqualified testimony of men\\njustly renowned for their immense learning, and also\\nfor ttueir keenness of observation, to the effect that\\nthere is a^ision that is entirely independent of the\\ncommon organ of sight, a perceptive sense that\\nknows no obstacle whatever, either as to distance or\\ndensity! See page 2j Ref. note du PreL\\n24", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0044.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "I am loath here to speak of my own work, antici-\\npating a possible wrong impression that I am court-\\ning notoriety. That such an opinion would be an\\nerror, is, I think, very conclusively proven by my\\nnot taking advantage of the extensive publicity\\ngiven me at the time of my discovery of Elfa s ex-\\ntraordinary powers.\\nThe sole motive that impels me to risk such a mis-\\nconception is that in speaking of my work with Elfa\\nI am in no wise dependent on any foreign source of\\ninformation, and am able to state what I know to be\\nabsolute facts from personal experience verified by\\nobservations now extending over seven years. I\\nlook upon the discovery of my famed Psyche as a\\nfull reward for a lifetime of earnest study and\\ndevotion to a good cause; and those who have\\nsearched the world over as I have for what I found\\nat last, will best, and perhaps only, understand my\\nprofound gratitude, and also my reluctance to risk\\nbeing misjudged in the evening of my life.\\nI trust that this explanation will suffice as a good\\nreason for alluding to my own work.\\nElfa is beyond doubt the most generously en-\\ndowed Psyche of whom there is any available ac-\\ncount. Her powers are of so wide a scope that\\nthey embrace all the various phases of psychological\\nachievements.\\nBeing thoroughly informed of all that has been\\naccomplished by de Puysegur, Wienholt, Rcichen-\\nbach, du Prel and others, with scores of .sensitives at\\ntheir command, I realize, as few others could, the\\nboldness of the foregoing assertion, but I am there-\\nfore no less conscious of my perfect right to make\\nthis statement, and that without qualifying it in any\\nway whatever. 25", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0045.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "When I say that some persons are endowed with\\nfaculties that enable them to see and hear what is in-\\nvisible and inaudible to others, I am stating so old\\nand well known a fact that it seems absurd to repeat\\nit here; but when I say that Elfa has made examina-\\ntions of persons that described the entire interior\\nhuman structure in its most minute detail, and more-\\nover, that she gave information that was at once rec-\\nognized as indisputable, regarding the functions of\\ncertain organs which Science can not explain, I ex-\\npect a good deal of wise head shaking and denial.\\nAnd yet I have in this told but a mere fragment of\\na great truth. As there is, however, no need of\\nmore to be said here than what actually relates to the\\nsubject in hand, I will only say that Elfa, in magnetic\\nsleep, is able to see every fibre in the human organ-\\nization, describe its normal or abnormal state, and\\nwhat caused the change, if any; and also what is re-\\nquired to restore the affected parts to a natural con-\\ndition.\\nI have made such examinations through Elfa tor\\nregular physicians who prided themselves upon\\ntheir profound knowledge of anatomy, and to say\\nthat they were astounded over what they heard\\nthings far in advance of all their unquestionable\\nknowledge of physical anatomy will certainly not\\ngive an adequate idea of their surprise. Moreover,\\nsome of these examinations were made for persons\\nwho had long been on the roster of incurables, but\\nwho clung to Science for palliation of their sufferings.\\nThe information obtained through Elfa enabled some\\nphysicians for whom such diagnosis were made to ar-\\nrest disorders promptly, and it is but right to state\\nthat some of these cases were noted medical puzzles\\n26", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0046.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "over which the resources of the Science had been\\nfully exhausted.\\nIf any man ever made a thorough and exhaustive\\nstudy of the higher human faculties and forces that\\nman is Carl du Prel, the celebrated German savant.\\nHe says: Somnambulic clairvoyance, already\\nknown to Plato and Aristotle, in the temple-sleep\\nand in the old mysteries, and in recent times estab-\\nlished by a w r hole succession of experiments, is\\nnow a fact which must be reckoned with, and to\\nwhich our systems (medical) must adapt them-\\nselves.\\nA well developed Psyche sees into the human body\\nas clearly as a person with perfect sight sees into a\\nglass case.\\nWhen this higher perceptive sense is trained in a\\nspecific direction, and there is a natural inclination\\non the part of the Psyche to that particular class of\\nwork, there is absolutely no limit to the information\\nthat may be thus obtained.\\nHaving this rare advantage I have been able tc\\nverify many things upon which I dared not claim,\\neven to myself, the right to assert that I had\\nreached an acceptable conclusion.\\nHowever I regret to end this subject here, the\\nnecessary brevity is apparent in the measure of this\\nvolume. I may on that account find myself in the\\npeculiar predicament of having either said too\\nmuch or too little. If it is the latter, the difficulty\\nwill be easily overcome by those who are seriously\\ninterested. With the opinion of those who neither\\ndo, nor want to understand, I do not concern myself\\n:n the least.\\nI am so thoroughly conscious of the truth of all I\\n27", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0047.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "have said, that I feel sure that those at least who\\nhave made efforts in the same direction, will believe\\nthat assurance, however much a lack of experience\\nmay prevent others from benefitting from my inten-\\ntion to the degree hoped for.\\nTo sum up the practical parts of Natural Heal-\\ning\u00e2\u0080\u0094we commence with the material part of the\\nSelf the body proper. Cleanliness, plenty of fresh\\nair, sufficient exercise, and a sensible choice of food\\ntaken in moderation, are the chief factors in main-\\ntaining health.\\nWhen physical disorders are occasioned by viola-\\ntion of the simple hygienic laws we resort to simple\\nnatural methods of re-establishing harmony.\\nAs the body is composed of substances that are\\nall taken into the stomach, that organ is first to be\\nconsidered. It is here where nearly all of the human\\nailments have their origin. The elimination of ac-\\ncumulated wastes in the alimentary canal is the first\\nprocess in the restoration to a normal state. It re-\\nquires but little sense to understand that all attempts\\nto relieve the stomach and bowels by artificial ex-\\npedients are dangerous. In the first place every ad-\\ndition to the troublesome contents of the alimentary\\npassages is liable to complicate matters. If such\\nevil does not become immediately apparent it is\\nalmost certain to demonstrate itself in some local\\ntrouble through a chemical change in the secretions.\\nIt is thus that all sorts of difficulties are created,\\nthat are subsequently specifically treated by the\\nMedics without regard to the first cause. In view of\\nthis indisputable fact it is certainly plain that every\\nparticle of drug must add to the complication al-\\nready existing. 28", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0048.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "f\\nEnemas are hardly less unnatural than drugs, and\\nif an emergency does seem to justify their employ-\\nment it should be with as much caution as ought to\\nbe exercised in the taking of prescribed medicines\\nof which the composition is unknown.\\nThe sequent consideration is, that where these\\nartificial aids become a habit, you are enslaved to\\ntheir continuance, and the functions that should be\\nnatural, automatic and performed without incon-\\nvenience, become more and more troublesome un f\\na crisis is reached that is bound to lead to dire con-\\nsequences.\\nThe effect of the mind upon the dige^. :ve process\\nis also to be well considered with the first cause of\\norganic discord. Powerful as an unconsciously pro-\\nduced mental effect may prove in creating an ab-\\nnormal state the counter-effect as when mind cure,\\nsuggestive therapeutics or any similar mode of\\ntreatment is relied upon for relief must necessarily\\nbe a conscious action of greater potency than the\\none that produced or helped create the evil, and\\nmust be understandingly exercised.\\nWhile in nowise disposed to under-rate any of the\\nmethods that act through the mind upon the phys-\\nical organism, I maintain that they are all, without\\nexception, of but limited service where the first re-\\nquisite, obviously, is purification that demands phys-\\nical processes, and where nothing else will serve.\\nHere then, we find our best friend in water-cure\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthe various forms of baths, the sweating-out pro-\\ncesses with hot air, steam and the solarium.\\nMassage is one of the most helpful adjuncts to\\nNatural Healing, and together with the movement\\n29", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0049.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "cure is indispensible in all cases where the trouble is\\ncaused by stagnation of the blood. Magnetism\\nis the superlative potency that will dislodge disease\\nwhen everything else has failed, but like with Mind\\nCure, or any other mode of treatment, a thorough\\nknowledge of the primary physical requisites will\\nmultiply its beneficent offices.