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THE HISTORY OF LOVIv

ITS WONDROUS MAGIC, CHEMISTRY, RULES, LAWS,
MODES, MOODS AND RATIONALE;

II KI NG THE

THIRD REVELATION OF SOUL AND SEX.

Also, REPLY TO

"WHY IS MAN IMMORTAL?"

THE SOLUTION OF THE DARWIN PROBLEM.

AN ENTIRELY NEW THEORY.

BY

Paschal Beverly Randolph, M.D.

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Good Souls, ever did me a kindness or spoke me fairly in the dark hour, and through
them to all human kind, for the firm and steady rebuilding of a right and true system
of social ethics, based upon the purity of woman, the nobleness of man and the honor
of the race, one wholly free from all abnormalism; devoted to the everlasting dis-
comfiture of all who aim to pervert the higher, better, purer, nobler instincts of our
common human nature ; to the speedy downfall of all false systems and shams,
whether in Physics, Morals, Politics or Faith ; and to the corresponding advance,
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AFFECTIONAL ALCHEMY.

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PART I.

Reader, mine, I am about to treat herein the grandest subject
that ever engaged or challenged human thought. In doing so it is
likely that I mav repeat some things elsewhere, by myself or others,
said be tore ; but even if so, I have struck upon many things now
gi\en to the race for the first time.

A vast amount of " physiological " chaff is current in the world,
originating in the pulpy brains of certain people with " M.D " after
their names ; folks who eke out a good living by putting medicines,
of which they know little, into bodies whereof they know less.

A still larger amount of u chaff" labelled "philosophy" is afloat,
generated for the most part in the angular heads of people, whom a
chronic prostatitis or ovarian fever has so deranged that they really
imagine themselves philosophers, — being only shams, — who pro-
pose to revolutionize the world, especially the domain of Marriage-
land, by inculcating pudacious sophistries, better calculated to kill
than to cure the victims, on either side. One thing is certain :
Light is needed ; and this work (originally intended to be called
by a different title, but which intent was abandoned, owing to the
vastly larger scope of the completed and rewritten volume) is meant
to afford exactly what is required ; and

I. What a tremendous deal of suffering, horror, crime, wretched-
ness and despair there is in this beautiful, but badly misused world
of ours! — most of which might be prevented in the first instance,
or remedied in the second, were there less consummate and con-
founded ignorance afloat up and down the earth's strong tides of
human life, with its strangely, wildly surging ebbs and flows, heats

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and snows, in reference to matters pertaining to, and concerning the,
relations, wise and otherwise, subsisting between the separate gen-
ders of the human race ; especially that portion of it 'located in the
so-called "civilized" lands, and particularly in the cis- Atlantic por-
tion of the Lord's exceedingly z'zwmoral vineyard.

Now, whoever supposes that the ignorance alluded to is confined
solely to the masses, — sometimes spellable as " them asses," according
to Carlyle, — or that the sum total of non-knowledge must be looked
for among the unread, unlettered and unwashed crowds that throng
the great highways of the world, and whose struggles for life, and
clamors for bread, occupy most of their time and attention, — will
find him or herself most wofully mistaken ; for a far less dense and
conglobate ignorance upon matters of vital import to every human
being exists among the people — the rude crowd who jostle each
other everywhere, and which is the plastic material that the brainful
few mould into voters, hero-worshippers, or send to fight their battles
against each other, armed with ploughs or rifles, pitchforks or bay-
onets, cannons or spades — than is to be found in circles making
very lofty pretensions, not only to knowledge, but to morality also,
from its geologic base to its astronomic summit.

For gross and culpable non-knowledge, especially upon all the
vital points that cluster round the one word " sex," you must look,
not amidst the untaught hosts, the democratic underlayer of society,
but right squarely among the so-called " learned," professional,
much-boasted, highly-cultured upper-strata, especially in those
centres of population whence newspapers by myriads are scattered
broadcast over all the lands. Were not this a painful fadt, such
classes of " reformers " as now march over the world were an utter
impossibility.

They are an unhealthy set, the fungi of a false civilization, reg-
nant for a time, but certain to disappear with the advent of common
sense among the people as a general thing.

Sex is a thing of soul ; most people think it but a mere matter of
earthly form and physical structure. True, there are some unsexed
souls ; some no sex at all, and others still claiming one gender, and
manifesting its exact opposite. But its laws, offices, utilities, and

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its deeper and diviner meanings arc .sealed books to all but about two
in a million ; yet they ought to have the attentive studv of every ra-
tional human being, every aspirant to immortality beyond the grave.

In some sense this matter has been, and is, the subject of thought,
but only in its outer phases, or its grosser aspects ; seldom in its
higher ones, and never, until now. in any of its loftier and mystical
bearings. Books by ship-loads on one or two, and always either its
physiological or sentimental sides of the subject, have been put forth
by ambitious M.D's, or notoriety-seeking empirics ; books which
mainly satisfied a prurient taste or morbid curiosity, gave but little
light, and generally left their readers practically as ignorant as
before.

Other books, in other millions, vile, atrocious, cancerous, abound-
ing with death in every line, fraught with ruin on every page, have
been, .-till are being, scattered everywhere across the nations, till the
flower of the world's youth has been blighted, and the morality of
earth sapped dry. Oh, that literature, foul, disgusting beyond
belief! terrible as the cobra's fang, keener than the dagger's edge,
monstrous as a drunkard's dream, more devastating than the spotted
plague! until between the two millstones — quackery, pseudo-pro-
fessional literature on the one hand, and the execrable, libidinous
abominations on the other — one-half of the manhood and womanhood
of our nation has been ground into the very dust. Xo punishment
can be too severe for the disseminators of the latter ; no contempt
too great for the authors of the former.

Not one of the very many respectable people, including fifty
French, a score of English, about as many Americans, and a few
German author-, who have stained reams of good white paper, and
spilled gallons of ink in writing ancnt the sublime subject of sex,
have taken the trouble to go one inch below the surface ; but have
been content to copy each other, and repeat the same old worn-out
story, — else concealed a few good ideas in barrels of words. They
have taken man and woman, shown us their anatomy ; explained
something of physical gender ; said something about function and
periods, and there left us, because they knew nothing further them-
selves.

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For example, there are ten thousand treatises extant concerning
what the doctors call the sin of one Onan, meaning, thereby, a
certain nameless solitary vice. But the man alluded to in the Bible
never was guilty of that sin at all. Albeit his crime was equally
bad, equally disastrous and hateful. In these days it is politely
called " conjugal fraud," and in plain terms consists of the nuptive
union to the orgasmal climax, which was allowed to occur only in a
manner never intended by the Infinite God. " He wasted his seed
upon the ground, that he might not beget children to inherit his
brother's name." (See Bible.) Millions do the accursed thing
to-day that they may be childless, as indeed they deserve to be ; for
he who does that heinous wrong commits a quadruple crime,
against his wife, himself, nature and God ; to say nothing about the
right of all souls to be incarnated by the act of man.

Now the doctors truly say that the sin solitary, and the fraud con-
jugal are both bad ; but fail to give us even half the reasons whv.

Here let me make a point for the doctors, and all others besides.
In the normal, proper nuptive union, a term I invent expressive of
the most sacred and intimate fact of marriage, there is a certain
amount of the male vital life in fluid form (semen) voided ; exactly
the same by actual weight or volume may be wasted in a lascivious
dream, — a spontaneous ejection of superfluous vital force in the
same form ; 3d, the same may be lost by the abominable conjugal
fraud ; or by the heinous sin against one's self — solitary vice. But
note the tremendous difference in the results that follow in each of
the four cases. 1st. In the reciprocal and normal one, only joy
results, positive and pronounced ; and never is followed by any par-
ticularly sombre feelings ; happiness ensues, and the man's soul is at
perfect peace with his physical form.

In the second case, resulting from spermatic plethora, a relief
follows, but leaves a weakness after it, requiring phosphoric food to
recuperate from. There's a little shame-facedness too, but not
much. In the third case the whole being is shocked, and the man
feels himself to be contemptible and mean ; and so he is. In the
fourth case, a bitter, poignant remorse haunts the self-sinner day
and night, for sometimes weeks together ; and the results of his

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dreadful sin stands l>y him like an accusing goblin from the deeps.
Now why? Remember, we suppose, what is true, that weights
and measures are the same in all four instances ; that the exact
amount of fluid life is lost: yet one launches its victim into steep-
down gulfs of remorseful, mental torture, and the others do not.

The physiologists have not answered that question. I will. In
case fii'st, the normal one, waste is occasioned by the magnetic
action ot the electric lymph, the absorption of which by the mascu-
line compensates the vital loss on one side ; and the absorption by
the feminine parietcs of the exudation from Cowpcr\s gland compen-
sates on the other side ; and here I give the doctors a new discovery
— to them, not me — which is, that just within the vulva are two little
glands, called glands of Duvernay, from their French discoverer.
That much the doctors were aware of. But thev did not know that
those glands are the scat of all vaginal and uterine life ; nor that
trouble seals them up ; Love only keeps them open. When sealed
there is no exudation of magnetic lymph, which must be present,
else marital rites mean death to her sooner or later. That's what
ails half the wives of Christendom. Xow another new thing for the
doctors. Just forward of the prostate gland is what is known as
Cowper's gland ; but thev know not its use. I have just explained
it. It is to collect, store up, and discharge the magnetic fluid of the
body in liquid form. It precedes both the semen and prostatic
lymph : and upon contact with the lochia — Duvcrnav — they fuse : the
result of which is the fulfilment of ( iod's purpose in bi-scxing man.
I hope this thought will be carefully studied and understood. Xow
in the case of the solitaire there is but one force at work. The
result is from imaginative and mechanical forces : not from electric,
magnetic or spiritual ones ; hence he draws upon his very soul itself;
violates and disobeys the fundamental law of i.ove, and that is why
he pavs the dreadful penalty. Love resides in the soul; the basic
law of that soul he deliberately prostitutes, wherefore his soul, as
well as his body, must and does sutler.

AX EPISODE. A SINOri.AR EXITRIENCE.

II. One day as I went walking up and down the town in solilo-

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quent mood, I met a man, whose woe-begone countenance betokened
great griefs tugging at his heart-strings ; and that soul-pangs were
racking the very foundations of his being. I met the man. No, I
did not say that — it was my alter ego encountering myself! — and I
learned his sad story, pondering deeply upon which, I pursued my
way to where sleep and I were wont to woo each other ; and there,
throwing myself upon a lounge, drank some fresh, sweet milk, brought
me by a chunky little germanesque neighbor of mine, of say nine
years, pretty, as all children are, and loquacious and talkative as
all children should be.

As I lay there I thought of the man, — a lone, and lonely man ; for
she whom he loved and trusted, many years younger than himself,
was afar off, among strange people, where amid the rounds of
gayety, in fashion's tide, she had no time to think of him, — the
delving toiler ; and far too many follow the example of that thought-
less girl.

She was wondrously fair, and heedless as beautiful ; with fashions
to air and conquests to achieve ; poor, sweet little lady ! And as I
pictured her beauty and bloom, I could but justify her vanity, and on
that basis condone her apparent heartless coldness in never deigning
to write to him, who was suffering daily deaths by reason of her cold
silence — and — contempt.

And so I lay upon the lounge and quaffed the sweet, delicious
milk, and I drought about the Woman and the Man ; and, as I did so,
I fell into a sort of magnetic trance and clairvoyance — a habit
familiar, seeing that the power to do so was born with me ; and by
its means I have a thousand times been able to see afar off, and to
glimpse things denied to mortal vision. On this occasion I fell
into it from having incidentally cast my eyes upon a third class
triune, or magic mirror, such as for years I have used expressly to
induce the state of psycho-vision. It hung over the table against the
wall, where I had placed it after polishing it, preparatory to sending
it to a lady in Brooklyn, N. Y., to whom impecuniosity had com-
pelled me to sell it.

It was a fine one, though not the best or most costly ; yet was
capable of mighty things when in the humor ; for, be it known, they,

Affect tonal Alchemy. 9

like watches, razors, locomotives and women, arc very set in their
ways, and will not work unless well treated, and coaxed besides ;
then thev operate well enough, as did the one alluded to. Its power
ranged to the aerial spaces above, and to the vaulted deeps below ;
and on its surface the dead could, and often did, cast cognizable
pictures of themselves and surroundings then and then again. On
the morning alluded to, as I breathed upon it, a thick, heavy, black,
portentous cloud obscured its face, followed by a silverv sheen,
indicative of coming trouble, hatred, folly, error, succeeded by
happiness and contentment ; but I actually forgot all that, nor
recalled it till after the approaching drama was ended, — a drama
strange and weird, fraught with pain unutterable, inexpressible,
almost unendurable ; yet whose results or fruitage was as ripe pome-
granates are to the thirsty pilgrims, or the cool, bubbling waters to
the parched lips of the Arab on the burning sands of Sahara. Little
did I dream that the strange experience was full of true light to
others than myself; j'ct such it is, and was; and with grateful heart
I thank the Most Compassionate God, the Ineffable Lord, that I was
found worthy to become the vessel for the conveyance of so grand a
lesson to rav brethren of the wide and wasteful world.

In an instant, as my eyes fell on it — that wondrous glvphaj — the
outer world sight receded, and the soul-sight came in play. Child,
table, chairs, lounge — all were gone and unheeded, and on the face
of that marvellous glass I beheld a scene which at the time, and for
six weeks afterwards, I religiously believed was at that verv instant
being enaclcd far away, in, to the man in Toledo, dreadful reality.
The sequel — far along in this book — will show whether it was the
shadow of an cnacT-cdy^:.', or a ligment of fancv woven of mist, and
conjured up out of the cellars of suspicion. I loved the man. at all
events ; hence what I saw froze my blood with horror, and made mv
nerves fairly tingle with excitement and pain. I saw the hub-, whom
the man loved so well, and for whom he yearned, and mourned, and
wept bitter tears, revealed before the eyes of my soul. She was just
emerging from a dormitorv, evidently, judging bv appearances, both
a dishonest and dishonored wife and woman. She was gaily chat-
ting with her paramour, a gallant young fellow, who stood near her,

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and on whom she gazed with unutterable tenderness, volupty and
love. I shuddered with mortal anguish ; for I loved my friend, and
that woman bore his name. Until that hour I and he had believed
her to be pure as an angel from heaven ; and now did I, through
sympathy for him, suffer, — ay, the agonies of the nether hell.
Presently you will see whether the vision was a lesson or a fact ; and
whether jealousy is, and is not, sometimes based on solid ground,
sometimes empty air.

On the day I met the man ; he had told me that she had asked him
very singular questions : " Is it possible for a husband to discover if
his wife goes astray during an absence, without the ordinary evidence
that establishes such facts? Can he find it out without seeing or hear-
ing of it?" I don't know what answer was given; but I do know
that the words sunk deep, like hot iron, into his soul ; and he pon-
dered on them till he grew morbid, and every day, in his loneliness,
he imagined all sorts of things, which now bodied themselves in
palpable form before my soul's gaze.

Subsequently she had written to say that her yearnings were great,
and she was dying from the mere fact of prolonged absence ; yet
within a week wrote that she was supremely happy, and longed for
nothing. This was ground for suspecting her to be a truant wife,
and my friend a deceived husband ; and all the more in that she was
thrown in contact with some very popular agitators of the marriage
and fidelity questions, — on what I regarded as the wrong side.

As I gazed on the scene upon the mystic mirror's face, I saw the
lady and her lover as before, and beheld his burning kisses fall thick
and fast upon her i-ich, ripe, and alluring lips ; saw her languish in
voluptuous death in his strong arms, and watched her return his.
fiery salutation. I heard his love expressions, and her warm replies ;
but the most cruel thing of all was their combined laugh and "joke"
they were playing on my friend, by making his slender purse bear
the cost of their guiltful amours. He loved that woman as mothers
love the babes God sends through wailing agony to their longing
hearts.

I leaped from the couch ; rushed to my friend's place ; told him
the tragic tale ; fired his soul with vengeance dire ; and, putting a

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loaded revolver in his pocket, bade him swiftly traverse the 1,100
miles intervening hctwixt him and his deep revenge. This done, I
went to a grocery hard by, to drink beer to drown out the agonv felt
for the man, — the detestation of the woman. " Man proposes," but
God upsets his calculations; or Destiny does. So now. on my way
to Grambrins Halle, I encountered my little friend, the German
child, at play. She strangely interested me; and I left the Halle
with but one glass, where I had intended to drink at least a dozen.
The child saved me I Returning, I caught her up, seated her
jauntily on my head, and marched back to the lonely house on the
hill, where I threw myself on the lounge, kissed this little child good-
by, and, as she ran off trippingly home, at her little brother's call,
who was just then having dreadful trouble with his rabbits, I caught
sight of a scintillant flash of white light issuant from her head, like
the radiant gleam of a peerless diamond, when all the lamps are
brightly burning ; and a glowing, streaming iridescence flowed from
her lips. I had drawn her to me, and pressed her rosv. childish
face to mine, inhaling the balmy aroma of her pure, fresh, joyous
soul ; and a portion of the roseate fire of her sweet lips had clung to
mine. I saw it, like a thin cloud of opalescence, waving gentlv to
and fro. as I moved my head, or breathed. I began to study the
meaning of a kiss.

There are but few among the many who know the meaning of a
kiss; — or that the soul, from its seat in the brain, is in telegraphic
unity with the lips. — affcctional, friendly, filial, parental, general, in
the upper one ; sensuous, magnetic, passional, in the lower ; nor that,
when loving lips meet lips that love, there is a magnetic discharge of
soul-flame, and each party gives and receives large measures of mag-
netic life and fluid love at the instant of impact or contact, which
measures arc greater or less according to the love-fulness or empti-
ness of each respectively. While pondering on this, and marvelling
at the beautiful irradiation alluded to above. I chanced to recur in
thought to the mirror scene, and to the woman and the man. the
■\vicrdly strange phantorama already described ; again that strange
numbness of the outer being came over me, and in another instant I
lay there, rapt, entranced, transfigured, and for the time being was as

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are the newly dead. Clearly, distinctly, did my soul's vision pene-
trate the spaces and localize itself in that far-off room, where still
stood the recalcitrant wife and her new-found lover, and the woman
stood on this side, the man upon that, hands on shoulders, and mu-
tual kisses, accompanied with glowing red passion-fires from lip to
lip ; and as I thought of my friend, her husband, I exclaimed, " Guilty !
by the Lord of Hosts ! " But as I said so and gazed, a great change
came over my feelings and my soul. I put myself in my friend's, her
husband's place, by means of the three principles, Posism, Volan-
tia and Decretism, hereinafter alluded to, and then, far more clearly
comprehending the situation, I would not, as before, have slain her,
spattered his heart's blood upon the walls and floor, or have sent a
leaden bullet crashing through his brains, for the whole world, or
millions more just like it ; for whereas before I had observed effects,
I now beheld their producing, hidden causes. A great cloud rolled
away from before my gaze into the vague, dim yEth, and my soul,
representing my friend, the man said unto my soul, She did not
love you ; if she had, this scene could never have occurred. It is but
one of millions, this very day, transpiring in thousands of places the
wide world over, and is the legitimate result of the wrong relations
subsisting between the mated, or rather, mismated marriagees of the
earth ! Love only can keep souls, and the bodies they wear, true and
faithful ! Where it does not mutually exist there can be, and is, no
guaranty of fidelity. Wherefore, it is incumbent on you to face the
facts ; call to your aid the rare philosophy of common sense ; strug-
gle manfully against this dreadful, appalling, yet perfectly natural ca-
tastrophe ; accept the situation ; hush the throbbings of your tortured
heart ; ask God for strength to bear the heavy burden, and be wise.

Still representing my friend, my soul said on : Perchance what
you see is, after all, but a fevered dream, begotten of your depressed
nervous state, morbidity of fancy and loneliness, combined with the
suspicions kindled by the strange questions asked upon the eve of her
departure many days ago, and greatly strengthened by unwisely
worded letters sent back by her ; and made still stronger by her six
weeks' utter silence — in itself good cause for suspicion, for every
.msband has a right to know his wife's whereabouts, her surroundings

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and the company she keeps ; and if she docs not keep him thus in-
formed, lie has fair and just grounds to infer that her actions arc such
as oii'^ht to be hidden from his gaze, and also from that of humanity
at large.

If innocent, she is still guilty of a great follv : while your trouble
and pain mav really have no more solid foundation than vague and
empty air. Let justice rule on both sides ; for she was unwise, while
your illness tortures things out of shape, till mere phasmas assume
forms as solid in appearance as the very truth itself; and it mav be
that your anxiety and sympathy may have conjured up a lie ; and this
apparently recusant woman really be as unsoiled as the down upon
the ring-dove's breast, or the spotless plume of an angel's wing ! Oh,
ho--: my heart, for my friend, clung to that hope! Mv soul t 1 my
soul went on : They twain, the far-off couple, are young ; are adapted
to each other : you (my friend, of course) are too old for her. You
had no right to subject her to the terrible temptation of being away
from your side for months together, in the midst of gay people, where
everything appealed to and impressed her young heart and fancy,
and made a wider gulf between herself and you. I know your
heart is bleeding, that hot tears are streaming down your face, that
your poor soul is sweltering amidst the tortuous flames of the fiercest
hell of jealousy ; yet why? for one who loves you not! — who is
heartless to you, heartful to her paramour ! Be a man ! and remem-
ber that she, too, has rights which you are bound to respect ; — not
the right to dishonor, but to be free from you by laws human and di-
vine, and to make such choice and legal disposal of herself as her
youth demands, and her will, soul, and conscience prompt.

If she has fallen, it is the fault of her husband, not altogether her
own. She admires him, but probably loves this distant Adonis, and,
tempted beyond her strength, she may have forgotten and neglected
duty, at the urgence and call of love ; the facts of which came rush-
ing through the air to you and took form and shape through the vis-
ion of the seer.

Be magnanimous ! and if ye twain part, as ye likely will, and for-
ever, do not fail to recognize the end as the legitimate result of the
stupid folly of allowing her to dwell so far away in the midst of

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tempting scenes and people. Guilty, or not guilty, forget and for-
give. Voluntarily free this simpleton from the chafing thrall that
binds her to one whose purse, not person, is all on earth she cares for.
Let her go at the call of affection, and, forsaking you and duty, yield
her to the better and nobler law of love. Free her, and they twain
will likely wed. Hold her, and she is that nameless thing — a wed-
ded harlot.

My soul had, still as my friend, not myself, gotten thus far in its
just reasonings when methought I heard a sweet and silvery voice
say, " Behold ! " And as the delicious tones rung glorified changes
through my spirit I felt that I had grown a century within an hour ;
and notwithstanding that I actually believed my friend's wife to be
guilty, and might probably so believe until my dying day, yet I had
charity for her, as well as sorrow and sympathy for him. I put
myself in his place, and for the first time in my life not only realized
the luxury of forgiveness, but felt capable of even dying a lingering
death that the woman so loved might be happy with him she so
loved ; and greater affection than that can no man show, in that he
would lay down his life for a friend. I talked with the husband ;
persuaded him to lay by the pistols and revenge. He did so, and
ceased to be jealous from that hour, caring but little whether the
vision was of actual fact or a delirious dream.

" Behold ! " I looked, still with that ultra soul-sight which leaps
all boundaries, cleaves all space, flashes over rivers, mountains, seas,
penetrates all bodies, and brings us in actual contact with the whole
domain of mystery ; and again I saw the little German child,
through the walls of both houses, as clearly as if they were of finest
crystal or purest glass instead of boards and mortar. And I beheld
an ineffably pure, pearly-hued effulgence playing about her little
head, undulating in billowy movement all about her infantile
shoulders, streaming from her hair, glowing round her waist, and
in loving wavelets all around. I watched this with astonishment.
It was but the prelude to the celestial cantata that followed. I saw
her mother gently chide her, and soon she went to bed, and slept the
sweet, delicious slumber of absolute innocence ; and as she thus lay
I saw the gossamic cloud of pearly aura expand till it filled the room,

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penetrated the ceiling, the roof, swelling and lengthening out clear
into the starlight, and forming to a point shot out and afar olV into
the very depths of space till I could follow it no more. Then I
turned me again to the sleeping child ; and what was my astonish-
ment at beholding literallv hundreds of bright shining and divinely
beautiful forms, as of young children and the virgin dead, come
trooping down the lane of pearly light, and, entering the house,
gather and dance and play at the bedside of the slumbering little
one. Good is catching ! That child had enabled me to stave off a
fit of jealous rage in sympathy with my friend ; and now I was,
through her again, about to learn one of the most important lessons
of my life. I had kissed that child, and had become suffused with a
portion of her own sweet aromal aura or atmosphere, and was,
therefore, en rapport with the same bright beings as she was her-
self, and was played upon by the same celestial, pure and divine
influences, whereof Love was the dominant or major clement.

A portion of these purer, better, and hyperphysical auras displaced
and occupied the room of the grosser aura, earth-born and turbid. I
found myself cleaner, better, than before, and comprehended Christ's
" Suffer little children to come unto me." Not until that holy hour
of rapt contemplation had I realized the immense meaning of a
single touch of loving lips ; that if it be purely given and received,
both participants are blessed, not only directly, but through oblique
ways, a myriad fold.

Love in very deed lies at the foot of all, and its mystic and ideal
meaning outweighs the material and popular ones by as many
degrees as the pure soul of that baby-girl outweighs the corrupt
body of the low-lived debauchee. We may be hugged, embraced,
kissed into heavenly states, or into their exact oppositcs ! Hence,
aside from common relational lip-contacts, they are worse than un-
wise who touch lips unless love be the underlying prompter; for if
the kissed or kisser be bad, just so much of that specific evil is sure to
flow from the magnetic poles of either pair of lips to the soul of him
or her upon whose mouth thev arc laid.

I have said the moist lips are batteries charged with our very
inmost good or evil. It is utterly impossible for a ncgress having

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borne a child to a white father ever to give birth to one perfectly
negro, — even though its father, like herself, has never a drop of
other blood in him, — for the reason that the blood of the white
man, through his child, has mingled in the mother's veins. More
than that, her blood under the microscope will not show the same
crystalline forms after the birth of the mixed child as it did before.
Just so is it impossible for us not to be made better or worse by lip
touching.

Harlots invariably descend unless snatched from ruin by a miracle.
It is because of the many forms of hell struggling in their veins,
combating in their nerves ; and as heaven or its opposite attends the
kiss so also is it with every other sort of human contact — even the
ordinary shaking of the hands. Gloves, therefore, have new uses.

I awoke from my slumber a wiser, and. I trust, a better man. I
went out and found my soul-harried and victimized friend. I
reasoned with him just as I had with my own soul a while before.
I told him it was clear as sunlight that the absent woman really
cared not a straw for him, but only for what current funds she could
extract from him ; and that, although to lose her was a bitter draught
of gall, yet he had better swallow it, for that he was only loving his
own sphere wherewith he had embalmed her. I asked what right
had he to hold a woman in duress convert or non-couvert, whose
soul was not attached by love to his ; whose compliance, duty only,
not affectional. It was clear he ought to give her up at once even if
the effort snapped his heart-strings, because the mai'king of her
child was a doubtful question. Whv should he pursue a heartless
phantom? They were disunited in soul. Behold the folly of
continuance ! Let her eo !

III. As previously remarked herein, writers upon the general
topics of love and its offices, uses, abuses, nature, moods, and modes,
have, in the main, been content with the merely superficial or ex-
ternal view thereof, and have, as a general thing, utterly ignored
most, if not all, of the other and deeper significances attached there-
unto ; and not one of them has even attempted to tell mankind any
more of the principles underlying sex, Love, and their copula
passion, or desire, than any one's personal experience suggests • but

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wc have plenty of hard, dry, pseudo-scientific flummery, else a lon^
row of medical platitudes wholly useless, because totally indigestible
by the average intellectual stomach. Who of them all has given us
'the rationale of the orgasm — the why and wherefore, or the cause
of its being a thing of apparently no moment whatever at certain
times, and under circumstances: yet at another will almost shock

the human soul out of its earthly tenement, the bocl\ by its keen,

incisive, cutting, awful intensity? Which of them all has explained
what every one ought to, but docs not know to be a fact, /. c, that,
as explained in the "New Mola," and elsewhere in this book, human
conjugation is or may be triple ; that is, it may be of soul, spirit or
body, alone or either, and the binary minglings of the three, in
various degrees, even to an infinity ; for instance, one part soul, ten
spirit, five hundred of mere body, and so on ; but never true or
normal except in exact equations ; even tens or hundreds, according
as the participants are high or low. The philosophers never even
guessed at this truth.

Who of them has told, or can tell, why the nuptium fairly laps the
very soul itself, of each participant, too, in the tenderest, softest,
truly human, because strictly human, joy at one time ; yet at
another gives naught but cruel pain ; else is but a nervous spasm,
unsatisfactory to one party, and injurious to both ; and yet the same
people in both instances?

Why is it, O learned anthropologists, that the generative rite will
at one time wholly unman one, yet at another — same ones too — will
fill him with the most exquisite, manly, gallant sensibility ; in-
spire him with the most lofty virtue and high resolve ; charge him
to the lips with true and royal courage ; yet at another time transmute
him into an errant coward and miserable poltroon? And, mirabile
dictu — same parties still, — bring pain, keen mental agony, shame-
facedncss, and suicidal thought ; yet at another, result in pride, joy,
gratefulness, generosity, and mental summer, with physical spring-
time? Why will this mysterious duty — for such it is in God's
sight, who by its means peoples the worlds, and stocks the starry
spaces — plunge us into the deepest " blues," and fang our souls with
remf rse cruel as the grave, relentless as the Iladean gulf of Milton,

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and the other poets ; yet at another induce a state of feeling in soul
and spirit quite approaching the supposed angelic ; why ? and a
myriad gaping crowd of scalpel-drivers repeat the sound, and echo
" Why?" The answers : their science don't know, therefore cannot
answer ; wherefore I must take up my pen to respond to it, for those
who need the information it is my lot to impart.

Since Dr. Dixon, of '■'•The Scalpel" printed his great and warn-
ing essay on "The organic Law" (of sex), and the anonymous
author of "Satan in Society" faintly echoed those stirring notes,
nothing has been given to the world on the mighty subject worthy
of attention or record. Neither essay filled the required bill, and for
that reason I print this series of salvatory counsels. I may, and
probably shall, ere long, be numbered with the armies of the dead ;
and who then will give Randolph's thoughts to the world ? I don't
know, and therefore give at least a part of them before I leave for
good and all ; consequently, I shall now convey certain brief and
concise forms of certain knowledges, which, if abided by, will pro-
long many a life, and add immeasurable happiness to mankind. I
wish to be clearly understood, and yet not to offend the most delicate
or fastidious ; for God is my judge that my sole aim is to teach cer-
tain truths, whose mission is to stop the tide of crime, miseiy and
wretchedness now devastating our land. I am forced to use similes,
but trust to be fully and entirely understood.

IV. Now for the answer to the loud "Whys?" of section three.
The states resulting happily from human fusion were because there
really was a human fusion, and that's just it ! In all the other cases
there was either too much body, too much spirit, and too little or no
soul at all. They were violations of the love-law, and the suffering
was the penalty. It is a pity that ten thousand times the pain was
not the direct result of every violation of the organic law ; and if
every proposed debauchee could or would but die in the attempt, the
world would soon be a great deal better off.

Where love sits enshrined over the married man's chamber door,
and reason guides his conduct towards his wife therein, peace will
reign, and the sale of syphilitic remedials vastly decrease. No pangs
follow the celebration of the rites of holy love, nor judicious use of

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the divine, but abused, faculties of our nature. Unless love equals
passion, marriage rites are never right ; that's all !

V. The grand mistake made by physiologists and other essavists,
writing on the current topic, consists in their persistent overlooking
of the fact that man and woman arc not the same. The male is an
incarnation, so to speak, of one side of Dcitv ; one hemisphere of the
Imperial Over Soul ; one section of Nature, matter, the Superla-
tive and Infinite Mind of Minds ; while the human female represents
and is an embodiment of the other ; for there is a male and female
side to all these, and the two genders correspond to, represent, affil-
iate with, derive their respective powers from, and are attracted to,
those respective sides. Thus cither, alone, is an Incompleteness ;
they belong to opposite sides of nature, and it requires a bridge to
span th j amazing gulf that rolls between them. The magnetic mate-
rials for said bridge exists in nearly all human beings. Its name is
Love. Bridges arc in great demand. There's room for more.

VI. No true man can heir} loving all true women ; not in the
grosser sense, but in the higher one of soul. Not such as lie a man
out of his manhood, run him in debt, empty his purse, and rob lrm
of his peace, until he actually jeopardizes his soul's salvation, — pre-
tending to love him, but meaning not one word of it, — laughing at
him in the sleeve, and triumphing in the knowledge of how smart
she was, how great a fool was he. That's the sort of women who,
from the year one, have driven hard bargains with the masculine
portion of the race, and rushed many a good man down the hills of
ruin and gloom, and horrid, blank despair. Nor arc they all dead
yet.

I have neither time, assistance, or inclination for moralizing : but
little patience with '• Scripture" quotcrs ; none at all with the mod-
ern •' reform" tribes of the land and age ; besides which I cordially
despise all women-haters on one side, and Wcsnentcs (man haters)
on the other ; and no words of mine can express my utter abhorrence
of the things miscalled Men, who practically regard woman as if she
were nothing but a pleasure-vehicle, to be kissed, petted, and ill-
treated in alternate slices. But I feel quite as much ind:gnant con-
tempt for that large class of women who are ever ready to use their

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beauty as a trap to catch male gudgeons ; who look on all men as
fair game, to be lied to, and played on, generally to the tune of rust-
ling silks, and crisp bank notes ; and whose utter heartlessness belies
the index of their sex. There's quite as many heartless shes as hes
in the world ; only that one soulless woman is a greater danger to
the world than a dozen scoundrelly men ; for her sex gives her
points of advantage .denied to all of the opposite gender. A good,
true woman is a diamond ; a bad and heartless one worse than Mil-
ton's Satan.

Sitting near me in the eating-house where I dined yesterday, were
four grave men, deliberately traducing their mother's sex. They went
into paroxysms of what they called "Fun" anent pregnancy, men-
struation, and sexive matters generally. They, and millions like them
everywhere, in every bar-room, hotel, stable, store, grocer}', consider
it u smart" and manly to, even before young boys, habitually blas-
pheme Deity and dishonor the mothers that bore them, by irreverent,
flippant and obscene speech concerning the sex. Poor wretches who
disgrace the forms they bear by speaking of woman as if she were
nothing but a target for filthy tongues to hurl their venom at ; or, at
best, as destined victims to their own abominable lubricity ; mere ex-
tinguishers of the bale-fires rioting in their own veins, — the venom-
ous fever-passions of their own gross natures, and far more ignoble
than those of the four-footed dogs that run our streets. It made me
sick ; it always did— to listen to the outrageous talk going on every-
where about women, whenever two or more human males of the
" civilized" kind happen to get together for an hour. Even stately
officials, fathers of families, do ; and if not, at least often allow it in
their presence, which is almost as bad. So almost universal is this
foul talk, to be heard everywhere, at an)- time, — ribald, coarse, ob-
scene, and altogether devilish, — that it is no wonder that the public
mind is debauched and totally demoralized.

It is a evirious fact that people will talk smut, laugh heartily at
coarse jokes and improbable stories concerning the eternal God's
method of peopling the worlds, and filling up the starry domes be-
yond the grave, when of all human deeds it is the most sacred, seri-

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ous, and laughless. JYo human being laughs then; for the wei ,!it
of worlds rests upon human shoulders.

It is a bad sign any man hangs out when he makes " fun" of what
ought to challenge his holiest emotions and most profound respect.
There was a young man of the fun-making genus, — a fellow whose
nature was inflamed nearly a year before his birth, and who kept it
up to boiling-point by food and drink, and the secret books he first
read, and then so artfully concealed, that the servant-girls were sure
to find them, — read, get detected, — of course, by the owner. — re-
sult, destruction to poor she, — brag by he, who of course was petted
and made much of, while his victim's head, in time hung low, for a
bleeding heart was breaking. Well, this Lothario's eyes used to
fairly glisten when they rested upon any young female form, and the
burden of his talk was the victories he had won over too confiding
women. Brag.

It so happened that he was one of a jury of inquest over the dead
body of poor Maria Lee, a child of sixteen summers, whom a rich
merchant of Loudon had betrayed, and then procured a double mur-
der at the hands of an abortionist. Poor child ! she bled to death
from a skewer of steel run clean through both the uterus and its con-
tents. The rich merchant paid some money ; — some more in
charity: — by-and-by joined the church, and his sin was forgotten.
The medical practitioner went to jail for six months ; was pardoned
out in five weeks ; and the babe went back to heaven in the arms of
its slaughtered mother.

But there she lay, poor child, upon the long work-table of good
Simon Scott, the carpenter, all pale and delicate as finest Parian mar-
ble or wax-work, and beautiful ! O God, how immortally beautiful !
— just as Deity had fashioned her before the rich merchant of Lou-
don and his friends, the doctor and death, had finished the work so
fairly begun — finished her for the grave and heaven; for if ever its
golden portals swing wide to admit a_ shining soul, surely its hinges
will revolve like lightning to let in a ruined woman.

Well, the autopsy went on ; the facts were disclosed : and while
the surgeon plied his work, and a strong magnifying glass was
handed round among the jurymen, none were so eager and earnest

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in scrutiny and question, as the fast young man, — the general lover
alluded to. He carefully examined lungs, brain, stomach, breasts,
heart, uterus — all; and as he laid down the glass he muttered — and
I — -with the womb in my hand, and the knife between my teeth
echoed, from the floor of my soul, his words— '■'■Murdered, by
God ! curse him, — them ! and me, too, if ever I " — and there he
stopped ; but not till his oath was registered up there where vows are
never broken, and nothing is forgotten. If I could, I certainly -would
have every male over fifteen witness just such a redemptive and im-
pressive scene ; and would take every boy through the wards of a
hospital for syphilides. I would have every girl taught the long-
forgotten truth that her soul is worth, at least, quite as much as her
body ; something they little dream of, so ardent is their worship at
the shrine of .Saint Frivole.

Had I been so instruded long years agone, I had escaped very many
subsequent mistakes, and consequent misery ; but I. like most others,
was a long time in learning thoroughly the tremendous difference
between the chaste desire of pure love, and the lurid fires of burning
lust. I learned it at last ; hence this, and my later books, which I
trust will seive as beacons to warn mankind off sunken rocks and
reefs long after these hands have returned to primal dust, and the
soul that animates them is kneeling at the feet of the Redeeming
God.

VII. From the earliest historical ages an unnatural custom has
prevailed ; and its results have been fearful, — sub rosa mainly, for
the victims generally grieve, mourn, and die in silence. I refer to
the abominable practice of old men marrying young girls. I know
that the temptations, — youth and freshness on one side ; influence,
society, position, money, on the other, — are great indeed ; but for all
that, it is a something against which that same society ought to turn ;
and one that God Himself frowns down ; for never a marriage
among them all produced other fruits than discontent, jealousy,
madness and despair.

Campbell, in that odd book " Hermippus, or the Sage's Triumph,"
lays it down that the old can regain many months or even years of
life by consorting and cohabiting with the young. It is, and is not

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true. If it were possible for two people, one sixty, the other sixteen,
to fully and mutually love each other, then the girl would help the
man, and the man increase the girl's recuperative power. But,
happilv, girls of sixteen cant love sixty, nohow you can fix it. I
knew a man in New York State, who literally drove his daughter, a
thin, pale, waxen child of sixteen, into a hated marriage of sixty-five
or thereabouts. Two years afterwards, a child was buried in the
West, and four weeks afterwards the father bore his daughter's body
to burv it and his happiness together in one grave on the hillside.

Were a man of that age to use means to thus get a daughter of
mine, say twenty-live years ago, when I was young, I think there'd
have been a third-class funeral in that town ; for I regard it as a
crime even worse than some sorts of murder ; and here are my rea-
sons why : It is safe to say, where occasionally the young girl
marries an old man, and good results follow, that such cases are ex-
traordinary, and altogether exceptional to an almost universal rule ;
because the old man's motive is to prolong his miserable existence
at the expense of a fresh young life ; and of course his u love ! " is
but a selfish, mean, self-preservative instinct ; while the girl's love is
one of advantage, either money-wise or from gratitude, and there-
fore not real love at all ; because in the very nature of things she can
but feel an utter disgust, an awful and appalling horror and loathing
at the bare thought, much less the sickening ordeal oifact.

Happiness is out of the question, and the cases exceedingly rare
where they produce anything but misery. Nearly every one will at
once see many of the reasons why ; but there are some others not
quite so self-apparent, and here they are. In marriage and its offices
there must be a reciprocal piav of eledtric and magnetic forces ; for
unless mutual, there's disaster just ahead, and sunken rocks all
around, upon which that ship of wedlock is sure, sooner or later, to
run aground ; and in the wreck that follows some one is sure to be
lost, — and that some one is a young wife, tired of an old, besotted,
worn-out man /

The great disparity of years, magnetism, vitality and life-force be-
tween such an ill-starred couple renders it utterly impossible for the

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young thing to have one single taste or desire in common with the
old dotard she calls husband.

She cannot absorb, reciprocate or assimilate him, or aught pertain-
ing to him, magnetically, or in any other way ; and she even loathes
the food he dotes on, and the liquids he consumes to keep his unnat-
ural fever up.

The magnetic auras issuant from them are unlike, and to her re-
pellant, after a time, if not at once. He consumes, absorbs, and as-
similates the totality of her vital life, and at length she dies for sheer
want of that whereof he robs her. But a still stronger protest is
here : it is found in the well-known fact that the old and coarse mag-
netism of the man poisons both the body and soul of the young girl ;
seals up the fountains of her youth and responsive power ; shuts the
door of amative joy in her face ; robs her of her rights as wife ; sug-
gests evil thoughts to her mind, and paves the way for her to yield
heart and all else to whoever near her own age tries to win her, by
giving her a kind of love she needs, and which is proper for one of
her tender years.

Where the disparity is even twenty years it is infinitely far too
great. Ten years' difference is a deal too much, and five the limit,
save in the case of bloodless girls and very magnetic men ; in which
union the female thrives on the fresh vitality of the man. But, even
in such cases, she must be blonde, and he the opposite — always; for
if the reverse happens, she's a doomed woman, and he a physical
imbecile, in five years' time at the utmost. In the case of ordinary
December and May marriages he robs her of life ; she gestates hor-
ror instead of affedlion ; for in natural marriage souls blend and
interfuse more or less perfectly after a time ; and those who have
lived unhappy lives often find out how well they loved at heart, after
death comes tapping at the gate, if not before. Then it is : " Who'd
have thought it ? " but too late I Such antipodes cannot blend, be-
cause the girl is peach-downy, supple, gay, lithe and lightsome, but
the man lithy, that is, limy, calcareous ; and they cannot, will not
mingle in any more intimate relations than that of father and
daughter.

Some people have young souls in old bodies, in which case things

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are not so bad ; but where such soul-youth does not exist, ami the par-
tics live in passable harmony, still there's great harm done, — in fait,
constructive -wijicidc, and this is the reason whv, — a wife is apt to
become a mother quicker by an old husband than a young one ; be-
cause the old man's blood is cooler, his passion slower in culmina-
tion ; and she is likely to conceive from sheer weariness, and physi-
cal and mental inability to guard herself; besides which, she never
dreams of danger, or of the female finesses she would put in play
against a younger .husband.

If ever it is right to prevent conception, I believe it is in excep-
tional cases like this before us ; for his old blood, through his child,
courses through her young veins, making her old prematurely ; load-
ing her down with the accumulated mental, physical and moral,
magnetic and other diseases of all his long run of years. Besides
which, his child is born old; — never knows what babyhood is, 01
childhood means. It looks, feels, is an oddity ; knows no infantile
days or pleasures, and is thus, by its own father, robbed and cheated
out of its best and most halcyon days. But that's not the worst of it
yet ; for the offspring of January is sure to be nearly as calcareous as
its father. Its bones are harder, firmer, more solid than is right ;
its cranium is broader, flatter, thicker, and dense as those of a grown
man ; and if the young mother escapes forceps-delivery, or a still
worse operation, she may consider herself a fortunate woman. May
God pity all such, and alas ! thousands of such there are.

How often we hear the expression, " She tapped the fountains of
his love." Well, the thing is possible, yet is seldom realized, for that
can onlv be done when both are maritally conjoined while influ-
enced by a passion born of perfect, deep, soul-founded love ; and
then ! ah, then! the cup of human bliss is indeed full. Why? Be-
cause a portion of each soul becomes incorporate in the other, and
the mystical blending — " they twain shall be one " — is complete.

But souls can be tapped without reciprocity, for the young wife's
soul is drained from her, either directly as a sponge, by her old hus-
band, or indirectly through the uterine and vaginal diseases sure to
be her lot sooner or later; for the fluids of the twain will not, cannot
blend, except in so far forth as to innoculate the poor young thing

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with malignant poison, by which I do not here mean syphilis, but I
do mean that worse poison resultant from chemical incompatibility,
mental and affe&ional disgust and repulsion, which leave ulcers and
corrosions in their train, with death in the foreground. Gentlemen
M. D.'s, here's the origin of evil ; for even if the husband is not old,
but only a hellion to her, she's your patient straightway, and you
have a fine chance for the sale of lotions, washes, pessaries, support-
ers, and all the other vast paraphernalia born of non-love, "in the
auld house at hame."

Birth months. Children conceived in May, June, July, August and
September, and who, therefore, are born in February, March, April,
May, and June, are, unquestionably, better constituted and will live
longer, have more character and power than when the double events
occur in other months ; because nature and weather are more propi-
tious at the start. Conceptions occurring in the morning hours are a
myriad degrees better than when that event occurs at other periods.

A person's shadow on the wall in a room, by lamp-light, will re-
veal more of that party's real character than all the phrenology ex-
tant, and in its minute phases, too ; just as a peculiar smile, observa-
tion, movement, or tone of voice will sometimes tell in a second
more of a person's real self, than an acquaintance of fifty intimate
years would otherwise.

Gender in the human being is a very different thing from gender
in the animate kingdoms below the grade of man. In the beasts it
means propagation, mainly for food purposes ; but in man it stands
for, and implies, a great deal more, as will be seen hereinafter.

At this point I wish to pick a flaw or two in the reasonings of
the popular physiologists and phrenologists of the day, every one of
whom urge their moral pleas mainly upon the ground that the mar-
ital-functional nuptive rite of the human being is precisely on a par
with the creative act of beasts ; that is, that God intended it in man
as in animals, to be solely and only a propagative function, — that,
and nothing more. It is for generative ends only, and the nervous
state precedent to, and succeeding it, is but the natural spur to the
God-foreseen result ; therefore, say they, the sacred nuptium is per-
missible only when both parents desire to add one more unit to the

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great world's population. Now these philosophers either are con-
scious hypocrites, teaching what they don't believe ; else they think
us tools, and we inozv they are.

I have seen a book, of nearly a thousand mortal pages, and that
doctrine was the whole gist and burden of its labored and lame argu-
ment : lame, for its author shows in a hundred places that he don't
believe his own logic ; he continually confutes himself, and the com-
plctest refutation of the absurdity is to be found in the words : It is
not true ! Why? because man is not a beast, and is not governed
by identical laws ; but comes under, and is played upon, and moved
bv, higher ones altogether than such as rule in the kingdom of
beasts, birds, reptiles, fish and insects.

In those realms, sex is an instinct, a periodical function and appe-
tit?. In man, it is a fact of soul; a principle, and a mystical and
divine power, altogether superior to the passing furore of beasts that
perish and arc known no more ; and it means more in his case than
it does in all other departments of the sentient world, singly or com-
bined.

I here throw down the gauntlet, and state, boldly and squarely,
right in the teeth of all the so-called scientists on earth or under
heaven, that the scxive principle, habitude, and instinct in the human
is not in very many respects identical with that of the non-human
inhabitants of the globe we live on ; on the contrary, in us it means,
implies, and leads to immeasurably more and deeper things than the
average thinker ever dreams of or imagines. In the organic king-
doms outside of the human, the instinct is blindly obeyed, and self-
seeking there, as everywhere else, and not propagation at all, is the
all-powerful impelling motive, if motive there be. Bears and horses,
cats and fishes, dogs and flies, and every other living thing bearing
gender, invariably trouble themselves not at all concerning increase
of family, or prolongation of the species, until such increase appears;
bv which time Nature has brought a new instinct and passion into
play. Parallels between man and beasts arc not correct or just ; for
in beasts sexive and parental instincts are separate affairs, — in man
they coexist. In beasts the offspring and parents become disunited
at maturity ; in the human, the practical relationship lasts not only

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to the gates of the grave, but leaps the barriers of death, and flour-
ishes in the far-off heaven ; and will till the universe grows old, and
Time himself topples with hoary age.

We are gravely told that animals obey the impulse once a year, or
season, as the case may be ; that man ought to go and do likewise ;
buthewo«'// nor will these self-same philosophers, — I'm sure of
that I — especially in their own especial and particular cases;
because man is a myriad grades or degrees higher and finer in
organization than the animals ; and his. nature calls for more than
theirs possibly can, or does.

They obey the instinct ; it is the spur to propagation ; but the
beast, just like man up to a given point, risks all for the spur, and
cares nothing for subsequent consequences, but leaves them for
nature to attend to ; and she does it like the kind, dear old mother
that she is ! In the average human, the spur is all that's cared for
at the time ; albeit consequences are foreseen, and due provisions
made ; for to marry and mate, — beasts only mate, and marriage is
unknown to them. Not one human couple in fifty millions propa-
gate on purpose, for as a rule it is impossible ; not so with beasts ;
for one hour seals the origin of the progenal result ; and men mark
the periods, and know to a day when to look for the new animal ;
but we can only guess the time when our eyes shall gladden at the
sight of the new soul God sends to cheer and bless us.

We are all accidents I — and not a few of us unhappy ones, — I, for
instance. To apply rules to man applicable to animals alone, is an
insult to the human race. Stirpiculture, or the rearing of better
children, will never succeed upon agricultural, stock-farm, or barn-
yard principles.

True, nature requires a rich soil to produce high grades of fruit,
whether human or other sorts ; but in the former she requires the
richest of fertilizers, and its name is love. Give her that, and she'll
make your eyes glisten at the beauty of the work she does ; deprive
her of it, and crab apples are the result ; and a human crab is the
gnarliest and most bitter fruit in all God's garden. In the lower
kingdoms nature does her best to produce a superior grade of body.
In the human world she works wholly to produce a loftier order of

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soul in its triplicate divisions, — intellect, imagination, emotion; and
is never satisfied until success fairly crowns her efforts. A hand-
somer race, physically. I never saw than the modern Greek ; nor
such a perfect race of scamps; for your Romaic rascal can discount
all others on the earth, if we except these of Xew York and Boston,
who are lords paramount in all sorts of villany, from the picking of a
pocket to stealing a railway.

" I guess I'll make an experiment — only just one," says many a
man ; and he makes it ; the upshot being that from the instant he
does so, home ceases to be such to him, and any woman's presence
and activities is preferable to those of his wife. But why? Simply
because his imagination has rendered the other woman's charms live
thousand times more important than they actually are, and yet they
are sufficient to enable him to draw disparaging estimates between
solid wife and fleeting mistress. Xew fire, strange blood, has
inspired him with fresh passion, and he don't care for the old wife,
in presence of the new harlot ; and so he abuses one, and lavishes all
he has on the other. But you just wait a bit ; we'll see how it
works in the end, — and so will he; and happily, too, if it be not
too late. Three weeks' experience with a mistress will cure almost
any man of t/iat sort of weakness, if he have not, by that time, buried
his wife's love in a grave ten thousand resurrectionless fathoms
deep ! lie did not know that the strange, new, exciting magnetism
meant death to his home-love, desolation to his hearth-stone, isola-
tion to his heart, and ruin to his happiness ; yet it did and does, and
eternally will, because it is scortatory, malign, fiery, and while it
effectually displaces and kills home-love, it fails to satisfy ; and its
end is bitter ashes. In a weak moment, many a man, fired with
sudden and electric fire, has fallen into passion's dreadful snare, and
for a moment of delirious joy has bartered off a whole life of
happiness ; for when once one indulges in stolen fruit, which may
be sweet, but is never so good as that which grows on one's own
trees, the habit becomes fixed, and "just once" lands him — or her
— neck-deep in perdition! His talk — or hers — ought to be not
"Jw;t once;" but, " It's all very fine, sir or madam — but it won't

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pay, and — I'll see you in — well, you can guess where — first."
That's human talk !

IX. As already said herein, marriage — by which term herein-
after, whenever and wherever printed in italic letters, I mean the
nuptive union of the sexes ; and it is only really nuptive when love
is the prompter ; otherwise it is a desecration and worse than beastly
profanation — is productive of an entire series of effects and results
aside from the perpetuatory or propagative one wherein man and
animals are alike, and therein only ; for in them sex distinctions are,
of course, merely bodily, while in the human it involves and embra-
ces the entire vast domain of both body, soul, and the interwoven spirit.
In the non-human races the marriage office ceases when the germ is
lodged ; but in the human being its offices only begin at that point ;
for its results continue, whether the rite be propagative or no, not
only through an arc or chord of fleeting time ; but they, the results,
stretch away into and through the infinite and eternal spaces, and
probably cease not, but endure forever and forever.

If there is one thing more certain, after death, than another, it is
that every immortal man and woman of us is bound and doomed
to have all love and lust escapades universally known. We are
destined to meet all with whom we have been carnally intimate in
any degree, from that of pure and gentle love, to the horror and vio-
lence of inhuman rape. Every carnal association affects us, leaves
its mark on us and the other ; and some there be who will be aston-
ished that their whole career was turned on earth in consequence of
such or such an act — fact; and that defeat followed them in after
life by reason of the invisible presence of some wronged victims,
married or not. Nor is this all, for every escapade mingles magnet-
isms more or less ; and a man in New York in 1875 may feel the life
going out of him day by day, himself not even suspecting that a dozen
or more women in as many different parts of the earth, or even from
the spaces, are at that instant thinking of him, yearning for him, vol-
untarily or not, and are drawing out his soul just as easily and surely
as he drew their life through honeyed lips ten, twenty, or thirty years
before ; wherefore libertinism and cyprianism are attended with
strange penalties.

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In the truly human being — the non-savage and non-barbaric speci-
mens of the races — marriage never degrades the parties either in
their own or each other's eyes ; but it purifies the heart and soul, up-
lifts them to the Father, is really PulcJtritiidi)icm Diviliis Con-
junctam, as it ever should be, that is, Beauty and Divinity joined as
one ; it therefore becomes in this mystic light, instantly, the holiest
and most effective of all possible prayers, hence the most potent and
tremendous energy and agency in the entire material and hyper-
physical universe.

Let me tell you, reader, how and why this is so. But before I do
it. just look at Jugurtha, Attila, Xero and the Bonapartcs. with
scores of other scourges of God and the human world. — called into
being in an instant of time to lash the earth to agony. — -a prayer of
evil-guild, silently, but effectively uttered at the instant of their de-
scent into the matrices that thereafter gave them to the world. Is not
this sufficient to prove the truth of what I call a most effective prayer ?
Turn the page and behold a Christ, St. John, Buddha, Confucius,
and see the results of peaceful prayer uttered silently too, exactly as
in the other case or cases. But there are other proofs : —

X. That the creative function is the highest force in us, as it is in
and of the Deity, admits of no denial ; for it ought to be, if it is not,
a perfectly self-evident proposition, axiomatic in its nature, and
therefore requiring no attempt toward its demonstration ; for it is
palpably clear that two principles are interwoven and reciprocally
acting and reacting upon each other everywhere and in all things in
the universe whereof we know. These principles are male and fe-
male, and both alike arc manifestations or modes of the superlative
and ineffable Master-Potency, Power, Energy, or over-lapping, sub-
tending, underlying, crowning essence of the universal realm, call it
by whatever name you will ; and it, the bisexive energy, displayed
all around, demonstrates itself to be the Imperial Force of all that is.
To it all things arc subsidiary. To it all things bow, bend, acknowl-
edge the peremptory sway of, and without which the All that is
would become a blank and starless void, as terrible as eternal Night
itself: more cheerless than the grave; a radical nihility, so utterly

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benumbed and benumbing that destruction itself were tame in com-
parison.

