Advanced magnetism

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Chapter One

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MAGNETISM UNITES ALL THE ORBS OF THE SKY

WITH HUMANITY AND WITH GOD

*■ W A V E S AND IMPULSES,*

LL CREATION is connected by natural and not by supernatural influences.

There is nothing supernatural. Every law that is at work in the farthest corner of the starry system is at work on earth and within the range of human life. This proposition is the basis of the larger sys¬ tem known as Universal Philosophy. It gives the solution of all problems. If it were not true, there would be no plan, no unity in the purpose of creation.

A natural law is based upon a process that the human mind is able to grasp and to understand. Thus gravity is called a natural law, although it is one of the most mysterious of all the processes at work in the universe. When the mind is not able to apply the right name to a law, it calls it by the nearest term it can suggest. Gravity is so called because it is weight or the quality of being heavy.

But the idea of weight is lost when we connect the same law with the influence of the earth over the moon, and the influence of the moon over the earth.

Tf you tie a stone to a tower and throw it off, the string holds the stone within leash. This is a tangible hold, something that man can make and control. No natural law is at work when the hunt-

A 1) V A N C E D M AGNETIS M ing dog is kept under leash. The nail that binds the board to the timber-joists does not obey a law of man; for, although man con¬ trolled it, the real law is that of adhesion which causes the nail to cling to the wood.

If the moon could be chained by a cord tied to the earth, and the latter held to the sun in the same manner, the law of man would be at work controlling the union; but the law of nature would be needed to keep the orbs apart, as their collision would mean ruin.

Here we see three influences. One prevents the departure of a distant body in the sky, keeping it within its system, and not allowing it to go an inch beyond the will of that influence. An¬ other prevents the distant body from approaching the controlling orb. The third causes the material of which each body is com¬ posed to adhere and take shape, size, form, and all the qualities of dimensions.

These three laws are attraction, repulsion and adhesion. A fourth law is cohesion, or the adhesion of molecules to each other in chemical elements.

These are all natural processes, not one of them being originated » by the will or act of man. But if one object were to be tied to another, as a horse to a post, the process is due to the creative idea of man, taking advantage of the law of adhesion, which makes friction possible. Without friction the knot in the rope would slip and open.

There is nothing more supernatural, weird, strange and subtle than these four laws; yet they are all recognized as natural.

Why a cannon ball, set free from the top of a tower, will come to the ground, is as deep a mystery as exists anywhere in the material or spiritual world. The common mind says it is due to weight; but weight is given to one object only when a distant, free, separable and attracting influence is exerted by another.

It is known to be the same law that the sun employs in keeping the earth within its system; and the same law that the earth employs in holding the moon in place. It is the same law that, more distantly, is employed by the far away systems of stars to maintain the place and rank of our solar system. And, as far as there are heavens, this law of attraction, working in harmony with its sister law, repulsion, is potent and imperious from one end of creation to another.

WAVES AND IMPULSES

No orb, no sun, no system, no galaxy, no starry field, is too great or too small for its activities; and, strangest of all. this same law is present in every drop of blood, every fibre of life, every grain of sand in this tiny planet on which we dwell.

What it is has never been explained except on the basis of magnetism. What it accomplishes is partly known. How it works is still a mystery except under the law of magnetism. Enough, however, is known of this magnetic energy to explain the whole process, and also each and every law that is at work on the earth or in the universe.

These facts are admitted as true, and are not in dispute by any person familiar with natural powers.

We thus stand face to face with a series of influences that are as great as the whole creation of God, and that exist in every particle of these bodies of ours. Nothing is beyond the pale of their sway. Nothing is left to itself, and nothing can escape. Departure and approach are both denied.

The law of attraction holds everything to everything. The only blemish it has is the inability to be interpreted. If we could read its waves of impulse, we might read the secrets of heaven. If the power of such interpretation should some day be acquired by the human race, its revelations need not be regarded as in the realm of the supernatural, for nothing is more natural than the force that is most common and most active in creation.

