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psychologic contact, and it only needs self-knowledge and the exerting of strong and concentrated will to call them into exercise.
There are no phenomena produced by disembodied spirits, which may not be effected by the still embodied human spirit, provided a correct knowledge of these powers is directed by a strong and powerful will. The conditions will be described in our sections on Art Magic, but the potency of the will can never be too strongly insisted upon in all spiritualistic operations. In the physique above described as No. 1, the excess of the Astral fluid generally clusters around the epigastric and cardiac regions, rendering the person thus endowed highly powerful in physical magnetization and healing operations, but, as before hinted, the cerebral development is rarely proportionably •marked, and the best of physical magpetizers are not the giants of intellect and psychological control.
The reverse of this position obtains in the organisms classed as No. 2, In them, the Astral fluid ipheres more closely to the soul than the body; exalts the top of the cranium rather than the front; compels the predominance of the organs of command and ideality; projects its sphere of indomitable influence on all around, and unfolds the intellectual faculties into singular prominence, in whatever direction they exist, rendering the individual remarkable as a statesuan, General, Author, Physician, Priest, or if devoted to
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