“I have selected certain writings for your perusal,” he said.  “In them you will find full and clear instructions how to cultivate and educate the electric force within you, and thus continue the work I have begun.  With these you will also perceive that I have written out the receipt for the volatile fluid which, if taken in a small quantity every day, will keep you in health, strength, and intellectual vigour, while it will preserve your youth and enjoyment of life to a very much longer extent than that usually experienced by the majority.  Understand me well—­this liquid of itself cannot put you into an uplifted state of existence; you need human electric force applied strongly to your system to compass this; and as it is dangerous to try the experiment too often—­dangerous to the body, I mean—­it will be as well, as you have work to do yet in this life, not to attempt it again.  But if you drink the fluid every morning of your life, and at the same time obey my written manual as to the cultivation of your own inner force, which is already existent in a large degree, you will attain to certain advantages over the rest of the people you meet, which will give you not only physical, but mental power.”

He paused a minute or two, and again went on: 

“When you have educated your Will to a certain height of electric command, you can at your pleasure see at any time, and see plainly, the spirits who inhabit the air; and also those who, descending to long distances below the Great Circle, come within the range of human electricity, or the attractive matter contained in the Earth’s atmosphere.  You can converse with them, and they with you.  You will also be able, at your desire, to see the parted spirits of dead persons, so long as they linger within Earth’s radius, which they seldom do, being always anxious to escape from it as soon as possible.  Love may sometimes detain them, or remorse; but even these have to yield to the superior longings which possess them the instant they are set free.  You will, in your intercourse with your fellow-mortals, be able to discern their motives quickly and unerringly—­you will at once discover where you are loved and where you are disliked; and not all the learning and logic of so-called philosophers shall be able to cloud your instinct.  You will have a keener appreciation of good and beautiful things—­a delightful sense of humour, and invariable cheerfulness; and whatever you do, unless you make some mistake by your own folly, will carry with it its success.  And, what is perhaps a greater privilege, you will find that all who are brought into very close contact with you will be beneficially influenced, or the reverse, exactly as you choose to exert your power.  I do not think, after what you have seen, you will ever desire to exert a malign influence, knowing that the Creator of your being is all love and forgiveness.  At any rate, the greatest force in the universe, electricity, is yours—­that is, it has begun to form itself in you—­and you have nothing to do but to encourage its growth, just as you would encourage a taste for music or the fine arts.  Now let me give you the writings.”