My Library

All tl\at has been said as to the effect of gobd Wishes and friendly thoughts is also true in ^he opposite direction of evil wishes and angry thoughts ; and considering the amount of envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness that exists in the world, it will be readily understood that among the artificial elementals many tprrible creatures are to be seen. A man whose thoughts of desires are spiteful, brutal sensual, avaricious,moves through the world carrying with him everywhere a pestiferous atmosphere of his own, peopled with theloathsomebeings which heYias created tobe his companions. Thus he is not only in sadly evil case himself, but is adangerousnuisanceto his fellow-men, subjecting all who have the misfortune to come into contact with him to the risk of moral contagion from the influence of the abominations with which he chooses to surrouVid himself.
A feeling of envious or jealous hatred towards another person will send an evil elemental to hover over him and seek for a weak point through which it can operate ; and if the feeling be a persistent one, such a creature may be continually nourished by it and thereby enabled to protract its undesirable activity for a very long period. It can, however, procfuce no effect upon the person towards whom it is directed unless he has himself some tendency which 9i