WE ARE now nearing the end of our course of training. It is with considerable reluctance that we lay down the work, for its varied experiences are full of pleasure, and its exercises yield a con­stantly growing fund of benefits. In looking back over the pages that have already been conned we find much that is worthy of life study. The musician, the artist, the singer, may graduate from a prescribed course of educa­tion, and yet may practice as long as existence endures with ever-increasing advantages. All that is human can be im­proved, no matter how capable the graduate may be and how much the diploma may be deserved. Each year of life that follows the end of this training should witness some gain in every one of its seasons. To rest is to rust.

Before bringing the study to a close we will consider a few remaining laws that are helpful to the ambitious pupil. These are not specific exercises, but are principles that should Invite new habits into your way of living. No one line of practice or of adoption is sufficient. There is nothing in this volume that can be safely omitted. While it often seems that a certain law is more important than all the others com­bined, and that there are many such laws of leading value, the fact is that all hold places in the general study that can­not be spared. Each is dependent upon all others, and no one is useless; while the great whole makes a unified system. We therefore suggest that all the seventy principles of this volume be committed to memory and be thoroughly under­stood.

SIXTY-THIRD GRAND PRINCIPLE Personal power is the use of vital electricity.

That which is known as mechanical electricity in the world of physics does not become magnetic until it is em­ployed in a certain way. It does not exhibit any power until some use is made of it. So a human being may create, develop or generate all the electricity that the flesh can hold, and yet do nothing with it. The statement has been made that all men and women are agents of this force, and few real­ize it. Whether so broad an assertion is true or not is of little concern. We know it is self-evident that if a person possesses power and never uses it, the power might as well not exist.

You may succeed, and no doubt will succeed, in generat­ing at will a full supply of vital electricity, but what are you to do with it? Of course there will come the tempta­tion to use it, but the use will not often help you if it is unguided. What is the difference between magnetism and elec­tricity? might often be asked. So we might ask what is the difference between the steam in the engine and the moving locomotive? Electricity is the energy in the human machine, magnetism is the power in the personality. The latter is the use of the former. The value of the locomotive consists not only in its steam, but much more in the use it can make of the steam.

Power is of value to man only when intelligently directed for useful ends.

What is the good of having steam if it has no special employment? What is the good of electricity if it is to exist only as electricity? Machinery cannot run itself. Power of ' use is dependent upon a force that can be used; neither is valuable without the other. So when the human body is capable of developing all the electrical energy that might be desired, something more has to be done to turn it into per­sonal power. What will you do with it? Let us find reply in the discussion of the next principle.

SIXTY-FOURTH GRAND PRINCIPLE

Magnetic rank is determined by the grade of its use.

We have seen that it is necessary to employ any force or energy in order to turn it into a power; and we have asked the question, What will you do with the electricity that you may develop? If you do not turn it to use it will die by its own loss, or else will seek expression and escape in nervous unrest. Now let us see what you will do with it.

In order to better understand the uses to which human electricity may be put we wish to embody in this description the reports from some of our students who, for many years, have followed this system in professional, social or business life. These reports are selected because they are representa­tive statements, each standing for a class of experimenters in a single direction. They are not idle thoughts from persons who think they have accomplished something, but are life-histories from men and women whom we have thoroughly investigated and whose assertions are proved by changes in their conditions.

We will begin by a sort of surprise. Many dentists have come to the front with evidences of advantages that we never dreamed of, and we have had a large number of letters from them bearing upon this one point. We might publish almost any letter from the profession and find the same idea pre­sented. Here is the latest: "I entered upon the practice of the Shaftesbury system of personal magnetism with the view to increase my powers in social life, but I found myself improving in dental work. I never was a nervous man. My hand was always steady; but there are very delicate little instruments that the steadiest hand cannot use too carefully. The practice of personal magnetism gave me an extra skill that has caused a large increase in my business. I can do finer work in every way. The "touch," as we call it, is as gentle and accurate as it can possibly be. I gained everything I desired from the book. The only reason why I am sending fifty dollars for the advanced book is that I wish to have everything upon the subject. I do not know what it will contain, but I cannot get too much information upon this the most important subject in life." We will not present more than one report from each class of persons.

