Lectures on clairmativeness, or, Human magnetism : with an appendix / by Gibson Smith.

  • Smith, Gibson
Date:
1848
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    form of ■ broad, beautiful and variegated band, extending quite round. the planet It is the upper extremity of the oxygen gas, and the falling *%^ of tM rays of Ii^-fit upon it, that produces this splendid phenomenon, which lias long Keen the admiration and wonder of the world. The hydrogen and carbonic gases extend from the planet to where you the second or outer ring. These gases being composed of different sub- stances from the other, and not being so clear, when acted upon by the light, at their outer extremity, render the second ring, which they there form, less brilliant than the other. •• The other planets have their rings like Saturn, being formed in the same way—but the gases not being so pure on the other planets, you are not able to discover them, though I can always see them when I am in this state. The moon has its ring8,and you sometimes see them. They call them ; Circles round the nwouj and say, ' it is a sign of a storm.' The earth also has two rings, and if you were at the moon you could at times see them. The oxygen extends from the earth's surface seven miles,—there, is the formation of the lirst ring. The carbon and hydro- gen gases extend still further, and at their termination the second ring is formed. When you see what is called a double rainbow, you see a likeness of these very rings; and they are, in color, a fac-simile of Saturn's. •• I >o you know that Saturn is inhabited ? The people there are very diffident from the people on this earth. They are very beautiful, and more intellectual—they have very high foreheads, and their symmetry is perfect. Their skin is so clear and transparent that you can almost see the blood as it circulates through the veins. There is no sin there; they are unacquainted with strife and bitterness,—they worship God with willing hearts, all as one. There is no sickness there, because they obey the organic laws of their nature. They live nine or ten hun- dred years, and die of old age, when the system has worn itself out. LECTURE FOURTH. In this Lecture we are to speak, 1st, of the production of Animal Mag- netism; 2d, of Clarmativeness; and 3d, of Clairvoyance. [The whole of this Lecture was given by the Clairvoyant, word for word, as I penned it from his own mouth at the time.] Animal Magnetism is a modification of caloric or atmospheric magnet- ism. When this fluid enters the system by the lungs, and through the pores and glands of the flesh, the action of the physical system so chan- ges and modifies it, that it becomes of a more subtle and refined nature, so that it is fitted for its office in the sympathetic nerves, producini sation and r>.ll the involuntan motions of the body, and transmitting sensations to the brain. At the brain, it undergoes another chai modification. The volitive and magnetic action of the brain so cl; this fluid, that it takes the most subtle and refined form that it being pro luced, when it composes the substance of mind itself Mind is magnetisn. It is produced, or rather formed in the brain, by means of
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