\\nI will state here for the benefit of those who have\\n^already made a serious study of these matters that I\\ndiscovered through Elfa a complete magnetic system\\nas full of details as the circulatory, the nervous and\\nthe lymphatic, with distinct centers, poles and\\nplexuses, all of which become invisible when rigor\\nmortis sets in, an-d that of course defy search with\\nthe scalpel and microscope.\\nMuch good has been done through Hypnotism\\nand in this much lauded specialty we have the best\\neffort of Science to deal with the imagination. I\\nhope that this point will not be overlooked by\\nstudents.\\nAs Hypnotism is but a pretext of knowledge to\\ncover the lack of understanding of the magnetic\\nprinciple in our composition and its relation to a uni-\\nversal power, I do not deem it necessary to say\\nmore on that subject.\\nAll the foregoing in a nut-shell is that there is\\nabundant good in all of the various healing methods,\\nmedicine not excepted by any means, but to expect\\nto perform miracles through any one method alone\\nis about as sensible as to claim a thorough knowl-\\nedge of harmony because one can strum out the\\nmusical scale in one key.\\n30", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0050.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "MODERN SURGERY.\\nHowever difficult it may be to find evidence of\\nreal progress in medicine, it is not to be denied that\\nsurgery has made gigantic strides.\\nWhen it is known that abnormal growths have\\nbeen removed from living persons, that weighed\\nalmost as much as the persons from whom they\\nwere taken, it gives a good deal to think about.\\nWhen serious dislocations, and bad fractures of\\nbones are encountered, the natural healer who will\\nundertake to replace the former or set the latter\\nmust be more than bold. Broken bones are some-\\ntimes successfully united by healers, and trouble-\\nsome inflammations, that refuse to yield to art, have\\nfrequently been quickly reduced by natural processes.\\nThere can be no questioning the fact that many have\\nbeen spared from amputation of a member by the\\nintervention of an untitled healer, but it is also no\\nless certain that a good many others would have\\nbecome deformed or crippled for life if surgical aid\\nhad not been sought. Again, it is not to be denied\\nthat there is altogether too much indiscriminate\\ncutting a reckless slashing that has surpassed all\\nbounds of sense and reason. The morbid desire\\nto carve and the temptation to exact the always\\nconsiderable honorarium for an operation, are two\\nfeatures that have been the causes of untold mischief.\\nUnsexing women has become an almost common\\npractice, while the truth is that not one case in\\ntwenty justifies the removal of the ovaries. How\\nfar reaching this mania is can only be esti-\\nmated by those who reflect that a woman s mission\\nis to bear children, who in turn become mothers and\\n31", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0051.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "fathers. If one woman is deprived of the faculty of\\npropagation, how many lives are thus indirectly\\nprevented from coming into existence say, only in\\nfive generations?\\nThe appendicitis craze is another surgical fad\\nthat has become a serious menace. Not a day\\npasses that does not record fatal results from this\\nscientific delusion.\\nThe victims of the knife who have been operated\\nupon for cancer are beyond enumeration. Science\\ninsists that there is no help for those afflicted with\\nthis dreadful disease, except that given on the\\noperating table, and despite that assertion there is\\nno end of proof that great numbers who had been\\ntold they could not live unless they submitted to\\nthis scientific butchering, were fully cured by the so-\\ncalled cancer quacks.\\nIt is indisputable that there are natural means by\\nwhich abnormal growths can be checked, dispersed\\nand eliminated from the system, and if that\\nis properly done the cure is complete; whereas,\\nthere are but few cases where a bad cancer was cut\\nout, and the person survived the operation, that\\nanother did not soon form, and few survive a second\\nsurgical ordeal.\\nThe scientific folly of the present time is inocu-\\nlation; injecting the rotted blood of animals\\ninto the human organism! Science has labeled this\\nhorrible filth serum/ A future generation of sci-\\nentists will, no doubt, discover that their predeces-\\nsors were monomaniacs.\\nNo two classes could be more helpful to each\\nother than the surgeon and the healer.\\n32", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0052.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE DUAL ENTITY.\\nWithout the least desire to offend, I must say\\nthat anyone who still doubts the actuality of a dual\\npersonality can not lay claim to much progress in 54\\npsychical research.\\nThere is no end of proof that Sensitives in mag-\\nnetic sleep have described localities, houses, the\\ninterior of dwellings, their furnishings and odd\\nobjects; also persons and their actions at specifically\\nstated times, all of which was proven to be exactly\\nas stated. It is, of course, understood that those 5\\ngiving such descriptions had no prior knowledge of\\nthe places and persons so reported, and that all pos-\\nsible collusion was carefully and completely guarded\\nagainst.\\nOnly those who are too lazy or too ignorant to\\ninform themselves in regard to matters that concern\\nthem most will doubt or deny this statement. This\\nis intended for students more particularly who are\\nwont to air their knowledge of psychological impos-\\nsibilities.\\nWe have here to do with well confirmed facts.\\nAll we need to consider is was the distant locality,\\nhouse, furnishings, a lot of bric-a-brac, and a score\\nof people transported to the apartment of the\\nsleeper (a most ridiculous view), or was this sleeper,\\nor a part of him or her, conveyed to the scene in\\nquestion? The person per se was there before the\\ninvestigators in trance or sleep, whichever term\\nis preferred motionless. The question is, what\\npart of this person obtained the information? It\\ncould certainly not be gathered by any miraculous\\nextension of a faculty, because it required an intelli-\\ngence to make the observation and report. In some\\n33", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0053.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "instances more than vision was involved, because\\nsounds and conversations were described Here is\\nwhere all halt. The sole reason why this problem\\nhas not been solved heretofore is that the still\\nhigher perception of the perfect Psyche was lacking.\\nIt is by no means as rare a thing as the unin-\\nformed believe, to meet with persons who are capa-\\nble of such feats, although the Sensitives employed,\\nare themselves unconscious of the process by which\\ntheir work is accomplished.\\nI solved that problem through Elfa, and in this,\\nabove all else, I had the fullest proof of her wonder-\\nful perfection and versatility as a Psyche.\\nThe solution is as simple as it must be astounding\\nto those who are unprepared to hear it.\\nAll will agree that lands, houses and people can\\nnot be moved several hundred miles, or more, in\\nfive minutes or less, even with the aid of the whitest\\nor the blackest of magic; neither will the extension\\nof one, or even two perceptive senses, without a\\ndirecting intelligence, be accepted as a rational\\nexplanation of the phenomenon-- by any one capa-\\nble of independent thought. If then, these obvious\\nimpossibilities are rejected, what is the sole remain-\\ning explanation? Clearly that a part of the Self\\nentire in itself a thing that is competent to observe,\\njudge, reason and report, left the sleeper and\\nmade the journey to the place described\\nThe fact that such persons are unable to account\\nfor the manner in which they obtained such informa-\\ntion does not detract from the importance of the\\nperformance. (Such achievements have been too\\noften verified to be doubted). All that has been\\n34", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0054.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "wanting to make the matter intelligible is a satisfac-\\ntory elucidation of the process.\\nAll these things are so plain, so simple and so\\nnatural to me that I am surprised when reminded\\nthat all this will probably sound like extravagant 7 1\\nfiction to many perhaps even to a majority of those\\nwho read this book. If it has been my good\\nfortune to discover an occulted truth, it is evidently\\nalso my plain duty to speak of it without hesitation, 4\\nwithout fear of any consequences to myself from\\nthat common sense which I know to be the chief\\nobstacle to that particular progress that alone can,\\nand ultimately must insure the much needed better-\\nment of conditions for humanity.\\nBefore giving my own very simple explanation I\\nwant to say that the Society for Psychical Research in\\nEngland has done more to enlighten the world on\\nall these obscured subjects in a strictly scientific and\\nrational manner than all other organized bodies and\\neducational institutions together, also that few are\\nable to estimate the magnitude of the debt owing to\\nthose tireless, unselfish plodders, for the grand work\\nthey are doing for the benefit of mankind. In this\\nassociation there are no moral cowards who are\\nafraid to relate what they discover beyond the hedge\\nof common sense; all are striking proofs of the vast\\ndifference between the common order of sense and\\nthe uncommon.\\nIn order to bridge the great gap between so-\\ncalled exact science that peremptorily demands facts\\nithat can be demonstrated to anybody with any kind\\nof sense, and the freer knowledge of things that are\\nbest worth knowing but that are scientifically in the\\n35", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0055.