Leaving that, we come to the medical profession. It will be seen that the dentist sought social power and found himself unexpectedly skillful in dental work; also adding that he gained everything he desired from the book, which leaves us to infer that he obtained social power also. Several citizens of his town have corroborated his statement, and inform us that he is now the leading dentist in a populous community, whereas a few years ago he was not considered specially skillful or prosperous, and that the change had come as a surprise to those who knew him. In the medical profession we have reports of similar success, but represent­ing different uses of the acquisition.

While the former found that the nerves were made steadier and the touch far more delicate, the doctors of medi­cine put the gift to an entirely different use. Here is what one of them says: "I did not wish to learn the art of hypno­tizing, for I had learned of its dangers when successful, and of its general impracticability, owing to the very sparse num­bers of those who may be subjects. I did not wish to deaden my patients, but to awaken them to life; not to dull their energies, but to brighten them. The book on personal mag­netism was just what I wanted. I thought it small at first, but it seemed large in every page after awhile. Many and many an exercise in it has proved worth its cost over and over again. You ask me to state what I have accomplished. Well, to begin with, I have built up my own vitality. A doctor has a hard time of it; he is called out at any hour of the day or night, and is subjected to every exposure of weather and disease. I have multiplied my own vitality, and this is my chief gain, for I sought it in preference to others. I have not failed, however, in my efforts in other directions, as far as I have made any. The copy I have is a book of somewhat over one hundred pages, and I prize every page of it." We are told that this doctor has developed in every way since he got the book; but he seems to place chief importance upon his animal vitality. This shows what is meant by the law that magnetic rank is determined by the grade of use.

What is most strikingly apparent in this power is its universal adaptation to every kind of use. The dentist got steadier nerves. The doctor got an unconquerable vitality. One was made more skilled, exact and accurate in workman­ship; the other more vital in health. Now it is easy to see that the dentist put more work into the dead-still exercises, while the doctor gave special attention to the tensing move­ments. Here is a report from a physician whose views have been echoed by nearly all in his profession who have paid any attention to this study: "I got the book for the reason that I had some knowledge of what was meant by personal magnetism, and I aimed to acquire the power of winning my patients' confidence. I wished a strong personality, more pleasing ways, easier manners and a firm confidence in all that I said and did. I need not hesitate to say that I suc­ceeded in all these efforts. My practice is four times larger since I took up the study. My patients are more apprecia­tive. I have often been on the point of sending for your ad­vanced work, which makes a deep and exhaustive study of the control of others, but I do not see I could gain anything more than I have already attained. I consider this first book complete as a developer of magnetism. It is true that end­less instruction might be given for the use of the power. Time is now valuable with me. I am very busy all the day and often into the night, week in and week out." He made certain uses of the power that were not the same as those mentioned in the other cases, and thus the grade was estab­lished.

It was a strong personality that he was after. How could that energy which lurks in the body like a full head of steam in a locomotive yield to one man a steadiness of nerve, to another an animal vitality, and to the third a strong personality? It was simply the kind of use which was made of it. Steam is a single energy, but the power it imparts will perform countless different things. Here is what another physician reports: "You ask me why I sent for the book on personal magnetism, what I thought of it, and what good I accomplished by it in my own life. I sent for the book to please a friend. I did not care for it, as I had the idea that by personal magnetism you meant hypnotism, an art that I have no use for. When I saw the book I recognized at once the scientific value of its exercises. I did not rush into its study, but gave my spare time to it without attempt at a sys­tem. I became fascinated with the work. I consider my­self an example of what it can do for a busy man. I can sum up a long history of improvement in the single remark that I have acquired the power of personal magnetism. That I am sincere in my approval of your system you may know when I say that I have purchased several copies of the first book to give friends, have bought the advanced book, and have induced three others to do the same. I refer to this only to show you that my praise is substantial in deed as well as in words." While a reader might not understand what the doctor meant when he said that he had acquired the power of personal magnetism, we realize that he had elevated his own life to a plane of control over his fellow-beings. This he accomplished by using the first volume only, and long before he got the advanced work.

