Philosophy, will not confound Soul with SPIRIT.) The term "Soul" is here used to signify that harmonious combination of the principles of Motion, Life, and Sensation, which move, and warm, and perfect the physical organization. Stones, trees, animals, men, contain these principles; the latter in a high degree of development, while in the former, the principles are comparatively dormant and unfledged. Each natural body of matter is differently capacitated; hence, also, it is differently supplied with the SOUL-principles. The consequence of this difference is a magnetic polarity between one body and another throughout the entire domain of Nature. And the consequence of this universal polarity is the evolution and manifestation of all the physical motions and mental phenomena, known or unknown to science.

FACTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF MAGNETIC POLARITY.-The common magnet, as every reader knows, is at once positive and negative. That is, the life of the metallic body makes two manifestations at the same moment. It will attract a negative substance, and repel that which is positive to it. The positive pole is charged with negative power, and the negative pole with positive power, and the manifestations of the magnetic principle correspond to these facts. The seed of a plant is negative to the magnetic heat of the sun; consequently, the properties of the seed, if sown in good ground, leap up toward the magnet, as the needle points to the pole. This explains the growth of vegetation. Thus the near relationship of magnetism and electricity is demonstrated. They mutually attract and mutually repel each other. Look at the common electro-magnetic battery. If the electric current be permitted to traverse the coil of wire, it will convert the rod of iron, placed in the center, into a powerful magnet; and this, in its turn, will set in motion a powerful current of electricity, as it were, by way of compensation.

The human body is constituted on the same system of polarity. Man is polarized from side to side, from end to end, from centers to the surfaces. His nervous system is a network of polarities. From his inmost organic centers to the glands of the brain, and from the brain-centers to the extremity of every nerve, he is a perfect battery of magnetic and electrical potencies. The entire left side, from brain to toes, is negative. The left-side emanations are therefore tranquil and attractive; while from the right side, which is positive, the emanations are powerfully repellant. Hence, man repels, and works, and destroys, with his right side, right arm, right hand, right leg, right foot, and brain; while, with the corresponding parts and members of the left side and brain, he attracts, and subdues, and magnetizes whatever he is adapted to affect. The right side of the brain is frequently unimpressible, while the left side may be easily overcome and paralyzed by the magnetic principle. The right eye, in healthy persons, is the keenest and best; while the left eye is capable of more pleasurable vision. The left eye of a susceptible person will, for this reason, more readily discern the colors of a substance. The location, the size, the weight, and the distance of a body are quickest determined by the right eye. If the reader doubts these statements, let him experiment with his eyes and senses. Close your left eye and look at the leaf of a plant; then reverse the method, and your left eye will soon begin to see rays of light, which your right eye cannot discover. In like manner, if you have much susceptibility, your left hand will detect heat in substances which are cool to your right hand, and the reverse is equally true, only frequently practice, with care and discrimination. For these reasons the right hands of man and woman are attractive to each other, while, many times, the hands of the same sex are mutually repellant and unwholesome.

Clairvoyants can detect the emanations of the different centers by the color, which is natural to polarized principles.

THE PRACTICAL WORKINGS OF THESE FORCES.-The source of the magnetic force is the SoUL, and the effect of the power corresponds to its source-that is, the power is lodged in the SOUL of the subject, and the manifestations are, therefore, more psychological than physical. We will suppose, for illustration, that two healthy persons seat themselves, (as in figure No. 1,) to try the magnetic experiment. They naturally face each other, which is in philosophical harmony with the polarities of the magnetic principles; that is, the right side of the operator is present. ed to the left side of the subject. Previous to the experiment, we will suppose each person to be in separate and distinct states, wholly independent of each other, with respect to sympathies and antipathies; which important fact the artist has attempted to illustrate, by the separate oval dotted lines surrounding each individual.

The experiment is now to commence. Could your mental eyes be suddenly opened, as is the case with clairvoyants, you would behold a wondrous exemplification of a great general law of Nature. The right side of the two persons would glow with flame-like emanations. At first a gray colored light would stream faintly from the right side of the brain, and thence downwise to the ends of the right hand and foot. The natural forces of brain, and lungs, and heart, and stomach, would present a fiery appearance, but variegated with many colors, like those of the rainbow, or like the electrical

Fig. 1.

emanations of millions of differently constituted plants and flowers. The fingers would seem to glow like tapers in a dark night. In short, the form of each person would seem to step out of darkness, and to be filled with effulgence the most beautiful and attractive.

We are supposing, remember, that the operator and subject in our experiment are magnetically related to each other, so that there can be no failure in the progressive application of the principles under consideration. The wonderful and complex nervous system of man is a complete helix, a coil of wire, which communicates electricity to the brain, which is the magnet, or central power, of the organization; and the compensating process, as with the electro-battery, goes on in the shape of centrifugal currents of nerve-life, (a finer electricity,) which the brain discharges through the pneumogastric and sympathetic nerves to all parts of the temple. We cannot now stop to detail the beautiful facts of this process, but may on some future

occasion.

In accord with the magnetic law, we next observe that the brain and body of the operator become one o'ermastering positive power, to which, without resistance, the subject surrenders himself, both physically and mentally, and the resulting manifestations are what is usually denominated "psychological." The partial blending of the magnetic spheres of the twain, is illustrated by the interlocking of the dotted lines, (see figure

No. 2,) showing that subject and operator are magnetically more closely related as members of one body. In this condi

tion, the operator's SOUL is the center of attraction. The subject's attention is identical with the operator's. By the mere exercise of fancy, without the least mandate of will, the operator may image his thoughts upon the subject's brain. He may cause him to drink wine from a glass of pure water; to hear the roaring of cannon and clashing of weapons on the battle-field; to feel the strength of a giant; to catch fish in an imaginary stream on the carpet at his feet; to weep the tears of sorrow at sufferings purely fictitious; to pray for forgiveness at the throne of an implacable potentate; and lastly, to forget his own individuality, and take on the feelings and exhibit the striking characteristics of the operator, or of any one whom the operator has the intellectual power clearly to shadow forth in the positive odyllic light of his own mind. This psychological law lies at the bottom of all that class of so-called "spiritual phenomena," wherein, to the observer, it seems that the spirit or mind of the medium has vacated its temple in order to give a foreign intelligence an opportunity of manifestation.

One step further on in this magnetic career will be followed by the complete blending of the vital and mental spheres, (as illustrated by figure No. 3,) in which case are exhibited all those mysterious and glorious phenomena termed "Somnambulism," "clairvoyance," "spirit seeing," &c. The extent of man's capacity in this peculiar state is not easily measured. The subject is no longer psychological or sympathetic. The condition is most favorable to very high perceptions of natural truths. The clairvoyant is capable of medical examina

Fig. 3.