yet to
the metaphysician. For health is not merely a physical condition. It is
the question of the poise, the harmony of the entire psychical being.

Professor John D. Quackenbos has recently said of Hypnotism:--

"Investigations extending over many years have led me to a belief
in the dual personality of man--that is, each human unit exists in
two distinct states of superior consciousness. One of these states
is called the primary or superliminal consciousness,--the
personality by which a man is known to his objective associates,
which takes cognizance through the senses of the outside world, and
carries on the ordinary business of every-day life. The second or
subliminal personality is the superior spiritual self, the man's
own oversoul, which automatically superintends all physical
functions and procedures, and influences mental and moral
attitudes.

"It happens to be a fact of mind that in sleep--natural or
induced--this subliminal or submerged self may be brought into
active control of the objective life. My experiments have forced me
to the conclusion that there is no difference as regards
suggestibility between natural sleep and the so-called hypnotic
trance. In the induced sleep the subject is in _rapport_
exclusively with the operator; in natural sleep only with his own
objective self, perhaps with a multitude of discarnate
personalities, who think and feel in common with him, and, in case
he be of superior parts, possibly with all well-wishing
extra-human intelligences."

Here we have the basis of truth. That condition of vigor, poise,
vitality, and harmony which we call good health depends on the degree of
control exercised over the physical body by that "second or subliminal
personality, the superior spiritual self, the man's own oversoul,
which," as Doctor Quackenbos so truly observes, "superintends all
physical functions and procedures, and influences mental and moral
attitudes."

The problem, then, becomes that of bringing the psychical body into this
receptive relation to the physical self? How shall the perfect spiritual
supremacy be established? This question reveals, of itself, to how great
a degree health is a mental and moral as well as a physical affair.

Perhaps the initial step is that of clearly realizing--of holding the
luminous conception--of one's self as a spiritual being in t