●   ●   ●    to be considered, she said, “It is like the man who said, ‘My wife and I are one—and I am that one!’” One day after announcing that the subject of that day’s teaching would be animal magnetism, she said, “Today we will talk something up to talk it down. ” It impressed me deeply at the time, and the thought has remained with me that, for lucidity and brevity of statement regarding her teaching of that which claims to be power but in reality is not, these words are unsurpassed: “Today we will talk something up to talk it down.