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64 PERSONAL MAGNETISM. THE ADDUCTIVE QUALITY OF THOUGHT. Prentice Mulford’s theory—Thoughts are Things—Thought a dynamic force—Mind and matter identical—Miracles of Nature—Prof. Gray’s experiments with vibrations—Wonderiul results—Prof.

Williams’ significant statement—Food for thought—Character of thought vibra- tions—Murky thought waves and fleecy thought waves—Your thoughts retain a connection with you and affect you—Thought auras—Like attracts like—A wonderful manifestation of psychic phenomena—Results of fear or worry thoughts—Advantage of con- fident thinking—“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost”—Suc- cess by right thinking—Successful men the result of proper thought—Realized their ideal—Requisites for success—“I can and I will’—Others attracted toward you—Anything is yours if you only want it hard enough—Helen Wilman’s theory.

That great writer on the power of the mind—Prentice Mul- ford, has summed up much of his philosophy in the statement: “Thoughts are Things.” In these words he gave expression to a mighty truth, which, if fully apprehended by mankind, would revolutionize the world.

Thought is not only a dynamic force, it is a real thing, just as is any other material object. Thought is merely a finer form of matter, or a grosser form of spirit—you may call it either, with equal correctness. Matter is but a grosser form of mind; mind but a finer form of matter.

There is but -one substance in nature, but that substance has many forms, rang- ing from the most material (so-called) forms, to the highest form —Spirit. When we think, we send out vibrations of a ‘fine etherial sub- ‘stance which is as real as the finer vapors or gasses; the liquids; the solids.

We do not see thought—neither do we see the finer ‘vapors or gasses. We cannot smell or taste thought—neither do ‘we smell or taste the pure air. We can feel it however, as many THE ADDUCTIVE QUALITY OF THOUGHT. - 65 can testify-—which is more than we can say of the powerful mag- netic vibrations of a mighty magnet, which, whilst exerting a force sufficient to attract toward it a piece of steel weighing a hundred pounds, is absolutely without effect upon us.

Its vibra- | tions may pass through our bodies and exert its force on the steel, while we may be unaware of its existence. Light and heat send out vibrations of a lower intensity than those of thought, but the principle is the same.

The evidence of the five senses is not abso- lutely necessary to establish the existence of a material substance or force. The annals of science are full of proofs of this fact. Elisha Gray, an eminent scientist, says in his little book: “The Miracles of Nature :”

“There is much food for speculation in the thought that there exists sound waves that no human ear can hear, and color waves of light that no eye can see. The long, dark, soundless space between 40,000 and 400,000,000,000,000 vibrations per second, and the infinity of range beyond 700,000,000,000,000 vibrations per second, where light ceases, in the universe of motion, makes it possible to indulge in speculation.”

Williams, in his work entitled “Short Chapters in Science,” says: : “There is no gradation between the most rapid undulations or tremblings that produce our sensation of sound, and the slowest of those which give rise to our sensations of gentlest warmth.