11 pounds to each finger, instead of what seemed to us, at most, but a few ounces.'

We have not ourselves seen this experiment tried, but judge it would evolve a measure of vrilic power, and to that extent overcome gravitation. Some of our readers may desire to try the experiment.

G. S. C. D. asks what we know about "The New Life Remedial Institute" Alameda, Cal. Personally we know nothing. The advertisement was received and inserted on its apparent merits, much as that of hundreds of other remedial institutions might have been if sent us through advertising channels; but the protection of our subscribers compels us to say that such unfavorable reports have reached us as to warrant our discontinuance of the advertisement. To Dr. J. W. we would say that we have no connection whatever with the Institute."

HIRAM E. BUTLER ANSWERS THE FOLLOWING:

F. M. S. writes us: "I would like to ask in regard to esoteric culture, if there are, so to speak, milestones by which, as people advance, they can locate themselves, and describe their position to others as we would say in other studies: "I can read, I know how to add," etc.

Ans. Yes, we will have them for our corresponding members soon, but the soul will take the necessary truth from mere suggestions found in general teachings.

A lady signing herself "an anxious inquirer" asks, what gifts come under the head of "psychometrical powers?"

Ans. All of them. As all of the five senses express the feelings of the physical body, so all of the senses of the soul, while divers in their manifestations, come under the superior perception of the soul. It is further asked, what is the most harmless way of developing them?

Ans. There are many methods by which these powers are forced, which is always detrimental to the person. What we want is normal growth, which is only attained through the process given on page 35, August number of the ESOTERIC. See also article on page 163, November number. Those will give the normal processes of growth, but that will not complete the work. We must keep trying to use these powers; development comes by

practice with these powers, the same as with the physical muscles.

We will try and give an article in our next on the methods of practice, etc.

We have been asked concerning the nature and effect of precious stones, talismans, etc., which we will endeavor to answer in next month's ESOTERIC.

F. M. P. writes to know what we mean by Soul-vibration?

Ans. The word "vibration," in that connection, comes to us from a remote period from master minds in the philosophy of esoteric life, who state that the strong feelings from the inner consciousness produce a vibratory motion in the "astral" elements-the elements of universal life-that may be directed by the will to accomplish whatever result we wish. This Soul-vibration acts through the higher spiritual love; and when we get to that point where we can produce and control the inner feelings, impulses and emotions, then we vibrate a Soul force that will heal the sick, reclaim the wayward, and impart many other capabilities for good.

The question is further asked, why the head gets dizzy while practising the breathing prescribed in the ESOTERIC?

Ans. Because you are passive while you practise. You should first practise the breathing while positive; then afterwards become passive in the body, but concentrate the mind on your work. The breathing should be conducted by imitating sound sleep, that is close the nose so that the air makes a rushing sound, and continue long enough to count 3, 6, 9, and up as high as 12, while taking the air into the lungs and the same in expelling it; then it will produce rest and quiet like a sound sleep.

F. W. wants to know wherein our teachings differ from those of spiritualists.

Ans. Our teachings are especially intended to put what spiritualists call mediumship under the control of the individual, to use it and not be used by it. We are prepared to prove that the most of the things manifested through mediums are dependent first on this: the persons must have developed in them certain psychical powers that are their own, the same as if we have eyes we

can see,

ears, we can hear, etc. Mediumship means no more than this, that for whatever phase of manifestation, they must have the development of that faculty in themselves to produce it. Now, our teaching implies simply that we develop all the latent faculties that are now dormant within us, and, in place of giving them over to unknown influences to use, with or without our will, we develop our will and an intelligent knowledge of the laws and methods by which we use them ourselves, and make them of the same common-sense advantage as having eyes would give, and so with all the facul

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the tenant soul. It is thought clothing ideas which shapes and governs the world and moulds our future destiny and fate, for ideas and existence are one. It is here that man becomes God's messenger, he being but a little part of God.

Everything must exist in Spirit before it can take form in Matter.

Each human body or any part of that form is the symbol of an invisible and corresponding power; thus ideas descend into forms, and forms ascend into universal ideas. When the psychical or natural man drops the selfish animal and that which governs from without, he becomes the unselfish spiritual man, being guided by the inner truth, and is transformed and illuminated by spirit wisdom and light, becoming the harmonious or odylic man, a polarized consciousness which constitutes a spiritual centre which no longer obeys or even requires the physical, but the physical and outer obeys him; for here his forces become united with the higher principles of life and universal soul. Here it is where all thought and action become controlled by the higher impulses of the heart; and the key of this spiritual world is in that true religion which is nothing more or less than that faculty of a pure unselfih love.

