The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-08
Circles Of psychic Influence.

barrel of rotten ones. Yet my power in
cTeases. When | went round the world
did not ask the captain of the steamer to
put on extra coal to enable me to beat the
record, but he did it; psychic force compelled
him."
And you can exercise this psychic force
on individuals ?"
do not permit myself to do so. But
when sitting i'll Madison square with the
children | would say 10 them, Little ones,
there Is a policeman over on the corner; let
rs think together that he will lift his left
foot; and he would do so. Then l would
say, Let us think that he will raise his
right hand, or that he will take three steps
forward :; and that the action would follow.
But would be ashamed OF myself Tor play
ing such tricks presently.
'0n the last day OF SuccPs fast, when
everybody thought him dying, and the whole
thing looked like Il miserable failure and the
physicians feared arrest, | went in,O the
hall and saw him lying on the couch, paliid.
| said to gentleman who was with me:
Now you will see that Succ will move his
right arm and he did so. Then | said
He will move his left leg and he did that
also. He VIII take out his watch and that
happened. He will sit up, and to the as
constituent OF every body he recovered ami
nation, his physicians took him III hand
promptly and he lived"
This is hypnotism?"
mo; the hypnotists have gift, like Sui
liyan's strength, or that of the magnetic girl
down IN Georgia, but they use 1t for money
or notOriety, aud 50 it brings no insight.
They have not abandoned the individual;
they are blind Isee, and my strength grows
People take off their hats to me; they feel
my aura"
''And how in future will this psychic force
control the wOrld?"
"a woman writes me that she has re-
ceived q revelation of new religion, of
which am to be the god; it would amuse
you to see the letters | get from women.
But, seriously, If the future cannot duplicate
me, II it cannot find the universal in the in
dividual, the all in the one, it must make
much by combining the many. Suppose
one person has little psychic force: two,
working together, Will have more. Here
and the patient paper once again re-
ceived circle - lis the radius of
the influence of one. Here"-and a
second circle incosed the frst-'.is the
wider influence Of two. Now, you can add
three, four, or any number of psychic
forces. Suppose psychic convention of
100. Now II sixty of you who are weak or,
perhaps only six if you are strong, think
that certain person must be chairman, he
will be psychcally compelled to rise from
his seat before a word has been spoken and
take the desk of the presiding officer
Psychic forces can produce unthOught-of
results because they can be worked by COM
bination."
But first you see"
"But first my psychic vision shows me the
end oil the present social system; now TO-
morrow may be. Take this souvenir; it is a
.sen,' Japanese cent of the new coinage.
1t can hold all psychic force. for have car
rled 1t round the world. Have hole bored
through 1t and wear it for mascot; then no
marin VIII come. to you in the dread days
that are at hand"
!, The baby had dropped asleep on sofa,
the old gentleman nodded over his naner'
the lovers had gone out for a stroll. There
was young man waiting 10 see Train. |
with you. ELIZA PUTNAM ~ u 81 ,s St,@ie'
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