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The Destructive Principle ofNature in Individual Life
Volume II
Harmonic Series
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Study Course Edition
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Copyright © 1928
J.E. Richardson
Published 2004
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Chapter Page
Preface .........................
The Destructive Principle ... I 9
Nature's Duality ............ " II 11
Destruction in Operation .... III 19
The Individual Entity" .... " IV 35
Fear ............................. V 51
Anger ........................... VI 55
Self-Pity ........................ VII 59
Greed ............................ VIII 65
Emotionalism .................. IX 69
Selfishness ..................... X 77
Vanity ........................... XI 81
Self-Indulgence ................ XII 91
The Magnetic Element .... " .. XIII 97
Terms Defined" ................ XIV 105
The Three Brains ............... XV 111
The Process Involved .......... XVI 119
Hypnotism ....... " .... " ........ XVII 131
Mediumship ..................... XVIII 151
Auto-Hypnotism ................ XIX 167
Automatic Mediumship ....... XX 177
Contents
Chapter Page
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PREFACE
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PREFACE
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PREFACE
VB
The Great Psychological Crime
((Fools Deride, Philosophers Investigate"
CHAPTER I
NATURE'S DUALITY
17
CHAPTER III
DESTRUCTION IN OPERATION
50
CHAPTER V
FEAR
53
CHAPTER VI
ANGER
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CHAPTER VII
SELF-PITY
GREED
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CHAPTER IX
EMOTION ALISM
15
CHAPTER X
SELFISHNESS
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SELFISHNESS
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CHAPTER XI
VANITY
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Self-consciousness, Self-complacency,
Self-conceit, Self-sufficiency,
Self-confidence, Self-a pprobation,
Self-esteem, Self-admiration,
Self-praise, Self-applause,
Self-gratulation, Self-love,
Self-glorification, Self-elation,
Self-assurance, Egotism.
It expresses itself outwardly by:
Arrogance, Boastfulness,
Haughtiness, Superciliousness,
Disdain, Imperiousness,
Ostentation, Pretentiousness,
Arbitrariness, Dogmatism,
Flippancy, Audacity,
Impertinence, Frivolity.
As between the sexes, it would seem that
Personal Vanity, or Vanity of Person, is a
weakness more common to women than to
men j while Intellectual Vanity is, without
question, one of man's most conspicuous
faults and most glaring defects of character.
The vanities of women manifest themselves
more conspicuously in their love of dress,
jewelry, decoration, and the effort, through
the art of seJf-adornment, to command atten-
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VANITY
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VANITY
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VANITY
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CHAPTER XII
SELF-INDULGENCE
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SELF-INDULGENCE
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CHAPTER XIII
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THE MAGNETIC ELEMENT
1
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FIG 7
Let us suppose that, by a process under
your own control, you can break or destroy
the attraction between No. 2 and No. 3-
what will be the physical result? Simply this,
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THE MAGNETIC ELEMENT
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CHAPTER XIV
TERMS DEFINED
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TERMS DEFINED
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CHAPTER XV
118
CHAPTER XVI
130
CHAPTER XVII
HYPNOTISM
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CHAPTER XVIII
MEDIUMSHIP
further escape.
Physical magnetism and vital energy are
constantly expended by the physical body
during the waking condition of every indi-
vidual.
While the medium is in the deep, lethargic
trance state the physical body is in a negative
or passive condition. In this condition it
generates physical magnetism very rapidly.
While the physical body of the medium is
in this negative condition spiritual forces may
be so applied, by those who understand the
process, as to draw off its physical magnetism
and vital energy as rapidly as they are gen-
erated.
The liberated physical magnetism of a me-
dium may be controlled by the action of the
Will of one who understands the process by
which this is accomplished.
When the medium is in a state of deep
trance the spiritual controls who understand
the process of materialization withdraw from
the physical body of the medium all the phys-
ical magnetism and vital energy possible. To
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CHAPTER XIX
AUTO-HYPNOTISM
175
CHAPTER XX
AUTOMATIC MEDIUMSHIP
190
CHAPTER XXI
SUGGESTION
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CHAPTER XXII
212
CHAPTER XXIII
POST-MORTEM HYPNOTISM
An Hypnotic-"Suggestion" (command)
may be given today to be executed by the
subject a week, a month, a year, or even ten
years hence, and when the time comes the
command will be executed with perfect fi-
delity, even though the subject and the oper-
ator may at the time be thousands of miles
apart, and the hypnotist may have forgotten
the incident entirely.
The following carefully worded statement
is quoted from the work of Prof. De Law-
rence, fully sustaining every assertion made:
"Suggest to a subject while he is sound
asleep that in eight weeks he will mail you a
letter with a blank piece of note paper inside,
and during the intervening period you may
yourself forget the occurrence, but, in exact-
ly eight weeks, he will carry out the sugges-
tion."
