they are constructed, they would repeat or revise them to themselves
before sleep, resolving to remember them. The same principle is
applicable to all kinds of designs, with the proviso that they be at
first very easy. This is generally a very successful process.

_Fore thought_, or the projection of conception or attention with
will, is a marvelous preparation for all kinds of art work. He who can
form the habit of seeing a picture mentally before he paints it, has
an incredible advantage, and will spare himself much labor and
painting out.



CHAPTER IX.

FASCINATION.

"Quærit _Franciscus Valesius, Delrio, Gutierrus_, et alii,
unde vulgaris ilia fascini nata sit opinio de oculo fascinante
visione et ore fascinando laudando."--De Faseinatione
Fatatus. A. D. 1677.

I have in Chapter Fifth mentioned several of the subjects to attain
which the Will may be directed by the aid of self-hypnotism, preceded
by Forethought. If the reader has carefully studied what I have said
and not merely skimmed it, he must have perceived that if the power be
fully acquired, it makes, as it were, new existence for its possessor,
opening to him boundless fields of action by giving him the enviable
power to acquire interest--that is to say agreeable or profitable
occupation--in whatever he pleases. In further illustration of which I