Nothing is small, nothing great in the divine economy. "He that worketh in love is one with Me." This is the connecting link between God and man, between heaven and earth. "They who have drunk of the cup of higher love, see God," while the natural man cannot see God. Na ture's laws obey only those who are at one with the Law Giver. Man need not die by error, ignorance or illness, if he but learns how to live, to become attuned to the spiritual, and trust the creative power to keep him in harmony. This is the key; nature will do the rest, for there is no vacuum in nature, and wherever there is a

want there is a supply which will not fail to come, for Nature makes no demands but what she can fill.

These human forms being the symbols of ideas, all the objects by which we are surrounded are but the representation of ideas, either of God or man; they are the allegories which constitute the dream we call life, representing the growth of the world. An idea must exist before an artist can paint or an architect can build. Ideas of this human form, and also each part of it, must have existed before the physical house was formed, and every member of the human frame is a system for subordinate uses, and has a correspondence in spiritual existence.

Swedenborg was the first and only man in this modern age who formulated the principles of correspondence on a philosophical basis. Through it the metaphysician may control the physical. On these principles is found the key where the combined action of Spirit and Will produces the third, which is manifested in every objective form. Here is found the secret of occultation of spirit-force in matter, that there is a principle in every part of this organic structural form, which has a true correspondence expressive of the interior principles of the Great Universal Spirit Cosmos.

In all illness, error and discord, be it physical or mental, there is a deep, underlying cause. Therefore, search for the cause, for there is no effect without a cause, and there can be no sickness or inharmony in man's physical house except by the action or relation of some agent to some form of matter; and it is quite true that that which usually appears most real in the material world, is most unreal in the Spiritual World, simply because we judge from appearance only. This corporeal world might have never existed, or may cease to exist without changing the essentiality of the Spirit

World; for the world of Spirit is pre-existent to, and survives everything else. And all students of occult or metaphysical force must learn and keep constantly before their minds, that the actions of Spirit or energies emanating from the human will are utterly dissimilar from the material and sensual, as known to the outer man. Therefore, when sickness and inharmony are brought before you, either by a patient, or within your own being, look only for the cause, then find the correspondent in the subjective world of that part which is affected in the material. Then form a mental cable by focalized thought, by which the fusion of Soul and Will action may vibrate with the correspondent of that which is affected, and the work will be accomplished.

The healing by Prayer and Faith Cure, so called, is only a little more exalted: that of the attunement of the Dominant Note of being, then to establish a continuous identity of molecular vibration on the spiritual and correspondent part of the patient, in Odylic vibrations between him and the great Absolute Infinite vibrating energy of Nature. Here lies the whole key of the mystery of vibration. There is but one Law for all, namely, the Law which governs law, that of spirit, that of harmony and equity, the law of nature being simply the outer manifestation or occultation in matter.

We truly are, and possess or radiate the Divine Truth only when we hold the Dominant Note; there we find the world within us, and ourselves within the world.

He who is one with Spirit and himself is everything.

Keep perfectly calm in all your operations, never allow any circumstances to agitate you; remember, silence and calmness are everything; do not talk; remember, motion exists in the mind, as do the waves of the ocean; the true adept is not the slave of any force in nature, he controls them all,

and he starts the vibrating waves by Emotion and Will and, being ready for whatever may happen, by maintaining an inviolable calmness directs the billows of action by emotional command, and is obeyed.

Remember to avoid calling the name of the errors or disease, but use a mental argument against it, addressing always the correspondent which alone is the True part of material man; and the vibration of waving billows will soon restore the physical house to order; for that which is ill or in discord, is but an objective manifestation.

It is indeed lamentable and greatly to be deplored that the followers of Swedenborg, having the knowledge of many of these sublime truths, should have grown so cold in a high intellectuality; and to-day, the light of Swedenborg lies engulfed and congealed in articles of faith, and superficial ecclesiasticism. The value of things is in their use. Oh, for a hundred so-called cranks to bring this knowledge before the world in its pure simplicity! The greatest truths are always the simplest: and if the light of Swedenborg can be freed from the cold intellectuality, dwelling only in the kingdom of mind; and illuminated by emotions of soul and heart, warmed by the kingdom of love within, Swedenborg then will see his ideal of Divine Humanity for which he lived and died; and the world will be better and happier.

To the New Church of Swedenborg we must say, that the value of things is in their use, and not in a simple knowledge of them; and to remember that there are two educations: the education of the Mind, and the education of the Soul; unless you minister to the soul, all the toil and time spent upon the mind will not prove of much good, and of little purpose above this short conventional life.

It will be well for every student to make a study of the law of correspon