That Cruelest Of Tyrants - Public Opinion.

Everything Lives And Perishes Through Magnetism; One Thing Affects Another One, Even At Great Distances, And Its "congenitals" May Be Influenced To Health And Disease By The Power Of This Sympathy, At Any Time, And Notwithstanding The Intervening Space.

When Science Shall Have Effectually Demonstrated To Us The Origin Of Matter, And Proved The Fallacy Of The Occultists And Old Philosophers Who Held (as Their Descendants Now Hold) That Matter Is But One Of The Correlations Of Spirit, Then Will The World Of Skeptics Have A Right To Reject The Old Wisdom, Or Throw The Charge Of Obscenity In The Teeth Of The Old Religions.

Time Is Only An Illusion Produced By The Succession Of Our States Of Consciousness As We Travel Through Eternal Duration, And It Does Not Exist Where No Consciousness Exists In Which The Illusion Can Be Produced; But "lies Asleep."

The Exercise Of Magical Power Is The Exercise Of Natural Powers, But Superior To The Ordinary Functions Of Nature. A Miracle Is Not A Violation Of The Laws Of Nature, Except For Ignorant People. Magic Is But A Science, A Profound Knowledge Of The Occult Forces In Nature, And Of The Laws Governing The Visible Or The Invisible World. Spiritualism In The Hands Of An Adept Becomes Magic, For He Is Learned In The Art Of Blending Together The Laws Of The Universe, Without Breaking Any Of Them And Thereby Violating Nature.

The Universe Is The Periodical Manifestation Of This Unknown Absolute Essence.