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Rh. May the Unseen Father accept the offering of ourselves and all that we have; and deign to minister to our bodily needs."

(He burns the branch.)

The awe-struck savages would by this time be polarized into a "circle"; and the Magician (whose Geologic insight would have been already informed by studious observation) would become lucid; and see where water was.

The student should, occasionally, go over this little scene in his mind; especially when he finds himself in any intellectual or moral perplexity. If he holds the forked stick in his hands and actually goes through the performance, especially with a freshly-cut stick, so much the better. The magnetism of the fresh Hazel-Wand acts as a slight additional stimulant; much as breathing doubly oxygenated air for a few minutes might do.

The modern Dowser is one in whom fidelity to the Past is a physical instinct. When he goes through half of this ceremony, his fingers tingle with the longing to complete it. They and the Hazel mutually magnetize each other, till the fork, of its own accord, completes as much of the ceremony as it can.

The Psychic mathematician is one in whom fidelity to the Past is a spiritual instinct. When he meditates on old Ceremonies, secrets connected with the mathematical organization of thought reveal themselves in his brain. To him, what others call Time is as a fourth dimension of Space; and he sees it, stretched out like a line. His Trinity is not three Persons in One God, but three times in One Eternal, Past, Present, and Future. And when he becomes