Volume 2

Library of mesmerism and psychology : embracing the most popular works on the subject.

Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Library of mesmerism and psychology : embracing the most popular works on the subject. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 now proceed to instruct you in relation to number TWO. This can be done in a very few words, as it has been ah-eady pretty fully noticed. In the first place, you may go into a public audience, or among your social friends, and take one individual after another by the hand, press the Median Nerve, as I have directed, and if you succeed in controlling some one, both physically and mentally, then such individual is recognized as in the electro-psychological state through number two. Though this person has never been mesmerized, nor operated upon, yet he is found to be naturally in the same state, through number two, as is the individual who was brought into it through number one. Seat them side b)'' side, and they both feel the same nervous sympathy toward each other, are both charged with the same negative electricit}'', and both stand in a negative relation to you as it regards the doctrine of impressions. Take number three, which is the electro-magnetic coin, and place it in the hand of an individual whom you can not affect, as you did either of the persons men- tioned, and subject him to the process of looking at it as I have directed. When the time of the sitting has expired, take the usual communication, number two, and in case you can control him, both physically and mentally, he is recognized as brought into the electro- psychological state through number three. Here, then, are three individuals in the same state of nerv- ous impressibility, charged with the same negative 10*