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It is not easy to authenticate the belief that the violent emotion--that is, the strong ideas--of a pregnant mother may influence the form of her unborn child. It is much easier to authenticate, however, the appearance of stigmata on the physical body in the historic cases of nuns immersed in empathic contemplation of the crucifixion of Jesus. Once we understand something of the secret of the concentrated mind we understand something of the secret of the magic.

-- Notebooks Category 21: Mentalism > Chapter 5 : The Key To the Spiritual World > # 58