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "limbo called the unknowable, the S. P. R. pioneers\\nare obliged to go slow and prove the absolute cer-\\ntainty of their advance step by step under strictly\\nscientific methods which they are also compelled to\\nformulate and perfect as they press onward. That\\nis a herculean task, but it is being done. Gurney,\\nBarrett, Meyers, Podmore and Bramwell opened the\\nquarry and dugout the solid blocks for the founda-\\ntion and laid it too, so no earthquake will unsettle\\nit, while Hodgson kept busyhuntingup material that\\ncould not be blown away by even a skeptical tornado.\\nSir William Crookes, as brave as alert, is already\\nforging the golden spike that will nail down the last\\nplank that will enable the exact and the orthodox\\nto cross the chasm without danger of being swept\\noff their feet by the rush of the empirical tidal\\nwave that is now surging about the worm eaten\\nunderpinning of the dungeons where the scientific\\nDon t know s are hidden from public view.\\nIf coffifent to plan every forward stride by a sci-\\nentific rule, and be assured that you are making no\\nmistake, and running no risk, and you are not in a\\nhurry then by all means get the back numbers of\\nthe Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research\\nand digest them well.\\nIf, however, the progressive spirit is too strong\\nfor your patience to be curbed to that extent, and\\nthe wings of your higher Self warrant the attempt\\nof a flight before the S. P. R. bridge is finished, and\\nproved safe, the following brief recital of some\\npoints in my experience will be helpful for a start\\ninto a realm as yet free from Scientific sign posts\\nthat so often point the wrong way.\\n36", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0056.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "The state in which Elfa performs her wonder-\\nful work is a most carefully induced form, as\\nwell as degree, of Magnetic Sleep. She is totally^\\nunconscious; the mental processes are arrested;\\nmuscular relaxation is complete.\\nSo far I followed a method known more than a\\ncentury ago. I knew that I had a lucide (or som-\\nnambule) but that was not all I wanted. I lapsed\\ninto a complete passive state from an intense con-\\ncentration on the essence of my desire, and all at\\nonce the riddle was solved. So sure was I that the\\nproper direction had come to me that I did not hes-59\\nitate to apply the process indicated instanter.\\nWithin twenty minutes I was in communication\\nwith the real personality the higher individuality\\nof Elfa, a distinct entity as much so as if it were an\\nentirely different person. And here, by the way, a\\ncertain author who wrote a quite plausible and\\napparently logical treatise on Hypnotism, and\\nwhose book came to market at a (for him) very\\nopportune time, and who was very rashly accepted\\nand widely quoted as an infallible authority, among\\nmany other mistakes made the very grievous one of\\nstating that somnambules are incapable of inductive\\nreasoning. If he had stated that somnambules de-\\nveloped through Hypnotism are incapable of induc-\\ntive reasoning I would have no occasipn to refer to\\nthis matter, but as the assertion remains unqualified,\\nit would be wrong to let this serious error stand\\nwithout correction.\\nIn the first place a perfect Psyche (as distin-\\nguished from the Hypnotist s somnambule) has no\\nneed of the reasoning process because in this state, 6\u00c2\u00b0\\nif it is perfect, cognition is direct, positive and in-\\n37", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0057.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "controvertible as I found to my chagrin when ex-\\npecting full confirmation of pet preconceptions.\\nMoreover, 2 met a most determined opponent at\\nmany points where I thought my knowledge unas-\\nsailable, and got all the inductive and deductive\\nreasoning the most exacting reasoner could hope\\nfor from any source.\\nI said something about being chagrined. I confess\\nto bsing so at being taught facts about Magnetism and\\nthe higher life by a mere child; facts that, in some\\ninstances, at least, proved her the master and I the\\npupil. I am amenable to reason and open to truth,\\nbut do not yield easily when I feel sure of my right\\nto an opinion. I fought hard to make a fair show-\\ning for my lifetime of hard thinking, hard study,\\nlong journeys and money expended in the exploita-\\ntion of this vast subject but I was beaten on the\\nvery qiound I was born upon, and that, as I said\\nby a rr.ere child!\\nPL-^it and submissive to truth as we may be, when\\nour h^ir is well silvered it is a rude awakening to\\nhave our cherished certainties blown to the winds by\\nthe breath of a youngster not out of the teens by a\\nbeing without any experience in the world, without,\\nas then, but not now, a particle of knowledge (in the\\nao termed normal state) of the matter so masterfully\\nput, and proven by the aroused dual Self.\\nNever in my long and eventful life was the conceit,\\nso completely taken out of me as during these in-\\nInstigations. But there were heads behind tha t\\npassive mask of unconscious mortal substance that\\ncentered a united wisdom upon this exceptional\\ninstrument that would make the proudest mind bow\\nlow and wonder at the meagerness of human knowl-\\nedge in the real light of the unchangeable truth.\\n38", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0058.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Although pained at times at the thought of years\\nof labor wasted, fortunately I had no vanity to\\nwound. I say fortunately, because if a pricked\\npride had prompted me to resent the almost total\\ndestruction of a knowledge so laboriously acquired,\\nand at the cost of so many sacrifices, the portals of\\nthat universal source of light would have closed.\\nWhen I had been taught the truth of the lesson\\nthat Shakespeare gave us through Puck, what fools\\nthese mortals be; when I was purged of the admi-\\nration of my own wisdom, I received information,\\nknowledge, practical instruction that would have\\nbeen beyond the capacity of any mind to grasp if\\nit had not been for the simplicity of causes assigned,\\nthe astounding directness and brevity of thought\\nwhen stripped of false reasoning, of theoretical\\ndeductions. Even at that I would have failed if the\\nsame factors had not renewed the energies of that\\nSelf within myself that had been so nearly asphyx-\\niated by that thief of true sense called common\\nsense.\\nWhen I became competent to undertake the\\ntask of separating the higher from the physical\\nSelf, I was instructed how to project the former to\\nany point from which I might desire information. I\\ncommenced with near by points, gradually increas-\\ning distances, until my psychic messenger made a\\nvisit to a Yoga friend at the exactly opposite point\\nof the earth from where we then resided. Not a\\nsingle trial was a failure; every report made to me\\nin that way was immediately written out and mailed\\nand invariably the correctness of these accounts\\nwas verified by return post or telegraph.\\n39", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0059.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "It is of course neither possible nor expected that I\\ngo into details of this work in these few pages.\\nI would certainly not have gone to this length if\\nthe purpose of this little publication were not to\\nthrow a helpful light to those who are seeking from\\nexternal sources what is solely to be found within\\nthe Self.\\nOne fact must, however briefly, be noted here, as\\nit may save many from untold misery. Spirit\\nmediumship is an indisputable actuality. Where\\nI once but wondered, I now shudder at the reckless\\nness of persons who place their bodies at the dis-\\nposal of the scum of discarnate life. To cultivate\\nmediumship without an absolute foreknowledge of\\nthe possible sequences to lapsing into the defense-\\nless state of a surrendering passivity is worse, by far,\\nthan anything conveyed by the saying, it is the\\nheight of folly.\\nI might have lived another half century without\\nbecoming thoroughly convinced of the truth of\\nmediumship if I had not learned the modus\\noperandi of the exit and re-entrance of the immor-\\ntal Self into the mortal body.\\nBalzac most truly said: u The simple produces\\nthe marvelous.\\nAll these things are simple and natural, All\\nthere is mystical, occult, magical, is an artificial\\nconfusion of the mind a chaos of false and fixed\\nideas.\\n7 c All the wonders and real treasures are contained\\nwithin the Self.\\n40", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0060.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "c", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0063.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0064.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE CONTINUANCE\\nOF THE HIGHER 5ELF.\\nAll that has recently been publicly stated about\\nthe certainty of communication with individuals re-\\nleased from their mortal bodies, by such men as\\nAlfred Russell Wallace, the friend and associate of\\nDarwin, Sir William Crookes, the leader of Science\\nin England, Professor William James of Harvard\\nUniversity, who has also been president of the So-\\nciety for Psychical Research, Dr. Richard Hodg-\\nson, the indefatigable representative of the S. P. R.\\nin America, Rev. Minot J. Savage, and other men\\nof that calibre, obviates the necessity of comment on\\nmy part on the progress of true Spiritism.\\nI will therefore make my few brief notations with-\\nout any preamble, trusting that these practical ob-\\nservations, short as they are, may prove of some\\nservice in spanning the imagined abyss between\\nearth life and the other.