SINCE IT IS ACKNOWLEDGED that the methods of magnetic communication between human beings are limited to the senses in open expression of influence, and since the eye is the agent of the most generally used sense next to that of the sound of the voice, we are giving the most thorough instruction possible in the development of the powers of this organ. But, as has been said in the preceding lesson, everystep in the training has brought many otherbenefits than those called magnetic. The present lesson will be shown to be the most important example of this fact. Except where disease or some form of poison has reached the eyes and produced injury, the loss of perfect sight is always traceable to a sameness of muscular use, or unvaried activity of sight. The routine use of any faculty puts it in a rut, and tends to e it grow stale. The same uses day after day of the eye bring about defective sight; and weaken its organic vigor. Speaking in a general way, the eyeball is nearly round. It is movable. There are muscles that enable it to move in many directions; but they are not the same muscles in every action, are the same muscles always employed in the same kind of movement, if all their possible motions are used. Thus there muscles that enable the eyeball to be pulled to the right; others to be pulled to the left; others to be pulled upward; others to be pulled downward; and also in oblique and diagonal directions. In a preceding lesson we referred to the meanings of the positions of the eyelids as helps to a magnetic person in reading the purposes and intentions of others, and getting close to the contents of their minds.

In this lesson we seek to develop the studying power of the observing eye, and to enable it to read the plans and purposes of others with greater ease and effectiveness.

In order to do this, we propose to draw more blood, more nutrition, and more magnetic energy to the eye itself, by the stimulating action of the muscles that we have described on the preceding page. We start on the basic law that the same kind of routine activity especially of the eyes, will cause them to weaken, to lose their focus, and to flatten. When the eyeball begins to flatten, then we need glasses. When the sight weakens from the constant repetition of one kind of muscular action, the sight grows dim. Here are two distinct results. Dimness of vision is due to the weakness of the eye-power. Loss of focus is due to flattening of the eyeball. The vision is getting worse all the time, just as it would if you were to use glasses that were fitted to your needs, and the lenses were to be changed for those that were flat.

One kind of use of the muscles that move the eyeballs, tends to flatten them. This refers to movements of action. But one kind of use of the eyes in reading, or in looking at objects, weakens the eye-power. This fact has been verified in the past five years, and even given prominent attention by specialists of a high order of experimentation, with results that we are to include herein as means not only to strengthen the eye but to add to its magnetic quality for reading the meanings in the faces and minds of other persons. Let us see what they are.

There are nine eye directions, and these are brought about by the varying action of the muscles. In these activities we overcome the tendency of the eyes to flatten. In fact we have in more than eleven thousand cases overcome flattened eyeballs by these nine movements. We will repeat the causes of eye-flattening again, in order to drive home the importance of this part of the training:

The same routine use of the eyes, which we have called one kind of use of the muscles that move them, leads to flattening and the loss of focus, necessitating glasses to furnish the rotundity that flattening has destroyed. But if the nine muscle-ections are employed either as exercises or as habits, which latter method is feasible in daily life, the eyeballs will be pulled out of their flattened condition; for the pulling of the muscles in one direction overcomes a part of the flattening, and the pulling of opposite muscles will overcome another part, and so on making the circuit of movements. But if one direction only is employed in this pulling the eyeball will be given a bad shape and thereby rendered weak.

Muscles that surround a flexible ball, if all are in turn pulling on the ball, will give it the required or natural shape, exactly the form that Nature intended for it, and gave it at birth. The fact that it is flexible leads to its being flattened by one line of activity in its muscles. It is the all-round activity, exerting its power on every portion of the eyeball, that gives it the natural shape it had during youth.

This part of the instruction has appeared in all the late editions of this book; and, as we have said, our records show more than eleven thousand cases where flattened eyeballs have had their rotundity restored by the use of the circuit movement which we will present in this lesson. This relates solely to the flattened condition and its cure. But the other phase of ourinsruction, relating to one kind of use of the eyes in reading is another thing, and the science and practice that will appear in the next lesson are just being given attention in order to avoid the unnecessary use of glasses.

We trust that you will keep this distinction in mind.

Then also remember that there is a difference between the nine eye-movements, and the nine eye-positions, which we will discuss later.

The nine eye-movements are employed to overcome the flattened condition of the eyeballs, and to restore their natural rotundity. These results take time, but are worth a thousand times more than the cost of this entire study, even if there is no intention of developing eye-magnetism by them.

While there may be many other finer directions of eyemovements than the nine we now present, this number is sufficentfor the purpose for which they are prepared. We will describe them as follows:

1. Look straight ahead, neither to the right nor the left, nor up nor down. This is the Number One position. You can stand or sit; but it is better to be at one side of the room so that you have the whole of the opposite wall facing you. In this case ascertain what part of that wall, or what object on it, exactly meets the direction of the eye when you are looking straight ahead, and at something that is in a position level with the height of your eye. We use the word eye as generative, meaning gaze,

2. The second position is on a level with the first, but refers to an object on your left as far toward the corner of the wall as you can look without moving your head. If you move the head at all, the eye loses a part of its range.

3. The third position is on a level with the first, but refers to an object on your right as far toward the corner of the wall as you can look without moving your head. Make the eyes do the whole work.

4. The fourth position is down to the floor directly in front of you and is under the first position. Drop the gaze as low as you can in a vertical direction without lowering the head.

5. The fifth position is down to the floor as far to the left as you can move the gaze, and as low down at the same time.

6. The sixth position is down to the floor as far to the right as you can move the gaze, and as low down at the same time.

