W.W.A. Chicago, Il, December 4, 1900

• Salutatory
• The Nature of the Force
• How the Thought Force Can Aid You
• Direct Psychic Influence
• A Little Worldly Wisdom
• The Power of the Eye
• The Magnetic Gaze
• The Volic Force
• Direct Volation
• Telepathic Volation
• The Adductive Quality of Thought
• Character Building By Mental Control
• The Art of Concentering
• The Practice of Concentering
• Valedictory

Views of other writers - Erroneous theories – Vegetarianism – Celibacy - Vital Fluid -Deep Breathing - Real progress made by investigation, not by theories - Existence of personal magnetism unquestioned - A self-evident truth - Results, not theories - No pet theories advanced - Accept nothing that you cannot demonstrate.

"Theories are but mighty soap-bubbles, with which the grown-up children of science amuse themselves." The majority of writers upon this subject have devoted nearly all their efforts, as well as their space, to proving, first, that Personal Magnetism really existed; and, secondly, that the phenomenon was best accounted for by some pet theory of their own. Some attribute the power of influencing men to the use of a vegetarian diet, notwithstanding the fact that some of the most "magnetic" individuals "make graveyards of their stomachs." Others insist that in celibacy and abstinence from sexual intercourse may be found the secret, notwithstanding the fact that the majority of "magnetic" individuals do not differ in their sexual customs from their less magnetic brothers. Others hold that the "magnetic" force abounds in the air around us to absorb great quantities of the vital fluid, charging ourselves with force in the manner of the storage battery. And so on, each with his little pet theory.