\\nI believe myself right in stating that the principal\\nreason why no more perfect intercourse is had be-\\ntween incarnate and discarnate individuals is because\\nof the lack of savoir faire on the part of the intelli-\\ngence in the body.\\nIf a perfect magnetic relation (permanent rap-\\nport) and psychological affinity are established\\nbetween the higher Selves of persons who are famil-\\niar with the simple process of receiving thoughts\\nwithout vocal expression, there is no reason why\\nsuch communication should cease, or become more\\ndifficult when one is released from the material part\\nof the Self.\\n41", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0065.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "If the mutual accordance embraces the three\\nessential requisites mental, magnetic and psychical\\nconcord, and it is brought to as high a state of\\nattunement as I know to be possible while still in\\nthe flesh, there should be no perceptible difference\\nin ability to communicate when one or the other\\nhigher Entity is released.\\nIf I (as I am) am able to separate the two enti-\\nties, and, at any distance, maintain perfect corres-\\npondence with the one projected, I fail to see what\\ndifference it can make if the Magnetic connection,\\nwhich under these circumstances, is all that unites\\nthe higher Entity with the physical personality, is\\nfinally severed, providing nota-bene that the\\ndesire for continuance of the terrene relationship is\\nmutual. There should, if a variation is had, be\\nfewer obstacles with one physical organism out of\\nthe way, because however completely such persons\\nj may also have been in harmony physically the mor-\\ntal self is always bound to hamper the other more\\nor less, if in no other way than in unavoidable\\nvariations of magnetic strength and quality which,\\nafter disembodiment, is perfect and not subject to\\nany changes.\\nWhile I am not prepared as yet to make this a\\npositive assertion, I am sure that I will be able to\\nprove this conception to be as stated through Elfa,\\nafter I make my cheerful exit from my corporeal\\nhabitat.\\nThe little book is about full, but I must add a\\nfew lines that may not only facilitate progress in\\nthese studies, but also lend courage to many who\\nhave had proof in themselves of an undefinable\\nsomething that seems, by occasion, temporarily to\\nassert itself, only to be again lost to cognition.\\n42", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0066.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "If the earth does not give up its treasures without\\na search and work, why should we expect to find\\nmuch more valuable possessions within ourselves 75\\nwithout an effort?\\nThe successful agriculturist studies his soil, cli-\\nmate and his seedings. He does not expect to har-\\nvest a huge crop of grain or fruit from reading a\\nfew books. The miner trudges up hill and down\\ndale, and follows watercourses for signs, outcrop-\\npings or colors, which he must have learned to cog-\\nnize. When he finds these he washes out dirt, or\\ndigs as the case may be. He does not expect Prov-\\nidence to pour gold into his lap without a bend of\\nthe back or a stroke of the pick on his part. But\\nmost people have an idea that if there was anything\\ninside of them that is uncommon it ought to come\\nto the surface and show itself without an effort.\\nThe human body, whatever its form, color, orna-\\nment or lack of it, may contain priceless gifts, but\\nthat body may carry these from the cradle to the\\ngrave without discovery if no effort is made to find 75\\nthem and to make them grow.\\nAn ignorant or shiftless farmer will have a plenty\\nof weeds or no crops at all, and the same kind of a\\nprospector may sleep on ground, that covers a\\nbonanza and never know it and so thousands dawdle\\nthrough life reaping no crops, finding no treasure\\nunconsciously carrying talents, extraordinary facul-\\nties, wonderful powers all the time deploring that\\nNature or God had done nothing more for them\\nthan put them on earth to live without a satisfying\\nenjoyment.\\nA few illustrations and I am done. A doctor\\ncame to me a splendid specimen of manhood, both\\n13", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0067.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "in mind and body. He was dissatisfied; he had all\\nthe knowledge the medical curriculum could give\\nhim. He realized its exact value. If he could only\\nbecome clairvoyant! If he could only see into the\\nliving organism! A few lessons and some magnetic\\nmanipulations and he had all he wanted and that\\nwithout clairvoyance. He developed intuition to\\nsuch an extent that his hand will go to the part dis-\\neased without any direction from his mind, and he\\ndiagnoses perfectly without a mental effort. Did\\nthis man get all he wanted? I know that he got\\nmore than he ever dared hope for, because with the\\narousing of his intuition came a magnetic healing\\npower that is more effective than all his arts.\\nI placed a scarabeus in the hand of a man and\\nclosed his fist without him seeing the object. If he\\ncould distinguish its form by the contact it would\\nfeel like a large bean. He closed his eyes and said:\\nThis thing came from Egypt. It is a bug; it came\\nfrom a grave. All true to the letter. That is psy-\\nchometry.\\nA woman takes an old glove in her hand; it makes\\nher shudder. She sighs and says: Oh, how she suf-\\nfered (meaning the owner of the glove), adding,\\nit is a good thing she was released, and then gives\\na description of the person.\\nThis is another phase of psychometry, of a sympa-\\nthetic emotional character.\\nA fortune was spent in the endeavor to find water\\nin a dry stretch of land where it was badly needed.\\nAll the well diggers available had tried boring and\\ndigging in vain. I had a rather uncouth but faithful\\nNorth-countryman (English) to care for my horses.\\nI had never tried him for any qualities other than as a\\n44", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0068.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "groom. He said to me: If you let me take a horse\\nfor a day I will find water if there is any, in two\\nhours after I come back. I let him go. The\\nmoment he spoke I sensed his quality. He re-\\nturned at dawn the following day with a few hazel\\nbranches. He took one (forked) in both hands and\\nwalked over the ground with eyes closed. After\\nwalking slowly awhile among the holes that had\\nbeen dug, he suddenly stopped, wheeled about and\\nwent to within ten feet of the furthest excavation.\\nA tremor went all through him, and the twig bended\\ntoward the earth. Here is water and a plenty, he\\nsaid. By that time the station was aroused, and\\nhow every mother s son of them did laugh and gibe.\\nBut finally they decided to dig. At eight feet they\\nfound moisture; at ten they struck gravel and got a\\nwet bottom; at twelve they struck a slaty crust and\\nbubbling water. At about fourteen, feet, nearly ten\\nless than the depth of any other hole, the diggers\\nmade a rush for the surface with the water after\\nthem. Next morning the hole was full to within\\nfour feet of the top. It proved to be a spring pure,\\nwholesome and inexhaustible.\\nHere I had what in England is called a Dowser.\\nHe had never tried water-finding before, but had\\noften heard of its being done in the old country.\\nThe impression came to him while we were\\nlooking down a dry hole that if he could find a hazel\\nwand he would discover water. He staid right\\nthere. There were great holdings of lands of little\\nvalue only because no water was available. The\\nnews spread like wildfire. Terms were of no object.\\nHe kept right on finding water where thousands\\nupon thousands of dollars had been wasted in vain\\n45", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0069.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "search. All the great mining camps furnish evidence\\nof finding rich deposits by intuition, where the most\\nexperienced prospectors and geologists had gone\\nover every foot of ground and condemned it as\\nbarren and some tenderfoot who could not dis-\\ntinguish country rock from pure quartz, happened\\nalong, dug a hole and became a millionaire.\\nThere are a hundred and more out-branchings of\\n2 this power. Sometimes a gift like that will\\nmanifest itself spontaneously, but the manifestation\\nis not understood or heeded. The unconscious pos-\\nsessor does not know the difference between ordi-\\nnary thought and the voice of his higher Self which\\nis thrust back because common sense declares that\\nthese things are all nonsense.\\nWho said Seek and ye shall find\\nWho said Faith is the substance of things\\nhoped for; the evidence of things not seen\\nMy closing admonition is: Take a vacation from\\n^r Common Sense and explore your interior for the\\ngreat and good things that may lie dormant within\\nyou.", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0070.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "VALUABLE TESTIMONY.\\nAs this little book will go to many persons who\\nlive in places remote from the great centers of\\ninformation, and who are not likely to have the\\nopportunity to learn the real inner opinion of truly\\ngreat men on these vital issues, I decided to add the\\nfollowing extracts from the recorded sayings of\\nsome of the great leaders of thought, whose names\\nadorn the sciences and professions with which they\\nare identified.\\nAs my own comments are as mild as milk and\\nhoney compared with the vigorous and scathing\\narraignment of their own schools, by the world-\\nrenowned authorities quoted, this addition will serve\\nto attest my moderation as well as my close adher-\\nence to truth.\\nNOTE. The numbers on margins of the preceding\\npages refer to the following quotations. This arrange-\\nment is intended to facilitate the search for proof of\\nthe correctness and solidity of opinions expressed\\nin this volume.