BRIEF BUT IMPORTANT department will close this extended study of personal magnetism. Because our title seems familiar it must not be assumed that old methods are to be presented here. Too much of the imagination has been brought into play by the kind of healing that has been called mental and sometimes magnetic. In our system we do not leave anything to the flights of fancy or to the beliefs that have been fed by the suggestions of others; but each and every step in this line is scientifically demonstrated as practical and useful for the purposes for which it is intended; and has a basis as exact as any proposition in mathematics.

There are two sides to the question of healing; one relates to the efforts of the patient to heal himself. There are many cases of extraordinary weakness where the sick man may give up, or may assist in effecting a cure. There are plenty of instances where the desire to die is rewarded by such an end. On the other hand the incentive to live is furnished by some great love, some reciprocated affection, or some material advantage. These experiences show that the patient holds some of the power of a cure in his disposition to help. There are many familiar cases when: the exercise of great will power has prolonged life, and even effected a final cure. We recall the recent episode of a mother who, on seeing her little child, said, "I must live for her sake." This experience has been repeated many times, as shown by the reports of doctors.

It is said of Queen Victoria that, on learning of the sacrifice of her troops in the South African war, she took to her room and expressed a desire to die, and her death followed very soon. History indicates that Queen Elizabeth, on ascertaining that her lover had been executed by reason of the treachery of a rival, lost the desire to live and died almost immediately. Edison, in a published statement, recites the fact that his grandfather, after passing the age of a hundred, declared that he was tired of living, went to his room, undressed, got into bed, and died by act of his will power. "There was nothing the matter with him," said the inventor.

These facts being accepted as true, it is the duty of those in charge of patients to study what purposes and desires are at work in the minds of those who are critically ill; for they often swing the scales one way or the other.

Our present study relates rather to the influences of the doctor or attendant over the case, and not so often in fatal instances as in ordinary sickness where recovery may be hastened. There are professional healers who call themselves faith doctors, meaning that if they can arouse sufficient belief in the minds of patients, they can effect a cure; but they must be able to exert a positive influence in themselves and transfer such power to the patients, in order to prove magnetic. There are others who are known as mental healers who make use of their own faculties in efforts to bring about cures; and others who seek to arouse a mutual mental effort in patient and healer. With these we have nothing to do.

We seek to enhance and increase the natural, everyday powers of doctors, nurses, attendants and members of the family by the practical use of those gifts that Nature bestows on everyone in more or less degree. These values appear in the voice, in the eyes, in the touch, in the face, andfin the presence of the person who will be referred to here as the healer, although there is no intention of educating anyone for the profession of doctor or healer. It simply comes down to this: There are endless opportunities for all persons to assist in saving others when the crises arise. The presence of a person is magnetic when it follows the laws of the Sixth and Seventh Departments of this book. The face is magnetic when it follows the laws of Mental Magnitude and of Mental Determination; the one in the Second Department, and the other in the Ninth Department of this book. The eyes are magnetic when they follow the laws of the Third Department.

This leaves for our consideration only the voice and the touch

Every great teacher of singing knows of and employs the law of mental placement of the voice in developing it. In ordinary Nature the placing or impinging of the voice in the throat is animal, coarse, rough, ugly, repellant and non-magnetic These facts we have taught fully in the Eighth Department Great teachers, especially in Europe where they are the most thorough, insist upon the forward placing of all tones, which means the impinging of the voice against the front upper palate. and this they accomplish by a double method; one that drops the back of the tongue, lowers the larynx, and raises the soft palate; the other solely by the action or attention of the mind, for which reason it is called the mental tone as distinguished from the animal or physical tone in the throat.

Mentality of this kind is located in the forward brain, the cerebrum, so that the voice that is cultivated is controlled by this organ; while the animal or physical tones are controlled by the animal brain or cerebellum.

The subconscious mind is known not to be located or controlled by either brain; but the character and activities of the meninges or brain linings account for the presence there or control by that part of the subconscious mind. It is an accepted fact that all organs of the body are governed by their membranes, on the health of which the normal functioning of such organs depends. It is also known that disordered meninges or brain membranes will cause insanity, crime, low moral practices, and all manner of evil; while the perfect health of these membranes will lead to exactly opposite conditions; and the building up of great magnetic powers in these membranes will induce the activities of genius, inspiration and the most extraordinary control over all persons. Experiments made and being made in hospitals and by experts show results that are pronounced marvellous.

Luther Burbank, after receiving instruction or aid from one of the greatest of European psychologists, made the public statement that he had accomplished cures among others that were almost unbelievable, and which if seen would astound the world. He was not only exceedingly magnetic, but had used his higher faculties in his wizardry of the plant world. Other persons are doing fully as much as he had done, but without making their work public.

As the mental voice is impinged forward against the front upper palate, and the animal voice against the throat, so the subconscious voice is impinged against the soft palate, which is high up, or should be, in the upper throat. This is the dark quality taught in the Eighth Department. It is a dark, smooth tone, made softly as if imitating distant thunder, using the word, "Roll," for the purpose. When established it is called the subconscious voice; and this fact is verified by the practice of doctors who employ therapeutic suggestion as a means of cure. An expert says that "The voice in healing must be low, cultured and caressing."

Such a voice is easily acquired especially by a person who is magnetic. Doctors, nurses, attendants and friends should develop tones that are low, cultured and caressing; and these are readily acquired in our Eighth Department. No one would for a moment think of using the coarse, repellant and ugly throat tones; nor the mentally bright and metallic forward tones; which leaves nothing but the subconscious voice that impinges on the soft palate and is controlled by the operations of that faculty.

Such a voice when used by a person on himself, accomplishes all the results that have been claimed for self-suggestion; but when directed in behalf of another it is even more helpful; but should be charged with a message directed by a living, moving purpose, and impelled by the full force of mental determination. It must not be empty of ideas, nor a drifting, purposeless proceeding,