Facts of Startling Import.--The Case of Washington Irving Bishop.--Other Instances of Suspended Animation.--Vampirism.--Catalepsy.--East Indian Fakirs buried alive for Months.--Fundamental Errors.--Catalepsy not a Disease.--A Recuperative Agent.--The Law of Suggestion governs the Phenomena.--Subjective Insensibility impossible.--Suggestion of Death deepens the Lethargy.--The Appalling Dangers of Catalepsy.--The Proper Treatment 309 CHAPTER XXII. PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS. The Normal Relations of the Objective and Subjective Faculties.--Their Distinctive Powers and Functions.--The Infinite Wisdom displayed in their Distribution.--It constitutes Man a Free Moral Agent.--Limitation of Subjective Powers and Responsibilities in this Life.--The Kinship of the Soul to God.--The Limitation of the Powers of the Objective Mind.--The Transcendent Powers of the Soul.--Errors of the Old Philosophers.--The Normal Functions of the Soul in Earthly Life.--Dangers of Abnormal Exercise of Subjective Power.--Nervous Disorders, Insanity, Imbecility, and Moral Degradation.--The Importance of a Knowledge of the Law of Suggestion.--Dangers of Mediumship.--Trance-Speakers.--Immoral Tendency of Ignorant Mediumship.--Tendency towards Free Love.--The Causes.--The Orientalists.--Their Greater Powers, and their Greater Facilities for Self-Delusion.--Practical Conclusions.--Warnings 321 CHAPTER XXIII. THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS AND PHILOSOPHY OF CHRIST. The Great Stumbling-Block, Unbelief in the Physical History of Christ.--Modern Science confirms the New Testament.--Internal Evidence of the Truth of the History of Jesus.--The Scientific Accuracy of His Statements.--The Exoteric and the Esoteric Doctrines.--Parables.--Esoteric Doctrines reserved for Modern Science to discover.--The Spirit of Truth.--Jesus the first to proclaim the Scientific Truth.--The Doctrine of Faith.--Healing the Sick.--Natural Law.--Faith essential then as now.--Illustrative Incidents.--Jairus' Daughter.--Seven Scientific Steps.--Secrecy enjoined.--Scientific Reasons.--Rediscovery of the Science of Mental Therapeutics in Modern Times.--Nothing discovered that Jesus did not know.--Absent Treatment.--The Power to heal transmitted to all Future Generations.--The Conditions.--Conclusions 338 CHAPTER XXIV. THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF CHRIST (_continued_).