"Suggest to a subject that in ninety days
from a given date he will come to your house
with his coat on inside out, and he will most
certainly do so."
The deep and ominous importance of all
this will be better understood when the fur-
ther fact is known that, after a subject in a
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post-Hypnotic-"Suggestion" or command, he
goes and does the thing "suggested" or com-
manded to be done, with absolute obedience
and with the utmost fidelity to every detail.
The perfectly natural manner in which he
conducts himself through it all would lead
any intelligent observer, who did not know
the facts, to infer that he was impelled by his
own independent, self-conscious and ration-
al volition. Even the subject himself is under
the impression that this is so.
The fact remains that he is simply execut-
ing a "suggestion" or command which was
given him weeks, months, or perhaps years
before while he was in a profound hypnotic
sleep of which he has no knowledge or re-
membrance whatever. Ask him why he does
the particular thing commanded to be done,
and in all probability he cannot tell you.
Pressed for an explanation of the motive
which impelled him, he will tell you that he
simply feIt an impulse to go and do that par-
ticular thing, and that he did it in obedience
to the impulse without stopping to reason
upon it or anticipate the results which might
follow.
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CHAPTER XXIV
MARTYRDOM
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MARTYRDOM
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MARTYRDOM
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environment.
As often occurs under similar conditions, he
at length began to hear a voice "from out the
silence." It spoke to him, called him by
name, and told him that the voice he heard
was indeed the voice of the Son of God, the
Lord Jesus Christ. To him who had prayed to
the Master daily for many years, this seemed
the most natural thing in the world. It came
as if it were a direct answer to prayer. It
appealed to his religious sense and satisfied
his emotional desires.
After the voice of the "Master" came other
voices. Those of Moses, Aaron, Elijah, Paul,
Peter, John, Thomas, Luke, Matthew, Mark,
Joshua and many others of the prophets,
apostles, disciples and wise men of religious
history became familiar to him and conversed
with him daily.
This all appealed to his sense of the "eternal
fitness of things," and was accepted by him
with absolute sincerity and good faith as the
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MARTYRDOM
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MARTYRDOM
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MARTYRDOM
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MARTYRDOM
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MARTYRDOM
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MARTYRDOM
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CHAPTER XXV
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CHAPTER XXVI
REVIVALISM
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CHAPTER XXVII
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CHAPTER XXVIII
"I teach you how to fasten the eyes, hands and feet of
a subject at the word of command.
"I teach you how your subject's Will may be brought
in direct subjection to your own.
"I tell you how his 'Vill may be placed in abeyance,
and how his mental operations may be directed by you.
"I tell you how to control your subjects without
speaking to them.
"I expose the vanity of persons who maintain that
they cannot be hypnotized.
"I show you how the subject obeys the hypnotist as
a locomotive does the manipulations of the driver.
"I tell you how to direct your subject's thoughts into
any channel desired, and how to compel him to execute
any command.
"I tell you how to hypnotize at a distance.
"I tell you how you can compel a person to be at a
certain place at a specified time.
"I tell you how to give your subjects commands and
suggestions that they will be obliged to carry out months
and even years after the command has been given.
"I tell you how to control your subjects instantly.
"I tell you how it is possible to hypnotize a person
who is in a natural sleep, who will waken the next
morning without knowing that he has been hypnotized,
and will be compelled to carry out any command that
has been given him while in the trance.
"I tell you how to walk up to a person anywhere and
hypnotize him instantly by a simple wave of the hand or
a glance of the eye.
"I explain to you how a hypnotist feels when he be-
gins to taste the sweets of power.
"I teach you how to paralyze a subject as instantly
and completely as a knockout blow.
"I give you special hints for impressing the public
with your wonderful and mysterious powers.
"I tell you how hypnotism can be used in ordinary
business transactions to the great advantage of the oper-
ator.
"I give you information that will prevent other peo-
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CHAPTER XXX
Immediate results.
Subsequent results.
The immediate physical results of the me-
diumistic process upon the medium may be
briefly summarized:
(a) The mediumistic process acts direct-
ly upon the physical brain of the medium in
the reverse order of its evolutionary devel-
opment.
(b) Its primary physiological action is
upon the objective and perceptive organs of
the brain which lie immediately above and
back of the eyes.
(c) Thence, as the subjective state deep-
ens, its effects sweep backward and down-
ward through the middle brain, and in its
most profound state of catalepsy or lethargic,
trance control, it acts upon the primary
brain.
( d) The direct and specific effect of the
mediumistic process, from its inception to its
conclusion, is paralysis of the physical brain
and physical sensory organism of the me-
dium.
(e) The degree of paralysis at any given
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WHAT ARE THE RESULTS?
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CHAPTER XXXI
INSANITY
338
CHAPTER XXXII
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CHAPTER XXXIII
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CHAPTER XXXIV
MAN'S PRIVILEGE
380
CHAPTER XXXV
NATURE'S PROTECTION
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