God is supposed to be a dual being ; so is man ; but Deity is dual
in a double sense ; that is to say, God is positively male, and posi-
tively female ; while also, as in man, all the masculine or electric
attributes of God are pervaded by the magnetic feminine principle.
We all know that the better side of man is the she or mother side ;
and that from it spring all the major elements of both his greatness
and his goodness ; and we admire an intellectual giant, while we
adore a loving man ; because from his love, not his intellect, arises
all of goodness, inspiration, aspiration, generosity of soul which
characterizes him. We are pleased with the Platos, but we worship
the Christs. It is the softer side of soul that generates moral or any
other real grandeur, and makes great deeds possible to man ; for it
is that alone which has power to transmute man the savage into man
the incarnate demi-god.

All sentient and non-sentient being is more or less pervaded, ac-
cording to capacity, with what I may call the male and female aura
or effluence of the great Supreme, the unknown and unknowable
Deity ; and all these incarnations of the original Life, save only the
human, are distinctively and radically either wholly male or female.
True, there are among the lower types and forms of organic life, a
few seeming exceptions, as the so-called hermaphrodites ; but, in re-
ality, such are apparent only ; for examination in the light of mod-
ern science proves all such organisms to be a union of the two prin-
ciples in a single body, and not a fusion, by any means ; and that the
male side fecundates the other. But a human, canine, equine, bovine,
or any other bisexed being is an utterly impossible thing, all those
affirming to the contrary notwithstanding. There are and have been
malformations claimed to be proofs of dual gender, but they were
really one or the other.

Below man, while the sexes are distinct, in him, as a principle,
not a physical fact, they for the first time fuse and blend, at least on
this, and probably upon every other soul-bearing world in the eternal
vaults of space. It is this blending of sex in soul that makes us what
we are ; for were we not half mother, our father's influence upon us

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would drive the world to chaos in a year ; and all that is really ex-
cellent in us is the capacity to love and grow; and nothing is capa-
ble of love but man.

There is a curious proof of the soundness of the foregoing state-
ment, yet it seems to have escaped the notice of the scientist : I al-
lude to the notorious fact that some womb-bearers, wives and moth-
ers too, arc females only physically ; while spiritually, mentallv,
morally, psychically, and in every other way but one, the}- were and
are wholly hard, cold, masculine beings, living contradictions of the
statement', their forms and functions declare to the world. On the
other hand, many who wear the Phallic sign of gender are no more
men in soul, than is the little romping lass of five brief summers a
full-grown, full-blown woman.

Such people are human monstrosities, and were born wrong. If
you ask me why and how, listen, and the story shall be full}", fairly,
yet briefly told : —

XI. If a human monad, or " zoosperm," from the left side of the
father, encounters a ripe ovum from the left side of the mother, that
fact determines the gender. It will be male. [See a section on this
very point in the sequel.] Reverse the case, and reverse results will
follow, invariably, — though how to do it on purpose is a somewhat
difficult problem to solve ; yet it can be done, and is far more easily
accomplished than at first sight may appear.

Now accidents and inversions, aversions and perversions, occur in
all departments of nature, but none so glaring and positive as are en-
countered among human beings ; and the mis-sexing of them is one
of the most common forms of mal-construction ; lor it frequently
happens that a female -/oosperm, which is the living monad, or soul-
germ, supplied by the male parent, and clothed in flc-h by the
mother, is unable to reach a corresponding female ovum, and is com-
pelled to be expurgated, or enter one from the wrong ovarium ; in
which case the body of the child will be of one gender, its soul and
spirit of the opposite one. In a normally peopled world such mon-
strosities, which now abound all about us, could not possibly be
coaxed, drawn or forced into existence as a human incarnation ; and
it is utterly impossible for such to appear at all upon the world's

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stage, if parents wholly, or even partially, love each other ; and when
such miscreations are seen, it is proof stronger than holy writ that
love did not rule in the hour of their generation. Now I have
affirmed as a truth that true human sex is primarily of soul, and sec-
ondarily of body ; hence it follows that the post-mortem state of such
mixed beings is not a permanent duration of their condition here ;
for gradually the true sex of the individual asserts its native force and
power ; the physical, or rather hyper-physical being is gradually
toned down or up to his or her true condition ; the malformation
begins to lessen by slow degrees, its signs to disappear, and then they
assume either the perfected states of man, or that of woman ; their
angularities are worn away, and the beings who on earth belied the
story of their true gender become as other normal beings are ; the
memory of what they once were fades away, and they take rank
among the truly human.

XII. The philosophers of my day were generally blind to, or
oblivious of, the fact that the greatest degree of human excellence in
offspring can never be attained, even though the parents are phvsi-
cally perfect ; but that a wife every way inferior except in love,
loving and being loved, will give the world such children as will
prove themselves, indeed, truly great, and grandly good. The
strongest force, mental power, and creative energy in the domains
of science, art, philosophy, and literature everywhere, is invariably
manifested by those who have the most loved and loving mother in
them — people whose feminine or magnetic side entirely balances,
or slightly overweighs the electric or masculine moiety of their
being. He is everywhere most welcomely greeted, caressed and
influential, who is most magnetic, or female, — not in the effeminate
sense, but in the glowing, radiant heartfulness of his nature, — is
one who has not the most intellect, but most gentleness, love,
affection, combined with it. Take the real or ideal Nazarene, per
example, who perished for loving mankind in his 49th year [see
Bunscn~\ ; or, going back of his alleged times, leap the chasmal
years to the Bo-Tree man, and scores of others equally good, if not
so famous ; and whenever you find a great soul in a male body,
depend upon it he is more than half mother ; for it is the woman

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side of such people that gives them power, genius, mental pith, and
enables them to write their names in adamantine letters upon the
grand facade of the universal human temple! It is equally true, that
those are the most glorious and glorified of the other gender, who
were, or arc, not the most electric, masculine and intellectual, but the
most tender, pure, loving and feminine in all respects.

XIII. But you say, " We women are not perfect yet. We want
perfect offspring ! Some of us have not just such husbands as we
wish. We arc too pure to sully our souls, no matter how great the
temptation may be. We prefer to abide in marriage as we have
found it. Some children, the results of such marriage, are not
what we would have them ; therefore, pray tell us how to improve
upon them hereafter."

The answer is simple, the method easy. Never run the risk of
conception, except you be mentally and physically prepared, — not
for // — but to utterly banish everything but the pure desire of vour
soul to give him all the love then — at the marriage — that you can,
and wish, will, pray, desire, decree, that the result, if such there be,
may be modelled after your soul's loftiest ideal. Keep up this all
the time of gestation if possible, and the operation of the law just
revealed will convince you and the world that nothing equal to it
ever fell from human lips or pen.*

* Complaints on both sides — deep, if not loud — are made about want of pas-
sional fervor, and affectional ardor; and unjustly often in both cases, for each
takes especial pains and particular care not to strive in any way to bring about
a different nerval condition. I once asked an Arab physician in E^ypt, if such
things existed among the dark races, in the harems, or amidst the nomads.
Yes, he said; but seldom. And when it does, the entire character of the food is
changed; abstinence Vamovr, is persisted in; and when both these fail, the weak
one is by the other mesmerized with a long-fringed feather, tenderly, lightly,
slowly drawn down the spine, breast-, and across all parts of the well-washed
cuticle, so lightly as scarce to touch ! There is a peculiar and powerful conduct-
ing property in such a feather, and never yet in :?.o0;) years lias it been known to
fail. In your cold land (America) the aphrodisiacal treatment should be accom-
panied witli the internal cordials I told you of; and Allah, precious Allah! will
speedily bless the unfruitful pair; for a soul In-Gotten without fervor had better
never come to earth, for it will be wretched and a curse to itself until its flight
toward the Ghillem. There is more on these points, but they cannot be given
herein.

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Please recall the incident of myself and the little fairy. Well, that
is worth worlds to you, for suppose that, instead of wishing, willing,
desiring, decreeing perfect offspring, you exert it to redeem your
husband, to kindle up his love for you, for home, for his own fire-
side. Eut perhaps you care little or naught for all that ; still you
want health, beauty, strength and long life, all of which are achiev-
able by the same magic means ; else in such moments — during
power absence — all these are lost, and another nail driven home into
your coffin. Obey this grand law, follow out this splendid rule, and
ere long you will find that your rjower -will perceptibly augment,
most assuredly be felt, and before you are well aware of it will work
such a redemptive change as shall bathe your house in pearly glory.
This principle will win him from all others, and kindle love where
all was cheerless, wintry blasts before. I know it, have seen it tried,
and am confident that she who persistently tries cannot by any possi-
bility fail ! Of course the same power can be used by husbands.
It is simply substituting active soul-will, love, for indifference, pas-
sive body and sufferance ; but, as sure as death, here is the starting
point of a divine life !

XIV. But how about promiscuity or variety in the love rela-
tions of life ?

Reply : There may be those who can find happiness therein. I
never could, and do not want to make the experiment. My reasons
will be seen further on in this work ; but before we come to that, I
wish at this point once for all to say that I believe in free speech,
and wide-spread agitation of all questions, social and sexual included ;
but while I champion the right, I by no means espouse the cause of
those champions, for I must abide by the laves of my own individu-
ality, and it is my firm belief that love-variety in any shape is inju-
rious to soul and body, and that the highest point of human power
can only be reached by those who are amatively true to each other ;
for purity alone is the price of power, the secret of soul-might, and
it is the coin accepted at God's exchange for such glories as he keeps
especially for true and earnest souls. I write these lines here because
at this moment a paper lies, in two senses, before me, which distinctly
says that I am an advocate of certain opinions which my entire life

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has been spent in confuting— as 'witness even- book I have ever
written, every speech I have ever spoken. Having put this on
record, I now drop all that matter, — both the falsehoods and the fal-
sifiers, forever and forevennore, as being beneath either notice or
contempt.

The demand for novelty, '■ variety," or change in love matters, is
not a part of my being, and only foiled zealots — feminine — and
worse things in male shape, ever started such malignant slanders
against me, — human perverts of both genders, who, failing to induce
me to pervert certain knowledge and powers to their base ends and
systems, sought to injure me by the meanest and most contemptible
of all possible scandal. But I laughed at the cyprians, and snapped
my fingers at the rogues in grain. I am only capable of one love at
one time, but that time to me fastens its further end to the eternities
just ahead of us all. Temporary attractions departed with my dead
years, thank Heaven, and their fruitage was ever bitter, bitter.

XV. So true is the statement concerning the vastly greater and
superior relative value of the Feminine Principle, that even in the
present lubricious age, when woman is almost everywhere wrongly
rated, badly educated, and worse placed than she should be, there is
still, deep down in the hearts of most, even the coarsest men, a meas-
ure of gallant respect, which occasionally gleams forth in noble
deeds, and brave championage of the sex, in such guise as to give
great hope for fuller and better things by and by.

The chivalry of all ages has not only proved fcal to her and ac-
knowledged its dependence upon her smile and frown, boldly fight-
ing for her right or wrong, then, in the foretime, just as now ; but
has taken especial pains to celebrate individual women and the uni-
versal sex ; and this worship of the second, if not the primal element
of nature, has been carried further, and been more general, than the
modern reader might imagine. For instance, who among those who
peruse this cssav would believe, save on most indubitable evidence,
that the very flower of one, nay, t~vo of the leading nations of the
world this day do homage to the emblem of Womanhood ? Yet,
nevertheless, such is the fact; for the noblest regalia, the highest
honor won and worn by Britain's proudest men, is to be acknowledged

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to be worthy of wearing the royal insignia of the Garter ; while the
Fleur-de-lis of France, meaning something precisely similar, has
been the boast of her noblest for centuries.

Now what does that same Garter mean ? Is there any one so unin-
formed as to imagine for a moment that it signifies the mere string
worn about the leg to keep nice stockings from dragging about fair
heels ? If so, here let that absurd notion be rectified, for the emblem
signifies no such puerile nonsense at all. The motto of the order,
Princely and Imperial, is in these days written Honi soil qui mal
y flense, translated to mean — to the uninitiated, outside world —
" Evil to him who evil thinks," which, in a certain sense, is true and
correct, for it does mean that, but not at all in the manner that people
generally think it docs. It has no reference to general evil whatever,
but it expressly means evil of a certain and peculiar kind ; for it so
happens that the real first word is not Honi but Toni, and that
means nothing more nor less than the feminine organs of generation,
coupled with their periodic functions.

Now, while in all ages of the world's known history, a grand ma-
jority of all mankind, including all modern Christians, worship brute
force, and luxuriate in varied forms of Phallic or Priapic worship,
and the Phallus is the male organ of generation and Priapus was its
god ; while they, I repeat, adored and adore creative energy as
symbolized by the emblem alluded to, of which all steeples, towers,
beacons, light-houses, monuments, cenotaphs, and May and liberty
poles and fiagstaffs, are but symbols ; while that form of worship —
of the male god — has been, and still is, almost universal, except in
its coarser, grosser forms, in our days, there have not been wanting
other human hosts who did, and still do, pay homage at the shrine of
the Feminine Deity, whose symbol is the rose, discus, arch, oval, and
dome ; and in some barbaric lands the organ itself, openly, as in all
lands sub rosa or secretly ; but in civilized America in its most low
and disgusting form, for thousands seem to adore no god but Lust,
and practically worship at no other shrine. Witness the universal
prevalence of concubinage and harlotry, gotten to be even a licensed
thing, and everywhere a winked-at adjunct of civilization, to the de-
basement of man and blasphemy of God and Womanhood, as of yore

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in Greco-Roman days; but this time entailing dreadful penalties in-
stead of rewards upon its multitudinous devotees; for not even the
triplicate king evils, opium, alcohol, and tobacco, inflict such awful
punishments upon their votaries as Cypriana, the salacious Diva of
Ilarlotdom. To return to the point at issue : In some form or other,
most of us worship the disc symbol ; and four-fifths of the intelligent
world is to-dav agitated, not merely concerning the svmbol and its
nature, but about the tremendous mysteries it shadows, and the vast
volume of meanings that underlie and are embosomed within it. I
trust, before this t..sk of mine is finished, to demonstrate it to be in
very truth what it claims, — a new revelation of sex, and to make
one successful effort to remove the subject far above the muck,
slime and filth hitherto attendant upon it ; for if there is a divine
thing on earth, it ought to be Love — its laws, rules, phases and
moods, — knowledge of which is a redeeming power.

I alluded to the universality of sex emblems, and will close this
section by calling attention to our national banner ; for the American
flair floating from a staff is one of the finest illustrations of the double
glory in the world ; because the staff symbolizes the Phallus ; its cord
represents the chain of love binding the sexes together ; the folds of
bunting arc emblems of woman's floating draj>ery ; the blue means
his. her, their mutual truth and fidelity ; the white, her purity ; the
red symbolizes her periodicity and ability to defy death by rcpeo-
pling the world. I shall allude to other colors in another section.

XVI. A true negro never reaches a stage of mental development
enabling him to master metaphysics ; nor at maturity does he ever
surpass in capacity the adolescent average Anglo Saxon ; but in the
power of maintaining love at high tide he can discount all the white
races of the globe! I make this observation at this point for two
reasons : first, to draw a parallel ; second, to tell the reader that in
mv medical practice, in nervo-vital diseases, I often prescribe " Xe-
"To mcctiivs, and fifty cents in the plate " for being therein' benefited.
They did so, these pale, haggard wives and chlorotic girls, and sat
there to hear the ardent worshippers preach, sing. pray, shout-, get
glorious, and fill the room with a rich and healthy magnetism, every
inhalation of which, to the sick ones, is worth a month's life, and a

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ton of doctor's stuff thrown in. Now for the other point : No sooner
does an American boy get on his first pair of pants than he has pru-
rient notions right straight along, and takes good care to demonstrate
them with chalk upon the walls and fences everywhere. Now this
is not so dreadful after all, — for such antics characterize all young ani-
mals, — provided his elders would take him in hand and teach him
the true meaning of the origin of the strange ideas which from morbid
nature, inculcation, precept and example of his associates he has im-
bibed, but does not comprehend.

I have said that this nation was the most passional one on earth.
But then you know that nations and individuals arc exactly alike ;
moved by the same forces, governed by the same principles, prompted
by the same motives ; and remember too, that this nation is but a boy
yet, not out of its teens ; hence, its universal pudicity is not to be won-
dered at ; nor that its principal, most sincere and best-paid-for worship
is, and for some time to come yet will be, at the passional shrine, in or
out of wedlock. The same thing prevails all over the globe, and likely
for the same reason ; i. c, because as yet it is but a baby-world ! At all
events its worship is of the character already set forth ; and its best
men have been the most earnest devotees ; for somehow or other,
there is not and never has been a really great man in it but who has
been more or less chargeable with practices not accordant with the
strictest rules of nun-ship or monk-hood — which is oftener — in
results — monkey-hood instead.

XVII. Ilargrave Jennings, of England, the eminent Rosicrucian,
writing upon the subject of the Garter, and before quoting Ashmole
in regard to the same matter, observes : " All the world knows the
chivalric origin of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. It arose in
a princely act, rightly considered princely, when the real, delicate,
inexpressibly high-bred motive and its circumstances arc understood,
which motive is systematically and properly concealed. Our great
King Edward III. picked from the floor, with the famous words of
the motto of the Order of the Garter, the "garter," or, as we inter-
pret it, by adding a new construction with hidden meanings, the
"garder" \gaurdcr, P. B. R.], (or especial cast us, shall we call it?)
of the beautiful and celebrated Countess of Salisbury, with whom, it

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is supposed King Edward was in love." In other words she
dropped a cloth which men ought never to heliold; and Edward
acted the part of a true gentleman, in preserving her from ridicule
and shame, by turning an accident fouls would giggle at, inlo one
commanding profound reverence and chivalric respect from all who
pride themselves on being men.

Old Elias Ashmole, the very highest British authority on the points
here involved, writing about them, says: "The Order of the Gaiter,
by its motto, seems to challenge inquiry, and defy reproach. Every-
body must know the story that refers the origin of the name to a
piece of gallantry; either the Queen or the Countess of Salisbury
having been supposed to have dropped one of those very useful pieces
of female attire at a dance. [Here follows some Latin, the gist of
which I have already given in the conclusion of the last section. P.
B. R.] The ensign of the order, in jewelry or enamel, was worn
originally on the left arm. Being in the form of a bracelet to the
arm, it might possibly divert the attention of the men from the re-
puted original ; it might be dropped and resumed without confusion ;
and the only objection I can see to the use of such an ornament is
the hazard of mistake from the double meaning of the term pcriscclis,
which signifies not only a garter, but hrccclics, which our English
ladies never wear."

That settles the point. The garter was a girder, which the lady
dropped; and the true gentleman picked it up, pinned it to his
breast, and challenged the world's respect for himself and woman
forever and forevermorc. Glorious Edward !

XVIII. Isn't it curious that the generality of even educated people
fail to see that the idea of sex as a principle, and in all its implica-
tions, runs through everything, even language? In French there's
no it, as with us, but everything is il or clle, — her or she. We all
know that human speech is the result of the gradual development of
the race through ages of time ; its dii'crcnt forms being determined by
the differences of latitude, soil, climate, physical and other concomi-
tant surroundings. Letters are but external symbols of human
thought; and in them all two basic ideas predominate — /.<■., the
male and female. The letter D and its equivalent^, the Egyptian

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hieroglyph and hieratic figure, and the Phoenician one likewise, is
but the feminine symbol, more or less perfectly drawn, according to
the ability of the scribes or sculptors who made them. Thus also
— and nearer nature — are their equivalents of the Roman R ; while
their N, L, and sh, are unquestionably suggested by the phallus, or
lingam, the opposite idea. And so it is all through the entire list of
alphabets, ancient and modern ; some letters representing one em-
blem, others its opposite, and still others the union of the two.
Instance the Archaic alphabet, Greek, Phoenician, Italic, as they
existed from 1,000 to 600 years before Christ's date — for the
Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, He, Var, Zyin, Cheth, Kaph, Teth,
Lamed, Samekh, Ayin, and Tav, and their English, Phenician,
Greek and Italic equivalents, as unmistakably emblematize the
above three ideas, as that rain tells of growth in field, forest
and fen ! What is the soft, sweet, flowing circle or ring, but
the symbol of Faith, Eternity, Eternal Love, Magnetism, — the
yoni, — the female emblem — the letter O? What is the letter I
or the figure 1, but the symbol of generative power, — the lingam,
or male ? Ay, all letters are but interchanges, interminglings of the
two original forms — the I or male, and the O or female ideas.

For instance, B is two-thirds female, one-third male ; C is mainly
female ; D is both sexes ; Q^ suggests union ; and in fact, all letters
convey the same meaning in clear, or less clear form.

XIX. The Lingam, Linga or Lingum (male organ-worship), is
but the reverse of the discal or oval worship. The dome every-
where is but the female idea ; the minaret represents the male ; and
as said before, actually the colors of all our flags, red, white and
blue, green and yellow, are representative of the same, or Garter
Idea ; the first two meaning the spiritual purity and sacrificial blood
of woman ; the blue already explained ; the green representing the
result of the union of male and female — production, fertility,
growth ; and the yellow typifying ripeness, or the first completion of
the destiny ordained to both.

XX. Torches, flambeaux, and fireworks everywhere symbolize
sexual, therefore creative passion (and what this last means will be
seen hereinafter ; for it is ?iot limited to the generation of progeny) .

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Tliev typify vaguely to some, clearer to others, the strange, inner
mystic rim-: which, unlike all other forms of Flame, has its origin in
God. and its flow from within us, net from without ; for passion
rises in the mind when normal, — in the soul; not the body, save
when our natures are inverted ; and even then its fountain h in the
unholy soul, before it leaps to the still more unholy body. Desire is
a/:i\')'s first metaphysical before it is material in human kind; but
when the conscience and moral poles arc reversed, the spark that
explodes the mental flame may be, and often is, sent from the body
first to the soul. Thus certain foods or drinks generate an excess
of caloric in the nervous ganglia of the reproductive system ; a spark
— spontaneous combustion — leaps thence to the brain, the soul
catches fire, and hurls its masses of lurid flame through the cerebrum,
cerebellum, spinal cord, ovaria, prostate gland, testes or vagina —
and — draw the curtain o'er the dreadful scene !

XXI. Just as sex runs through all nature so docs it obtain of
nations, tribes, peoples and ages; some are entirely female or male
in their genius, art, literature, and general specialties; and so
plainly docs this truth manifest itself that I do not care to occupy
time in proving it. But this will I sav : The most masculine nations
tend greatest to feminine worship ; and. per contra, the ideal of the
feminine peoples is the masculine worship.

Finally, the most masculine man adores at the female shrine, and
his god i> far more she than he ; while the most feminine woman
worships the most masculine man. Thus here, there, and every-
where the two universal principles seek each other, blend, fuse,
intermingle, and unwittingly obey the mighty dual law!

XXII. hove between human beings of opposite sexes is of two
general kinds; isl. that in which passion is not an integrant, such
as tlie love between parent and child ; that which is wholly amicive
or purely friendly; that which is platonic or purely spiritual,
ethereal, based upon afiinities of ta-te. similitudes of soul; that
which is founded upon gratitude ; and, lastly, that which is wholly
and absolutely mystical — the (lon't-know-why-but-it-i-so kind of
iecliug — and which, while it may be to a limited extent gratified on
earth, vet its full fruition can only be achieved, felt and realized after

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both shall have become citizens of the country of disembodied souls.
Now it often happens that people in whom this sort of love exists
mistake its nature and significance ; imagine that they were born for
each other ; and, so they are, but not for the life below. They
marry, and, to their first surprise, and subsequent horror, discover
that for all the purposes of matrimony one is oil, the other water,
without a particle of mental lime to combine and fuse the two
together, and thereby form a true kalsomate of soul.

" I think the pity of this earthly life
Is lore. So sighs a singer of the day
Whose pensive strain my sympathetic lay
Sadly prolongs. Alas ! the endless strife
Of Love's sweet law with cold Convention's rules ;
The loving souls unloved ; the perfect mate,
After long years of yearning, found — too late !

" The treason of false friends ; the frown of fools ;
The fear that baffles bliss in beauty's arms ;
The weariness of absence ; and the dread
Of lover, or of love, untimely dead, —
Musing on these, and all the direful harms
That hapless human hearts are doomed to prove,
I think the pity of this life is love ! "

So do I. But even a greater pity exists where, fired by the mos\
ardent hopes, one or both find out that not a real tie of soul bind?
the twain together. Then comes the unveiling ; and, my God, what
an awful, horrible spectre stands frowning where each expected to
behold and hold — she an Adonis, he a perfect Hebe !

When the mistake is made such parties marvel and wonder how
on earth it can be so ; and why the actual marriage produces effects
so utterly foreign to their expectations and hopes. In the union of
two such there is a compatibility of spirits to a great extent, but
none whatever on the amative plane, — the sex of form ; for the
actual fact of marriage produces utter dissatisfaction to /tim,
horror, pain, mental anguish, disease and lingering death to her.
This generates discord and despair, general unhappiness, and is
almost sure to drive the man to the house of the strange Woman,

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and his wife cither to insanity, the grave, or the arms of a lover who
cati affiliate with her to some extent, at least upon the external or
mainly sensuous plane ; and the upshot of the matter is divorce and
two wretched lives. Now, in my travels up and down the lanes of
Marriage-land, I have seen scores of just such cases; and there arc
other scores, ay, millions that I have not seen, and of whose terrible
secret no one but themselves are aware ; and sometimes they do not
know what ails them, and attribute their distresses to a thousand
causes, not one of which is the real and true one.

When, further on in this New Revelation, I shall analyze the
matter, hundreds who read it will sec the real point, and, probably,
make no effort to better their sad condition. From such unions as
these spring a class of children so utterly angular and deficient that
the marvel is they ever find peace at all on earth, or enjoy a happy
hour.

XXIII. The second general kind of love between the sexes may
be numbered oxe and two. The first of which is the exact oppo-
site, in nearly all respects, of that just described in Section zzd. It
is just as earnest, honest, and deceptive, as the other, but is far more
endurable, because there is a better cohesion between them than in
the other case ; their lives are evener, their marriage satisfactory ;
their offspring more adapted to life on earth, and in society- ; their
own phvsical health and that of their children is better ; and their
union will last longer and produce generally better results, albeit
said union is quite as far from being right and proper as anything
can well be.

In the first case, to use a meaning metaphor, the first couple only
met each other upstairs, in the garret ; they only fused in the Irain.
Thev could not affiliate downstairs — in the passional moms of the
house of marriage ; although they were compelled to descend once
in a while, it was something to be gotten over as quickly as possible,
and to be only remembered with a shudder by her, a smothered
malediction by him.

In the other case it was kitchen and cellar life ail the time ; a
monotony endurable certainly, but very unsatisfactory for all that;
for it so happens that although some of us overvalue ludy, its

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adjuncts, functions and offices, yet, being human, we require a little
intellect, soul and emotion with our lives ; cannot be contented with
body only, and feel the need of a little sour leavening to season the
dry bread of earthly being. Such couples grow tired of each other ;
of the monotony ; and either party of such a firm will strangely take
to other persons who manifest qualities and powers, which, from
their own state of soul-starvation, they know how to appreciate !
The origin of such marriages takes its rise in physics purely. He is
stout, magnetic, robust, full of fire, and passional auras envelop him
round about ; and passion ahvays exaggerates both the properties
and qualities of the object upon whom its eyes are cast ; mentally
endows it with what it has not, and never will have ; and at the
same time revels in an insane dream of fancied joys, destined never
to be realized, because his whole being is in such a red-hot fever,
that, could he actualize his desire, death would stop him instantly,
because nothing human could endure such a poignancy as he hopes
to enjoy.

She is young, round-limbed, rosy-cheeked, spirited, vivacious, full
of health, — and from what she has learned through other females —
full of curiosity as to the facts of marriage. Well, she has passed
the rubicon, and they twain lengthen out their honeymoon for about
a year ; at the end of which time it is an old and flavorless story,
and discontent comes in, because each feels the need of a little
change. The upshot of such a union is that neither of them see a
genuinely happy hour, till that wherein each hopes to be free from
the other, and try their chances elsewhere. So much for general
division number one. The next division is that which is being, with
its mysteries holy and unholy — that is in its normal development, and
abnormal or unhealthful one — about to be treated in the pages that
follow.

XXIV. Love being much more than a mere sentiment between
the sexes, it is plain that neither its ground-work, nature, or cryptic
meaning, has hitherto in any land been thoroughly understood. I
have for long, weary years studied it in many countries of the globe.
Here and there I got — not a new idea of it, but sugggestions which
led me to investigate and explore. And now, in this, probably the

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47

last book but one or two which I shall ever write, I desire, nut to
make a co/t/rss.'c/t, for I am proud of the truths alone I delved fur.
and brought up from the zem — zem of mystery — hut to make a
statement and explanation. I had struggled so hard to get a lair
hearing at the bar of the world, that many a time, in view of the
cruel faet that I was met everywhere with suspicion, slander anil
malignant envy, I have bathed in the dark waters ot de-pair; and
but for, as I believe, the protecting care of the dead, whose lo\ ing
hands either held me up in the bitter strife, or, tailing to be able to
do that, eased mv falls — I should have rushed of my own ait into
the awful fields of eternity. Early in life I discovered that the faet
of mv ancestry on one side, being what they were, was an elfeetual
cstoppal on mv preferment and advancement, usefulness and influ-
ence. I became famous, but never popular. I studied Rosicrucian-
ism, found it suggestive, and loved its mysticisms. So I called
myself The Rosicrucian, and gave my thought to the world as Rosi-
cian thought ; and lo ! the world greeted with loud applause what it
supposed had its origin and birth elsewhere than in the soul of P. L>.
Randolph.

Very nearly all that I have given as Rosicrucianism originated in
mv soul ; and scarce a single thought, only suggestion--, have I
borrowed from those who, in ages past, called themselves by that
name — one which served me well as a vehicle wherein to take mv
mental treasures to a market, which gladly opened its doors to that
name, but would, and did, slam to its portals in the face of the
tawnv student of Esoterics.

Precisely so was it with things purporting to be Ansairetic. 1
had merely read Lydde's book, and got hold of a new name; and
again mankind hurrahed for the wonderful Ansaireh, but inconti-
nently turned up its nose at the supposed copyist. In proof of the
truth of these statements, and of how I had to struggle, the world is
challenged to find a line of mv thought in the whole .j.ooo hooks on
Rosicrucianism; among; the brethren of that Eratcrrhlv — and I
know many such in various lands, and was, till I resigned the office,
Grand Master of the only Temple of the Order on the globe ; or in
the .Ansairetic works, English, German, Syriac or Arabic.

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One night — it was in far-off Jerusalem or Bethlehem, I really
forget which — I made love to, and was loved by, a dusky maiden
of Arabic blood. I of her, and that experience, learned — not
directly, but by suggestion — the fundamental principle of the White
Magic of Love ; subsequently I became affiliated with some der-
vishes and fakirs of whom, by suggestion still, I found the road to
other knowledges ; and of these devout praclicers of a simple, but
sublime and holy magic, I obtained additional clues — little threads
of suggestion, which, being persistently followed, led my soul into
labyrinths of knowledge themselves did not even suspect the exist-
ence of. I became practically, what I was naturally — a mystic,
and in time chief of the lofty brethren ; taking the clues left by the
masters, and pursuing them farther than they had ever been before ;
actually discovering the elixir of life ; the universal Solvent, or
celestial Alkahest ; the water of beauty and perpetual youth, and the
philosopher's stone, — all of which this book contains; but only
findable by him or her who searches well. The thoughts which I
gave to the world, that world paid me for, as it always has paid for
benefits. But what of that? Justice is sure to be done me by and
by.

I am induced to say thus much in order to disabuse the public
mind relative to Rosicrucianism, which is but one of our outer
doors — and which was not originated by Christian Rosencrux ; but
merely revived, and replanted in Europe by him subsequent to his
return from oriental lands, whither, like myself and hundreds of
others, he went for initiation.

The Rosicrucian system is, and never was other else than a door
to the ineffable Grand Temple of Eulis. It was the trial chamber
wherein men were tested as to their fitness for loftier things. And
even Eulis, itself, is a triplicate of body, spirit, soul. There are
some in the outer, a few in the inner crypts.

These, the facts concerning Rosicrucia and myself, are out at
last. Now let us go on with the book.

Enthusiasts are the ambassadors of God. It is through such only
that great truths reach the world, and that world takes exquisite pleas-
ure in crucifying all such ; and yet they will arise, proclaim their

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mission, deliver their message, establish new truths, and then march
straight to Calvary or Patmos ! In all ages there have been men
cut out after a different pattern from their contemporaries, and who,
for that reason, had and have a different destiny to fulfil. -'To he
great, is to he misunderstood," av, and crucified time and again.
Among all who have ever lived, none have worked harder, or
accomplished more good for mankind than that class of men known
in all time as Mvstics, foremost among whom was, and is. that
branch of them known as Ilermetists. — men of mark; Fythago-
reans. Rosicrucians, and lastly, the Brotherhood of Eulis, — all of
whom were, and arc, students of the same school.

When David G. Brown, of the city of New York, more recently
connected with Bennett's " Herald," was, in Montreal, I believe, asked
concerning the origin of the Great .Society, or rather Fraternity,
(the Rosicrucian branch, — but differing essentially from the branch
of that august brotherhood represented by adepts in Europe, Asia,
and myself and confreres in this country,- — yet identical in spirit, so
far as the general welfare of universal man is concerned), he re-
sponded as follows, save that he disguised certain names, which
disguises / now throw off ! — As one standing upon the beach by
the sea, and gazing far off over the turbulent waters, finds the
horizon lowering in the distance, and shutting out the land unseen
that lies bevond ; so we, standing upon the sands of time, and look-
ing back over the sea of our past history, find there is a boundary
beyond which the vision cannot extend, a point where many have
written, " Xo more beyond'."

And, as the ocean casts up from its unfathomable depths wrecks
of vessels lost, which float upon its surface, and are lost upon our
shores: so sometimes, from the immeasurable gulf that has buried
in its depths the secret of our origin, a waif drifting on the bosom <>t
time finds its wav to the limits of the historical epoch, and reveals
to us something of what was, and is lost. Then let us learn all that
we may from these waifs. Let us wander upon these trackless
shores of a silent sea, and bring from its drift-wood and wrecks all
that maybe gathered. Let us add all that maybe added of our
childhood's -dory t'-> our manhood's suffering, and our coming

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triumph. We will be proud that we are disciples of Hermes Tris-
megistus, that thrice-sealed Lord of Mind, — the Mystical Mal-Kiza-
dek [Melchizadek] of Bible repute ; but let us not forget to be
proud that we are disciples of the viewless God. . . . Twine
the laurel wreath for the victor, but add the cypress for the victim.
. . . Let us go, then, to the land of romance and of dream, —
the land of the Holy Byblus, and the Sacred Ganges. Standing
upon their shores, our minds will revert back in the dim ages, to
the days of our childhood, and the birth of the mystical reign of
Ahrimanes. We will behold in our mind's eye a succession of
kingdoms, like the succession of seasons, a rise and fall of dynasties,
like the sowing and reaping of grain. We will count the number of
patricians who live in idleness and luxury, and shudder at the
multitude of plebeians who die in agony and want. Behold those
monsters of selfishness and cruelty, whose insatiable appetite of
ambition and pride, wealth and power, could not appease, and for
whose maw the quivering flesh and trickling blood of a people
became food. Here and there, we will find men struggling against
oppression as we have struggled ; people teaching virtue and charity
as we have taught, — reviled and scorned as we have been. We
will discover that others have borne our burdens who had no hope
of receiving our reward ; that knowledge is universal, and has no
royal road ; and that they were as wise in the wisdom of their gener-
ation, as we are in ours.

And now tread softly. We are entering the dark realm of the
slumbering ages. The dust of a million years has gathered here,
and no voice has awakened its echoes since the days when the
Indian Bacchus consorted with the daughters of men.

We have left the land of the probable, and are journeying in the
regions of the possible. The footprints here and there arc of
mortals, but of those who have beheld the hidden mysteries of Eulis,
who are familiars of the Cabbala, who have raised the veil of Isis,
and revealed the Chrishna, the — yae or the A. A.

Behold in the distance, shining from the east as the sun from the
sea, the unquenchable torch of her who is nameless ; observe the
stars that circle round her, as she kneels to write upon the sand.

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Sec the sheen of her golden hair, and the spotless white of her robes;
catch the first strains of that wondrous philosophy, classic and pure,
as they fall in wordless music from her lips ; and remember how its
infinite truth and marvellous beauty, have, in all the ages that are
past, bound us together by an indissoluble bond of brotherhood, and
leavened with our faith in the innate kindness of the human heart,
taught us to sacrifice ourselves, that the peoples may advance.

They were fragments of this philosophy which we wore as a
crown of glory on our natal morn, that were disseminated by our
Master and his innumerable followers, and cast hither and thither
upon the stream of time, were finally washed by successive waves
of war and pilgrimage, to the shores of Egypt. It is of these the
author of the u History of Civilization in England" speaks, as
"forming one of the elements in the school of Alexandria, and
whose subtle speculations, carried on in their own exquisite lan-
guage, anticipated all the efforts of modern European metaphysics."

They were fragments of this philosophy which, perverted by the
strong individualities of Plato, Aristotle and Pythagoras, became
alike the systems of their schools, the Portico, the Grove, and the
Garden.

Melchizadek, or Hermes, was our first great master ; but like
many masters before and since, he lived when the " times were out
of joint," and the age was not attuned to symphonies of thought and
feeling. He tanght his rich philosophy to all, opened great hidden
depths of thought to the public eye, explained the most subtle
truths to barbarian cars, and — threw pearls to swine. And his
success. He gathered round him his disciples, and looked beyond
at their followers ; they extended in every direction, as far as eye
could reach, surging like the waves of the sea, when tossed by tem-
pests, — and with all the deep undertones and mutterings of the
ocean. Were all these his pupils? All these versed in the shoals
and depths of reasoning? No. They were families, some member
of whom believed an abstract philosophical truth, and all the rest
believed the man.

They reduced the laws of nature to form a creed, and they made a
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it. They resolved, themselves, after their agitation, into their own
natural element. That was all.

As a rustic, uninstructed in the principles, might with open-
mouthed wonder watch the burning of coal, and endeavor to
associate it with the inflation of a balloon, so Hermes, expecting only
the preconceived consequences of his teaching, was awed by the
immense bubble he had formed. As he comprehended the magni-
tude of his creation, and its now evident consequences, perhaps
there arose in his mind that inevitable conclusion that from all his
teachings and all his labor little would be accomplished. The
great minds among his followers would be philosophers, but they
would have been philosophers without him. The mass would be
fanatics, as they had been fanatics before him. He had done only
tliis — given a direction to their studies and speculations, given a
name and method to their ignorance and madness. And all this
scholasticism and philosophy, all this ignorance and madness, would
be the new religion of India, would take the place forever of her
first idolatry. Hold ! It is not yet too late to retrieve, and by one
of those rapid and eccentric movements in literature, which the
great genius of Bonaparte was wont to receive in war, to change the
whole features of the campaign. And I am so changing it ! — I, the
last Grand Master of the Order, prior to its final absorption into
regnant, peerless Eulis !

So we received our heritage, and the soul of philosophy vanished
from India and the world as a dream. The kernel was hidden, and
the shell alone permitted to remain to excite the awe of past genera-
tions, and the wonder of ours. Ah ! most noble Master, you have
long since, like Her who came befoi-e you, passed forever among the
shadows of the invisible, and the dark, but deathless realms, where
our fathers have gone before us. But as the material form was
indestructible, and lives forever in that land of blossom and of flowers,
so that spiritual and ideal emanation shall, through all coming time,
live in the minds of men, and never cease to be born anew, for
Eulis' nature is infinite and eternal !

How safely our secrets have been guarded, let each answer
according to the progress he has made in mastering them. How

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little was abstracted !>y the Esscnes, Gnostics and Eatiniyeh, you a'l
know.

For ten thousand years after Hermes, we lost no more, in our
contact with all the various peoples of the world, than the electric
elements we threw off in grasping their hands !

Though few in numbers, we guarded the great trust committed to
our care with a never-ceasing vigilance. Every member was aware
of its importance to the human race. Every member realized that
the flowers gathered from the graves of dead years must be pre-
served as a wreath to crown the age to come. Amid the swarm of
sects and societies that sprang to life in the East, surrounded by all
the schools that ilourished in the Golden Age of Greece, that little-
band of souls preserved their purity.

Secretly and silently they moved over the sands of time to the

coming of the Nazarene In the twilight that sue-

cecds the crucifixion of Calvary we can see indistinctly the move-
ments of individuals, and the banding of men. They seem to move
with an uncertain purpose, and to have lost their old effectiveness.
One. two. three, five hundred years roll by as one would count the
hours to midnight. Then there is a bustle. Work is at hand. Into
those dark ages that succeed, pass the mustering bands, and for a
thousand years death at the stake, persecution and despair on the
one hand, and the retribution of the Vehmgerichte and kindred asso-
ciations, alone point out the position of the contestants, and the
progress of the fight.

Then from his cradle in the Alps looms up Christian Rosencrux.
Seizing all at a glance, the society is reorganized ; no more to dream,
but to work ; no more to wait for the human race to accomplish its
destiny, but to assist in its accomplishment ; to oiler her bosom to the
unfortunate ; to raise the fallen ; to succor the oppressed ; to interpose
her form between the tyrant and the slave ; to lead the van in the
great light. She has the gathered knowledge of her ages of student-
life. She has the patience taught by centuries of adversity. She lias
the courage of the true and the beautiful; and, above all, she loves
the peoples, and Paschal Levcrly Randolph succeeded Rosencrux,
as the legitimate Grand Master of Rosicrucia, and Ilierarch of Eulis.

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And now I would say one word in regard to contemporary
societies. Many of them were organized with meritorious objects
in the days gone by, but the state of things that gave them being
has long since passed away. They presented a sad spectacle of
having outlived their usefulness, and drag out a fitful existence of
senseless ceremonies and abstract forms, from which the soul has
long departed. A few should receive the tribute of respect due to
that which is venerable and good, and Freemasonry should ever be
associated with the broad mantle of its charity.

In the superstructures which have been erected at different periods,
upon these foundations, one will often observe a pillar, here or there,
called the Rose Croix, or occasionally hear the mystic name Eulis,
softly pronounced.

I was conversing with a gentleman whom I supposed to be a
member of one of these " Chapters," and he said, " The Rosy Cross
is dead. We have, it is true, galvanized its skeleton into a transitory
life, but the Rosy Cross of history is dead." Dead ! I cried. She
lives ! — lives with the rich blood of the South in her veins ; with
the vigor of the North in her constitution ; with the clear brains of
the temperate zone, the depth of thought of the Orient, the versa-
tility of France, and earnestness of purpose, and boldness of resolu-
tion of the New World ; lives these three hundred years that you
think her dead, as she lived the countless centuries before you
thought her born ; and may she never cease to have a fitting casket
for her jewels, and remain a reflex of the glorious truth and beauty
of the superlative wisdom, power and goodness.

So far well ; but at last the world wants to know more of that
wonderful fraternity, which, nameless at times for long centuries,
blossomed a few centuries ago as Rosicrucia, but now has leaped to
the fore-front of all the real reform movements of this wonderful
age, and lo ! the banner of peerless Eulis floats proudly — rock-
founded — on the breeze. We, the people of Eulis, be it known,
are students of nature in her interior departments, and rejecting
alike the coarse materialism of the ages, and the sham "philoso-
phies " of the ages past and current, accept only that which forces
conviction by its irresistible logic. Men who realize the existence

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of other worlds than this arc not apt to give loose rein to passion;
nor he content with fraud in any shape. We cannot take say-sos for
facts, anil therefore we reject much that appeals to others with the
force of truth. We are ambitious to solve all possible mystery ; we
prefer one method to all other hyper-human agencies, knowing it to
be infinitely preferable to all other modes of rapporting the occult
and mysterious; and this book, and all others from the same pen,
is but a very imperfect sketch or outline of the sublime philosophy
of the Templars of Eclis. We k/tozu the enormous importance of
the scxive principle ; that a menstruating woman is an immense
power if she but knew it! that a pregnant one holds the keys of
eternal mystery in her hand, and that while thus she can make or
mar any human fortune ! We know the mystic act is one unhinging
the gates alike of heaven and of hell ; and we know two semi-brain-
less people may, by an application of esoteric principles, stock the
world with mental giants. But where shall we find students? Arc
not all the people, nearly, the slaves of lust, place, gold? Well,
we find one now and then ; and we hail him or her as the Greeks
hailed the sea — with excessive joy ! Thalatta ! Thalatta ! They
arc not multitudinous now, but will be in the good time coming.

XXV. Unquestionably while we occupy flesh and blood bodies,
and probably after we wear our electric or ethereal ones subsequent
to death, Love, other than amicive and filial, will depend upon the
magnetic congeniality existing between the two concerned ; although
even the most perfect state of magnetic fusion and reciprocation
is liable to lie disturbed by any one of quite a numerous list of
causes.

"We arc all of us, more or less, counterparts and embodiments of
nature; and nature has her ups and downs, fogs and sleets, storms
and heats, ice and fire, volcanoes and wintry blasts ; and so do. so
must we. just as long as the earth and nature are as at present ; when
they change, so will we. and very likely not much before. If
between a couple there be a full and mutual play of magnetism, it
neither draws from the other, except to replace with his or her own,
there is a good chance of general harmony, joy and content tor
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and the other has but a scanty supply, strong love may exist between
them, all other things being equal ; and the weak one will depend
almost for life itself upon the strong ; and the strong be firmly drawn
toward the weak. But there must be an assimilation between, and
blending of, the two magnetisms, else they will assuredly antagonize
and repel each other ! One party may be very glowing and loving
and magnetic, say, for instance, on plane A, — a solid, physical, mus-
cular, heedless, jolly, devil-me-care-sort of individual — say a man ;
such an one could make a perfect heaven — on his plane — with a
woman of the same grade ; but how would it be were he conjoined
with a joyous, rich-souled, healthy, magnificent, intellectual, refined"
delicate and spiritual woman, — equally magnetic as himself, but
the grade of whose magnetism was as satin compared to his own —
tow-cloth ? Now just such couples, or those as naturally and organ-
ically incompatible, somehow or other, manage to get together, and
the consequence is a life removed from happiness by a great, yawn-
ing, impassable gulf, whose black and sullen waters cannot be
bridged.

Some day, in the future, there will be honorable methods whereby
the present general mixed-upness will be made straight, and people
having unfortunatcfy made the wrong choice, and gotten some one's
else wife or husband, will be able to — yes — in some cases actually
"swap." Why not, if themselves are rendered happier by it;
society is satisfied, the prior families duly provided for, and no sin
committed, no harm done?

Woman faces heaven when she gives herself to Love and man ! —
willingly or victimly. The rule is universal, the exceptions mon-
strous; for there are, there can be none save in three cases — utter
human depravity ; certain physical malformations ; and third, in
those mysterious forms of prayer in vogue before Nineveh the first
was founded, and whose tremendous importance and vital sacred-
ness compel me to allude to no further herein. The first fact
above is not only her nature, but I hold is an especial sign of hei
celestial nature, and of heaven's mystical favor. She receives both
the human and the divine in her demise of affection, — if even by
force ! But coarser man looks toward the world's face, for then he

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is almost cntiivlv of the earth cartliv. Woman never is ; she may he
indiiTcrent ; horrified — hut still she looks toward the empyrean, and
from it — however degraded — receives a measure of life divine ; fol-
low as she may he, but touch the right chord, and slue can mother
heroes, and give gladsome Marys to the world.

Now here comes in a mooted point: of one unfaithful wife, and
one unfaithful kusband. which commits the greater sin? — or is it an
equal grade of offence before God? To this I reply: In the act,
right or wimii", man gives of himself, whether good or evil ; and
woman receives. The malign influence is external with and to him ;
internal with and to her. It is easy for him to rid himself of the
bad effects, compared with her ability to do the same ; for the foreign
influence imparted to, — remains with her, and becomes an inte-
grant of her very being ; and, as she naturally stands nearer heaven,
the greater is her fall — far greater than his who is already a creat
deal too near the earth. Hence I hold her sin greatest, just as I
would tell an angel who had sinned, " Be thy punishment severe,"
but would bid a half imbecile to " Clear out and not bother the
court."

XXVI. But there is another thought arising right here : It some-
times, and in this age and country, very frequently, happens, that
one fir both the parties to a marital compact, from a variety of
causes, some of which I will state, manage to lose this magnetic
attraction toward the other party ; and ten to one each will at once
conclude that all love between them is wholly lost or dead, when the
fact is that each has quite as much as ever, but the bridge is broken
down- — that mystic bridge, which, resting on the abutments of both
soids. spans the gulf of eternity. But, although often broken, this
bridge is seldom utterly destroyed. The statistics of divorce prove
the position here affirmed ; for a large percentage of divo: ced couples,
after enjoying a brief period of " Freedom," begin to think about it;
conclude they had not been wise enough, and were altogether too
hastv ; that, after all, there's no home like the old one ; no love like
the old love ; and thev marry each other over again, and, having cut
their eve-tccth. steer clear of former faults, and lead happy lives
thereafter.

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Why ? Because they have a little more care ; a greater amount of
give and take, without being mad about it, and make more strenuous
endeavors to please each other — and that's just it I for as soon as
people do that, they cease fretting, scolding, fuming, worrying, com-
plaining and borrowing trouble ; and therefore cease to waste their
magnetisms, consequently the honey bubbles up again and life's vine-
gar leaks out ! Now, owing to these causes, married people are not
as they should be, — the happiest beings on earth ; far from it ; the
youths and maidens discount them largely on the general average ;
and you can almost always tell a married pair wherever you clap
eyes on them ; for it's heads up ! and a smirk or smile to every one
else but each other. Not so with unwedded lovers. The former
lean away from each other, and gaze askant ; the latter lean to each
other and drink in delicious draughts of ecstasy from each other's
eyes. Now the man who accounts for this state of things on the
hypothesis that the one is passion appeased, the other only antici-
patory, is a fool, besides being a selfish knave. The true reading is :
Magnetic exhaustion in one case — magnetic reciprocity in the other.
What magnetism is I will tell you presently ; suffice it at this stage
to record its existence, and to note such facts as above adduced.

I have already, in a previous paragraph of this section, indicated,
generally, by suggestion, the cure for this state of affairs. Briefly,
they are to utterly put a stop to all sources of magnetic depletion.
Keep cool everywhere, under all provocations and circumstances.
Eat, drink, sleep well, and whatever you do, make a business of it.
When you work, with hands or brain, do it with a will ; but don't
work all the time. When the day's labor is done, forget all about
it, and devote at least two hours of the evening to social chat, talk,
visiting, or receiving visitors ; walk out ; read, listen to music, and
persistently have your two, or even one hour a day, free from sordid
strife and worldly care. Hard to do it at first in these grab-all days,
wherein, as the sailor said, " People eat hard, work hard, fare hard,
sleep hard, have a hard time generally through this life, at length
dying hard, and going to perdition at last," which the sceptical old
salt said was " particularly derned hard ! "

A pint of water contains latent force enough to blow a town

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to flinders ; an equal amount of magnetism contains active force
enough to incarnate a new being, and launch an immortal soul
upon the limitless sea of eternity ! and yet in five minutes of growl-
ing, stewing, fretting, anger, or in a wanton's or libertine's arms,
thrice that amount of imperial life is lost — and it means, also, the
shortening of at least ten good days on earth !

XXVII. Of course excessive vencry is an effective nail in any
one's coffin ; and so is excessive child-bearing, seeing that both arc
broad rivers, discharging magnetism from the human body and soul.
And this reminds me to say something in reference, not to the fetid
and unclean subject of conception-preventives, for I hold nearly all
of them as utter abominations ; but on the culture of the will
directly, and the use of that will, and it alone, in determining for
and against excessive progenv ; for a couple had better have three
reallv fine children, than thirty half-formed and delicate ones.

Excessive connubial pleasures invariably produce dyspepsia, not
only of the body, but of the mind, intellect and soul ; and when off-
spring results from such conditions, what wonder that they are
lacking in all the grand essentials of a genuine and perfect man and
womanhood. Absolute and prolonged continence is but a less
evil, though its penalty is inflicted upon the transgressor alone.
The human will, next to love, is the most powerful attribute of
immortal mankind. In most people it is splurgy, occasional,
paroxysmal, and, as a steady power, practically of no account. I
have told some persons to *• -.■.•ill" and straightway they screwed
up their faces, clenched their teeth, and looked most absurdly and
amusingly awful — or ridiculous. They strained and fumed as if
trying to lift a ton. Now -.-ill is no such thing, to be exerted in no
such way. It is simplv a quiet power, and requires no muscular or
nervous, but simply a still, mental force, to urge it into play, when
it is feeble, as in most it is; it should be cultivated by thinking
determinedly, at intervals, of one thing <»:ly at a time, to the total
exclusion of every thing, topic or subject besides. Thus one can will
— after practice — tears to the eyes, blushes to the cheeks, pallor
to the face, as thousands of ministers and other actors constantly do.
We can will to close our hands or eyes; and just so we close or

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open the sphincter ani, or that of the bowels, bladder, lips, and close
them at pleasure. The Oneida Perfectionists declare, and with un-
doubted truth, that any man can, at will, after a little practice,
effectually control the ejective action of the seminal vessels ; but he
is an unwise and suicidal man who attempts a thing so unnatural and
injurious.

But how is it with woman ? Can she control corresponding uterine
muscles ? I answer, most assuredly. All mothers and obstetricians
know the enormous expulsive power of the uterus ; and that con-
tractile and expansive power, like that of any other sphincter, is
measurably under her will. When she sees fit to keep it closed, no
other power but her own can defeat her purpose ; and she ought to
know when to exert that power ; and there is no necessity to use it,
save when she believes an ovum is then present, and undesirable
maternity threatened. In the will she has the only natural agent
and means, justified of nature and God, of controlling the number of
her children ; but she is only thus justified, when disease, excessive
maternal weariness, a sickly, disordered, depraved or drunken hus-
band, or one whom she hates, or is hated by, or insanity, gloom or
malformation, tell her in thunder tones she ought not to give to the
World what she cannot give well, and with safety to her own life.
By simply willing, and without much strain, the os uteri will close,
and remain thus for days together ; hence all washes and preventives
can be consigned forever to the bad limbo whence they originated.

But this is only one of the silent energies of the human will. It is
said, and I believe, that whom a woman blesses or curses when her
moon is on her, stays cursed or blessed till that same woman
removes it ; well, if she curses, she hurts herself, hence zoxmot afford
to do it ; but she can, and ought to bless, all the time. This will-
power, once started, grows apace ; and with it, you, O wife of the
troubled heart! can powerfully, silently, resistlessly, use it to direct
the mighty magnetic power of your own soul upon him you love,
would retain and wear, and wean too, from bad habits, and the
malign influence of those who, claiming to be his friends, are
really your foes, and, by their bad power over him, are practically
enemies to both.

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Fail you cannot. Nothing good can ever eaie ! True it may,
to quote Poe, be trodden down; 'but it will rise again to the life
everlasting. But to its present application. In far-olT Oriental
lands I was the guest of some Arab brethren, of a certain mystic tie ;
and one day, in a boat, we sailed away from Loolak, the port of
grand Cairo, up the stately and solemn Nile. How far we went,
whither, or what for, matters not; but then and there I ascertained
that the women of that brotherhood, and some others in that distant
sunny land, knew some natural secrets, which their fairer sisters of
the West are totally ignorant of. When one of those wives is per-
fectly assured that, by reason of illness, age or weakness, she cannot
safely bear more children without hazarding both lives, she shrinks
with unutterable horror from what our American women contem-
plate with a " pish." At the house of one Mrs. L — ds, in Boston, I
once heard a "woman," then on the point of marriage, declare she
never would bear a child ; but would kill them just as if they were
"so many puppy dogs!" — the worse than female demon! The
Oriental wife, I repeat, shrinks with superlative loathing from the
idea of murdering, or conniving at the murder of the fruit of her
womb, as all trice women do, and ever will, knowing she were a
murderess if she did ; and that she is just as certain to suffer for it
subsequent to death, as that death itself is sure to come. She
knows that the nature of the tics that bind her in marriage will,
time and again, subject her to the chances of maternity. Refuse
those risks she never dreams of doing, well knowing she would be
either laughed at, abused or divorced, or even, if not, that such
denials fail to generate quietude in the tent, or peace in the familv.
What then ? Why, she cither times her meeting with her husband,
with reference to her periods, so as to avoid distasteful chances ; or,
if accident prevents that, she merely places the ball of her thumb in
her mouth, breathes hard upon it, strains and "bears down," and is
instantly out of danger, for both ovum and zoosperm are forthwith
expelled by the forceful contractions of the uterine and abdominal
muscles. In these respects the law of God rules in the Arab tent,
instead of the abortional devils which haunt the boudoirs of civilized
and Christian mankind. .

