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itself, independently of conscious volition, for the purpose of challenging the attention of the world and stirring it to learn the law regulating the phenomenon, which, if true, and it is well vouched for, opens to us a wide range of perspective. Matter, thus viewed, does not present the impregnable front that too often dismays the New Thought healer, for, like the walls of Jericho it is ready to crumble at the trumpet call of the New Thought Prophet — Always is Matter plastic and Spirit compelling. Another aid to healing is The Magical Power of Sleep.

Magic is not an uncanny or unnatural thing. It is but an activity based on a law not generally understood. The magical power of sleep is due to a law of the Subconscious Mind, by which it works out the suggestions given to it by the Conscious Mind, and does this most effectually during sleep, for reasons which I will explain later.

A great engine can be set moving by a finger touch on a controlling lever. The Subconscious is like the engine and the Conscious is like the finger touch on the lever, giving impulse to action. This impulse in itself seems slight and insignificant, but it is most important, and even actually necessary to start the desired motion, whether in the engine or in the Subconscious, and it is the direct cause of the motion and its results. This is a fairly good illustration of what occurs