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72 INTERIOR VISION.
Mrs. A., for instance, having heard that I sometimes give lessons of a psychical character, comes to me with the old story, that her husband’s love has grown cool, that he is attracted elsewhere, and she is wretched in consequence, and wants to draw him back by magnetic, or any other equally surc, innocent and certain means. If she already possesses a good niignetic mirror, ali the better; if not, I tell her to borrow one from a frieud, und use it as hereinafter directed; and I begin by inquiring the height, complexion, color of eyes and hair, approximative weight, and build, and age of her husband. This, to determine his temperament, with reference to her own. Suppose she is a blonde and her husband a brunette, These are the proper relative temperaments, and such ougit to be a happy union, and they twain disagreeing, I conclude that the fault is mainly her own. She is, very likely, too cold, exacting, imperious, disobliging, heedless of him; non-caressive; and I tell her to correct these faults in herself to begin with, for such a man with such a temperament will be quick, impulsive, passionate, restive, and full of angles; yet, armed with love, the blonde wife can not only subdue him, but win him from any brunette woman under the sun. How? Blondes are electric, brunettes magnetic, and very susceptible to influences steadily brought to bear upon them. His weakest point, and therefore greatest want, is caressive love. Let the blonde wife play that card, and her game is won; and that’s what is meant by Polarity. Let her sit before the mirror, bring up his image before her therein, and when it is steadily fixed before the soul’s eye, let her bring all the other six laws to bear upon it - him crowning all, as she looks upon him with true, pure, wifely desire; the seventh law, which all understand.
But suppose both parties are blondes. It is evident that caressive love won’t do there, because both are of the same electric temperament, and the straying husband, nine chances in ten, has become fascinated with some dark-eyed, dark-haired, olive-hued; passional woman, whose warm, magnetic nature is altogether fascinating, and chains him with bands of triple steel. Well, in that case, the wife must attack him through the door of his higher nature, and prove to him by her steady, unchanging treatment of him, that soul is superior to body, mind to mere beauty, solicitude and interest in his affairs of more worth than whole oceans of mere passionalism. His brain and sense, then, is the point appui in that case-is the polar point. Reverse the sexes and circumstances, if you choose to doso, yet the law is still the same.
But there is another principle here, that is of equal importance, in all cases where a love-sundering is the result of a third party’s intrusion, influence, and power. Repulsion is precisely as powerful as Attraction, and we will suppose that the fault lies neither in the wife nor husband, but ina female rival of the former, who of course is just as susceptible to magnetic influences, hatred, dislike, etc., as any other human being. Well, to illustrate this very important point: Once in Cairo, Egypt, I conversed with
Mrs. A., for instance, having heard that I sometimes give lessons of a psychical character, comes to me with the old story, that her husband’s love has grown cool, that he is attracted elsewhere, and she is wretched in consequence, and wants to draw him back by magnetic, or any other equally surc, innocent and certain means. If she already possesses a good niignetic mirror, ali the better; if not, I tell her to borrow one from a frieud, und use it as hereinafter directed; and I begin by inquiring the height, complexion, color of eyes and hair, approximative weight, and build, and age of her husband. This, to determine his temperament, with reference to her own. Suppose she is a blonde and her husband a brunette, These are the proper relative temperaments, and such ougit to be a happy union, and they twain disagreeing, I conclude that the fault is mainly her own. She is, very likely, too cold, exacting, imperious, disobliging, heedless of him; non-caressive; and I tell her to correct these faults in herself to begin with, for such a man with such a temperament will be quick, impulsive, passionate, restive, and full of angles; yet, armed with love, the blonde wife can not only subdue him, but win him from any brunette woman under the sun. How? Blondes are electric, brunettes magnetic, and very susceptible to influences steadily brought to bear upon them. His weakest point, and therefore greatest want, is caressive love. Let the blonde wife play that card, and her game is won; and that’s what is meant by Polarity. Let her sit before the mirror, bring up his image before her therein, and when it is steadily fixed before the soul’s eye, let her bring all the other six laws to bear upon it - him crowning all, as she looks upon him with true, pure, wifely desire; the seventh law, which all understand.
But suppose both parties are blondes. It is evident that caressive love won’t do there, because both are of the same electric temperament, and the straying husband, nine chances in ten, has become fascinated with some dark-eyed, dark-haired, olive-hued; passional woman, whose warm, magnetic nature is altogether fascinating, and chains him with bands of triple steel. Well, in that case, the wife must attack him through the door of his higher nature, and prove to him by her steady, unchanging treatment of him, that soul is superior to body, mind to mere beauty, solicitude and interest in his affairs of more worth than whole oceans of mere passionalism. His brain and sense, then, is the point appui in that case-is the polar point. Reverse the sexes and circumstances, if you choose to doso, yet the law is still the same.
But there is another principle here, that is of equal importance, in all cases where a love-sundering is the result of a third party’s intrusion, influence, and power. Repulsion is precisely as powerful as Attraction, and we will suppose that the fault lies neither in the wife nor husband, but ina female rival of the former, who of course is just as susceptible to magnetic influences, hatred, dislike, etc., as any other human being. Well, to illustrate this very important point: Once in Cairo, Egypt, I conversed with
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