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specialty is a large and finely developed head. Persons of this type become fine psychologists, or in ancient phraseology, such are adepts, master-spirits, or priestly hierophants. "In both types described above, it is the abundance of the Astral spirit, infused by inheritance and planetary and solar influence during embryonic life, and at the period of birth, which determines their characteristics; and it is the distribution of this Astral fluid, in the one, throughout the whole system, and in the other, in certain regions of the brain, which constitutes the difference between the mere magnetic healer and the psychologist, Neither of these individuals may technically recognise the peculiarities with which they are endowed, but the one will always bring a powerful and soothing influence to the sick, and the other prove a controlling and masterful mind in whatever spheres of life he may be placed. If these persons understand their souls' capacities, they will know that by mustering the excess of Astral fluid, permeating their systems, to the dominion of the will, they can induce a self-magnetized condition, in which the body sleeps, and the soul goes forth and traverses space, as in the phenomenon of somnambulism, natural clairvoyance, or in the exit of the spirit from the body when it is seen and termed the "double” or “Wraith." They can induce these powers in others by magnetic and psychologic contact, and it only needs self-knowledge and the exerting of strong and concentrated will to call then into exercise.
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