ded by calm
determination, to do what I desire, aided by a sense of right and
justice to all. May my will be strong and sustain me in all trials.
May it inspire that sense of independence of strength which, allied to
a pure conscience, is the greatest source of happiness on earth!"

If the reader can master this last, he can by its aid progress
infinitely. And with the few spells which I have given he will need no
more, since in these lie the knowledge, and key, and suggestion to all
which may be required.

Now it will appear clearly to most, that no man can long and steadily
occupy himself with such pursuits, without morally benefiting by them
in his waking hours, even if auto-hypnotism were all "mere
imagination," in the most frivolous sense of the word. For he who will
himself not to yield to irritability, can hardly avoid paying
attention to the subject, and thinking thereon, check himself when
vexed. And as I have said, what we summon by Will ere long remains as
Habit, even as the Elves, called by a spell, remain in the Tower.

Therefore it is of _great_ importance for all people who take up and
pursue to any degree of success this Art or Science, that they shall
be actuated by moral and unselfish motives, since achieved with any
other intent the end can only be the bringing of evil and suffering
into the soul. For as the good by strengthening the Will make
themselves promptly better and holier, so he who increases it merely
to make others feel his power will become with it wickeder, yea, and
thrice accursed, for what is the greatest remedy is often the
strongest poison.

Step by step Science has advanced of late to the declaration that man
_thinks all over_ his body, or at least experiences those reflected
sensations or emotions which are so strangely balanced between
intellectual sense and sensation that we hardly know where or how to
class them. "The sensitive _plexi_ of our whole organism are all
either isolated or thrown into simultaneous vibration when acted on by
Thought." So the Will may be found acting unconsciously as an emotion
or instinct, or developed with the highest forms of conscious
reflection. Last of all we find it, probably as the result of all
associated functions or powers, at the head of all, their Executive
president. But _is_ it "the exponent of correlated forces?" There
indeed doctors differ.

There is a very curious Italian verb, _Invogliare_, which is thus
described in a Dictionar