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an educated Arab on this very topic, and learned that it was a common custom for an injured wife to bring before her the image of the recreant hushand—by force of will—frequently using, for want of a better, either a glass of water, or such a magic mirror as ‘is described in Lane’s ‘‘Modern Egyptians,” and in Mrs. Poole’s ‘‘ English Woman in Egypt;’’ but as there are plenty of Wulees, Kutbs, and dervishes all over Egypt, it is quite an easy matter for such to gain an hour’s use of a genuine glass or jewel. In this mirror, no matter whether a commou one or a diamond, she invokes the Simulacrum, or magnetic image of the woman who has stolen her husband’s affections. ‘ But suppose she don’t know who the woman is?” That makes not the slightest difference; all she has to do is to will he woman, and no earthly power can prevent her image, wraith, picture, or spiritual form and face from appearing. When she does so: “ Back on thy head, all the misery thou hast heaped upon mine! Back to thy heart the pangs thou hast made me endure! In the name of love, whom thou hast disgraced; in the name of Him who is omnipotent, I turn the love my (husband or lover) bears thee, into its opposite — dislike and hatred; and in Allah’s name I change thy mutual passion into foul disgust andhorror. In the name of God so may it be!”
Now your practical people -will probably laugh at such a method, such means, and yet inso doing they laugh at God, at human love, breaking hearts, and the irresistible magnetic laws of the entire universe of the great Supreme, and I had rather face the ‘‘ devil” than the solemn prayer of an injured woman; for I might escape his clutches—if he had any; but it is certain that such a message, from such a woman, under such circumstances, and in such a cause, would find me and fang my soul with horror wherever I might hide; because woman’s love is the strongest force on earth; her cause isthe purest, strongest, and most just; and all the good powers of the universe are in sympathy therewith. Nor doI believe it possible for a failure to occur, provided the woman be in dead earnest, and follows up her blow day by day, till her (magnetic) victory is achieved.
But injured wives are not the only ones in Syria, Egypt, Turkey, and Arabia, who have recourse to magnetic means in love affairs; for widows resort to the identical methods, save only a change of formulas: *¢ Gracious Allah, thou hast declared it is not good to be alone; wherefore grant that I may (herein) behold one suited to me.” This, supposing she-has no special man for a husband in view. If she has, then she brings up his image, and directs her force upon fim. I have heard of manysuccesses; I have known of no failures; nor do I see any reason why the white women of Western Europe and North America should not be quite as powerful and successful in these matters as their Arabian and Egypto-Syriac sisters, or the quadroons of the South, who notoriously practise the same things to the same ends. If one of these women has no special man in view whom she desires.to have for a husband, then she continues
an educated Arab on this very topic, and learned that it was a common custom for an injured wife to bring before her the image of the recreant hushand—by force of will—frequently using, for want of a better, either a glass of water, or such a magic mirror as ‘is described in Lane’s ‘‘Modern Egyptians,” and in Mrs. Poole’s ‘‘ English Woman in Egypt;’’ but as there are plenty of Wulees, Kutbs, and dervishes all over Egypt, it is quite an easy matter for such to gain an hour’s use of a genuine glass or jewel. In this mirror, no matter whether a commou one or a diamond, she invokes the Simulacrum, or magnetic image of the woman who has stolen her husband’s affections. ‘ But suppose she don’t know who the woman is?” That makes not the slightest difference; all she has to do is to will he woman, and no earthly power can prevent her image, wraith, picture, or spiritual form and face from appearing. When she does so: “ Back on thy head, all the misery thou hast heaped upon mine! Back to thy heart the pangs thou hast made me endure! In the name of love, whom thou hast disgraced; in the name of Him who is omnipotent, I turn the love my (husband or lover) bears thee, into its opposite — dislike and hatred; and in Allah’s name I change thy mutual passion into foul disgust andhorror. In the name of God so may it be!”
Now your practical people -will probably laugh at such a method, such means, and yet inso doing they laugh at God, at human love, breaking hearts, and the irresistible magnetic laws of the entire universe of the great Supreme, and I had rather face the ‘‘ devil” than the solemn prayer of an injured woman; for I might escape his clutches—if he had any; but it is certain that such a message, from such a woman, under such circumstances, and in such a cause, would find me and fang my soul with horror wherever I might hide; because woman’s love is the strongest force on earth; her cause isthe purest, strongest, and most just; and all the good powers of the universe are in sympathy therewith. Nor doI believe it possible for a failure to occur, provided the woman be in dead earnest, and follows up her blow day by day, till her (magnetic) victory is achieved.
But injured wives are not the only ones in Syria, Egypt, Turkey, and Arabia, who have recourse to magnetic means in love affairs; for widows resort to the identical methods, save only a change of formulas: *¢ Gracious Allah, thou hast declared it is not good to be alone; wherefore grant that I may (herein) behold one suited to me.” This, supposing she-has no special man for a husband in view. If she has, then she brings up his image, and directs her force upon fim. I have heard of manysuccesses; I have known of no failures; nor do I see any reason why the white women of Western Europe and North America should not be quite as powerful and successful in these matters as their Arabian and Egypto-Syriac sisters, or the quadroons of the South, who notoriously practise the same things to the same ends. If one of these women has no special man in view whom she desires.to have for a husband, then she continues
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