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 then come slowly to the tottering edge of a grave which the spirit in us has no desire to welcome.

The answer to why they do not come is simple. First, they do not believe that it can be done, they have never seen it done and the old race teachers are wedded loyally to eating. They have made food their god instead of the God of energy in man himself. They are afraid, they think they will die if they do not eat, that man lives physically by food alone; while the whole truth is, he lives by the great burning electrons of his being and very little food is enough to make a carbon through which the passing currents can break into energy. "Man is not flesh he's fire: and at his undiscovered center is the flame from whence he came."

Then again, by the time old age comes on, they have have an old old age consciousness and they hug to themselves the cozy corners; they hate exercise; they are fond of all the little hypnotic creature comforts. They like the things which have made them what they are better than the things which will unmake them and give them a new lease on life and youth. They think the laws laid down for their regeneration will kill them, when the fact has always been that whatever any one thinks will kill him is exactly the thing he needs to cure him.

Again, those who need this new transmutation process the very worst are always surrounded by a bevy of old thought doctors who are signed, sealed and delivered to their old idea of food as a necessity; and these caution the patient