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It is indeed very seldom that an Eastern woman resorts to that
sinless method, and then only when age, disease, or malformations
render it imperative. On the contrary, offspring are rightly consid-
ered as special blessings from the Supreme God ; hence, the first
lesson a bride receives from her mother are those that favor
such a result. She is told to wholly, fully, freely, prayerfully
abandon her entire faculties and being to the one grand end of
woman-life — the sacred mission of the wifely mother. Hence it
happens that the Oriental wife is always pure ; there are not a hun-
dred adulteresses or child-killers in all Islam, with its 200,000,000
votaries ! There is not as many of those fearful crimes committed
among all the Moslems, in ten years, as disgrace Boston, New
York, or Philadelphia every month we live. The Oriental wife,
with all her glowing soul, ivills — save in very rare instances — to be
fruitful, as all women should ; and becomes so. There are rare cases
in which a wife cannot, without imperilling her life, undergo the
ordeal of maternity, and then, and then only, the timely exercise of
the will alone forestalls death, prevents crime, and obviates all
suffering.

XXVIII. Love, I have stated, is magnetic, and subject to magnetic
law. It is a force also, capable, as all know, of exerting very
strange effects both upon human souls and bodies. But how? that's
the question ! Tell us that ! I will, listen : —

Matter and mind, in some mysterious way, are not only both alike
and unlike, and conjoin to form the thing called man, but they act
together directly and indirectly, fully or partially, and yet are not of
the same nature, albeit they act and react upon each other in myriad
ways, a fact which every one's experience demonstrates beyond
cavil. One thing is absolutely certain ; that the mind resides in the
brain ; that in it inheres what constitutes us human ; and that the
conscious point resides in the centre of the encephalon, at that spot
where all three brains meet, viz., cerebrum, cerebellum and medulla,
or spinal marrow, which is an elongated brain, is a clear fact, the
proof of which can be found by consulting any good anatomical and
physiological atlas. In this central point, as through and around
the corpus callosum, there is, in death, a nervous and spheral waste ;

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in life a brilliant sux varying in size from that of a large pea to a
perfectly gorgeous sun-shining diamond three inches in diameter. —
A ball of dazzling white fire ! — and this is the soul — the being
par excellence, the tremendous human mystery. It has a double
consciousness ; one facing time and its accidents and incidents ; the
other gazing square and straight right into eternity. For its hither
use it fashions material eyes ; for its thither use every one of a
myriad rays darting from it is an eye whose powers laugh Rossc's
Telescope to scorn ! Cut there arises a fog from the body which
mainly so envelops this central point that the eves arc veiled ;
sometimes in magnetic or other sleep the clouds shift, and then one
or more eyes glance over infinite fields, and momentarily glimpse
the actualities of space, time, possibility and eternity. [Were I, 'at
this point to reveal what I know of soul, its destiny, nature, and the
realities of the ultimate spaces, this world would stand agape ! but I
resist the temptation, and go on with this book.]

This central ball draws its supplies from space, air, ether, and
being mystic and divine, directly from the Lord of the universe, —
the Imperial Mystery, — Infinite and Eternal God. [About which
mystery the Savans are as greatly at fault as they are concerning the
facts of growth.] It breathes ; has its tides, its diastole, svstole.
flux and ebbs ; and, being compelled to gaze on the outer world
through opaque glasses, diseased bodies, it takes but distorted views
of tilings, and scarce ever can rely upon the absolute truth of what
the senses tell it; from which results mistakes, confusion, misap-
prehensions, crime, and whatever else of evil betides its fortunes
here.

The breath of the body is atmospheric air, which air is more or
less penetrated with the ether of space, the breath of God, and the
magnetism of the heavens surrounding the entire material universe.
On these it subsists ; and when it means a thing it discharges a
portion of its own sphere, its divine nerval life toward the object of
its desire and attention ; and the vehicle is magnetism, and mag-
netism is that specific vif or fluid life manufactured by the sexual
apparatus of cither gender, as said before. The thing conveyed by
it is the purpose of a soul ; the result, a certain yielding of any other

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force on earth — for nothing can withstand the absolute decree of the
waked-up human soul. Illustration :

XXIX. The soul of a woman non convert sends its fires all over
her form, because she loves the man. The atmosphere surrounding
her bulges at the equator of her body — the pelvic region — across the
hips ; and she draws all males to her then with a very powerful
attraction.

Cut after couvcrturc, and before impregnation, if she be disap-
pointed in her dream of bliss she sends the same sphere out to any
one else but him; and for all affectional purposes thereafter, so far
as sJic is concerned, he might as well'be dead ; for the sphere flattens
up when 7ie is near her, and although he may compel her obedience,
he can never reach her soul. Then comes Hades ; if not openly,
then assuredly behind the scenes! For there's no more warmth,
verve, elan, or passion in her for him, because he has lost the power
to evoke them ; and while he may, by right of human law, and her
sufferance, possess her form, her soul in its secure citadel grimly
laughs him to scorn, and despises him with perfect unction, because
it knows that every time he profanes her he stabs himself to the
heart ; for he outrages her soul, and outrage invites, curses, and
whomsoever on God's broad earth a Woman curses then and there
stays accursed, and horror and defeat follows in his footsteps wher-
ever he may be ! What d'ye think of that, my lady ? What d'ye
think of that, my man ?

But take a woman after couverture, to the point of pregnancy ;
no sooner is the monad, seed or germ lodged within the sacred and
most transcendently holy and mystical chamber of the womb, and
the filamental door has closed the aperture thereof, shutting out and
in its treasure, and from all eyes concealing the divine workshop of
the Eternal, than her soul withdraws its attentions from the womb
direct and alone, and begins to concentrate it and its magnetism
upon that womb's contents; and from that instant she begins to love
the man no less, but the unborn baby more. Why ? Because, up
to that point, her soul depended on the man ; but now a new soul
depends almost wholly upon IT. She must search out all the best
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bone, lymph, cartilage, carbon, and a million chemicals w1h.ti.-u ith
to build up a new body, from original matei ials, wherein this new
soul is to dwell for a time and times and half a time, — if the abor-
tionists, quacks, and fashions don't kill it. The soul sends lime,
iron, silver, gold, calcium, nearly all the earths and salts to mala- the
body stout and strong. Then she stores up fire in the bodv, — phos-
phor,— manufactures canals, pumps, reservoirs, telescopes, drums,
cylinders, flutes, columns, domes, cellars, chemical laboratories, and
mechanical contrivances of the most marvellous kind. After which
she "ocs aloft and brings down fire from heaven, mctaohvsical
flame, anil lodges angels all over the little mansion; music here,
science there, mathematics and memory, ambition, hope, joy, sorrow,
love and aspiration. After which she takes a lower flight, and calls
up tempters from the deeps of being to offset the angels, among
whom are avarice, anger, lying, robbery, lust, and a fearful host
beside ; well knowing that if her new charge reach heaven it must
do so alone; must toil, and sweat, and tread upon and over red-hot
sands ; wade through a million hells on its own feet ; fight its way
with its own strong hand, alone ; while God looks on and smiles, he
knowing that the goal is sweet, though the road be bitter, and that
victory may be won at last.

Now, what time has a woman got for the frivolities of love when
she is doing so grand a work as that?

Well, is it any wonder her love changes from her uterus to her
bosom? Not any ; and yet there arc fools called men who cannot,
will not, see all this, but think and insist that she who was so then
shall be so «»:i', when in fact a whole universe rolls between the two
states. She is queer, short, snappish, soft, cranky then, and no
wonder, for she has an undoubted right to raise the very Satan then
if she choose; and most of them do it. for the simple reason that
thev can't help it I Why? Reader, I have already told you that
the human being is all nature incarnated. Nature is changeable in
her moods, sunny, tempestuous, coarse, foul, mean, genial, calm,
blusters ; and all these things and states she is forced to incarnate in
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way from the valley of earth to the eternal land of paradise, the
splendid city of the Ineffable God.

XXX. I have said that, — pregnant states aside, and even to a
great degree then, for the mother is aided in all her mystic work by
the husband and father if he be a ma?i, and loving, gentle, kind and
forbearing as he should be, and not fly at her in fury and anger,
because she fails in some essential things, — the ethereal, magnetic
vehicle, with its load of soul-born love, can be by the persistent will
projected upon, and made to effectively operate on, almost any
though not every human being. There are those that a given per-
son's magnetic effluence will no more touch than water will a duck's
back ; it rolls off, and never contacts at all. In such hard cases the
attempt had better be abandoned, for two reasons : first, it cannot
succeed, owing to organic differences of constitution ; and second,
if it could it would be effort thrown away. But the same power
and force can be directed upon ourselves by ourselves, either upon
an afflicted member of the body, — from brain to heel, — or upon the
internal viscera, as in cases of dyspepsia, liver trouble, kidney diffi-
culty, heart disease, cancer of stomach ; above all, the pelvic viscera
of either gender when disordered, as most are ; gravid uterus, ulcer-
ated, originating frequently in lacerated, vagina ; ovarian disease,
vulvular congestions ; inflamed prostate, or febrile testes and
vaginitis, — all these are reachable by the force named, exerted in
the manner specified in a preceding section, but which are worth
repetition. Direct the attention toward the cause of anxiety, — a
person, sick or well, generally, or to a specific point of body, mind,
morals, — and strongly, yet calmly, desire, wish, will, the love-cure
to be effective ; but a few trials will be needed to ensure absolute, if
qualified, success ; an assuagement will assuredly follow, nor is the
genuine cure far off. It is a scientific application of the mother's
power over her babe, exerted on a wider scale.

XXXI. But what's the use of anything unless used and enjoyed?
There are thousands of married couples living in a very bad and
unhappy state, simply because they won't fairly try for any other ;
and so magnetic will-force is of no account, whatever, as a force per
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and the love borne on it, is one of the most powerful instrumentali-
ties on earth. Witness the many undoubted cures of disease effected
by those who go about laying on of hands; for although some of
them are charlatans, yet others are not, in proof of which behold
the results following their practice. But wives and husbands
neglect this matter, and suffer in consequence. People find one
another growing cool — from causes already set forth herein, — and
instead of checking that coolness, bv trying to. they fly off at a tan-
gent, set up a domestic growlery, create innumerable excuses for a
fuss ; grow sullen, morose ; and contrive, by every earthly means, to
render matters ten times tvorsr tJian ever ; when a timely and per-
sistent resort to the aid of the great magnetic law would speedily
correct all the trouble, which, in married life, nine times in ten.
originates either in outside or inside magnetic exhaustion ; or in
domestic passional satiety, and excessive nervous waste, which
creates disgust on one side, antipathy on the other, with a grilling
fire of discontent bewcen the two. Now this, to some, may be an
unpalatable truth, yet true nevertheless. And here, as well as
anywhere else, let me say further, that a fair share of obedience
to the supreme law of cleanliness, sunshine and ventilation, will go a
great way toward preventing magnetic exhaustion, and put a
stop to that same satiety and disgust, with all their attendant
and overcrowning horripilances. Some people bathe too often, and
I have seen those whom I did not believe had bathed five times in
sixty years.

If a wife finds her husband growing cool, let her attend to her
dress, manner; smiles instead of frowns; sugar, not salt; honev. not
vinegar; and place her will steadily, strongly, persistently, upon
him, at the same time sending forth her woman's love, sympathy,
and magnetic force of magnetic love. The man Jout live -:■//>• can
resist it! 1 1 is love will revive just as surely as that heaven exists.
But she cannot work this magic charm in anger, jealousy or inditler-
encc. Let her remember this, for it is the grand true secret of
fascination — was learned from the birds, and lias worked miracles
in human life. The same principle obtains amo)!g utnve<{JcJ
I veers!

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When wives dress up and put their best foot forward to please
their own households, as they do for outsiders ; when the husband
dons his best coat and pantaloons, boots and hat, cane and gloves as
often and readily, to walk out with his own wife, as — when away —
he does to do the same for somebody else's, the world will be a good
deal better oft" than it is to-day.

Men's lives will be happy and pleasant when they learn: ist.
That a woman is a woman — not a softer sort of man. 2d. That
wives appreciate forbearance. 3d. That occasionally a woman's
organization becomes so deranged that she needs sympathy, love,
tenderness and great patience on his part, for she cannot help her
vagaries. Bread thus thrown upon the waters will return a harvest
of love ere many days. 4th. A wife is a truer friend, even if homely,
than the most beautiful outsider that ever lived. 5th. Take your
wife into your counsels ; the place of amusement ; walk, talk, and be
pleasant with her. Attentions pay large interest. 6th. Never bring
all your troubles home to saddle them on her ; and 7th, and last,
Study your wife, and adapt yourself to her ; let her really be your
other half; for lo ! ye twain are one flesh. No matter what mothers-
in-law, or any relation, may say or do. Remember that ye are one,
and " For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and cleave
(only) to his wife," if she really be such in soul and spirit, as well
as in law, gospel, and appearances.

Any mother, can, if she will, produce offspring that shall be
superior to either parent, by avoiding all disagreeables of whatever
kind or nature. By believing- she shall and will produce a superior
specimen of the race, and by firmly resisting discontent, anger, jeal-
ousy, hatred, and all evil — dwelling only on that which is true,
beautiful and good.

Women suffering from affectional perversions, resulting in the
trains of evils known as " female complaints," have a positive
means of rejuvenation in the will, in the cultivation of the purer
attributes of their nature ; observance of the law of soap and water,
and a firm determination to be no longer slaves to drugs, anger, sel-
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them. Thus mentally they can heal themselves, become healthy,
ami gain the new life, energy, and power.

We now pass to the consideration of one of ihc most strange and
abcrant phases oflove — if love he not a misnomer as applied to it —
with which the mind has to grapple during its search into the mazy
labvrinths concealed beneath the human form.

XXXII. If it was possible forme to look upon this broad world
and broader universe with the jaundiced eves of some zealot, full of
bile, gloom, bitterness and bigotry; if I were capable of believing
that God is not all good ; if I could imagine a yawning gulf, and it
peopled with tortured souls, whose agonizing shrieks for sudden
death were answered back by the exultant shouts of jubilant fiends,
with a Kixg Devil at their head, — which I can't — but if I could,
then would I believe that from that//V, clean back of the shadow of
God, came trooping forth a score of superlatively horrible gorgon^,
destined by the mandate of the chief fiend to desolate the earth, and
torment mankind, among which, one, always clad in rays of light,
vet sweltering with venom at its heart, stands among the foremost.
I mean that awful thing for which in English there is no name, but
which ever and always assumes the garb and mien and office of the
bright, heaven-born angel, LOVE. In other of my books I have
named this pestilent thing Vamfiyrism.

Now the name is familiar to everybody, because, in the first place
it pertains to a monstrous leech which inhabits tropical waters;
fastens on to whatever has sentient life, and never lets go until the
last drop of blood is sucked out, and the victim topples into the arms
of death. Secondly, the same name is applied to a huge bat inhab-
iting dark caverns in Oriental and other lands, darkness and gloom
being its natural habitat; and when man or beasts travelling along
that way chance to fall asleep, this bat of Hades stealthily ap-
proaches, and gently, soothingly, flaps its huge wings, croning and
droning its wierd sing-song the while ; thus fanning its victims, until
a deep, comatic sleep falls upon them, so hard and strong, that not a
stir is made while the bat opens a vein, and drinks its fill of living
gore !

When the awaking crimes, the eves open in another world than
this, tor mankind, never at all for beasts. The name in the third use

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is attached to certain peculiar, fantastic beings, — half human, half
demon, of Oriental and German story. These beings emerge from
deep darkness in the middle of the night ; open new-made graves,
take out the bodies therein, eat the flesh, and then, the horrid ban-
quet over, stealthily return whence they came, surfeited to plethora
with the dreadful repast. But it sometimes happens— so goes the
legend — that no new-made graves offer their temptations, and still
the ghouls must live ; wherefore they gain access to houses and drain
the veins of whomsoever they possibly can. These harpies are,
however, vulnerable to shot and death ; but if you kill one, be sure
to bury him five feet or a fathom, beneath the solid earth ; and be
sure you run a stake through his breast, with a cross on top ; and if
possible, at a cross-roads ; for if you negledt to do this, and the vam-
pyre's body remains above ground, just as soon, and as surely as
the moon's beams shine upon it, just so surely will its life return
and it go scot free to continue its ravages through successive lives
and deaths. All these horrid things, whether creative of nature in
some of her dark moods, or whether some of them are the offspring
of perverted imagination, the reality, if of life or of legend, alike are
all bad enough, and we turn from the bare contemplation of each
with a shudder, begotten of horror on the body of disgust ; and yet,
fearful as they are, not one of them, or all combined, can equal the
horrible reality — the absolutely unmistakable genuine, living human
ghouls, right in our very midst ; devouring gorgons, who are every-
where about us ; who go up and down our streets, and in and out
before us, clad in fine raiment ; faces decked with smiles ; and who
only enter our houses, and partake of our hospitality, to betray our
trust, and fatten on the lives of us and ours — for where of the male
gender their sole aim is to gratify their own infernal morbidity of
passion at anybody's expense whatever ; and the wives and daughters
of our friends become the prey of wretches, for whom no punish-
ment is too severe ; — doubly-dyed vampires, from whom conscience
has forever taken its flight, and to whom gratitude is unknown.
The ghoul originates in such marriages as have no love to cement
the union. The father is a coarse, selfish, material surface man,
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wife, if not :is cold as himself, is probably just the opposite, and
from the altar to the grave never realizes the lea^t love: — nothing
hut selfish passion. — is a woman who \ earns, and vainly, tor what
she cannot get. — true love ; and the consequence is that her child
comes to earth with yearnings never to he gratified: love-hungry
from eternitv t<'> time, and through time all the way hack to eternity
a^ain ! Now. when lie or she thus horn, encounters those of oppo-
site gender, who are full of love, they cling to such with the tenacity
of death itself, until they sap out the full soul, and fill their empty
ones. What care they even though desolation, despair and death
follow in their footsteps, and all their tracks are blood spots from
hearts that thev have broken? For so long as these leeches get their
fill, no matter what evil betides those upon whom they feed, — and
whom thev ruin. These ghouls have no principle, declare love with
like fervor to everv one they meet ; and having ruined them, blasted
their happiness, destroyed their peace of mind, shipwrecked fami-
lies, violated daughters, debauched honest men's wives, they brag
of it. and send fiery clouds of remorse and shame, to crown the
victims of their rapacity, and coarsely brutal lust. Their crime is
fiendish. I conclude this section by briefly recapitulating the res
ETcstic of it, which mav be thus summarized : —

Manv people of both sexes often experience a terrible attraction
toward another, that resembles, but is not, love. On the contrary, it
is a fearful, monstrous passion, and they almost vainly struggle to
escape it. Such persons are vampyrized ; and a vampyre is a
person born love-hungry, who have none themselves, who are
emptv of it. but who fascinate and literally suck others dry who do
have love in their natures. Detect it thus : the vampyre is selfish,
is never content but in handling, fondling its object, which process
leaves the victim utterly exhausted, and they don't know why.
Break off at once. Baffle it by steady refusal; allow not even
hands to touch, and remember that the vampyre seeks to prolong his
or her own existence, life and pleasure, at the expense of your own.
Women when thus assailed should treat the assailant with perfect
coldness and horror. Thus they can baffle this pestiferous thing —
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day affair. Many a man and wife have parted, many still live
unhappily together, some aware, but many unconscious, that the
frime cause of all their bickerings and discontent is vampyrism on
the part of one or the other. It causes fretfulness, moodiness,
irritability ; a feeling of repugnance arises toward the one who
should be most dear ; and eventually positive dislike takes the place
of that tender affection which should ever grow more and more
endearing between those who have given themselves to each other.
This dislike becomes in many cases so strong that the parties cannot
endure each other's presence ; and separation becomes inevitable,
neither, perhaps, conscious of the true cause. This is sometimes
owing to an inferior development of amativeness, sometimes to
debility, lack of vitality, the consequence of a feeble or shattered
nervous system ; and in either case the cure is to be found in less
frequent contact, separate rooms, health, and mutual endeavor to
correct the fault.

XXXIII. What vast hosts, what tremendous throngs of what are
called husbands, and notoriously what almost infinite numbers of
married women find home a real hell on a small scale instead, and
all for want of mutuality, domesticity, sympathy, and, above all,
reciprocity, that is the impartation and reception each by, to, and
from the other, of the mysterious thing known as magnetism ! And
many such there be, who, realizing nothing but the worst kind of
blanks in their lottery of life, actually long for death, or anything
else, to mitigate or change the current horror of their lives. People,
too, make great mistakes about this self-same mystic magnetism.
They imagine it to be either all physical, or all mental, when, in
fact, it is both ; and this subtle fluid, or emanation, is the absolute
connecting link between soul and body, matter and mind, and, ulti-
mately, between man and the Deity. Thus in a few lines is solved a
mystery which has puzzled the world for centuries, — that of the
subtle something which was, and is, the connecting link between
the two. There is a magnetism or effluence of soul, arising in, and
flowing forth from, the persons of either sex, who are, by nature,
endowed with large, open, free, sensitive, generous souls ; and this
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"■uishes noble from ignoble souls. Nor docs this magnetism depend
at all upon size of brain, or mere physique ; for it abounds as much
anions the small people, intuitive ami physically weak, as it does
anion;' those who are materially opposite in construction. Hence a
man or woman of this sort, if the partner be loved, will be able to
parent offspring every way perfect, and, physically speaking, better
than themselves. There is but little danger of such persons going
to the bad, because all their natural tendencies are upward and
advancivc, not retrogressive, barbaric, or descensive ; for their soul-
magnetism charges their physical, and it is full of life, energy, emo-
tion and goodness; hence, whoever comes within the area of its
action is benefited, not injured ; and this is an imperative, universal
rule.

XXXIV. But there is another, and to some extent, more powerful
magnetism than this. And I may here remark that it is a generally
conceded fact that illegitimate children are nearly always smartest,
as compared with the fruits of honest marriage ; but are they the
best? Doubted, as a general thing. They are smarter, fuller of
nerve, dash, clan, because struck into being at passion's highest
tide ; but their moral natures and principles are almost universally,
wofully deficient ; and of all the famous bastards of history not one
was ever noted for goodness I True, they all have a very large
measure of personal magnetism, and mental force ; but let it never
be forgotten that goodness alone is absolute power, and, therefore,
the best is always greatest, even though the good man make less
show than the more volatile and cstimably gifted son of earth ;
wherefore, he who would beget the noblest sons and daughters must
do so under the dominance of a calm and steady love, within the
pales of those barriers which societv has erected to protect itself
from barbaric savage principles and peoples, individual as well
as aggregative.

XXXV. There is another sort of magnetism, rich, full, voluptu-
ous, Websterian, which originates in bm/y, not in soul; and it flows
in copious streams from the persons of such as have it, suffusing
cvervthing and everybodv with it-> warm and vivifving power. It is
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others is very apt to burn. It comes of full veins, large lungs,
livers, good digestion, steady nerves, fulness of habit, appetite and
spirit, and always more or less wins influence and marked distinction
for its possessor. Aaron Burr was a good example of its nature,
character, and power. Now mark this : The ghoul wins and ruins,
because affectionally and in love he is a perfect vacuum ; and silly,
female butterfly women rush to him, and get their wings scorched
like any miller at a candle, because the empty gorgon draws upon
their fulness. They think to find reciprocation, but attain utter
exhaustion and ruin instead. On the other hand, the physically
magnetic man suffuses the bodies and souls of his victims with his
own magnetic fulness ; the woman, or man, as the case may be, is
drawn to him or her, and while he or she is there to keep up the
incessant play of aromal forces, both are happy ; but when the part-
ing time comes, and the lesser person no longer has the full one to
draw, drain, or feed upon magnetically, then heart-aches and excru-
ciating pangs follow upon one side, and, generally, a magnificent
indifference and don't-care-much-about-it-ness on the other.

People with debts of gratitude to pay name towns, counties, lakes,
rivers, ships, inns, horses, and boats after their benefactors and
friends. I never exactly follow precedents, yet have a little bill to
pay, and do it by christening a hitherto nameless crime. J allude to
the horrible one committed by a species of human ghoul differing
from either of the others just described. The Dentonite, — for such
is the name I give the awful sin — is soulless, and altogether void of
human feeling ; I mean he is not immortal any more than a mongrel
cur-dog is, and his lack of soul impels him to seek to supply the
dreadful want from young girls, whom he will.remorsely violate and
ruin, even if cool deliberate knife-butchery aids him in his fiendish
crime — as is often the case ; and terrible, awful, outright murder
ends the dreadful tragedy. I can conceive no worse horror than
that, nor give it a more befitting name.

XXXVI. My investigations into the mysteries, philosophy, and
rationale of the human being, and its loves and passions, has led me
to the inevitable and irresistible conclusion that Force is of body,
nerves, and muscular organization mainly; and that real Power

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lies in the soul alone. Now, l>y the term power I do not mean, as
some have misunderstood me in the past to mean, the mere genital
powers common alike to man and brutes ; but I do mean that irresist-
ible energy latent in all souls, and developed but in an exceedingly
limited few. I hold that no pmver, such as is here intended to he
understood, ever comes to man through the intellect. I aihrm that
the Baconian adage, " Knowledge is power," is not wholly, but only
partially true ; for I here repeat, Goodness alone is power, and
goodness inheres not in brain, but in heart, metaphysically speaking,
or on the emotional side or department of man's intricate and invo-
lute nature ; wherefore, I lay it down as an axiom, that power can
onlv come to, and be developed in, the soul through Love; not
passion or lust, look you, but Love ; the underlying, primal Jire-liCc
of the immaterial soul ; the invisible being that constitutes us man
or woman ; the fire-energy subtending the very basis of our being
and, indeed, of all else that exists outside the Eternal Flame itself,
the unimaginable Lord God of the Infinite Universe, that most
mystical Heat which fuses all things, subtends all existence, and
which is the formative floor of the worlds now rolling in silent
majesty through space, cushioned upon the yEther, the very breasts
of the mother side of God ! Now, the true sensing of that higher,
deeper, inner love is the beginning of the road which leads the soul
into, and invests it with, real power in the loftier degrees ; for Love,
I maintain, lieth at the foundation. And it is the very synonym of
life and strength, and lordly will, and clingingness, and truth, and
real development ; wherefore, I lay it down as another immutable
truth that the true-love conjugation of man and wife is the loftiest
and most sacred praver to, and imitation of, God, possible to any
creature in the whole vast realm of matter and mind, spirit and
thought. Thus, in proof: how often it happens that a loving
couple continually grow more youthful in soul, fruitful in happiness,
and joyous in habitude, instead of servile, decrepit, warped and pre-
maturely wrinkled, as in the cases of those to whom the wondrous
realities of love are as thrice-sealed books! Why? Because they
who thus truly love, in their sacred, spiritual passion, strike out this
divine spark ; partake of that celestial fire ; replenish themselves

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with the quintessence of life itself; grow better, and spiritually
stronger, and more beautiful, ripe, morally wealthy, calm, hopeful,
attuned to this upper music ; pass the brutal lands untouched ; walk
unharmed amidst moral malarias, and draw down to their souls, as
copper-rods the lightning, the divine fervor and fire of the aerial
spaces, the far-off heavens, and become baptized of the Holy Spirit,
and earthly proteges of the supreme Lord of Glory, — our God.

Now once in a while couples do love each other, and from the
product of such unions, what few civilized people there are take their
rise and departure ; and thus the world is saved by God's fiat, just as
one honest man, and good, was declared sufficient to prevent the
overthrow of Sodom.

The world owes its salvation to the accidents of Love; but by and
by, what are now exceptional cases will become the universal rule,
and then farewell human Boyhood, and welcome glorious Manhood.

Couples not loving each other are mutually exhaustive, and, as a
consequence, fret and fume, worry the life out of one another, and
wear their very souls threadbare and to shreds, so that here on earth
they amount to but little, and after death enter the ethereal
realms in a state of immortal leanness, wizzenness, scranniness,
requiring, perhaps, ages of time, or, at least, a long lapse of years,
before they can ever reach a condition of soul-fatness, or celestial
plumptitude. We can gain much by truly loving !

XXXVII. Light is the shadow of God ! Deity is never to be
seen, for He ever recedes from telescopic or visual scrutiny. But He
is always to be felt ; and whosoeveryee/.y for God is sure to touch
and find him ! for when we feel for him, he invariably comes forth
and whispers to the soul : Here am I ! But the inscrutable Being
dwells within the Everlasting Shadow, — behind the Everlasting
Flame ; for He is the Eternal Fire ! and the quintessence of All
Heat ; not the heat of combustion, but its opposites, like unto that
which is evolved from within our souls when we truly Love.
Men gazing upon solar light have been struck dumb with the tre-
mendous conception that God was concentrated Light, and that to
find him they must rush into the intolerable effulgence, the awful
brilliance of all the focal spaces ! But they erred. The amazing

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"lories they beheld and conceived, and which they confounded with,
or to he the verv God, was but the dark shadow shielding him from
view in the penetralia of mystery! Man, not God, is concentrated,
focalized fire, — a condensation and crystallization of God's Xenons
Fluid ; and even thing, especially the human soul, is a form of that
fire. But man, as we know him here, is not the only self-conscious-
ness in being ; nor is this the best or worst of worlds. There are,
and the .Frial spaces abound with, multiform intelligences, having
their conscious origin in /Ethereal realms, aswc have ours in matter.
But as the divine Fire is the base of all alike ; and as love and inter-
fusion is the destiny of all, it follows that there is one common point
where the sub-human, human, and ultra-human can contact each
other and meet ; and this point is that of interblending, for that one
point everywhere, and in all things, is the only one thing common to
all which exist as living entities anywhere.

It follows again that the higher the motives urging us when that
universal duty is accomplished, the more powerful is the prayer it
really is ; the higher it reaches ; the more it brings us en rapport
with the blessed ones of the purer Mvnr, and the greater rain of
goodness, power, health, life, mystic enjoyment, and all possible
good it calls down upon our heads to saturate our souls. But there
are grades of these ultra-human orders, towering away from our
place and position in the eternal scale, in series vast, inconceivable,
of Orders, Societies, Grades, Hierarchies, to an unimaginable
Eterne : and other series descending to an equally unimaginable deep
of the opposites of what" we call goodness ; and these, too, meet us
on one common ground as the others ; and can and do. when wc
give lust the rein, instead of love, ascend from the depths to us. and
infuse us with strange ills and evils. The White Magic, which I
here reveal, teaches how to rapport the good. The Biack Magic of
.Africa and America (Voudooism) rapports us with the denizens of
hell ; and crime and wretchedness as surely flow out from the one
affiliation, as the good flows forth from the other. I have made this
revelation here, because it will do good, and afford a new held for
the explorations of such as are interested in solving the tremendous
problem of evil, its nature and origin.

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XXXVIII. I have already told the world herein and elsewhere —
[in " Soul, the Soul-world, and Homes of the Dead ; " a reprint and
enlargement of the original volume " Dealings with the Dead"] —
that the seat of human consciousness is in the brain, — that it is a
polar world or globe of white diamondesque fire in the human head.
It is subject to two states, a positive and negative, masculine or
electric ; and a feminine, magnetic, or womanesque state. In its*
intellectual or male mood, it thunders forth its edicts from its throne
in the brain, the central point of the head. But in its most awe-
inspiring, creative and mystic moods, its fiats are given forth from
another seat within the body. The brain is its throne of Force; the
pelvis its seat of power ! In sleep, especially that which is health-
ful, therefore dreamless, the soul sends a fibril of fire — an incan-
descent railway, from the corpus calossum to the medulla oblongata,
down the spinal marrow to right back of the stomach ; to the solar
plexus, — the great storehouse where the servants of the body bring
all the treasures they have gathered during the wakeful day, from
the various laboratories, — stomach, intestines, ovaria, nerve-ganglia,
lungs, liver, testes, arteries ; and there the soul charges the fine
aroma with its own life, and sends them back to become parts and
portions of the living being ; it imparts life-fire to every section of
the human frame. After this the soul sometimes sends a filamental
cord out into the air, above the earth, and on that ladder of light
mounts the azure, and scans and contemplates distant scenes, and
occasionally unfathomable mystery itself ! Hence all dreams, could
we translate them, have a fixed and determinate meaning.

But there is a farther revelation to be made right here. If human
interblending occurs white weary, half asleep, vexed, anxious, dis-
trustful, suspicious, thinking of money, or in an excited, passionate
or mental state, two things are likely to occur, i.e., pregnancy, — in
which case the child is sure to come here and stay here, die here,
and go to the other world, and remain there, for centuries perhaps —
half asleep, vexed, anxious, distrustful, suspicious, and mentally or
otherwise excited all the livelong years ; for although the woman
builds up the child, the father invariably imparts the bias, be-
cause : —

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XXXIX. In the beginning of the viarriagc every fibre of his
body sends a spiritual — material portion of itself to the left half of
the prostate gland, and his spiritual, emotional, soul and mind send
corresponding portions of themselves to the right half of the pros-
tate, and at the exact instant that these all meet at that point, the
nervo-vital muscles spasmodically contract, and the procreativc fluid
passing through, takes with it the prostatic exudations, and the im-
mortal being is thus charged with a joyous load of heaven, or a
grievous burden of intolerable horrors. But impregnation may not
occur ; yet the fluids thus charged, and discharged, arc absorbed in
great measure by the innumerable mouths and duels of the vaginal
parietes, and she absorbs his physical, mental and moral poisons as
surely as if the husband was freighted down with syphilitic virus ; —
only that the one eats away and cankers her flesh ; while the other
corrodes her soul !

Men are proverbially, in these matters, careless of possible conse-
quences, and this is a source of terrible dread to their wives ; to such
a degree, that fear paralyzes their passional nature ; and on their
side there is, and can be, no response ; finding which to be the case,
the average husband grows crisp and cranky, offish, petulant, down-
right angry; all of which she feels, and discord and misery reign
beneath that roof.

Well ? Reply : By an effort of the will the male can prevent the
prostatic flow; and, secondly, the wife by becoming mentally positive
at the crisis, and willing that she ought not, must not, zvill not
conceive, cannot; or that she will not absorb that which will impair
her mental or physical health — cannot so absorb it. Hence she is
safe, whenever she zvills to be !

XL. Power, true power, can only descend from heaven to true
loving souls, because power is feminine, and woman represents it,
albeit she is practically ignorant of the fact ; and a man has vet to
learn that the seeds of power descend cither through the feminine
channels of his soul, or to him through woman. All ereat men
have been made so through women, either by their mothers, or
by some woman whose love made her will and wish him to lx;
good, great and happy, during the sacred prayer of holy, loving

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wifehood. I have already alluded to the ability of a woman to
utterly ruin any man her soul loathes and hates, under precisely the
same circumstances ; for it lies within her power to make or mar the
best man living. I have seen it tried, in both the make and the mar,
and with results magnificent in the one case, and insufferably poig-
nant in the other. Thus man, by love all the time, but especially
then, can wholly modify woman's character, and kindle her ice to
a gentle, constant and invigorant flame. But carelessness and igno-
rance on the part of many millions of wives, in some sense, make
them responsible for their own miseries ; for they all have the ability
to resist the depleting effects of pestilent vampyrism, and avoid all
the diseases, disasters and ailments, mental, moral, physical and
emotional, thus engendered ; and also to wholly transform the nature
and character of almost any man, no matter how coarse, inconsider-
ate, careless, indifferent or mean.

In declaring these new and weighty truths I victoriously plant the
white banner over the frowning ramparts of the social world.
Why ? How ? Attend : —

XLI. Because almost everywhere in this broad land marriage
practically exists as a repressive system ; it is all head, and the man
is that head, while the wife is but an appendage, and by no means
either partner or equal ; and, so long as such is the case, things will
not grow better, because happiness is what every one seeks for, and
if not found at the fireside at home will be searched for elsewhere.
Now I want to stop all that by showing the law underlying human
weal as it has never been shown before on earth. The system of
marriage should be one of absolute equality and partnership between
couples. I want to help along that system ; for the one now in
vogue practically drives enormous hosts of people to heaven across
lots, over steep-down gulfs of social and domestic horror. I am
teaching all to avoid such. On the marriage question, as mainly
discussed at present, there is too much everlasting gabble on the
horrors of deformity in all parts of the social machine ; but I seek
to make people purer, nobler, truer, and draw, not drive, them
heavenward by appeals to the good, the true, and the beautiful latent

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within them, and which, when active, brings bliss to every beatin"
heart.

XLII. Too many marriagecs concern themselves about mourning ;
I wish them to be deeply, continually interested about joy. They
think mainly concerning how to make the best of a bad bargain;
bearing life's crosses; abiding with befitting patience to the end,
and all that; while I am teaching them how to make a bad bargain
an exceedingly good one ; how to neutralize the social poisor.s by
wholesale — and the worst of them are generated at home ; and all
through the triple white magic of Love, will, and persistent trying ;
that is. to cure their ills by the constant exercise of common sense,
which, it seems, after all, is a very uncommon thing, judging by the
stupid way in which nine married couples out of every ten totally
ignore its clear and plain behests ; for common sense is the genius
of the average mind, and is an excellent guide to go b}\

XLIII. I have said, and it is true, that the other, the feminine,
magnetic, and, therefore, superior pole, or polar dwelling, of the
viewless soul of human kind, is in the genital system of each sex
respectively ; whence it follows that in all nuptial unions, where true
love reigns and rules, governs and controls, the entire beings of each
party, the entire soul of each officiates at the banquet, and the cele-
bration ; wherefore, both the positive and negative powers and forces
of each party assist at the — in the — incarnation of the new soul, if
a new soul is then and there called into outer being, to run the gaunt-
let of time in its race to the fields of eternity ; and all such genera-
tion is holy ; and, it being a genuine marriage, none but truly
human children are called into the world.

But where no love inspires the parents, only one of the two grand
forces of their souls officiate either in, or at, the generation of their
mutual ofiVpring ; and such children are death-sure to be deficient in
some quality, and to pay through lives more or less angular, limited,
and bitter, for the sins of their parents, and their profanation of the
holiest of all human sanctities, and violation of the grandest and
deepest law of the human world — that of Love; from such condi-
tions it happens that the lands are teeming with half-men. halt-
Women, and abound in human weaklings. ••Illegitimates" are

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exceptional in brilliance, because at least some tolerable measure of
Love, and a great deal of Passion, obtained when they were called
into earthly existence.

Apply the principle herein laid down, and it is not hard to see the
reason why inferior-drained, but strongly loving and loved women,
become mothers of mental-moral millionaires, while brainy mothers
give us children born to intellectual penury. Men with compara-
tively small cerebral capital and calibre, but whose love-nature is
large, full, open, generous, almost invariably become fathers to their
mental superiors ; while per contra we all know .that great talent,
and actual genius seldom produces anything higher than a very low
grade of mediocrity. Their children are notoriously below par — •
and PA also. These truths may be new and novel, as are many of
those to follow herein, but they are assuredly destined and com-
missioned to revolutionize the world of thought on these subjects,
nevertheless and nothwithstandine.

XLIV. The negative or brain pole of the soul, so to speak, is
Thoughtful. Its mission is to scan, search, explore, investigate, reason,
understand, know. It is en rapport more or less perfectly, with the
intellectual and knowing universe ; that is to say, it is masculine and
electric. Now an electric man "progresses," stores up, advances
toward, and captures knowledge, facts, things, ideas and principles ;
and only give him time, and he will become an encyclopaedia on
legs, for all that's knowable he feels bound to find out. But the
positive pole or sphere of the soul being feminine or magnetic, is
in direct contact or rapport with the very soul of being itself; —
the foundation fires of the universe — with all that vast domain
underlying increase, growth, generation, evolution, emotion, heat,
expansion, energy, power — the sole and base of being, the arterial
blood of God Himself — measureless Love — the primal fire-flow
of the whole vast realm of universal existence, whence the female is
nearer God than the male, and God is far more female than its
opposite ; for it is in him, as in the human, a far less labor to create
than it is to gestate and bring forth. God struck the universe into
being by a single fiat of his Imperial Will ; but it took even him
billions of centuries to gestate and bring forth man ; just as a man

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occupies one second of time only, to plant a monad in the uterine
soil, but it takes woman forty odd weeks to prepare it for it-, uses on
the earth; or it takes man one second to begin a work, which
occupies all the energies of woman's soul and body about twenty-six
mil/ion seconds to complete what he began! Hence one good
mother is worth at least fifty millions of male drones, without love
to guide them heavenwards; and her influence for good in the uni-
verse, bears the same ratio to his worthlessncss, as a general rule ;
and right here I desire to impress upon my readers, not only the
tremendous value and importance of any human soul, and the awful
consequences of destroying human life at any stage ; but to enforce
upon them the absolute necessity of marriage and parentage, — for
every child, no matter how imperfect, is eventually a j:>ositive gain
to the universe ; and every female who goes to the grave childless ;
every man who fails in his duty to himself, God and nature, and
dies without prolonging his human line, commits a grave offence,—
so grave as not to be easily forgiven.

Thus it is readily seen that through Love man seizes directly on
all that is, and is in actual contact and rapport with all and singular
every being that feels and Loves within the confines of the habi-
table universe. But an}- amount of brain or learning he may have
affiliates him to a very few at most, because all sentient creatures
love and_/i:c/, while comparatively few can think and knove. Love
forever against the world ! The positive throne or seat of the
soul, in the male, is in, near, and about, the prostatic gland, with
three radii extending to the connected viscera, whence it happens
that emasculation injures the very soul itself.

In the female, the major force of the soul resides in the uterus,
with three radii extending to the right and left ovaria and the con-
nected viscera, whence it happens that illness or injuries there have
the most baleful, injurious and debilitating elleet upon every portion
and department of her being and nature. We often hear the phrase
u A fine specimen of a woman ! " ''A magnificent woman ! but
such terms are never applied to any mere bundle of brains, but
always of those of fne physical prc-cncc, geniality of demeanor, and
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and highly cultured or not. Now it is possible for a man to grow
fat who is lean, or lean who is fat, by pursuing steadily Bantingism
— I believe they call it — or its opposite, as the case may demand;
and I knoiv that a lean soul can also grow fat, and non-magnetic
people reverse their states. The mode I have already herein
pointed out, hence need not again recur to.

XLV. Do not forget that herein and elsewhere I have declared
the great truth that true manhood and womanhood are more or less
en rapport with one or more of the upper hierarchies of Intelligent
Potentialities, earth-born and not earth-born. I believe there are
means whereby a person may become associated with, and receive
instruction from, them. More than that, I believe in what I may
call will-magnets, or talismans ; that it is possible to construct and
wear them, and that they emit a peculiar light, discernible across
the gulfs of space by those intelligent powers, just as we discern a
diamond across a play-house ; that such are signals to the beholders ;
and that they will, and do, cross the chasmal steeps to save, succor,
and assist the wearers, just as a good brother here flies to the relief
of him who shall give the grand hailing-signs of distress. This is
provable.

This grand mystery of the will, properly cultured, is the highest
aid to ?>ian, for it is a divine Energos, white, pure magic, the
miracle-working potentiality which cometh only to the free and
"wholly unshackled human soul ; while to woman it is the only
salvation from marital vampyrism, the shield and buckler of her
power, and the groundwork upon which must be builded the real
rule of her influence in the world and at home. The reasons why
will be readily seen by recurring to the basic propositions of the
divine science, which declares that God, the soul of the universe, is
positive heat, celestial fire ; that the aura of Deity (God-od)
is love, the prime element of all power, the external fire-sphere,
the informing and formative pulse of matter. The deduction is
crystalline ; for it follows that whoso hath most love — whether its
expression be coarse or fine, cultured or rude — hath, therefore, most
of God in him or her ; the element of time being competent to the
perfecting of all refining influences, over the ocean of Death, if not

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upon the hither side. Conversely put, the statement stands thus :
whoso most resembleth God, therefore, hath most of love, goodness,
and the elements of power. God is not a libertine ! Now these
latent energies I claim to here give the true knowledge of, that all
may understand the laws of love, will, and ethereal force, and the
principles and modes of their evolution, and crystallization in the
homos; the result aimed at being the elimination of the gross, and
their orderly consolidation into personal power. I hold that Love
is, ever was, and eternally will be, absolutely pure. Paste is not
diamond, though they resemble somewhat, nor is Love ever any-
thing but its own transcendant self; yet normal passion is divine,
because through it alone God gives true men to the great man-
wanting world. There can be no such thing as unholy Love ; nor
good badness, nor bad goodness.

XLVI. Silence is strength, and the silent lip and steady head
alone are worth}-. I do not believe in the, to wc, absurd dogma of
human equality ; it is the demonstrable negation of all human
reason and experience ; is a hypocritical, cruel, and delusive false-
hood ; puts people out of their element, and into wrong positions ;
it never was, will, nor can be, true ; for '-aristocracy" of some kind
always rules, is always a unit in interests, while " democracy " is
always ruled, and is eternally at war with itself, and clashing about
its own interests, which interests it perpetually injures and destroys.
But it is true that some souls are nobler, better, higher, finer, richer,
riper, rounder, — these seven", — than some other souls, and are
worth immeasurably more, whether weighed or plumbed in God's
scales or man's. For some souls are young, green, acid, acrid,
bitter, imperfect, and non-poised, — these seven, — and such stand lor
avoirs of ages gaping, on the highways, at regal souls rushing across
the deeps toward Achievement ; here, there, now, then, up the
Streets of the worlds, and down the corridors of heaven. Splendid,
'"aristocratic" souls, who will circumnavigate eternity while the
others are wondering, "What next?" and, •■ Did you ever '." — new-
souls, just created, requiring a thousand or two of ages to get their
eternal sca-lc":s on, before 1 n_-in'_r able to steadily walk the decks ot
the cviternal ship of centuries and power, or compete with those

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who, living now, yet have passed their ordeals long before this
civilization had taken root in the mouldy soil of scores that had
preceded it. — Men who make and govern circumstances instead of
allowing circumstances to govern them.

XL VII. True Passion is but one, and a minor mode, of Love's
expression ; its offices are triplicate ; and when people understand
that one grand secret, farewell to social, domestic, and all other ills ;
and it is this grand secret I have, for long years, been teaching,
somewhat, not fully, in all my books, on both shores of the oceans
that girdle the world. I know that brains and intellects differ, but
hearts and affection are ever the same ; that through these last man
can attain unto Godness, and woman reign queen and equal, where
she now serves as drudge, toy, and legal and illegal — something
worse; that woman, as such, has most of love crystallized within
her, and for that reason is entitled to stand the peer of the best man
breathing God's free air ; not by reason of her beauty, accomplish-
ments, wealth, or any other accident, but because she hath the
womb, — the perfected laboratory wherein she fashioneth, and alone
completes, what it took God, Nature, and Man, singly and com-
bined, to only begin ; and that, too, so badly, that the wonder is,
that swarming hordes of murderers do not throng the world's high-
ways where civilized man now walks. But so infinitely great an
artiste is she, that from the worst of seed she has raised many a
splendid human tree ; redeemed the race from savagery ; fostered
and cultured art, science, religion, and all that renders earth
habitable, and that, too, under all sorts of repressions and bad
conditions ; assuredly entitling her now to a chance of trying what
she can do, under favorable circumstances, who did so well under
the bad ; and I hold this to be the strongest argument for woman
ever made since the world began ; and I advance it only as one of
the external reasons I entertain, holding in reserve others as much
stronger and more cogent than these, as a chain-cable is superior to
a child's slender whip-cord.

XL VIII. I further hold that there are ^Ethereal (spacial) centres
of Love, Power, Force, Energy, Goodness, and for, and of, every kind,
grade, species, and order of knowledge known to man, and whereof

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he knows not anything ; and that it is not on\y f ossicle to reach tho-e
centrcs, and obtain those knowledges, l.iut that it is achievable l>v i
vast number, who now drone and doze awav life, die half ripe, and
wake up, when too late, to find out what fouls thev have been,
necessitating what it is not the present jjurposc to reveal. In the
present instance it only remains for the purposes of this Declaration
of Principles, to draw a brief comparison between my system and
the very best that can possibly, truthfully be said of any single one
of all the others now extant anywhere. They are divided into two
parts, one of which proceeds to totally ignore the body, mortifies the
flesh, and renders life truly a semi-graveyard operation from birth to
baptism, from that to death. The other allows the utmost limit to
lust and license to the elect, and roundly berates all others outside.
Vide Mormonism, Perfectionism, and Islamism, and contrast them
with their opposites in belief, as the Shakers. But current systems,
as a general thing, bend all their energies toward the salvation of
men's souls, and, in spending time in trying to get souls into heaven,
lose sight of the bodies, which, practically, may go to the other
place, of so little account are they. They believe in crucifying the
flesh altogether, and generally effect that very thing for the soul.
They wholly lose sight of a fundamental principle of human nature,
which is to take delight in doing the very thing it is sternly for-
bidden to.

The people of a town might not, if let alone, leave its* boundaries
once in ten years ; but you just make a law that they shall not leave
it, and that town will be empty in less than a single day. Again:
Said landlord Boniface, "Traveller, you must go further to pass the
night, for my house is full, and I have no place to put you." Says
wcarv traveller, " Don't say so ; don't say no ; poor me! How can
you serve me so? I'm so fagged out I can't walk another step. I'll
put up with anything rather than go on." Says Boniface, "' Poor,
weary man, I pity you, and on one condition you can stay ; there is
one room with two beds. The one nearest the door_>w< can sleep
in ; the other — at the far corner — is occupied by a lady, who must
not be disturbed in anv way. You must enter it on tiptoe, without a
light, go quietly to bed, and at daybreak quit it in the same manner.

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Do you agree to these conditions?" — "I do;" and he was shown
the door, and again strictly cautioned. But, by and by, there was a
sound of devilry by night, and that weary, wayworn traveller lifted
up his voice and yelled aloud ; and his voice went flying the descend-
ing stairs, and his body, with protruding eyes, and hair erect, came
speedily following down, down, reaching the lower floor just one
second after his voice. " O Lord ! " said the traveller. " What's the
matter?" asked Boniface. "Why, that woman's dead I" — "I
knew that before," said landlord ; " but how did you Jind it out?"
Just so. Human nature is strongly perverse, and this incident sug-
gests the query that were social life and marriage based upon con-
sent and attraction instead of what they are based on, there
wouldn't be a hell on earth or anywhere else, in less than one hun-
dred brief years — brief to God, and to immortal man.

Finally, to conclude this section, I admit, and triumphantly, too,
that in the cultured, or magic, because magnetic, will, I find a
remedy for very many of the ills besetting us on the earth, especially
in our marriage matters in the false society of to-day ; and further-
more, that by obedience to law, herein set forth, the elixir of life
may be found, and the human stay on earth be prolonged a great
deal beyond the storied threescore years and ten.

Let us now proceed to the consideration of a phase of the matter
in hand, never before fairly treated upon, or even touched by those
who assumed to discuss it, by reason of its recondite nature. It
being my highest ambition to do good while the frame lasts, I possi-
bly may achieve it better in essaying the unravelling of the knot
alluded to, than in any other way.

Men are often seen whose actione currente is wholly feminine ;
but a far greater number of females are found who have ail the
yearnings proper only to the opposite gender. Understand me. It
is the proper function of man to impart, to give, to enforce, to gen-
crate, to beget his kind ; and of course the impelling sensations are
peculiar. It is the proper function of woman to reverse all this — to
receive, respond, provoke passion, accept, exude, gestate, and to
have all the sensations proper thereto. But thousands have the
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sensations, impcllant or ncrvo-vital action, and instead have all the
latter characteristics of the reverse gender. This abnormal state, so
very common, results from their mothers wishing and hoping that
the unborn may be of one sex, while nature determines to, and docs
produce its opposite ; wherefore such girls will love like a man ;
such boys love like a woman, and of course can never be satisfied in
this life on that very account. The upshot of it all is, that urged on
by an irresistible impulse, such persons resort to unnatural methods
to appease the quenchless thirst; assuage the yearning appetite, —
hence we have onanists, masturbationists, pederasts ; those who
associate with four-footed beasts, and in other respects sink to very
infamous levels — even to those horrible ones, to name which I
fairly shudder, and therefore will not.

When a woman is pregnant, her whole desire should be that ©f
giving to the world a perfect specimen of her maternal work, allow-
ing nature to determine the sex ; and then we shall behold no more
such improperly constructed human beings on this fair earth of ours ;
wherefore we shall be rid of agitators of the '• Sexual Question."

XLIX. In announcing the law and fact that the subtle element
called magnetism is the connecting link between mind and bodv, the
flesh, sinew, bone and muscle, and the incorporeal viewless soul of
man, I declared a new truth, or rather one newly discovered. True,
it has been suspected that electricity, in some of its subtler forms,
was that link, but I am not aware that the subtler element, magnet-
ism, was ever even suspected to be such link. Body is the scat of
the senses ; soul is the seat of the deeper faculties ; for Emotion,
Love, Sympathy, Memory, Fancy, Judgment, and a hundred other
human attributes belong to the region and domain of soul, spirit,
mind, — the invisible man within, — and the vehicle of their display
and action upon, and in the outer world, is magnetism. Proof:
When we arc in perfect magnetic rapport with an individual, that
person can be made to imitate our action, think our thoughts, do as
we do, and be for the time our exact counterparts ; but we mav be
in absolute electric contact, and not one of these strange results will
follow. Observe these facts : cohabitation, love not being the spur,
is a magnetic halfness ; zvit/i love, it is a magnetic circulation, that

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is to say, pleasure results from a nervous current rushing along the
nerves of each, and mingling in chemico-magnetic union in and at
the termination of the nervous filaments radiating from every portion
of the two beings, and converging to a point at the respective vital
centres of each.

There can be no mutual joy unless such nervous currents do flash
along the nervo-telegraphic system ; nor can we experience any
pleasure, whatever, either nerval, gustatory, or in any other manner,
unless such currents do thus pass ; and, moreover, every true, or even
false human joy, must first be in the soul, before the body can partici-
pate. We cannot lift a board till we bend to it, and brace the
muscles to the task. This is the principle of Posism : i. e., placing
ourselves to do the work, receive a blow, shock or impression. We
hate, and all our external features array themselves — involuntarily
— ever to materially express the metaphysical emotion. Now for
the application of this principle to the subject under consideration.

L. It would look foolish for one to verbally protest burning love,
while the face betokened its deadly opposite, or actual, stupid indif-
ference ! If the heart means love, and the lips assert it, the voice,
manner, eyes, and genial glow, must express it also, if one expects
to be believed. Yet in spite of the notoriously plain truth, there are
thousands who talk love, while face, feature, voice and conduct give
the lie direct to all the lips have spoken ; and yet the speakers
marvel because their story is not credited. Such persons, too, may
honestly mean just what and all they say, yet, failing to pose them-
selves to the requirements of the case, fail also both in winning
credence, and retaining what of love they have already won.
Counsel : If your lips speak love, always pose your features to the
natural language of the passion or sentiment. For the expression
of feature, the soft and flowing modulations of tone, the mellow
cadence and inflection of the voice, tells the immortal story of the
heart quite as plainly, and far more eloquently, than can possibly
any collocation of mere words, which any one can marshal to his
or her aid ; and soft and gentle tones will do more for errant, faulty
husbands and wives than all the protestations or verbal storms that
one could utter in a century !

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"Wc have societies for the protection of beasts; and need a larger
one for the protection of human beings in certain vital respects. It
ought to be just ground for instant divorce wherever and whenever a
human male forces unwelcome embraces upon any female, what-
ever. The beasts of the field don't do so. Why should men?
More than that; it ought to be a criminal offence in the eye of the
law ; and as such, punishable, for any human male, under any
cirumstanccs, whatever, to force the inclinations of any woman,
whatever, or to exact or seek wifely offices or concessions, except
when she wills and ordains that such ma}- be. Make this a law,
and we shall have less work for sextons in digging graves for '"Mrs.
so and so," at anv age between sixteen and thirty-five. The com-
mon sense of mankind knows full well that he is no man, but only a
satyr, who demands what cannot be granted, save with a shudder
of unutterable horror and disgust ; pangs past endurance, or at the
risk of health and life.

The action of the muscles is as clear an expression of a passion,
and the mental states behind it, as are the tones which utter it ;
for " Actions speak louder than words" is not only a truism, but an
absolute and unqualified truth itself. Wherefore if you mean love,
look love from top to toe, and all over !

