nd zinc and silver, place upper teeth over
lower, keep lower lip tightly to lower teeth, now breathe
and you can even taste the metals named. Then should you
feel you need more gold element for your brain functions,
place your back teeth together just as if you were to grind
the back teeth, taking short breaths only. You will then
learn to know that there is gold and silver all around us.
That our bodies are filled with quite a quantity of gold.

#Black Magic#

What all this means is that we have a continent, with a hundred
million half-educated people, materially prosperous, but spiritually
starving; so any man who possesses personality, who looks in any way
strange and impressive, or has hunted up old books in a library, and
can pronounce mysterious words in a thrilling voice--such a man can
find followers. Anybody can do it with any doctrine, from anywhere,
Persia or Patagonia, Pekin or Pompei. I would be willing to wager that
if I cared to come out and announce that I had had a visit from _God_
last night, and to devote such literary and emotional power as I
possess to communicating a new revelation, I could have a temple, a
university, and a million dollars within five years at the outside.
And if at the end of five years I were to announce that I had played a
joke on the world, some one of my followers would convince the
faithful that I had been an agent of God without knowing it, and that
the leadership had now been turned over to him.

I would not be understood as believing that all our cults are
undiluted fakery, for that would be doing injustice to some earnest
people. There are, in this country, many followers of the Persian
reformer, Abbas Effendi, who call themselves Babists, and who have
what I am inclined to think is the purest and most dignified religion
in existence. There was a man named Jacob Beilhardt, who founded a
cult in Illinois with the painful name of "Spirit Fruit Colony", who
nevertheless was a man of spiritual insight, a true mystic; he was
honest, and so he failed, and died of a broken heart. Also there are
the Christian Scientists and the Theosophists, so exasperating that
one would like to throw them onto the rubbish-heap, who yet compel us
to sift over their mountains of chaff for the grains of truth which
will bear fruit in future.

While we western races have been exploring the natural world and
perfecting the mechanical arts, the Hindoo students