\\nAlthough some may think this an unnecessary\\nlabor, many others will appreciate the plan, espec-\\nially older students who like to verify what is new\\nto them in the order in which the matter is pre-\\nsented.\\n47", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0071.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "QUOTATIONS.\\nEarnest investigators, no less than younger stud-\\nents beginning search for the higher truths pure\\ntruth will do well to make a close study of the\\nfollowing excerpts.\\nThere is a fund of information in this collection\\nof opinions that surpasses half a lifetime of in-\\ndividual research. More than that we have in this\\naccumulation of well defined conclusions the gist of\\ngreat tomes of knowledge that could never be\\nmastered single handed unless direct cognition is\\nhad.\\nThose who are capable of direct cognition do not\\nneed books or any other helps of this order, but\\nsuch are few.\\nThis little monitor is intended for seekers of\\ntruth in whom this grand faculty is still dormant,\\nwho do need the help herewith extended. I hope\\nthey will profit thereby.\\n1. As the sun does not first shine when it escapes\\nthe clouds, but is constant, only seeming dark and\\ninvisible to us by reason of the vapors, so also the\\nsoul does not first obtain the faculty of seeing the\\nfuture when it emerges from the body as from a\\ncloud, but already now possesses it, but is blinded by\\nunion with the mortal part of us. Plutarch.\\n2. A miracle does not happen in contradiction to\\nnature, but in contradiction to that which is known\\nto us of nature. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Augustine.\\n3. All truths are old, and all we have to do is to\\ncognize them anew. Goethe.\\n48", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0072.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "4. The young anthropologists and psychologists\\nwho will soon have full occupancy of the stage w 7 ill\\nfeel, as we have felt, how great a scientific scandal it\\nhas been to lqave a great mass of human experience\\nto take its chances between vague tradition and\\ncredulity on the one hand and dogmatic denial at\\nlong range on the other, with no body of persons\\nextant who are willing and competent to study the\\nmatter with both patience and vigor. There have\\nbeen isolated experts, it is true, before now. But our\\nsociety has for the first time made their abilities\\nmutually helpful.\\nIf I were asked to give some sort of dramatic\\nunity to our history, I should say first that we\\nstarted with high hopes that the hypnotic field\\nwould yield an important harvest, and that these\\nhopes have subsided with the general subsidence of\\nwhat may be called the hypnotic wave.\\nScience means, first of all, a certain dispassionate\\nmethod. To suppose that it means a certain set of\\nresults that one should pin one s faith upon and hug\\nforever, is sadly to mistake its genius, and degrades\\nthe scientific body to the status of a sect.\\nProf. William James.\\nFrom address as President of Society of Psychical Research, Seventy-seventh\\nGeneral Meeting, January 31, 1896.\\n5. Antipathies also form a part of Magic, falsely\\nso-called. Man naturally has the same instinct as\\nthe animals which warns them involuntarily against\\nthe creatures that are hostile or fatal to their ex-\\nistence. But lie (man)so often neglects it that it\\nbecomes dormant. Not so the true cultivator of the\\ngreat Science. Trismegistus the Fourth\\n(A Rosier ucian\\n49", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0073.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "6. This law (gravitation) assumes that there exists\\nbetween all masses of matter in the universe, a\\nmutual attraction, in consequence of which they\\ntend towards each other with a force which varies\\ndirectly as their mass and inversely as the square of\\nthe distance between them. Assuming this, all the\\nfacts are explained; and it is quite logical to con-\\nclude, that the assumption which explains all the\\nfacts, and enables us even to predict them, is true.\\nBut does this law of the force of gravitation, the\\nlaw according to which it varies, account for or\\nexplain the fact of gravitation? Why do two masses\\nof matter tend toward each other? Why do they do\\nso with a force varying as above described? The\\nonly answer to this question is, that there is an at-\\ntraction between them, that they mutually\\nattract each other. But this, it will be perceived,\\nis merely stating, in other words, the fact itself, and\\nnot the cause of it. The law of gravitation as laid\\ndown by Newton, whe?i once admitted, explains or\\naccounts for the facts of gravitation, but does not\\ntouch the cause of them. It shows the shape and\\nlimits of the force, but leaves us in the dark as to its\\nreal nature. And the same is true of all natural\\nlaws; of the laws of heat, light, electricity, galvanism,\\nmagnetism proper, chemical action, etc.\\nProf. William Gregory,\\n(University of Edinburgh).\\n7. The ultimate source of allenergy is to be found\\nonly in the Divine Power which created and upholds\\nthe stars in their courses, and is at work in the chem-\\nical, physical and vital activities about us and in us\\nthe infinite intelligence which is all, and in all.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Dr. J. H. Kellogg.\\n50", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0074.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "8. Scientific men almost invariably assume that in\\nthis inquiry (Spiritism) they should be permitted at\\nthe very outset to impose conditions, and if under\\ni such conditions nothing happens, they consider it\\nj proof of imposture or delusion. But they well\\nf know, in all other branches of research, Nature,\\nnot they, determines the essential conditions, with-\\nout a compliance with which no experiment will\\nsucceed. These conditions have to be learned by\\npatient questioning of Nature, and they are different\\nfor each branch of Science. How much more must\\nthey be expected to differ in an inquiry which deals\\nwith subtile forces of Nature of which the physicist\\nis wholly and absolutely ignorant. To ask to be\\nallowed to deal with these unknown phenomena as\\nhe has hitherto dealt with known phenomena is\\npractically to prejudge the question, since it assumes\\nthat both are governed by the same laws.\\nDr. Alfred Russell Wallace,\\ng. True science was never esteemed by contem-\\nporaries, but on the contrary was for the most part\\nrejected. And it could not be otherwise. True\\nI science shows people their errors, and points out to\\nthem new and untried paths of life. And both the\\none and the other are disagreeable to the ruling\\nclass of society. But the present science not only\\ndoes not run counter to the tastes and demands of\\nthe ruling class of society; but rather corresponds to\\nthem completely; it satisfies idle curiosity, aston-\\nishes people, and promises them an increase of\\npleasures. And therefore, while everything truly\\ngreat is silent, modest, inconspicuous, the science of\\nour time knows no bounds to its self-gratulations.\\nCount Leo N. Tolstoy.\\n51", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0075.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "10. If these things are not true, Christianity is not\\ntrue; if it and they are true, the fault lies in our-\\nselves if we lack the power we have not vital faith\\nand are only half Christians. William Howitt.\\n1 1 Nine-tenths of the public life of Christ was spent\\nin curing diseases of the mind and body. To truly\\nfollow Christ is to do the same thing, moved to it by\\nthe same spirit of love and all conquering faith. He\\nwho does this is in the genuine apostolic succession,\\nalthough no lordly prelate has ever laid his im-\\npotent hands upon his head. He who can not do it\\nis only half a christian minister, and that a small\\nhalf, though he may have been ordained by the pope\\nor even St. Peter himself.\\nComment on above quotation by Rev. Evans.\\n12. The cures wrought by Jesus were no miracles,\\nor departures from the established order of Nature, as\\nhe himself avers. They exhibit the action of a\\nhigher law, the dominion of mind over matter.\\nEverything that is done is effected in harmony with\\nsome law of Nature some law of Mind or Matter,\\nand has in it the relation of cause and effect. To\\nunderstand the law by which it is done is to be able\\nto do it. Hence Jesus declares respecting his won-\\nderful works, which were mostly those of healing\\nthe bodies and minds of the people who flocked to\\nhim from every part of the land of the Jews The\\nworks that I do shall ye do also, and greater works\\nthan these shall ye do, because I go to my Father.\\nThis is as true as any promise that his lips ever\\nuttered. He commissioned and instructed his apos-\\ntles to cure all manner of disease and sickness\\namong the people.\\nRev. W. F. Evans.", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0076.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "13. Manifestly there are invisible, imponderable\\nagencies of great power in this world, other than\\nthose which modern science recognizes, and it is a\\nsource of no little annoyance and mortification that\\nthus far we have failed to bring them within the field\\nof scientific investigation. At present the whole\\nmatter is involved in doubt and perplexity, but we\\nhave faith to believe that a future age will solve the\\ngreat mystery and roll away the dark clouds which\\nobscure our vision. Dr. Nichols,\\nEditor Boston Journal of Chemistry.