LI. You never saw a sick man, really, desperately sick, whoever
denied the existence of a God. It requires a fine stomach, keen
appetite, and excellent digestion to make a first-class sceptic. Why?
Because conditions of body effect changes in the soul's feelings ; and
the play between the outer and the inner being is mutual, for the
soul affects the body for good or ill quite as much as the body affects
the invisible soul. Married people arc either not aware ot this
double-acting law of the homos, or else wilfully ignore its heavy
meanings. Thcv live a cat-and-dog life, because neither reasons
that some physical disturbance unhinges the soul, or that some
metaphvsical derangement unfits the body to express what the soul
itself mav be completely full <>f. Thus, a woman suffering cata-
mcnial pains, or some other ill, is apt to be ratJicr Xovemberish
externally, even while July really reigns deep down in her sweet, but
ruffled, soul; and a man. worried to death with worldly cares, is

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not always either in mood or condition to lavish tenderness even
upon the children of his loins, or the wife of his bosom, all of whom
he loves beyond his then-capacity of expression. A person in
certain physical states is insane for the time being ; is fully willing
to curse God, and die ; yet a dose of opening medicine would unbar
the gates of his soul, and within two hours that self-same man
would bless God, and live.

And a wife in certain magnetic and mental states, the result of
physiological causes, would fly at a man and scratch his eyes out,
when, next day, after a good dose of senna, she would love and
caress him half to death.

At this writing I am suffering from partial paralysis, partly the
result of a severe fall, — a mere matter of twenty-five feet through
the trestle-work of a bridge, upon a not very soft pile of rocks at
the bottom, sent down there by the savage threats of two converging
locomotives, one behind and one before. But that injury I could
have recovered from, by reason of the strong resilient energies of
my constitution, had it not happened that for months before, then,
and months afterward, I was continually laboring with brain, hands,
and pen, — bad enough, — but was also subjected daily to violent
and continued affectional and mental emotion; cause: "A woman
at the bottom of it ; " and that sort of excitement is quite sufficient
to bring on paralysis, without the help of any locomotive that ever
screeched over the " Middle Ground," — a place in Toledo, where
more ghosts of mangled dead walk than upon any surface of equal
area in the entire universe.

As physician, I have treated many cases of disease which the
patients attributed to scores of causes other than the right one, —
affectional trouble. Merchants, bankers, men of large business,
are almost invariably, and inevitably, stricken down in the midst of
life and hope, by apoplexy, paralysis, chronic dyspepsia, stone,
gravel, or embolism ; not alone by reason of their business activity,
or even nervous exhaustion, but because they do no not loosen up,
change their modes of motion, and devote more time to the home-
side, social life, and " fun." Business, the infernal demon-god, is
all in all ; passion but a spasm ; love, a myth, an unrealized dream,

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its joys still more unreal, vague, phantomesque. until at length
nature wears out, God insulted, and he sends the Angel of Midnight
to drop the curtain, and change the scene.

Aphrodisiacs arc certain preparations — most of them outright
infernal — which excite the amorous or passional appetites of the
human being. There arc long lists of them ; and main' years
before this book was written, its author discovered the best six
tonics the world had ever seen, or has yet. I refer to the Proto-
zonic Remedials. And I have known hundreds upon hundreds of
people, who lived so close to the dollar-counter, that nature with-
drew her smiles from them, and impotence, dead, sterile, horrible,
became their lot, and for years they had never known love in its
physical aspects unless under the forcing power of some disastrous
stimulant. To these the protozoncs were blessings, indeed, and
once more the mad-house and apoplexy were left behind, — not
because they were remedials, but civilizers ; humanizers, fitting
the wasted nerve, balancing the tottering brain, restoring the primal
conditions upon which human hapf>incss in the social arc depends,
not being mere chemicals, but alchymics or conveyers of spirit : soul.
But what a state of things is that wherein men, otherwise sensible,
so far forget their duties to self, home, wife, socictv. and God, as,
in the mad chase for wealth, to sacrifice Manhood, Love and Pater-
nity. Paternity ! just think of it ! what a glory, and what a joy,
compared to which all the wealth and honor earth can give were but
hollow shams and empty mockery ! while Parentage, Fatherhood, —
above all Imperial Motherhood, is a diadem which even gods might
well aspire to. I have seen women pass along the streets who gave
token of their coming pain and glorv ; and I have seen things shaped
like unto men laugh and giggle as thev passed along; thc-e doers <>f
God's finest and greatest work ; the incarnators of regal soul ; these
unappreciated martvrs of love, and victims of man too often
beside. — and I have felt like rushing upon, and tearing the heart-
less scoundrels to pieces; for if there be a transcendantlv glorious
thing on earth it is a mother. And I, Paschal, the writer, here say
that I took oil' my hat. and did homage to even" pregnant woman I
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common troll, so highly and devoutly did I, do I, adore and
worship Motherhood. There, that's my soul !

But if these laughers, these careless husbands, knew the truth I
now reveal in the next few lines, they too, like myself, would laugh,
but with royal joy, instead of coarse derision. It is this: ist, most
seekers -after domestic bliss, like him who builds from the roof
groundward, begin at the wrong end. It is to be found in soul, not
sense ; spirit, not form ; heart, not dress ; and love, not passion.
2d. A pregnant woman, judiciously loved and treated, — not spoiled
and pampered, or kept at a dead level of life, love, temper, feeling,
passion, ardor, fervor, labor, rest, but made to develop her woman-
hood,— will, in every ten days, add more soul, strength, fervor,
beauty, compactness, energy, power, and force of character and
genius to her baby than she could in all the forty weeks of gestation
if neglected in the above respects ; for she will knit more greatness
in it every hour she lives ; and each step or stage of gestation will
be carried one or more degrees toward perfection. The only dif-
ference between a genius and a human ninny is, that one is finished
up as the work goes on. He is well kneaded, and needed, too ;
well risen ; well baked, and, therefore, is well flavored ; well done ;
will keep well ; give excellent satisfaction all around, and will be
longed for, and wept over when gone, just as children mourn the
good things that have passed away forever.

LII. Paralysis, caused other than by physical injury, is the result
of over-emotion ; too acrid states of the blood and fluids — (often
removable by continued catharsis) and by nerve-embolism, as well
as that of the blood-vessels, consequently the system is not supplied
with a proper amount of vitalized pabulum. Paralysis more often
results from affectional troubles than anything else, and the only
cure is their re-arrangement, accompanied with phosphorized cor-
dials, and phosphoric food, to which may be added the daily
pouring over the head and backbone of at least two pailfuls of hot
water, as hot as can be borne, alternating with ice-rubbing of the
spine, or rhigolene-spray baths ; this will cure it nine times in ten,
when mentally caused ; and would have saved Napoleon III., and
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were not. and suffered him to eat, drink, smoke, and libcrtinixe to
excess, until at last his constitution, enfeebled bv amatory outrage in
his early life, refused to respond to desire ; his embolism increased ;
fistula attacked the perinajum. involving the entire pelvic system,
necessitating castration at the knife of the surgeon, and ending at
Chiselhurst, in fever and death, but a few months after. — and the
crisis hastened swiftlv bv the keen ancruish resulting: from the con-
sciousness that he, the great emperor, was no longer a man. but
only a eunuch or human stag. This fact of his loss occasioned the
" Dcc/icancc" act of the French Senate; — for they would not be
ruled bv either a woman — or a castrato.

Barrenness of woman results from similar causes; and so aho
does the four kinds of male impotence, now abounding even-where
to a frightful extent. These are, 1st. Lack of muscular force ; 2d.
Inability to elaborate the vital fluid : 3d. Inability to retain it at all ;
or to retain it if, and when, elaborated : 4th. Inability to vitalize it
bv reason of trouble in the prostate gland. Hitherto the medical
people have recognized but one form of impotence, whereas there
are no less than four, each, of course, requiring quite dissimilar
methods of curative treatment.

LIII. Nothing goes on cither in soul or body without some sort
of expenditure. Wc have a mental, moral, and affcctional digestion
as well as a physical one ; and wc all know that unless wc excrete
the superfluous matter of the food and drinks we take, dyspepsia
comes in, and finally we grow dull, sleepy, and stupid from the
accumulated phosphates, acid or alkaline, lime, carbon, etc.. urea,
uric acid, etc., and death soon comes tapping at the door; but
who ever suspected that it is just as necessary to void mental, moral,
and aflectional wastes, and thus prevent soul-dvspepsia, or cure it if
established? Yet such is the case. The mind that would be healthy
must cast out of it all it cannot appropriate, assimilate, and trans-
mute, else mental, moral, and alVectional diseases set in, and p^-vchal
debility is the result, terminating in a complete deadening of all
these higher qualities which par excellence make us truly human.

LIV. Now he or she who dwells mainly in the brain is subject
to enormous nervous waste : and the blood, charged with refuse brain

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and nerve-rust, rushes to the kidneys, and there unloads its bad
freight ; but all servants get tired, and so do the organs named ; so
that after a while they cease to drain and sift so perfectly as of yore ;
consequently the alkaline phosphates and urea are not all discharged,
but a portion is poured back into the circulation, until finally every
inch of the physical body is poisoned ; and a healthy soul cannot
healthfully act through poisoned nerves and tainted fluids. The
kidneys begin to suffer and give out ; the supra-renal capsules
change their fibre, and no longer act as storehouses for the kidney-
life placed there daily by the watchful soul. The bladder goes next,
then the testes, prostate, ovaries, or uterus follow ; and before you
know it, the man or woman is a splendid wreck. Wherefore follow
Solomon's advice, and remember two things : ist, that there's a time
for work and rest and sleep, and amusements and converse and
amorous diversion ; next, that all work, and no play, makes Jack a
dull boy ; meals, sleep, love-seasons, all should be as nearly as
possible orbital or periodic in their motions, just as the day, night,
winter, spring, and autumn in the world without. In a little while
nature, will assist, and each season will come in full force at its
proper time, just as eclipses occur, and green fields smile again.

Surely married people will understand this delicate, but very
important suggestion. Hundreds of people, consulting me as physi-
cian, have benefited by that advice, and by resolutely sleeping
apart, as a custom, have begun to realize a domestic felicity they
never before imagined to be possible. Nay, it is absolutely neces-
sary in all cases where perfect restoration does not follow every
night's slumber.

Reader, you have one hundred and sixty bones, and five hundred
muscles ; your blood weighs twenty-five pounds ; your heart is five
inches in length and three inches in diameter ; it beats seventy times
a minute, four thousand two hundred times per hour, one hundred
thousand eight hundred times per day, and twenty-six millions seven
hundred and twenty-five thousand two hundred times per year. At
each beat a little over two ounces of blood is thrown out of it ; and
each day it receives and discharges seven tons of that wonderful
fluid. Your lungs will contain a gallon of air, and you inhale

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twenty-three thousaiul gallons a day. The average surface of the
air-cells of your lungs supposing them to he spread out. exceeds
twenty thousand square inches. The weight <>f your brain is three
pounds. In the average American man it will weigh about eight
ounces more. Your nerves exceed ten millions in number. Your
skin is composed of three layers, and varied from one-fourth to one-
eighth of an inch in thickness. The area of your skin is about one-
thousand seven hundred square inches, and you arc subjected to an
atmospheric pressure of fifteen pounds to the square inch. Each
square inch of your skin contains three thousand sweating tubes, or
respiratory pores, each of which may be likened to a little drain-
tile one-fourth of an inch long, making the aggregate length of the
entire surface of your body of two hundred and one thousand three
hundred and sixty-five feet, or a tile-ditch for draining the body
almost forty miles long.

Now in any act which requires more than a normal drain, every
atom of this magnificent machine is injured, and its life jeoparded.
But in sexism, true and normal, and false and perverted ones also,
yield up a portion of the life of every particle of the being ; also
when we sleep with nervous or organic incompatibles. In right-
eous conjugation what one gives out is instantly replaced by the
other, and perfect rest and equilibrium follow the natural shock.
But in the false rites, what of life goes out, stays out. There is
no return in kind ; no change given for the golden coin of life reck-
lessly thrown on the counters of lust !

LY. The bitterest matrimonial discontents arise from the half-
unconscious misconception that happiness, not growth, is the end
of marriage, and the forgctfulncss that human nature is universal.
It is impossible for two people thoroughly to know each other until
they have been tested by the exigencies of a united life. If then a
radical antagonism of temperament is developed, which makes the
union oppressive, whv should the discordant souls be kept together ?
What is to be gained bv holding them in the bonds of hatred?
The remedy cannot be found in the abolition of the civil contract of
marriage, leaving them bee to repeat again and again the disastrous
experiment, because that has been tried and failed. Now it seems

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to me that there should be schools of marriage ; that is, institutions
with professorships, expressly to teach the laws which alike, every-
where, underlie human happiness. As it is to-day, pretty faces win
male stupidity, and disaster invariably follows. Above all, our
system of nervous life, the good food poorly cooked, the way we eat,
drink, sleep, — all are axes laid at the roots of the tree of domestic
life!

There's not one sound man in five hundred ; nor a woman in a
thousand, who does not have the doctor's care for ills resulting from
this false life. The food we eat, and what we drink, a£t upon our
souls, our emotions, and our loves, quite as much as upon our mere
bodies ; and I had rather have one meal cooked by a good, loving
old mother, than all the hotels of earth, with golden plate, could
furnish ; because such food is seasoned with goodness.

LVI. I am satisfied that sleeping together, and too frequent yield-
ing to the impulses incident to the chemically fevered state we are
in, produces a peculiar nervous exhaustion which, if long continued,
always results in a chronic morbidity closely verging upon actual
insanity, — indeed, in most cases, upon some points, it is insanity
itself; for what else can that state be called which sees nothing at
all but ill, dark-omened shadows continually floating over the sky of
life ; and which beholds, in the wife or husband, nothing but demons
or gorgons ; chatters about him, or her ; exposes faults, magnifies
mole-hills into rocky mountains ; and only breathes venom, spite,
and malignant hate, upon one sworn at the altar to be loved and
cherished till death 'did them part. This is sheer madness ; down-
right insanity ; and in that mood what worlds of wrong are daily
done, and that, too, by people in whose hearts angels slumber, and
long to be awakened, that their wings might fan the fevered brow,
and lull the weary souls to rest. This insanity has its rise in satiety,
and non-reciprocity in the more intimate relations of husband and
wife ; and is akin to that which falls like a leaden pall sooner or
later upon the onanist and debauchee.

Owing to the imperfe6t marriages of to-day, and the few past
decades, millions of half-children, or unsound ones, have been born :
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stitutionallv morbid, with a powerful l>ias toward unquestionable
insanity. Passing along the streets it is easy t < > pick out people thus
born: their faces and heads betray the unmistakable brand of
incipient lunacy ; and it requires but little proyocation to fan the
latent embers into a glowing and terrible flame. The average
insane head is .smaller in all its dimensions than the sane. The
latter shows, also, less irregularity of outline. The left anterior
quarter of the sane head is usually larger than the right, while the
right anterior quarter of the insane head is almost always larger
than the left. Many insane people show a decided projection in the
rijrht frontal region. Now mark the conduct of \ our friends thus
organized.

LVIII. But zc7/y arc they insane? What's the actual — not theo-
retic— but purely scientific facts of such cases? Reply: Magnetic
and amative depletion act upon some people precisely as starvation
acts upon everybody. When the stomach can no longer get food,
the bodv begins to consume and feed upon itself; first it absorbs the
fat, and we grow lean ; then it attacks the muscles, and we become
skeletons ; next the liver goes, and we become cadaverous : their the
mucous surfaces are called upon ; and at last the serous plates are
attacked, and the grave closes over a bunch of bones only. In the
case of the sexual pedcrastic, Dentonian debauchee, when his hist
alone drives him to cither excess or sexivc horrors, there is no
return, and his passion consumes his body. First, the nerves
become strained and tensioncd beyond endurance, and one after
another gives way ; then the muscular cords are slackened : then
the testicular glands decrease: then the prostate : then the marrow
of the hack-bone softens and yields its fat to feed the fearful fire.
creeping up till it reaches the brain ; then the substance ot the brain
goes down to death's hot furnace; the soul shuts itself up. moodily
waiting its time of flight, and when it acts at all is compelled to d<>
so through diseased organs and perverted channels; hence, all it
does is distorted, outre, queer, abnormal. The man is mad — and
— let the curtain fall ; the tragedy is ended.

LVIII. When teaching those who were desirous of mastering the
principles pervading the books, and constituting the soul of the sys-

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tem evoked and elaborated by him whose pen scores these lines, it
was the custom for him to address them in these following words,
or their equivalents : First, the mystery of Life, and Power, Seership,
— in its loftier, not merely its lesser meanings, — forecast, endurance,
insight, far-sight, longevity, silent energy, mental force, magnetic
presence, and impressive capacity, lie in, flow out of, pertain to, and
accord with, the she or mother-side of Deity, the love-principle of
human-kind, and the sexive natures of the complicate homos. Out-
side of its sphere of operations all is cold and deathful ; within its
mystic and magic circle dwells all there is of fire, latent and active,
actual and metaphysical ; all there is of energy, procreant power,
physical, mental, spiritual, and all other; and it — Love — is the
master-key unlocking every barred door in the realms that are.
Remember, O Neophyte (and reader of this book) , that I am not
dealing in mere philosophical formulas, " recipes," or trashy " direc-
tions," but in, and with fundamental principles, underlying all being.
Fix this first principle firmly in your memory, and roll it under the
tongue of your clearest understanding ; take it in the stomach of
your spirit ; digest it well, and assimilate its quintessence to, and
with, your own soul. That principle is formulated thus : Love
Lieth at the Foundation (of all that is) ; and Love is con-
vertibly passion ; enthusiasm ; affection ; heat ; fire ; soul ; God.
Master that. Second, the nuptive moment, the instant wherein the
germs of a possible new being are lodged, or a portion of man's
essential self is planted within the matrix, is the most solemn,
serious, powerful, and energetic moment he can ever know on
earth ; and only to be excelled by correspondent instants after he
shall have ascended to realms beyond the stariy spaces.

LIX. If a man actualizes that moment while under the dominion
of animal instinct, or human lust alone, then the effect is losing,
unmanning, degrading, to both himself and her ; murderous toward
the recipient, and suicidal to himself. It means hatred, disease, and
magnetic ruin to both ; its influence for evil spreads over a wide
area on earth ; feeds and sustains barbarism ; nourishes the mon-
strous Larvae of the middle kingdoms of the <zred habitats of dis-
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shall, then he and she generate misery, crime, and possible murder
as the heritage of that child. If, on the other hand, low la- t!ie
prompting angel at the hearth-nuptial, then strength, goodne— .
truth, harmony and sweet melodies of life ensue to the twain, and
are insured to the offspring God shall give them. Third, at the vcrv
instant his seminal glands contract to expel their treasure-, at Mich
instant his interior nostrils open, and minute dial's, which are sealed
at all other times, then expand, and as the lightning from his soul
darts from the brain, rushes down the spinal-cord, leaps the solar
plexus, plunges along the nerval filaments to the prostate gland to
immortalize the germal human being; and while the vivific pulse is
leaping to the dark chamber wherein soul is clothed in flesh . ,,d
blood, at that instant he breathes in through the inner nostrils one
of two atmospheres underlying, inter-penetrating — as the spirit does
the body — the outer air which sentient things inhale. One of thc-e
auras is deeply charged with, because it is the effluvium of, the un-
pleasant sphere of the border spaces, where is congregated the
quintessence of evil from evcrv inhabited human world in the entire
congeries of soul-bearing galaxies of the broad universe ; else he
draws in the pellucid aroma of divinity from the far-off multiple
heavens. It follows that as are the people at that moj?:c/it so will
be that which enters into them from the regions above, beneath, and
roundabout; wherefore, whatsoever male or female shall truly will
for. hopefully pray for, and earnestly yearn for, when love, pure and
holy, is in the nuptive ascendant, in form, passional, alleciional,
divine and volitional, that prayer will he granted, and the boon be
given. But the prayer must precede.

Discoid reigns in marriage-land to-day, and one principal cause is,
that while the magnetic tide is at its height, and before the soul
withdraws its power from the pelvis back to the brain-seat, thev
part company, and the spiritual auras and vital air escapes into the
external world, instead of being stored up and absorbed bv the
woman's spirit and soul.

XL. The consequence is that the evil forces take hold, with
deadly grip, upon the very roots of their triplicate being, because in
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the very primary law of human existence, and voluntarily seek to
defeat God Almighty's great purpose, underlying their creation.

LXI. Balzac says : " He who begins with his wife by a rape is a
lost man ! " I say, it is next to impossible that she ever can love
him after, as before! and I say this after a large medical practice
of not less than thirty years. But most "Men" (?) not only begin
thus, but keep it up — the fools ! — and their name is legion ! — till
hatred, horror and disgust either kills her outright, or suggests an
evil from which every trtie human shrinks.

LXII. Abortion at any stage from conception to birth is — Mur-
der in the first degree. It effectually kills the child, demoralizes
the mother, destroys her moral and physical health, while living,
and after death dooms, irrevocably dooms, her and her assistants to
the perpetual society of murderers beyond the grave, from which
doom there is no appeal. So beware of the crime.

LXIII. Circumstances may demand non-increase of family ; there-
fore, avoid all risk forty-eight hours before, and one hundred after
the Catamenial period. Avoid all risk after a return from a journey
or temporary absence ; and

LXIV. After the make up following an unpleasantness, tiff, spat
or downright family quarrel, because the reaction creates not only
increased affectional and procreative energy, but also a peculiar
liability to the risk of unwished-for parentage, then especially.

LXV. Mental, moral, physical and domestic trouble, mutual mag-
neto-vital exhaustion are easily preventable between couples if they
will but sleep apart, have hard beds, good ventilation, never sleeping
in day-worn under-clothes, and each magnetizing the other at the
seven magnetic points of the human frame — sides, spine, throat,
head, breast, and over the stomach.

LXVI. Superior men, whatever their rank or calling, are very
attractive to women, as a general thing; therefore such men — as
they are almost always very licentious — have great need of watch-
fulness and prayer ; considerable prayer — but more watch !

LXVII. The true nature of any wife is quickly changed for the
worse by the pigness and private brutalisms of their husbands;

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and " can't a man do as he likes with his own.'" requires a universal
No, even if ownership of the wife is conceded, which it isn't.

LXVIII. When a husband's private conduct. jinrcasonablc de-
mands, etc., lias estranged the dear love, so precious to every genu-
ine man, there is but one way to change it back, and that is f,,r!>ear-
ance. self-restraint, care, gentleness, reciprocity, Lovf. It is best
to eat only when one is hungry. But why force an unwelcome feast
to vou, Jiirror to Jicr, except she be ahungered as well? If she be
not in sympathy with her husband in all respects, it means death to
her affection for him, in time, if not at once ; and he is a poor bird
who foolishly ruins his own nest, and how many human birds do
it!

We are triplicate beings — soul, spirit, body. Our loves and
passions may be of either one, two or all three of these. If our love
be only of soul it is too fine and ethereal for this lower world, and for
all practical purposes is useless. If it be of spirit only, it is too
vague, unsubstantial, unthoughtful, and physically unsatisfactory.
If it be of body only, then lust is regnant, with hell all around, and
crime swelters in the air. If our loves be of soul and spirit only,
then wc are bereft of the power to become Energies in the world,
because we lack the material force to either make our mark on each
other, the world, or to give good physico-vital constitutions to our
offspring. If our loves be of soul and body, we are isolated from
the rest of mankind, and are lone pilgrims all the way along. If
they be spirit and body only, we arc extreme — either all transcen-
dental affection, or downright animal passionists. It is only when
our loves are triplicate that we fulfil our true mission, and realize
the supreme jovs of existence.

The marital office and function is therefore material, spiritual
and mystic. The Christian world knows much about the two fir.>t,
but nothing whatever of the last. This book of mv doctrine only
contains it, for it alone declares and establishes the fact that the marital
function is unquestionably the highest, holiest, most important, and
most wrctchcdlv abused of all that pertains to the human being.
Its offices are so vital that I hold as cardinal, indisputable axioms.
that

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LXIX. He who is diseased or unsound, felvically, is not a true
man while thus ; that his soul is barred out from the heavens
whither all souls repair during sound sleep, and that his immortality
is not certain till he does become sound. Woman everywhere is
subject to the same law and penalty.

LXX. We hold that any over-passional, inconsiderate male human
is no man, and that such a husband must necessarily destroy the
best wife ever given by God to the son of man ; and

LXXI. An over-passional woman can easily destroy and rain any
husband on the earth, and totally unfit him for combat with the
world.

LXXII. Children are the gifts of God. They will not come
unless the message is sent for them during the wife's lunar season ;
hence any artifice to prevent conception, save such as are based upon
time, will, and her moon's changes, are diabolic, inhuman and
dangerous to both the man and the woman, souls as well as bodies.

LXXIII. Giours and fools think to avoid all disaster through the
murderous habit of incompletion of the conjugal rite. But they are
mistaken, both the wife and husband, for such folly begets hatred,
disease of bladder and brain, nerves and soul in him, and a corre-
ponding host of evils in the wife. Why ?

LXXIV. Because it is not merely suicidal and unnatural, but is
also a conjugal fraud, among whose results may be reckoned dys-
pepsia, insanity, paralysis, and impotence on his side, and uterine,
vaginal, and ovarian inflammations, ulcers, leucorrhas, and prolapsus
on her side, physically, and hatred, disgust and ruin on both sides.

LXXV. Too few husbands respect the modesty of their wives ;
forget that drapery, perfumes, beautiful trifles, are powerful adjuncts ;
do not know that it is impossible for a wife to love him unless she is
■won, not forced, to compliance ; that he can never hold her soul,
and she be made to realize the natural God-intended joy of conjugal
association, except by those affectional and magnetical caresses and
endearments which to the wise husband suggest themselves. Above
all let none be careless of modesty ; for whoever cannot blush is
lost !

LXXVI. Too frequent exercise of any power, quality, or faculty

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is ruinous. This is especially true of marriage matters, which are
only productive of two results — hell or heaven. For the true and
holy rite is ascensive, and leads to health, happiness, delight, lon-
gevity, gracious, celestial and glorious joy ; or descensive, leading to
the lowest depths of social, moral and domestic horror, on which
sad rocks too many souls are wrecked.

LXXYII. Love between husband and wife should last to the
brink of the grave ; but it don't. With careful obedience to these
rules, and judicious food, drink, and occasional baths, // will.
Doctors, clergymen, merchants, lawyers, people of letters, all
whose minds arc constantly on the stretch ; also, women of like
mental culture, are all more or less deficient in vital energy, and all
will speedily reach primitive vigor, endurance, and elasticity of
spirit and body, only through the natural methods herein set forth.

LXXVIII. Conjugal love never stands still. It either increases
or diminishes, and husbands and wives both injure and mar it by
heedlessness.

LXXIX. She who yields to a libertine is sure to be despised by
him. lie who patronizes a harlot is worse than a beast, and either
are unworthy of the forms they bear, for no beast sins against beast-
morals, as humans do against theirs. . . . Whoever yields to
passion not love-founded is not only a fool but a suicide ; for love-
passion builds up the human soul, but mere lust absolutely ivastcs
soul, and every one guilty of the folly knoivs this from experience,
for a debauch lessens the entire volume of power. Whoever is false
to a true wife or husband contracts the malaria of the Siiadls, and
is sure to bring home the subtle poison, and lav the broad founda-
tion of domestic Ruiv. Sexual faith and purity is the price of
power; just as Love is the sole base of immortality. All people

no NOT HAVE SOILS.

LXXX. Both husbands and wives will grant as a boon, when
either would refuse to accord a rite claimed as a right. Nothing is
lo.^t. but everything is gained bv the persuasive mood. IFc comes
too near ~:,ho comes to be denied. Instance is hrutallsni. Ask in
love — be sure to .show it; if vou're true, she's sure to know it.

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Slow paces last the longer. Unless there's mutuality, a little, but
growing pandemonium is kindled.

LXXXI. Govern yourself, then you may rule a kingdom, and then
your mate.

LXXXII. Nothing but love can keep a man faithful, and not that
always, unless he finds greater solace at home than abroad ; and
that's just it. They too often do, and that's her fault ; for unless
he does she's never sure of him.

LXXXIII. A woman must have love — must love and be loved —
in all its true meanings ; ought, of course, to have and exercise it at
home, but if she don't have it there she will elsewhere ; and he who
imagines he can keep her true, in heart, at least, without loving her
right along, and right straight from his to her soul, is an egotist, a
fool, and dolt ! Lost love seldom returns. It can only be won by
truth, assiduity, and genuine manhood.

LXXXIV. An idle wife may be successfully tempted ; so may a
dressy one, or one subject to flattery. For such to be tempted is to
fall. She will forget everything but a slight to her love — not
passion ; but a man will forget a slight to his love, but never forgive
a sin against his conjugal rights. Ought he ?

LXXXV. No power can tempt a woman against the man she
loves, and whom she knows loves her in return.

LXXXVI. No rite of marriage gives ownership, but equality.
Proprietorship means despair to her, dishonor to him.

LXXXVII. A woman in love can be wholly trusted, but not so
with a man.

LXXXVIII. One sheep-killing dog will ruin all the other clogs
he comes across, if you grant him time ; and one loose woman will
corrupt five hundred innocent girls or wives in six months if you but
give her the chance to do so. It is their chief delight.

Finally I commend these twenty-eight points to the study of
mankind, as also that portion of knowledge which is yet to be
taught you here [in] after.

LXXXIX. The entire social, conjugal and domestic worlds to-
day, are in an uproar, chaos and revolution.

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sadness, insanity and wretchedness exists among the married of to-
day. But it is true, and domestic happiness is the exception to an
almost universal rule, at least among the people of every sort and
section of this nation, and scarcely anywhere else, in such frightful
forms upon the globe. Husbands neglect their wives and practi-
cally hate them ; wives the same, and universal domestic chaos
reigns supreme. The worst of the matter is, that both wives, hus-
bands, and society at large attribute the bad state of things to vcr<>?ig
causes, for the fact is, that the real one lays right before their very
eyes, yet they iuill not see. Such a state of things cannot exist
among Oriental nations, or the dark-skinned people of the world.
Were it not so serious a matter, one would laugh at the absurd and
puerile folly that permits the reign of such social non-concord for a
single day, when its causes are so palpable, and its cure so easy.
As things exist, wives are defrauded, husbands do not love them,
and wives fail to hold their lords in affectional duress. I low few,
indeed, know how, or even care to accomplish health and happiness
at home ; and yet, it is in every man's power to make his wife love
him, and in every wife's to make her husband worship God through
her. On my soul, I truly believe, that if my rules were followed,
the social millennium would be close at hand. No strictly good
human power can dwell in, or be developed by any man who is
sexually unsound, imbecile, puerile, weak or impotent ; nor in any
woman with fallen womb, leucorrhea, ulcerated vagina or passional
frigidity. How, let me ask, in God's Holy Name, can you expect
home, happiness or heaven in a family where the wife never, from
the altar, where she swore her life away, to the grave that closes
over her fretted corpse, never realizes the slightest marriage joy. or
anything else than utter and profound disgust? How can a man be
constant, faithful, good or great, who is in a sense, compelled to run
after harlots because his wife is concentrated ice? You can't expect
perfection from conditions themselves imperfect ! But there is a
clear passage and open water out of this Polar sea of marriage
land.

XC. There cannot be a doubt but that the " Philosopher's Stone"
of ancient and mediaeval lore, and the '■ Tlixir Vita; " Water of Life

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and Perpetual Youth, so vaguely hinted at by old writers, and which
constitutes the burden of the celebrated book "Hermipus Redivi-
vus" or the Sage's Triumph over decrepitude and death,
means this identical triple mystery, which scarce any one practi-
cally knows, but which all should learn, and which every physician
and divine in the land ought to be compelled to teach their subjects
under heavy penalties of neglect, because it is the secret of sustained
youth, grace and beauty ; it is the gate of power, and the crown and
signet of ineffable human glory ; it unveils the throne of Will, and taps
the fountains of excessive joy ; it is the Jemschidgenie of Persian
story ; and he or she who knows, appreciates diviner and celestial
bearings of life and its meanings, becoming indeed a child of the
Infinite, and no longer a stranger to the Father's face ; and they
alone who have it, are able to reach that magnificent sweep of clair-
voyant vision, which, leaping from earth at a bound, scans the
unutterable glories of space, and beholds the rain of starry systems
as we view a gentle summer shower.

XCI. The great source of crime, illness, wretchedness, and suffer-
ing has been traced to its one single source, and that is, the abuse,
improper use, and mismatching of people in their loves, conjugal
relations, and sexual incompatibilities.

It is proven that these bad conditions are frequently the result of
organization, and sometimes spring from incompatible, electric,
magnetic and chemical relations between couples. That absolute
separation is the only cure for some who are wretched in theii
married state, or inter-relationship ; while attention to health, and a
fair amount of try is a certain cure for other cases.

XCII. The body of man is a mere conglomerate of earths and
metals, gases and fluids wholly material, but penetrated and per-
meated in every atom by imponderable elements essentially electric
in their nature. Thus beneath, and lining our eyes are ethereal
organs corresponding thereto ; beneath our limbs, heart, lungs,
brain, in short, all our parts are corresponding electric organs, and
the totality of these constitutes the ethereal, spiritual, death-proof
man or woman, and when dissolution occurs this inner man or
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again, and takes its place anions; the countless armies of the de-
parted, hut neither lost or dead; and this internal, ethereal man,
woman or child, can he contacted hy us in the flesh. l.\ conform in"
to the laws governing such contact, and the ohservance of a few-
simple rules.

XCIII. A passionless man or woman is a human nonentity. It is
only when wc arc wholly man or woman in the higher, holier, and
also physical sense, that we can reach the loftier and more signifi-
cant heights of any sort of power whatever; therefore, those who
would cultivate those loftier instincts, and gain mental wings where-
with to scale the heavens, should at once attend to the business of
regaining perfect health, mental, physical, emotional and passional.
Presently great-hearted love and blessed compassion will nestle in all
our hearts, and in this glad, prophetic hope we may all be happy
yet. Wc are none of us ever wise except when merciful. Let us
all be so, for only then can we be perfectly human — only then
become vessels for the influence and effect of God-xess. Never
yet did man come to the absolute conviction of Soul and Immor-
tality, but he also came to that of God and Prayer ; for. say what
you will, both are and ever will be positive realities in the universe.
In Love alone lies the boon of IMMORTALITY! INJUS-
TICE reigns to-day.

Sad art' the times when wedded wives decay,
And brothels flourish, and Cyprians bear the sway;
These arc Ihe times ! their scarlet banner wave8,
And honest wives, neglected, fill up a million graves!

" When woman's eye grows dull,

And her check paleth,
When fades the beautiful,

Then man's love faileth ;
He sits not beside bur chair,

Clasps not her fingers,
Twir.es not the damp hair

That o'er her brow.lingers.

" He comes but a moment in,
Though her eye lightens,
Though her cheek, pale and thin,
Feverishly brightens.

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He stays but a moment near,

When that flush fadeth,
Though true affection's tear

Her soft eyelid shadeth.

" He goes from her chamber straight

Into life's jostle ;
He meets at the very gate

Business and bustle ;
He thinks not of her within,

Silently sighing;
He forgets, in that noisy din,

That she is dying.

" And when her heart is still,

What though he mourneth,
Soon from his sorrow chill

Wearied he turneth.
Soon o'er her buried head

Memory's lights settcth,
And the true-hearted dead

Thus man forgetteth."

But it won't be so when both sides have found out, as a rule and
law, that no happiness is dired, although joy may be— but always
refkaed ; in other words, that to be happy, and loved, we must first
love and render happy some other soul. This is the eternal law of
Love's equation, and is as absolute, rigid, and unalterable, as are the
laws of number, reflection and gravitation.

We all need, at times, a little, and occasionally a good deal of,
coaxing. We are a perverse set, and oftentimes refuse to do the
very identical thing others want, and we ourselves are aching,
dying, to do, simply because some witling has not sense enough to
coax us ; and many a good man, and better woman, has been suf-
fered to gallop straight into the jaws of death, right into the mouth of
hell, for want of a little, gentle persuasion, even of the blarney sort ;
especially is this true of men, even quite as much as of the other
sections of the human being.

I believe the only physician who has been known to condemn
exercise was Cardenus, a physician of Milan. He exclaims against

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using any exercise that can fatigue a man in the smallest derive, or
throw him into a sweat, or accelerate his respiration. lie gra\clv
observes that trees live longer than animals, because they d<> not stir
from their places. About the same time Asgill, a French writer,
undertook to prove that man is literally immortal, or rather that any
given living man might probably never die, if he used sufficient
prudence, and a forcible exercise of the will. He complains of the
co'vardly practice of dying, considering it a mere trick, or unnec-
essary habit.

XCY. I copy from my manuscript of the Ansairetic Mvsterv. a
medico-religio. and mystic composition of mine upon the same
general subject as this book, but which, as it expounds certain very
delicate facts and principles, adapted only to the mature, and there-
fore for private study — the following paragraph — stating, before I
do so. that while alive and able, such of my patrons and patients as
need that now widely famous letter, can write for it ; but in no case
will it be sent save under seal, as a private message from physician
and teacher to patient and pupil ; and genuine candidates for full,
true, noble Man and Womanhood : —

■•Wherever you see a rich, jouissant. beaut}', spirit or power in a
boy or girl ; wherever you behold force of genius, vou may rest
assured that the conception of which they are the result, occurred
when their parents both loved and were impassioned. An con-
tra ric: — whenever you come across genuine meanness, lean,
wcazelish. deceitful, slanderous, lying, scrawny, white-livered peo-
ple, grab-allish. selfish, and accursed, generally, vou may safely
wager your very life that such beings were begotten of force, and
were mothered by passionless, sickly, used-up wives, without the
slightest danger of perilling vour stake ! "

XCVI. The best people on earth see the most trouble : while the
heartless, dry and mean go on to success swimmingly, and never
feel a soul-pang from the cradle to the grave ; yet. nevertheless, true
men and women arc never failures! Sham ones always are!
because the good influence survives, the bad dies out. The good,
when thev enjoy, do so intensely ; but the bad. coarse being's life, in
all its phases must be on a par with — him or herself: and there's as

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much difference between the joys of such as betwixt the Dundreary
skip of a fop and fool, a ninny, or idiot, and the joyous romp of a
gushing-hearted, brainful girl.

It has been my lot to encounter a great deal more of human pinch-
beck than the solid soul-ful gold ; not that I have not known some
noble and glorious people among the radical classes, I for years
associated with ; yet, as a general rule, I found it unsafe to trust to
the honor of those who were extreme in the business of world-
bettering ; they are a bad breed ; and Diogenes' lantern is still needed
by whomsoever travels among them.

A happy man never writes a book ! This is my twentieth ! But I
might have been happy had I kept away from the world-saving
" Philosophers." Here and there I have met a real lady or gentle-
man, such as that king of nature's nobleman, Jesse B. Furguson, of
Tennessee — God bless his green and pleasant memory ! — and
latterly a few others of the same State; but among professional
reformers — and I speak only of such as I personally know, I found
a few golden ingots, and a plentiful surplusage of brass ones — born
malcontents who take to world-saving, themselves needing it most
by far. Such people as preach divine charity and all that, yet
constantly yelp and howl down to the bitter depths of death, slan-
der or disgrace, any and every human being whom they cannot use
at will, or who disagrees with them. They are magnificent demon-
strations of the sublime truth of the philosophy I teach, viz., that as
was a person's anti-natal circumstances, so will his or her subse-
quent life be. If begotten in lust, alone', then that will be their bias
from the breast to the grave ; if of " authority " backed by brute
force, on the body of half-dead compliance, then such will go
through life, biting, barking, snarling, growling, making all sorts of
trouble ; incapable either of generosity or appreciation, and scattering
discord wherever their scandal-scattering footsteps fall ; — generally,
long, lean, lank, slab-sided human halfness, one or more of whom in-
fests nearly every neighborhood. Thus in close juxtaposition with
nature's noblemen, I have never failed to meet men of souls so con-
temptibly small as to make one ashamed of the form one wore.
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suspected there was the slightest connection between Love and
Slander? yet there is. Read this scrap, which I cut from a paper
many years ago, and then to the proof: —

'•The slanderer is a pest ; an incubus to society, that should be
subjected to a slow cauterization, and then be lopped oil" like a disa-
greeable excrescence. Like the viper, he leaves a shining trail in his
wake. Like a tarantula, he weaves a thread of candor with a web
of wiles, or. with all the mendicity of hints, whispers forth his tale,
that, like the fabling Xile. no fountain knows. The dead — av.
even the dead — over whose pale, sheeted corpse sleeps the dark
sleep no venomed tongue can wake, and whose pale lips have then
no voice to plead, are subjected to the scandalous attacks of the
slanderer —

" ' Who wears a mask the Gorgon would disown,
A cheek of parchment, and an eye of stone ! '

" I think it is Pollock who says the slanderer is the foulest whelp
of sin, whose tongue was set on fire in hell, and whose legs were
faint with haste to circulate the lie his soul had framed.

" ' He has a lip of lies, a face formed to conceal,
That, without feeling, mocks at those who feel.'

"There is no animal I despise more than these moths and scaraps
of society, the malicious censurers —

" ' These ravenous fishes who follow only in the wake
Of great ships, because perchance they're great.'

" Oh, who would disarrange all society with their false lapwing
cries ! The slanderer makes few direct charges and assertions. His
long, envious finger points to no certain locality. lie has an
inimitable shrug of the shoulders, can give peculiar glances —

" ' Or convey a libel to a frown,
Or wink n reputation down ! '

'• He seems to glory in the misery he entails. The innocent wear
the foulest impress of his smutty palm, and a soul pure as • arctic

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snow twice bolted by the northern blast,' through his warped and
discolored glasses, wear a mottled hue.

" * A whisper broke the air —
A soft j light tone, and low,
Yet barbed with shame and woe !
Nor might it only perish there,
No farther go !

" ' Ah, me ! a quick and eager ear

Caught up the little meaning sound ;
Another voice then wreathed it clear,

And so it wandered round,
From ear to lip, from lip to ear,
Until it reached a gentle heart,
And that — it broke!'"

Now observe that it is inflexibly true that every slanderer, of
whatever gender, is nearly always a long, lank, little, lilly-livered,
tucked-up, wizenish being, without any plumpness, either of body,
spirit or manner ; they are invariably disappointed, unloving, three-
cornered folks, without the slightest love save that of self; and
when modern spiritualism came along thousands of such rushed
into its ranks, disgraced the cause and themselves, and foisted their
miserable twaddle upon the world as true supernalism, when, in
fact, spiritualism really had nothing to do with it whatever. As at
present constituted that ism contains, within its ranks, three, nay,
four, sorts of people, ist. Those who hail it as the demonstration
of human continuance beyond the grave, and the celestial harbinger
of the good time coming. These people are true supernalists ; and
among them have I ever found sympathizers, and people fit for the
heaven they seek. 2d. A large class of social revolutionists under
various leaderships, who, accepting the facts, are eager to push on
toward the realization of the promised good time. These two com-
prise the army whose iconoclastic blows right and left are demolish-
ing some of the idols of the Past ; but they are builders yet, and it
remains to be seen what sort of edifice they will give us in lieu of
those now crumbling before their fierce artillery. 3d. A smaller
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the old dead ones, and fastening their faith about equally on the
Bible and the manifestations. The fourth class is made up of mal-
contents ; always making trouble, never satisfied ; having, here and
there, an able leader who has his hands full all the time. The rank
and file of this trouble-making army wouldn't pass muster at the
gates of heaven; for a more ungenerous, malignant, back-biting set
was never developed by any civilization earth ever saw. Born of
loveless parents, they rush through life striking alike, hap-hazard, at
friend or foe ; discontented from the nipple to eternity ; full of
malice; steeped to the lips with cruel, cool, cobra-like venom, they
are never happy save when slandering their betters, picking flaws in
others' characters, and in stabbing in the back those whom thev dare
not face. Beware of such ! They abound, and like some snakes,
not on legs, arc dangerous. I have already described them phys-
ically, so that they will be known when met. I owed this duty to
mankind ; and I now proceed to pay my little Bill.

XCVII. Reduced from competence to nothing, by the terrible
Boston fire of Nov., 1S72, I went to Ohio from necessity, and find-
ing materials at hand, in great abundance, made it my especial
business to study the workings of the organic law of sex, as dis-
played in the product of marriages, accomplished at periods varying
from fifteen to sixty-five years anterior to 1S73. One remarkable
case was that of a man in Ohio, a long, lank abortion, whose
nature constantly impelled him to find fault with everything and
everybody — even himself, or rather Itself; nor was it ever happy,
except when going up and down retailing slanderous tales and
scandal concerning whoever failed to suit it, come or go at its beck
and call, and do humble homage at its feet. Now the fault is not
altogether theirs, — these unhappy ones, — for they had no hand in
their own make-up (save in that they usually make no effort to cor-
rect their shortcomings), but is that of their progenitors. We have
no right to run the risk, — of being guilty of the insensate folly of
parenting such monstrosities, — for such they are, and moral abor-
tions beside ; nor to parentage at all unless mutual love, esteem and
respect be the prompting spur.

People of that grade are usually one-sided, angular, not to be

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depended on, and generally passion-driven ; or rather you may set it
down as incontrovertibly true, that wherever you find one of the
class alluded to, there also will you find a devout disciple of Onan.
I once lost the "friendship" of a male human being of a slightly
different type from the above, yet still a monstrosity. He had fed
me for months in exchange for information marketable at far higher
prices than he paid — still I was grateful ; and one day he proposed
that I should aid him in a cruel scheme ; but I preferred to go
hungry , ay, starve outright, rather than comply with his demands ;
because I well knew that to do so would be conniving at an outrage
against an innocent child, in the first place, and at his own destruc-
tion and probable death, in the second ; hence my pity for her made
me foil him ; and my friendship for him caused me to defeat his
well-cherished plans. I knew I should transform him, and his
household, too, into bitter enemies of mine ; yet still I determined to
do right, no matter at what sacrifice or pain to me ; and at once
decided to protect a young thing, and save him from himself, by in
no manner lending either knowledge, power or influence, to do an
evil deed. Magic powers, too, he wanted, — he, an old man, of
eight and sixty! — to enable him to compass the ruin, or "marry"

— just think of it ! — a mere child, of but a few months over fifteen
summers, — fair to look on ; a hundred weight of beauty and glee ;
simple, heedless, joyous as a morning bird, carolling its sun-greeting
roundelay ; and he coarse as rag-carpet ; brutal as a Kaffir on .the
war-path ; lecherous as a satyr ; one-third human, two-thirds goat ;
nearly two hundred pounds of rough, uncouth, unwashed feculence,
whose presence anywhere was a sign hung out, warning passers-by
to " keep to the windward." And yet this man had a great, rich
jewel of goodness, away down in the inner deeps, and that it was
which, as will be hereinafter seen, urged him to sacrifice all things
in the vague hope of achieving one certain, but tremendous guerdon,

— the salvation of his own soul ; yet he knew not what he was
striving after. I did ; and so instead of helping him wed her, I
cautioned the child against it, because I knew such a step meant
inevitable death to her within a few brief, lust-harried, agonizing
months ; for the gentle Adonis had confidentially boasted to me of

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his intentions, vol lie said that, passionallv a moderate man was lie.
and that, save under extraordinary circumstances, he would be con-
tent with — what may God protect even a woman of the wilderness
from! Finding some Power working against him — for I had
taken a woman and a man into my confidence, to enable me to save
the girl from the horrible fate threatened her, the old '• man" desired
me to use certain magic spells, common among the people down
South, and other lands I wot of, to enable him to gain control of
her, to be used for awhile, as only a human beast can use God's
image in female form — and then, utterly ruined, to be cast aside as
a loathed and loathsome thing forever, with a bagnio close by, and a
darkly rolling, sullen river, in the near distance ! For the life of me
I was so stone blind as to be wholly unable to view the matter as he
did, and so — well, he lost the game; for a young man honorably
wooed and won her.

XCVIII. I missed many a good meal by doing as I did. but I kept
my manhood unsullied, by defeating a wrong. To this dav I hold
his own written letter requesting me to disgrace myself, and tarnish
my soul, by an infamous deed in furtherance of his abominable and
abnormal passion, said letter being written that I might clearly and
distinctly comprehend his meaning. That man thereafter hated me
with fifty thousand horse-power, in which he was natural, because
all animals are rendered furious if their lusts are defeated.

Not only do individuals in their conduct proclaim the cat-and-dog
lives led by their immediate progenitors, but it often happens that
whole classes in a community do the very same thing ; for instance :
Once I went to a wi Religious Picnic," of the " Reformers," and
while taking a drink behind a tree. — it was whiskey, too. a beverage
plentifully provided and dispensed by the saints, most all of whom
Were excellent judges of the article, — and at the earnest solicitation
of a particularly reverend brother, I tried it on ; and as it passed
along the tube leading to my stomach I experienced a sensation, only
comparable to a desperate encounter between two infuriate iron-
clads, going on simultaneously with an electrical storm, a couple ot
Vesuvian volcanic eruptions, and four typhoons, all going on in my
internal man, until I gasped for breath, and mine eves resembled a

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paii- of exceedingly large peeled onions, or two burnt holes in a
blanket : which experience satisfied me once for all, and led me to
wonder if that was the best brand of Reformer's whiskey, what
could be the quality of the article served out down below. I failed
to see wherein whiskey was a high moral motor.

While trying to catch my breath, I overheard one saint counsel
another to get me to orate, and both spoke of me in such opprobrious
terms as would have fired me with indignant anger without the
additional damnable stimulus of the rankly poison draught. Ten
minutes afterward, against my will, I took the stand «and spoke my
piece, just as we Randolphs are accustomed to, and dealt out justice
to my traducers ; for doing which, and differing from them about
what constitutes manhood, the leading saints proposed to silence me,
demonstrate their sainthood, and end the dispute by cool, calm,
deliberate, premeditated Murder, by drowning me in the river hard
by. They did not attempt it, because when they proposed it my
hand slid round to my hip-pocket, and cowards seldom attack a
well-armed man. This experience satisfied me that, until people are
really spiritual, it is best to be always prepared with carnal logic to
withstand their material arguments. I have alluded to these things
to make a point in my book, and not because the savages who pro-
posed to murder me are worth the slightest notice, but solely, only
and for the express purpose of making two remarks ; the first is this :
that the world needs something better than it has now before Reform
will be a thing of heart and condu6t, instead of empty words as at
present ; and second, to point out the characteristics of certain
salacious and other self-assumed " Reformers." Of course, your
pseudo-philosopher is never a full, round, genial, or generous man ;
but will invariably be found, on close examination, to partake
largely of the hang-dog, sneak-thief, and lecherous look. They are
generally moderately tall, thin, spare males, who, as a rule, have
larger, but more ill-shaped and angular, heads, than either large, fat,
or little-bodied men. The same holds true of females — such as
delight in breaking up families, creating scandal, and ruining other
people by slanderous tongues or innuendo. Husbands, wives, be
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you may expect moral poison and ruin to remain after themselves
have departed. Theirs is the vampire build, and that sort of
influence is theirs, seven times in every eight, where they have taken
to the business of world-saving. In thirty years I have conversed
with scores of such and found, exceptionless, that their ideal of love
was that which better men stigmatize as unhallowed lust and fiery
passion, unredeemed by the faintest spark of manhood, womanhood,
or genuine goodness. They all declare for a " central, solar, or
pivotal love, with planetary loves revolving round it ;" that is to say,
a main one with "outside" indulgences to keep the cosmos in order ;
which means, in plain Saxon, that man is but a feathcrless rooster,
entitled to one queen-hen with a flock of lesser chic-a-biddies to
relieve her during incubation. I should not like to lionize, but
would assuredly glory in canonizing that species of foul fowl ;
such people can see no higher use for certain organic functions than
to fill their own places after death, or to gratify their morbid natures.
They cannot imagine anything else, nor even dream that through
the offices of monogamal, conjugal life, the soul itself may be
enormously intensified and expanded, and the evolution of mighty
thought itself go on at a more rapid rate, taking higher flights,
skimming deeper oceans, and, consequently, the mental, psychal,
emotional, and creative powers of the human spirit be enhanced a
million fold. This is all Greek to these harpers on a single string,
and that a base one. Some of these people call themselves physi-
cians, and pass their time in inventing " preventives," embracing'
"shields," ''pellets," "plugs," excoriating and tanning " washes,"
and a hundred other infamous abominations to entrap the suffering,
and enrich themselves. Let all henceforth know, not only what is
set forth on this point elsewhere herein, but that the man who
wishes to spare the partner of his joys, who, poor soul, always runs
the risk of death every time she yields, not to please herself, but to
bless the man she has called husband, can, by will, restraint, and
firmly holding his breath, when so disposed, prevent the inhalation
of the monad or germ, and its descent to the prostate, and, a!>o, by
will, the flash of fire from his central soul, which alone, and only,
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it is as certainly true as truth itself! They cannot see these splendid
things, because their visual range is groundy, while these lofty truths
are at their base anchored in the substance of the human soul, and
held there by a cable, Love, whose other end girdles the Infinite
God!

Man deals with masses ; woman with individuals ; and the Great
One deals with, protects, comforts, solaces, and, through pure love
alone, redeems both. Would that these revealments might reach
every human heart, even though mine own is aching and breaking
the while.

XCIX. Said Lewis Kirk, " An ounce of heaven, a pound of hell,
makes life. Not many ever experience mental pain — mind-suffer-
ing— in its keenest sense. Financial trouble ! — Pshaw ! — is noth-
ing ! " and as times go, the first statement is correct ; for none but
those who are conscious of soul, can experience soul-pangs ; — and
it is these who turn in any direction for relief, and fall victims to
the abominable quackery of the would-be world-reformers, — a class
which sprung into notice with Fourier and Graham, and which,
since the advent of Spiritualism, has increased to an alarming extent
all over this land. Their hobby is "Sexism," — a thing of whose
basic principles they are as ignorant as they are of who built Baal-
bec. These tramps scour the country, victimize honest men's wives
and daughters ; and even have the effrontery to enforce their odious
embraces upon decent women, on the infamous and filtiry plea that
they, the lady-victims, require a change of magnetism — forsooth ! —
which change themselves are the veiy ones to triumphantly effect.
Hoodwinked by psychologic power, deluded by specious sophistry,
anxious for relief, ready to make any sacrifice to obtain it, women,
by hundreds, fall into the accursed net, and are ruined ; for no
matter how secret the deed may be, her soul knows the fact, feels
the weight, and suffers untold agony in consequence, and all because
of salacious wretches who ought to swing by their heels, if not by
their necks, at the nearest tree. I can have some pity for those who
fall for lack of strength to resist temptation ; but none for those who
ruin by a " medical theory ! " These people find a woman ill with
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they proceed to the most infernal exposures, inspections, and tactual
manipulations, conceivable, and utterly horrent to any sensitive and
delicate woman ; the upshot of which is she takes his stuff, and
grows ten times worse than ever, because wholly bent on svmptom-
ology, they are ignorant that all these troubles are physical expres-
sions of internal, mental, emotional, afleclional or spiritual states
half the time; and that ulcerations proceed from lacerations. — or
brutalisms on the part of the he head of the house. Thcv do not
realize that disturbances, origiuating in spiritual commotions, can
only be cured by administering spiritual remedies, — that is to say,
operating upon the soul as well as upon its physical garment — flesh,
blood, bone and nerves. How this is accomplished, has already
been set forth herein.

C. It is my intention, if I live, during the years I spend on earth,
to devote my time to teaching such as desire more light on the matters
which have been the sole study of my life. Ostracized by those for,
and with whom I had labored since 1S4S ; met with ingratitude at
every step, I gladly accept the ostracism of the many for the good com-
panionship of the few ; yet not so few after all, for day by day the ranks
of the discontented army, who have been content to follow where
impulse led, has grown thinner, and our Brotherhood of Thinkers has
increased correspondingly, until at last we, of Enlis. know we have
but to let the world know that our doors and hearts are open, to
welcome acolvtes by thousands. Xeglecl, slander, vile prejudices,
contumely — all have — in this trial of six and twenty vears —
though ranking millions armed with staves, crying, " Crucify him !
crucify him !" — proved signally unequal to the task of defeating a
single solitary man, and that man the penman of this book, — Pas-
chal Beyekly Randolph! — the sang milccl — Proud of his
descent from the kings and queens, not of Xigritia. but of Madagas-
car, to sav nothing, — to say nothing of the Randolphs, nor their
rise from Warwick, the king-maker ! Listen to one of our wild
melodies, and then sav if such blood should bow and bend before
the ignoble crowd whose only patent is that thcv boast the lineage
of the seashore sorcerers : —

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MADAGASCAK SONG.

