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ancient times the sages would cure other people without any effort on their own part. People coming in contact with them would be cured. Such instances are to be found in the literature of all nations; therefore we say that this is the great power. But it is of different kinds in different people. As I said in the beginning, when you come into contact with some kinds of persons you feel pleasure, and with others painThat difference is only the result of goodness or bad- . ness, of forces generated in the past life. By this persons are able to give away a certain part of this fluid. The person may not care to use it for the best purpose, but the soul cap impart it to other persons, A great objection which is urged against using this magnetic fluid is that we ought not to impart our own individuality to other people. It should not be mixed up with that of others. Yet we do impart something of this to others. In all charitable works we impart something to the people to whom we become charitable; we impart something of ourselves to money or clothes, and while these physical articles receive only the physical part of the individuality, this magnetic fluid is of a different kind, and at once the mental, and moral nature of the individual ; and while by giving away the money, books or clothes we influence the playsical being of another person, by the magnetic fluid we influence the mental and moral being also. And bere the question comes in. What would be the effect of wearing the clothing of another person. As we are
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