7. The seventh position is up to the ceiling directly in front over the first position, as far upward as you can move the gaze without moving the head.

8. The eighth position is up to the ceiling as far to the left as you can move the gaze and keep the head still.

9. The ninth position is up to the ceiling as far to the right as you can move the gaze and keep the head still.

CAUTION.—The first time you try these movements do them only once or twice. Every athlete knows that muscles that have not been used, or if used that have not been given certain kinds of action, will become sore from the strain, no matter how slight it may be. This soreness will lead to a lameness that will be painful. Remember that in the spring training camps, the managers of athletes insist that they start slowly in order to spare their muscles from pain. In the eye-movements the first few trials should be very limited. After a while, as the action is repeated, all danger of lameness will pass.

These are not eye-positions.

The latter will have their usefulness. But for the purposes of lesson, the muscles must be made to pull the eyeball in all possible directions, in order to bring back its shape in the degree of rotundity intended by Nature.

Movements should be made by opposites.

Thus, beginning at the first position, move to the second, then to the first, then to the second, then to the first, each ten times. Then move from the first to the third, then to the first, then to the third, each ten times.

Next move from the second to the third, then from the third to the second, each ten times. These constitute the level movements.

Begin now at the fourth position and move to the fifth, then to the fourth, each ten times.

Then from the fourth to the sixth, and from the sixth to the fourth, each ten times.

Then from the fifth to the sixth, and from the sixth to the fith, each ten times. These complete the lower movements.

Now move from the seventh position to the eighth, and from the eighth to the seventh, each ten times.

Next move from the seventh position to the ninth, and from the ninth to the seventh, each ten times.

Now move from the eighth position to the ninth, and from the ninth to the eighth, each ten times. These complete the upper movements.

It will be noticed that all the foregoing movements are right and left. There are nine others that are up and down as follows.

Begin at the first position, raise the eyes to the seventh, and back to the first, each ten times.

Begin at the first position, move the gaze to the fourth which is directly under it, and back to the first, each ten times.

Begin at the fourth position, raise the gaze to the seventh, and back to the fourth, each ten times. These complete the middle up and down movements.

Begin at the second position, raise the gaze to the eighth, and back to the second, each ten times.

Begin at the second position, lower the gaze to the fifth, and raise it to the second, each ten times.

Begin at the fifth position, raise the gaze to the eighth, lower it to the fifth, each ten times. These complete the left up and down movements.

Begin at the third position, raise the gaze to the ninth, and go back to the third, each ten times.

Begin at the third position, drop the gaze to the sixth, back to the third, and do each ten times.

Begin with the sixth position, raise the gaze to the ninth, go back to the sixth, and do each ten times. These complete the right up and down movements.

We now come to the diagonals, which are the most effective in pulling the eyeball back into its normal rotundity.

Begin at the fifth position, raise the gaze up to the right to the ninth position, then back to the fifth, and do each twenty times; but do not start any of these until the preceding movements have all been done a sufficient number of times to harden the muscles.

Begin at the sixth position, raise the gaze up to the left to the eighth position, then back to the sixth, and repeat each twenty times, observing the caution just given.

Make your own chart of positions by numbers, which is very easy to do, and place it in front of you for reference. If you do not care to make the chart, then write the following numbers each about two inches apart on a piece of paper: On the upper row 8 7 9

On the middle row 2 1 3

On the lower row 5 4 6

These numbers placed before the eye will serve in the place of a chart.

After you once learn these movements they can be made at any time and almost anywhere, in the dark as well as in the light. The whole idea is to stretch the eye-muscles, meaning those that control the pulling about of the eyeball, in a series of opposite directions. It may require some time to overcome the flattened condition of the balls, but persistent practice will bring surprising changes and restore the natural shape.

If the necessity for wearing glasses is due, as is commonly the case, to the loss of shape in the eyes, those movements will in time enable the person so afflicted to lay aside the glasses permanently. To encourage our students to engage in this practice, we include in this lesson some statements taken from letters of prominent people who have had the patience to go through the practice to the end:

An expert eye-doctor says: "The exercises in fact do what I did not believe was possible. You will recall that I expressed doubt when I first saw the statement, telling what they would do. I have changed my views because the proofs are stronger than the theories of doubt."

A banker of national reputation said: "For thirty-two years I wore glasses. Now I have laid them aside. The reason is that the eye-movements have restored the shape of the eyes."

A woman who stands high socially says: "My sight has become normal again. For a long time I have worn glasses. By the eye-movements in the nine positions I have brought back the round shape of the eyes, and I no longer need glasses."

But we are frank to say that if the curing of defective eyesight were the only purpose of these movements, we would not have included them in this work. Yet strong eyes are essential to magnetic eyes. The exercises do in fact make the eyes very strong, and give them a power that cannot come from any other source. More than this, they give strength to the features about the eyes. In fact all the exercises in these lessons that relate to the eyes add fine conditions to the whole upper face. It becomes attractive. We have seen many young women and older ones as well, even up to the age of sixty, acquire a most attractive beauty of face by the instruction that is presented in these lessons on the eye. Some of the changes have been marvelous, and in no case have they failed to add to the pleasing appearance of the features.

When aided by the method called Mental Magnitude, a wonderful appearance of fine intelligence is given the lineaments. This method will be found in lessons numbered twelve and thirteen.

A face that is interesting, that is intelligent in high degree, that is bright and well formed, attracts attention everywhere brings to the possessor the advantage of being respected, and given full confidence in all relationships and dealings. The exert a large share of magnetic influence in all communions in personal contact, and add to the power of that rare quality, a magnificent presence.