[Translated by Sir John Bowring.~\

Trust not — trust not to the seashore sorcerers !

In the times of old the sorcerers came

To our island and were thus accosted :

" Land is here, so tarry with your women;

Be ye good and just, and be our brothers ! "

Thus the sorcerers promised — we believed them.

Soon they overturned our walls — erected

Threatening fortresses, which poured forth thunder

In their fury ; and their priests would give us

Other unknown gods than ours to worship ;

And they spoke of services and obedience.

Better die ! The fight was long and bloody.

They were masters of the murderous lightnings,

And our multitudinous hosts they scattered ;

All were scattered — all — our people perished.

Trust not — trust not to the seashore sorcerers !

More invaders came, yet bolder — stronger.

On the seashore they their banners planted ;

But Heaven fought with us, and they were conquered !

Heavy torrents fell ; and mighty tempests,

Storms and poisonous winds o'erwhelmed the stranger.

They are gone — are dead ; and we, the living,

Live to know that we are free and happy.

Trust not — trust not to the seashore sorcerers !

I did not follow the counsel thus given ; and lo, the terrible pen-
alty I paid. My crime was rete mucosmal, and for that scarce a
lecturer or paper devoted to "Reform" but had its fling at me,
even to the extent of abusing my dead mother, who went to heaven
nearly fifty years ago. But I bided my time ! Veni ! Vidi ! Vici !
Hundreds of "Lecturers" and thousands of "The faithful and
unco-Godly," most of whom I never saw, considered their labor
incomplete, and their speech imperfect, unless they could soundly
abuse my mother's only son. But what did it avail — in the end?
They were compelled to borrow, or rather steal, my thought, and
pass it off as their own ; and I have cut out of their articles and
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first given to the world ! It is a terrible crime to be by God consti-
tuted differently from those who sec light in the same thought you
do, vet feel the pulses of manhood throbbing in your veins ; — and
sure to be hated on that account. I am a Sang Melee ; and not
less than twelve strains of blood rush through mv veins, yet have I
ever met insult all the way along of life, because I dared to be
myself! But triumphantly have I done that same thing, "and all
despite my good Lords Cardinal," from the early days till now, —
Selah ! For the fault of the Infinite, if fault it was, to make me of
an unfashionable cast, have I been almost crucified, and have
suffered, as it were, a thousand deaths. For the Madagascan tinge
on my cheek, not its volcanic fires in my soul — Fires which held
the cowards at bay for five and thirty years — have I been doubly
wronged, by these and them and those, who, when help was
needed, gladly availed them of my brain and speech and pen, to
devoutly damn me when the fights were won ! Driven by the
flaming sword of mean prejudice from all noble occupation and
employment, by those whose pallor, alone, not Soul, or Honor or
Manhood, or nobility of character, made them strong, and gave
them warrant to invade my rights, and darkly slander me, — and
invariably behind my back ! lacking manly courage to do it to my
face, — cowards, all, whom I felt and feel were, and are, as far
beneath me as the floor of space is below the loftiest Turret of the
Immeasurable Temple wherein God resides ! Attacked with bitter
and envious malignity, ever without the chance of reply, — by
tongue and pen, — still I survived ; and — despite them all. Treated
more like a beast of the jungle than a human being; they exhausted
all logic trying to prove me a nobody, — themselves the only real
thinkers ; and in seeking to justify their own outrage, really vindi-
cated mcl They thought it better to denounce and slay me, than to
afford me a fair, free field to contest in the matter of Mind ! — heap-
ing abuse and contumely on me all the while, yet what availed it
all? I became a Power in the world! What are they? I took to
Mirrorologv, and they did not like it, because it enabled me to laugh
their isms and practice to utter scprn ! — just where and as, I hold
them to and in this hour! But their hostilities — in all dicse years

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— drove me back upon God and my own soul ; and I prefer being
called all the names the discontented could or can apply, to being
counted among their malign confraternity, because my Philosophy
taught me to forbear retaliation, seeing they could not help doing as
they did, being aborts, badly begotten and worse brought forth —
constitutionally mean, — plrysico-worshipping fathers, half-murdered
victims for mothers. My science told me just what to expect of
them ; while my vision disclosed images of pool-haunting newts,
when seeking for figures to represent their souls ; and, en passant, it
was partly because I advocated Oriental Magic, in preference to
their mesmeric and similar revelative methods, that I was hated. I
could not help it, for I believe in God, and even so do I believe and
know that those dark ovoids, in proper hands, are capable of
enabling a true soul to scan more mysteries in a week than they can
in a lifetime, with all their fantastic methods combined — Mysteries
forever and ever beyond their reach ; for we know where we go after
death ; they but guess at it.

Oh, how I have yearned for everlasting death, in view of the piti-
less, remorseless persecutions, insults, wrongs, heaped on my head
by thousands whom I never either harmed or even met — envious,
jealous, sordid ! I pitied them, and longed for lasting rest. It is
not so now, for the victory is mine, and I pity and forgive them all,

— in the same spirit in which an elephant pities and forgives — a
bed-bug I — for I regard all slanderers as most people do that deli-
cate and deliciously odoriferous insect.

During the year 1874 I propose to give the world a test of the
powers of Vision of the soul when under the sleep of Sialam, —
that upper clairvoyance which comes never by mesmeric roads, nor
drugs, fumes, ethers or spiritual circles, but ever by the three prin-
ciples, through the aid of the Vast Ovoid elsewhere treated of
herein. [If I die there is another — a selected chief of Eulis —
who, in time, will finish what I leave undone — at least, such is my
hope.] Because I know well that weak and impatient ones or mere
wonder-seekers, fail with them, as would an Ashantee with a transit
instrument ; but others, a goodly band of royal seers ! succeed, and
are able to accomplish loftiest things of seership, not alone by

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visions in the oval, but from the point d'cippni of mental crvstallic.
ascensivc, penetrative, and comprehensive grasp, reached 1>\ steadily
gazing <>n their dark and glorious faces. It is onlv unripe ones who
fail ; malignant quacks and folly-driven fanatics who, too low in the
sensual scale, too gross in mental and physical tastes and habitudes
to appreciate aught of pure spirit, unsullied thought, and the vision
that flights immensity, and laucrlis at towering mountains, and roar-
ing, intervening oceans, of either water or space, denounce through
malignant envy and the spiteful jealous}" of the Xaga, what is for-
ever beyond and above them. These are beneath notice, and their
spite and hatred, as their regard and praise, arc of equal weight and
value, — less than that of the shadow of an atom !

Mesmerism and other methods of reaching psycho vision were but
the guide-boards pointing to this, the surer, purer, better, than all
others on the globe beside. Many a man has become a libertine,
and many a woman fallen low, low, low, from the temptations and
facilities afforded by animal magnetism ; but in all the broad
world no soul has been degraded, but all uplifted, through this Old-
new, Xcw-old Sight of the Soul. I expect to produce the Sequel to
'•After Death," and •• Dealings with the Dead," in a volume
concerning » BEYOND THE SPACES." Through the Sialam
Slumber have I been educated ; and I honor and pamize the glori-
ous bridge that enabled me to keep the human bloodhounds at bay,
and to span the unfathomable ocean of Eternity !

CI. The saving, that to the pure all things are pure, is not true,
for filth is filth to everybody, and you can't dress it up, or sugar it to
the acceptance of any but a born idiot or fool ; nor can an unholy
deed, su'r,'cslion, or thought, be ritrlit, no matter what subterfuges
of sophistry or false logic are brought to bear to prove it so ; where-
fore, the slang of these pseudo reformers, stripped of its glitter, is
insufferably offensive to anv health-loving soul in all the lands. It
can never be right to defile the bed of a husband or wife, even
though their lives be cat-and-doggish ; nor can it ever be right for
any one to love one and hold another in unloving, legal duress. Let
them fairly, squarely, part company before either hangs out the

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Sign, To Let. Be off with the old in honest style before going on
with the new !

We people of the world are born to trade in equivalents. If we
give love we want it in return. If we labor for and protect even
where there's no love whatever in the case, yet still we have the
right of being respected, and you shall not live on my earnings yet
respect me not, and have dalliance elsewhere. For if you yield to
another, you and that other must abide the consequences. That
other must care for, feed, clothe, labor for, and protect you ; for I
am not bound by any law, human or divine, to keep a corner in that
I work for, for others' uses ! — and, by Heaven, I won't do it ! If
you do the bad thing then let's part, for you no longer command my
respect, nor are entitled to the results of my labor, or deserving of
my homage or esteem in any degree whatever. Equivalents is the
Eternal law ! Remember and abide by it !

Now here is another new revelation : Pleasurej like light, has two
modes and motions; ist, wave ; 2d, linear ; one in rays, the other
in billowy undulations ; one like beams from a candle or star ; the
other like the swelling of the ocean waters. The pleasures of Lust
or passion alone, as in unloving union, or the sin of the Onanite, is
always Electric, non-responsive-a/c;zeness, non-mutual ; therefore,
like lightning, destructive. It is keen, sharp, cutting, incisive, and
shocks the body and soul to the verge of death. It is wholly selfish,
and results from the rush and escape of just so much nervo-vital life,
wherefore, of course, is self-murderous, because the electric loss is
not compensated by a magnetic inflow from a loving opposite. It is
linear. But when pleasure results from a meeting of the electric
currents of the male with the magnetic flow of the female, in the
nerves of each, as in the touch of loving lips, the two currents
spread out into waves, which flow all over the vast nervous network
of both, until they die out as they roll upon the foot of the throne
whereon each soul sits in voluptuous expectancy. In the one case
all joy is local; in the other, it is diffused over both beings, and
each is bathed in the celestial and divine aura — the breath of God,
suffusing both bodies, refreshing both souls ! But this holy experi-
ence cannot be had where habit has blunted the nerves of each ;

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excess has destroyed impressibility. Rest, Repose, Slumber and
Activity, Wakefulness, imprcssionablcncss, are the equations of the
eternal sexiye law, — and all others as well.

Let me restate the law in clearer terms: ist. The joys of Love
arc consequent upon- the rush of nervous fluid along the nerval
fibrils, filamental cords, or wires of the system, centring in the
vital ganglia of either sex. "When it flows alone it is electric.
When it contacts on both sides it is magnetic. 2d. The fulness of
Love-joy depends upon the plethora of vital life and nerve-aura
stored up in the ganglia of the system, but especially upon the
greater or less stock magazined within the mystic cripts appointed
of Nature for that purpose. 3d. The conditions essential to the
maintenance of any special power of either soul or body, especially
of Love and its offices, which involves both, are : Regular remission,
voluntary cessation of its activities for a period more or less pro-
tracted, and whose term depends upon, ist, the amount of force
expended in other directions ; and, 2d, upon the recuperative
energies of the individual. 4th. In order to reach the highest
possible affectional life, there must be lengthened terms of inaction,
during which period the forces accumulate ; the nervous magazines
expand ; the filaments grow stronger, more conductive, and sensitive
at the same time ; while morbid inflammations cease and normal
appetite succeeds to insane physico-passional burnings, — which
latter are unnatural, while the former is healthful. 5th. The inti-
mate relations between soul and body render each at times the tor-
mented victim of, and martyr to, the other ; hence Love-offices are
never in order save when each mind and each bociy agrees with
the other, and the four combine and unite to one common purpose.
Otherwise disastrous results inevitably follow ; for loveless union is
like a money-lender, — it serves you in the present tense, lends you
in the conditional mood ; keeps you in the subjective ; rules you in
the future, and puts a period to you in the end ; whereas Loving
union wafts you up to Godness ; ripens you ; increases the bulk of
soul and adds immeasurable joys to the sum total of life. THERE-
FORE TAKE CARE YOl'R LOVE DON'T PERISH IX THK ESIXG OF IT !

6th. Remember that the human soul is a musical instrument played

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on by the fingers and the breath of God, wherefore see to it that it
be kept in tune so that none but finest symphonies are evoked ; for
it is only then that you can realize either the true stress or strain of
being. Forget not that the soul is a Republic ; that each organ and
faculty is one of the States ; and that to insure the common weal
each should conspire to one common purpose — the happiness of
all.

7th. Life without love is perpetual death ! To be truly human
and purely good, we must love. To be strong, something must lean
upon us ; and they who live apart, isolated lives, are dwelling in the
midst of viewless horrors, ready at any moment to take form and
lash their souls to frenzy. We were born to love ; to beget our
kind ; to bear children to the world and God ; and failing therein,
we defeat the very purposes for which Deity launched us into
being.

CII. Ever since I began to write on this prolific and most vital
theme, I have persistently, constantly endeavored to prove that the
overstocked condition of the female labor market, and the prepon-
derance of the female over the male element in society were fruitful
causes that led to the increase of the Social Evil ; and I now write to
show that there are operating, right here in our very midst, the most
wicked practices, tending not only to an increase of this evil, but
sapping the very foundations of the morals of society.

It is a startling fact that the number of marriages is diminishing ;
the number of divorce cases increasing, there being forty-four on the
docket of the Supreme Court for one term in a single county
in Connecticut, the State of "blue laws" and "steady habits."
Another startling fact is, that among the native element of society
the number of births is less than the number of deaths in many
sections of all the States.

A wicked and fearful extravagance in the mode of living, render-
ing marriage and housekeeping so difficult, is one cause of the
decline of marriages. The poorer class must ape the style of the
rich, and they make a great display when they marry. Being
unable to come up to the standard, they remain single, and plunge
into sensuality and vice. It is estimated that in New York City,

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and the surrounding suburbs, there are more than two hundred thou-
sand females, and quite as many men, living, openly or in private,
lives of shame and sensuality. The same causes are operating in
New York to-day that led the citizens of San Francisco, years ago,
to form vigilance committees, and for the same purpose, viz.. to
correct intolerable evils, and to purify the political and social atmos-
phere. Marriage and employment would have a tendency to check
this fearfully growing evil. The better portion of society must look
to it, or this element in their midst will rush by a pathway of ruin
to restore the equilibrium, for they cannot wholly escape the dread
influences and effects.

There is the revolting sin of foeticide, or infanticide, the tendency
of which is to ruin both soul and body, sunder, the bonds of pure
love between the sexes, and send our most promising young women
and wives into premature graves, spreading a gloom dark as night
over hearts and homes that should be bright with health, joy and
happiness. It is trying to checkmate the Infinite God.

There is a plan whereby much of this evil may be obviated. I am
aware that it has been tried, but never in right-down earnest in these
States ; or under municipal surveillance. I refer to the establish-
ment of Matrimonial Bureaus, under sworn commissioners, and
direct care of Public authorities. So far all such affairs have been
in the interests of money-seeking panders and procuresses, and to
afford better facilities for supplying men with victims and mistresses,
and bagnio-keepers with ruined girls. There are scores of thou-
sands of both sexes without any chance of finding mates, and they
are rushed to ruin through "Personals" and blind advertisements;
and in trying to sail toward honorable marriage, run straight upon
the reefs* of social vice, and are forever lost. Xo one wants to lie
bad; no one sighs for harlotry or libertinism ; and no one prefers a
life of shame to one of honor and respect ; hence it is the duty of
the State to take measures to prevent all such false steps, and estab-
lish bureaus wherein women, and men, too. may find suitable mates,
and establish decent, comfortable homes, instead of filling bagnios,
gaming-hells. jails, prisons, syphilitic hospitals, and premature
graves. All of us have human hearts and human feelings, and we

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were created duo-sexed expressly that we might commingle our
natures. The soul needs love just as much as the body requires
food. Love-starvation — the nostalgia, or homesickness of the soul —
is the most terrible evil that can oppress the human spirit. Reader,
think how dreadful must have been the suffering that inspired these
lines — the requiem of a breaking heart : —

" Out from his palace home

He came to my cottage door ;
Few were his looks and words,

But they linger for evermore.
The smile of his sad, blue eyes

Was tender as smile could be ;
Yet I was nothing to him,

Though he was the world to me !

" Fair was the bride he won,

Yet her heart was never his own ;
Her beauty he had and held,

But his spirit was ever alone.
I would have been his slave,

With a kiss for my life-long fee ;
But I was nothing to him,

While he was the world to me !

" To-day, in his stately home,

On a flower-strewn bier he lies,
With the drooping lids fast closed

O'er the beautiful, sad blue eyes.
And among the mourners who mourn

I may not a mourner be ;
For I was nothing to him,

Though he was the world to me !

" How will it be with our souls

When they meet in the better land?
What the mortal could never know,

Will the spirit yet understand?
Or, in some celestial form,

Must the sorrow repeated be,
And I be nothing to him,

While he dims heaven for me ? "

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And yet just such wails arise heavenward every day in the year
from literally thousands of bleeding spirits.

CIII. I do not envy the feelings of those guilt)' of breaking up
love-matches, or tyrannically ordering what shall or shall not he. If
there is a hell, hereafter, it seems to me that all such ought to go
there, at least tor a summering, if no longer ; yet there are those
who ruthlessly destroy others' happiness, because they have the
power.

" My wife was not my wife, but always her mother's daughter ! "
has been the story ever since mothers-in-law came in fashion ; and it
is my opinion that more families have been " smashed into smither-
eens," to emote a Hibernicism, by that awful power, than perhaps
any other single cause in the list, yet they think they do no harm ;
forcibly reminding one of the '-Moral man" of the Russian poet,
XEKRASOF : —

" A strictly moral man have I been ever,
And never injured anybody — never.

" I lent my friend a sum of money he could not pay,
I jogged his memory in a friendly way, —
Then tooK the law of him the affair to end ;
The law to prison sent my worthy friend.
He died there — not a farthing for poor me !
I am not angry, though I've cause to be.
His debt that very moment I forgave,
And shed sad tears of sorrow o'er his grave.
A strictly moral man have I been ever,
And never injured anybody — never.

" I sent my slave to learn the art of dressing

Meat — he succeeded — a good cook's a blessing ;

But he, too, oft would leave his occupation,

And gained a taste not suited to his station.

He liked to read, to reason, and discuss;

I, tired of scolding, without further fuss,

Had the rogue Hogged — all for the love of him ;

He went and drowned himself — 'twas a strange whim.

A strictly moral man have I been ever,

And never injured anybody — never.

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" My silly daughter fell in love one day,
And with her tutor wished to run away ;
I threatened curses, and pronounced my ban ;
She yielded, and espoused a rich, old man.
Their house was splendid, brimming o'er with wealth ;
But suddenly poor Mary lost her health,
And in a year consumption wrought her doom;
She left us mourning o'er her early tomb.
A strictly moral man have I been ever,
And never injured anybody — never."

CIV. Probably when animal loves die out, and spiritual Loves
succeed them, as a general rule, the true civilization we hope for
will come along. Society must outgrow the possibilities of evil, and
change its impudicities ; its scabrous practices ; its practical poly-
gamy and polyandry ; its infernal saturnalias of Lust, for their exact
opposites, and then, but not till then, will all the sexive horrors take
their departure from the world. We, who ourselves, Men of
Eulis, beholding the curses and contrasts of the present civilization

— this thing that shines so bright, yet nurses Murder at its breasts,

— this thing that glitters with the Beaut'c du Diable, — strive by
lifting the veil to show the concealed horror ; and to warn mankind
against it. We believe not in any form of concubinage or libertin-
ism, but we do not use the same weapons against them that others
are accustomed to. We" propose to make every man and woman
master and mistress of themselves, and enable them to detect the
paste from the diamond !

CV. Of late years there has run a chain of peculiar crime the
whole length and breath of the United States, from Maine to Texas,
Boston to San Francisco. It appears as if the arch-fiend of Lust,
himself, had invented this new enormity. I allude to the systematic
rapes, by terrible violence, or by drugging, of young children, —
girls of from five to fifteen years of age, and generally by hoary-
headed, scoundrel lechers, rheumy-eyed, filthy, wholly disgusting in
every conceivable sense. Many of these awful crimes are the work
of demonized men, acting from sudden impulse upon their own
responsibility ; but there is every reason to believe that an atrocious
gang, with its head-quarters in New York City, and having its laws,

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rules, countersigns, and pass-words, with branches here and then.' all
over the vast country, and members in ncarlv ever}' considcral 'e
citv, town, and village in the land. There are papers which adver-
tise their regular meetings ; albeit in a blind way, so that none but
the initiate can understand. The principal idea that forms the soul
of this infamous band is this: Young girls are by them supposed.
while pure, and preceding, and just subsequent to puberty, or their
natural advance into womanhood, to be endowed with the power of
prolonging the life of him who shall first, by means foul or fair, — if
it be f>oss/6/c that such an horror could — which it cannot, never
can be. fair, — succeed in debauching her. It is supposed that two-
fifths of her allotted term of life will, by the deed, be transferred from
her to him ; and that the life-stock thus obtained, can be, a:*d is.
shared by all others of the band, on the principle of magneto-vital
transfusion, not of blood, but of Nerve-aura. Thus a band of forty
would sain an average of one month's continued life beyond the
allotted term of each, as the result of one outrage — -but which they
term by a gentler name. It is to this band that is to be attributed
eight tenths of the child-rapes, which, by their ultra horror, so fre-
quently shock the nerves of the people of the world. They are all
sworn to secrecy, and the traitor is liable to sudden death by murder,
the pistol, knife, or poison, at any moment. Perhaps their secret had
never leaked out but for the confession beneath the rope, and in
view of the fire that awaited him, of the wretch, whose summary,
and I almost said — Righteous, — taking-off a few years ago, b\ an
infuriated mob in the "West, is still fresh in the public mind. The
crime, like that of Onan and the Pederasts, I regard as worse than
murder, because it has none of the terrible motives for, or provoca-
tives of those awful deeds, or ordinary rape : for this latter is seldom
aided by the cruel knife, nor the dreadful climax crowned with
inhuman butchery, as the latter nearly always has been.

Lust seems to be having a Saturnalia in these days ; and in 1^7.1 °^
the Christianic Era, a male human, through the Public Press.
boasted that he went about the country seducing men's wives on
''Principle" !! declaring he did no wrong! Onanism is mainly a
physical disease; but the other crimes, including the boasting lib-

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ertine's, — meaning, one Moses Hull, the author of a shocking
"Personal Experience," — are the deliberate actions of lost and
conscienceless human souls ! in other words, of human brutes, not
yet immortalized.

CVI. In September, 1873, I attended a convention of ultra
Radicals in Chicago, led by a noted agitatress, with whose courage
and persistence in advocating her views I was particularly pleased,
and took my stand on her side, because of her sex, and a persecuted
member of it besides ; and not because it was, is, or ever could be,
possible for me to view the social question from either her stand-
point or that of her confreres ; I do not, cannot, never did, believe
in Promiscuity, as some claimed that woman did, but which I heard
her emphatically deny, — a little while before either that convention
closed, or some peoples' eyes were opened — as mine certainly were,
through an incident that occurred in the hall. However, on the
ground of her gender, her championship of Fair play for woman ;
her splendid attack upon the unjust and unequal Taxation laws, and
because of her right to a fair and candid hearing, I maintained in
Chicago, as in Boston the year previous, when the same woman
was up for office — stout battle in behalf, not of her peculiar doc-
trines, but of human responsibility, individualism, and the sacred
right of Free discussion ; and I would have stood by the side of any
other human being under similar circumstances, even though, as in
this case, nearly every one of her points of doctrine were and are
quite dissimilar and antipodal to those I hold upon the same ques-
tions. I defended her right to a fair hearing in her bold, iconoclastic
attack upon the wrongs of woman, and the injurious marriage sys-
tem of to-day. I by no means could see it right for one man or
woman to share the favors of another's wife or husband, — for I was
barbarian enough then to have Sickleized him who should victimize
a loved and loving wife of mine ; and I would have justified any
other man or woman in the same procedure then ; I justify them just
the same to-day ; and hope to till I pass away, — provided always
that she was not to blame, — assisted not at her own disgrace.

At that convention I uttered no word either for or against " Social
Freedom ; " confining my speeches to the three points above named ;

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but I hailed that woman and every one else's declaration of belief
and confidence in sanctified monogamic marriage ; and their denun-
ciation of unbridled license. A few days before I went to that con-
vention I had heard of, and read, the unqualifiedly infamous and
infernal recital of " A Personal Experience ; " and I went there
expressly to measure swords with the thing in human shape who
published it ; but the coward and braggart dared not show his pol-
luted front ; for Mr. Moses Hull was not there to defend his peculiar
views and practice.

My command of language is limited ; nor could I find words
bitter enough to express my opinion of him, who gloried in profan-
ing the very holiest shrine at which Manhood worships and renders
grateful homage — that of the family; and I then, and now, woidd
justify the wronged husband who should kill him. My intentions
became known by the injudicious gabble of a confidant ; and others
came and persuaded me to bottle my lightning against him for the
time being, lest it kindle a fire not easily extinguished.

On the same day I learned that the foes of Free discussion were
preparing a coup against the female leader. She was a woman ; I a
man ; the duty was plain : I would have a hand in the battle, and
stand up for fair play until there was good skating upon ice five feet
thick on the lurid lakes of Gehenna ! I took my stand, and com-
mitting the author of" A Personal Experience " to the care of God
and his own conscience, fairly and deftly threw that bone of con-
tention entirely outside of the rather warm arena ; but in doing so
purposely allowed myself to be misunderstood by many people in
the conclave, and throughout the nation. I sought in my speeches
to make two points only; they were these: 1st, the individual
nature of the human soul ; its actual life, its personal responsibility
and destiny ; and. 2d, I declared my belief, and here repeat it, — that
a female adulteress or harlot is no worse than a male libertine or
voluptuary ; that neither is beyond the range of pardon ; and that I
could, and do, alike pity her who "falls" from force of circum-
stances, poverty, presents, opportunity, importunity, and organiza-
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billowy expanse of beautiful, snowy, palpitating bosom, loses his
seven senses and follows straight in old Adam's wake.

In the Chicago conclave, as in all my works, I pleaded for the
female outcast, and held that she who through misfortune stepped
aside and became a mother ere a bride, should not be held in less
esteem than him who brought the trouble to her door. That it is
but fair to remember our own weakness, and give the helping heart
and hand. I think so still ; and it was in allusion to what the lead-
ing woman of the convention said on that very point that I uttered
the memorable sentence : "I will stand by this woman (naming her)
in the utterance of such views until there's good skating on ice five
feet thick upon the Lakes of Tophet ! " and so I would, and where-
ever or whenever a wrong is to be righted and human justice dealt
out as God's eternal is.

CVII. It is impossible for me to denounce as an unmitigated
scoundrel and villain, any human being whose misconceptions of
Manhood and human duty and obligation lead him to trample upon
what most of us regard as holy ; for we may not know the hidden
causes underlying his actions. He is certainly a strange man who
can justify his own or another's proceedings when lust is alone the
prompter, — to first seduce every woman, married or single, that he
can, and then publicly boast of it ! Impregnating other men's wives ;
compelling men and women too to remain in ignorance as to the
paternity of a given child, if such should be the issue of the " Pas-
sional attraction ; " forcing an honest, hard-working man to support
his harlotized wife, and the wandering " Lover's" bastards, and he,
the " Wanderer," laughing at the man he has dishonored, and the
wife he has degraded ! — forgetting the last victims while in search
of new ones ; repeating the ghastly crime everywhere ; encouraging
his own wife to play the role of common cyprian ; and scattering
possible discord and desolation wherever his salacious footsteps fall !
Supposing such a being to be sane, then such a thing in human
shape, who would deliberately win the favors of any woman, save a
very common courtesan, and then brag of it, to her shame and his
own dishonor, is too small a specimen of the genus homo to be
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and to it should he be relegated. But a civilized man of such
views and practice is not sane ; for he gives incontestable proof of
being the victim of chronic prostatic inflammation, undoubtedly of
Onanistic, but more likely of I'cdcrastic origin; and thus hem"
sexually mad, is a semi-responsible ccrebro-prostatic maniac, to
-whom the universe appears as one grand discus or yoni and himself
the aspiring priapic-phallic godling !

But there ! I have done with him ; this thing named Moses Hull,
having thus handed him and his ilk down the ages, and that's
enough! That crime, and the other, child-rape — which latter I
call Dentonism — after the most wretched and contemptible thing
that ever wore the semblance of a man, — Hull excepted, — I regard
as the worst that ever existed within the confines of civilization, and
in calling the attention of the public, but especially legislators,
thereto, I amply redeem my promise, and have fully paid my little
Bill I

I never did, by speech or pen, advocate any of the peculiar social
theories broached and ventilated in that, or any similar conclave —
for reasons already herein and elsewhere set forth in my various
writings : and yet, because I held my peace upon the main questions
at issue, and in spite of the fact, I was held to have sanctioned and
fully endorsed all the radical utterances there made ; to have upheld
what I have fought all my life long, — the total abrogation of all
marriage ; and to have espoused the doctrine of connubial hand-
fastening, or temporary marriages, and I know not what else of
absurdity the foes of Fair phi}- and Free discussion chose to invent
and fashion in fantastic garb out of whole cloth to suit their own
peculiar fancies. As I suffered by distortion, so did others, and yet
the sun actually rose next day !

Love's Alchemy — The Marrow; Res oestve : Stmming up.

CVIII. Human marriage, being triplicate, — material, mental,
emotional, — has three offices, clear and distinct. 1st. Its functions
are humanizing and perpetuating; 2d. They are refining, elevating,
a means ot soul-growth; and, 3d. The purpose it serves is a mvstic
0:1c, for bevond all doubt the ultimate of the human is deific — a

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fusion mingling, interblending — at-one-ment with the Omnipotent
God ; what came from, must return to, the centre ; and he who
would be nearer God is he who loves the purest.

CIX. The test of all Love is its self-sacrificing unselfishness ; and
all amative love is false, unclean, abnormal, unless it be based upon
the wow-physical ; it must be builded of respect, affection, that
which is mental and spiritual ; else it lasts not.

CX. Woman loves easier than man, and it is easier broken, unless
its roots are grounded in her very soul ; then it is next to death to
give it up. When a man loves in right down earnest, and from the
feminine side of his soul, it, all other things being equal, ever-
masses, overweighs, any love modern women — Society people, I
mean — are capable of. But take the two and probably the loves will
balance each other, with this eternal fact in woman's favor ; she is
self-sacrificing, and her love, when it is love, is untainted with earth ;
is never external, never merely sensual.

CXI. Woman can conceal, dissemble, pretend love, — not a spark
of which she really feels, — to perfection ; and hoodwink any man she
chooses to play upon ; but a woman with her eyes open cannot be
served the same way by a man ; for love, if it be real, tells its own
story. More men love their wives than wives their husbands ! He
cannot make believe half as well as she ; for the lady can coolly kiss
a man with the intent of playing upon him at the very first chance ;
embrace him, with a load of deceit in her heart. But when a man
loves he loves all over. Blast it, and you destroy him. But in these
days love as true and solid as that is exceedingly rare indeed !

The undetected and unconvicted adulterers exceed the uncaught
ones five hundred to one. This result from the non-understanding
of the real and radical differences existing between true soul-love
and its mere passional and magnetic counterfeits — which are fifty
times more abundant than the other.

CXII. No wicked person can truly love and remain wicked.
That is the redemptive, salvatory and alchemical power of the
divine principle ! True-heartedness is the corrective agency of the
great human world and human soul. Without it we are ships on
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submerge us at any instant! With it, wc arc lifc-1 mated into fair
havens anil secure anchorage ! With it, we arise into bliss anil
blessedness; without it, misery is our lot; for it is the telegraphic
System wherewith God engirdles the worlds ! From Ilim it goes ;
to Ilim it returns, bringing up from the deeps the poor forlorn ones
it finds there, and stringing them like beads to hang round the neck
of the ineffable and viewless Lord of infinite and superlative glorv !

CXIII. At first Love springs up and surges in our souls, a new-
born and strange power, which rules us with a rod of iron. At the
start it is vague, general, diffusive ; and we are glad without know-
ing the reasons why, like unto the babe quickened en 7itcro ; and we
are irresistibly urged to centre it on some one, some reciprocating
soul ; and unless we do, wretched arc we ! If we fail so to do, but
expend its forces here, there, everywhere, anywhere, we speedily
cease to be truly human ; but sink till we arc the bond slaves of
pernicious, debasing, demoralizing habit, from which there may be
deliverance, but a very troublous one. We must love one; for
unless we do the measure of our l'/e on earth is unfilled.

CXIV. The new soul descends to man ; by him is bequeathed
and entrusted to the dear mother's care, during those mysterious
forty weeks. Bv her it is robed in flesh and blood, and during the
wonderful and thrice holy process she needs all the vital life that he
can spare ; and it is his bounden duty to impart it in every possible
form, from the gentle caress to the kind word and act of tender
gallantry. She knows when she requires magnetism, and sJic is to
be sole and supreme judge of xvJicn. and zv/icrc and Aozc that vital
power shall be imparted ! Do not forget this.

An hour's rest on his loving shoulder at the eventide, just as they
sit by the open casement, is sometimes of more value to an unwell
woman, than untold gold and diamonds would be at another time,
and under different conditions.

Moreover. I have no patience with the puerile jargon of the
"Physiologists." to the end that the great climax of C'Dinubiality
ought alwavs to cease from the conceptive moment till after lacta-
tion ; — that non-intercourse should he the ride, and rigidly enforced.
all of which I regard as stupid nonsense — prefixed with a dash and

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two d's, — because we are human beings, not mere animals ; and
both the mother and babe require that magnetic life and vtf which
only the father and husband can supply.

There is a very curious thing right here : Instances are numerous
of a wife descending, subsequent to conception, to other than the
father of her child. In such case, the second man determines the
shape, quality and calibre of the unborn infant's soul ! The woman
has no right to wrong any man in that style ; for she ranks but as a
cyprian, and the child is essentially an illegitimate ; because,
whereas, the husband has given body to his offspring, the other
supplies it with the elements of spirit, and the babe will be more
like him than its own father ! because spiritual laws are of stronger
force than physical ! Don't forget this !

But the husband has no more rights in this respect than his wife ;
because wherever he goes he is sure to bring back a non-assimilable,
foreign, magneto-vital influence, which neither his wife nor child can
appropriate and absorb ; and thus he warps the babe's soul, if not its
body, and infuses an aura into the very marrow of the being of both
his dependents, which is injurious to all, and may crop out in physi-
cal disease or mental ailment, in after years, by the hair-graying
conduct of his angular child !

When babes and children have trouble, they cry themselves to
sleep ; when men and women have trouble, slumber flies their
weary eyes. Now when men are careless concerning the substance
of this paragraph, they indicate a bad state of puerility ; for of all
human duties, the grandest is that of fathering those who shall be
superior to ourselves. "But how? Suppose an inferior woman to
be already pregnant, how shall I, her husband, correct the faults of
haste, imperfect organization, — in a word, suppose the child to be
has been launched into existence under very unfavorable conditions ;
how shall I correct the bad bias ; and what shall I do that it may
come to the world a far better and nobler being than if things ended
just as they began? Tell me this, O man of Eulis, and I — I will
thank you on bended knee ! "

Well put, my questioner. Now heed thou well the reply thereto :
— 1 st. Remember that in her condition your marital offices are

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never in order save when she determine* thev shall, aught to. or
may\ic. 2d. That if otlcrcd and accepted at ;uiv oilier time, a
direct injury results to the mother and her unborn child. 3d.
Wherefore In frequency is the true policy to be pursued, if you hope
for good results. _|th. Remember that consummation is threefold :
— of body, spirit. sot'L. That then the greatest streams of mag-
netism flow from husband to wife, and wife to husband. That said
Magnetism is a vehicle convex ing the states of the soul, body and
spirit; and through it. then both the mother and the child maybe
blessed or cursed ; poisoned or purified; filled with divine life, or
charged with the quintessence of horror and hell !

Well, do you sec the point? do you understand your duty: and do
you perceive that, if by restraint you add vigor to your entire being ;
and when she invites you to share it with her. you do so, wishing,
willing, praying that untold good, unnumbered blessings may
follow, and result therefrom, — that they ivill come, just as sure as
God reigns? If you do not so perceive it, it is high time you did.
Were you an initiate of Eulis, you would find out more on this
wonderful point ; but as it is, take what I herein give you, and God
grant you may profit by it.

CXV. Love, and love only, can secure the devotion and heart-
fidelity of a woman, and any other sort is not worth having. When
a woman loves, even if unreturned, she is a heroine : but if re-
turned, she is happy, which is a great deal better than heroism !

CXVI. Married people ruin their homes, even though loving
ones, by unwise and untimely association. It should never be a
matter of course, but ever and always a dual inspiration ; otherwise
it is detective.

CXVII. Woman and man are not equals. They are diverse
compatibles ; each contrasts and opposites tiie other, — offsetting in all
ways. The two. together, constitute the being called man. Either
alone is but an incompleteness. — a halfness. Neither owns the
other, but are joint intere<tants in the social compact. The idea of
ownership is what has made marriage as it is to-dav. — a jangle,
wrangle, tangle. — anything, even thing, but what it should be. It
were well if we would each of us constantly bear in mind that we

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conquer oftenest when we stoop to do so ; and that more is to be
gained by graceful sacrifice than stubborn reliance upon reserved
rights.

CXVIII. The second purpose of marriage is the peopling of the
Spaces ; its essence is spiritual. In true marriage there is a mutual
infiltration of soul, whence it happens that nature, in slowly mould-
ing each to resemble the other, proclaims that marriage real and
true ; but not all the ceremonies on earth could fuse a couple of
natural antagonists. If these likenesses are not observed, it is a
pretty sure sign that there is but little love coursing round that
homeside, and still less flowing through the channel of their
lives.

We do not want to find ourselves growing away from each other •,
but in fusing natures and blending spirits, to coalesce with our
opposites, effecting a chemical union, admitting no separation, and
the only solvent of which is the grand Alcahest — Death : — And if
the marriage be perfect, even death is unable to change it.

Reader : don't be a fool ! don't lavish your love on one who talks,
but never acts it. I, the author of this book, tell you that if your
heart is overflowing with affection, you are in all the greater danger
of first filling some empty, bladder-like being, with your own soul's
sphere, then falling desperately in love with it, only to waken from
the dreadful sleep to find him or her a diabolic sham, and yourself
wrecked, ruined, prostrate, helpless, broken-hearted, deserted, and
wretched beyond description. Prove all things, especially proffered
Love, and when you find it real, give rein to your soul : — But not
till then ! !

CXIX. When a couple are alike, equally choleric, mental, physi-
cal, frigid or the reverse ; passive, positive, magnetic, electric, tall,
slender, fat, active, indolent ; then such are constitutionally, tempera-
mentally, and in most other respects, non-adapted to each other ;
and if they are not careful, there will be more down than up, discord
than its opposite, in that family. But, where such persons have
already cast the die of what passes current in these days as mar-
riage, there's wisdom in seeking to create or build up an artificial
harmony, which care and time will render habitual, natural and

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permanent; because Habit becomes even stronger tnan nature, as
witness the use of narcotics, which all arc disgusted with at fiiM.
If people will but attempt in thus making a second nature, the
barrenness, usual in such cases, will be obviated, as well as the
premature senility and impotence resultant; for that both these
effects are often owing to such causes is as clcarlv established as
any other medical fact, albeit the sufferers are not always aware of
the reason.

CXX. In all males of the human species the personal, physical
charms of woman, based upon desire, is the central attractive point,
round which all desires cluster. His better, nobler, higher love
comes afterward. Reverse the case for woman. Her love never
has that rise. She takes to the better side first — his social, mental,
moral, spiritual manhood ; and only after the lapse of time, fre-
quently a whole year, does she awaken to the realization of the
purely sensuous or passional ; and uncounted thousands there are
who never awaken thereto at all from the altar to the grave. Ifl all
such cases he is an unwise man who does not by careful and assid-
uous attention, by every delicate and tender means, seek to establish
the natural equilibrium ; by all true human methods arouse the dor-
mant power in the breast of her who shares his lot and life.

CXXI. Prior to the actual marriage the husband loves deepest,
most intensely and devotedly. But after that, his ardor cools, and a
revulsion of feeling, amounting to dislike, is almost sure to follow ;
in which he is the exact opposite of woman ; for it is then only that
she begins to cling to him with a depth and fervor surprising to him,
astonishing to herself. Wise is he who then gives her reason to
make that love permanent, solid, lasting, even to the brink of the
grave.

Men, all males in fa 61, love fiercest before marriage ; all female^,
subsequent thereto. It is the Law. But a man must so comport
himself at these primal interviews as not to wound her sensitive
spirit, or cloud her life with gloom, dread, fear, suspicion. First
impressions last the longest!

CXXII. Man's Love is never a steady stream, or constant force.
lie. so to speak, packs it away in the presence of other •• Business,"

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and gives it an airing now and again ; but woman reverses all that,
and loves right straight along from the start, every day and all the
time, provided she loves at all. Whatever she may be about, no
matter what, her love is the sole theme of her life, the only occupa-
tion of her mind ; and she takes good care to give it air eveiy hour
of the day ; and a fair return, in kind, amply repays her for many
an hour of mortal anguish. If she fails to get it, God help her ! for
her life is but a lingering, painful, torturous death. It is even so
with man. If he loves, — as I have loved, My God ! — and after
long months of toil awakens to find his idol but a phantom ; that
he has been embalming a doll in his own heart and loving it, but
getting no return, what wonder that madness comes, and the wild
beating of his heart and throbbing of his temples drive him to the
brink of ruin, until he stands toppling on the cliffs of suicide, doubt-
ful whether to leap or not ; and only saved by the Omnipotent hand
of the interfering God !

CXXIII. Lust ties man to the outer walls of human life, and
keeps him there a prisoner feeding upon the poorest of husks. But
Love frees him from many a gyve and thrall ; gives him the freedom
of God's gardens of joy ; feeds him with the bread of life ; opens
the gates of heaven ; and admits him to the companionship of
celestial Verities and divinest life and truth. Without love we are,
indeed, poor hermits in the world !

CXXIV. People plunge headlong into perdition and social
gehenna by rushing into each other's arms too often! Passional
excess generates disease ; Love cures them ; and all the kidney
difficulties and nervous disorders extant are but the physical
expression of the morbid and unhealthy states of the love-natures
of their respective victims.

Those who love can never prostitute themselves or each other, in
any way.

It is just as impossible to kindle fire with ice as to long deceive a
soul that loves. But, ah, God, how terrible is the awakening to the
fact that all this time you have been lavishing your heart's best
treasures on a dead stock ! Then — in her case, comes leucorrhcea
or gravid uterus, — not physical ailments, but the outward sign that

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there's love trouble in the soul, and love the onlv remedy. In his
case insanity more or less pronounced, and enduring.

CXXV. There are periods when love insists upon passional
moods. It is its natural appeasement. If not yielded to, a frightful
train of ills are sure to follow, and madness may end the cruel
scene.

CXXVI. Jealousy quite as often springs from magnetic incom-
patibility and impotence as from love-estrayal ; and it brings on
heart-pain, dyspepsia, liver and Bright's disease, prostatic, urethral,
vaginal, ovarian, and other fatal troubles, long before the allotted
span of years run out.

CXXVII. Doctors tell us that actual marriage will cure some
diseases of woman. But a diseased woman is not fit for it; and
actual marriage in diseased states of either party is — monstrous!
The doctrine is nonsense, pure and simple. Magnetism may do.
marriage no ! But facts are facts, and the thing occurs. If love
underlie it, well and good ; if not, then not. It is disastrous. But
if good results follow, it is Affection that works the miracle, nothing
coarser ! And more wives are injured in that manner than sextons
can find spades to dig graves for !

That is a very poor sort of love which always exacts but never
gives' "She prated of Love all day long, and neglected by one
single act to prove her truth," is the story of many a man's life.
'• He says he loves me — but just look at me ; does love waste one as
I am wasted? My God ! Let this bitter cup pass from mcl" is
the daily cry of millions of •• Married" ivomcnl

I'm tired and sick of dead babies! They ought to fill out the
term of threescore years and ten; but they don't; and those who
escape the sewers, sinks, drains, and being carried out with the
tides, or being snugly put away in a cigar-box and stuck in a hole
in the garden, are mighty uncertain of a safe deliverance from
measles, scarlatina, croup, paregoric, or Mrs. Winslow'.s soothing
syrup! Ah, but isn't it a soother? — soothing mam a one to a sleep
that knows no waking ! But these dead ones are not all the oil-
spring of the riff-raff, or haul-handed servitors at labor's shrine;
but many a hundred of them might lav claim to aristocratic lineage ;

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and I have quite enough experience to satisfy me that those who do,
or who wink at, such deeds, are, many of them church-goers, full
of deadly piety, who, behind the scenes, revel in debaucheries
dreadful enough to shame a Satyr. Not a few of them are " Re-
formers," in public preaching perfect purity, but in private practis-
ing promiscuity, and the very ones — if male — with whom no decent,
respectable woman could be alone with ten minutes, save at the
absolute certainty of being insulted by the most villainous proposals.
In my Medical practice, and that of Teacher, three classes of
persons mainly sought relief or counsel: 1st. Wives whose daily
life was a living death; whose "homes" were tophets in petto;
and whose " Husbands " • — ■ sic? — in one respect treated them worse
than they did the dumb brutes in barn or stable — poor, waxen-faced
martyrs, worse than sacrificed and slaughtered on the altars of a
legalized sensualism, so low and mean, selfish, exacting, as to even
shame the beasts of the field ; and these wives human ! 2d. Men
and women whose hearts and souls yearned for affection which they
found not ; and which they were denied by those from whom they
had the right to expect it ! — people who were either fretting to
death under the awfully galling yoke of a bad marriage ; or who
wanted advice to guide them to the desired haven — and heaven, of
Marriage, as God intended it should be. 3d. But by far the largest
class of callers and correspondents must be reckoned that vast mass
of people whose entire gender-nature had been broken up, or down,
and demoralized until they had become mere phantom men and
women, incapable of realizing the sublime meaning of the words
Sex and Marriage ; and so disordered and diseased that Hope itself,
with folded wing and fouled anchor, perched upon a bleak cliff on
some island far away. O my God ! what utter horror and blank
despair have I seen gleam from the eyes of thousands ! — victims all,
— to vampiral depletion ; nervous and vital exhaustion; impotentia,
barrenness ; diseases of uterus, vulva, ovaries, kidneys, prostate,
heart, lungs, brain — the terrible personal hades outgrown from
society, society, society, with its falses and shams ; its mone)--
marriages ; its deceit and hypocrisy, denouncing the Wrong with
the breath, but with act encouraging concubinage, cyprianism,

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libertinage : and l»v its repressions, fashion, stdc. display and airi-
ness discouraging marriage, and fostering thereby 'lie solitary vice
now desolating millions, and decimating all the fair lands! I make
the solemn statement and declaration that a \crv fair percentage of
that third class were from the dignified, wealthy, respectable,
Christian, aristocratic, and even reverend Mratns of society, not of
this country alone, but of all civili/ed lands, including Cuba, Chili,
r>ra::il, France, Spain, China. Australia, japan and England. In
fact, the demand for sex tonics and in\ igorants is not only simply
enormous but almost universal, and all springing from violation of
the Love-laws of our common human nature. Ot course, such a
demand for such medicines speaks in thunder tones against the
causes producing it, and equally loud against the private habits of
us of the world. But the facts exist ; and even the dreadful syphilis
in modified form rages in the blood and bones of unnumbered thou
sands — not only of guilty debauchees. — who are scarce to be pitied !
— but. alas, in those of innocent wives and prattling infants! What
are these half murdered ones — of both the latter classes — to do?
suffer and die like leprous dogs? or are they to reach forth and
make desperate efforts for physical salvation? If the latter, then .11
legislators should at once look to the enactment of laws suppressing
quackery ; making syphilis a criminal offence ; hanging abortionists ;
squelching " flash" papers, and legalizing all unions based on blind
trust on one side and villainous libertinage on the other ; and punish-
ing re-unions elsewhere as it now punishes polygamy outside the
favored Mormon and Perfectionist churches, institutions or bagnios,
•• Religious" and ■■ Theological." Shame on the 1'n.ss — the First
Estate of modern nations, that it hesitates to launch its thunders at
the class of wrongs just cited, and hurl them forever into hades!

" Firm in the right ! the Public Pre--* should be,
The tyrant's fen.-, the champion of the free !
Faithful ami constant to its »aered tru-t, —
Calm in its utterance, in its judgment ju~t.
Wise in its teaching; uncorru[it and strong,
To spread the ri_;ht and to denouncr the wrong!
Long may it lie ere candor inu-t confess
On Freedom's hordes, a weak and venal Press ! "

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It is generally admitted that there's something wrong in society,
but what the cure is or shall be is not so apparent. One class of
people advocate "Social Freedom" as the panacea, whatever that
may mean. Before I went to, at, and until the last day of, the
Chicago Convention, elsewhere alluded to, I thought I knew the
correct meaning of the terms. I find I did not ; and therefore look
in other directions for the social cure. Spoiled cheese, and cheese
spoiled, are the same to me ; nor for my life can I now see the
difference in the moral grade and status of a cyprian or libertine on
the pay-rolls, and the same, impulse and passion being the spur and
motive. The cheese smells equally bad in both cases !

It wouldn't be a bad thing to make it a punishable offence for any
M.D. to call syphilis by the nicer name of scrofula, thus fooling
honest wives, and screening recreant husbands — even if they are
well paid for their white lies ! For in these days that scourge burns
the bodies of unspotted virgins, in the shape of Jluor alius,
womb complaint, etc., inherited from infected mothers. The evil is
bad enough if it stopped right there, but it don't ; because, in the first
place, it brings on pruritis, — vaginal itching ; creates morbid desire,
and subjects girls as pure as snow to the almost dead certainty of
falling victims to the first graceful, smart, and salacious scoundrel
that comes along, — a scoundrel and victim too, it may be of the same
inherited-fluid ruin coursing like streams of fire through his swollen
veins ! In the second place, these girls are to become wives and
mothers ; these boys husbands and fathers ; thus the curse is injected
into the veins of myriads of the yet unborn — children doomed before
birth to endure a life of perpetual ill-health and morbid unrest ; to
know nothing of real happiness from the breast to the tomb — to
which latter they are likely to be rushed prematurely by suicide,
resultant from insanity begotten by the beings who parentcd them.
Again I repeat Syphilis is a crime, and should be held as such.

CXXVIII. Love is multiple in form and mode. Sometimes it
will endure and suffer long. At others it will die as if lightning'-
struck; but the "dying" sort of affection is not worth tying to!
Sever !

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amicivc than anient and amative. Xcgro Love is dilTiishe. hilari-
ous, sensual. Oriental Love is sad-cved, dreamy, vague, skvcv,
poetic, rapt, heavenly, divine. Init not keen, or passional. Spanish
Love is iierv, ardent, impetuous, terrible, scorching, consuming;
tender, but not enduring. ( ierman Love is parental, maternal, filial.
domestic dead-level, and mainly physical. It has no Italian heights;
no sunbursts ; no mountains or valleys; no anguish ; no great joys ;
no hill-tops crowned with glittering sheen. French Love is super-
ficial, lascivious, and, when youth is gone, a tiling of memory, not
of fact. English Love, like its food and architecture, is solid, lasting,
nourishing, life-prolonging, good to have, hut has no extremes.
Scotch Love is domestic, but mcalv. Northern Love is like that of
the felickc — cattv. scratchy, periodic, poisonish, often downright
brutal, and never tender, delicate, or refined. Yankee Love is fitful,
uncertain, changeful, passional, moody, seldom more than super-
ficial, because the Yankee faculties are all engrossed in the one grand
object of American life — dollars and dimes, dash and display.
Western Love I know hint little about, and, judging from what I saw
in Ohio, is so-so-ish, not deep ; cool, calculating, and seldom drives
its victims to suicide, because only the heartful sink to despair !

Lastly. Southern Love is volcanic, chivalrous, gallant, true, ten-
dcr, jealous, safe when earnest, devotional and devoted, genuine and
manly. The well-bred Southerners are the true ladies and gentle-
men of America ! I never met but one mean man among them in
all my life (and he was descended from a French family, born in
Limerick, or the Cove of Cork). Thev have less sharp intellect,
perhaps, than the northern people, but more Soul ; hence, while sub-
ject to fevers, amative weakness thev are free from !

CXXIX. An old man should be very careful of the intimacies of
wedded life; he should change his amative for amicivk ardor;
because all old people arc more or less troubled with Embolism. — -
a clogging of the veins, nerves, arteries, muscles — all the viscera,
with the limy/, chalkv, carbonaceous, calcareous refuse of the body
— such as the organs cannot get rid of; and the accumulation means
a cessation of physical jovs and vigor, and ultimate death. 'When
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ous thing for that man, and death stands close by whenever he
forgets that he is no longer a youth. But if such -will insist on
being foolish, they should first get rid of the Embolism, and cleanse
the body of all superfluities in the shape of phosphates, alkaline or
acid ; dissolve the clayey refuse, and evacuate it at once, else some
time he may, in repeating youth-like follies, so shock and shatter his
nervous system as to rob him of what few years remain to him on
earth. This cleansing process is quite easy of accomplishment, as I
have elsewhere stated, and while alive, am ready to instruct about.
And this point suggests another closely connected with it : —

CXXX. Self-venery is more often a disease than it is a vice or
crime. In either case the fault or habit is easily corrected, cured,
and broken. All that is necessary is to exhibit medicines that will
repress the amative appetite, and for awhile seal up the ducts.
The waste being stopped, of course strength accumulates, for the
rich, vital life is retained, assimilated, and the diseases of nerves,
brain, and pelvic viscera disappear before the returning march of
vigorous and triumphant health.

CXXXI. I cannot resist the desire to repeat my warning against
the ruinous and suicidal policy of " conjugal frauds," that is, carrying
the marriage to a point short of completion ; but I have additional
reasons. They are these : The shock to the nervous system is at
least ten times greater in such cases than in the normal rite, or even
its dreadful counterfeit ; and I never saw a case where it had been a
habit, that the man was not terribly injured, cerebrally as well as
nervously. In all such cases Sanity was a diminishing ratio ; and
the brain injured almost beyond the power of reparation. The
natural office must be naturally fulfilled, else the strain on the blood-
vessels of the pelvis is so great, that premature impotence is sure;
while that upon the cerebral arteries means insanity, paralysis,
brain-softening, spinal disease, apoplexy, and death ! Unless both
realize what God intended, ruin, sooner or later, is the inevitable
result. In cases where the sensuous equations are not alike, the
more rapid nervous action can be retarded by an effort of the will,
and God's design be accomplished, not frustrated. One-half the
sudden deaths of middle-aged men result from this cause !

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CXXXTT. Many husbands, by various means, have so impaired
their personal vigor, as to be semi, if not wholly, impotent; but
instead of imputing it to the right cause, they attribute it to some
fault on the other side of the house, and poor she leads an unhappy
life in consequence. Now this is all wrong ; but the cure quite easy :
1st. He should occupy his own chamber solus. 2(1. Breathe
deeply. 3d. Be much in the sunshine. 4th. Drink no liquors.
5th. Bathe often. 6th. Eat solid beef, and unsifted flour — no
potatoes at all; and in four weeks he will recuperate all his lost
energies, and be a man again ; for while he remains a weakling and
a passional imbecile, he could not be happy with the best and fairest
wife that ever was fashioned by the master hand of Omnipotence !

CXXXIII. It often happens that from some occult reason there is
a great deficiency, even to the extent of horror and disgust on the
part of some ladies ; whose lords not realizing the enormity of such
conduct, lead lives of insistancc, and reap crops of passive, vet
enforced compliance on the part of their — vielims, shall I say?
Such men should realize that it is in their own power, by delicacy
and kindness, to change the morbid to a natural state ; so that what
was shrunk from with loathing, will, in six months, be accepted as
natural and right, and be fully reciprocated — with a little noble and
forbearing trial, and some patience ; yet the reward is ample ; and
oh, how delightful! to feel that she regards you as a saviour from
yourself, instead of as before, — a little domestic tyrant, bent on
mischief, careless who suffers so long as you — do not'.

CXXXIV. True Manhood, and all that it implies, proclaims itself
in nothing so well and fairly as in the tones of our voices. When
we arc right in that respect, the sounds are clear, deep, round, full,
sonorous, melodious, with an underlaver of music ringing out bell-
like from our very souls. It then shows that we are right both at
the emotive and brain centres of our duplicate being ; but when thev
are cracked, shrill, sharp, acute, squeaky, false, coppery, gongv, it
indicates little power and less Soid ; for it is morbid, and its pos-
sessor is better fit for almost anything else than holy, honorable,
God-sanctioned marriage !