\\n14. The perfect observer in any department of Sci-\\nence will have his eyes, as it were, opened, that they\\nmay be struck at once by any occurrence which,\\naccording to received theories, ought not to happen, for\\nthese are the facts which serve as clues to new dis-\\ncoveries. Sir John Herschell.\\n15. Mr. Frederick Treves, who is without doubt one\\nof the greatest surgeons, says:\\nSome years ago I performed sundry experiments\\nupon the intestines of dogs, but such are the differ-\\nences between the human and the canine intestines\\nthat when I came to operate upon man I found that\\nI was much hampered by my new experience, and\\nthat I had everything to unlearn. My experiments\\nupon dogs had done little but unfit me to deal\\nwith the human intestines. Vivisection is, in my\\nopinion, one of the greatest delusions that has ever\\nfastened upon the medical profession. It is a blot\\non the fair name of science, and an incentive to ex-\\nperimental outrages upon the sick poor.\\n53", "height": "4041", "width": "2666", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0077.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "16. God knows the prodigious quantity of medi-\\ncines, harmful to their patients, that have been pre-\\nscribed by the physicians. How many stomachs\\nhave been ruined, how many constitutions destroyed\\nby these barbarous drugs. Let us pity the poor\\npatients victims of official science. In medicine it\\nis the same as in a lottery: for one favored one, how\\nmany are ruined, how many untimely deaths, how\\nmany disabled for the remainder of their days.\\nMedicine is, however, necessary, and there is need of\\nphysicians to relieve the sufferings of humanity; but\\nsince the former is insufficient, and the latter do not\\npossess the qualities or the means proper to\\naccomplish the purpose, we must seek for the means\\nin some other direction, and we find in Magnetism\\na balm for our sufferings, a consolation for our souls.\\nConsidering the vast number of sick people who,\\nafter having consulted the most renowned physi-\\ncians, and having taken to no purpose their noxious\\ndrugs have obtained relief always and often a\\nradical cure, from the treatment of the untitled\\nhealers, we are confident that the day will soon\\ncome when the free exercise of the medical art will be\\na necessity, and that will be the day of salvation\\nfor suffering humanity.\\nIt is my firm conviction that to the sick should\\nbe granted full liberty to entrust the care of his\\nhealth to the one possessing his confidence, whether\\nthat one have a diploma or not. In a word the\\npractice of the art of healing should be free.\\nDr. Gasto?i de Rionx de Messimy.\\n17. Give man the consciousness of what he is, and\\nhe will soon be what he ought/\\nSchelling.\\n51", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0078.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "18. We have seen that the influence of the mind\\nupon the body is no transient power; that in health\\nit may exalt the sensory functions, or suspend them\\naltogether; excite the nervous system so as to cause\\nthe various forms of convulsive action of the\\nvoluntary muscles, or depress it so as to render them\\npowerless; may stimulate or paralyze the muscles\\nof organic life, and the processes of nutrition and\\nsecretion, causing even death; that in disease it may\\nrestore the functions which it takes away in health,\\nre-enervating the sensory and motor nerves, exciting\\nhealthy vascularity and nervous power, and assist-\\ning the Vis Medicatrix Naturae to throw off dis-\\neased action or absorb morbid deposits.\\nDr. Daniel Hack Tnke.\\n19. All this is admitted to be within the power of\\nMind and Will. Meantime a great body of evidence\\nis accumulating which must force men of Science\\nmore and more strongly toward those conclusions\\nthey have been so long reluctant to approach. In\\nthe phenomena of hypnotic suggestion an avenue is\\nopened through which Western Science may ap-\\nproach the positions so long held by the sages of\\nthe East. In the medico-legal aspects of Animal\\nMagnetism, as in the phenomena of telepathy, will\\nbe found the finger-posts which point to the opera-\\ntion of Mind and Will at a distance.\\nIn all the inquiries now proceeding into obscure\\npsychical and quasi-neural phenomena, the indica-\\ntions point in the same general direction. Nor need\\nthose who have long since satisfied themselves of\\nthe psychological knowledge of the Orient, be im-\\npatient or intolerant of the slow and unfriendly", "height": "4063", "width": "2840", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0079.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "progress of Western Science towards affiliation with\\nits elder sister. For no greater triumph of Truth,\\nno stronger proof of the genuineness of the conclus-\\nions of Eastern Occult Science can be had than the\\nconfirmation of its doctrines by the body of stu-\\ndents working from contrary directions, by opposed\\nmethods, and in a skeptical and hostile spirit\\nGeorge Frederick Parsons.\\n(Comment on the ioregoing citation Tuke.)\\n20. A long chapter might be written on the credu-\\nlity of men of Science. The hypotheses that they\\nhave chased out of the door complacently fly in at\\nthe window. Many scientists, fresh from apparently\\nimportant discoveries in narrow fields, need to be\\nreminded of the lesson contained in the legend of\\nSt. Augustine, who when walking on the shore one\\nday, absorbed in meditation, suddenly perceived a\\nchild that with a shell was ladling the sea into a\\nhole in the sand. What are you doing, my child?\\nasked St. Augustine. T am emptying the ocean,\\nwas the reply, into this hole/ That is impossible/\\nNot more impossible than for you to empty the\\nUniverse into your intellect/ said the child and van-\\nished. Nicholas Murray Butler,\\n21. The transmission of impressions from one\\npart of the nervous system to another, or from the\\nnervous system to the muscular and glandular\\nstructure, has a nearer resemblance to the effects\\nproduced by the imponderable agents than to any-\\nthing else. It seems very probable indeed that the\\nnervous force is some modification of that force which\\nproduces the phenomena of electricity and magnet-\\nism/ 1 Sir Benjamin Br die.\\n56", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0080.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "22. Beyond the limits of this visible anatomy com-\\nmences another anatomy whose phenomena we can-\\nnot perceive; beyond the limits of this external\\nphysiology of forces, of action, and of motion exists\\nanother invisible physiology, whose principles,\\neffects and laws, it is of greater importance to know;\\nand beyond the limits of these material and volumin-\\nous therapeutics there are other therapeutics still\\nfar more important to know and far more useful to\\npractice. Laplace.\\n23. It has been irrefutably proved that the most\\nactive agents in Nature are imperceptible entities,\\nwhich like electricity, magnetism, heat and light,\\nhave neither odor, savor, color, volume, dimension,\\ndeterminate shapes, nor definite proportions; which\\npervade all things without being anywhere percept-\\nible; which govern all things without being seen\\nthemselves; which penetrate everywhere, but whose\\nessence we can not penetrate. U Amador.\\n24. For the true springs of our organization are\\nnot those muscles, those veins, those arteries, which\\nare described with such exactness and care. There\\nexist in organized bodies internal forces which do\\nnot follow the gross mechanical laws we imagine,\\nand to which we would reduce everything.\\nBuffon.\\n25. This age that blots out life with question\\nmarks; this nineteenth century with its knife and\\nglass that makes thought physical and thrusts far\\noff the heaven so neighborly with man of old, to\\nvoids sparse-sown with alienated stars. Lowell.\\n57", "height": "4063", "width": "2840", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0081.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "26. The intelligence, then, we may believe we\\ncarry with us. But, says some objector, it is said a\\nthousand times, printed in the reviews, spoken of in\\nlectures, How can we think without the brain? Is\\nnot the brain the only organ of thought? Prof.\\nJames, of Harvard, whom I quoted last Sunday,\\ngave a lecture not long ago on two phases of this\\nproblem of the other life; and one of them was this,\\nand he one of the best expert authorities in the\\nworld takes the ground that that objection about\\nthe brain is foolish, sophistical, shallow, and utterly\\nworthless. In other words, one of the functions of\\nthe brain at the present time may be thinking. The\\nT back of the brain, or above it, may use it as the\\norgan of thought and the communication of my\\nthoughts to others in my present condition. But\\nthat does not prove at all that the T ceases to exist,\\nand that there is no thinking done when this brain\\ngets tired and goes back to dust. To resort to a\\ncrude illustration, you may attach a dynamo for a\\ntime to some particular machine. When you re-\\nmove that machine, you have not destroyed the\\ndynamo. You may attach it to some other machine\\nand find that you have there all the old-time power.\\nThe best scientific men of the world have told us\\nthat this objection is of no value. /Thought is not\\nthe product of the brain in that sense There ac-\\ncompanies every effort of mind certain molecu-\\nlar movements in the brain. That is all, but it is\\nnot a case of cause and effect; it is only concomi-\\ntance. Thought coincides with the movements of\\nthe brain. Rev. MinotJ. Savage.\\n27. Only great minds are capable of estimating\\nthe magnitude of little things. Rayon.\\n58", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0082.