Never had he felt so sensibly the mighty power of the heavens and the earth upon man; how much the springs of our intellectual being are moved and acted upon by the solemn influences of Nature.

As a patient on whom, slowly and by degrees, the agencies of mesmerism are brought to bear, he acknowledged to his heart the growing force of that vast and universal magnetism which is the life of creation, and binds the atom to the whole.

A strange and ineffable consciousness of power, of the SOMETHING GREAT within the perishable clay, appealed to feelings at once dim and glorious,--like the faint recognitions of a holier and former being.

An impulse, that he could not resist, led him to seek the mystic.

He would demand, that hour, his initiation into the worlds beyond our world,--he was prepared to breathe a diviner air.