Another member of the same profession acknowledges that he was physically crude, rough, ungentle and harsh in manner and tone, all being qualities that are difficult to over­come even by genius, and he finds his life revolutionized by this study. In such case the grade of use was determined by the attempt to make the man gentle. Charm of manner is one of the results of the study. Still another doctor reports that he lacked the power to soothe; he attained it by the course of training; and now claims that his patients are re­lieved of pain by the touch of his hand. The theory on which this is possible is explained as follows: Pain is, of course, a wave condition of the nerves. Magnetism is necessarily a wave condition. When the latter is stronger than the former it must be able to turn the pain-waves into magnetic-waves. Advanced students in magnetism ought all to be able to accomplish this result, but it involves too much for a volume of the present size.

The power to convert pain-waves into tense-waves is something that many a student of this book will acquire. Perfect mastery of the tension exercises, when attended by all other requirements in the preceding stages of the work, will enable any person to produce tense-waves, and the latter absorb pain-waves, thereby annulling them. This has been done countless thousands of times in all ages. The hand of a magnetic person placed on the head of one whose temple throbs with pain will almost invariably annul the pain, and there is nothing about it that is mysterious or strange. It is a logical result. All sensations of the mind, nerves and flesh are pulsations or waves, fine to the last degree. Pain is clearly a wave-action, and yet not so fine as the pulsations of magnetism. There could be no sound, no light, no emo­tion, no thought, no magnetic energy, unless they had some vehicle of transmission, and waves are the natural vehicle of everything. The fine waves of magnetism are intensified by practice.

It is a law of physics and of all life that when two sets of waves meet the stronger or more vital set shall annul the weaker. As pain exists in waves or pulsations, and as magnetism exists in waves or pulsations, the latter set will annul the former when of superior energy, if they come in contact, as in laying the hand on the forehead. The present book affords all the training needed to accomplish this pur­pose, but there are many students who wish to read and study more on every branch of the subject, and for them an ad­vanced work is prepared.

We thus see that our principle is proved in another sense. This power is employed to soothe, to drive away pain, to cure. It seems to be limitless. But a report from another physician says that he has acquired control of his patients to such an extent they do as he says, obey him implicitly, follow his advice and have faith in him, all which he attributes to this first book. It has proved a complete course of training and development in his case.

Then there are so many clergymen who have gained ad­vantages from this book that we can hardly spare the space to refer to them. They admit three great results:

1. Their sermons have become more powerful, more ef­fective, more interesting, more attractive, and have induced more people to come constantly to hear them.

2. They have become more useful in their religious work, on the ground that the better prepared a minister is, the more good he can do.

3. They have risen higher in their professions and have thereby commanded higher salaries. A letter received as we write this page says: "I have practiced your book-exercises and have followed all its teachings to the end. My people tell me I have been surprising them by better sermons and more earnestness. The pews have filled up. My salary has been raised this month. I owe it all to that one little book." His case is but one in thousands.

The profession that is most readily aided by this study is that of the orator, not only in the pulpit, but at the bar, on the rostrum and in the lyceum; the lecturer and the speaker everywhere. In every ten thousand speakers there will ordi­narily be not more than two or three who are attractive in their delivery; the most of them are unmagnetic. Let them take this book into their lives, adopt and absorb its teachings and apply its principles, and we believe that every one of these dull speakers could become powers. The trouble is that con­ceit has led them into a blind belief that they are interesting speakers. An Arabian proverb says: "He that knows not, and knows not that he knows not—he is a fool, shun him."

Practically all speakers are tiresome, unless they possess magnetism, and if they do the power can be greatly increased.

Our principle tells us that magnetic rank is determined by the grade of use. It is of every possible grade. The bustness man can use it to his own advantage and to the detriment of others. Many and many a woman has used this power to lift her from a rank of nothingness to one of social sway. The unmagnetic woman may rise socially by the aid of great wealth; but, even without wealth, the magnetic woman becomes her superior, as has been proved over and over again. One is endured, the other is admired. In this way the magnetic rank is determined by its grade of use. Men and young men have also found splendid preparation for society in this course of training.

