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Mind could the muscles be tired? Do tlie muscles talk, or do jou 

 talk for them? Science includes no rule of discord, but governs 

 harmoniously.' 



" On the card were these words: 



" ' X. X. IST. ilesh is an error of physical belief; a supposition 

 that life, substance, and intelligence are in matter; an illusion; a 

 belief that matter has sensations. Nihil nocet nemini.' 



" On the ninth day I was admitted to the third degree, or the 

 Introspective Plane. As the president entered, I noticed a touch 

 of camellia powder on her face, for the subject of the day was 

 Beauty. ' Beauty,' she said, ' is internal before it is perceived out- 

 wardly. To have perfect faith in the principle of iSIeminism is to 

 regain the charms of Eternal Youth.' She told me of patients 

 of hers who had become beautiful through faith. One good lady 

 at ninety developed new teeth through belief in feminism — in- 

 cisors, cuspids, bicuspids, and one molar. A gentleman at sixty 

 had retained his full set of upper and lower teeth without a de- 

 caying cavity. 



" On her card were these words : 



" ' jST. IST. K". The receipt for Beauty is to have less Illusion 

 and more Soul. Nihil nernini nocet.' 



" And, as the final ceremony was passed, the president looked 

 almost beautiful herself. 



" On the tenth day the president gave some account of her 

 early studies and of the origin of jSTeministic Healing. 



" ' While from the human standpoint I inherited the refine- 

 ment that goes with culture of family and moral rectitude, as 

 usual here in Boston, yet there was a marked degree of spiritual 

 Grace, Soulful Delicacy, and Esoteric Elegance that comes not from 

 human ancestry, neither from communion with Nature. It was 

 the exquisite coloring of the touch of the astral hand which opens 

 the petals of thought as it does the opening rose. This ended in a 

 soft glow of ineffable Joy, and out of its perfect serenity femi- 

 nistic Science was born. 



" ' The discovery was so new, the basis laid down for physical 

 and moral health so hopelessly original and men so unfamiliar with 

 the subject, that not until later did I venture to proclaim it to 

 the world.' 



" On the card was — 



" ' N. N. N. 



" ' My world has sprung from Spirit 

 In Everlasting Day ; 

 Whereof I've much to glory, 

 Wherefor have much to pay.' 