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extent on Lung capacity, and that generally indicates good diges-
tion.

No great act or mighty thought can originate in, or be accom-
plished by, one who is deficient in the foundational quality of
absolute manhood. Just so long as we are morbid in that depart-
ment, that long we are demoralized all over, inside, outside, head to
heel, and soul and body.

Sexive health and purity is the price of power. We cannot have
it on any other terms whatever ; wherefore Truth to one love builds
up the entire being; while any departure therefrom, any degree of
promiscuity, beats the soul's wings to the ground, cripples its
energies, lays it low, just as summer torrents lay low the ripening
grain. As a thinker, I regard that as one of the most important of
all truths. In nothing is this rule more imperative than in the cases
of such persons as desire to cultivate the inner powers of the being ;
for any passional excess or " Variety " as certainly disarms the soul,
seals up the spiritual eyes, blunts the inner power of perception, and
ruins the capacity for psycho-vision, as that water and fire are antag-
onistic. It is said that one cannot serve God and Mammon at the
same time ; and it is equally certain that we cannot cultivate the
better and loftier powers resident within us, and at the same time
give a loose rein to the carnal passions of our nature.

CXXXVI. The force of Genius is the force of Gender, and both
are the force of Destiny ! No man or woman can be truly great
unless their amatory natures are well developed !

In my medical practice I first cured people of innumerable dis-
eases myself, and then taught my pupils how to do likewise, by,
firstly, secondly, and lastly, getting them right sexively ; after which
dear old Nature carried them straight up the hills of health !

When a man is full of vigor he scorns to do a mean thing,
because he feels himself so much a MAN. You pick out all the
scoundrels and drivers of hard bargains, and that portion of their
nature will be found missing ; no color in their faces, no manhood in
their being ; too mean to live ; too miserable to die !

On the other hand, when a lady's periods are sweet, pure, regu-
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chances to pas* by tliat way ; and her very smile is a ray of sunlight
straight out from heaven ! But just as soon as the firms I lancJics
appear, she begins to sour right away ; ami a woman in cither state
should forever he held apart and sacred, for she is no more capable
of -.-ifclincss at such times than is the weanling craw ling on the
floor. Whv, every one can see at a glance.

CXXXVII. Death is but the beginning of some people's real
trouble ; and marriage is generally the commencement of every-
body else's ; for there's so much morbidity afloat that people are
perverted before marriage, anil remain so afterward. Such can
never avoid slander, scandal, backbiting ; but take thereto as ducks
to water, because the foundations of nobility are sealed up; and
neither man or woman thus characterized can live at peace with
any other of God's creatures on the footstool.

Such wives either fool their lords, or make home too hot to hold
them. Such men neglect their wives, and general chaos reigns
supreme. Xo\v if such would but take pains to revive and cultivate
the true instinct, the road to happiness would open straight before
them.

CXXXVIII. When the skin of the face, hands, arms, is loose
and flabby, it is a sure sign of three things: kidney, bladder, vaginal,
urethral, brain, or uterine trouble ; originating in aflectional dis-
turbances ; of chronic discontent ; and of the need of cure by
affection. Let this be done, and they who would love and be loved
breathe deeply, and the physical ailments will disappear. Promis-
cuity can never do it. I have heard doctors recommend it; but I
have no patience with them or with that other ilk who contend for
"Variety in Love." To me they are but human toads bent 011
hesliming the morals of mankind. I defy any sane man to love the
wife whom he knows shares with another favors to which he alone
by their mutual troth is entitled ! Public opinion sets in strong tides
against such doctrine; and although it is sometimes pig-headed and
wrong, vet in this it is unquestionably right: because no true,
genuine man or woman is willing to. or eapahle of, sharing the love
which ought to lie exclusively their own. Lecherous human halt-
lings advocate the doctrine; but it is always on tlicir side ot the

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house, at the expense of some one else's wife or daughter ! It is
simply monstrous and impossible for healthy people to be happy in
" Variety."

CXXXIX. People who have no charity toward those who, by
pressure of circumstances, place, opportunity, or magnetism, step
aside and commit a social fault, will upon analysis be found not
overly sound at heart, secretly unprincipled, and wofully lacking in
the basic elements of genuine man or womanhood.

Prudes are not perfectly clean in all corners of their souls.

Those who demolish bagnios are usually bagnio-patrons ! Rakes
and libertines have less mercy than their opposites ; while those who
say a good word for the fallen are the ones who know how it is
themselves to be spat upon, maligned, lashed, scorned, neglected ;
and that too by those unworthy to latch their shoestrings ! while
they who hate the opposite sex give proof positive of foul personal
habits within the secrecy of their own rooms !

CXL. Men often like their wives, as household conveniences, yet
never really husband them ; and that's exactly what every woman
wants but don't get — as a general rule ! Now if there is one fool
greater than another, it is either the wife who submits to such treat-
ment, when she has her remedy in the exercise of the three prin-
ciples named elsewhere in this book ; or the husband who expects
that a neglected wife can really love him, and honestly be sorry
when he dies !

CXLI. Virtue, not its opposite, is the normal state of man '
Affection, not passion, is what we crave and yearn for ; and finding
are blest. When we go astray it is more from the pressure of cir-
cumstances than the natural inclination of our souls. Most of us
were born wrong,- and inherit tendencies not good for us ; still in the
cultured will we have a never-failing remedy.

The heart's allegiance must first be turned aside before the body
yields to passional breezes blowing from off the home-shore ; where-
fore I hold it better to not try to break the bad connection by force,
but by the applied will rewin the straying one to love's arms again.

CXLII. The essence of Marriage is consent. Ceremonials merely
publish the fact ; wherefore it should be the law of every land that

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he who finds a woman worth seducing, and docs it, should, l>v that
act alone, he compelled to maintain and acknowledge her as a law-
ful wife, unless she sees ("it to waive her undouhted right to claim
and hold him as a husband. The fad that a man has done such an
act should in law bar him from marriage with anv other woman.
Such is the way in which I look at it; and if society would but
adopt the idea there would be fewer libertines, and some millions
less of ruined girls and forlorn prostitutes.

.She who robs a woman of her husband ; or he who ruins a con-
fiding girl merits a season in Tophct, and if I were BraMr would
get it — sure !

CXLIII. The more familiarities a single woman j^crmits a man
to take, the more he is sure to undervalue her, and the less she
respects and honors him. It is natural for him to despise one who
allows too great freedoms. So also within the sacred pale of wed-
lock : the very first immodesty on either side blunts the edge, takes
the bloom from the peach, lessens them in their own and each
other's eyes, and is the beginning of folly which often ends in the
divorce courts, the brothel, bagnio, or the grave ! Modesty and cir-
cumspection build uj3 tottering loves. Their opposites bring dis-
respect and finally dissolution. I say these things here, because I
have long known them to be true.

What a pleasant thing it must be to a sensible and sensitive
woman to have, whenever her heart prompts her to express affection
— her better half meet her with a storm of coarse and dis^ustincr
passion, — the base idea of which must be perfectly withering to her
soul. Poor She ! — one of thousands ! — how ardently must she
long for death, and dread even heaven itself, if there is marrying
and giving in marriage away over in the upper Land ! Ami how
such a woman must try to be a Budhist and long for nihility rather
than continued life. But then such states are begotten of her —
their, deep unrest, causing them to long — as have I ere now — for
whole eternities of sweet and restful sleep. But then women
capable of such yearnings are immortal ; will survive death, and. let
us believe — their longings will be appeased, their pangs assuaged
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understood ; for such seldom are on this earth, and at thirty odd, it
is too late to hope to be while in the flesh.

Helen, a loose one, caused the wars of Troy, and from her down
the lane of ages, men, and women too, have practically adored
bod)', and worshipped Lust and Fashion, openly or sub-rosa ; and
until some decimating scourge, originating in Lust, shall sweep the
earth — as it will within a century ! — of six-tenths of its human
denizens, the same wild worship will continue as before.

CXLIV. How very seldom married people praise each other !
yet nothing on earth goes so far toward rejuvenating a waning
regard, as the expression of gladness at each other's points, acts,
trials, victories, industry, perseverance ; yet all this power for good
is practically ignored ; and while others are praised and cheered to
the echo, we never get the slightest token of appreciation, even
though we toil like abject slaves to deserve it. If love exists
between couples, it ought to show itself in something better than
mere empty words. If it does not, whole troops of discontentments
come crowding at our fireside ; for neglected duties, broken prom-
ises, lip affection, magnetic, or passional attraction, will not fill the
bill of an anxious heart ! They paralyze us, render us cross, selfish,
non-ambitious, careless, hopeless, solitary, and despondent. That
affection which words itself by daylight, and snores when Night
veils the world, is not worth an hour's purchase. Palsied affection
seldom gets entirely well again ! and non-reciprocal marriage infu-
riates all males ; and too many wives make not the slightest effort
toward mutuality; and by so neglecting one of the first of wifely
duties, clap the lid on the coffin of their happiness, and hurry their
joys to an untimely grave ; and after thus committing marital sui-
cide, they weep and wonder that their lords do not fall down at their
feet to worship and idolize them as of yore, in the halycon days of
courtship and the honeymonth ; not realizing that he, poor fellow,
has found the lace all paper, the diamonds all paste ; — and no man
likes either of these ! She is not wise, who expects to hold a man
securely unless one of her strongest cords is reciprocation, which
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ner vow. i.s bound to culture anil accord. Otherwise their union is
but a mockery and a sham.

She who habitually fails in that wifelv dutv helps to support the
females who occupy the palaces of sin — and gin. to whose
society her husband is, as "they sav." driven bv her coldness. The
strange woman at least simulates accord ; while the honorable wife
expresses frigidity, horror, indifference, or disgust : neither of which
arc well calculated to keep a man in good training for his constant
combat with the world !

I hold him not a good man who ever seeks what can never be
sanctioned except by mutual love; for it is a profanation of the
divinest sanctities of the human soul ; and he is a poor specimen of a
man who can seek solace in a cyprian's arms, or revel in passional
debauch bought with current coin cither in or out of wedlock; for
nothing but Love can ever justify an act which may launch an
immortal soul into being. Under these holy conditions marriage
generates glorious thoughts, noble resolve, courage to endure; gives
a better zest of, and hold on, life, fortune, goodness, God !

Under the false condition every participant rests on the edge of
Hades, ready to roll off into it at any moment ; and if there is an
especial curse, they deserve it who, with their eves open, as mine
now are, and for some time have been, — violate that sacred law.
That and " Variety" are death to true affection, and also destructive
of the power and ability to experience any but coarse and gross
emotion ; besides brutalizing human nature, destroying nobleness of
character, they totally unfit us to become parents of pure children
and good ones ; but only of such as. born of passion, shall rush on
passion-tides adown the stream of life, cursing their progenitors at
every inch of the dreadful way! But true love, thank Heaven!
antagonizes, and finally destroys, lurid, baneful lust. The twain are
incompatible; but the angel slavs the fiend whenever thev meet in
combat on anything like even terms. Thank God for that again !
So be it forever !

CXLV. There are too many million outrages inside, as well as
without, the pale of matrimony ; but these wont be. when both sides
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where. Men are chronically inflamed by reason of wrong life ; are
too excitable, hence unreasonable ; and are apt to obtrude offen-
sively, and far too frequently, for the best interests of all concerned.
Wives yield when it is clear that from ill-health they ought not, and
cannot without injury. No human season occurs oftener than thrice
a month at most ; — before, after, and midway, of her lunar period.
The first two being ovarian seasons, maternity may result. The
latter is her periodic soul-season, when motherhood is impossible,
but soul-blending the divine resultant. Here is another new revela-
tion of Sex, and the statement of a law discovered by carefully
noting hundreds of cases in a medical practice of nearly thirty years ;
and it is one that ought to be conformed to, because it will yet
prevent innumerable child-murders that else would result from
ignorance of it. In announcing this law I do mankind a service,
and save many a woman from risks they may not wish to en-
counter.

It is held by some modern physiologists to be a law, that if the
wife reaches the natural demise of marriage before the husband,
and conception occurs, the resultant will be a boy, whose nature
will resemble her own far more than it will her husband's ; but if
the father anticipates, the product will be feminine ; but she will be
more like him than its mother. Thus the gender of an inchoate
human being can be predetermined by the Omnipotence of Will;
all that is essential is the agreement as to what it shall be.

Before ending this section, I desire to re-impress the great truth
and vital law. It is this : Where husband or wife is ill, mentally,
morally, emotionally, or in any other way, that illness can be
assuredly remedied by them, if when lying by each other they will
but place their hands on each other's breasts, and will an inter-
change of vital life. It will instantly pass and repass, affording an
exhibition of soul-power that shall astonish most people ; and this
mutual impartation becomes not merely a physical-nervous joy, but
a most powerful magneto-vital, health-engendering force ; an invigo-
rant of the most wondrous potency ; a direct and holy prayer,
certain to be honored and answered by the everlasting and very
loving God !

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CXLVI. Couples fail in being happy or rendering each other so,
from muscular flabbiness, and consequent pulpiness <>f brain. Now
if tliev will but lift all thev can, gradually increasing the weight of
the bags of sand, or whatever else it may be. five minutes before
retiring, and two on arising, while in night-dress, ovarian, uterine,
vaginal, kidnev, bladder, testicular, and prostatic weaknesses will
vanish like mists before the morning sun ; and with the increase of
muscular strength will come an accrement of Love and its cognates,
thus dispensing with the aphrodisiacs now so largely used. In three
months this course will revolutionize a household. Because it will
give the soul a better vehicle to operate through ; clear the channels
of the body ; remedy constitutional weakness ; prevent and cure
Embolism — the great impotence-creator, and will give a prolonged
lease of life and all its nobler pleasures.

CXLVII. Love-starvation is a terrible thing to endure, but one
which is not at all necessary ; for by posi)ig the soul for a mate or a
love ; — by -filling and decreeing it as a system, the love-power will
go out from you and centre on your adaptation, just as surely as that
you make and persevere in the effort. The same principle applied
to amative disorders will repair the impairment.

CXLVIII. Accursed forever must he, she. or they be, who counsel
either conjugal frauds, condanuism. or any other destructive social
abomination. They are seldom anything else than murderous.
They lead to abortion, t/iat is murder ; and its perpetrators, non-
professional, should be paraded through the streets on a mule's
back, placarded " Ahortionists ! " while the professional babv-
killers should swing by the neck to the nearest tree or lamp-post !

Another class of wretches need legal attending to. I refer to the
makers and advertisers of peculiar stimulants, because they are
compounded of villainous drugs, which agitate for a while, but are
dead-sure to land the takers upon the bleak shores of sterility
and hopeless impotence. There are cases wherein sex-tonics,
invigorants, and direct aphrodisiac agents are absolutely essential to
the restoration of amative and general health, but such are incapable
of harming even a child, because their action is tonic and constitu-
tional, and not sudden, fiery, lust-begetting, and destructive.

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There are plants, essences, tindlures, and extracts, which, in the
hands of good physicians, are effective for the purposes sought,
while utterly non-dangerous, and free from harm. Let such be
used, or none at all.

Elsewhere, herein, I have alluded to a paper upon the esoteric
part of the grand topic of this volume — called the Ansairetic Mys-
tery, in which form I have opened up certain knowledges which I
deem quite essential to the complete education of every true adult
person. Concerning it, while I live, letters can be addressed to me ;
when dead, to my heirs, and those who will then become sole pub-
lishers of all my works.

The End of the Vision. — I promised to give the sequel to the
curious Vision, related in the forepart of this book, concerning The
Woman and the Man.

i st. It will be remembered that I sincerely loved and sympa-
thized with my friend, to such an amazing magnetic extent that
at times I was in absolute rapport with his entire soul ; and at one
time, believing the vision to have been true, I pitied him, and the
millions who have sailed in the same boat, and been wrecked upon
the rocks of treachery, adultery, and deceit. But in this case the
vision was not true, for the lady was then, and ever after, as pure as
snow-flakes winging their way from space to earth, while still
floating in mid-air. But she had, prior to leaving, associated a day
or two with a woman of the world, who had suggested the strange
question upon which the man had long pondered and morbidly
brooded ; and his loneliness, and her long silence, had strengthened
his evil suspicions, which suspicions he had imparted to me, and I
had entered into full sympathy with him, believing just as he did.

2d. My friend was an artist of wide celebrity ; very magnetic,
and ties of that character were easily formed by him ; and to sever
them was often as fraught with agony as would be pulling teeth
from a sensitive soul, were that possible ; hence he was quite easily
vampirized by unprincipled women, just as I have been a score of
times, in as many lands, in my own strange life, by female leeches,
who, attracted by the magnetic fulness of the nature inherited from
the dear mother who bore me, came to feed upon it, and deplete my

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very soul ; this, be it known, being possible without the slightest
guilt <5f a sensual character, for such is not always essential to the
attraction of the vital life of a full soul by an empty cormorantic
one. It was from the abundance of these she-fiends who clustered
round me, that for a time a scmi-libcrtinish odor attached itself to
my name ; because, being foiled in their desperate game and
diabolic intent, they generally went off and took sweet revenge, a la
Mrs. Potiphar, and scandalized me far and near, right and left ;
cyprians, vampires, ghouls, all! — without a single exception! —
penniless adventuresses, who came to learn of me how to victimize
mankind, because I knew all the higher, white, as well as the
lower, and black, magic, and they panted like the hart after the
brooklets for the information they knew I alone, if I chose, which I
did not, impart, but dismissed them empty as they came. It is a
curious circumstance of my life that the worst foes I ever made
were, ist. The people to whom I lent money ; and, 2d. Those whom
I refused to initiate into the mystical secrets adverted to above ; for
the fellow who invited me to Massillon, after the Boston fire, finding
I would not instruct him how to be a greater scoundrel than Nature
made him, or God intended, perjured what soul he had, and thereby
extorted nearly all I had saved from the fiery wreck two months
before. The old " Man" of the Letter and young girl notoriety, also
turned upon me for identical reasons. The Ranks of " Reformers "
are thickly strewn with unprincipled males, and females, too, and I
have been " done" to the tune of thousands by adventuresses of that
peculiar ilk, as in the La Hue case detailed in the book called
" My Curious Life ; " and in the case of " La Blondctte," of the
" Woman's Book."

So much for victimization through magnctitmc mauvaisr, to say
nothing of another instance where, through a cleverly morphincd
pint of ale — '• Bitter beer " it proved — mv mother's only son was
relieved of some hundreds of dollars; compelled to execute a will,
and acknowledge a fact which never existed, by the persuasive
eloquence of a six-barrelled revolver in the hands of a male, and a
four-barrelled one in the pocket of a thieving shc-zingara. I there-
fore could pity the Man. 3d. If you turn to the section of the

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Mirror Vision, you will see that it had prophesied coming trouble,
to be followed by a calm ; and also that I had utterly forgotten the
fact for the time. About the same period in which my friend was
in the trouble about the woman, that trouble was enhanced and
exacerbated by the arrival of a female from California, who had
crossed the continent expressly to lay seize to his heart and —
passions. She was strongly sensuous ; of fine presence ; voluptuous,
sharp, keen, practical, and totally devoid of honor and principle ;
yet fearfully, desperately in love with him ; so that, between all the
powers bearing on him, the man was entirely distraught ; and that,
too, at a time when from other causes he was ill, morbid, down-
cast, and very negative ; he, therefore, had brooded on his wretched
fancies till himself was half daft, and I, his friend, through sympa-
thy, was in full rapport with him. 4th. He had entrusted the
absent one with certain very important financial business, which
she, in thoughtless mood, had utterly ignored and totally neglected ;
consequently he was angry. 5th. He wearied me with the constant
recital of his troubles, while I myself was ill, tired, worn out with
excessive loneliness, mental toil, and financial embarrassments, all
of which combined, threw me into a very morbid physical state ;
and his injuries and my absurd fancies took the dreadful form they
did, which state of soul was taken advantage of by the teaching
dead ! — the viewless powers of the empyrean, to inculcate tha
most solemn, if most painful lesson he or I had ever learned ; fos
there was not, and never had been, the slightest ground for eithej
jealousy or suspicion ; for their object was as pure as the sweetes*
angel who flits in glory about God's eternal throne !

The lesson cured two of us of jealousy in the first place. 2d. Rio
him then, and me, shortly afterward, of all vampiral influences,
whether from California or elsewhere. 3d. It brought us both
nearer to those to whom our hearts went out in craving, longing,
yearning, for the bread of life — Womanly affection. 4th. It led us
to bend our stubborn souls at the shrine of the forgiving God ! 5th.
It taught us the mighty lesson of God-reliance and self-control. 6th.
Taught us the folly of indulging even in occasional bibulant habits.
7th. It opened the road-way to a higher possible life, though the

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lesson was a terrible one ; taught us the folly of unjust suspicion,
and to ask pardon, while extending charity — of all. to all, and to
ask it, too, of that good and compassionate Lord whose chastening
hand had brought us face to face with truth and human duty, until
at last the glorified beings flitting by that way peered into our
humble rooms, beheld us there on bended knee, — contrite souls
pleading for full redemption, and, turning their holy gaze heaven-
ward again, they sent a message home to God : — " Behold ! They
Reason justly !" Reader, go thou and do likewise !

Moral ! — 1st. Never let your love be drawn out till you are sure
it is right that it should be. 2d. If you are magnetic, take care to
restrain its flow, and do not allow yourself to permit it to saturate a
vampire, and then fall in " Love" with your own spheral emanation.
3d. Pray for deliverance all the time, else embodied and viewless
leeches will sap your body and soul to the very lees, and then laugh
at you when the certain Horror comes ! 4th. Trust no one who
seeks to separate you from your mate. 5th. Bear and forbear,
give and forgive, and trust ye each other. 6th. Never be jealous,
no matter what the proofs be, so long as your two bodily eyes do
not sanation it. Remember my Lessox ! 7th. Fulfil the part of
husband and wife as if both stood on the verge of death ; so shall ve
be holy, pure, and fully, truly Human !

Upon good physical conditions, soundness, health, normal play
of electric, nervous, magnetic, and passional forces, depends, un-
questionably, much of the weal or woe. happiness or misery, sanity
or insanity, attendant upon us in our journey through life. An
experience of many years, in many lands, has familiarized me with
all methods extant for creating the best conditions of vital health ;
combating obscure diseases of the nervo-vital organization, and for
overcoming the effects of both excess and violated natural law.
That experience, travel, experiment, and observation enabled me
to not only found, but firmly establish a Ni:\v Systhm of Medicine,
embracing all that is good of Homoeopathy. Water Cure. Magnetics,
and a dozen other methods. I am nearly at the end <>f my career
as a practical Physician, but desire that my methods and s\ steins
may survive to bless and relieve mankind, when mv body shall rest
beneath the hillside, and my weary soul shall sweetly sleep near

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the Throne of my Redeeming God,— the Ineffable One, whose
hand has brought me out of the deeps, and given me a crown of
victory at this end of my half-century of life ; wherefore I propose to
teach others a part, or the whole, of the magnificent System evolved
during all these years of toil and struggle ; and these are my reasons
for desiring to do so : —

Very many of the large-brained, active-minded People of this
Country, as is the case with the same class in Paris, London, Berlin,
Vienna, Constantinople, and other large centres of population, labor
under some form of Nervous disease, caused mainly by cerebral
exhaustion from mental overwork. Another large class, including
both sexes, suffer the same troubles, but from different causes, — the
distressing symptoms being difficult to alleviate, much less to cure,
with the means at hand, for the reason that until my discoveries and
improvements there was no absolute medical agent, or Pharmaceu-
tical preparation in existence, capable of meeting such cases suc-
cessfully; and since my preparations — during 25 years of trial —
have proved their unexampled power over all diseases involving
nerves, brain, lungs, kidneys, and sexual organization, their popu-
larity, without the adventitious aid of advertising, paid-for certifi-
cates, and other modes of puffery, demonstrating this fact, — I am
proud to say, the field of their usefulness is wholly unchallenged by
the products of the Pharmacopoeia of the civilized world.

In the experience of every Physician worthy the name, numerous
cases present themselves, which may be generally defined as loss of
magnetism, depletion of magnetic force ; in other words, Vital
Exhaustion ; to cure which, thousands have resorted to the various
hypophosphites, preparations of Lyttae, Valerian, etc. ; some of
which undoubtedly afforded temporary relief; but all of which are
impermanent, and, as Dynamic remedies, and no other, are adapted
to that class of troubles, wholly and utterly unreliable. Patients
who need and resort to such remedies — and in vain, for reasons
self-apparent — may be classified as, First, those who, forgetful that
Vigor is the gift of God, have exhausted the brain and nervous sys-
tem by indoor life, too constant mental application, — of course
involving loss of lung-power, — and hence, like plants in a cellar,
are bleached out. The Second class have lived too fast ; and late

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hours., ivine, and personal excess have stranded them midway of
life's sea ; the Nerve fountains arc run dry ; vital energy is sapped
and gone ; and existence is dull, feverish, wholly spiccless, and
insipid. A Third class have led such fretful, vexed, and trouhled
lives that, without intentional error, they have nearly extinguished
the fire of life. A Fourth class, embracing both sexes and all a.Ljes,
from ten years to threescore, consists of those unfortunates who, by
neglect or other causes, have become inverted, and bv solitary
habits (not to be mentioned, but whose terrific consequences must
be met and conquered), have sapped and drained their vitality, till
their flesh is waxy, nerves unstrung, brain softened: they have
become unreliable, changeful, angular, crooked, wild, shiftless,
aimless, suspicious, lonely, nervous ; easily affected by the weather,
bad news ; are gloomy, morose, scary, discontented, dreamy,
fdgety, suicidal, secretive ; now tender, then coarse and callous ;
now gentle, then the opposite ; vapory, fretful, easily worried ;
wholly unfitted for life's most solemn duties ; disquieted themselves,
and estranging their best friends; they have become worn out,
exhausted, and, in the case of females, loaded down with troubles
that would kill half the men living ; often, in their cases, resulting
in morbid state of mind and body ; and in men resulting in I?npo-
tencc, and worse trouble. There is a Fifth class, whom Disease has
wasted and reduced so that there is scarcely life enough to make it
at all desirable ; and a morbid melancholy, almost utter despair,
follows. They have frighful dreams, flashes, headaches, palpita-
tions, anger fits, hysteria, and angularities without number. A
Sixth class have gone to waste, impotence, and senility, at 30, 3^.
and 40 years of age, who with a little care could retain full vigor till
threescore years and ten !

The above list embraces, 1st. AH that vast mass of people who
are exhausted by mental labor and sedentary occupations ; who
from various causes arc angular, excitable, nervous, and, at times.
unaccountably morbid ; 2d. All who arc passionless, cold, non-
attractive, non-attracted, or, if attracted, hopelessly so. from lack of
responsive ability ; who arc unsettled, uneasy, subject to mental,
temperamental, gloomy, lonely, and passional storms; y\. All

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who have half-ruined their minds and bodies, sapped their health
and vigor, and are now crooked and fretful, despondent by passional
excess, normal or otherwise, or from any cause whatever.

Who can doubt that, in reference to very many of these troubles,
perverted, excessive, or abused Physical Love lieth at the founda-
tion ? No woman is ill whose Nervous apparatus is sound ; no man
is so whose natural appetites and brain are strong and vigorous.
Life and power, strength and force, beauty and love, talent, genius,
endurance and longevity, all depend upon the normal health of the
vital-nervous organs, for when these are disordered the whole being
must and does suffer, and nine-tenths of all the diseases of "Civili-
zation " originate in the disturbances of that portion of the human
economy.

The remedials I propose to teach how to manufacture, will revive
energy lost from -whatever cause, for they are nervous force and
vital power in tangible form, and act, not by stimulation, but by
invigoration, restoring magnetic and dynamic power, when
nothing else on earth can do it.

Physicians and others are hereby given to clearly and distinctly
understand, that in no sense whatever are either of these prepara-
tions empirical productions, or "Patent Medicines." Their discov-
ery opens a new era in the curative art. They are not Medicines,
but dynamic agents ; have been thoroughly tested in France,
England, and 35 States of this Union ; and, where properly adminis-
tered or taken, it is doubtful if a case exists of Incipient Consump-
tion, Wasting, Nervousness, Hypochondria, Hysteria, Nervous or
Vital Prostration, Leucorrhcea, Sterility, Brain Softening, Dyspepsia,
Mental Wandering, General Debility, Whole or Partial Weakness
from Nerval Exhaustion, that they will not speedily and radically
cure, because of their extraordinary dynamic power.

In the Medical Profession, the great want has long been that
of a powerful, positive, certain, yet harmless Nervine-Invigorant,
capable of direct action upon the brain, nervous centres, and pelvic
apparatus ; an agent that will allay morbid inflammation, yet stimu-
late, exhilarate, tone up, and permanently strengthen ; that will
supply nervous energy, correct all morbid action, and furnish the

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material lost or wasted by excessive mental toil, venery, masturba-
tion, onanism, and other forms of vital prostation. Every Phvsician
of any reasonable amount of practice frequently has cases of weak-
ness, mental and physical, demanding the exhibition of peculiar
tonic stimulants and aphrodisiacs, that shall be certain in effect, yet
non-irritant or reactionary. This want is generally met in my
remedials, beyond all question the most perfect vitalizing agents
known, and hence peculiarly adapted to all cases of Female disease,
Marasmus, or Wasting, all anaemic cases, and those morbid states
resulting in Hysteria, Despondency, Melancholia, Insanity, and
Suicidal Depression, all of which result from Uterine, Ovarian,
Cerebral, Nervous, Prostatic and Seminal Exhaustion in either sex
respectively. To meet and conquer, especially, severe and stubborn-
cases of all such, I propose to instruct suitable persons how to pre-
pare and use the following list of remedial agents, hitherto prepared
by no one but myself; viz., 14 Formulas, embracing 1 Barosmyn,

1 Lucina Cordial, 1 Protogene, 3 for Eye diseases, with instruments,

2 for "accidental" complaints, but whose effects are supremely
terrible — (these formulas are the only perfect cure on earth, —
Hope for Poisoned wives). In short, I purpose to teach the best of
my discoveries, and to give Parchment certificates to Prove the
purchaser has actually been instructed in "my system and my
formulas.

Through these remedials many have regained health ; old men
and barren women have become happy parents, and patients stand-
ing on the verge of death have been rendered strong and vigorous,
— of course not alone by medicines, but by the course laid down for
their guidance, especially those set forth in my Pamphlet on the
Prolongation of Human Life and Power, called " The Golden
Secret."

Where Parties expressly desirg it, the above system will be sup-
plemented by a Series of Esoteric instructions, involved mainly in the
Ansairetic Mystery.

Those who have read my Works, need not now, at the end of 30
years, be told that, as an expert, in diseases of the nervous and
genital systems, my fame is too well established to be successfully

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contested by any man, men, or party, nor that the ablest Physicians
in the land are glad to accept my teachings and improvements upon
original discoveries. During the past year I have by a new discov-
ery revolutionized the entire treatment of such diseases. By it the
physician and patient need no longer "guess," but go at once to the
cure of the case. The discovery is entirely original, and will be
imparted to practitioners, — those who wish to make a specialty of
treating that class of human ailments. Terms by mail. The car-
dinal principle of both the treatment and remedials, is that, con-
trary to all the " schools," I hold that Life itself is a principle ; that
we are not born with a given amount of it, which, when exhausted,
gives us up to death ; but that we can not only accrete and gather in
new life, and thus add long years to the sum total of its duration,
but also that we can intensify, deepen, broaden, and expand it in
every direction, thus preserving our fire, beauty, vigor, energy,
magnetic and personal force, to an unlimited degree. And not only
that, but — and here is indeed a mighty discovery — that the very
source of exhaustion, is, properly understood, the actual fountain
of perpetuity, endurance, long' life, and power, mental, physical,
moral, emotional, and magnetic. In a word, I hold it possible to
almost wholly rejuvenate ourselves and become young again in
spirits, vigor, mental power, and endurance, — that loss of love is
loss of life, and that both can be restored. These things I teach,
and among others give much practical knowledge of inestimable
value, on the observance of which depends the happiness of all
wedded couples, and ignorance of which fills the land with vice,
murder, suicide, divorce, and wretchedness incalculable. [This
knowledge is broadly laid down in the large work, " The Master
Passion," and the greater one " Good News," Tables of Contents of
which will be sent to any address on receipt of postage thereon.]

My instructions will prove of inestimable value and importance
not only to Physicians, but to other men, and especially to women,
for a great many reasons which I do not choose to set forth
herein.

Lastly: this book will inevitably call attention to the B. O. E.
(Brotherhood of Eulis) , the Hope of the world and Sheet anchor

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of Mankind. All such are informed that a handbook of the Order
will be issued from this Grand Lodge ; to the officers of which ap-
plication for information should be made ; and to no other authority,
save myself, until death.*

My address at present is Toledo, Ohio ; when it is changed, due
notice will be given. P. B. Randolph.

See second note below.

, There are quite a number of exceedingly important and inexpressibly holy and
delicate questions connected with the subject-matter of this work, which, although
alluded to, have not been openly and freely discussed herein, for self-apparent
reasons. These things relate to the inner mysteries of the human being and of
Eulis, (or the Philosophy of Love, Agape, not stogu,) and are only to be given
under the sacred conditions of Patient and Physician or Teacher and Pupil.
How long I may remain to teach of course I do not know, — only this I do know —
that I have suffered much and am weary ; but while able I shall take great de-
light in clearing up the doubts and mysteries besetting those about me ; and all
who need such counsel as I am capacitated to impart, are hereby freely war-
ranted in asking or writing for it, — assured that I will do my best toward allevi-
ating the distresses of body and heart, Soul and Spirit; and although I cannot
bear the burdens of all, still I have done somewhat of good in that line, and am
ready to continue so doing while life lasts.

* In March, 1874,1 organized a society, provisionally, down in Tennessee —
"TheB. O. E." to which it was my intention to teach all the occult branches
of esoteric knowledge, constitute it my literary heir, and through it spring many
lofty truths upon the world ; but

" The beat laid plans of mice or men
Aft gang aglee ! "

And so did mine with reference to that society; for owing to irreconcilable
misunderstandings it became absolutely necessary to dissolve the provisional
society as the B. O. E., and to utterly decline to permanently organize it, owing
to the presence in it of a person with whom it became impossible for me to break
bread and taste salt — things which no man of Eulis or Rosicrucia will ever do
under unpleasant conditions. Consequently, hereafter as heretofore, I shall do
what good I can, single-handed and alone — yet not alone, for God and I are a
clear majority. I'll help myself and others, and He will help me.

June 30, 1874.

PART II.

IMMORTALIZATION.

-•«£•{<>

"Philadelphia, Sept. 30, 1873.
" Dear Sir, — I am deeply interested. I have never read any-
thing of your Publications except the New Mola.* On the 6ist«
page of that work, under Sedition XIX., I find a single sentence in cap-
itals : the same thought I have been inclined to believe for more than
thirty years : — ' All People Do Not Have Souls ! ' My dear
sir, do you mean it? Have you said something more about this
somewhere else in your publications ? . . . Oh, do you guess
how my soul hungers in viewing the table of contents of the extraor-
dinary Works published by your House : — and you will guess I

HAVE A SOUL ?

" Praying that your valuable life may be long preserved, and that
you may continue to enlighten the millions as only you can,

" I am, your true friend,
E. B. MERRILL,

308 Walnut Street."

E. B. Merrill, Esq. — Sir: The following Paper, in substance,
is the reply to the questions involved in the " Mola " and your letter.
In response to your interrogatories, allow me to say that : — All
things are generally reputed and believed to reproduce their kinds.
That is regarded as a determinate rule, and strict, unswerving law
of nature. But it is not wholly true, nor an unchangeable law,
because there is a law of spontaneous generation both in the faunal
and floral departments of nature, — both vegetable and animal life
produced by other than seed germination, some of which have, and

* See notice at end of Vol.

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others have not, the power of reproducing their kind ; instances of
which arc altogether too numerous to need special mention — as,
for instance, the various acarii, produced from powdered flint
which had first been calcined to white heat; and the familiar phe-
nomenon of lizardesque beings originating from salted cabbage in
dark, moist cellars ; and still further, the occasional production of
the low-type baboon, by the arrestation of gestation in pregnant
negresscs, — an instance of which occurred in Charleston, South
Carolina, but a few years ago. So it is not always strictly, albeit
generally true, that things reproduce their types and species.

In the case of man, his origin by the methods and processes
"universally believed in a few years ago, is now almost as univer-
sally discredited, for the Science of To-day rejects all that cannot be
demonstrated accordant with Law ; and the human being is proved
to have been a gradual, and by no means a sudden or miraculous
creation. [See the Volume '• Pre-Adamite MAN," Published by
this House.]

It is difficult to determine the precise point at which the purely
animal left off, and the purely human began. Every recession from
the highly human type is an approach toward the Simian, or ape-
type, and ape-like forms, shapes, hands, facial angles, faces, noses,
mouths, and features meet us among all races, colors, and classes of
mankind at every turn ; while embryology clearly demonstrates that
the human being in utero passes through every stage of the world's
animal growth and products, from the jelly-point to tadpole, fish,
monkey, up to man ; and the farther each gestativc stage is pushed,
the more perfect the resultant child. The lower types and forms of
the Simiana are not, cannot be, immortal, bv reason of paucitv of
cerebrum, or fore, top, brain, and redundance of back, low, brain,
or cerebellum.

If a man is, as science proves he is, a growth, then his immor-
tality is a growth also, and not a miracle or gift, or the result of any
sudden force applied either physically or metaphysically ; and he
must have ascended from a non-immortal ancestrv. We need a
new exegesis of early scripture, for in the light of the daily resur-
rections of the remains of dead nations and obsolete civilizations ; of

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the constant exhumations of the remains of Prehistoric races, some
of which, reckoning from geologic data, date back not less than
from three-quarters of a million to two whole millions of years ago,
it is impossible to accept the literal account as we ' find it. People
used to hold and believe that all mankind were the progeny of an
original pair of Protoplasts, the autochthones or primal couple —
Adam (Kadmon) and the fair Eve, his rib-originated compagnon du
vie, or wife. But that dogma is a dogma no longer. Black,
brown, white, yellow races, are all as clear cut and distinct from
each other as are grayhounds from poodle dogs, or bantam fowls
from headstrong, long-spurred, do-or-die game ; nor will one
race, even by admixture, produce a perfect specimen of either of
the others.

In these days science explodes the fables of antiquity, and has
already gone far toward dispensing altogether with the Edenic
couple, — insisting that Tartar, Caucasian, Indian, and the Nigritian
race came from diverse centres and sources, and Darwinian theo-
rists hold the reins and drive straight from Palace to cavern ; from
man in pride and pomp, to man the cousin of hairy chimpanzee and
red-rear baboon ; and she demonstrates him to be a natural out-
growth of nature ; and that his ancestors were some sort of superior
ape-monkey or baboon, gorilla, nschiego or chimpanzee ; and that
he is himself a grand improvement, by natural and sexual selection,
upon his progenitors, who slowly advanced from monkey-hood to be
cave-dwellers and weapon-users ; who gradually learned the use of
fire and fighting, monogamy and mating, hut-building and clothes-
wearing, and who, developing still, finally, through the lapse of
thousands of — centuries, grew to be what he is now — generally,
half-civilized ; for he yet hangs, beheads, cruelizes his kind, and at
best delights in carnage, drums, war, glory, gibbets, jails, Alcohol,
Tobacco, Robbery, and Force, meat food, and fiery drink, still laying
claim to survive the ordeal of death, in an etherealized form, but with
out knowing really how or why : Holding firmly to the belief that hi?
life on earth is but the prelude to his music of perpetual being
beyond the grave, while all nature chants the low, sad requiem of
all other sentient forms, the totality of which topple over into their

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original dust, and arc no more as Individuals, but only survive in
their respective species. This belief gladdens him, yet it is a sad
thought — Nothing sentient bevond the grave but man alone; — ■
while all other forms of life and heautv go out forever?

Doubtless this development theory — of Darwin and others, is
mainly true — so far as it goes, — but it fails to go far enough. It is
eminently unsatisfactory to every true thinker and hoper for life
beyond death ; and the same class of persons find it utterly impossi-
ble to predicate immortality upon the materials furnished for that
purpose by those who arc mainly interested in the firm establish-
ment of the grand idea. They ask Why? but no logical reply is
given. I shall present it here and now.

No one, that I am aware of, contends that monkeys, either large
or small, are capable of overriding the billows of Death, and swim-
ming safely to the etheral shores beyond, (they probably deserve
that power quite as much as some men do), yet man is, physically,
but an improved ape, which fact has a singular proof in this: viz.,
the higher simia will, and do, inter-breed with the lower human.
Proof — the tailed "Men" of Namaqua Land : the dwarf peoples of
gorilla-land, and the offspring of Hottentot women captured and
impregned by the giant apes of Nigritia. But it does not follow
that the monstrous progeny thus generated are immortal, even if, as
is doubtful — the humanesque parent may chance to be so ; nor does
it follow that all who are undoubtedly human, are also possessed of
power to exist consciously subsequent to actual death ; for unques-
tionably all are not thus endowed who possess the external and
ordinary characteristics of humanity ; and there are thousands who
pass and repass us in the streets every day of our lives who arc no
more immortal than the fish they ate for dinner ; for that power,
fact, quality, call it what you will, is a development, an outgrowth,
a result, the principia of which I herein purpose to briefly set forth
and, so far as my limits permit, explain. And first let me define
what the world and mvsclf understand as the true definition of the
term I m mortal itv : —

The bodv is supposed to contain within itself an electrical form
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that at death this y^real form escapes the body, and goes to spend
its eternal years in heaven or in hell ; that it can die no more, but
lives, loves, suffers, thinks, enjoys, in that other life ; and that it is
in all respects a human being still. This brief definition is as good
as one occupying a hundred pages.

Now if man is — and the affirmative proofs are strong — the
descendant of any sort of ape, existent now or extinct for a hundred
millenia ; if he is immortal and the ape-parents not so, it is clear
that those advanced specimens of the Simiada? from whom sprung
the first immortal human beings must have conferred on their off-
spring a power and quality themselves had not ; so that at death the
progenitors returned to dust, while the progeny exulted in perpetual
life, and renewed existence ; immigrated to other worlds in the
Vault, immortalized beings, but with rjo parents to meet and greet
them on the farther shore — the lands beyond the swelling flood, the
kingdoms o'er the Sea ! — and, undoubtedly, such was actually the
case. Of course these first fruits were not of the high and fine
grades subsequently developed on the earth by dint of time and
better physical conditions. Logic is a good sieve, even if a grain or
two of error does occasionally fall through the meshes among the
finer truths. Now either the parent-apes were capable of conferring
what they had not themselves — which is equivalent to extracting
the greater from the less — an absurdity on its very face, — or man
is not immortal by right or dint or reason of birth, and must, there-
fore, reach that condition, or attain that quality in some other way,
by some other method, through some other rule or Law ; that is,
children must have the quality conferred upon them at the very
instant of generation ; must acquire it during the gestative period ;
at some other point or moment of their career, or, finally, gain it in
some mysterious or miraculous manner not generally known or
fairly understood. But it is sheerly preposterous to believe, and
impossible in every way, that an immortal thing could, or can,
derive its death-defying nature from that which is itself death's
common prey and victim. To take a gallon from a river is easy ;
but a river from a gallon is impossible, yet not more so than to
predicate the immortality of the offspring of apes as a derivative

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quality. Yet I hold that a non-immortal human couple may
generate immortal offspring ; but then that comes of the magnetic
undtion and appulsion of the parents, who therein- impart the im-
mortalizing hias, which bias or tendency the subjects may cither
increase or destroy, by methods hereinafter explained and set forth.

Now let it be distinctly understood that we of Elt.is hold that the
general purpose of the material universe, the end for which it exists,
is the crystallization of mind, — the immortalization of Soul ; but it
does not follow that all human beings are death-proof, anv more
than that all the countless myriads of seeds produced every year in
the floral departments of nature are* endowed with reproductive
vitality ; for by far the greater number is wholly inert, while others
possess but weakling life, and even if they do germinate soon perish
and decay. Transfer the view to the animated world and it will be
seen that the union of the genders fails of one of its purposes — re-
produdion five thousand times for every single success, taking the
lower planes of life only ; while in the case of man, the union, so far
as offspring is concerned, fails nine hundred and ninety-nine times
for every single successfully implanted germ.

Again: Every healthy man — of course excluding libertines,
debauchees, habitual passional transgressors, and all injured persons
— in fair spirits generates from one-quarter of an ounce to an ounce
and a half daily of the three forms of fluid life — semen, prostatic
lymph, and the exudation of Cowper's Gland ; and even- normal
evacuation thereof will average half an ounce, containing, as I have
repeatedly demonstrated under a powerful microscope (one magni-
fying 35,000 times) from nineteen, the lowest number, to seven
hundred and eighty-three, zoospermes, every one of which was
capable of being developed in utcro to perfect human proportions.
Take the first case, and it is clear that eighteen must fail if one suc-
ceeds ; and seven hundred and eighty-two lose their chances if one
is fortunate enough to reach the ovum, and become incarnate in the
mother's bosom. But, the chances are billions to one against even
one of them effecting a safe lodgement; and we conclude that for
every successful human union there are not less than nineteen hun-
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if not to perpetual death, taking the adult population of the globe to
be about thirteen hundred millions. Another thought right here :
Nature selects the fittest to perpetuate species ; and the strongest
and most active zoospermes always override the weaker, and reach
the ovum, dooming, thereby, all the rest ; but it is clear that they
too must perish if there be no ovum to invite them. Precious few
ripe zoospermes reach the ripened ova, because deprived of the
element time, essential to their perfection, the consequence of which
is, that the great majority of people spring from unripe conditions,
and remain unripe from the cradle to the grave. I will tell you a
profound secret of generation, whereby the most magnificent results
in that line are producible at will. It is this : [Here follow the
glorious truths hinted at, but of such a holy, delicate, and private
nature as to be only impartable by words or ink. The publisher
hereof has no desire to exclusively retain it, and will, therefore, im-
part it to such noble souls as can appreciate it.*] These principles
alone can redeem the world, and clinch the rivets of Immortality.
Nature makes many attempts, but only few successes, and as it is
with trees and grasses, shrubs and flowers, so also is it with man-
kind. She tries, and tries hard, to immortalize a species, but only
succeeds in doing it for individuals ; and it is as easy to pass along
the streets and pick out those of Perduring souls from those whose
future is nihility, as it is to select a negro, Indian, Hottentot, or John
Chinaman from a crowd of Digger Indians. The truth is, that while
man, generally, is immortal, he is not universally so. The develop-
ment theory is good and true to a certain limit, but it at any stage or
rate is wholly incompetent to the tremendous achievement of
accounting for the existence of Soul. It needs improving ; and it is
astonishing that its chief priests have never even attempted to
demonstrate man's immortality, but rather have studiously evaded
contact with the troublesome question. Their theory fails them
from the moment they reach the psychical and metaphysical phases
of the grand subject. They take no cognizance of soul per se
whatever, because fully aware that they cannot give a reason why
Souls should be at all. The fact is, that immortalization could not,
* See the .Asian and Ansairetic Mysteries — Passim.

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cannot, be at all on their hypotheses. It is not inherited (of neces-
sity) ; it is not a gift, nor the result of fiat or miracle, but is a
process, an evolution, the principia of which arc as clear and plain
as one, two, three, or a, b, c.

Three brothers may live : one of them shall survive the process
of Death ; the second shall die forever, as that specific Person or
Individuality ; and the third one having once been possessed of the
elements and conditions of immortality may lose them and go out
like an extinguished taper or snuffed candle, by reason of his
repeated violation of either one of the fundamental or organic laws
of his nature ; while a fourth brother may nearly lose the great
boon, — if boon it be, — as some believe it, and millions of others
do not ; but this fourth brother, by prompt action, the instant
abandonment of all his pernicious, soul-wasting, mind-dwarfing
practices and habits ; the total and persistent avoidance of all in-
fractions of the fundamental love-laws of his being, and a steady,
manlv course and demeanor, may regain what he has so rashly
jeopardized and imperilled.

Some human infants are born immortalized, death-proof, and
indestructible from the moment they were conceived ; while others
require long years and terrible disciplines and experiences ere they
reach the coveted goal. For thousands of years the followers of
Gantama, the Budha, have considered what we call immortality as
an unmitigated curse, and continued existence as the most terrible
and tremendous evil that can possibly befall a human being. They
regarded Narwana, or the final cessation of existence, as the grand
desideratum, — the Ultima Thule of all possible human hope,
aspiration, and endeavor.

Dissatisfied with life, its pains and penalties, there are millions of
us who would gladly cease to be. [Time was when the penman of
these lines, disgusted with the sham Philosophies and Philosophers
of the age, actually tried to accept the doctrine of Budha ; but,
having reached the power — through the extraordinary means re-
counted in Part III. — of glimpsing the mystical states beyond, he
changed his faith, and raised his hopes, and all the more so by

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reason of his discovery that Nihilism and immortality alike are
reachable through the continued exercise of the human will.]

The discovery alluded to in the bracketed sentence is this : There
are two kinds of immortality: 1st. A man may survive death, and
escape the thrall of his physical form, and maintain his ethereal
state for a while ; yet if he shall not have received the proper and
essential love-impulsion before birth, or else have subsequently
developed love, he is as certainly doomed to go out, fade, dwindle,
go back to the monadal state, as that gravitation is a law. He will
be like the huge soap-bubble at the end of a pipe-bowl, which only
requires to be let alone in order to grow smaller by degrees until it
is again all within the rim of the bowl, and then bursts forever
beyond the possibility of reparation.

Since the advent of the modern phase of Spiritualism, there have
been thousands of people who have sought to commune with their
deceased acquaintances, but wholly unavailingly. Why? Simply
because their friends thus sought have ceased to exist. 2d. A man
may have received the proper impulsion before birth, or have gained
it afterwards, and he may enter the ethereal lands with, to use a
common but very expressive phase — such a good send-off as to be
able to continue on forever. The two kinds of immortality may be
likened unto this : one is as a seed planted in good rich soil, but
only an inch or two deep, with a hard pan of solid, arid rock
beneath it, which defies the roots to spread ; wherefore, that plant
looks well and promises much for a while, but it soon withers and
is seen no more forever. The other seed, planted in the same soil
with plenty of water and root-room, grows gayly, waxes strong,
spreads, blooms, flourishes, triumphs, and perpetuates itself; yet the
seeds were alike, and so was the soil.

There are, also, two kinds of Nihilism: 1st. That of the brute
and the brute homos, or brutal-man — both of whom are doomed to
sudden and total extinction — a cessation of being as complete as
that of exploded powder, or extinguished light, which, as powder
or light, can exist no more forever ; and, 2d. A truly human
nihility, rest, divine Narwana, — a state infinitely harder to reach
than any phase of adtive immortality, whether transient or per-

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manent ! — the man dies with a celestial strain or note of divinest
harmony and seraphic melody ringing sweetest music through every
avenue, vault, and chamber of his being. Now observe, and mark
well this definition of Narwana ; On earth the longest duration of
any single musical note never exceeds a few moments ; but this
Note of which I speak, this Sunburst of celestial music, this instan-
taneous rapture lasts unchangingly Forever, and FOREVER!
It is unaltered, the sound, the music, the man, eternally the same,
without an interval to suggest even the idea of monotone ! It is an
infinite melody, struck on an Eternal harp, enduring forever and
aye !

Such is the Narwana of the good ! The other, the Nihility of the
evil and imperfect. Thus death has three Gates : the Iron one
opens on Night — total extinclion ; the Silver one, on Immortal
fields ; the golden one on — What Gods may well aspire to ! — if we
are to believe what lordly and loftiest Seership tells us — and I am
one who thus believes.

I, within the year 1S73. met people whom I knew were under the
ban of the bad Nihility. Elsewhere, in the volume of which this is
a chapter, an account is given of a hoary-headed " man," of nearly
seventy years, who sought, and expected, to prolong his own mis-
erable and wretched life by absorbing that of a third young girl, — -
one of sixteen years, — he having already performed the burial-
service over two prior victims ; that old man is doomed to absolute
extinction, unless saved by repentance, physical regeneration, and
the growth of affection within him. It was not passion or lust only
that urged him to prolong his own existence at the cost of others ;
to stretch out his wasted years by the awful crime of drinking the
young life, and wrecking a child of so few summers; but the con-
scious and unconscious want of love was what urged him on to the
deadly, selfish deed ; he felt the need of the great base upon which
immortality must be builded, or not at all. Many such as he there
are.

But it does not follow that the monadal point, spark, or germ,
constituting, underlying, and animating the old lecher, and others
of his ilk ; the detestable crew in whom lust reigns supreme ; the

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infamous " Hullites" of the year I873 ; and the still more infamous
followers of the example of the thrice-dyed scoundrels who ravished
young children, and were burnt for it, — it does not follow, I repeat,
that the germs, or monadal points, basing their existence, will, at
their demise, cease to be forever ; but they will only cease to be
those particularly villainous and vicious personalities ; while the
germs basing their being may appear and reappear here again and
again, clothing themselves with new elements, and, of course, for
that reason, running new careers. No one can go to the heavens
until he shall have gotten all of good the earth or earths can give
him ; and not till he has undergone the full ordeal and disciplines
incident to material life can he reach that golden supra-immortality
whereof modern thinkers, outside the pale of us few, have never even
yet dreamed, imagined, or surmised.

Nothing organically imperfect can ever enter and remain in the
superlative and ineffable land of pure Souls. The imperfect must
go back to the domain of chemics and matter ; nor can they, with
hope, knock at the doors of the golden temples of Eternity, except
they be full, fair, pure, free, and good, even though their discipline
extends through a billion of ages ; and the greater the gifts or talent,
genius or innate power one has, the heavier shall be the price paid
for all accorded unto him. It may be well and truly said that there
can be no peace in high places, — for storms, hail, and tempests,
hurricanes, fierce lightnings and crashing thunders play and break
around the mountain's brow ; and he who would win the game of
triumphant immortality must do so by loving well and much.

But to return to the subject : Darwin and his co-thinkers saw
clearly that a different genesis of man than the usually assigned
one was imperatively demanded in presence of the startling discov-
eries constantly being made, and they adopted the theory of selec-
tion, and, so far as externals went, were right ; but instead of
immortal souls, originating in, among, from, or by, the Simiadae, it
was only the soul-case, the mere physical body, the outer form that
was thus developed, thus grew up through the slowing ages, while
the inside, the works of the grand watch, the imperial soul itself,
originated otherwise and elsewhere.

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Now by soul is here meant the thinking, conscious, knowing,
hating, loving, aspiring principle — that mysterious something about
whose origin, nature, perdurability or co-perishability with the
body, so much has been said, sung, and written, until philosophers
generally have got by the ears, while waging the fiercest of all intel-
lectual battles. I propose herein to settle the controversy, or at least
to indicate the clear road to such settlement, being perfectly confi-
dent and conscious that herein will be found the only possible
method and route to the final adjudication. It is hard for a true
thinker to have much patience with those whose highest conception
of Soul and Spirit is that of a rarefied gaseous ether evolved from
gross substance as light and heat radiate from glowing coals of fire
in a wintry grate ; because such a conception is wholly untrue,
seeing that no possible refinement of solid substance or matter can
ever approach the state of even the magnetic yEth of Space, much
less that , diviner thing of which we are treating. It is clear that
matter does not think ; Soul does, therefore Soul is one thing,
matter quite another, requiring a bridge to span the gulf between
them, and that bridge is some subtle form of magnetism ; nor can
Soul be evolved from it by any process of rarefaction or refinement ;
for Soul it was from all past Eternity ; soul it is, and such it will
remain to all possible eternities to come ; while matter, either in its
solidified or condensed, or in its far-particled or fluid states, will
remain matter until all its life is exhausted, and Deity shall have
become senile and decrepit from the weight of Time and lapse of
hoary centuries !

We know, can know, but little concerning God, notwithstanding
so many people claim to be quite intimate acquaintances, and on
familiar terms with Him ! yet we have every reason to believe the
Ineffable One to be pure Soul ; and I, the writer hereof, so believe ;
and furthermore, that he is as A Sun, emitting countless billions of
beams and rays every instant — and that each contains myriads of
scintillas, every one of which is an embryon. or soul-germ, capable
of development into perfect man or womanhood !