An endless line of study might creep up on this thought in almost any direction that is assumed. Two orbs like the earth and moon throw out the influence each toward the other, and the effect is readily observed. The attraction of the moon lifts the tides. The attraction of the sun does the same thing. When both the moon and sun are in the same line, the earth’s water is lifted to its highest; and, when the sun and moon are separated, as in the first and third quarters of the moon, the earth’s water is not lifted so high, and the tides are known as neap, or lowest. Here we have indisputable evidence of the subtle, strange and almost supernatural attraction of one orb for another by a law that is hard to understand except on the theory of magnetism.

Wonders are worked in the sky by this magnetism. The moon once turned on its axis as the earth does now; but the magnetism of the earth has been slowing up that revolution until it has almost stopped, only the librations of the moon remaining to show what has gone before. In like manner the moon and the sun both are slowing up the revolutions of the earth. While a day is the dis¬ tance from one sun to another sun, or from moon to moon, or mid¬ night to midnight, the length of that day is determined by the time it takes the earth to make one revolution on its axis. If the earth has been slowed up in its revolution, then the day is a longer period than it was. That it has been slowed up and is being made slower all the time, is a proved fact. The reduction is so small that it seems inappreciable, but it is nevertheless the fact that some day the earth will stop making days and nights. What then will be its fate? Seasons will vanish in part, vitality will be differently distributed, and the race will change to suit new conditions.

These thoughts are part of the study of philosophy, which runs them to their full length, discovering the purpose present today in the unfolding of the great plan of creation by following the process of natural laws. All these influences are magnetism.

If you throw a man to the ground, that is not magnetism, although some part of your prowess may be due to such a power. If you compel a man to come to you by using force, as of a rope, that is not magnetism. If obedience is secured by force, threats, fear, or other cause that impels the weak to follow the strong, little or no magnetism is employed. But if the man comes to you, or your will is obeyed without show of resistance, or refusal and resistance are conquered without demonstration on your part, you are employing the same law that has been checking the revolution of the moon and that is making earth’s day longer.

The explanation is this:

Between one object and another, on this orb, and in the sky, there is a sea of ether that vibrates with inconceivable speed.

In this ether there is a wave-action that affects the molecules or primary particles of all matter, and that is not hindered by solid masses from exerting its influence on every such molecule.

In the sea of ether, traveling on the waves of action, are impulses, which obey a Supreme command .

These impulses are laws of life that may be employed by the mind of man for his own service.

The human will may set in motion its commands and impel them on ether waves to any distance; although the rule of attraction is that the nearer the object the greater the power of control.

Chapter Two THE FIRST VICTORY IN MAGNETISM IS

PERSONAL MASTERY

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EVELOPED MAGNETISM must mean something or it cannot be regarded as well acquired. To hold a quality of value is akin to having property of value. If it serves no satisfactory purpose it is not a worth}?" acquisition. The first book in this series of courses of instruction is devoted solely to the task of developing personal magnetism. That book cannot be omitted in the study of this subject, and this fact has been made plain in every way prior to the announcement of this work. Advanced magnetism is intermediary between the development of the power, and the deeper philosophical investigations of Uni¬ versal Magnetism.

We are about to embark upon a private consideration of the laws and powers and their uses in controlling other people and checking the silent sway that others may have over the student of this work.

It is assumed that you have therefore mastered the developing stage of magnetism by having graduated from the first book, which is devoted, as has been stated, to the sole duty of cultivating the power.

To test this question, we shall have you pass through several common incidents for a month, and then measure up your percent age of self-control; for it must be remembered that this kind of mastery is the key to all others. No man or woman could be so foolish as to believe that some other human being could be mas¬ tered when the world of self is an unconquered kingdom.

These tests are as simple as any that could be suggested, yet they are more than straws in the breeze. If you fail in any one of them, you should go back to the first book and again seek its aid.

Coughing .—This is a little hacking action of the glottis that grows into an annoying habit. The test is to omit every alternate cough; and keep reducing them until you can control the fault. It is the easiest of all efforts.

