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and practices, may “right about face" and

become harmonially healthy. Learn to depend upon yourselfuse the infallible remedies of Nature-and, in spite of priest or doctor, you will ". pass from death unto life."

TIME OF EXERCISES.-In acquiring this psychological power over the destinies of your bodily state, and in becoming a Selfhealing Institution, whether home or abroad-it may be necessary to practice (either while on your back, or standing, or walking, or riding,) perhaps three times in each twenty-four hours. Never just before meals, nor soon subsequent to them; but the true time is when chylification is going on; about 90 or 120 minutes after eating. The spirit world will aid you, by forming a secret conjunction with the pneumogastric conductor. It is certain, gentle sufferer; do not permit yourself to doubt. Nothing is too good in Nature, in matter, in spirit, or in truth.

ORDER AND SYMPATHY.-It may, however, be indispensably necessary, in some cases, to avail yourself, at first, of the sympathy and daily order of some loving associate. Or, in some instances, it may also be necessary to secure a residence at some Electro magnetic Institute, or Water-cure, where the food and fluids for patients are prepared more in accordance with the rules of health and life. But it is far better to convert every home into a Health Establishment.

Arouse, my countrymen! Shake off this contemptible incubus of fashionable life, by which the good of our human nature is often changed to bitterness. Abolish all desserts from your tables. Never eat more than three kinds of solid food for dinner. No drinking while eating. Masticate slower. Drive all complainings out of your homes. Do good to all; harm to none. The best blessing to ask "over meat" is, for a cheerful and contented spirit with which to digest what you swallow. All solemnity during meals is as irreligious as

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excessive mirthfulness is vulgar. In short, suffering children

of

earth! let each so live—

"that when the summons comes to join

The innumerable caravan, that moves

To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go, not like a quarry slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon; bat sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach the grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams!”

CHAPTER VII.

PATHOLOGICAL OFFICES OF THE SYMPATHETIC GANGLIA.

Ir is deemed best, since we are not writing these chapters for the exclusive benefit of educated physicians, to express our thoughts in language suitable to the comprehension of the common mind. Now and then, however, we may be permitted to employ technical terms, because they best embody the thought designed for the reader's understanding. And here we will add that we hold ourselves open to "more light," to the end that we may explain and further illustrate what has been freely, but perhaps too vaguely, communicated.

All the knowledge in our possession concerning the exist ence, anatomy, and pathological offices of the Pneumogastrical Nerve,

was acquired by means of clairvoyant examinations of

"the human body, extending through a series of years, and under every imaginable degree and variety of mental condition and external circumstances. Much, therefore, is a matter of memory, from which we draw perpetual lessons, as from the wellspring of a strange and multifarious experience. But while writing upon these medical questions, as well as upon other topies, there is, in addition to this available treasury of past

examinations,

a present illumination of the intellectual faculties,

and a finer clairvoyance also, whereby the things in human bodies, about which we write, are made limpid and as systematic as the trees in the landscape and the flowing waters thereof, under the beautiful effulgence of a July sun.

Of the Pneumogastric Nerve, we trace its magnetic terminations into the intestinal cavity, upon the muscular fabrics of which its motive influences are freely exerted. This fact last named, which is most perfectly exhibited to the inner vision, might induce the erroneous impression that the Nerve itself penetrates the lower abdomen, while, in fact, it reaches and centers only in certain portions of the upper viscera, but prac tically, (i. e., in the effect of Will upon this Nerve,) we were perfectly correct in our last chapter, which the reader is requested to re-examine and analyze.

The internal beauty of the human physical temple surpasses the descriptive power of language. Viewed with the leaden eyes of materialism, and studied from the wholly physiological standpoint, the body presents nothing either "fearful or wonderful." Once open your spiritual eyes, however-fix their analytical powers upon the anatomical structure of the nervous system-and the wonders of a universe are instantly unfolded to your understanding. Wheels within organs, tissues within muscles, fibers within nerves, globes within blood, motion within life, sensation within motion, and myriads of beautiful processes going on in the several departments of the temple at the same moment-all impress the spirit-observer with sublime and unutterable truths, and with gratitude beyond all bounds of expression.

The principal mystery of the nervous system is its invisible influence or energy. Physiologists have long since supposed an identity between the so-called galvanic fluid and that potential principle which pervades and imparts divine dynamics to