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "28. Whatever may be the design of the bill it will\\nnot protect the public health. If statistics are to be\\nrelied on the death rate in Colorado is as low as it\\never was, and lower than in some of the States which\\nhave enacted measures of legislation similar to this.\\nThe department of surgery excepted, medicine is\\nnot a science. It is a series of experiments more or\\nless successful, and will become a science when the\\nlaws of health and disease are fully ascertained and\\nunderstood. This can be done, not by arresting the\\nprogress of experiment, and binding men down to\\nhard and fast rules of treatment, but by giving free\\nrein to the man who departs from the beaten highway\\nand discovers hidden methods and remedies by the\\nwayside. It is through these means that the public\\nhealth is promoted and thereby protected, that the\\nmembers of the medical profession are enabled to\\nminister with success to human ailments and bodily\\nsuffering. Nearly every advance in the treatment\\nof diseases, in the method of their detection and in\\nthe prevention of their occurrence, has been made\\nby physicians in disregard of the regulations of the\\norder; and the great body of their brethren, after\\ndenouncing and enduring, have ultimately accepted\\nthe unquestionable results of these researches and\\ndiscoveries, and made them respectable by adding\\nthem to the category of the recognized and the reg-\\nular. But for this, the leech, the lancet and the pill-\\nbox would still be the regulators of the public health,\\nand licenses to practice would be confined to these,\\nand these only, who used them. This is but to say\\nthat medical progress in general has not been made\\nby, but notwithstanding the great body of its pro-\\nfessors.\\n59", "height": "4063", "width": "2840", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0083.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "The title of the bill, as it relates to the public, is a\\nmisnomer. This is a common subterfuge; all meas-\\nures designed to promote a specific interest or pro-\\ntect an existing evil are ostensibly labeled for the\\nbenefit of the people. The fact that the people do\\nnot seek the protection, ask for the benefit, nor sus-\\npect the existence of the alleged danger is wholly\\nimmaterial. Governor Thomas, of Colorado.\\n(From his veto of the Medical Bill.)\\n29. If the action of imperceptible agents is\\nopposed to so-called common sense, that is as much\\nas to say that experience is opposed to it, but as\\ncommon sense and experience are not, and can not\\nbe, contradictory, if common sense refuses to believe\\nin the action of all imperceptible agents, common\\nsense stands in need of a thorough reform which\\nexperience will be able to effect.\\nTrue science, which is nothing else than the\\nreflection of experience, has in this manner reformed\\ncommon sense many times.\\nProf. U Amador..\\n(Address to Medical College, France)\\n30. The so-called Science of our day has followed\\nthe materialistic lines so exclusively that the paths\\nof real knowledge have been missed. Teachers of\\nbroad, general culture have been sorely needed to\\ndirect the current of learned investigation into the\\nright channels. Edward Stanton.\\n31. The greatest objection I have to the book is,\\nthat the author uses the accurate knowledge he pos-\\nsesses (for what reason I can not tell), to teach\\nerror. Prof. Brockett.\\n(In review of a book.)\\n60", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0084.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "32. u He who sets out honestly in search of Truth\\nmust not allow himself to be appalled by the splen-\\ndor of names and authorities, however great and\\nimposing. The paramount interests of science de-\\nmand that we should boldly endeavor to beat down\\nall the barriers by which her progress might be im-\\npeded. Colqhoan.\\n33. Before experience itself can be used with ad-\\nvantage, there is one preliminary step to make which\\ndepends wholly on ourselves; it is, the absolute dis-\\nmissal and clearing the mind of all prejudice, and\\nthe determination to stand or fall by the result of a\\ndirect appeal to facts in the first instance, and of\\nstrict logical deductions from them afterwards.\\nSir John Herschcll.\\n34. With regard to the miracle question, I can only\\nsay that the word impossible is not, to my mind,\\napplicable to matters of philosophy. That the pos-\\nsibilities of Nature are infinite is an aphorism with\\nwhich I am wont to worry my friends/\\nProfessor Huxley.\\n35. I have sought the Truth in the desert, in cities,\\nin the universities, in communities and cloisters; I\\nhave sought it at the court of the Pope, who claims\\nto be infallible, and found it not. At last I did find\\nit I discovered it within myself.\\nBishop Willie Im Bedell (1507).\\n36. The truth can always be had by those who de-\\nsire it, but each one must seek it for himself. That\\nonly which we have within can we see without. If\\nwe meet no gods it is because we harbor none.\\nEmerso?i.\\n61", "height": "4063", "width": "2840", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0085.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "37- Believe me, miracles are in us, not without us.\\nHere natural facts occur which men call supernatu-\\nral. God would have been strangely unjust had he\\nconfined the testimony of his power to certain gen-\\nerations and peoples and denied them to others.\\nThe brazen rod belongs to all. Neither Moses, nor\\nJacob, nor Zoroaster, nor Paul, nor Pythagoras, noi\\nSwedenborg, not the humblest messenger nor the\\nloftiest Prophet of the most High are greater than\\nyou are capable of being. Balzac.\\n38. Be not ignorant of yourself, my friend, and do\\nnot commit the error which the majority of men com-\\nmit, for most men, though they are eager to look\\ninto the affairs of others, give no thought to the ex-\\namination of their own. Do not you neglect this\\nduty, but strive more and more to cultivate a knowl-\\nedge of thyself. Socrates.\\n39. O ye who seek to solve the knot,\\nYe live in God, yet know him not.\\nYe sit upon the river s brink,\\nYet crave in vain a drop to drink.\\nYe dwell beside a countless store,\\nYet perish, hungry at the door/\\nSufi Philosophy.\\n40. When asked, What do you know about the\\ndepths of the Divine Being? Jacob Boehme replied:\\nTrue, I do not know anything about the Divine\\nBeing, but the spirit in me does, and I speak only\\nwhat the spirit says.\\n41 But who made nature? ask the would be wise;\\nMy God, not yours! each devotee replies.\\nEaston.\\n62", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0086.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "42. Text books are mostly misleading. I get mad\\nwith myself when I think I have believed what was\\nso learnedly set out in them. There are more frauds\\nin Science tlian anywhere else. Take a whole pile of\\nthem that I can name and you will find uncertainty,\\nif not imposition, in half of what they state as scientific\\ntruth. They have time and again set down experi-\\nments as done oy them, curious, out-of-the way\\nexperiments, that they never did, and upon which\\nthey have founded scientific truths. I have been\\nthrown off my track often by them, and for months\\nat a time. You see a great name and you believe in\\nit. Try the experiment yourself and you find the\\nresult altogether different. I tell you\\nI would rather know nothing about a thing in Sci-\\nence, nine times out of ten, than what the books\\nw 7 ould tell me for practical purposes, for applied\\nScience, the best Science, the only Science.\\nI d rather take the thing up and go through with\\nit myself. I d find out more about it than any one\\ncould tell me, and I d be sure of what I knew. That\\nis the thing. Professor this or that will controvert\\nyou out of the books, and prove out of the books\\nthat it can t be so, though you have it right in the\\nhollow of your hand all the time and could break\\nhis spectacles with it. Thos. A. Edison,\\n(From an interview in N. Y. Herald, Dec. 31, 1879).\\n43. The habit of accepting whatever comes to us\\nwith the endorsement of Science causes men to\\nthink they comprehend such statements, whereas in\\ntruth no story of a miracle can possibly be harder\\nto grasp by the reason alone. Science not only\\nemploys the imagination freely, but requires from\\nits votaries a constant exercise of faith.\\nGeorge Fredrick Parsons.\\n63", "height": "4063", "width": "2840", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0087.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "44- The disgrace of medicine has been that collos-\\nsal system of self-deception in obedience to which\\nmines have been emptied of their cankering minerals,\\nthe entrails of animals taxed for their impurities, the\\npoison bags of reptiles drained of their venom and\\nall the inconceivable abominations thus obtained\\nthrust down the throats of human beings suffering\\nfrom some fault of organization, nourishment or\\nvital stimulation. Oliver Wendell Holmes.\\n45. Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of inco-\\nherent ideas and is, perhaps, of all the physiological\\nsciences, that which best shows the caprice of the\\nhuman mind. It is a shapeless assemblage of\\ninaccurate ideas, of observations often puerile and of\\nformulae as fantastically conceived as they are tedi-\\nously arranged. Prof. Bichat.\\n46. When the Rev. Thos. W. Beecher was present\\none day,it was remarked that he had officiated at over\\n2,000 funerals. Yes, he said sadly, shaking his\\nhead while a twinkle was seen in his eyes, but there\\nwere only three who died natural deaths. Upon\\nbeing asked the meaning of his very strange state-\\nment he replied: Those three did not employ a\\nphysician.\\n47. Mankind has been drugged to death, and the\\nworld would be better if the contents of every apoth-\\necary shop were emptied into the sea, although the\\nconsequences to the fishes would be lamentable.