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disease, and which is Magic, and that which causes 

 merely external efl'ccts to disappear, and which is Physic, 

 Sorcery, and Quackery."^ 



The Mumia 



The Archaeus is the essence of life, but the principle 

 in which this essence is contained, and which serves as 

 its vehicle, is called Mumia. " In the Mumia is great 

 power, and the cures that have been performed by the 

 use of the Mumia are natural, although they are very 

 little understood by the vulgar, because they are the 

 results of the action of invisible things, and that which 

 is invisible does not exist for the comprehension of the 

 ignorant. They therefore look upon such cures as having 

 been produced by the * black art,' or by the help of the 

 devil, while in fact they are but natural, and have a 

 natural cause ; and even if the devil had caused them, 

 the devil can have no power except that which is given 

 to him by God, and so it would be the power of God 

 after all." 2 



" There is a twofold power active in man — an invisibly 

 acting or vital power, and a visibly acting mechanical 

 force. The visible body has its natural forces, and the 

 invisible body has its natural forces, and the remedy of 

 all diseases or injuries that may affect the visible form 

 are contained in the invisible body, because the latter is 



^ It would be interesting to find out how many chronic diseases and 

 lifelong evils are caused by vaccination. If the organism contains some 

 poisonous elements, Nattire attempts to remove it by an expulsive effort 

 caused by the acticm of the spirit from the centre toward the periphery, 

 and producing cutaneous diseases. If by vaccination a new herd is estab- 

 lished to attract the diseased elements (Mumia), the manifestation of 

 the poison on the surface of the body may disappear, but the poisonous 

 elements will remain in the body, and some other more serious disease will 

 manifest itself so<mer or later. 



^ This invisible Mumia, that may be transferred from one living being to 

 another, is nothing elsf? but the vehicle of life, or '' animal magnetism.' 



