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" Waxen images, figures, &c., may be used to assist 

 the imagination and to strengthen the will. Thus a 

 necromancer will make a waxen image of a person 

 and bury it, covering it with heavy stones, and if his 

 will and imagination are powerful enough, the person 

 whom it represents feels very miserable until that 

 weight is removed. Likewise, if he breaks a limb of 

 that figure, a limb will be broken in the person whom 

 the figure represents, or he thus inflicts cuts, stabs, or 

 other injuries upon an enemy. It is all done through 

 the spirit acting upon the spirit. No necromancer 

 can by his will act directly upon the body of a person, 

 but he can act upon his astral spirit, and the spirit of 

 the injured person reproduces the injury upon his own 

 body. Thus a necromancer plants a tree, and he who 

 cuts the tree cuts himself ; that is to say, he does not 

 cut his body, but the spirit, which has the same limbs 

 as the body, and the cuts made upon the spirit are 

 reproduced upon the body." 



" Thus the spirit of a person may, without the assist- 

 ance of his body and without a knife or sword, cut or 

 stab or injure another person by the mere force of the 

 imagination and will, and images can be cursed effectu- 

 ally, and fever, apoplexy, epilepsy, &c., be caused thereby ; 

 but our scientists have no conception of what a power 

 the will is, because they have no strong will, and they do 

 not believe in such things, because they are beyond their 

 comprehension. The will produces such spirits, and they 

 can also act upon animals, and it is even easier to affect 

 animals than to affect men, because the spirit of man is 

 better able to defend itself than that of an animal." ^ 



" Not only may a necromancer thus consciously injure 

 another person by his evil will and imagination, but 



* Here again is a glorious new field of activity for the enterprising 

 vivisectionist ; but unfortunately he in whom such evil forms of will- 

 power (elementals or devils) have come into existence will not get rid 

 of thi m easily, and he will be himself the greatest sufferer in the end. 