Gaping .—This is the vulgar habit of yawning. It follows lack of sleep, loss of vitality, indigestion and other causes. It is not so easy to overcome as coughing; but may be mastered by any person who is in earnest and has some degree of self-control.

Sneezing .—This comes on so suddenly that it is not anticipated, but there is an appreciable length of time between the premonition and the sneeze. The first step is to widen this margin of time; that is, to make it as long as you can. Another consideration is to learn to recognize the approach of the premonition. These two things can be done and with certainty, after a little practice. It is said that more than ninety per cent of the American people possess teeth that are capable of being sneezed out. Many a person on board ship, not having the slightest warning, has sneezed an upper set of teeth to the briny deep. In a street car the other day a nice-looking fat woman who had been unusually meditative, sneezed similar bric-a-brac across the car to the annoyance of the man who sat opposite reading the paper. When she had secured them and was able to articulate, her only apology was that she had no idea she was going to sneeze.

This is true. To get the advance idea is important, not only for practical life, but also as a test of self-control.

Then to hold the sneeze back as long as possible is another part of the evidence of power.

After more trials the time will come when the sneeze will be conquered. There are thousands of men and women who have testified that they have been able to completely suppress it. The result has been a great advantage, for the habit of sneezing easily leads to irritation of the throat, bronchial tubes and lungs; and the easy sneezer keeps at it more frequently than one who does it

100 PER CENT OF SELF-CONTROL onl) occasionally. During the period of rose cold, hay fever, and kindred kinds of malady, the tendency to sneeze on the least provocation and at anything, is so common that it leads to watering of the eyes, and redness of the nose, with running catarrh of a thin nature. When the sneezing can be conquered, all these discomforts can be driven away. Yet it is not an easy task for one who is afflicted in such way.

That the habit can, under those circumstances, be wholly con¬ quered has been fully proved, not in a few cases, but in every case where the patient has developed magnetism under the instruction of the first course.

This fact has been used as a test by us for many years. In one thousand cases where students were asked to suppress sneezing before they passed through the stages of the first book, the result was failure; yet when that book had been mastered, almost all the students could at will hold back the tendency to sneeze, until it disappeared altogether.

Irritability .—This is the most common trait of human nature. It shows uncontrol in the meanest degree; and it may be said that no man or woman can master others who gives way to this habit. It grows with remarkable activity until it envelops the whole nature, and then everything grows wrong. Yet a magnetic person who assails it in force will soon make it appear foolish.

The first step is to learn to recognize its approach. It comes like sneezing and is in fact merely the temper having a sneeze. If you fail to know when it is coming on, you will give way to it and humiliate both yourself and others. You will say mean things, do acts of violence, or curse something or somebody, either inwardly or outwardly. The girl that you are to marry, if you are anxious to make her think that you are an ideal man, will not see this display, for you know enough then to curb it; but, soon after marriage, and the heart has been won, and there is nothing at stake, you will let loose all restraint, and off will go the bad temper. She never dreamed that you could talk so; she wonders where you acquired that special vocabulary; and, later on, if she protests, her innocent head may be the target for your assault. This is most unmanly, and most unmagnetic.

When you can go one whole month and not show to yourself, when alone, the least bit of irritability, then you have magnetism to that extent. But the chief victory is in acquiring the power to

•* know of the approach of this sudden feeling, and check it before the cloud has risen in the horizon.

Swearing .—In a man this is generally speaking the word damn, the word hell, the name of the divinity, and terms that are ostracized in decent society. In a woman, it is confined to such words as darn, hang it, oh lord, sometimes vile terms, and often the full masculine swing. The common women of the land swear with as much ease as men, and most of them add filthy terms to their profanity. But we are not dealing with them. The sensible, decent classes are addicted somewhat to the use of these outlawed expressions, and they are expected to master the fault. It runs along by the side of irritability, but there are people who use improper words who do so with each and every emotion, whether there is temper in it or not.