Parents report freely and enthusiastically of the success they have had in the acquisition of that personality which gives them control of their children. Says a mother who voices the sentiments of others: "I do not scold or whip my children now. They have learned that I love them, and that to obey me is proof of their love for me. I find that mag­netism is like a flower, it wins by its beautiful charms." School teachers have reported a similar sentiment. And so we might go on indefinitely in this discussion of our principle.

SIXTY-FIFTH GRAND PRINCIPLE

Magnetism preponderates in the faculty employed.

Faculties are the voluntary powers of expression or of life; functions are the involuntary operations. Among the faculties are those of mind, nerve, muscle and heart. The first are by far the most numerous, for they are practically un­limited, although those of muscle are regarded as almost countless, since they supply the many avocations of the laborer and artisan, the painter, sculptor, artist, musician and others. Mind is more or less associated with muscle in the higher grades of work, but the faculty predominates in the latter. A knowledge of the piano in theory or in the highest science would produce no music unless the fingers were nimble, accu­rate and expressive; and there are many persons who are mentally equipped in everything to be desired who arc useless to themselves because the wrong faculty predominates.

This is but one illustration out of a million perhaps. Do the muscular faculties require magnetism? Yes, indeed ; and every faculty does. We have in a previous chapter told how the musician may be dull or may be magnetic. Yesterday we listened to a pianist who had practiced fifteen years, whose touch was perfect, whose execution was beyond criticism, and whose technique was flawless. We felt that we were in an atmosphere of absolutely correct playing. But it was cold. The perfection was all that could command our ad­miration. The effect on us was the same produced upon the Chicago millionaire who wished a perfect woman and got one of marble, as every live woman had a blemish. The perfec­tion of the marble did not atone for its coldness.

So in playing the piano the musician can add mag­netism if he knows how. All the geniuses of the world do add this quality; they show that magnetism predominates in the faculty of the muscles. The peculiarly pleasing vibra­tions of touch are explained by the law of tensing. The mere use of air as in blowing a cornet or other wind instrument may be cold, even if the rendition is artistic, or it may be mag­netic under the same law. Here the fingers have nothing to do, the lungs or breath being the performing part. It is, however, true that the playing of wind instruments is gener­ally a most unmagnetic operation, but there are a few geniuses in the world who are able to put soul into the execu­tion, and soul cannot express itself except through magnetism any more than color can live without light.

The success of this study has often been manifested in the better expression of music by our pupils. When a lady writes to ask if she will be able to play with more feeling, more soul, as a result of this course of training, we have always been justified in replying affirmatively. But this much is also true, that she will, if she gains magnetism, find it predominating in that one direction. You cannot allow any one faculty to lead all the others without loss to the rest in the comparison. A musician par excellence is never so good in any other domain of his faculties as in music, and particularly in the one branch of the art which he most fosters, unless he is a man of extraordinary value, and magnetism will tend to emphasize this difference.

The great personages of the world have been often cited as examples of diverse power, embodying more than one preponderating faculty. All have owed their success to the possession of magnetism. Caesar was not a magnetic orator in the sense that he could outweigh his faculty as a military leader. His thrilling power lay in the fact that he could plan and execute a great campaign. Grant's magnetism gave him coolness coupled with an unshakable steadfastness of purpose. Lee's was a superior courage and strategy. Napoleon inten­sified the zeal of his soldiers. They worshiped him to such a degree that it was a pleasure to die for him. When he addressed them even with a single remark his power was like an electric shock running through their souls. A com­pany of inspired Frenchmen charging an enemy was like an onslaught of lightning upon a forest. Thus we see that leadership, courage, steadfastness and other essentials to great success are dependent upon magnetism, but also give some particular faculty a preponderance.

This can be followed through all studies of men and women who have risen out of the ranks of the common classes. Byron could not have produced his magnificent •poetry if he had not possessed the magnetism of fancy in the keenest and most exalted degree. Milton depended upon a power of expression in the use of grand words, and his themes were so sublime as to lead to the belief that he was inspired; yet we see the predominance of his special gift of magnetism. Shakespeare had also a special gift under the same law, but he swayed to the power of breathing life into his characters and all the lines they uttered. He was not a good actor, for that faculty was outweighed by another kind of genius.