\\nOliver Wendell Holmes.\\n64", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0088.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "48. The past fifteen years have been rife in medical\\ndelusions, and each in its turn for the time being\\nhas served to addle the brains of the profession\\nand injure the health and deplete the pockets of the\\ncredulous dupes. During the period mentioned we\\nhave had the purging craze, the sweating craze,\\nthe vomiting craze, the blue glass craze, the\\nBrown-Sequard Elixir of Life craze, the Inhala-\\ntion craze, the Cod Liver Oil craze, and last, but\\nnot least, the Koch Tuberculosis craze. 0, tem-\\nporal 0, mores! What fools we are!\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Dr. Alexander M. Ross, F. R. S.\\n49. I am incessantly led to make apology for the\\ninstability of the theories and practice of physic.\\nDissections daily convince us of our ignorance of\\ndisease, and cause us to blush at our own prescrip-\\ntions. What mischief have we not done under the\\nbelief of false facts and false theories? We have\\nassisted in multiplying disease we have done more\\nwe have increased their fatality.\\nDr. Benjamin Rush.\\n50. The history of medicine on the one hand is\\nnothing less than a history of variations, and on the\\nother, only a still more marvelous history of how\\nevery successive variation has by medical bodies\\nbeen furiously denounced then bigotedly adopted.\\nSir William Hamilton.\\n51. No systematic or theoretical classification of\\ndiseases or therapeutic agents ever yet promulgated is\\ntrue, or anything like truth, and none can be adopted\\nas a safe guidance in practice.\\nSir John Forbes.\\nRoyal College of Physicians, London, Physician to the Queen s household,\\n65", "height": "4063", "width": "2840", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0089.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "52. A curious story current in London would seem\\nto indicate that Sir Redvers Buller, now Comman-\\nder in Chief in South Africa, is possessed of the\\nstrange gift of second sight, a singularly valuable\\ngift for a General. It seems he was at Cape Town\\nat the time of Sir George Colley s disastrous route\\nat the battle of Majuba Hill. On the day of the\\nbattle, although he was many hundreds of miles\\naway, he saw vividly before him the scene of Col-\\nley s defeat and death. So strong was the impres-\\nsion which this species of vision created upon his\\nmind that he immediately rode out as fast as he\\ncould to the suburban residence of the Cape Pre-\\nmier, Sir James Sibewright, imparting to him his\\nfears, and entreating him to get at once in tele-\\ngraphic communication with the British base at\\nMount Prospect.\\nSir James complied with his wishes, and whilst\\nBuller and the Premier were sitting together, reas-\\nsuring replies were received, and Major Buller was\\nbantered by Sir James on the subject of his appre-\\nhensions. Yet before evening had arrived the news\\nof General Colley s defeat and death on Majuba\\nHill was flashed across the wires, and it was then\\nseen that the disaster to British arms had already\\ntaken place at the time when Buller called upon\\nthe Cape Premier, although nothing was known\\nabout it then at Mount Prospect, the British base\\nof operations against the Boers.\\nIt is likewise recalled in military circles in Lon-\\ndon that Sir Redvers seemed to be aware of the\\ndeath of the French Prince Imperial and of the fall of\\n66", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0090.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Khartum and also of the death of Gordon at the\\nhour of occurrence, and long before news of\\nthe events arrived. Buller is such a strange,\\nsilent, saturnine looking man, so repellent in his\\nmanner, and so uninviting as far as familiar conver-\\nsation and discussion are concerned, that no one has\\never been known to question him about these mat-\\nters. But the fact is on record that he has on at\\nleast three occasions given marvelous demonstra-\\ntions of the possession of a second sight, which\\nenables him to know important events that are in\\nprogress hundreds and even thousands of miles away\\nfrom him.\\nNever before has a commander of a big army\\nembarked upon a campaign thus mentally equipped.\\nMarquise de Fo?itenoy.\\n53. No one can doubt that phenomena like these\\ndeserve to be observed, recorded and arranged; and\\nwhether w r e call by the name of Mesmerism, or by any\\nother name, the Science which proposes to do this,\\nis a mere question of nomenclature. Among those\\nwho profess this Science there may be careless\\nobservers, prejudiced recorders, and rash sympa-\\nthizers; their errors and defects may impede the\\nprogress of knowledge, but they will not stop it.\\nAnd we have no doubt that, before the end of this\\ncentury, the wonders which now perplex, almost\\nequally those who accept and those who reject\\nmodern Mesmerism, will be distributed into defined\\nclasses, and found subject to ascertained laws in\\nother words will become the subjects of a Science.\\nNassau William Senior.\\n67", "height": "4063", "width": "2840", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0091.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "54- u Of all the weaknesses which little men rail\\nagainst, there is none that they are more apt to rid-\\nicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the\\nsigns of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the ten-\\ndency of incredulity is the surest.\\nSir Bulwer Lytton.\\n55. Havingexperienced the revelation of the higher\\ninner consciousness he distributed his extensive\\nand valuable library among the students, books\\nbeing of no further use to him.\\nSaid ofjohann Baptiste von Helmont {1577).\\n56. The faculties of man are manifested through\\nthe effects of Magnetism, just as the properties of\\nother bodies are developed by the elevation of heat\\nwhich chemistry supplies. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Mesmer.\\n57. u The fallibility of man s judgment exists in his\\nliability to deceive himself in regard to Truth.\\nTruth never will deceive him. Truth is incapable of\\ndeception. Elfa.\\n58. Thought is as distinctly one of the forces of\\nNature as electricity and magnetism, and together\\nwith will power it dominates the Universe.\\nBalzac.\\n59. One good experiment is of more value than the\\ningenuity of a brain like Newton s Facts are more\\nuseful when they contradict, than when they support\\nreceived theories.\\nSir Humphrey Davy.\\n60. Intuition is usually defined as direct cognition\\nor knowing, independent of any mediate or reason-\\ning process. Henry Wood.\\n68", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0092.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "6i. The emotions powerfully excite, modify, or\\nsuspend organic functions, causing changes in nutri-\\ntion, secretion and excretion and thereby affecting\\nthe development and maintainance of the body.\\nDr. Da?iiel Hack Tuke.\\n62. In their zeal to do good, physicians have done\\nmuch harm. They have hurried thousands to the\\ngrave who would have recovered if left to Nature/\\nProf. Alonzo Clark,\\nNew York College of Physicians.\\n63. This excellent man belonged to that category\\nof distinguished sceptics, who content themselves\\nwith denying whatever they have no knowledge of\\nor do not understand. Flammarion.\\n64. I never could believe tnat Providence had sent\\na few men into the world, ready booted and spurred\\nto ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be\\nridden. Rumbald.\\n65. There is nothing in which men approach so\\nnear the gods as when they try to give health to\\nother men.\\nCicero.\\n66. A scorner seeketh wisdom and findest it not;\\nbut knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Bible.\\n67. He was a man who stole the livery of the\\ncourt of Heaven to serve the Devil in.\\nRobert Pollok.", "height": "4063", "width": "2840", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0093.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "68. I am attacked by two classes of persons the\\nlearned and the ignorant. Both of them treat me\\nwith ridicule, and say that I am only fit to be a danc-\\ning master for frogs, and yet I think that I have dis-\\ncovered one of the grandest forces in Nature.\\nGalvani.\\n69. The physician, the priest and the scientist, are\\nequally loud in the assertion that they are perfectly\\nunbiased and open to reason, and they are equally\\nprejudiced and dogmatic should any one be so fool-\\nish as to accept their invitation, and attempt to\\nreason with them. Light of Egypt.\\n70. The followers of false leaders should realize\\nthat there is nothing supernatural. All so-called\\nmiracles are the result of natural laws, the action of\\nwhich are unrecognized by the observers, and conse-\\nquently misinterpreted. Rayon.\\n71. As soon as we seek to penetrate the secrets of\\nNature, where nothing is secret, and where it is only\\nnecessary to have the Eyes to see, we perceive that\\nthe Simple produces the Marvelous/ Balzac.\\n72. Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of\\ndiscerning good from evil, a judgment grounded on\\nthe value of things and not the common opinion\\nof them/ Seneca.\\n73. A presumptuous skepticism that rejects facts\\nwithout examination of their truth, is, in some re-\\nspects, more injurious than unquestioning credulity.\\nHumboldt.\\n74. Our doubts are traitors,\\nAnd make us lose the good we oft might win.\\nShakespeare.\\n70", "height": "3995", "width": "2916", "jp2-path": "mysticselfuncomm00rayo_0094.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "n- \u00c2\u00aeb flDan! 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