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Under certain conditions, by scrupulously accomplishing the magical work that will be explained in this chapter, one can animate, that is to say render truly alive, certain portraits and statues, in order to influence one or many senses of a chosen man or woman. The influence, that one thus projects, can be mental or physical, indifferently. The doctrine of Living Magical Pictures is not new. In the middle ages, certain painters knew it very well and applied it to their art; but, also, one finds cases where the human magnetic fluid is concentrated in an old portrait, forgotten in the corner of a salon of some feudal chateau through the monotonous years, until it is discovered to reveal scenes of violent passions. One also speaks of certain sacred paintings, made on the walls of Christian temples. They can become suddenly animated and exhibit real wonders. Obviously, the will of the wise man initiated in the mysteries of the great magical art can better and more surely create this than a fortuitous discovery. The mages and sorcerers of the preceding centuries knew it and they studied this problem thoroughly. They teach, in their rediscovered writings, that an oil paint, made with the oil of the poppy, is an excellent fluid condenser and a gold guilded frame is a perfect insulator. Fixed on the wall of a church, where persons kneeling in prayer often see it, or hung on the silk drapes of a salon, where it is exalted in dreams and violent passions, and artistic work may become, little by little, the true center of life. The oil holds the human fluids and the guilded frame prevents leakage of them. We must not forget that some charlatans and other men of bad faith have