How to mesmerise : a manual of instruction in the history, mysteries, modes of procedure, and arts of mesmerism, or, animal magnetism, hypnotism, clairvoyance, thought reading, and mesmeric entertainments / by James Coates.

  • Coates, James, 1843-1933.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Credit: How to mesmerise : a manual of instruction in the history, mysteries, modes of procedure, and arts of mesmerism, or, animal magnetism, hypnotism, clairvoyance, thought reading, and mesmeric entertainments / by James Coates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    much that is hidden with sudden and startling clearness. So it happens in -Mesmerism ; when the senses are com- pletely subdued, the passions and the emotions allayed by the mesmerist, then the subtle powers of the spirit (pneuma) and the spirit body (psyche) shine forth and reveal the hidden mysteries of mind. Mere physical mesmerists, “electro biologists,” and hypnotists, although they can cure disease, and have induced many strange and peculiar phenomena in certain classes of subjects, they do not subdue the physical in the foregoing sense, and they cannot educe mental and psychical phenomena. The best clairvoyant sensitives have been women from about 15 to 25, whose organisa- tions were healtliy, refined, and pure, and whose heads were favourably developed in the spiritual, moral, intui- tive, and mental faculties. The most successful developers of clairvoyance in such were those who believed in the reality of soul and things spiritual, and who instinctively looked for their expression and manifes- tation in their sensitives, but who did nothing more than subdue the physical or outward smses in the sensitive, and wisely left the development of clairvoyance to the progress of growth, carefully watching the avoidance of all weariness, mental and spiritual exhaustion, in those under their care. To develope clairvoyance in subjects there must be no “hot-house planting ” or forcing about it or them. Caution to both mesmerists and sensitives : There must he no hurry. Mesmerists can furnish favour- able conditions, but they cannot create clairvoyance. With the foregoing explanatory digressions, I assume that your patient has been put asleep, and that you have been able not only to comfortably accomplish this, but to awaken him—(some fall into apparent sleep, or into a natural sleep. Should you address them, they will