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liaps I should call at tlic university, and not trouble you in your rest 

 at home.' At this her eyes blazed, and she said, with a tragic air: 

 ' Ifaving eyes, ye see not! I read the Soul and the Stars through 

 a higher than mortal sense. Has the Sun forgotten to shine and 

 the Planets to revolve around it? Who was it discovered, demon- 

 strated, and teaches the marvel of feministic Healing? That one, 

 whoever it be, does understand something of what can not be lost.' 



" I looked dazed. She quieted down and explained to me that 

 she was herself the university, because no one but herself could 

 explain what was revealed to her alone. The whole Neministic 

 Science was taught in twelve lessons, and I could begin then and 

 there. 



" I said something about preparatory work and the books I 

 would need to read. She placed in my hands a slip which read: 



" ' X. E". N^. Persons contemplating a course in the Massachu- 

 setts University of Mentiphysics can prepare for it through no 

 books save Neministic Science and Astral Health, with a Key to the 

 Stars. Man-made theories are narrow, else extravagant, and al- 

 ways materialistic. Nihil neniini nocet.' Then she added: 'I 

 recommend students not to read so-called scientific works antagonis- 

 tic to IsTeministic Healing, which advocate material systems, be- 

 cause such works and words becloud the right sense of Mentiphysi- 

 cal Science. A primary student richly imbued with the Neministic 

 spirit is a better healer and teacher than a normal-class student, 

 who partakes less of this power. Even an apt scholar who has 

 dipped into my feministic Science and Astral Health, with a Key 

 to the Stars (the last revised edition), may enter this field of labor, 

 without any personal instruction, beneficially to himself and the 

 race.' 



"Then she continued blandly: 'You must learn, my dear, to 

 enter this great field in a manner beneficial to yourself and the 

 race. You must teach others to render to Csesar what is Csesar's, 

 and to do this you must first render unto Caesar yourself. Do 

 you understand?' I looked puzzled for a moment. Then she 

 said : ' Twenty-five dollars, please, dear, and be sure to come 

 promptly at ten o'clock to-morrow. You are now admitted to the 

 Primary Plane, the first degree of ISTeministic Healing.' As I gave 

 her the California gold, she bowed me out of the room with a ten- 

 der and motherly smile, while she tested the unfamiliar coins by 

 ringing them softly on the table. 



" At the second lesson she gave me the fundamental principles 

 of feministic Healing. I received them eagerly, for I recognized 

 in them a close harmony with the teachings of our dear old Mr. 

 Dean: 



