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, we have it in such abundance, that it floats all around us; then everybody is attracted. Some people have none at all. These are vampires, and exhaust all who come near them, as if they had been sapped dry of every drop of blood and vitality ! In the presence of certain persons you are suffused with their subtle magnetic emanations (blood fire), and instantly there is evoked in you very strong sensations, and excitements peculiar and very strange. If those persons are healthy, physically and otherwise, the effect on you will correspond. But if their love-nature be perverted, inflammatory, morbid, then all the apocalyptic plagues may follow as a consequence.

Here you have the rationale and solution of the "Passional Attraction," and so-called, but in reality wretched, "True and Eternal Affinity" business. Now lust is but mere physical fire, —an intense form of personal magnetism. It is a material aura pervading the body; it is very subtle, but quite substantial; when it is penned up, it, like dammed waters, seeks to escape. It is subject to heats and colds, because material, and as such, is liable to disease, because the body that evolves it is so—just as a scrofulous woman cannot nurse her babe on pure milk from her own