"Pearls and other jewels, as well as metals and plants, applied directly to the human skin, exercise an electromagnetic influence over the physical cells. Man's body contains carbon and various metallic elements that are present also in plants, metals, and jewels. The discoveries of the rishis [illumined sages] in these fields will doubtless receive confirmation some day from physiologists. Man's sensitive body, with its electrical life currents, is a centre of many mysteries as yet unexplored."

"Electrical and magnetic radiations are ceaselessly circulating in the universe; they affect man's body for good and ill. Ages ago our rishis pondered the problem of combating the adverse effects of subtle cosmic influences. The sages discovered that pure metals emit an astral light, which is powerfully counteractive to negative pulls of the planets. Certain plant combinations were also found to be helpful. Most effective of all are faultless jewels of not less than two carats."

"Just as a house may be fitted with a copper rod to absorb the shock of lightning, so the bodily temple can be protected in certain ways."

"The dynamic forces of mineral magnetism, electricity and galvanism act no less homeopathically and powerfully on our vital principle than medicines actually called homeopathic, which overcome diseases when taken by mouth, rubbed on the skin or smelled . . . But we still know far too little about the right way of using electricity, galvanism and the so-called electromagnetic machine to put them to homeopathic use."