HE SYSTEM OF HEALING is completely interwoven in all the lessons of this book, for which reason all we can advance is a suggestion or two concerning the methods by which it may be applied; and the lesson just preceding this tells in a few words the whole story of procedure. But the matter of the magnetic touch remains for discussion. Almost invariably when a man or woman discovers the possession of the natural power of magnetic healing, the attempt is made to use it in a vigorous manner, which involves great tensing of the muscles and nerves. There is no magnetism in a set condition of the muscles or of the nerves. Setness of mind, as has been shown in Lesson Sixty-Nine on Mental Determination, is non-magnetic. The results are as wide apart as the poles between tensed set nerves, and moving tensed nervous flow. The magnetic touch is of the latter character.

In the Sixth Department we have shown the difference between setness in tensing, and flow in tensing; and the best of all tests is the ability to tense slowly and gradually the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and while the hand hangs limp and the fingers can be shaken about like so many ends of rags. One of the finest and best of all habits is that which employs this method of slowly tensing the arm with the hand limp, and then stroking some part of the body of a patient who is suffering from pain, as of a headache, by passing the limp hand very gently over the part, all the while allowing the flow of nervous energy that is checked at the wrist to come into the hand, and gradually into the finger tips. In this instance there is an actual magnetic current passing from one person to the other; and when accompanied by the voice of healing which is "low, cultured and caressing," the effect is instantaneous; although we have been informed of many cases where only the magnetic touch has been employed; and in our own experience in the past forty-five years such cases are too numerous to be even counted. In the development of the voice that is "low, cultured and caressing," full attention should be given to the preceding lesson which contains a vast amount of help in the fewest words possible.

The battle of life must be fought against setness in all its forms, for any thinking person can readily see that there is no flow of a magnetic current unless there is a movement of it.

In magnetic healing the power of Mental Determination, if it is kept a moving power, and not a set condition of the will, is almost invincible. When this power is allied with the full system of personal magnetism as taught in this book, the combination means all that can be wished for by mind or heart, and has no human limitations. For these reasons we strongly advise every student of these pages to make this book the one greatest companion of his or her life; to know it perfectly in each and every one of its lessons; to become familiar with all its teachings; to go through life with it closer to the activities of daily existence than any other agency or influence; and to never part with it or its aid.

When founded on such a basic structure, the employment of the power of Mental Determination interwoven with all the teachings of this book becomes a giant force in the life of the individual. There have been many cases of the use of this power when health, through carelessness, has brought some strong man or woman to the verge of the grave. We have seen the desire to live whip this power into an almost unbelievable energy. In one case which has been recorded in medical works, a woman who was dying, but who did not know it, overheard arrangements being made in an adjoining room for her funeral. From a bed of supposed helplessness, she arose, rushed to the next room, demanded the facts, was told that she was dying, hurled the lie in the faces of those present, and proceeded to dress. Twenty years afterward, she was doing her own housework.

Doctors enjoy reciting among themselves, and keeping from the public, many extraordinary cases in which it is claimed that the dead have arisen under the stress of the mental determination of others, generally of loved ones and close friends; but there are two kinds of death in the body. The engine of the automobile "goes dead" when the machinery stops. When a person dies solely because the machinery stops, as when he in the victim of acute indigestion, drowning, shock, anesthesia, heart failure, asphyxia, neurasthenia and other causes, he is called dead enough to bury although all that is needed is some power to set in motion again the machinery of his life; yet in fact he is not dead enough to bury until the autopsy is begun or the untimely activity of the embalmer is started on its course

Doctors say that fully thirty-three percent of all burials are of persons whose life-machinery has merely stopped, but who need only some power to set it going again.

Just think of it!

Yet this is the fact. And humanity is apparently helpless The remedy is in the establishing and endowment of a school of healers, legalized and genuinely equipped for the practice of a new profession; discarding the old pretences of the so-called mental and magnetic healers, and coming down to the actual science of Nature, tested and verified with mathematical certainty, knowing the real processes required, and applying then in a rational and effective manner. We are not teaching that the actually dead person may be raised from the dead; but we do know that a person whose life-machinery is in good condition, but who is called dead because it has stopped its activity, may be revived; and you may call it raising the dead, or give it its proper name, reviving a living person before the embalmer makes it a hopeless case.

Human beings, like plants, depend on vitality for their existence. It has been said that one person who possesses an excess of vitality, may impart much of that excess to another person. By the law of electrical flow, the weaker may draw in the stronger current.

The accounts of remarkable cases of reviving the apparent dead that are told by doctors among themselves, are, as far as we have had the privilege of learning the facts, which is not often, seemingly true. At least some physicians who are sincere and trustworthy seem satisfied that they are true. A case that is referred to by doctors as "typical" because it has many similar cases to sustain its claims, is that of a man who learned that his son was dying. By swift journeys he hurried to the scene, but arrived too late. The embalmer was there about to begin his work of actual death. The first thing the father did was to knock the undertaker down and out, and throw his apparatus into the yard. He said afterward, "I do not know why I did this; but I did know that my son was not dead. When I learned of his critical condition I was fully determined that he should NOT DIE. A glow of light seemed to shine in and around my body. Wherever I went, it kept about me. When I came into the house and saw what was about to be done, it was not frenzy but mental determination that compelled me to take full charge of the matter. I do not know why I knocked the undertaker down and kicked his goods into the yard. I knew I must act quickly. I had but one idea, that my son was alive, and that all he needed was the strong force that I was enabled to exercise to arouse him."

It seems that the father stripped the body of his son, and stripping all clothing from his own body; that he took the son into his warm, glowing embrace, and held him there, saying over and over again that he was alive, he was alive, he was not dead, he was not dead, he must begin to breathe, his heart must begin to beat, the blood must begin to flow, the skin must begin to get warm, life must come back for it lingered close at hand ready to come back when given the opportunity; and so he continued without ever losing hope or lessening his determination to win back the child of his love. It required time, but he had no knowledge of the passing of the minutes. Nor did he know how long he was there. Time was marked off, not by the ticking of the clock but by the process of events; each event was an epoch; and each epoch the enacting of a fate that came to him because he deserved it.

Soon the body of the son displayed returning warmth in its surface; this was an epoch. Then the father knew that victory was assured. The glow of the living organism passed into the dead. It reached the heart, and then the lungs. The eyes opened. The lips spoke,

"FATHER!"