While God is clear Soul, matter is pure body ; one is a unit,
unparticlcd itself, yet emitting and irradiating, besides the countless

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scintillant sparks or monads just alluded to — a glory-sphere,
aroma, aura, a portion of his divine Life, which is the breath of life
to all these monads, and all else that exists within the radius of the
universe. Soul, like God, is homogeneous, unparticled, indivisible,
necessarily death-proof, in itself considered, and we conclude there-
fore Eternal, albeit no one can tell what "eternal" means, for we
cannot clearly grasp a thousand years, much less millions of — ages !
Matter, on the contrary, is heterogeneous, divisible ; its Spirit is
change, and that is the quintessence of Death itself.

Erewhile I spoke of the menstruum wherein floated the rain of
soul-germs, and I gave it a name. I now give it another, LOVE ! —
which is the life of All, — the celestial influence of the Eternal One.
In beasts, apes, et ccztera, this viviflc force is diffused. In some
human beings it is condensed and crystallized. In some it is not.
The first is immortal. The latter not so. Beasts, apes, Low-grade
people, have instincts, attachments, magnetic attractions, and affect-
ion: — Man, — true men — alone have love! Beasts die. Immor-
tal man lives on ; but if man be more beast than human he must
share their fate and lot, and as that specific individual dies out, and
the divine spark, losing its consciousness, escapes, and once more
floats freely i' th' air, until God once more breathes into some man's
nostrils, and it again becomes not a quiescent, but a living, active
human soul ! If he be more man than animal he may challenge
Death, defy ruin, laugh at destruction, snap his fingers in the face of
the grave, and ride triumphant and victorious o'er the mazy wreck
of worlds and countless starry universes !

But, as I have already hinted, there is such a thing as being ultra-
human, not only in the line of Narwana, but in quite another
direction. If a man reaches that mystic plane, then he comes
beneath the sway and rule of supra-human, and ultra Law, and
attains a destiny better, greater, higher than is afforded by the
ordinary immortality, which gives him so much care and trouble,
and for which he so painfully yearns and sighs !

What the destiny, state, condition, better something is, I am not
yet ready to inform the world — but may leave it for the Brother-
hood of Eulis to impart.

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There are limitless regions of unexplored thought toward which
that fast-increasing multitude, who think as I do, push ; nor do we,
as do many of the supcrnalists, — though not all, — confine our-
selves to the mere outside, /. c. soul-facls of the universe. We
believe a few things as do they, but not all that they do, for which
they rate us soundly. They rejoice in the physical demonstration of
the reappearing dead, but are not quite sure always that the mani-
festing powers are really their departed ones, for they have not, as
have we, the means of establishing identities through an unmistaka-
ble agency alluded to elsewhere. Vast numbers of, but not all, the
Spiritualists concern themselves mainly abo,ut raps, tips, quarreling,
scandal, mutual vituperation, backbiting, libel, misrepresentation,
" Social Freedom " — things of earth ; while we occupy ourselves in
actual research and inquiry into what happens to man after his
flight over the river of death to that mystic state alluded to ; to
Narwana and Nihility ; or to the upper spaces of the blue Empyr-
ean. At and across the borders of death-land, we strike hands
with all the Spiritualists, and there part company with some of them,
because we seek to know more ; they are content to drink fourth-
class mental vinegar, acrid as gall, flavored hell-aciduously, and call
it wine ; while we quaff* the waters of life on the very brink of the
mighty River.

Just so far do we go with the cold, hard", dry, materialistic, un-
cheering Darwinism — a system which lands us in the grave, there
to stay until we turn to grass, trees, beans, pineapples, or bananas —
according to the locality where death overtakes and trips us up ; but
at that point we separate from Darwin completely, — because the
system ignores Soul altogether. We are not wholly content with
the modern spiritual dodtrines, seeing that they fail to fill the great
bill — of human want ; and because it is all head and no heart ; has
no warmth, fervor, ardor, religion, about it; not because it fails to
make men better, but solely because it affirms and accepts the
development theory as opposed to the genesic account of man's
origin, yet fails to tell us how, when, where, or by what agencies
immortality became a fixed fa6t. It accepts the dogma, but gives
no valid or adequate reason why. It originates no thought, but

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boldly borrows and appropriates the mental stock of others. In all
lands it depends upon, and bases its faith on media, whom it teaches
man to accept as oracles, yet no two of whom tell the same story,
or see facts alike. George, Peter, and Thomas, communicating
through Medium A, in latititude 16, have no recollection of com-
municating yesterday with the same party through medium B, in
latitude 17-30. We, in our investigations of the recondite, occult
and mystical ; — ay, even in matters of mere finance, such as specu-
tion, buying, selling, contracting, or even in purchasing tickets in a
lottery, prefer the better agency of a surer power — because it never
lies, falters, prevaricates, and it ever tells the same story of the same
thing, to all alike, no matter what the latitude or longitude may be !

But stop we here ? Oh, no ! for by the same instrumentality we
enter the Slumber of Sialam, and with keen glance and quickened
consciousness, scan, and leisurely survey realties denied to " Media,"
and with sure and rapid gaze trace the awful and majestic rush of
hurricanes of glowing galaxies, — the wintry storm of falling worlds !
— lamps of God flickering in the Vault ! starry eyes glimpsing down
into the Deeps ! — pregnant earths waiting patiently to be delivered
of the Humanity gestating in their bosoms.

Seers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern, alike, inform the world
that the supernal country is peopled by all grades of persons from
the low and brutal barbarian to the high and polished civilizee ;
which, if true, proves that intellectual power and capacity is not a
passport thither, nor a perquisite of immortality ; for there are
myriads — nqt merely of people — but of armies of savage races,
tribes, and nations dwelling in that starry land.

Moral goodness is not the touchstone or key either ; for no amount
of that alone will warrant success, or prove the " Open Sesame " to
the farther gate of the grave, nor be potent enough to ensure a man's
safe arrival at the golden portals of disbodied glory ; for of all men-
dacious people ; of all pullers of the longbow ; all perfected liars —
on the authority of those who claim to know about it — the disem-
bodied ones are champions, able to give long odds, and then heavily
discount all embodied falsifiers from Judas Iscariot, and Peter, who
denied his Lord, down to the level of — who you like. It is not

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race, nation, or complexion, that determines a title to supra-mortal
existence; for there are people of all kinds there, even "Niters"
arid Sangs JWelees, —lots of them too, vivat ! — and the dark-hned
Southern and Oriental races and peoples outnumber the Northern
and fair ones in the ratio of about twelve thousand to one hundred ;
besides excelling them in the same degree in mind, love, knowledge,
force of character, and power of soul. The white Yankees, as a
general rule, occupy, according to one A. J. Davis, a large tract
known as " Diakka-land ; " while but few dark-hucd beings can be
found there, because they constitute the population of the heavens
proper, — a long remove from the stormy realm and imperfect
people alluded to and named above, albeit myriads of the Light-
hued races help to people these choice abodes of spirit-land.

It is not age or sex either ; because, if reliance can be placed upon
the statements of investigators — thousands of infants and people of
both genders are continually demonstrating that they still live —
and lie ! Nor is it talent, genius, or social status. What, then,
really constitutes the passport to the ethereal worlds beyond and
above the earth we live on? Reply: All who return evince,
express, and counsel love ! and so confirm the faith of us,
who hold that, and that alone, to be the great sine qua non, the
grand desideratum, without which it were as impossible to survive
death as it would be to shoot out the centre of Donati's comet with
a pocket-pistol ! This establishes one pregnant fact, viz., All who
are deathless have love at the core ! It, alone, is the life-boat in
which man sails o'er sounding seas to triumphant existence beyond
the grave ! Whence it assuredly, ay ! and remorselessly follows
that the*y who waste love, waste soul [see further on], and will
assuredly dwindle back to his or her pre-existent monad life or state,
there and thus to abide the chances ; patiently waiting for an oppor-
tunity to begin a better and a fairer race on earth toward the
glittering, golden, sunny, shining shores beyond !

How large the number of those who have written and preached
about the immortality of the Soul ; and yet not one of the whole
vast host, with a single exception, has ever attempted to give a
scientific reason why man is endowed with the power of death-

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survival, for which reason I attack the problem here, and for the
first time in the world's literary history give the reasons why,
enlarging somewhat upon the theory advanced years since, from
the same source, in the book now called " Soul : The Soul World,
and Homes of the Departed," then known as " Dealings with the
Dead ; " and I now proceed to state the argument ; and start with
the propositions, that : — No Apes are Immortal : Man is an im-
proved Ape ; therefore man is not immortal — by reason of descent.
But some men are immortal ; they ascended from Ape-ancestors ;
therefore apes possessed the elements which, in man, conspired to
produce immortality. No apes being immortal, or endowed with
death-proofness, it follows that his Simian ancestry could not have
endowed him with such qualities. Then where did he get them, or
it? and How? If he obtained it subsequent to birth, may he not
lose it? If his origin is purely mortal, whence his immortality? A
stick must have two ends. If man begins as a soul, what hinders
him from coming to a full stop ; a final cessation ; for commence-
ment not only implies, but inexorably means, End also ? If he is
death-proof in part, or totally, what is the rule and law underlying
the tremendous fact ? Is it gainable ? losable ? If either, why?

Now all of these are fair questions, worthy of fair reply. In the
first place, there are what, in one sense, I may call apparitional or
phantom men ; individuals who are only so in seeming ; who have
little mind, less " Soul," and none of the higher, nobler traits, which
we associate with the terms Man and Manhood. Such may have
been born so ; or, as in civilized life, may have worn away the
jewel, and deprived themselves of the very first essential to the
attainment of supra-mundane existence ; people who talk about,
but will never even glimpse the " Summer Lands," or scent their
blossoms afar off, because they have wasted their substance, and
steadily declined from the first, exhausted soul, spirit, body, there-
fore Love, consequently are not true Men, but mere phantoms, who
at best become but the sentient vehicles for the exploitations of dis-
embodied wags.

Some, so far as immortality is concerned, die in bringing forth
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the ability to build up soul is forever and forever lost ; they having
injured the heart-valves, kidneys, supra-renal capsules, prostate
gland, and seminal vessels, rendering it wholly impossible for them
either to propagate their kind, equal their former mental efforts, or
elaborate the electro-ethereal body without which immortality can
not be. There are very many in our midst who never received the
proper congenital impulsion ; acquired it since birth ; or who have
lost or wasted the power by too faithful worship at the altars of
Mammon, Venus, or Onan. But it is gratifying to know that such
even may escape nihility, and gain enduring life beyond the grave ;
aye, and by stern resolve and persistent endeavor, aspire to the sub-
lime destiny reserved for noble souls, — that magnificent future
awaiting the choice spirits of mankind — the Peers, princes, and
Powers of the starry skies !

Soul, per se, I hold to be Eviternal, Sempiternal, and Eternal,
just as is that Supreme Deity whom we believe to be, not because
His existence is demonstrable, but because we cannot help it, for
God is Soul, so is man — existere ergo sum I It has been from Now
to all past Eternity ; is, and probably will be, from Now to all Eter-
nities to come, and its one orbit is the grand Eternal year. Of
course there will come a moment in the far-off aeons when matter
will have yielded up all its electric, magnetic, and ethereal life and
essences, which it will have contributed to form the electric bodies
of the Imperial hosts of the dead ; when the last monad will have
been incarnated, and no more new souls will be launched into being,
and the mighty armies will migrate into space ; the refuse of Matter
prepare to again renew its forms in loftier moulds ; the second act
of the transcendent drama be ended, the third begun, and the true and
real purpose and meaning of the vast universe begin to be realized
and understood — as not Now !

Soul is an Empire, or rather a Republic of States with a central,
controlling, governing power. So is Deity — a sun radiant through
all space, yet central at Home, just as man lives all over his body,
but mostly in a tiny point at the centre of his brain. Deity is con-
scious at all points ; but supremely and infinitely so at the centre of
that vast Brain whereof stellar galaxies are but tiny convolutions.

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and astral nebulae mere nervous fibrilia ! Soul is a radiant, invisible,
crystallized globe of white Fire and Light located topographically,
so to speak, in the middle of the head ; and metaphysically, at the
centre both of the conscious being, and that other existence of which
we see the effects, but are not, and never will be, conscious.

All things whatever emit a sphere, aura, air, aroma, or atmos-
phere peculiar to themselves. So does man ; so does Deity, and, as
said before, His nervous fluid, or sphere, is Love, which, like all
other fluids, is governed by Wave-motion, not linear. Proof: We
are suffused with love, not merely penetrated by it. When a love is
sharp and cutting, beware of it, for it is electrical passion, not mag-
netic affection. Love is the effluence of God's body ; upon it souls
feed, for Love is their life, and they derive sustenance from it' in two
ways : First, from the y£th-Love pervading the Empyreal Vault ;
that universe-life which flows out from God. Second, upon that
fabricated by, and supplied it through, the nervous and pelvic or
genital apparatus of the human frame ; for that entire organic system
of each gender is but a mighty, powerful, intricate, yet wonderful
chemical laboratory and electro-magnetic battery, whose function
and office it is — giving us pleasure, comfort, peace, and joy, while
performing the strangely esoteric task — to elaborate matter's high-
est, purest, subtlest essences from food and drink, and absorbed im-
ponderables, and send it to the central brain, — Material whereof
Soul fashions the deathless lining of the fleshly frame, the electric
body within and beneath that of clay, and which it will wear in the
spaces where gross substances are unknown. Now it is easy to see
that this great end and aim of Nature may be, and is, defeated in a
variety of ways, some of which I will point out, and thus this mono-
graph may be the means of saving many a being from ruin, utter,
total, eternal, and complete. And first : It is clear that all diseases,
injuries, disorders, or misuse of the sexual apparatus have a direct
injurious effect upon the soul, and may, and do, often bar it from
building the silver-hued body intended for eternity, and may thus
doom one to Nonenity — the equivalent of complete Annihilation !
Why ? Because no mechanic, not even Nature, can perform perfect
work without good materials and tools ; and if the Prostate and

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Cowper's glands ; the uterus, ovaria, and supra-renal capsules ; the
testes and vaginal fibrilia — which are the implements with which
the spirit-building is accomplished — are not sound, active, healthful,
normal, non-inflamed, the soul can no more erect its desired elect-
rical body than a good brick-house can be built without mortar ; for
such a house would tumble in the first gale, while the touch of death
would crumble the half-formed spirit into atoms finer than sparks of
Light ! Thus it is literally true that everv excess and debauch adds
a nail to a man's coffin ; but, alas ! in more senses than one ! It is
from the source named, alone, that the soul obtains the materials
and elements whereof to construct an ethereal body — from the
finest essences of matter held in absolute coalescence by the highest
law, and, therefore, proof against death, division, decay, or dissolu-
tion— within its fleshly one, by processes analagous to that of gesta-
tion— and completes it as the vehicle whose true use only begins
subsequent to the facl of physical death ! The problem is Solved !

In my day I have encountered thousands of Lust-fired, passion-
driven human beings of both sexes who I am sure were quite as
pitiable as blamable ; and I made such cases an especial study for
many long years, in very many lands, the result of which is that I
know, with more than mathematical certainty, that it is utterly im-
possible that such beings, as those described a few lines above, or
the old man whose criminal longing for the lives and vitality of
young girls I have elsewhere alluded to, can by any possibility have
been rightly formed en utero. There was something lacking : too
much mortar ; too few bricks ; nor did they receive the proper im-
mortalizing impulse before birth, or have acquired it since. Such
beings are semi-conscious of their lack of elemental soul ; that it
was and is attainable ; that Love was a grand Fact, but not theirs ;
that it alone could satisfy their longings, and confer the boon they
craved; that young girls were generally over-full of soul, life,
animation, vivacity, and were easily drainable ; that magnetism is a
soul-conveying vehicle or fluid ; and they rushed headlong to the
conclusion that possession of such would, in some nnsterious way,
cause the young life to pass to the old frame, renew it. and conter
upon them what themselves had not — the power of death-survival.

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Such beings — for Men they are not — have a secret craving for, and
sense of lacking of, the magnetic unction and inner power which
alone is the assurance of ethereal life beyond the grave ; and this
half-conscious sense constitutes the impelling spur and motive to the
unhallowed wish, and the diabolic and detestable crimes it leads to.

Furthermore : My investigations with all the powers at my com-
mand, and facilities accordant, led me to the irresistible conclusion,
and deeply solemn religious belief, nay, absolute knowledge, that
no confirmed Onanist, or correspondent transgressor of the other
gender, is immortal, for reasons set forth elsewhere herein, and
which cannot be repeated in this chapter, except to observe that the
mechanical, vegetable, tree-like life of the insane from that abom-
inable and most accursed cause, absolutely demonstrates the lapse
and loss of Soul itself, leaving nothing but a mere humanesque
automaton behind to show the world what once was, but is no
longer, an immortal human being ! Familiarity with, and investiga-
tion of Spiritualism, proves beyond all cavil, that while thousands
of all other sorts of debauchees claim to reappear and manifest, yet
that not one single Onanist has ever been known to demonstrate.
They are Dead! — just as all such transgressors must and will
inevitably die — soul and body, unless they turn right about and
begin the salvatory life as recommended in this and other works by
the same author.

Attraction, gravitation, selection, are regnant and unbending laws
alike of Soul, Spirit, Mind, and Matter. Oil and water wont mix,
neither can the floating germs or monads be attracted to, or be in-
haled by, any non-human being now, because that possibility exists
no more. Apply the law just stated, and you will see the reason
why ; for they can only be breathed in by, and come to active, con-
scious life within, brains of the very highest bimana.

The Simian progenitors of man did not endow him with immor-
tality ; but, by natural, which is sexual, selection (of the finest and
fairest by the strongest, bravest, and most intelligent) , at length pro-
duced beings a great deal finer, superior, higher, better, than them-
selves. Their parental affection enabled gestation to advance a step
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affections, in their young. "Cowpcr's" and the prostate glands
were developed, enlarged, perfected ; as were the testes, ovaria,
uterus, and nervous systems of the females; and. for the first time,
an organization existed of such potent, magnetic, and chemical
power, that these organs in the course of generations — still by
selection — were enabled to evolve and elaborate that which coalesced
with the animal life-principle, elevating that specimen of the pre-
human, until it was enabled to inhale monads of the strictly human
type. Thus it is true that God breathed into his — her, its. their,
nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living, conscious soul,
which, being competent to evolve the finer essences, at once immor-
talized the being !

Now take notice. Magnetism is the power of man. It is of two
kinds, physical and mental, or of the body and the soul. One
may abound in the first, and have nothing whatever of the other,
else would we expect to see men of strong build, firm health, any
amount of physical, magnetic plethora, capable of being fathers to
the very finest specimens of the human race ; but such is notoriously
not the fact, but quite contrary ; for they only who abound in mental,
emotional, soul-magnetism, are capable of generating a superior
breed of human beings. Again, Magnetic strength is one thing,
magnetic unction quite another. The first is material ; the second
psychal ; the results of one are superior physical specimens of the
species : those of the second, mental and moral giants ; and in the
scale of soul-weight puny people, with large spiritual souls and
magnetic unction, will produce children a myriad times superior to
the other. Bear this in mind, for on it hangs the solution of the
problem before me ; for if the breather have not love-unction suf-
ficient to plant the germ of immortality, bv bequeathing strong love-
power to his offspring, how can that child have a starting-point
wherefrom to go toward the land of spirits? or force to elaborate the
electrical body essential thereto ? And if he does not then endow
his babe, at death its soul will dwindle back to the monadal state ;
its present identity and individuality be lost, and the monad will
escape into the spacial yEth. to be again breathed in under more
favorable auspices, until at last success crowns its efforts in the

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process of immortalization. This often, very often, occurs ; and
these reincarnate souls frequently partially awaken to a vague, dim
sense of their then pre-existent states ; and this explains in a few-
lines what has been an insoluble problem all along the ages, from
Budha to our own day ; and it is the only satisfactory solution ever
given to the world.

Were Darwinism all true, and man merely a developed Simian,
there could be no such thing as destiny or Fate. But there is, and
men are cast to a certain lot and career as positively as that they are
born, and are compelled by a resistless power to move in given lines
and grooves, hopelessly, and are as certainly and solidly bound to
the wheel of a peculiar fortune, for good or ill, as was the fabled
Ixion. Some are doomed to perpetual strife, struggle, poverty,
hopeless effort, from the nipple to the grave ; they fail in all things,
and disappointment, disaster, ruin, and defeat stalk by their sides,
turn whithersoever they will or may. Love, wealth, fame, comfort,
rest, joy, happiness, success, all elude them, and if apparent
triumphs come, defeat invariably ends the game. Other people do
or say with impunity things that are sure to bring down storms of
obloquy and pain upon their devoted heads, and sorrow and agony
is their lot forever on the earth. On the other hand there are those
exactly opposite ; whose every step is a triumph, and whose touch
transforms everything to gold, money, fame ; success flows in upon
them like a rolling tide, and they revel in delight without a shadow,
till life on earth closes on them in a blaze of wealth and glory ; yet
these people are not half as able, good, noble, true, as the other
class. Now all the Darwinism on earth cannot account for this, yet
the solution is easy. The successful class are those who are em-
bodied for the first time, and all their ranks can not furnish a first-
class man. The others, the failers, have undergone prior existences
on earth, and are either paying penalties for former transgressions,
or are undergoing ripening disciplines preparatory to special sun-
bursts of usefulness, joy, and glory on the further shores of time.
Weigh a soul of each class in the scale of actual worth, and the
Failers touch ground while the victors on earth kick the beam ; and
one of the former is of more real value to earth, life, God, and the

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universe, than scores of the others. It is as the Atlantic to a brook-
let.

Children begotten without love are not necessarily immortal ; but
a proper culture of their better parts may easily make them so.
They who do generate offspring by loveless marriage commit a
crime against nature and the Deity ; for all human beings have a
right to receive the immortalizing impulse at the moment of their
generation ; and also to that culture and training thereafter which
alone can make assurance doubly sure in respect to this, the most
important of all human matters.

They who become parents under Love's sweet influence at once
give the required impulsion to the new being ; enable it to survive
death's ordeal, and help God Himself to empeople the starry homes
of the dead !

It follows that the low, harsh, crash, selfish, hard, crusty, dry,
ungenerous people are not entitled to, nor without ]'cry strenuous
effort at self-redemption from the lot of beasts, can attain, immor-
tality, much less the other and vaster glory reserved for greater souls,
mainly those who, themselves abounding in love, yet languish unto
death without return.

Of course a child receiving Love's impulsion will ride triumphant
over death's dark tides, even though its bodily eyes never open upon
or glimpse this world of ours !

Many and many a full-grown man or woman, stepping into the
grave at ripeness of years, only step out of it again as dwindled
monads ; and when reborn they too have vague, shadowy reminis-
cences of the, to them, foretime. They who are loveless arc no
more immortal than the ox which falls beneath the butcher's axe ;
while, per contra, mvriads of savages, Indians, blacks, and the un-
couth of all races, ages, and climes, attain to immortality, because
of the love and love-generating power within them ; for that alone
lies at the foundation, and is the sole process of its attainment — or
Immortalization.

In conclusion : Let all who wish for immortality learn to Love,
and cherish the better feelings of the human heart ; take good care
to preserve, regain, and cultivate affectional, amative, and psychical
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Health ! Where the nature is injured take immediate means to
restore it ; thus the point will be gained, and goodness reign. Let
no one despair ; for while there's life there's hope ! and, however
dark the outlook, don't for a moment forget that God still lives !
that the darkest hour is just before day ; that the densest clouds have
silvery linings, and that, though love-lorn and wretched, friendless,
isolate, and alone, still

We may be happy yet !

PART I I I.
CONCERNING SOUL-SIGHT AND MAGIC MIRRORS.

I add this chapter to the present work for two reasons : i st. To
gratify the hundreds of correspondents who, for five years past, have
pressed me for something on the points involved ; and, 2d. To give,
in a concise and condensed printed form, information which it
would be wholly impossible for me to write out for even one-fiftieth
of those who ask it of me. This and " Seership" contain all that
is necessary to be known upon that occult subject. But first I quote
the subjoined article : —

The far east must ever lead the world in the practice of necromancy. All the
skill and mechanical ingenuity of the most expert prestidigitateurs of Europe or
America cannot produce a single exhibition which will compare with the feats of
the commonest Indian juggler. The Japanese have taught us the greater part
of the slight-of-hand illusion which is now paraded before staring audiences in
this country and in Europe ; but the necromancy of Japan is as boys' play com-
pared with the mysterious jugglery of the nether and farther Indies, and especially
of Siam. In the latter country there is a royal troupe of jugglers, who perform
only at the funerals and coronations of the kings, and then only in the presence
of the nobles of Siam, or those initiated into the mysteries of the religion of the
country. These necromancers do not perform for money, are of noble blood,
and it is seldom that a European sees even their faces. Last year, however, an
English surgeon, who was in the country, performed a somewhat remarkable cure
upon a princess, who had been treated in vain by all the physicians of the country.
Great was the gratitude of the Siamese court at the doctor's performance ; and,
as a reward commensurate with his great service, he was permitted to witness
the performance of Tepada's royal troupe of jugglers. This exhibition was
given in the sacred temple of Juthia, on the ltith of November, the occasion
being the coronation of the young king. The surgeon's narrative, stripped of a
large amount of description, and materially condensed, is given below : —

"in the temple or juthia.

" Woun-Tajac called me very early, and lie and his father's cousin, a jolly, fat
old gentleman, called Soondatch-Tam-Bondur, set to work to prepare me for wit-
nessing the performances in the great pagoda. A white turban was wound
around my head; my skin was stained the color of new bronze; my mustache
ruthlessly trimmed down, blacked, and waxed till it had the proper Malayan
dejected droop and tenuity; my eyebrows blacked; and native garments fur-
nished me, over which I wore the long white robes which, I was told, were

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peculiar to the ' initiated.' The pagoda of Juthia is more celebrated for its
sacredness than its size, or the splendor of its architecture. It is, nevertheless,
a building of some very striking features. It is situated without the city, upon
a broad and commanding terrace, elevated considerably above the level of the
river-plains. It is approached from the city by a long, brick-paved avenue, wide,
straight, and imposing.

" ADMIT ONE.

" Soondatch and "Woun-Tajac, each holding me by an arm, now directed me
toward one of the doorways of the temple. It was guarded by two men, with
drawn swords, and very fierce aspect, who stood in front of a heavy drapery of
red cloth that concealed the interior of the temple from outside eyes. At a triple
password these men admitted my companions, but crossed their swords before my
breast. Soondatch whispered in the ear of the elder of the two; he started,
gazed at me intently, but did not withdraw his barrier. Woun showed him a
signet. He took it, and reverently placed it upon his forehead; yet still he
refused to admit me. There was a controversy between the doorkeeper and my
companions ; and, at last, the elder guardian whistled shrilly upon a bone-pipe
tied about his neck with a strand of silk. A tall man suddenly appeared, I could
not see from whence. He was middle-aged, athletic, and had a most peculiar,
cunning, self-possessed look of person and intelligence.

" ' TEPADA ! '

exclaimed both of my companions at once ; but the man, who was naked, except
for a breech-clout, took no notice of them. He put hi* band heavily, but not un-
kindly, upon my breast, gave me a piercing, long look, and said in excellent
French, * Are you a brave man? ' — ' Try me ! ' I said. Instantly, without another
word, he bandaged my eyes with a part of the long white robe I wore ; he
snapped his fingers suddenly, whispering in my ears, 'Not a word, for your life ! '
and the next moment I found myself seized in the hands of several strong men,
and borne some distance along a devious way, ascending and descending several
times. At last I was put down ; the bandage was quietly removed ; and I found
myself squatted on a stone-floor, between Soondatch and Woun-Tajac, who, with
bowed heads, and faces partly shrouded in their white robes, squatted like statues
of Buddha, their knees and shins close to the ground, their haunches resting
upon their heels, their hands spread palms downward upon their knees, their eyes
deflected, and a look of devout reverence and abstracted meditation in their
countenances. The light was dim to my unaccustomed eyes, but all around, as
far as I could see, were white-robed worshippers crouched in the same attitude
of silent reverence.

"a weird scene.

" By degrees, as my eyes grew used to the dim gloom, I began to look about
me. The place was a square vault, so lofty that I could not see the ceiling, and
I should say not less than a hundred paces long and wide. All around the sides
rose gigantic columns, carved into images of Buddha always, yet with a thousand
variations from the central plan, a thousand freaks of fancy, a thousand gro-
tesqueries, through which shone, the more effectively for the departures, the
eternal calm, the stagnant, imperturbed ecstasy of apathy of Buddha's remarkable
face, with the great pendant ears, and the eyes looking out beyond you into the
supreme wistlessness of Nieban — a face that once seen can never be forgotten.
By degrees I came to see the plan of this evidently subterranean vault, and to
look with wonder upon the simple grandeur of its massive architecture, which
was severely plain, except so far as the carving of the great columns went. At
the farthest end of the hall, resting against the columns, was a raised dais or plat-
form, covered with red cloth. This stage was raised between three and four feet
above the floor of the vault, and was about thirty-five or forty feet deep and one
hundred and fifty broad. Behind it a curtain of red cloth hung down from the
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where the pulpit of the orchestra in a Greek theatre would he, -was a tripod-
shaped altar, with a broad censer upon it, in which was burning a scented oil,
mixed with gums and aromatic woods, that diffused through the whole vault a
pungent, sacramental odor.

"THE OPENING CEREMONIES.

"Suddenly there was a wild and startling crash of barbaric music from under
the stage — gongs, drums, cymbals, and horns — and with wonderful alertness,
and a really indescribable effect, a band of naked men came out from behind the
curtains, bearing each a scented torch in his hand, climbed the columns with the
agility of monkeys, and lighted each a hundred lamps, strung from the base
almost of the columns sheer up to the apex of the vault, which, I could now see,
rose in a lofty dome, that doubtless pierced far up into the interior of the pagoda
proper. The illumination from these multitudinous lamps was very brilliant;
too soft to be dazzling or overpowering, yet so penetrating and pervasive that one
missed nothing of the perfect light of the day. The din of the horrible orchestra
increased, and a band of old women came out from under the stage singing (or
rather shrieking out) the most diabolical chant that I ever heard. The red
curtuin fluttered a little, there was a dull thud, and there, right before us, along-
side tlie censer, stood a very old man, but wrinkled, with long hair and beard,
white as cotton fleece. His finger-nails were several inches long, and his sunken
jaws were horribly diversified with two long teeth, yellow and ogreish. lie was
naked, except for a breech-cloth, and his shrunken muscles shone with oil. Ho
took the censer in his hands, and blew his breath into it until the flame rose
twenty feet high, red and furious; then, with a sudden, jerking motion, he tossed
the burning oil toward the crowd of squatting spectators. It shot toward them a
broad sheet of terrible flame; it descended upon them a shower of roses and
japonicas, more than could have been gathered in a cart. Turning the censer
bottom upward, he spun it for a minute upon the point of his long thumb-nail,
then flung it disdainfully away toward the audience. It struck the pavement
with a metallic clang, bounced, and rose with sudden expanse of wings,

"A SnRIEKING EAGLE,

frightened horribly, and seeking flight towards the summit of the dome. The
old man gazed a moment upward; then, seeing the tripod upon which the censer
had stood, he sent its legs apart, with a nervous hand, straightened them against
his knee, and hurled them, dartlike, toward the eagie. They glanced upward
with a gilded flash, and instantly the eagle came fluttering down to the pavement
in our midst, dead, and three horrible cobras coiled about him, and iitting their
hooded heads defiantly, and flashing anger out of their glittering eyes. The
music shrieked still wilder, the snakes coiled and plaited themselves together in
a rhythmic dance, lifting the dead eagle upon their heads, and, presto ! right in
our midst there stood the tripod again, with its flickering flame, and its incense-
savored breath. A more perfect illusion never was seen.

" ' That is Norodom,' whispered Vv'oun-Tajac in my ear. Another actor now
came upon the scene, whom I recognized to be the tall athletic, Tepada. Behind
him came a smaller man, whose name, Woun-Tajac informed me, was Minhman,
and a boy, probably twelve years old, called Tsin-ki. These four began some of
the most wonderful athletic exhibitions that can be conceived. It is

"impossible to believe,

unless vou saw it, what work these men put human muscles to. I am not going
to provoke the incredulity of your readers by attempting to describe the majority
of them. In one feat Tepada seized Norodom by his long white beard, held him
off at arm's length, and spun round with him until the old man's Kirs were
horizontal to the athlete's shoulders. Then, while they still spun with the fury
of dervishes, Minhman sprang up, seized upon Norodom's feet, and spun out a

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horizontal continuation of the ancient ; and when Minhman was firmly estab-
lished, the boy Tsin-ki caught to his feet in like manner, and the tall athlete,
every muscle in him straining, continued to whirl the human jointless lever
around. At last, slowing slightly, Tepada drew in his arms till the old man's
white beard touched his body ; there was a sudden strain, and the arm of men
from being horizontal became perpendicular, Norodom's head resting atop of
Tepada's, Minhman's head upon Norodom's feet, and Tsin-ki's head on Minhman's
feet. A pause for breath, then the column of men was propelled into the air,
and, presto ! Tepada's head was on the ground. Norodom's feet to his, Mihnman's
feet upon Norodom's head, Tsin-ki's feet on Minhman's head. Each had turned
a summersault, and the column was unbroken !

" METAMORPHOSES.

" One trick which Minhman performed was a very superior version of the
mango-tree feat of the Indian jugglers. He took an orange, cut it open, and
produced a serpent. This he took down into the audience, and, borrowing a robe
from one, cut the snake's head off and covered it with the robe. When the robe
was lifted again, a fox was in the place of the snake. The fox's head was cut off,
two robes borrowed, and when they were raised there was a wolf, which was
killed with a sword. Three robes, and a leper appeared ; it was slain with a
javelin. Four robes covered a most savage-looking buffalo, that was killed with
an axe. Five robes covered in part, but not altogether, a lordly elephant, who,
when the sword was pointed against him, seized Minhman by the neck and tossed
him violently up. He mounted feet foremost, and finally clung by his toes to
the capital of one of the columns. Tepada now leaped from the stage and
alighted upon the elephant's shoulders. With a short sword he goaded the beast
on the head until, shrieking, the unwieldy animal reared upon its hind feet,
twined its trunk about one of the great columns, and seemed trying to lift itself
from the ground and wrap its body around the great pillar. The music clashed
out barbarously, Ncrodom flashed forth a dazzling firework of some sort, and
the elephant had disappeared, and Tepada lay upon the stage writhing in the
folds of a great boa-constrictor and holding up Minhman upon Iris feet.

" During three hours the exhibition continued, feats of the sort I have described,
each more wonderful than the one that preceded it, following one another in
rapid succession. I shall content myself with describing the last and culminating
wonder of the startling entertainment.

"the beautiful luan prabana.

" A perfectly formed and most lovely nauteh girl sprang out upon the stage,
and was hailed with universal exclamations of delight, everybody calling out her
name, Luan Prabana, as if it were a word of good omen. Her only dress was a
short petticoat of variegated feather-work. A wreath of rosebuds crowned her
soft, short, black hair, and she wore a pearl necklace, as well as broad gold arm-
lets and anklets. With a brilliant smile she danced exquisitely for some minutes
to the accompaniment of a single pipe, then she knelt and laid her head on old
Norodom's knee. The boy fanned her with a fan made of sweet-fern leaves,
Minhman fetched a lotus-shaped golden goblet, and Tepada poured into it from a
quaint-looking flask a fluid of greenish hue. The old yogi-like Norodom took
the goblet and blew his breath upon the contents till they broke into a pale blue
flame. This Tepada extinguished with his breath, when Norodom held the gob-
let to Luan Prabana's lips, and she drained the contents with a sigh. As if
transfigured she suddenly sprang to her feet, her face strangely radiant, and
began to spin giddily around in one spot. First the boy, then Minhman, then
Tepada tried to arrest her, but they no sooner touched her than

" SHE REPELLED THEM WITH A SHOCK

that thrilled them as if she had imparted an electric spark to them. Spinning
constantly, with a bewildering rapid motion, the girl now sprang off the stage and

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down the hall, along by the foot of the columns, Tsin-ki, Minliraan, and Tepada
in active pursuit. In and out among the crowd they spun, the three chasing.
Tepada seized hold of the chaplct that crowned her; it broke, and as she was
whirled along, a spray of rosebuds was scattered from her brow in every direc-
tion. Anything more graceful never was seen. And now a greater wonder. At
the extremity of the hall the three surrounded and would have seized her, when,
still revolving, she rose slowly into the air and floated gently over our heads
towards the stage, scattering roses as she went. At the brink of the stage she
paused in mid-air; then with a slight, wing-like motion of her arms, mounted up,
up toward the loftiest nrch of the vault overhead. (Suddenly old Norodom seized
bow and arrow and shot toward her. There was a wild shriek, a rushing sound,
and the dancer fell with a crash to the flags of the floor, and laid there an appar-
ent bloody mass. The music burst forth into a wild wail, and the chorus of old
hags came tumultously forth and bore her off in their arms.

"was it a miracle.

"Now, from behind the red curtains came a dozen strong men, bearing on
their shoulders a great leaden box, which they laid upon the front part of the stage.
As they retired the old women came out bringing a low couch, decorated witli
flowers and gold-embroidered drapery, upon which lay Luan Prabana, decked
forth in bridal garments, and sweetly sleeping. The couch with its sleeper was
put quietly down upon the front of the stage, and left there, while Xorodom and
Tepada went to the leaden box, and with hot irons attempted to unseal it.
' That is Stung-Tieng's coffin,' whispered Woun to me; 'the old saint has been
dead more than half a millennium.'

"Quickly, eagerly it seemed to me, the two men broke open the fastenings of
the coffin, until the side next the audience falling out at last, a teak-box was dis-
covered. This was pried open with a small crowbar, and what seemed a great
bundle of nankeen taken out. Tepada and Norodom commenced to unwind this
wrapping, which was very tight. Yard after yard was unwound and folded away by
Minhman, and at last, after at least one hundred yards of wrapping had been taken
off, the dry, shrivelled mummy of a small, old man was visible, eyes closed, flesh
dry and hard, — dead and dry as a smoked herring. Norodom tapped the corpse
with the crowbar, and it gave a dull, wooden sound. Tepada tossed it up and
caught it — it was still as a log. Then he placed the mummy upon Norodom's
knees, and fetched a flask of oil, a flask of wine, and a censer burning with some
pungent incense. Norodom took from his hair a little box of unguent, and,
prying open the mouth of the mummy with a cold-chisel, showed that the dry
tongue could rattle like a chip against the dry fauces. lie filled the mouth witii
unguent and closed it, and anointed the eyelids, nostrils, and ears. Then he and
Tepada mixed the wine and oil, and carefully rubbed every part of the body with
it. Then, laying it down in a reclining position, they put the burning censer upon
the chest and withdrew a space, while the drums and gongs and cymbals clashed
and clattered, and the shrill, cackling treble of the chorus of old women rose
hideously.

" A LA LAZARUS.

"A breathless pause ensued — one, two, three minutes — and the mummy
sneezed, sneezed thrice, so violently as to extinguish the flame of the censer. A
moment later the thing sat up, and stared, blinking and vacant, out around the
vault — an old wrinkled man, with mumbling chops, a shrivelled breast and belly,
and little tufts of white hair upon his chin and forehead. Tepada approached
him reverently, upon his knees, bringing a salver, witli wine and a water-cake.
The old man did not notice him, but ate, drank, and tottered to his feet, the
feeblest decrepit old dotard that ever walked. In another moment he saw the
nautch girl slumbering upon her couch ; he scuffled feebly to her, and, mumbling,
stooped as if to help his dim eyes to see her better. With a glad cry the maiden
waked, clasped him in her arms and to her breast, and kissed him. Incompre-
hensible aiagic ! He was no longer a nonagenarian dotard, but a full-veined,

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fiery youth, who gave her kiss for kiss. How the transformation was wrought I
have no idea, but there it was before our very eyes. The music grew soft and
passionate, the chorus of the old women came out, and with strange Phallic songs
and dances bore the two away — a bridal pair. I never expect again to behold a
sight so wonderful as that whole transformation, which, I may mention, my
learned Jesuit friend, to whom I described it, regards as a piece of pure symbol-
ism. His explanation is too long and too learned to quote, but he connects the
ceremony with the world-old myth of Venus and Adonis, and claims that it is all
a form of sun-worship.

" BACK TO THE TOMB.

" The show went on for some time longer with many curious feats. At the end
of an hour the Phallic procession returned, but this time the Bayadere led it, a
strange triumph in her eyes, while the youth lay upon the couch sleeping. The
Phallic chorus sank into a dirge, the youth faded visibly ; he was again the
shrivelled dotard ; he sighed, then breathed no more. Luan Prabana retired
sorrowfully ; Norodom and Tepada wrapped the corpse again in its interminable
shrouds, restored it to the coffin, and it was borne away again. The attendants
climbed up to and extinguished the lights. I was blindfolded and borne away
again. 1 found myself once more at the doorway of the temple in the broad
sunshine with my friends — as the mystic ceremonies of the great temple of
Juthia were over, it may be for many years."

" With strange Phallic songs and dances bore the two away — a
bridal pair." " Venus and Adonis — a form of sun-worship."
" The Phallic chorus sunk into a dirge." Can anything be plainer
or more direct in confirmatory proof of what I had written in this
book, than this excerpt from a newspaper, dated April n, 1874,
months after this book was completed, — but the appearance of
which necessitated a brief additional page or two ? There is no
need to go to far-off Siam to witness such marvels, or to learn their
strange principia, for I have not only witnessed displays of High
Magic in this country, quite as marvellous, but different from the
above, but have myself performed the feat of Fire-drawing, and
came very near destroying the life of a woman who assisted at the
rite, and but for the quick, brave, self-sacrificing action of Dr.
Charles Main, of Boston, that woman would have been slain by fire
drawn down from the aereal spaces by principles known to me.
For fifteen years I sought a female of the right organization — an
European or American Luan Prabana [the Fair and Virgin invoca-
tress] — and not till March, 1874, did I find her. Her Self-will, and
brother-in-law's [he was a Pupil] lack of decision, and his weighing
of less than three dollars' expense against the possession of the
loftiest Magic earth ever saw, determined me to seek elsewhere for
the true material — which, it is needless to say, I have found

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again in my own personal circle. The Mysteries are all wrought
through the Phallic, Discal, Yoni Principles, in unsullied purity,
and the highest, nohlest worship known to man. The great trouble
with all whom I have parti)- taught in this land is that they — not
one of them — saw anything nobler than the brilliant chance of
sure gain, or opportunities to gratify Passion. Wherefore, of
course, I dropped them all. The Phenomenal magic recounted in
the extract given above, together with the equally startling tiling'-
of Egypt, Negro-land, Japan, China, Tartary, and India — only dis
tantly approached by the Fire-tests, materialization and the like, as
seen in the case of Hume, the Baltimore negro and others, together
will) the air-floating of various persons, myself included, are, so far
as real use is concerned, but secondary trifles compared to that
loftier system of the far Orient, whereby persons are enabled to
glimpse behind the scenes of life, and note what transpires on the
further side. To the special consideration of that transcendent
phase of high magic, I shall devote this concluding chapter of my
book ; observing, ere I do so, that I hope these things now written,
will neither be scattered to the winds, or seized on in the interests
of either dollars or lusts ; for I cannot help utterly despising the
worshippers of either Mammon or Priapus. One thing, however, is
absolutely certain, and this it is : No one can succeed in either
branch of high magic whose spur and motive is such as I deprecate
above ; but success is sure to eventually crown the efforts of the
persevering student, whose aims are goodness and the acquisition
of power for noble ends.

For many ages people have sought to penetrate through, or lift,
the veil which han<rs between the world we inhabit and that vast
realm where causes reside and principles exist. To that end,
recourse has been had to drugs, such as opium, cannabin, and cam-
phora ; to mesmerism, "Psychology," disks, magnets, and fasting;
and in later times to circles and various so-called marvellous
methods; all of which, in the end, have proved imsati«fa(cto'y. and
the student and searcher has been, by them, left worse off than
before. Not all persons can reach the interior sight by such
methods, because all are not possessed of the essentia] organic

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attributes, or constitutional bias and tendency. To all such there is
a surer, better, safer, and grander road, and that is self-develop-
ment, by means entirely within the reach of every one, and which
are within their will and control ; and which require but the ele-
ments of Time, Patience, Assiduity, Persistence, and periodical effort
to ensure, if not complete success in soul-sight, then in those other
qualities, powers, and attributes essential to perfect human char-
acter.

That agency, I hold, is some form of the spirit-glass or lens, — not
the " Urim and Thummim," or metallic breast-plates used for
purposes of divination, and worn by the priesthood, as recounted in
the Bible ; nor the stones and crystals of later days, — but the per-
fected spirit-seeing or magic-glass, formed of materials prepared in
the Orient, and fitted for use in Paris, France.

These are of two generic kinds, and also of diverse grades, sizes,
sensitiveness, focal power, and magnetic planes, — because those
made for, and adapted to, one line of use, are not so well suited to
different lines : And First. The common kind averages about
eight inches by seven, and is a true ./Ethic mirror adapted to
ordinary ends, such as invoking the dead ; and the other purposes
for which they have for ages been used.

The difference between the spirit-seeing mirrors, such as are
described in " Seership," and the methods and materials of their
construction therein set forth, and those hereinafter described, is
the difference between a first-class gold repeater, and a common
cylinder — escapement watch. Both are time-keepers, but one is
vastly superior to the other. The materials of the two classes of
mirrors are quite dissimilar ; and the labor expended on those here-
inafter described, is simply enormous, for after they come into the
hands of us of America, they cost an immensity of toil, in cleaning,
polishing, heating, bathing, and magnetic manipulation, and this it
it is that renders them valuable, and adapted to the uses for which
from hoary antiquity they were intended. I have seen a very small
crystalline mirror, weighing less than a pound, for which the owner
demanded $4,000 in gold coin, and was not at all anxious to part
with it even at that price. Second. The larger and finer ones of

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the same sort ; but which of course are far better, stronger, more
perfectly magnetic, and have a great deal wider range. Formerly
there were five sizes of this class ; but it was found that but two
could be depended on ; as the rest were extremely liable to fracture
by reason of the great climatic ranges of temperature in Western
Europe and North America.

This class were also found better suited to beginners than to pro-
ficient seers ; especially those who, not content with the limited
ranges of the ordinary ones, were anxious for a perfected instrument
of greater sensitiveness, magnetic calibre, focal range, yEthic basin,
or magnetic reservoir, and of a capacity equal to the solution of
almost any subject capable of demonstration by such means ; where-
fore that form was superseded, in 1S74, by the ne plus ultra of all
such things in that line ; — fine oval magnetic polar ones, with
deeper, broader, larger basins, or magnetic reservoirs, presenting a
deep-sea surface, nearly absolutely perfect, and leaving almost
nothing to wish for in any respect ; — a beautiful, clear ovoid, and
of size, focal length and calibre seldom equalled and never surpassed.
They go in grades, sizes, ranges, and cost according to their illumi-
nant power.

In January, 1S74, I received a few from Paris, and hung them on
my chamber-wall to charge and fit them for their owner, — a lady ;
and there they remained till the morning of Feb. 8th, when they
became suddenly illuminant, and no grander sight ever was beheld
by human eyes than was presented on that memorable morning ; for
the whole starry galaxies ; rolling world-systems of nebula.' ; vast
congeries of stellar constellations ; cities afar off on the earth ; and
scenes never before beheld by eves of this world, were displayed to
such a grand, sublime, and amazing extent that the soul panted with
the weight of the transcendent Phantorama.* Such mirrors as these

* They are, every one of litem — (from the plain surface mirror, to the magnifi-
cent, golden-edged, Beauties ; or the enormous 40-inch ones — fit for a Lodge '. —
worth a king's ransom '.) — capable of mirroring correctly — and beforehand ton !
the Markets of the world. Here is a strange test, whose truth I solemnly
avouch : —

A pregnant lady — and such are ever the most favored in all lines of cele-tial
magic, — on the morning alluded to above-*- Feb. 8, IsTt — gazed into one of

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— would they were mine ! — if kept free from promiscuous hand-
ling, treated judiciously, and rightly used, are capable of more
psychic marvels than all the mesmerists on the globe ! Very few of
any grade are imported, save when expressly ordered ; the risk of
breakage in crossing the seas and by inland carriage being too great
to admit of larger consignments, even were it possible to have such,
which it is not.

Full directions for their general use and care are given in the
book called " Seership," a work devoted exclusively to the subject.
But those of the superior grades require suplementary advisements
concerning their treatment, ist. They should — when not in use, —
be kept either with face to the wall in a dark place, else be covered
with a board or plate (usually furnished with them) so as to exclude
every ray of light. But about once a month they should be exposed
to the full blaze of the sun for at least an hour ; while a similar
exposure, but of longer duration, to moon or starlight, invariably
increases their power, and quite often adds new ones. The larger
ones may be used by a room full of persons at the same time ; being
fixed immovably, and the people arranging themselves so that each
can see the broad white-black river flowing continually across the
surface ; but no one, save the owner, should either touch, or sit, or
stand closer than from four to seven feet or more ; and when the
seance begins, no word should be spoken, no movement made ; and
it ought to open with a prayer to the Most High, while special
invocations, for any given purpose or purposes, may be made to
lesser potential intelligences. Those which are now in this country
are of an extraordinary character and degree of power ; their illumi-
nant surface has never been equalled ; while their true cuspic-ovoid,

the mirrors, and demanded to know the sex of her unborn child. The reply
came instantly — "A Boy ! and a great one ! a vast soul ! — the king-seer of five

THOUSAND TEARS ! "

The result, so far as sex was concerned, was absolutely true ; and there is but
little doubt that the rest will prove equally so. This same lady was the only true
mystic of her sex I ever saw in America. She was the best mirror-manipulator
on the earth, and owned — still owns all the genuine ones on the continent.
Through her I have obtained specimens of such rare value, that to part therewith
was like the loss of the right eye. ,

The Glyphce Dhattch. 205

depth and breadth, is most admirable, — ■ appreciable 1>\ those
favored ones who arc true seers and born mystics, as being inimeav
urably superior to anything of the kind seen since the days <>f the
magi on the plains of Chaldea ! — for great pains have been taken
with the glasses, which act as protccting-shields to the material
beneath, — on which material, the mode of its preparation, season-
ing, application, and magnetic manipulation, and not upon the glass
itself — their beauty and excellence wholly depends; albeit the
highest art is brought to bear in the making and shaping of the
crystal-shield, and in the construction of the frames in which they
are mounted. The Glypii.e-Bhattaii, or Mirror surface itself is
the true, and well-factured bhatt from India, whence alone it can be
procured even by the Mystic Brotherhood of Paris, France, where
the mounting is done.

Due care is essential that they, like a child, be kept clean ; to
which end fine soap and warm soft water, applied with silk or soft
flannel, is the first step ; followed by a similar bath, whereof cologne,
fresh beer, or liquor spurted from the mouth, are the three ingre-
dients : the second for the sake, 1st, of the spirit ; 2d, of the individ-
ual magnetism ; and, 3d, the symbolism embodied in the ritual — so
palpably as not to need further explanation. Write for other
information on this delicate point.

" But why are these black-white, cuspic ovoids magnetic or magi-
cal in any degree? or, if they are, why may not we of Western
Europe or America fabricate the same?" To which the replv is:
You cannot ! because you know not how to mingle the materials —
even if you knew them, which you do not — that enter as elements
into the mysteriously sensitive substance wherewith the shields are
covered, and which alone constitutes the magnetic or magic film, of
which and to which the lava-glass and frame arc merely protective
covers.

People of the West (Europe, — America) arc not subject to the
same extremes of passion (sexive) as arc Orientals ; and hence
know not either its awfid intensity, or its terrible penalties, because
they dwell far more in the Brain than in the gender, wherefore they
have less verve 'elan, and passional power than their brown brethren

206 The Glyfhce Bhatteh.

and sisters of the far-off eastern lands ; as a general rule, with occa-
sional exception, they are unable to reach the magnificent goals of
soul-vision and magic power easily attainable by the sallow devotees
of Sachthas and Saiva ; and therefore cannot realize the intense
passional furore, essential both to the successful invocation of corre-
spondent y£rial Potentialities, and the charging of mirrors with the
divine spiritual reflective powers which characterize them. I here
alluded to a profound mystery connected with their construction,
known only to the initiate, but which is vaguely hinted at in the
subjoined quotation ; — a mystery at which dolts and fools may
laugh — provided they sense its nature, but which higher souls must
reverence, honor, and adore.

Says Colonel Stephen Fraser, in his glorious volume entitled
" Twelve Years in India," a magnificent book, which was kindly
lent me by Mr. W. G. Palgrave, of London, who called on me in
August, 1873, while on his overland route to China, via San Fran-
cisco, and whom I had known in England fifteen years before, as a
polished gentleman and scholar, and one of the deepest mystics on
the globe outside of the Orient : - —

" We joyfully, gladly went, — five of us, her Majesty's Officers, on
a tour of military inspection, the toils of which were likely to be
rewarded by an opportunity of witnessing the dance of Illumination,
of the Muntra-Wallahs, or Magic-working Brahmuns, whose
strange miracles, worked apparently by the triple agency of Batta-
sahs (rice), Gookal (red-powder), and, strangest of all, by means
of oval glasses or crystals, but black as night, in which it is reported,
some very strange things were to be seen. We were all prepared to
witness skilful jugglery, for which the residents of Muttra* are
renowned, but fully resolved to ascertain, if possible, how it was all
done, rejecting, of course, everything claimed to be either supra-
mortal or hyper-natural, so far as the underlying principles were

" * Muttra, a town in the province of Agra (India), on the west bank of the
river Jumma, in latitude 27 deg. 31 min. North; longitude 77'deg. 33 min.
East; — a place famous for the manufacture of Magical apparatus; and one of
the only two places on earth where the Parappthaline gum is prepared, wherewith
the adepts smear the backs of these extraordinary mirrors, so celebrated by the
various authorities named in the text." — Twelve Years in India. Vol 2, p. 286.

The Glyphcs Bhatteh. 207

concerned It was sheer skill, but such as no Euro-
pean could pretend to equal ; yet how the sleeping girl could tell
our names, ages, place of birth, and fifty other true facts, she never
having seen either of us before, — because the dust of Jubalpore was
still upon our clothes, we having been but one day in Muttra, — was
a problem not easily solved. They call it the Sleep of Sialam, and
she passsd into it by gazing into a dark glass.