The first step is to master the approach of the action in the mind. Do not let it get shape in thought even. This is magnet¬ ism. The more accustomed you have been in the past to swearing or using words that are related to that fault, the greater will be your victory in conquering it.

Drink .—This means the use of alcoholic beverages, and all forms of alcohol whether required as a medicine or not, and especially the patent medicines that create the alcoholic habit in so many millions of lives. If you are of the mental calibre that will believe that such medicines are what they are advertised to be, or that they will do what they are claimed to do, then you cannot hope to hold any influence over other human beings. Your own will power is in the hands of the great corporations that make and sell such medicines.

Also if your health is such that you require alcohol to get well, you are not a candidate for controlling others. Magnetism implies health and wholeness of body and mind.

There is an old idea that drink will arouse the magnetism in a man. This is just the opposite of the truth. It will burn up and drive out all the magnetism that a man has on hand, and leave him weak and empty.

The more alcohol you put into your system, whether in the form of beer, champagne or liquor, the less magnetism you will have, and the harder it will be to acquire that power.

But the present test assumes that you possess this fault, and we wish you to see how readily you can overcome it. When the taste

100 PER CENT OF SELF-CONTROL and thirst haunt you, as they will from day to day, then rise above the slavery and appeal to your kingly self for the mastery.

Tobacco. This is mostly for men; for, while it is true that some females chew and others smoke, they are not students of this or any other line of study. Aou may not be one of the men who chew; we will let that pass; we feel sure that you are not; but if you are, conquer the vile custom just as soon as you have one ounce of magnetism. T ou are not wanted in this club, if you cannot do this. If a man were seen lying in the pen with his own swine, one appeal might be made to him to get out and stand with the human species; if one such request did not do the work, he should be left with the swine; and the same is true of the tobacco-chewer.

But the smoker is always at a disadvantage. If he is the fiend of the cigarette, it is the end of all things with him; he will never ’ rise from what he now is; he may hold his own for a while, but he is at the apex of his life; the future is all down hill.

The cigar and pipe smoker uses tobacco to calm his nerves. That is the very thing that magnetism will not allowq for the calmed nerves are cousins to the decayed nerves. The live wire is the current-bearer; not the wire that has been put under an anesthetic. Of all the men who have given evidence of great magnetism, and this does not mean animal cunning, we do not know of one that has been a cigar or pipe smoker.

It is the disposition of men who have not the will power to give up the smoking habit, to pooh pooh the claim that is herein made; but their defence of what they are unable to control does not change the fact. It is important that you master this fault, for it is a fault, although well nigh universal.

Gossip .—This is seemingly a small matter; but, in the study of magnetism, it is a large affair. The gossiper is not magnetic, and for several reasons. One is the fact that neither he nor his acquaintances hold him in respect; and when the public thinks little of you, there is a reduction of your prowess that is felt in the very presence of others. When you fail to respect yourself, you show it in your manner and bearing toward others. Self-confi¬ dence is essential, and it must be well founded, not a mere boast.

The individual, whether man or woman, w r ho is a rare talker, and a careful discusser of other peoples’ affairs, is always held in greater esteem than the free and easy talker who takes up any subject and forces his opinions on others. Absolute silence is not a merit; but moderate powers of conversation are high marks of good mental quality. What wins favorable opinions from people is sure to give you some control over them.

But on the separate ground of self-control, it is necessary to destroy the habit of gossip. Master these wrong customs in yourself and you will be ready to govern others.

Waste of Time .—Again we have a thing that seems small but that counts up mountains very rapidly. The magnetic man cannot rest; he has no right to have quiet nerves; nor erratic nerves. Employment of the little minutes, the spare grains of time, is the secret of keeping the system on fire and at the same time not allowing it to run itself. In the case of the man whose nerves are wild if he does not smoke them into submission, we see the energy seeking usefulness and yet being put to sleep; an open assault upon the best powers ever given to humanity.

The men and women who have achieved greatness through the development of magnetism, have been time users, never time wasters. They have been surprisingly busy. They have had no time for faults, unless they have been great ones.

