The name of one who has accomplished great works vibrates with his genius. Aristides, the wise archon of Athens, knowing this, set his eye toward AEsculapius, whose skill in curing diseases and restoring the dead to life, was traditioned to have made Zeus angry, lest he rendered men immortal; and Aristides called faithfully upon AEsculapius, till he came swiftly through the formless spaces, and stood in his presence, audibly counselling Aristides for the successful cure of his bodily disease.

"There is one operative virtue running through all things," was a discovery of Cornelius Agrippa of Cologne. "All things supercelestial may be drawn into the celestial, and all things supernatural may be drawn into the natural," was also his discovery, though the practice of drawing down the virtues ascribed to the different angels, into statues, and periapts and wafers, long antedated Agrippa's explanation of the magical drafts men may make on the good offices of nature and of God.

By much attention to material things, men make such drafts on matter that its mysterious operations seize upon them in more than conceivable manifoldness. They suck in the way of matter, by indirect calling, as they look to it for their weIfare and their knowledge. This is the way of which Solomon wrote, "that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."

Let men but volitionally lift up their eyes to the Sender of the mystic cure currents ever hailing hither- ward, and make all their drafts on these immortal streams, and the mysteries of health, and prosperity, and incessant renewal shall be revealed and experienced. Jesus having demonstrated this, his name as the vanquisher of death, and the abode of all gifts of God, made him able to