"After reading Lane's story about the Magic Mirror in his
' Modern Egyptians ; ' what De Sacy says in his famous ' Exposition
de la religion des Druses ; ' Makrisi's account in his ' History of
the Mamelukes ; ' J. Catafago and Defremeny in the ' Journale
Asiatique ; ' what Potter affirms as truth in his ' Travels in Syria ; '
Vi&or L'Anglois, in ' Revue d'Orient ; ' Carl Ritter ; Dr. E. Smith ;
Von Hammer in his ' Hist, des Sasseins ; ' W. H. Taylor's ' Nights
with Oriental Magicians ; ' the ' Gesta Magici ' of Lespanola ;
' Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses ; ' ' Youetfs Researches into Magic
Arts,' and innumerable other unquestionable authorities, — it was far
less difficult to believe in the existence of some occult visual power
possessed by these mirror-gazers, of both sexes, all ages, and
diversity of culture, than to attribute it all to chicanery and lucky
guesswork. . . . ' Sahib, it true,' said our Wallah, next morn-
ing, when speaking of the exhibition of the previous day ; ' and now
I s'pose you go see Sebeiyeh dance — [the Mirror Bridal-fete of a
renowned Brotherhood of Mystics, Philosophers, and Magicians] —
no doubtee ? ' Well, we all determined to go ; and a three-hours'
ride brought us to a plateau in a mountain-gorge of the Chocki hills.
We were not too late, and were kindly offered vantage ground of
view by the Sheikh, — a man of at least 1 25 years of age, judging
from the fadl that his grandchildren were white with snowy locks

and beards waist long The two brides entered the

circle followed by the two grooms, all four bearing large earthen-
pots full of a black, smeary, tar-like substance, which, on inquiry of
the Sheikh, we learned was the product of the Volcanic springs of
the Mahadcs hills, in the far-off province of Gondwana, in the
Deccan ; that it only flows in the month of June ; is collected by girls
and boys wl.o are virginal, — that is, before puberty ; and must be

208 The Glyphce Bhatteh.

prepared for use within the ensuing forty-nine days, by similar
persons on the eve of actual marriage, as it is supposed certain
properties of a magical nature attach to it when handled by such
persons under such circumstances. Of course I, with my western
habits of thought and European education, could but laugh at this,
which seemed so very palpable and gross a superstition ; and yet,
strange to relate, when I expressed my sceptical views to the old
Sheikh, he laughed, shook his head, handed , me two parts of the
shell of a large nut, and requested me to fill one with the crude
material, and the other with the same after it had been prepared. I
did the first, and reserved the empty shell for the other, taking care
to hold both in my hand well wrapped up in a brown bandana. .
. . . The circle had a pile of stones in the centre, upon which
coals were brightly burning; and over this fire — which, by the
way, is the Eternal sacred Fire of the Garoonahs, which is never
allowed to go out from one year's end to the other — was suspended
from a tripod of betel rods a coarse earthen vessel, into which the
four expectant marriagees poured about one-fourth of the contents
of the simla gourds already mentioned ; amid the din of an hundred
tom-toms or native drums ; the clashing of rude cymalos (cymbals)
and wild, clarion-like bursts of the strangest, and, shall I, a staid
Briton, confess it? — most soul-stirring and weird music that ever
fell upon my ears, or moved the man within me ! After this was
done, the Sheikh's servitors erected a pole near the fire, around
which pole was coiled the stuffed skins of the dreadful hooded snake
of India, — the terrible Naga, or Cobra ; while on top was an
inverted cocoa-shell, and two others at its base — understood by the
initiated as symbolizing the Linga, — the male emblem, or creative
principle of Deity ; while the suspended vessel over the fire repre-
sented the Yoni, or female principle ; the tripod emblematizing the
triple powers or qualities of Brahm — Creation — Preservation —
Perpetuation ; — the fire below corresponding to Love, or the Infi-
nite Fire which is the Life of All ! And now began

a strange, weird dance, to the wild melody of five hundred singing
devotees of that wonderful Phallic, or sexual religion ; mingled with
the mellow breath of cythic flutes, the beating of tambours, the

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thrumming of various stringed instruments, and an occasional
leet. or rapture-shriek from the lips of women and voting
whose enthusiasm was unrcstrainahle. and who gave vent to it in
wild movements of their graceful and supple bodies, and in shrill
cries that might be heard long miles away, like voices from heaven

awakening the echoes of Space ! Advancing with a

slow, voluptuous, rhythmic movement, not of the feet alone, bit of
the whole form from crown to toe. the crirls — aired about fifteen,
brown as berries, agile as antelopes, graceful as gazelles: lovely,
with barbaric splendor, as an Arab's ideal houri ; — they swaved,
bent, advanced by twists and curves, by nameless writhings, by
sweeping genuflexions, by movements the very poetry of j^assion.
but passion of soul far more than of body, with suffused faces and
moistly gleaming eyes, toward the taller emblem, round which they
slowly whirled and danced, ever and anon stirring with a silver
spatula the dark substance contained in the vessels they bore. This
by turns. "While the two youths, bearing similar vessels, performed
corresponding movements about the vessel which symbolized
Nature in her productive aspect — until we five Europeans were
lott in a maze of astonishment at the capacity of the human frame
to express mutely, but with more meaning and eloquence than a
thousand tongues could convey, the amazing heights, depths, and
shades of passion, but a passion totally free from vulgarity or inde-
cency ; and as pure as that of the ocean billows when they kiss each

other over the grave of a dead cyclone ! Observing

my surprise, the old Sheikh touched my arm, and in purest Bengalee
whispered: — 'Sahib, Ardor begat the Universe! There is no
power on earth either for good or ill, but Passion underlies it.
That alone is the spring of all human action, and the father and
mother alike of all the good and evil on the Earth ! It is the golden
key of Mystery, the fountain of Weakness and of Strength ; and
through its halo alone can man sense the ineffable essence of the
Godhead ! The materials in the vessels are charged with life. — ■
with the very essence of the human soul, hence with celestial and
divine ma^ic power ! for < >. Sahib, it is only lust and hatred that
keep closed the eves of the soul ! — ami in the crystaN whose backs

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we cover with the contents of these five vessels, the earnest seeker
may behold, not only what takes place on earth, but also what
transpires on other globes, and in the Sakwalas of the Sacred
Gods ! — and this is the only true Bab, — (Door) .' — ' But,' I rejoined,
' we of the West magnetize people, who, in that mysterious slum-
ber, tell us amazing' — '■Lies! ' he said, interrupting the sentence, —
' for no two of them tell the same tale or behold the same things !
Why ? Because they explore the kingdoms of Fancy, not of Fact,
and give you tales of imagination and distorted invention, instead of
recitals of what a&ually exists Beyond ! But wait ! ' I acquiesced,
and turned once more to the dances of the Aleweheh, who by this
time were movii^g in a more rapid manner to the quickened strains

of the more than ever wild and fantastic music Three

of them began stirring the contents of the cauldron, into which all
the material from the gourds had now been poured ; murmuring
strange, wild bursts of Phallic song the while ; and the fourth, the
taller maiden of the two, stripped herself entirely nude above the
waist and below the knees ; her long raven hair streaming around
her matchless form — a form of such superlative contour, propor-
tions, lively peach-blow tint, and rounded beauty, as made me blush
for the imperfections of the race that mothered me ! There were no
violent exertions of legs and arms ; not the slightest effort at effect ;
none of the gross motions in use in the West, on the stage or off it
— whose palpable objea is the firing of the sluggish blood of half-
blase speftators; but a graceful movement, a delicious trembling,
half fear, half invitation ; — a quivering, semi-longing, semi-reluc-
tant undulation of arms, bosom, form, eyes even — rippling streams
of most voluptuous motion ; billowy heavings and throbbings of soul
through body, so wonderful, so glowing, that one wished to die
immediately that he might receive the reward of centuries of toil in
the ravishing arms of the houris of the seventh, — ay ! even the first
paradise of the Ghillim, and the resplendent Queens of the Brahmin-
ical Valhalla. And yet there was absolutely nothing suggestive of
coarse, gross, animal passion in all this transcendental melody of
hyper-sensuous motion ; on the contrary, one felt like seizing her
by the waist, drawing his sword and challenging all earth, and hell

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to boot, to take her away, or disturb her tranquillity of celeMia! — wh.it
shall I call it r — I am lost for a name !

" Presently both the girls joined the mystic sensuous-ma"ic
dance ; and one of them seized me suddenly by the arm and draped
me to the central vessel, saying. -Look. Sahib, look ! ' I did so,
but instead of a black mass of seething boiling gum, I beheld a
cauldron bubbling over with the most gorgeously pink-tinted froth
that imagination ever dreamed of: and while I stood there marvelling
at the singular phenomenon — for even bubble took the form of a
flower. — lotus, amaranth, violet, lily — Rose I — the old Sheikh
drew nigh and said, 'Sahib, now's the time!' pointing to the
bundle containing the empty shell and the one already half filled.
Acting on the suggestion, I held forth the empty shell; into which
the girl ladled about a gill of the contents of the swinging vessel ;
and the Sheikh produced two perfectly clean ovoid glass plates, over
which he poured respectively the contents of the two shells, and
held both over the fire for a minute, till dry. and then handing them
to me, said, ' Look, and wish, and zvill, to see whatever is nearest
and dearest to vour heart ! ' Internally I laughed, but he took the
two shells, and while he held them, I looked into the hollow face of
the "lass which was covered with the singular substance first
handed to me, and gazing steadily about half a minute. — the mystic-
dance going on meanwhile, — I willed to see my home and people
in far-off Albion ; but nothing appeared. The old man smiled.
'Now look at the other one, which is a true Bhattcyeh — full of
divine light and imperial power, and you will — ' Before he
finished, I glanced into the other, and — scarce hoping that the
Western reader will credit me with anything loftier than a vivid
imagination, fired almost beyond endurance, by the lascivious sur-
roundings in the midst of which I was. I nevertheless clearly and
distictly affirm, on the hitherto unsullied honor of an English gentle-
man, and a colonel in Iler Majesty's service, that I saw a wave of
pale, white light, flit like a cloud-shadow over the face of the myste-
rious disk, and in the centre of that light a landscape, composed of
trees, houses, lands, lowing cattle, and forms of human beings; each
and every item of which I recognized as the old familiar things of

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my boyhood and youth, long ere the fires of ambition had turned
my face toward distant India. I beheld the simulacrum of a dear
sister, whom I had left in perfect health. I saw her to all appear-
ance very, very sick, — the physicians, nurses, troops of friends, and
faithful servitors, gathered round her; she was dying'! dead! I
saw the funeral cortege set out for the cemetery, and I marvelled
greatly that they buried her by the iron ribs of a railway ; because
when I left, no road of that kind ran through my native town. I
saw the silver plate on her coffin, and most clearly and distinctly
read the inscription thereon ; but the surname was one I had never
heard of! I looked up at the Sheikh, who was eying me with
strange interest and intensity, as if to ask an explanation ; but he
only smiled and repeated the one word, ' See ! ' Instantly I turned
my eyes to the ovoid again, as likewise did three of my European
friends, and, to my and their utter astonishment, beheld a shadow,
an exact image of myself, standing near the well-curb of my native
manse, weeping as if its heart would break, over the prostrate form
of my elder brother who lay there dying from a rifle-bullet through
the groin, — the result of an accident that had just befallen him
while in the act of drinking from the swinging-pail or bucket!
Now came the most astonishing phenomena of all, — for each of the
three friends who were looking with me, started in surprise, and
uttered exclamations of undisguised astonishment, for each had seen
things beyond the range or pale of trickery or the play of excited
fancy. One beheld the three forms of his dead father, sister, and
uncle, — the latter pointing to a sealed packet on which was
inscribed the words, ' Dead — Will — heir — Oct. i ith. Go home ! '
The other beheld the drawing-room, and its occupants, of the old
house at home ; and on the table lay a large pile of gold coin,
across which lay a legend thus: 'Jem and David's winnings : Lot-
tery: Paris: June 18th: 10,000 Pounds!' The third man saw a
battle or skirmish waging in the Punjaub, and his senior officer
struck down by a shot in the side, thus opening the road to his own
promotion. Much more we saw and noted in that wonderful scene
of diablerie, portions of which I shall detail at length hereafter.
But it became necessary to attend to other matters. I did so (as will

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be hereinafter cited), and then accompanied the Sheikh to his tent,
where the marriage was celebrated ; and lie told me there certain
wonderful secrets in reference to the further preparation <,f the
strange material composing the reflective surfaces of the curious
Bhatts, which, while exceedingly mystic and effective, at the hands
and offices of the newly married people, is yet of so singular and
delicate a nature as not to be admissible to these pages; for while
really of the most holy and sacred nature, yet the miscducation — in
certain vital respects and knowledges — of the civilized Teutonic,
Anglo-Saxon, and Latin races, would render the matters to which I
allude subjects of either not well-based blushes or outright mirth.*
Seven long months after these memorable experi-
ences, I parted with three of my then comrades, and, accompanied
by two others, embarked on one of the steamers of the Mcssagcrics
Imperiales, from Bombay, homeward bound. Before I left, one of
my friends had sold his commission in consequence of having fallen
heir to an uncle's estate, who, the letters of recall stated, had died in
England, on Oct. 10th, and not on the nth, as the ovoid had
stated ! It had actually taken the differences of Latitude, and was
correct to an hour I The second man, on arrival in England,
proved the truth of the mirror, for Jane, not 'Jem' as the glass
stated, and Davison, not 'David' — cousins of his — had fallen on
a lottery-fortune of over a lac of rupees in India money ! The
other officer was promoted in consequence of the death of his
lieutenant-colonel, in a skirmish in the Punjaub, which event was
the result of a shot in the loins, not the side. Arrived at home, I
found my people in deep mourning for my younger sister, the

widow — after a wifehood of less than a year — of Capt. II . of

Her Majesty's Navy, whom she had met for the first time only a few
months before their marriage. I had left for India five years before.
and though I had often heard of my brother-in-law's family, yet ice
had never met. He went down in one of the new crack iron-clads
on her trial-trip. The awful news occasioned premature mother-
hood ; she died, and her remains were deposited in the hilbidc

* Exactly the reason why I have been unable to find a single true adept or
adapt in the U. S. A. — P. B. K.

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vault, skirting which was a railway just equipped and opened for
traffic a month or two prior to the marine disaster ! Lastly : Within
eight months after my return I became sole male heir to our family-
property in consequence of the death of my brother by a charge of
shot, not a bullet in the groin, as the Mirror showed ; — but full in
the abdomen while climbing a fence for a drink at the brookside,
and not at a well. Every fact shown so mysteriously was proved
strangely true, though not literally so. I, just previous to my
departure from the strange bridal, asked the old Sheikh some
questions ; and learned that the material on the crystal surface
wherein we saw the strange miracles was but partially prepared, —
as my readers will also recollect. ; but some which he placed on a
glass just before I left, and which had been fully prepared, the
finishing process being a secret one and conducted by the newly
wedded couples by a peculiar process — and nameless — never made
a mistake while in my possession ; for I confess I lost it from a silly
servant having shown it boastingly to a gypsy, who stole it that
same night, through the most adroit bit of scientific burglary I ever
heard or read of. The loss, however, was not irreparable, for I
have since found that these strange Muntra-Wallahs, as they are
contemptuously called by their Islamic foes in the Carnatic (but
true magi in the opinion of better informed people) , have brethren
and correspondents in nearly every country on the globe — Brazil,
China, Japan, Vienna, and even our own London ; while they have
a regular Lodge in Paris, of some of whom the initiated, and
favored ignorants even, can and do obtain occasionally, not only
well-charged and polished Bhatteyeh, but actually, now and then, a
gourd full of Moulveh-Bhattah, — the strangely mysterious substance
which constitutes the seeing surface, as mercury does in the ordinary
looking-glass, and the two are alike in all save that the latter
reflects matter and the living, while the former sometimes — but not
at all times, or to all people, or to the successful seers on all occa-
sions— reveals only spirit and the dead, — ay, and things that never
die ! Heaven help all whom a Muntra- Wallah hates ! — or loves
either, for that matter — unless that love be returned ; for the
magician in one case will bring up the hated one's shadow, — and

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then strange horrors will seize him or her; and in the latter case —
well, strange?- tilings happen, that is all.' "

Thus much hy way of information. Those who have read the
works of Mi'ndt, IIargkavk Ji:win<;s, Lawkik. Pai.okavk,
Moriki:, Lank, need not he told that these Bhatts have heen
imitated often, hut without avail ; for, unless they he true, not a cloud
even can he seen. There is another secret about the;// which can
only be revealed to such as have and use them .' — and not then
till they shall have proved worthy of the knowing.

Now I wish right here to say, that some persons have heen dis-
appointed in such, hecause all mysteries of the heavens, or gold in the
ground, or hidden money, etc., were not at once revealed. I never
used one for any such purpose ; but I sat and gazed upon it, await-
ing patiently for aught that was vouchsafed in the way of visions or
phantoramas. This is their negative and immcasurahlv lowest use.
The highest is to sit gazing until the gazer shall pass into a tran-
scendency lofty and most interior state — absolute, unequivocal
supra-clairvoyant condition, and then, ah, then, as mvriad glories
unfold and roll before the Soul's eyes the seer is everv inch a king or
queen, and can laugh this life and world, and all their trials, troubles
and infinite littleness to utter scorn, and, as it were, snap their fingers
at life, death, and their copula — circumstance. And this is the
positive use of a good Bhatteyeh.

The facts of Psycho-Vision, Mesmeric lucidity. Somnambulic
sight, and Clairvoyance, so called, are too numerous, palpable, and
well authenticated in this age to be questioned. The old time
animal magnetism and its marvels <ravc way to what was called
"Electrical Psychology," which in turn receded before the advance
of what were called " Seeing Mediums," but few of whom, how-
ever, could see the same facts alike; and all gave way before the
better method of developing the inner vision; by a roval road the
"•oal is reached in these davs, and that too without the dclavs

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dangers, and uncertainties heretofore attending all methods ot "atuin-
inrr that strange soul-sight wherewith not a few have astonished the
world. But a higher, broader, deeper clairvoyance is now needed

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216 The Glyfthcz Bhatteh.

and demanded by mankind, far superior to that displayed by the
riff-raff pulings of half-crazed fanatics ; the money-grabbing hordes
of " Fortune-tellers " infesting all large cities ; the " Biologists,"
" Psychologists," and others of the same order and genera. The
new has become old, and the old new, and a better method of self-
development is found in the revived practice than in all the others
singly or combined. In India, China, Japan, Siam, Upper Egypt,
Arabia, Central Nigritia, and on the far-off plains of Tartary and
Thibet, the old usage still survives ; and the seers divine through
shells, and crystals, and diamonds, emeralds, or the plain and less
expensive dark-ovoid, — wholly surpassing the boasted clairvoyance
of France, England, and America, and in the same identical lines
too, — albeit some uses thereof are perversions from the true and
normal, whether for mere financial ends, — as by the rising and the
falling of a white or yellow cloud or spot on the mirror's sui-face,
indicative of similar movements in the correspondent precious
metals ; the floating or the sinking of a fleece for " stocks ; " the
rising or lowering of a stalk or sheaf of wheat, declarative of the
course to be taken by that cereal in the markets of the world, for,
sometimes, weeks ahead ; or whether the objects, purposes, and
ends sought pertain to the higher, broader, or deeper ranges of
human thought and speculation. Unquestionably this ancient mode
of dealing with the dead, and rafforting the mystical worlds
above, beneath, within, and around us, is as superior to modern
"Circleism" as gold in beauty outvies rough iron; hence students
and explorers of the mystical side of the human soul ; those desirous
of opening the sealed doors of strange new worlds, and realizing
somewhat of the tremendous problem of Being, must develop, not
merely "Progress;" and to such the process of self-culturement is
by me considered absolutely indispensable, and worth more to an
anxious, earnest, light-seeking, yet not impatient soul, than all the
"circles," and magnetists on the four continents; because the
developed man or woman grows Character; the "progressed"
ones, merely memory and tacl: ; and to be an Independent Seer is to
become an absolute Power on the globe ! whereas all forms of
automacy, magnetic or otherwise, are but forms of serf-dom and

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Slavery to />oiccrs incapable <>/ identification* and tut tliat reason
doubly dangerous !

But the question arises with many : '• Can any and evers one suc-
cessfully use the Blialts ? " and the reply is, No '. Yes! Nut every
one can sec in them ; but every one can develop In ll.em the Nine
characteristics of perfect man and womanhood : Will ; Attention ;
Concentration ; Persistence ; S elk-restrai NT : Rei.IANc 1; ;
Magnetic Energy, and Ai lection, by an hour's steads use per
day, and thus develop soul, thereby growing the power of death-
survival and ensuring immortality. For I hold that those who can-
not see in them at all, or produce clouds, or other magnetic c fleets
after fair trial, may rest assured that they lack the great essential to
immortality, and unless they cultivate soul and strive for it. when
death lands their bodies in the grave their inner selves will dwindle
back to the monadal state or blank Nihility.

Others can see in them, if not at once, then in periods varying
from six weeks to one year ; and the slower the development, the
grander will be the power when culture shall have brought it into
play. I have known a few utter failures with them ; but the suc-
cesses outnumber them at least in the ratio of five hundred to one.
Those who would learn more of these matters are referred to the
special work on that subject, " Scership." But when that was
written no first-class Bhatts were on this continent ; nuw there are a
few, and they may be used in a company, lodge, or circle of from
five to one hundred persons. When used by a single one the front
may be gazed at ; but a glorious surface is presented edgewise, or
obliquely. In lodge, the company, whether it be few or many
persons, should sit in a semicircle ; the mirror leaning against the
wall, and the glare of a bull's-eye lantern be thrown full ami n.uud
upon its glowing face. Let all be still and motionless, and then
carefully note the result.

To conclude: I do not approve of the use of them for purposes
of magnetizing the opposite sexes, — aflectionally ; for although
easily done, vet I think Love thus gained is not apt to be enduring,
b\ reason of its too ardent and too often passional character, — hence
cannot fully satisfy the needs of the human soul ; yet I do believe it

218 The GlyphcB Bhatteh.

good to stir the medicine for the sick, with the finger, in the Basin of
the ovoid, for by such means it can be quadruply charged with the
divinest and most loving, therefore healing effluence of the tremen-
dous soul of man.

Concluding Paragraphs. — Many will suspect from our true
name — Brotherhood of Eulis — that we really mean " Eleusis,"
and they are not far wrong. The Eleusinian Philosophers (with
whom Jesus is reputed to have studied) were philosophers of Sex ;
and the Eleusinian Mysteries were mysteries thereof, — just such as
the writer of this has taught ever since he began to think, and
suffered for his thoughts, through the unfledged "Philosophers" of
the century, amidst whom only now and then can a true thinker or
real reasoner be found.

Through the Night of time the lamp of Eulis has lighted our
path, and enabled obscure brethren to illuminate the world. Before
Pythagoras, Plato, Hermes, and Budha, tue were I and when their
systems shall topple into dust, we will still flourish in immortal
youth, because we drink of life at its holy fountain ; and restored,
pure, healthful, and normal sex with its uses to and with us means
Restoration, Strength, Ascension, not their baleful opposites, as in
the world outside the pale of genuine science. Up to the publica-
tions hereof on this continent we were indeed secret, for not one-
tenth of those tested and called " Rosicrucians," knew of the deeper,
yet simpler philosophy. But the time has come to spread the new
doctrines because the age is ripe. I — We — no longer put up
difficult barriers, but affiliate with all who are broad enough to
accept Truth, no matter what garb she may wear. But till then we
shut out the world ; now we open our hearts and hands to welcome
all true searchers of the Infinite, — all seekers after the attainable.
We have determined to teach the Esoteric doctrines of the yEfh ; to
accept all worthy aspirants, initiate them, and empower them to
instruct, upbuild, and initiate others, — forming lodges if so they
please.

The doctrines and beliefs are broadly laid down in the series of
books published from the same source as the present ; but especially

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in the volumes noticed herein. Those who wish further and private
instructions, and to obtain information, conditions, secrets, writings
etc., and who purpose to cultivate the esoteric and mystic powers of
the Soul, may correspond with that objeft with the publisher hereof
— (or his official successor when dead)— who possesses certain
keys which open doors hitherto sealed from man, but which are
read}- to swing wide when the proper •• Open Sesame " is spoken by
those worthy of admission.

Lastly. — "Canst thou minister to a mind diseased?"
Yes! by teaching that mind the nature and principles of its own
immortal powers, and the rules of their growth — not otherwise.

For centuries we have known what the world is just finding out

that all the multiple hells on earth originate in trouble, unease, of
the love, affections, and passions, or amatory sections of. human
nature ; and that Heaven cannot come till Shiloh does ; in other
words, knowledge positive on the hidden regions of the mighty
world called MAX. Hence this partial uplifting of the veil between
us and the people of the continents. MEX FALL AND DIE
THROUGH FEEBLENESS OF WILL ! Women perish from
too much passion, none at all. and absolute, cruel love-starvation.
This we intend to correct. We shall succeed ; for True Men
NEVER FAIL !

Conclusion: The Lvmphication of Love. — I have already
herein called attention to the various secretions — normal — of the
human pelvic viscera, and named them lochia, exuvia-, semen,
Duverneyan lymph, prostatic and Cowperian fluids. I now call
attention to another, different from all and far more important than
either, and which is the only one common to both sexes alike. I
refer to that colorless, viscid, glairy lymph, or exudation which is
only present under the most fierce and intense amative passion in
either man or woman. This lymph has been noticed by M.D.'s,
and regarded as a vaginal or prostatic secretion, but it is neither.
Thev sought for its point of issuance, but found it not. because, prior
to its escape, per vagina and male urethra, it is not a liquid at all ;
but the liquid is the resultant of the union of three imponderables,
just as common water is the result of the union o! two gases and

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an electric current. Just so is this lymph the union of magnetism,
electricity, and nerve-aura, — each rushing from the vital ganglia and
fusing in the localities named. When it is present in wedlock's
sacred rite then Power reigns and Love strikes deep root in the soul
of the child that then may be begotten. If it is absent, the world is
sure to receive a selfish, mean, small, contemptible thing in human
shape, — a terror, or stalking crime and pestilence, — a partial man
or woman, of little use to him or herself, and none at all to others,
the world, or God. Wherefore the imperative law — the viola-
tion of which entails horror, crime, and suffering, through at least
a dozen lives — is : Absolute self-mastery in certain respe6ts unless
the presence of this divine fluid is God's permit for the holiest of all
human enjoyments and duties. It is often present when it ought
not to be, and when so, many a man has forgotten his manhood and
triumphed over a similarly tempted girl ; and many an honest girl
and woman has fallen to rise no more. When this fluid is abun-
dantly secreted the only safety is in instant flight, for, unappeased, it
begets an insanity and furore too dreadfully intense and imperative
to be successfully resisted even by an archangel, much less poor,
weak, erring sons and daughters of men. If flight do not take place,
and the leakage goes on, Soul itself is wasted, and Madness, with
Horror at his gorgon side, waves his cruel baton, and another victim
takes his or her place among the awful ranks of the Impotent,
Barren, or Insane. It is the loss of this through personal vice soli-
tary, and from the reading of infernal books and plates of damnation,
that so many rush into bagnios and the madhouse. Could my
readers but visit, as I have done, the magnificent Institution for the
Insane at Nashville, Tenn., most ably presided over by Dr. J. H.
Callender, a man who knows more about Madness and its cure than
all others in the world combined, and witness the soul-harrowing
spectacle of splendid people reduced to drivelling, soulless idiocy,
wild mania, or absolute dementia from sex perversions, I am sure
that no one would allow himself or herself to stand an instant in the
presence of a temptation which, if successful, means havoc and
destruction to the human soul. May God long preserve Dr. Cal-
lender, for the world will need him and such for centuries to come,

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until the race shall learn that '; Love, indeed, licth at the foundation."
and whosoever infracts its laws must pay the dreadful penalty. I
have spent the hest years of my life in the endeavor u, awaken
mankind to a realizing sense of the real meaning, the words just
quoted, and in ministering to those who had suli'eied from vio-
lations of that fundamental law; and I trust that when 1 am gone
others will take up and carry on the good work. As will he seen in
my work, ''The New Mola," I desire to leave mv system in good
hands after my death, or at once, if need he ; and I trust that through
such, and other means, the great evil of love infraction and perver-
sion may be put a stop to, measurably, if not altogether. So may it
be.

P. B. RANDOLPH.
Toledo, Ohio, yune, 1S74.

Note. — The Provisional Grand Lodge of Eulis established in Tennessee, was
dissolved by me — the creating, appointing and dissolving power — on June 13th,
1874. I intend to re-establish Eulis in organic form before I pass from earth, and
as soon as the Brethren of over one year's standing, constituting the C. S. Grand
Lodge, shall assist me in codifying its laws. The Supreme Grand Lodge is re-
transferred to these head-quarters of the Order, and Eulis has none other on the
globe.

P. B. RANDOLPH,
Supreme Grand Master of Eulis : Pythiana? and Rosicrucia and

Hierarch of the Triple Order.

I here tender my thanks to the Brothers Lumsden for aid in issuing this work —
their purchase of part of the edition; and to Ernest A. Percival, Esq., who
came to the rescue, and contributed toward completing it, — after others' prom-
ises, solemnly made, were ruthlessly broken ! And yet God reigns ! andfmy book
saw the light despite the blows aimed at me and it by the rule or ruin policy of —
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THE SECOND REVELATION OF SEX; LOVE, WOMAN,
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SYNOPSIS.

Chapter I. — Love, Wealth, Power, — a mighty Lesson. The
two Sphinxes : Woman, Fascination. True and False Love. —
their lines of difference. Some very peculiar ideas about women.
Female nature superior to male, and why. Test of a genuine Love.
Passion-love. Curious notions of Noyes, Smith, Swedenborg, and
some spiritualistic affinitists on love, — and bad ones, — some of
them. ''Women suffer less and are more cruel in love matters than
men." Is it true? If so, why? Signs of a false love and a true
one.

Chap. II. — The one great human want is love. Why? Hap-
piness impossible without a love to crown life. Women worse off
than men. She rmist have love or die ! Men satiaiied with Passion,
but women never ! Why? Magnetic attract ion. Physical aspects
of Love. Its celestial chemistry, — a grand secret and hint to
every woman, and lover, and husband, too, — not to be neglected.
One of Love's Hidden Mysteries, and a wonderful one. Conditions
of Love. Why we are not loved. Divorce Sharpers. '"Passional
Attraction." The Miser on the Desert. A Wonderful Dream.
Why a Seduced Wife can never be happy with her Seducer. The
Laws of Amatory Passione.

Chap. III. — Strange Love-origin of crime, — curious. Why a
loved wife can never be Seduced. No wife who is loved can ever
be led astray. Why no husband can prevent her goin;_j aside unless
he does love her. A hint for Husbands, — and a terrible fact. A
fallacy exploded. Marks of Love, — Tin; Mystery ok Mysteries :
How wives are slain ; how husbands make them false! Seduetion
by condolence ! New readings of old words The quietus of Anti-

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Marriageists. Whoever cannot weep is Lost! Why Libertinage
can never satisfy or pay. The death-blow to " Free Love." The
Home argument 1 A Love Pang worse than triple death. Jealousy.
From Parent to Child. Theories of Soul-origin. A curious thing
about Parentage. A Strange Mystery of Fatherhood. Secret and
Mysterious cause of Adultery.

Chap. IV. — Necessity of returned Love. Who wins a body
loses ; who wins a soul wins all ! ! a strange, but mighty rule of
Love ! The Vermicular Philosophers. Why Free Lovers always
come to grief! The nth and 12th Commandments. Passional
dangers of Eating-houses ! " The long and short of it." Moments
of very strange, wonderful, and mystic beauty in all women. The
mystery of Vampirism, — a terrible revelation ! Picture of a
love-laden woman. True Womanhood, and its counterfeit. A true
woman's Love. Men cannot call out love ; but can kill it quickly.
Why ? The three things essential to call out woman's love ! !

Chap. V. — A strange, weird Power of the human soul. The
sunbursts of Love in the heart-reft and lonely ! The Solar Law of
Love. A Vampire. The Better " Something." The Bridal Hour,
and the fearful " afterwards." An unsuspected, terrible counter-
feit of Love. Legend of the Wandering Jew, and Herodias, his
mate. " Circles," " Sorosis," and the Circean Sisterhood. Pro-
tection from Vampire Life leeches. How these are created by
Parents not loving each other. Singular fact and a Plea for the
fallen woman. Actual Vampirism, a case described. Spider-
women. Kidney troubles indicate Love troubles also. The triple
form of Love, — a new revelation. The kind of Love that sets us
crazy ! Love tides ! Proof of Love-adaptedness. Love and
Friendship, — the difference. Eternal Affmityism dissected. A
grand Love-Truth.

Chap. VI. — New definitions of Marriage, — Love a fluid
./Ether ! ! Origin of Vampire Life, — how they destroy plant
and animal life. Why loving wives and husbands fall. A Test.
Genius, Love, and Passion go together. Why? The Genius-
producing Law. The Law of Social Joy. A chapter full of re-

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demptive counsel for those wrecked on Love's storm-lashed rocks.
Vivat !

Chap. VII. — Love's Chemistry,— 'very curious, l)iit very true.
Love's double nature. Magnetic, Llertric, and Nervous bases „f
the grand Passion! Law .,f Tidal Love. The Poison flow.
Attraction of Passion. Chills and Fevers of true Affection ! Im-
mortalization. Difference between male and female existence.
Strange. What a woman never forgets or forgives. To Husbands
and Lovers. Words never to be forgotten by cither.

Chap. VIII. — Goodness alone is Power. Brain versus Heart!
Knowledge is strength, not power! Head versus Heart Women.
Grooves, Moods, Phases of Love. How Love requires but one
second to change to deadly Hatred. A Mystery. Isabella of Spain,
and Marfori, her lover. How the Franco-Prussian War resulted
from their loving. Singular fad about a woman's Magic Photo-
graphic power. Darwin of the "Monkey-origin of Man" on trial.
His acquittal. A Hint to Parents.

Chap. IX. — Why women are ill, but should not be. Con-
fectionery and Love. Drugged Candy. An unsuspected rock on
which lovers are wrecked. Mental Sex, not physical, is what men
love most. About woman's dress, as Love creators. A mistake
about women which most men make. Another word for the
" Strange Woman." Why women complain, and why wives die
early! Extremes: Shakerism — Freeism. Caution to all.

Chap. X. — Divorce : Hereditary Bias. The Love-cure. An
Old Friend in a New Dress. Why boy-babies are kissed more than
girl infants. Why girl-babies reverse the business after the second
year. Camp-meeting and Ball-room Loves. .Another Mvstcrv.
People who are Love-starved. The Affection-Congress. — the Con-
ductor, the Train, the Passengers, and the Arrival. A splendid
series of Facts for the Married.

Chap XL — A New Discoverv in Love, and a great run- too!
To a husband! To a Lover! Jealousy exists without Love!
Love may exist without Jealousy. Gems of rare truth. How to
recover when Love-exhausted. Beginning of Souls. Whv Firti-
cide at anv stage, is zcorsr than adult Murder! Freezing of

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Affection. The Sad Story of a Heart ! What a man said about it.
A Persian Poet's plea for "Free Love." Its Refutation. Rome
before the Cassars.

Chap. XII. — " The age of Brass." Why Mutilates cannot Love !
Why a Woman recognizes Genuine Manhood. " The Origin of
Evil." " Organic " Love. Why no Man can respect a " Mistress."
Why a "Mistress" cannot be happy! Something concerning
Wedded Life, very seldom thought of.

Chap. XIII. —A Piece of a Man ! Wife versus " Kept Miss."
Selecting Partners : the bad rule and the good one. Pre-nuptial
Familiarities. Marie and her " Husband ! " Keep cool. How a
wife bore a Christ-like Infant ! Amativeness, tame and wild, —
their effects. Eternal Affinity is infernal nonsense ! Why ? A
novel idea of how Eternity may be Passed . An idea of a new and
better method of divorce. "Complex Marriage" in Heaven, — a
curious notion. Why Great Men and Women are often Sensualists.
Did ever a woman forgive a man's preference of a Rival. Can
she?

Chap. XIV. — A Penny's Worth of Wit, and what came of it?
Dimity vs. Divinity ! One-sided Love, and Single-sided Marriage.
The Piggitude of Husbands " ( ?) What a Sensible Woman said
about Love-making Men ! ! Wives Beware ! How to make Him
Love Her 1 1 Denial, — its fruits. The Great Question Direct.
Its answer ! How to Make Her Love Him 11 No Ugly Women.
All are Beautiful somehow ! All Women Demand Home and
Homage. No one can Seduce a Loving Woman. Why? Poti-
phar's Wife. How to Conquer by Stooping. Why a Coarse Per-
son can Resist Temptation better than a Fine one. Old Maids !
Old Bachelors ! What Sappho said on Love ; her Poem.

Chap. XV. — The Long-haired Philosophers on Love ; Mr. Boar-
land and Miss Green. Ascent, Descent ; a Great New Truth for
Wives and Husbands. How the Coarse Feeds upon the Fine, —
the Stronger on the Weaker one. Who are Strictly Human, and
who are not. Anatomy of several grades of Professional Love-ists.
Honeymoonness versus Settle-downity ! Definitions : Strength,
Force, Energy, Power, Esteem, Friendship and Passion. Unless

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you love you can't be threat, or even good. IIjw tu Reconstruct a
Wife. Love and the other, — in ancient Pompeii.

Chap. XVI. Antagonisms. Stormy Love ; its uses. A 1 ), fence
of Adam,— premier. Who Falls liy Love by Love must RKc- ! !
Skeletons in People's Closets, — and our own. Copv-ists. Hcro-
Worship, — its Folly. Why? Anatomization of a Hero ! I'm aire
of a Modern " Husband ! " Why Lincoln was a great Man. St.
Peter and Paddy O'Rafierty ! What befell an Affinity ist in Same-
Company. James Fisk, Jr. His Love-power and Career. I lis
Parentage, Nature, Character. The Grand Secret of his wonderful
Success! What the Feronee Lady said about Fisk, Vanderbilt,
Butler and Forney.

Chap. XVII. — Woman's Eyes, and how to read them. The
curious conditions of Winning a Woman. Her rule of Safetv, —
Powerful. The Grand Magnetic Law- The Rule and Law of
Ruin; also the Rule and law of Right. How a false step photo-
graphs itself and the Party — in her eve — an Egyptian Secret!
The distrusts of Love-life, and their causes. The deeper meanings
of Love ! Descensive and Ascensive Passion. " The mother-in-
law Curse." Admiral Verhuel — the father of Napoleon III. The
Louisiana Belle and what befell her! The Male and Female
Worlds distinct. JVczv Fact — Woman's rights destroys marriage.
" Who's been here since I've been gone?" Chemical Love. Se-
cret of absolute love-power.

Chap. XVIII. — ''Spiritual or Mediumistic marriages," a con-
cubinic Sham! Madame George Sands' Consuclo Love-theory —
rejected. Personal Earthquakes and Periodic Excesses. True
Love renders us malaria-proof — -Singular Fact! Debauchees and
the Parasites that attack them ! Why insects and beasts prefer
human prey to all other — A Stuaxce and vast discovery!
Lest produced ijy ammai.cul.e. Another Discovery — and how-
some little worms brought on the War in Europe! II<«w to make
Home happv ! — a new recipe. Want, and what it does! The
Seducer's Wiles. A Woman's St<>ry, and a sad one. The i-t. ^d,
and last grand dutv of every husband living.

Chap. XIX. — How meat hurts our souls at times unless properly

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slaughtered — which it seldom is ! ! A fact for Legislation — How
a wicked cook magnetically injures our food. Ethereal action of
Love. An Extraordinary Love Mystery revealed. How Sloven-
liness kills affection ! The Suffrage Problem. The New Depart-
ure. About Relationship, very curious ! Touch ! Good women
get the worst husbands ; Bad men, the worst wives. The general
mixed-upness. Boy and Girl love. Something for everybody.

Chap. XX. — The Girl and Bride of the Period. What's up?
Why Honeymoons turn bitter so quickly ! Curious causes of Fe-
male Whims and Oddities. Scarcity of real Friendship. The
Love Key. The Seven Devils. The King Passion. Amative
Love Passion beyond the grave ! ! Woman's Grand Power. Ben
Eli's Marrowy letter.

Chap. XXI. — Dead-level love. Tiffs and spats. Husbandic
Rules, which husbands neglect — and pay for doing it. Married
celibates. Angularities. More about Eyes. Blondes and Bru-
nettes— their relative love-power and value as Wives — A very
curious analysis worth much to those concerned 1 1 Black Eyes,
and the " De'il." Blondes resist outward pressure better than
Brunettes. Brunettes fall from within quicker than Blondes. Why,
in both cases. Singular ! Astounding theory concerning Brunettes
Have they all Black man's blood in their veins ? The question and
its answer ! Blondes love more than one — at one time. Brunettes
one only, — their Fire-Packed Souls ! Their relative love and
revenge power ! A Brunette's love. Its intensity. Blonde-love —
its superior delicacy. Disadvantages of the Ruddy. Brunette love,
•Sewse-Subduing ; Blonde love, Soul-Subduing ! Brunettes never
vampiral. ' Blondes are, and a startling fact ! Their relative im-
munity from varied diseases ! A widow's and widower's chances
of marriage better than those of single persons ! Curious reasons.
Cotton-Aids. Plow to win a true man! A " Case." Male Vam-
pires. Little women have advantages. Why ? Reconstruction of
Dead-Loves. How ? Loftier Gospel. New England Love ! Com-
parative deaths of the wives of light and dark men. Whose
children live longest — and Why !

Chap. XXII. — How we sigh for the old loves ! Prodigal Wives

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and Husbands. Meddling " Friends." Dangers of unrequited
Love! The Awakening. Never Make your loves Public ! Watch-
ing a wife — and what came of it!! What befell Mr. Cniii.,r —
and his trousers — while watching his wife! — The place of sigh-,!
— a touching story of '"Lost Souls." The "All-Right" fallacy
exploded. The Social Evil! — a chapter of which the Author is
proud — and his readers will he glad.

Chap. XXIII. — Prc-nuptial Deceptions sure to he found out!
Complaining Marriages. Necessity of loving some one. Direction
of an Atheistic Libertine. The Upper Faith. The Dog Nature.
Temptation. The True Bill. Bad Marriage-horrors ! The Migic
Power of dress. Wife-neglecting husbands. Woman's love — a
Poem. Evidences of high civilization from a savage's point of
view. A rebuke to the 19th Century. Ignorant offers, and foolish
acceptances. Wedded Licenses — Impure brides, — Discovered.
The Married Rights of Man. What a Turk told the Author about
Women — New, and very good! How the great arc fooled bv the
little. How the best women must act queer and offish at times. — A
Hard "Case." No Atheist a full man. Hopes fixed on inappre-
ciatcs. No man can endure neglect. A powerful female advantage !
A powerful male one! Stingy husbands! How husbands can
rewin the wife's love ! A splendid resort ! !

A story and sermon concerning " the animiles what went out for
to fight." The fight, and what came of it. Singular fact about
jealousy. " Only once ! — that won't count much!" Won't it?
Can a lover trust a woman who deceives her husband? Social
Brigands — their own worst foes. Why? A bit of the author's life
history. What love is like. Human Responsibility. Vastncss ot
the human soul! '-She was all the world to Me!" A Heart
Poem. No libertine can evoke real Love. Modern Love! Sen-
sitiveness— its advantages. The seven Points — this alone is worth
the cost of the book to every woman. Something for wives; do.
for husbands. '-When her soul's at work!" The distributive
Offices of woman's Being. The human Telegraphic system. Its
wonders. Sexburg and Scoundrelton. Counterfeit kisses. •• Op-
portunity." Tiije rkaj. kiss! Its mi:amng. (ocwd! When

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friendships fail! "Bitter Beer!" Home! Sweet Home! Its
Joys. " Like a gentle summer rain ! " A Poem. The twain who
truly love. Vive L' Amour ! Finis.

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THE FIRST REVELATION OF SEX. LOVE: ITS HID-
DEN HISTORY. TWO VOLS. IN ONE. A Book for
Woman, Man, Wives, Husbands. The Loving and the
Unloved. Also Female Beauty and Power. Their
Attainment, Culture, and Retention.

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Of this volume, reprinted from the large octavo edition, nothing
need be said ; for "Seventh Edition" tells its own story. It differs
entirely from the preceding work, and covers totally different

grounds.

CONTENTS.

Chapter I. — What is Love? Reply — All of us born with a
certain amount of Love in us. Passion is not love, but love is
Passion! "Free Love" Infernalisms. Life and Love a desperate
game. True Love and its counterfeits. Prudery. Why young
girls "Fall." Magnetic Love. Why the wedded disagree — a
curious cause — and unsuspected ! Abortionists — the infamous
tribe Love's Hidden Mysteries. The TEN great Rules and Laws
thereof! She stoops to conquer I Dress — Silence — as Powers of
Love. Vampires life-teachers. Soul-devourers. Test of True
Love. Jealousy. Suspicion. When woman is divine, and how to
make her so.

Chap. II. — The wife's great fault and oversight. Adultery.
The kiss. A woman's idea of Love. Doggish husbands. Blind
Tom and the Monkey boy. Love an Element. Why she " can't
bear him!" Why he "hates her!" Divorce. "Spirit-medium"
frauds. " Love powders." " Dragon's blood." The Heart Song.

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Barn-yard Love Philosophers. - I've fallen — again ! " Passion in
Men and Women. Song ,,f the Forsaken. Laughing Scandal.
Sunshine. Sugar-life.

Chap. III. — Perverted Magnetisms. Magnetic Poisons. Uter-
ine diseases; undreamed-of causes of such. Complaints of women.
Vulgar natures. Love dependent on victuals anil drink. The
Song of Wedded Misery. Vicarious Love — Wretchedness. Real
Marriage — What it is, and is not! Meddling People. Love-song
of the Soul !

Chap. IV. — Power of words — A startling truth. Air; the
supreme joy of life. Curious, but true! — Oxygen!! — a Love
creator ! The two Babies. A sad, sad story. Nellie and the flick-
ering candle. Consumption. Affection ; Love ; the difference be-
tween. Love and provender ! The secret sin ! The Proper Study
of Mankind is — Woman !

Chap. V. — Origins of the Black, Red, and White races. Dif-
ferences between the Sexes. " Blue Pill for Breaking Hearts."
Unwelcome Love no Love at all. Forced attentions and other
Poisons. Dark people healthier than light ones. Why ? Modern
marriage not a Bed of Roses. Why? The wonders of a woman.
Nuts for married people. False Divorce. Helplessness of woman.
Men of lofty soul love simple women best. Why? Actual Mar-
riage means reciprocateness. Why a woman who bears a child by
a dark man can never thereafter bear a light one. Transfusion.
Temptation — and how to resist it. Magnetism. Mingling.

Chap. VI. — How to win a husband's love. The Three Oriental
Love Secrets. An excellent, but strange, revelation. Magnetic
Will and Love Power. Love Starvation — and how to cure it!
The Seven Rules for husbands — good ones to the wise. Mis.
Grundy. Free will. John and Sally. "Animality." The other
side. Tides of Passion and Love. The Social Evil. •• When it is
dark" — a mournful tale. Incompatibility. Why relations hate-
each other. Physical basis of human love. Seven Laws o| Love.
Vampires. The author's experience. Why he loves a pretty
woman. " When the Sultan goes to Ispahan ! " Funny, but d mgcr-
ous.

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Chap. VII. Woman is Love Incarnate, only men don't realize it;
Dimity versus Divinity. Hearts for sale ! Woman fails to know
her Power. Love, an Art. The Magic Ring — very strange. The
Love-cure. Mother-in-law — the trouble they make. Once in a
whilish love of husbands. Lola Montez. The Christ-imaged child.
Wonderful law. Love-storms, gales, tempests. How to subdue
wild husbands. Woman's second attack wins, and why.

Chap. VIII. — Love not to be forced on either side. What Leon
Gozlan said about women. "Infernal fol-de-rolisms," "Legal"
violence I How Love-matches are broken off. The Lesson it
teaches. The French " Girl's " curious Prayer. Beauty ; its laws.
Insanity. An invaluable Chapter on the arts and means of increas-
ing Female Beauty ; translated from the French of Dr. Cazenave.
Special instructions for beautifying the skin, hair, eyes, teeth, — in
short, the Perfect Adornment of Women.

Chap. IX. — Good-Humor. Home. The true life. Heart ver-
sus Brain. The Woman condemned to be strangled, and how she
was saved. The three Lessons. A latter-day Sermon — Text:
"Jordan is a hard road to travel." The Castaways. Singular.
Magdalen. Scandal and Gossip. What Echo said. The Baby
World. A thrilling Sermon by a reformed Prize Fighter. A
splendid Poem — Swinburn.

Chap. X. "Eternal Affinityism," and Chmch-ortion. Honey-
moons versus sour Syrup. Marriage in 1790- One happy man;
the curious reason why. " Doctors." Science — a wonderful case
of its mighty Power. Cyprians not all bad or lost. Why ? Mono-
gamy and Amative Stimulants. The finest race upon the Planet.
Propagation of Heroes — how it is accomplished ! The Eye as an
Index of Character — Gray, Blue, Hazel, Black eyes. The Laugh-
cure in a new phase. Matrimonial career. Gossiping. Healthy
Love. Sex in Nature. Marriage of Light and Matter. Music is
Sexive. Three classes of Women. Whom not to Wed.

Chap. XI. — Married Celibates. Friendliness. Fretting. "Lip-
Salve." Boston. Philosophy — Soul-Marriage! A Fashionable
Lady's Prayer. Prayer of the Girl of the Period. Hottentofs

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Heaven. Voudoo John, and Female Subjugation by Black-magic
Arts. Brcastless Ladies. How Wives are Poisoned !

Chap. XII.— The Fountain of I.ove. How to remedy vital
exhaustion. What to eat to gain Love-l'o\ver. Power of a Loving
Woman. Her child. Excess. Promiscuous •■ Love." •• When
Sweetness reigns in Woman ! " A half man ; and how to pick him
out. Ankles. Genius and Wedlock. Why the Talents are gener-
ally Wretched in the Marriage State. Singular fans, and Singular
Faults in Women. Bitter Experience. A Singular Paper upon
Incest. Xon-reciprocation — and its cause — and cure. Childless
Couples — Causes — Cure. Fault-finding. Jealousy; its cause and
cure. The Rule and Law of Human Power, or Genius.

The book also contains special articles concerning why wives
hate their husbands. Singular causes of wedded misery, and its
cure. A hint to mothers. Hint to unloved wives. Gusty Love.
When woman has most conquering power. The stormy life. The
magnetic attack. Sex and passion after we are dead. Old-maid-
hood, and how to avoid it !

VI.

THE MYSTERIES OF THE MAGNETIC UNIVERSE.
Seership. New Editiox. A wonderful series of discoveries
for self-development in all branches of Clairvoyance, including
the astonishing agency of MAGIC MIRRORS ; and how to
use them.

CONTENTS. — Part I.

Somnambulistic lucidity. Genuine clairvoyance a natural birth-
right. Two sources of light, astral and magnetic. Win* mes-
merists fail to produce clairvoyance in their k" subjects." Vinegared
water, magnets and tractors as agents in its production. Specific
rules. Clairvoyance is not spiritualism. The false and the true.
Psychometry and intuition are not clairvoyance. Mesmeric circles.
Ei^ht kinds of Clairvoyance ! Mesmeric coma and magnetic
trance. The difference. Ellect of lung power. Effect of amative-
passion on the seer. Dangers to women who are mesmerized.
Oriental European, and American methods. The mirror ot ink.

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How to mesmerize by a common looking-glass. The insulated
stool. The electric or magnetic battery. The bar magnet. The
horse-shoe magnet. Phantasmata, Chemism. Why " Spirits " are
said to take subjects away from magnetizers. Curious. Black
Magic. Voudoo ("Hoodoo") spells, charms, projects. Very
Strange! " Love Powders." The sham, and the terrible dangers
of the real. How they are fabricated. Astounding disclosures
concerning Voudooism in Tennessee. Proofs. The cock, the
conches, the triangle, the herbs, the test, the spell, the effect, the
wonderful result. White science baffled by black magic. Mrs. A.,
the Doctor, and the Voudoo Chief. Explanation of the mystery.
The degrees of Clairvoyance, and how to reach them. The road to
power, love, and money. Self-mesmerism. Mesmerism in ancient
Egypt, Syria, Chaldea, Nineveh, and Babylon thousands of years
ago. Testimony of Lepsius, Botta, Rawlings, Horner, Bunsen,
Champollion, and Mariette. The Phantorama. Advice to seekers
after Seership.

PART II. — The Magnetic Mirror and its Uses.

Dr. Dee and his magic mirror. Strange things seen in it. Not a
spiritual juggle. George Sand. The Count St. Germain, and the
Magic Mirror or Spirit-Seeing glass. Jewels used for the same
purposes. Hargrave Jennings (the Rosicrucian) , On fire. Curious
things of the outside world, and divine illumination. Cagliostro,
and his Magic Mirror. Frederick the Great Crystal-seeing Count.
American Mirror Seers. Dr. Randolph, in April, '69, predicts the
Gold panic of September. Its literal fulfilment. Business men use
mirrors to forestall the markets. Their singular magic. Better and
more effective than animal magnetism. Why. Extraordinary
method of holding a psycho-vision steady as a picture. Two kinds
of mirrors. Crystals. The pictures seen in a magic mirror are
not on or in, but above it. Dangers of " Spirit control." Facts.
Theory. Constructors of magic mirrors. Failures. Success.
Chemistry of mirrors. The Life of Dream, and the Street of
Chances. The Past, Present, and Future are actually now, because
there can be no future to Omniscience. The future embosomed in

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the Ether, and he who can penetrate that can scan unhorn events in
the womb of coming time. It can he- done, is done, and will lie l>v
all who have the right sense. Sir David Brewster. Salvcrtc, Iamhli-
chus, and Damascius. A magic mirror seance extraordinary. The
Emperor Basil's son is brought to his father in a magic glass by
Theodore Santa Baren. Mr. Roscoe's account of a strange adven-
ture of Benvenuto Bellini. What death really is. A //>-.:• theory !
The phantasmagoria of real things. Absorption. Its use and
meaning. Platonic theory of vision. Theory of spiritual sight.
Ma^ic and magnetic, one and the same. Statement of the seven
magnetic laws of Love. The blonde wife rcwins her straying
brunette husband from a brunette rival — from a blonde rival.
Polarites. Caressive love. The antagonal polar law of love.
Backthrown love. A singular principle. Egyptians. Magic
mirrors. Mrs. Pool and Mr. Lane's testimony. How a maiden
discovers a lover — a rival — a wrong-doer. Awful magnetic power
of an injured woman's " magnetic prayer." Oriental widow finds
a husband — having seen him — never having seen him. --The
Master Passion." "After death." Rules and laws of magic mir-
rors. How to clean and charge them magnetically. The Grand
Master, De Xovalis. The celebrated " Trinius" Japanese magic
crystal globe of San Francisco, Cal.

The price of this work has been fixed at three dollars. It is the
only work on the subjeft now extant in the English language, and
incontestable' excels either the French, German, Arabic, Syriac,
Hindostance, or the Chaldaic treatises upon the same topic, and is,
probably, the fullest and most perfeft compilation and exposition of
the principia of the sublime science ever penned. A work of this
extraordinary character is, indeed, rare. It can only be had dirccl
from my office.

VII.

The whole, instead of a part, of the quite Extraordinary ANSAI-
RETIC MYSTERY — the fourth Rosierucian Revelation Concern-
ing Human Sex. and, as thousands can testify, the most ^.oumling
that has ever yet appeared anywhere on earth; and while there is

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not a word or line or suggestion in it, or in the third Revelation,
that favors anything that could make an angel blush, yet they go to
the very foot of the subject. Said a celebrated agitator, on hearing
a portion of them read : " What do you charge for that astonishing
writing?" alluding to about one-fifth of the whole. "Five dollars ;
as it is hard work to write it out." " Five dollars ! Why, it is worth
$500 to any one on earth with an ounce of brains, or a thrill of
Man or Womanhood left in them ! " Well, I looked up the Orien-
tal MSS., and copies can be had of me, and if the mighty things
therein — things not even dreamed of in these cold, practical lands —
are not found to be worth ten times the sum, then the sublimest
secrets the world ever held must wait another century for apprecia-
tive souls.

To those whose orders hereafter reach $5 at one time, a fine like-
ness of the author, by Poole, of Nashville, Tenn., will be sent as a
premium, and the Ansairetic Mystery will be given gratis, and
without any charge whatever, but only when requested in letter of
remitta,7tce with return stamps.

Address this Publishing House, Toledo, Ohio.

THE CURIOUS LIFE OF P. B. RANDOLPH ! " The Man

with Two Souls ! " — A Revelation of the Rosicrucian Secrets ! The
Oath! Their Initiation! Strange Theories — Very. His Birth,
Blood, Education, Adventures, Secret of his Power! His Glory
and Their Shame ! The Scandal and Sensation !

Part I. The Bright Side. What the People say.

Part II. The Ordeal. The Accusation. His Experience. Be-
hind the Bars. He loses all he has made in a Life-time !

Part III. The Charge and Trial! The Witnesses. Curious
Testimony. Speeches of the Attorney against Randolph, and Sel-
den's, the Free-Love Champion.— A Caution to Masons, Odd-Fel-
lows, and other Secret Societies. (See Part 3.) Randolph's De-
fence, and Address to the Jury. He makes a Clean Expose of the
Whole Thing ! These three masterly efforts are undoubtedly the
strongest and ablest ever delivered for and against Free Love.

The Verdict ! Startling Disclosures ! " The Mysteries and Miser-

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ics of Love." Talk about Novels and Rumana-s! Why they are
tame nothings beside this man's life ami career. It reads like a
romance. The strange oaths of the Kosicrucians regarding all
females. Extraordinary comparison between A^apism and Free-
Love! The Rosecross initiation, — the officiating girls — and what
they do. "Do&or"BAY and his ''BUG" theory! ••When the
Band Begins to Play!" What was said concerning Randolph's
Book about Love and Women, Alleetion, the Sexes, Attractions,
Vampirisms, Infatuations, Friendship, Passion, Beauty, Heart,
Soul, Lost Love, Dead Affection, and its resurrcctivc law, True and
False Marriage.

One of the first writers in the country, when asked his opinion of
the MSS. from which it was printed exclaimed: "All I can say to
the people of America is Buy the Book ! Price only 75 cents ! and
that will tell the whole strange story ! "