When we get into the inmost lives of authors we find that they, if they are great at all, have moments of thrilling experience with the conditions under which thoughts and ideas are born within them. The same is true of poets, of orators, of inventors, of all geniuses everywhere. The ability to organize is dependent upon the same power, and the gift of execution is equally an ally of a similar energy. Impart such force to the millions of drifting people in the intelligent ranks of the world to-day, and you would almost think the millennium had come.

SIXTY-SIXTH GRAND PRINCIPLE

The gift of personal magnetism is the product of life-methods.

We make a broad distinction between what is popularly called a gift and what is a talent. The latter is acquired, the former is born in a person, as the public seems to believe. The fact is that while impulses are born in a person, they are as often stimulated by the conditions under which one lives. Let a young man be brought up out of babyhood with luxury and ease always attending him, and the chances are fully a thousand to one that he will possess neither magnetism nor genius when he is full grown. Let the same young man be compelled to meet life in its hardihood, fighting down condi­tions that steel him to do his best in conflict with them, and the chances are very many that he will reach mature manhood endowed with the gift of personal magnetism. Why? Be­cause his energies have been aroused and intensified. We do not refer to all those who have seen hard times, but to the less numerous class who have conquered adversity, not drifted with it.

But when magnetism has come into a life by reason of its aroused energies, it must be guarded or it will wreck that life. Judgment counts for something, and character for more. Energy without direction is always a source of dan­ger. So when methods of living have developed the power and it is called natural, the possessor is under greater neces­sity of becoming its master in every detail than if he had developed it by practice.

It is not only in the struggle against adversity that this power is developed, but in other ways of living the gift comes to one who conforms to the laws and influences that tend to generate it. Some women are quick to discern the admiration of the other sex, and then they strive to increase it. This leads to the cultivation of such charms as will aid them. Some rely upon dress, some upon ornament, some upon face decoration, rouge and powder, and some upon a pleasing personality. The last named, if not affected or hollow in effort, soon find themselves on the way to the possession of personal magnetism. Then they are credited with it as a gift, while in fact it is the result of unconscious training.

It must never be forgotten that the power of magnetism operates most easily and most quickly through habits that please. Of course an enemy is not kindly disposed, yet he is beyond the influence of this art as long as he remains an enemy. Something must move him. His good sense, his good will, must be appealed to and won. Choate met once an adverse jury. They had taken a dislike to his manage­ment of a certain case, and his terrible cross-examination of a female witness. He had allowed his ill-nature to rule his conduct. When he found himself appealing to a hostile jury he saw first that he must win their good will before he could hope to conquer their convictions by his magnetism. So he proceeded to present to them a series of well-known facts to which all persons are agreed. This showed him to be correct in so far. Then by beautiful language and exquisite imagery he fed them upon thoughts that were like a rich outpouring of golden treasure. It charmed them. This was followed by stirring, manly, eloquent portrayals of grand phases in hu­man nature, of struggles against injustice, and of the triumph of right, all of which he gracefully blended into the cause of his client. In other words, he skirmished to please the jurors, and as they melted one by one he proceeded to deal directly with the case, and he gained a complete victory.

This teaches the value of winning by the use of methods that are most likely to open the way. Browbeating and Storming may frighten or appall; but they cannot persuade.

Sternness and supreme dignity may have their time and place; we believe them to be valuable under certain condi­tions ; but nature shows us that the beauty and fragrance of summer gardens most allure us to her worship; while wintry chill and angry skies drive us to shelter. We may lay down two guiding axioms at this place; one, that charming ways are quick winners; the other, that value is the best bait. Everybody knows what is herein meant.

Charming ways, when adopted from policy or inclina­tion, will lead to the possession of some magnetism in four cases out of five; but, when not already adopted, they must be added to the course of training in this volume. Suppose you have a great fund of magnetism, and lack judgment, what are you to accomplish? You will be better off than before; but you will possess a power that will run away with you. A man with an untrained horse has something better than nothing. Suppose you are not discreet in your remarks, criticisms or treatment of others; what will you hope to gain in your association with your fellow-beings? Will you woo your maiden friend by magnetism and impudence ? The rule is that when you are seeking to charm you must not disgust, annoy, or hurt the feelings of another.

