Universal theosophy : the science of health and healing consisting of a full course of lectures, sixty questions answered, clear and complete instructions regarding the practical demonstration of the principles of mental healing, as taught in private classes by able and experienced teachers to which is added a glossary and index, making it the only complete text book published upon this important subject / by W.J. Colville.

  • W. J. Colville
Date:
1888
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Credit: Universal theosophy : the science of health and healing consisting of a full course of lectures, sixty questions answered, clear and complete instructions regarding the practical demonstration of the principles of mental healing, as taught in private classes by able and experienced teachers to which is added a glossary and index, making it the only complete text book published upon this important subject / by W.J. Colville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or will which, emanating from one person can strange- ly affect others. The claim is not made by magnetists of the mesmeric school that bodily emanations suffice to induce the magnetic or mesmeric sleep, or the som- nambulic condition : on the contrary, all professors of the art or science claim that will is a powerful opera- tive agent; thus mesmeric and magnetic treatments border upon mind cure, as they pre-suppose the exer- cise of a purely mental force in addition to all that pro- ceeds from body to body in the act of manipulation. The theory of animal magnetism is not by any means ridiculous, and it is vain for metaphysicians to aigue there is no efficacy whatever in magnetic ti eatments, simple animal magnetism exuding through the pores of the physical organism has properties and produces results on the plane of mortal sense, just as food nour- ishes the external body, and other outward agents play a part in sustaining the outward frame. Animal magnetism is largely animal heat; heat is generated as we all know by friction; thus the rapid and sometimes violent movements of magnetizers serve to evolve a vast amount of animal energy, which by means of the respiratory system can be easily commu- nicated from one body to another. A person taking a * mao-netic treatment believes and admits that somebody els^s vitality enters his body through the pores; he therefore acknowledges dependence upon the physica force generated in another system than his own. Mesmer supposed animal magnetism had some re- lation to the magnetism of the loadstone. The methoc of inducing the magnetic state eni]iloyed by Mesmer involved the use of quite extensive apparatus; iron rods, etc., were employed, but the more popular phase