means of what may be called the induction of the
aura itself. The mere presence of a person strongly charged with prana, is
often enough to cause an overflow into the aura of other persons, with a
resulting feeling of new strength and energy. By the use of the hands of
the healer, a heightened effect is produced, by reason of certain
properties inherent in the nervous system of both healer and patient.
There is even a flow of etheric substance from the aura of the healer to
that of the patient, in cases in which the vitality of the latter is very
low. Many a healer has actually, and literally, pumped his life force and
etheric substance into the body of his patient, when the latter was
sinking into the weakness which precedes death, and has by so doing been
able to bring him back to strength and life. This is practically akin to
the transfusion of blood--except that it is upon the psychic plane instead
of the physical."

But the true "magnetic healer" (call him by whatever name you wish) does
not make this pranic treatment the all-in-all of his psychic treatment.
On the contrary it is but the less subtle part, which leads up to the
higher phases. While treating his patients by the laying on of hands, he,
at the same time, strives to induce in the mind of the patient the mental
image of restored health and physical strength; he pictures the diseased
organ as restored to health and normal functioning; he sees the entire
physiological machinery operating properly, the work of nutrition,
assimilation, and excretion going on naturally and normally. By proper
words of advice L and encouragement he awakens hope and confidence in the
mind of the patient, and thus obtains the co-operation of that mind in
connection to his own mental efforts. The astral body responds to this
treatment, and begins to energize the physical organs and cells into
normal activity--and the journey toward health is begun.

[In the little book just mention, "The Human Aura," I gave some valuable
information regarding the influence of colors in psychic healing, which I
do not reproduce here as it is outside the scope and field of the present
lessons. Those who may feel interested in the subject are respectfully
referred to the little manual itself. It is sold for a nominal price by
the publishers of the present work.]

In the form of psychic treatment which comes under the head of Suggestive
Therapeutics, great insistence is laid upon the verbal suggesti