Value is the best bait. Fish are caught by bait. Mag­netism is the line that extends the bait and holds the fish until it can be landed. These figures are rough. But we wish to impress the truth. Bait without the power to hold the catch­ing is apt to be useless. Assuming that you have acquired the power, will you fish without bait? What have you to offer? Do you think that if your brain is shallow and your mind empty you will impress your fellow-beings with your magnetic power? A fairly active mind is of the highest value. We do not think it necessary that the brain should be loaded full of knowledge. Let it not be empty. Learn something new every day. Imagine the result of a musician trying to charm his audience by his playing, even if highly magnetic, when he was ignorant of the laws of harmony, or was unable to play in tunc. In his case value would mean a knowledge of his art and skill in the performance.

Suppose you are an orator and wish to sway your au­diences by your magnetism; yet had not developed your voice, nor cultivated the use of words. Can a magnetic singer charm the ear if she flats or sharps all her notes, or makes eternal discord in her voice, or leaves the key as readily as she opens her mouth? Value consists in the worth of the thing offered. In conversation he is most magnetic who has the richest fund of ideas with which to harness his magnetism. Then character gives quality and adds value to everything. Physical skill, grace, ease, good deportment, politeness, eti­quette, kindness, generosity and scores of kindred charms tend to draw admiration from the public and to pave the way to the successful use of magnetism. You cannot knock your friend down every time you meet him, as a preliminary to winning his good opinion. Character is the good angel that sits on the right hand of magnetism. It includes the study of every charming way.

A crowded life is most happy, and most successful in the use of this art. To have many different things to do in every day, and somewhat more than you can do at all times, tends to arouse the energies and to sharpen the faculties. Men and women who have so many duties that they cannot perform them all without being crowded, and who stand heroically up to them, are the best types of success in this training; for they never rust; and the rush of life brightens them. To have spare time daily means to be weak. Rest and sleep are duties; apart from them are the hours of activity, and these should be employed full to the brim. Variety of occupation brings relief. Balancing the day's action requires the use of mind, heart, soul, body and nerves in each day of your existence. If you are all or mostly physical, you will not be magnetic. If you are all or mostly mental, you will not be magnetic. To preponderate is one thing, to obliterate is another. Seek to live the balanced life,

SIXTY-SEVENTH GRAND PRINCIPLE Magnetism is a torch of searching power.

No more fitting law could be stated in this place, as we are about to close our work, than the present principle. Mag­netism is a torch of searching power. Let us predict what you will do with this training, if you are really in earnest. In the first place you will drive away all nervousness, all wasting habits, all tendency to leakage. This will give you an accu­mulation of the energy which is daily generated in your body. Then you will proceed to increase and intensify this energy until you know what a power it is. A satisfaction will follow that you will recognize as worth more to you than all else in the scope of personal attainment. At last you will find your­self using the power in your intercourse with others; and you will see your life rising steadily above the mass of mankind as the mountain towers above the plain.

We are quoting from the history of our many other pupils who have been in earnest; who have coupled charms of manner with magnetism and who have offered value to those with whom they have had intercourse. Then comes into play the grandest law of existence, to which we would lead up if words could serve us faithfully at this juncture. What is it? Magnetism is a torch. But what does that mean? Torches reveal things. Sound is evidence of other things besides itself. The child that lisps the words, "I love you," makes use of sound to reveal the story of the heart. Light exposes beauty, color, sky, flower, face and all else that greets the eye. It moves in a sea all its own. Deep within that sea is the vast and boundless ocean of the ether that knows no obstruction of matter; for it bathes every mole­cule of the most compact solid as the flooding volume of a mighty river bathes the thousand islands around which it courses.

This ether is the communicating sea of magnetism. It has varied uses; for thought pulsates in it; emotions pulsate in it; and magnetic impressions pulsate in it. You know very well that you catch thoughts out of the brain of your friends every day. Something cannot leap a gulf of vacuity; it must have the means of transit; the fact that thought is a wave action is well established in science; and a wave action must have a means of moving. Thought cannot vibrate the air; the latter is too coarse. The means of motion must be a sea fine enough to carry such vibrations. All science is agreed that there is such an ether; even your old unabridged diction­aries describe it; and it is upon such a sea that thoughts speed their way from mind to mind. They differ from emotions in that the latter are not interpreted in words.

