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THE KEY OF KNOWLEDGE.
dethrone reason in all cases of sleep, mesmerism, fascination and will-power, discloses the fact that it is the rhythm, or pulsation, of life which is first affected by them. They either increase or diminish the intensity of the pulsation or rhythm of life. To the former class belong all cases of exaltation of will, and to the latter all those which are characterised by symptoms of sleep, fatigue, fright, or death. Midway between the two opposite types of rhythm does reason occupy its throne. Hence, whenever the normal conditions which favour the functioning of calculating reason are disturbed, it at once vacates its throne, and a state of exaltation, or depression, of varying degree, comes to take its place.
It is thus clear that the 'virtue' which flows from the person of great rishis and sages is Lothing other than the magnetic vibrations of their Self-conscious will which create, in their vicinity, an impregnable atmosphere of peace and love, and which, by coming into contact with different temperaments, exalt or diminish their life-pulsations, according to their own dispositions.
Jesus was enabled to discover the fact that some one had touched him, on account of the increased radiations of this magnetic fluid from his person. A human soul had opened her heart to receive the healing vibrations, in his vicinity; and it was the exaltation of will to meet the demand which was directly felt by him. It is not to be supposed that the going out of 'virtue’ is a loss of power, in any sense. On the contrary, it directly leads to greater power, since it makes the will vibrate more intensely than before, and also because will has an inexhaustible supply of virtue in itself. The effect
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