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the study, irresistible as an adept, magician and controller or mundane and sub-mundane spirits. Such individuals are generally as eager as they are capable of penetrating into nature's profoundest depths.
We might rank the amiable and highly gifted Anton Mesmer as a type of the organism No. 1 and the noble sages of Greece, Apollonius and Pythagoras, as shining illustrations of the type described as No. 2.
Prophets, or mediums are persons in whom, from inherited causes and Astral influences prevailing at birth, an immense amount of the Astral fluid exists, but who, by the peculiar conformation of the tissues which make up their physical structures, are too ready to part with their superabundant life principle. In the types of organism already described as good magnetizers and powerful psychologists, the Astral fluid is concentrated, the tissues of the bɔdy firm and compact, and the eflux of magnetic power is due only to its superabundance. The medium with the same excess of magnetic force, is totally lacking in the concentration and solidarity which distinguishes the other class. The one in physique as in character, is wholly positive; the other purely negative. The one the operator, the other the subject. The physical structure of the two may present little or no external signs of difference to those who do not study physiological types, rataer than surface varieties, but the arrangement of the molecules in the two organisins are structurally dissimilar, and this dissimilarity. exbibits itself thus:
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