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fwenty years; ago and the universal complaint and testimony are that as soon as a subject is once fairly inducted into the hypnotic condition, he or she immediately passes from under the mesmerist’s control, and either announces a determination to “ go it alone,’’ or become the ‘‘ subject” of some unknown power, at once entering the domain of mediumship, and thenceforth becoming wholly useless in a-mesmeric point of view. Now, I think there is no real necessity for such a state of things, nor do I believe it would happen were it not that the operator is deficient in the prime elements of resolution and will, — without both of which, the matter had better not be undertaken at all. Another reason for these frequent failures to produce magnetic states and the concurrent powers of lucidity results from the fact that men who mesmerize females become too susceptible to the powers and influences of lust, and during the operation of magnetizing are too fall of lascivious imaginings and hopes to pay strict regard to the matter in hand, and hence the subject spurns the control and acts independently, or the invisible forces that hover about incontinently clap a stopper over all, and forthwith veto and annul the whole affair; for which kindly providence they merit and receive my most hearty thanks, and those of all other well-wishers of his kind, here or over there.
Not all invisible onlookers, however, are to be counted in along with seraphs and angels, nor do they always take a subject away from the mesmerist for that subject’s good; but it may happen that obsessing forces of the ‘‘ Voodoo” grades step in to serve their own peculiar ends. People may laugh as much as they please “at the idea of wicked, mean, obsessing, tantalizing, tempting beings, or at the old notions of the alchemists and others of that ilk; but my researches and experience tell a far different story. When it is asserted that there is no inner world of mystic forees under the sun ; — that there are no mysterious means whereby ends both good and ill can be wrought at any distance; that the so called “spells,” “charms” and ‘‘ projects” are mere notions, having no firmer foundation than superstition or empty air alone, — then I flatly deny all such assertions, and affirm the conclusions arrived at are so reached by persons wholly ignorant of the invisible world about us, and of the inner powers of the human mind. Although I am not called upon here to explain the rationale
fwenty years; ago and the universal complaint and testimony are that as soon as a subject is once fairly inducted into the hypnotic condition, he or she immediately passes from under the mesmerist’s control, and either announces a determination to “ go it alone,’’ or become the ‘‘ subject” of some unknown power, at once entering the domain of mediumship, and thenceforth becoming wholly useless in a-mesmeric point of view. Now, I think there is no real necessity for such a state of things, nor do I believe it would happen were it not that the operator is deficient in the prime elements of resolution and will, — without both of which, the matter had better not be undertaken at all. Another reason for these frequent failures to produce magnetic states and the concurrent powers of lucidity results from the fact that men who mesmerize females become too susceptible to the powers and influences of lust, and during the operation of magnetizing are too fall of lascivious imaginings and hopes to pay strict regard to the matter in hand, and hence the subject spurns the control and acts independently, or the invisible forces that hover about incontinently clap a stopper over all, and forthwith veto and annul the whole affair; for which kindly providence they merit and receive my most hearty thanks, and those of all other well-wishers of his kind, here or over there.
Not all invisible onlookers, however, are to be counted in along with seraphs and angels, nor do they always take a subject away from the mesmerist for that subject’s good; but it may happen that obsessing forces of the ‘‘ Voodoo” grades step in to serve their own peculiar ends. People may laugh as much as they please “at the idea of wicked, mean, obsessing, tantalizing, tempting beings, or at the old notions of the alchemists and others of that ilk; but my researches and experience tell a far different story. When it is asserted that there is no inner world of mystic forees under the sun ; — that there are no mysterious means whereby ends both good and ill can be wrought at any distance; that the so called “spells,” “charms” and ‘‘ projects” are mere notions, having no firmer foundation than superstition or empty air alone, — then I flatly deny all such assertions, and affirm the conclusions arrived at are so reached by persons wholly ignorant of the invisible world about us, and of the inner powers of the human mind. Although I am not called upon here to explain the rationale
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