In every twenty-four hours there are more than one hundred small periods of a minute or more each in which it is easy to let time wing its flight never to return. Once lost it cannot be brought back. To be constantly doing something, whether it counts value to the mind or to the body is the most virile of virtues.

But on the ground that the habit is a bad one we wish you to correct it. If it is difficult to conquer, all the better, for the Alps are worthy of the Napoleons. Master this delinquency for the sake of proving to yourself that you are not the slave to any habit.

’ At the Table .—Here the foundation is laid of ill health. The weak stomach is the most potent thief of vitality. Until you have acquired the best powers of digestion you cannot store away the magnetism that is necessary for sustaining the nervous system in its efforts to create the fund of energy that is used in battling for supremacy. On this ground you should not be a glutton, nor should you cater to relish or the likes of the appetite. Certain foods that are plain are known to furnish vitality, and others are known to defeat and overpower it. The system of living that is provided for in the Tym Club is most beneficial to the magnetic person. No manor woman can live up to any of those Vital Laws without adding to the magnetism of the body and nervous system.

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But it is to test your ability to master yourself that we suggest the adoption of the rule that foods of the most tempting kinds should be avoided. The odor of the freshly-baked dish, or its appearance, or a clinging recollection of past experience, will tempt you to indulge in it when you know or ought to know that it is not best for you. Here comes the battle between taste as the master with yourself the slave, or yourself the master and taste the slave.

It is beneficial to your powers of self control to be able to fight down all temptations, whether at the table or elsewhere. The desire to eat something that weakens the nervous system, even though it affects it but little, will cause you to say that this one time of indulgence cannot do much harm; and here is where the un-magnetic person falls down. The feeling that a single indul¬ gence is not a serious breach of rigid eating, leads all good inten¬ tions astray. On this rock the entire race is wrecked. Only this evening a guest of good motives ate a meal of sickly pastry, from which she will suffer in the next few days; and her excuse was that, after this one indulgence she would begin in earnest to eat plainer food. And she, as well as millions of others, will go through the world in suffering amidst the greatest proffer of good intentions.

Habits and Regime .—There are scores of good habits and many more bad ones. The good habits are acquired by rowing up stream, and the bad ones come by drifting down with the current, all unmindful of the dangers ahead. One direction requires that you take the oars in your hands and row against the flow of your inclinations. The other course requires that you put the lid down over your finer instincts and shut up the heart that beats for an exalted earthly existence, turn your back on the right direction, and let things go as they will. And they will always go in spite of your belief that you can be right and make progress while the boat of life is drifting with the stream. But the troubling fact is this: there never was a drifting current that was wending its way upland. It is always down and out. Every moving body of water finds its way to the shoreless sea.

Habits and regime are opposites.

The former are fixed methods of doing certain things, while the latter is always a plan by which to live.

Habits may be good or bad; that which is bad is never termed regime. The bad grows by its own impulses. The good must be cultivated.

The adoption of a fixed plan by which to live does much to mold that kind of character that adds to a person’s usefulness in the world. It denotes the fact that individual slavery has ceased, and self-mastery taken its place. This is proof of magnetic control.

Excesses .—These occur in marriage. They undermine the magnetism of either sex. They are largely due to the fact that the man has but little control over himself, and he goes about with pale features and a sickly hue over his face attended by drawn and pinched lips, showing that his vitality and the nerve centers have emptied themselves out in excesses.

The history of magnetism shows that the unmarried men and women, if chaste, are less likely to display magnetism than those who are married; but this rule does not always hold true. The exceptions seem to be those found among men and women who use their sex forces in mental work, for the same powers that feed one function feed the other, and this is seen in the impotency of the man when his brain is over-active.

If you are not inclined to deep study, and are not married, you will not become great in magnetism. Marriage takes up some of the force that might go to the brain. No man who has married before his life work was in hand, has made himself, great; unless he has left his wife, as young Shakespeare did, when he went to London.