When your friend is about to say something and you utter it first, the words and ideas have traveled from the vibra­tions of his mind, through the ether to your own brain; and you recognize them because you and he both speak English and they are capable of being interpreted in words known to both of you. But when he possesses a feeling, mood, passion or emotion that you are able to catch, there is no way of translating it into any language. English or other kind, ex­cept that wordless language of life which must be interpreted by intuition; and who is there on earth that has not at times read men and women by this glossary? So the great Murat, standing on the edge of a precipice, knew that his companion had murder in his heart and turned in time to avert the blow.

As soon as you find the power of personal magnetism developing and growing in you, there will come the knowl­edge of its illuminating quality; for, after a certain degree of success has been attained, this knowledge is the natural out­come. We call it a torch. It first makes your brain clear. Many a report has been sent to us by students of this art, telling of the fact that the mental operations are far more clear than they ever were before. One man writes, "I seem to see into my own mind." Another says, "My thoughts are more distinct to me than they ever were prior to taking up this training." Another says, "Personal magnetism drives all clouds away from the brain." And so they write on this one branch of the subject, all bearing testimony to the im­portant development of clear mental operations.

But the very law that causes personal magnetism to light up the brain of its possessor, also gives it a clearer insight into the thoughts of others. We never have advanced this claim as an inducement to the public to enter upon the course of training; and we have made no effort to suggest the fact; yet thousands of our students have discovered that the more deeply they go into the practice of personal magnetism, the better prepared they are to cope with the world, for they come nearer to seeing into the hearts and minds of their fel­low-beings. A very learned clergyman whose degree of Divinity Doctor was conferred years ago by one of the fore­most universities of America, and who is now in the prime and vigor of a very useful life, writes us very frankly as fol­lows, "I believe the time is coming when we will have the power to look into the minds of all men and see their motives. If this is ever accomplished it must be through the agency of personal magnetism. I find that the more I practice it the more of this power I develop. If we are able to see the mo­tives of men, deceit will pass out of the world, and with it sin ought to go too. That grand volume, Universal Mag­netism, is very helpful to me in this study." His argument that deceit must cease to exist when we can read the thoughts of others, is well founded; for no one will be able to act dis­honestly when the truth is as clear as the light of day.

We have no right to take up time and space in this ex­planation of a principle that is properly the theme of a higher work on magnetism; but we are at the present writing in pos­session of a letter that has come to us since the last chapter was begun. It is the opinion of a learned man whose judg­ment commands respect everywhere. We beg leave to quote a portion of the letter: "And now that I have found it to be as I at first surmised I cannot make myself believe that you are ignorant of the premise. Then comes the thought that, if you have been aware of it all the while, how does it happen that you have been silent?, Does not the world care to know?

I think it does. * * * I believe that magnetism is the vocabulary of all creation, the universal speech of the inhab­itants of the orbs, the speech of the angels and of God. I believe that, when this power is developed in humanity, the people of earth will walk and talk with higher beings." His earnestness was genuine, for at the end of the letter he added, "I wish you would include this subject in some advanced work." Many of our students have touched upon kindred themes, and have expressed the opinion that the light within the life of a human being who possesses genius or ambition is the clear glow of magnetism.

The opinions of those who follow the subject in a thorough manner, are clearly expressed in the belief that magnetism is the greatest talent that nature can bestow upon the race, and its study is the most important means of educa­tion and improvement in this new century. We are on the threshold of greater advancement in personal attainments in an age when attention has been given too much to the im­provement of mechanism outside the body. Man himself has not kept pace with his inventions and discoveries. People admire the strides in the material world, but are practically helpless in their own struggles for supremacy over matter.

Here in this volume that you are now ending you have all that can be written or told upon the subject of generating Personal Magnetism. Let your work be faithful, steady and unhasting if you wish to secure results, the value of which will outweigh all that years of learning in dry channels of pedagogy can give.