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 VAMPIRISM 529

goes on for long the healthy person is injured very much. All sensitive persons give off this aura very readily: it passes off without their consciousness, but it is only when brought into contact with people of a certain type that this happens, or when they attend seances. Only the very strong should attend these, unless they possess pure and strong individualities, as these can resist the onslaughts made by entities that materialize. All the phenomena of the seance room are produced by means of the magnetism of the sitters and the "medium," as is well known to those who have studied the subject merely superficially.

THE REMEDY.

Carrying the mind back to what has been said with regard to vibrations, all sensitive persons, or those who have hitherto been robust and suddenly find themselves losing strength without any adequate reason should set apart at least ten minutes a day to the cultivation of rendering the vitality impregnable to the attacks of the Vampire, whether of the blood or of the vitality.

Here it may be as well to point out that there are two classes of persons particularly liable to take on the conditions of those with whom they are brought in contact, or to be drawn upon by outside influences. These are those born between 21st June and 21st July. Children born between these dates especially should not be placed with elderly people to sleep. The other class are those born between 21st February and 21st March. It has been found that persons born at these times are very mediumistic, and in one case the reason is that the influence of the moon is very marked. More than one writer has remarked upon the moon's vampiricing this earth, and retaining its vitality — dead as it may appear — through the emanations from the earth.

That vitality is transferable was proved by the old mesmerists, and the masseur of to-day emphasizes it. Many elderly people are massaged daily for no particular complaint, but when they get run down or their bodily powers are declining, they find being rubbed by a healthy man or woman restores energy and vim. One well known English member of Parliament who, though advanced in years, gets through enough work to kill several men, has a medical rubber in constant attendance on him, and he admitted to me one day that had he not his assistance he could not keep the strain up. Masseurs know that strength goes from them, and that this is not merely from the labor of rubbing. Retain your vitality, then. To overcome these things lead as pure a life as possible, avoiding alcohol, which retains evil magnetism, and attracts to yourself entities in and out of the body, there being a similar rate of vibration existing between you and them, and this places